Hi there,

At the moment I feel very comfortable at 200nl so dont table select that aggressively compared with the end of last year when I was moving up from 100nl. Generally I will only leave a table if I have >9 running and in this instance will try and make an educated guess as to where my current lowest ev table is and leave.

When moving up stakes it is more important to table select and so then I would try and be more selective as to which opponents I was playing and the seat at the table I had versus them.

I actually dont play a tonne of volume at peak hours, however looking at my database now peak hours do net me the highest winrate, but not by a significant margin

7n7, thanks for the response and feedback!

I'll take on board your suggestions when looking to make future videos, glad you enjoyed the format

Hey,

Yes, this is one reason. Another that wasn't mentioned in the video is that the zoom pool tends (imo) to fluctuate in game quality far more significantly than regular tables. By playing regular tables my volume doesnt depend as much on game conditions but when I want to play so I can better dictate my own hours.

As to profit comparison I'd expect that my winrate be slightly higher at regular tables but my hourly roughly the same at zoom (since more hands per hour played)

Hope this helps

My reasoning is that our flop xr range is going to contain quite a few hands that pick up additional equity on that turn card (straight draws, backdoor flushdraws etc). Some of our flop bluffs (75s) improve to the nuts as well as our flop value hands still being value bets on this turn. Our hand doesnt like to xc turn at high frequency (with J7hh) because we are losing to some bluffs IP player will have. Additionally he is unlikely to bluff cards that we improve on, on the river.

Hands IP player will likely continue the flop with that now will consider folding include a decent number of spade hands (except of course FD+straight draw and AXss, some KXss) so unblocking spades but still having good raw equity becomes valuable when barreling the turn. Blocking 7Xhh also blocks easy calls for our opponent. Our hand can improve to value bets on a decent number of rivers and we can potentially look to bluff some cards we dont improve upon that are good for our range.

Hope this helps

Cheers Henry!

i wonder if he'll fold to 3 barrel lmfao

Wallmonger, thanks for the detailed response - i'll try and reply best i can.

KTs

• Ok, so versus cold calls youre correct, it's a balancing act between getting a good price and having enough equity to call versus 2 ranges and often OOP. A couple things to consider: 1. How weak/likely to make big postflop mistakes is the recreational in the hand? 2. How wide is the range of the 3Bettor? 3. How does the equity of my hand fare multiway? Am I likely to be dominated?

Fwiw I think KTs is very borderline and actually may be a fold in some lineups.

• I think that were I holding AQ OTT i would consider a fold, however it would be player dependent. I'm not convinced that I'd ever jam though unless I had good reads to suspect that OOP player was particularly flushdraw heavy. I think youre correct that the IP player was confused, but jamming to avoid having a tough river decision isn't often the best play. Reason for my lead, as said in-game is that I expect to have a Tx advantage here.

AJs

• I still like my line, compared with what you suggsted. I think our hand is too vulnerable to want to raise not all-in (NAI). At this stack depth being OOP its far more difficult to induce readless. AJs benefits from avoiding paying rake and we can certainly get called by worse and even hands we dominate.

That being said, I also think exploitatively I'd have a strong range that does in fact raise NAI but it would be strongly weighted towards premium pairs. Vs a recreational we do not need to care about being balanced and I would not worry about raising 'bluff' hands for this NAI sizing.

starshelper

Hi EmiyaK,

As Wallmonger suggested, the program I use is Starshelper. I think the 99 call is marginal for sure, and I dont think readless it should be a 100% frequency play. Even with reads calling it always could be a mistake.

Unblocking all of OOPs bluffs and blocking some of their value region, however is quite attractive. OOP should also be 4Bing AK at a very high frequency and have some Kx flop xr's further reducing the number of value hands they will arrive at the river with. Ofc, they will also xr some of the bluffs too

I try and simplify my flop strategy to just 1 sizing. This is a texture we can often range bet without losing too much ev compared with mixed sizings + strategies. Granted, 99 isnt a hand that is thrilled about that but as a range play it works just fine

I think folding A7o would be relatively large mistake here. As low as A4o is mandatory open, A2/A3o i'd be mixing depending on reads on opponents

TZhang,

Thanks for your message, glad you enjoyed the vid!

I tend to play 3B/fold from MP/CO/BU/SB, however deviate in certain circumstances, say there is a very weak player behind for example. Versus a 4B we will often play mixed strategies with a lot of our range, it will be a mistake to call 100% or fold 100% with many hands.

I dont want to give away my exact ranges preflop, but as a default there will be a decent amount of mixing between 3B/fold with hands such as the ones you mention.

Hope this helps

M S,

11:25 - T8s is just good enough to call the 3B, has robust equity, plays well postflop and we have position

16:05 - When xr bluffing we should use a range of hands that connect with a variety of different runouts. The backdoors this hand has are attractive to xr as part of that range.

Hope this helps

I havent played much volume on other sites so cant give you a tonne of insight. In my experience though, the regulars are slightly weaker on average on other sites, however having said that the PS games since their rb changes have been pretty good.

Vs the population meta of high frequency cbetting we will have an aggressive flop xr counterstrategy. This is a hand that we want to xr at some frequency for value

what's the plan when you get 3b?

if you don't mind me asking, are you using table script?

This is a node where in position (I believe) should almost never 3B. If we do get 3B so long as the size is reasonable and given our backdoor equity I expect we mostly have to call this hand - although its not particularly comfortable.

Unfortunately its very difficult to play regular tables (particularly at peak times) without a script. So yes, I do use a script. I should add however, that I will simultaneously play any 3 handed or 4 handed reg-only game that runs in order to table start.

thanks

Hey Salkis,

Thanks so much for the positive feedback, glad you enjoyed the content! Please let me know of any specific future content you'd like to see :)

Deddycool,

When it comes to 4B'ing, like it does with any preflop range, having a variety of different bluffs is important so that we arent handcuffed postflop. This means that at some frequency I will choose to 4B ATo and AJo alongside some other hands in these positions.

As an arbitrary example, it is a more robust strategy to 4B ATo 40% and AJo 30% than just ATo 70%.

I believe that A9o is just an outright fold because postflop it lacks equity or the ability to frequently bluff with equity in addition to its pair outs. We prefer offsuit big broadways or suited hands generally speaking.

Hope this answers your question

3:21 I think that QJ will often be a turn bet for us (extremely unlikely we are behind, our turn sizing also does not have to be solely large), but we do have some Qx combos. Honestly, because board chop runouts are so so infrequent I havent studied them in depth with solvers so not 100% sure on sizing or range construct, however my intuition suggests that blocking pairs seems like a reasonable blocker to IPs Qx combos.

17:09 I think that on 8x river, assuming IP will play a relatively high frequency cb strategy, as OOP we will have to x a very high frequency here since our VB combos reduce significantly on this river. Retrospectively, I think that having 7Xhh is not a bad bluff candidate, but i do think that we need to be careful with frequencies here. I would look to choose river bluffs from hands like 52hh, 53hh, 53cc, 53dd and then we can possibly consider choosing some 7Xhh, however with only 11-14 value combos in our range it would be easy to overdo it.

34:41 This texture imo is quite different to say 632r (OOP has more natural continues due to gutshots etc), and also T23tt. Additionally, this specific villain I think is likely to play overly straightforward vs the block bet - as well as our combo really favoring the sizing (i believe)