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Crazy how complicated it all is

To know EV on flop you would have to know every action on every single run out, and also every opponents action, because it all affects ev of previous street. So I have a big problem when this program is telling me the ev of a move. I just don't understand something. Because all the high profile respected high stakes players use this program, but it looks false as far as ev is concerned

Good explanation, I think I kinda understand what you mean, but I have a lot of stuff to learn about poker yet

I am struggling with that thought right now and cannot move past it, otherwise it's a great video and I will need to watch it again to understand it more

I'm struggling with a thought right now. I understand how I want to know the break even play and how I want to play break even against opponent I think is exploiting me. But when I am trying to win the game, why the hell am I going to try play break even? I want to find a way to exploit, not to break even? I just get very confused when Felipe sais the words "This is what you should do" in terms of, this is the range you should have and this is what you should do with the range. I think, it's not what I want to do at all, I want to find a way to win, not to break even, I only want to break even when I think my opponent is more likely to beat me than me beating him in a spot

Well, I hope there's gonna be money to be made for a long time in poker

Nice video. This 100NL zoom seems very difficult to beat because of the level of precision that players are playing with. And that has me very concerned, because beating 2 tables of 100NL 40 hours a week with around 2BB/100, might barely get a person to pay their rent. But to think of the future and how hard it is going to be to make enough money to pay the rent? I am very concerned, because I want to become better and make living in poker, but it is looking like poker is becoming a lot like chess, where making money by playing the game is nearly impossible. Hope I'm wrong. Either way, the only way to find out is to see what future brings

ouch

what kind of stuff is this group study? I mean specifically? Just hand analysing study group?

Well, I'm very surprised for a micro stakes game to be very aggressive, I don't know for sure, maybe it's just poker messing with my head. But there deffinately some over-aggression going on in those games, I get AA to get paid off by people trying to bluff with complete air, and I even catch people betting trying to rep big hand with just pairs and get people to fold when I go all in with AK preflop after they 4Bet sometimes. I always played micro stakes games, and I'm very surprised to face this kind of aggression. I don't know exactly what's going on

Perhaps you are right about the calls being too loose, but I mean, am I going to be giving up 99% of flops? Because it's very difficult to get a hand, and opponent most likely has absolutely nothing just as well

No way would I raise the flop on 873 board, because I may easily be reraised as bluff. I don't know for sure, but the players seem very aggressive, I mean, extremely non-sense aggression for no other reason than aggression. So I'm trying to adjust to the crazy aggression, not sure what to do other than have a hand very time which is very difficult to get

I like this hand for the forum, I think this kind of hand gives me a lot of trouble and tilts me, because hero flopped one of the better flops but is possibly being bluffed off the hand, so experiencing these kinds of spots all day long can be very tilting and fucks with my mind.

Chael Sonnen seems to know what he is talking about, I wasn't too sure about how to play this hand, but I like the way Chael Sonnen analysed it. Although I wonder how to analyse a hand with really a lot of detail.

This hand is interesting. I wonder how this hand should be played against completely unknown opponent in such a way that opponent cannot exploit the play, and which factors determine wether or not you should cbet with your hand. I'm not sure if 'raise cbet OOP' 27% is normal or high, seems to me like he is c/r with any pair or possibly draw. I would probably look at aggression factor and if it Is high, then check back the flop

I think that, you got your money in very good against flush draw. But I think that in your place I would be very worried that CO is slowplaying AA. I think I would play this hand differently by making normal standard bet sizing with raises and betting, but on this board I think you cannot get away from AK because villain can be loose or crazy and have KQ

This hand doesn't make any sense to me, it seems like heros hand should be good after villain checks turn in position. I feel like villain bluffed because he smelled that hero didn't want to play big pot, but calling that overbet with K10 is crazy. There is tiny chance that villain rivered a set. Why would villain check the turn in position is something that seems strange I think

What is this stuff?

I usually slow down like a moron after the ace hits the turn, and then when I face a bet I cry and complain.

But on the other hand I do not think villain has too many aces in his range, or does he? Plus I feel most people would raise AK or AQ preflop and at least half the time fold Ax suited preflop, and only Axhh or A10, A6 would continue. I suppose other hands villain may have is 10 9s, 10 8s, J10s, Q10s; if he is looser than he can have a lot more 10x hands. He can call with flush draws but probably he doesn't have a lot of low cards for straight draw. And he probably doesn't have 6x or 3x hands too often either.

Maybe after he called the turn, he showing that he is not scared of A hitting turn and is most likely drawing for flush draw or slow playing set. So maybe check river to induce bluff and call river, but what if the river bet is big? Then I do not know, I think fold to a big bet.

Wonder how other people might evaluate this hand

But the hands hero would x/r on turn or overbet on river makes up a very small % of heros range and villain knows it and villain also knows the river overbet is suspicious, if hero overbet to try to get paid by bluff catchers why wouldn't hero make smaller bet to get paid by bluff catchers. So villain gets suspicious of river overbet. And also, I do not have much of an idea of how to play hero's range from the very start of this hand, how to play his range on flop, turn? Have no idea

How can I learn all the stuff that Phil Galfond knows? I guess I'm gonna sign up to BlueFire poker, maybe they teach it all in there

Well, actually, the videos here inspire me with poker a lot. I started watching yesterday.

The level of detail in the videos is crazy and it's inspiring to see how sophisticated the thinking of poker pros are and also how much there is for me to potentially improve. Maybe there is a motivation to become really good at something like poker, as long as people will still play poker in the future. 

I think the motivations and all that stuff is very complicated. I think that for example if there was no poker on planet earth, then Phil Ivey would have become great on something else, although maybe he only loves poker and nothing else. I think this subject is very complicated. I suppose some people start with playing poker and end up learning game theory and end up as mathematicians because they enjoy the math the most. I don't know about what my motivations really are, or how strong they are, or if they change. I don't know any of that stuff. But it's pretty inspiring to see high quality videos with great explaining of poker theory. 

I think, by the river, villain knows what you have and it's risky to try to overbet. If you do overbet, then you might have to think about how to not be exploited, it seems like the villain is likely to fold his small PP which is what he has probably 90% of the time, but he may also be capable of calling with them because he may suspect you are trying to steal. And also on mycrostakes, people can play strong hands weird and you never can be sure what someone is holding or how someone is going to play. I think overbet is risky.

I think this situation is kinda tough on the flop. On one hand, you could represent or have an overpair or AJ or even Ax that is ahead of villain. In fact on the flop, your range is better than villains range probably by far, and he is probably very capable of floating because it really doesn't look like this board hits your range that much.

I just don't know, maybe the solution is to play tighter in EP or, no I don't know.. I think this kinda difficult situation but not that much money involved

Yes, I would like to know the same, maybe they explain that stuff on another website or something, but which website I will never know

Great video, I can't believe how much detail goes into making decisions

I don't have passion for this stupid fucked up game, I hope it burns in hell, but I have a lot of passion for the lifestyle of poker player, which no other profession other than pro poker player has. It's all about the freedom pro poker players have. And it's also very good to be good at something. And also I have no other passion what so ever. I think, you are what you do, you don't do what you are. You do something that is maybe not even for you, and after a while, that's who you become.