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

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Is it hard to play 4 tables in a straight-jacket?

Isn't it hard to play 4 tables in a straight-jacket?

Not if you're good at working the mouse with your elbow

me love you long time for this

After this video, min raise on CO and BTN is going to be in fashion

alright just finished watching the whole thing. pretty awesome! you match my style exactly (betting size and all) except you are able to adjust your play around and run the table over. it was great seeing your thought process and decision making against guys i play with every day...

one request though... more 100NL and 200NL full ring stars videos in the future

Great Video!

By the way Trier is a town in Germany.

great series, great video!

Do you think that a reg could play like this for like 100k hands or would this be too loose to play over a larger sample?
Because i am not sure but after some time i guess the regs would adjust to your style (but i am not sure about this) and the random fish def don´t.

great series, great video!

Do you think that a reg could play like this for like 100k hands or would this be too loose to play over a larger sample?
Because i am not sure but after some time i guess the regs would adjust to your style (but i am not sure about this) and the random fish def don´t.

I think that it is possible to profit indefinitely with this style at some smaller stakes. At some point though, the regs will be good enough to adjust to you. I'm not exactly sure where that line is nowadays. Also I wouldn't recommend such a LAG style to players who aren't very experienced, it is easy to get out of control.

Regardless, the best thing you can do is to have a counter-adjustment ready so that when the regs fight back you can keep crushing them. If you watch Ringmaster I spend a fair amount of time focusing on those sort of issues against solid mid stakes opponents.

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Great Video!

By the way Trier is a town in Germany.

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Is there a version of this video for the iphone?

Is there a version of this video for the iphone?

they dont make them for iphone or ipods when there more then one table because it too hard to see

Great video, I'm half way though, so probably will finish it tomorrow...

I was thinking about the spot where you are playing loose and then you receive a really good hand but not the nuts (like the QQ you got in the left bottom table), or the QQ you mentioned playing live as well... I usually struggle in this spot also.

In my case, sometimes I'll take a line such as 4bet/fold but then I'll go to sleep asking myself if he actually had KK+ or was just irritated by my constant raising.

For example, last night I was playing NL25 pretty aggressively and loose, and a guy started to play back at me... However, he was constantly making the mistake of doing it out of position and most of the times I would just raise him out of pots using my positional advantage... When I finally got a set against his UTG raise, I check-raised him because I knew he had a decent hand and I was sure he was not going to give me credit this time. Annoyed --as confirmed by his not so friendly chat towards me later-- he stacked off with an overpair (QQ) in the flop. I put this example because it shows that sometimes players can make serious mistakes and stacking off with something they usually don't when annoyed by someone who is stealing all the time (he is a pretty good reg, 21/18). However this hand was easy for me since I had a set; had I been holding KK in that flop I would have probably be afraid of stacking off. Even more, I'm pretty sure I would have folded that flop with KK --which would have been a big mistake--.

I would like to know if there is any particular way or reasoning you make to take an appropriate decision in these spots. What did you do in the live game you were playing that you commented about with your QQ? I would like to hear your suggestions and the analysis you make in situations like this.

Thank you and keep the good videos coming!

Well for one thing, I really hate 4bet/folding a strong hand almost always. Your 4betting range should be polarized to hands you'll snapfold and hands you'll snapcall a 5bet with imo.

In general, the best thing you can do in a spot like these is to plan the hand out in advance so that your opponent will make the biggest mistakes. If you think he's so fed up with you that he'll stack off very light preflop, then reraising/getting it in with QQ is almost certainly the best plan. If he's liable to play tighter preflop but will stack off lighter postflop, thinking that you're making moves on him then, then you might be better off flatting QQ pre and moving postflop in the most suspicious-looking way!

lol, poor soul ran into your aces vs his AK, I love the video series DJ Sensei. It gave me another perspective on poker

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Which pocket pairs you open from early position? Do you have standard range like 66-77+ or it depends on players after you?

I love the series BTW! It's a pity that it was last episode but you really crashed those rings.

Have a question about minraising on late and about players that trying to adjust and start to 3b you more often from button and blinds.
What is your reaction after they start to 3b you more? Are you tighten up a little bit or flats IP and try to outplay them on the flop or later streets? ( Its an issue I'm working on lately and trying to find the best lines)
I'm talkig about solid players like 14/11, 15/12, 12/10.

Which pocket pairs you open from early position? Do you have standard range like 66-77+ or it depends on players after you?

I consider 22-55 just about equal in strength and playability. 66 and 77 are a bit more playable, 88+ are pretty much always openable from any position. With the smaller ones, it definitely depends on a number of factors:
1) How deep are stacks? The deeper the better when you have small PPs, because so much of their value lies in the implied odds of flopping (concealed) sets. If much of the table (especially the looser players) are well below 100bb, these hands go way down in value.
2) How loose/aggressive are the players behind you? Small pocket pairs can be quite uncomfortable out of position against aggressive players or those who hate to fold postflop, because it can be hard to determine where you stand. But if your opponents behind are tight and passive, we'll win more pots uncontested preflop or on the flop.

I love the series BTW! It's a pity that it was last episode but you really crashed those rings.

Have a question about minraising on late and about players that trying to adjust and start to 3b you more often from button and blinds.
What is your reaction after they start to 3b you more? Are you tighten up a little bit or flats IP and try to outplay them on the flop or later streets? ( Its an issue I'm working on lately and trying to find the best lines)
I'm talkig about solid players like 14/11, 15/12, 12/10.

When I've been minraising in LP often and some tighter/solid players begin to play back a bit more with 3bets from the blinds, I'll mostly give them credit at first. Keep in mind that we're risking a very small amount by minraising, so we don't have a large incentive to try and play back or defend once we get 3bet until we are pretty sure he's doing it with a significantly wide range.

By the same token though, we'll usually have a pretty good price to play a pot in position and there should be a larger SPR for implied odds purposes. So the hands that I'd be more likely to defend are those with a strong implied odds component: small pairs, middle suited connectors, etc. Hands that I wouldn't be as likely to defend are weaker big-card hands like KT, because they're more likely dominated against his (probably still fairly strong) range and we won't as often win huge pots with them.

I might open up some more 4bets too once i'm confident his range is wide, particularly with hands like Ax that I wouldn't want to flatcall. But again, we shouldn't default to an over-aggro 4betting strategy right away, because most tight solid players simply won't get very out of line even though we're stealing a lot.

You are the best, thx for response!
And what do you think about playing against more loose players, LP vs them OOP. Villain like 16/14, 17/14, 18/15.
Lately I'm having troubles to play agaist them. It's wise to play back with more agression or just leave it as it is and focus on donks? I'm playing on the Ongame, so there are not too many NL100 tables.

You are the best, thx for response!
And what do you think about playing against more loose players, LP vs them OOP. Villain like 16/14, 17/14, 18/15.
Lately I'm having troubles to play agaist them. It's wise to play back with more agression or just leave it as it is and focus on donks? I'm playing on the Ongame, so there are not too many NL100 tables.

Well, we should generally keep up the aggression when we have position, but if they're fighting back more we should tighten up our stealing range a little (basically just take out the junkiest hands) and expand our 4betting and flatting 3bets ranges. 4bet more with a polarized range of your strongest and weakest hands, and flat with hands that play well against their wider 3betting ranges (JTs, 88, etc., but exactly how wide this range is depends on how wide he's 3betting)