Poker Video: No Limit Hold'Em by BalugaWhale (High Stakes)

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Time Link to 00:06:04

Hi Andrew!
What would you do if he called your second barrel and the river was:
1)Ad
2)Qh ?
What would u do if the turn was offsuit deuce?
Thanks for response.

Time Link to 00:34:05

Great stuff as usual.
Are you taking this fancy line because villain seems quite fishy?I mean,minraising that turn on that board, your value range is very narrow too,so i wouldn't expect a decent player to give u credit(also because of your immage) like never and bluffcatch u on two streets with anything has a decent showdown value.A fishy player,on the contrary,could play quite face up on your min-raise ,allowing u to take easy decision(he is probably going to ship the top of his range on your raise,fold a lot of bluffs and call some draws and weack showdown value hands tha you can bluff of on the river).Is this the sense of your play?

Time Link to 00:31:02

t4-what do you think he can have there that called flop checked back turna and bet river?

Time Link to 00:08:22

Here on table 2 you 3bet 35s as a bluff. Don't you normally say that high cards are better in 3bet pots due to the smaller stack-pot ratio? I'm curious why you would 3bet a hand like 35s rather than, say, K5s.

what did you end up writing in that business plan, and did you find that it helped your game?

Time Link to 00:11:53

Not sure why you would assume that a loose passive player is more likely to either bluff or value own himself than he is to pay off a bet. Admittedly, we can't get a lot of value with AJ on that board, but I think betting small (1/3 pot or even smaller) is the best course of action

Not sure why you would assume that a loose passive player is more likely to either bluff or value own himself than he is to pay off a bet. Admittedly, we can't get a lot of value with AJ on that board, but I think betting small (1/3 pot or even smaller) is the best course of action

Bet/folding or bet/calling? Don't you have to worry about inducing with that size?

Time Link to 00:13:54

Can't we peel to his 4-bet here getting 4 to 1 immediate?

Andrew,

As one of your biggest fans (no homo) who has watched all of your series atleast 3 times each, I was wondering if you were going to do a Blueprint episode. I am extremely interested in knowing how you went from playing 25 and 50 NL for a year and a half to playing high stakes. Was there a ta-da moment of enlightenment where everything just made sense and then you started crushing? I am very curious. Thanks

Time Link to 00:23:06

Don't you get rebluffed quite often here? You're repping quite a narrow value range, and imo your perceived range contains a lot of air, so villain might choose to click it back often with hands that have no bluffcatcher value.

Andrew,

As one of your biggest fans (no homo) who has watched all of your series atleast 3 times each, I was wondering if you were going to do a Blueprint episode. I am extremely interested in knowing how you went from playing 25 and 50 NL for a year and a half to playing high stakes. Was there a ta-da moment of enlightenment where everything just made sense and then you started crushing? I am very curious. Thanks

Hi,

Yes, I am doing a blueprint coming out soon.

Andrew

Just a quick FYI-- after discussing with some people, I think the T8s hand is a fold on the river T, but not on a river 8 (or a flush, obv).

Andrew

Don't you get rebluffed quite often here? You're repping quite a narrow value range, and imo your perceived range contains a lot of air, so villain might choose to click it back often with hands that have no bluffcatcher value.

potentially, but if I thought that was the case, I could always just raise and then shove. However, I expected him to call with almost everything and fold the rest (which is why I did it). With some more history, though, a raise-ship isn't so bad.

Andrew

Can't we peel to his 4-bet here getting 4 to 1 immediate?

not enough equity against his range.

Andrew

Not sure why you would assume that a loose passive player is more likely to either bluff or value own himself than he is to pay off a bet. Admittedly, we can't get a lot of value with AJ on that board, but I think betting small (1/3 pot or even smaller) is the best course of action

ya, i agree with you.

Andrew

Hi Andrew!
What would you do if he called your second barrel and the river was:
1)Ad
2)Qh ?
What would u do if the turn was offsuit deuce?
Thanks for response.

bet an A, probably check a Q (call fold or raise depending on his size), i'd still probably barrel an offsuit deuce on the turn.

Andrew

Here on table 2 you 3bet 35s as a bluff. Don't you normally say that high cards are better in 3bet pots due to the smaller stack-pot ratio? I'm curious why you would 3bet a hand like 35s rather than, say, K5s.

It's very different if I expect to get called or not.

Andrew

t4-what do you think he can have there that called flop checked back turna and bet river?

a lot of things, including the nuts.

