Yess, some original stoof, I liked this alot man, pls do more! The best plays i've seen from you so far tbh, makes a difference when you're not streaming I suppose. Q8s OB early on is nice, and KTs on the Q river is spot on I still have some notes though of course ;) K5s 1:20 - OB turn 56s 2:30 - you can probs stab turn for half once he checked flop and plan to barrel all rivers JJ 16:45 - You have to raise with JJ here, make it a size they cant call a hand like KQo, so many flops you have to x/f, if youre just calling JJ here and people see this (as in they watch this video or your streams) then people can just min raise your UTG with 100% range profitably A4s 19:20 - This turn bet seems a bit of a punt, he shouldnt have many folds in this spot, AK that he didnt 3bet pre? AJ/ATcc? Thats about it, all his PP should be calling and his AXss can continue a decent chunk. Id rather you have A4hh if youre gonna fire here, you can always bet river if you get checked too. B-X-B is a better bluff line than B-B-F which is what you sounded like you were gonna do. You also get to see a free river. Your bluffs here should be spades, Ax with A spades 89, T9 TLDR : You're overbluffing if your bluffing A4dd in this spot as you block a decent amount of his folds 77 22:30 - I wouldnt hate to see a hero or at least to hear you explain that he will be bluffing some of the times on this runout. You look exactly like the hand you have when you bet flop and check turn. If he has AK,KQ here then he also has AJ,AQ. If he went closer to half pot, id have liked to have seen a call. Vs this big sizing, fold is correct although it does still look very bluffy as him betting AK to this sizing given the action seems very greedy. K9s 23:00 - I would like to have seen you attack this smaller sizing, villain will be betting range and a raise with a decent equity hand is the play here precisely because of the type of turn that came, you have to x/f turn so often. JJ 24:40 - With J hearts Id be more than happy to get it in OTF, without call is probably fine although getting it in is never an awful play. You can make a very disciplined fold OTT as this turn isnt one that people will be bluffing on. As played, fold river. You talk about needing a call down range here? No we dont. If hes finding a bluff with like AQhh or value betting JThh on a paired board , let him have his money, this is always very strong value once he bets river. J8s 27:30 - Dont OB on turns where you have no bluffs, here for example, you have no bluffs, makes it super easy to play against. Youre not gonna be OB AT or 7x OTT so why the flush, you look super nutted. 78 29:00 - You say we don't really need to raise here? Why? Our hand is way ahead of his range (even on the larger sizing) and needs a load of protection. If he calls you can see all 5 cards easily as his range has been filtered heavily and can pick off some bluffs from missed draws OTR. Fold OOT as played is very nitty nicky boy, Clubs,89,9T,45 etc especially when you your range is capped as you didnt raise flop QQ 33:30 - Min 3bet OTF is the play here, easy fold vs jam and gets more value vs his PP. I would tag this guy as a decent reg at least btw just for having a raising range there and raising to a correct sizing Alot of this stuff is quite close to how you played it and, barring a few spots, I think you played well. GG
Thanks mate! Classic Hurley, you love to see it. Glad you liked my play mostly! It is definitely easier to think about spots on 2 tables and not streaming but hey, I've chosen this life. I'll reply to the ones that I have something to say about and the others just assume I can see your point! JJ: Don't think I'm overly concerned about people min 3 betting me after seeing this lol. I agree this is close and likely a 3bet, but I do think I'm getting a lot of calls regardless of sizing at this stakes and I'll be in a lot of tough spots OOP. I do like seeing the flop with 2 sticky opponents and set mining, but 3bet certainly has its obvious merits. A4s: I've been experimenting with a few turn barrels in these spots recently on some advice I got last week. It's not a spot I'd have chosen before this to be honest but I'm just not sure how much Qx is floating flop and I think this deep, this pool is overfolding those pairs you are talking about him calling with. I agree that I may need to barrel river rather than give up but I think the card is better for me and I may have too many bluffs, but this is exploiting tendencies here. Interesting though. 77: I haven't seen this guy get out of line and the stats are very nitty. You're right it's worth talking about but I don't think talking myself into a call here will win very much vs this guy. K9s: Interesting, bit concerned about how often I would be doing this if I do it here but we do have a lot of 5x obviously. Don't mind it. JJ: I just think it's worth talking about what kind of hands make sense to call with, and I think this has to be one of our best ones. No, I don't expect to win very often, but I am only calling with JJ or QQ without a heart and blocking a club, which is very few hands obviously. I think this feels fine as a call and, as I said, I think we are folding all but TT if we fold here with this being such a good call down hand. J8s: I hesitated on this to think what I'd bluff with and just thought I had a decent amount of Acx that will block some calls downs also that might make sense to do it with. I agree I'd prefer to 75% in hindsight. 78o: Raise flop is good I think and I would prefer that marginally. Turn I rolled but certainly reasonable to pure call. Just not sure how often our opponent cares about us being 'capped' and 2 barrels seems strong to me, so I didn't want to call with all my 87. QQ: He has a few too many 8s on a dry board for my liking, and I think he would fold all his low equity bluffs vs raise. Think I like keeping all that in and saving money vs an 8, but reasonable for sure. Thanks for the support as always mate, always love to see you on the stream and on here, really adds to it all.
Great content and delivery, and super relevant to all those barnacle-scrapping microstakers who are generally left to mine the content of more established streamers, hoping to find the Philosopher's Stone
New sub here. I started watching your shorts this morning and the one where you folded Jack's full to a jam was absolutely incredible. I was like ☆WoW☆ this guy is legendary!!!
I really enjoy your videos!! I was wondering if you could do a 2NL vid and explain why you make the moves that you do. In this 10NL vid you generally only say what move you are making and dont really give any logic behind your decisions. Some logic would be very helpful! Thanks again for helping us out!
damn! great stuff! I love the way you talk thru your thought process, easy to comprehend. And also, I am seeing so many spots where I am doing stuff wrong, for example, I continue in too many spots, like when the hijack opened and you folded from the cutoff w 55, I would usually call there. Little things like that. Great stuff! I just subscribed and will be watching more, thanks!
