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

Your HU videos are amazing, very well done.

Enjoyed Video

nais!

if you keep pweening him in the next part of the video and you do not post it. i will revoke my membership, this vid is awesome

more hu!

Nice video.

Have a question about the A9o hand. Do you have other options then c/r allin on the turn?

* folding? After u call his 4bet on the flop, u think he is likely to continue his blufs? Because u rep a pretty big hand imo. Maybe he doesnt know what ur actual range is [(set, TPTK, some OESDs)]. ( Midpairs arent in your actual range, right? You dont c/r them alot i guess and call 4bet). He might think ur range is [(draws, weak mid/toppairs)] and will continue his blufs, like u said. So folding is not really an option, because his range STILL contains a lot of (semi)blufs.

* calling? After u call his turnbet the pot is like 3.5K with 1.8K effective behind. Why is calling not an option here? U want to protect your hand basically by shoving. A valueshove would be really thin imo. Sure this c-r shove will be +ev (because u'll win the pot a lot uncontested), but why is the ev of c/r allin on the turn bigger then check/calling the turn+evaluate river. The "If u call the turn, u have a really hard decision on the river" thing / reverse implied odds scenario?

Sorry for the chaos in my text .

Best regards,

Toni.

DOGISHEAD, I was rooting for you the whole time!

I don't usually watch HU videos but here villain was so "interesting"...

Those overbet donks on the flop with underpair, say with 66 on a AKT board, this is clearly FISH LOGIC: pair of 6's is clearly a good hand and to flop a high board like that is so so unfair. So it needs protecting. And because otherwise people will start putting moves on me (the fish) as they always do. So I gotta win the pot. Gotta win every pot.

Really nice video! Definitely post the second half. Enjoyed this one a lot.

After seeing how awesome this vid was, Part 2 is pretty much mandatory imo.

This is an amazing video. Youre excellent at articulating your thought process and explaining all the slight differences in board textures, bet sizing, etc. that make heads up so interesting.

Great video, would love to see you do a video of the second half of this match.

excellent

Math on the A7s shove at the end - hopefully I did this right:

Shoving 1780 to win 300, so pot is 3680 when called.

Against a range of 99+/AQ+, A7s has 30.3% equity. A7s's equity is fairly inelastic against most reasonable ranges (eg against TT+/AK the equity is 29.97%, against 77+/AJ+ it's 30.83%), so quibbling with my range here isn't really important (although it is at the end).

x = how often x_volta needs to fold

EV = dead money * how often he folds + (1 - how often he folds)*((equity when called*total pot when he calls)-amount we shove)
EV = 300*x + 1-x ((.303*3680)-1780)
hooray algebra
x = .689 or 69% of the time

So x_volta needs to fold 70% of the time for the shove to be +EV. Here's where x_volta's shove-calling range and 3-betting range are important. Given the range used in my calcs, he's calling with 5.1% of hands - this means he has to 3-bet more than 16.5% of the time for a shove to show profit. A range of any 2 broadways, 77+ and SCs down to 65s is 17.2% of hands, to give a reference point. If you widen x_volta's calling range to 77+/JJ+, our equity when called doesn't change, but the effectiveness of our shove does - in a bad way. Now x_volta's calling with 7.2% of hands, meaning he has to be 3-betting 23.8% of hands for our shove to show profit.


btw - great video dogishead. I though you did an excellent job reasoning your way through x_volta's unorthodox style.

Be cool if you could show the next part of the video.
Thought it was great!

I cant believe how calm/how well you played v this opponent.
Something I need to learn but at the start I would be getting v frustrated/ calling down lighter/ making more plays vs him, just because he is totally crazy.

this x_volta character is madness incarnate.

Enjoyed the video. Your objective reasoning really puts your HU videos ahead of a lot of others I've seen in my time. For example: calling his style unorthodox instead of bad. The fact of the matter is that you can't be sure if someone is bad if they're minraising preflop. Granted there's a strong correlation, but it isn't certain. Because you gave your opponent the proper respect, I feel like you were able to better and more objectively discuss hand ranges throughout the video.

Most of your analysis was spot on and your play was very respectable throughout. You articulated your thoughts very clearly, and your choice of content (playing against an unorthodox, but not completely uncommon opponent) was good.

I have a question though. You immediately berated him for 3-betting 4x, but then you proceeded to 3-bet >4x yourself. What is it about the initial minraise vs. an initial 3x that makes 3-betting larger more desirable. You mentioned that making the pot bigger preflop is beneficial to the oop player since it negates some of the positional advantage of the button, however, that logic should still hold for his 4x raises (unless you're always 4-betting or folding, then obviously one should lower their bet size as low as they can get away with).

