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

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A video about playing Magic video seems unavoidable now

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Hey Jay,

the point you make about good players being tilted by making mistakes and bad players being tilted by losing pots/stacks is a very good one I think. I'd just like to ask as a micro donk if you have any advice on evaluating your specific plays better in order to find out if you did make a mistake or not? Sometimes its hard for me as a poor player to not be results oriented and if I make a play for a certain reason and it doesn't work, I sometimes don't know if my reasoning was correct or not. Is it just a matter of making certain assumptions about our opponents and working through the math based on those assumptions?

Sorry for clogging up the thread with noobish questions, nice vid!

so awesome. "we've got 7 seconds... JAM!? YEAH!"

A video about playing Magic video seems unavoidable now

If there's enough interest I can probably do something like that post it in the member contributions etc. I'm a bit rusty but I think I still got a bit o' skill

"bigger budget next season" does that mean there is a next season?

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The lockdown ep is so awesome. Every time I watch it I wanna grind all day and all night. Anytime I am feeling down about poker, it makes me remember why its so awesome.

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Table 1 KJ: You raise UTG with a poster in UTG+1 who 3 bets small and you fold. Do you really think he is that strong? I would never fold since he could easily be trying to protect his post or is this a mistake?

Haha. I almost 5 bet jammed vs ur Aces. I was like "i bet Krantz just told him to 4bet me". Glad I did not do so.

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Left table, 87s hand. What are the main reasons that you prefer c/c'ing this flop against utg? Why not to lead out or c/r?

Left table, 87s hand. What are the main reasons that you prefer c/c'ing this flop against utg? Why not to lead out or c/r?

i personally think our equity in that spot is so big that it´d be a waste to play it too aggressive on the flop. Any Hand which gets it in on our check/raise would pay us off when we hit our draws anyway.(basicly overpairs and better) And by check/calling we get his bluffrange to pay some, too.


Oh and i really like this series.
Its a "little" to advanced for me to apply it at nl50, but its very entertaining and improves the way i think about poker.

Table 1 KJ: You raise UTG with a poster in UTG+1 who 3 bets small and you fold. Do you really think he is that strong? I would never fold since he could easily be trying to protect his post or is this a mistake?

He posted b/c he sat out for a bit but he's been at the table for a while, he may have a wide range but we're OOP, he hasn't been 3b'ing like a monkey and he's pretty aggro postflop. It's going to be hard to want to put a pile of money in w/top pair or high variance at the least. I don't hate a call but it's closer to a fold. Especially since he has one of his hands in a tub of buttered popcorn

Haha. I almost 5 bet jammed vs ur Aces. I was like "i bet Krantz just told him to 4bet me". Glad I did not do so.

You wouldn't be the first haha. It was definitely a great time to pick up AA there.

Any information on where I can get that table theme + cards please?
Looks great.

Also great vid!

Any information on where I can get that table theme + cards please?
Looks great.

Also great vid!

Tiltbuster.com has tons of stuff.

If there's enough interest I can probably do something like that post it in the member contributions etc. I'm a bit rusty but I think I still got a bit o' skill

I would watch that vid

what font u use on ur HUD

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I feel like this Cbet is -EV given what we have seen from villain thus far even though this is the nut board to cbet.

Great video. As someone who used to play a ton of magic I definitely think poker is tougher, on the surface poker is more simple but once you start learning more that's not the case imo.

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This seems like an easy value shove. What range are we assigning this guy that gets to the river and is now going to bluff when checked to? It seems like he has more bluff catchers and weak made hands than bluffs. Also if we ever three barrel bluff here when we dont jam TP2ndK how are we balancing our range? As of late I feel like people love to be heroic in 3bet pots therefore we should be jamming and given him that opportunity.

what font u use on ur HUD

it's called Century Gothic. it's from the movie A Clockwork Orange.

I feel like this Cbet is -EV given what we have seen from villain thus far even though this is the nut board to cbet.

you may be right, this was kinda auto-pilot.

Great video. As someone who used to play a ton of magic I definitely think poker is tougher, on the surface poker is more simple but once you start learning more that's not the case imo.

poker and magic are similar for tons and tons of reasons, but ultimately magic has more variables that you have to pay more attention to more of the time, which gives you more chances to make more mistakes, which gives the better and best players more chances to realize their edge. don't get me wrong I'm not trying to discredit the depth of poker in any way at all. just saying that on average, average players are going to do far worse in magic than they are in poker.

