Certainly seems reasonable to be jamming these hands. Not a run out where there are endless combos that remain unpaired and blocking the nuts and some of the strongest top pairs seems useful. That said, Kx and Qx also block villains bluffs somewhat. Glad you liked the vid.

I'm pleased!

Thanks for the generous comment.

Agreed!

Indeed. Shows we've been way off track in a lot of areas. PIO suggests a real battle for equity down the streets.

Glad you liked the video. I'm sure you'll punish me for it next time we cross paths at the tables.

Hi there,

• So it's an ongoing learning process for me as well. In general I haven't been node locking, because - being new to the software - I'm interested in both players strategies. By studying both strategies - IP and OOP, range advantage and disadvantage - I get more out of each individual solve. They take a long time to run and review after all! As you're understanding of the way GTO strategies interact you can begin to introduce node locking to see what exploits to make. That's way round I've approached things, anyway. Hope that helps.

Thanks! That is helpful and I have had a similar approach. I've tried to play around with node locking a bit but every time I try it seems like I'm wasting time and not getting much done. I really like that exploring multiple bet size GTO solutions can reveal a lot about an easy simplified one size strategy we can use for a given spot. I've been finding that Pio prefers smaller sizings in a lot of flop spots even with deeper effective stacks!

These are understandable questions and worries. Until recently, top tournament players, in the UK certainly, would have thought raising 55 on K22 was awful - to take your example.

The important thing is to try and picture things in equilibrium. If opponents aren't generally calling with anything beating 55, then our bluffs print and we fold out huge amounts of our opponents equity. if we can pick up on their imbalance, then we'll also have very easy turn and river decisions. So it isn't a huge worry for us.

We should be thinking similarly about situations where the villain's range is tighter. There certainly will be flops and turns where our craise frequency is lower because our opponents range is stronger than ours. However, there are also flops and run outs where a tight range can leave an opponent lacking in board coverage and create very profitable bluffing spots. It's all about how the two ranges interact.

I know this is quite general stuff, but I hope it helps.

Hi there. Maybe you've slightly mis-typed? Are you suggesting that 200bb deep we need to slow play more or less?

I don't want to come off as if I have all the answers. Certainly haven't run many sims at 200bb stack depth. However, speaking in general terms, as I understand it, PIO suggests that GTO strategies involve raising more post-flop with strongest hands than the tournament player pool has been doing. I imagine that applies to nearly all stack depths and certainly at 200bb+

There we go!! Thanks mate - very useful.

Thanks for the reply and glad you liked the video. At the moment I can't say I'm clear about how exactly ICM alters post-flop strategies. As most regs do, I avoid placing myself in spots where my range is weak and I'm going to be bluff-catching run outs when ICM is a factor. Not sure if anyone out there has a clearer understanding of how it affects strategies than me. Seems possible that they do, but I'm not privy to it at the moment.

Hey there.

Thanks for the detailed response and sorry I've been slow to reply. I've been grinding live at Aussie Millions every day and haven't had time to sit down in front of a computer.

I understand your frustration at me not covering IP strategy in detail. I certainly shouldn't be making sweeping statements about IP strat if I don't support those statements by sharing the game tree with you guys and girls. It's mainly because the aim of the video is to share some straightforward insights that PIO offers about OOP play. I wanted to summarise these insights and making them easier to implement for subscribers. As a result IP strategies are somewhat neglected in the video, except where they pertain to OOP decision-making.

That said, I don't think it's unreasonable to call the A4s jam a spew. You can see that I offered PIO the opportunity to call, reraise to 13000 or shove and the solver doesn't shove at all, suggesting that this a very poor response from the villain. It's also common-sensical. We're in a real coffin with lower flush draws vs a reraise where as a lot of them can simply be folded to a jam.

It's obviously quite challenging to crib the key insights from a pretty complicated game tree for viewers, but I certainly appreciate feedback like this and maybe I'll do a video soon where I just take one, or maybe two, hand and examine both IP and OOP strategies in greater depth.

Cheers, Sam

Thanks chester. Hope the grind is going for you. My next few vids have already been submitted, but I'll bare in mind your suggestion once I'm back to Europe and making more.

Thanks. Solid response!

Hey. Good question.

I can pretty confidently state from running a decent amount of sims with tournament stack sizes (50bb and below) that PIO really likes to utilise a small craise 2.2x or 2x to protect equity and gain value. On the more dynamic boards it understandably upsizes to 3x.

This sizing is a lot smaller than tournament players have generally used up to this point and that makes sense. We've generally been incredibly polarized craising from the blinds and PIO suggest we can push equity with a wider range of hands than we've selected up until now and also select more bluffs - hence the smaller sizing!!!

I can also say I've had a decent amount of success utilising this strategy in game. Hope you get on with it just as well.

55 seems like a clear check, as would weaker Kx. We can still show down verse and win verse decent portion of their Ax range, but is not a good hand to start bluffing with.

It might seem like this is a strategy that leaves us in 'no-mans land' when we craise, but are we any better off when we check call? It really helps to try and picture things at equilibrium. Imagine all the equity we fold out when villain bet-folds T9, 89 and the like. If they fold every hand that is beat by 55 we print on the craise, if they call with too many unpaired hands with over-cards we print with strong Kx and flush draws.

I honestly think if you start to implement the strategies discussed in the video you'll see how effective they are.

Thanks mate. Glad you liked it.

Indeed. Obviously the nature of one 'insight' leads to further questions and you've identified a natural follow-up. Can't fit everything in to one video, but it's definitely an idea for a future vid.