Aesah
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I think the mental energy you expend trying to time your bathroom breaks instead of just going whenever you want probably costs you more in EV than missing a couple hands (which you are going to miss anyway, just in different positions)
Aug. 2, 2014 | 12:57 p.m.
Aug. 2, 2014 | 12:55 p.m.
$10 is basically free even if you only use 1/1000th of the information
June 10, 2014 | 3:03 p.m.
May 5, 2014 | 9:58 a.m.
wouldn't no one be winning in SD winnings with 6 strong regs?
May 4, 2014 | 7:20 a.m.
Loved reading this. Great post
May 2, 2014 | 1:59 p.m.
I don't play online but there is a guy who plays every day in Bicycle Casino who has a bet when checked to of about 95%, so yea I check my entire range on dry flops then c/c my value and c/r half my air (and c/f half my air so he doesn't catch on as fast).
March 31, 2014 | 9:50 p.m.
hand #3 is a great example of how to beat them
Oct. 3, 2013 | 8:16 p.m.
everyone should do what they like. for me, the thought of sitting in front of a computer while concentrating too hard to talk to anyone while working is unbearable. for others, the thought of getting into 1 interesting poker spot per couple hours is unbearable.
Aug. 21, 2013 | 12:38 p.m.
Aug. 3, 2013 | 8:05 a.m.
Easiest fold to 4-bet in live 2/4 game ever if BTN is a normal player he will show up with AAxx over 80% of the time here.
I would flat pre. You have a hand that can overflush/overstraight bad players for stacks so you want all the limpers to call.
Aug. 3, 2013 | 7:59 a.m.
never fold AAxx in PLO, or even AAxxx in Big O (5 card PLO8)
Aug. 1, 2013 | 9:02 a.m.
I'll be playing PLO in Tunica during WPO. Will it all be at GoldStrike or other casinos too?
July 18, 2013 | 10:37 p.m.
May 28, 2013 | 9:39 a.m.
On a very basic level, even when playing live poker you can tell when some guy raises "a lot". But knowing the theory on both his ranges and the appropriate ranges to combat him with is important, and this effect is magnified even greater online with HUDs etc.
May 4, 2013 | 8:06 a.m.
So based on your simulations, would you expect it to matter in practice (i.e., should an SB opening range differ in a 3-handed and 9-handed game?) Since of course many AKxx hands are trash, many lower rundowns are good, etc., but in general high card hands are still more likely to be played.
April 27, 2013 | 9:59 a.m.
but yea like I said, if there really are that many callers, then you pot it to his left and he repots and you jam, even with 500bb you'll only have an SPR = ~1 pot if it goes multiway.
April 27, 2013 | 9:33 a.m.
more realistically, max buyin is $500, even a 4 limps + pot to $60 + 3 callers is like a $300 pot on the flop with SPR < 1.
April 27, 2013 | 8:51 a.m.
I was curious how much your opening range from the SB should differ in a 9-handed game compared to shorthanded games. Basically, considering that when this situation occurs in a 9-handed PLO game, over half the deck is already folded away and the mucked cards will be very strongly weighted towards low cards.
In other words, when you open the SB here in a 9-handed PLO game, I suspect the chance that the BB has a top 15% hand is SIGNIFICANTLY higher than 15%... so that implies our SB opening range in a 9-handed game should differ than our SB opening range in a 3-handed game, however I've never seen any literature on this topic before.
Thoughts?
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If the above question is too complicated to solve which I suspect it may be, here's a simplified version which might serve as a decent estimate:
No one will ever fold any hand with at least two Aces, and everyone will fold a hand with one Ace X% (let's say X=75%?) of the time. If it folds to you in the SB and you have no Aces in a 9-handed PLO game, what are the chances BB has at least two Aces?
I really wish I could solve this myself but I suck at math. Thanks!
April 26, 2013 | 10:14 a.m.
April 18, 2013 | 8:39 a.m.
April 6, 2013 | 9:41 p.m.
I have a question about the QQ54 hand where you're 2nd to act 3-ways on T44 with the button PFR behind you. You said you expect him to cbet JJxx+ here for value, how do you expect him to play those hands on both the flop as well as later streets when you bet out here?
Thanks!
April 5, 2013 | 2:43 a.m.
April 1, 2013 | 11:42 p.m.
First comment on the site! Just signed up today and am planning to watch all of your vids starting from oldest to newest.
I have kind of a combo question about this video and a hand in part 2 of this series. For this one, at the hand at 40:00 where you make a blockers play with A775 then river the 1-card straight, you say you like to bet half-pot with both your value and your bluffs since your opponent will often have the 1-card straight and will call 100% of the time with it. I agreed with this...
However, in part 2 of this series at 40:30, you turned the nuts with JTxx on a double flush draw board. You still had the nuts on the river but it put out a 4-to-a-straight, and you suggested you should bet near-pot with your entire range here to maybe make him fold the 1-card straight. I didn't really understand this.
Can you explain the differences in these two hands? Thanks!
1 session is way too short of a sample to set a goal like "win 40bb". You're setting yourself up to be disappointed if you do that. Just play your best.
Aug. 2, 2014 | 12:59 p.m.