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If you were to make more videos in this format in the future i think this would end up being one of your choppiest because of unfamiliarity but I'm a huge fan of this style (have no preference if you toggle tables or not like some above either is fine with me) but its a huge plus to see and hear you react, consider possible exploits and talk through spots in game.

i think this was very well done and perfectly informative considering what i estimate you set out to accomplish in making it. i'm not happy it's available on RIO for an essential membership and that's praise enough.

like the essential one i was quite happy with this video. I'm sure once you get more comfortable if you ever do more WSOP you can add tables but I do like the depth it allows for with your explanations. Selfishly I think I'm at a point in my development where a fast pace can be tougher for me, so I'm sure the higher level guys will want it a little faster which would be fine.

As an elite member who's working on PLO after years of NL I love your essential videos and i think this format nails it. I live in vegas and play on WSOP.com with some regularity and it's perfect for video making because they keep the time limited before you dip into your time bank. Regular tables move much faster than Stars etc and it's easy to find balance between having time to explain things and not much dead air. Looking forward to part 2.

I think zoom/live action recorded over later with the ability to pause and talk is the clear superior video format, albeit not the only enjoyable one. Really liked this video cheers.

Very big fan of this video for the format as well as the content. Incredibly happy to watch someone who really knows what they're doing cover any mix game action but especially NL 2-7. Cheers George and welcome!

Yea GL everyone, excited to hang out in the RIO lounge if they get it going this year but will be in town all series. I've lived here a few yrs and now WSOP has always been a good way to meet people in poker who have similar lives to chat with since it's pretty hard sometimes with friends and family outside the game. If anyone wants to ask any questIons about vegas or grab a meal and chat send me an inbox or post here I'm trying to get more active on these forums. GL!

I think that 4b shoving a huge amt is going to play better in the ICM scenario than 4b/c. If they are both playing ICM aware it's an interesting spot to look at. I really don't see how you could gain enough equity in the 4b/c scenario even vs a wide range to overcome the equity you're risking and how reasonably likely you are to lose with 3 stacks lower than you. I'm not pretending I have an excellent grasp on this concept, but feel i have a good enough grasp that i'd need to see some very reasonable sims/maths to change my mind. Also think although many MTTers are not comfortable or playing well post flop anyone who does (is comfy) will be worlds better off calling, again just my feel/opinion.

I mean strategies can change given reads on the SB (quite obviously) but i don't think any reasonable SB strategy would change my decision with the exact holding of 99 OTB

i was watching this live and i have no idea why this isn't a very standard raise/call and play flop IP. I know that tourney chips are super valuable cuz you can't reload, but i think that given the ICM implications and the uncertainty (IMO) of how light SB will attack this spot I'm gonna allow him to maneuver postflop and give him an opportunity to have aggression and win the pot more often with the weaker hands in his range in exchange for my position, ability to hand read postflop, and not increasing the likelihood of me getting my entire stack in with a marginal holding and 3 shorter stacks in play.

Yea i don't agree with that read either, all my posts were assuming the guy is drunk loose and had a wide flop raising range, but was not sharing the assumption of OP that he doesn't have or play 9x this way.

Don't like 5b/calling at all, but it's not like there's never been a dynamic I'm ok with it in. Much prefer 3b with a plan to flat the 4b IP and keep his range and yours a little wider so WP by me. I actually think I would either not have a 4b range here or be pretty light with one given the complete lack of dynamic acquired in this regard. Balance is so overrated live outside the guys (if there are any) you grind with daily/weekly.
Find it interesting that people don't like his play though. I mean if people make (in my opinion) the mistake of 5b AA and KK here with no dynamic (and even if they don't) you get to apply pressure on a good board for you with a few outs to the nuts and heaps of FE.
Your spot is super gross and gameflow dependent, I don't fault your call at all but we do block AQ and QJ which is pretty bad along with not blocking AK, KK, AA. So much of live poker is guesswork I think my only meaningful thought on your play is applauding you for making a read and following it presuming there was a reasonable thought process behind it.

The only reason I would ever jam this spot is if I was very confident villian was raise calling often, and obviously doing so with a range I am ahead of equity wise. I think that calling his raise and letting him shove turn is a very reasonable play.

Strongly agree with Nick's thoughts here. I think jamming is lazy and very suboptimal. Given what you wrote about villian I'm OK with betting flop calling raise and ck calling most turns AI. Also planning to lead AI OTR of most runouts after ck/ck turn regardless of how tight you are since live is all about making/allowing people to make egregious mistakes. This comes mostly from my intuition that he will give up with his air bluffs if not shoving them OTT and will stick with his weird hands like any 2 pair combo.

All that said as played i think i might ck/call 3 here vs this guy. It's very hard for him to have a hand worth putting $$ in on this texture so I'm a fan of giving maximum rope and living with running into it very infrequently. I don't think that either betting or cking is bad as long as you do not fold your hand on the flop or innocuous turns.

I'd be very inclined to ck A8s on J86r, it's a very good flop for the person peeling the 3b and I'd develop a large checking range in this spot vs many opponents.

I'd be betting a lot more (firing multiple streets with a lot of my range) on K95r so I'd have a lot more hands in my bet once for value range that are medium strength. That said if villian is very tough or weak and you felt pretty comfortable developing a cking range i think MP with some BD draws is always a nice candidate to ck/call flop and ck/decide turns and rivers.

