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

Time Link to 00:06:20

AKo table 4: what do you think about c/c instead of Cbetting? We probably have the best hand and dont want to bloat the pot even though he is calling with broadways and worse Ax sometimes. I'm always conflicted in this spot.

I think this is a board we should be cbetting with a very high frequency, especially after opening from EP, mainly because we get folds so often. If we c/c here, we lose initiative and find ourselves wondering what to do on later streets. I know that balance won't be much of an issue with this guy, but in general, we have so much FE on this board and we're going to improve almost as seldom as the caller, so I feel that checking this board just loses us a ton of dead money over time.

Time Link to 00:12:10

77 table 4, what about value betting the river? you can be repping alot of missed draws (diamonds, missed straight draws) and he's checked twice. I think he will call often enough with ace high or smaller pocket pairs on that board.

77 table 4, what about value betting the river? you can be repping alot of missed draws (diamonds, missed straight draws) and he's checked twice. I think he will call often enough with ace high or smaller pocket pairs on that board.

I was going to ask the same thing. You are pretty much garantueed to have the best hand when he checks turn and river, so why not throw out a small valuebet?

77 table 4, what about value betting the river? you can be repping alot of missed draws (diamonds, missed straight draws) and he's checked twice. I think he will call often enough with ace high or smaller pocket pairs on that board.

In retrospect, I think betting out for 9ish on this river is okay, but I also think it's paper thin and we hope he makes a crying call with 55/66. He can definitely take this line with 88 and a lot of players will slow down with JJ/QQ when the top card pairs the board and take this same line so I actually expect his range to be a bit stronger than when he takes this line on most other boards. I also don't have a read that his bluff-calling range is going to be super-wide on this river, so I opted to just take my hand to SD.

vs 58/20
Hand where you turned the fullhouse...

You decided to not 3-bet JJ for value PF?

good content here but the video is short :[

vs 58/20
Hand where you turned the fullhouse...

You decided to not 3-bet JJ for value PF?

With JJ I feel it can go either way, TBH. With TT I think I'm defaulting to flat and with QQ I'm 3betting a vast majority of the time.

Time Link to 00:00:47

Hi RapidEvolution. You donked out with the 97 on the J8x board, would you have continued your semi-bluff if you didn't pick up the additional 4 outs, or would you generally shut down, or would you perhaps keep barrelling if a Q, J, K or A came down on the turn.

-Thanks.

good content here but the video is short :[

You know what, I'm going to get flamed, but here it goes. And I'm going to get dually flamed for reasons that will become self evident.

I like the length. I find it difficult to 1) find the time and 2) keep my concentration for a +60 minute video. I also think that series in excess of six episodes is stretching my powers of focus and time management. PokerSavvyPlus has some truly good work - series in 3 or 4 segments, each 30-45 minutes in length. They have a few very good minds in their stable. I like DeucesCracked by far the best, but I do like PokerSavvy's series format.

I know: "if you like it so much, then move". Any other thoughts on the matter?

Any other thoughts on the matter?

you don't have to watch a long video at one go, break it up for a few days. For instance Grindcore's 1h20min video was easy to watch in two bits.

Good point.

Just finished this strong video. Lot's of pearls, especially surrounding the theme of how to handle a dry (vs wet) board. Recommendation: good spots for PowerPoint insert if you're into a thematic presentation.

Thanks for your work. Strong stuff!!

Time Link to 00:11:48

i think this spot is definitely a check/call or check/fold. if you lead river, i really dont think he is calling w/ anything you beat. maybe something like a6 that you split.

check folding isnt bad if he is a passive player since ax and qx are definitely in his range but i personally would check/call as a bluff catcher to missed flushes and TK type hands... possibly even kk/jj type hands that are in his range

i think this spot is definitely a check/call or check/fold. if you lead river, i really dont think he is calling w/ anything you beat. maybe something like a6 that you split.

check folding isnt bad if he is a passive player since ax and qx are definitely in his range but i personally would check/call as a bluff catcher to missed flushes and TK type hands... possibly even kk/jj type hands that are in his range

Unlike the other spot that was discussed (where we had 77 and the board hit trips, and we elected not to make a small value bet repping a busted draw), here we have a passive opponent who, in my opinion, is going to be more likely to bluff-catch himself with something like TT/JJ/9x than turn it into a bluff himself.

