hey dude!

Hey, Sick hand with 89s against 8T^^
1 question. It seems like you prefer smaller cbets when we are having wider ranges, opening from co/btn, and bigger sizes from EP etc. Mainly against BB defend. Can you please explain why?

Nice vid

20:47, I slightly disagree. At first glance it seems to make sense to play GTO when your opponent is doing weird 'unknown things'. However, reg or not, we know for sure that he is making very bad calls (no amount of soul reading can justify that T8 call). Therefore at the time of the adjustments on the flop with 46s we SHOULD be playing exploitative by obviously bombing thin value and only bluffing with strong bluffs. Like, we should be bombing any pair on the flop expecting a call from any Ace. If we assume he's definitely fishy and possibly tricky too, you're still more likely to be ahead of his calling range. Turns out he is a bit tricky, and had the top of his range, but I still think he's fishy and you should be betting thin value if you had it.

Next time don't spend 2 minutes counting whether you have enough value hands in the spot to cover your bluff =))

28:20 67suited is a fold in mp you say.
Whats the lowest SC you recomend opening as default, do you work with pio preflop? I thougt its a std open.

8s are considered lucky in China, therefore 888poker

Lets make Another comment while im at it. If u read or listen to Mike Sextons book (great read btw) u will find out how partypoker got its name... ;)

In the hand where you 3bet AK on party at 27:45, why did you choose a 6x size? Thanks :)

13 minute 662 board or something like that. you are between betting your standard size and overbetting river, why not overbet? villian is capped and if we defend flop wide(obv. we do) we have ton of floats which want to maximaze EV. I guess max EV size with many bluffs is big.
And it is nl2k, not nl200 where people will level them self to call because odds are looks good and your possible have bluffs. If you have only that size and have less bluffs, totally reasonable and agree with you size.

p.s. nice stuff, coach with emotion is much better than robots ^^

Some Questions regarding preflop ranges. (kind of long...)

I heard that you said you should have folded 67s preflop from that position. And your just in the mood to play and of course that's fine. It happens to me too more than often... so

My question here is:
If we are on the CO. And the BTN is a weak tight reg that doesn't give us any trouble, the blinds are deepstacked fishes that calls a lot OOP.

I figured we can open up our CO raising range. (When I used to play mostly online I just play a solid, and mostly static range preflop with the occasional loosening up because the games are much tougher than live poker. - which I'm playing now)

Do you think its +ev to open up from CO or even MP given the above described scenario is true? And if true, how do we figure out how wide exactly we should open up our range? like your hand with 67s. When can we justify opening 56s, or 45s from CO? How could we figure out the exact range cutoff of hands that we just don't open pre?

An issue with this is, if we mess around with our preflop range, and get 3bet. It will hard to determine what ranges defend with a dynamic preflop range. We may open up to being exploited by not defending enough, or defending too much. Also going to the flop in a 3bet pot with a range that we are unfamiliar with opens up to even more exploitation.

What is the best way to create non-static preflop opening range. Is it correct to just familiarize myself with wider opening ranges + wider defending ranges if we face 3bets?
And also know our "standard" opening ranges/ defending ranges.

^^ if you think the above is how we should approach this issue.
How do we construct an exact range to open up? Like from CO we open 67s, but what about 45s,56s. How do we determine exactly which hand is the exact cut off point where we don't open at all? I think our range needs to be precise because only then can we figure out our defense frequencies vs 3bets.
Because obviously opening 45s from CO as a standard in a normal 100bb game is probably -ev even if the blinds are bad players.

(Also I ask this because I used to play standard online 100bb games, I'm familiar with ranges I should play/ defend in these games. But now I'm playing live super deep games. Usually 200bb-600bb deep guys sitting at the tables with a lot of loose callers. Some with aggression but most are passive preflop)

Would you create two different ranges for these games? If so, how would you approach constructing two different preflop ranges being deepstacked. One for standard opening ranges vs competent regs / unknowns. And another one range for exploitative like the CO example I suggested above.

