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I never understood this 'first' thing everyone does. Seems moronic to me. I never look at the person and think "He's cool." Let's leave that sort of thing to that 'other' site where it happens constantly! Maybe I am alone in this, who knows. Anyhoo, about to watch the video, can't wait!

About 9 minutes in, you limp 33 OTB on the left table after 1 or 2 limpers. Why not raise here and try to take it down PF or with a c-bet on the flop?

I'll post it here but it also applies to the last 3 vids (HU and PLO series): I just renewed my account just because of these videos. Can't wait for the next episodes of all of them

Great video! Crack some more jokes though, youre good at them..
The overlimp with 33.. I do this too vs UTG limp, but im not sure why and you didnt really explain why either? My range is exclusively 22/33/44 and suited babyaces. I don't think it's exploitable which is why I keep doing it I guess.

I thought him having a huge calling range is why you should raise T6s and basically any playable hand on btn? He was never 3betting you, and you should feel pretty comfortable in your abilities to outplay him postflop

Why did you choose to 3bet AQs in UTG+1 vs LAG UTG opener? Even though it let you shove J5s vs him (awesome btw, and really shows why players 4betting pot are making such a huge mistake) I feel like it turns your hand into somewhat of a bluff plus it's not like youre ever getting squeezed off your hand and even if it lets others in, AQs plays well multiway.

I never understood this 'first' thing everyone does. Seems moronic to me. I never look at the person and think "He's cool." Let's leave that sort of thing to that 'other' site where it happens constantly! Maybe I am alone in this, who knows. Anyhoo, about to watch the video, can't wait!

I'm guessing someone wrote "first" and it was deleted. I think that it is often done ironically. I'm pretty sure that whoever wrote it wasn't trying to be cool.

Very nice vid. I also just moved down to 100NL (fuck you very much Prima network for freezing most of my roll god dammit!). Excellent analysis of many of the 100NL fish - the nits and the super-loose passives. However, I am noticing quite a few players that have much better stats and are semi-decent players (21/18/3 - types). Obviously table selection is key and its best to just find the fishiest tables, but I was wondering what you thought of these guys in doing your 100NL research. IMO, they are similar preflop to a lot of 200NL players, but have a higher degree of exploitable tendencies postflop - i.e., not mixing up their lines enough, making bad river value bets or missing good ones, etc.

Anything else you have noticed about the better 100NL players to focus on and exploit?

The best way to exploit the top regs at any limit is to game select better.

HERE HERE! Seriously though, FWF, you are a natural at doing vids. The flow between analyzing a hand and discussing theory is second to none, and I've watched many vids from both here and CR.

when will this b ready for an ipod d/l?

love the vid!!!!!

Since it's a 2-tabling video it won't go up in the Ipod format, as 2-table videos really aren't visible enough for us to offer them. If you decide you want to convert it for your ipod on your own just to test what I'm saying, I highly recommend http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/.

Rob

This video is fantastic! I watched you play limit in the previous series. I didn't know you were such an insightful NL player.

Seriously I think this is going to be my favorite series on DC, which says a TON because DC is the nutz.

Heh, Ariel is pretty much the nuts at NL, which is why I think so many people were shocked to see him in a "limit" series last month. That said, it really is a kickass vid.

Rob

Very nice video. FWF appears to be an excellent teacher with a pleasing manner and excellent ability to convey his ideas. Look forward to the rest of the series and hopefully more SS vids from him in future.

And I really like the fact that he went to the bother of researching the stakes for 10,000 hands before making the video. Shows a great commitment to getting it right. I'm sure not many higher stakes pros on other coaching sites do this when they drop down to make a vid (naming no names of course).

Finally, wouldn't it be fun to know what FWF's winrate over that 10k hand sample?

, the J5 shove..

I liked the point you made about getting hung up on analyzing the biggest pots.

This is a realy good consept, I think it might make it a lot easier to feel comfortable quicker, when taking shots at higher stakes.

