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

nice starter - Hellmuth = pwned

Nice starting video

But I always wondered what the final purpose of this series is? To get a newbie to be able to beat what limit? 50nl? 100nl?
I'm asking since I'm a small stakes player

Thanks and keep up the good vids

hey guys - ipod video doesn't seem to be importing to itunes - any ideas why?

Nice starting video

But I always wondered what the final purpose of this series is? To get a newbie to be able to beat what limit? 50nl? 100nl?
I'm asking since I'm a small stakes player

Thanks and keep up the good vids

micro stakes is 50NL or below. keep in mind the target audience which can be seen in the screenshot preview; these videos are supposed to be extra basic, a jump-start for beginners to online poker.

also, thanks for the compliment

nice video

You recommend a minimum bankroll between 25 and 50 buy-ins. When do you think it's the right time to move down one limit, if you are on a variance caused downswing.

For example I move up from NL50 to NL100 with a $3000 bankroll (30 buy-ins) and I lose several buy-ins beacause of variance. Is it right that I should move down to NL50 at the latest with a $2500 bankroll?

nice video

You recommend a minimum bankroll between 25 and 50 buy-ins. When do you think it's the right time to move down one limit, if you are on a variance caused downswing.

For example I move up from NL50 to NL100 with a $3000 bankroll (30 buy-ins) and I lose several buy-ins beacause of variance. Is it right that I should move down to NL50 at the latest with a $2500 bankroll?

hi newdevil,

thanks for watching. to answer your question, it is truly a matter of personal preference. are you playing scared money with the 3k bankroll? if so, wait a little longer. sometimes being overbankrolled can cause the opposite phenomonon, where you just spew a lot without regard for money. if you feel comfortable playing 100Nl with 3k, by all means play. but if you drop 5 buyins and have had enough, by all means move down.

your bankroll is a tool that you use to make yourself money. the idea is that with correct management, you'll never run out of money, sort of like a hunter bringing enough bullets to get the job done.

one more thing; its pretty tough to tell whether you lost buyins due to variance or bad play sometimes, and it honestly doesnt really matter much as far as BR MGMT is concerned. all that really matters is your comfort level and to make sure you arent going busto.

Good video guys.
I enjoyed this educational discussion between you tubasteve, and n0whereman.
Giving my basic NL knowledge an overhaul is probably a smart thing for me to do, and so I am looking forward to see more of this good essential stuff.

Cheers

-Fork

nice video, i enjoyed a lot. you both come across really good by just the way you speak you keep it interesting and stuff.

Good video guys.
I enjoyed this educational discussion between you tubasteve, and n0whereman.
Giving my basic NL knowledge an overhaul is probably a smart thing for me to do, and so I am looking forward to see more of this good essential stuff.

Cheers

-Fork

Thanks Fork. Make sure you tune in next week when we actually start talking about playing poker (preflop)!

Ilike the opening it was very very basic but a good outline to the series coming up. Maybe now i can relarn 6max and become good!

Oh and Phil Hellmuth is one of the best poker players ever how you can bad mouth him is unreal

Good first video even though I didn't learn anything new. If I knew someone who is new to the online scene I would make him watch this. Looking forward to actual poker in the future and hopefully this series will reinforce my fundamentals. tubasteve!

I promise real poker will be played in this series eventually (next week)

question to viewers:

did we miss anything? there's a lot to cover out there, so if there's anything super important that you guys feel we left out that big noobs can take advantage of, let us know!

Im a reasonable limit player thats wanting learn NL, would this series be for me?

Nice work

Cheers

Im a reasonable limit player thats wanting learn NL, would this series be for me?

Nice work

Cheers

This series, along with Josh's "Memoirs of a Limidonk", are perfect for you. Some of the stuff in our series may be a touch basic for you, but there will be plenty of good stuff to start you off on your NL journey.

nice video guys.

+1

but still no itunes like to put on my iphone so I can watch again on tube

+1

but still no itunes like to put on my iphone so I can watch again on tube

i have made the powers that be aware of this

+1

but still no itunes like to put on my iphone so I can watch again on tube

Yeah I will be back in Seattle tomorrow and will take a look at this then. Sorry about the delay.

Rob

Looking forward to more videos from this series.

I play FR, but after this 2x promo on Stars I'm going to move to 6max. Tired of mass-tabling the nit fests of FR. Time to move to 6max and play less tables, so I can concentrate on becoming a better player. Well that is the plan at least.....

Looking forward to more videos from this series.

I play FR, but after this 2x promo on Stars I'm going to move to 6max. Tired of mass-tabling the nit fests of FR. Time to move to 6max and play less tables, so I can concentrate on becoming a better player. Well that is the plan at least.....

make sure you have rakeback, this is crucial at the microstakes as the full rake is taken out of almost every pot, unlike at SSNL/MSNL where the $3 cap is usually a much smaller % of the total pot size.

http://www.deucescrackedrakeback.com

hey guys -

video was good - please can u cover cbetting in detail in one of this series

Thanks guys - D

hey guys -

video was good - please can u cover cbetting in detail in one of this series

Thanks guys - D

We plan on devoting quite a bit of time to cbetting.