Merging: having trouble finding the time link to see the actual hand, but in general, I'll be barreling overs to the board and cards that give us equity...but not J's. I generally tend to consider board pairing to be a brick, and it'll usually decrese our FE vs a lot of players.

I am grateful for all of the video suggestions. As you guys know, this is my first one on this site and I'm still new to using camtasia 6 and powerpoint. In the future I hope to add some powerpoint, as well as go for 45-60 minutes in length.

Thanks RapidEvolution.

A little longer is definitely better since FR vids are so infrequent. Enjoyed this though.

Nice vid, sir.

ty for the vid

Hello there, An OK video.. No disrepsect. I looked u up on Table Ratings, and it shows u being a very marginal winner.. Can i please have some background on your poker career.. Thank you

Walkingonwater5

Great coach/trainer doesn't always equate with tearing up the felt.

Hello there, An OK video.. No disrepsect. I looked u up on Table Ratings, and it shows u being a very marginal winner.. Can i please have some background on your poker career.. Thank you

Walkingonwater5

No disrespect taken I recently moved back to FTP this past August and my sample there is still pretty small. FWIW, FTP started me with a crap run, and I'm going through another one now (if I posted the retarded beats I've seen this month, I'd get kicked off for flooding the forums. LOL) As for poker career, I'm not sure what you want to hear.

Nice Vid and I really like your FullTilt Layout. Is it possible to upload and share it?

I wish TR would just die sometimes. It started up right about when I went on my worst downswing ever @ FTP (about 125k hands BE), and the site only has 300k hands on me so my FR winrates look like crap even though I printed 3-4 ptbb for like a year+ before TR over 750k hands. It also doesn't provide a view of all the sites a player plays on, many players use several sites such as Cake where I have played about a million hands and won a ton.

Just bringing this up because it came up here, and I recently had a student inquire about FR coaching who claimed my winrate wasn't good enough on TR to hire. Just a warning that TR isn't everything - people play on various sites, TR misses a lot of data, and also has only been vaguely accurate for about a year. We don't hire coaches with no vetting, I am sure RE has proven himself a good player.

PS - downloading now and welcome RE

I know TR isnt 100% accurate.. I just wanted some background.. I know my winrate is fairly close to TRs, but it does miss some hands. I just was wondering, again no offense. I am a grinder at 100nl, I am up around 15k this year in that limit. In just about 180k hands. I was wondering wht other people were winning..

ONce again, not disrespecting.. But when i pay for a site, and watch the videos, I would like to knwo some background, on some of these "pros". How am i suppose to take a video seriously, if i am listening to a marginal winner?

Great coach/trainer doesn't always equate with tearing up the felt.

Repeating myself, it makes no diff what TR says. Do you think Chris Evert in her prime ever had a female coach that she couldn't crush? Now with her own tennis academy, how many of her pupils can take her out 6-0, 6-0? Most.

Coaching is different, very different from competing. It's a quite different skill set.

Jbirds, I don't want to derail this thread from discussion of the video's actual content. If you have questions about the reasons I made a certain decision, or disagree with a line I took, it'd be much more beneficial to the other members (and myself, of course) if you address those and we get some discussion going.

I wish TR would just die sometimes. It started up right about when I went on my worst downswing ever @ FTP (about 125k hands BE), and the site only has 300k hands on me so my FR winrates look like crap even though I printed 3-4 ptbb for like a year+ before TR over 750k hands. It also doesn't provide a view of all the sites a player plays on, many players use several sites such as Cake where I have played about a million hands and won a ton.

Just bringing this up because it came up here, and I recently had a student inquire about FR coaching who claimed my winrate wasn't good enough on TR to hire. Just a warning that TR isn't everything - people play on various sites, TR misses a lot of data, and also has only been vaguely accurate for about a year. We don't hire coaches with no vetting, I am sure RE has proven himself a good player.

PS - downloading now and welcome RE

+1