Thanks very much! Glad to know you're picking some things up. Don't really want a flatting range anywhere except BB and maybe BTN if you know what you're doing!
@@eastyyy22 Hey man, love your stuff and appreciate this is an old comment. If you do see this i'd be keen to get your thoughts on flatting a min raise in this kind of situation. I know there's around 1/8 odds of flopping a set with pocket pairs so wondering if it could be a profitable play to flat min raises and set-mine?
@@robd1381 Cheers Rob! My thoughts on this haven't changed too much but I do think there are situations where flatting a hand like this could be okay. If it's a weaker player opening, then they are less likely to make deductions about what your flat means for your hand, and your set is more likely to get paid. I'd also want to be sure that players behind me don't have high squeeze percentages, allowing us to see the flop more, and ideally for these players to be fish also. The main issue with flatting is that 1) Unless all players are fish we need to build a flatting range with more hands on the CO like QJs, and this complicates our strategy at low stakes unnecessarily, and 2) we don't always get to see the flop cheaply, we don't always get paid when we hit a set, and sometimes we get coolered by bigger sets/straights/flushes. Hope this helps and thanks for watching!
Interesting check on river with set. I would think flushdraws usually check back blocking folds like your missed flushdraws. I think it’s okay though if you think they bluff flushdraws and aren’t good enough to exploitatively call or jam wider on your weaker river betting range.
Hey Nick! Gonna thank the youtube algorithm for showing me your videos because I've really been enjoying them. Question for you, does it really matter which stake I start at? Should I start a 2NL and grind my way up, or just jump right to 10nl because my bankroll allows for it?
Hey Liam, thanks a lot! I think if you can afford to skip 2nl you should, i.e start by learning at 5nl if you can handle those losses should they occur.
Really really informative vdo.. Learned 3 things from this one vdo and will implement in my game.. Thanks in millions.. Please post more vdos on micro stakes
Great video as per. Would you ever consider making like a 20-40 blind pot spot review or something. Maybe a guide using hands you’ve already played from stream. Think there’s a lot of interesting bluffs that get through or thin value that don’t actually get called spots that would definitely help me anyway.
I could do yeah, maybe I make that a side series or something. It's just that timestamping the videos is very time consuming at the big pots are easiest to find! I will be doing a few different things aside from stream highlights that I hope will be helpful. Thanks for watching!
Great video Nick. I watch you on Twitch and it's good to get more of your thoughts on the hands. I look forward to your future videos. Good Luck - Norfycab
Two things: 1. Your eyes are fucking BEAUTIFUL 2. Pls can you play some 10NL full ring? I'm sure a lot of the skills are transferrable from zoom to full ring but I'd really like to see how you play it anyway :)
1) Haha thanks a lot! 2) I reaaally don't like full ring but it's maybe something I could consider. It would have to come with a huge disclaimer that it's not really my game and I'm feeling my way around it.
Very good quality content! What do you bade your ranges on? Like how do you decide A8 isn't an UTG open? Also: are you worried about opponents exploited your ranges? If you've opened from UTG they know you only have 8's an below as pocket pairs or a rare suited connector
Hey, the spot with JJ at around 26:00 Do you think villains on NL10 are capable of turning something like flopped top-2 (T9) into a bluff on the river? I think it's a reasonable bluff in theory, but am not sure if an average player on NL10 can make it. If they are capable of doing it then JJ are even more a call, right?
Very interesting approach. Its quite different to the Blackrain79's kind of maniacal style, which i find to be difficult sometimes for new players with no experience of millions of hands in the micros like me. To be fair, he makes videos for lower stakes, and not zoom. Anyways, keep it up!
Excellent Video again - thanks. Like this type of content, compliments the Twitch stream well. Would like to see some $25nl and hear your thoughts on the differences between the two stakes. I tend to believe that $16nl and $10nl are pretty similar but $25nl is a bit tougher.
Thanks Steve! Will definitely do both 25nl and 16nl and give my thoughts on this. The most recent 16nl session I played I got absolutely slapped by variance but not sure it's any harder as you say. Haven't been in the 25nl pool in a while but looking forward to it!
I am about to move up stakes to NL10. I am winning 20BB/100 over 100K hands at NL5. My hand ranges are different than yours. I open tigther and I generally lay it down if I meet resistance. My range at button for instance is: 22+, 86s+, 98off+. Cutoff: K10off+, 98s+,22+.Same range from small blind. EP: KQoff+, KJs+, 66+. Only 3-betting for value (strong hands plus strong connectors and 77+ from button). Not opening pocket 2-5 from EP because they are break even EV or worse in most situations.
Ty for the great content! Could you explain pls why you folded 55 VS a 100 bb raise in the hj at 14.45? Thought that you would try to setmine. I'd appreciate an answer.
In my experience, when villain donks on wet boards, it's usually 2 pairs+... They are probably worried you will check back with your entire range, hence donking allows them to get more value from overpairs. I don't think villains donk bet enough draws to balance out their value range, so in the 89T hand, you can probably fold on the turn, since the board paired and you could be drawing close to dead against a boat. Also, I wouldn't really call a straight draw on a turn with 2 flush draws as any river that completes any flush and gives you a straight could be devastating (reverse implied odds)
Amazing content as always. Have questions about optimal time to play micros. Do you feel there is any difference between morning and evening player pools? What about weekend? Do you build your schedule according to it?
Hi Shahen, good question! I personally play only play on stream, so I just play when it makes sense in that regard. Evenings and weekends are most likely softer than during the day though! Thanks for watching.
Can't remember what video it was on as I have recently watched them all haha but I noticed Nick on one you had PS setup to auto sit out once you had increased your stack size to x amount of BB's....Please can you tell me how you did this?
