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First coach yet to match his accessories with the theme of the course. Nice episode!

Hyped for this, great intro! Can't wait to binge watch the mini course right now. I have a presentiment you'll uncover some painful leaks along the way ;)

Hey Seth! While this is not exclusive to this video but rather applies to all of your content, I just wanted to mention that you do an outstanding job at using individual hands that come up to teach the inner workings of bigger concepts and range interactions. This makes it very easy and fun to learn new things. Great video!

Thx for the quick reply and your assessment Paul, that's really helpful!

The point you raised about the pot odds changing in ante games certainly makes a lot of sense and dampens the effect of the large size. I don't want to add on to the discussion as your reply fully answered my question. But your comment inspired me to finally do some quick equity math that I always was too lazy to do before.

In case anyone's interesed here's what I attempted to do:
Motivation - I had the feeling that the change in raise size in common ante preflop charts was over-proportional compared to the pot odds effect introduced by the ante.

But I have to add that I always used a quite small 3x 3b in position in classic games and therefore always compared it to that in my mind. I know that there are a lot of players already using 3.2-3.5x even in classic non-ante games.

Some pot odd calcs (required equity):
Classic 6-max 2.5-7.5 pot odds: 5/(7.5+7.5+1.5) = 30.3% equity
0.7bb Ante ranges 2.5 - 7.5 pot odds: 5/(7.5+7.5+2.2) = 29.1% equity

Classic 6-max 2.5 - 9 pot odds 6.5/(9+9+1.5) = 33.3%
0.7bb Ante ranges 2.5 - 9 pot odds 6.5/(9+9+2.2) = 32.2% equity

In short, the pure required equity effect of the ante in a 2.5-7.5 scenario is about -1.2% (defend more)
The pure effect of switching from a 7.5 to a 9bb size in a classic setting is +3% (defend less)

Comparing non-ante 2.5-7.5 with ante 2.5-9 we need 1.9% more equity despite the ante.

In short, I had the feeling that the spread of these quite large 3b sizes was also influenced by GTOWizard spreading them in their sheets and even noticed some players going 9.5 or 10 these days - which is when I started experimenting with 4b/fold.

But I do understand that even in a 2.5-10bb setting a calling range is still +EV when executed well - it's just getting really narrow.

Hey Paul! Great breakdown of the action and nice to see some CoinPoker action.

At ~11min there is a nice example of what can happen frequently on CoinPoker:
We get 3bet quite large by IP in early positions (2bb – 9bb). In these and similar spots I find myself strongly considering playing 4b/fold and skipping the small calling range for simplification.

In ranges, one of the only hands that seems to ˋsuffer´ EV wise is AQs. Do you think 4b/fold can be a reasonable simplification in EP/MP facing large IP 3bets also considering how the pool plays against 4bets or would you always advocate carving out that calling range regardless of sizing?

Great video Simon! Would certainly love to see a future installment on this topic

The way how you introduce the concept of bluffing allowance as a heuristic for most bluff-catching spots was very intuitive and easy to remember.

I would be interested in learning about the limits / threats of misapplication of the bluffing allowance heuristic. One thing that popped to mind for me was spots where we face a river raise.

I suspect the bluffing allowance in these nodes to be ridiculously low, yet it can often be a very underbluffed line. I'm curious if there are other (maybe more frequent) exceptions to the heuristic to keep in mind when applying it at the tables.

Welcome to the team and what a nice high-effort debut video. Looking forward to all of your future content

sorry that you didn't get the link on the site. It should have usually been available through the website banner at the top of the site but my apologies if there was a glitch that made this not available for you.

I'm glad that we were able to sort it in time :) Thx for joining the event!

Great to hear you like the series! The tool Pete uses here is the trainer from PIOSolver. Hope that helps!

If anyone else is currently interested in calculating equities for PLO, we have some great news! We're excited to announce that we just launched the brand-new Run It Once 4-card, 5-card, and 6-card PLO equity calculator that you can access for free right here:
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On top of calculating PREFLOP and POSTFLOP equities for up to six players, you'll also find some valuable information on how to get the most out of the calculator, an ultimate pot odds / equity cheat sheet and more!

We're happy to hear any feedback and hope you'll enjoy this new tool!

We're excited to announce that we just launched the brand-new Run It Once 4-card, 5-card, and 6-card PLO equity calculator that you can access for free right here:
https://www.runitonce.com/tools/plocalculator/

On top of calculating PREFLOP and POSTFLOP equities for up to six players, you'll also find some valuable information on how to get the most out of the calculator, an ultimate pot odds / equity cheat sheet and more!

We're happy to hear any feedback and hope you'll enjoy this new tool!

Hey FrogJuggler! Great that you're interested in checking out Hunter's vids! As Hunter is an Elite pro on Run It Once, you can access his videos with an active Elite membership.

Don't hesitate to reach out if you have any other questions.

Exactly, I think we just got you sorted in support :) For anyone else interested in this, you can claim your free month of Essential that's included in Foundations through the link that you should find in your welcome email to the course. If you're a course owner, you can also access the page from here:
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New study stream going down TODAY at 10am EST:
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nice one thx for the link!

Welcome aboard Rapha! Excited to see you joining the team

Welcome to the other side of RIO Rapha :) Looking forward to your content!

Hey hvyhg! We're excited to hear that you enjoyed the first installment of the Big Blind Defense seminar series that Qing Yang hosted on Run It Once and that we uploaded to YouTube.

In order to access the entire 4-part series, you'd need an active Essential subscription ($24.99/month). Once you have that, you'll be able to access the Qing Yang seminar series, as well as two other Essential seminar series (on top of the additional 3,000 training videos that is of course):
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