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Poker Video: No Limit Hold'Em by mdm13 (Micro/Small Stakes)

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Good job, mdm13!
Hi Nakke. I downloaded the mp4 too, works fine here.

Yeah, works now here too, dunno what the problem was.

Really good video. I really like your style and how you explain your though process. That was a very informative vidéo.

Hey guys,

Looking forward to hearing your feedback on my first video for DC. Hope you enjoyed my commentary on betsizing and LAG play at SSNL!

Mark

can you use just the regular full tilt skin next time? its just too many colors for me and exhausting to watch.

Download is not working for me

Good video but I don't really like the 33 hand on the AAJ46, you say he has trips, a J, a draw or air when he leads and then when he calls your raise, his air is eliminated from that range. And then you bet the turn to get him off a J or a draw, which is fine, but he's not calling the turn with the J to fold river (he prob folds turn). So if he can't have air, and mostly folds a J or a draw on the turn, and no one folds trips... I just think it's a bad river bet.

ohh cant wait to watch this when i get home

looking forward to this!

Doesn't work for me

Good video but I don't really like the 33 hand on the AAJ46, you say he has trips, a J, a draw or air when he leads and then when he calls your raise, his air is eliminated from that range. And then you bet the turn to get him off a J or a draw, which is fine, but he's not calling the turn with the J to fold river (he prob folds turn). So if he can't have air, and mostly folds a J or a draw on the turn, and no one folds trips... I just think it's a bad river bet.

Yeah, I knew that hand would come up , I think he could c/c a J and fold when flush hits/I fire again but another thing to consider is that not that I think necessarily that a random taggy guy at 100nl will fold trips but if he has like A2s-AT his hand is a bluff catcher by the river and I certainly play my big hands the same way as I did my bluff so he's getting owned most of the time.

And startrak what do you mean, the cards mod or the DC background?

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Hey guys,

Unfortunately it looks like Amazon AWS is having a massive outage right now.

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This is where many avatars, coaching profile pics, and all videos are stored. This is unfortunately out of our hands, but the people in control are very aware and are working hard to restore services to normal.

Rob

can you use just the regular full tilt skin next time? its just too many colors for me and exhausting to watch.

Yeah and can you use all purple HUD stats in the next video...its my favourite colour

Yeah and can you use all purple HUD stats in the next video...its my favourite colour

Wtf, i like red.

Great video, hope to see more from mdm13, very informative and explains his thoughts well!

Hi MDM13

Great to see you producing video's for Deucescracked. I watched your free video a couple of months ago on 2+2 and it was one of the best and most thought provoking videos I had seen. It showed me that opening up your game and increasing aggression can really run over many players. It also put me on suicide watch after realising I used to grind it out with you at 50nl late last year and I'm still there while you are crushing the higher limits

Haven't seen this vid yet but I'm sure it will be great. From the sample your table/hud/cards looks fine, maybe a plain black background instead of the brown but it's no big deal!

Hope to see more vids/free coaching from you

The wait is finally over!!!!

TY DC for hiring mdm13. IMHO, this is the best NLHE video in the entire library.

I hope to see anther one of these soon.

Yeah and can you use all purple HUD stats in the next video...its my favourite colour

dunno what this is supposed to mean from someone who cant even spell. but yeah, the cards. it might make it easier for you to multitable or whatever, but i dont see the need for it in a video like this. makes it look amateurish too good video though!

dunno what this is supposed to mean from someone who cant even spell. but yeah, the cards. it might make it easier for you to multitable or whatever, but i dont see the need for it in a video like this. makes it look amateurish too good video though!

why, how do you spell purrpel?

dunno what this is supposed to mean from someone who cant even spell. but yeah, the cards. it might make it easier for you to multitable or whatever, but i dont see the need for it in a video like this. makes it look amateurish too good video though!

Personally I love the vids with the easy to view modded cards, makes it so much easier to watch from something like a TV when you don't feel like sitting at your pc to watch the vid.

Anyways good to hear the vid is great I wouldn't expect anything less after viewing the 2+2 vid, props to DC for picking him up.

NICE VIDDDD

Watched the free NL50 video and now this one, both videos are awesome and you explain your thought process soooo clearly. Highly recommend for anyone looking to open their range CO and on button. Thanks again and please make another video by end of July DDD

mdm13 - Great video, I got a lot out of it but want to watch it again to catch some of the finer details. Like some of the others, I had seen your video on the 2+2 forums before and was really glad to see you become part of DC. If they can snag Pokey also, I'd be willing to pay double per month.

