$10,000 WSOP Heads-Up Championship
Posted by Nuno Alvarez
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HU tourny is my favorate kind of game and the WSOP HU championship is really the best structured one. Love this video and hope to see of your following progress on this tourny.
Thanks man! Glad you enjoyed it :)
Hi there. Thanks for the video!
Really intresting about adjusting based on the opponent reads, it makes you nodelock your brain, super key to follow properly the opponent range and intentions.
At min 27:00 In my humble opinion on the T4 hand on T 9 2 4, depends a lot on range construction for the opponent. He is trying to play really overbluffer until you realize that and go the other way around. So when you see that 42o is being open, then is really normal that the first hand that is limped is a weak hand and also apply on that board. Don't see him limping 92 which is the most unblocked 2 pair combo.
As soon blinds go up those overbet lines are going to become way more towards value and no more thin valuebets to overbet size is my prediction for the end of the next episode =)
Thanks once more, hope you had a good 2024 start.
Thank you for the kind words!
27:00 – To be fair I think at this point he was likely to VPIP 100% of hands so I believe we can expect to see 92o in range as well. That said, is obviously hard to know how is he constructing his range and I agree that our hand choices will heavily depend on that.
Stay tuned to find out :)
Hey Nuno! very exciting tourney and certainly look forward to the series.
I really like you said you use more intuition when you are not in your best game and start to break down villain's range & think about what they are repping when you're doing better. I'm guilty of that myself as well, good reminder for me to will be more conscious in the future!
Cheers!
Glad you took that away mx! Definitely a very common trend among most players. Focus is key.
42:47 I have the impression that this could be the best 9x combo for you to call in this spot, since Q9,J9 blocks some bluffs and A9,K9 can give you an xr flop.
Great video and a lot of learning, thank you and keep going!
Thanks Alex!
The problem with 98 is that it also blocks quite a few bluffs and it's dead against T9. Hands like Q9 and J9 should perform a little bit better because of the value of their 2p outs.
We saw a few spots where your opponent opted to overbet where the solver would typically not overbet. How do you try to respond to this? Do you attempt to form a GTO based response to it, or do you have some preconceptions about how your opponent's range is constructed, e.g. it is likely to be too value heavy?
Good question!
I think it's a little bit of both depending on the spot. When I face a play that I know is not GTO approved I rely on my intuition quite a bit given that I probably have played that situation enough times in the past to have some general ideas that will help me respond against it. However, if I'm unsure if a play is GTO approved or not I might focus a bit more into trying to come up with a GTO based response to it.
Being paired up against your friend would you consider swapping action?
Paying out 8 of 127 players for 6% of the field doesn't seem right! Most MTTs I think pay 10-15% of players right? Would like to see like top 16 or so get paid out where if you win 3 matches you are ITM.
We could consider swapping for sure but we didn't.
Yeah IIRC 16 places would be paid if only 1 more player registered to the tournament.
16:45 You mentioned Qx+ wants to go around pot. How are you choosing your bluff size here? Can you give me 2-3 examples of other bluffs; which ones go small, which ones use medium size, and which one wants to use a pot size bet for this board? Any simplifications here like King high bluffs go big, Jack high bluffs go medium, and 7 high bluffs go small?
Good question.
A good way to go about choosing bluffs for each sizing is to use blocker scores. Normally the better blockers you have, the larger you wanna bet with your hand. That said you also have to respect the bluff ratios for each betsize of course.
Everything would be really, really mixed here but for the larger size you would normally like to have a 4 in your hand so hands such as 74 or J4ss, J4hh for example.
19min K3c on K82cc-5-8 run out mentioned you want to go 2/3 mostly. Why do you want to go 2/3 with K3c here but on Q53-2-3 you want to use pot?
43min 98o on 954r-Tss respect to Marko for finding so many like B75-B150 lines. Multiple large barrels is just extremely difficult to play against unless you are very comfortable playing a volatile strategy.
In my live games I think for players that fast play a lot of their strong value on the flop for 2 pair+ or over play their top pair for protection get funneled into a capped turn range and Marko would just redline these players to death. I would be always 2nd guessing bluff catchers because similar to the first hand of the video with AT vs A8, Marko proves he can value bet thin for a large size as well.
Exciting match to watch actually. Curious what long term adjustments would be made vs each other.
Good question again. It has to do with the trips density in IP range. They would make trips way more often on the K8258 runout and therefore there will be quite a bit of symmetry in ranges so we won't go large as often.
Agree. He's a really good player and hard to play against.
49:45 Nuno Alvarez you said you were going to link a video that explained why you shouldn't bluff Q6d on this J73r-Jdd-7x board.
Yes! Pretty sure it was this video.
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