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I really don't like the check back on the turn when we turn the flush. I think a small bet (like $80 or so) is perfect because it gets value from all of his pair+FD hands that just aren't going to fold for that price considering you can be bluffing and they don't want you to be bluffing for that cheap. And if he has TP or better he might just spaz c/ship, and we may get a c/ship out of AQ or AK with the Ac. plus we're always getting value from his overpairs and I don't think we can assume that 2/4 regs will always double barrel overpairs on that board since I've seen regs take all kinds of lines that don't always make sense.

I think checking back just costs us too much $$ against a lot of the weaker part of his range that we aren't going to get huge value from on the river when a lot of cards might kill our action. and when we check back and allow the river to come we never give villain a chance to jam worse hands which he's often going to do when he has the Ac or an overpair. By checking back we give villain a free shot to realize his equity when he has the Ac, and we are going to have a tough time getting stacks in against an overpair if a card come that completes some draws.

also by betting small like this on the turn with the nuts we can also balance when we've floated against a villain in a 3bet pot and want to be able to bluff cheaply.

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I think he would bet a jack there very often. It's the Phil Hellmuth blocker bet, Ace is a scare card so he wants to bet to get thin value and also prevent us from betting large on the river/control the pot. I like an overbet to like $160 to get him off any jack, only has to work like 1/2 times. He doesn't have AJ ever because he'd bet more on the river with that hand, his small bet sizing seems very weak.

Fender - very good play and very coherent and sharp analysis in this video. I think you trumped the teacher in this one.

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This show would definitely need live play by play from the multi tabling stunt man.

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I notice we insta-mucked 22 from the SB to cheet's BTN open. Given the BB is a fish I thought this would be a call, even if he is 3betting a decent amount. Does this become a call the fishier the BB is and the less he squeezes?

I notice we insta-mucked 22 from the SB to cheet's BTN open. Given the BB is a fish I thought this would be a call, even if he is 3betting a decent amount. Does this become a call the fishier the BB is and the less he squeezes?

Yeah he's a fish but there's no guarantee he calls and I think it's still going to be pretty hard to get paid off there, deuces are rarely going to be showing down successfully and have zero barreling equity. If he was squeezing less and calling every hand in the world I may be more inclined to call but deuces still suck I'd be happier with like, 67s, and I don't even like that.

Do I have to give up buttered popcorn whilst playing now?

Do I have to give up buttered popcorn whilst playing now?

For the sake of your keyboard, please!

This seems like an easy value shove. What range are we assigning this guy that gets to the river and is now going to bluff when checked to? It seems like he has more bluff catchers and weak made hands than bluffs. Also if we ever three barrel bluff here when we dont jam TP2ndK how are we balancing our range? As of late I feel like people love to be heroic in 3bet pots therefore we should be jamming and given him that opportunity.

Why do you think he has more bluff catchers and weak made hands?

I really don't like the check back on the turn when we turn the flush. I think a small bet (like $80 or so) is perfect because it gets value from all of his pair+FD hands that just aren't going to fold for that price considering you can be bluffing and they don't want you to be bluffing for that cheap. And if he has TP or better he might just spaz c/ship, and we may get a c/ship out of AQ or AK with the Ac. plus we're always getting value from his overpairs and I don't think we can assume that 2/4 regs will always double barrel overpairs on that board since I've seen regs take all kinds of lines that don't always make sense.

I think checking back just costs us too much $$ against a lot of the weaker part of his range that we aren't going to get huge value from on the river when a lot of cards might kill our action. and when we check back and allow the river to come we never give villain a chance to jam worse hands which he's often going to do when he has the Ac or an overpair. By checking back we give villain a free shot to realize his equity when he has the Ac, and we are going to have a tough time getting stacks in against an overpair if a card come that completes some draws.

also by betting small like this on the turn with the nuts we can also balance when we've floated against a villain in a 3bet pot and want to be able to bluff cheaply.

I think you're too rigid in your thinking here

is there an ipod download version for this video ??

I like how FenderJaguar says that Campanga08 is a bad player when Campagna08's PTR shows him as a solid winning player at $2/4 (3 ptBB/100 from 53,000 hands). People just always say that tight players are bad because its not complicated and flashy, but tight players still are almost always winners..