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This is a gift from the PLO gods

At min 11:57 you say that T,6,7,4 is a call but T,6,7,2 would not be a call. I dispute that. If you assign him an 80% open on button (which is a little tight) you still have 40.32% equity with T,6,7,2 making it an easy call ?

Hi Viktor vs a min raise from the BU playing 100bb effective you have a 0% fold right ?

I liked this video. Every poker player can relate to this. Grinding out a session fatigued and maybe not playing your A game. Thought it was breath of fresh air

Liked the tennis analogy I think its very apt when it comes to a marathon event

Great vid again !

Villain "tanks for 40 seconds" in hand 2. That's verging on a slow roll in my book. Getting over 3:1 with the second nuts surely you are snapping off at this level vs these plo bosses Joni ?? There is never going to be someone at these stakes who doesn't have a bluff in their range in that spot.

Hi Jezza,

At 18.19 you decide not to 3 bet shuv Ducks 30bbs effective. According to my ev calc a 3 bet shuv would leave you with a stack of 80606 (assumed 53.17% open from BU and 8.90% call of 3 bet). Can we really afford to pass up on plus ev spots like this in a tough lineup ?

Cheers

This is slightly off topic but you guys seem like good people to ask. I am an NL player on a UK site (Sky Poker - anything up to £5 - £10) and I'm starting to play a bit of PLO on the side (really enjoying it). BUT, the time has come for me to actually do a bit of work on my plo game because although I am up a chunk at the moment I can't see it lasting because I've spent no time in "the lab". Is there a piece of software which can break down your opening ranges PREFLOP in PLO like in holdem where you can select 20% and it shows you all the combos (ignoring suits). I know there are like 16,000 hand combinations in plo but I can't really start working on my game before I nail down my pre flop ranges. Any advice would be greatly appreciated guys. THANKS !!

This is slightly off topic but you guys seem like good people to ask. I am an NL player on a UK site (Sky Poker - anything up to £5 - £10) and I'm starting to play a bit of PLO on the side (really enjoying it). BUT, the time has come for me to actually do a bit of work on my plo game because although I am up a chunk at the moment I can't see it lasting because I've spent no time in "the lab". Is there a piece of software which can break down your opening ranges PREFLOP in PLO like in holdem where you can select 20% and it shows you all the combos (ignoring suits). I know there are like 16,000 hand combinations in plo but I can't really start working on my game before I nail down my pre flop ranges. Any advice would be greatly appreciated guys. THANKS !!

Thanks for the comment Sonny 208 5 agree in these BHs you have to take into consideration the value of having a bigger stack (being able to cover other players and take their bounties). Looking back on it now I'm afraid to say I think my math is wrong, Because he had a $30 bounty I added 30,000 to the pot which meant it was a profitable nay 2 spot. However, I think I should have just added 9,000 to the pot (representing the value of his bounty in chips). This is because I essentially paid $10 for my 3000 chip starting stack (only $10 because the prize pool is split $10 $10 $2) and because his bounty is $30 that should translate to 9000 chips. WIth that in mind I had another look at the numbers and I needed 35% equity to make the call. As you can see from my earlier post I actually only had 31.54% equity when i assigned him standard shuving range (All in all a terrible call by me haha). BUT, I am still not 100% on my math. JEREMY PLEASE HELP haha.

Right I was deep in the $22 turbo, 6max, progressive ko tourney and a weird spot came up and i'm not sure on my math. It's 3,000 starting chips and Each player has a minimum bounty of $5. The prize pool is split half and half.

No Limit Hold'em Tournament T1,400/T2,800
Buy-in: $10+$10+$2 USD Hold'em No Limit
PokerStars
6 players
Formatted by pokercopilot.com: Poker HUD for Mac and Windows

Stacks:
UTG - UTG (T34,230)
MP - MP (T26,142)
CO - CO (T275,078)
BTN - BTN (T137,292)
SB - SB (T146,113)
BB - Hero (T88,873)

Preflop: (T6,300, 6 players) Hero is BB with 8s 4h
1 fold, MP raises to T25,792 (all-in), 3 folds, Hero calls T22,992

Flop: Jd Ad 6s (T55,084, 2 players, 1 all-in - Hero: T62,731, MP: T0)

Turn: As (T55,084, 2 players, 1 all-in - Hero: T62,731, MP: T0)

