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

Time Link to 00:22:31

why do you raise 2.5x otb when you evidently don't steal that light, and their 3bet % is some 4% combined?

Time Link to 00:24:31

that is so true, I took Tommy Angelo's advice to always play the most provitable tables, take the most profitable seats and leave a game when there is a better game.
I took it too seriously and I became a very skilled bumhunter at NL50 6m, only to get completely funked when new Stars sructure opened and suddenly 100bb tables are some 5.5 regs on average.

Time Link to 00:27:08

Can you elaborate statisticaly on where is the line between calling most of the time with ak, and raising most of the time? Lets assume tight 4bet plus calling range.

Factors to cosider:
1) the utg raise 1st %.
2) Call to 3b from utg oop

lets assume qq plus ak 4b calling range.

Time Link to 00:31:29

If you reverse roles and you are a preflop raiser againts unknown tag that caled oop at nl50 and you have JJ-KK on Axx, do you agree that it best o play inexploitaly and cbet, or would you consider checking the flop behind and why?

Time Link to 00:36:10

if you don't like blufing on the king with b, c, b line because you expect a call a lot from a reg, what will be the worst hand that you would value bet here?

Time Link to 00:56:40

I like a delayed cbet/free card on the flop, and bet fd, straight draw + bet river scarecards, or just bet strong one street on AK turns and obv. vbet QJ.

Thank you for the video, I can see that you are JK3A padawan as you copied his hud completely (its too messy for me, too many numbers and my brain got overloaded when I used it for a couple days ) and mentioned him in the setmine calling ratio. And apologies for bombing you with questions.

why do you raise 2.5x otb when you evidently don't steal that light, and their 3bet % is some 4% combined?

I think I steal more than you think. My btn steal % is in the 50-60% range.

Besides, if you can get away with a cheaper pf raise size it just makes sense no matter why you're raising the button. If you're stealing you want a better price on your steal. If you're raising for value you want more action when you're in position. The only time I raise my pfr size is when the villains are super loose so I want to charge them for playing OOP.

I think I steal more than you think. My btn steal % is in the 50-60% range.

Besides, if you can get away with a cheaper pf raise size it just makes sense no matter why you're raising the button. If you're stealing you want a better price on your steal. If you're raising for value you want more action when you're in position. The only time I raise my pfr size is when the villains are super loose so I want to charge them for playing OOP.

I see, I was heavily influenced by Bwhale's NL50 vid where he assumed that villains will be folding on the flop most of the time when unimproved oop, so you essentially create dead money by raising the extra .5bb pre. Would you agree that we should make it 3bb if we don't expect villains to 3bet a lot or play back on flop with high frequency (i.e. multitablers or average NL50 regs)?

And sorry for missing letters, I am typing on my gf's laptop ;o

Can you elaborate statisticaly on where is the line between calling most of the time with ak, and raising most of the time? Lets assume tight 4bet plus calling range.

Factors to cosider:
1) the utg raise 1st %.
2) Call to 3b from utg oop

lets assume qq plus ak 4b calling range.

I'm a little confused, are you assuming the villain calls w/ ak and qq pf?

In general I would assume that a flatting oop range for a villain utg would be have some better pps, maybe aq or ajs. 100bb vs a reg i wouldn't expect to be called very often.

The key factor depends on how wide his utg opening range is (the wider it is the more likely we are to 3bet) and the size of utg's play back range (both for calling and 4betting, the wider the more likely we are to 3bet). Since an average reg isn't opening that wide utg and isn't playing back very light to 3bets when they open utg when we 3bet we get 4bet by a very tight range, one that we are not a favorite against. This means we need the villain to raise/fold a lot to make up for all the times we get the money in bad.

If you reverse roles and you are a preflop raiser againts unknown tag that caled oop at nl50 and you have JJ-KK on Axx, do you agree that it best o play inexploitaly and cbet, or would you consider checking the flop behind and why?

Either play is fine, depending upon a couple factors. I don't think that position really effects the exploitability of our play. The key factor in determining whether to bet or not is whether we can get value better by betting the flop or bluffing catching on later streets. In general I prefer to chk, but only because villains are bad at exploiting it. If they start adjusting or if you find a villain who is more likely to call the flop for one reason or another you should bet the flop.

if you don't like blufing on the king with b, c, b line because you expect a call a lot from a reg, what will be the worst hand that you would value bet here?

Honestly pretty rare for me to have a value hand that I would play like that. If I did have value hands I would say a good 8 would prob be the worst hand I'd value bet

I like a delayed cbet/free card on the flop, and bet fd, straight draw + bet river scarecards, or just bet strong one street on AK turns and obv. vbet QJ.

Thank you for the video, I can see that you are JK3A padawan as you copied his hud completely (its too messy for me, too many numbers and my brain got overloaded when I used it for a couple days ) and mentioned him in the setmine calling ratio. And apologies for bombing you with questions.

Interesting, because I like using the hud given its simplicity. To each their own though.

Np with the questions. That's why I'm here.

I see, I was heavily influenced by Bwhale's NL50 vid where he assumed that villains will be folding on the flop most of the time when unimproved oop, so you essentially create dead money by raising the extra .5bb pre. Would you agree that we should make it 3bb if we don't expect villains to 3bet a lot or play back on flop with high frequency (i.e. multitablers or average NL50 regs)?

And sorry for missing letters, I am typing on my gf's laptop ;o

Baluga is correct is we assume that villains are calling. If they are calling but not 3betting then raising more makes sense. Its pretty villain dependent. I tend to default to 2.5x as a habit but I wouldn't be surprised if defaulting to 3x in the micro stakes may be better given the passivity.

Nice vid.

U mind sharing Ur session stats ? It wud be interesting to see`em...

Cheerio...