Should I watch this playing low stakes? Not trying to be funny. It says: "Francesco Lacriola grabs a sampling of hands to illustrate a few key points required for success at the higher levels."
I think the principles are universal: it's mostly about why the solver opts for one/multiple lines and how we can model our strategy according to what response we expect the population or specific player profiles to have.
If you're a low stakes player it's helpful to start developing some knowledge of critical/flexible thinking in poker, but your game will improve much more by working on high frequency spots and by developing a solid and sound fundamental strategy -playing good ABC poker is harder than it looks-.
To sum it up: yes, you can watch videos like this even if you play low stakes, not to replicate the same plays at your tables, but to understand what are some questions you need to ask yourself before deciding the action/when studying to be more efficient.
18:25 the way I understand this spot is that with the ATsc his bluff raise of your river bet is good as he blocks nutted hands and can push you off some flushes but once you 3bet the raise you are fully polar to boats and maybe nut flushes and bluffs and so blocking the nut flush becomes irrelevant and he just blocks the cards you would use to bluff with. Is that correct?
19:10 is it standard to get so many callers pre at 1k nl?
3betting nut flushes is very ambitious and depends on villain (especially how thin they raise and how often they call with worse), but definitely you don't want to have As as a blocker, as his specific hand is one of my best candidate to 3b as a bluff.
SB is a recreational, maybe MP decided to flat to generete a multiway pot with the rec (I don't actually remember the rec's stats right now, it could be it was a whale).
Hand #1 with 74h BB vs CO 2.5x. You mentioned on the turn 655r-Ahh board you are playing OB or XR but you can't check call because 7 high doesn't have any SDV. On wizard its mostly playing OB, but if BB does check its calling KhXh+, pair + FD, or combo draw if not check raising. Some of these hands have low frequency check on the turn around 15 or less and then when facing a bet they XC around 75% and XR 25%. I just wanted to point out that XC is still viable option.
What are your thoughts on pulling the trigger on the river with a missed flush blocking the folding range? On wizard a lot of the KhXh through 8h7h type hands are giving up but your combo continues to bluff. Then wizard is pulling bluffs from the 97s/87s/98o type hands that play X-B175% - all in (356%). Which brings me to another question what size would you use on the river if you continued to bluff here? Assuming river comes like 655r-Ahh-2x. Are you using the 350% pot jam or just going X-B150-B150? Flush completing river is 3/4 size roughly for value & bluffs. But off suit Tx using 150%. Off suit 2x uses 350%.
In general we want to unblock the pairs KK-JJ and the high flushdraws that might take that line when we bluff the river.
I would only use b 150% or b200% on blank rivers; the overshove is better in a metagame where players like to do marginal calls, I expect this spot to be massively overfolded with overshoves. If you want to set up river all-ins it might be worth to consider a bigger size on the turn (2x pot or more), but in general I think these strategies incentivize massive overfolds (especially in the pocket pairs and weak Aces region) and more trapping strategies on the flop.
17 min I thought easy hand with the block bet + 3bet, but then you get 4 bet all in on the river! "puke emoji"
34min Last hand of the video with AJ on QJ3r-Ass-6x board I was wondering why solver doesn't use any 1/3 on the river. I know IP rarely uses less than half pot because reopening the action is not worth the thin value. However, in practice pool is not going to XR bluff the river often. On Wizard the 1/3 size seems to have the highest EV but is never used. Then your sim you only gave larger size options for 2/3 or all in. Wonder what your thoughts on for the 1/3 size? Or some times I see like 10% bets as well. I feel like QJ+ wants to get some value on the river from hands like AT / J3 etc. Also on wizard if BTN jams solver is calling J3 and QJ which I am not sure is true in practice, so I prefer more of the 3/4 or 1/3 size being used on the river. Where I think jam only gets called by like AJ+.
It's a spot where you want to be very polarized, as villain is not supposed to bet very often on the turn, due to the A being terrible for OOP's range -villain is more polar on turns like this-. Sizes are chosen according to how our range wants to play and they're a function of ranges that follow given actions and runouts. We might have a single hand class that wants to use a specific size, but that becomes very exploitable and it's not advised to go towards that route against a semi-competent/decent regular, while it's a perfectly legitimate play against weak players.
Ranges can be very different from how solver plays in such spots and even a half of a combo can make a huge difference between a valuebet/check. I would never use 1/3 here (we're not valuebetting QJ and AK), we can bet around half/66% pot against a recreational player, but not against reasonable regulars.
Even if we're good 95% of the time, why would we bet a hand which is never getting called by worse? I think QJ very likely is checking on the turn, or going for a smaller bet size and maybe a river block -a more sound strategy if villain wants to bet thinner from the turn-, the x/r, big bet, x/call sounds like a very -EV play with actual ranges.
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Should I watch this playing low stakes? Not trying to be funny. It says: "Francesco Lacriola grabs a sampling of hands to illustrate a few key points required for success at the higher levels."
