If you look at the people who are the most vitriolic, most have had been big downswings in the past year. The guy who has been the most vocal was down $100,000 at one point last year. The scripting, king of the hill format, and the rise in effective rake -- 1.75bb/100 in 2013 to 2.75bb/100 in 2015 at 2/4 -- has changed the way the game is approached. Unfortunately because I show up everyday and try to make money, I've become the public face for these structural changes.

I'm glad you enjoy my videos. I hope you learned something. :)

because Tyler warns us about 0ev plays

Just looked at 2p2 for a while and couldn't find anything maybe I was looking in all the wrong places? Not trying to derail just seems crazy to me as everyone knows TF is sick at poker.

I read the name as 'sara' ld. Obviously its completely irrelevant to game play.

For sure, its close without the club with bvb ranges.

I'm going to look closer in CREV at this hand in a video. Its ultimately a function of his turn betting range, his river c/r range and my perceived range. If he's betting like Q2s on the turn and leading 7x on the river, valuebetting should be okay from a theoretical perspective. If he starts with a range of QJ+ and draws then his river calling range is going to be small. Maybe Axhh and ATo. I'd assume in the actual hand given current meta that he actually c/r's QJo due to its blockers at a high frequency.

what is QJo supposed to block? QQ/JJ? Is it also supposed to block AQ AJ bc those seem like you're 'thinner' value bets so it blocks both

My fullhouses which are going to make up a fair bit of my river call-raise range. The play is obviously not perfect, but you'd be surprised at the number of players who are like "meh; can't call; blockers; all in".

I think K4o is really close to 0 ev in this spot. I would definitely be opening K8o and K4s.

Hi nicegame!

Thanks for your input!

MOP has a chapter on adding a small blocking bet into the AKQ game. The authors find that the small blocking bet adds about 1/10 of a bet in game value to oop strategy.

Without getting too technical, you can use statistics to test whether to items are different from each other in a given sample size. Obviously, there are some bias in the results (profitability changes based on table composition), but in general there are enough apple to apple comparisons to make this form of testing viable.

In BB, we only need to consider our oop-adjusted equity against the original raiser. On the button, we'll also need to include in our model the 4-bet/cold-calling/squeeze characteristics of the SB and BB.

Thanks Monte!

Thanks Prince

Some theory videos would be great, a mix of power point slides and hand examples on how to study poker effectively for example.
I know those are hard to produce and require a lot of time and effort but would be nice.

Next one is going to be hand review/theory. :)

Hey Brit,

Thanks for analysis! That's definitely the way to look at these problems.

That was my thought as well on leading. It doesn't appear to be much of gold mine when I can defend basically natural frequencies and make his bluffs 0EV. However ninja is a smart player and I'm sure his line was well-reasoned. I'm curious why he decided to chose that course of action. It may be that he thinks he can get more streets of value with his nut hands...

Tyler, do you think that your conservative cbet strategy could be a good reason for developing donkbet range?

The game trees are really too complicated to make an easy generalization about out of opposition play on the flop. However, if somebody starts donking all their nut hands. Its seems very obvious that you can value bet/bluff far wider in position, so a conservative cbet strategy would switch to an aggressive one fairly quickly.

Hey Tony,

Thanks for the compliments and suggestion. I'll work harder at avoiding those words.