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

Time Link to 00:48:42

I'm guessing that when the turn brings another ace we go for a second barrel here seeing that the chances of him having one have decreased? I'm not sure cause i don't know what range we can put him on after calling on that flop other then an ace? Maybe JJ,QQ, KK? And if that's the case i don't know if they could fold it now because we have a harder time representing the ace. I'm always tempted to go for a second barrel in these situations but i'm not really sure if it's the right thing to do.

Time Link to 00:04:59

Okey.
I love this series but I am really getting confused about something.
Typical opponents were classified as loose-passive type players and I have no clue why is Kristy 3-betting very light and also isolating pretty light depending on fact that loose-passive players dont like to fold a lot?
I would understand that approach for tight-weak tho.
Any explanations ?

Okey.
I love this series but I am really getting confused about something.
Typical opponents were classified as loose-passive type players and I have no clue why is Kristy 3-betting very light and also isolating pretty light depending on fact that loose-passive players dont like to fold a lot?
I would understand that approach for tight-weak tho.
Any explanations ?

Hey man,

Tight-weak isn't really a classification i'd give, at least not at a base level. I'm going to assume that bad-passive players are going to play fit-or-fold on the flop most times, meaning they're folding to c-bets plenty often to make them profitable (remember that you don't need people to fold to your c-bet even 50% of the time to be profitable).

Against a player who never folds K hi or something on the flop I'd just start v-betting all my A hi's and it'd work out just fine.

Andrew

how do i deal with a "bad" aggressive villain who's 3bet %, fold to 3bet %, and 4bet % look like : 25,25,25 ? just turn my vpip/pfr down to like 3/3 ?

also, sometimes i feel like "wheee let's just keep shoving all kinds of crap preflop over and over again !" or i have the choice of folding over and over again whenever i open and get 3bet or whenever i 3bet and get 4bet... and when i finally 4bet/5bet with AK or QQ villain folds or has KK/AA or villain flats somewhere preflop and i get owned postflop.... and often i feel like if i'm trying to play like kristy, the whole table is doing this to me. and then there's calling stations who i feel are just floating me all the time and i'm giving up all the time with underpairs or overcards or i'm getting randomly donked into and i just wanna cry

episode 3 is like my entire NLHE career so far.

i was hoping there would be some magical solution here in episode 4, but obviously i just don't get it.

maybe i don't have the skill at all yet for this ?

i guess somehow i still don't know what hands to 3bet and what hands to cold call with preflop.

i know whole books can be written about this, but i'm totally lost. i come from a LHE background where it's no big deal at all to get 3bet/4bet cuz it's only one more bet and if i'm done raising it's snapcall and see a flop with any 2 cards. totally different in NL and i feel like a drooler cuz i've been reading forums on this, watching vids, reading books, and i still can't do it right. my bb/100 in 3bet pots is like -200bb/100. also, somehow, my redline is very very good and my blue line is very very bad, if that gives anyone any ideas (i'm too aggressive)????

can someone please give me some advice ? maybe links to forum threads i should read (or reread), or specific videos i should watch (or rewatch).

i'd appreciate it

ok sorry for whining so much.

i'm gonna go watch from the ground up. seems like i need to cement the abc's into my head.

Time Link to 00:02:45

Baluga, you say here that "K7s is a great hand to 3-bet with" - why? We're talking about these players being mostly bad passive, and you say we're raising for value, but surely a bad passive player is only ever calling a 3bet with better here. Or are we just looking to c-bet basically every flop here and take small pots down?

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?

I don´t think hero is able to call. Hero is getting 32% if villian is pushing (assuming hero bets 10$ at the turn). If Villian´s shoveingrange looks like this Overpairs like JJ+; Sets 22, 44,77, 99, Flushdraws AhTx+ and Flushes like 65s+ A8s+ we have only ~18%


Board: 4h 9h 2h 7s
Dead:

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 17.842% 17.84% 00.00% 7593431 0.00 { KhQd }
Hand 1: 82.158% 82.16% 00.00% 34966809 0.00 { JJ+, 99, 77, 44, 22, AhKh, AhQh, AhJh, AhTh, QhJh, JhTh, Th9h, 9h8h, 8h7h, 7h6h, AcKh, AdKh, AhKc, AhKd, AhKs, AsKh, AhQc, AhQd, AhQs, AhJc, AhJd, AhJs, AsJc, AsJd, AsJh, AcTh, AdTh, AhTc, AhTs, AsTc, AsTh }

Beluga what Do you think?

Couldn't access the time link video so i don't know exactly how to go about posting a time stamp, anyway;

At juat before 34:00 where we start getting 4 bet a bit by this reg to our right you stated that we need to start polarizing our range against this villain and if we are going to play A9s we should be 3bet shoving it or flatting it preflop. When you said "3bet shove" did you mean open 3bet shove? Or are we talking 3bet 5bet-shove? If you would like to elaborate on that just a little I would much appreciate it.

Time Link to 00:50:15

Thank you Thank you Thank you. For sharing your wisdom IM loving this series! Ive watched 4 vids of this series in just 2days! Im learning so Much, you rock baluga!! You also rock Kristy for asking all of the same ?s I would want to be answered! This series is the Nutz

This has to be the best serious of coaching videos i have watched on any site, and ive been a member of most!

I have learnt more from this set of videos then all the others i have watched put together.

This is how you make training videos!

Time Link to 00:19:11

Baluga, you discuss c/f on the river if you bet the turn, but it sounds like you mean if the river bricks off. Had we bet the turn and hit our K, are you jamming?

Time Link to 00:29:34

Uhm, you might want to re-phrase that

Time Link to 00:16:54

Should you be barreling here with a hand that doesn't have much equity on this board because it's still quite a scary board for his range on should you only be doing it when the board texture changes and when we have equity ourselves?

Time Link to 00:29:42

so you are tight or you are not? You know, we guys like tight girls xD

Time Link to 00:06:31

If he's calling w/ 89s, he's folding so many flops to our cbets, no? Isn't one of the reasons for 3betting in position (and even out of positions), to make better hands fold when we have the initiative and we both miss boring ass flops?