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

When do I get to play myself? I am in the process of disecting Nolan's preflop hands per position and action, since I am running usually 11/8 and in one of his videos he mentioned 16/14 is pretty much optimal. The other night I was been sweated FR by DOGISHEAD (what can I say, the guy's a poker genius) and guess what my stats ended up being? 16.1/14.1. So using HEM I did a pretty thorough analysis and am now doing same for Nolan's videos. And now we get a new one! I am so much behind schedule, but I am not complaining, no sir!

So much to study, so little time. FR players have truly been spoiled lately. See, I haven't even watched this one yet but I know it will be brilliant. Shouldn't really compliment too much or DC will switch their focus to something else...

Thanks Nolan.

Preflop open raise size,

From watching your 400NL videos, I noticed you open raised 4bb, yet in this you only open to 3bb. Any particular reason for this?



You asked what people would like to see in your next batch of videos.

Spots where,

. 3Bet is better than a Call
. Call is better than a 3Bet

I don't 3Bet much, so would like to see areas where I can start doing this more.

One thing I have been trying to include into my game is adding the small PP (22-55) into my LP 3bet range v TAG open raises from MP/LP. Any thoughts on this?


What are good calling ranges IP to a good TAG/LAG open range from EP/MP/LP?

Even the Dutch call it 'Zet'.

Great vid as usual. As a Canadian I found the zed story pretty funny.

Zee ... sick

Hi Nolan, I just have a couple thoughts on this video.

The content itself was good, as always, but your stars theme is unbearable to look at imo. Your old theme was perfect. Also, you mentioned that the reason that you were only playing 4 tables is because you were starting your own. In your previous video you also started you own tables while 6tabling, and I personally did not have any trouble following that one.

Also, lol at the zee and zed thing. I'm Canadian, and my teachers in elementary school would get on our case every single time if we ever said zee. Since you couldn't think of a completely life shattering experience that we could have, I will tell you about something that still has me baffled to this very day. About 3 or 4 years ago I went on a trip with a couple of buddies to six falgs darien lake. It was all going good, until lunch time that is. We went to the subway that they had in there, and I got myself a meal deal. When i got to the cash register, the lady asked me if I wanted chips or cookies, and I replied "chips please". When she asked what kind, I said "ketchup", and she just stared at me for like 5 second before asking me what kind I wanted again. When I said ketchup a second time, she said that she had no idea what I was talking about, and my life was turned upside down. Like honestly, how in the hell do you guys not have ketchup chips? It mind-boggling. To this day, my thoughs and prayers are with all of America.

No Ketchup chips in the states is messed up. The garbage they call iced tea down there is also way different.

No Ketchup chips in the states is messed up. The garbage they call iced tea down there is also way different.

I feel similar about the garbage you call iced tea up there. They have Ketchup chips in New England, for what that's worth. It's funny how you'll find Americans who will claim that ketchup chips are a gross appalling idea, then they'll go house some french fries with ketchup 10 minutes later not realizing its essentially the same thing.

As far as the theme goes, that's the on I use for my personal play. I'm surprised you guys don't like it, I've heard good things from people sweating me in person. It was an error on my part not switching to the DC theme for the video, shouldn't happen again, so no worries there.

The 3x raise as opposed to the 4x is because the games were playing a little tighter and multi way pots weren't an issue. On a previous video I discuss how I developed this habit in the interest of keeping pot sizes around the same when multi-staking 2/4 and 3/6 tables over my monitors.

One thing i notice that you do, is call then check very fast with a mid/low strength hand you just want to get to showdown with.
Like you did with your 1010 hand right before the end.

btw i have never heard about zee before, so im shocked but the other way around. How can you guys not call it zett?

Great video as usual. I really like the way you explain things.

btw the Cuba3636 guy and the one that sat in on the button, were from the same general area I think, Santa Monica and Santa Ana...

Was In New Zealand and Australia a few years ago and noticed that zed thing and it was a bit bizarre, not too mention the whole driving on the left side of the road and car was something to get used to as well.
Great people and countries though!

Thanks for the full ring content as of late, it's been nice to see fullring content on DC just about every week. I liked the amount of action while you were shorthanded but it was a little slow towards the end since you were carddead, but obviously that wasn't your fault. I think 6 tabling videos work better but your analysis is great and it's nice to see any full ring content at all.

As far as content in future videos I think it'd be interesting to see a concept video of replayed hands. Maybe something like c-betting, slowplaying big pairs preflop. I think the length of the current videos is good though I'd certainly be interested in a multi-part video or concept series.

From the UK its always been Zed for me lol - US donks

From the UK its always been Zed for me lol - US donks

And if you're from an European country like me you start to learn english at school on 3rd grade or so and at least in Finland (whether it's part of Europe is debatable, of course, perhaps geographically it is at least, otherwise closer to Russia I think)they actually teach how American and English english differ, not just pronunciation but actual words too: bonnet, hood, cock, rooster, fall, autumn, lift, elevator, sweets, candy, zucchini, courgettes, crisps, chips, aubergine, eggplant, braces, suspenders et al ad...

One thing i notice that you do, is call then check very fast with a mid/low strength hand you just want to get to showdown with.
Like you did with your 1010 hand right before the end.

Ya I was gonna mention this also, but figured it was cause you were running horribly and probably a little frustrated. But FYI you did it a couple times and when you had a hand you took your time. But love the full ring vids and thought the time was good (can't be too long though). Also appreciated seeing you open some tables and get to play some short handed as a full ring player. I was curious, when playing on your own time, how many tables do you typically play?? Thanks!

