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Great video and great format. One of the better MTTs videos I've watched on RunItOnce.

When running the HRC sims, what CI target are you running to? I saw when you Node Locked and ran the Selected Subtree to CI 3. What about for the full tree?

Thanks!

one of the best videos. will you do part3 pls?

do you have an idea about how a smaller size could exploitatively be implemented where ranges are similarly inelastic to different sizings?

Good stuff Ben. My favorite liveplay series on RIO by far.

Entertaining vid Ben! Which hands at 37:40 would you have preferred to bluff with on 3624?

In the KK hand - what are "napkins" ? :D

sounds great! TG5 please :)

great video tyler and i really hope this will be a multipart series. your HH reviews are one of my favorite videos on RIO, especially as they are honset in the way of not only showing well played hands.

in the last hand where you say you have 8 combos of 97s Q9s - don't you have to discount some as turnraises or what does your turnraising range look like here?

Hi Nick,
interesting approach, excited to see more of that. A bit more content in a future video would be much appreciated.

Could you upload that tree please?

I see two problems regarding how you set yourself up to being exploited here.
1a) You said it is not easily to exploit if you only check your air - how is this true if you check only to fold?
1b) Also you open yourself up to heavy exploitation on the turn as your range becomes weak - check/fold there will be quite high. What is your plan on how to proceed on turns with such a wide range?

Something interesting happened to your range composition @ min 18. After you cut the overbet (which was effectively never used) the combos that use the small bet fell from 56 to 9 combos. How do you explain that and what does it tell us?

Thx

I have 2 value bets and 1 bluff and bet 1/2 pot, I'm going to win the pot 2.66 / 3 times or 88% of the pot against an optimal strategy

How do you get 2.66/3? Thanks

Hi Ben, I strongly vote for the hardcore analysis video type of you rather than live play. Always good to hear your thoughts in-game though.

Hi Daniel, very good content!
In the first hand you say a gutter here would less clean than vs a BU range and therefore you are more incentivised to check-raise QT because you cannot get stacks in if you hit if flatting <- this seems counterintuitive because you actually are building a pot with a gutter.
So why are you building a pot with a gutter if you think the gutter is not really clean?

In the first hand i saw that you are doing the same and include all nut combos on the river.
Am I right in drawing the conclusion, that you are effectively trading an EV maximising strategy (which includes raising F) versus a strategy that includes all your nutted hands to make it easier to construct ranges on later streets?

Hi Tyler, great video (as usual from you)!
In the second hand I was surprised to see you having all your nut hands in your turn range on the turn (sets, flopped 2p) - would you not raise some of them on the flop and hence the pio solution becomes less worthy?

This is highly interesting. You use your average equity of your valuebets to deduce the sizing?
How would such exploitability look like?
Would be great content for a future video! :)

Thanks for the further input guys.

The video turned out to be highly educative and of much more value than live play for me. +1 for doing solver videos instead of other formats.

Early in the video: What is alpha and how is it calculated?
Looking forward to finishing it now. Looks promising!

Excellent second part.
Would love to see something similar in the future of you.

Awesome video. Part2 would be highly appreciated

Thank you so much for your answers!
I hope you don't mind answering my follow up questions:

• Raising smaller with Antes in play:
  I agree with everything you said but obviously that way you incentivize Villain to defend way more as well because he gets a way better price plus is playing against a weaker range.
  I realize you give yourself quite a big edge playing postflop but I think winning 2.5bb uncontested (instead of 1.5bb) is huuuge and Villain must be quite bad postflop until that argument shifts towards wanting him to defend more. Those are good arguments for not making it too small aka minraising in my opinion.

• A5o:
  "I expect him to continue w a narrow range and that doesnt include pairs below T mb aside from 99".
  Could you please tell me the specific hands that are in his continuing range please? 99 and what else?

• A6o:
  Again I agree with all of your assumptions about what a cbet range normally looks like here.
  But he also must have called your turn bet after not having cbet the flop! So which hands do you think he does that with?

Nice debut video and much better than most of the MTT content out there.
Really cool that you take your time to analyze all hands on a deep level.
Good food for thought!

I have a few questions regarding some of your assumptions and statements:

5:55:
Can you explain why you think "with Ante you can be reducing" your sizing a little bit compared to your Non-ante sizing?

9:40:
Why do you think "All Week NOR" should fold all pocket pairs under the T?
What should his calling range look like then?

19:45:
You mention that you would defend 63o to the BU minraise (getting 4:1).
Do you really think you will be able to realize at least 70% with such a weak holding that flops horribly against a decently strong range that has the initiative?

23:25:
Not knowing that he has vulnerable middle pair with decent kicker in his check behind range and apparently has stationy tendencies (on turns and) rivers:
What do you think his range looks like that he gets to the river with this way (checking behind flop and calling your lead on that particular turn) that you feel comfortable valuebetting "any 9" here?

44:40:
You mention again that 63o should be an overcall for the BB because of the good odds he's getting.
Against a CO opening range and a standard SB flatting range that hand has 20-25% equity.
Same question as before: How do you plan on realizing around 70% of that equity?
I don't think the opponents need to "2x flops and turns" that often to deny you that equity.
The tendencies in MTTs are cbetting too much if anything so I doubt you will be seeing a lot of free turns and sometimes you even have to fold flop if you flop a pair.

Thank you in advance for answering my questions!