This is absolutely top content! I'd love to hear some tips about controlling tilt, since that's the main drawback in my game. I have huge tilt issues. I was properly bankrolled playing nl10 online and was up 70 bucks in the first 2 days. Third day took some bad beats, started losing, and started tilting bad. Started playing in higher stakes "to recover the losses", and lost my entire bankroll in 3 days. I'd love to hear some opinions and tips to fix this
Thanks very much! First and foremost, do not play through tilt. Take frequent breaks and when you notice your game dropping below its best, you have to stop. Never change the stakes you are playing to chase losses and always play within your bankroll. You are going to have days where you lose through no fault of your own, it's unavoidable. You can't afford to have losing days that are your fault on top of that. Good luck!
Don't just look at wins and losses, look at how long you play. Most players play short winning and long losing sessions, if you try consciously to do the opposite you should improve your win rate.
Hey Nick, very good material! I've just had found you recently because of your 5NL live coaching video. I've been struggling with 5NL, do you have any online course that you find good for beginners? Also interested about your very beginnings in poker, maybe a video about it could be pretty awesome. Following you from Brazil! Cheers
Hey Mauricio! I would recommend Upswing Poker Lab, maybe when you can find it on a discount. Keep it for a few months and work through the modules. I'll do a 5nl episode of this guide for sure too! I could make a video about that! Just not sure how interesting it would be haha. Thanks very much for watching!
It's just so we aren't doing certain things too often. For example, if we are 4b bluffing AQo from certain spots with all combos then we're bluffing too much, so we mix between the options. Hope that makes sense.
@@omerlaleli Low numbers I won't do things. Usually I'll mix half/half but sometimes I'll do things less often. So in the same example if I want to 4b AQo half the time and roll a 40, I'm not doing it.
They are important in the sense that we are allowed to use them and they provide information that can be helpful! They aren't everything, but they can definitely guide decisions. I really only use them at this stake for a general idea of how aggressive or, most of the time, passive, an opponent will be. Thanks for watching.
Without antes we don't need to raise as much to pressure the BB as they are getting a worse price in non-ante games. We also lose less when we fold to 3b!
great content, will watch along with others. Great explanations in play. JJ for me is a pure exploit fold at 10z (or 5z in my case), have you reviewed that and got video of said review anywhere ?
Hey Nick I am winning at NL2 6max around 6BB/100 hands over 100k hands and now I want to move to bigger stakes. I would play NL5 and NL10. Do yiu have any tips and books I should read about strategy and bankroll? Thanks :) Btw your eyes are so blue haha I have blue eyes but yours are SO blue
Great video, great channel! This is killing two birds with one stone: Learning Poker, and Learning British English (I'm a Spanish native speaker)... BTW, do you happen to know any other british poker youtuber or something apart from Gingepoker and Kakitee? Thanks!
Thanks very much! Good to hear it's helping in more ways than one. I'd recommend my friend Mark, Weazel_1991 if you haven't checked him out already, but he may be a little more difficult for you to understand!
@@eastyyy22 No worries, I can understand him perfectly (I even understand Adele when she goes full cockney haha), I checked his channel and it was alright, thank you so much, I hope you get to NL100 this year.
No I only play on Stars as I like the software and don't like to pay rake preflop haha. I'd recommend Party Poker depending on where you are, but I can't get on with the software. Rakeback is good and player pools are softer though.
I like the videos, especially longer ones like these. I prefer just to watch a full session instead of just highlights. I've seen you in the pool a few times and said hi once. I was wondering if you may be willing to tell me what you had in this spot. imgur.com/a/SC4ik6m I checked it in GTOWizard, and you surprisingly played the hand relatively well. I find you have a lot more overbets in your game than I do, and I'm going to work on my turn/river play to find the spots I'm missing. You put me in a tough spot here, and the GTOWizard solve says I made a bad fold. I'm too weaktight and overfoldy and my redline is the big issue in my game.
MrFunnyWobbl! Good to see you here! I appreciate that a lot of people like the full sessions and I'm just trying to mix up my content but make sure I do keep making this kind of video. I'm happy to tell you what I had here, I hope you mean you found it surprising that my line was reasonable and not that it's surprising I made a reasonable play :D. I'm going to need some more info on the hand, date it was played etc so I can find it in my database for you.
@@eastyyy22 When we first played the hand I thought your line was silly/exploitative, but I was shocked that in GTO you played it almost perfectly. I guess you're more studied than I am. Here is the hand information: PokerStars Zoom Hand #222633772394: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2021/01/14 20:25:53 ET Here is another interesting one we played the same day, I can't figure out what you're doing this with OTR? Is this quads/a high pocket pair that you're trying to get value from my low pocket pairs or are you just bluffing given that once it checks to the river I'm pretty capped? PokerStars Zoom Hand #222635526672: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2021/01/14 21:45:54 ET
@@MrFunnyWobbl First hand I had JTo, 2nd hand I had 99 lol Your stats are very tight on my database so I thought it possible that you had an 8 or 5 you were checking to call, and if you had air you would fold anyway. This was from a stream where I was messing about a whole lot though lol
@@eastyyy22 Ah! Well played in the first hand. The second hand I just had air. Yeah my stats are really nitty, it's a leak (one of many) that I'm working on. I actually think I have your preflop stats as pretty tight in my hand sample.
Thanks mate! Appreciate it. My main focus was to make something for micro stakes players as I feel like resources are lacking. Will be doing some moving up in the next few weeks! Thanks for watching.
@@eastyyy22 Its not really important, thanks for this video and reply though i play 10nl zoom on partypoker ! i learnt a fair bit from this video that i havent with my upswing account i bought ! its very usefull to see your play and explain im definatly gonna watch them all, im usually ok in this field but im still losing more money on bad runs than i am gaining on good runs, any idea how i can spot my leaks ?
mate how are you getting people calling 3 bets with J5o and calling all in with 4th pair hahaha i swear 5NL is the shark stakes. Do you think there are optimal times of the day to play? or specific days maybe?
