boomerang808

03:00
KQJ9r - such a low SPR, isn't it connected enough to go for it?

Amazing. Great Video,
Thank you!

Just take all the compliments from the 1st video and put them here. Learning and going through this topic as you build it feels so effective and valuable to my study session and my game. I would love to see a couple more of these.
If it will be a series (which I hope it will be), I think it will be very good and effective to wrap up this series with a short part (10-20min) of summary with canclutions and general thoughts from you about the general concept and some final thoughts about the whole thing.
so again, thank you for great video, hope to see another one soon :)

06:00:
i feel like these spots (87s top left) is pretty ugly for me in non-vanilla. since its not playing for bounty and I think OOP vs "short"(in terms of table) 3bet in this stage will lose me more in long-term. do u think open up your post flop game in Vanilla more then non-vanilla is a big mistake? or it make sense since there is $$ to win?

29:00 interesting spot with JJ.
what is the bottom of our 3bet shoving range there vs good player?
since our shove with JJ is mostly for denying equity, do we also shove TT\99 I guess? since denying equity with our 99\TT seems more important then with JJ and will give us the same result probably ( we flip VS AK, behind vs overpair and get these KQ\KT\A5\A4 etc. to fold).
* do we ever mix some 3bets with 88\77 to and we should go for the same 5bet 100bb shove?

31:00 -- EDIT: I read the comment u wrote to "Skumi"
so no need to response if you think there is nothing to add.

its right we have diamonds and its a bad candidate. but we also have more AK and AA and we are at the bottom of our range, so diamonds really overcome the "bottom of our range" idea?
I guess we have a lot of bluffs there to, like AQ\AJ and maybe A4 we decide to 3bet. so since we have a lot of bluffs on this board, this is why we should give up the diamonds combo?

40:55- u said we should have a lot of bluffs in this spot (45\56) - we are not supposed to bet them on turn almost always?

About the video;
I like the 9-tabling video so much and i actually has been waiting for the 2nd part.
I think the high volume in varies tournaments in early stage (especially vanilla's) are so rare to see and this is very refreshing.
so I hope you would keep the series up in the same volume:).

Thank you again Alex!

The information you provide in this video is covering the spot so much. for me its very rare to see such a high quality stuff. I don't enjoy theory video's as much as in-game videos but this was very fun to watch since I felt I'm gonna get a lot from it. and not just for this spot in particular, but also for the game itself.
Your predictions were very helpful as a guideline to the video and it makes the whole learning process much more fun.
great video! Thanks you for that!

Surrender,
Thank you so much!

thanks for the response Alex,
I think I'm really lacking in there spots. so u definitely gave me some new information to calculate in these type of situation.
Thanks.
once again, this format is great, really looking forward to see some similar video's.

*last hand

I find myself failing a lot in these spots when I'm the aggressor and turn complete the flush.
assuming you have a flush OTT, which size would you go? around 6bb? and with FDblocker would u go the same size?

and thank you for great video Daniel - I feel like short stack in bounty tournament don't get to much air time, so it was really refreshing

08:00 i really like you giving your inadept thoughts on "overall" strategy in this specific stage of the tournament ,
08:41 - don't you think that we can open the K8o assuming UTG1 will shove and we can fight for the bounty?
I know its more loose then we should open UTG but given the stake sizes and the fact we won't get really hurt from losing 2bb in case of someone ISO , i think it might be a good spot.
thoughts?
14:02 - when a hand is a slightly winning hand (in this case 0.04 for 88), is it makes it correct when we are 5 players away from the money (its 5players right?) - its only 0.04 and don't you think we can pick a better spot with 9bb?
17:00 - nice double ^^
23:30 - ACR spot; you explain rec's lines in ACR. +++ great stuff.
the case in GG is worst (tons of rec's reopening accounts), would like to hear some thought on later video's when you play hands vs them.
26:46 (left down)- i see u fold 78s 130bb deep OTB vs 2x open+flat - is that correct pre\lack of concentration\ exploit?

35:00- my thought on KQo combo - how often we should check the bottom of our range if we never win at showdown? we get 1\4 for it to be a good bluff, we block QT and some strong JX, what makes u think its not a bluff? because i see you got a very fast&and clear decision(seems like) and I'm interested in knowing what you were driven by. thanks :) is the Kh overcome everything i just mentioned?

