Ernestas Romeika

Hey man, your videos are great, they gave me a new reason to come back to run it once. Don't change anything and keep it up!

Thanks for the upload :) Personally I still prefer live analysis as you get to go through more hands!

Pokergirl1 This forum isn't very active, I suggest posting on twoplustwo for some better luck! And please ignore people like BALANCEDLUCK

Thank you so much for the review! This is great :)!

P.s. my note taking is hectic at times, that first note was meant to mean BU has a fold to 3 bet range (which a lot of the players at these stakes don't).

Most of the concepts carry over. However, you do have to be extra careful of all the redraws to the nuts. i.e. if you're on the button and have the KKxxxx on KT7 rainbow in 4-way pot without the AQJ draw, you probably should look for checking it back or just calling if someone bets, and then ramp on aggression on safe turn cards. General rule of thumbs: don't look to play a hand that doesn't have an ace in it, don't set mine with anything lower than QQ, don't fall for coolers (i.e. nut flush vs straight flush, top boat vs quads, quads over quads are not that uncommon in 6 card plo), don't get carried away with nuts on locked down boards (i.e. if you have a naked 78 on 69T rainbow, someone bets and someone raises and action is on you, you're supposed to just fold it 100% of the time.)

Spielgscheit You're welcome! Something else to consider is PokerStars zoom has a steep rake, so loosening up a bit might not necessarily be a good idea. I used to play PLO25z and PLO50z and was breaking even over a decent sample. When analyzing my play & stats one thing that was always bugging me was the amount of rake I paid, I was paying over 20bb/100 for rake, and winning only about 0.3bb/100 for myself after rakeback. Some time this spring I switched to RIO poker and now I'm winning 15bb/100 in PLO50 due to much more generous rake structure.

Excellent analysis on that last hand, really opened my eyes.

I've noticed our hero folded AK88 doublesuited in EP at 13:29, I think that should be an open as well, am I right?

Definitely. I wonder if it starts calling KK99 -> KKQQ rainbow much more when stacks get deeper (i.e. 150bb effective).

My RIO elite value has just doubled. Thanks Richard, keep posting!

For those that already seen part of this video on YouTube: the rest of the video starts at 9:24.

1. Adjust the position of link for "Don't have an account?", right now it's slightly overlapping with "Sign up": https://imgur.com/a/nFnz1NA
2. Make it so that you don't lose focus of "username" field when you switch to another window. This helps for people that use password management tools such as KeePass.

RIO poker is now open :)! I'm not from RIO team but I'll try to briefly answer your questions:
1 & 2) From what I know, RIO hasn't disclosed how they generate their RNG, generally after opening a site the company invites third party auditors to test it and issue certificates if the pseudorandomness is good enough, and we'll probably hear about it in the near future. In principle, computers can't produce true randomness, so we must either generate pseudorandomness based on things like the how many miliseconds have passed since 1st January 1970 or rely on external devices/sensors to capture things in nature that are pretty random, such as atmospheric noise or cosmic background radiation, and base the randomness on that.
3) HUDs are not allowed, also the client itself is incompatible with any current HUD system, as your hand history is not being saved to your computer. However, the player avatars change and get certain emotions that reflex on the current playing style, so if you see someone sleeping then he/she is not playing many hands, if you see someone angry then probably he/she is very aggressive, etc.
4) There are many ways in which RIO is attempting to stop bots, from using statistical analysis, to gameplay changes such as splash pots, limited number of parallel tables, auto-seating, no instant hand history.

I think a lot of your concerns would be solved by having a hand count indicator for each player in the session, to know how reliable the avatar is. This is a feature RIO is already working on.

It looks great, hopefully I get to try it from September 13th! This video is also trending on reddit's /r/poker, people over there are excited as well, the main concern seems to be that of the tilted cards.

Leading in these spots makes sense but the real question is should we abandon our check-raising option on this texture as it becomes quite complex to balance out the leading, lead-calling, check-raising and check-calling ranges in such a way that we don't open ourselves to exploitative play.

