Phil, you and your videos are awesome. The way you articulate your thoughts and reasons make your videos pure gold. Thank you for all that you do here.

My background is in NLHE 6 max. I've played quite a bit of PLO tournaments but have recently started playing a lot of PLO 6 max cash. In your videos you are able to put players on much more specific hand ranges than I am able to in the heat of the moment. For example, while playing a hand I might think to myself "there's a flush draw and 2 straight draws, he bet so he probably has either a good draw or strong made hand". Other than putting in more study and practice, is there anything you would suggest doing to improve my hand range and hand reading skills during game play? I apologize if this is too general of a question, but it always amazes me at how honed in you are in with your reads.

Thanks again!

Hi Phil,
great Vid as usual!

I have heard you advocate leads from BB on unpaired lowcard boards several times now (6-max). I do get the gist of it, however my problem is what it does to our checking range. There will hardly be a spot, where we want to lead range from the BB, considering how wide we defend. Thus our checking range becomes very weak, so that we can almost never defend vs heat from the PFA. Any thoughts on that?
Also do you then do not have a x/r-range OTF in these spots?

Which program is he using to show the pot odds below the avatars?

43:00 any chance of elaborating on the 3b bb v sb with QQJ6ds ?
is it better than call HU ip?

5:50

Have been a way from poker a few months and trying to understand how AQ92ds could be a fold from CO vs SB cc and BB 3bet (pot). I quickly looked at some equities in propokertools and we was surprised too se that we only have about 28% here. Anyway if SB calls here too we only need 25%, right?

(60%) Relative position is bad
(25%) The flopebility is bad
(15%) It is going to be tough to play some Axx boards

The 3 main bad things I see with calling here is and () are my guesses to how much this factor affect this to make it a fold.

Another question I have is how wide is our folding range is this spot? If we fold this we must be folding over 20% here, right?

Thanks for a great video <3

Nice Video!
Is it possible that Hero can give us his HUD?

45:00 top left table

I would recommend most players at $1/$2 to fold here preflop. Calling the first time around is already not awesome. I mean, you'll call and that's fine, but it's going to be very difficult to make any significant profit. Calling the squeeze though, you're getting awesome odds with a decent hand, yes. But you're getting good odds to get into a myriad of nightmare situations. Four-way SPR 1 spots are extremely tricky to play, they work very differently from HU stack-off situations, and you really REALLY want to get good information from the other players before making your own decision. In this situation you have good relative position, so that's pretty good. So a 4-way equity superstar can probably call pre, start by checking every flop, and play well enough to not lose after that.

The main issue is that you'll have enough equity to stack off fairly often, but your average equity when you do so won't be great. There's a massive risk of being dominated in multiple ways. So on some boards (and given some action) you may have to fold some hands that look very strong. On the other hand, this hand will also very often flop lots of tiny equity fragments. They all add up, and can give you surprisingly much equity in some situations where the naive player may not expect so. So you'll also get it in very light sometimes, and being able to tell the difference requires you to know hand values, board textures and opponent ranges extremely well. I have no doubt that there are players who can do it, but from what I see, most players in the $1/$2 games cannot.

With less knowledge about 4-way stackoffs, you'll end up in lots of situations where you seem to be locked into the pot and have to call even though it sucks. And then you'll complain about running bad and being unlucky, when in reality it's super close preflop, no upside, a potentially very large downside, you're mostly just feeding the variance and rake monsters, and you can avoid it easily by just folding.

Once you play $25/$50 you probably have to figure these situations out and be sure to play them well, but that's a long way from $1/$2.

P.S. I actually haven't run the math on this one, I just know it from experience and other similar situations. If someone were indeed to run the math, I expect that it would actually come out to be a close call. But that would also be with the assumption that you play these spots perfectly, which I've never seen any player do.

Does that flop really smack anyone as a good one for our hand 4way? A three out nut gutter and 8 hi FD? So it must be a light stack off that looks like a fold but really isn't. If that's the case, it's because you're saying we frequently get it in with a range of hands that includes a lot of dry overpairs. Are dry overpairs an autoship on this flop 4 way?

Really enjoyed this video! Especially two parts from it - AA on a 337 board and AdA75 on a Q6d3d board. TY

Great video and I love your dry sense of humor :)

2:45 you said you don't like donking on 487. But on this board he is going to raise wraps, flush draws with overs and pair, sets that we are beating. This is about as good as it is going to get and we do some protection and at the same should get some value before the board gets to scary for him. Say he has TJQQ with no flush draw and decides to check back. We give a free card and its a flop he is going to call when we bet. Are you expecting him to bet this board that you can check raise? I feel we have no blockers to equity hands that will continue or even raise. If h had 569T I could see more merit we block more drawing hands then a hand that is more vulnerable that needs some protection. I think he can even just pot the flop if he has 9Txx hes not going anywhere especially if he has a high flush blocker. I think its a great spot to pot the flop. IT doesn't mean we have the nuts either he can look at it as if we have some sort of draw and we are trying to push him off an over pair. I would be doing this if i had some sort of straight and high flush draw. The worst thing in situations like this to me is giving him opportunity to check back ip that can play us perfectly letting him dictate the pot size.

at 5:00 your folding to a 3b with 2 flush draws one a nut flush draw and a guy behind and we have position on both players? Is it due to him being some what of a short stakc? If your on btn and you get 3b from bb your telling me your folding AQ92 ds? I seen you call with way worse heads up tables. There is no way I am folding this hand double suited ip. Maybe single suited I would. OP ya but ip and the fact hes not 100 bbs tells me its possible hes a weaker player you would fold?. Maybe but I would be more inclined to see flop vs this kind of player. The fact hes not full stack leans more towards a recreational player that we will have big post flop edge against.

9:49 what would be the best bluffing card if we pair the 8? on 899 board? Is this a good spot to bluff both opponents off over pairs and maybe some weak draws? Or would you rather stick with hands that have more equity around straight and flush draw? So my question i guess is the blocker more relevant then bluffing with equity on paired boards?

43 min, top left:

Does anyone agree with me the best option is 4bet? The reason is because the Big Blind, DickPrice, seems to be a very tight player. And he has 400bb. Utg has 250 bbs, so the scenario probably would be this one:

hero 4bets, BB 5bets, UTG folds, BTN folds; POT pre flop: $ 504,50 (rake $2,75)
Hero's equity against BB = 43%

EV = $ 501,75 * 0,43 - $196,25 = $19,50 = +975bb/100