Episode 113: Ed Miller Made Simple

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Ed Miller talks about his latest book, No Limit Hold ‘Em Made Simple, as well as the Las Vegas poker economy, his experiences with the Clark County foster care system, and how his perspective on being a parent has changed.

Ed’s previous appearances on Episode 25 and Episode 71 are among the best strategy discussions the show has seen and are well worth checking out!

Timestamps

:30 hello
3:39 strat
24:53 EM

Strategy

PokerStars – $0.50 Ante $0.10 NL (6 max) – Holdem – 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: 202 BB (VPIP: 67.16, PFR: 49.25, 3Bet Preflop: 32.26, Hands: 72)
BB: 214.74 BB (VPIP: 42.27, PFR: 25.71, 3Bet Preflop: 6.80, Hands: 1,191)
CO: 197.16 BB (VPIP: 32.68, PFR: 14.35, 3Bet Preflop: 5.68, Hands: 1,172)
Hero (BTN): 323.84 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB, 4 players post ante of 0.2 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 2.3 BB) Hero has A♦ 7♦

fold, Hero raises to 3 BB, SB calls 2.5 BB, fold

Flop: (7.8 BB, 2 players) 7♣ 3♣ 5♦
SB checks, Hero bets 4.82 BB, SB calls 4.82 BB

Turn: (17.44 BB, 2 players) 7♥
SB checks, Hero checks

River: (17.44 BB, 2 players) 3♠
SB bets 48 BB, Hero raises to 108 BB, SB raises to 193.98 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 85.98 BB

18 thoughts on “Episode 113: Ed Miller Made Simple”

  1. What great news – another Ed Miller interview, really enjoyed his previous appearances. Look forward to listening to this tonight.

  2. Great interview! I enjoyed Ed talking about writing, parenting, and the struggles with the foster care system. Once again, a bright and talented guest with a great sense of humor as well!

  4. Great show all around. Ed Miller’s interview was awesome (what an admirable guy) and Duggs hands were humbling. I had to hit the 15 second rewind button about a dozen times to make sure I wasn’t missing anything. It was a concise and nuanced analysis of two really interesting spots.

  5. Always great to get an update from Ed. The anecdotes about Vegas Poker were great. It seems like not having an updated cover photo is working to Ed’s advantage.

  6. Strategy hands were insightful from Duggs agreed. Talk about ‘playing the player’ 😉 KQ set up hand, really liked the check behind flop, literally sets up rest of hand. A7s hand, I’d play the same except not certain I’d have the guts to raise the river overbet. Illustrates where I need to improve and the reasoning/analysis was first rate from all here. Hey Duggs, assume you’re the same duggs I recognise from Cardschat forums?

    So ed miller interview was really good as always. The parenting compliance discipline analysis convo was pretty fascinating. Look fwd to new book and card player article compilation, I find Ed’s writing style engaging, often funny, and informative even without the super mathematical rigour. Thumbs up folks.

  8. Thanks again for using my hands, just relistened to it a few times and had a few queries.

    Nate you feel that min raising with the extra .4bb would be a viable strategy deep? A lot of what i saw as advantages to min raising 100bb effective were that we can get a better price on our steal and make it harder to 3b/5b v us as stacks get awkward.

    And theoretically do you guys feel our possible cold call SB range becomes wider or narrower with the introduction of both antes and deeper stacks. but I’m unsure if villains fold any hands to a min open with antes

    antes make me feel like we should just fold less, both 3betting OOP more and flatting more.

    but Im unsure about being deeper, makes the positional disadvantage more prominent in theory, but in practice noone over bets enough for stacks to come into play regularly in a single raised pot. where as 3betting if they just opt to flat a lot we end up playing reasonably big sprs oop anyway.

    on a different topic,
    Im all for a TPP meet up in Europe, owe you both beverages of your choice

  9. Both sections of the show were great.

    Glad to know that duggs is still killin em on the felt.

    I loved listening to Ed talk about his son. Still shocked over that vegan = bad parent thing. Guarantee the guy who said that is well over 200 pounds.

    That non compliance thing kinda makes me glad I am no longer a teacher though. One kid can be a handful. Multiply that by 30 and it becomes damn near impossible for a mere mortal like me.

    Of course, I cannot wait for the finished product of his book to come out.

    • Haha, agreed. I always say it is super awesome/amazing and incredibly tough and hard in equal proportions. 50% +EV down the middle 😉

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