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

I think DC are working you too hard!

not sure if it's me, but the screen is super fuzzy.

I think DC are working you too hard!.

I have no problem with this.

I have no problem with this.

Me neither except I can't watch this video. Weird purple fuzz. Sound is fine.

Video works fine for me, some background noise at some points, heavy walking and some yelling

Ideas for future episodes:
I prefer 4 tables instead of 6 in live sessions gives u little bit more to time but no big deal.
That 12 tabling idea sounded interesting, do it!
Member handhistory review is also interesting, (different stakes). Where should those be posted? Or are you just going to pick out from the forum?
You could also do a replayer session of ur own hands, well played, badly played etc.

Since you mentioned you are open for reviewing hands from members at different stakes, im going to ask you to make us microstakers happy(theres a bunch who watches ur vids) with a 4-6 tabling session at nl50 or something, would be really interesting to see how you would take on those games. Not just splashing around but playing ur normal game based on reads u gather at the time. I know there are instructors for those stakes (anyone has any video recommendations btw?) But i have always wanted too see someone like you, krantz or fwf play those stakes and make a video, and im quite sure im not alone,

Time Link to 00:30:04

I think your valuebet with JJ is too thin. Nitty regs doesnt calls with worse here I think. The only hands you are getting called by are AA,KK,QQ,(JJ) that didn't want to bet the river vs a tricky oppent.

Time Link to 00:37:30

Check raising river sounds weird. What do you expect to get called by on the river? I rather go for a smaller bet. I don't see him having a flush very often, and we have the best hand 95% of the time, but you have to set up a calling-river-check-raise range for him?

Not able to download this video. I get the message "access denied". I have not problems downloading later and earlier videos.

Not able to download this video. I get the message "access denied". I have not problems downloading later and earlier videos.

Which format are you trying to download? You may want to try clearing your cookies and logging back in - I can't think of anything that would cause that error.

Rob

I have the same issue with the "Download full MP4 Video" link.
Bellatrix video's download works though

I have the same issue with the "Download full MP4 Video" link.
Bellatrix video's download works though

I'm not having any issues, but I've emailed Rusty to ask him to reupload the video.

Rob

I've uploaded new copies with a different file name, lmk if the problem persists.
-Rusty

Time Link to 00:09:30

Would you ever consider ch/r with the AK here?

I think your valuebet with JJ is too thin. Nitty regs doesnt calls with worse here I think. The only hands you are getting called by are AA,KK,QQ,(JJ) that didn't want to bet the river vs a tricky oppent.

I agreee. Before Ansky said anything I was sure he was bluffing.

Time Link to 00:34:22

2 questions on this KK hand:

Firstly, why the small 3b? This is the second of two very small 3bets I saw in this video (one was a squeeze with QQ 2 players in for $12 and you SQ to $40). Given that our range here will be very value heavy wouldn't it be better to be 3betting UTG with a bigger size?

Also, isn't checking back the flop unbalanced? What other hands would you check back a dry Kxx board in a 3b pot with? I'm cbetting here with 100% of my range and wondering if perhaps it is incorrect.

I'm very new to 6m so I'm keen to experiment with this kind of stuff. Cheers

I recently became a big fan of your older videos with the central thought process concerning keeping balanced by using lines that protect our range since we hold respect for our opponents' skill levels as a default assumption. Now you're talking about ignoring the game theory and saying in some spots it's okay never to be bluffing? What happened?? lol. Great video. I prefer less tables, but I also like the idea about the recorded 12-tabling.

Time Link to 00:38:17

On lower left board in a no-action hand, you bet pot in position on the river into A2345 single-bet pot. How often does theory say we should bet without the 6 there? If you get raised, how often are you calling? Who is more likely to have the 6 before the river action slash does that enter your thought process here?

what the hell is that stomping and crying in the background...?
Have that many kids now since last time i watched a video from you when you started at pokersavvy plus?

what the hell is that stomping and crying in the background...?

+1. I was pretty curious about that myself.

2 questions on this KK hand:

Firstly, why the small 3b? This is the second of two very small 3bets I saw in this video (one was a squeeze with QQ 2 players in for $12 and you SQ to $40). Given that our range here will be very value heavy wouldn't it be better to be 3betting UTG with a bigger size?

doesnt it make more sense to 3b small with a value heavy range? 3betting bigger gives villain worse odds, making him play more correctly against a strong range. also since our range is value heavy we can make cheaper 3bet bluffs this way

awesome, Dani is the man, cheers!

I would like to see more non live play format. Analysis of HH submitted by member sounds great

+1. I was pretty curious about that myself.

Sorry, I live with savages. There were no children involved in that screaming, just some 23 year old poker players.

I think your valuebet with JJ is too thin. Nitty regs doesnt calls with worse here I think. The only hands you are getting called by are AA,KK,QQ,(JJ) that didn't want to bet the river vs a tricky oppent.

Yeah I just strongly disagree. Are you sure he is a nitty regular? Like I said after the hand, I am pretty certain he doesn't have QQ because of his turn bet size, and if he did bet tiny on turn w/ QQ+ I am pretty sure he'd bet it again on river. I also bet 1/3rd pot, I really don't think it's that thin at all.

