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

next week is 5/10?

video quality is horrible, who cares about video size?

next week is 5/10?

video quality is horrible, who cares about video size?

6-table videos are tough, you are going to have to view it on the highest resolution monitor you have.

Love the series, love the commentary, but the video quality is poor. Viewing it on a high resolution monitor doesn't work if maximized, it just looks more distorted.

Sorry if the video quality doesn't look great. Running this vid on my 30" it looks fine? Does this video have worse quality than other 6 table videos I've done? I didn't change anything in the recording process from previous videos.

I have no problem watching the video on a 22! Great video as usual when Nolan's playing! Looking forward to the 5-10 video!

I have one question: the tables always seem pretty tough, so are you playing some 6 max too when the tables are that bad? or do you just sit with the regs? Do you think a fr reg should look into beating the same limit on 6 max to be able to table select better?

Overall Video quality is fine, we just cant see ur stats. We can tell that they are there but they are undreadable. That is on a 22' running 1680 by 1050 resolution.

Everything looks cloudy and granulated on my 24". I'll try a different player and see if thats the problem.

I have no problem watching the video on a 22! Great video as usual when Nolan's playing! Looking forward to the 5-10 video!

I have one question: the tables always seem pretty tough, so are you playing some 6 max too when the tables are that bad? or do you just sit with the regs? Do you think a fr reg should look into beating the same limit on 6 max to be able to table select better?

Me personally, yes I almost always throw in a few 6m tables to my tile when I play. I don't think this is an absolute neccessity, but it is certainly helpful when you're playing 3/6+ and fewer games run. I would say only about 20% of the Stars 3/6+ regs do this however. If you're comfortable with 6m play and 9m play and you're able to adjust appropriately to both while playing a session then I think it's great to mix in both games in the interest of finding the best tables.

6-table videos are tough, you are going to have to view it on the highest resolution monitor you have.

i have 30'
latest ghost video has 170MB and it's 4tabling, this has 100MB 6tabling?

i have 30'
latest ghost video has 170MB and it's 4tabling, this has 100MB 6tabling?

It's not really about filesize so much as there are other variables that will mess with that (animations, framerates, etc). This vid was produced at 1600 wide, which is the standard max width we do for most of our vids (4-tabling ones included). I'm producing a new one at 1900 wide to see if it increases clarity a bit, but it's rare for us to do that as 1900px wide is very close to true HD resolution and will eat a lot of people's computers alive when trying to play back.

The AVI is producing now, from there I'll do a MP4 (flash/MP4 download) and finally a WMV which will take the longest to produce, but all new versions will be up today and you guys can check it out and see if it plays back more nicely.

Rob

Back to the actual poker play. That hand were you flat a 3-bet with JJ because you are sure the villain has AA/KK. Would you flat all pairs you open there? And with the JJ, are you just checkfolding on lets say a 522 board?

Yes, all pairs. Yes, probably check/folding a dry board. Most of these guys are good enough taht even if they do have the 5% of their range that is like AK / Suited connectors they know I can't stand a double barrel if I don't have KK/AA myself.

imo.

i have 30'
latest ghost video has 170MB and it's 4tabling, this has 100MB 6tabling?

Ok -- reproduced in MP4 and WMV. I'd recommend looking at the MP4 version but the new version is 1900x wide (as wide as we can realistically produce without overburdening most people's computers). It looks viewable to me on my 30" monitor, hopefully it helps out you guys a bit.

Rob

Yes, all pairs. Yes, probably check/folding a dry board. Most of these guys are good enough taht even if they do have the 5% of their range that is like AK / Suited connectors they know I can't stand a double barrel if I don't have KK/AA myself.

imo.

Thanks for the respone. One more question: Would you play those pairs the same way at microstakes against a decent tight player?

In my opinion you're fine with limp/calling those small pairs from EP at the microstakes.
As the range is general even tighter when 3betting I probably would only call if the stacks are >150BB.
Of course, you should raise JJ/TT from UTG.