I’m a little confused. Why am I not seeing any of the hands that you’re not in play out?? I can see if you edited them but your stream video seems to not be edited(no cuts to skip the hands you’re not in) so I feel like i’m losing my mind lol
I do mention that our opponent will have a lot of Qx such as QTs and QJs that will play this way. Generally when a board can be good for our opponent we don't want to bet as much.
Would you share the charts you use, or perhaps make a video on how someone could make their own charts? Which kind of charts do you have up while playing? (first raise, vs 3bet, vs limp, vs open) Do you have any postflop charts? Lastly, did you use any software to create your charts, and if so, which software? Thanks for the content!
Unfortunately I can't share my graphs as I bought them and that would be unfair to the supplier. I use them rarely as they are mostly in my head now, but it's RFI and vs 3b.
It's to decide whether he is going to make one decision or another, for example if he should call a hand 75% of the time and fold 25% of the time, he'll roll the RNG generator and if the number is less than or equal to 25 he'll fold, otherwise he'll call
Im bust bummed out because of the software. It's basically like cheating. Started playing 2003 and went pro 2008-2015 with six figure income every year. I quit professionally 2015 and i'm just playing PL omaha /Razz with some SD from time to time. The game was so pure before software and solvers became a thing. It ruined the game and takes absolutely ZERO skill to use. The most annoying thing is that most of these streamers or lowpros actually are pure shit at the game. Many times they make decisions thanks to the HUD. When Nick or whoever then tries to motivate their decision it's extremely flawed or doesnt make sense. That's what we are seeing today. A lack of understanding of the game and a robotic approach to it. Fine, but don't ramble with your flawed logic or absolutely shocking lack of understanding of what you are doing.
Even though this is 1 year old! I still find it very informative and it gives me plenty of value!! Keep it up mate!
Thanks a lot, Casper!
I'm dusting it all off at 10NL! Thank you for this guide, greatest Micro Stakes Teacher Nick Eastwood!
You can do it!
Yess, some original stoof, I liked this alot man, pls do more! The best plays i've seen from you so far tbh, makes a difference when you're not streaming I suppose. Q8s OB early on is nice, and KTs on the Q river is spot on
I still have some notes though of course ;)
K5s 1:20 - OB turn
56s 2:30 - you can probs stab turn for half once he checked flop and plan to barrel all rivers
JJ 16:45 - You have to raise with JJ here, make it a size they cant call a hand like KQo, so many flops you have to x/f, if youre just calling JJ here and people see this (as in they watch this video or your streams) then people can just min raise your UTG with 100% range profitably
A4s 19:20 - This turn bet seems a bit of a punt, he shouldnt have many folds in this spot, AK that he didnt 3bet pre? AJ/ATcc? Thats about it, all his PP should be calling and his AXss can continue a decent chunk. Id rather you have A4hh if youre gonna fire here, you can always bet river if you get checked too. B-X-B is a better bluff line than B-B-F which is what you sounded like you were gonna do. You also get to see a free river. Your bluffs here should be spades, Ax with A spades 89, T9 TLDR : You're overbluffing if your bluffing A4dd in this spot as you block a decent amount of his folds
77 22:30 - I wouldnt hate to see a hero or at least to hear you explain that he will be bluffing some of the times on this runout. You look exactly like the hand you have when you bet flop and check turn. If he has AK,KQ here then he also has AJ,AQ. If he went closer to half pot, id have liked to have seen a call. Vs this big sizing, fold is correct although it does still look very bluffy as him betting AK to this sizing given the action seems very greedy.
K9s 23:00 - I would like to have seen you attack this smaller sizing, villain will be betting range and a raise with a decent equity hand is the play here precisely because of the type of turn that came, you have to x/f turn so often.
JJ 24:40 - With J hearts Id be more than happy to get it in OTF, without call is probably fine although getting it in is never an awful play. You can make a very disciplined fold OTT as this turn isnt one that people will be bluffing on. As played, fold river. You talk about needing a call down range here? No we dont. If hes finding a bluff with like AQhh or value betting JThh on a paired board , let him have his money, this is always very strong value once he bets river.
J8s 27:30 - Dont OB on turns where you have no bluffs, here for example, you have no bluffs, makes it super easy to play against. Youre not gonna be OB AT or 7x OTT so why the flush, you look super nutted.
78 29:00 - You say we don't really need to raise here? Why? Our hand is way ahead of his range (even on the larger sizing) and needs a load of protection. If he calls you can see all 5 cards easily as his range has been filtered heavily and can pick off some bluffs from missed draws OTR. Fold OOT as played is very nitty nicky boy, Clubs,89,9T,45 etc especially when you your range is capped as you didnt raise flop
QQ 33:30 - Min 3bet OTF is the play here, easy fold vs jam and gets more value vs his PP. I would tag this guy as a decent reg at least btw just for having a raising range there and raising to a correct sizing
Alot of this stuff is quite close to how you played it and, barring a few spots, I think you played well.
GG
Thanks mate! Classic Hurley, you love to see it. Glad you liked my play mostly! It is definitely easier to think about spots on 2 tables and not streaming but hey, I've chosen this life. I'll reply to the ones that I have something to say about and the others just assume I can see your point!
JJ: Don't think I'm overly concerned about people min 3 betting me after seeing this lol. I agree this is close and likely a 3bet, but I do think I'm getting a lot of calls regardless of sizing at this stakes and I'll be in a lot of tough spots OOP. I do like seeing the flop with 2 sticky opponents and set mining, but 3bet certainly has its obvious merits.
A4s: I've been experimenting with a few turn barrels in these spots recently on some advice I got last week. It's not a spot I'd have chosen before this to be honest but I'm just not sure how much Qx is floating flop and I think this deep, this pool is overfolding those pairs you are talking about him calling with. I agree that I may need to barrel river rather than give up but I think the card is better for me and I may have too many bluffs, but this is exploiting tendencies here. Interesting though.
