Poker Video: No Limit Hold'Em by Nolan (Mid Stakes)

The 88 hand is interesting and I think ur analysis is spot on. I think you can take 66 out of Am's range on the turn as he is always betting that hand so to me his raise looks like JJ, qj or a bluff and since I don't know him I can't speculate on how often he is bluffing but I think you can find a fold vs his value raising range given I do not think he checks turn with 66 and does not value raise the st8. Liked the content a lot, well done.

I also agree that shoving the KK on the turn when villain leads in hand #1 is by far the best play.

Thanks for going over my hands. I think I've been drifting towards missing value lately because I've been trying to control my spewing tendencies.. these hands kinda show that I may have gone too far in the other direction though. Hopefully everybody will try to get me to fold overpairs in 3-bet pots now.

In the hand against the fish, it was just really scary when he donked the turn on that board. If he had donked any smaller, I think I'd have shoved, but at the time it felt really strong and I just kinda froze and thought he had a big hand and didn't want me to check behind. My plan was to call and stack off on a blank river because he could bluff missed draws and I could fold on bad cards like the one that came. But I think you're right that just getting it in on the turn is better, cause he could stack off with draws, pair+draws, or even worse made hands.

The last hand was really cool, even though it wasn't actually a 3-bet pot. Zep actually did pretty well to not lose his entire stack there, I think a lot of people would've gotten themselves stacked in that situation.

Hi Nolan,

Some great content so far. Discussion re villian's turn donk on the KK hand was tops imo.

I like the shorter length vids for these sorts of topics - think it works well, as is particularly good for those of us in office jobs who like to try and squeeze in a vid at lunch time!

Re future content, I would really like to see some hands where hero calls 3bets in position and therefore doesn't have the initiative in the hand.

Cheers ps

The last hand was really cool, even though it wasn't actually a 3-bet pot. Zep actually did pretty well to not lose his entire stack there, I think a lot of people would've gotten themselves stacked in that situation.[/quote]

I agree it was an interesting hand but I am not inclined to go overboard commending Zep's play here. Like I said earlier if you know villain's bluffing range here I think you can find a fold on the river (assuming it is low-never) and I really think the turn is an easy lead given one opponent is likely to be calling and I don't think you induce enough bluffs by checking and qx is not always value betting but will definitely call a bet 100% of the time.

+1 for 30 minute videos with the hand replayer. Longer is fine for live videos. Excellent video once again.

damn what a smooth voice
nice vid,moar plz

00:26:13 : lmao

Excellent discussion on the final hand. I think the lesson that Qx doesn't always value bet the turn (and the reason why) was very instructive.

I can only imagine what Hero must have been thinking on the river: "OMG you have got to be fing kidding me... um... 66?!"

Nolan, great stuff!! More, more, more (but I do like the .5 hour length for the replayer stuff).

As MrBug said, that stuff about not betting Qx was incredibly insightful.

Finally: Selfish beg for more micro live action fr vids in the future.

+1 for shorter replayer vids

Very nice vid. 30 min is optimal I also agree.

Last hand QJ was super obvious I think. QJ exactly fits the action so much more than any other hand.

Commentary on this hand is tilting me. "Find a fold"? There are four combos of T9s, all of which over-call the flop with the double-gut. There are two combos of QJs (FR regs don't flat EP raises with QJo). In fact, QJs might not even over-call the flop - JJ 99% would not, so we can eliminate that. I snap call the river expecting to be good >50% of the time, even if he literally a) never bluffs and b) never has 66.

I'll defer commenting on the turn, because I cannot make an estimate as to how often QJs bets the turn versus how often T9s bets it.

Also, and this should be obvious from my >50% figure above, I cannot agree that T9s does not raise the river. He has seen absolutely no indication that anyone might be full to this point. The only possible argument I can give for villain flatting T9s would be to get an overall from hero, but even that is very improbable, because hero looks totally done with the hand.