MCFace

Hi Luke, long-time listener, first-time caller. I've been watching your videos from the start am up to your "How I poker in 2024" video but thought I would write here instead. You mention that poker is not dead. As someone who has played very little NLH and never made an account on GG, I was wondering if you could go into the landscape of online poker a bit more. I've heard that the rake is very high, but that there is decent rakeback. What kind of winrate is required in your opinion? (Before rake is taken)

Perhaps it's a faux-pas to ask, but would you mind sharing some results/graphs? I know some other coaches do so from time to time. I'm very concerned about the high rake and GTOWizard situation and am not sure if it's even worth getting into the NLH online scene. I am very curious to know how someone like you (who appears to be doing practically everything and has the EV decisions almost completely down pat and is mostly just concerned about frequencies at this point) is doing in a high-rake, competitive environment. Do you play on Ignition or ACR or anything else besides Stars and GG?

Apologies if this line of questioning is intrusive. I just honestly have no idea what high stakes grinders are making and even a sample of one would very helpful.

Where in the MonkerSolver settings did you input the ICM prize pool?

I think K8 should be a check since you're blocking his calling range as you said. When deciding which other 8s to bet you basically have to weigh the protection value betting the lower 8s like 87 vs the freerolling value of betting the higher 8s like Q8 against opponents 8s like 86. I'm not sure which is more important. You could do the math or pio it. One other minor importance is to consider that he is more like to check back higher cards on the flop than lower ones so if the borderline somehow fell on betting Q8 or J8, both have overcards for freerolling but J8 would be a better bet since it requires more protection.

I think this guy is getting too much negative feedback. He may not be an amazing video maker, but more importantly, you are getting a video from an elite player. I would rather see a video of his in complete silence than a very well done video from a mediocre player. Just be happy that a guy who crushes high stakes Stars games is giving you videos of him playing.

Great video!

At 22:48 You say something along the lines of, "If you're playing a tough opponent who realizes you're always checking back JT on this board texture, we will need to add some combination of JT to bet" Does this actually occur in games? I'm pretty new to NL, but I've heard this sort of thing in a bunch of videos so far and am always left wondering if my opponents have some sort of program that tells them that I always do such and such with such and such hands. I know HUDs will tell you how often you're betting in 3b pots OOP, IP, single raised, etc but are my opponents actually thinking to themselves, "I know he never has JT here based on 9 samples where he always checked his JT on LLL board."

At the start, you said that you play SNGs. Could you please make a video for this, if allowed?

At 35:00 you open 83s on the button where the blinds appear reggish. Is that your standard play? I've noticed you fold A2o in this spot before so I'm surprised to see that you prefer 83s.