New elite member here. Love your videos and this was no exception!

btw first :)

So... this is how you make all these Sulsky Bucks :D

Great video i believe is there is so much value in this mental protocol.

If you read this comment: i noticed at one point in the video you talk about thinking of your opponent as a “range,” do you generally try to detach from the fact that you are playing people and instead just play the “virtual opponent.”

really good video Sauce, and i'm glad you went over that 89ss hand again as that was very hotly debated in the previous video's thread.

you said in this video that you wanted to jam 89ss because if he has bluffs or some thinner value like I guess AK, or even vs top set, we have so much equity. okay yeah makes sense, but then you said that we would flat sets vs the flop 3 bet, which again makes sense, as Juan's range will contain a bunch of AA here and we don't wanna jam and fold his bluffs and narrow his range such that we are having 10% equity a bunch of the time when we get it in on the flop.

but that leaves our flop 4 bet jamming range consisting of draws only, and our flatting range extremely strong (sets). should we not just be mixing with both of these ranges, or playing pure call/pure jam vs the flop 3 bet??

I understand how you don't wanna see a Qd turn and have to 'give up' a ton of EV, but we also bink the 5/T or spade a decent % of the time and get it in absolutely crushing. and we also get to see how he responds on the turn, for example when it brings an awful card for his range like the Qs/Ts and he jams we can safely fold 66/77 and call off with our flushes.

and say the turn brings a spade, we could introduce a leading range and Juan would not have planned for this (i'm 99.9% sure, apologies if you have) and take him to a part of the game tree he is extremely uncomfortable playing, in which he has a very defined and non-flush heavy range. because when we 4 bet jam flop he just calls with AA and folds bluffs, and it's pretty easy for him to play vs.

such an interesting hand xD

Pass = Fold
Shoot = Bet
Dribble = Check

Haha.

Any comments of using Signal Detection Theory in interpretation of info?

Good video; didn't feel long at all. Loved the mindset stuff. I feel like I have a fair amount of knowledge from all my PIO sims, and need to work on applying it well at the table. Thanks!

Great video Ben! The mental process of thinking through a hand is so much more wearing if you don't have a structured pattern to follow.

Really enjoyed this, Sauce.

I think introducing some black and white structure/guidelines to this sort've thing (our thought process/what we're focused on in-game) is super, super beneficial both from a training perspective and an in-game efficiency one. Going from having a decent, intermediate level thought process to an advanced one is a long, daunting process (never-ending, even) and I think it's easy without some structure to 'short circuit' when dealing w/ topics this complex. There are lots of areas in poker where we choose the complex, 'full' solution to something when we're not giving up much to super simplify our approach. Perhaps ironically, that simple approach often ends up making us more money as it helps to minimize mistakes/laser in on the truly important 'data points' in each hand.

Really liked this video. Thx Ben

Great video Ben! Would like to see more videos like this, very good insights from your tought process. Thanks a lot for sharing this.

More theory video <3

Hi Ben, thanks for this video. Super helpful for someone (like me) starting out, and wanting to see the roadmap before taking on the journey.