haha I didn't see I'd made a pair with my K9 vs your AA smh

26 minute that AA checkback, I understand reasons you mentioned about checking river. What is the worst valuehand you will bet there? we still can have bluffs at this node, primarely non Ace flush draws, but pretty hard to have big bluff freq considering even 54/T8/78 got there

with AA on 963fd 3 what do u think about our turn sizing? Villain is calling his draws etc anyways if u bet for example 3/4 or pot OTT so u leave money on the table little bit. Okay maybe he is x folding some bad flush draws against a big size but overall how do u see that turn spot there? thanks for the videos, u play very solid to say atleast :)

Hi, your videos are good content but i have the feeling they are somewhat a bit all the same. Maybe a deeper explain behind each decision/betsizing choice for instance or a theme by session would be a bit better in my opinion :)
GL

17 min - Would you consider having a donking range on this flop? I think IP would use a more polar strategy on this dynamic texture thus checking back quite a bit. BB will have more 2 pairs and straight combos. Less AA KK QQ obviously, but not trying to put in a ton of money with those hands on this flop anyways.

31 min - hero calls XR, stabs 1/3 turn, barrels river 70%. Is this pio approved or an exploit? You mentioned BTN vs BB ranges will be wide and expect villain to XR at a decent frequency. Still seems like a rather fancy play to me. Would you recommend this play to your students? Spicy spicy!!!

I must say, I used to really enjoy your videos because you played a bit more old school in that you were actually hand reading, willing to exploit and attack weak/capped ranges or play a big pot with thin value against the fish, but ever since you've gone to trying to play a pure GTO/PIO strategy your vids seem stale and much less interesting. It feels like nearly every player in the zoom pool is attempting to play the same defensive, weak, small bet, small pot, robotic style and it's quite boring. I swear many of them have spent so much time playing in the same pool against a bunch of players attempting to play the exact same strategy that no one even knows how to attack, punish, and exploit the fish anymore! I couldn't believe you flatted KQ in the BB vs fish's SB open. Seems like a prime spot to put more money in position, hope to flop top pair, and be more than happy to play for stacks! Or, at the very least, have the fish put more money in OOP with a weak range so that when we don't flop it we can actually rep strong hands, blow him off his weak range, and win the pot every single time we both miss the flop. I don't know, I guess it's just the state of the game, particularly at zoom $500.

Ok thanks for the feedback and will bare it in mind.

I watched the videos from Elusivemark and Sauces - Elusivemark's was entertaining, albeit some very very low frequency questionable stuff that I wouldn't advise to players learning the game and progressing (eg 4betting with pocket 4s). And Sauce's video wasn't any different to his others, as he always discusses player/pool exploits in his decision making.

I'm not criticising them or their videos at all as they are both excellent players and content providers in their own right (and Sauce is clearly wayyyy above me), but my point here is that it's important to be careful when providing 'non-GTO' or 'alternative' styles of play, as it easily confuses people. For example - I've found that I get comments on my videos whenever I make a 'questionable' play, even when in the video I fully explain my reasoning behind it and clearly state its not 'GTO' and therefore further discussion really isn't necessary (eg bluffing because player/population overfolds). So if the general viewer can't take this on board, then I fear what a whole video on exploiting might do. After all, all games/limits/player pools are very different and require varying exploit strategies, so what I may provide in this sense at 500zoom could be completely irrelevant and -EV at say 100nl on Party. Then there's also the factor that people learning the game shouldn't really be trying to exploit too hard because the chances are they won't fully understand why/what they're exploiting and end up being open for counter-exploitation. I've noticed from coaching that a lot of low stakes players put too much emphasis on 'levelling' and exploiting in spots where they are making MASSIVE assumptions about a player based on a very small sample, and have no HUD data to back it up either. And this is a big stumbling block when it comes to progressing up the limits - player may crush 100nl with their high-exploit strategy that beats those games, but then how can they successfully progress to 200-500nl where they will face tougher opponents with less leaks if they don't have their own 'GTO framework' in solid condition?!

Therefore I made the decision to provide videos based around playing as close to GTO as I can, as I believe this will serve the vast majority well.

I too have felt like all Garys videos are kinda the same, I perceive it to be a good thing for the exact reasons Gary mentioned...namely the consistent drilling of gto spots. I literally am going through every single video of yours twice, and im almost done with 2nd round, and my game is sooooooo much better for it. PLenty of diversity on Rio, keep doing your thing Gary.