JohnCarter100

hi tom

i had a q in an old vid of yours (calculating ev). you couldnt do us a huge fave and have a look at it

tho i may try and watch this vid soon so may have some q's related to this 1 :)

Hi Tom (I hope you're still reading these comments)

I had a query relating to equity. Take hand 2 for example with 59% equity with wrap and FD. How do you calculate in game what your equity is (/more importantly, what the most +EV play is)?

Obv out of game with the hands face up it's easy to see but with hidden holecards how do you know?

Thanks

EDIT: Is the investment limit useful/relavent to HU pots? Is it possible for you to give me a good example for a HU situation?
 

+1

Put me down to make this in mid-2016 :)

I have a few ideas that I think would work well.

There are LOTS of 6max vids being released at the mo. Not so many HU.

Its always beneficial to hear another perspective.

When are we getting a Marshall HU live play vid (any stakes)?

Come on, don't leave us hanging brah!

Thank you for the advice on SNE Mark.

I haven't planned it out very well, and it is still early in the year but if you were to make a video/series on SNE, I think people would want to see it.

If that's not even a consideration, I'd love to find out more about your set up. Chair, mouse/controller, ninja etc. Any thing else that's important?

hey mark

you mentioned SNE. I'm considering going for it sometime soon. i was wondering if you could break down how many hours/hands per month you plan on playing to reach it. are you 3 tabling $2/5 zoom to reach it or is it only for the video?

i know these are obvious questions but i've only just thought about going for it again.

do you have any other obvious tips on the goal for sne (not specifically strategy wise)?

hey ben

v quick 1: i was think about your match with wcg last night (sorry, i'm sure you dont want to be reminded of it too often :) )

now i remember after losing to jungle in the final of the all star showdown you thought the reason for the loss was a combination of mental tiredness and the cards going against you (if i remember correctly).

in this recent big match, do you feel you got v outplayed, slightly outplayed or another reason?

cheers

Thanks. That's kind of what I was getting at.

Although I was aware of the play more hands and increased dead money factor, I wasn't thinking about the 1st example you made (where you placed an individual decision (opening 67s UTG) in the context of a 100 (or 1,000,000) hands, which is far different at these tables than it would be in a non-ante game).

Some tips/advice/links about how ante's affect the game structure from a mathematical perspective.

Or do you not consider the ante when making decisions at the table? ie. you're playing the EXACT same way as if these were $0.5/$1 non-ante tables.

hey jonas/anyone

i'm trying to get my head around the effect of ante's in optimal blind play. well, just the maths behind ante's and how it affects strategies really.

a) is there any advice you can give? or hints on the subject?

b) do you know of any spreadsheet tables or resources with regard to the maths of ante's?

c) i know it creates more dead money in each pot, however you are paying more to play each orbit. what are the implications of this (in general and when it comes to frequencies)?

thanks

hey marshall, when's the next vid out?

would be happy to see hunl, plo, any 6max NL format slightly less due to their frequency all around. 

you make some of the most interesting vids on the 'net currently

well, wouldnt it be good if there was a program where you could simulate a player (lets say Phil 2009 for consistency ;) ) and put him in artificial game and watch him react to certain scenario's chosen by you. if you were a maths wiz you could do this whilst making calculations and see what implications this had for his entire strategy, and if you ever played against a similar player the counter-strategies you should develop from these calculations would be golden.

i suppose the closest you can do is watch training videos and use your imagination or actually play against some1 and do this ;) (but play money games against good players seem so much more attractive when your bankroll is <4 figures :) )

Thanks for the great reply Phil

Just to follow up on the last poster, do you think PLO is on its way out? I know NL has had a major resurgence at High STakes but just for my own career, as much as I'd like to learn both to a high level I need to choose 1 soon. So 5 years time, online and live, do you think the Plo landscape will be similar to now, or is there a chance it could shrink?

But my main point, and was a follow up to your 1. It's kind of to do with 2009 Phil and 2014 Phil (sorry to labour the comparison), and it's quite difficult for me to explain. But I'll try. And it comes in 2 parts: 

a) 2009 Phil had certain leaks in his game (according to 2014 Phil). Now as a result, when comparing each version of Phil that begs the question, if 2009 Phil was playing against an opponent with similar leaks would he have the awareness to spot them?

(The question only arises due to the possibility that he wouldnt/didnt) So at the same time, if it's not certain that 2009 Phil wouldnt spot these leaks in an opponent, then would you consider 2009 Phil as being capable of exploiting these leaks in an opponent who had them? Or was the strategy that you employed exploiting these leaks kind of unconsciously (I mean not unconsciously because that would imply some sort of intention I think) /kind of without you even considering them in an opponent?

b) Is that what 2014 Phil has that 2009 Phil didnt? An awareness of leaks in his and his opponents games, and an explicit strategy to exploit an opponent who had these leaks whilst minimising his own losses in the same situations.

The reason I ask part b), is due to the familiar comment that old training videos are not worthwhile anymore. IMO if there's a difference in 2009 and 2014 Phil's playing style and thought process then it's [Phil's entire back catalogue is] a treasure chest of information and ideas and implications waiting to be discovered and considered. Just from a narrator's perspective (and that's my English degree coming in). If you consider each poker training video as a kind of novella. Each version of Phil who's commentating as the narrator. And each piece of commentary and action as important to ... frequencies, strategies, whatever.

hey phil

i had a general enquiry which i hope you dont mind answering sometime

like, i was watching some old galfond vids recently (like VERY old) and it got me thinking about 2014 Phil to 2009 Phil. Now from my perspective (microstakes player with the intention of attempting to be v good at the game) 2009 Phil was an incredibly tough player. However, from your pov you might think you were terrible in comparison from then to now.

Now I cant currently see a great deal of difference in how you play 6max NL or PLO from then to now due to the skill level I currently have (although I realise as I improve, using 2x vids (1 from now, 1 from then) I should be able to differentiate between your playing style (and possibly your ability (and possibly your thought process))).

So what I'm asking is, is 2014 Phil a MUCH better player than 2009 Phil? What things do you KNOW or DO different now than you did then? And placing Phil in the context of the top players in 2009 and 2014, do you think you've improved at a faster, slower or as steady rate as the 'game' in that time frame? 

EDIT: The q I wanted to ask was (but forgot), where were Phil 2009's leaks IYO? Now if we assume you don't think Phil 2014 is the perfect player, do you still get the feeling like beginner players do, that every day you're a better player than the day before?

Thanks 

hey ben

what are the chances of us seeing some plo vids in 2014?