Farewell Video: Balancing Your Check Back Range
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Haven't watched past the introduction yet, but I'll check it out later. Good luck in your future ventures, Nick!
I appreciate your dedication to helping people who are still growing a lot and making tons of mistakes at the microstakes. Hope to see you at the tables (although I'm never playing in Ohio -- come play $5/$10 in San Diego and I'll buy you a beer).
Hey radtupperware, thanks so much for the kind words and If I'm in that area I'll for sure look you up!
Thanks for everything: you've singlehandedly taught me how to play PLO.
Wish you nothing but the best for the rest of your career!
Thanks Gingivite! I'm happy to have helped out and I wish you good luck as well. Appreciate it.
Haven’t watched the video yet but sad to read that you are leaving... you contributed many valuable videos to the site and found the right balance between beginners and advanced theory concepts.
All the best for the future!
Thanks Alien Slayer! Big fan of your videos as well and I appreciate it!
Really sorry to see you go. Your videos are almost always my favourites. I have learned a lot. Happy travels.
I'm glad you enjoyed the videos jsmithf80! Appreciate all the feedback and kind words.
Sorry to see you go. I have learned an incredible amount from you and your teaching style is very easy to follow. Good luck to you in all your future endeavors. Thank you Nick!
Thanks SoundSpeed! I always enjoyed interacting with you and I appreciate all the questions and feedback. GL to you as well.
Found the oop rec player lead river comments super helpful. All the best for the future.
Thanks @impregnatio. I'm glad I could help out and I wish you luck as well!
Best of luck with your next chapter Nick, you are a great coach and I'm confident you will be successful in whatever it is you do next.
Appreciate it Chads!
:( another good content creator gone or now elite. Good luck with your next venture.
Appreciate the kind words @Scientifik. GL on the tables!
Thanks Nick. Great work on all your vids. I noticed you have been playing on bet online quite a bit. I used to play a lot of NLHE on there and there were definite bots a couple of years ago- well known on the 2+2 community that there are several. They were mainly in the NL10 and NL25 pools. I did play some plo ($5 and $10) and thought there were a couple in there too. Did you notice this and did you have any problems playing against them? For instance, I am pretty sure Soap Opera is a bot- saw you playing against him in several of your low stakes vids.
Thanks phishman! Yeah, I wanted to try it out for a bit and I haven't really been playing on there or online as much the last couple of months. I didn't really accumulate enough of a sample to know for sure, but I wouldn't be surprised. I've been playing mostly live and only jumping on ignition every now and then for fun/video footage.
Nick Johnson Sorry to hear you are leaving, have enjoyed your videos and found them very useful. Good luck with your future ventures.
Ok now that being said, really don't like the first hand as a check back. I think it's going to be almost impossible to get money in ahead after the flop as any cards you improve on and want to bet for value will likely be action killers as well, and I think your range advantage even multi-way is perceived to be larger than you indicate making op check raises on this rainbow board fairly unlikely. Think this hand plays much better as a c-bet personally.
Thanks Thallo! Appreciate the feedback and I'm glad you enjoyed the videos.
I can see arguments for the first hand being c-bet. I do have top/top with the nut gutter+BDFD, so being able to get worse to call all while gaining protection and avoiding action killing cards on the turn makes sense to me. I like checking back some decent top pair hands like this for some balance, but I don't have any issue with your reasoning.
Oh, I am a bit late with this reply cuz I was quite long "offline" myself. So...I am selfishly sorry that you are ending coaching on RIO but for sure I wish you all the best and thank you very much! Ffs I will really miss you, I mostly watched your videos / content in PLO segment. I hope that our paths will happily cross in the future (not maybe so much on the tables you sitting on my left:P:)) Well done and again, wish you all the best!
Thanks ChipTracker! I'm glad I could create content that helped you out and feel free to contact me in the future with any questions. Good luck to yourself and thanks again.
thanx alot for all the help and good luck in the future!
No worries and thank you! GL to you as well and feel free to reach out at any point.
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