Do you mean something like another PowerPoint slide going over all the conclusions?

Just checking if you were paying attention!

Just checking if you were paying attention!

nice try

Hi Gytis,

Could you clarify if you're asking why we prefer to check with the 8h and bet without, or if you're asking why we're betting a bunch in the first place?

Didn't see your answer. I was asking which is main reason to bet 88 without 8h on blank turn and I give you my assumption (or it is yours from video, I don't remember exactly), cause it is of weak opponent range overall, which has a lot of combos to call one street, but not two? and his range includes a lot flush draws? is that right?

Thanks!

Personally I enjoy making these types of videos the most, so if this gets a lot of positive feedback I'll be doing more stuff like this in the future.

also 8c doesn't block any of bdfd

I think this nails it. The difference is tiny but important to remember context for things like this - if Pio determines that it should bet 88 half the time on the turn there is no reason no to select that entire weight from 3 specific combos even if they are only very marginally better.

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed!

Thanks, David. I'm really glad this is getting positive feedback, definitely going to do more of this in the future.

Thank you!

Hi pacmang,

Question, ok so now that you've found out in Pio that betting 100% is pretty decent strategy, do you actually go to the tables and start applying this?

In this particular instance, yes. Sometimes no. More on how I differentiate below.

Currently I'm having a bit of problem taking some conclusive lines from Pio onto the felt and I feel its a psychological thing due to the brain's conditioning process. Do you have any thoughts or suggestions?

First you need to figure out if you actually need to take Pio's suggestions to the tables, and to make that decision you need to think about how well villains will play versus your lines in real life. I used to be a huge fan of complicating the game tree - the logic being that if I'm better than my opponents the more complex the game tree the more likely they are to make more mistakes relative to me.

I've eased up on that view, because sometimes it's simply not true. This hand is a good example. That a 100% cbet strategy is a less complex game than a 60% cbet strategy is an objective fact - but if you look at the solution we see that very likely villain will be playing us as though we were cbetting 60% even if we do in fact cbet 100%, and this will be a mistake of relevant magnitude because his x/r will be a fraction of what it's supposed to be versus our actual strategy. Sometimes villains will adjust worse versus a simpler strategy, and this is a good example of that. There's even a bonus here - by using such a simple strategy you ensure that you yourself do not make a mistake on the flop.

As far as you getting over your psychological issue, if you start thinking in terms of identifying good lines that actually make EV from your opponents in ways you can intuitively understand you won't have a problem taking solutions to the felt. I would say the biggest barrier to implementing a strategy is being uncomfortable because you don't fully understand it (not what it is in terms of mechanics but how it exploits particular things).

Hope I helped!

Excellent video Daniel, would be nice to see how much your EV increases once villain starts to play a more passive line than he should once you cbet 100% of the time.

Hey,

Sorry for the delayed reply - I've been on vacation. Do you use PioSolver yourself? I can give you a link to the file if you wanted to play around with it. If not, I'm going to pull up the solve and take a look when I'm home.

Hey,

Same thing as I answered above ^^^ I'll take a look when I'm home, I could also give you a link if you have Pio.

Thank you!