Thanks Shekhar, good questions. I've already filmed parts two and three of the series and they'll be out soon!

Re: AA river block w/ range

I'm not as confident we should expect IP to improve to such a large % of flushes, they seem quite discounted in that I'd expect a reasonable frequency of suited Ax and broadway to 3b pre or bet turn after floating flop and being checked to (as a result of this I feel obligated to split my range into multiple sizings OTR). A block sizing will likely be my most used sizing based on how I expect both player's ranges to look on the river, so there's definitely merits to it...however I also arrive to the river w/ a decent amount of air on this runout/based on the strategy I was playing, so I definitely don't think I can go crazy blocking w/ range or something...we need to be aware that our opponent is a) not capped, and b) while having a high concentration of marginal strength holdings, does not have very many low/no equity type ones after calling preflop from UTG+2 and then floating a CBet

Anyways, I decided to run this hand to double-check a few things (I just solved for a HU pot since I don't think on this particular texture the BB being in the pot changed much)

IP Turn Check Back Composition (personally expect more bets from Ax portion of range, weakening river range)

IP River Range Breakdown (Note, 6.8% flushes)

Hero River Strategy (~50% check, ~25% 1/3 pot block)

At 52:45, while analysing whether or not we should call AQ, can you
elaborate on how our blockers are influencing our decisions because we
actually fold more when we are not blocking FDs which feels strange,
or might be a good thing as we block his high equity bluffs.

I think you're on the right track here. My guess is it's also better to have the strong flush blocker the times the river completes clubs or hearts and you end up with a nice hand to bluff that blocks river bet-calls.

Hi ryan. Thanks for the detailed response but i feel like you might have misread the action. On the turn, you bet and he calls. So his range to me seemed like some Ac( few through as he flatted an early open, so most of his Ax are good ones, are likely to bet flop), 10s, jis at some frequency and then some flushes. And i felt like he had about 4-5 combos of veritable flushes in this rather narrow range.

Also do you recommend 3betting suited broadways in these position? I almost always flat suited broadways and pull my bluffs from offsuited broadways and worse suited hands.

LOL shit, my bad, well at least now we both have an idea of how to play in the bet-check-bet line :P

Alright so I agree w/ you that most of his Ax bets flop since they're AJ-AK so I node locked for that and re-ran (it's a really narrow range so I think it'll have a notable influence on hero's river strategy when villain gets to river w/ a larger % of flushes and underpairs)

Hero's turn strategy ends up pretty dramatically different after we do this and it makes sense. A lot of our strong flop checked Ax becomes the ~nuts and we bet more frequently and size up more frequently as a result (our equity also increases from ~46% to ~51% vs their range)

Equilibrium Hero Turn Strategy

Node Locked Hero Turn Strategy

Since we've made this adjustment on the turn, our river strategy doesn't end up much different node locked vs equilbrium. Hero's strategy is still ~50% check, ~50% some form of small/block bet and they end up arriving to river w/ too much air and at a nuts disadvantage to do something like block bet range versus a range that is comprised almost entirely of medium-strong strength holdings.

Hero River Range Breakdown + Strategy

Villain River Range Breakdown + Equity

Thanks for such a detailed response, Ryan. Rarely do i see a coach put in so much effort in answering a doubt :)

All good, buddy - I'm out here learning, too!