This is the first poker video I’ve seen that features tits and I finished the entire video in one sitting. I was wondering how you approach preflop strategy in tournaments—do you practice equilibrium play for the antes and smaller sizing or do you come up with heuristics for exaptation of cash game ranges?
lol thanks had to make sure I got that in the frame of course
I absolutely adjust my ranges with the antes. By far the biggest difference is in BB and SB play. Since people generally tend to raise smaller in MTTs you end up having to defend BB significantly wider. I feel pretty comfortable in these situations from the BB as highstakes online people tend to RFI smaller as well so I've done a lot of work on how to play with very wide BB ranges. But it's good to be aware that strategy does change quite significantly when you play BB with like a 30-40% range as opposed to the 80-90% range you would have when people raise like 2.2x or whatever. So if you've never studied this I do highly recommend checking it out and not taking it for granted.
In addition, you end up limping from the SB a TON if it folds to you because of the antes.
As for RFI ranges, since you often have weaker players in the live MTTs I end up expanding my RFI ranges from late positions if there is a weaker player in the blinds. Of course that's not really a live, or MTT specific thing I would do the same in an online cash game but it just happens more frequently in these formats so it's good to be aware of it.
If you were talking about flop: either donk or check raise is ok it was super mixed in the sim. I'd say if you're playing an opponent that correctly realizes people are underdonking on this board and correctly checks back a TON you should absolutely go for a donk. If you're playing someone that is just cbetting a ton regardless I'd say go for a check raise and don't donk as much. In general when things like these are mixed we want to make a decision based on what our opponent is doing rather than RNGing or whatever. Hope that clears it up!
Plo tourneys back in the day didn't have antes. Is it almost standard now for there to be bb antes in plo tournies?
4:00 is the pot only sizing due to spr? If stacks were very deep does a small size come into play?
9:16 you said it is bad to have axxx with low cards as it blocks opponents bluffs. Wouldn't opponent look to bet turns often with those low cards that give him straight draws?
15:05 if opponent had potted do we start to fold?
35:30 if we lead or xr do we only barrel with turn improvement and pure give up otherwise?
36:40 does it matter what the rank of our diamond is? Do you barrel brick rivers based on having the one diamond?
4:00 yeah absolutely. At bigger SPR we very quickly start implementing a bunch of halfpots. I'd say our primary bet size becomes halfpot. Generally what you see in 3b pots (assuming 100BB deep) is that the IP tends to use a lot more smaller sizings (except for when the board is super special dry like T32r or 952r stuff like that) and when you are OOP you can get away with more big bets. Position is really nice so we don't mind playing turns and rivers as much.
9:16 I kinda didnt like how I explained this spot in hindsight. So basically when we are OOP we want to be bluffing with tons of low cards in our hand, because as OOP we generally don't want to be blocking all the middling cards as those are generally going to be cards that the IP player will be folding with. So I don't really think it has anything to do with the straight draw, moreso that the OOP player will just always pick those cards to bluff with on river to unblock the IP players folds, so as a result if we as the IP player have the middling cards then our hand becomes a nice bluffcatch, because we unblock all the bluffs.
15:05 I'm not happy about it but I just flick the call still I think
35:30 Nah this hand is quite spicey and we like barreling off with it a bunch. Like you have to remember IP has soooooooooo much aces we really really are just trying to make those fold. I'm sure some runouts we might give up but I'd just recommend to look for very good reasons to give up, rather than defaulting to giving up except if you turn some equity. Think this spot is super easily underbluffed if you're not careful.
