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Poker Video: Limit Hold'Em by BigBadBabar (Micro/Small Stakes)

Thankyou for your responses, and mentioning the table conditions which you consider when making playing decisions makes a lot of sense and is useful.

This is a very good series which you are making, and I look forward to the next installment.

Time Link to 00:08:15

You know it's going to be a good day when you're to the left of the guy who posts in a 6-max game then proceeds to buy 400BB two minutes later.

You know it's going to be a good day when you're to the left of the guy who posts in a 6-max game then proceeds to buy 400BB two minutes later.

there are a couple folks on there who will engage in buy-in wars with you

Time Link to 01:00:19

You talk about why you played passivley in the 2 previous hands and then when some other player did it you critisied it. I can't really see the distinction between his play and yours. You 3 bet from the BB and he calls then you barrell each street for value. If the other player has picked up on your aggression then I think he plays it well. He's not getting value from raising you apart from thae one specific hand that you had,

The only thing I can think of is that he had a much stronger hand than you had in either of the other 2 hands.

You talk about why you played passivley in the 2 previous hands and then when some other player did it you critisied it. I can't really see the distinction between his play and yours. You 3 bet from the BB and he calls then you barrell each street for value. If the other player has picked up on your aggression then I think he plays it well. He's not getting value from raising you apart from thae one specific hand that you had,

The only thing I can think of is that he had a much stronger hand than you had in either of the other 2 hands.

yeah, i 3bet in position and then bet every street for value when checked to

i'm not criticizing passive play in general. in general i think we should decide what play to make based on how our hand is doing vs the opponent's range. lots of times that will mean passive play is best (or aggressive, or folding, or whatever). for example in the previous hand i have second pair in a 3bet pot -- basically a wa/wb situation. my hand is okay but the guy's 3betting range is reasonably strong and it's hard to see how i would get more value from a worse hand (or lose less vs a better hand) by taking a different line. in the 88 vs 99 hand, when both players flop overpairs in a 3bet-pot-blind battle, it's normal to expect that more action is going to go in. just thinking about ranges here, i'm 3betting preflop with lots of stuff, like overcards, that he can get value from either on the flop or the turn.

and yeah, like you said, his hand relative to my range is much stronger here than in the two previous hand examples. so that's why i thought he could have gotten some more value for his hand.

Ahh now that make sense. His passive play in that hand against your 3 betting range, which includes overs leaves him to make tougher decisions on later streets if a,k or q hit.

Thanks for the update.

Time Link to 00:55:55

Just to correct, in this hand (A8 on 989 flop) you don't have the opponent reverse dominated if he holds a higher A, because of the 99 on the board. So this could be another reason for the passive line, but I'd think it is more of a reason to protect your hand and raise.

Time Link to 01:02:09

Hey BBB, sorry to keep harping on small mistakes of your old episodes here. I have just finally gained access to videos at DC, and am enjoying myself thoroughly - THANK YOU!

This correction actually makes the hand more interesting. Basically, on the K7QAJ board all aces split (except 2 pair ones). Which maybe makes him feel improved with A2, although of course no weaker hand should have called him....

Just to correct, in this hand (A8 on 989 flop) you don't have the opponent reverse dominated if he holds a higher A, because of the 99 on the board. So this could be another reason for the passive line, but I'd think it is more of a reason to protect your hand and raise.

good catch, thanks. board reading fail imo. i think my hand is strong enough to raise a lot of turn cards and this is a safe one.

Hey BBB, sorry to keep harping on small mistakes of your old episodes here. I have just finally gained access to videos at DC, and am enjoying myself thoroughly - THANK YOU!

This correction actually makes the hand more interesting. Basically, on the K7QAJ board all aces split (except 2 pair ones). Which maybe makes him feel improved with A2, although of course no weaker hand should have called him....

looking at it now, that call makes me cringe. and you're right again. maybe part of the reason i "ran poorly" during this series was that i temporarily lost some of my knowledge of the rules of poker