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

Excellent!!

I really love this video and the step by step look at how to get away from standard ABC poker at the micro's. ABC poker is great at the Micro's but there really are spots like these that come up all the time. This video is going in my Micro library and will be a good study video for anyone at the micro's IMO.

@42:42 with A9o in the BB.. This entire hand and all the explinations behind every part of it are pure gold! I really like the way you explain the differance between player types and bet size oat the river/end of the hand.

It was really cool to do this video with Inavacuum and I really like that he asked me for it.

I especially liked it because I hadn't seen the hands before we started the video, so I had all the changes in the world to say something dumb which will only make me, and with that, you guys, better.

thank you DC and inavacuum

In work, and cant use timing stamps, tho, you prob remember these hands that i have a few quick questions on......before the questions I should be adding, I liked this format, I loved how you put snappie under pressure and asked good questions, as snappie was thinking and answering i was too answering into myself, haha!!

1, first hand- triple barrel, king turn and jack river, if the river was a 2-9 would we be check/folding this? Just to clarify- We are only betting the river jack as a scare card?? If the river was another king would we check? Or bet?

2, When we flat the 3 bet with kk, whats the plans on a Axx board three way? I'm kinda meh in this spot, being OOP, I would prefer to 4 bet here and coolering the CO!

3, $12.5 on the river as a bluff, I think you get looked up a ton, but with reads vrs this player type, fair enough! Something i never tried before as a bluff! Will have to look into this!

4, last hand- 99 on 333xx, i think the river is a shove, any pocket pair snap calls imo!!! no one folds a full house, well fish anyway!

again, i really liked this format, and is this going to be a series?

Time Link to 00:03:39

I would say all A4 and A5 cominations would peel this board, especially the suited running flush + wheel + Ace-over hands.

BTW - this video is really good, Tim you are a great teacher and Snappie, you make for a great student, keep up the good work.

I would say all A4 and A5 cominations would peel this board, especially the suited running flush + wheel + Ace-over hands.

I think villain in the hand is very likely to fold or 3bet all low Ax. In fact I think he folds or 3bets all unsuited A2-A9. For suiteds he will prefer to 3bet but does have some combos in his range and those hands will peel, as you rightly point out. I didn't mention how often I think he'd be folding/3betting that portion of his range preflop in the video so you'd be right to include even more combos when analyzing the hand with the information you have.

And thank you for the encouraging words!

1, first hand- triple barrel, king turn and jack river, if the river was a 2-9 would we be check/folding this? Just to clarify- We are only betting the river jack as a scare card?? If the river was another king would we check? Or bet?

I don't want to cop out in any way but the answer is: It depends. Vs a lot of villains I simply wouldn't fire the 3rd barrel on a non-broadway river when I don't believe they'd be able to find a fold with a marginal hand. This particular villain I think would have folded to any river card that did not improve his hand as I feel he had a good understanding of how often I have to be bluffing there for his call to be profitable. As such I'd be betting any river vs that particular villain. You may ask "well how do I know the difference?" and that's a legitimate question. The answer is to use the sum of the knowledge you have. What have you seen him call down with before vs you and others? Does he view you differently to those he did or not did call down with hand X before? If you have a large sample look at his fold to river cbet %, something people rarely look at (because it requires a large sample to properly aggregate). It should be especially interesting if he has a low fold to flop and turn cbet but a high fold to river cbet. And of course we realise that fold to river cbet is not the same as fold to river bet.

2, When we flat the 3 bet with kk, whats the plans on a Axx board three way? I'm kinda meh in this spot, being OOP, I would prefer to 4 bet here and coolering the CO!

I think it's unlikely that BTN bluffs into both of us in that spot since he should expect AQ to be a large part of both ranges and CO can even have worse Ax in his range given the action and what we know about him. It is gross when you see an A high flop in this situation and have to get away from the hand but this will happen no more often than when you get all in preflop and an Ace comes on the flop when you don't want it to (only you lose more money when that happens).

again, i really liked this format, and is this going to be a series?

Thank you. There is another episode, as for anything beyond that I really can't comment at the moment, but if there is demand I will supply it.

http://www.deucescracked.com/videos/3321-Inavacuum-Yin?seek=1456

I agree that calling would look strong, but you don't really know if villain is good at hand reading. If he's value c/r'ing, he's going to shove pretty much every turn anyway. Why not at least give him a chance to continue bluffing?

http://www.deucescracked.com/videos/3321-Inavacuum-Yin?seek=1456

I agree that calling would look strong, but you don't really know if villain is good at hand reading. If he's value c/r'ing, he's going to shove pretty much every turn anyway. Why not at least give him a chance to continue bluffing?

I certainly don't think you have to raise and I don't mind calling at all, especially if there is a good chance villain will continue bluffing. In this case I didn't feel there was simply because I view his CR range in that spot as close to 100% air. Also we should realize that by raising we're not really repping much having just called the 3bet and this can induce all kinds of mistakes from the regs. I have a hand in to illustrate this point and will include it in the next episode.

I think for the people who were complaining about a lack of micro/small stake content or any sort of variety of concepts taught for them-this is exactly what we were looking for.

Thank you. There is another episode, as for anything beyond that I really can't comment at the moment, but if there is demand I will supply it.

Oh, there's demand alright. This format is amazing. Getting a great teacher like you grilling an actual player from the micro stakes really engages me a bit more than some other videos. I found myself really thinking through your questions rather than just listening passively. Also, the concept of illustrating when, and when not, to get fancy is just perfect.

Great video, guys.

Oh, there's demand alright. This format is amazing. Getting a great teacher like you grilling an actual player from the micro stakes really engages me a bit more than some other videos. I found myself really thinking through your questions rather than just listening passively. Also, the concept of illustrating when, and when not, to get fancy is just perfect.

Great video, guys.

+1

I could not agree more with this

File under...."Mentor" series?

BTW - this video is really good, Tim you are a great teacher and Snappie, you make for a great student, keep up the good work.

Thanks you. I tried to be the best student I could be in this video so it wouldnt be a disappointment. Real good to see Tim gets so many great responses about this format and I really hope he will get more DC time after this

Thank you. There is another episode, as for anything beyond that I really can't comment at the moment, but if there is demand I will supply it.

thanks for the answers

i hope theres a demand for it, i certainly want it

again, what i like abt this type of format is the tough questions u ask, the viewer answers them himself while snappie talks, then he rewinds to listen to his answer and ur answer to make sure hes on the right track!!

again thumbs up from me for more of these