Poker Video: Limit Hold'Em by DeathDonkey (Mid Stakes)

Just a quick comment that I think you should put somewhere the date of publishing and the date of production. (These might be reported in the general bug thread, not sure.) I'm not sure if you still upload older videos, but in any case it makes it easier to identify the videos. (Like for example when you renamed the Oink videos, which is fine as it is, you took away the hand numbering scheme and now I have no idea which is #1 and #2 etc. :-))

Hi Jarno,

We are finally caught up and every single vid that is up has the correct published date. So if its a vid we converted from the old site it will have the old site's published date (which Entity has put up several of in the last day or two). This is a new vid I recorded a day or so ago.

edit to add: Oink vids are in correct 1,2,3,4 etc. order by published date now too.

-DeathDonkey

I can’t stress how much I love these single table gameplay videos. Please keep them up.

Just a quick suggestion though. In your poker ace HUD, you should go to preferences -> pokersites -> pokerstars, and enable flicker free drawing. I’m sure you know that already. It’s just that I found the flashing numbers distacted from your commentary monsieur donkey.

the term "TAG lite"...I like it!

The AdQd hand is stuck in my head.
It just seems so much like we have to bet in this spot.
On the turn I mean.
isn't it a sin to give a hand that would fold a free card?
don't we have to be VERY CERTAIN, that villain will attempt some ridiculous bluff if we check the turn? And I think with this villain, thats not a certainty.
also, for metagame..aren't we playing "predictably" by not firing a second barrel?
and doesn't that hurt us in the long run?
math wise...it appears to me...we are risking $40 to MAYBE win another $10, with some chance of losing it all plus maybe another bet, if we decide to call a river bet.
and lastly...one big difference here is, villain can not bluff the turn, only the river.
it seems to me, we need to bet this turn.

I also noticed you seemed to be playing a style that was loose passive,
wouldn't that more fit a tight aggressive game? this seemed more like a tight passive game to me.

Just wanted to say thanks for making this video...please keep up the good work and continue making videos like this.....

Hi Mickey,

Let me answer "metagame" first before math, IMO no this is not bad for metagame because my stealing range is very wide, and I will often have nothing that can win the pot unimproved in spots like this, so I will sometimes be checking behind turn and giving up if I don't hit the river. For that reason the fact that I am sometimes calling a river bet unimproved is a fine balance. The only thing I don't balance in this spot is hands that check behind turn and then raise river unimproved, because I think just betting twice is the safer, better option.

Now to math, this will get nasty fast so I'll try to just do a bit of an overview. I don't remember the exact action so we'll go with your $40 in the pot number. So there are two cases to start off with, the times my AQ is the best hand on the turn, and the times it isn't. I am/was assuming he would never fold a better hand when I played it, if you disagree with that let's talk about it. I think the typical villain online these days is never folding a pair there (nor should he IMO). So the times I'm behind there is no argument, we want the free card, we are a dog to win the hand.

Now, the times we are ahead is more interesting. When ahead, there are a few things that can happen if I check. 1) we can fall behind when he hits the river, and it either goes check/check, or he bets and we call and I lose. 2) We can both improve and it goes check, bet, call, or bet, raise, call. 3) Nothing changes and it goes check/check, or he bluffs and it goes bet, call and I win. 4) I improve and he doesn't it goes check, bet, fold, or rarely check, bet, call when I was ahead already (he looks us up with worse ace high maybe), OR he bets as a bluff and I raise and he folds.

Case 1) The board in question was something like J236 with two diamonds I think. Best hand that was already behind he can have here has 9 outs (say K4 of diamonds which is the best he can have, other hands have fewer outs because the diamond cards that pair them are not outs). So we have 8 cards accounted for, 9/44 times he improves on river, 35/44 times he doesn't. So right around 20% he improves. So 20% of the time I lose $50, the $40 in the pot and a $10 river bet. If he bluffs the other 80% of the time, my net EV is -$2. So that's not great, but still, close to even, and I believe I gave horrible conditions for myself and still come out ok. Now its even worse if he never bluffs, so against a passive non-bluffy opponent yes I'd err more on the side of betting the turn and taking a free showdown.

This is already getting long so I'll say case 2) Is all good for me, basically depending on his hand there are between 2 and 7 "outs" that improve us both and make him lose more. 3) was counted for at the end of 1). 4) is all good for me too. So 1) and 3) I'm a slight dog under terrible conditions and 2) and 4) are extra +EV for me guaranteed, so I think this is pretty clearly +EV for me overall. Sorry for the hand waving but you can add conditions and calculate math of these things forever, I just wanted to get a general overview of the factors at work here.

Basically we are just disagreeing on assumptions probably. If he never bluffs river, you are right. Perhaps more importantly if the pot were larger, that is a huge factor in the above math. If the pot were $100, I'd certainly bet to protect my hand. Though note if the pot were $100 for whatever reason, its a lot less likely my AQ high is good!

-DeathDonkey

When you have 67, are you ever thinking about bluff-raising the river? I never do but that seemed like a good spot to do it. The board was J 8 4 with 2 spades and you raised the preflop raiser on the flop, checked behind on the king turn. When the 8 comes on the river, a lot of your hands seem to have an 8 in them (to the PFR).

The only downside I see with this play is the flush draw on the flop means you might be looked up on the river.

I just think risking two bets to win a pot of that size is not going to be profitable for me there. In general people don't like to fold on the river, and they certainly don't like to after they've already bet. I would have to have a very specific read on a guy as capable of value betting a jack there and then folding it to a raise to make the play, and with the image I tend to have its even a worse idea for me then it might be for someone else.

-DeathDonkey

Where can I get a copy of that TIltBlocker? I found several links but they are all dead.

why can't I find this vid for DL in the video secion?

why can't I find this vid for DL in the video secion?

No idea.

http://www.deucescracked.com/videos/109-DeathDonkey-Tests-the-Stars-5-10-6-max-Waters

ya nevermind.. I found it. but thx Rob. I thought it was released more recently than it was...