Check raising river sounds weird. What do you expect to get called by on the river? I rather go for a smaller bet. I don't see him having a flush very often, and we have the best hand 95% of the time, but you have to set up a calling-river-check-raise range for him?

I think it's more likely that he occasionally bets river on a silly bluff or some weird ax, than he has anything that can call a river bet if I bet. I can't really have air.

Would you ever consider ch/r with the AK here?

It's reasonable, I would just be afraid of him pot controlling too many hands. I think he probably folds AQ anyway though when I bet so it might be an option.

2 questions on this KK hand:

Firstly, why the small 3b? This is the second of two very small 3bets I saw in this video (one was a squeeze with QQ 2 players in for $12 and you SQ to $40). Given that our range here will be very value heavy wouldn't it be better to be 3betting UTG with a bigger size?

Also, isn't checking back the flop unbalanced? What other hands would you check back a dry Kxx board in a 3b pot with? I'm cbetting here with 100% of my range and wondering if perhaps it is incorrect.

I'm very new to 6m so I'm keen to experiment with this kind of stuff. Cheers

Hey,

I think pf size is fine and somewhat standard. I think because of how difficult it is for players to flat 3bets oop profitably you don't need to 3b ip very big at all, OOP I usually go pot or bigger.

It's not really unbalanced at all to check back here. I'd sometimes check back TT-QQ, AQ, and some no sd value hands which I'd delayed cbet on turn if he checked twice. If you are ever checking back some marginal stuff here, balancing with KK is probably pretty good. There just aren't that many ways your opponent will have osmething that can call 3 streets of betting with.

I recently became a big fan of your older videos with the central thought process concerning keeping balanced by using lines that protect our range since we hold respect for our opponents' skill levels as a default assumption. Now you're talking about ignoring the game theory and saying in some spots it's okay never to be bluffing? What happened?? lol. Great video. I prefer less tables, but I also like the idea about the recorded 12-tabling.

Time Link to 00:38:17

On lower left board in a no-action hand, you bet pot in position on the river into A2345 single-bet pot. How often does theory say we should bet without the 6 there? If you get raised, how often are you calling? Who is more likely to have the 6 before the river action slash does that enter your thought process here?

I certainly believe strongly in considering your range and balance before acting, but I am just saying if you know a bluff won't work, you don't have to make it for the sake of balance.

Regarding the a2345, I certainly have way more 6x hands than the villain does, so I'd assume I should bet a lot of the time. Of course that is something to consider. I'd probably not call if raised, unless it was very small? I am not sure exactly what I would do.

doesnt it make more sense to 3b small with a value heavy range? 3betting bigger gives villain worse odds, making him play more correctly against a strong range. also since our range is value heavy we can make cheaper 3bet bluffs this way

I more or less agree with this, not necessarily because we will be perceived to be super strong necessarily, but just because people tend to be very tight when calling 3bets OOP.

+1. I was pretty curious about that myself.

I listened to some of it just now, I am very sorry guys I didn't realize it would be so loud. Theres lots of people coming and going at my house sometimes and there were some people drinking and carrying on probably, I was locked away in the basement office grinding though.

It's reasonable, I would just be afraid of him pot controlling too many hands. I think he probably folds AQ anyway though when I bet so it might be an option.

Yeah that makes sense. I just thought since you said he's probably folding AQ to a 2nd barrel, ch/r might make sense because you give him a chance to b/f with AQ and he's probably going to b/c his sets anyway.

Time Link to 00:03:36

Eh... I feel people have been saying "the games are tough" for like 5 years now (in fact I have watched some videos from early 2008 recently where Krantz and FWF were saying this), and in my opinion the only thing that's changed is the metagame preflop. I think the community in general overestimates how much other players are actually improving.... most people don't even want to change their game (they just want to be better). I think a lot of people say there is less of an edge in the game these days because the preflop game is so loose and aggressive and a lot of money goes in pre.... and while its true that more money is going in preflop, I really just don't think it reduces our edge. It only hurts you if you refuse to adjust and you continue to play into the preflop variance wars that the LAGs want to play. If a LAG wants to be a LAG, then fine, I'm going to open a narrow range and own you when you think you can 3bet 78s and barrel off..........

Time Link to 00:17:42

Bottom right table,
I haven't been playing nl for a while and watching this I'm glad that you specified that here it's not a super clear standard 4bet. First of all, "standard" is a word that annoys me when people are discussing poker strategy (I surprise myself using it sometimes) I just think saying a situation is "standard" is something that becomes a bad habit very quickly for any player as it becomes some sort of an excuse to not really think a situation through and think outside the box.

Anyways, let's get to the specific hand. My thoughts on the situation here are that if we 4bet we get a bunch of folds from the more speculative part of his range, we get him to 5bet the strongest part of his range and then we get him to flat a lot with the hands we dominate (AJs,AQ,KQs). So, we're getting it in but are not super happy about it, we're building a bigger pot against the hands we dominate, we get him to fold a bunch of the weaker part of his range.