I play in the 15-18 table range on my own time. If I have a lot of 6m tables cut into my rotation I'll bring it down to 12.

Checking fast like that isn't something I feel I normally do, and probably was happening as a combo of me being slightly off my A-game this being my third session of the day, as well as the sort of awkwardness that happens when creating a vid, thanks a ton for the feedback though everyone.

I'm torn between begging you to stop making these so the fish/bad regs get better, and making more so I can get better.

LOL its always been Zed, Seasame Street messes with you guys big time.

Really enjoying these and I think the length and format is perfect - just make whatever is good for you.
I actually liked the 4 tabling, OK sometimes in FR that leads to dead time but that's fine since its well filled - again whatever suits you, maybe 4 is a little too pedestrian for your own liking.
If I was to be a complete nit I'd say I prefer the old background - I kept "losing" where the white pointer on white background when you were discussing a specific player.

Strategy wise I'd like to hear your thoughts about getting 3-bet by a tight player when OOP (100bb) with hands like low-med PP since pure setmining is slightly -EV (according to the maths) but folding just seems too nitty. Plus with all the next-gen HUDs with 3-bet stats if we fold to lots of 3-bets thats going to get picked up on (and exploited) all the more often.

3 questions all candians (age, sex etc doesn't matter) know the answer to
1. what is a touque?
2. what is tim hortons?
3. what night of the week is hockey night in canada?

No american knows the answers to ALL these questions, its an impossibility

other possiblities:
1. what is a line up? line up is a noun in canada... i'm standing in the line up at the bank
2. who is don cherry? probably easiest of these questions.

btw good vid as always

Yep, these videos are good and I am not too fussed about the lenght or table mod etc, lol, if it's like 3 hours long i can always break it into bits. But seriously, I'd appreciate preflop content , when you get into really tricky situations. Shortstacks all around you, etc.

...As far as content in future videos I think it'd be interesting to see a concept video of replayed hands. Maybe something like c-betting, slowplaying big pairs preflop...

I second this idea. I think it would be great to see an all replayed hands video, as this would elminate any dead time and could showcase certain types of plays or situations. This would be a lot more work to put together than the regular 4 or 6 table video, but it would be extremely content-rich.

Thanks for the full ring vids either way and please keep them coming! Great vids and commentary as usual. I prefer longer videos if you are going to 4 table. If you 6 table I think an hour is a good amount of time for a video.

Zed's dead baby.

Great videos, I'm learn alot from you sir, ty! Can you make 100NL-200NL FR vid on fulltilt?

everything was great except that gay theme

i love your videos Nolan...and you

enjoyed the video Nolan. in the AK vs slammedfire hand 50 minutes in, if you were going to rep AA/KK by checking the J44 flop, why then fold to a 1/4 pot bet? Is there any way you could raise the gay bet/fold to shove? it seems like you have to cbet there if youre gonna check fold when he bets

I have a suggestion, 4 tables of full ring is a ton to watch/take in with commentary, so I was wondering if u could pause the video for a few minutes whenever a key hand/concept comes up so that we don't get confused.

best video on deucescracked!
hands down.


btw, is Jay-Z called Jay-Zed in Canada?

Nolan
You are very entertaining. I love the poker stuff. I love the language stuff.

BTW, the origins of both American English and British English are political. British English came about because King Henry (II?) wanted to unify the kingdom with a common spoken language so as to more easily rule it. Previously the differences in different parts of the country were like different languages.

Secondly, American English came about after the War of Independence with England to deliberately separate the language spoken by Americans from their colonial past. Zed/Zee is the least of the differences. There are also huge spelling, grammatical and idiomatic differences. As an Australian when I travel to America I can't really use any of the idioms I am used to or no-one understands what I am saying. American and Oz English are as different as chalk and cheese, for example.

Meals are very different, too. We eat the entree before the main rather than the entree being the main. Vegetables in America often seems to mean just a potato. A salad seems to mean some lettuce plus 3 tiny slices of tomato where in Oz we would have at least 3 veges before we would call it "vegetables" and umpteen things in a salad like lettuce, tomato, beetroot, pineapple, corn, olives, mushrooms, cucumber etc.

Have a look at "The Story of English", http://www.amazon.com/Story-English-Third-Revised/dp/0142002313/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225789094&sr=1-1

Anyway, thanks for the entertainment.

Hi Nolan. This is actually one of the first videos on DC that I've liked.

A couple of thoughts/ideas.

You raise AJ UTG but a couple of times you fold ATo from late/middle position. I would've opened the ATo there, and I'm a much tighter player than you...

In spots where you are check/folding, or just checking in geneal, you tend to do it instantly, which I think is a tell. It really seems to give away that you are giving up on the hand when you do that, and in most of those spots, you were.

I find it amazing that many americans are unaware of how the rest of the world says "Z" while the rest of the world is all aware that americans call it "zee." One of those things that makes americans seem very oblivious and unaware.

Also curious that you consider Mustang's stack size sub-standard, but you have trouble with his 3bets. And if he is 3betting you alot and folding whenever you've 4bet him with big hands, why aren't you 4bet bluffing him more?

best video on deucescracked!
hands down.


btw, is Jay-Z called Jay-Zed in Canada?

No. That's his name, and how he wants it pronounced, it doesn't change.

I also always heard the zee version of the ABC song, but just always knew that it was an american song and that was the reason. Just like how I've always known that americans spell words like colour, behaviour, and flavour differently, but it seems that americans aren't aware of this.