Thanks for the kind words!

8:50 KQs
-Most players at these stakes are over-folding to this raise so raising any 2 cards here is probably +EV. Any KhXh seems reasonable. All combos of KQ, QJ, JT are pretty profitable because he can rep on a lot of boards and has decent equity versus my C-bet range.
-Great question. If we were in position I like flatting more. It's brutal if we flat flop, call turn, and then river a Q. Now what? Do we shove or check to him. Not realizing our equity with this hand would suck. A tight player wouldn't have many pure bluffs and may get scared off if we hit a spade.

12:22-QQ
-Villain should check back here more often than betting. Reason being, hero still has all the nutty hands as well as some flush draws that would be fine checking through on turn and seeing a river. Protecting with 99 is valid, but when Hero C-bets this board into two people it narrows his range a bit and eliminates many combos of the JT-KJ suited type hands that may be opening. This would essentially limit the amount of pure bluffs Hero has. Also, by checking back with 99, he can bet a-lot of rivers when checked to again. Hero may look up Villain with 22-44,AK(sometimes), and sometimes bluff. Villain has heaps of equity and is really only scared of AK outdrawing him.

19:45-56s
-I hate this hand. I hate it because we don't take control of the hand. If we lead turn he mostly just calls with the hands that are beating us and it allows us to protect a bit. When we check turn we have no clue where we are at and have to play two streets of playing a guessing game. Betting 1/3rd seems reasonable to me. Accomplishes the same things as 1/2 pot.

21:59- 33
Check-back hands that are bet/calling here could be 9x, 55-77,Ac5c, any AhXh combo. Most players at this buy-in won't be exploiting our weak check flop/ bet turn range.

25:16 KQ
-Flatting 77-AA seems okay. AxTx-AxJx, KQ, JxTx,QxJx, KxJx seems about right. All of these hands play well post flop and we can check raise a-lot of boards and rep monsters. I like check-raising this board and flop C-bet quite a bit. Versus a very loose opener, shoving all the hands listed above will most likely be more profitable than flatting.

31:00- Villain dependent. but I'd be flatting AA,KK, AK(sometimes) and AQ suited sometimes. Versus strong Regs I wouldn't have a flatting range.

Thanks for watching the video and the questions!

Thank you for the kind words!

Hey, Thanks for the nice message! In regard to HUDs, I have been toggling my HUD on and off lately to try a few different things. I sometimes find myself over-relying on the HUD in certain areas and levelling myself, especially considering the sample size needed for some HUD stats to be valid indicators. For the most part, I am only using the HUD to get a feel for Villains aggression level and to construct a range for him and versus him. I will try to incorporate some HUD analysis in the next video.

I don't use PIO as of today but it is something I plan to expand to in 2018.

Thanks for the feedback.

Good stuff! Thank you!

Thanks for the comment. I have been told my whole life I speak way TOO fast. So the fact that it is going the other way means i'm closer to "optimal". I will stay aware of my rate of speech for future videos.

Thanks,

Alberta!

Thanks for the feedback. I'll be aware of this for future videos!

Awesome. Best of luck at the tables!

+1 for this good question! Looking forward to your reply Thomas.

Really good video series! I really liked the key take aways on the end of the video.
You are a very good enrichment here on RIO Thank you very much!

Hey Surda, Thanks for the message. I will play around with the quality when I am working with the software and make sure it is good for future videos. Often times I am using small sizing with 100% of my range. Sometimes that changes depending on my/or my opponents stack-to-pot ratio. My experience is people make bigger mistakes later in the hand because they check-call with trash, or over check-raise flop and then try to make a move later in the hand.

Thanks for the message!

Mostly I am using a strategy that is the same sizing regardless of the board. I think as long as we recognize players are defending wider later in streets then we can adjust and play properly versus them--defend more versus their river leads when we check back turn.

Enough to make him fold! 2/3rds pot would get him to fold AX and some of his pairs lower than the J. We are repping a medium strength 1 pair type hand with this line. We also don't have too many bluffs given we are in the small blind.

Hey,

I think Stars is getting softer due to their recent marketing attempts to capture more players. It'll be interesting to see what happens with the rake increases and what that does to profitability!

Thank you very much for the feedback! Much appreciated!