We plan on devoting quite a bit of time to cbetting.

yay

make sure you have rakeback, this is crucial at the microstakes as the full rake is taken out of almost every pot, unlike at SSNL/MSNL where the $3 cap is usually a much smaller % of the total pot size.

rakeback.deucescracked.com

I have a rakeback account for FTP, but have hardly played there yet. I think I will switch over to FTP from Stars, as with playing fewer hands it would take for ever to get a $1500 cash bonus. At least while playing the lower levels.

I have a rakeback account for FTP, but have hardly played there yet. I think I will switch over to FTP from Stars, as with playing fewer hands it would take for ever to get a $1500 cash bonus. At least while playing the lower levels.

yeah i think stars VIP program becomes useful to 200NL and high volume 100NL palyers, but anything below that its pretty tough to accumulate VPPs.

series like this are the reason why DC is #1 in coaching sites!!!

iPod version is working now (tested on my iPod). Let me know if you guys have questions/issues.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Nice Video for getting the basics down I decided to watch this as my first video I knew the mass majority of the stuff but nonetheless it was a great starting point.

Hi Jason / Steve,
Just watched the first vid after a reccomendation in the forum and I am well pleased, will be getting stuck into episode two in a min.
Just one question, I noticed in your "Must Read" books list there was no mention of Harrington on cash games, is this because they are aimed more at full ring instead of 6 max or are there other reasons.

Thanks Guys

Mike

Hi Jason / Steve,
Just watched the first vid after a reccomendation in the forum and I am well pleased, will be getting stuck into episode two in a min.
Just one question, I noticed in your "Must Read" books list there was no mention of Harrington on cash games, is this because they are aimed more at full ring instead of 6 max or are there other reasons.

Thanks Guys

Mike

HOC is terrible for online 6-max games which play way more aggro preflop than the 10-max full ring games the books are intended for. i do have to say that HOH 1-2 are prob two of the books that helped me the most in my poker develoment a few years ago, but HOH 3 was shit.

I feel that I waisted my time watching this, but it's good for beginners and I wish I have seen this when I started playing. Good job, smth between 4-5 stars.

i didnt learn much but it s great for beghinners and its cool to stat from the bottom in case theres sometime u missed . good video look forward to episode 2

Thanks

I'm starting from the scratch again with a new bankroll, site etc... and also learning from the beginning. Thanks for the lovele series!

Kudos on a project well executed!

Sorry to be late to the party, but I do have a question/thought that derives perhaps from years playing live poker. Twenty minutes in you discuss and pretty much dismiss tells as not a very good way to improve your game. You mention the scene in "Rounders" where Matt Damon saves his own skin by noticing what John Malkovich does with his cookies. I agree. That's right up there with beating Johnny Chan at one and only one hand, hence concluding that he can dominate the final table at the WSOP. But . . .

If you read some of the older stuff - Doyle Brunson's Super System, Caro's Book of Tells, you come away with something quite different. I'd call it a level of awareness. If you study each picture in Book of Tells, any one asinine in isolation, it's not much help but if you slog through it casually you may find that you see your opponents a bit differently, a bit more clearly. You get first instincts that turn out to be right more often. Poker is a sum total of ten-thousand perceptions and when they guide your behavior from an unconscious level - that, I believe, is what people mean when they say they were "in the zone".

Just a thought from a mediocre talent.

This is the first video I have watched at DC. Right now I am playing one table of .01/.02 at PokerStars. I am taking it slow and focusing on building solid fundamental skills before I move up in limits and play more tables. The video was great and I can't wait to watch the rest of the series. Thanks guys!

I love this basic shit!

Hi all, just watched this and i wanted to say that the hand analysis with JJ is not totally right. When oppo c/c three times behind, better be careful on the river...

Full Tilt Poker $0.02/$0.05 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players -

UTG: $5.39
MP: $3.80
Hero (CO): $6.25
BTN: $3.83
SB: $4.95
BB: $2.00

Pre Flop: ($0.07) Hero is CO with K K
2 folds, Hero raises to $0.20, 1 fold, SB calls $0.18, 1 fold

Flop: ($0.45) T 3 8 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $0.36, SB calls $0.36

Turn: ($1.17) 4 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $0.74, SB calls $0.74

River: ($2.65) 5 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero requests TIME, Hero bets $1.58, SB raises to $3.30, Hero calls $1.72

Final Pot: $9.25
Hero mucks K K
SB shows T T (three of a kind, Tens)
SB wins $8.64
(Rake: $0.61)

Hi all, just watched this and i wanted to say that the hand analysis with JJ is not totally right. When oppo c/c three times behind, better be careful on the river...

