Semen

Your videos are the best and I am learning so much from you. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Put some more effort in this if you are going to do it. Please!

Thank you for the video! Is Lucid GTO good for tournamentpoker too?

What a weird (almost aggressive) reaction from you!?. Of course you are allowed to ask me stuff. I was just curious and therefore I asked. Thank you for your answer!

I am since yesterday no longer a subscriber at RIO and will probably not hang around in this community that often from now on.

Good luck at the tables!

No I am not. Why do you ask that?

Disharmonist. No one has claimed that it is illegal or similar to hide your winnings/losses from public If you are a poker instructor it may be weird to do so though. If it is wrong or not does not matter in this case. Apparently it was never Galfond´s meaning to do so.

Do you know a better way to find out how well a player is doing at certain stakes other than to draw conclusions from his recent years results?

How often is "barreling often enough?" To me it seems like he should check those k6o type hands and weak straight draws much more often than to barrel with them on this turn. This because he has very low fold equity and also because he is risking to make his turn betting range too weak if he bets that wide more often than not.

How did you come up with the button´s range? Player pool reads? If so, from which player pool?

Well, then I am probably wrong and you are right.

I believe that standard play at nl 200 (as in the example) is to call narrower than 40-44 percent vs a 2, 5 x open. I believe only the top players in the pool calls wide enough.

I do not agree with the "standard opinion" that flops like this these days are better for the standard button´s range than for the standard bb:s range. I would not recommend anyone to care about my view though, because I seem to disagree with you guys about a lot of stuff when it comes to poker.

My avatar is a quote from buddhism. Our world would be such a better place if we all would have a buddhist approach to life.

Thank you for the answer!

I agree with you that we can learn a lot from Phil´s videos. I have never claimed anything else.

1) He has asked highstakesdb to show his results again.
2) He won all of his money when Guy Lalibert donated more than 25 millions USD to the highstakes community. Since April 2009 he has lost about a million USD according to highstakes.db.
3) I agree he is a good coach but that he no longer is a winner in the big games. His results shows that.

Randa. It is 8 inches long and 5, 5 inches thick. I hope that makes me the winner of the contest.

Listen guys. There is not need for the well known "RIO crucifixion" now. There is nothing more to add. The community does not like my view about the value in doing CREVS and you dislike my view about Sulsky doing CREV videos even more. I got it! Ok? Let us just move on now.

Ben Sulsky. It may be so that in many models a small imprecision in the input will not affect the output very much. My claim however...is that the imprecision when doing a model from preflop to river 9 times out of 10 at some stage in the hand will be big. I also claim that even a small imprecision in the input will affect the output much in many cases. It may be so that we have different opinions of what is a small imprecision though.

I have to admit that I did not watch your video. This because I find CREV videos to be uninteresting. I will however have a look now, since you claim to have proven something.

Peace!

Ben Sulsky. Stop being such a child anytime someone "dares" to criticize something you say or do in your videos. I have seen you overreacting several times in the comments sections of your videos now.

Just relax, and remember that you can not feel happiness at the same time as you feel those negative feelings. It is just poker son!

I agree with Sulsky. It is important though, that you make sure that you feel lucky enough so that your wild guess about this unknown villain´s preflop range will end up correct. This is important because If you guess wrong, your model is worthless.

If you do not feel lucky enough, you could instead give villain a range that he SHOULD be playing and work from there.

Samu Patronen. You do not seem to understand. But I will just leave it at that. Do not want to clutter this thread with of topic stuff.

Samu Patronen. I have not "completely missed the idea of doing these kinds of simulations" I just have a different opinion than you about the value in doing them from preflop to river based on "reads" or assumptions because I believe that we 99 times out 100 do not have good enough read. When being at the table it does not matter if you have practiced by doing a 1000 sims if you do not know what range villain is playing. Sure sometimes we have a good read, but not about exact ranges but instead about if a villain has an unbalanced frequenzee, weak range or similar. That is a big different from knowing the hands in his range. Players call too wide pre, c bet too often, fold too often, barrel too often and so on...with different ranges.

It is sooo easy to manipulate ranges and as Sklansky wrote "when opponent is making a mistake you gain" (or similar). This means that all I have to do is to take a "non standard" line or to deviate from my own "standard play", and you will make a big mistake. I could for instance just decide to open tighter than normal pre or play draws more aggressive post a third of the sessions I play and all of a sudden all of your stats and reads are no longer reliable. I just have to mix up my game a little bit and all of your stats and reads are useless (and the results of your sims). Only the biggest masstabling fishes plays the same all the time.

I also believe that when not having a perfect read, doing a sim from pre flop all the way to river, it is much better to do so based on how our opponent SHOULD play instead of guessing his ranges. If Sauce had done so I would find this video more helpful because then we would get an idea of how one of the best players in the world thinks a GTO range looks like in certain spots.

Sure, since he made a model for a couple of strats this CREV video was more useful than normal. I still believe it is a waste of his talent as a pokerinstructor though. Everybody can do a sim.

The only difficult aspect with doing a sim from preflop all the way to river is to know what ranges to give the villlain, and if if you ask 5 different people to do a sim from preflop you will get 5 different results.The person with the best read will get closest to the truth. The problem is however, that we have no clue about if a person has a good enough read or not. I believe for instance that Sauce is not enough in touch with today´s NL games so that he will be most qualified person to create ranges for NL lower stakes players.

I just believe that we very often do not have enough knowledge about villian´s ranges and frequenzees to draw reliable conclusions from preflop all the way to the river. At river when having more info to work with yes, but not from preflop.

I think CREV videos are a waste of Ben´s awsome
talent. I like theory videos or live play much better. But I seem to be the only one that doubt these models (I believe that we when doing a sim from preflop to river almost never have good enough understanding of villain´s ranges for a sim to be reliable) so it does not matter what I think.

Yes, live he probably still is the best. I believe he was best online too for a quite some time. At least he won most money for a while and I do not think you could measure someones skill better than by looking at their results.

Thank you for the tip randa. That was however not what I asked about. My question was if somebody knew why he has asked highstakes.db to keep his winnings/losses a secret.

I was thinking that he maybe already had answered this question somewhere earlier.

I can see now that he has asked highstakes.db to show his results again. Apparently he has had a 6 year breakeven stretch since the cirque de solei guy donated all the money to the highstakes community.

Galfond has a great pokermind, this shows us how difficult it has become to beat this game the last years. There are new generations taking over, even the legend Ivey seems to be a losing player at nosebleeds these days.

I guess he feels that his results are not good enough. He is a pokerinstructor and would therefore probably not hide them if they were good. He is a very good instructor anyway though.

Semen? Nice!

Thank"s! It is a Norwegian name. My son is called Semen. It is funny because many Americans seems to like it. Maybe it sounds exotic or something?

I believe you should have a raising range on this flop both in a vaccum and also vs this player if he opens and c bets this wide. I also believe that this hand would have been perfect to use as a check raise on flop because of the overcards to the 4 and the backdoor draw possibilities.

Yea, obviously he does not want that. I am just curious about why he has changed his mind about it.