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Hope you enjoy this follow on from BBvsBTN. If you have not already watched the first episode, HERE is the link.

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Hi Luke, great video as always!
I have a question about 7d7c @ AsTd5c. You said that it’s the best suits because of blockers to TPs and because of blockers to bdfd. Why blocking bdfd is good? Isn’t it a blockers to villian’s bluffing range which is bad with our value-hand?

Luke, you are a monster of blockers! Every video of yours contains a ton of blocker tips and peculiar effects, love them a lot! Keep it up!

11:30 with 6d5d on the As 8d 3c flop you mentioned spades are preferred. I think it's actually diamond and clubs that are preferred so you block some Ad6d / Ad5d type hands. I checked this on wizard for some other hands like 8s6s vs 8c6c and the clubs are preferred and I think it's because it blocks hands like Ac8c, where having spades doesn't block UTG's top pair / two pair region.

21:00 with the A3c on the A76r I think this was a major leak of mine not that long ago. I was focused a lot of robust equity of making straights and flushes on future streets. You can see in the your sim the A8c is 15% vs the A3c around 3%. I think it's just reverse implieds of being up against A6s A7s type hands, where improving to better two pair is going to be more likely than improving to a bdsd / bdfd. Also maybe it's blocking some outs to T9s that has a gutter + bdfd? You did mention in this hand that having the 8 above the 2nd pair is "really showing itself." I just wanted to point out this was a big leak of mine in the past floating more hands such as under cards that had bdsd bdfd over two over cards that can make a pair on future streets.

The other hand @ 24min Jd8d on Qs-9d-6c throws me off a bit because above I said the 6d5d is preferred blocking the Ad6d/Ad5d combos but here the Js8s is preferred over Jd8d. I thought blocking QJd would have some impact as I don't think UTG is opening QJo very often. I am not sure why gutters prefer to have the top suite to the board but under cards prefer not having the top suite. If you can help me understand this a bit more.

I saw something like this on Shaun's video for range construction OOP in SRP for cbetting. Where on Q65cc middling pairs i.e 8c8x prefer small bet or check / call but 8x8x (no club) just prefers betting a more medium size. Then with over pairs KcKx is preferred over not having a club. So it's really tricky where over pairs want a club, 2nd pair doesn't want a club, and I think under pairs prefer a club again. With draws OE you want to double block the suites to the board and with bdfd you want to have the suite to the top pair. I am not sure if I got this all correct or not, but my question is how do you know when you want the suite to the top pair on the flop vs not wanting it? In my mind it switches back and forth. Over pairs want the club on Q65cc. Tp with club kicker checks more because it needs less protection. 2nd pair check calls more often with a club and bets more without a club. under pairs prefer to have a club getting hands with a higher club to fold like AxJc? The suites make my mind feel like a pinball machine.

47:50 with AsJd on the KsQd4c board I thought maybe double blocking the back door flush draws would be a good thing, but looks like hearts are preferred then clubs. I guess against a PSB blocking the back door flush draws is less relevant than blocking some of the top pair combos like AhKh KhJh. Getting a little confused now because at 24 min with out J8d gutter solver was preferring to have the top suite, but against PSB now it was to unblock back door flush draws and block more of the suited top pair region? Seems to be opposite advice with AJo On KQ4r vs J8d on Q96r. Not sure what is going on.

Couple of notes I am taking to try and understand this video better:
1) under cards that have bdfd + bdsd want to mostly raise or fold (no calling) and unblock the top suite i.e the 65d on As8d3c board prefers diamonds > clubs > spades.

2) Gutters + bdfd do not care about blocking top pair and prefer the top suite i.e Js8s > Jd8d on Qs-9d-6c.

3) Off suite gutters AsJd on Ks-Qd-4c want to block more of the top pair region so hearts > clubs > diamonds > spades and do not care about blocking bdfd.

4) Two tone flops As-Kd-9s board with gutters QsJx or QxJs want to have bdfd and do not care about blocking top pair of the same suite and without spades close to pure fold vs PSB

55:45 On the Ks-Td-6s board you mentioned the K5-K2 are doing more raising as a "bluff to be clear." I think this is still a value raise, but K9-K7 have the bdsd and possible can improve to a better two pair if opponent has a hand like K6s? now K9-K7 don't want to get 3 bet off their equity on the flop. So I do think K5-K2 is raising for value / protection and not as a bluff, but vs a 3bet they do not care as much about getting blown off their equity.

56:30 on the KsQs7d board mentioned K9 is folding because negative blockers to bluffing range. Then On Jd-9s-3s mention 43h is better hand to have to unblock the bluffing range. I think negative blockers is a part of it, but also having outs to improve that are more clean. The K9 suffers making trips because it still loses to AK KQ KJ on a KQ7-K run out and the 9 suffers because on a KQ79 run out you lose to J10 so reverse implieds when you improve to trips or two pair. Where the 43 making trips or two pair is more clean vs over pairs or hands like AJ because you are not sharing any of the outs that improve to straights. So you will see on J93ss that 43s > K3s. 96s > 97s. etc want a pair that has a kicker that doesn't make 2 pair and complete straights on the turn.

Not going to apologize for my long comments this time. As you enjoyed making this video and learning a lot. I enjoyed watching and learning a lot as well. I do hope you renew your contract as your videos are some of the best on the site!

