Francesco Lacriola

Francesco Lacriola utilizes the solver to explore the keys for playing and winning big pots touching on concepts like deception, bet sizing, going thin enough, and more.

When facing tough opponents, it's common to be put in situations that are deemed to be 0 EV for a bluff catcher and Francesco Lacriola offers tips and tricks for dealing with these situations.

Francesco Lacriola explores spots where the solver would suggest a pure call or pure fold and offers a different way to look at these situations.

It's a concept that players of all skill levels struggle with and Francesco Lacriola offers his take on the importance of being intentional with all of our actions and how doing so can translate to an increase to your bottom line at the tables.

Francesco Lacriola returns with the second installment of his BTN vs CO 3-bet pot series, this time focusing on how to approach the defense line as the cutoff.

Francesco Lacriola utilizes the solver to explore BTN vs CO 3-bet pots first establishing the theory behind his approach and then diving into a practice session and seeing how to apply potential exploits in reality. This first installment focuses on the decisions from the BTN's perspective.

Francesco Lacriola analyzes a heuristic that most people are aware of in check-raising low, paired boards and discusses why this is the case and what hands make up the best opportunities for this.

Francesco Lacriola explores 4-bet pots as the caller and discusses how to navigate these very tricky situations where ranges are exceedingly narrow.

Francesco Lacriola grabs the biggest hands from his most recent sessions and attempts to breakdown whether they're truly coolers or if there was anything that could have been done differently to win more or lose less.

Francesco Lacriola reviews a selection of mid-stakes hands where he faced interesting bluffcatching decisions. He utilizes the hands to illustrate how you should go about evaluating the involved ranges and how to yield an effective thought process to reach the correct decision in game.

Francesco Lacriola tackles the topic of river bet sizing and how splitting your bet size can effectively leverage the nut advantage.

Francesco Lacriola breaks down two close bluff-catches at the $5/$10 tables. Instead of just discussing these already interesting hands as they played out, he utilizes them as examples to think about whether there would have been a way around facing these marginal river decisions.

With a decade of professional poker under his belt, Francesco Lacriola looks back on this experience and tries to sum up the keys for success that he's learned during this time.

Francesco Lacriola picks up where he left off on his deep dive into SB v BB play which presents a number of troublesome situations that are often difficult for humans to navigate using just intuition. This second installment switches perspectives and we play as the big blind.

Francesco Lacriola utilizes GTOW to train SB vs BB acting as the SB in each hand and playing a raise only strategy to establish the best course of action for this frequent yet wildly complex situations.

Francesco Lacriola invites you to a hand history lesson on playing 3-bet pots out of position. In the early sections of the video, he puts a special focus on how to maneuver the checking lines with a focus on understanding the deeper logic behind your strategic choices.

Many people have raise/fold strategies but in this installment, Francesco Lacriola explores the profitability of calling out of the small blind and uses real hands to illustrate the approach.

Francesco Lacriola grabs a few hands that he played against some regs that were particularly complex and breaks them down with the aid of the solver to see whether his lines made sense.

Francesco Lacriola takes a theoretical approach to 4 card, monotone boards and although rare, offers his take for success in these scenarios.

Francesco Lacriola returns from vacation and looks to she the rust off with this examination of all VPIP'd hands from his recent session.

Francesco Lacriola discusses a selection of hands that saw him take exotic actions to maximize his EV based on assumptions he makes about how his opponents might react.

Francesco Lacriola presents a practical learning model for effectively reviewing your mistakes that you made in-game. The model consists of five steps that will allow you to take away the most from your review.

Playing in autopilot mode is usually considered a negative habit that we want to avoid when playing our absolute best. In this video Francesco Lacriola discusses why this is only partly true, why the autopilot represents a powerful asset of professional poker players and how you can improve your autopilot.

Francesco Lacriola loads up three recent hands where he found himself in a 3-bet pot as the out-of-position preflop aggressor to discuss the impact that our opponents' defense strategy has on how we proceed with the hand.

Francesco Lacriola turns on the filter for hands where he fired all three barrels and discusses how and why deploying this strategy can make sense and be the most profitable play both from a GTO and exploitable standpoint.

Francesco Lacriola illustrates how he studies complex boards in 3-bet pots through discussing a mid-low texture in a SB vs CO setting. This video will enable you to figure out your best exploitative response for flop and turn play if your opponent makes different mistakes facing a check from the preflop aggressor.

Francesco Lacriola invites you to a drilling session aiming to internalize our BB strategy in 3-bet pots vs BTN with the help of his own sims in PIOTrainer. This video represents a nice follow-up to his series on how to study efficiently with GTO Trainers.

Francesco Lacriola explores how your approach preflop can dramatically impact how you cbet on the flop and discusses how you can pull the levers to get the results you want.

Francesco Lacriola dives into a themed hand history review to improve your ability to perform in 3-bet pots as the caller. He makes sure to share his thoughts on exploitative deviations in spots where options are very close to each other.

Francesco Lacriola launches a study session on bluffraising the turn in single raised pots. He explains the crucial factors to pick the best bluffing candidates, when you can get away with exploitative bluffs and when to follow through on the river.