Still watching...can't wait for season 2!

Could you expand on the 2+2 learned style of hu and/or 6max. I always found 2+2 too full of useless comments to have to sift through to really learn much from there.

Fancy Krantz,

Could you elaborate on what you said during the Ah3h hand? I understand why you would just call Nowa's flop lead 1) we have showdown value 2)induce bluffs 3)wont get it in as better than a "flip" etc. But, you said if you had a worse flush draw you wouldn't mind just raising and committing yourself to the pot. It seems to me those two statements are somewhat conflicting. Other than the fact that we have no showdown value (9 high fd or something), i dont understand why you would not want to "flip" with the nut flush draw with an overcard, but are comfortable doing so with a lesser hand (naked fd).

thanks.

edit:had the hole cards wrong

Also on the QJo vs KQo hand I was curious about your final reasons for calling. Given the game flow and history up to that point in the match I believe that i would have called too, but I was curious if we have (at least some of) the same reasons.
thx.

GG.

Krantz, I made a bet that the comments of the video was recorded after your actual play. Did you speak while playing or not ? ( please be honest :) )

ummm he clearly did the commentary after the actual play.

edit: in fact, it was pretty funny when he says "what are you doing PAST krantz."

thats the biggest ripoff ever, who the hell does commentary acting after a video instead of just commenting it.

Krantz, help :(?


edit: crap I just realized he actually says the duration of the video at the start...

sigh - _-


STOP ACTING LIKE YOU DONT KNOW WHATS GONNA HAPPEN $)(#?(&$#?#$


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-gambler who lost money because of this site, true story

I think we need to do a series on non self-weighting propbet strategies for you, neh? :)

Yes, this one was recorded after the play. Better that way (in this specific case) IMO as it gets a lot more extra into the video that wouldn't necessarily be there for a "I'm going to do this because XX/YY" style live vid.

Rob

this was excellent
keep up the good work and ill keep sending the $s

ye the JT(no heart) hand on the J78h vs his raise to your cont bet seemed like a marginal get it all in spot considering he was wasn't going too crazy in 3bet pots. but i suppose top pair, 100bbs, drawy board etc mheh..

i love when i'm thinking in my head of what action might be the best to take, then you do it..

huhuhu

This vid is just sick sick sick. Clearly the guy is outclassed overall, but there is a goldmine of HU streamofconsiousness. I used this as a warm-up for my day's session and ended up +2.4k at 2/4 HU :) :) :)

Hey hen,

These errors all sound like they are with your internet connection, unfortunately. There have been no outages or any problems on our end with these vids lately (and you say you get these errors commonly). Where are you located?

I can help do some more troubleshooting if you'd like but it's going to be very very likely that there is a problem with your ISP or the path from your ISP to our servers on the East & West coast that is unfortunately causing your downloads to effectively "time out" (this pretty accurately describes both errors you seem to be having -- losing connectivity for an extended period of time between you and the server you are accessing). Depending on the browser you're using, there may be some sort of option on your downloadable files to have a bit more "resume support" built in, but I'm not 100% certain that this will help in this instance because of the way the problems seem to be coming about.

See if you can notice any common factors when the problems seem to be most likely to happen (time of day, etc) and also let me know where you are located and who your ISP is, and I can see if I can come up with some tech solutions for you but these sort of problems are really notoriously hard to fix since they'll usually be with your ISP/path to our servers.

Rob

yo im in Bristol, England. On a University ISP so sick fast internet, but i normally get dl speeds of like 450-500kb/s no particular time of the day tbh either. I don't mind though, because it's just me I will just keep doing what I am doing. Really just wanted to check it wasn't a problem on your end!

Cheers for the reply and help man.

Another cool thing I noticed is that I seem to learn hand-reading a lot fast playing HU. I normally play 6-max, and I don't multi-table 'cause I HATE grinding...so I don't get to see that many hands in 6-max. In order to really read opponents I like going to showdown as much as I can, in 6-max going to showdown enough times to learn something about your opponent takes a lot longer.

Playing HU allows me to fully focus on 1 single player, and I get to play 120-200+ hands per hour instead of just a fraction of that in 6-max.

I rather concentrate on getting better playing 1 table instead of 4 and only focus on stats. I think that should allow me to learn faster, and move up in stakes faster too. I have the attention span of a monkey on LSD, so HU is definitely better for me than full-ring where I only get to play 2-4 hands out of 10.

Could you expand on the 2+2 learned style of hu and/or 6max. I always found 2+2 too full of useless comments to have to sift through to really learn much from there.

It's more of a mentality - that there is always one correct line and if you deviate from it you are wrong and a fool for doing so.

thats the biggest ripoff ever, who the hell does commentary acting after a video instead of just commenting it.