I think the principles are universal: it's mostly about why the solver opts for one/multiple lines and how we can model our strategy according to what response we expect the population or specific player profiles to have.
If you're a low stakes player it's helpful to start developing some knowledge of critical/flexible thinking in poker, but your game will improve much more by working on high frequency spots and by developing a solid and sound fundamental strategy -playing good ABC poker is harder than it looks-.
To sum it up: yes, you can watch videos like this even if you play low stakes, not to replicate the same plays at your tables, but to understand what are some questions you need to ask yourself before deciding the action/when studying to be more efficient.
Thanks man!
Very solid advice. I will focus on the questions you ask in the video.
ABC poker is damn hard :(
Really nice video! Good balance between explaining your own thought process and Pio!
Learned a lot in this video.
18:25 the way I understand this spot is that with the ATsc his bluff raise of your river bet is good as he blocks nutted hands and can push you off some flushes but once you 3bet the raise you are fully polar to boats and maybe nut flushes and bluffs and so blocking the nut flush becomes irrelevant and he just blocks the cards you would use to bluff with. Is that correct?
19:10 is it standard to get so many callers pre at 1k nl?
Thanks!
3betting nut flushes is very ambitious and depends on villain (especially how thin they raise and how often they call with worse), but definitely you don't want to have As as a blocker, as his specific hand is one of my best candidate to 3b as a bluff.
SB is a recreational, maybe MP decided to flat to generete a multiway pot with the rec (I don't actually remember the rec's stats right now, it could be it was a whale).
Hand #1 with 74h BB vs CO 2.5x. You mentioned on the turn 655r-Ahh board you are playing OB or XR but you can't check call because 7 high doesn't have any SDV. On wizard its mostly playing OB, but if BB does check its calling KhXh+, pair + FD, or combo draw if not check raising. Some of these hands have low frequency check on the turn around 15 or less and then when facing a bet they XC around 75% and XR 25%. I just wanted to point out that XC is still viable option.
What are your thoughts on pulling the trigger on the river with a missed flush blocking the folding range? On wizard a lot of the KhXh through 8h7h type hands are giving up but your combo continues to bluff. Then wizard is pulling bluffs from the 97s/87s/98o type hands that play X-B175% - all in (356%). Which brings me to another question what size would you use on the river if you continued to bluff here? Assuming river comes like 655r-Ahh-2x. Are you using the 350% pot jam or just going X-B150-B150? Flush completing river is 3/4 size roughly for value & bluffs. But off suit Tx using 150%. Off suit 2x uses 350%.
In general we want to unblock the pairs KK-JJ and the high flushdraws that might take that line when we bluff the river.
I would only use b 150% or b200% on blank rivers; the overshove is better in a metagame where players like to do marginal calls, I expect this spot to be massively overfolded with overshoves. If you want to set up river all-ins it might be worth to consider a bigger size on the turn (2x pot or more), but in general I think these strategies incentivize massive overfolds (especially in the pocket pairs and weak Aces region) and more trapping strategies on the flop.
17 min I thought easy hand with the block bet + 3bet, but then you get 4 bet all in on the river! "puke emoji"
34min Last hand of the video with AJ on QJ3r-Ass-6x board I was wondering why solver doesn't use any 1/3 on the river. I know IP rarely uses less than half pot because reopening the action is not worth the thin value. However, in practice pool is not going to XR bluff the river often. On Wizard the 1/3 size seems to have the highest EV but is never used. Then your sim you only gave larger size options for 2/3 or all in. Wonder what your thoughts on for the 1/3 size? Or some times I see like 10% bets as well. I feel like QJ+ wants to get some value on the river from hands like AT / J3 etc. Also on wizard if BTN jams solver is calling J3 and QJ which I am not sure is true in practice, so I prefer more of the 3/4 or 1/3 size being used on the river. Where I think jam only gets called by like AJ+.
It's a spot where you want to be very polarized, as villain is not supposed to bet very often on the turn, due to the A being terrible for OOP's range -villain is more polar on turns like this-. Sizes are chosen according to how our range wants to play and they're a function of ranges that follow given actions and runouts. We might have a single hand class that wants to use a specific size, but that becomes very exploitable and it's not advised to go towards that route against a semi-competent/decent regular, while it's a perfectly legitimate play against weak players.
Ranges can be very different from how solver plays in such spots and even a half of a combo can make a huge difference between a valuebet/check. I would never use 1/3 here (we're not valuebetting QJ and AK), we can bet around half/66% pot against a recreational player, but not against reasonable regulars.
Even if we're good 95% of the time, why would we bet a hand which is never getting called by worse? I think QJ very likely is checking on the turn, or going for a smaller bet size and maybe a river block -a more sound strategy if villain wants to bet thinner from the turn-, the x/r, big bet, x/call sounds like a very -EV play with actual ranges.
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