Or would you just keep one standard range for deepstacked, and one static range for 100bb stacks and not have two different ranges based on table player positioning?

love that you played on 888 and party......anything but stars...thanks

sick video and it's good to have some humour in your vids alongside some serious strategy.

the games looked very bad though, do you usually play with all regs or was that just because there was nothing running and you wanted to make a vid? I mean of course for us viewers it's best to watch you battle vs some great regs but not so much for your bb/100 :P

also at 26:00 you cold call the 3 bet with TT, what is your thinking behind this? it seems pretty hard to balance as we just usually have 99-JJ and perhaps AQ, and it allows the other 2 in to the pot with good pot odds as well as position over you and the 3 bettor. is it not better and easier to just have a cold 4 bet/ fold range? to deny open raiser and flatter a good price to flat as well as to take away their potential positional advantage, also, typically, a SB 3 betting range is one of the widest from any position, so we can isolate the SB and keep our range uncapped post flop. as when the A comes on the turn it is just terrible for our range as we don't have many Ax at all, and he has a ton of Axs as well as big Ax both off suit and suited. so we probably end up not being able to defend anything like enough OTT vs that small sizing.

because I was thinking okay maybe we balance this cold call range with AA, but then in a similar spot towards the end of the video we have AA in the BB vs a SB 3 bet and you say 'of course we are going to 4 bet' implying that we never flat here.

I can understand us perhaps wanting a cold call 3 betting range IP, vs an EP open and CO/ HJ 3 bet as these ranges are very strong and we also have the added benefit of getting to play in position when they may turn their range face up on certain boards post flop. but OOP I can't see many benefits to having this as part of our arsenal.

of course perhaps I am way off and you have a good win rate when doing this.

but yeah, great video and looking forward to the next one!

Fine ;) here it goes. Basicly Mike Sexton was hired to get partypoker of the ground and up and running. Main bases of the site where some place in india. He got theré and like the first thing he needed to do was to help them find a name for the site. (They Only had casinogames at this point in time) and they kinda random had named the site partypoker. When he got there they handed him a list of suggestions of potential names for the site. But he basicly threw the list away and said we keep partypoker cause its sounds fun and is easy to remember ^_^

Nice video again!
About the big 89s hand vs isildur, why did you say you prefer check with J9 , cause maybe it has better blocking capabilitys blocking AJ ?

A little humor goes a long way with training vids. I see and appreciate the effort.

If you wouldn't mind, could you please shed a little light on the ranges you have on the slider above your desk? I don't play much online and am just curious what they are and how you use them while playing.

Thanks!

Really enjoying the videos, Elias. Legit LOL'ed with the spliced in McGregor clips.

Nice Vid sir, the revenge against that T8s guy made me laughing so hard lol

Hi I have another question for you if that's OK, you seem to advocate betting different sizes with different parts of your range, isn't that much easier for good players to exploit? I would like to know your opinion on choosing the same bet size with your entire range, and why you choose not to do this. Thank you!

nice setup dude!!!

Hi there!
Are you only use those huds shown on the vid? That's only quite fews!

Sorry it didn’t work out, Elias. I had high hopes for you.

How many sizing of iso raising you have vs limp SB ? Are you sure that you always raise preflop 4x all the value hands that you have on the river ? Seems that sometimes you are 3.5x.

Hey bro, nice video, very entertaining format and clean information. The ideia of using just one screen gives it a great style as you skip the shitty hands. Keep going, count with our support. Regarding ideas from new videos, what do you think to make something in micro limits?

Very nice video, love your good energy.

Just 1 question. Why do you open 3x on stars and 2x on Party Poker?

Please no micro videos..

Noooononoo micro videos. You are by far the best content right now for nlh with Sauce, really hope to keep seeing 5/10+ videos

Hello,

When counting the combos of value and bluffs on the T8 v 98, your assumptions is that you ch flop vs miss cb 100% on AQxcc but having some AQ in your range + the fact he misses cb, i think you should (or Must?) have a prob range flop, what do you think ?

Therefore i would exclude AQ and 66 from your range and maybe as a bluff 87dd or 98dd or JTs ?

obv his call seems disgusting

excellent mcgregor meme lolol

Hi, I'm a little confused because I usually tend to do the opposite about the sizings. I think when I have a stronger range I bet smaller to incentivize calls, but a higher frequency since my range is strong, and when my range is weaker I mix checking and bigger sizing frequencies.