Loved the video. I think the formula can be expanded to include the partial fold frequency on 4-bettors part when when we smash the board and he misses completely like "789" no fd/bdfd, and we'll have some stackoff frequency when we're below our target EV (like dominated flush draws, dominated pairs and non AA sets). So for example:
($Calling * it's %) + ($Calling below EV * it's %) + ($Winning w no showdown * it's %) + ($Folding * it's %) = $EV
So something like this:

That seems to be a bit below 35% but depends if you have more backdoor straights. Also if you 3-bet bigger you might not need the 35%, just play around with propokertools :)

Interesting flop cbet, usually AAxx is checking on such well connected boards, but blocking 8 and a 3 I dont mind it, especially if you're sometimes 4-bettetting A876 hands this deep. I would size the flop bet bigger so that we could set up a (near) turn shove with 23.46$ in 22.05$ pot.

Loss of funds should be enough of a penalty. Bots are usually registered on ids that are bought from dark market - so basically stolen ids. Doesn't seem like the best idea to publish it.

It's important to keep in mind that security is always a tradeoff, it's never something that can be just improved on it's own. So in your proposed case it would be a traded off with UX (user experience). The hard task is to give up the least to gain the most in where it really matters. From my point of view, RIO poker team has done an excellent job at presenting solutions that improve game security, things like not saving hand history data at real time and having 24h delay on that, pseudonymous tables, table caps, insta seating. All of these already make collusion and botting so much harder. Also I'm pretty sure they are/will be monitoring player stats and applying mathematical analysis to determine correlations between the accounts - they even had a job offering for a position to do this very thing. If I had something to offer for security considerations, that would be:
• Mapping exit nodes of publicly available VPN's, this would prevent majority of VPN'ing. (PokerStars is actually pretty good at doing this).
• Monitoring & recording ip connections of each player to see if there are any sudden "jumps" between countries and continents, also helps with general account security.
• Aggregating player mouse movement data to determine what is natural mouse flow vs automated jump clicks and straight line movements. I don't think anyone in poker industry does this but it's quite common in MMO gaming industry. This can get tough if/when mobile client is introduced.
• Having people do extra identity verification like linking their social media & other OAuth accounts.
• And most of all not being afraid to take action and freeze the suspicious accounts. Asking for more details and verification is a minor inconvenience for legitimate players, and major "oh sh*t" moment for people running bots.

I have to say I really look forward to RIO poker and I feel it has a great future ahead :).

For many of these it's required for a company to obtain a state issued gambling licence, to meet certain capital requirements and most of all to establish a physical presence in the country. Also localized taxation and tax treaties play a role. Some of these have online poker straight out banned.

Great content, found it really interesting. I tried out to see how the charts would look with line bar thickness representing the % of the range, and it doesn't look bad at all:

If your villain is cbetting "100%" as PFR, then it's absolutely fine to have checkraising range on Axx, might even go as low as checkraising AK78 on A96 for value. Exploitatively, to determine if it's more EV+ to checkraise or to call you have to compare his turn behaviour vs his flop behaviour when he gets checkraised, some people are pretty insensitive to checkraises and will call "just to see the turn" and some will see it as immense strength and fold most of their range whereas they could've barreled three streets with nothing otherwise.

It's a pretty good hand to be with in this spot, despite it being a 3-way pot. If you're asking if it's better to try and force a HU situation with higher FD equity realization or to go 3-way and realize the equity by your opponents blocking each other ranges + your own hand connectedness ("straightness"), I in general prefer the second case. PLO is more the game of straights than anything else, so a hand like AhKs2h6s is generally going to have worse playability than for example JdTd9s8h.

Everyone knows heart suits are the strongest.

I would check-call this river. If we bet we're never getting paid by worse.
From a GTO perspective, we're blocking his combo draws like QJTxhh and unblocking all the high pairs/sets, so even though we obviously don't block Ah, if he bets we still probably have to call it off.

Calling on the flop seems a bit rough, If our opponent has high cbet frequency I'd prefer to checkraise this, we block a big part of his continuation range, and then we can also barrel a lot of non-heart turns.

Review their own hand history, work on the interesting spots with PokerJuice, do some MonkeySolver and PIOCalc sims to refine the strategy and in general just talk about hands with the other high stakes pros.

That's not a high rake at all, and it definitely incentivizes to play bigger pots so not playing limping strategy OTB seems reasonable. What's the site?