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Poker Video: No Limit Hold'Em by blah234 (Micro/Small Stakes)

i'm really enjoying the videos blah234!!!!

i love having super detailed lectures then seeing you play in game with the different concepts. the current format is awesome and to top it off, would be awesome to have 1 or 2 hand history review videos that cover topics from your first few videos

Hey Blah,

very nice series, keep up the good work.

@51:40 Table 2

Would you play KQ like this vs this player(and stack off on the turn)?

@58:19 Table 1

Would you call the triple barrel? I know the fish seems bit spazzy but he still has 20+combos of Aces, do yo u think he spazs enough to warrant a call?

@1:12:32 Table 2

Would you call the shove?


Thanks in advance.

Hey Blah,

very nice series, keep up the good work.

@51:40 Table 2

Would you play KQ like this vs this player(and stack off on the turn)?

@58:19 Table 1

Would you call the triple barrel? I know the fish seems bit spazzy but he still has 20+combos of Aces, do yo u think he spazs enough to warrant a call?

@1:12:32 Table 2

Would you call the shove?


Thanks in advance.

1. Vs this play no because I said in the video I expect to push him off most K in his range by the river.

2. Call triple barrel is pretty standard. It doesn't matter how many combos he has that beats you, all it matter is how many combos that's beating you relative to other things. Even if he has 100 combos of Ax but if he has more than 33 combos of other hands you can call. Remeber to call a pot size bet you only need to be right 1/3 of the times to break even.

3. no.

Next time please use the time stamps. It takes too long to find the hands manually.

Time Link to 00:19:02

In the K6o hand.

What would you do if the turn was a total brick?

Bet, hoping to get called by some medium pockets/flushdraws?

Check, letting him bet his floats, or check back his medium pocketpair for potcontrol, and then bet the river for value against those?

Great series btw!

In the K6o hand.

What would you do if the turn was a total brick?

Bet, hoping to get called by some medium pockets/flushdraws?

Check, letting him bet his floats, or check back his medium pocketpair for potcontrol, and then bet the river for value against those?

Great series btw!

All the above lines are reasonable without a read. Hard to say which one is more +EV so you'd have to go with board texture and estimate villain's range. With the hand in the video I'd bet again on the turn most likely because I don't expect villain to float too much with total air.

Can you please sit in the same seat at each table? It's really hard to follow the action with you in a different spot at each table.

Cheers

Time Link to 01:06:02

hello, just to train (correct me if its wrong)
math questions:
you got 25.7 to call, to win the pot (40.7), so you need 25.7/(25.7+40.7)=38.7% equity to make the call ev+

quity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 45.922% 45.29% 00.63% 1195762152 16751148.00 { 33 }
Hand 1: 54.078% 53.44% 00.63% 1411108320 16751148.00 { 22+, A2s+, A2o+ }

hello, just to train (correct me if its wrong)
math questions:
you got 25.7 to call, to win the pot (40.7), so you need 25.7/(25.7+40.7)=38.7% equity to make the call ev+

quity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 45.922% 45.29% 00.63% 1195762152 16751148.00 { 33 }
Hand 1: 54.078% 53.44% 00.63% 1411108320 16751148.00 { 22+, A2s+, A2o+ }

right

hello i really like your serie

i worked your theory and i try to apply in my games (nl100/200) and i see improvements (will be sure with more hands)

3bet seems to work (but not with PP because i did not find a guy who 4bet a lot and fold to 5bet), CB seems ok, i take as many reads as possible.., i play more hands in "good spots" etc...

my real problem is the "playback vs a player who CB too much" (i would like to improve my winrate over regs)
often when i Raise or X/R he seems to have a strong hand...i do not understand because i do it vs players (and spots) where they CB a lot%, and i use overcards, backdoors ,pocket pairs and gushots differently when i think he s polarized ou depolarized (it's quite difficult to have this read i believe so i often rely on youyr tips 60%= polarized, 70%=depolarized until i find the read)

i'm very suprised because in you live videos (ep 5 and 6) i did not see many "playbacks", raises or C/R...
So are these moves only for more agro players than the one in your videos (and maybe in my games) (probably higher stakes)?

thanks, have a nice day

hello i really like your serie

i worked your theory and i try to apply in my games (nl100/200) and i see improvements (will be sure with more hands)

