bkice11
8 points
I also don't understand your comment at 25:30 about it being a large mistake to fold the turn if you had a spade in your hand on the Ts8h6s7d board. Can you explain why having a spade in your hand makes a meaningful difference to your turn decision?
May 30, 2019 | 11:11 p.m.
please do!
April 11, 2018 | 7:01 a.m.
I'm having trouble intuitively understanding why PIO wants us to check-raise every 76o combo, 2/3rds of our 76s combos, but then 0% of out 75s combos. This is to protect our range?
following up on how PIO wants us to c-r Kx7d while flat Kd7x, this is because villain is cbetting Kd[ ] at a higher frequency than Kno diamond[ ] so when we have the Kd in our hand we're facing a stronger cbet range?
Also noticed that for your preflop range in the same hand you included AJs and KQs as calls - are you shoving those some % of the time? or pure flats for both?
your videos are extremely well thought out and put together. thanks for the content.
April 11, 2018 | 7:01 a.m.
86s (~6:45-8:45): in this hand, and hands like it, i would like to hear your general thoughts/plans on how to approach the turn and river on various runouts. how to proceed oop on various turns when we get flatted seems like it will be often be a tough spot and worthy of discussion... especially when you make a comment one minute prior about how you have an edge on the field at deepstacked poker because of your cash background, i'd like to hear your thoughts on the tougher streets to play deepstacked more often, even if the discussion is theoretical.
March 11, 2018 | 7 p.m.
Great series thank you for posting.
Jan. 27, 2018 | 3:48 p.m.
folding KcQc86 on the ante table in the top right at 22:00 is definitely a misclick right?
Aug. 13, 2017 | 4:47 p.m.
Nice video Fedor thanks for posting. One thing I wish I could see is every hand at the FT. It would be nice to see not only hands you open fold and fold to raises, but also your input on hands that go to showdown with the other players given that it's a talented group of players at this final table.
May 9, 2016 | 4:49 a.m.
A few Questions and comments.
"a distortional imbalance that is forcing the student to make poor decisions in certain spots"
I don't think distortion is the only reason people make mistakes. There are many skills involved in proper thinking in poker that people just haven't developed enough. For example inference, deduction, statistical analysis, problem solving skills (mostly the habit of thinking sequentially) and this is just naming a few. Perhaps this is what you intended to mean by "distortional imbalance" but I don't think that's the correct word for it.
"If you've had a coach for over a year, fire him, imho."
Doesn't players in every single sport or profession have coaches for longer than this? Anyways I think you're writing is great, please do more.
April 12, 2016 | 1:52 p.m.
A discussion came up about how it's the players responsibility to protect their hole cards in live poker. Which made me think, well it's the players responsibility to protect their hole cards online as well, for example in the case of protecting ourselves against viruses and hackers. A guy named funkworms did a video series he posted on twoplustwo a while back about computer security for poker players. But I'm not sure if that information is outdated now, it'd be nice to get a computer security expert to make a few videos about what kind of things should we be doing as poker players to protect ourselves from getting hacked. I think it'd be an extremely valuable thing for a lot of players to learn and would be an interesting outside the box video.
Sept. 30, 2015 | 8:31 p.m.
It seems like people are starting to open limp in EP a lot more than usual these days. I'm intrigued by the idea but so far I haven't really heard any good reasons for why it is a better strategy than raising. Everyone I talk to about it just sorta goes, "I think it plays better as a limp" but never really have anything to say beyond that. This seems like a thing that some really good players have figured out, but for the most part it seems to me that people using this strategy don't understand the concept and are just doing it because it's the cool thing to do.
So if anyone could actually explain when and why this is a better strategy than raising/folding I'd be very interested to learn. Is this just an exploitable strategy that people are using vs certain lineups, or is there a somewhat balanced/GTO range that is good here? What kind of hands make good EP limps compared to raises? Thanks.
at 29:20 you said if you open, bb defends, and we see a AK8dd flop you would "just bet big or check just because i don't really have hands that require a lot of protection so i'm either betting a polarized range or trying to get to showdown." did you mean to say "bet small" here? if not can you please explain the reasoning a bit, this seems to me like a spot we don't need to bet more than ~30% pot at first glance.
July 7, 2019 | 5:02 p.m.