Improving Your Exploit Skills (Part 2)
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maybe try to speed up the presentation part a bit...there are several concepts that you explain which are true and important BUT I think most people on this site aren't completely new to poker and thus the long-winded explanations would be better replaced by quicker, to-the-point summaries. I think it would be cool to explicitly talk through your exploits, for instance: if you 2 barrel after the PFR checks back a flop like you did with QhJx on the Kh9h3h 3o 8o board, maybe say something like, "his flop check back is weighted very heavily toward give ups, he has very little Kx, flushes, etc. so I will bet the turn." then on the turn you can continue by explaining, "his flop check back, turn calling range on this board is still very weak, and it likely consists of JhX with X very possibly being an offsuit A, so I think I can't take QJo to showdown profitably, I must bet again to fold out his Ax hands and I also get enough folds from his hands like 88,TT, 9T, JJ"
The above is obviously a very easy to explain example, but if you did this for more complicated and worthy of discussion spots I think it would add tremendous value to the video.
Hey nittyoldman,
Thanks for your feedback, I appreciate your advice.
Because I make essential videos, I thought it would make more sense to start showing the viewers the process of note-taking/exploitation and how you can extract information/reads from simple observations (rather than just showing all my notes and then the adjustments). With that in mind, I thought a more basic background on exploitation would also fit into that, so that’s why I thought it would be helpful to give some (very basic) considerations in exploitation. The consequence of this is that some viewers, like you, will find this too basic. However, in the next videos I plan to talk about what areas you can look for in exploitation so hopefully you find that more useful. After that I want to make videos about specific player profiles, talk about their general tendencies and what adjustments you should be making, and then showing some HH examples where I use all of my notes. So the whole idea was to start with some basics and then make it more specific, because I felt this was the best way to present it for the majority of my viewers.
Hey thanks for the video!
Can u pls upload the popup shown at 19:15?
Hey FamilyPot,
Sorry, I've spend quite some time building the popups so I will not share them publicly.
Very nice video!
@ 32:58 you have defended with QJo vs a player who seems pretty tight from UTG. Isn't it too light considering lots of his UTG range dominates your hand.
Also, what would be your default defending range there vs unknowns? I've gone as far as folding KJo vs a reg because(I'm still a newbie at cash games) I'm not sure about how wide I can actually defend and off suit hands don't do as well as suited ones in that spot.
Hey MikeDRobini,
In general I defend my BB pretty wide, also when facing an open from EP. I think I defend around 30-35% BB v EP, but this deviates quite a bit based on opponent type, reads, open sizing, etc. So far in my database I've been showing a profit of around -70bb/100 by flatting BB v UTG filtered with the range weaker than 55+, ATs+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, T9s, AJo+, KQo. It´s not really a large sample though.
I don´t think defending that wide as a default is mandatory though and it's probably not the best advice since you just started to play cash. I agree with you that that some hands (mostly the offsuit hands) have domination issues and just don´t play well postflop (plus the fact that you're playing readless). So for now you might be better off building some solid ranges/frequencies in Flopzilla/CREV, stick to them, evaluate and then finetune them once you get more experience.
That said though, in this specific hand UTG was a fish so I think QJo is a flat preflop and I would go pretty wide here (probably up to 35-40%).
i like the detail, its way better than rushing through a bunch of spots imo, enjoying this series a ton
nice vid
Loving the detail. As you say in one of your comments, not everyone knows everything and things that are 'standard' to some are revolutionary to new players. Thanks for the detail.
You make a lot of notes, but I haven't seen you using ones previously made, so maybe it's too much work for nothing (as it's also hard to read stuff when having only 20sec to make a decision during the hand). Nice thought process and color coding,though.
Yeah, that´s right. I´m not sure in which part I said this but note-taking in zoom definitely takes quite some time before it becomes valueable. In general my process for faster decision making is to make observations > try to spot tendencies > use colour codings based on tendencies. That way I can identify an opponent and determine the overall strategy I want to play based on a colour. It is definitely a time-consuming process though.
I'm glad you liked it!
Another great video man!
Your BB defense range vs UTG seems very loose to me. What's your overall win rate from the BB if you don't mind me asking? I'm wondering if I'm playing way too nitty from BB vs UTG (and from BB in general) after hearing you say you defend 30-35% in that spot by flatting. Also, what's your 3-bet % vs UTG in that spot?
Great content btw.
Thank You
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