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Poker Video: No Limit Hold'Em by KRANTZ (High Stakes)

so sick this video

Well no, it's assuming that they're opening a wide range and only defending a % where the RR is immediately profitable in a vacuum, and furthermore, that you will be able to bluff your way out of the hand postflop (even without much experience in those spots, you can still take down the pot fairly often on dry boards with a tight image).

I mean, can't this argument be made for reraising any 2 cards? I guess my point comes down to why would we rather RR with 22-66 than say, Q5s. Are we dominated less often? Is our pair good enough at showdown? Do we hit enough sets and get paid off? Sorry if I'm being nitpicky about this subject, its just a trouble spot for me.

i'd like to see some 5/10 too.

Yeah I wanna some 5/10 too, but anyway, on the last hand where you called the 3bet with 77 in pos, what kind of flop are you expecting for calling a cbet? or are you just hoping that he checks back to you so you can fire yourself?

I mean, can't this argument be made for reraising any 2 cards? I guess my point comes down to why would we rather RR with 22-66 than say, Q5s. Are we dominated less often? Is our pair good enough at showdown? Do we hit enough sets and get paid off? Sorry if I'm being nitpicky about this subject, its just a trouble spot for me.

Yep, it can, and it works for any 2 cards, except that if you do RR any two cards all the time then it becomes an easily exploitable strategy and quite evident to your opponents. We take small pocket pairs and use them because they've got showdown value, you can hit sets, and in more advanced situations where the PFR will 4-bet bluff you or only 4-bet JJ+ but also AJ, AQ, and AK for value, you can 5-bet jam those all-in.

In the very first hand of the video it's funny that you openraise the BTN to 70 when there is a shortstacker in the BB because I remembery ou saying (quite some time ago) that usually the decent but not so great players don't adjust their openingsize when there is a shortstacker in the blinds
(you do it again at 3:30 and again at 39:20 vs a 15BB stack)

Would you ever open to less then 3x on the BTW with a shortstacker in the (big) blinds?


Nice vid as expected

there were a few spots where you 3-bet oop with ~200bb stacks, once against johnhenning iirc. i noticed you 3-bet about the same amount as you did with 100 bb stacks. you also seemed pretty surprised when the sb 3-bet to $260 ~150 bb deep. this is something i've never understood 100%. you'd usually rather discourage action and cut down stacks/pot when you're oop 150-250 bb deep, but it's always a little awkward making it 260+ because you're raising 30 bucks more to win the exact same amount. so is making it around the same amount the better way to play in these situations?

Good video.

Don't go to 5/10, go up!

I'd like to see more 6max (3-5 handed is fine aswell obv.), and as high limit as you want to go. 200/400 6max would be sweet, even though it doesn't run much.

def mix in some 5/10

awesome vids!

there were a few spots where you 3-bet oop with ~200bb stacks, once against johnhenning iirc. i noticed you 3-bet about the same amount as you did with 100 bb stacks. you also seemed pretty surprised when the sb 3-bet to $260 ~150 bb deep. this is something i've never understood 100%. you'd usually rather discourage action and cut down stacks/pot when you're oop 150-250 bb deep, but it's always a little awkward making it 260+ because you're raising 30 bucks more to win the exact same amount. so is making it around the same amount the better way to play in these situations?

Do you remember the time where I act surprised? I was probably just not expecting it. I personally like making it the same amount (or close to it) because right, you're risking more to win the same amount, and I can manipulate the pot well enough postflop to get all-in if I need to or bluff for more if I need to. I think reraising bigger might get you more FE at first, but as soon as people notice that that's your standard rr size with deeper stacks, they'll play you the same way they would if you were rr-ing slightly smaller.

Now even so, there's something to be said for making it slightly bigger and cutting out any immediate odds they're getting.

15:42, you make a small raise vs the cbet with K4s on a Q44 flop. You then start saying he may "click it back" and go on to say that it's a bad play.

What do you mean by "click it back"? Is that just a small bluff 3bet?

15:42, you make a small raise vs the cbet with K4s on a Q44 flop. You then start saying he may "click it back" and go on to say that it's a bad play.

What do you mean by "click it back"? Is that just a small bluff 3bet?

yah, sorry, it's a minimum 3-bet

About the 2/4s hand, do you think the rivercall is close? I think it is and that being said what do you think about the following? If you fold you will still be 250bb deep against a "donkey" in position, if you call and lose you won't. What about giving up a small plus EV call here for future value? I actually think that is a big part in this hand.

Also when you call and win you won't be deep against him because you will only play 115bb effective stacks that way so this isn't as a big of a deal than the other way around.

Great video BTW real high level thinking.

I was under the impression hitherto that just_the_nuts was/is flawless. I guess you feigned ignorance to protect his anonymity and refrain from revealing too much about how he plays?