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

On 6th March I wrote:

...today started to play my usual 50NL 4-tabling with Dan's ABC hands, and aim to tweak my hands/play/game along with the series. Hopefully this series will give me a boost to move up to 100NL, or at least help with it.

ABC preflop hand range...following it to the letter, so far 851 hands and am running 13.04/8.7. Attempt to steal blinds 26.17%, which has followed naturally just from following the hand chart.
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After 12,499 hands the figures are 11.85/6.97, attempt to steal 20.4. So ABC is nitty for sure. Time to take the next step - how do I open up preflop and in which order?

DJ Sensie,

I am going to Vegas on Thursday and there will much 1/2 played. Do you have an recommendations for beating a table of loose passive fish? See a lot of flops and value town them? Raise from position and c-bet boards that they probably miss?

Thanks,
Easern Motors

Eastern Motors, please don't hi-jack threads, I can't really see your post relating to Nit series episode 1. Please check out the most relevant forum/thread and post there instead. Thanks.

Ulkis: to open up your fullring game, you should most certainly start with the button and cutoff, then work your way back from there slowly. but don't worry too much about nitty stats as long as you're winning a decent amount consistently.

eastern motors: tight aggressive is the way to beat those kind of players, but feel free to see flops in position with more speculative hands when given the opportunity. but be sure to skew your ranges of such hands more towards suited connectors, suited aces, and things like that that can make the nuts somewhat often, more than hands like AXo or KX or offsuit connectors.

Hi, I am the guy everyone wants to sit to the left of :0).

This is the first video I have ever watched, and I am so thankful that I spend the $$'s, so thanks for these, cant wait to see the rest.

Was really good to see you briefly talk about HUD's as I have just purchased HM - I havent watched the rest of your series yet, but I hope that you refer to the HUD more often and it's benefits, as I would like to have heard how VPIP and PFR should be used to your advantage - if you dont in the later video's could you please please talk about this elsewhere.

Now for the donk question - when you talk about ranges in MP you talk about limping with QJs-54s, and then in LP you discuss raising with Sc's T9-54. Why stop at 54s, and why not 43/32s etc? Apologies in advance for the simplicity of the question but I am here to learn....

I have other questions, but I will check the rest of the series in case I am wasting your time.

Thanks again mate, and I look forward to more videos from you.

As far as the suited connectors go, I generally say to stop at 54s because the ones below it have fewer straight possibilities and thus less value. 43s is usually alright, especially in the later positions, but 32s isn't really all that good.

very good video. Can anyone direct me to the link or video were it introduces 6max PL/NL Holdem.

I've played much FR but I would like to get started with 6max, is there a series like this one for shorthanded action.

Thank You

There are several series for 6max NLHE which you should find quite appealing:

Memoirs of a Limidonk
Moving on up
Unconventional Wisdom
and most of the Ghost and Freestylin' episodes too.

I'm new to DC, have just recently established myself as a winning player at the low limits of full ring NL50 and PLHE50 and rated the video a 5.
I'm wondering if I may have identified a couple leaks in my game in watching this video.
#1 Should I be calling raises with AQ from MP and AJ, KQ from LP with regularity? Currently I'm only making these calls vs. villains with high to very high PFR %'s, I think mainly because I fear top pair being counterfeited by AK or AQ. Is this marginal or a definite leak?
#2 I think I may be missplaying my SB badly when it's folded around, because I'm completing with all of my average to below average hands (minus 23) vs. just about anyone who's shown that they will defend their BB. I think this is because of 3:1 odds, but being that I'm lacking the button that heads up would provide, I shouldn't be so ready to play if I don't have a definite advantage postflop. How bad is completing with T4u for example vs. say a near equal opponent in the BB on a regular basis?

Well the higher their pfr%, the smaller the part of their range that dominates you is (and the larger the part that you actually dominate!) so hands like AQ, AJ, and KQ are actually fairly strong. Of course most players will have higher pfrs from later positions, so take that into account. Some HUD's will even break down their percentages by position too, so you can see pretty clearly how much their range expands in later positions.

When it folds to you in the SB I'd highly recommend either raising or folding. Limping lets your opponent see a free flop with any 2, and when he has position on you thats not something you should be so happy about. The tighter he is, the more you should be raising, the looser he is the more you should be folding.

great vid and i love that i can watch it on the iphone

i switched to more FR from 6 max the past 2 weeks and i hate open limping. i feel like open limping 22-99 from EP and 22-77 + SCs from MP is so weak. I am playing 50NL right now and hope to move up to 100NL soon. it seems like there are so many weak tight players who fold their blinds or fold to CB so much that it might be better to raise rather than open limp especially from MP. what do you think - thanks

Against weaktight players, you can certainly raise little pairs and c-bet them profitably, but you'll find fewer and fewer of those as you rise in stakes. The usual problem with those little pairs is that if you're oop against somebody who isn't weaktight, its very difficult to make profitable postflop decisions, especially if you've got the initiative and feel obligated to fire at the pot a time or two (or three!). I think they play fine after limping, too, in the right spots, and you don't just have to limp-call and then give up if you miss your set. I think in episode 4 I show a hand where I limp a little pair from EP and then reraise it after a raise and a call or two.

I just joined DC and happened to watch this awesome video. Where can I get the HUD that was used in this video?

Please excuse my ignorance as I am new to online poker, but what is VPIP and PFR and what should we be looking for in these stats.

I just joined DC and happened to watch this awesome video. Where can I get the HUD that was used in this video?

Please excuse my ignorance as I am new to online poker, but what is VPIP and PFR and what should we be looking for in these stats.

you can find the HUD layouts here. The HUD itself is available at www.pokerace.com

VPIP stands for voluntarily put money in pot, which basically is the percentage of hands you choose to play. Most fish have a high VPIP because they play too many hands. In a fullring game, most solid players will have VPIP's between 12 and 20.

PFR stands for preflop raise, which is simply the % of hands you raise preflop. Fish tend to have either very low (loose passive) or very high (maniac) PFRs. Yours should neither be too low nor too high, probably about 2/3-3/4 the size of your VPIP.

Excellent primer, Sensei! Enjoyed it.