River: 9c (T55,084, 2 players, 1 all-in - Hero: T62,731, MP: T0)

Total Pot: T55,084
Hero shows 8s 4h (a pair of Aces)
MP shows 7s 7c (two pair, Aces and Sevens)

MP wins T55,084

Sooooooooo, as you can see HJ rips for 9BBs and I call the BB with 84off. But he had $60 next to his name which means I would get $30 into my account if I KO him. So, I took his 25,792 + plus blinds and antes + added 30,000 for the BOOTY. This totalled at 62,092. So I had to call to win 22,992 to win 62,092.
62092/22992
=2.7
Sooooooo, I only need 27% equity to call this shuv.
I assigned him a standard shuving range of 30% from the HJ with 9BBs.
My 84off had 31.54% equity.

So guys what I'm asking is this the right way to go about things ????????? It makes sense to be an any 2 spot because of the huge BOOTY !!!!!!!!!!

PLEASE HELP !!!!!!!!!!

Was there ICM considerations at minute 4.24 ? because AK seems like a standard raise for value . Suppose his range is kinda capped when he calls out the SB in that spot. Was your thinking that only KQ, KJ an maybe K10s pay you off ? Then you have other hands that you lose to 77,88 and then you have all the missed draws he is bluffing with ?

Hi Jezza what video was it that you looked at the math behind calling shuvs in progressive ko tournies ? I don't know that calc you do that takes into consideration the players bounty etc.

Thanks

This guy is very splashy !

I meant 8238 was final total not 8842

Hi Chirs,
150/300 ante 75
I have a few questions on an ev calc I ran on the above 55 spot. CO - 7685, BU - 7422, SB - 6747, BB- 8842. To make the ev calc easier and to avoid side pots i set all stacks the same. I totalled the ev of me open jamming my 26BB stack and it was 8842, therefore plus ev. However, this seems rather high (mistake by me ???). Secondly, I was wondering just how inaccurate / potentially pointless it is to calculate ev in this spot by making all stacks the same. How far off the actual proper ev calc will my lazy method be ?

Thanks

Not sure I like the snap fold to the 3 bet at 14.10. We are relatively deep and he has a 3bet of 13 (i know small sample size). Getting over 3:1, I know reverse implied odds and all that but it is this really a snap fold Akira ?

If you constructed a villain 3 bet range here I think its close imo.

Phil would you say that $1 $2 zoom PLO is the lowest stakes that are realistically beatable these days ? It seems to be the general consensus that 50 $1 and especially 25 50 are not longer beatable with the Stars rake ?

Yeh I was thinking the A864 was a very tight play by LB, we have the second nuts and and he didn't even consider raising.

Enjoyed the last hand

Hi LB just have a quicky about the poker juice section. The pot in question was when V bet 183 in to 232 on River. So we are getting 3.27:1, so have to be right 30.58%of the time to break even. But when you poker juice it and assign him 62% of hands on button his air is only 11.30%. So does this then make it a super easy fold if we have to right 30.58% and he only has 11.30% bluffs which is the only hands we beat ?

Thanks for explaining Leszek. This may be a stupid question but why is it better to include more bluffs ? I get that if you bet pot your opponent has to be right 33% of the time and if you bet half then they have to be right 25% of time. Is the idea behind including more bluffs and betting bigger that your opponent has to be right more often and you take the pot down more often ?

At 6.55 you talk about how your opponent has capped his range. Ben86 says "when my opponent is capped on the river I like to bet as much as possible". What's his thinking behind that from a gto perspective and why did you go for a more standard sizing.

Great vid btw one of the best essential ploers Rio has ever had

At 2.50 you flop top pair with the 7 in the 3 bet pot. I feel this is a spot where most people in your shoes would pot get it in instead of your 2/3 pot bet. Surely in this spot its best to pot because you maximise your fold equity, it's not as if your hand is strong enough to enduce. By potting it means your opponent is more likely to fold a hand like QQ which you are close to flipping against ?

Cheers Rob

On the right table at 4:58 when you c bet your 3 bet pot with AAxx on 3K8 rainbow are happy to bet get in if he pots on this super dry board ? And how would you proceed against a small raise on the flop by V to something like 40 ? Or do you think a small raise is unlikely from villain given stack sizes ?

Cheers

It looks like you haven't heard the unwritten rule that states you must always play your dealt quads, in this case 4Qs. It takes blockers to a whole new level haha

Good vid