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

gogogo!

it's KRANTTZZZZZ,deepstack NL; zomgg--> dl'ing asap

I'm watching this as stream and sound in this video is messed up big time.
Sounds like krantz is speaking trough scubadiva mic..

I'm reproducing as I type. Not sure why it came out so loud.

Will be up asap.

Very nice video, no move of honor?I forgive u Krantz.

Looking forward to next week, sounds good stuff.

I reckon between this season of Lightsabers and the JK3A vids (plural I hope) none of us are going to have an excuse for sitting at the table with a brain set in "taggy stacky" mode.

Krantz is running hot. Awesome. cant remember that I ever hit the boards like him. Seems I play another game.

I loved this video, and not just for the immediate teaching value, but rather for the inspirational value. Videos like this make me look forward to playing and being motivated to play is not something that can be underrated when being able to grind is so valuable.

It seems so easy when the master jedi is playing..

I have some question concerning the following hands;
1) 55 in the BB on 1054 rainbow board you elected to check-raise because of the history with AJo where you tripple barrel bluff the guy and you are 200BB+. But without any history this deep and what changes the situation for 100BB deep, you are more likely to slowplay because you are miles ahead of his range?

2) 89s of clubs whereby you called 3-bet OOP in my opinion the villain was frustrated because the villain lost a big pot in a blind battle whereby you hold J9s. The flop was 952 with 2 clubs and villain bets 102 and you check-raise to 459. Why you check-raise so big? In my opinion villain was frustrated and it is maybe better to give him some room to shove over the top with overcards/air/etc... And it allows you to make your bluffs cheaper.

3) 64s of hearts whereby you 3bet from the button. Which line would you have taken with AKo on the turn when the king hits? Would you rather go for potcontrol or double barrel.. if you decide to potcontrol would you shove the river (4 of spades) over villain's donk bet? You explain the difference between the situation nowadays and 2005 but I am curious how would you have played the hand when you hold AKo in this situation.

4) KQo from MP on KK6 2 tone board you decide not to overbet the river vs the passive player.. whereby you decide to overbet with the runner runner nutflush to go for the home run against the passive villain... what makes the difference between these two situations?

At the end of the session we see your stats that you c-bet 100%... Is this not exploitable? Or is this because you play deep tables and like to put pressure on people? Or you c-betting 100% because the table is full of villains who didnt played back at all?

Thanks a lot keep up the good work.

Cheers,

5 stars

Krantzypantz, what's the latest on your vertical, how high is the wrist going above the rim?

I also enjoy your horrid accents, the more the better.

hey man. i almost creamed my pants when i saw that lightsabers two was here! great stuff.

curious about your comment during the 79 hand where u flop top pair and an oesd. u said something about not being thrilled when u are raised there w/ 100bb stacks, but liking to float deeper. Shouldn't we be happy to get this in 100bb's deep, since we're often flipping, and never crushed? Just curious. I guess u are saying that we are rarely way ahead here, so not thrilled about it?

Audio is wayyyyyy better now.

Great vid as usual, but IDK how you can hand read so well when you have avatars disabled?

what a great vid, huuge imspiration, keep em coming!

64 hand w rivered trips, where you didnt bet the turned king..
would you bet a set on the turn in that situation?

26:00: you c/r with 89 of clubs, what do you do on a blank turn if he just calls? Blank as in, under card to the 9 and no club.

Great vid as usual, but IDK how you can hand read so well when you have avatars disabled?

don't ever put me on life lol-tilt again!

No move of honor this video, fail!

really great video krantz

Jesus, what a sick session....... pure god mode.

Kriz-antz, nice video.

I took more from this video than I think I have from all of the other lightsabers videos. I think that when you play more of a 'serious' solid style and really explain your thoughts and why you're doing what you are, I get a lot more out of them.

So keep it up. this vid was great. BTW, have you ever made a serious video at lower stakes? Like maybe 200NL? Just a thought. Might be interesting.

could you post the link to your blog? I know you mentioned it in season 1 of lightsabers but I never saved it and can't remember what it was - I do remember making my background the eye of the tiger though or whatever image it was you had on your blog.

later brah

Roy

Jay's blog:

http://www.dangerlion.com

Good video amigo.

