The Kh5c hand @ 7:12 was eye opening for me. A weak 1-card flush always feels like a bluff catcher to me, but it makes sense that most flushes would want to use a larger sizing, so the block bet represents mostly non-flushes, thus even a small flush can raise for value.

In practice, how much are people block betting and calling a raise without a flush here? I imagine that's something both very studied players and loose/spewy players would do more than most of the decent players in smaller stakes.

Some FT’s tend to fizzle out once it gets to the HU portion… This is NOT one of them!

It seems to me like we are seeing pads recognize from the get-go that he is overmatched versus a HU specialist. So his game plan with the frequent large sizings is to simply up the variance. Do you agree that this is his goal? And would it be justifiable to employ this style if one indeed finds themselves outmatched?

Very fun video as a viewer, facing so many river over-bets and check-raises with pure bluff catchers. Nice display of patience K-Rab. Why make a stand when we can just make quads? :)

Great analysis! Congrats on the win.

First hand if pads bet flop do you get to xr? If so and turn is a brick I have seen solvers chk a lot of top pair hands instead of barreling. Why is that?

12:05 do we get to barrel this turn at a decent frequency with our q not only for value but it gets us a chk back on the river?

26:00 you talked about why you didn't want to check the turn. You said it's a spot where you won't look weak if you check and it is a card pads won't get agg on. However, pads had been very agg on rivers with raises and overbets and so by checking turn we can create an image of potential weakness we can exploit with a river check. Is that an option or is the board too wet or is it just higher ev to bet in a spot where you generally would?

Thanks!

The rio heads up OG

Nice