HU NLHE Pio Review
Posted by Nuno Alvarez
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Hey, buddy what do u think of bet sizing on monotone flop in general? Smaller bet obviously allow us to bet more, for example betting low equity hands or middle strength hands (protection, equity denial, value) by leveraging nuts (flush, sets, Nut Ace) etc.
Also Can also argue to bet bigger ... Nuts get value ... strong one pair .sets... charge draws/protection, Nut Flush Ace bluffing or value betting.
Just what should be the approach in terms of cbetting on monotone flop? Thx. I assume there also will be some check back mixed in.
Hey man, good question.
Talking about SRP IP, from a GTO standpoint I think on this boards we should be using small size often and we’re supposed to do a lot of mixing with pretty much every combo on our range, which, on practice, it’s very hard to do and the EV difference it’s always very small so I reccomend you to try to randomize the spot in a simple way to keep things easier.
In 3BP OOP we’re supposed to do quite a lot of checking given that the opponent range is very weighted towards suited hands so this boards are going to be high EV ones for the IP player.
4BP IP it’s similar to 3BP OOP. Opponent’s call 4B range it’s very very weighted towards suited cards so checking at a higher frequency than normal should be correct.
Excellent video! I love how you breakdown so many different scenarios. Keep posting videos like this
Thanks VM, glad you liked it!
Hey nuno! Let me ask you... How much do you leave on Exploitable? (1%?)
And do you use a server or do you have a very strong PC to run those hands on pio?
Hey man. Yeah I normally put 0.1% accuracy and I do use a server to run the sims.
Hi nuno, i face problem selecting a c-bet sizing on low boards, where one again runs into 2 situations, ie connected( 6 7c 9c)and disconnected( 953 ranbow). What sizing do you use on these two textures and yur reasoning behind it? Excllent video!
Thanks abhi, glad you liked it!
Good question, I tend to use 66% on more connected textures in which OOP can defend easier and a potbet size on the more disconnected ones in which they have a harder time defending due to the lack of made hands and the excess of overcards to the board that we benefit from denying equity against. I recommend you to do some PIO work on this topic since you can get easily get a very good idea of how to play correctly on all these boards.
Thanks for the reply man. I understand the 66% on the connected boards, but reason for betting so big on low disconnected board? I have seen many pros doing it, but don't you think we would like to bet these low disonnected boards at a very high frequency, both for protection and as bluff. Doesn't that warrent the use of smallish sizings, to keep a higher frequency? Or are we keeping our frequency higher even with big bet sizings?
Also how do we play these low connected and disconnected low flops out of position in 3-bet pots? I don't have pio as of now, looking to buy it in future though.Would be amazing if you could do a video on this.
Sorry man I’m not producing content for RIO anymore.
You’re not interested on bet high frequency (small sizing) on those because that allows OOP to defend a lot of overcards that you wanna deny equity against. On 3BP betting high frequency with smaller sizing is the way to go.
Thanks a ton, man :) one last doubt, this implies that we should be using a large sizing on lo
w paired board as well right? Sorry for hitting you with so many questions :)
No problem man. A ~ 50% size works just fine on those.
Hi nuno, at 9:29, why do you think KQ, K10, K9 have different calling frequencies, when all of them have the same blocker effects?? Couldn't figure out the reason for it.
They don’t have the same blocker effects since the bluffing range of OOP is going to contain more 9x than Tx or Qx. Hands like QT are not going to get to the river on this line as often as 97s 96s.
Actually In the result of pio it showed 109 and 97 are getting bluffed at almost a 0 frequency , hence the doubt.
Your'e right. Probably because he still has a very tiny % of T9 bluffing and that makes the difference when choosing which hands to bluffcatch first with.
Also 19:09, why do you think so much preference is being given to 7h among
the bluffing combos.
Also at 37:15, what might be the reason for us betting kj with kd or jd more frequently?
I kind of understand why with kd is a bet,. as his it unblocks kh9, kh10, ks9, ks10 which will be high frequency checkbacks on the flop, which will call turn. But with say kh in our hand, opponent only has ks9, ks10, as kd9 and Kd10 combos will be mostly cbetting on the flop . Hence when we have kd the opponent has more worse kx in his range to call turns. But I am unable to extend this logic to jd. Maybe same logic applies to j10 and j9. But is j9 even calling a turn over bet? or Maybe I am thinking in a wrong way?
But I couldn't really understand the reasoning you gave that having kd or jd makes it more likely that he has something. But the fact that he checked the flop in itself removed these combos from his range right? So it doesn't us having a kd or jd doesn't really affect his flop checking range.
One last doubt, at 38:41, pio seems to be overbetting k5, but checkraising k3. And this is one problem I am facing a lot these days how to decide based on my blockers ehich combo to checkraise and which to overbet. On what factors should we decide to overbet or check raise?
Thanks
Hi abhi, sorry for the delayed answer, I was on vacation.
19:09 - This is just because 7h blocks the main flushes that play this way on villain's range
37:15 - I think this just happens because the Kd and Jd unblock very well IP check back range as you said and also because when we have a diamond we have slightly higher EV given that we're doing slightly better against flushdraws.
38:41 - Good question. On this turn scenarios I think it doesn't matter much because we're never gonna be aware of the exact check back range of our opponent. On the river you usually wanna be check raising the 2 pair combos that block the larger calling portion of opponent's range and overbetting the opposite hands.
So much value for those of us who love poker theory and studying the game but aren’t willing to spend $600 on Pio. Muchas gracias!
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