47:50 with AsJd on the KsQd4c board I thought maybe double blocking the back door flush draws would be a good thing, but looks like hearts are preferred then clubs. I guess against a PSB blocking the back door flush draws is less relevant than blocking some of the top pair combos like AhKh KhJh. Getting a little confused now because at 24 min with out J8d gutter solver was preferring to have the top suite, but against PSB now it was to unblock back door flush draws and block more of the suited top pair region? Seems to be opposite advice with AJo On KQ4r vs J8d on Q96r. Not sure what is going on.

You are close. Try to scale your thoughts against how often IP will cbet. w/ AJ, IP isn't allowed to start bombing random heart combos, therefore, the heart functions as a nice unblocker. However, if IP were allowed to bomb random heart combos all the same as other suits, you'd prefer the double blocker combos.

55:45 On the Ks-Td-6s board you mentioned the K5-K2 are doing more raising as a "bluff to be clear." I think this is still a value raise

How can we be making a thin value raise when our hand is 0ev between raise/call/fold?

56:30 on the KsQs7d board mentioned K9 is folding because negative blockers to bluffing range. Then On Jd-9s-3s mention 43h is better hand to have to unblock the bluffing range. I think negative blockers is a part of it, but also having outs to improve that are more clean. The K9 suffers making trips because it still loses to AK KQ KJ on a KQ7-K run out and the 9 suffers because on a KQ79 run out you lose to J10 so reverse implieds when you improve to trips or two pair. Where the 43 making trips or two pair is more clean vs over pairs or hands like AJ because you are not sharing any of the outs that improve to straights. So you will see on J93ss that 43s > K3s. 96s > 97s. etc want a pair that has a kicker that doesn't make 2 pair and complete straights on the turn.

Agreed, cleaner outs are definitely factoring in with our continue. Nice job, thanks.

Not going to apologize for my long comments this time. As you enjoyed making this video and learning a lot. I enjoyed watching and learning a lot as well. I do hope you renew your contract as your videos are some of the best on the site!

Never need to apologise for long comments. Enjoyed reading, and did have a helpful reminder re. cleaner outs w/ 43.

Cheers RunItTw1ce

hey man, excellent video as usual! i've taken almost a month off and the first video i decided to watch to get the poker juices flowing again was your most recent one.

at first i thought it was just another drill video that is kinda pointless for people with scripts and PIO 2 as they can simply do it themselves, but that psb portion was really eye opening so i definitely learned something new.

on a different note, do you know what has happened to Sauce? has he stopped coaching on RIO? that would be a great shame, and hopefully he is simply taking time off as he hasn't posted in a while.

Excellent video. I learned quite a bit.

At 15:00 you talk about solver likes to raise q8 as it has back door eq. So is this a bluff? I don't see worse calling often or better folding and we will get 3 bet occasionally and have to fold or get called a lot and face a crappy decision on the turn.

At 45:55 I understand solver wants to defend 43 but in the real world we have no eq realization. I'm not so sure this would work out well.

Thanks.

Once again, really good video. Definitely always something to take away! :)

Hi Luke Johnson

Regarding the 43 spot I should rephrase...we will have a hard time realizing eq in actual gameplay.

I think our pr of 3s is just going to face a ton of pressure and we end up cf turn or river more often than not. It seems we hope the hand chks down or we find a spot to turn our hand ino a bluff.

If I know a spot is solver approved but that spot will be difficult to play I tend to pass on the spot. I wonder if that might be a huge leak?

Great video as always.

I've seen a lot of Hs regulars using different sizing's to justify their plays.
When you reviewed previously the hu video against Buttonclickr.
He used a 33, 50 sizing on different board structures.

You weren't sure if that was good.
And when you reviewed the hand , you notice that the EV is more preferable in PIO.

Is their a specific reason you choose to use only a 27,70,132 sizing in your sim?

Cheers.

Well stated Luke. I often do not look at what my action might look like to my opponent and how that might affect what they do or what opportunities it may present me in the future. Sure I am in an uncomfortable spot, but so may my opponent be if I call. Good lesson.

Hi Luke, I just signed up to annual Elite recently and been really enjoying your videos. The way you present your content is excellent. very clear language that delivers a huge amount of information in short time even in live play videos - very impressive! I also love your heuristics for frequent spots - extremely helpful. thanks so much for sharing!

I do have a question about flop XR sizing in SRP:
I saw you using one sizing only in those sims. Do you think its fine to just always go with a "standard" 50%pot? When i played around with PIO i found that it prefers bigger XR sizing on certain board textures like for example dry Axx, Kxx.
The way i thought about it so far was: if we can "attack" villains overcards (broadway region) that has quite some EQ i go with a small XR.
Then on highcard boards(no connector straight & not mono), we go big to "attack" one pair hands/charge draws. Is this logic off?

cheers.

Just finish the Becoming a Boss series pretty entertaining to watch.

I would like to request a PIO overview of CBET spots where solver uses really big sizes and how he splits between various sizes on this flops and how to defend versus that or maybe some turn and river overview also. This would be more of an "abstract thing" to get like a bigger picture about how solver would "think" about it given more flop size options. Think that would be very interesting so see and listen to your thoughts

In practice would be very hard to apply but think the Big overview would make that we would be able to adapt better versus different players types that are more forgiving when we make a mistake.

Think I just requested a 10 part series :P

Thanks for the content.

Luke, I have never seen someone explain (in a way that's understandable) blockers/unblockers in the manner that you do. Awesome work. I really like the "Becoming a Boss" series and hopefully there will be more added to it, thank you!

Great video luke!

It’s interesting because it’s not a spot I’ve done much study in either vs the pot sized flop bet utg vs bb, online, it’s not as common, however it is a line I’ve seen in live games!