Format thoughts:
Alex this is a great video! I like the high volume action in varies stakes and not to much solver analysis and more of the play&explain.
i think u gave like 80%\85%play - 20%-15%solver which is perfect IMO.
and again, the high volume tournaments is excellent,
Thank you! and merry Christmas!

thanks!
I think this "'1 part" short videos are very refreshing from time to time

This is great!.
I really like that from time to time you go for these kinds of video's. When you explain population mistakes you see very often and correct them (like "The cost of missing large bets"), this is gold.

now, Just out of curiosity

I see PIO choose the A5s to be mixed with 3x pot and PSB
and A3s is the one which we are mixing 44%-3x pot | 38%f 150%pot | 16% PSB . while the others NF's tend to go 3x pot.
Now I imagine it's for balancing purposes but is there any reason to choose 3\5 to be the ones with multiple sizing? (maybe unblocking straights that might call a smaller bet more often?)
So my question is if there's any reasonable reason for that or if this is random and might actually change from sim to sim

4:26 JJvsTT BUvsUTG for 17bb~.
do we ever consider 3betting lower pocket pairs(88-99..mabye 77?) in order to avoid MW and push UTG to GII and play for he's chips and bounty? or ICM makes it a bad play overall?

18:15
BUvsBB(maratur vs sammartino) on 5K7-K-J when BU xx. BB bet the river (70%~) with K2 and I wonder if he should ever go bigger? those are spots that we can pick PSB or even more? because having 64\68\69\ is so obvious needs to bluff so it kinda makes it a polar bet no?

I really love the series so far BTW. thanks :)

I think i would rather see more play&explain and less vision solution especially in those spots when vision won’t give us the exact answer.
IMO it will make the video correct since some spots aren't the same.
those who got to me the most were;
50bb UTGvsBB 6:30. 9887s open and facing a wheel turn and vision dont gives us the option to check the correct solution when the wheel hit the turn after we X flop.
instead it takes us to Q64hh which turn (3) complete the 57 and not a wheel. for me it feels like way to big of a difference between those two for the majority of our AA+wheel UTG then our 57xx utg.
also 27:00 QQ97 3bp UTGvsSB on AT8r feels a little different then AT7 with QQ98, since i think we can rep a lot more QJ’s who floated the flop vs high frequency cbet on AT8, which we can’t rep that much on AT7 when the K hit.

I really like your thought process and the way you explain, so I think video will be way better if you'll mix between them a little more and maybe go to vision when it offers the exact board.

Anyway, thanks! gonna catch part2 soon)

P.S
If it's not too much to ask, what logic do you use for your color coding system?

it was great to be able to watch the replay on youtube and then to come over here and hear your thoughts.
last hand ,the one Naza opened the AK86ds; solver showed that SB dosent 3bet much and mostlly call, do u think it might be because solver want to give BB(alex) better odds to call and by that increasing the chances of Naza busting?

great video!

last hand with AKs OTT SPR1.5 - why we shoulnd shove the river? dont you think in this enviorment shoving will make a better profit in long run since
1) it force him to put he's bounty in play
2) I think shoving will make him call more Kx\Tx since 1.5 looks more drew heavy. + I think we can toatlly balance the shoving 1.5x with tons of drews and mabye some AQ\AJ in low frequecy.
3) i dont think we can get him paying us comfortablly on alot of rivers and the action will shot down. also when we bet 2.5k SPR is pretty emberresing OTR

would really like to hear what u have to say :)
Thanks again!

BTW you mental game episode with Eliot was really great. :)

I like the format and I really like the re-caps after each solver dive

It's funny that today you jumped into the pool and I actually managed to level myself and misplay a flop CB spot against you, falling prey to the T1 reg tag again lol

At least it wasn't a complete blunder because I still randomized for a 35 or below check to raise frequency, but my hand's components were a pretty clear pure CB imo.