77: I haven't seen this guy get out of line and the stats are very nitty. You're right it's worth talking about but I don't think talking myself into a call here will win very much vs this guy.
K9s: Interesting, bit concerned about how often I would be doing this if I do it here but we do have a lot of 5x obviously. Don't mind it.
JJ: I just think it's worth talking about what kind of hands make sense to call with, and I think this has to be one of our best ones. No, I don't expect to win very often, but I am only calling with JJ or QQ without a heart and blocking a club, which is very few hands obviously. I think this feels fine as a call and, as I said, I think we are folding all but TT if we fold here with this being such a good call down hand.
J8s: I hesitated on this to think what I'd bluff with and just thought I had a decent amount of Acx that will block some calls downs also that might make sense to do it with. I agree I'd prefer to 75% in hindsight.
78o: Raise flop is good I think and I would prefer that marginally. Turn I rolled but certainly reasonable to pure call. Just not sure how often our opponent cares about us being 'capped' and 2 barrels seems strong to me, so I didn't want to call with all my 87.
QQ: He has a few too many 8s on a dry board for my liking, and I think he would fold all his low equity bluffs vs raise. Think I like keeping all that in and saving money vs an 8, but reasonable for sure.
Thanks for the support as always mate, always love to see you on the stream and on here, really adds to it all.
Great content and delivery, and super relevant to all those barnacle-scrapping microstakers who are generally left to mine the content of more established streamers, hoping to find the Philosopher's Stone
Thanks Nick! Glad I can help in some way. Good luck!
That's exactly how I feel
You seem to be very good at explaining your toughts and disecting situations, great content
Thanks very much, glad you like it!
Best micro stakes content out there bro keep it up! A student of yours
Thanks Nick!
New sub here. I started watching your shorts this morning and the one where you folded Jack's full to a jam was absolutely incredible. I was like ☆WoW☆ this guy is legendary!!!
Thanks for the sub man!
Omg dude you are on such a roll! Thank you for all the content
No problem man, glad you enjoy the regular uploads! Thanks for the support.
very deep, theoretical knowledge of gto
Awesome content dude. Just discovered your channel, amazing for a micro stakes player like me haha. Keep it up and see you at the tables!
Thanks very much! Appreciate you watching my content, good luck with the grind!
I really enjoy your videos!! I was wondering if you could do a 2NL vid and explain why you make the moves that you do. In this 10NL vid you generally only say what move you are making and dont really give any logic behind your decisions. Some logic would be very helpful! Thanks again for helping us out!
Great vid, man! Really enjoyed the content! Would be happy to see more of it. Thx 🙏
Cheers mate!
damn! great stuff! I love the way you talk thru your thought process, easy to comprehend. And also, I am seeing so many spots where I am doing stuff wrong, for example, I continue in too many spots, like when the hijack opened and you folded from the cutoff w 55, I would usually call there. Little things like that. Great stuff! I just subscribed and will be watching more, thanks!
Thanks very much! Glad to know you're picking some things up. Don't really want a flatting range anywhere except BB and maybe BTN if you know what you're doing!
@@eastyyy22 awesome stuff bro, I watched a few more since I commented, started not losing as much as I usually do lol thanks again!
@@eastyyy22 Hey man, love your stuff and appreciate this is an old comment. If you do see this i'd be keen to get your thoughts on flatting a min raise in this kind of situation. I know there's around 1/8 odds of flopping a set with pocket pairs so wondering if it could be a profitable play to flat min raises and set-mine?
@@robd1381 Cheers Rob! My thoughts on this haven't changed too much but I do think there are situations where flatting a hand like this could be okay. If it's a weaker player opening, then they are less likely to make deductions about what your flat means for your hand, and your set is more likely to get paid. I'd also want to be sure that players behind me don't have high squeeze percentages, allowing us to see the flop more, and ideally for these players to be fish also. The main issue with flatting is that 1) Unless all players are fish we need to build a flatting range with more hands on the CO like QJs, and this complicates our strategy at low stakes unnecessarily, and 2) we don't always get to see the flop cheaply, we don't always get paid when we hit a set, and sometimes we get coolered by bigger sets/straights/flushes. Hope this helps and thanks for watching!
Interesting check on river with set. I would think flushdraws usually check back blocking folds like your missed flushdraws. I think it’s okay though if you think they bluff flushdraws and aren’t good enough to exploitatively call or jam wider on your weaker river betting range.
Hey Nick! Gonna thank the youtube algorithm for showing me your videos because I've really been enjoying them. Question for you, does it really matter which stake I start at? Should I start a 2NL and grind my way up, or just jump right to 10nl because my bankroll allows for it?
Hey Liam, thanks a lot! I think if you can afford to skip 2nl you should, i.e start by learning at 5nl if you can handle those losses should they occur.
Yeah, really like the format. good stuff
Cheers mate!
Really really informative vdo.. Learned 3 things from this one vdo and will implement in my game.. Thanks in millions.. Please post more vdos on micro stakes
Thanks a lot, I will definitely do more!
Great video as per. Would you ever consider making like a 20-40 blind pot spot review or something. Maybe a guide using hands you’ve already played from stream. Think there’s a lot of interesting bluffs that get through or thin value that don’t actually get called spots that would definitely help me anyway.
I could do yeah, maybe I make that a side series or something. It's just that timestamping the videos is very time consuming at the big pots are easiest to find! I will be doing a few different things aside from stream highlights that I hope will be helpful. Thanks for watching!
Good microstakes video. Thanks Nick!
Thanks a lot!
Great video! Would love to see more content like this.
Thanks a lot! I've done several play & explains now at 2, 5, 10 and 16nl! I will definitely do more though.
