10:45 T#2 hero plays C33-C100-X river vs a SB donk-donk-x range. You took a note saying 3bet JTo, but its just a SRP. Looking back at the hand now, would you play it differently by raising on any street vs the donk bet or value betting the river?
Welcome to the team. Sorry Crypto didn't go well for you. In your database you only showed 390k hands of 500NL. What about other stakes and formats? I like your approach of looking to do something 100% in terms of exploit one way or the other.
Thank you for your feedback maybe I will make the next video based only on the exploiting part etc. About the spot, i totally misread the spot because of his donk. Vs the donk, i would raise always KJ+ KTs mixing but with bdfd almost always. As played turn always call vs such a polarised bet. On river, he mostly has air if he checks i guess after betting polarised the turn so his range is a lot of flush draw/ straight draw type hands when he checks the river sometimes some KJ that slow down or some KQ that try to x/r river. I was thinking to bet very tiny to induce some spews some people's ego don't like folding vs 1-2 bb bets with Jhihgh etc and start raising this you can do in spots where villain has a very polar range so x range is mostly air.
Unfortunately, I don't have any other graphs. 1k I mostly played on other sides.
Giovanni Giurdanella On the river when you mention going tiny as people don't like folding to 1-2bb bets. The theory side doesn't like reopening the action for thin value if you are vulnerable to a XR. Any concern doing this or just going tiny as an exploit as people don't find enough XR?
Enjoyed the video. Your point about how the exceptional players are willing to put in that extra bit of thought to come up with the best exploit as opposed to leaning on the randomiser is a good insight, and one I've been experimenting with myself.
These are spots a lot of people freeze up when you are 200bb deep and then you said opponent will shove some AQs-ATs so you can call off your AK. This seems very ballsy! Looking forward to more of these deep stack spots.
yes common leak for people to get scared in deeper spots and tighten up a lot will keep it in mind maybe I will make a video based on that spots in the future
yes i thought ingame that it is already pretty loose to float flop turn and river i guess are standard. So important decision is the flop I guess we increase here unnecessary our variance. Also they are preflop tighter then gto etc so i guess you are right i don't like the float
37:50 "I think its ok to fold this one" then hand clicks call. This is something that happens to me quite often and only yesterday I was trying to develop some heuristics for these spots. Mostly top & bottom pair or better doesn't fold but are allowed to fold some middle two pair type hands. But these "idol hands" moments can be very tilting, at least for me. Because your brain is telling you that you are beat, but seem to have an argument with yourself about solver land vs exploits vs intuition etc. By far the most difficult spots in poker, I think.
in the last second it came the thought oh he can have worser changing my decision into call.. I lean to always take an aggressive line like call raise etc but not enough give-ups when it comes to last-second decisions. I think it is our ego talking into a decision so we are acting unconsciously by believing every thought that comes to our mind. The ego is very good in coming up with on the first-sight reasonable arguments so we need to be very careful here I think.
I wanted to make my next video about consciously evaluating my thought processes and catching my ego in action.
At 34:44 Giovanni Giurdanella has AK in the BB. The UTG opener checks back the river with QJhh on T9A9Qsss. Do you think villain makes a mistake there by not betting the river and turning it into a bluff? That was my thought as it seemed that combo would be near the bottom of the range that villain gets to the river with in this node.
hey good question i think theoretically yes he should bluff this combo sometimes but exploitivily i would have probably 0% bluffs because it is super easy for oop to overbluff hard in the x/r line with all his foulhouse blockers etc so the hands that we want him to fold are getting turned to often into a bluff by population.
Hey Giova, good to see you here at RIO! Played thousands of hands with you at 100nl on stars a few years back and had some fun battles; you were probably the toughest player to play against too.
Enjoyed the node-locking, definitely something I need to do more of. Think it adds a lot to the analysis when we consider how real opponents will react to our strategies, and not something that is common in other videos.
Would you apply the same deviations at 500nl and 1knl, or do you think that making big strategy adjustments becomes less effective as people get better, and the risk of being counter exploited increases?
hey thank you for the compliment i appreciate it. When moving up in stakes you just need to get more carefull wich exploits you are taking and you need to be smarter about them for example if you showdown a hand wich was very exploitive make a note on villain and have in mind how to exploit villain next time when he tries to exploit you etc you need to be always one step ahead then you are free to exploit as much as you want. But always from the gto fundament if i dont know how villain is reacting etc i will stick to gto and mix my frequencys.
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Welcome Giovanni! Nice to have a new Essential Cash Game Coach. Looking forward to seeing more from you as a coach!
hey, thank you I'm excited to provide the highest quality content I can.
Congrats my friend Giova, welcome to the team! Great first impressions and I liked that you looked at the spots right after the session, cool vid.
Hey man, thank you for your feedback means a lot from a crusher like you hope to see you soon on the tables again :)
10:45 T#2 hero plays C33-C100-X river vs a SB donk-donk-x range. You took a note saying 3bet JTo, but its just a SRP. Looking back at the hand now, would you play it differently by raising on any street vs the donk bet or value betting the river?

