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

Hey guys. I'm a fairly new member and I want to say that I'm very, very glad I joined. Episode 2 was another great learning experience, as were the questions and discussion about various hands and lines of play.

I look forward to the rest of the series and hope to read about WhiteHeat's detached Zenlike response to his upcoming sic , sic heater!!!

Keep up the great work.

Cheers everyone!

Sorry to hear you are on adownswing man. What you just eplained is my life since last month. Anyway Let me reformulate my question. Do you think you can have a 7-8BB/100 hands while being sweated by WOT or more precisley is it possible for a player like WOT to beat NL50 or NL100 for that kind of winrate???

its definitely possible to get 7-8ptbb, maybe even 10ptbb if you arent heavily multitabling and datamine

Alex,

I hope you get out of your downswing sooner rather than later - from what I've seen you definitely have run pretty bad imo, so hopefully that'll turn around .

Another thing from my experience - when you are deliberately trying to adjust the way you play the game, whether it's based on advice you get from coaching or an attempt to change your style - it'll take time to incorporate these elements into your game successfully. I used to be a pretty nitty 200nl regular earlier in the year (around Jan-Feb) running 18/13/3 sort of stats. One day I decided to switch it up and start playing more loose, aiming for around 24/20/3.. What I found when I dropped down to 100nl to try that was that I was getting into far more marginal spots, my image changed, the relative value of my hands changed, and combined with running bad at 200nl (dropping around 15BIs), it got bad enough to cause me to take a break from the game for a while.

Nowadays I definitely feel more comfortable running a looser game preflop (around 21/16/2.5 for the last mth) and postflop but it really did take a while to adjust to playing differently to a style that you developed over hundreds of thousands of hands. Furthermore, I'm sure you'll learn how to run better and flop quads or oversets like I do too..

Cheers & GL
JP

Dunno if you tryed other sites @ NL 50 but imo FTP is the toughest and most aggressive site on this stakes, i played there about 50k hands on nl 50 and had just such massive swings due this aggressive donks. For me playing @ Stars or Party is way more softer and the fish are more passive

Hi Cordo,

Thanks for the advice. I play a bit on Eurolinx as it is soft and like to mix it up, but I am not really interesting in my short term results. So want to play in the games that are difficult, so that when I do move up. I will be ready. But this is something that WoT have discussed.

Alex

Alex,

Thanks for the write up on running bad. I look forward to the episode you talk more about it and I look forward to Aaron's take on it too.

Great vid guys.
Alex, I think I've read that old post of yours from 2+2 about five times over the past year or so I've been playing seriously. I feel every time I hit a bad run or somehow leave some elements of my game away from the table, I've stumbled upon it and it has (along with other sources) offered me the direction to work on my game away from the table, recoup, retool and ultimately move up in stakes..

A question - the loose donkey on our left on the left table, if his fold to cbet % had been lower, how would you have been adjusting your opening ranges and cbetting / two barrelling frequencies to compensate especially OOP..

A question - the loose donkey on our left on the left table, if his fold to cbet % had been lower, how would you have been adjusting your opening ranges and cbetting / two barrelling frequencies to compensate especially OOP..

I think that you need to be doing the reverse of them. I would be tightening up my range a bit, and value betting second pair etc. If you can’t shift people off any flop, there is no need to get into marginal situations with him. I prefer to wait for a hand and just value town them. So I would say that it is a game of patience. Looking at the VPIP, Fold to C-bet and WTSD as a combo, is a good indicator for your plan for the flop. I think you are spewing money by trying to take it away from them if they are never folding.

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Look at your results every 10 minutes of a session.
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Hahaha I so recognize this one.

Dunno if it has been asked previously, but is there a file config for the HUD setup.

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Hey guys. I'm a fairly new member and I want to say that I'm so glad I joined DC.just watching this series was well worth it.Episode 2 was another great learning experience, as were the questions and discussion about various hands by both WiltOntTilt and WhiteHeatSYD brilliant stuff keep up the good work. and thanks

Alex - thanks for your downswing essay. I think it describes almost exactly my experience too, and your do's and don'ts are fantastic.

Great series, guys

Greetings from Sunny South Africa

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Look at your results every 10 minutes of a session.

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Hahaha I so recognize this one.

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Great video guys!

Just watched it and have a question for WoT...

One hour in Alex picks up AKo in the SB and it gets raised UTG by 995994. Alex elects to 3-bet and 995994 calls. After 995 calls the cbet on the A4T rainbow board, I'm not sure I agree with checking the turn, especially due to Alex's remaining stack size and the board texture. 995's flop action seems to indicate either a very strong hand (ie. set of 4s, AT, but more likely AQ, AJ, A9, 55-99, KQ, QJ). This range is deduced in combination from his pf action with his flop action, of course. Therefore, especially when the 8d comes on the turn bringing the flush draw, I feel there are a lot of combination draws AdQd, KdQd, QdJd, 9dJd, and just generally Ax hands, as mentioned, which will probably call a pot-sized bet on the turn but still be behind our AK. Plus, if Alex checks, there is a still a small chance that 995 will push AI on the turn, and then are we really comfortable snap calling with only TPTK for the rest of our stack? (Maybe I'm forgetting how loose 995 was in this video?)

As the hand played out I feel that to some degree Alex was lucky to get the river call from second pair (QJ), though I guess you guys had some specific reads on this opponent. However, given 995's flush draw and double-gut shot on the turn (with QdJd), my guess is he would most probably be calling Alex's AI bet on the turn, so why not make the bet then, avoiding a possibly difficult river decision? I feel this might be superior to checking the turn and shoving (any?) river, but I'd love to hear your comments on this line of thinking. It could be that I am 2-barrelling my TPTK hands too much and missing value when I could check one street and induce a bluff. Not sure.

I am new to this nl thing being mostly a stt and lhe player, but I am now wanting to add nl to my games as well. I can't for the life of me figure out why we would call w AJ at 43 min. Someone posted that we can get an overcall from the fish. Do we want to be in a multiway pot w AJ? During the vid WOT said that we can jam some flops if it is checked to us? What flops would those be? How often would someone 3bet pf and then check flop? We did have some data on the 3bettor so is that the reason? He is a dc member or 2+2er so he can be 3 betting light oop here? I know part of NL is not playing your cards but I can't figure out how to continue if we do call. Have a plan and I don't have one! Do we jam an A or J here? I wouldn't feel comfortable with a one pair hand here too much. I would be calling pf and folding a huge range of flops. I hope this post isn't too late as I am catching up on vids, and because I really like this series. But I am lost here.