thanks heaps. Really enjoying the everything on the site and have had a couple of really good sessions employing things i saw in the video (maybe variance but I'd like to think otherwise).

It's definitely the coaching ;)

Cheers mate, some of that format should be coming shortly

Seems like a lot of new people are signing up and watching the vids, glad you enjoyed!

Hey, I watched this back and I agree with you! If we were for example in the HJ in this hand, I think raising would make more sense; we get to clean up our equity and get to fold out some potentially better hands behind us. Our hand can get pretty awkward to play on future streets, particularly if we get other calls behind. As you say, he's lead into 4 players so for us to then raise it looks pretty credible. We also block a decent chunk of his value range with our 10. Your breakdown of his range looks pretty accurate though and as you say, its very unlikely he's lead folding. Being in position here is a big benefit for us, I think the better play would be to keep the small and just take it from there.
If he jams flop I'm folding, at best we're a slight dog to hands like he had and totally dry top 2, worst case we're pretty much dead and hoping to get extremely lucky with some backdoors!
Thanks for flagging that up.

Hey man, I appreciate questions like these! Helps me pinpoint things to look out for when I'm analysing my own game.
-Firstly, those folds do seem pretty tight, I'm never one to turn down decent pot odds, especially in position! They all seem like fairly playable hands, and given I don't really have much info. on too many of the opponents in this vid, I doubt there was a specific reason, so probably just auto piloting a bit whilst trying to talk.
-My BvB opening range will vary tons on who the opponent is, game dynamics, how deep we are etc. so I don't think I could accurately give you a percentage or something. I certainly think I should be playing tighter in general when playing zoom as people nit it up a bit in general, and if I'm splashing around, that tends to leave me bluffing into hands that are pretty strong. Obviously the flipside of this is that I'll get away with more steals but I think any competent reg in these games is defending pretty wide, especially if they know how loose I'm opening! Working on a limping strategy, throwing in some limp/3bets is a pretty cool option but not something I've worked a ton on at the moment.
-16:30, your math breakdown there kind of speaks for itself, it's a scenario I'm never going to be far ahead but can be pretty crushed so probably a bit spewy by me there, I think its a spot I can just make a somewhat disciplined fold. I wasn't really happy with it in game and should've trusted my gut a little more!
-31:20, watching this back I'm not sure why I bet, I really don't like it. This was recored quite some time ago so there's certainly some elements of my game I've developed, my play in 3bet pots oop being one of them! This board hits our range pretty well, but also our opponents given he opened in early pos., he has lots of sets/two pair, big wraps etc. The hands he's folding to my cbet we're doing pretty well against equity wise anyway. We have a pretty decent hand here to c/c with our blockers to some straights and a bdfd. Keeping the pot small allows us to realise our equity more effectively than betting I think. When we get called, there are very few turns we like, even when he bink top set. Therefore we end up capping our range against a decent opponent (given that our opponent is a Supernova and has one of the 1million FPP tags I presume this person has put in some decent volume!). Getting c/raised with our hand sucks as I think we pretty much always have to fold and can be being blown off a decent chunk of equity. So our life can be made pretty tough in situations like this, therefore I think it's best to not bloat the pot OOP with a mediocre hand, as is the case with lots of hands in PLO!

Hey, sorry for taking so long to reply, I must've missed this message somehow! How's the grind going at those stakes? As I've said in some previous videos, in those player pools I don't think the average player is worried about being balanced and that kind of thing so stats become a bit irrelevant at times. Given how volatile some of these opponents can be playing, I think taking a lot of notes, looking back at some hand history's that some of the weaker players are involved in, and punishing the bad LAGs in the field is the way to go. I've found that a lot of people new to the game/those that just feel like a punt can be found in the lower Zoom pools, a lot of people don't really know what they're doing, I played some weird hands in those games...I often found that I was owning myself, giving other people too much credit, than the other way round!
But yeah, in general I feel that by not running a HUD, I'm putting myself at a bit of a disadvantage, especially in Zoom games. Other people are using them so I might as well! On the flipside of that though, I found using stats in-game to be really distracting. It will obviously take practice and the more accustomed to it you get, the easier it gets I guess. I also didn't find it as fun to play though, and if I'm having fun playing to a large degree, I don't really see the point. I do spend time looking back through stats after sessions though and looking at what people are doing; I find that I'm able to remember that quite well and apply it in future situations. Having some sort of database is well worth the money, PT4 is only like 4 buy-ins at 25 ;)
As for that fold, I totally agree with you, super standard open from the button (I would likely be opening the vast majority of my hands in this situation!), I guess I just wasn't concentrating.