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

wow,a 6 table video,would love to see that on a limit video to.

Hey man, good vid. As far as length, I like to see maybe 45-50 mins of playtime, with a PT review at the end. I think you play a very smart thinking style, and you are good at getting your thoughts across when you play.

I used to play Full Ring with Setzer Mason at 25NL well over a year ago, so it is neat seeing him doing so well, and motivates me to improve my game to his level.

Thank you very much for the feedback,
I opted not to include the PT review in this one because I felt the shorthanded dynamic on the right tables would have skewed the data too much. In videos where I play full handed throughout I will certainly try and include it.

If you guys could give me feedback about how clear my speaking is and cosmetic things like that which I could patch up it would really help me out. I'm hoping to get as much feedback as possible from my first few videos then make a second "batch" with the feedback applied and hopefully put out some A-level product.

Thanks,

Nolan.

you remember what minute it was at? can find it quicker this way.

Thanks for the input noidea,

As far as that hand goes, it's certainly debatable. I of course expected it to bring up some discussion. I was surprised he had T9 suited more so because I thought he would be playing hands that are less dominated. For example, since 99 and TT are in my range more than 77 and 66, I'd expect him to play lower suited connectors and higher connected cards. It's probably a stretch to consider him that deep of a thinking player (I mean this in the least offensive way possible) given that we have no effective history.

The reality of my showing down the J9 is essentially this. I have middle pair in a three bet pot. I've already invested nearly 30%+ of my stack. Against a spectrum of his ranges, with the $ in the pot my equity is never horrible. I'm ahead a decent amount of the time to a random AK bluff, a gutshot, and any other hands. If he did have an AT hand I'm not drawing too far behind.

Also, I'm confident enough in my game to know that I will remember showing down that hand on that table and will hopefully be able to out-play villains on that table (and villains on that and other tables who may have noticed that hand) in the future by guessing how they will adapt to the new "Read" they have formed based on that showdown (read: TIGHTEN UP). Manipulating your image is a hugely important facet of all forms of poker, and I'll take a neutral/slightly -EV short term play any day if I'm confident that it will have +EV implications in my future play. (In this case, it wouldn't as I won't play any of these villains any time soon most likely, but you understand I need to play in the mindset of a grinder for a video regardless of the level/game I'm playing, as I presume grinders are the people who are trying to watch and learn from them).

Sorry to write a novel, I hope that gives you the rough idea of my thinking. I hope you understand why I figured him for more high cards / low cards draws than middle cards, even if that is getting a bit ahead of myself.

you remember what minute it was at? can find it quicker this way.

Im not sure of the minute but it was one of the hands you reviewed in PT, I think I remember -$108 net?

Raise A6s utg, one caller two seats to left, flop came 556 I believe and you two barreled.

Hey Nolan,

Very interesting video since I play these games as well There are two hands I wanted to bring up in this discussion:

7:00 T9s

Flop comes 289 w/ 2 spades. 1 guy leads, another one calls. You opted the raise here. How are you gonna react to a 3 bet? Are we trying to get it all in on this board? What do you think about just calling here?

60:40 AJs

Flop comes K86r. Your cbet into two people looks reasonably strong. So when the tight regular calls your raise he probably has a K or better. You turned a J and you commented that you have to bet here again? Why? Our one pair is still crushed by his calling range and I doubt it's a good idea to try to get him off a KQish hand. That said, when this type of guy calls our flop bet I think his most likely hand is 66 or 88.

Hey Nolan,

7:00 T9s

Flop comes 289 w/ 2 spades. 1 guy leads, another one calls. You opted the raise here. How are you gonna react to a 3 bet? Are we trying to get it all in on this board? What do you think about just calling here?

The raise is more so to see where I stand and to isolate one of the players who may have a draw. The player in 2nd positions flat there generally signals a weak hand (and on a board like that, we're almost 100% pinning that to a draw). Conversely, when Player 1 flats my raise as opposed to re-raising it's again indicative that he as well has a poor hand. So when the turn gave us extra outs and he donkbets it's an easy ship as he's probably donkbetting in an attempt to control the pot. Plus, we have a lot of outs if we are behind generally. If one of them shoved the flop over my raise I'd have to weigh out their ranges further and do some quick math as far as the equity involved and in this specific situation I would usually fold and figure at best I'm up against overcards + FD.

60:40 AJs

Flop comes K86r. Your cbet into two people looks reasonably strong. So when the tight regular calls your raise he probably has a K or better. You turned a J and you commented that you have to bet here again? Why? Our one pair is still crushed by his calling range and I doubt it's a good idea to try to get him off a KQish hand. That said, when this type of guy calls our flop bet I think his most likely hand is 66 or 88.

Well, this is certainly a debatable hand. In my opinion, given that he flats after the other player has already folded, his hand range isn't necessarily as tight as it would be if the other player were still involved. XWave could conceivably float me with a decent pocket pair or even A high knowing that the board is dry and in turn can not hit much of my range very strongly. Because of this when we hit a card on the turn that improves our hand I think we have to bet again both to protect our hand and to get more money in the pot in the event he does have KQ or such and we improve on the river. Basically what it comes down to is that hitting a pair on the turn and check/folding to the villains line is just too weak of a play imo, and I never shy away from putting in a second barrel when it is profitable to do so from both a value and image consideration.

Cliff notes: C/F turn when we hit a card on that dry of a board is weak and as you can see from the vid, I ain't fancying myself much of a coward.

nice vid

more is better - longer or many short - both are good as i can pause the vid anytime

1)~24:30 you ck/fold 89 with top pair in a limped pot - just wondering why

2)elsewhere i thought you said your standard open was 3x and in this vid it was 4x - is this related to the stakes? what would you recommend for 100NLH

thanks - keep the FR coming!

Another good video from you, i hope that you get a series when the next season of series start. And plz dont join the heads up vids theres already lots of it on this site and its tough to get good fullring vids anywhere so for me these are gold.

Chosen one, thank you very much for the feedback.

In regards to the AJ hand, I suspect you're right and I did indeed get overaggressive and make a mistake. Against players who I have more history with I can give them more credit for floating me, but in this spot I have no reason for the villain to view me as anything but a multi tabling random, and I should just give up.

It's good to take the aggressive road but it is clearly an overplay of my hand in this spot. Hopefully those watching the video read this comments and understand that I did indeed go too far with my reasoning and make a mistake.

-Nolan.

Would you comment on the KTo hand you isolate with at 53:44 and then on the same table 1min later you find yourself on teh button with KTo and chose not call a LP raise with it. I don't have a specific question but it just seems a bit odd to me and I would like you to expand on this thought process.

Being the aggressor + position >> than just position. KTo is a bad 3b hand and I don't want to play a hand that is often dominated is the basic ABC of it.

We aren't the aggressor + position though. We are just the agressor. Are you saying in a limped pot KT is more valuable being the aggressor OOP than it is in position as the non-agressor?

Thanks for another awesome FR vid, very clear commentary and 6 tables seems to be perfect. For your question about video length I would say that make them as long as you can, I wouldnt mind even a 2.5 hour vid... Seriously though, I'd say anything from 45 mins to 90 mins is fine. I dont think any real fullringer will quit watching in the middle of the vid, no matter how long it is, as there is never enough FR-content for us.

Oh, also pls make a NL100 vid in the future if possible

I love your video's Nolan!

Please please please enable PokerStars auto-rebuy (they have that now, right?) or get an AHK to do this for you.