Full Tilt Poker $0.02/$0.05 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players -

UTG: $5.39
MP: $3.80
Hero (CO): $6.25
BTN: $3.83
SB: $4.95
BB: $2.00

Pre Flop: ($0.07) Hero is CO with K K
2 folds, Hero raises to $0.20, 1 fold, SB calls $0.18, 1 fold

Flop: ($0.45) T 3 8 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $0.36, SB calls $0.36

Turn: ($1.17) 4 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $0.74, SB calls $0.74

River: ($2.65) 5 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero requests TIME, Hero bets $1.58, SB raises to $3.30, Hero calls $1.72

Final Pot: $9.25
Hero mucks K K
SB shows T T (three of a kind, Tens)
SB wins $8.64
(Rake: $0.61)

well sure, if you get checkraised on the river then your hand is not likely to be good, but that is completely different then our hand where our opponent just passively called down with his midpair.

well sure, if you get checkraised on the river then your hand is not likely to be good, but that is completely different then our hand where our opponent just passively called down with his midpair.

Firstly thanks for the reply. Secondly i just posted here because i played that hand after watching this video (lol), thought about checking but remembering of this i bet/pushed (lol^2). Also the only difference between my hand and the video hand (JJ) is that i bet 3/5 river while video's hand was pushed directly... calling the c/raise was bad i know but that's not the point.
Concluding, in the video your considerations were "if he had a set, he would have check/raised flop or turn, so we could put sets out of his ranges"; just wanted to say that's not always true... there are donks who play like that (at micro).

Thanks for the series. Is there a similar intro to NL100 6-max, or does this series pretty much cover that?

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Tony angelo..meta game..how to deal with tilt and stuff

This was my first video watched and thought it did a good job of explaining some basics. What I really liked was the nods to Holdem Manager, Pokerstove & 2p2, all of which I have recently discovered in my quest to improve my game. Having now arrived at DC I am sure I have chosen the right training site.

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Jan 2011
Holdem Manager: You can still get the discount as I just bought it through DC. If from UK it cost me £35 BARGAIN lol

iPod version ?

I got iPhone and can't find DC on apps ?

Where do I need to look ?

I'm a Cab Driver so would be handy to watch while I got down time.

im seeing a link for it, it should be below the video on the right. here it is in case you dont see it:

http://www.deucescracked.com/videos/download_file/361?key=902b8501b4d4b69befbe6e4b67279b49&type=1

im seeing a link for it, it should be below the video on the right. here it is in case you dont see it:

http://www.deucescracked.com/videos/download_file/361?key=902b8501b4d4b69befbe6e4b67279b49&type=1

Yeah mate but that is just for this video but can I view all videos from my iPhone ?

On my iPhone through google to DC site can't watch vids. Is there a site link to watch all videos by iPhone.

Cheers

Yeah mate but that is just for this video but can I view all videos from my iPhone ?

On my iPhone through google to DC site can't watch vids. Is there a site link to watch all videos by iPhone.

Cheers

I think you need adobe flash to watch vids and iphone don't support flash!!
Get an android phone!!

we only post ipod versions of videos that are powerpoint or single tabling. check the search function to find more info on how to convert the multitabling videos and things like that.

Really nice basic stuff!
Can I find the powerpoint anywere? - I really love to take note while I am hearing the videos.

Newcomer to the game, and this has reinforced certain basics for me.

Great work

I don't see the name tubasteve in the search for author. Only way to find this is the topic search. Maybe i'm dumb, but i didn't find your name

I think its because he might have left....

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I know this video is geared towards online play. However, with these poker tracking softwares, how are you gonna come up with this information in a live game? Are there videos for beginners specifically geared for live play? I would just feel more comfortable having the knowledge to tap into and apply the step by step ways to play instead of relying on a software that does all the thinking for me. It just seems like cheating. I don't really mean "cheating", and I don't mean cheating other players as much as I mean cheating myself out of knowing the methods of doing things properly. If I'm asked a question, I want to be able to answer it from my own knowledge, and not have to say, "Well, I can't answer that because I'm not plugged into my poker tracking software."

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Ok, again. With Poker Stove. I want to be able to know how to make these calculations in a live game. I don't want to depend on some poker software so I can be a mindless bafoon in a live game. Again, I know this is geared towards online play. I also understand that these are wonderful tools to help us play the game properly. However, my goals are not for online. I want to play live. So if any of you have some ideas or feedback on where beginner videos are, please send me a link. Thank you.

I think Cardrunners is your only real choice if you want vids covering live strategy, but even their content is pretty limited. Not to mention Cardrunners (unlike DC) has a huge signup fee, so if you decide the videos aren't worthwhile enough, you're going to be out a good chunk of change. Make the switch at your own discretion...