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

Thanks a lot Dani, your vids, you explain yourself very well, and they are also entertaining
Hope to see another series soon!

Time Link to 00:28:29

bottom right table,the A8 hand
are u calling a triple barrel?
u said you arent folding A8 to a double barrel because of the strength of the hand but aint it a bluffcatcher?
the point i want to make is whats the difference between QJ and A8 when he is not vbetting worse aces,except that Ax blocks some of his value combos...
if u had AJ,would u consider flatting flop against this opponent ?

Time Link to 00:10:05

forgive me if i missed it, but what are your thoughts on this player? i can see the raise working in the sense that most people are not comfortable doing much in response this deep, since they are not comfortable following thin reads for lots of BBs.

you also have basically the worst hand in your range, which you have said is a good metric for deciding when to bluff. i understand that you can represent a lot of turns anyway, but still, this hand is close to a 0equity semibluff.

that aside, since you seem to say after the hand you aren't sure about it, what do you think of his turn play?

Time Link to 00:14:05

i think your analysis here is really good and it can do a lot to help people who feel trapped in spots they think are coolers or otherwise inevitable

Time Link to 00:48:52

For the hand you replayed where you had AJss...if you had AJdd or AJ off would you bet the turn with the intention of triple barreling? If they check raise the turn I feel like they almost always have KJ or a two pair hand that they want to get value from/don't want to see an ugly river with and we can happily fold our 8 (at best) outer. When they check/call...they usually have a KQ/QJ/JT type hand which will call once on the turn then shut down if it bricks off and they get shoved on

Time Link to 00:01:39

Great Video!

I am not playing a lot 6max, so I hope my question does not look to stupid.
It is regarding the 55 hand. Isn't it that bad to c-bet this board, just alone because of the
board texture? Are we not repping Ax much better than him? Sure, we often have already the best
hand, but aren't we opening the door from him to bluff us out of this pot if we do not c-bet? Very curious about this spot in ring games, because in husngs standard play would be to flat pre (at least deeper stacked, and jamming shorter stacked) oop with 55 a lot, but the polarized range we 3-bet in this games we are going to c-bet close to 100% of all A high boards.

Is this a major difference in those two games?

Time Link to 00:32:35

top right
c/c river with KJ on 9J38Q

I don't really see why you called the river?

top right
c/c river with KJ on 9J38Q

I don't really see why you called the river?

i guess because villain is a fish and he cant valuebet anything else than Tx here..

i guess because villain is a fish and he cant valuebet anything else than Tx here..

just because he "cant" vbet it doesnt mean he "wont" bet a better hand

Time Link to 00:49:27

What do you think about villain's line with KQ here? Would you often ch/call in his spot instead of just cbetting?

just because he "cant" vbet it doesnt mean he "wont" bet a better hand

yea he might do weird stuff ,but as a standard i dont think many ppl will bet 2pair here...also he can take weird lines with worse value hands

Time Link to 00:16:46

Why don't you bet the turn on table 4? He's checked twice.

Will you please make a finally canadian PLO? It would be sick.

Sorry I didn't get to these questions yet. Will do them all today.

bottom right table,the A8 hand
are u calling a triple barrel?
u said you arent folding A8 to a double barrel because of the strength of the hand but aint it a bluffcatcher?
the point i want to make is whats the difference between QJ and A8 when he is not vbetting worse aces,except that Ax blocks some of his value combos...
if u had AJ,would u consider flatting flop against this opponent ?

maybe
mostly
Ax is much better than Jx for that exact reason
yes.

It's really important to have an ace here when you are bluff catching and not just a jack. The card removal is significant, and increases your equity by a good margin. If you accept that poker is a game of mostly mathematical and game theory problems, and you aren't quadruple leveling your opponents (which you are not unless you are a genius or they are real dumb), you need to play things like card removal as a guide for hero calling. Yes I am bluff catching with both, but if I am sometimes calling and sometimes folding, why not call with the better ones?

If I am ever folding an ace here, it's because I think my opponent is very nitty, if I am calling with a jack it's because I think my opponent is fucking crazy. If I am not sure how he plays, I really like starting out by calling the better hand and folding the worse, and going from there.

forgive me if i missed it, but what are your thoughts on this player? i can see the raise working in the sense that most people are not comfortable doing much in response this deep, since they are not comfortable following thin reads for lots of BBs.

you also have basically the worst hand in your range, which you have said is a good metric for deciding when to bluff. i understand that you can represent a lot of turns anyway, but still, this hand is close to a 0equity semibluff.

that aside, since you seem to say after the hand you aren't sure about it, what do you think of his turn play?

I definitely should just fold my hand on the flop IMO. He either has a sem bluff that gives me 40-60% equity, or any pair that gives me 10. If I am considering my hand a hand with enough equity to bluff because sometimes he will have a draw and brick, then I am basically saying I should never fold anything ever there.

For the hand you replayed where you had AJss...if you had AJdd or AJ off would you bet the turn with the intention of triple barreling? If they check raise the turn I feel like they almost always have KJ or a two pair hand that they want to get value from/don't want to see an ugly river with and we can happily fold our 8 (at best) outer. When they check/call...they usually have a KQ/QJ/JT type hand which will call once on the turn then shut down if it bricks off and they get shoved on

Yes probably, this is pretty sound analysis.

Great Video!

I am not playing a lot 6max, so I hope my question does not look to stupid.
It is regarding the 55 hand. Isn't it that bad to c-bet this board, just alone because of the
board texture? Are we not repping Ax much better than him? Sure, we often have already the best
hand, but aren't we opening the door from him to bluff us out of this pot if we do not c-bet? Very curious about this spot in ring games, because in husngs standard play would be to flat pre (at least deeper stacked, and jamming shorter stacked) oop with 55 a lot, but the polarized range we 3-bet in this games we are going to c-bet close to 100% of all A high boards.

