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Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the video. Appreciate your analysis, always.

at 43:15 You say: "Dry board; my strategy is quite simple, to cbet range for a small size". (LJ vs BB on K53r)

How much can I generalize this strategy/statement? Are you always cbetting range for a small size, for all stacks, on all dry boards, HU IP? If not what are the main exceptions?

Cheers,
Jorryt

Great vid, thanks Daniel!

Great video! Thanks

Great video and very interesting topic! Quick question about a remark you made when deciding what to do in one of the practice spots:

30:15: "We are not going to use a very large bet sizing due to the board being very dynamic".

As a heuristic for sizing: I am sizing up currently for more dynamic boards and size down for more static boards. Am I missing something here?

Cheers!

Hi Saulo,

Thanks for the great content!

I have a question about some pre-flop folds you made. Are these folds pure/clear folds?

BUvsEP 87s
SBvsBU 44
LJ K7s
CO 33
LJ 44

Cheers!

Hi Daniel,

With no AA/KK/AK traps in Jasons range and your range only having made a slight adjustment to FI, what are your thoughts about these ranges potentially being too vulnerable against squeezes due to ICM?

Also, thanks for the great video! would love to see more of this.

Cheers!

Hi Tyler,

Great vid! thanks.

at 30:50 we cold4b AKs to 37BB. You already say that it is probably a little bit big. My question is: isn't it really way to big and what do you think about making it much smaller?

If we would 4b small, say to ~25BB;

A) we are not committing 100BB to the BU.
B) we can 4b wider and add bluffs / some mergy value.
C) sure the SB gets very good odds but I would argue play becomes much more difficult for him. Especially because of the deeper stack size vs him.
D) play would also become (slightly) more difficult for the BU opener.

What do you think?

Cheers!

With JJ/QQ, aren't we blocking the continues that would continue versus a small bet (Q/Jh) peels)? And aren't we unblocking continues that would call a big bet (A/Kh mostly).

Another way of looking at it: when comparing AQ versus JJ, the AQ seems to blocking more (important) continues but bets bigger. If blocking continue range is the main driver, should we not bet AQ smaller than JJ?

Am I missing something?

Thanks much, cheers!

Hi Lucas,

Thanks for the vid! I have one question:

At 3:00 PIO shows how it wants to CB on the 888 board:

AK and AQ hands want to bet bigger for value on multiple streets, this makes sense, just like you said.

But why would we not want to bet JJ/QQ bigger sizing as well? These hands can even expect more value since we unblock the main hands that are calling (Ah/Kh).

The only reason that I could come up with is that these hands prefer a smaller sizing to entice T9/97 type hands to stay in the pot? What do you think?

Thanks!

Hi Sam,

Great video, thanks!

You use the term "card matching", I am not familiar with this term. I assume what you are doing is a method to quickly find similar hand (bluffs) to match your value hands.

Do I understand this correctly and could you elaborate a bit on this? Are you thinking combinatorially for instance?

Cheers!

Hi Tommy,

I am really intrigued by your opening video and I have a question.

I recently bought a book on tidying. I would normally not buy books on tidying but this was a book about mastery. The author, Marie Kondo is a Japanese lady and has mastered 'the art of tidying'’. Her number one principle is to discard everything and anything that does not make you happy.

I applied her method and it has reaped numerous advantages for me. I found it quite easy to 'surrender to the master' when it came to tidying. One of the reasons that made it easy was that the possible cost / worst case scenario wasn'’t very bad. I have been applying this technique in several areas of my life and have found it to be greatly beneficial.

Up to this point I have some skepticism applying this technique to poker though. The main grounds for this skepticism come from the following idea:

Sometimes optimizing growth requires doing things that does not make a person very happy. For poker players it could be something like introducing the habit of studying instead of just playing. It can be tough at first, not fun, a player can be very resistant. A lot of time due to fears and or low confidence. This player may be convinced and try to rationalize that the studying does not make him happy. And this might result in not doing the right thing (breaking through fears, becoming a better poker player).

What are your thoughts on this?

Thanks so much,
Jorryt

Hi Tom,

I've got a question about the required equity formula. Given that your SPR is smaller then 1.0, thus potsize is bigger then your stacksize, I get negative results at certain fold-equities. This happens because you substract a bigger number from your stack then your actual stack. FE*Pot/1-FE gets bigger then stack if SPR goes below 1.0, thus your subtracting a bigger number from stacksize. Am I missing something?