Poker Video: No Limit Hold'Em by Gman (High Stakes)

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Awesome Gman-vid as usual <3

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hahaha you beat me into it! but Thanks for the hu vidddddddd

This is an awesome surprise!

you are the most maniacally egotistical video maker this side of aejones, at least his is in good fun though, christ. have no idea how anyone sits through an entire one of your videos when there's so many equally good but less narcissistic producers on the market.

Time Link to 00:26:56

nice discussion

you are the most maniacally egotistical video maker this side of aejones, at least his is in good fun though, christ. have no idea how anyone sits through an entire one of your videos when there's so many equally good but less narcissistic producers on the market.

Well that post makes me kind of sad

I don't really know what I did/do to make you think that way, but it would be cool if you could preferably PM me (so as not to totally derail the video thread) what I do that bothers you and I can try to work on it. I really try very hard to offer DC members the best content I can produce, so it always stings a little when I get hit w/ nonconstructive criticism.

Well that post makes me kind of sad

I don't really know what I did/do to make you think that way, but it would be cool if you could preferably PM me (so as not to totally derail the video thread) what I do that bothers you and I can try to work on it. I really try very hard to offer DC members the best content I can produce, so it always stings a little when I get hit w/ nonconstructive criticism.

I really don't think you come off bad. I think comments like "he may show up with something stupid like J4s or something" may be misunderstood as arrogance, because I really have a hard time seeing how you come off as maniacally egotistical.

For some reason, a lot of Gman's videos have clouded visuals for me. The screen is all green and flashy and I can't really see. This happens with several other Gman videos, but not all of his, and other videos on the site seems to work fine for me right now. Really weird.

you are the most maniacally egotistical video maker this side of aejones, at least his is in good fun though, christ. have no idea how anyone sits through an entire one of your videos when there's so many equally good but less narcissistic producers on the market.

I'd also prefer to see some constructive criticism instead of blindly bashing a video producer for no apparent reason. Even if this were 100% true (which I do not believe to be the case), I'd very much rather you not have posted anything at all. Wouldn't have to waste my time with haters that way. When you want to share something that is of value to gman or someone else in the community, by all means, please come back and share with him/us.

you are the most maniacally egotistical video maker this side of aejones, at least his is in good fun though, christ. have no idea how anyone sits through an entire one of your videos when there's so many equally good but less narcissistic producers on the market.

Its interessting how different people interpret other people.
Personally Gman have standed for the most motivating videos on the internet(all coachingsites included). I really dont see whats so ego about his videos?

Anyway Gman, havent watched this yet but Im very much looking forward to it, keep it up!

Time Link to 00:30:46

Table 3
What's the bottom of your calling-range here? He is obv. not repping much in that spot which should incline you to call more hands. And second, would you ever consider raising the turn for value/as a bluff and which hands would that be then?

Table 3
What's the bottom of your calling-range here? He is obv. not repping much in that spot which should incline you to call more hands. And second, would you ever consider raising the turn for value/as a bluff and which hands would that be then?

Unfortunately, these questions are always very opponent dependent, but I'll try to give you 2 answers to them.

What's the bottom of your calling-range here?

Against this specific opponent at this point in the match, it's very close to me calling with all of my SD value hands that I might show up w here (aka any pair), but I would probably end up folding everything worse than 9x.

My reasoning for this is although he is very aggro so far, I disagree that he can't rep many hands. Many of his semibluffing hands include 86ss and 9x hands, and Tx is certainly possible when he pure bluffs overs w/ a QTo type hand as many do on this flop texture. As I mentioned in the video, I think it's reasonable that he would value shove 9x and def Tx as he is a good player, so w/ 9x my hand can maybe beat a few very thin value shoves and also because I have a 9 it's of course less likely that he does.

Along with that, I just want to point out something about this sentence:

He is obv. not repping much in that spot which should incline you to call more hands.

This can be a dangerous thought process to have against some, particularly the good handing reading regular who knows you can read hands. If this player isn't all that creative, he is actually very unlikely to be bluffing when he can't rep many hands. Now a player a level ahead of that will bluff in these type of situations at times to stay balanced and outlevel his opponents when appropriate.

Against an unknown, maybe anything as good as Tx would make me want to call. I realize it's somewhat unlikely for us to show up w/ 9x and even less likely to have Tx here, but hopefully that gives you an idea. An important aspect of making calldowns when you really don't have too much information in terms of the frequency in which your opponent would bluff is to simply make sure your hand can beat a few of his value hands. When this is the case, the chances he's bluffing + shoving worse + pot odds often make it correct to call.

With that being said, certainly against some I would call w any pair here at times, and against others I might even fold some 2 pair hands.

And second, would you ever consider raising the turn for value/as a bluff and which hands would that be then?

Against this opponent here and against an unknown coincidentally, I would not have value raised or bluffed any hands. This is one of those spots where if I have a strong hand I feel like it's better to let him bluff/valuetown himself, even with a bunch of cards that can kill our action/give him the best hand. At the same time, because of the drawy board texture I am just not confident enough I can get him to fold a good draw/value hand when I pure float the flop or turn a made hand into a bluff by raising the turn. Thus, with these stack sizes, I admittedly don't raise the turn very often without pretty solid info.

Again, this can change. Based on how I think my opponent perceives me/my range and what kind of range I think he will be c/r and then betting the turn with on various board textures, I may value or bluff raise here.

For example, if my image is very spewy/tricky and I'm playing an opponent whose range is semistrong here (mostly good draws and value hands), I would raise here because a) it will be hard for him to get away from his hand in general and b) my image is such that he knows I would bluff here. Why? Because this line looks so strong from me that it's actually much less likely that I have it. This applies to other lines as well such as c/r turns and rivers.

On the other hand, if my opponent is likely to think this line is strong based on my play, is the type that seems v unlikely to shove a 8-9 out draw on the turn, or just has a very weak range, then raising weak here has a ton of merit. I do believe raising turns in this spot without committing yourself is an important play to have in your arsenal. Of course shoving the turn also has merit in many spots as you will see in a future video in this miniseries.

Also guys, I'll be out of town until Tuesday so I won't be able to answer any other questions until then, but please feel free to post them if you have any.

Thanks a lot for the in-depth answers. This was yet again another great video and I'm looking forward to what's coming soon. Keep it up!

exellent as usual...keep up the good work

Time Link to 00:26:56

Super surprised to see you fold to the ace.
Were you check/folding any turn?
Imo the ace is the best turn, how often does he have an ace himself? (not alot imo)
how often does he fire the ace with his bluffs? (more than any other card imo)

Well that post makes me kind of sad

I really really really like your vids and I don't think there's anything arrogant/narcissistic/... in them as you also said in these vids that you really respect villains game etc. So nothing to worry about imo