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As an essential member, I am not interested in some pro playing 5/10 at this point.

As a prominently online player, I have often been confused by the 1/2 table dynamics in London. Yes, I could win but I never felt I won for the maximum so I welcome the addition of Akshar Patel and will be looking forward to hearing his views on how to beat these live games.

Small bump for a very useful thread. I was wondering the same question and this answered it. Learning PLO, appalled by the level of play at 2 and 5PLO and wondering if I am not wasting my time. I will give PLO20 a go soon since I have a large bankroll for that stake.

Yes, the video only seems to be recorded in 720p

Excellent video Tyler (as usual!)

15:12 Are you sure 77 is close as a cold call/fold in CO? My DB is showing a solid profit (I play lower)

I am not familiar with small anonymous pools but have you thought of open limping a hand or two HU to misrepresent your strength as a player and get villain to stay around a little longer?

In your case Tyler, I couldn't care less of your results. You are clearly extremely smart, have been able to adapt to various conditions after many years of playing professionally and whenever I have checked some of your heuristics/advices against my DB, it has always ended up positively. So an excellent or a bad year will do nothing to dissuade me from watching your videos.

However, knowing the recent results from a fresh new coach is somewhat valuable. It certainly doesn't give the whole picture about whether it is a coach worth watching but it is a good way to eliminate some coaches quickly: I have seen a few pros who became full time coaches when they stopped winning. Knowing a coach's recent results is always something I want to keep an eye on because it is an easy way to spot these coaches.

Hi Tyler,
Great video. In the first A7o hand, do you think Villain is going to readjust to your wide calling range immediately or is he going to keep on with the same 3-barreling strategy for a little while?

You are correct: odds are 30%. Thegrinder12 got it wrong.

I agree with you taaazz. I do think a TAG-ish Villain will shove much tighter than Tyler's range for 200bb at these stakes. For example, I'd never expect Villain to shove 2 pair and rarely a set. (Knowing Tyler, I am sure he will say it is highly exploitable to fold such a large part of your range, but exploitive poker is how these stakes are played these days.)

You need about 6-9 combos of inferior hands to make bet-calling correct and I don't think this will happen here so I'd bet-fold the river.

After reading jonzocker's answer, I think I probably overestimated your implied odds when you hit your flush. That makes calling the turn a lot less attractive.

Preflop and on the flop, ATo has probably enough equity to call against a 16+% range so I'd call. 

On the turn, AT hand improves to the nut flush draw so I'd call again.

On the river, ATo improves to top pair but I think the hand is too weak against what he is representing. Moreover, he bets pot and just enough to put you all-in, a line done more often for value than bluff in my experience. He is very aggro but the board is wet, many hands in his range are now beating you and many hand you are beating would check so even taking into account the occasional bluff, I'd fold.

I can't advise on the flop as I am not sure whether a c-c or a c-f is best when villain bets this big.

Regarding the river, villain mashes his 0.95P shortcut 3 times without slowing down which leads me to think he already had a very strong hand on the flop (a set most likely) or air. I'd call because he's loose and I find his line a little odd but readless (as far as his sizing goes), I can't fault a fold either.

Even if his 3b range is strong, V gives you too good pot odds to fold. As nitty as it sounds I would have folded on the flop. V strong range, UTG call and SB still to act would have all got me very worried.

Interestingly, your overcall probably worried UTG too and this may have persuaded him to fold the turn. Game theorists could see here a "coalition" where you are willing to lose some EV in order to lower UTG's EV to the benefit of the loose passive player.

Regarding the sizing, I would have 3bet a little bit larger since you are OOP and slightly deep against a seemingly bad player. I like the flop and turn but I would have shipped the river. A shame you ran into the top of his range.

I like it.

I would call too but expect to win less than 50% and relatively close to my odds for a call (~34%); this is a high variance spot.

An ironic post from someone who made a HU challenge to oblioo (and Tyler in a previous thread) then went AWOL or backed off when they accepted. 

But let's not feed the troll...

If he never turns made hands into bluff on this river (a reasonable assumption) then it all depends on how many combos of AK he bets if you check, since AK represents a sizable part of his range.

If he bets no/few AK then check fold since you are always beat when he bets and the EV of checking to go to showdown is better than the EV of betting by ~2-3bb.

If he bets many combos of AK when you check, then it is better to check call... which means you should bet! This beats check folding by ~3-4bb.

I wouldn't fold at any point.

I think your mistake is to shove the turn: you fold all his bluffs and isolate yourself against a strong range, most of which beat your hand.

FYI, the average blue line goes upward while the average red line goes downward due to multi way pots: in 3 way pots where one player folds and two go to showdown, the folder will increase his non showdown loss and his money will go to whoever wins at showdown.

So non showdown losses can get converted to SD winnings but showdown winnings never get converted to non showdown, hence the unbalance.

The same reasonning as MW pots applies at a smaller level when 2 players go to showdown after the blinds folded pre (1.5bb becomes part of the blue line).

Do you think we can adjust to his aggression (c/r = 6/18) by hero calling vs him?

Instead of seeing you as a Russian literature friend, forhayley seems to hold an old grudge against you.

First, when he was playing 2/4 in 2011, he said in his blog that you were one of the "golden seven" of the PS midstakes regs. 

Then later on in an interview you can find on youtube, he specifically targeted you when he said his buddy fish2013 at 5/10 was infinitely better than you at 2/4. 

Last but not least, he hijacks (however true, it is still a hijack) your video thread, among all threads on RIO, and you among all people.

If I wanted to bet, I'd bet you are way up versus him in big blinds, if not in dollars...