Hey eatyourveggies

Awesome :) I try to act against heuristics as often as possible when playing, so that playing is kept somewhat simple.

Glad you enjoyed. More to come :)

Awesome content

PositivePoker72 Thank you!

the Live Play with review after is great! Ty, ty :)

I agree, and there will be an upcoming series on this :)

Captain2323 well thank you very much <3 ... there are many other great content creators at RIO, too.

2.08 AT on 8639
Would you ever probe this exact combo? If a solver said it's probing ~20% with this combo, would you aim for 20%, or default to always checking this hand and probing a worse Tx more often (e.g. QT) instead to simplify your probing strategy?

If solver said it is a probe at X% (so long as more than 5%), and it made sense to me, I would try to do it moving forward.

13.00 AJ on A877
Seems like a good spot for an overbet probe with mainly 7x?
Or do you prefer 2/3 sizing here?

I prefer 2/3p before OB, due to the symmetry of 7x in both players range. If the board were A778 then I would OB.

44.00 Q6 on Q54hh8h
Do you know why this spot plays as an overbet in limped pot and 2/3 in SRP? This kinda surprised me.
Is it to do with not having many strong QX that we want to bet for value after checking back preflop?
8h obviously connects very well with IP's range, does it connect more so in a limped pot than SRP? Perhaps that leads SB to check more often, therefore checking a stronger range and meaning BB has to polarise more?

I should have said that I am not mixing my sizes in either case here, whether in a limped or SRP.

The reason we prefer a bigger size in a limped pot vs SRP is that we've so much more 'random' strong hands here after not isolating pre, vs not 3bing/folding pre in a SRP. Plus, the pot size is a lot smaller, so stronger hands end up being worth more in %pot.

Well thank you very much! znoxyu I will try and continue to deliver quality content :)

Hey brownballa55

Yes, exactly. The EV's are quite close at equilibrium. I decided to make the change after I started playing more HU.

thanks for the reply - for preflop do you use simplepreflop or monker? Have you done comparisons between the two? Just curious as I've been using simplepreflop for some time but other regs I have talked to said that monker with some db adjustments is better as the ranges on simplepreflop in his opinion tend to be a tad too tight.

I used Monker brownballa55

Yes, and the EV's are close. In general, I wouldn't recommend doing what I've done and changing things up. It requires a lot of effort for not much EV

Thank you very much Jakob Tøstesen !

More to come :)

Great video Luke!

Thank you! SoundSpeed

7:40 you talked abkut not studying solvers like you are taking a test but rather to learn poker. When I drill and look at sims I look for patterns and common themes that I can apply broadly and quickly in game. Is this what you mean?

Yes, perfect

I can't wrap my head around all of the small nuances and slivers of frequencies with all the combos. It is too much for me. I just try to find general ideas so I don't screw up so much.

Don't worry, nobody can! The more you do the above (your first paragraph), the better you will get at understanding the nuances that little bit better

11:45 left table you mention leading turn on an A or K. Is this lead generally a block? I don't see us having a big enough rng or nut advantage to go big.

Yes, I'd go 1bb

22:30 left table you mention he could be protecting his chking rng. If this is so, isn't overbetting with our qt too much? Should we not size down in what could potentially be a way ahead way behind spot?

Good logic, but we aren't doing that badly to have to polarise and size to only 2/3p. We'd be doing more that if the board were something like AK4T

36:37 if you were headsup_beat and the river bricked are you giving up with our blockers to the missed draws or do you barrel as we have the 9 straight blocker?

I'd give up with the very negative Ad blocker.

Thanks!

No worries :)

Sorry the reply is a little late!

Hey Luke, to piggyback off this, I usually use GTO wiz when lazy and both of your hypothetical lead spots have hero range checking (8QJT board and this one on a turn K or A). This is obv because the smallest lead sizing is 33%. Is this a huge limitation of GTO wizard? How much additional EV can you gain by incorporating a lot of turn tiny leads? I play softer games than you so it might not be that important but I'm kinda concerned that this is a massive problem for the sims they ran on this site.

I don't think it's super important to find 1bb leads OTT; you can definitely make do just fine without them. Naturally with 1bb being such a small sizing, you will not be able to generate too much EV.

I'm back to a membership of Elite,

Boom! Hope you are enjoying it :)

first things first, I watched this video!

Hahaha, well thank you — more videos to come!

Thank you for great content and explain!

No problem, really glad to see you are enjoying!

Hey RunItTw1ce

1) 44 sec J9o on KQ4hhh mention betting majority of the time. Don't two tone and mono flops favor BB's range having 100% of suited hands? Solver

My sim output is a lot different. Remember that I open smaller, so the BB range has a lot more junk

2) 22:54 I didn't realize so much OB is going on here with TPWK on Q34r-9dd boards. I've been applying a heuristic of mostly betting TPGK+ on the turn for large sizes and anything else is just 25-75% pot. Looking at the solver, there is so much air we float with that we benefit from the FE. I just always thought when we OB turn with QT here its hard to get called by worse. I guess getting called by worse is just me projecting my own strategy onto others though because I tend to over fold too much.

Yes it is you projecting, and it's great you realise this, so kudos. In wide range situations, we typically polarise a lot more, as depolarising with a wide and generally weak range doesn't work so well. Due to this, villain needs to defend relatively wide.

Also I wouldn't mind just seeing a video of you going over a bunch of hands on the replayer discussing mistakes you made or things you did correctly. I tend to think I get a lot out of that format you had the end of your video being its focused on one spot and not spread out across 2-4 tables.

Nice idea and something I haven't thought about before. I will most likely do it! Cheers RunItTw1ce

Hey vishant5

I'd XF all broadway rivers and all diamond rivers w/ 63hh here vs 1/2p. Not sure about bricks as I cannot see any outside of a rainbow 2, where I'd pure call with fairly good blockers, unblockers and pot odds.

Love your content

Love to hear it. Thank you!

Hey Pinzo

I’m binge watching all your videos Luke, they are fantastic!

I love to hear this :D, going through your replies now :)

45:48 if he calls turn what do we do on the river

We'd likely shut down. Note, however, that I try not to think about Poker through the lens of "what do we do now?", as that is a lot of brainwork to consider all the rivers ahead of time. Instead, I try to think about each spot as it comes up

hey luke another great video! thank you!

Thanks mate!

in this spot, you talk about how infrequently you check raise here with the nut flush draw on turn, facing the bet on the turn, im not sure if its because im not sure if i should be raising more, but i tend to call my Ax nut flush draws, but check raising more of like my weaker flush draws. although when i face the call and miss, in a hard spot whether to just give up or not depending on the runout. when we have the ax flush draw, we block him from having the nut flush draw bluffs. really interesting spot i should be practicing more in gto wizard drilling the spot in!

Good comment and thoughts.

Your heuristic is right most of the time, that is to play the NFD's a little more passively vs the more vulnerable FD's. In this case, however, we have already faced a raise otf and now a barrel on a card that proves IP to be repping at least trips with a redraw, or trips with a nut kicker. This is such a strong range that we can only respond with nutted xr's ourselves. Vs more passive action from villain we could depolarise a little further. Hope this makes sense.

Vs a competent reg we have a profitable 4b→call. Most of the time, however, I will still just flat their 3b. It's a low freq 4b and then a pure call after 4b and getting shoved into.

OOP's blufs in this spot will primarily be A5s and AKo, which TT is doing well vs, and unblocks