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

JAY! While you were talkin about the $25k HUHU that joker from San Antonio was 3-barreling wired_c4 with A8o!! Your AK was gold against him. Check out 4:28 on the right table to see wired_c4 scoop the 100BB pot.

Good video, you asked if there was something particular that we would like you to talk about. Betsizing, when do you use weird betsizes(as in 1/4pot etc.) and how do you use it? Any situations where you overbet alot or underbet?

I'd like to see a 1 6max table & 1 HU table video from you.

lol great video, but damn some of those beat downs were brutal! AJ vs. 74?!

I'd like to see a 1 6max table & 1 HU table video from you.

why? all that does is take all the focus away from 6m table onto hu table. Thats usually just for new instructors for sites that are showcasing their skills.

Nice video, but would be great if you could sorta spew less. At least in the beginning. Your first videos really made me ake to play, now it just reminds me how much i usually spew

Im really dissapointed with the Speed you provide for European Members - Im downloading with max 13 kb/s this is so annoying and I thought u guys were working on better downloadmirrors for the European guys but its the same since months. I better not rate... I really cant see why I should pay for the membership if it takes 2hours to download a video.

Please work on this !!

Im really dissapointed with the Speed you provide for European Members - Im downloading with max 13 kb/s this is so annoying and I thought u guys were working on better downloadmirrors for the European guys but its the same since months. I better not rate... I really cant see why I should pay for the membership if it takes 2hours to download a video.

Please work on this !!

r u in russia dude?

no offense man but im in europe and can dl single vid with 200kb/s which is my normal download speed for everything

Im really dissapointed with the Speed you provide for European Members

I'm european and it works great for me! Guess it depends on where you live...

Crazy video Krantz... there's a topic I'd like you to talk about.
That would be your thoughts on the 'range vs range' concept in general; polarized, merged and balanced ranges and how to use and think about em in the right way. Would love some insight on those...

Other than that, just keep it up!

very very strange all the other sites work for me perfect - Im in Austria and i got 7mbit - should be enough - so I can't understand why its so slow for me

Im really dissapointed with the Speed you provide for European Members - Im downloading with max 13 kb/s this is so annoying and I thought u guys were working on better downloadmirrors for the European guys but its the same since months. I better not rate... I really cant see why I should pay for the membership if it takes 2hours to download a video.

Please work on this !!

Please email support@deucescracked.com with the technical concerns, save this thread for strategy/video discussion!

JAY! While you were talkin about the $25k HUHU that joker from San Antonio was 3-barreling wired_c4 with A8o!! Your AK was gold against him. Check out 4:28 on the right table to see wired_c4 scoop the 100BB pot.

Ah, you're right... although the situation in that hand was a bit different (he rred preflop, then c/c the flop, when turn went check/check he bet the river). I do wish I saw that he was reraising as light as A8o because it would have really helped me play that 68ss hand later on K57Q better (I would have probably just c/red the flop there and shoved the turn).

Good video, you asked if there was something particular that we would like you to talk about. Betsizing, when do you use weird betsizes(as in 1/4pot etc.) and how do you use it? Any situations where you overbet alot or underbet?

This is a broad issue to tackle, but an instance where you might want to use small bet-sizes are when you know your opponent likely has a bluff and has given up (for instance, he reraises you, bets flop and bets turn and checks river), and you've got a huge hand. Most players shove in this spot without really thinking but in reality, against aggro players, you can bet small on the river and give them some room to c/r AI with their bluff.

Another place you might use small bets is on the river as a bluff when you're unsure whether or not your opponent has a bluff catcher or air and you've got air... a small bet can fold out air and also potentially work as a post-oak bluff against a hand that would have snap-called an all-in but think twice about a small bet.

Overbets are even more situationally dependent, but in general... if your opponent is not prone to hero calls, you can overbet bluff the river. If he is prone to hero calls, you can overbet any hand that is better than his best bluff-catcher for value.

I'd like to see a 1 6max table & 1 HU table video from you.

This won't happen during this series, as it's solely focused on 6-handed games, but maybe down the line if I can think of a reason why this would be valuable, sure.

Nice video, but would be great if you could sorta spew less. At least in the beginning. Your first videos really made me ake to play, now it just reminds me how much i usually spew

Will work on this in the future, definitely :-D

I'm european and it works great for me! Guess it depends on where you live...