If you get a chance, can you comment on how you table select for playing your laggier style. Personally I normally look for tables with higher VPIP, higher pot size, and no more than one shortstack. But my stats are closer to 22/18 so I want many loose/passive players at my tables. For playing a looser style than that, do you actively look for tables with very low VPIP instead?

great video, i love the idea for DC to hire some video makers who absolutely crush the current stakes like MDM does. Great stat that you have a VPIP of about 60% on the button.

good vid mdm, now i will know how to crush you next time we play

Hey mdm, solid first video! Also, i'm having a little trouble finding the free 50nl video you made, could somebody possibly link me to it? cheers

mdm hated the 33's hand obviously. Also you beat flush draws on the turn and it would be really weird for him to lead/call a flush draw on the flop (snapped like that). He doesn't have any fold equity/last bet initiative whatever you want to call it to take that line. Also if he bets the river after turn is checked through he looks like a busted draw so I'm just not buying he's going to default to a lead flop line with a draw. Tbh I either raise that flop or just fold when lead into. Various other hands that came up (you pushed him off some hand in a deep pot with kk, and you pushed him out with a check/raise flop bluff after you river the nuts) would make me not want to raise the flop lightly as you haven't been showing down and no showdown=bluffing for most people.

Also realized I'm absolutely awful in 3bet pots.

TY DC for hiring mdm13. IMHO, this is the best NLHE video in the entire library.

This! Best NLHE vid on the net imo.

Hey mdm, solid first video! Also, i'm having a little trouble finding the free 50nl video you made, could somebody possibly link me to it? cheers

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthread.php?t=228434

awesome.

Making things look easy is the sign of true talent, and MDM13 made this looked easy. Which of course, it's not.

A really great video that I can see myself watching several times cause there's so much going on.

TY MDM for the ultimate NL100 video.

Now i understand why it's so difficult to play againsy you.

great 5 star vid mdm. i really enjoyed your turn push with the slightly higher than pot size when you turned the flush draw. i think i need to be more aggressive.

Personally I love the vids with the easy to view modded cards, makes it so much easier to watch from something like a TV when you don't feel like sitting at your pc to watch the vid.

Anyways good to hear the vid is great I wouldn't expect anything less after viewing the 2+2 vid, props to DC for picking him up.

I hate all of the modded cards in vids im colured blind so these aret so bad but some mods are just brutal very hard for me to tell the diffrence with the brown n red ones used in alot of sheif's vids i think. If yous go to the trouble of putting the table mod on im sure yous can get standard cards in there to plzzzz they'll make it look more professional to.. I really liked this vid so much going on that ill have to watch it many times. Hope to see more from you in the future. 5stars imo

TY DC for hiring mdm13. IMHO, this is the best NLHE video in the entire library.
I hope to see anther one of these soon.

Hard to comment because I've only seen it once and likely haven't absorbed even 5% of the info in this video. The commentary was great and didn't seem rushed despite having situations where there were several decisions to be made. 5 stars!

really really good content

the vid stops at 2/3 of the video, im using streaming video...

Excellent content, five stars. More please!

I really liked this, I've played with you some and its really made me realized that I'm a bad reg.. or you're a really good one.

mdm,

great video, and great commentary.

Two spots I found interesting:

1. When you flatted KJo pre OTB, and flatted a KQ4r flop, you mentioned you'd be raising AK for value but just calling KJ b/c you're in a WA/WB situation, yet you're in a spot where hand-values are nearly identical. Also, a thinking player may realize you're 3betting KQ/AK/QQ+ there pre-flop with an extremely high frequency, so you raising essential represents 44/air. With your image, I feel a raise may induce further action from AJ/A10/J10/Qx type hands that think you're f.o.s.(I play flop/turn/river the same btw.)

2. With 33 on AAJdd I really don't think raising the flop is your best option. I agree his range doesn't include many Ax hands, but you're essentially committing to betting two/three streets with an hand that isn't going to improve.

Do you have any thoughts on flatting the flop with 33? I feel players leading with air at this level are primarily taking one stab and giving up, and 33 is currently beating air (although their air has decent equity on this board).

Thanks,
Mark

33 does very poorly against air on AAJdd board.

Well done sir, I like your bet sizing and you seemed to have a solid read on where your opponents were at. Would love to see a 200nl video!

mdm,

great video, and great commentary.

Two spots I found interesting:

1. When you flatted KJo pre OTB, and flatted a KQ4r flop, you mentioned you'd be raising AK for value but just calling KJ b/c you're in a WA/WB situation, yet you're in a spot where hand-values are nearly identical. Also, a thinking player may realize you're 3betting KQ/AK/QQ+ there pre-flop with an extremely high frequency, so you raising essential represents 44/air. With your image, I feel a raise may induce further action from AJ/A10/J10/Qx type hands that think you're f.o.s.(I play flop/turn/river the same btw.)

2. With 33 on AAJdd I really don't think raising the flop is your best option. I agree his range doesn't include many Ax hands, but you're essentially committing to betting two/three streets with an hand that isn't going to improve.

