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Poker Video: No Limit Hold'Em by improva (Mid Stakes)

Any chance that you can touch a little more on the factors causing the redline to go up as opposed to down. I am sure we all understand the basics of winning non-showdown hands and not putting in too much money and then folding. Where do you see the biggest leaks or hidden losses that cause the redline to fall particularly with the $100NL-$200NL players. Grindcore touched on it in the first episode of the series, but it's been left out of the conversation most part until you took over the series. I have tried feverishly to not do things to directly effect the redline, but to make changed to my game that would benefit my overall winrate and the redline is usually indicative of what is going right. I think some direct work on my non showdown winnings would really improve both my winrate adn my aggression.

Any chance that you can touch a little more on the factors causing the redline to go up as opposed to down. I am sure we all understand the basics of winning non-showdown hands and not putting in too much money and then folding. Where do you see the biggest leaks or hidden losses that cause the redline to fall particularly with the $100NL-$200NL players. Grindcore touched on it in the first episode of the series, but it's been left out of the conversation most part until you took over the series. I have tried feverishly to not do things to directly effect the redline, but to make changed to my game that would benefit my overall winrate and the redline is usually indicative of what is going right. I think some direct work on my non showdown winnings would really improve both my winrate adn my aggression.

This!
Although the videos are very good and have changed my game, the series is called Thin Red Line, and only the first episode touched the subject a little... My play may have been improved but my red line... well, still going down pretty much

A non-negative red line comes from a good understanding of your opponents ranges, how they like to play the different parts and from a good understanding of how positions influence the game - here I'm not just talking about in position and out of position but also the fact that people play different ranges from different positions and they assume that we are playing different ranges as well.

If I have to give some quick tips:

- Punish them when they are weak.

- If you have no pot equity when called and you expect that you often will have to fire multiple barrels => check-fold.

- Play like a man from the blinds.

You mentioned at one point that you should have opened 2.5x on the BN because you were opening any two cards. If you're opening 100% of buttons why not just min raise instead? I mean in theory you have more fold equity with 2.5x but I don't mind at all if people flat wider ranges in the blinds vs my min raise because they're generally not comfortable in that situation, and as their ranges widen it becomes easy to simply barrel the hell out of them on all kinds of board textures. Is there any particular benefit to a larger open that I'm missing?

- If you have no pot equity when called and you expect that you often will have to fire multiple barrels => check-fold.

Great post! This is one is particularly great and one I need to work on.

Improva everything you do is gold. I'm really looking forward to sitting down and watching this episode this weekend.

what do you mean by "play like a man from the blinds" ?

what do you mean by "play like a man from the blinds" ?

I think he means play more aggressively, don't auto fold to every BTN open. Mix it up and play back.

This is probably what you're looking for:

http://www.deucescracked.com/forums/4-General-Discussion/topics/37191-Some-of-the-pieces-from-t?page=2&per_page=30#posts-298681

It's an audio discussion about playing from the blinds that Improva had with Simpleme. It's GOOD stuff. However I'd advise that you add parts of what is discussed into your game slowly. If not you'll spew like crazy from the blinds if you're not careful! It's really good stuff though.

Hey guys, I've been really busy/exhausted and without internet for a while, but should have more free time now. I'll be recording the last 2 episodes tomorrow.

Hey guys, I've been really busy/exhausted and without internet for a while, but should have more free time now. I'll be recording the last 2 episodes tomorrow.

Please include some theory like in 1st episode.

Please include some theory like in 1st episode.

this plz grindcore

also, improva did a good job with hand history review, maybe some of these

cheers

Improva, congrats on producing outstanding videos. Thank you!

I understand the importance of not calling 3bets out of position, but can you give some guidance and what hands with which we should be calling 3bets IN position based on, for example, very tight, tight, medium, and loose 3-bettors?

Any guidance you can provide would be much appreciated.

- Play like a man from the blinds.

This would be a great topic for a video.

I was hoping to see you do so, but sadly that there weren't many opportunities in your last video.

grindcore and improva in 1 vid, that would be the nudds

Great videos Oliver

grindcore and improva in 1 vid, that would be the nudds

The Coaching Tree S3?