Rob

Is there going to be any 5-10/10-20 material this season? I find it's been lacking a bit lately in the 6max 5/10+ . However I'm about to watch this vid and I'm sure it's amazing.

It seems so easy when the master jedi is playing..

My exact thoughts. I feel like poker should be so easy after watching this, but then I remember what happened to me last night and how I wanted to pull my hair out

Also, Krantz...I think you were born to make videos!


You're like the cool teacher we all knew in school who is able to get the ideas across while making it interesting at the same time.

Around the 51:00 minute mark you have AJo and check back the river after the 4th heart falls. Villain showed KQo for a flopped two pair. Don't you think betting the river would get a fold out of most of his range?

I always get excited when Krantz starts to talk about past Krantz

more past Krantz imo

Around the 51:00 minute mark you have AJo and check back the river after the 4th heart falls. Villain showed KQo for a flopped two pair. Don't you think betting the river would get a fold out of most of his range?

It was 3 hearts, 1 diamond.

Fantastic video!

very very solid vid Krantz!

hey all,

will get to everyone's questions tonight or tomorrow when i've got a bit of downtime!

-jay

Curious about the 67o where u 3 bet the button (32 min), talk about how u shouldnt do this 100bb's deep, then take it down and say that this reinforces why you shouldnt make this play preflop! How does him folding reinforce that preflop was incorrect!?

Anyway, why is raising stuff like this in position generally bad when 100 bb's deep? I think Raptor likes to raise lots of junk like this otb even just 100bb's deep. What factors would sway u in either direction? Thanks.

nice vid

Hi Krantz!
Awesome video!

Im very interested how would u continue the 8c9c hand (when u check-raised the 9x 5c 2c flop after calling a 3bet pre) on the turn if u got called and wouldnt have improved on the turn.
Im always feel very adviseless if i ch/r the flop w/ a combo draw and not improve by the turn, my equity drop a lot and i think i dont have so much FE and im in a big pot OOP. So im really curious about how do u solve this.
(i guess in this hand this is a shove cause u had just one pot-sized bet left, but would it be still a bet if u had 1.5pot-stack?)

As always good video.
Around ~27 you start talking about donk-betting. This is one thing i always have a hard time doing. I know the standard bet3bet with strong draws and sets but how do you balance that against a good player with junk and how do you merge your ranges. I guess i would like to know what the high stakes opinion goes regarding donk betting? If im not wrong it was cinda dead and considered a bad idee like 1-2years ago?

44 hand ~31
This is another concept i have a hard time grasping. The players are often bad calling stations who are limp calling. How ever the small equity edge you might have with a hand like 44 must be erased when you are OOP. I am way to tight here i have realized and have to get use to the idee of iso raising OOP more with hands like A7+ broadways and PP i guess is you range? But to do this i have to hevely rely on fold equty and im nut sure donk are folding to much here generally? :s

lol your vids are well funny, and really educational also

So disappointed that there was no real strategy in this video...where was sick tricks like the move of honour?

It seems so easy when the master jedi is playing..

I have some question concerning the following hands;
1) 55 in the BB on 1054 rainbow board you elected to check-raise because of the history with AJo where you tripple barrel bluff the guy and you are 200BB+. But without any history this deep and what changes the situation for 100BB deep, you are more likely to slowplay because you are miles ahead of his range?

2) 89s of clubs whereby you called 3-bet OOP in my opinion the villain was frustrated because the villain lost a big pot in a blind battle whereby you hold J9s. The flop was 952 with 2 clubs and villain bets 102 and you check-raise to 459. Why you check-raise so big? In my opinion villain was frustrated and it is maybe better to give him some room to shove over the top with overcards/air/etc... And it allows you to make your bluffs cheaper.

