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

I think a couple of hands were really misplayed like the AQ out of position against a very solid regular. I thought calling his 4bet OOP was just horrible.

I think a couple of hands were really misplayed like the AQ out of position against a very solid regular. I thought calling his 4bet OOP was just horrible.

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I think there was a lot of good information in this video, playing the board against your opponents range is great info to know, board texture,reads on opponents tendencies, implied odds against short stacks, That said I do think the AQ hand was misplayed, calling the 4 bet and shoving the flop is very high variance at these stakes where some of these guys will call you with any pocket pair and we have 25% chance on improving on the turn and river and it still might not be the best hand, but over all I think it was a very helpful video.

on the hand when you had 99 and the board was 2 3 4 , the guy who raised to 10 had aggression factor of 0.3, so when i saw him reraise your raise and call by 2nd guy was that not a huge sign that he has something huge and he limped so 2s 3s and 4s are in his range

Bet the flop in the limped pot w/ the gutty w 95o vs. limper in unraised pot. I'd check behind the Ace high flop w/J7s w middle pair and backdoor fd. Bet or call the turn w 1 street unimproved. Squeezing J7o in bb vs Tag utg open is suicide, please fold. Squeeze the 99 vs. the 24bb opener and the fish caller. 3 bet 65s in sb vs 23/15 btn open.

the first hand with KK--i didnt like the shove overbet. they often are donking around with QT, A3s, etc, and will call a 4bet for like half their stack to see a flop, but not call all their stack.

preferring to 3-bet k4 over 87s is a bad idea imo. sure you will make a hand more often but it will usually be dominated if the villain is willing to continue. by polarizing your range you make your post-flop decisions much easier. you get enormous value and implied odds when flopping 2 pair and draws. you will be busting overpairs and even getting value from AK on undercard boards that villain thinks missed you.

on the hand when you had 99 and the board was 2 3 4 , the guy who raised to 10 had aggression factor of 0.3, so when i saw him reraise your raise and call by 2nd guy was that not a huge sign that he has something huge and he limped so 2s 3s and 4s are in his range

His af was only over about 40 hands. I definitely like folding better than calling here. People just call behind here with draws, and I don't think he calls a shove often at all with pps you beat. I'd probably just fold 99 there even to his small raise. I don't think you're doing that great against his range, you're oop, overcards are gonna come a lot let alone straight and flush cards, and there's still the other villain left to act.

I don't like the 3bet with the AQ hand, it's like you're turning your hand into a bluff. After his 4bet I don't mind a shove or a call, but I like just giving up postflop if I miss if I call pf. The AQ hand at the end I would sometimes 3bet, and then cbet and get ai on any flop most the time. As played, that's a really bad board to lead out on with AQ and I'd just check fold.

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This is why im talking about, wtf is up with all these mediocre coaches. dude im making 40k a month at 1/2 and i cant even get one student. man im the best PEACE

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This is why im talking about, wtf is up with all these mediocre coaches. dude im making 40k a month at 1/2 and i cant even get one student. man im the best PEACE

Can you explain something to me,
Why does someone making half am million a year playing 1/2
want a student? it cant be the money....

This is why im talking about, wtf is up with all these mediocre coaches. dude im making 40k a month at 1/2 and i cant even get one student. man im the best PEACE

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This is why im talking about, wtf is up with all these mediocre coaches. dude im making 40k a month at 1/2 and i cant even get one student. man im the best PEACE

LOL! This made my day

Hey guys,

Thanks for the feedback on the video. I have to admit, it was a little intimidating making a video -- moreso than I thought it would be. Definitely gave me even more respect for the experienced guys around here who make such high quality videos. I also hope you guys won't go to hard on me, it might be tougher than you think to keep up with your audience, your student, the tables and your thought processes going all at once

I do think the AQ hand was played very poorly. I remember the hand, but not all the details, unfortunately. I think Eric called as I was in the middle of saying "I think if he 4bets you are going to need to shove." I think Eric is out of town, so maybe when he gets back he can comment. I think I that prior history made villain likely to 4bet with a wider range than normal.

Anyway, I generally think that for most players, postflop play is where the focus needs to be, and a sweat doesn't lend itself to really digging into and explaining postflop reads and strategies, which is, I think my strongest suit. My idea in making this series was to do a video of me sweating a student, another session of hand history reviews, and then a session with a student sweating me. This allows people to see what sessions entail.

Typically, I like to do an initial sweat session so that I can get a feel for my students game and identify any really fundamental leaks. Usually with 50 NL and 100 NL students, they have preflop leaks involving position or other fairly fundamental stuff. These are the kind of leaks that once corrected, are going to lead to new leaks. For example, if someone isn't stealing enough, they aren't going to be familiar with the postflop situations that arise when you are opening the button with ATC.

For this reason, I like to use an initial session of watching and discussing to identify any fundamental leaks. Then I give the student some time to expose himself to the new situations he will encounter by changing his play. At this point, my student is ready to bring me specific hands for discussion. It is in hand history discussions that I feel my students make the biggest strides in their games because it is there that I can really delve into underlying theory and give them a glimpse into my thought process. Not that my thought processes are on some otherworldly level, but it usually just shows students that they need to be understanding the "why" of everything they are doing.

