Runlikegod

Hi John, minute 19 97s:

if you say that you've seen a fair amount of weak x/r on this texture and his valuerange is pretty much 6 combos, given that potsize is already at 270$ shouldn't shoving show a pretty good profit in that situation? We have a somewhat static 18% equity vs sets and about 25% equity vs KJ!d, and assuming that we have a fair bit of foldequity shoving seems like a profitable option to me. Also there is the outside chance of him having 87s/43s and getting it in vs the shove and us winning at showdown/getting it in ahead :)

Curious what your view on this is, and keep up the great video content :)

27:30 Table 3 what's the reason for limp/folding instead of limp/calling the QT53ss? He must be a very frequent cbetter in that situation and our hand doesn't really flop that much dominated stuff, so I'm not sure about the fold on your end.

AA - how can we find out on ppt?

When I look into the big "checkback flop, call turn"-Range you gave him on Pokerjuice on the turn, I´m wondering how much of his check-back range you want to get to fold. Not a lot is my guess, and the hands you get to fold have not that much equity anyway against your hand. do you really want to get called on the turn, knowing that you have to play rivers OOP ?

I would not advise to check-raise the river. his value hands are certainly strong enough to call a check-raise. A check-raise is also somewhat suspicious because its so obvious that he doesn't have KK or JJ. Especially obvious for villain who has a high check back range (when he only folds 40% of the time on the turn). I think you get picked of a ton. And, from your way describing the hand, I think you`re certainly not balanced enough in this riverspot if you check raise.

Done, curious about the results of the study. GL with the graduation thesis!

Hello,

I liked the video a lot, was planning on asking for something like this from Phil in the request thread, ao perfect timing on the release.

There seems to have been some mixing up with the editing, maybe you should point out for your future videos that you want to have them edited at certain timestamps.

As for future videos I would be very interested in DB stuff (you had already mentioned RFs). I think SB FI strategies would also make for a very interesting vid, as you seem to be quite solid on the theory part.

About your remark for bluffing with the top of our c/f range. Although that is understandable from a theory perspective (blockers), the difficulty here lies in not overbluffing, because it is more difficult to find a threshold which hands to bluff and which not, whereas it is a bit easier if you start with your worst hands and then increase the amount of bluffs until you are close to equilibrium.

Could you also please elaborate a bit on the 0.36 number? Why is this the solution to our equation? Maybe I will finally grasp the concept of multi streets EQs...

Hi Phil,
great Vid as usual!

I have heard you advocate leads from BB on unpaired lowcard boards several times now (6-max). I do get the gist of it, however my problem is what it does to our checking range. There will hardly be a spot, where we want to lead range from the BB, considering how wide we defend. Thus our checking range becomes very weak, so that we can almost never defend vs heat from the PFA. Any thoughts on that?
Also do you then do not have a x/r-range OTF in these spots?

16:00 I believe you misread the action, turn went x/x so his range does change a fair bit. I wonder how people at these stakes react if you pot the river in that spot since this should be more or less a 0/1 game, but I believe people still don't defend very well here, despite having most KKxx I believe they will end up with Axxx or flushes somewhat often and are often hesitant calling the bet with anything but top of their range because people tend to give up these spots too often (as did you.)

It's a great series otherwise, a lot of interesting spots with in-depth commentary.

At around 10:00 u describe Donk Turn as betting into the PFA after it goes x/x OTF. This Stat is called Probe Turn in PT4 (funny that you talk about probing and people not knowing what a particular stat means right afer that).
Donk Turn means OTF you check, PFA C-Bets, you call and then lead out OTT.

Btw Call 3Bet and 3Bet Total are more or less useless statistics, as it is the total amount of 3Bets called/made on any street without paying attention to prior action. (Call 4Bet+ is the same obv).
Fold to PF 3Bet and Fold to PF 4Bet+ is also taking into account all situations when someone has raised, someone 3Bet and you folded, meaning you did not necessarily VPIP in this hand.
Call any PF Raise is also useless for the same reasons.
Several more things, like when you say that you run under expectation, whereas you run 2,84 BB/100 over EV (although in earlier tournament phases as it seems, where it is not that important) or the numbers you give that are supposed to be good or not good in certain situations, you do not metnion that All-in Adj BB/100 is mre important than BB/100...

Honestly you should remove this video and make a new one, I am less than halfway through with the video and these are really huge mistakes and totally misleading information.

First hand:

T high straight is included in range B in RD, since you have cumulative on, and 56+ will show all 2pairs or better not listed in range A.

A strategy video on PLO MTTs would be nice. Not a review, but something conceptual. Also taking into account that many PLO MTTs are 9handed and therefore going into detail about play from the EPs. Apotheosis immediately comes to mind as the guy who would be able to do a great job on this. Maybe in Co-op with Luc G. or Zach Freeman?