Crazy video Krantz... there's a topic I'd like you to talk about.
That would be your thoughts on the 'range vs range' concept in general; polarized, merged and balanced ranges and how to use and think about em in the right way. Would love some insight on those...

Other than that, just keep it up!

Well... I'm not really sure what exactly you're asking but I'll try to scratch the surface.

You want to polarize your range against players who aren't thinking about hand ranges. You want to merge your range (I hate this term, but for those of you who don't know it's to make your range look polarized, meaning where it looks like you have the nuts or nothing, you actually have something in between) against players who think your range is polarized. And you want to balance your range against very strong players to try to neutralize any hand reading advantage they might have over you.

I'm not really sure what you mean by "range vs range" concept, but I take it to mean the idea where you are playing not your cards or your opponents cards but your hand range for raising/calling/reraising preflop AND taking A, B, C actions postflop vs their range for their respondent actions. That's part of the way you should be thinking about things, yes, constantly ruling hands out of their range and thinking about how the remaining hands should and will respond to actions from your range (and putting yourself in their head and thinking about what hands they are ruling out of your range as action progresses and why).

U talked about HEM i would like to see you use it next week and talk about how u would use them against various opponents. During some parts when u have no hands to talk about - it would be nice to hear what sort of things you did while u grinded smaller stakes, what to think about, the adjustments ect. You also talked about that if i remember correctly that the smaller stakes are way more aggressive with 3betting. It would be nice to have a smaller stakes series where u could go more in depth how do adjust to the 3bets ect..

Thank You

Im really dissapointed with the Speed you provide for European Members - Im downloading with max 13 kb/s this is so annoying and I thought u guys were working on better downloadmirrors for the European guys but its the same since months. I better not rate... I really cant see why I should pay for the membership if it takes 2hours to download a video.

Please work on this !!

YPGM, but please check this thread out.

This series is fantastic! I can't tell you how much my game's improved since I joined DC..

FYI, Poly_baller might've had some help in improving his game.. I heard that he's barryg1's nephew, and that Barry told him that he'd only help him out with his poker game if he got good grades at uni .

Video was gold tbh really enjoyed it even though you just spewed money real bad it was fun to watch, the dude with 99 when you rivered the 7 was just awful shame you didnt have deeper stacks but it really annoyed me you lost as he played it so bad, nice commententry on WSOP and other aspects GL in the HU 25 k on FT Jay theres some sick players in there though i hope you go up vs the guru_11 lol guy is just awful head asplode.

laters

Really good video and I don't think you ever would need to be concerned for silence in your videos, almost get the feel that you have worked as commentator

I would like discussion about general game plans with different types of hands.
Small PPs from the blind, how should they be played pre-flop and what do you need to do post-flop to cut out a win from them? Then the same stuff with others like SC/BW/suited trash etc.

Everything concerning how to avoid tilt and how to constantly play your A-game is very valuable. [Even if I get the feel that there is no real good strategy to prevent tilt]

How you change gears and preferable with the specific changes you are doing, so instead of just saying it's time to play tighter instead say I will stop 3B trash and will probably only 3B the biggest hands like 99+/AQ+ but if the situations seems really good I will still 3B the bigger SC etc...

A TIP
From a teaching perspective you should never show stuff that you don't want your students to do, the optimal way to teach new concepts would even be to edit out all the hands when the 'best' play fails. [If you wonder why I can expand on it]

btw - If I was one of the tilt-monkies/donks on your table I would rather want you to point that out so I would know that I had some work to do.

ive got an idea for the series, have whitelime play the rest of it!

Basic question:
In a lot of videos you pros talk about giving up equity by checking and giving free cards. What i would like to know is how i know how much im giving up.

Lets say i have QQ and FI has 67
flop 892
FI checks i bet he calls
the turn is an A he check I check behind (never mind betting might be better).
How do i calculate how much that free card cost me?

Krantz - maybe it's just me, but I feel like you and whitelime both being used to highstakes and HU, that you don't take something like 5/10 6 max as seriously. Since you guys have a huge bankroll - you can make all in pushes somewhat lighter than other people because you don't have to worry about losing a bunch of buyins at these stakes. You even say things like "I don't recommend you do this, but i'm gonna do it anyway". I could be completely off here - but do you think that might affect the way you play at 5/10 and give other players at these stakes kind of the wrong idea?

