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FUCK YEAH! I hope it works out man!

great analysis!

Did anyone else have this weird, unordered excel output, when you tried to aggregate? Do you know how to fix it?

Hey sam, great vid!
KJs at 11:00: Don't you think that checking J9s is going to be better here than checking KJ? Because about 50% of his range will be top pair here and we are going to face a lot of 2 barrels and have to give up most turns and it feels better to give up J9s than KJ because it still has 23% eq on most turns, whereas J9s has about 17%. I think KJ is a good 2 barrel and our gutshots with an ace are propably better 3 barrels because we block AQ, which is going to be a huge portion of his call down range but also a big portion of his range generally.
Again I really liked the vid.

Cheers

great vid! more of this please!

Hey daniel, excellent video as always!
I have a question regarding the J9s hand. You said that you might implement a raising strat against a 100% cbet range. I found that very interesting and would guess that you would go with a smaller raise size in this case because mostly our goal is to simply fold out his highcard hands and additionally we are not polar at all if we want to raise J9s? Even though I think it's interesting, I think we might run into big trouble with a raise here for reasons you already mentioned in the vid. And going deeper into this... What do you think is villains best respond to this? And I guess you wouldn't think about a raise if this was a 50bb effective spot?

Thanks brother, and thanks for the great stuff you provide. Never heard of the mind being the 6th sense, but after starting meditation and training more and more; that was exactly my thought process and it helped me a lot in being able to consciously switch inbetween the senses and starting meditating more focused.

You do great stuff, especially with all the ideas and the way you visualize your videos. Get a lot out of it. Keep the great work up!

...and then you die. Lol, think I nearly never laughed that hard in my life being alone in front of a screen :)

How much do you think does it affect the medding doing it in the afternoon instead of the morning? And having "unstable" times but doing atleast 20 minutes a day? Better do just 25 each day or stretch it from time to time but only doing as much as you feel like on other days?

Curious what you got to say, love every single video of yours and love the part about giving more and more and not needing to take as much to be happy. So true for me

Peace

Thanks for your answers
Re: starting own poker site
Yeah that is true that you do not need this, in this case however; certain players know exactly what they love in their best sites and they know what the fish loves. And at the moment nobody seems to be able to put up as good of structures and stuff as Pokerstars did, so either 888/Party/or other sites get better with Rakeback/Rake/variaty of games or a knew site opened by whoever working in the sense of the game and competition with the goal of making money by the growing playerpool a bit later than it would be with higher (rake) prices and stuff in the beginning. Actually I really hoped somebody would step up and would do this but if you are pretty pessimistic as what you mostly say seems pretty true I become a bit more pessimistic too.

Let's hope for the best and do what we are able to do. As it is in poker - there's nothing more we can do.

Peace

Yeah but actually that does not matter for me. As long as they make more money it means their business is growing, which I am interestes in too. So if they knew that our interest is their interest they would not fck that thing up. In a few month they will see that basically we all share the same interest. They are just to blind to see that. That's the biggest problem about it. They do not realize that the pokerplayers realize that this is a business thing and we think it's ok that they take money out of it. But it's just full of stupidity the way they do it. They instantly take everything they can and probably won't even get the money back they invested. Let's see how far it takes them..

And that FullTilt thing was just because these people had more interest in their own roll than in the game itself. And I think there are some ridiculous crazy pokerlovers out there who would not do this. Who really care for the game. There must be a way to be sure that the money is safe and everybody knows this. Like Pokerstars where they had bank accounts for every account that had money online at their site and you could be sure you would get your money.

IDK, it seems crazy that nothing has happened and they do not watch all the videos out there explaining why what they are doing is such an insane bullshit.

Whatya think are the effects on tournament poker in general? Pokerstars has been the leader in tournaments in a lot of perspectives but even now they are implementing more and more luckbased games (as one of the Greenwoods mentioned in one of his videos as well) and besides funplayers may moving to other sites because they are putting up good tournament structures at the time as well, a lot of those players who you mentioned from SnGs and maybe even cashgames that have a better theoretical understanding than most average tournament players are going to move to tournaments I think; so even those games going to be more polarized event thought rakeback does not have as of a deep effect directly to "us".

I just think tournaments were such a good way to catch funplayers and keep them around, now I think they are losing even faster if the edge and ratio of better players increases and the mediocre players are going to be gone as well.

