Poker Video: MTT/SNG by bones (Mid Stakes)

Great series, I would be interested in seeing some additional ghost videos for hu sng's or another series/miniseries.

I posted in the episode 2 thread but I'll mention it again, I was curious if you were still going to include some of the things that you mentioned at the end of ep 1 like "soft skills" or HH review.

Regarding soft skills: BR mgmt, game selection, sharkscope you mentioned, but can you include some stuff about variance, roi's, the ability to multitable these, and anything else that you might think of.

Thanks,

ep 4 was the last one of this series. I made a HH review vid but was really displeased with how it turned out as far as the pace and the level of discussion that I was able to get into, so I scratched it in favor of this format. If we get back into husngs again, I'll do my best to figure something out for a HH review if that's what you guys want.

As far as br management, I'm always an advocate of being overrolled. It's also directly correlated to your skill level and what kind of game selection you practice. If you're game selecting really hard and are not playing for a living, you'll probably be fine with 30-40 bi. Add maybe 10 more if you can't reload or don't want to and maybe 10-20 more if you are playing anyone. Add some more if you are bothered pyschologically by swings.

Game selection is a personal choice. You will improve at a faster rate by playing better players and closely examining the matches afterward to see what adjustments you need to make and where your weaknesses are, but that's not necessarily the best way to make money in the short run.

You can use sites like sharkscope (filtered by husngs) to aide in your game selection, but you have to be pretty quick with it at smaller stakes.

9-15% is generally considered a very solid roi. I would imagine at lower stakes higher is possible. As far as multitabling, I wouldn't recommend more than 2-3, especially in the learning stages of your poker career. Especially against different opponents.

btw I just wanted to add that you don't have to be "rolled" for a buyin to take a shot at it. If you feel sharp and feel like playing a few 20s when you have $400, it's fine.

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Hey, what about those 111-chip-bets? Any psychological agenda behind that? Great series by the way. Cheers.

150 is too big, 100 is too small. So I just play around with whatever feels closest to the size I want. No real rhyme or reason why I would do 121 and not 122. Really glad you guys are enjoying the series.

just found this series and am watching them all, love it.

In case anyone is still reading these, I imported the HU layout but I can't get the abbreviations to show. The "abbreviation" box is filled in under player preferences, but they don't show up on the table.

Any ideas anyone?

nevermind

ty for the post

I enjoyed this series Bones and it's got me playing HU sng's. I feel like I'm going to improve in situations where I get to the money at low blind levels and so on. In fact, I can see myself switching to HU sng's permanently.

+1 for a follow up series going into the finer points.

Good series Bones.

Found first episode quite hard to keep focused on but other 3 really good.

Have noticed a lot of little tells that lower limit sng players have from playing massive amounts of hands for cheap.

Downloaded your episodes.... Have only just noticed I have a video file called "2 men enter" on my desktop. Glad none of my housemates saw that

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I've really learned a lot from this mini-series - thanks!

Quick question here - you're talking about villain's stats, and while I know that VPIP and PFR start to normalize out fairly quickly heads up, I'm wondering about 3 bet stats. You have around 38 hands with him at this point. At what amount of hands at heads up sngs do you feel like the 3bet% stat is indicative of villain's true 3bet%?

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Is betting a small amount, say the amount you would call (~100) and then folding to a raise too exploitable of a play here?

I've really learned a lot from this mini-series - thanks!

Quick question here - you're talking about villain's stats, and while I know that VPIP and PFR start to normalize out fairly quickly heads up, I'm wondering about 3 bet stats. You have around 38 hands with him at this point. At what amount of hands at heads up sngs do you feel like the 3bet% stat is indicative of villain's true 3bet%?

100-200 hands will give you a pretty good idea. Unfortunately it's rare to have that many hands on someone in a husng, but it's pretty easy to classify someone as a nit, maniac, reasonable, somewhat aggro, etc, and figure out how often they're likely 3 betting you.

Is betting a small amount, say the amount you would call (~100) and then folding to a raise too exploitable of a play here?

On the right? I think it's okay against bad players but generally not great vs. aggressive or thinking players.

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I've jammed in this situation before a few times, and it seems like many villains at lower stakes will look you up with any pair thinking you're bluffing a busted flush draw.

What about betting a small amount (say 1/5 pot) to push off any higher busted flush draws that didn't pair up? Granted, you'll get called by many pair hands, or maybe check-raised, but looking at the way villain played this hand, there's got to be some busted, non-paired flush draws in his range to make this kind of bet profitable?

I've jammed in this situation before a few times, and it seems like many villains at lower stakes will look you up with any pair thinking you're bluffing a busted flush draw.

What about betting a small amount (say 1/5 pot) to push off any higher busted flush draws that didn't pair up? Granted, you'll get called by many pair hands, or maybe check-raised, but looking at the way villain played this hand, there's got to be some busted, non-paired flush draws in his range to make this kind of bet profitable?

The 2nd barrel is very bad imo. (I also don't like the open pre). Almost every hand a fish calls with on the flop he will call on the turn. And a bad guy like this will also call on the river if he's got something. Its just hoping that he has got a missed flush draw which is burning money.