Poker Video: Limit Hold'Em by Entity (Mid Stakes)

I only play omaha8 now but i've decided to relearn LHE as a second game.

Yeaterday I downloaded the first two seasons of this. I'm going to use them as my building blocks.

kool?

2nd

Love Rob moving up the scale during the vid and back down again

"I won't yell if you fold"
"I won't yell if you fold"
"Don't you dare....now look what you did"
"Don't Fold Don't Fold!!"
"Meh, won't cry about it if you fold"

Plus

Angry elephant ftw!! But he's a hero elephant, why would he be angry??

Great job guys, love these 1-tabling review vids, there's so much detail. Multi-tabling vids can sometimes go into overload esp if they're 4-tabling, not that that's a complaint at all, they just need a little more watching.

Re: 76s at 37:00 where it's raised and Cold called before us and we're on the button. Do you guys have a SC cutoff you would call here (I'd say I'd probably call T9s here) and what about if we're in the SB? I like the fact you'd call some PPs there. I think the "Flop set vs flop draw" arguement's in Season 1, great discussion.

One other note PygmyHero, you seem to have the ability to find awesome awesome games. Follow the example people.

Entity

the K4 explaination at the end of vid was excellent, easy to understand and useable. thanks.

I only play omaha8 now but i've decided to relearn LHE as a second game.

Yeaterday I downloaded the first two seasons of this. I'm going to use them as my building blocks.

That's awesome! Definitely also check out danzasmack's series The Price is Right and Can't Shouldn't Fold as they are also very informative.

Hey Boomer,

Yes, I think there was some really advanced discussion on avatars in this video, and as far as I know it's the only stuff currently available on avatarments.

On the 76s hand I think you nailed it - it goes right back to our season one discussion of the difference between IO hands like 55 and IO hands like SC's. One other consideration was how tightly EasyMoney appeared to be playing, but that was somewhat tempered by my good absolute and relative position, and a player in between who appeared weak. It's hard to say exactly where my line would be, but somewhat arbitrarily I'll say call 98s and that I'd be upset if I got dealt 87s.

As for the SB...I think I'd strongly consider calling all the way down to 54s (due to maximum stretch) there).

Interesting psychological topics in this episode.

Mike I think I remember you using the: "he may be getting pissed at me, so I better stay out of his way", reasoning before in earlier episodes. For nice guys like u and me haha , that is really the natural instinct. But Rob really has the correct idea poker-vise. We (I at least) are scared of senseless agression, but at the table that really corresponds to implied odds. But it's really counter personality for me to try to make an angry guy furious.

Dealing with aggro people at the table can maybe give some real life skills too, or what do you think?

Good video, but I really disagree about the QJo hand OTB versus Blandy's UTG raise. First his range is so wide and his postflop skills so atrocious that folding is clearly the worst option. As Oink would say, you have to get in as many pots as you can with the fish.

Of the other two options, I'm fine with cold-calling here and think it is the most +EV decision (ignoring metagame). Even including metagame, I suspect it's the best line, but I am admittedly skeptical as to how much tilt value 3-betting and winning the pot can have. This guy has shown a willingness to take hands like Kx to showdown, so the value of isolating to take the pot down when you miss is almost nil. I'm happy to see a flop and most likely a turn card (depending on board texture and what the blinds do) and put in action if I flop well and get out if I don't. This mostly fit-or-fold approach is certainly better than just folding, and I don't see much benefit of getting aggressive when I miss the board since our fold equity is pretty small. In fact, it's the miniscule fold equity which makes seeing a flop so valuable in the first place.

Honestly, the line where I think about folding is way way way lower than QJo. Assuming relatively TAG or TP blinds, I'm probably going to stretch to see a flop with T9o, 97s, etc. This guy is just really bad and will barrel off indiscriminately and pay off our value raises almost 100% of the time. I'm willing to take slightly the worst of it preflop against him any day with position.

Interesting psychological topics in this episode.

Mike I think I remember you using the: "he may be getting pissed at me, so I better stay out of his way", reasoning before in earlier episodes. For nice guys like u and me haha , that is really the natural instinct. But Rob really has the correct idea poker-vise. We (I at least) are scared of senseless agression, but at the table that really corresponds to implied odds. But it's really counter personality for me to try to make an angry guy furious.

Dealing with aggro people at the table can maybe give some real life skills too, or what do you think?

When you're asking this question, you should be asking it in relation to what will be likely to make the player be more difficult to play against/play better. If he's playing too passively and getting him pissed at you will make him be more aggressive (and subsequently tougher to play against), you should consider letting up a bit to give him some breathing room. If he's playing too loosely and too aggressively, you need to be aware that you're going to be in for a variance war, but keeping pounding on him can make him play even worse and, as long as you don't tilt, put you in more +EV situations than before.

Rob

Hey sushi, I think Rob's dead on regarding getting into poker confrontations. I don't think I can add anything useful there.

As for real life parallels, it's kind of funny to me that I have a 'nice guy' persona on the forums. Don't get me wrong - I do believe I'm a genuinely nice guy. But for much of my life I've also suffered from a pretty bad temper. I have gotten into some not so pleasant real life confrontations that, given what you know of me from the forums, you maybe wouldn't believe possible.

I guess it's just that much of what we see of each other on the forums goes through a lot of filters: I don't post constantly (almost though), you can't hear my tone, see my body language, etc. For example I can think of some posts on DC that have kind of aggravated me, but I tend to wait and not reply until later. So the response you finally see is much more rational and measured than my initial reaction. Ultimately we only see each other for a sliver of our lives, which inevitably means there are sides to all of us that others are unlikely to see.

Anyway, I feel that quelling that personality defunct and just learning to chill the f out has been an important part of my development both as a person and as a poker player. And I believe my progress in each area (at and away from the tables) has facilitated the other.

Hey sushi, I think Rob's dead on regarding getting into poker confrontations. I don't think I can add anything useful there.

As for real life parallels, it's kind of funny to me that I have a 'nice guy' persona on the forums. Don't get me wrong - I do believe I'm a genuinely nice guy. But for much of my life I've also suffered from a pretty bad temper. I have gotten into some not so pleasant real life confrontations that, given what you know of me from the forums, you maybe wouldn't believe possible.

I guess it's just that much of what we see of each other on the forums goes through a lot of filters: I don't post constantly (almost though), you can't hear my tone, see my body language, etc. For example I can think of some posts on DC that have kind of aggravated me, but I tend to wait and not reply until later. So the response you finally see is much more rational and measured than my initial reaction. Ultimately we only see each other for a sliver of our lives, which inevitably means there are sides to all of us that others are unlikely to see.

Anyway, I feel that quelling that personality defunct and just learning to chill the f out has been an important part of my development both as a person and as a poker player. And I believe my progress in each area (at and away from the tables) has facilitated the other.

Wow I couldn't agree more with this. Perhaps its just that poker for me is all in all pretty relaxing, but I am much more short tempered and I fear, not "nice" in other aspects but I'm pretty aware at this point that I'm a decent poker poster / forum presence.

^im surprised you and mike haven't killed each other yet tbh