Finally, when a student is bringing me hands, he obviously may not bring misplayed hands that he doesn't realize he misplayed. In later sessions, I might mix in a sweat or two so that my student will have the opportunity to watch me play and catch something that he doesn't understand and ask why.

I anticipate doing a video of a handhistory review session in August. I think the format of the next video may be better for 50NL and 100NL purposes. Hopefully you guys will give it a look too!

Sam

preferring to 3-bet k4 over 87s is a bad idea imo. sure you will make a hand more often but it will usually be dominated if the villain is willing to continue. by polarizing your range you make your post-flop decisions much easier. you get enormous value and implied odds when flopping 2 pair and draws. you will be busting overpairs and even getting value from AK on undercard boards that villain thinks missed you.

It's really important to understand what our goals are with light three bets. With either K4s or 87s, our goal when threebetting is to win the pot preflop or to take it down with a cbet -- implied odds are not our concern. Furthermore, K4s makes flushes and two pair just as often as 87s (not to mention our opponents will often have much better equity against an 8 high flush as opposed to a k high flush). The times we flop a straight and our opponent has a big hand are far outweighed by the times when we flop top pair and actually beat a fair amount of our opponents calling range, i.e. pocket pairs.

Conversley, 87s is a much better "cold/call float in position" hand. Why? Because we have more room to outplay our opponent when we have straights and flushes. In a single raised pot there will be more decisions made postflop than in a 3bet pot. It's really important to understand, though, that when I call with 87s in position, I'm not calling for "implied odds." I'm calling first and foremost because I'm going to be able to outplay my opponent in position. This means I'm not just giving up when I miss.

That AQ hand was incredibly bad. You should have done the video over or something.

hey guys, thanks for the comments. It was very hard doing the video and I was supprised how busy it was listening to Sam talk about hands and trying not to inturrupt, and getting his idea on what I should do for a hand. This was also our first sweat session, I favor the HH reviews much more, so I really hope you guys check that out when we do it.

As far as the AQ hand I just made a mistake, and my normal play would be to fold there, but if I remember right I was running low on time and just picked the worst option.

Sootedpower is a good coach though and has helped my thought process alot since we started. I just have very bad ADD sometimes and make foolish mistakes when I play and that keeps me from moving up in levels as fast as I could otherwise.

Let us know what kind of hands you wanna see in the HH review, and I'll see if i can find some in my DB at 100NL.

I like this video, i think sootedpower talk about some interesting topics.

As far as the AQ hand I just made a mistake, and my normal play would be to fold there, but if I remember right I was running low on time and just picked the worst option.

I think it was pretty clear what happened in the AQ hand. You made the 3bet squeeze before SootedPower had advised you to do anything. Once you made the squeeze SP started to explain how "a call was better" ie. a cold call of the original raise and not a 3bet. However right as he started to explain that concept the button 4bet you and so you were probably hearing the words "call" during his explanation and therefore hit call as your time ran down, when really thats not at all what you wanted to do OR what he intended for you to do.

I saw it as pretty clear miscommunication and would bet that neither you nor SP would normally play the hand this way. That was just my interpretation though.

I think it was pretty clear what happened in the AQ hand. You made the 3bet squeeze before SootedPower had advised you to do anything. Once you made the squeeze SP started to explain how "a call was better" ie. a cold call of the original raise and not a 3bet. However right as he started to explain that concept the button 4bet you and so you were probably hearing the words "call" during his explanation and therefore hit call as your time ran down, when really thats not at all what you wanted to do OR what he intended for you to do.

I saw it as pretty clear miscommunication and would bet that neither you nor SP would normally play the hand this way. That was just my interpretation though.

I just watched the video, and I think you are 100% right, watching it happen I think it was just a simple combination of miscommunication and my time running out.

Hey-

I noticed in the video you made with sootedpower, you said you recorded all the coaching sessions you did and reviewed them later. I thought this was a really cool idea and I decided to try it out with my camtasia. However, I have a headset microphone and camtasia only picks up MY voice and not my coach's. When I try to watch the video later, I can only hear my voice and an extremely faint sound of my coach's voice like he was talking in a far distance. Do you have any suggestions of how I can record the sound coming out of my headphones onto camtasia so I can actually hear my coach later?

Thanks dude

Hey I hope you don't mind me responding in public but i though others may have the same question. The way you have to do it is by recording the call then importing the call into Camtasia. SO:

1. download "pretty may" or another call recorder from skype
2. Start recording the call at the same time you start recording via camtasia (no audio on camtasia, just turn it off)
3 after the camtasia vid is produced, go in and save the pretty may call as a mp3 or w/e you want.
4. go into camtasia and import the media file in.

Hope that answers your questions and anyone else who might have been wondering. Anything else feel free to ask.

Just watched this video today and got some good stuff out of it.....Sooted, are you posting any followup videos like i think you mentioned in this one?

Ozi

Why didn't Sooted finish the series he said he was doing. JC

Life just got in the way for both myself and Eric.

I'm going to be making some more videos in the near future

Life just got in the way for both myself and Eric.

I'm going to be making some more videos in the near future

Nice, I really liked this vid.