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

spewtard!!!

yiiii

stop saying queen jack off so much lol

i lold hard @ ivey playing on the spaceship :-)

Highly enjoyable ramblings as usual, although I kind of feel it wasn't as educational as most of the Krantz vids. In any case, looking forward to the continuation of the series.

gd vid, i actually liked fwf 22 hand though, think's he gets a decent % of folds

limpyroo lol

fwf seems a little more.... drunk than usual

ive also added the note "not a robot" to nxtwrldchamp

Hello Ariel could you explain the reasoning behind why you vary your preflop open raise size. I was going to just copy it because I assume its optimal but I figured I should understand why your doing it before I try to implement it in my game.

haha I love the cold 5bet bluff

Jsturm, he discussed it in his ghost video and/or his movin' on up series. basically the reasoning is that when you're in position, you want to be playing smaller pots with more money behind so you can use your full arsenal of moves, maximizing your positional advantage. conversely you want to be playing inflated pots out of position to cut down on villain's positional advantage. hope this makes sense and sorry if you absolutely wanted a response from Ariel and nobody else.

I feel a little bit dirty. I have been giving Jay shit everytime he was anything less than perfect but he been doing nothing but greatness in the video department as of late and even so, I havent showed my gratitude..

Thanks Jay, you finally got there, I lived to "RE".

Bros before hoes.

I like the vid but would like krantz to stay more on topic, leave the diatribe stuff(4 bet tangent) to a podcast or something. It's hard to digest when you are switching subjects back and forth from ariels play to your advice. I love your ranting and I love the critiquing but would prefer them to be separate content instead of meshed together.

Jsturm, he discussed it in his ghost video and/or his movin' on up series. basically the reasoning is that when you're in position, you want to be playing smaller pots with more money behind so you can use your full arsenal of moves, maximizing your positional advantage. conversely you want to be playing inflated pots out of position to cut down on villain's positional advantage. hope this makes sense and sorry if you absolutely wanted a response from Ariel and nobody else.

Thank you.

"Imagine if Phil Ivey plays with that shace ship." How high were you? It was a entertaining video.

Krantz,
Why do u think the river shove with 22 vs Q9cc is bad?
Dont you think he can call the bet turn with something like KcQ and give up on the river considering stack sizes?

How can you fold the KQ hand at the turn @ min 28?!

Krantz,
Why do u think the river shove with 22 vs Q9cc is bad?
Dont you think he can call the bet turn with something like KcQ and give up on the river considering stack sizes?

He could, but generally speaking when someone calls the turn on a board like that and gets a blank river, they're calling, even moreso against a player they perceive as being very tough/aggro. Either way, when his range is pretty tight and he's already invested a lot of money in the pot, I don't like the bluff. That's not to say that the turn bet isn't +EV (unsure if it actually is in this particular situation either), but it just means that often you'll be faced with spots where you can profitably double barrel bluff but not triple barrel bluff... the same is said for the spots where you cannot profitably double barrel bluff UNLESS you plan on firing the third barrel. The best players are the ones who are well aware of which instance is which and it almost entirely has to do with how narrow or wide your opponents hand range is.

"Imagine if Phil Ivey plays with that shace ship." How high were you? It was a entertaining video.

seriously though! we don't know! phil ivey could be sitting at thunderdome right now with the spaceship background on!

Hello Ariel could you explain the reasoning behind why you vary your preflop open raise size. I was going to just copy it because I assume its optimal but I figured I should understand why your doing it before I try to implement it in my game.

i think that playing OOP is hard so when OOP I like to discourage callers. i also think that playing in position is easy so i'd rather get a better price on stealing the blinds, knowing that if i get called it's not that big of a problem because i can outplay my opponents pretty often.

He could, but generally speaking when someone calls the turn on a board like that and gets a blank river, they're calling, even moreso against a player they perceive as being very tough/aggro. Either way, when his range is pretty tight and he's already invested a lot of money in the pot, I don't like the bluff. That's not to say that the turn bet isn't +EV (unsure if it actually is in this particular situation either), but it just means that often you'll be faced with spots where you can profitably double barrel bluff but not triple barrel bluff... the same is said for the spots where you cannot profitably double barrel bluff UNLESS you plan on firing the third barrel. The best players are the ones who are well aware of which instance is which and it almost entirely has to do with how narrow or wide your opponents hand range is.

To some extent I agree with this but I think you're ignoring another factor, which is how wide a range the bluffer can represent which beats the other guy's hand. If he has KQ there are a million hands that I can have that beat him. Not saying that people don't call down anyway, but I don't think it's as often as you think it is in spots like this.

The 54os 4bet hand. Let's assume you had AK instead. For how deep stack would you fold, if the guy with tens would have shoved pre flop?