Poker Video: No Limit Hold'Em by sthief09 (Micro/Small Stakes)

Time Link to 00:49:49

hello Stief09.great series helped me a lot.

My thoughts to the theme "calling small pockets from the blinds" against an utg open are, that we should prefer setminig against a tight utg open like from a nit, or a bad TAG. So the nit and many bad tags will pay us off with their strong holdings like strong Overpairs and Toppairs. So I would say I really would prefer a tight UTG opening range then a wide one for setmining, because wide ranges will barely hit the board that hard like a tight range and villain will not pay us off so many times.

So now you saying the opposite in the video, so Iam confused a little bit. Can you tell against which players you like to call with small pockets from the blinds and why you prefer? Thx a lot. Btw the AT hand at the end was awesome too. Hope my english wasn`t that bad.

hello Stief09.great series helped me a lot.

My thoughts to the theme "calling small pockets from the blinds" against an utg open are, that we should prefer setminig against a tight utg open like from a nit, or a bad TAG. So the nit and many bad tags will pay us off with their strong holdings like strong Overpairs and Toppairs. So I would say I really would prefer a tight UTG opening range then a wide one for setmining, because wide ranges will barely hit the board that hard like a tight range and villain will not pay us off so many times.

So now you saying the opposite in the video, so Iam confused a little bit. Can you tell against which players you like to call with small pockets from the blinds and why you prefer? Thx a lot. Btw the AT hand at the end was awesome too. Hope my english wasn`t that bad.

I don't recall exactly what I said, but I think I asked if he raised because UTG was so tight. I agree it typically helps to be against a tighter range. It's nice to be against passive players too, since they'll let you get to showdown cheaply when you don't flop a set.

Generally speaking though, the worse the player is, the more you can call raises with pocket pairs. Players who aren't aggressive enough in position, ones who bluff and barrel a lot, or ones that can't fold top pair are all good candidates to call against. Bad TAGs could fall in these categories, but I don't think they always do. I'd just about always prefer to be up against a big losing player than a nit.

At 89 minutes the flop entered into pokerstove is not valid, which is what is screwing up the numbers.

I'm having problems getting past the first 2 minutes of video. It just cuts off. I download at 7kb/sec so that doesn't help either. Anyone else?

Nice video and great format! I like scrolling through all the hands, kinda gives you the feel for the table. Good discussion as well.

at 49:20 with AQ on AAJ board why wouldn't you bet 100% of your range? I feel like whenever i get cute here with AQ i lose a ton of value from like AT, and weak suited aces. You would be better all your air hands QT, KQ and any suited connectors you got frisky with.. Don't you need to balance that?

stheif - Is there any chance I can get a copy of your hud from this series please? Thx.

at 49:20 with AQ on AAJ board why wouldn't you bet 100% of your range? I feel like whenever i get cute here with AQ i lose a ton of value from like AT, and weak suited aces. You would be better all your air hands QT, KQ and any suited connectors you got frisky with.. Don't you need to balance that?

yeah I bet there all the time personally. but if you think about it, you don't really lose value from AT (that hand probably bets the turn and will have a hard time folding to a raise or river bet) and there's not much of a need to balance vs. a player like this who you probably won't ever see again. I still like a bet. with AJ I could see a much stronger case being made for checking.

I'm having problems getting past the first 2 minutes of video. It just cuts off. I download at 7kb/sec so that doesn't help either. Anyone else?

were you ever able to get it working?

stheif - Is there any chance I can get a copy of your hud from this series please? Thx.

here you go: https://www.yousendit.com/download/cmczQ1ZwTlEwMEVLSkE9PQ

i've recently changed the bottom line to: fold to flop raise/donkbet/fold to donkbet/raise donkbet

here you go: https://www.yousendit.com/download/cmczQ1ZwTlEwMEVLSkE9PQ

i've recently changed the bottom line to: fold to flop raise/donkbet/fold to donkbet/raise donkbet

Thanks!

Time Link to 01:15:26

You know in the top left, HEM has the pot odds right? Anyway, nice video! Some interesting spots and common mistakes that I still make

You know in the top left, HEM has the pot odds right?

it is kinda annoying that you have this covered throughout the videos.

also the videos are way too long imo. Need to adjust in fitting with the 8 series format.

At 1:30:00, Ah Th, with Ac 6h 4c flop. You note small improvement in equity on turn cards like 9d, which do not help villain much. What happened here is you have a backdoor flush draw, so your equity climbs over 40% when a heart comes. Also, equity climbs a lot if an Ace comes, due to some outs acquired against monsters, killing some flush outs, and card removal.