Hey Richard,

I'm interested in hearing a bit more as to how you go on about labeling your opponents.
I'm currently playing the 5/10 games at GG and I have developed a labeling system that allows me to differentiate between the regs as best as possible.
For example I have tags for people who are either OOL aggro at a high frequency, or people who are OOL passive.
Then I have dissected all the other regs into 3 categories: T1-T3 with T1 being the strongest and populated by guys like yourself or Oddsen which sometimes (much to my dismay) decide to join the games.
Basically T3 are the more straight forward guys who are above average likely to play ABC and haven't shown to put me into too many tough spots or haven't shown an indication of being capable of creative lines, they are solid but not really problematic.
T2 are the ones who are definitely very strong, contest more pots, generally have a more LAG style than T3 and are tougher to play against, but for some reasons that I don't yet understand they don't quite make T1 material,
And then T1 are people who are most likely at a level that I'm still not good enough to understand so I just avoid them for now lol. Luckily I don't get them that frequently, mostly never at my most commonly played stake 5/10.

An interesting side note here is that I noticed myself being very intimidated by T1 regs whenever I had them at my table (mostly in some MTT's) and merely their presence at my table had an effect on my psyche where it lowered my self confidence and it caused me to be far more doubtful about even the tiniest of decisions.

Looking forward to your reply and basically any piece of knowledge that might help me improve this region of my game.

YES

Richard Gryko

Very interesting, also stimulating to think about what sort of stuff you would have to pull of in order to generate a win rate amongst the top 20 players (assuming that you would put in the majority of that volume in the absence of weaker player types).

I would assume that creativity would start becoming more of an EV generator in highly competitive environments. Maybe a simple 1-2-3 sequence might generate a high EV in a slightly weaker field, but you might have to pull off a slightly more complex and creative 5-1-2-4-3 sequence in the tougher environment for example (whatever that might mean in a given situation).

I would also assume that paying closer attention to dynamics will have a higher effect in this type of an environment. Also stuff like preparation and studying your opponents.

This might be ABC stuff to some people idk, but for me personally, I haven't ever really thought too much about these things and now all of a sudden I'm interested in them because they are a little bit more relevant to my reality and ambitions.

Hey Richard,

at 17:15 you say that OOP likes to bet small against a "polarized uncapped range" etc...
In this context, he's range is polarized because he will either be bluffing or value betting top of range, which I understand; but when you say uncapped, is it because when he checks back OTT and the river brings a texture shift, the range is still very capable of retaining hands the interact with the texture shift given that he checks back OTT?
It is interesting because most often you would expect a range to be capped when it checks back, but I guess it's the opposite when the river brings a texture shift.

10/10 on the quality of your content btw, really appreciate it.

A little bit off topic: I have been battling some 5/10 recently, in this pool there's a decent bit of 10/20 regs as well. I have been holding my own and I have been thinking about how far I am capable of taking it. I just recently discovered your videos and it seems to me that you are the type of player that would most certainly be capable of competing at 25/50 and above, so if you don't mind sharing, I would kindly ask you to share some of your experience in terms of battling different high stakes in different environments and at what point have you started feeling outclassed potentially.

Hope that I'm not asking for too much.

Respect to you and looking forward to your reply.

its very nice of u to share some of those stuff. I wish karma will hit u at the table's(but not VS me haha)

Thanks!

This is great. looking forward for the next one

05:07- Assuming we hold KxTd and decided going for X\R fold. in case villian going to flat and the river comes a brick (5x)- do we wanna go for a shove or its -EV play after he left himself with such a low SPR?,

also i would like to let u know im really a fan of your videos. i think the combination of replay+PIO both in 30-35min is the Nuts IMO.
so thanks! looking forward for the next one

this is great, really love the contact u put on especially this series.

Ive wondered, the JJ hand; 3bet pot SBvsCO 80BB deep;
Is there any bluff's we will take in the same betting line? (20%,50%, river SPR1 shove)
my first thinking is AK\AQ with 1 club will take the same line but there's any more combo's we will bluff there that are not the most obvious one's like AK\AQ1club? (BTW correct me if im wrong about balancing value\bluffs with AK\AQ 1club).

thanks!

Amazing video!
i really liked the format and you diving into the details is super effective IMO

I would like to see more of a summary at the end of the video by you.(although this lesson took me like 1:40 hour, i think its super effective to have like a quick, friendlly brief)

thanks again! looking forward for the next ones

This is amazing stuff! Thanks!

Im actually super happy you told those are your favorite video's to make, I think this is so helpfull and it will be a thrill to have few(or many(!)) more of those!

Im looking forward for the next one

"Im trippin" LOL, nice vid will def keep watching your contact,

thanks!

thanks!!