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36:35 I'm a bit surprised to see Jh8x folding on QT3hh board. Also K9s folding unless it has a bdfd with it.

14min mentioned Dwan raises QTs from EP and that K7s should be a vpip from the Co and 100% from the button. Wizard BTN defense vs LJ 2.5x using cEV. Where these k7s-k2s hands are losing money as calls. These hands are only calls at 200bb+? I'm used to playing a range of 22+ AJ+ KQ+ 9Xs+ 54s+ AXs+. Most hands outside of this range Imo don't do too well without a significant post flop edge.

Does this look right? Any tips for raise sizes on the river like certain multipliers?

Patrick Sekinger This is kind of embarrassing for me to share but its a part of my game where I didn't understand the math and wondered if you had any tips for bluff raising. I know its Risk / (Risk + Reward) but I thought a pot size bet (PSB) and a pot size raise (PSR) would be the same percentage for fold equity. :-(

For example if the pot is $100 and we bet $100 as a bluff we need 50% fold equity.

If the pot is $100 and we face a $100 bet, a PSR would be $400, but now we need 67% fold equity.

Any tips for knowing if bluff raising is profitable? I know in a lot of CFP river raises are supposed to be very profitable, but seems to be punts in live games.

I've been trying to bluff raise the river quite a bit recently and its been a little bit of a disaster when the river is not bet thinly enough in the first place.

Maybe I can make a chart for different river raises sizes and fold equity needed for each size.

A video on the "high-low" or "over-under" bluffs as I call them would be interesting. I'm used to seeing them more on rainbow dry boards where there are not a lot of draws to choose from. But you get middling pairs to fold and draws to call. So called by worse and fold out better. But there are no elite videos on these and are often over looked. Not sure if anyone knows how to use them correctly.

49min you mentioned on KsQd9s-9h that A2c would be a high frequency barrel. I think your mind is heading in the right direction with these types of bluffs, but on boards that don't already have the straight possible because we have more GS type hands to choose from for our bluffs.

If you change the board to KQ88 using the same suits, now A2c will barrel.

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48min you gave solver like 50, 70, 133 sizes. Do you not use 33% size on 4 liners?

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* 34:35* On QQ32 you mentioned The J9h / T9h combos matching the suit of the turn barrels 70% of the time. I was wondering about the volatility of these hands compared to using a BXB line. I face some very strange lines some times where I'll find these bluffs on the turn and improve to a pair on the river, but then face a 1/3 or 1/2 donk bet. I think I pay off these river donk bets too often. Same thing happens with a lot of JJ-77 combos where I barrel the turn with a plan to check back quite a few rivers, but end up facing a donk bet. I am not sure how to proceed in these situations.

These middling pairs I speak up on the river being 3rd pair and even some TX are indifferent vs this donk bet on wizard, but then again the donk bet shouldn't exist, so run into solver noise.

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29:15 Why does As5x barrel but not As3x pure check?

Off suite flush draw region

Just wanted to point out that black box throughout the video blocking the flop texture when looking at PIO is extremely annoying when I can't remember what the board texture is when analyzing the PIO output.

7:45 I like how you pointed out you block J8d T8d and some AdXd hands and unblock QJs QTs hands that fold. My first inclination was to barrel a suit that is not on the board to unblock the XC XF range. But I guess on paired boards we want to block trips.

Steve Paul TRUEPOWER Steve does an excellent job on student reviews! I only suggest doing a replayer format to get the most out of it. Preflop is just a small amount of EV exchanged, so I would just play a session and filter for hands that saw the flop and pot is over 6bb+. 70% of the hands played in a session are just winning the blinds, folding, or cbet the flop and win. Cuts out a lot of wasted time from the student review the 6bb+ and saw flop filter.

You should try and get a student review done yourself. Very beneficial! There are a lot of spots we don't even know we are messing up because we focus so much on the medium and big pots. But its the small pots where we over fold on the flop or over bluff on the flop that make our redlines tank.

This hand demonstrates it all.

