The Joker

3:15 would you check some KQ here at some frequency? maybe your KQs bdfd? I guess we are betting for value/protection but I felt like we should be checking more than betting given he has more 8x and we have more Ax. thoughts?

Your game is solid, props!

Something I want to add up and I feel it's important to mention. When you're talking about going with your gut or your feeling depending on whether he is strong or weak, I feel like this is an important thing to do. I have read a book about body language recently and it mentions the fact that sometimes your gut with tell you that something is wrong about someone (ie, he's lying) but you can't tell why you are feeling this way. That is actually your unconscious mind processing the information about the other person, without your conscious mind realizing or understanding why you feel this way. So you feel it but you don't have the knowledge to explain why you feel that way. I like this hypothesis a lot! The book is: The definitive book of body language.

I'm not sure I will be able to express myself accurately but I will try. Hand JTvsT9 44-45min, you mention that you both made a big mistake where you bet a hand that you should only bet 5% of the time and he snap folds a hand he should call 100% of the time. Am i correct to assume that you betting too much is much more of a mistake than him folding where he should never fold. What I'm trying to say is your action should be GTO, and his reaction to this GTO play should be GTO. But since you made a mistake or let's assume Polk can assess that you're not GTO in this spot, his fold is not necessarily a mistake whereas your bet is.

What I'm trying to say is Polk is probably aware that T9o is never a fold in this spot which makes me think he picked up something on your play to make that fold given it's a call 100% of the time. It's much different from a 70-30 (call-fold) spot where he chooses to fold.

I Wonder how complicated it would be for RIO to add a timeline in each videos (suggestion). I find for my part that those unrelated aspects are very interesting, i definately understand that it might not be the place for it but can't stress enough how real life and poker are related in many ways.

Feels like I just attended a great TED talk

58:15 KJo, sound analysis, cant agree more, would have played the same

Hopefully phil can comment on my thoughts as well. I feel much more like vick is protection raising here hands like 77-88 (since A9s is assumed to be a fold here, which i agree). It does not seems like vick is willing to commit his entire chip stack and hopefully this play will shut down UTG, giving him a free showdown. Given this assumption, i really really love pads play even if I feel like it's a stretch. FWIW, pretty sure vick folds a brick turn, and any overcards to the 9 leaving him with a 2 outer (similar to having 88-77 here that cant fold flop to min 3bet either)

(just realised pleno1 is pads after commenting)

39:00 A6 what would sauce x/r OTF here. I feel like we could potentially call his flop raise if his range contains enough gutshot type hands and we can assume he doesnt x/r many Kx. what are your thoughts on this?

41:00 QT fyi i'd play it the same way, inducing shoves from weaker and always getting called by better anyways. plays well post

That would be my standard as well. However if you dont expect any of the 15-22bigs stack to rejam wide (that would be to assume you have a passive table), I think its fine to mr and call the 10bb stack. If you end up folding vs the 10BB stack, your better off not opening.

Hey Sam i'm sorry for not giving you credit for what do you well, so here's that.

What I am looking for (but maybe it's just some kind of work I should keep doing on my own and not expect to see on videos since it might be too pinpoint) is:

9:15 when you mention that villain mr/call is too loose. what seems to be a trivial situation is not actually since i disagree with the statement. I feel like if you accept the fact that you will mr 76s in that spot, its probably to call off the 12BB stack (pretty sure you have the correct odds to mr/call vs 22+ and couple of broadways and Ax, thats assuming your rejam range, sadly i didnt run the numbers) If on the other hand, you decide to mr/fold 76s given reshove stacks behind, i'm pretty sure you can find better blocker hands to mr/fold in this spot than 76s.

That might be too precise, not sure what I need to expect from videos in general. Thanks for the open mind! :)

it's such a pain. BUT, works your patience and listening skills very well. People are too stressed and in a hurry, take the time to enjoy what has been brought up to you.

I feel the opposite. Like he said in his video, he does the simulation while recording the video. I don't feel like you put that much effort in understanding what you show in the video. It seems like you expect to figure out what you are going to say on the spot. Again, that's just my feeling, coming from someone somewhat experienced in the MTT world.

Thanks for the nice video and congrats for the 7 figure win!! #savage

very well structured thought process. love your vids

By all parties he obviously means him (money) and us (the consumer of his product) by improving our skill at beating the game.

Allow me to jump in on that one. I would assume our first assumption, to check/call one street or check/fold, was flawed in certain situation. In the example Daniel goes through during the video, there is a lot of merit to bet bottom pair type hands on this board.

1: As he explained in the video, you get to make villain fold hands like KJ that have good EV vs your bottom pair (in a situation where it would presumably check through, thus letting him realise his equity with 2 overs)

2: Although you block what you might think is the bottom of his range, you also block the strongest part of his range, two pairs and sets. And in this situation, you will often turn a gutshot or open ended straight draw allowing you to barrell off you bottom pair with decent equity.

Hope this helps

confirmed well received

pretty sure he mentionned villain doesnt have 54s in his range thus blocking 88 is better then blocking the nut straight

28:30 What do you think of his turn bet w Q9s, dont you think he will need to bet/fold often OTT making it a bad bet? Also you mention he has hands like AJo OTT, but I highly doubt he uses this line with this type of hand.

Instinctively, I'd guess BTN has more high equity hands than BB on a shallow stack, making high cbet freq good and tough to defend against oop

just dropping by to see what Krab as to say about that one

found it interesting here as well

14:50 not sure if TomasQ is a strong player but the fact that he didnt make an attractive bet sizing on the flop to shove the turn makes me think he is weighted towards bluff. My thinking is, he would have thought on the flop about a better sizing to shove turn for 75% pot, something more realistic. Now, he's betting over pot and expects us to get out of line and call wide ish, I doubt that. Can't blame you for the fold, as I would have done probably the same thing.

Hey John!

10:30 w J9s, villain is probably open jamming A9-A2 given stack distribution. Also, I dont see a merit in mr/call KJ/KTo again for the same reason. i'd expect his mr range to be "tighter" in terms of number of combos, given he can shove so liberally.

I'm expecting to see something like, 77+ and AT for value. and probably mr all hands that contain a Broadway as mr/fold, ie Q5o. expecting him to be able to shove almost all suited hands, but didnt ran the number since i don't have the HH.

Let me know what you think :)

I don't agree, but you know, it's all a matter of opinions

you missed the entire point of the video :P rewatch it now!

39:14 villain having the Ah, would you be more tempted to keep this AQ combo in his calling range on the flop or is this always a standard way to play this combo for villain? ty

20min, if somehow you get there with some bluffs and i'm thinking also about your value range(which you mentionned is pretty faceup), I think your river sizing should be something like 35k

On a same note, villain decided to hero with both, straight and flush draw blockers, thoughts on that? He probably should fold 77hx and maybe 99 is closer.