Samo at 1000NL (1)

Discussion for Samo at 1000NL (1).

Nice video, but to be true I prefer your session reviews and detail analyses of hands. It's nice to see you "in action", but sometimes I feel you seem to be confused with thinking, playing and talking at the same time and a lot of information regarding your thought process is getting lost. Nice video anyways.

flakydorf, thanks for the compliments and for the question. It has been a long time since I played this session, so I don't quite remember the hand in question. However, based on your description of it, I would agree with you that it was probably a bad call preflop if I don't have an understanding of how he is going to play postflop (and am planning to fold on such a favorable flop). The one caveat would be if the stack sizes were such that I could call his raise just for the purposes of set mining (especially if he was a fishy player would would stack off with a hand or bluff if I did hit my hand). If he was a player that seemed well balanced with his three betting (both preflop and postflop), and if I did not have enough of a handle on his game to be able to know if I could call on that flop, then I agree with you that I made a mistake with my preflop call.

Hey Samo! Usually I love your videos and the way u explain your thought processes. But this one is really basic. I watched for like 25 minutes and have not found anything interesting at all (except for the spot where u told that u r cold calling any min-raise and the spot where u called 3bet w 44 and folded on good flop), so I turned it off and was a bit disappointed. Please dont get me wrong, u r a great player and coach. U have very unique style, u play very loose and cold call a lot. I think you could probably make a great series about playing out of position in raised pots or playing without the initiative. May be some power point video with concepts and examples. Most small stakes regs have a lot of troubles playing without the initiative with suited connectors, so this videos should be very useful. Im a subscriber on all training sites but nobody never done concept videos on playing without the initiative or without the initiative + OOP. I feel like u can be the one =)

Hi Niman, and thanks for the video.

I think some of the pre-flop play in this vid is a bit suspect, like calling w 33 to set-mine aginst a 4obb UTG raise and insta-calling a squeze with 44, but I really don't care because you do have some of the most interesting and thought provoking post flop lines.

Really enjoyed the vid and I hope you have recorded more sessions prior to Black Friday.

in the beginning of the vid i see u float a donk bet with 55 on 96x hh and fold to a turn bet. On what cards r u gonna continue?how do u perceive his donking range to be?I dont see how 55 is going to get showdown often enough to make this a std call. 3.40 u flat a 3bet with 64 s vs a guy u mentionned a few moments ago was on the tighter side.Is this a standard call preflop for u or do u think u have implied odds?fwiw I dont see how u can make this plus EV with these stack sizes and that weak of a hand.

why is your microphone purring?