Great video Nick. I watch you on Twitch and it's good to get more of your thoughts on the hands. I look forward to your future videos. Good Luck - Norfycab
Cheers mate! Thanks for watching my content.
Two things:
1. Your eyes are fucking BEAUTIFUL
2. Pls can you play some 10NL full ring? I'm sure a lot of the skills are transferrable from zoom to full ring but I'd really like to see how you play it anyway :)
1) Haha thanks a lot!
2) I reaaally don't like full ring but it's maybe something I could consider. It would have to come with a huge disclaimer that it's not really my game and I'm feeling my way around it.
Watching your and wazel 1991 content .. Great guys both of you
Thanks mate, will be doing a video with him very soon!
Keep it up man, your content is gold for microstakes players. Why do you prefer to go slightly larger with the AJ on 20:10 ?
Thanks mate! I generally just go a bit larger oop in 3b pots but this is probably the kind of board you can just default to 33% for sure.
are there books about these strats for microstakes? If so, where can I find them?
Very good quality content!
What do you bade your ranges on? Like how do you decide A8 isn't an UTG open?
Also: are you worried about opponents exploited your ranges? If you've opened from UTG they know you only have 8's an below as pocket pairs or a rare suited connector
Sorry base*
Hey, the spot with JJ at around 26:00
Do you think villains on NL10 are capable of turning something like flopped top-2 (T9) into a bluff on the river? I think it's a reasonable bluff in theory, but am not sure if an average player on NL10 can make it. If they are capable of doing it then JJ are even more a call, right?
Very interesting approach. Its quite different to the Blackrain79's kind of maniacal style, which i find to be difficult sometimes for new players with no experience of millions of hands in the micros like me. To be fair, he makes videos for lower stakes, and not zoom. Anyways, keep it up!
Thank you!
Great video Nick, maybe just one table for the complete beginners.?
Can definitely do that! Any particular stake?
I think micro is fine. Really enjoy you talking through the probabilities and your thought processes for each hand, very insightful thanks!
@@liverpoolsv6565 Thanks very much!
Excellent Video again - thanks. Like this type of content, compliments the Twitch stream well. Would like to see some $25nl and hear your thoughts on the differences between the two stakes. I tend to believe that $16nl and $10nl are pretty similar but $25nl is a bit tougher.
Thanks Steve! Will definitely do both 25nl and 16nl and give my thoughts on this. The most recent 16nl session I played I got absolutely slapped by variance but not sure it's any harder as you say. Haven't been in the 25nl pool in a while but looking forward to it!
Really nice content, appreciate it. Keep it coming!
Thank you, I will!
I am about to move up stakes to NL10. I am winning 20BB/100 over 100K hands at NL5. My hand ranges are different than yours. I open tigther and I generally lay it down if I meet resistance. My range at button for instance is: 22+, 86s+, 98off+. Cutoff: K10off+, 98s+,22+.Same range from small blind. EP: KQoff+, KJs+, 66+. Only 3-betting for value (strong hands plus strong connectors and 77+ from button). Not opening pocket 2-5 from EP because they are break even EV or worse in most situations.
Ty for the great content! Could you explain pls why you folded 55 VS a 100 bb raise in the hj at 14.45? Thought that you would try to setmine. I'd appreciate an answer.
You're welcome! In high rake structures I only play calls from the BB.
nice video dude! awesome quality, tell us your setup and apps you use to play.
Thank you! I just use PT4 and the google RNG, that's it to be honest! Will check on my ranges sometimes too.
Great video! Really love your content❤️
Thank you!
In my experience, when villain donks on wet boards, it's usually 2 pairs+... They are probably worried you will check back with your entire range, hence donking allows them to get more value from overpairs. I don't think villains donk bet enough draws to balance out their value range, so in the 89T hand, you can probably fold on the turn, since the board paired and you could be drawing close to dead against a boat.
Also, I wouldn't really call a straight draw on a turn with 2 flush draws as any river that completes any flush and gives you a straight could be devastating (reverse implied odds)
But then again, microstakes depend a lot on player type... If player is an aggro maniac, then yeah a call is warranted
Thanks for the nice content bro, gl at the tables!
You're welcome, good luck to you too!
Amazing content as always.
Have questions about optimal time to play micros. Do you feel there is any difference between morning and evening player pools? What about weekend? Do you build your schedule according to it?
Hi Shahen, good question! I personally play only play on stream, so I just play when it makes sense in that regard. Evenings and weekends are most likely softer than during the day though! Thanks for watching.
thank you, good video
Can't remember what video it was on as I have recently watched them all haha but I noticed Nick on one you had PS setup to auto sit out once you had increased your stack size to x amount of BB's....Please can you tell me how you did this?
It's the software StarsCaption! There's a setting in there.
Thanks Nick 👍
Just watched for a 2nd time great video mate quality content :)
Thanks Chris!
Found it highly helpful, thanks 🙂
No problem! Glad you got something out of it.
This is absolutely top content!
I'd love to hear some tips about controlling tilt, since that's the main drawback in my game. I have huge tilt issues. I was properly bankrolled playing nl10 online and was up 70 bucks in the first 2 days. Third day took some bad beats, started losing, and started tilting bad. Started playing in higher stakes "to recover the losses", and lost my entire bankroll in 3 days. I'd love to hear some opinions and tips to fix this
Thanks very much! First and foremost, do not play through tilt. Take frequent breaks and when you notice your game dropping below its best, you have to stop. Never change the stakes you are playing to chase losses and always play within your bankroll. You are going to have days where you lose through no fault of your own, it's unavoidable. You can't afford to have losing days that are your fault on top of that. Good luck!
Don't just look at wins and losses, look at how long you play. Most players play short winning and long losing sessions, if you try consciously to do the opposite you should improve your win rate.
Awesome content man. Thank you 🙏
What's that google window for?
Thanks Sam! It's a rng to mix my decisions, but I now use Stars/888caption!