Raises pre UTG1 65o! CB the flop. Gets raised. XC 75% turn barrel. XC river 90% pot. So we have a 600bb pot where he beats almost nothing besides 33/44 without a heart. It was MW on the flop as well when Ling raises. He even says "if you are bluffing with a 3 of hearts..."

Going back to June 2023 over the last 36 sessions Luda has won $958,000!

He is winning on avg $26,611 per session in a $25 ante game.

That is $5,322 / hr! Even if you make the Big blind $100 that is still 53bb/hr!

Does anyone actually believe this is not cheating?

As Garret Adelstein said in the spaces when discussing with Ryan Feldman. Starts around 1min 15sec.

Why was Luda banned from LATB? Why did Ryan throw a fit and pleaded with the management to get him back on the stream?

Does anyone ever see Luda play outside of HCL? Doesn't play on pokergo, The lodge, LATB, etc. Why does he only play at HCL where is room mate Ryan has access to the cards?

4:45 3bet 88, call 4bet, flop quads. Good life! When you XC-XRAi on the turn I like your reasoning but do you have any bluffs here? Are you shoving any KQh type hands or just AK+? A88hh-Jx

One spot I've sized down a touch is BB cold 4bet vs BTN open, SB 3bet. Our 4b range is strong and linear anyway and SB range is wide and plenty of it is already in a bad spot even vs small 4b size.

Brian Hastings and you have position vs the SB as well. I really like this size down spot. Even if you just click it back. So much of their range is "pretty" but is dominated by the cold 4bet. They end up flopping a lot of top pair or 2nd pair hands and losing stacks post flop.

Brian Hastings if you want to quote someone just use the ">" arrow before whatever you put in quotes.

4betting (3bb -> 9bb) and that uses a 2.5x 4bet, but I see if I shift to the "GTO" tree (3bb -> 10bb) now OOP is splitting between 2.1x 4bet

This was a good find! I never noticed how 3b size impacted 4bet size. What I would do in the past is use 2.5x OOP and 2.2x IP. Just to keep it simple but never really thought about their 3bet size unless I couldn't 4bet less than 30% of my stack, then it was call or jam.

Thanks!

27min Learning how to play flop 3 bets vs an equity driven range would be a nice follow up to this video. Low stakes live cash has a ton of small raises IP & OOP as players are just raising to see where they are at. Learning how to punish this correctly would be a big help. A lot of hands have awkward stack sizes as well, so tempted to just shove flop quite often rather than raise PSB which would be like 1/2 the stacks given the pot gets so bloated preflop from 4-5x opens and MW dynamics.

I did hear one regular say they raise small with a combo draw because in their mind they have already won the pot, so they raise small to just build the pot for when they hit. As if its a guarantee they will hit their flush draw. In their mind they already won, so they are just building a pot.

In this spot PFR cbet $10k into $30k. XR 2.5x to $25k. Should we 3bet the flop for a PSR to $105k?

BvB the BB is 3 betting the bottom of their calling range. The SB gets to 4bet the bottom of it's calling range. Polar vs Polar range and use small 4bet sizes.

Given Krab mentioned some constraints about using GTO wizard with the multiple bet sizes, it would be nice to have some custom Ai sims loaded up with the size villain's used in game. Especially the ones where they miss a range bet and check back. Increasing the checking frequency to see how you are supposed to play turns and rivers on these unexplored nodes. You did this for the last hand of the video.

39min you mention you want to fold AQo CO vs BB vs a tighter opponent. I usually would play it as if I were in the HJ vs BB 3bet when the pool under 3bets. Everything gets a pip tighter as you mentioned.

Taking studying to a new level.

There was one hand you were wrong about towards the end that you didn't want to dive into because you said it would be a waste of our time. These rabbit holes are one of the many reasons I have poor time management! Its nice to see some efficient studying staying on topic and not jumping all over the place.

