You are totally right! I got a bit lost thinking that 2x would just bluffcatch but given that Linus chose a shove sizing he definitely needs to have a 2x blocker to bluff.

Yes, good reasoning. Normally the way these spots work is by mirroring your 2p hands with your 1p ones for each of the lines, however everything is still quite mixed and your idea is a good one.

Glad you enjoyed it Matt :)

Thanks a lot for the heads up here! It’s one of those very weird solver plays, I was certainly not expecting it here though.

Yeh it looks very odd at first glance for sure. I have seen plays like this before and never really understood them, but looking at the opponent's response it all makes sense. Is this something you are likely to implement in your game?

Yeah I've been implementing some of these plays for a few years now. In HUNL is very common to overbet turn in SRP IP with hands that fold out better but get called by worse for example. However, I didn't think this would apply in this particular hand given that Jx blocks a decent chunk of OOP folding range on the turn.

Almost certain that Linus always plays a single sizing strategy OTF so I would say that he is playing pot/check only here.

What do you think the reasoning is for picking a bigger sizing here? Do you think he is trying to find spots to use different sizings to what is standard in order to put his opponent in less-studied scenarios?

Good question. My guess is that he is bucketing some of these textures into the PSB strategy even though that's not optimal because he expects people to react somewhat poorly against that.

As long as KQ arrives to the River with this line, there will be some jams for IP. However, the most likely sizing should be something smaller that allows IP to valuebet Qx and make indifferent the 7x and 2p hands for OOP.

I agree with you. I think given how dynamic the board is and how protected IP’s range should be here, a middling size only should be best.

Thanks mx, glad you liked it!