Poker Video: No Limit Hold'Em by bosoxx34 (Micro/Small Stakes)

great vid. this couldnt have come at a better time. i used to win at 50NL and even 100nl but lately, opponents just like this guy have been killing me. what i really need is a coach. bosoxx i really like your methods and style...any chance you could take 1 more HU student?

Hey guys, quick note. I sacrificed some EV in some spots of the video to try to emphasize the powerpoint. Keep in mind, we shouldn't always be slow playing when we call and hit in three bet pots or trying to win every three bet pots by min-raising, 4 betting over ever first three bet, etc. However the games have changed a bit over the past few months and hopefully this will help.

Also, excuse all the "umms" in the video, rewatched like 10 minutes of it and said it about 40 times in those 10 minutes.

great vid. this couldnt have come at a better time. i used to win at 50NL and even 100nl but lately, opponents just like this guy have been killing me. what i really need is a coach. bosoxx i really like your methods and style...any chance you could take 1 more HU student?

Thanks for the compliment. Unfortunately I'm currently booked.

Best bosoxx34 vid yet imo. Really liked the powerpoint even though the words got garbled a bit, there was very solid advice in there anyway.

BTW, I haven't forgotten about the hour of coaching you owe me bosoxx... but I'm in no hurry so I'll wait until you've got more free time.

Best bosoxx34 vid yet imo. Really liked the powerpoint even though the words got garbled a bit, there was very solid advice in there anyway.

BTW, I haven't forgotten about the hour of coaching you owe me bosoxx... but I'm in no hurry so I'll wait until you've got more free time.

Completely forgot about that, check your PMs

you should have included a bullet in your powerpoint about turning God mode on. Seriously how many sessions did you record to choose from?

you should have included a bullet in your powerpoint about turning God mode on. Seriously how many sessions did you record to choose from?

Looked like 1st take to me... We already see enough videos where our hero gets housed and descents from high stakes to small/micro stakes and gets into trouble or at least is not able to run over the table...not necessarily at DC but at CR/stoxx there are a coupla funny examples.

We demand videos where villains get slaughtered, manufactured video or not!!!

you should have included a bullet in your powerpoint about turning God mode on. Seriously how many sessions did you record to choose from?

Yeah this was the only session I recorded at 50 NL.

really good video Mike!

Hey bosoxx34,

Good video.

Made me realise I fold way to much to 3bets with hands like JTo 97s.

Anyway have 1 critism over the A8o hand.
I think the river is an absolute fold. He never has a bluff here.
Given the villain type I would much rather expect him to shove A4,A5 to a turn bet, and on this river if he gets there I really doubt he turns his hand into a bluff - (also he has been very in line in big pots (especially 3bet pots) so I really dont like assuming he is bluffing here)

So what hands is he doing this with.
From the looks of it this player type alos float a ton of c/r so I expect A9 and a lot of other 9x to be in his range aswell as slowplays sets and some big kings like KQ,AK which realise you are c/r bluffing this flop a good amount.

I just think the river call is really thin and really bad.

As said apart from that excellent video.

Hey bosoxx34,

Good video.

Made me realise I fold way to much to 3bets with hands like JTo 97s.

Anyway have 1 critism over the A8o hand.
I think the river is an absolute fold. He never has a bluff here.
Given the villain type I would much rather expect him to shove A4,A5 to a turn bet, and on this river if he gets there I really doubt he turns his hand into a bluff - (also he has been very in line in big pots (especially 3bet pots) so I really dont like assuming he is bluffing here)

So what hands is he doing this with.
From the looks of it this player type alos float a ton of c/r so I expect A9 and a lot of other 9x to be in his range aswell as slowplays sets and some big kings like KQ,AK which realise you are c/r bluffing this flop a good amount.

I just think the river call is really thin and really bad.

As said apart from that excellent video.

Thanks and I was surprised nobody else commented on this hand. I still don't mind my call, but like you said he never got out of line in big pots and his missed draws also had SD value. So basically I'm hoping he has 54 or just a pure float. However I think he tries to get KQ, AK in before the river. It's definately much closer than I thought it was at the beginning and after seeing what he called my cbets with later in the video it's probably a fold. Keep in mind also that it's never fun to fold :-)

As far as calling 3bets with JTo and 97s be careful, make sure you have a decent read on the guy before you start doing that. It'll generally lead to sticky situations postflop.

As far as calling 3bets with JTo and 97s be careful, make sure you have a decent read on the guy before you start doing that. It'll generally lead to sticky situations postflop.

You did seem to have a really good read on this opponent.

I just wondered what your general strategy at the start of a match is reagarding calling back 3bets (this is an area I am working on).
My general strategy is to play a lot tighter vs them and 4bet more for value (as I find a lot of players 5bet jam light - especially the high 3bettors).

Hand liek QJo,JTs,A9s, and 66 are borderline hands which I usually always fold to 3bets especially at the start of a match. I just wondered why you prefer a looser play more pots type IP - is there any particular reason for this?