Andrew

Great stuff as usual.
Are you taking this fancy line because villain seems quite fishy?I mean,minraising that turn on that board, your value range is very narrow too,so i wouldn't expect a decent player to give u credit(also because of your immage) like never and bluffcatch u on two streets with anything has a decent showdown value.A fishy player,on the contrary,could play quite face up on your min-raise ,allowing u to take easy decision(he is probably going to ship the top of his range on your raise,fold a lot of bluffs and call some draws and weack showdown value hands tha you can bluff of on the river).Is this the sense of your play?

sort of. i basically expect him to play face up to my turn raise, which lets me play perfectly (and aggressively into what is likely to be a wide range).

Andrew

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No, but seriously, stop teasing with the graph if you're not going to post it!

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No, but seriously, stop teasing with the graph if you're not going to post it!

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lol feels lame im posting 2/4 graphs and not 5/10+, but hey, its a comeback

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Sick brag IMO. I don't suppose you coach, do you?

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hahah awesome. congrats on the return.

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Aw, come on, I drew mine with a red line! Sick graph though, but after watching your vids for like... for ever... it's hardly surprising.

It's very different if I expect to get called or not.

Andrew

How so? Is it that you're 3betting 35s because you don't expect to get called, and 3bet A8o so you can still flop top pair etc if you are called?

How so? Is it that you're 3betting 35s because you don't expect to get called, and 3bet A8o so you can still flop top pair etc if you are called?

well ya. vs a lot of these guys i'd 3b them all.

Andrew

Time Link to 00:42:22

Are you going to release a new book soon? Can we get some insights about it?

Time Link to 00:40:47

Hey baluga, great stuff as always, you the man.

One question about the QJs hand on table one.
What do you think about squeezing with blocker value? And what's your general take of 3betting as a bluff with blocker value with hands like KJ, KQ, QJ and such?

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Wow , u are CRUSHING !!


How many Buy-ins do you give youself for a limit ?

Are you going to release a new book soon? Can we get some insights about it?

i'm unsure exactly how i'm going to package it-- probably free for everyone who already bought the book originally.

at least 7 new chapters, including discussions of leveling, dealing with different kinds of ranges, some updated theory stuff with reasons for betting, and more.

Gotta write more, though.

Andrew

Hey baluga, great stuff as always, you the man.

One question about the QJs hand on table one.
What do you think about squeezing with blocker value? And what's your general take of 3betting as a bluff with blocker value with hands like KJ, KQ, QJ and such?

the problem is, by definition, its pretty hard to bluff (because people aren't really going to fold too many hands better than QJs). They may fold Ax or Kx, but given my read on the button opener, i was too afraid he 4-bets those.

Andrew

sort of. i basically expect him to play face up to my turn raise, which lets me play perfectly (and aggressively into what is likely to be a wide range).

Andrew

Isn't this sort of a leveling thing? I mean he's repping a really narrow value range with his double barrel and so are you with your minraise (even more narrow to be honest), so how sure can you be that he doesn't just jam AQ there on the turn?

OR as played when he calls the turn minraise couldn't he still be holding a hand like a big Ax and be in a bluff-catching mode?

And thanks for the great series once again!

i'm unsure exactly how i'm going to package it-- probably free for everyone who already bought the book originally.

at least 7 new chapters, including discussions of leveling, dealing with different kinds of ranges, some updated theory stuff with reasons for betting, and more.

Gotta write more, though.

Andrew

Nice! As an owner of the original book I'm really looking forward to this.

Time Link to 00:14:53

JT on table3 hj v bb, 7633A, you give up cos it's a board where he's gonna play back a lot even with A/K-hi and if he doesn't have those he's hit the board.

A minute later on table 4 siraj gives up with JT on 76648 btn v bb, you don't like it and say it was a great spot for him to be aggressive and fire multiple streets because you don't have anything on that board but he can.

What's the difference?

well, i'd say that both spots are good spots to either shut down completely, or get crazy aggressive. both are fine options.

Time Link to 00:58:22

Wow You are more aggro than I thought lol. I hope I dont get into too much trouble this session...lol J/K
Sometimes I do get a bit 3B happy after watching your vids though. Just sayin Over all I loved it. Cant wait to see what you have in store for us next!

I just read you article about "3-betting is Overrated" and now I see you 3bettings a ton in this vid

Time Link to 00:47:51

u mad an note of him not c-betting the fives, is he supposed to value bet or bluff? doesnt that board look alot like when u have like 99 and the board comes k102?