MrWizard15

I prefer seeing many hands.

I find my retention to be extremely low if I’m not engaged.

What’s the topic on the big video?

4 min mark
K9K Flop. Ballz2222 didn’t bet K7 versus our J8 of hearts. You think he should bet ubiquitously.
Is this because K7 doesn’t block hands like JT, QT. QJ which have a gutshot? Should we be more likely to check KJ if we’re Ballz2222?

Question at 38 mins and 11 secs.

Why do you reckon the 96 combo is the three of a kind combo that highly prefers a small sizing from Pio? What is the theory going on here with the 9 kicker?

Hey Tyler, question about the hand at 14 seconds in the video (K6).
You mention that we want his queens to call bc we have a range advantage. Isn't this logic flawed? Sure, if we have a king we want him to call with a queen, but if we have a bluff, we'd like a fold by the river from a queen. Thus, we should be betting primarily according to our hand strength and NOT according to what we want him to call with. Am I correct?

This sort of implies that when a board is favorable for us, and villain has low fold equity, that if he double barrels, we can fold A LOT to the second barrel.

E.g. You raise CO. Villain 3 bets from BB. Flop is 986. He bets. Turn is a 4. We could probably fold a hand like JJ here, because he has to risk a lot, and had very little fold equity on the flop.

Am I correct?

You completely mispronounced "pourquoipapa" 's name. The name is french; it means "Why father?" And, is the name of a song by Louis Bérubé.

But, on another note! I have a general theory question for you Sauce!

If we don't have a lot of fold equity on a given board, should we generally elect to bet our strong hands or should we generally check our strong hands to protect our range?

How I see it...:
Poker is about getting money when we bet and they call with worst; when we bluff, and they fold; when they bet with the best of it, and we fold etc... so on that note it makes complete sense to get value from our strong hands as we will have a lot of action, especially from their vast "middling" range. On the other side, we have low fold equity, and we cannot bet too many bluffs profitably, and the board is likely favorable for our opponent, thus making sense that we mostly check our range for balance/protection.

What do you think?

Thanks!

Time stamp: 17:23.

Why don't we consider raising big with the J9.
Isn't this potentially our best bluff candidate given we block full houses?

Do you play with a Random Number Generator?

At 31 min, why is jacks with the flush draw blocker raised more than jacks WITHOUT the flush draw blocker?
We're the favorite versus a flush draw on the turn, so we certainly like it when he has the flush draw. What am I missing here?

More of a general question here...
In general, how do you pick your stronger hands that don't need protection to check (instead of bet) to defend your checking range?

Hey Elías!
Why are you more of a proponent to check-raise the last hand at 34:45, than the two other previous hands (31:50 and 33:40)?
Thank you!

The AT hand at the 10 min mark is a clear raise as a default play vs a strong opponent. You deny equity, and get a lot of value, and the opponent has a hard time playing well vs this strategy.

Hi Elìas,
What d'you think about betting strong hands when we have low fold equity? D'you think in general it's a good play or d'you advocate checking more to protect our bluffs? And, how does this change on the nature of the hand/board (ex: vulnerable vs not vulnerable hands // boards where many cards can come that are bad for us, etc...)

I don't understand why Mascarl's check on the flop in the last hand vs TuffShark was a particularly good check.

You mention "protection" all the time. Perhaps you should do a theory video to elaborate on this concept, and its importance.

And, it isn't 4+9 outs because you count the 3 of hearths twice. Something very fundamental.

Just make sure it's available for Canada!

I think this video was really too slow paced.

Hey!

What type of spots are you looking for to bet 144% of pot? D'you size 144% of pot on the flop/turn or river (which streets), and what conditions are you looking for (where in your range, board textures, range advantage, etc.)?

Now, let's say a 6 comes, we lead and he calls. We play accordingly. We will have very strong hands that want to bet very big, somewhat strong hands that want to bet rather small, hands that want to check down and bluffs. We can have as many sizings as we want, but I would go with checking, betting small and betting very big (even overbet-jamming). Of course we bet polarized on the river, it's the same situation as in Pio series 1 & 2 where we polarize our range on the turn. Hope that helps :)

In your next video, could you provide examples of this discussed Turn play. For instance, say the flop comes 632. I would be intereseted in knowing how you construct your turn ranges and their sizings for various turn cards (such as K, T, 7 etc).

I would also be very interested in learning more about check-calling ranges. When to have them, and how do you construct them.

Love the guitar at the start

Hey James!
Regarding the 1st hand, I'm not sure why we do not elect to check-back flop, and bet turn instead. I don't see his range as having too many showdown value hands that do not want to check-raise the flop. More specifically, I think Villain will play mainly in a check-raise or fold manner after checking the flop (I could see the appeal of check-calling AA/KK/QQ however and some AcXc type hands - although, we block all of those). I'm not expecting JJ/TT after a cold 4-bet, and these hands are very discounted (rightfully so?). Thus, by the turn, the J is a fine card as it given us 4 more outs. Also, assuming Villain is mostly polarized here - with some AA/KK AcXc type hands also -wouldn't it be preferable to use a smaller sizing of 1/3 pot or even 1/4 pot, and bet a range that is more polar (getting raised with AcKc seems really bad)?