With a call, we keep his weaker hands in (which is fine but not as great as it sounds), we do not get it in preflop against the strongest part of his range, and we keep all the hands we dominate without building the pot against them.

The thing is, I don't think we miss much by not building a pot against the hands we dominate, since the value from those will come from when he hits a pair which will be top pair most of the time + the fact that since we didn't 4bet preflop he will discount a lot of AK from our range.

All in all, I think 4betting is fine, but we are in position, we have the luxury not to stack off in a not so great spot, we will still get a lot of value from the hands we dominate by calling and we will gain in deceptiveness since he will discount AK from our range a lot.

Ok so yeah once again I got caught up and probably wrote to much, but anyways I would appreciate your thoughts on my thought process here.

Thanks.

Time Link to 00:14:23

Table 3
What's a plan if we get called on the flop?

Time Link to 00:33:42

In the 22 where you 3bet pre and cbet the flop. What is your plan for future streets if you get called on the flop?

new ansky series, time to renew my subscription. now that whitelime, fwf, and wiltontilt aren't making regular series you are probably both the most educational and entertaining coach on DC by a longshot ansky. just posting to let you know that your videos are worth my subscription price alone

also want to add that your hand history reviews with blah were super good. I kind of got the impression that blah stopped playing as much/ran out of hands, but I've probably watched every single one of those vids atleast 5 times. you do a really good job with hand history reviews because you go into depth on alot of specific concepts that occur during hands, not just the hands themselves. blah also made a very good video partner because although he made mistakes sometimes, he was a good player who had a style pretty different from you but still justified his plays very well

Time Link to 00:27:51

On table one where you 3bet Clawviper. Do you really normally size your 3bet size this small OOP fairly deep or was this just a overlook, seems to me like most people would 3bet much bigger in this spot?

I don't agree this. With that bet sizing and action opponent has pretty often 99 or TT and you will get small value for sure. Ofc, I can't see getting value pretty often but don't suppose to see better hand calling you down either, almost ever. Could be QQ or even better...but just way too rarely not to value.

Time Link to 00:32:49

Bottom left on JJx board.
I see that you Check back these paired boards sometimes (often?).
And here you are calling turn and folding river. Would you call OTR if you had Ax?

Isn't your hand face up in this spot (I guess you would Cbet with PP) and are you not afraid of being bluffed out in these spots?

On table one where you 3bet Clawviper. Do you really normally size your 3bet size this small OOP fairly deep or was this just a overlook, seems to me like most people would 3bet much bigger in this spot?

+1

Eh... I feel people have been saying "the games are tough" for like 5 years now (in fact I have watched some videos from early 2008 recently where Krantz and FWF were saying this), and in my opinion the only thing that's changed is the metagame preflop. I think the community in general overestimates how much other players are actually improving.... most people don't even want to change their game (they just want to be better). I think a lot of people say there is less of an edge in the game these days because the preflop game is so loose and aggressive and a lot of money goes in pre.... and while its true that more money is going in preflop, I really just don't think it reduces our edge. It only hurts you if you refuse to adjust and you continue to play into the preflop variance wars that the LAGs want to play. If a LAG wants to be a LAG, then fine, I'm going to open a narrow range and own you when you think you can 3bet 78s and barrel off..........

They definitely have been getting tougher, but I agree theres still plenty of money out there.

Table 3
What's a plan if we get called on the flop?

Probably bet again... we have 9 high and a flush draw after all.

In the 22 where you 3bet pre and cbet the flop. What is your plan for future streets if you get called on the flop?

Totatlly depends on texture, I may have a rare bluff in which I'd be happier to barrel bricks than "scare" cards (big cards mostly). I might just shut down vs some players though.

On table one where you 3bet Clawviper. Do you really normally size your 3bet size this small OOP fairly deep or was this just a overlook, seems to me like most people would 3bet much bigger in this spot?

You right, shoulda been bigger.

Bottom left on JJx board.
I see that you Check back these paired boards sometimes (often?).
And here you are calling turn and folding river. Would you call OTR if you had Ax?

Isn't your hand face up in this spot (I guess you would Cbet with PP) and are you not afraid of being bluffed out in these spots?

I'd call a pair usually, king high seems too bad.

I chekc these flops sometimes because I think it's easier to balance with having big hands sometimes.

eh I don't mean big hands, but I'd sometims check really big pps on JJ2 or similar flops.

ansky how do i contact u for coaching, can i email u so we can discuss options,

ansky how do i contact u for coaching, can i email u so we can discuss options,

send me a pm on here or on 2p2.

Time Link to 00:21:00

why you are still 3bet small (less 3x) w KK even you are almost 200bbs deep?

Time Link to 00:01:17

Tricky spot but I think his never bluffing so I would tank fold vs reg, probably wouldn't on a video though

I think your valuebet with JJ is too thin. Nitty regs doesnt calls with worse here I think. The only hands you are getting called by are AA,KK,QQ,(JJ) that didn't want to bet the river vs a tricky oppent.

May as well min-bet and get called by random A high though since there is not much in the way of overpairs/sets I don't see why it can hurt much to just bet super small and get looked up by A high and if you min-bet(not saying it's the best play) you get called by almost his hole range just to see what you had.

agree