Hey Nick, very good material! I've just had found you recently because of your 5NL live coaching video. I've been struggling with 5NL, do you have any online course that you find good for beginners? Also interested about your very beginnings in poker, maybe a video about it could be pretty awesome. Following you from Brazil! Cheers
Hey Mauricio! I would recommend Upswing Poker Lab, maybe when you can find it on a discount. Keep it for a few months and work through the modules. I'll do a 5nl episode of this guide for sure too!
I could make a video about that! Just not sure how interesting it would be haha.
Thanks very much for watching!
What is the purpose of genereting numbers while playing? I see some other pros do that a lot
It's just so we aren't doing certain things too often. For example, if we are 4b bluffing AQo from certain spots with all combos then we're bluffing too much, so we mix between the options. Hope that makes sense.
@@eastyyy22 ok i get it u randomize. But how u decide to do or not do? What is the difference between genereting 21 and 88 for example. How u decide?
@@omerlaleli Low numbers I won't do things. Usually I'll mix half/half but sometimes I'll do things less often. So in the same example if I want to 4b AQo half the time and roll a 40, I'm not doing it.
Great video, would love to see you dabble in the 25z streets Nicky boy.
Thanks Shane! Will be doing some 16nl and 25nl very soon!
So I’m guessing huds are really important based on what u said ? U should upload a video showing how to use the hud more in detail
They are important in the sense that we are allowed to use them and they provide information that can be helpful! They aren't everything, but they can definitely guide decisions. I really only use them at this stake for a general idea of how aggressive or, most of the time, passive, an opponent will be. Thanks for watching.
@@eastyyy22 I’m just starting out last week and starting with 5nl -10nl zoom variant , is there anywhere I can contact you to ask you questions ?
How are u able to see all these extra stats? Is this some add-on?
great stuff
i noticed you changed your opening sizes. why down to just 2.2 bb?
Without antes we don't need to raise as much to pressure the BB as they are getting a worse price in non-ante games. We also lose less when we fold to 3b!
is there a way to get your ranges so I could use them as well? :D
great content, will watch along with others. Great explanations in play. JJ for me is a pure exploit fold at 10z (or 5z in my case), have you reviewed that and got video of said review anywhere ?
Thank you! I'm not sure which JJ you are referring to, if you timestamp it I'd be happy to take a look for you.
@@eastyyy22 24.23. wondering if in hindsight your opinion has changed ?
I mean from turn but defo river btw, pre and flop obviously standard
It should be fold.. but he had no reads so it's hard to find a good reason to fold.
Are you green labeling players with short stacks?
Edit: you literally answered my question right after I posted it lop, thanks for the video
Correct! Thanks for watching bud.
Great content !! Keep it up !!
Thank you, I will!
Hey Nick I am winning at NL2 6max around 6BB/100 hands over 100k hands and now I want to move to bigger stakes. I would play NL5 and NL10. Do yiu have any tips and books I should read about strategy and bankroll? Thanks :)
Btw your eyes are so blue haha I have blue eyes but yours are SO blue
Great content mate!
Thank you Riz!
@@eastyyy22 No worries man good battling with you, learning a lot about my own game from you
@@rizkelly2026 That's awesome man, glad to hear it.
You can use jurojin for a table randomizer
This is gold!
Thank you! Very happy that you like it.
Well done m8.
Great video, great channel! This is killing two birds with one stone: Learning Poker, and Learning British English (I'm a Spanish native speaker)... BTW, do you happen to know any other british poker youtuber or something apart from Gingepoker and Kakitee? Thanks!
Thanks very much! Good to hear it's helping in more ways than one. I'd recommend my friend Mark, Weazel_1991 if you haven't checked him out already, but he may be a little more difficult for you to understand!
@@eastyyy22 No worries, I can understand him perfectly (I even understand Adele when she goes full cockney haha), I checked his channel and it was alright, thank you so much, I hope you get to NL100 this year.
fire video, thank you
Very welcome, thanks so much for watching!
Great content !
Thanks a lot!
Just commenting saying I thoroughly appreciate the video, just pressing the like button wasn't enough!
Thanks so much, Jess! I'm glad it was helpful.
More please !
Will hopefully do another in the near future!
Do you play on GGPoker and what sites do you recommend to play on?
No I only play on Stars as I like the software and don't like to pay rake preflop haha. I'd recommend Party Poker depending on where you are, but I can't get on with the software. Rakeback is good and player pools are softer though.
I like the videos, especially longer ones like these. I prefer just to watch a full session instead of just highlights. I've seen you in the pool a few times and said hi once. I was wondering if you may be willing to tell me what you had in this spot. imgur.com/a/SC4ik6m I checked it in GTOWizard, and you surprisingly played the hand relatively well. I find you have a lot more overbets in your game than I do, and I'm going to work on my turn/river play to find the spots I'm missing. You put me in a tough spot here, and the GTOWizard solve says I made a bad fold. I'm too weaktight and overfoldy and my redline is the big issue in my game.
MrFunnyWobbl! Good to see you here! I appreciate that a lot of people like the full sessions and I'm just trying to mix up my content but make sure I do keep making this kind of video. I'm happy to tell you what I had here, I hope you mean you found it surprising that my line was reasonable and not that it's surprising I made a reasonable play :D. I'm going to need some more info on the hand, date it was played etc so I can find it in my database for you.
@@eastyyy22 When we first played the hand I thought your line was silly/exploitative, but I was shocked that in GTO you played it almost perfectly. I guess you're more studied than I am.
Here is the hand information:
PokerStars Zoom Hand #222633772394: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2021/01/14 20:25:53 ET
Here is another interesting one we played the same day, I can't figure out what you're doing this with OTR? Is this quads/a high pocket pair that you're trying to get value from my low pocket pairs or are you just bluffing given that once it checks to the river I'm pretty capped?