57min on TTQ-8-4 board you mentioned AK is a nice bluff blocking some AQ KQ type hands and making 99 JJ kind of indifferent. Doesn't betting AK on the river here after 3 betting and checking back twice, look a lot like AK? Feels like players just put you on AK here a lot and it becomes a harder spot to bluff unless you use a really large PSB, which you might do with QQ or TT type of hand.

Previous hands on the turn there was a lot of small betting going on. On this river what bet size would you use?

41min on J62hh-8x board Going small-small on the turn 3 way is very interesting. Makes me feel like live cash recreational have been playing this spot correctly all along lol. At least with their sizing scheme. They will still polarize a bit too much with their AJ+ hands but they use a lot of 40% bet sizes with their KJ QJ TT type hands.

I would note when I was drilling earlier as PFR OOP SRP HJ vs BTN. After mostly range checking the flop there are still a lot of small turn bets being used as well. In a X-33 line. A spot that I would think would be more polarizing but allows OOP to kind of do whatever they want to do.

32:30 very common live cash spot where IP bets 2/3 flop and OOP PFR freezes up. AdKx on J52dd board. Where vs 1/3 you have an easy continue mixing in some Xr, but just freeze up vs aggression in a under studied sizing scheme.

I view this spot similar to larger BTN RFI sizes. where the blinds end up 3 betting less often. Where this hand villain using a 2/3 size makes OOP XR less often.

I know you are not for the larger sizing scheme but it does tend to make the OOP player play more honest. Doesn't give IP the best prices on his bluffs but the EQR goes way up.

34:30 I think this hand is so crucial to be a winning player. There was a player who recently asked me if I suffer from not understanding ranges correctly or is it more risk aversion on why I am over folding later streets at a high frequency?

In this hand when I saw the river bet I immediately thought fold, but you ended up correctly calling vs J9o. In my head I would just call KX, Tx, AsXo, and bluff raise some 86s, 97s, & J6s type of hands. So calling first three pairs on the board. Bluff raising 4th and 5th pair with a straight draw blocker. And folding most other hands.

The way you broke down the ranges with AQ AJ Q9 J9 A8 etc barreling the turn makes a lot of sense where there is less AX in range compared to some Q5s J4s type of hands that play BXB with no SDV and just trying to represent the ace.

Any tips for fixing this risk aversion I apparently have? Some times I'll check back turn to bluff catch river with like TPWK or 2nd pair etc. But then on the river if they B100 to B200 I just freeze up and talk myself into folding because its an under bluffed size. Also vs an OB I don't even consider bluff raising The 86s / J7s type of hands any more. I think I'm left in a paralyzed state of confusion.

20:30 AKs on 654r-Add-4d board are you playing this the same way in live games with a X-75-75 line?

Welcome to Rio! Really solid first video. There is a lot to unpack in this video. I loved the extra visuals from John Travolta and sound bites inserted.

I have a question about this masculinity and other regs who tilt. I am not sure what the correct response is to them but something should be said because they are hurting the atmosphere.

The other day this bad reg snapped on a VIP player who literally played every hand the first 2 orbits he sat down. I don't recall the exact action but they were either all in preflop or on the flop J66dd. Where the reg had ATd vs AKo (no diamond). The reg made a comment "if I had 22 I would of won. How can you call that?" The VIP simply responded "But you didn't' have 22 you had AT." The reg snapped on him and started berating him and cussing at him. The VIP apologized "I don't know what I did to offend you but I'm leaving." Walks over to the floor and gets a table change. Usually this type of behavior ends up getting someone kicked out.

I can see the value of being nice to the fun players and saying "nice call" or something a long those lines. But other regs that have these tilt issues and wish to insert their dominance are hurting my bottom line. I try and avoid conflict and be nice to everyone including these regs who tilt. But the casino is not doing much about it. They just get several verbal warnings. Some regs just avoid playing on tables with them because they cause such a negative atmosphere. There seems to be no reasoning with them about the math of being a flip or do you not want the action etc.?

How would you respond in these situations? I think it should be the floors job to ask the VIP player to stay and ask the reg to leave. Casinos are too lenient to these players who lost the pot and "understand their frustrations."