36:40 Of course the rank matters, but for this hand not as much. Just close your eyes and bet and yeah barrel off on a brick river, if we die we die. We want him to fold aces which is like a ridiculous portion of his range
Not going to the series unfortunately this year :(
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This is the first poker video I’ve seen that features tits and I finished the entire video in one sitting. I was wondering how you approach preflop strategy in tournaments—do you practice equilibrium play for the antes and smaller sizing or do you come up with heuristics for exaptation of cash game ranges?
lol thanks had to make sure I got that in the frame of course
I absolutely adjust my ranges with the antes. By far the biggest difference is in BB and SB play. Since people generally tend to raise smaller in MTTs you end up having to defend BB significantly wider. I feel pretty comfortable in these situations from the BB as highstakes online people tend to RFI smaller as well so I've done a lot of work on how to play with very wide BB ranges. But it's good to be aware that strategy does change quite significantly when you play BB with like a 30-40% range as opposed to the 80-90% range you would have when people raise like 2.2x or whatever. So if you've never studied this I do highly recommend checking it out and not taking it for granted.
In addition, you end up limping from the SB a TON if it folds to you because of the antes.
As for RFI ranges, since you often have weaker players in the live MTTs I end up expanding my RFI ranges from late positions if there is a weaker player in the blinds. Of course that's not really a live, or MTT specific thing I would do the same in an online cash game but it just happens more frequently in these formats so it's good to be aware of it.
36 min mark....so is a turn x/r or turn x/f best??
good video, thanks
Thanks! Turn was a correct donk if we x/c flop.
If you were talking about flop: either donk or check raise is ok it was super mixed in the sim. I'd say if you're playing an opponent that correctly realizes people are underdonking on this board and correctly checks back a TON you should absolutely go for a donk. If you're playing someone that is just cbetting a ton regardless I'd say go for a check raise and don't donk as much. In general when things like these are mixed we want to make a decision based on what our opponent is doing rather than RNGing or whatever. Hope that clears it up!
Pretty cool format. I liked this vlog style vid.
Plo tourneys back in the day didn't have antes. Is it almost standard now for there to be bb antes in plo tournies?
4:00 is the pot only sizing due to spr? If stacks were very deep does a small size come into play?
9:16 you said it is bad to have axxx with low cards as it blocks opponents bluffs. Wouldn't opponent look to bet turns often with those low cards that give him straight draws?
15:05 if opponent had potted do we start to fold?
35:30 if we lead or xr do we only barrel with turn improvement and pure give up otherwise?
36:40 does it matter what the rank of our diamond is? Do you barrel brick rivers based on having the one diamond?
Good luck at the series if you are making it out!
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4:00 yeah absolutely. At bigger SPR we very quickly start implementing a bunch of halfpots. I'd say our primary bet size becomes halfpot. Generally what you see in 3b pots (assuming 100BB deep) is that the IP tends to use a lot more smaller sizings (except for when the board is super special dry like T32r or 952r stuff like that) and when you are OOP you can get away with more big bets. Position is really nice so we don't mind playing turns and rivers as much.
9:16 I kinda didnt like how I explained this spot in hindsight. So basically when we are OOP we want to be bluffing with tons of low cards in our hand, because as OOP we generally don't want to be blocking all the middling cards as those are generally going to be cards that the IP player will be folding with. So I don't really think it has anything to do with the straight draw, moreso that the OOP player will just always pick those cards to bluff with on river to unblock the IP players folds, so as a result if we as the IP player have the middling cards then our hand becomes a nice bluffcatch, because we unblock all the bluffs.
15:05 I'm not happy about it but I just flick the call still I think
35:30 Nah this hand is quite spicey and we like barreling off with it a bunch. Like you have to remember IP has soooooooooo much aces we really really are just trying to make those fold. I'm sure some runouts we might give up but I'd just recommend to look for very good reasons to give up, rather than defaulting to giving up except if you turn some equity. Think this spot is super easily underbluffed if you're not careful.
36:40 Of course the rank matters, but for this hand not as much. Just close your eyes and bet and yeah barrel off on a brick river, if we die we die. We want him to fold aces which is like a ridiculous portion of his range
Not going to the series unfortunately this year :(
"If we die, we die". I like that. I will remember that :)
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