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

WMV still in production and will be posted once it's done. Sorry for the inconvenience.
-Rusty

sweet voice

Time Link to 00:14:34

very good concept coming there!

Many players are just in the mood to "fold and wait for a better spot" against a fish, especially on small and micro stakes.
They don't want to push the smaller edges and risk to get the fish stacked by someone else.
Very good picture to have in your mind with the timer.

a lot of guys luvvin' your voice Baluga!!

Time Link to 00:26:00

I would 3bet bigger with the ATo, cause we are oop and our plan is to 3bet, get called a lot and then fold him out with a cbet/get value if we hit and this plan earns us more money if we make it 5,50$ pre, cause we can collect more dead money postflop now and it's easier to get money in if we valuebet.

Time Link to 00:29:30

now you are talking about c/folding in a 3bet pot, nice

but I think this is a much better spot to cbet then on the Q9x flushdraw board before where you just didn't talk a word about it.

Great video as always.

In the 99 hand when we were donked on Qxx, you said you would check the turn if we didnt spike our set. How would you play the river if he bets into us? I assume you know how you are going to play since you said you can play "perfect"

The last hand with K9dd on 553 which wasnt discussed, how much do you think is a good betsize on the river with the flush? Starting with 100BB I would usually overbet jam here, but since we are deep I have no clue.

Anyone locate the WMV file for this? The work computer hates anything but WMV's

Read the 1st post in the thread!

Time Link to 00:42:41

We get donked into on Q86r with 99, and you said you raise for value, but also because you can play perfectly on the rest of the streets.
Are you basically valuebetting on the turn if you don't get overcarded? Wouldn't you put him on a Queen if he calls your raise? How about the river?
I often have trouble when people donk and call my raise. I find it hard to put people on ranges, because everyone's donking range seems very unique.

Please leave a time-stamp or better yet, Watch this short video, and leave a time link!

That will be much easier for the coaches to find the hand and answer your questions, thanks.

Thank you. I am obviously new here, so please forgive me about my ignorance.
Now you have to teach me how to delete my first post and this one, since it looks like I've messed this thread a bit...

Time Link to 00:35:49

In this ATo hand we had just reraised somniac in the previous hand btn vs co and he folded. Does this make you more or less likely to 3bet ATo now?

Great vid so far. You can really tell Kristy is getting coached by Baluga just by looking at her preflop stats

3min 38 sec---- When do we know we have good fold equity?
can't hear the third reason, the one that talks about the pot and baluga answers: That's a big one.

Any one, what is it?

Wait! What's "relative hand value vs actual hand value?"

That would have been my second question.

3min 38 sec---- When do we know we have good fold equity?
can't hear the third reason, the one that talks about the pot and baluga answers: That's a big one.

Any one, what is it?

i think its "number of people in the pot" but i haven't checked it out yet.

Andrew

great video, I can always learn something new from listening to BalugaWhale talk.

Kristy has defintely been taught by BW in that she raises like K5s from the CO and iso raise button limp in blinds with Axo etc. Those type of plays I've only seen from coaching videos but haven't heard any coach recommend to microstake players. Do you guys think its profitable to make these kind of plays as a beginner?

I think they're profitable provided that you follow the simple postflop rules of playing against passive players.

Andrew

Steve,

Excellent vids! Could you review the "Process" you refer to here. Better yet, Kristie, what is the "process" you now use at these points...

Thanks for the insight.

Cool. Excited for this series.

nice vid

great vid!!! are there any vids with the same style for the micros that you would recommend watching?

great video, good to have Balugawhale doing another series. I really liked the very end of the video where Kristy explains actually doing/applying what we have learned and how hard it really is.

^^^ This!

sorry for the delays, on route to thailand right now

process when facing a bet or raise
1) passive or aggressive?
2) value betting or bluffing?
3) value hands worse vs value hands better, count up total bluff hands

process when deciding whether or not to bet or raise:
1) am I value betting or bluffing?
2) if value betting, which worse hands call or raise?
3) if bluffing, do I have PE + FE?


kinda sums it up

Andrew

HEY Everyone! Kristy here. I'm so nervous/excited for everyone to watch this series! I haven't had a chance to rewatch it or go over everyone's comments yet, but I'm definitely going to do that later tonight. I just wanted to let everyone know I posted a blog about this just now!
http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/snaptress/18541-And-It-Begins-

HEY Everyone! Kristy here. I'm so nervous/excited for everyone to watch this series! I haven't had a chance to rewatch it or go over everyone's comments yet, but I'm definitely going to do that later tonight. I just wanted to let everyone know I posted a blog about this just now!
http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/snaptress/18541-And-It-Begins-

Welcome to DC Snaptress! It's always a lot easier for the Coach so good luck refining "the process" at the tables.

