Mark Anthony

Hi Tariq, nice video
On the KK hand where you hit a boat on the river vs BTN cold caller (first hand), what's your reasoning for pointing out that he gives up all of his bluffs on the river? Is it because 7 pairing makes it difficult to rep anything, or is there some other reason?

Although I get the general point of the video, which is that you can take how players view you into account to inform your exploitative plays, the way you frame it is incorrect from a theoretical standpoint, since:
- When making an exploitative play, you don't really need to do it only with the hands that were indifferent in equilibrium, say, against really bad players you could open 83o on the SB profitably while it wouldn't be anywhere close to indifferent in equilibrium.
- Your hands EV doesn't exist in a vaccuum, it depends on your whole range, therefor, if you could somehow input into a solver all of Villains tendencies, reactions to your image, etc... the maximally exploitative strategy that it would output would still have indifferent hands that it would mix, they would just be different hands than in equilibrium.

I think raise flop ain't amazing but I would raise turn