Any Chance you could explain the hud? Im very curious what "high" stakes PLO players put in there

@24 Minutes:
You say his call there with 88 is good. Is it really that good.Vs a range of:
AA-TT,AxKx,AxTx,Ax4x-Ax2x,AxKy,AxTy,KxQx-Kx9x,Kx3x,KxTy,QxTx,QxJy,QxTy,JxTx,JxTy,Tx9y,Tx9x-Tx7x,7x6x,55,Ah9h-Ah6h,Kh8h-Kh2h,QhJh,Qh9h-Qh5h,Jh9h-Jh6h,9h8h-9h6h,8h7h,8h6h

we have an equity of 27,5%. He is getting odds of 28% to call. So it is quite clos actually. If he had an 8h it should be a fold and much rather a call with 5x.

Great video Kevin, looking forward to the future parts.

Could you elaborate on your cbet sizing choise on the middling connected flops (98x,97x), I assume you did some sims prior to the match which showed that this sizing benefits your particular strategy for cbetting those boards the most?

can we put Q4s in crT Range? I assume (atleast that would be my 0815 strategy) we are not c/r the Flop a lot (especially against that sizing), so we can take a couple of strong hands into a cc cr range to "protect" our looser floats.

26:02 T8

I don't like the 3bet on the River, as u said he has not many bluffs in his Range, u also said that he can have hands like K4 and K7 (which u can fold out) + some bluffs. You are saying that 3bet>call>fold. Which is maybe true; but i think you have other hands which gain more ev by bluffing. And if you start 3betting too much, Villain can easily exploit this and you raise would be now -ev. Furthermore I think you want to have some blockers to his flushes.

And the 2nd thing; you mentioned that you want to bet because you have so many bluffs. I think you should use different sizings on this River; because Villains Range is kinda "capped" (5 flushes or sth) you can overbet with like 2pair, flush, bluffs and 1/2 bet with hands like T8 and some strong flushes (to protect this range).

hi. where is the rest of the tournament? does part 7 come?

dont understand the pot odds colunm in the end. if my opponent bets 1/2 pot, i get 3:1 odds. so i must be ahead 25% to call. i am totally confused now. never thought about a range that beats a bluff. just if i am ahead 1 time in 4. dont understand this concept at all. and why its 33% and 66%.

cant remember any interesting hand or situation. so i must agree to all decisions bc i'd remember if i did not like something.
i just was annoyed by the chatstuff, laughing etc. this was distracting and not even funny.
if u wanna make a fun vid with jono crute, feel free. but plz not in a mtt series.
you could have talked about other stuff when u weren't involved in a hand.
other players, game flow, general concepts. etc. like it was the case in vid nr 6 with phil galfond. i wish every vid had been with him. its always balsam and enlightening listening to him. there was so much more helpful information in vid 6 compared to this vid.

agree. this vid was total crap. laughing all the time... not a single strategy/hand discussion which is helpful
i wanna learn something and not discuss the chat or other bullshit which is not even funny
u get $ for it and i pay $. i expect more seriousness!

nice explanation! looking forward to more content from you.

That was the only Hand I did not quite agree with your reasoning. Pre obv is fine. Dont think cbetting J2hh on this dry Board is that necessary. Yes we will fold out some of his Equity but we end up cbetting a big part of our range(everything that is weaker than J2) and will have to give up on many Turns. Which brings us to the 2nbarrel. Yes there is a bd fd possible and 9T KT K9 are possible bluffs too but we want some Hands in our check back range that we can call a river bet with. Dont think cbetting pockets and bluffcatching river will be enough so Jx seems a good hand to add to the check back turn range.

Were you seated on Table 12 at the end of the room?

What settings are you guys using? Just downloaded it and entered my location, not sure tho if I am using it right :)

at min ~7.20 you cold4bet A543ds. vs. a small 3bet. You flopped the low flush. How do you approach this hand? Do you always Cbet on that type of flop? What do you do vs. a push with your hand? And how do you play your hand on the turn if he would just called on the flop?

He actually has a 93-20% range there as he is 3betting some over my sample, although I can't tell how much and how linear he is 3betting against me as we don't have much of a history in this spot.

I'm actually quite bad in doing math calculations with PPT but will try to do my best and make it in the next few days. Thanks everybody for your comments and input, really appreciate it :)

Hey,

thanks for your comment.

About c/r turn: I also considered it during the hand, but then wasn't really happy to make it 65ish and maybe isolating myself against straights and also being in some ugly spots OTR when I don't improve as I didn't have a real gameplan for that riverspot. Also not having a straightblocker in my hand made me less willing to be c/r this spot, I think KK97 I would much rather have in my c/r range.

What line OTT would you actually prefer having the given infos?