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Alan's Blind Play

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Dated:
Jun 27th, 2011
By:
Alan Jackson
Game:
NLHE
Stake:
Mid Stakes
Teaching Method:
Concept Video
Language:
English
Type:
6 Max
4556 Views
13 Comments
10.0010
(11 Ratings) 10.00

In part 1 of his Blind Defense series, Alan focuses on hand selection to help mitigate loses when playing in the blinds.  

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  • AJackson AJackson Bluefire Pro Poker Pro
    417 Posts
    Alan's Blind Play
    28 Jun 2011 at 1:26am
    Discussion for Alan's Blind Play.
  • Zen1799 Zen1799 Poker Newbie
    1 Posts
    Re: Alan's Blind Play
    28 Jun 2011 at 2:28am
    Exactly what I need! My WR out of blinds is great, but I suck at BlindPlay. Thank you so much and keep it coming!
  • menlol menlol Poker Newbie
    16 Posts
    Re: Alan's Blind Play
    29 Jun 2011 at 4:48am
    Decent vid but I expected a little more about BB vs SB play and some more FE-calcs for both the steals and resteals, which flops to attack/float in BB when flatting pre vs SB steal. Maybe you could even have added some short comments about SB/BB squeezeranges for cold 3bets and 4bets. Btw, I reacted at the fold to flop cb raise/fold to flop cb-percentages that you considered being "believer" and "nonbeliever". Imo those thresholds turn a bit too many players into nonbelievers.
  • dumdidum dumdidum Poker Newbie
    1 Posts
    Re: Alan's Blind Play
    30 Jun 2011 at 4:22am
    what i don't understand is the following. you say a winrate of -23.89bb/100 is decent. however, at a 6-handed table, you are forced to pay 16 2/3 big blinds per 100 hands (at a 5-handed table, it's 20bb/100 but most of your play is at 6-handed tables). it seems to me you would be better off by just folding every time you are in the BB. thoughts? am i perhaps missing something obvious here? (sorry, i'm a bit of a n00b)
  • AJackson AJackson Bluefire Pro Poker Pro
    417 Posts
    Re: Alan's Blind Play
    30 Jun 2011 at 5:37am
    dumdidum, that loss rate is the rate only in that position. If you fold every time you will lose 100bb/100 in the BB and 50bb/100 in the SB
  • AJackson AJackson Bluefire Pro Poker Pro
    417 Posts
    Re: Alan's Blind Play
    30 Jun 2011 at 5:41am
    menlol, some of what you want is covered in my Common Spots 3B'ing video. I def could have done more on blind vs blind play when it comes to floating/raising etc. I'll do another video featuring just that. Yes, a lot of players end up in the non-believer category, but if they're not folding their flop cbets to raises I prefer to view them that way-making a pot size bluff raise vs someone who folds 40% isn't going to be profitable unless you can do something on the turn.
  • wills2864 wills2864 Poker Newbie
    2 Posts
    Re: Alan's Blind Play
    30 Jun 2011 at 8:24am
    i hope u keep this going as a series i dont think blind play is covered enough anywere else.
  • Alexah Alexah Poker Newbie
    1 Posts
    Re: Alan's Blind Play
    30 Jun 2011 at 7:19pm
    Great stuff.. Just found out that i'm losing 60bb/100 from the blinds. So If I had only lost 45 bb/100, that would add 5bb/100 to my winrate? +1 that you need to keep this going
  • Fragmaster Fragmaster Poker Newbie
    4 Posts
    Re: Alan's Blind Play
    2 Jul 2011 at 12:15pm
    you can select at "main filters" just "unopened" and then you have the scenario where u just have the situation SB vs BB without Limper
  • marca_here marca_here Poker Newbie
    1 Posts
    Re: Alan's Blind Play
    21 Jul 2011 at 3:05am
    how can i configure my hud like u ?u have a layer i can use? ty
  • SweetBlood SweetBlood Poker Newbie
    10 Posts
    Re: Alan's Blind Play
    9 Sep 2011 at 12:37am
    Hi, during the video you analized the player Deucetin in the replayer and said he`s a "non-believer" as his "fold vs flop raise", "fold vs cbet" and "fold vs river raise" are low. But he is a 16/12 player, therefore his ranges postflop are much narrower. And it`s obvious that he would not fold much out of his tight ranges.
  • AJackson AJackson Bluefire Pro Poker Pro
    417 Posts
    Re: Re: Alan's Blind Play
    9 Sep 2011 at 6:14am

    SweetBlood wrote:

    Hi, during the video you analized the player Deucetin in the replayer and said he`s a "non-believer" as his "fold vs flop raise", "fold vs cbet" and "fold vs river raise" are low. But he is a 16/12 player, therefore his ranges postflop are much narrower. And it`s obvious that he would not fold much out of his tight ranges.

    That's true, he's not defending vs raises light, however the end result is the same.  I'm rarely if ever going to try to bluff him post flop and I'm going to play my big hands fast.

     

    The only difference is that vs some non-believer types you can take a wider value range such as tpgk and raise/stack off for value.  We would obviously never do that vs a player like Deucetin.

  • gp00065 gp00065 Poker Trainee
    63 Posts
    Re: Alan's Blind Play
    12 Jan 2013 at 3:48pm
    Great Video Looking forward to Part 2. I have some pre written notes that I past in a players note file during play. Now I can shorten them to simply; Believer/Non Believer. Thanks again Gp

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