Great video and continue on with the other series.

Thanks Stephen, I personally enjoy this format. I get a lot less distracted with in depth analysis of one table. The other was great also, but from my perspective this works better. Particularly by including VPIP hands, it never lacks content, and forms a clear narrative. But then, what the hell do I know? :) Keep up the great work!

great video. I didn't mind the other vid but tables were so small.

the first hand with AJs on river, if u r gunna vbet AJ there, then I'd assume you also vbet QQ (given the board blocks KJ, you block KQ and AK is just very likely to bet). so these are your bluff catchers, and they will bet for him, so wouldn't he be better off checking with Kx, which allows you to occasionally bluff as well as Vbet worse?
In addition, he doesn't really have many bluffs, so its hard to get paid with Kx, tho it could be argued that some small pocket pairs shud be bluffed with.

the T8s hand at 10-14min, i agree that on turn its a good combo to bluff with. What do you bluff with on river? can't think of nearly enough bluffs there to even balance out ur flushes (let alone ur straight as well) and give him incentive to hero. Obviously if he overfolds you can start going nuts with like 8s8x on turn and jam river but yea...also is there any merit in betting the turn with TT-KK without a spade for protection? In all honesty, betting turn with TT-KK seems sort of thin to begin with, i guess it tends on how much 9x you have in your range, like do you have K9s/Q9s/J9s? Bc if so then you probably are wide enough such that you need to defend some, and therefore gives more value in his bet. Though, it seems like a spot where you may overfold because he does not seem to be bluffing enough for you to call 9x (cuz u won't have 1 spade for extra equity). for him to balance all these value hands that have u dead with 9x (TT-AA, 99,77,22, A9s, Flushes), he would have to be bluffing some QJdd KJdd with little equity.

Issue is, if you do defend a lot of these wide gapped suited hands like q9s/k9s, you may have J8ss Q8ss K8s for more flush combos then the typical QJss KJss KTss QTss KTss K9ss Q9ss T9ss 98ss.... Coming to think of it, KsKx is very strong if you raise some sets/2pr on flop given the As on board and your Ks block a ton of combos. (Without the As on board, u have ATss AJss AQss A9ss A8ss A5ss (some A4ss/A3ss/A6ss) as well)

And last, at 16:35 min when you think about 3b AQ and say do it if in HJ or CO, do you do that as value raise/blocker raise/or to stop from being squeezed? Like how do you pick combos in general ? Is it just a bunch of reasons and dependent on how opponent plays (like if he flats a lot or 4b a lot?)

10h8h hands on the river you say chfold seems best....
But imo if you ch river he will value bet his sets or even AJ (maybe even wider) since you always jam youre flushes and it seems hes good with most made hands. I dont know if these things make it a ch call on the river but just something to think about i guess.

42:42... 77 on btn...do you have a 3bet fold range in this spot?
And if so, what is it?
And do you use the same sizing if you are 3Bfolding?
Fold vs the initial opener i mean, not vs the sb ofc.

Btw, i didnt see the last videos since Im new here, but ill tell you these are great!

Great video. Would been interesting tho to see how you proceed postflop on those spots where you f.e cr and also the k3 hand sb vs bb. Was hoping for you to get called in one of those.

Excellent video Steph, really enjoyed the discussion around the T8s hand

@11:09 T8s hand turn
you say he is betting on turn 2 9 7 Asss with flushes, TT-KK w/ spade, tp Ax w/spade (to get value), unpaired hands w/ one spade but check back hands like TT-KK w/o a spade

If I were in his shoes, I'd actually bet hands w/o spade for protection here (TT-KK no spade, Ax no spade) and actually check back TT-KK w/ spade because these make good bluff-catchers on rivers with a blocker and our range less vulnerable when a spade hits rivers. Also we still have nutted combos in our betting range making us not exploitable to XR. What do you think of this line with those combos? Or do you think villain (you here) won't have enough bluffs on river to make this more EV than just betting TT-KK w/spade and would rather get more value directly on turn by betting them?

Long story short, why betting TT-KK w/ spade and checking back TT-KK w/o spade is better here than doing the inverse with those combos?

@14:47 T8s hand river
I agree with your check-folding line on river with T8. As you said you don't have enough bluffs on this river and I'm not sure he'll find enough of these combos below to hero-call here to make our shove +EV. he'll check back all his non-flush that we beat and bet all his flushes that we lose to

combos that beats us: KQss, QJss, QTss, JTss, KJss, KTss, J9ss. T9ss, 98ss, (9 combos)
combos that can Hero call: AJs (3), AKs (3), AQs (3), JJs (1), 99s (1) = 11 combos

Pretty sure I make a bad call vs you on the final here :/

Nice video and if you ever change your mind about private coaching please get in touch.