Do you have any thoughts on flatting the flop with 33? I feel players leading with air at this level are primarily taking one stab and giving up, and 33 is currently beating air (although their air has decent equity on this board).

Thanks,
Mark

1. Glad you brought this up, when I was rewatching part of it recently I realized that I think I would just flat AK as well on the flop and if I'm raising AK, KJ is probably too close to be much different. If I was OOP I'd c/r both for sure and my reasoning is this:

While I do think that there is some merit to raising to induce but I really think that OOP most villains at 100nl will time down and fold instead of do something like 3bet an overcard and gutshot and I pretty much never see OOP floats at 100nl. If I am OOP it becomes much much easier for him to float gutshot/midpair hands and I still represent a narrow range. The board is also pretty dry, which means he won't have many hands to semibluff me with, but since he is betting his entire range on the flop I can let him maybe pick up some equity on the turn and bet again. Also if I flat the flop IP I have floats in my range as well as some weakish pairs whereas OOP I am not check calling T9. This means that I think that villain is a bit more likely to barrel turn again with a semibluff or c/c a Q or weak K than when I c/c OOP because my hand will be face up as a Q,K or straight draw.

2. Yeah, I am certainly committing myself to betting multiple streets which is fine by me but 33 has crappy equity against air and if hes donking like QT or something he has a lot of outs/counterfeit equity and once I flat the flop the only strong hands I pretty much ever have are AJ/JJ/AA which may induce multiple barrels from draws and c/c's from jacks. Probably should have had a better read to try to pull off my move but as I mentioned earlier in this thread, something to consider he called me with a hand that is a bluff catcher so as far as image goes its pretty good because I have the goods more often than not in that spot and his hand = TT.

This video has really really helped me mdm!
Watchd it again before bed last night and woke up with a desire to crush some 6max (i'm usually a full ring guy). Been 8 tabling 200 six max on full tilt for a few hours today and I really feel like I'm beating up the regulars and trapping the fish with much more confidence than usual. Thanks I will be watching this one several times.

Thanks for posting mdm13. The concept of shoving shortstacks w 20bb in bvb is new to me. Something I think I will start doing.

Wow I remember playing gnomeontilt back at NL50 in August of 2007 as I started really taking online poker seriously and trying to move up. Great to see you doing stuff for DC man.

Pete

nice video, want more

This is a really great video, I hope to see more from you. You seem like a very intelligent guy and you explain your thought processes clearly. This is definitely one of the best poker videos I've seen.

also, does anyone have a link to the 2+2 video? I checked the video archive but didn't see it; if mdm13 isn't the 2+2 handle as well then maybe you could just tell me who to look for. Thanks.

This video is kind of awesome.

also, does anyone have a link to the 2+2 video? I checked the video archive but didn't see it; if mdm13 isn't the 2+2 handle as well then maybe you could just tell me who to look for. Thanks.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthread.php?t=228434

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthread.php?t=228434

ty sir

plz make more videos

This is absolutely a must see video. Definately the best 6 max video i've seen on here!

This video is kind of awesome.

plz make more videos

This Video is Great. Great Player

Great Vid! More please.

great content, although next time please make an index on the video so can forward it and rewind. (WMV format)

excellent vid mdm...wish I could ask anything but unfortunately I watched this in pieces so any questions I may have had were forgotten. Not only do you explain yourself but you make my mental objections seem pretty bad in comparison Hopefully this is the first of many from a guy I hope to tangle with at Stars MSNL in the future

great content, although next time please make an index on the video so can forward it and rewind. (WMV format)

Can you elaborate on what you're talking about? The vids have keyframes and should be able to rewind/fastfoward, but I'm not sure exactly what you mean about "creating an index" -- especially using Camtasia. If there's a way we can increase the usability of the WMVs in Camtasia without increasing filesizes, we'll definitely do it.

Rob

does he mean like cardrunners does? (LOL)

Do you have a link to the chart that you mentioned in the video?

The one about pushing from the SB into a short stacker's BB. Have heard this talked about before but never seen a chart.

excellent vid mdm...wish I could ask anything but unfortunately I watched this in pieces so any questions I may have had were forgotten. Not only do you explain yourself but you make my mental objections seem pretty bad in comparison Hopefully this is the first of many from a guy I hope to tangle with at Stars MSNL in the future

you already do, you just dont know it yet

Do you have a link to the chart that you mentioned in the video?

The one about pushing from the SB into a short stacker's BB. Have heard this talked about before but never seen a chart.

http://www2.decf.berkeley.edu/~chubukov/rankings.html

keep in mind this just indicates unexploitability, not optimalness (is that a word?)

really loved that you mentioned the push fold chart against short stack BB when in SB... So I looked it up, and finally am not lost against short stacks that badly.. THANK YOU and please be making more videos. Love your logic and explanations about poker

Can you elaborate on what you're talking about? The vids have keyframes and should be able to rewind/fastfoward, but I'm not sure exactly what you mean about "creating an index" -- especially using Camtasia. If there's a way we can increase the usability of the WMVs in Camtasia without increasing filesizes, we'll definitely do it.

