In this 8 episode series DeathDonkey takes successful NL hold'em player FoxwoodsFiend under his wing and teaches him the fine art of betting the minimum! FoxwoodsFiend receives instruction on the finer points of 6 max limit hold'em through video reviews of his play, self analysis, and sweat sessions with DeathDonkey coaching him in real time. Take the journey with FoxwoodsFiend as he travels from the 10/20 6 max level to higher and higher stakes.
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DeathDonkey and FoxwoodsFiend wrap up the series with a joint coaching session at 30/60. They discuss playing against tough players and FoxwoodFiend's overall limit results on his voyage up the min-bet ladder.
Posted 10 months ago
tags: deathdonkey foxwoodsfiend minbet limit hold'em shorthanded high stakes ipod friendly
High Stakes,
54 min long
Comments for Episode Eight
Entity
FounderGreat vid guys. Nice to see the stats of Ariel's overall play -- actually I think this was my favorite vid yet.
Rob
Posted 10 months ago
darkhorse
Loved this series!
Posted 10 months ago
Cactus Jack
So, Ariel, have you gained an appreciation of LHE, or is it still the inferior game to NL?
Ok, seriously, how do you compare the two games?
CJ
Posted 10 months ago
HLS2k6
This video was awesome, and this series helped me a ton. I would have definitely called down with those 9s and lost an extra 2 BB.
Only one complaint: we need more of Ariel &*%&ing with people in chat like in previous episodes.
Posted 10 months ago
DosXX
Just before 7:00 min, you have AQo in the SB, a LAGTAG opened from the CO with a 28/20 on the button. In the actual hand, the button folded. How do you play the hand preflop if the button 3-bets? I can really see arguments for call/raise/fold.
Posted 10 months ago
DeathDonkey
FounderI can definitely see arguments for raising or folding, I hate hate hate calling 3 with AQo there, you're hand / range is close to face up and you never give yourself the chance to drive CO out for 2 more bets. Some players will fold there for 2 more and getting that dead money in the pot would be huge. Given the CO opened, I would cap if the button 3 bet, but if the button 3 bet an EP raiser I'd fold.
-DeathDonkey
Posted 10 months ago
marching_on_together
At about 10 mins from the end they discuss the 99 hand. Can someone but the number of combinations of pairs compared to hands with a 10 in, in the video they conclude there are more pairs than hands with a ten which doesn't seem correct.
Posted 9 months ago
DeathDonkey
FounderThis was awhile ago but off the top of my head there are 24 combos of JJ-AA , 12 combos of AT, and 3 combos each of KTs, QTs, JTs, so unless he 3 bet us with KTo there are more pairs.
-DeathDonkey
Posted 9 months ago
marching_on_together
Ariels calculating the number of low pairs as he would have capped pre-flop with JJ and higher still if you take 55 to 1010 there are more pairs if we are only taking suited Ts above a J (makes sense as we are under the gun). I think he probably got some of the numbers wrong in the vid (easy enough to do, it sounds like you try to correct him at one point) but got the overall answer right. Cheers
Posted 9 months ago
DeathDonkey
FounderThanks, yeah we were definitely trying to approximate it on the fly and I think FWF would agree neither of us are what I'd call super strong "math-based" players
-DeathDonkey
Posted 9 months ago
japolin
Just watched the video and thought there were several situations where you passed up favorable pot odds situations. The most notorious one was then you had 63o in the BB against a 43 VPIP SB open raiser. I think that it an obvious call getting 3-1 direct in position with implied odds. Also, the player went to SD less than 40% so you have future bluff equity.
Additionally, I know that Bluffman is a good player, but giving him a walk with some of the hands you did seems wrong, particularly since he seemed to be playing rather tight this session. Tightening up against him out of respect also allows him to narrow your range and play more optimally against you.
Do these thoughts seem ridiculous to you?
Posted 7 months ago