Xptboy

enjoyed it but would prefer if you could give some hand examples of spots where you think it's a good idea to deviate from GTO because they over/under bluff/value, etc

i prefer if you could talk through the hand and then immediately go into the solver rather than segregating the solver work into the end of the video.

hey thanks for the review!
9.30: Yes that AT92 hand where I donked on the mono Flop I thought I opened UTG :D
26.30: Main reason I herocalled was because of his bet sizings OTF and OTT. He bet 1/3 pot OTF and 1/2 pot OTT. I want to see him do that with AA on these drawy boards before folding these types of bluffcatchers to make sure he is balanced. I thought most players will bluff with these sizings but with value use larger sizings.

Maybe I should play less tables, but tbh I just enjoy challenging myself and playing as many tables as I can because I feel like if I do that then eventually I'll be able to play 4 tables of zoom with ease and full focus.

I'm wondering if you have any idea or a good estimate for 6max 5 card PLO standard deviation in terms of variance. I know NLHE is around 50-70 and 4 card PLO is roughly 125-145 but no clue what it is for 5 card.

Thank you for the great video. You got an amazing way of clearly expressing your thoughts on the hands and solver outputs!

Do you do nofap? :D

You’re not happy that you are still an essential coach and that others whom you perceive as weaker than you may be. You’re not happy with how much you are getting paid for the content you make. I emphathize with that. But this was not handled properlly, you can either quit coaching for RIO to stop dealing with this, or you can keep on coaching and paying your dues knowing that one day eventually you wil be rewarded. It just may not be as soon as you like and not as great a reward as you expect.

Love the toy games

unfortunate that a game with good potential has to be ruined by the high rake :(

Hehe 5 years later and we see just how far the bots were and how bad us humans were.

How often would you recommend others to check the graph?

Turn is an interesting situation. I'm not sure if betting for value/protection is best or checking is best. But my intuition would say to bet. Why? Because we hold the nut flush blocker, therefore meaning that we need to fear a XR much less often, and also we can use our hand as a great hand to call vs a XR as a bluffcatcher in such a case. The other benefit of betting would be to set our own price OTT, and not have to call a larger bet OTR.

So I believe I would bet OTT to still get value from some worse hands, to deny equity from some straight draws, and to make it simpler to play by not having to call a big bet OTR. But if I wanted to make such a bet I believe I could bet an even smaller size a bit smaller than halfpot. But I don't mind checking either and could see it as being the GTO way to play, but exploitatively vs such a weak field (and tbh even at higher stakes I'd prolly play same), I believe simply betting is best and easiest.

Anyways, OTR whether we checked or bet OTT, it's a clear valuebet.

lol how is river bet too thin. You got a FH, when there are flushes and straight on the board. Not only do you have a FH, you got a strong FH and can still get value from even worse FH! Losing tons of value by not betting here imo. Especially since OTT villain may not expect you to be betting with two pairs or sets, so can find more calls with flushes/straights. + They always always pay off with A4, 54, 64 which are worse FH)

When I don't check results I basically don't even know whether I'm up or down or at least without a clue as to how much. It means I can focus more on the actual gameplay, so I think trying to decrease how frequently you look at results helps. However it's hard to avoid seeing your results if you want to review hands in your database...

How do those pros who only check results once a month study their own hands?!

If you don't bet your aa here otf how will people give you credit when you bluff?

As played, river seems quite villain dependant. Check/decide as a standard seems ok.

not pushing much equity on the flop

I like the turn fold

Villain is clicking buttons. How can we try and explain his thought process?

Probably something like...

Preflop: I got AAK8hh, hmm I'll disguise my hand and not 4b because I don't want to be in a weird flop spot deep... Also my hand is just the nuts. Let's slowplay these AA and triple up!

Flop: OK, I got AA, a gutshot and block bottom set. Pretty good hand, but maybe I don't want to get the money in just yet.

Turn: hmm I wonder why everyone is checking through? I guess our AA are good.

River: OK board paired, perfect I'm going to valuebet these trips for pot. Who cares if we run into a flush or straight? We gotta have the best hand. Maybe some idiot will call with worse trips or a Q or KK or something random.

After the hand: Damn, that mofo had a fullhouse. How unlucky can I effin get!!!

Also, nice 3bet

That was his fun beating the micros challenge. He completed this exact same challenge of 100bi and 100z in july 2015. Thread here: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/54/poker-beats-brags-variance/plo-prop-bet-100bi-31-days-playing-plo100-zoom-1542906/

There's many hands that do fine calling OTB but not 3betting.

9975r is pretty bad and usually a fold for me. (well maybe not vs a CO, but prolly vs UTG/MP)
AJ76as is a nice hand to flat.
JT86ss is a flat or 3b for me villain dependant.

Sample size much too small. Get like a good 50k hands in.

But from what I see, tighten up significantly from EP and MP, CO looks good, BU is ok, can debatably open up a bit more.

Also your WTSD% is very high.

Losing money from sb and bb is normal although maybe you'd want to lose less than 50bb/100 from sb and 100bb/100 from bb.

Well played.

Don't like opening this hand from the sb with knowledge of that lagtard in the bb. Limping is fine if you must play the hand as you can afford a limp/call but you definitely cannot open and call the 3b.

Flop and turn play look fine. That donk lead River looks pretty bad, only folding hands you already beat and now you're in a tough spot. This is actually a very good bluff spot for him and I'm actually very tempted to call that raise... I'd prolly go for check/call line, check/fold is fine.

+1 vote for 5card plo

You may not be a highstakes player, but imo you deserve to be an elite coach rather than essential because of the great information you provide as well as the way in which you teach and make complicated concepts easy to understand. Very easy to comprehend and great videos from you. Your videos are a huge bargain for only essential members right now, and I'm sure elite members would also benefit.

Easy check back :) flush draws and backdoor straights got there, even AA got there if he was calling with that. He's not calling with worse

thx Ph33rox, how often do you update the blog usually?

Without reads, I think this isn't the best 3b spot pre only because this isn't the best hand against a 4b and the hand isn't all that connected either.

Flop looks good. Turn is just about figuring out the maths.

Against JKxx you got 30%, which is not enough to call off vs the raise.