Rob

downloaded a bunch of videos so far, but this was the only one I couldn't forward rewind. from the flash, wmv or mp4... Other videos worked totally fine for me, but this one I couldn't get to work...

p.s.: it probably didn't hurt to watch it 4times, just to get to the parts I wanted to go over again so if that was the goal by not being able to rewind, than awesome job. if not, still awesome job

downloaded a bunch of videos so far, but this was the only one I couldn't forward rewind. from the flash, wmv or mp4... Other videos worked totally fine for me, but this one I couldn't get to work...

p.s.: it probably didn't hurt to watch it 4times, just to get to the parts I wanted to go over again so if that was the goal by not being able to rewind, than awesome job. if not, still awesome job

Hmm, I will check this out at the office tomorrow.

Rob

Very nice video. Wish you wouldn't let the cat out of the bag about lagging it up at lower stakes.

I'm a bit lost with how to interpret that chart though (sure it's stupidly simple). Help anybody?

Very nice video. Wish you wouldn't let the cat out of the bag about lagging it up at lower stakes.

I'm a bit lost with how to interpret that chart though (sure it's stupidly simple). Help anybody?

I hope mdm doesn't mind me linking an other one. It's all explained here.
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthread.php?p=5220924#post5220924

Thanks

More mdm13 videos plz!!!

More mdm13 videos plz!!!

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Watched the vid the other day, and the one on 2+2 and loved em.

Have a question about the whole 2x otb, and 4x utg. Otb you have position on the whole table, so don't you want to be playing your big pots from that spot, and forcing others to play big pots oop where you can just put preasure on them/own them?

Just seems to me that you're not putting max preasure when using position, letting them see a lot of cheap cards with tons of moeny behind, implied odds etc..., and harder to get the money in when you want to.

I might give it a shot and see what i think of it. But j/w your thoughts on it not really being condusive to what I've always read about playing your big pots in position, and getting others to play their big pots oop.

thanks

Amazing vid, for an 18/14 nit this is a real eye opener. I learnt that I need to be more aggressive in 3bet pots and use my fold equity a lot more. Thank you for that.

mdm13 shows off his chops.

Either someone plays an instrument or jargon is mashing all over the world.....

43 hand at the start. I think he has an ace there a lot and never folding to a tiny $2 bet.

AT imo is a fine hand to defend BB vs CO reg open 100 deep.

J9s hand, I think you need to bet a couple more dollars on the flop purely for BD cos you want to size your turn shove in case you hit a FD. As played it was a little over pot and hence a little dodgy. If I did not have a BD, I'd bet the same cos I don't plan on shoving any turn cards.

73o hand I think is an FPS. I dont think we get enough folds from a tight btn and a fish in a squeeze spot 200 deep. I do understand that a similar spot was in jmans video, but I don't think its his std line and he mainly did it to illustrate the point. Plus they were not that deep and BTN was looser IIRC.

KK hand on Q22 board. I think I like a bigger bet on the turn cos it looks bluffier. Stacks are not deep enough to make him think he has much FE if we bet 40 anyway. So it really looks like a valuebet. If we bet closer to pot, he may think we are trying to bully him with Ad or similar. Another option is to bet half pot, 33. This still is good for protection, we set up a good river price that he will be hard pressed to deny with JJ and he may spazz out thinking he has FE.

33 hand I like with the only exception that you already looked bluffy to him earlier in the game, so he may be hero calling a J there some of the time.

I don't think this vid is working. Both streaming and downloading aren't working well.

Safe to say this video is a big hit. When's the next one coming out?

08:00 Js9s table 1

You say that you got a lot of FE on the AQxr texture. But you also say you have enough FE on the turn (i think you need 40% FE to make the push profitable vs his callingrange). The thing i wonder about is IF you had enough FE on turn, do you ever have enough FE on the flop? You say he will fold 99,TT,JJ,KK,KQ on the turn, but if so, what is he folding on the flop?

why can I download only for like 5kb/sec?

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I was wondering with the J9s hand, why not just check, and see if he checks behind?
Why would you want to play for stacks when you are only re-stealing?

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You where talking about floating with A10o if you had more dynamic with a player,
what kind of dynamic are you looking for?

Is it a number of hands? Or a history where already saw you float with A high?

I was wondering with the J9s hand, why not just check, and see if he checks behind?
Why would you want to play for stacks when you are only re-stealing?

i would assume because its +EV and checking is 0EV.

could you explain to me how its +EV?

could you explain to me how its +EV?

i think he explains it pretty well...tons of pot equity + FE + balance