3bet seems to work (but not with PP because i did not find a guy who 4bet a lot and fold to 5bet), CB seems ok, i take as many reads as possible.., i play more hands in "good spots" etc...

my real problem is the "playback vs a player who CB too much" (i would like to improve my winrate over regs)
often when i Raise or X/R he seems to have a strong hand...i do not understand because i do it vs players (and spots) where they CB a lot%, and i use overcards, backdoors ,pocket pairs and gushots differently when i think he s polarized ou depolarized (it's quite difficult to have this read i believe so i often rely on youyr tips 60%= polarized, 70%=depolarized until i find the read)

i'm very suprised because in you live videos (ep 5 and 6) i did not see many "playbacks", raises or C/R...
So are these moves only for more agro players than the one in your videos (and maybe in my games) (probably higher stakes)?

thanks, have a nice day

what does it mean when they c/r and you run into a strong hand? I'm sure there's no difference at higher stakes or lower stakes when someone cbets too much. Just because you are playing 100nl doesn't mean people auto flop the nuts more often with a wide preflop range compared to 1000nl.

If you go back and watch the theory part of videos, you will see that playing back vs cbets isn't only about raising them. I've said in the earlier videos that you shouldn't fold to cbets and find the most +EV line vs villains. My fold vs cbet in the session over 1.5k hands is only 30%. I think that's playing back plenty.

hi, thanks for your answer

well it's only a week that i m trying to use your serie (before i worked off tables because i was on hollyday), and it seems to me that i did not see often a fold when i playback agressively (i have not enough hands to try to find stats of %effciency), i runned into calls and raises most of times

don't you think than in ep 5 and 6 you did not find a lot of spots to playback and often play really honestly and folds vs their CB (even when they cb a lot)?

for CB too much you consider 60% overall stat too much, don't you? (because you gave tips that wihtout read we can consider that they CB polarized), of course we should also consider ranges preflop and board but we can start with these stats, and believe that someone who cb<60% is quite honest
do you agree ? because maybe im' not good at finding these spots

when i think he s polarized ou depolarized (it's quite difficult to have this read i believe so i often rely on youyr tips 60%= polarized, 70%=depolarized until i find the read)

I suggest you play less tables and pay attention. This is one of the easiest reads to develop because people are cbetting 70+% of the times when they raise preflop. You just need to pay attention.

I suggest you play less tables and pay attention. This is one of the easiest reads to develop because people are cbetting 70+% of the times when they raise preflop. You just need to pay attention.

well i could try while learning but i only play 4 tables, do you think it's too much?,
sometimes i find his hand but am not sure of the range that i should assign him

can you tell me if he s polarized or depolarized when he CB
1 over (not ace)
2 overs
A high
draws

can you tell us the composition of a polarized CB range and a depolarized one?

i try to answer....thanks to correct me if you don't give the solution yourself

polarized
He CB :
As a bluff
Air 0% equity
1 Overcard
2 overcard

For value
TPTK
Overpairss and better

He Checks :
Bottom paire
Middle paire
TP bad/ middle kiker
Flush draws
Openended
Gushtots


depolarized
He CB :
As bluff
nothing

for value
Bottom paire
Middle paire
TP bad/ middle kiker
TPTK
Overpairss and better
Flush draws
Openended
Gushtots

He Checks :
Air 0% equity
1 Overcard
2 overcard

thanks for your help

Cbetting polarized is when someone doesn't have medium strength hands in their range such as middle pair, top pair no kicker. Their range is air and strong made hands. Depolarized is when they cbet everything from air to middle pair to top pair. People who are depolarized is allowed to cbet air then his cbet will be like 33%. You don't need to separate his range like that either. air 1 over or 2 overs or 2 overs with BDFD all counts as air.

ok thanks for your patience,

to be clear, if you put 2 overs (=6 outs) in air you put also guthot in air category?, so a player who CB gtushot is polarized?

what about draws with 8 outs or better (open ended, naked flush draws, combos draws...), air too? a player who CB a naked FD 8 high is polarized?

so the key factor is medium hands ? does he CB medium hands or not:
if he CB medium hands (bottom pairs to TP bad kiker ) he's depolarized (but there are different levels of depolarization, the more air he CB the more depolarized he is, but will often will a CB stat of 70% and more)
is that true? so we have to look this category to take the read

great way for improvement