That said, I think this series kicks ass for thought process/hand range reading and I look forward to seeing these vids on mondays.

Make sure to video the 25K HU tournament

were you playing serious in this vid? I saw some crazy spewy plays lol.

Krantz - maybe it's just me, but I feel like you and whitelime both being used to highstakes and HU, that you don't take something like 5/10 6 max as seriously. Since you guys have a huge bankroll - you can make all in pushes somewhat lighter than other people because you don't have to worry about losing a bunch of buyins at these stakes. You even say things like "I don't recommend you do this, but i'm gonna do it anyway". I could be completely off here - but do you think that might affect the way you play at 5/10 and give other players at these stakes kind of the wrong idea?

That said, I think this series kicks ass for thought process/hand range reading and I look forward to seeing these vids on mondays.

Well when I say that "you shouldn't do this", you absolutely shouldn't. I'm just making a play to reinforce my read that getting out of the hand is correct and gambling. I'm going to stay away from doing this in future episodes though because there's definitely been some confusion on why I was doing that.

But re: the first part, it's extremely important to not care about the stakes you are playing and have big bankrolls to not only weather variance, but make very thin +EV plays and experiment with new lines. I attribute much of my success to trying out unorthodox plays and not being afraid to get all-in light.

I think I'm going to outline the next few episodes and make sure I spend time specifically playing LAG and specifically playing TAG. I was just a bit worried that playing too tightly wouldn't give me enough to talk about during dead time, but you guys have provided me with enough topics to elaborate on where that should not be an issue anymore.

Yeah I understand that's all apart of your style (which is why that big stack was doubling you up real light later in the video so metagame pays off). That was really just a thought - if you nit it up everyone will complain that theres no action so it's probably best like you said to do a bit of both. Either way the videos are real educational to people not used to that style.

rofl that 68 hand made me die

good vid but i had a problem with watching it

i stream it through my xbox and watch it on my tv which causes the sides to slightly get cuttoff, usually its not a problem but in this video i could only see 1 of ur cards on the first table. so if u could use the preferred seat option and sit in that bottom right seat or soemthin in future that'd be good. thanx!

krantz your my favorite player but do you ever play vs other good players? seems like while the trex ,durrr, clayaikens of the world are all playing on full tilt in a 6max or (9max cap game 500/1000)you are always sitting out like ADZ , im just wondering if you always beat on bad players or do you ever play good players non sit n go style?

krantz your my favorite player but do you ever play vs other good players? seems like while the trex ,durrr, clayaikens of the world are all playing on full tilt in a 6max or (9max cap game 500/1000)you are always sitting out like ADZ , im just wondering if you always beat on bad players or do you ever play good players non sit n go style?

Game selection FTW?

Poker is about making money

Game selection FTW?

Poker is about making money

yeah i know guess your right, i just think of it as once i have good money its all about being the best, same way durrr plays almost anybody besides fiddagrind in omaha heads up, i guess i think of it as creating a legacy or what not , money will always come

Really great video as usual Krantz. How would you feel about doing a full ring video? Id be pretty interesting to see your thought process and strategy in the mid-high full ring games.

Hey krantz, great video although you kinda fool around for 10 mins rather than actually play.

But what I would like to see and what actually made this video great is playing against a huge fish OOP and how to exploit them. I noticed that you didn't try to play every single hand against him what I often do (which is obviously a leak). Would like to see more spots in which you are deep against such fish who doesn't fold.

I like for the dead time just your little story tangents. I do not know about others but I like to hear about people getting owned when folding aces in big games and it is alot better than dead time.

really entertaining video , I know you did alot of silly plays just to gamble , but you have to try different things to become better thanks Krantz Im looking forward to the next video.

krantz your my favorite player but do you ever play vs other good players? seems like while the trex ,durrr, clayaikens of the world are all playing on full tilt in a 6max or (9max cap game 500/1000)you are always sitting out like ADZ , im just wondering if you always beat on bad players or do you ever play good players non sit n go style?

