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

At 25:10 you cbet with AK-high and then check/call when you hit the king on the turn. I'm still not quite sure why you didn't bet that turn yourself, especially since you had been very agressive at that table.

Please, no more Cake videos. We can't let everyone in on the secret that is the juicyness of Cake.

Seriously though, thanks for the FR content, Seraph.

Perfect timing for me because I have been playing 100NL on Cake and just took a shot at 200NL on Friday.

53:00 With 22 here I feel like you had him tilting so bad that I didn't think that you had the fold equity needed here, considering we don't want coin flips with bad players. It was close but I feel like you were going to get that stack regardless so why take the risk. Definately would have been worth it had he bought in again and you had him on even more tilt.

p.s. The last 15 minutes did live up to the earlier hype.

Good vid. I especially liked the many rewinds to better watch the hands that happened on multiple tables at the same time. Audio added later worked really well, too.

Here's a suggestion for another FR vid: contrast play at different tables and at different times. Deliberately play a table of regs vs a table of fish. Play part of vid on drunken weekends and part of vid on reg-infested mid-week. Comment on table selection and adaptive playing styles.

WDYT?

At 25:10 you cbet with AK-high and then check/call when you hit the king on the turn. I'm still not quite sure why you didn't bet that turn yourself, especially since you had been very agressive at that table.

Hi, the villains calling range on the flop is one that rarely contains a KQ KJ, and usually will fold if I fire a 2nd barrel with the K out. The only other exception being of course QJ which made the nuts and we don't want to bet into that. Therefore there is no purpose in betting the turn, we aren't likely to get 3 streets of value from KQ KJ Tx, and when we check the turn, he may turn his hand into a bluff or go for thin value where he would have just folded to the double barrel.

53:00 With 22 here I feel like you had him tilting so bad that I didn't think that you had the fold equity needed here, considering we don't want coin flips with bad players. It was close but I feel like you were going to get that stack regardless so why take the risk. Definately would have been worth it had he bought in again and you had him on even more tilt.

Yeah I may have been overestimating my fold equity. I wasn't sure how tilted he was and my shove is def marginal. The game flow made me feel like he was likely to have a weak hand on this 3bet, and I hadn't shipped my money in pre like this much if at all, so he may put me on a v strong hand. The times he does call flipping I am ahead, and I felt like if he busted here again and reloaded he would be super tilted which is obv +ev for me.

Here's a suggestion for another FR vid: contrast play at different tables and at different times. Deliberately play a table of regs vs a table of fish. Play part of vid on drunken weekends and part of vid on reg-infested mid-week. Comment on table selection and adaptive playing styles.

WDYT?

I'd never make a video playing a table of regs, because I don't advocating playing at such tables and wouldn't do so myself. Increasingly, winrate is becoming based on game selection and picking the worst game possible to play in has little educational value imo. I think the most useful vids are ones with typical tables - a few solid regs, a nit, one or two short stackers, rest fish/unknowns.
If one must play during 'reg-infested mid-week' I would suggest playing less tables than normal and amping up your aggression, whereas on drunken weekends you can fire up lots of tables, practice avoidance with the tough regs, and just wait for the fish money to roll in.

I'd never make a video playing a table of regs, because I don't advocating playing at such tables and wouldn't do so myself. Increasingly, winrate is becoming based on game selection and picking the worst game possible to play in has little educational value imo.

Maybe I didn't explain my idea very well. I didn't mean to suggest sitting at a table of regs to show how to beat them. I meant to show why not to sit there at all. That is, to help teach game selection.

Most vids tend to show what goes right making it hard for beginners to recognize and deal with what goes wrong. Recognizing good tables is also about recognizing and avoiding bad tables. I thought that a vid where the author sat at a table of regs and at a table of fish would provide the viewer with a chance to see why it was bad to sit at a table of regs because of all the tough spots that would come up and this would contrast with the easy money at the fishy table. As a result, the vid would show why table selection is so important.

Still a bad idea?