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My Introduction: How to Grind $100NL

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Giovanni Giurdanella

POSTED Jun 15, 2022

Giovanni Giurdanella makes his Run It Once debut with a brief introduction on his poker career before heading over to the $100 zoom tables on GG and quickly amasses an ultra deep stack making for a number of crazy hands.

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RunItTw1ce 2 years, 10 months ago

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.

Giovanni Giurdanella 2 years, 10 months ago

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.

RunItTw1ce 2 years, 10 months ago

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?

Daniel Clemente 2 years, 10 months ago

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.

RunItTw1ce 2 years, 10 months ago

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.

RunItTw1ce 2 years, 10 months ago

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?

Giovanni Giurdanella 2 years, 10 months ago

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

RunItTw1ce 2 years, 10 months ago

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.

Giovanni Giurdanella 2 years, 10 months ago

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.

HodorIsKing 2 years, 10 months ago

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.

Giovanni Giurdanella 2 years, 9 months ago

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.

matlittle 2 years, 10 months ago

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?

Giovanni Giurdanella 2 years, 9 months ago

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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