PokerStars Zoom Hand #222635526672: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2021/01/14 21:45:54 ET
@@MrFunnyWobbl First hand I had JTo, 2nd hand I had 99 lol Your stats are very tight on my database so I thought it possible that you had an 8 or 5 you were checking to call, and if you had air you would fold anyway. This was from a stream where I was messing about a whole lot though lol
@@eastyyy22 Ah! Well played in the first hand. The second hand I just had air. Yeah my stats are really nitty, it's a leak (one of many) that I'm working on. I actually think I have your preflop stats as pretty tight in my hand sample.
Nice video, what kind of bankroll strategy would you recommend for grinding cash games at the micro stakes like 2NL and 5NL. Cheers
30 buy ins for 5nl
2nl doesn't matter there's nowhere else to go if you lose. Start with whatever you can afford
@@AA-pk6fo cheers I'll let you know how it goes mate
Solid player imo, what you doing at 10NL, come battle at 100 :D
Thanks mate! Appreciate it. My main focus was to make something for micro stakes players as I feel like resources are lacking. Will be doing some moving up in the next few weeks! Thanks for watching.
@@eastyyy22 Resources are definitely lacking! Thanks for this!
Making the transition from MTTs to Cash so this is quality content. Are you on discord?
Thanks! The link to my Discord is in the description of all my videos, come join in!
Have done the same in the past month and my ROI is way higher, also works way better with my busy schedule when I can start and stop whenever.
@@botsoup5446 Sounds good! Are you on discord?
You used the same colour marking for fish as you do for yourself ?
Not sure what you mean!
@@eastyyy22 Its not really important, thanks for this video and reply though i play 10nl zoom on partypoker ! i learnt a fair bit from this video that i havent with my upswing account i bought ! its very usefull to see your play and explain im definatly gonna watch them all, im usually ok in this field but im still losing more money on bad runs than i am gaining on good runs, any idea how i can spot my leaks ?
so super noobe question, why are all the opponents in the seats swapping with each hand ? or am i missing something
this is fast form so you get a new table every time you fold.
subbed and will be following vids moving forward! glgl
Thanks so much, Ben! Been following you for ages so it's awesome to see you in the stream and here. Appreciate it.
Bro whats the left bottom window for?
RNG for randomizing decisions. It's a bit awkward to use while playing and I now use StarsCaption instead!
@@eastyyy22 thanks, hope to see more videos on this stakes, stay safe
you are folding k9o? on sb has 0.09
Why does he fold AT UTG+1 for 2,5 Bigblinds?
mate how are you getting people calling 3 bets with J5o and calling all in with 4th pair hahaha i swear 5NL is the shark stakes. Do you think there are optimal times of the day to play? or specific days maybe?
Happens all the time! I'm sure Fridays/weekends are softer but this stuff is frequent regardless.
What is the name of program which shows stats under players name?
It's PT4, you can grab a trial or full version through my link! bit.ly/eastyyy-pt4
I’m a little confused. Why am I not seeing any of the hands that you’re not in play out?? I can see if you edited them but your stream video seems to not be edited(no cuts to skip the hands you’re not in) so I feel like i’m losing my mind lol
In zoom games as soon as you fold your hand you enter a new hand instantly
35:30 You say you wouldnt be betting that board always can you explain why is that
I do mention that our opponent will have a lot of Qx such as QTs and QJs that will play this way. Generally when a board can be good for our opponent we don't want to bet as much.
So much more time to act on Pokerstars fast fold compared to Ignition
Where can I find you on twitch?
link is in the description!
good video but why dont i hit all these flops? like ever!
Thanks! Trust me mate, we get our fair share of variance over here!
I'd like to see a stake or site that's not corrupt
25nl next please !
Noted!
Calling a 3bet LJ vs HJ with KTs is most likely an auto-lose play with the rake structure. Especially versus that big sizing. Nice vid otherwise.
I would have to agree! I probably play quite a bit differently now to back when I recorded this to be honest.
Would you share the charts you use, or perhaps make a video on how someone could make their own charts?
Which kind of charts do you have up while playing? (first raise, vs 3bet, vs limp, vs open)
Do you have any postflop charts?
Lastly, did you use any software to create your charts, and if so, which software?
Thanks for the content!
Unfortunately I can't share my graphs as I bought them and that would be unfair to the supplier.
I use them rarely as they are mostly in my head now, but it's RFI and vs 3b.
@@eastyyy22 Makes sense! Thanks
Whats the point of the random number generator ?
It's to decide whether he is going to make one decision or another, for example if he should call a hand 75% of the time and fold 25% of the time, he'll roll the RNG generator and if the number is less than or equal to 25 he'll fold, otherwise he'll call
What does the purple tag mean?
I don't particular like to advertise my tags, feels unfair to the pool.
@@eastyyy22 Got it. Thanks for the reply.
Graph?
I show session results at the end of every highlights video and will likely do a graph video at some point.
just out of interest, why do you raise k5, and fold a4o on the button, does not make any sense to me
I imagine it's k5s? Just a hand with much more playability post flop. If it was k5o it would be because the blinds seemed weak.
25:57 that was a very poor decision and clearly not a bluff… had to be at least a flush.
Is it demo account ?
Im bust bummed out because of the software. It's basically like cheating.
Started playing 2003 and went pro 2008-2015 with six figure income every year.
I quit professionally 2015 and i'm just playing PL omaha /Razz with some SD from time to time.
The game was so pure before software and solvers became a thing. It ruined the game and takes absolutely ZERO skill to use.
The most annoying thing is that most of these streamers or lowpros actually are pure shit at the game. Many times they make decisions thanks to the HUD.
When Nick or whoever then tries to motivate their decision it's extremely flawed or doesnt make sense. That's what we are seeing today. A lack of understanding of the game and a robotic approach to it.
Fine, but don't ramble with your flawed logic or absolutely shocking lack of understanding of what you are doing.
Man you speak way to fast slow down
What kind of players do you label green and purple?