Just finished second watching, very very good.

It`s going to be interesting to see how the "PROCESS" works in upper limits.
Also transation from micro to small stakes is something I really look forward to see.

Cant wait, lol...

This video was hugely beneficial. I hope Baluga continues to ask Kristy the reasons why she did something, and also continues to ask her to define integral concepts e.g. what value betting means and how it relates to her c-betting..


thanks a ton; I'm super stoked for the next video.

such an awesome video. look forward to more.

Thnx for this great video. I learned a lot from it. It looks like balugawhale is a great coach!
I'm looking forward for the next vid.

This video is awesome! - Good Stuff here!

Really loved this vid- Kristy, you're a great student, and BW does an awesome job of prompting you to think/talk through "the process" and you verbalize everything very well. I'm kind of glad you made new videos AFTER having lessons, as Kristy is likely a much more active participant in explaining her logic behind each play.

One nit-picky critique I have for future vids if they are not already recorded would be having Baluga in charge of the video-this is nothing against Kristy at all, (you obv know how to work the replayer) but simply because BW leads the "conversation," the video would run more smoothly if he was the one pausing/rewinding as needed rather than telling Kristy "stop the tape/rewind to this/that." There was at least one instance toward the end of the vid where you discussed 2 hands that had just occurred on different tables without replaying them during/before your discussion. Since I'm a visual learner, I needed to manually rewind the vid, then FF to the audio for each street to really process the great info in your conversation.

So if possible, if 2 hands that deserve a comment happen simultaneously, after reviewing the first, be sure to return to the second hand and replay it before/while discussing it.

Thanks for all your hard work! This is building up to be an epic series!

Great video. Really like the progression with the thought process of a new player. The most important concept used is actually not a poker one. It is the concept that you need to think through every decision. It is by far the most difficult thing for new players to grasp and experienced players to maintain during tough sessions.

Again, Great Video!!!!

Time Link to 00:53:47

Great video.

Here at this point w/ the 77 hand, Baluga is explaining something about "when we are more comfortable knowing the min-raiser is coming along its less bad, but if we don't..." and then he stops and discusses the flop action. I am curious to the rest of the explanation preflop.

Time Link to 00:33:31

hey Baluga! the process you are talking about, can u write it down, so I can work through it/learn it? of cause the way u see the process...

hey Baluga! the process you are talking about, can u write it down, so I can work through it/learn it? of cause the way u see the process...

read the comments thread.

Andrew

Great Video, I've been autopiloting unknowingly for the last 6 months, and this video really gave that "eye opener" moment and to go back to basics and think through hands. My win rate has multiplied in such a short term just by going through the "process," going through the variables: why to bet, who I'm playing, how many players in pot, etc.

What is getting me hooked is that you don't have to memorize how to play certain hands but rather a "process." Great stuff, also it has reduced my tilting. I can now lose and actually feel good, since I know I made the right decision due to the "process." I also like that there are many plays that can be made, as long as there is an explanation through the process it most of the time is a "good" play since your forcing yourself to think of each hand individually. Great stuff and I look for more.

Time Link to 00:25:19

The guy is a 14/10 nitbox. I don't see him showing up here with KJs or KQs very often. Anyone agree? Even if he did have these hands, there is a good chance he'd blindly raise the flop with them and then I also don't believe he can bluff the river. We're UTG, bet two streets into him, and he's crazy enough to bluff us on the river? Versus looser players the play works brilliantly, but this guy is tight and not at all the bluffy player type we're looking for here. He's also not 100% likely to call PREFLOP with KJs or even AJs vs our UTG. In the heat of the moment, I think we overlook that the player is so tight.

Other draws are somewhat scarcer and would have to be suited connectors, which in this case we know are one combo each and he will have many more pairs than sc's in this spot.

I like c/c this turn because we allow him to bet all his possible draws, but we also allow him to bet lower pocket pairs as well (22-44 is very likely floating the flop) which gives us like 18 combos of hands that will fold to a turn bet. I would c/f river vs this tight player as well.

Would be interesting to hear some thoughts here.

Good Video with some nice plays and backed up some great logic.

Time Link to 00:23:05

JC: What is the reasoning behind the naming of this line?

Time Link to 00:43:46

We value raise with 99 on Q68 to get value from 26/24 type player. I cant imagine him calling with anything but a queen really.
Isnt calling flop stab and shutting down to further action better here?

i think is because they had a note on the player donk betting with btm/mid pairs.

aaaa. ok