Thank you GoldenCardVG :)

Appreciate it :) brownballa55

Part 2 coming up!

Hellkid13 Very flattering, thank you :)

domifi Cheers! Glad you enjoyed (Y)

Part 2 coming up :)

babaar Good question! It's quite tricky; we are value 3betting, yet we do prefer the extra blocker, because of the extra equity it brings.

Nutted hands make more money unblocking the continues. Essentially, the opportunity cost of villain making and having stronger hands is a net positive, as the extremely nutted hand are often ahead anyway. However, the more neutral holdings prefer extra the blocker (equity).

Here is an example which may help you to understand:
JJxx > JJsx on 963ss BBvsBTN 3BP (All combos of JJ are happy and willing to gii; unblocking the spades helps this cause)
JJxx < JJsx on 963ss BTNvsBB SRP (Only the spade combos are happy and willing to gii; blocking the spades helps this cause)

Hope this helps. Feel free to question further!

Cheers

Thank you for explaining that. I tend to avoid making these more neutral 3bets in single raised pots because I feel very unsure of how to react to any future aggression. If villian shoves we can't call Qd9 can we? I feel like we get shown a combo draw or 2pr every time. Or we three bet his raise with the Qd9, villian calls the 3bet, we get a 9742 turn, we bet and he shoves, I think we get shown 97 or 74 almost every time, so we feel a bit stupid and fold? Or we get an evil 5/6/8/T/J turn and we're now in a bigger pot and potentially making a bigger mistake. Am I looking at this wrong?

Thank you for explaining that. I tend to avoid making these more neutral 3bets in single raised pots because I feel very unsure of how to react to any future aggression.

Totally understandable. However, my advice will always be to try and get your hands a little dirty — being unsure should inspire growth!

If villian shoves we can't call Qd9 can we? I feel like we get shown a combo draw or 2pr every time.

We are coming close to the bottom of our value 3bet range, so we can snap fold vs a 4bjam. 3bet-folding may seem like a bad outcome in isolation, but in truth it is absolutely reasonable, and part and parcel of a good, aggressive strategy.

Or we get an evil 5/6/8/T/J turn and we're now in a bigger pot and potentially making a bigger mistake. Am I looking at this wrong?

Indeed, you may make potentially bigger mistakes. But... so might villain? :)

Answered in your other post.

Part 2 coming soon :)

Very pleased to hear they are helpful! nogamblenofuture

More to come :)

I_Fold_Jacks Thank you!

I agree. As a content creator and content consumer, I believe these are very efficient. Happy to hear other video ideas if you've any.

Cheers

Duke0424 Are you talking about the 98o? Yes, I would imagine so!

No, pure fold.

Hi wadja94 ! Cheers mate, glad you've enjoyed and like the format :)

Idea for upcoming videos, tough subject would be how to find more easily the heuristics regarding random 2nd barrel bluffs that Pio picks and humans mostly never do :) I'm sure it would be a captivating one although tbf you already started to mention some heuristics in this video.

Unnatural bluffs is something I am already planning on making a video about (Y)

36' about the J44b CO vs BB srp, you mention that if we are UTG vs BB, the trips advantage from BB is irrelevant (hence we can range bet), although especially with your small open size BB will have clearly more trips.

He will indeed. However, he will also have more junk that xf's.

Can we make the deduction that the trips advantage only matters if it's regarding the offsuit combos ? and that it's not about the PFR having very little or no trips in their opening range if vilain has some ?

I do not believe we can, no. Via my 2x RFI, BB has offsuit combos vs MP, and I can still range bet.

the AdKh , on the river you wanted to randomize a call there, but don't we have already enough hands to call down? 8x 7x some Tx xbacks(some might raise the turn but still), a couple low pp with the spade some flushes. I guess my question is why not pure fold that one? and randomize the one with As instead?

We don't have enough hands, henceforth we need to mix our combo. Simplifying to only RnG'ing the As hands isn't a bad idea, however, it will lend you to overfolding by some margin, as there are other hands that require mixing, too

Also do you think he bluffs a hand like A5hh in that fashion? Those Kjo he could have we can agree he probably mostly bets on the flop, the ones he check are probably low %
edit: forgot to mention the KJo is already low% 3bet , so assuming he somewhat splits on the flop it's almost residual?

A5hh seems too wide to start bluffing ott with the wealth of other draws to use first

Good video overall ofc

Thank you :)

Hey SoundSpeed :)

Very glad to hear you will be staying another year.

Thank you!

I get a lot out of this type of video format. You are able to give solver explanations while not actually going through the sim which allows for us to get through more hands. I do get a lot out of deeper analysis of fewer hands where we actually go through the sims, but this format is very efficient and informative.

Cheers mate, glad you are enjoying and learning :). Understood re. deeper analysis videos!

That's interesting I_Fold_Jacks , I've never studied a spot via hand class before.

I've several ideas for future RIO videos, and playing OOP in 3BP's (via 3betting) is one of them :)

Same as before, I've never studied via hand classes before. Not to say this is a bad approach btw, that's just never been the way I've learned!

Hi Asdfghjkl1

22:30 you talk about global frequency, could you please expand on this? and the implications on this hand.

Global frequency is a term describing your ranges overall frequency. The implications is as discussed in the video; that my hand is cbetting more than "global".

Sizing of bet @ 21mins also confused me, wonder if that is relevant to what you are talking about at 22:30...

Which hand are you referring to?

Sniffles That's awesome, glad to have you here! Hope you enjoy :)

If you've any questions, feel free to fire away.

Cheers

Hey 72Just4U welcome back :)

happy to hear you will stay another year at least... :)

Me too :)

Cheers!

Sorry for the delayed response! Doblou07

Superb, glad you are enjoying the content :)

Similarly to you, in game I would probably mix between check and bet big with the Q5ss on bottom left @10:00. Do you have anything to say that would make me understand this spot better? My understanding is that our hand is too strong to be reduced as a bluff catcher on the river. In other words, it is a strong hand when we bet and villain's range is wide, but it is reduced to a bluff catcher vs a narrower betting range. That being said, my explanation seems a bit superficial. Is there anything you could add that would help me understand this spot better?

As played vs BTN, our hand is worth an OB, and with strong unblockers (5s kicker), we choose to utilise it every time. If we had 3p's, we'd look to play more passively, despite having more equity&EV, due to our poor blockers to villains calls, and our better unblockers to villains bluffs.

Finally out :P

Again, sorry for the delayed reply :)

Hi Raphael Nogueira

Timestamp please!

Luke Johnson sorry 48:03, table 3, the one you got the K9.

66+

We cannot go too thin, as IP xb's turn relatively strong on the 9. It's important we think about their xb range when identifying our value threshold!

ibey33 Thank you very much for the kind words!! Glad to hear you are enjoying :)

Thanks mate :)

With villains missed draws here, and bluffing this river specifically when turn goes check check, what do we do to decipher with a big or small size?

I'm not sure I fully understand your question, could you reframe it for me please

Theory:
We first figure out what we want our range to do, then we try to mirror our bluffs. In this case OOP OTR can go 1/3 and 2/3 or 1/3 and OB. Both are reasonable. I prefer 1/3 OB, however this is merely preference.

Exploitatively:
Totally different ball game. We first think about what villain is has likely messed up already, and what the consequences to this are. Then we try to target accordingly.

Yep. The main reason why I prefer OB over 2/3p for OOP's big size is to match their advantage in trips arriving to the river.