great to see the 500z back

Curious about your thoughts on having jamming range vs 3B. When we should add those plays in our arsenal and why? (For example SBvsBB 3B situation; BUvsSB(BB).

Great video, and some run good finally. Though I believe if you had goal to crush those games, you would be :)

nice video! it's strange to see you running hot in one of your videos for once haha.

any chance we could see some higher stakes reg table action in one of your upcoming videos? or even some HU? i just feel like it's been a while since you done one of these types of videos, and as they say, variety is the spice of life!

There were a lot of interesting spots here, great video!

37: A3ss CO 2bb vs SB 9bb
8d 5c 3d SB b66/call
Ad turn x/b47 "gonna obviously get the money in on this runout".

I thought this comment was interesting so I tried to sim the spot. I don't have exact ranges for this sizing so I'm not going to post any screenshots here, and A3ss indeed does bet some of the time and call it off when it does. I thought it was interesting how the solver chooses sizings, preferring to mostly check the A3s or b25, and bet more often with A5s and mix b25 and b50, but still check half the time, and with A8s pure bet and mostly for half pot. I think this betting system is very nice in this spot with these types of hands because A3s unblocks 88 and 55 and is actually worth significantly less of the pot than A8s when SB x/jams the turn (explaining for the turn b25 line, since A3s isn't in the b50 line). Maybe if you always b50 with A3s there also, the villain can start jamming A8s (this already happens infrequently in the b25 line).

Nice video! A couple of questions:

30:31 JT7 mono w/ KJo. Does the texture of the monotone flop affect strategy? So generally broadway flops are better for the preflop raiser, but does the flushes that exist in both ranges nulify that advantage?

33:00 A9, I would have used a 75% strategy OTT. My thinking was that our betting treshold is 88+ and get called by underpairs, pairs, draws and 9x. We would still have plenty of 9x in our range to not get completely crushed by raises

want to see you play higher stakes NL

You mention developing a flatting range w AQ sb v btn at 200bb deep. 200bb+ ranges and strat are an area that I haven’t seen much training material on RIO. Obviously this is very applicable when playing live. Any chance you can make a vid about this in the future?

6min: Ben Sulsky Solve I ran is pure calling with AhQx in this spot but folding without the AhQx. I was a little surprised to hear you say you would X-rip A9 over AQ. Thought we would want to block KQ here. I am also a little surprised hands like KhTx or QhJx are not XRAI here as a bluff at some frequency. Can you explain why hands that block some flushes and straights are not ripping here? Seems like a very weird spot as even some AJo / ATo without a heart is folding in the solve I ran. Only hands like Ah9x will rip about 1/3 of the time.

Sizing is a bit off here based on options I had. 2.5x open, then used 62%, 69%, and 75% for F T R sizes for IP BTN. It's only off a couple of chips until the river, then river Only had 51% or 75% sizing choices, so went with 75% since villain used a 2/3 sizing. ctrlplay If you would take a look at this one would be appreciated! Seems like a common spot, but also a spot I appear to be butchering as I would XRAI with pair + heart way more often than the 0% frequencies shown here.

Thanks for any feed back.

vs 2.5x BB Z500 Rake T5s & and; A7o are defends

Good stuff! Thanks :)

Great content as always Ben. Appreciate the videos and the work you put into them. More zoom videos at any stakes would be awesome. Thanks again