3) 64s of hearts whereby you 3bet from the button. Which line would you have taken with AKo on the turn when the king hits? Would you rather go for potcontrol or double barrel.. if you decide to potcontrol would you shove the river (4 of spades) over villain's donk bet? You explain the difference between the situation nowadays and 2005 but I am curious how would you have played the hand when you hold AKo in this situation.

4) KQo from MP on KK6 2 tone board you decide not to overbet the river vs the passive player.. whereby you decide to overbet with the runner runner nutflush to go for the home run against the passive villain... what makes the difference between these two situations?

At the end of the session we see your stats that you c-bet 100%... Is this not exploitable? Or is this because you play deep tables and like to put pressure on people? Or you c-betting 100% because the table is full of villains who didnt played back at all?

Thanks a lot keep up the good work.

Cheers,

1- With 100bb someone is more likely to try to barrel me since their bets threaten my stack more; at the same time, they're also really never going to try to pot control an overpair (and will never get away from one).

2- Basically, I didn't think he would ever make a move on me with air/overcards... There's also no need to balance here for my bluffs since I'll probably be never bluffing a player like that OOP, or even find myself in that spot OOP in a rred pot in general for the most part (against that opponent).

3-As I think I intonated, but maybe not, I would definitely bet AK since I expect to get action on that card.

4- Just breaks down to more combos of strong hands that can call me on the runner runner flush board vs the KK6 board where I can rarely be bluffing and there aren't any strong hands in his calling range.

re: c-betting, if I was c-betting 100% then it's definitely exploitable and was most likely just a function of the small sample size of hands

5 stars

Krantzypantz, what's the latest on your vertical, how high is the wrist going above the rim?

I also enjoy your horrid accents, the more the better.

the hoop at this house is a few inches above regulation and i can just grab the rim, we're lowering it tomorrow so we'll see... hopefully i'm almost there!

hey man. i almost creamed my pants when i saw that lightsabers two was here! great stuff.

curious about your comment during the 79 hand where u flop top pair and an oesd. u said something about not being thrilled when u are raised there w/ 100bb stacks, but liking to float deeper. Shouldn't we be happy to get this in 100bb's deep, since we're often flipping, and never crushed? Just curious. I guess u are saying that we are rarely way ahead here, so not thrilled about it?

Yah, basically saying that we'll get it in, but we're never a huge fave, whereas deeper, we can be a huge favorite against some possible pure bluff checkraises.

26:00: you c/r with 89 of clubs, what do you do on a blank turn if he just calls? Blank as in, under card to the 9 and no club.

ARRRRR IN

Is there going to be any 5-10/10-20 material this season? I find it's been lacking a bit lately in the 6max 5/10+ . However I'm about to watch this vid and I'm sure it's amazing.

Is there going to be any 5-10/10-20 material this season? I find it's been lacking a bit lately in the 6max 5/10+ . However I'm about to watch this vid and I'm sure it's amazing.

check out lime-aid ep 2, and yes there will be 5/10-25/50 coming

Curious about the 67o where u 3 bet the button (32 min), talk about how u shouldnt do this 100bb's deep, then take it down and say that this reinforces why you shouldnt make this play preflop! How does him folding reinforce that preflop was incorrect!?

Anyway, why is raising stuff like this in position generally bad when 100 bb's deep? I think Raptor likes to raise lots of junk like this otb even just 100bb's deep. What factors would sway u in either direction? Thanks.

i got lucky that he folded, not a +EV play against a fish like that since i just have 7 high and he's a station

if he were folding to lotsa c-bets and/or playing super nitty postflop, then i'd raise almost any two cards if i don't risk a 3-bet from the blinds

ARRRRR IN

why is all in good on the turn? if he calls ur flop raise, aren't u likely a significant dog once the turn blanks?

Hey Jay

the 64s ~34min. why dont you coldcall here? would you more likey cold call with 100BB stack? i always thought its just great to coldcall these suitedconnector and see a cheap flop.

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Just started watching this series, i really enjoy it!

Maybe this is asked before, but i notice you dont use any aggression stat in youre HUD.
Why is this ? you just trust youre read/history w the villains to say something about there aggression ?