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

Awesome!

Solid video, demonstrates pretty clearly how to beat the micros.
It's a shame there weren't a few more thinking players that you could get into some sticky situations with...
Could you do another for 100NL?

Thanks for vid. I appreciate the comments about similarity of games between NL25, NL50 and NL100. Often tables are a mixture of tight regs and odd stacks. But usually there are a lot more aggrodonks than just Xare78. At least one per table.

I find HUD is useful to more quickly spot aggrodonks (50/30 types) from 25/3 station types from 10/8 tight reg types. Also sometimes shortstackers are 6/6 robots you need a tight range to tackle and other times they are 25/3 donkeys.

The hands I find most difficult are the ones where some unknown shoves a River or bets large and I'm rarely sure if Villain is bluffing or has nuts. Unfortunately you didn't get any hands like that but Xare78 is the type. Decoding these hands seem to be the difference between a winning or losing session at NL25 so shame you didn't run into any.

At about 5:20 you fold 99 vs a short-stack opener. What range would you suggest at NL25 against a short-stack opener?

At about 6:50 you considered raising 44 on the button against 2 limpers. I'm not sure I agree as many limpers at NL25 will call a raise and a cbet so you are likely to end up at the Turn against at least 2 callers (depending on what blinds do). 1 limper fine. 2 limpers and you better have a read they both have high fold to raise and/or high fold to cbet.

You did a lot of light 3betting for NL25. A lot of players will react like Xare78 and play back at you. I'm surprised you didn't see more of this.

I agree with the two barrel comment. That is, a lot of players will call the Raise, call the cbet and then fold to a second barrel. They seem to think only the Turn bet means you actually have a hand and the price just got too expensive to continue with their missed overs or small PPs.

Great video, thank you for making it. Although I'm a member of another training site on top of this one, I think I've only gotten to watch around 5-6 micro-fr vids. I'm a little shocked at all the limp-pounding you were doing; I'm definately overlimping in too many spots. I found this video and the one you put up a week ago very helpfull. Keep up the great work.

Solid video, but I think 6 "fast" tables is a little overkill. 6 tables wirh normal speed would be fine.

Btw: Stars has an Auto-Rebuy feature, I'd recommend using that one.

Best of your videos to date.

I frankly enjoyed the break from the HUD. It felt as though you had invested a good deal of time in prep even though it was a "self-sweat" format, prep in terms of knowing going into your taping the topics you wished to cover.

I got a lot out of this one. For the love of God, keep it up. I cast my vote for either a 50NL or 100NL full ring, and just replay one table of selected hands covering a couple topics you're interested in. Small stakes folks are rarely artful when it comes to bet sizing and value if that's of interest to you.

Solid video, demonstrates pretty clearly how to beat the micros.
It's a shame there weren't a few more thinking players that you could get into some sticky situations with...
Could you do another for 100NL?

Sure - I will make sure a 100NL FR vid is in the queue, thanks for watching

At about 5:20 you fold 99 vs a short-stack opener. What range would you suggest at NL25 against a short-stack opener?

I would probably call with KQs, AQs,TT JJ, and raise QQ-AA and AK

At about 6:50 you considered raising 44 on the button against 2 limpers. I'm not sure I agree as many limpers at NL25 will call a raise and a cbet so you are likely to end up at the Turn against at least 2 callers (depending on what blinds do). 1 limper fine. 2 limpers and you better have a read they both have high fold to raise and/or high fold to cbet.

I find it unlikely that I raise 44 here and cbet and end up with both opponents still continuing to the turn. I would also be selective about the flops I would cbet if they both called me. That said my range will be stronger than theirs and I will have position, so the hand will be winnable very often, not to mention the times I flop something or take it down pre.

You did a lot of light 3betting for NL25. A lot of players will react like Xare78 and play back at you. I'm surprised you didn't see more of this.

I don't mind if they play back, especially when they show! Like I said in the video, at a table of unknowns with no stats, being aggressive towards them will quickly reveal their tendencies. This can only improve how you approach them in future hands, not to mention the basic value of the aggressive play often working. I feel these factors outweigh the times you get played back at and have to fold.

Great video, thank you for making it. Although I'm a member of another training site on top of this one, I think I've only gotten to watch around 5-6 micro-fr vids. I'm a little shocked at all the limp-pounding you were doing; I'm definately overlimping in too many spots. I found this video and the one you put up a week ago very helpfull. Keep up the great work.

Just remember, if they are open limping in, until they prove otherwise, they are projecting and likely holding a weak range of hands. Even weaker is when they limp along. Even if they suspect you pound limpers they will be at a disadvantage because their range is so much weaker than yours and you have the initiative and ideally position. Make sure to note those who limp reraise with an 'LRR' note, and if you manage to see what they LRR with note that as well. Until they prove they limp reraise or limp in and play tricky postflop against a raiser, keep pounding em!

Click "Sit out next blind" and it doesn't post your small blind for you. Stars's retarded software poned you.

Really enjoyed watching this vid as well as the others you have done; I like your style of play and the way you articulate your thoughts. Also thx DC for recognising demand from many subscribers for more FR. Hopefully many more to follow.
These "ghost" type vids are always of value, but I'd also greatly appreciate a replayer/theory series on post flop FR eg.playing hands like draws, opairs, TP, etc vs different types of opponent both oop and ip and especially running into difficult situations. Maybe others would disagree but I feel many of these situations have a different dynamic than in 6max [more defined ranges in FR?etc] and some 6max ideas dont work so well at FR. Also the nature of FR means a lot of the hands in live play are 1 or 2 street hands so we dont see too much post flop. Thx again for the vid.

I don't think that i can add much more to this cause everything has pretty much been said. awesome job and thx a million.

ps. if you want i can always post a video on how to set-up and use the stars software LOL.

thanks again that was awesome.

J

RE: the 44 hand, a HUGE part of the reason we raise is so we can try to stack them in a juiced pot. even if you never c-bet w/out a set raising is profitable because it improves your implied odds. the smaller stack-to-pot ratio lets you get AI where you might only win 50bb by limping.

RE: the 44 hand, a HUGE part of the reason we raise is so we can try to stack them in a juiced pot. even if you never c-bet w/out a set raising is profitable because it improves your implied odds. the smaller stack-to-pot ratio lets you get AI where you might only win 50bb by limping.

yeah good point Steve forgot to mention this in addition to my other reasons

Really enjoyed watching this vid as well as the others you have done; I like your style of play and the way you articulate your thoughts. Also thx DC for recognising demand from many subscribers for more FR. Hopefully many more to follow.
These "ghost" type vids are always of value, but I'd also greatly appreciate a replayer/theory series on post flop FR eg.playing hands like draws, opairs, TP, etc vs different types of opponent both oop and ip and especially running into difficult situations. Maybe others would disagree but I feel many of these situations have a different dynamic than in 6max [more defined ranges in FR?etc] and some 6max ideas dont work so well at FR. Also the nature of FR means a lot of the hands in live play are 1 or 2 street hands so we dont see too much post flop. Thx again for the vid.

+1

"I get a small blind limping into my big blind and, I generally don't allow that"

Pure gold.

Enjoyed watching though, shame the vids are so old