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

Finally, LOL. Watching ASAP...

Hey Andrew, enjoying the series so far and there is a tonne of good content, but I feel like you're (understandably) a little out of touch with the state of the game at 50NL. Obviously everybody there is a bad player in one sense of the word because if they were good they would be playing higher, but they're not all loose passive fish who call down and play super straight forward. There are a TONNE of regs at 50NL, and while they (we) obviously aren't great they are capable of noticing stuff and making adjustments. I just feel like some of your comments, like "the idea of running a 3 barrel bluff at 50NL is ridiculous" are off the mark. There are clearly times and places for somewhat advanced plays like 3 barrel bluffing. I realise you don't want to overload Kristy with information and induce FPS in her, but its something I think you should consider a little.

BW, you are the most inspiring poker coach I've ever seen. Thank you for your beautiful videos

DUMP- still love you baluga!

Nice video as always.
You should come to Japan instead of Thailand, since you know some Japanese!

Hey Andrew, enjoying the series so far and there is a tonne of good content, but I feel like you're (understandably) a little out of touch with the state of the game at 50NL. Obviously everybody there is a bad player in one sense of the word because if they were good they would be playing higher, but they're not all loose passive fish who call down and play super straight forward. There are a TONNE of regs at 50NL, and while they (we) obviously aren't great they are capable of noticing stuff and making adjustments. I just feel like some of your comments, like "the idea of running a 3 barrel bluff at 50NL is ridiculous" are off the mark. There are clearly times and places for somewhat advanced plays like 3 barrel bluffing. I realise you don't want to overload Kristy with information and induce FPS in her, but its something I think you should consider a little.

This is true. In fact, the greatest leak of most 50nl regulars is that they just fold too much imo. They let their hands go and 'wait for a better spot'.

Maybe at 50nl Everest/Pacific/Betfair etc its different, @ stars/fulltilt/ipoker etc. the 50nl regulars are not that bad at all..

So maybe we can assume instead of they are all loose/passive/bad players, that they are pretty decent. And thus we can for example 3bet a polarised range as a default, until proven otherwise..

Maybe a good strategy is to get them out their comfort zone, 3bet them extremely loose, blufraise flops, donkbet them with medium hands- call a raise and checkcall turn+river etc.
They dont adjust (fold too much, or call too much) or overadjust (4bet every single hand, get out of line in postflop situation where we have the nuts)

you said there about level on diference pokersites i think it is bullshit, you always can select tables, level diference between everest and fulltilt i think is not so big.......every site have good player/bad players

i think also your hud go to helps you witch players you are against....
i do not play every site but when i select the tables % preflop then look likes not so much diference between all the sites.... then?

Can I talk about this 76s hand...at the end you say we can raise..and then you say we can be "comfortable getting it in"....assuming we raise and he comes over the top are you really comfortable getting it in? I'm thinking if he's shoving he's doing it with 9s+....not A high..

Just to note my equity/math knowledge isn't good...and I realise we have a gutshot and a runner runner..but it seems spewy to shove all in with a pair of 7s..

If I'm raising I'm folding to anymore action...but I don't understand why we'd go all in here...could you or someone explain please..

Thanks Joe

Can I talk about this 76s hand...at the end you say we can raise..and then you say we can be "comfortable getting it in"....assuming we raise and he comes over the top are you really comfortable getting it in? I'm thinking if he's shoving he's doing it with 9s+....not A high..

Just to note my equity/math knowledge isn't good...and I realise we have a gutshot and a runner runner..but it seems spewy to shove all in with a pair of 7s..

If I'm raising I'm folding to anymore action...but I don't understand why we'd go all in here...could you or someone explain please..

Thanks Joe

too much money in the pot to fold? we have 9 outs to beat overpairs, thats 37% equity

I guess I need to sort my maths out pretty quickly then.

You guys make a great team and work well together. Awesome series so far.

great vids -

kristy you ask very pertinent questions keep it up
breaking down 3b/4b (5b jam) ranges is where i know i mess up -
/tend to overplay my hands... i like when ya break down theoretical situations down to every possible outcome... i.e. i'm glad you talked about jammin' the river in that KQo hand where you CR'd / 9h turned / etc.. and what boards/villains you would jam the river.. i feel like when i do CR those spots and bet a hspb - it's so hard not to jam into that perfectly set-up ps riv bet lol anyway - nice vid

thanks again

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Time Link to 00:07:40

I don't think raising this flop is very good. If his range for donking is overpairs and AQ/AK type hands then it seems you are better off calling since you can't really fold out anything with more equity and can't really get anything with less to call. Why would you want him to fold out his AQ when he could potentially fire the turn again? Furthermore, if a player is willing to cold call a 3bet oop then I wouldn't expect him to also donk-fold on this flop.

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If we bet the turn and get shoved on, do we call the shove vs that particular villain?

EDIT: As played, when we bet the river for $13-15 and villain shoves, can hero call?