Keep up the good work.

thanks Stephen

Nice video Stephen, i like this format much more.

hey sorry last question. at 26min with ur k9s and his AK. he is at the bottom of his range on K95TJ, and tho id argue i prefer it with AsKx, i won't go into that. my question is about leading. He has about a pot sized bet. You have a range definitely contains a lot of flushes like AQss A8ss A7ss A6ss A4ss A3ss 87ss 76ss (i guess you have few non-nut flushes unless you have Q8ss or barrel like spade draw when you turn a Ten, which seems unlikely). You also have QJ, AQ, KQ (sometimes) which are off suit also so a lot of combos as well. Hands that you dont like to get into with: 99, KTs, 55, AK, AA, k9s, TT..... All your bluffs got there pretty much.
From his prospective, he does have a good amount of straights now and 2pr, but a lot of these do not want to lead given they dont beat enough of our hands. His flushes may want to lead, but given that we have a decent amount of value hands and hands that can easily be bluffed when checked to, leading his flushes can be risky given that when he checks he's semi more capped and will just have like weak 2pr a lot on dangerous board.
Doesn't it make more sense to lead when its way better card for his range and we will check back a lot as result? i dont even know who it helps more as the board does block a good amount of flushes. BB can have
Ts8s, QsTs, Ts7s, AsTs, AsQs, As8s, As7s, As6s, (tho some smaller suited aces may raise flop/turn sometimes cuz not great SD value when flat call and Ace out often not good)
Also 6s5s As5s and maybe some Qs8s or 8s7s 7s6s, tho those have some incentive in addition with smaller suited aces to c/r turn and balance with QJ given that they dont have SD value and dont beat bluffs if we check back and give up river.
Just don't see the equity shifting enough, tho i dont mind turning this into bluff if he does want to develop a leading range, which may very well be good but idk. Thoughts?

hi gr8 vid sir
min 24 a4s ,i tend to not flat,and used to think plays better as 3b and get the initiative,also not getting squeezeed its a +

min 32 a5s flat in bt,i just play that spot as a 3b f ,with bb having good 3b shoving spot so i avoid that by 3bing and also with a blocker its decent to 3b and take the pot pre,when we get called plays ok..?would u flat this spot exactly with suited brodw,and some suited con,or u think its fine to 3b them?

sry,if i repeted my self with ,but really try to understand when and where its fine to mix this flat vs 3bing strategy in those spots,ty

39:00 92dd Nice one! like how you approach it but would you play your Qx combos same way? I agree he'll be having lot of bluff catchers there and it is kind of board where villains delay cbet a lot of his range, so would you fire a 2nd barrel on that river for example if he peels your check raise? I have experienced a lot with this kind of spots and I found many people calling down on river very very light after peeling the check raise on turn, so that's what I wondered ;D Ty sir!

Hi Stephen,

Awesome video! Please produce more of these videos, when you focus on 1 mtt as your explanations are awesome! (and naturally you cannot do it when you show us session with 10 tables). I personally would even love to see all the hands in 1 mtt you play (not only hands you VPIP). Couple questions:

1. @42:42 when you have 77 on btn, what would you have done if opener was in EP or MP? In general i struggle a lot when people open 18-30 bb stacks from UTG and MP and i have 66-88. Any generic advice would be highly appreciate

2. @29:30, @36:00, @43:18 - you raised very dry boards with almost no equity hands and in all 3 spots opponents folded. What is your general strategy in similar spots on blank turns if opponents call otf? I understand it's hard to answer, all hands are different and some blank turns are more blank than others, but would greatly appreciate any thoughts from you. I try to do a lot of bluff-raising on dry boards (maybe too much) and always struggle with blank turns. Apologies for asking 2 questions on things, which have not happened in the vid :), but you explained things, which happened perfectly and these are two spots, with which i struggle a great deal in games :)

3. At 33:50 A5s - you say it's a pretty easy barrel on the turn. Why do you want to turn a hand with so much equity into the bluff? I understand we can fold his 10-10 type hands by the river with 3 barrels, still curios if you think why it makes more sense to turn A5s into a bluff rather than check back turn and decide on the river IP?

I give the video 9.5/10 over all. I think it would be a 10/10 if you expanded your thoughts a little bit further. Usually you expand on your thoughts nearly completely, but a couple spots where you didn't. No biggie, thanks for the video!!

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Hi Stevie! Nice video! I'd like to see the tough and advanced hands (bluffcatches, bluffs, 3bet pots, 3-4bet dynamics). Don't need to show all the hands, just explain your thoughts as you did ;)

Big thanks!

Great vid Stephen. Regarding the JQ hand (36:20) where you CR after defending bb, what value hands would you take this line with here? You say that pfr doesn't have much 9x but the question I have is would you be cr/getting it in with 9x here? Would you not slowplay sets on this dry of a board majority of the time? Or is this just a spot where the pfr has to have a piece to continue (i.e. can't really do anything about it at this stack depth) and you never expect him to shove/float with his overs?

Great vid. See the hands you fold would be even greater!

If u wanna improve i would say you shold talk about what turn cards and rivers u are betting and when u check raise on flop or river. When u 3bet i think u should talk about what hands u are 3bet folding in that sutuation and what hand u get in when u bet etc etc. Example the 77 hand u 3bet and ready to call a shove, i dont know if u are 3bet folding AT, KQ etc.