Welcome to the team. Sorry Crypto didn't go well for you. In your database you only showed 390k hands of 500NL. What about other stakes and formats? I like your approach of looking to do something 100% in terms of exploit one way or the other.
Thank you for your feedback maybe I will make the next video based only on the exploiting part etc. About the spot, i totally misread the spot because of his donk. Vs the donk, i would raise always KJ+ KTs mixing but with bdfd almost always. As played turn always call vs such a polarised bet. On river, he mostly has air if he checks i guess after betting polarised the turn so his range is a lot of flush draw/ straight draw type hands when he checks the river sometimes some KJ that slow down or some KQ that try to x/r river. I was thinking to bet very tiny to induce some spews some people's ego don't like folding vs 1-2 bb bets with Jhihgh etc and start raising this you can do in spots where villain has a very polar range so x range is mostly air.
Unfortunately, I don't have any other graphs. 1k I mostly played on other sides.
Giovanni Giurdanella On the river when you mention going tiny as people don't like folding to 1-2bb bets. The theory side doesn't like reopening the action for thin value if you are vulnerable to a XR. Any concern doing this or just going tiny as an exploit as people don't find enough XR?
just as an exploit to induce spews. theoretically, it makes no sense
Welcome, Giovanni!
Enjoyed the video. Your point about how the exceptional players are willing to put in that extra bit of thought to come up with the best exploit as opposed to leaning on the randomiser is a good insight, and one I've been experimenting with myself.
Looking forward to seeing more.
hey thank you for the kind words will keep up the work happy you liked it
congrats. what is your adjusted bb/100? no disrespect just curious.
23:40 4BP - 50% flop - barrel 62%.
These are spots a lot of people freeze up when you are 200bb deep and then you said opponent will shove some AQs-ATs so you can call off your AK. This seems very ballsy! Looking forward to more of these deep stack spots.
yes common leak for people to get scared in deeper spots and tighten up a lot will keep it in mind maybe I will make a video based on that spots in the future
26:20 54d 3bet BvB, call 4bet. float vs 26% cb, float vs 36% turn stab, jam the river. This play seems spewy as hell!
These are the same plays you make at 500z as well or just being more splashy at lower stakes?
yes i thought ingame that it is already pretty loose to float flop turn and river i guess are standard. So important decision is the flop I guess we increase here unnecessary our variance. Also they are preflop tighter then gto etc so i guess you are right i don't like the float
37:50 "I think its ok to fold this one" then hand clicks call. This is something that happens to me quite often and only yesterday I was trying to develop some heuristics for these spots. Mostly top & bottom pair or better doesn't fold but are allowed to fold some middle two pair type hands. But these "idol hands" moments can be very tilting, at least for me. Because your brain is telling you that you are beat, but seem to have an argument with yourself about solver land vs exploits vs intuition etc. By far the most difficult spots in poker, I think.
in the last second it came the thought oh he can have worser changing my decision into call.. I lean to always take an aggressive line like call raise etc but not enough give-ups when it comes to last-second decisions. I think it is our ego talking into a decision so we are acting unconsciously by believing every thought that comes to our mind. The ego is very good in coming up with on the first-sight reasonable arguments so we need to be very careful here I think.
I wanted to make my next video about consciously evaluating my thought processes and catching my ego in action.
where did you get the rng from?
jurojin
Giovanni Giurdanella How come you don't use Juro's hot keys? Only the RNG?
At 34:44 Giovanni Giurdanella has AK in the BB. The UTG opener checks back the river with QJhh on T9A9Qsss. Do you think villain makes a mistake there by not betting the river and turning it into a bluff? That was my thought as it seemed that combo would be near the bottom of the range that villain gets to the river with in this node.
hey good question i think theoretically yes he should bluff this combo sometimes but exploitivily i would have probably 0% bluffs because it is super easy for oop to overbluff hard in the x/r line with all his foulhouse blockers etc so the hands that we want him to fold are getting turned to often into a bluff by population.
Hey Giova, good to see you here at RIO! Played thousands of hands with you at 100nl on stars a few years back and had some fun battles; you were probably the toughest player to play against too.
Enjoyed the node-locking, definitely something I need to do more of. Think it adds a lot to the analysis when we consider how real opponents will react to our strategies, and not something that is common in other videos.
Would you apply the same deviations at 500nl and 1knl, or do you think that making big strategy adjustments becomes less effective as people get better, and the risk of being counter exploited increases?
hey thank you for the compliment i appreciate it. When moving up in stakes you just need to get more carefull wich exploits you are taking and you need to be smarter about them for example if you showdown a hand wich was very exploitive make a note on villain and have in mind how to exploit villain next time when he tries to exploit you etc you need to be always one step ahead then you are free to exploit as much as you want. But always from the gto fundament if i dont know how villain is reacting etc i will stick to gto and mix my frequencys.
Was a bit late too the party, congrats on this great accomplishment
hey thank you :)
haha I hate deepstack poker. Or hate... When I get 4-bet.. I am almost like "shit, here goes the stack".
good video! @25:58 isnt that turn call to loose?
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