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

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 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!

+1

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?

, 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

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

Really good, interesting video. I enjoy Foxwoods' narration and teaching style. I'm really looking forward to this series.

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.

pure gold, one of the best vids on the site

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.

Hi, I'm a 2/4 player and I just moved down to .5/1 after a big downswing coupled with a need to cashout a good portion of my roll. I find that your analysis of the different types of players at this level is very much in line with what I've remarked over my ~2k hands so far there. Solid vid overall, and I loved your mix of hand analysis coupled with general talk specific to the level.

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.

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!!!!!

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.

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

Great vid. I play 100NL at the moment and should be moving up to 200NL within the next few weeks so looking forward to your next one.

Also i agree with whoever said it above,

you are a natural at doing vids

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?

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?

Because I think that it's risking a lot to win not much and is not generally going to be effective once there are two players I need to get to fold. I also think that given my plan on being very aggressive, any time I can engender an image of "oh, he's not trying to run us over every hand" in a spot in which it's close between raising and limping I should limp to help my image out.

, 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.

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.

The overlimp with 33 is so standard for me I didn't think it was worth commenting on. It just goes to show me that certain things I take for granted haven't always been as simple and self-explanatory as I think they are. Good to have this kind of notice that everything is worth going over and making sure is being explained thoroughly.

I 3bet AQs because I thought I take it down a lot, I get the betting lead, I don't get 4bet bluffed too often, and my hand has great back-up if it does get called (i.e. I play for stacks with any flopped pair and probably get my money in really good).

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 quality. This has been the very first vid i've watched on DC and it's off to a great start. Thanks Foxwoods.

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.

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.

BEST VIDEO I've seen in a LONG time. You are a true teacher. Would love to see some more micro/low- 25NL or 50NL. You're my new hero.

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 .

These videos are great! It would be a help if you could comment a bit on playing 3 and four way pots at different stakes.

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

I love the joke in regards to experimenting with 3-betting/isolation "Well if it doesn't work for you, then I teach for only $350 an hour" lol.

Great vid. Can't wait to watch the rest of it and anything/everything by FoxwoodsFiend.

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

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

With the risk of embarrasing myself: I signed up today and this was the first video I watched. I then played some 0.5/1 reraising very light preflop and with ~90% cb against non-nits. It may just be luck, but I totally ran over the table and feel that I have already profitedd in excess of the monthly fee!

I am TheAntonine, owned


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

lol ^^

just wanna say great video, you really are excellent at making vids. I find it really cool that you played 10k hands here to actually get a feel for the play this is something that I haven't seen any other coaching site do.

also, i'm really curious what was your wr?

With the risk of embarrasing myself: I signed up today and this was the first video I watched. I then played some 0.5/1 reraising very light preflop and with ~90% cb against non-nits. It may just be luck, but I totally ran over the table and feel that I have already profitedd in excess of the monthly fee!

They do adjust eventually so you dont wanna run over them too much just so your c bets and stuff still works.

I noticed you didnt raise suited connectors in early pos but you probably raise all pairs. My UTG range for such loose passive games is all pairs, suited connectors 56s+ and 68s+, ATs+ AJo+ KJs+ KQo+ and sometimes a looser opener like J9s T7s or A9s and that adds up to about 25/20 and works just fine. You rarely get 3bet and they do give you some more credit since u raise UTG or UTG+1. You will be OOP a lot but I dont think its too much of a problem since they fold a lot of flops and you wont usually play big pots with marginal hands anyway. So anyway I was just wondering why you folded suited connectors UTG, probably because you dont wanna play OOP but i m not sure. I also understand there s a good chance i wont get a reply here since its an older video so its fine

just say u suck dont say u had to cash out

Great vid. "I'm sure your mother loves you or whatever" <3

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Im going crazy here. You had AK of clubs right, and the board is 5 ACE OF CLUB 4 of club?

On-line poker is so rigged...

Im going crazy here. You had AK of clubs right, and the board is 5 ACE OF CLUB 4 of club?

On-line poker is so rigged...

Man i think twas one of the next hands But ftps rigged anyway

I don't know, it seems like he is talking about the hand how it developed after he timed out

Excellent analysis, learned a lot from this video. You do a great job articulating your thought process. Look forward to seeing the rest of the series.

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If you are Tulsapay and you have a small pocketpair- is it worth calling as evil can double you up if you hit? ie: implied odds is good?

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Folds K9 on button??