I play in a lot of games that play like this preflop at 5/10 10/20 in Vegas I've messed around with a ton of stuff I'd be unlikely to mix in online. I am a big fan of defending the BB extremely wide here and am very on board with having a wide leading range (and definitely including this hand) in this spot because I have so much more of this board than most BBs and more often than the other people in the hand as well. As played I would definitely agree with 3b the flop when the two villians are the spots, just can't be bad to get more money in and any reasonable sizing with effective stacks will induce them to continue. You look equally strong between the two options if not slightly stronger when you call because you're inviting potential 3+ way turn action, so if my assumption and that of others is that the spots are likely to continue too wide (or just very often regardless of handstrength) it's nice to just 3b flop shove turn with our fairly shallow stack as live poker goes at these stakes.

As played to the turn well played.

As played to the river I probably jam. wouldn't be at all shocked to see the 8d though so I couldn't blame you for ck/reacting, but this decision would be very live gameflow dependent for me and i think my standard in a game like this vs these villians would be putting my 1880 into the wagering area.

I think the flop play is much more important than the river play. I feel if you play live a lot and have a good feel for your table your river decision will be pretty easy. If there's some sticky fish bet. If they're super passive and honest ck/fold. I would almost never be ck/calling here but i'm sure there's a lineup i could find one against. Just being confident in your live play/guesses on how a player is going to react is what's important for this river decision.

Best wishes to you and your family Arizona, I feel very similarly about my mother and admire your passion and the actions you are taking on her behalf.

Absolutely no reason to worry about balancing until you hit 5/10 plus and even then it's rarely as important as it should be in my experience. Takes infinite time to get in volume with players, there's no data crunching programs to be used to assess the ins and outs of someones play or reference other than good old memory retention, and most players are completely unaware of the concept even so.

Also of the opinion that live poker is a blast and always profitable if you are reasonably good at the game you're playing. Highly recommend playing there if you enjoy it. GL!

EDIT: Do worry about list... Exploit, Exploit, EXPLOIT!

There's an incredible amount of merit, especially live, and especially in games with good loose aggressive players to buying in short if you are not one of the better players at the table. Until the end of time in NL if you actually play a short stack reasonably well you will be able to make a somewhat comfortable living in my opinion doing this. I have been grinding midstakes NL in Vegas for over two years now and see it all the time. I think Jason was broadly speaking of the stigma attached to what you 'need' to buy in for, and pointing out that you don't have to do something just because someone tells you to (many of his viewers are recs/penny players/etc).

However true the above may be, I find Samu's post to both be factually accurate, and in line with my thoughts on the opinion side of things. If you are a great poker player, or you want to be a great poker player, you should play with the maximum chips allotted in almost every conceivable scenario.

I think it's pretty ho hum online because industry standards just don't vary and heaps of stakes are available, but the discussion about what buy-in limits should be at each stake in live poker rooms is always interesting to me. I play the majority of my poker in Vegas at 5/10NL with an uncapped buy-in where the minimum is only $500. Sometimes I play in the 5/10 $1500 max, the same max buy in as my favorite $2/$5 game in town. They all have pros and cons in different lineups, generally speaking the $1500 max $5/$10 is my least favorite game in town but it's often a lot easier for someone to lose $1500 3x than $4500 once (solely in terms of how tight they will play, not the obvious it's harder to get in a $4500 pot) and sometimes I find when a few of us regs are sitting with $5k to $20k it discourages some recs from bringing their $1k or they buy in with $3k-$4k once and play much tighter than they otherwise would.

Anyways end tangent, there might be some rich people playing short or capped games online, but outside that exception (and many of them are probably successful in learning deep poker strat too) I am of the opinion that the majority of wealthy people in this game are great at playing deep stacked poker and will always buy in for max/cover in uncapped games if their bankroll allows it.

I mean I've played a lot of 5/10+ living in Vegas and I beg you not to ck back river. I think the previous posters have some fair points about ranges and overvaluing your hand but bet like 350-420 and fold to a jam live is infinitely better than cking back. as played fold vs villian as described.

I like this format and think you did a good job despite the cold. I think the articulation and processes that came from pausing a live session was helpful.

On J7dd assuming there's not any glaring reads one way or the other is this a hand you'll be bet folding or bet calling on the turn? I would assume since you said you think it's a reasonable spot to see him ck/R that you would be bet calling and bet deciding but i wanted to get your thoughts on your plan down the streets there. I also would be betting flop/turn and feel I'd be very happy to bet call turn but heavily relying on reads to decide facing a river shove on non dmnd rivers.

Phil, Another great video. However, I strongly disagree that raising a7ss is betting than floating. You can't really rep anything when you raise this flop. In this spot otf I think calling=folding>raising against a good regular

Enjoyed this format a lot, I think this is a great way to make videos because your in game process and note taking is shown. With regard to some of the troubles you had quickly explaining your thoughts mid session in English, I think you would benefit from pausing (sit out) one of the two tables while you have the hand replayer open.  This way you can keep the hand you're talking about in view and still be playing another table. You won't get kicked out of the lobby and it will allow you to be able to focus on your explanation without losing your thought or getting overwhelmed. Hope that helps, thanks again for the video look forward to watching more of your old ones since I just joined.