Ever wonder why you can't break into that higher limit you're always taking shots at? FoxwoodsFiend moves up through different stakes of No-Limit, starting off at .5/1 and playing gradually higher stakes. He illustrates the different types of gameplay at each limit while explaining the adjustments players from one level to the next must make in order to be successful in their ascent. FWF talks about the different types of fish and regulars at the varied stakes, plays he would make at one level but not at the next, and touches on which playing styles are more suitable for which stakes. DeucesCracked is going to show you how to make the leap.
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FoxwoodsFiend uses the hand history replayer to go over hands that came up while he was playing 2/4 and 3/6 to talk about why he did what he did and how he would have played those hands if he were playing different stakes.
Posted 9 months ago
tags: foxwoodsfiend $400nl $600nl hand replayer comparing stakes moving up
Mid Stakes,
46 min long
Comments for Episode Six
hen
"99946 min long" wow its like a wet dream come true
Posted 9 months ago
Suwalski
I really like your videos.
Posted 9 months ago
TheBeloved
lol, this is foxwoods fiend and I don't really know which episode of movin on up this is
Posted 9 months ago
Spleeks
That was a very good and insightful episode, I really liked it.
Posted 9 months ago
Insolent1
Excellent video. I don't play much short-handed but I find these videos extremely helpful for just about any poker game I've played. The thing I like most is how you reason out what kind of hands your opponents will likely have and how various turn and river cards help your hand's potential for value or the move you're making. The few poker books I've read seem to have little discussion of this sort of reasoning. I also enjoyed the brief comments on bet-sizing, which is still a nebulous topic for myself and I assume many beginner to intermediate players. Specifically, the min bet rebluff is something I'll probably add to my repertoire, but I found it equally educational when your opponent bet half pot twice and you talked about the metagame concerning bet-sizing, what the bet represented, and why making such bets will allow you to bluff more cheaply. I look forward to more of your superb videos.
Posted 9 months ago
notkrantz
really like your videos, you explain your thought process well.
question/comment about one of the hands (this is the spot for that right?)
37 min: you have KT and get c/r'ed on K6Qhh. you talk about how his range is mostly draws and air and end up min-3-betting. everything up to that point seems fine but then you start talking about if you had 77 and suspected he was on air/draw this is a cheap way to rebluff. if you had something so marginal would you really be min 3-bet/folding in this spot? i haven't stoved anything but even if we assume he never bluff shoves over your raise the amount of draws vs actual hands he's going to have make 77 a call by that point.
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Posted 8 months ago
beachbum
At 7:15 on the 2nd hand, you cold 4-bet AJs OOP to about 37% of effective stacks. Why did you 4-bet so much to basically commit yourself? Why not just 4-bet to $110-$120 and fold to a 5b-shove? Let's say the action instead was that you opened to $12 in the CO, get 3b by the button to $44, are you still 4-betting here to $146? I'm usually 4-betting my range in this latter spot to $110-$120 and snap-calling or folding depending on my holding. Dunno, your play just seems spewy.
Posted 8 months ago
FoxwoodsFiend
Exec Produceryep, you're right. i don't normally make that mistake and think it's obviously bad to cold-4bet so big, kind of surprised i did that.
Posted 8 months ago
slv123
Maybe I'm missing something but whats the point of this video?
Half the hands you show are bad bluffs and generally spewy play.
The whole impression of this video is that you make a spewy play then spend the next five minutes backwards rationalizing that if he has the range that you would like him to have then it was a good play. Like justifying that A6s preflop allin call, or the first hand if he has exactly AK no spades then its a good call.
Posted 8 months ago
FoxwoodsFiend
Exec ProducerThe hand vs AK it's not that he has to have AK no spades for me to be good, it's that he has to have Asx or KsX for me to be bad because I think his value betting range is very narrow (as he would check down medium flushes to get to showdown) but his bluffing range is huge. If you can't see why light call-downs against polarized ranges on obvious bluff boards is an adjustment you have to make against uncreative opponents are sometimes called for, I'm sorry. But I wasn't calling hoping he had AK no spade, I was calling knowing only a small part of his betting range beats me.
Posted 8 months ago
xxspaldingxx
Very good video
Posted 8 months ago
Jake123
Around 21:00. You minraise 3bet on the 9-high flop. My question is simple, do you ever do this with a made hand and if so, which ones? And what do you do if get called and checked to you?
Posted 8 months ago
hen
Also don't you have to consider that this move may just get you played back at a lot lighter? If so, how do you accommodate for these frequencies, if not, why?
Posted 8 months ago
JayPez
i enjoy this series of videos more then any other videos i have watched anywhere. keep up the good work.
Posted 8 months ago
TomJetland
At around 20:00 min you explained that you would check the JJ on the 822 board on the turn after flop c/c to protect hands like 66, where you want to get a turn check through, but then you bet the river with it, where you wouldn't bet it with 66. I don't think check/calling on the river with 66 after a turn check through is profitable against good opponents, because your hand is almost face up after you check the river. So is it really true that you protect your cheap-SD hands with that line ? A delayed river bluff seems like a good counter strategy against that. But by protecting our hand totally (means checking the river with JJ as well), we might not get enough value out of our JJ to compensate the metagame win, because a check/raise on the river rarely looks like a bluff, except for players like the guy who stacked off with 66 against your 89 TP.
Posted 8 months ago
TomJetland
just wanted to add the question, if you value bet with 66 on the river, too, to get A high or smaller pocket to call, and more importantly, to not turn your hand face up without losing value if you actually have a good valuebet hand
Posted 8 months ago
RushingOver
Sup Fox,
awesome vid again
1 of the best series for sure, keep them coming.
Posted 8 months ago