Poker Video: Pot-Limit Omaha by MagicNinja (Mid Stakes)

great vid again, for some reason your table theme tillted the shit out of me!
Hope you be back soon with another series 1/2 PLO maybe?
Take care!

Great video series. More PLO please !

The playback stream from the website has green blocks all over the bottom half of the screen.

I downloaded the file and the wmv plays fine.

great vid again, for some reason your table theme tillted the shit out of me!
Hope you be back soon with another series 1/2 PLO maybe?
Take care!

This. i'm sorry to give negative feedback but i realy hate having to watch this layout. Almost made me wanted to click this vid away. But then i remember how awesome this series is

TECHNO THEME FOR THE WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111

TECHNO THEME FOR THE WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111

I'm just happy that I'm not the only techno theme user out there.

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How do you rate Varico`s preflop call to the 3bet on the right table?

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Hey !

On left table, don't you like betting turn? I'm thinking that if you get raised that would mean that most of the time your equity is like 0 (clubs no good), and thus you can happily fold, without having to worry of you not realising your equity?


I was saving my first post to tell you how great these PLO series were. I feel abandoned now that they are over. Please start a new one again soon; like next week or something.

Hey !

On left table, don't you like betting turn? I'm thinking that if you get raised that would mean that most of the time your equity is like 0 (clubs no good), and thus you can happily fold, without having to worry of you not realising your equity?


I was saving my first post to tell you how great these PLO series were. I feel abandoned now that they are over. Please start a new one again soon; like next week or something.

Thanks for the kind words. I was kind of on the fence with the AQc here, i think probably i normally bet this spot. Feels pretty close though like i mentioned.

How do you rate Varico`s preflop call to the 3bet on the right table?

spew. impossible to play this spot profitably no matter how good you are.

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same commment as I've posted before.

By betting you'll make him fold most of the 1 pair type of hands, and if he calls u get to realize your equity. When he raises your bet on turn, well as you say "it sucks" but your equity isn't that good against his range anyway so you don't have to worry about not realising your equity.

I might be completly off there in my reasoning, i don't know...

same commment as I've posted before.

By betting you'll make him fold most of the 1 pair type of hands, and if he calls u get to realize your equity. When he raises your bet on turn, well as you say "it sucks" but your equity isn't that good against his range anyway so you don't have to worry about not realising your equity.

I might be completly off there in my reasoning, i don't know...

the point i'm making about the semi bluff is that even if he folds 1 pair hands 100% of the time when you bet, you don't actually make as much equity since you will win like 25% of the time anyway. a lot of times you are semi bluffing you need basically no folding equity because if you check you would almost be right to call because in that particular spot your enemy might be guaranteed to bet himself.

for example in NL:

K9s2r on flop, opponent likes to check back middle pair as well as other hands. We have JT. This spot is a compulsory bet even if we have almost no folding equity, because if we check we lose our 10 out draw against a pair of 9s or a delayed cbet (which would surely bet). so they have to fold almost never on the turn. if you had 20% equity here the opponent probably only needs to fold about 20% of the time to your turn bet.

however, imagine in this scenario that the opponent would CHECK BACK a pair of 9s most the time, if we checked the turn. now it would be a clear check even though we have 20% folding equity, since we will get to realise our 20% equity no matter what.

thats the logic, anyway.

in this example, say i have 50% folding equity against pair hands, but he only has them half the time. that would make the bet a losing proposition because 75% of the time we're putting in our money behind.

here are the possible situations with betting using this mockup range:
50% of time: we check; he checks medium pairs; we win 25% of the time.
50% of time: we check, he bets we lose.
so we win 12.5% of the time total and pay nothing to do it.

25%: we bet, he folds a medium pair.
25%: we bet, he calls a medium pair, we win 25% of time (so we get 1/4 of this as equity = 6% wins)
50% of time: we bet, he calls or raises, we lose (we have a tiny amount of equity here but lets just assume we lose since we are drawing so thin vs a 9+ and have no / maybe reverse implied odds)

so we win the pot 31% of the time with out bet. but remember that to do that, 69% of the time we're putting in a large bet and losing it. so we pay .69*(2/3potbet) to win .31*(pot size).

thats made it a bit complicated but hopefully you can jump onto my logic. as i have mentioned its a close spot; with the ranges i've shown here it is a clear check, but i don't necessarily agree with them (he could just be floating air for example; on the other hand i really don't think he's folding a pair very often on the turn).

^thank you very much good sir

^thank you very much good sir

know where i can get this video in spanish

mr MagicNinaja,

I saw you just played some with Isildur and some others on 25/50 @ stars, is there any chance you recorded that ? =D

know where i can get this video in spanish

Hi Pokerfarm,

We do not currently translate videos into Spanish.

thanks,
Rob

the 5678 hand where the 4 pairs, 47 min

wouldn't betting still be better as we still have fold equity (i assume quite often because he could be floating some too) and we have folding equity on the river as well(hearts, Q) and just more aggression would make us harder to play against. But then again, our value range on turn is quite narrow, right?

What would we do with AA ourselves? c/c? b/f? or AQxx

Hi,
great videos so far.

Could you plz elaborate in one of your videos or in the forums with which types of hands and board texture you like to c/re the as the flop better.

Thx a lot

22 min A653ss, I think you played very well postflop (btw the fact you have an ace decrease a lot the chances to be against A7XX and A7XX or something). But I think its a fold pf and this hand show somehow why (dominated wrap, bad position...).

Hi Pokerfarm,

We do not currently translate videos into Spanish.

thanks,
Rob

Hey! I bet Orestto would be the nuts for making/translating PLO poker videos into Spanish...

We need more MagicNinja, I hope next round of series there will be a new one from him

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We need more MagicNinja, I hope next round of series there will be a new one from him

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