MehhGoat
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These are interesting ideas to consider. I feel like they mostly apply to vanilla freeze-outs with a good structure, a dying breed of tournaments. Or would you use some of the same logic to a re-entry tournament?
I think one of the downsides of shaving the bottom value and bluffs off your 3-bet range to decrease variance is that the rest of your value range is having a harder time getting chips in against observant players. Especially if you show down AK in one of the spots you described. Now of course you can adjust by using that to start bluffing more, but I don't know if that makes up for not stacking QQ when you have AA because people are afraid to get it in against you..
Dec. 27, 2024 | 9:08 a.m.
Thanks for running it! Wouldn't have thought to range bet flop, but I guess he misses a bunch of the bottom defends that hit the board well and he has a lot of risk premium, so it makes sense.
Dec. 10, 2024 | 4:09 p.m.
Haha, I was thinking the same. There is still hope for us :D
Dec. 7, 2024 | 9:22 a.m.
K8hh in the SB @7:30
You say you want to play this spot aggressively. Usually, when I see equal stacks with high RP that are 30+bb deep I see a lot of limping. If it was under 20bb I could see a lot of jamming, but with these stacks, it feels kind of awkward to build a pot OOP. What makes this a good spot to play the SB aggressively?
Interesting to see that the JJ spot @13m doesn't have these committing 6bb 3-bets that the A7hh @7m does. Do you think that's because the opening range in the JJ spot has a bit more raise/folds since he jams more of the middle? Or maybe because we can now jam more liberally because we aren't as deep with the big blind?
Dec. 7, 2024 | 9:22 a.m.
It is the spot at ~29m.
Another quick question: How good do you think the post-flop solves from HRC are? I've heard that Simple 3-way needs a strong PC and I don't want to learn a new program with GTO Wizard multiway on the horizon. Maybe HRC is a good way to tackle some of the low hanging fruit.
Dec. 7, 2024 | 8:48 a.m.
With the QJo at 16:00 my intuition was that we would bet the turn around pot with a very polar range. Because the flop checked through we are unlikely to get stacks in by the river, even with a bigger bet. Our hand also blocks our opponents QQ and JJ, so it doesn't get raised much.
On the flop it makes more sense to use smaller bets because if we start betting big we end up with a jam on the river and we are not incentivised to get stacks in. So I was thinking that a big bet is not that risky in this turn spot and we can put a lot of pressure on marginal hands that would comfortably call a 50% bet.
edit: loved the node locks on the JTs hand vs 12bb stack min-open, good to see!
Dec. 5, 2024 | 9:38 p.m.
I very much enjoy these replay videos with solver solutions to check optimal play.
I was a bit surprised we get to back jam so much in the 88 spot. I think in my pools people won't squeeze enough, but good to know what to do against an aggressive opponent.
Do you think this strategy is caused by the big squeeze size or would you play the same against an 8bb/9bb sqz?
Dec. 5, 2024 | 6:15 p.m.
I recently picked up poker again after not playing for a few years. A lot has happened and I think one of the quickest ways for me to improve is to learn newly discovered concepts and ways to study from people that have put in the hours. Both the course and the Elite videos seem good for this and I'm looking for the best starting point out of the two.
The membership comes with the benefit of community. It would be great if I can find a study group with players that are consistently putting in 20+ hours of study a week and are willing to share their findings to combine efforts to improve. Are there active MTT study groups that fit this description?
Another benefit of a membership may be the variety of perspectives because there are a bigger number of coaches. I'm really looking to build my own strategy and therefore it's important to get as much variety as possible so I can explore different strategies in solvers and find the ones that are a good fit for my style and work well against the population. I see the Pads course also has a few different coaches and I know his strategy is a mix of his own style and the stuff he has learned from other bitB coaches, so maybe having fewer coaches isn't that much of a downside.
A huge benefit of the course could be the structure. It's easy to watch videos on all kind of topics and not really go to deep into individual topics enough, so studying spots step by step can be helpful.
Any thoughts from people who have both a membership and bought the course? Thanks in advance :)
Hi Alex, first of all, great series :)
I have a question about the open size when shorter in PKOs: do we size up in all line-ups or mainly when there are covering stacks in the spots that will call us the most, so BTN/SB/BB, or is it your default size when most players cover you?
I haven't done much sizing checks for PKOs, so very curious what your findings are. IIRC you didn't talk about this much in the course, so I thought I'd ask you here if that's okay.
Dec. 31, 2024 | 10:46 a.m.