It's not really about filesize so much as there are other variables that will mess with that (animations, framerates, etc). This vid was produced at 1600 wide, which is the standard max width we do for most of our vids (4-tabling ones included). I'm producing a new one at 1900 wide to see if it increases clarity a bit, but it's rare for us to do that as 1900px wide is very close to true HD resolution and will eat a lot of people's computers alive when trying to play back.

The AVI is producing now, from there I'll do a MP4 (flash/MP4 download) and finally a WMV which will take the longest to produce, but all new versions will be up today and you guys can check it out and see if it plays back more nicely.

Rob

i thought the width wasnt issue, something like higher bitrate/less compression (i'm not into that stuff)

nolan's old 6tabling ringside videos was good

Ok -- reproduced in MP4 and WMV. I'd recommend looking at the MP4 version but the new version is 1900x wide (as wide as we can realistically produce without overburdening most people's computers). It looks viewable to me on my 30" monitor, hopefully it helps out you guys a bit.

Rob

it's way better, thx

it's way better, thx

No problem.

We use the same compression settings for all the vids (scalable bitrate based on size), so the issue in this case was taking a video that was 2560x1600 when recorded and making it fit a 1600 width -- that's a huge shrinking so Nolan's fonts which look good at full screen look pretty tiny at that resolution. 1900 wide is a pretty good compromise so I'll have our 6-tabling vids that are recorded at full screen set to that in the future, as long as we don't get too many emails flooding us asking us why this video won't play.

Rob

In my opinion you're fine with limp/calling those small pairs from EP at the microstakes.
As the range is general even tighter when 3betting I probably would only call if the stacks are >150BB.
Of course, you should raise JJ/TT from UTG.

This is a good point. It's probably a slightly bad to do this <150bb deep. I guess I was more so trying to highlight a point about his defined range given the PF action.

Thanks for pointing this stuff out panopticon.

At 39:10 I think you need to give up on the river. You say on the turn "when he flats, I think he has a hand like 87 or 89". Both these hands fill up on the river. I think when he calls the turn he has at least 2 pair, and likely a jack. Basically by the river he always has at least a straight and possibly a full house. You even pause when you say " I hope he has a hand like ... " and then you come up with 76. Even that is a straight. I don't know why you are discounting jacks from his range on the flop, he could easily have J8s, JT, J9 etc.

This is a good point. It's probably a slightly bad to do this <150bb deep. I guess I was more so trying to highlight a point about his defined range given the PF action.

Thanks for pointing this stuff out panopticon.

I was referring to Lann555. l/c is probably out of the question when you're playing higher than 100NL.


If you are calling the 3bet oop w/ TT/JJ I think it's fine when you can narrow down his range that much. With those pairs a set over set setup is more unlikely and when he stacks of w/ AA/KK on a J high board it's fine as long as he has 8 times the call amount behind.

Would you do the same with (smaller) pockets when it comes to blind on blind with very tight players (foldBB to steal >85) b/c 4betting is probably not the best play w/ JJ in that spot.

Very good vid though.

TTvAK on 364('round 40 minutes in) flop u first take ur time on a bet but then insta 3bet. Is there a reason why you make the 3bet instant? Usually I would assume this timing is a sign of entrapment.

I LOVE YOU NOLAN

Nolan why do you say you like to raise/fold with med pairs? In which sense is that a good thing ?

Not sure I understand the question Evil.

Im not sure when exactly but I think you had like 8x on 89x and you said to raise/fold and then again there was a similiar spot, Ill rewatch later to see the exact spots. But the general question is do you think its good to turn a made mediocre hand into a bluff in those spots and why ?

Btw dont wanna mess with his action but fripotin is a pretty nitty reg as far as i saw, im sure the KT hand was prolly a missclick and he just decided to go with it ^^!

Regarding the KJ hand at around 33mins;

I really can't figure out the reasoning for a river shove on that spot.
What better hands did you expect to get to fold and what worse hands did you expect to get called with?

Great video!

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You said a random might interpret your long time to act as weakness. I play at the micro-stakes and have noticed most of the time that when a player takes a long time to check or call that it is usually a legitimate sign of weakness. In this spot, is waiting when you're really strong a form of leveling common at the higher stakes?