Why would he want to play with them for tons of money? He even said in the video, "I play urindanger when looking to challenge myself"...no one in their right mind is looking to mix it up with those guys on a daily basis.

I think the video ratings are a little low too...

Yeah, Krantz messed around a little and it wasn't all "business" but it was still entertaining and there were still a lot of good things to take away from it.

hi krantz

could you please show us in one of the next episodes
HOW holdem manager will make you - like you said - "unbeatable"
using the supported stats combined with your and your opponents` table images

thanks alot
Laszlo

Nice one Krantz. Looks like me when I'm messing around significantly smaller than my regular games. Its entertaining to see you call and shove when the smart play is to fold. It makes for fun video. I'm still amazed by your relentless aggression and disconnect from money, its no doubt why you kick so much ass. I'm jealous of your skill but you've obviously worked very hard to achieve it. Kudos to you good sir.

krantz your my favorite player but do you ever play vs other good players? seems like while the trex ,durrr, clayaikens of the world are all playing on full tilt in a 6max or (9max cap game 500/1000)you are always sitting out like ADZ , im just wondering if you always beat on bad players or do you ever play good players non sit n go style?

i play these players more often than nearly anyone else, and i'm incredibly offended you compared me to that piece of trash ADZ. i don't like playing cap NL or PLO. the last time a 6 handed 200/400 game ran it was myself, stinger, urindanger, genius, jman.

and i don't play sit and gos.

content wise, not a lot of interesting hands took place, but you still did a very good job at explaining things

I like your idea of talking about different concepts, when the action is slow, loved how you did that afterwards in the limeslicer vid where you had to maintain the >50% vpip

what I'd really like to hear from you is if you start out with a game plan for a session

like, against unknowns, would you try to establish an aggressive image early on and how would you use that later on against different types of players (as you'll find out during the session what types of players your opponents are likely to be)

or if you would recognize some of the players, do you consciously think ahead and try to come up with a game plan, deliberately playing hands in a certain manner to pave the way for some soul crushing later on

basically, if you have any spare air time AND you feel uninspired to entertain us with sweet lightsaber sound effects (obviously the reason why this vid got a lower rating), I'd love to hear you talk about how you think ahead or make adjustments based on recent history and how you adjust your play aginst a specific player or player type

edit: maybe redundant, but I meant this could be both about actual hands that take place, as well as hypothetical situations

Love when you say words in spanish, we can trade some coaching, ill tech you spanish and you teach me the pokersss.

Good video.

Good video, but whats wrong with Scandinavia...

Good video, but whats wrong with Scandinavia...

nothing, you guys have the hottest women!

i play these players more often than nearly anyone else, and i'm incredibly offended you compared me to that piece of trash ADZ. i don't like playing cap NL or PLO. the last time a 6 handed 200/400 game ran it was myself, stinger, urindanger, genius, jman.

and i don't play sit and gos.

yeah i watched , you owned those fuckers, i loved it

So maybe I can get an answer to a question here:

Can you really make money playing the nosebleeds, are there still such big difference between skills that you will be able to keep a positive winrate? What would you guess a good winrate over a big sample would be at the nosebleeds?

[If this is true why aren't there more nosebleed tables running, it feels like it's less and less. Or maybe the nosebleeds has just switched games from hold'em]

pretty sure krantz is high lol

this video was good for straight up entertainment value, don't be nits

talk about some of your favorite live and online pots you have been in or heard of during dead time plz

I went back thru trying to find the hand but couldn't. But there is a hand where I believe you make a position raise either on the CO or button and the SB calls you (thecleaner11), and the flop comes something like KQ5 rainbow. You make the comment that the only hand you would be afraid of would be KQ. I thought it was an interesting comment and I was kind of curious why you said that. I play microstakes and the only thing I could come up with is that your thought process is that he would 3Bet AK, AQ, KK, and QQ preflop. Just curious as to if I have the correct thought process. I am also guessing that your reasoning for Cbetting that flop is that nothing else in his range will be able to continue.

Hey Jason,

That's pretty much correct, that specific player would nearly always be reraising any of those big hands preflop, so I can effectively rule them out of his range.

nothing, you guys have the hottest women!

joke or not?

I want satownchamps at every table I play.

why can I watch only 4 minutes? :-(