Also as a general strategy vs huge 3bettors 100BB deep, I limp quite a few hands. I noticed you didnt do this. Is there any particular reason why?

Thanks

You did seem to have a really good read on this opponent.

I just wondered what your general strategy at the start of a match is reagarding calling back 3bets (this is an area I am working on).
My general strategy is to play a lot tighter vs them and 4bet more for value (as I find a lot of players 5bet jam light - especially the high 3bettors).

Hand liek QJo,JTs,A9s, and 66 are borderline hands which I usually always fold to 3bets especially at the start of a match. I just wondered why you prefer a looser play more pots type IP - is there any particular reason for this?

Also as a general strategy vs huge 3bettors 100BB deep, I limp quite a few hands. I noticed you didnt do this. Is there any particular reason why?

Thanks

Yeah against most opponents I tend to fold QJo, JTs, etc early in a match. However against these typical over aggro regs if you call and hit TP they generally won't stop firing, so while I fold these to the first or 2nd 3bet. If they guy makes his third 3bet in 15 hands then I start to widen my defending range.

As far as limping, I rarely do that instead I tend to switch to min-raising. If this guy was shoving over my 4bets with regularity I would've changed it up.

hi,

just started to watch this one, I really like your videos. I don't understand the 44 c/r on 11:30 though. You talked about his betsizing but 1/2 pot on such a dry board seems std to me. Additionally by c/r'ing you rep 33 and that's it (most players wouldn't c/r AT/AJ/AQ w/o reads). If I was him I would float this with any2 and try to take the pot away later.

hi,

just started to watch this one, I really like your videos. I don't understand the 44 c/r on 11:30 though. You talked about his betsizing but 1/2 pot on such a dry board seems std to me. Additionally by c/r'ing you rep 33 and that's it (most players wouldn't c/r AT/AJ/AQ w/o reads). If I was him I would float this with any2 and try to take the pot away later.

Yeah this was very sloppy without reads. I definitely should've waited to see if he varied his betsizing and had any betsizing tells before making any moves like this.

However I don't think too many opponents are thinking about ranges as thoroughly as you at this level.

Just seen this video for the 2nd time now. I play NL50hu, and have done so for a couple of months now.

- What adjustment would you as Villain do against a player like YOU, and how fast would you make these adjustments? (pre- and postflop)(would you start 5 bet pocket pairs, JTs etc?)
- If this guy started to 5 bet you more (as he obviously should), what would be your response?
- Why not start min-raising more buttons in response to his 3 betting, you get to play more postflop in position against him then, and you can still 4 bet bluff him frequently with a wide range as you did (to be a "man" .
I allso belive this will reduce variance by very much.

Can you be more concrete on what his leaks are, that we look to exploit, pre and mostly postflop?

Is it neccesary to "polarise" your 4 bet range as you do in some spots? you allso state that you 4 bet him without a real reason (with K8, J3,J8 KT etc ).... other than that he has started to 3 bet more? Isnt thinking like this bad?

I have noticed that some players often call 4 bets, how do you deal with this?

Im obviously not a very experienced player, so please enlighten, not flame me

Hi goldfish sorry for the delay in responding.

- Against a player like me I'd either start 5 betting more or start three betting less. The way I was playing in the video I think the optimal strategy would be to open my 5 betting for value range. Also 5 betting hands like JTs, other suited conneectors aren't awful since the way i was palying I'll be getting it in with a wide range so those hands have decent equity.

- If he started to 5 bet me more, I'd lower my 4 bet bluffing frequency and start to widen my 4 bet value range.

- I didn't give much thought to min-raising PF. It will reduce variance, etc but he wasn't that tricky post flop and wasn't giving me too many problems post flop. If he was a creative, tough thinking player I'd more than likely switch to a min-raising/limping strategy.

- I haven't reviewed the video in a while and made it a while ago so I don't really remember exactly what his main leaks were. From memory it seemed like he sort of played just one style with mindless aggression without really thinking about my range or the proper adjustments.

- About 4 betting. Most of the time your 4 betting range will be polarized, especially at these stakes it doesn't come up that often and you rarely play an opponent for a bunch of hands there's no real reason to balance it. And yes my line of thinking for 4 betting him wasn't very good. I partly wanted to see how he would react to 4 bets when he was 3 betting like crazy and he obviously had a pretty wide range for 3 betting so I knew I could more than likely get a decent amount of folds.

- More and more players are calling 4 bets nowadays 100bb deep which I think is a leak. It really depends on the player type. Against some players who are fit or fold you can get away with cbetting like 1/6th pot and they'll fold if they don't have anything or shove if they have something. Against more aggro players you can use that bet sizing to induce. I guess what I'm saying that it really is player dependent, if you have any specific hands in regards to 4 bet pots feel free to PM me.

Thank you very much! Very informative post ! I will remember this and try to use it. I like the micro videos you make, and I hope to see more!

Nice work !!

i really like you

bigmoneyiceman really got owned in this session...good video