Is this a major difference in those two games?

Like I said after the hand, it is not just about who can rep what, but what boards I can continue bluffing on after the flop bet. I don't think there are many. If I had say... TJ w/ bd fd, I'd never c/f the flop, because there are like 17+ semi bluffing turns.

top right
c/c river with KJ on 9J38Q

I don't really see why you called the river?

Because he was some random donk and I thought he might show up with some random hilarious stuff...

That said, I should probably call if he bets real small, but when he bets 96 it's definitely a fold.

What do you think about villain's line with KQ here? Would you often ch/call in his spot instead of just cbetting?

I think it's fine, since he's almost never getting 3 streets from worse when bettinginto 2 people. I'd be more likely to ckcall with KQ than AQ.

Why don't you bet the turn on table 4? He's checked twice.

You are probably right, but I suspected that he might be checking an Ace twice because the middle card paired, and if I had him beat he only has 6 outs at most. Thought it was a bit of a wa/wb situation.

I liked how you explained the AsJs hand at the end of the video. I was in the EXACT same situation last week and bet my hand when I had almost no fold equity and ended up getting raised. It was a disaster. Great video and nice hand analysis at the end.

Hey Dani!

Im curious about your setup, if I'm right you are playing on a iMac ?

What size screen? and is it your only sceen?

Maybe you even have time for a picture sometime

thx

Sure I can put a picture up of the setup.

I got a 27in imac w/ a 27in side screen. 12 tables with no overlap and no resizing.

Dani, random question. Whats the story behind your stars avatar? I already know the DC one. lol

It's Bodie Broadus from The Wire

You know whats sad? Ive havnt watched 1 episode of the wire. Ive heard its really good. Im all caught up on Dexter and Breaking bad so maybe Ill start watching that. Thanks man.

Time Link to 00:39:22

Here you are calling two barrels with a Qs,3s on a 5,Ts,As,Th board BB vs. SB.

You don't mention any specific reads. Why are you calling?

Time Link to 00:24:04

You are 3betting 77 in SB vs. button and gets 4bet by BB.

You end up shoving. Is this your default play or do you have reads on the BB? I like to hear anyones thought on that.

In a vacuum I am folding. Like if I just sat down with a bunch of unknows and this happen. I am shutting down. Is this a leak?

Time Link to 00:31:36

Here you are 4betting 99 out of the blinds versus button 3 bet and CO opener.

You are 135 BB deep and you argue that he will push 77 and 88 always. I think it's too thin because you don't take your time to study button 3bet range etc.

If he only 3 bets CO from like 7 percent of the time I think it's a fold. Do you agree on this?

Here you are calling two barrels with a Qs,3s on a 5,Ts,As,Th board BB vs. SB.

You don't mention any specific reads. Why are you calling?

Why wouldn't I? I explained why I am calling the turn. I might raise before I fold the turn...

Here you are 4betting 99 out of the blinds versus button 3 bet and CO opener.

You are 135 BB deep and you argue that he will push 77 and 88 always. I think it's too thin because you don't take your time to study button 3bet range etc.

If he only 3 bets CO from like 7 percent of the time I think it's a fold. Do you agree on this?

yep you are right about that last point.

You are 3betting 77 in SB vs. button and gets 4bet by BB.

You end up shoving. Is this your default play or do you have reads on the BB? I like to hear anyones thought on that.

In a vacuum I am folding. Like if I just sat down with a bunch of unknows and this happen. I am shutting down. Is this a leak?

I think it's close. If you are going to widen your shoving range beyond obvious value stuff at all, including 77 in that range seems mandatory. I wouldn't think of folding TT+, probably not 99 either. 88 and lower is where it gets tough. Folding here as a default vs the right pool of players is definitely fine.

Why wouldn't I? I explained why I am calling the turn. I might raise before I fold the turn...

Yeah I guess I just disagree on that one. I think it's one of the worst cards for villain to be bluff barreling and without a lot of leveling going on I would expect him to stop his bluff on the turn.

Love that you are doing realtime videos.

One more thing if I may. You make a few reference to game theory - saying game theory wise it's the button of his range etc.

I hear a lot of coaches refering to game theory wise and button and top of ranges ... Where can I pick up on that stuff. I really don't know what they / you are talking about?

Time Link to 00:17:39

Table 2 J9s.

When your plan is to bet bet shove, and you expect him to fold to a shove on a river a decent amount of time. I was just wondering why you bet just over 50% on flop, and just over 50% on turn. I understand it's easy to get the pot sized shove on the river. But if we expect him to call the flop/turn more, fold river, then should we be betting fairly big on flop/turn. Or does this reduce your FE on river?

Time Link to 00:39:36

Good explanation about the Q3s hand on table 6. As you explained it in thread, you would consider raising this turn. Isnt it better than flatting? We can rep a Tx a lot. Altought, now sure he will fold any Ax, probably just the "air" portion of his range.

I am a little "late" at watching this series but really liked it. I am more of a FR player, but got a lot from it. A lot of good explanations and never got bored in any of the episodes! Good job!

Would be great if the next video/series was you playing on or sweating/reviewing 6m NL on Bovada (previously Bodog) which now uses anonymous players. So only reads are notes you take during the session as well as session stats. I think it would be really interesting and a great 'switch up' from the norm. I'm a MSNL reg there (3/6-10/20 6m nl) and would love to be involved.