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

How many more you making Krantz? Please stop! I have selfish reasons for asking you

the truth is that 4 episodes of 1 table 50NL action is not what most DC members ask(maybe i am wrong,am i ?).What happent to the good regonreg action?i know ftp is dead but i am sure you can find some good/competant action ....this site has great material and is superior to any other site but it needs more updates in the HU section (and in PLO aswell) .

the truth is that 4 episodes of 1 table 50NL action is not what most DC members ask(maybe i am wrong,am i ?).What happent to the good regonreg action?i know ftp is dead but i am sure you can find some good/competant action ....this site has great material and is superior to any other site but it needs more updates in the HU section (and in PLO aswell) .

TBH I really like this series. Would like to hear more tournamentlaity myself

TBH I really like this series. Would like to hear more tournamentlaity myself

there is nothing wrong with this series.Its just that it's only 1table and there is not much action+some simple concepts are super analysed

Isn't this what a lot of those guys had been wanting in all of those "turn a loser into a winner threads?" This is exactly what Krantz is doing. Since Krantz has been coaching 8balljacket, his PTR graph is going up slowly but steadily.

Keep up the good work.

Can he post his PTR graph on here, if possible?

Just look him up. Since halfway through Aug. His graph is going up. Probably around the time his brain started taking in what Krantz has been telling him. Not sure how much personal attention Marco is getting but it seems to be working. It is an insignificant sample size but something is better than nothing.

I dont have premium ptr, otherwise I would.

I'm still in love with this series (just like yesterday) but thinking about it, I'd love to see Krantz go toe to toe 6-max somewhere online. If thats doable.

when i first started working with Krantz, i was at the end a 30bi downswing, which stopped around the time we made the 2nd video ( about a week before it came out). Since then, I'm winning at nearly 20bb/100. ( low volume tho.)

I still make tons of mistakes, and yesterday i titled (sigh), but overall, my biggest improvement has just been that I stop and think ( Krantz has suggested this a few times in the first couple of videos ). There's still a ton of room for more improvement in that area, but I've made some gains, and it is enough to beat( at very least, be comfortable playing vs) most of the $50nl regs.

If fact, I'm not actively trying to improve my poker knowledge, but just focusing on being able to use the knowledge I already have, for every decision. This is actually proving extremely difficult, but the small gains I've made have lead to a huge increase in my ability to narrow ranges, and in my win-rate.

Its also a leak i'm now seeing in 95% of the people i play against. PPL just don't analyze hands on the river, or think of ranges. PPL just snap call or snap fold most of the time. Everyone uses very basic logic here, " he checked the flop and i have 2nd Pair" or " I have 2 pair, I call".

There are so many times where your relative hand strength is wildly different from your absolute hand strength. At $50nl, most of the regs don't recognize this, and i'm making lots of $$ when i stop and think. Hero folds and hero calls are becoming easier. I'm bluffing ppl off weak made hands and off splits.

I still make a ton of technical mistakes, and still don't think some of the time. My win-rate and confidence are due to the fact that i'm making fewer gross mistakes than my opponents. And that is simply because i'm trying to think things through.

Hey marco,

What are your goals in poker? How far/fast do you want to go?

I'm really grateful this set of videos came out when it did. I've been a long time member of cr, and feel I wasted a lot of time watching vids by Isaac Baron, Eric Liu. Not that they werent useful but for me, a player about to start at uNL, these vids in comparison def are. Watching a player at a similar level struggling to grasp some conceppts that I've been struggling with has been eye-opening, and instructive. Like you Marco, I intend to put into practice what Krantz is suggesting.

How many more vids are there going to be? When was this recorded/made?

Each video is made about a week before they air, usually. I'm going to keep doing them as long as I think they're valuable and different enough from anything I've done before. While they are 1-tabling videos, each one has been focused on varying game conditions (deep stacks, aggressive 3-bettors) that many players have problems handling.

Unfortunately I can't record any live play videos of myself, I'm still in the US and unable to play online poker. I'm not sure there is much value in me doing that anyway -- I've made dozens of videos like that already. My goal for videos, for the time being, is to coach and show some of what it takes to improve at micro and small stakes games in the current playing environments. I think Mark is a good student and I'm happy with the progress we're making week to week.

Hey marco,

What are your goals in poker? How far/fast do you want to go?

Edit: i ramble a bit here.

My long term goals have recently changed, to 8-tabling Jungleman at $500/$1000 NL HU. Ugh, i don't know. I would like to make a living from poker, but I've spent the last (almost) 2 years spinning my wheels at poker. From being properly rolled for 1/2 nl 6max then back down to a $175 roll, more than once. I'm a long term winner, and paid off my student loans back in the day on Party poker, but I've never been able to keep winning consistently since then. I've recently learned that most of my losing swings have been due to tilt, and just not ranging/thinking ( which is one aspect of how I tilt).

I would like to work my up to 5/10nl in time for poker getting regulated in the US, but I'm no longer confident that I can. ( 12 - 18months)

My new approach to learning and B.R. management is to take it very slow, fix all my tilt leaks, learn to stop and think, get a solid thought process, and be over-rolled so that losing bi's doesn't hurt so much.

I'm finally seeing (subjectively) measurable gains in my ability, just by trying to range ppl in all spots. This is very uplifting and motivating for me, but my past failures ( and occasional relapses), keep me grounded and still kinda doubtful.

I've even watched people who play higher than me just not stop and think, which makes me hopeful I will be able to beat 2-4nl inside 12 months ( but I have to get my volume up). If you want to see the opposite of what I mean, in the Whitelime vs 2fouroffsuit duel video, both players take a long time for most decisions. They are thinking everything through, trying to understand what everything means and put into every action into context. Contrast this with how most regs in micro and small stakes games play. I've had ppl tilt and quit me b/c they think I play "too slow". Other ppl have told me that they play FAST b/c its their style. They are justifying not thinking. This makes me very hopefull and optimistic, but I've failed so many times, that I don't really know what to expect.

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wrt bluffing 25% of the time. I currently never do this.

My current strategy is to bluff depending on the run-out, say a Ko river. The outcome of this hand will determine my bluffing frequency later on. So, if i get called the first time, i bluff much less later in these spots. Also, if the river is a blank and i show down a hand that DID NOT bluff shove, then i will bluff shove later on, assuming he will take notice of the 1st hand and not hero call as lite.

1. Is my strategy appropriate as a default way to start matches for my current stakes?

2. In this hand, the pairing turn card is a pretty bad card both our ranges, should that have any affect on my turn betting, and river barreling frequency?

3. Had I been the pre-flop 3bettor, I would consider the turn card to be a horrible barrel card, tho I guess it's still a 3barrel shoving spo, is this true?

4. Is it true that his turn check is the most important piece of info here, and that once he checks, board texture is not AS relevant as his action.

5. I guess i'm trying to figure out a scenario where checking would actually be preferred. Is there a hand worth taking to showdown here? 55? A2? AKo?

6. What if player has a history of x/jamming turns? does not betting with a draw to make sure we see a river, become better?

Great video and great format. I love it so far!