Zhino

Very good video, I really like the way you explain things, the info you share it's really helpful!

Thank you for the insightful answer, very enlightening...

Short stacked and deep stacked, but especially deep, I'm interested to know if and how to adjust for the fact that, we are now forced to risk more chips out of position per orbit. Before, our 1BB worth of antes were put at risk distributed evenly over 9 or 10 hands and from all 9 or 10 positions. Now that we are forced to risk it all at once, on the BB, plus the BB itself, and since the BB is where we have the worst win rate, this would mean our win rate will now go down even more on the BB which, should have a more significant impact on our overall win rate unless adjustments are implemented. So should we be defending more from the BB since we are risking about 1.8 times more than before? And how does this affect BTN + CO opening ranges as well as SB steal vs BB?

Imagine playing a cash game where instead of playing 1-2, or 1-2 with traditional antes, We are now playing 1-4. As far as distribution of chips risked per position on any given hand, is there any reason to discredit this perspective?
Maybe I'm approaching this wrong, but it seems to me that strategies should now be at least partially designed based on a game where blinds are viewed more as 1 - 4, with no antes, instead of 1 - 2 + antes, since in practice, that's what it becomes, especially when short handed and the BB is still posting 9-10 player’s worth of "antes".
If we re playing heads up, the BTN posts 1chip and the BB posts 4chips ... If we're 3 handed, the BTN posts 0, the SB 1 and the BB 4, six handed same thing, 9 handed, etc... same concept applies.
If we approach this as a 1-4 game, our stacks size, might stay the same as per Harrington's “M” ratio (stack size ratio to total chips risked involuntarily per round), but in terms of what the Big Blind is risking (stack size as number of big blinds), our stack size ratio is reduced by half, and maybe our opening size should be based on what the BB is posting (4), effectively making a min raise 8, except we are now allowed to raise for less than double the BB which might be a good strategy IP? Personally I think strategies should be designed for a game which is somewhere in between a 1-2 with antes and a 1-4 game.

It's just an initial thought and would love to know if it actually makes any sense. I've only played one bb ante tourney so far and have not researched this much. But everything I have read and heard is “strategies should not be affected much unless short stacked”...

Thanks

Pablo B.

great series thx!

is it me or the sound
keeps intermitting there

Excellent video Iain, as always!

When you re trying to watch a whole series it can take a while to find the next eposiode if the series is buried deep in the chronological order as every time you go back to the main search (with the specific coach filtered) it takes you back to the most recent page. A series title filter would be great.
Also I know there isn't that many live poker videos, but the few that there are, are tough to search for, because typing live poker in the search finds all the live action online sessions.
deucescracked search filters are great.

Excellent video as always Iain!

Great video Iain, keep doing this kind of content!

Great vid!
I have a question about 2 hands
min 20:00 Ac8c why did you decide to raise OTF?
min 23:30 7d6d Isn't higher EV raising OTF on this texture?
I am a bit confused on these spots, in the first scenario we are pretty deep
are getting good odds to call and have some SDV. I'd rather call
in the second scenario we are pretty shallow and don't have SDV. I'd rather raise.
Correct Me If I'm Wrong please