This has been a problem of mine moving up, even though I'v had good bankroll management, and felt that I have an edge. I get stuck in a rut trying to make sense of the adjustments i should make, where frustration eventually lead me to play badly and having to move back down.

Cant wait for 2/4

The J5 shove I just wanted to see if it would work, I thought "I don't advocate this to most other people but I just can't help but feel that if it's -EV it's marginal enough that I might as well do it for entertainment's sake." But yeah, given our dynamic it was as good a 5bet bluff spot as I was going to find at low stakes. I'm glad you like the concept for this series, hopefully you'll enjoy the 2/4 video in a few weeks.

Very nice vid. I also just moved down to 100NL (fuck you very much Prima network for freezing most of my roll god dammit!). Excellent analysis of many of the 100NL fish - the nits and the super-loose passives. However, I am noticing quite a few players that have much better stats and are semi-decent players (21/18/3 - types). Obviously table selection is key and its best to just find the fishiest tables, but I was wondering what you thought of these guys in doing your 100NL research. IMO, they are similar preflop to a lot of 200NL players, but have a higher degree of exploitable tendencies postflop - i.e., not mixing up their lines enough, making bad river value bets or missing good ones, etc.

Anything else you have noticed about the better 100NL players to focus on and exploit?

Honestly, I don't think they're worth worrying about. You're not going to make too much money off them. Yes, they have tendencies you can exploit but the profit margin is so slim compared to ways to crush the fish (which should be abundant if you're game selecting) that the video is most helpful in maximizing the bottom line by focusing on fish-crushing.

To all the people giving me positive feedback: thanks a lot. It really means a lot to me to know that you guys are getting a lot out of this. I'm sorry for my delay in posting in this thread, I've been insanely busy lately but I'm going to be refreshing constantly, so if you have any more questions let me know.

Just thought I'd add my name to the list of people telling you what a good job you're doing. I really liked your minbet madness videos and am glad that you're doing some NL ones this season since that's what I play.

Great vid.

Totally irelevant but I still think you should put a warning sign on the nikitikita guy. I accually made a player search on the guy and found out that he was 9 tabling 6-max on NL50. So I sat down at 4 of his tables and got completely different stats on him. VPiP/PFR/TA 20/16/3 over a 500 hands sample. Wich seems more standard solid TAG to me then the LAGTard maniac you played against. Guess he was on mega tilt or someone had his account hijacked or something.

This was a bit of topic but still an intresting note I felt.

I accidently postet this comment in the wrong video thread. Sorry. Have repostet it in the correct forum now.

Great video! Crack some more jokes though, youre good at them..

Awesome video! Just signed up - first vid...feels like this one was worth first month payment all by itself!

And startrak is spot on. Such an amount of info is better digested with a smile. The description of a player type as "Spastic" - cracked me up .

This was a great vid you dont stop talking with useful info for 1 sec cant wait to watch the rest.

Great analysis. I like how you call in -ev spots so we can see what villain has. Entertaining and educational at the same time!

At minute 12 you are on T9s and get a open ended str8 draw on the flop, with 2 to someone's flush. Villain 1 (short stacked) bets and villain 2 calls and you fold based on the lack of implied odds from villain 1. There is something I am missing here and probably a great opportunity to learn something so could you please ellaborate it further? I would have snap called there, because of the implied odds villain 2 offered me and because I was offered more than 3 to 1 odds, enough for a call. Or not?
Probably I can solve a leak here so this is a very important point for me.

Thanks

I definitely should have called. A lot of times the flush draw really hurts you because you could be drawing to only 6 outs and 2 outs that cost you some money/you could run into KT since your outs aren't to the nuts (reverse implied odds and all that) and if you hit on the turn it's hard to extract value out of position because people shut down and pot-control in 3-way pots. But these guys were total fish and because the guy had a shortstack it's so easy to get his stack if you hit (and the other guy's awful so he'll pay off light also), it's definitely a call

I am TheAntonine, owned


My mother confirmed she does love me though, so nice read.