Second half please.

Definately make part 2. Good job!

so sick I love you dogishead , please post second half

nice video

great vid!

You made a excellent HU video dogishead.
2nd half please.

your terrible, you might be the worse ever



on the real though nice video, I like the way you adjust vs minraising

your terrible, you might be the worse ever



on the real though nice video, I like the way you adjust vs minraising

please make video bikini pleaaaaase

Nice video man but I had a question on the 88 hand where you check/called the flop on an AKA board. Wouldn't you rather c/r this flop since your opponent has a ton of real equity and any 9/10/J/Q/K kills your hand? Not to mention villains bluffing frequencies are unknown? As it stands, the turn and river were 3 and 4 but I think we are folding to often on the turn/river to c/c this flop, your thoughts?

apart from ur c/r on the QJ9CC board vs that maniac i thought the vid was great, plz do the second half

great video man, i hope to see part two, you're very solid

Haha part 2 is going to feature some fun hands iirc. Less rape also.

the 86ss vs ATo was pretty hilarious and a second video should come just cause of that hand, imo.

this x_volta character is madness incarnate.

lol -- silly russians!

isnt X_volta from 2+2 pretty known player?

It is me.

really good video. please make more.

I watched the 2nd part of this video which was so good I had to revise the 1st one.

All I can say is that when I can motormouth villain's ranges like that, I've arrived.

"2nd 3bet is for value anyway...cause that's how these things go." Golden.

Can any one show me the calculations when dogishead said he is 3 betting me to $240 which is 12bb which is 4 times my raise and he says its aful because for me to show a profit i need to 4 bet him 1 out of 5 times, how is this calculation done?

omg tytytytytyty INTERNETPOKERS
minraise the river ftw!

FullTiltPoker Game #7067452039: Table Arcade (deep hu) - $5/$10 - No Limit Hold'em - 4:42:05 ET - 2008/07/03
Seat 1: andr3w321 ($2,378.50)
Seat 2: jtlsave ($2,238.50)
andr3w321 posts the small blind of $5
jtlsave posts the big blind of $10
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to andr3w321 [3h Ah]
andr3w321 raises to $30
jtlsave calls $20
*** FLOP *** [2c Qh 8h]
jtlsave checks
andr3w321 bets $45
jtlsave calls $45
*** TURN *** [2c Qh 8h] [3d]
jtlsave checks
andr3w321 has 15 seconds left to act
andr3w321 bets $120
jtlsave raises to $240
andr3w321 has 15 seconds left to act
andr3w321 calls $120
*** RIVER *** [2c Qh 8h 3d] [6h]
jtlsave bets $450
andr3w321 has 15 seconds left to act
andr3w321 raises to $900
jtlsave has 15 seconds left to act
jtlsave raises to $1,923.50, and is all in
andr3w321 calls $1,023.50
*** SHOW DOWN ***
jtlsave shows [Kc Jd] King Queen high
andr3w321 shows [3h Ah] a flush, Ace high
andr3w321 wins the pot ($4,476.50) with a flush, Ace high
jtlsave adds $285.25
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $4,477 | Rake $0.50
Board: [2c Qh 8h 3d 6h]
Seat 1: andr3w321 (small blind) showed [3h Ah] and won ($4,476.50) with a flush, Ace high
Seat 2: jtlsave (big blind) showed [Kc Jd] and lost with King Queen high

I have a question though. You immediately berated him for 3-betting 4x, but then you proceeded to 3-bet >4x yourself. What is it about the initial minraise vs. an initial 3x that makes 3-betting larger more desirable. You mentioned that making the pot bigger preflop is beneficial to the oop player since it negates some of the positional advantage of the button, however, that logic should still hold for his 4x raises (unless you're always 4-betting or folding, then obviously one should lower their bet size as low as they can get away with).

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Isn't there something to be said for checking back here just to get a lil more info on what kinds of hands he's donking with? I think thats more important than the 1% of time he calls with worse

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You did a great job I really enjoyed watching your video. Here with the pocket tens do you expect him to remember that you did the same type of thing with the pocket 8's? Where I believe you called the flop and timed down / checked the turn and river to cause him to second guess betting in case you were slow playing? If he did remember that do you expect him to try and make a move or do you think that would be pretty unlikely?

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Did you ever post the second half of the match?