Krantz, help :(?


edit: crap I just realized he actually says the duration of the video at the start...

sigh - _-


STOP ACTING LIKE YOU DONT KNOW WHATS GONNA HAPPEN $)(#?(&$#?#$


deucescracked.com made me lose money

-gambler who lost money because of this site, true story

lol sorry Kirb - if it seemed like I was acting it was only because my memory was probably a little fuzzy on what actually did happen since the match went down a few months ago.

cool.

thanks for the reply.

What Wilt said. Really looking forward to season 2.

Krantz any chance you could talk some more about the KJdd hand about 41mins in where you cb on an Axx board, you turn a diamond for your flush draw and then CF. This is a mistake I seem to be making (betting here that is)

Thanks

Sorry I forgot to include this in my original post- do you worry that 1/2 pot cbets induce a lot of floats?

Definitely one of the best videos I have ever seen.

Hey Krantz

Thanks for the vid, definitely the best HU analysis I've ever seen. I have a few questions:

1) Early on in the match you 3bet AQo and cbet a 3c7c7x board and c/f a 4 turn. It seems pretty hard for him to have a made hand he's happy betting for value and his range is pretty polarized here between monsters and draws/air type hands that are looking for a fold. Would you ever consider c/cing the turn and c/fing to a river bet? Or do you think he's capable of following through with a high frequency on the river? Maybe this is one of the high variance spots you mentioned you were looking to pass on vs this particular opponent in order to keep him from gaining momentum.

2) ~42 min you turn a K high flush draw with KJd and c/f because you're never good against your opponent's range and that it's unrealistic to expect a float on this board texture. Does this change on a Ah8h4dTd board? (less connectivity/two pair/set possibility, more draws) and if so, how does your line change?

3) ~58 min you check TdTs after 3betting preflop on a fairly connected Q high board. I think this is good for pot control given you're ~150bb deep but are you b/cing against this opponent 100bb deep (especially given your read that he's fairly given to get it in light)? Also, what's your plan for the rest of the hand if he bets this flop?

4) In the QJ hand I agree it's probably closer to a fold- what are you doing with KQ/AQ?

5) During a quiet point during the match you mention it's important to stick to your game plan even if the action slows down- is this because you attributed the inactivity to the cards and not your opponent? I assume you'd open up your game if you noticed your opponent playing tighter. Determining between change in my opponents game as opposed to him catching cards/running cold etc is something I struggle with and I think is a huge part of being a good HU player.

6) Lastly, you seem to have a pretty tight calling range vs your opponents flop checkraises even though he seems to be doing it with a decent frequency and you mention it's possible he's taking some shots at you. Were you planning on opening up your calling range once you had a better idea of what he was doing it with? I don't think he showed down one flop CR

Thanks for any reply you can give and feel free to correct my logic or possible overanalysis.

1- Well like I said during the video, I really had no reason to believe he was pure floating, so if he wasn't doing that, I just don't think it's ever going to be profitable to continue regardless of which line I take (unless he checks back!). So despite it being hard for him to have a made hand, hey, sometimes they get hit by the deck and you can't do anything. :-)

2- Yep, what you said - in that case, I can do all sorts of things since I likely do have fold equity now... vs Nowa1, I'd likely bet an amount that commits me in case he has a big hand or to deter him from continuing with his weaker hands.

3- I bet and call with shallower stacks against this guy. Against others, who I might induce bluffs from by checking, I check. Less for pot control (since in rred pots you can't really control pot size well) and more for bluff catching. If he bets the flop in this hand, I call and reevaluate depending on the turn card. Not necessarily going broke.

4- going broke with both.

5- Just stick to your read on your opponent and don't worry about the cards. I was relying on the strategy I had developed to beat him and didn't need to start opening more hands to use said strategy, especially since if I did... it would be a weaker strategy. If I had reason to think he was tightening up, though, I'd start splashing around a bit and make him notice.

6- Well, I think that's a product of not c-betting against him very much in this match. He actually only checkraised me like 3x during the whole video, which only seems like a lot since I folded to all of them. I was honestly just hoping to have a defendable hand that wasn't pure air the next time he c/red me so I could get to showdown and figure out what the hell he was doing it with, but yah like you said, we never got to showdown!

Hope that helps - you seem to be thinking correctly about a lot of things already.

Hey Krantz,

Thanks for getting back to me and addressing everything I really appreciate it. Can't wait for more vids!

Good video. I liked the analysis of the KJdd hand where you didn't double barrel.

the best video i have ever seen - thank you Krantz

Enjoyed it, it must feel so good to be on a roll like that, up so much on someone and holding the complete psychological edge.