What about a crew of people grouping up and starting an own Pokersite, where the great game of poker comes first and keeping the environment alive and making funplayers and professionals have a lot of fun together. I think a lot of pros are just so crazy about the game and have a huge amount of possibilities with the money they earned through poker, that that would be the way to go, isn't it?
Even then in the end with not making such bad business decisions as PStars did, this is going to be the biggest pokersite in the long run and even the best of the best have a battleground to play against each other again.
I dunno whats going on in general behind closed doors or what people are discussing as my contact to the best players is not there even though playing against them regularly, there must've been a lot of players with these idea and getting together through a site like this would be the best option to go, and even some programers would probly be more than happy to earn a lot of money supporting us or them?

Now this became pretty unstructured and are just a few thoughts coming out of my mind spontaniously, so I am sorry about that, but I am curious to know what your thoughts are about that. We need to keep the sportsmanship alive in Poker, because that's the thing I love the most about the game and the people that are loving the game itself and not just the moneyzz. It has the best impcact on everything I guess.

Thanks for the video and your thoughts, appreciated it a lot.

Peace

Thank you Phil,
nice vid, i was very happy to see this deep analysis pls continue this series :)

Hey great vid! I really like you approach to the game. Great analysis on the hands!

What do you think about betting river small in the KK spot, like 25%. As you stated there is some value in seeing his range in this spot and I think using a blocking bet accomplishes this best. We will get value from his rare Q's on top and also we don't have to be concered to fold the best hand.

cheers

Hey first of all great vid! I really liked the formate. Can you give us your ranges to hand #6. It surprised me that 3B loses eq advantage OTT. Maybe that's again only in a GTO world, where the defender calls flop a ton?

good stuff!

good job!

nice vid! more of it plz!

would love to see a vid about confidence especially before/while/after playing poker

nice video, it would be nice to put the KJs hand in holdemresourcescalculator.. gg

hey great vid first of all! in hand 4 what are you doing with your 2 pair combos on different rivers vs. different villains? I feel like we have to x/f them a lot because villain is almost only going to have Q's (besides maybe a turned fd) and if so don't you think that getting a bet on the river would make more sence because there aren't too much bad rivers if it goes check check under the assumption that most players would bet turned fds.
and what about our 7's? they might be better candidates for turn bets because we are not blocking AT,KT and hands like that?

And in hand 3 I feel very strongly towards just flatting the raise because there are no bad rivers and we always have the beste hand, even if the play doesn't make sence with regards to our range, people (especially the sb, because he is going to think others are playing like him, like you said of yourself) still can think that you have like AA with a fd or even a turned set or what ever. and given our reads on the sb, he might have a set here which we can sometimes stack off on rivers if he really is that passiv which we would make him fold. and we also don't have to worry about the reg recognizing that our range is very strong if we just call because his range is not going to include any strong hands anyways.
basically it comes down to: we don't have to or even we shouldn't be balanced against funplayers!

thank you for your answer and gl at the tables!

can you name the device you are walking on? ty, stay in shape

i would definitely like to see another live session vid!

hey ben, first of all great vid! I really appreciate it! What do you think about leading the 78 on 7928r at 20:49 on the right table? I think we can get a lot of value from worse and our hand is pretty vulnerable on some rivers (board pairs, cards which bring a 1-card-straight). I think we can balance that range with turned straight draws, which will be mostly ace highs.

first of all I liked the video!
I have a few thoughts on the a2s hand at 36:50. I dont know about the preflop decisions too much because I dont play a 2,5x pre raisesize at this effective stacksizes in mp, which should influence villans 3beting tendencies. However my first instinct going to the river in this spot was to shove the river to get him off the cobos of ax which we would be choping to.
You said that the ten on the turn is not a good card for us, but actually I think it`s better for our range than it is for his since the ten hits our preflop defending range quite a lot and our flop floating range too, whereas he is maybe not 3beting as many ten combos as we defend in the first place and should definitely check back a decent amount.
So I think the only calling hands that beat us he should show up with often are ak, aq, kj (maybe he flats that pre?), at, qq and aa, which are not too many combos to be afraid of. And I think calling for just a chop should be -ev for him.
The only down side to that is obv that busting there is pretty much a disaster...

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hey guys really nice stuff again. would appreciate it a lot if you could go back to part 2 and answer my questions there :)
good luck guys

and also let me know what you think about just check jaming the flop. I think we might get him to call with 77-QQ or stuff like that. getting value from those seems more difficult on later streets and I think because we already have a king in our hand, his combos of kings which outkick us are decreased. adding to that I think he shouldnt have too many kx combos anyways propably like kj+, so having lets say kts in that spot or k3s doesn't really make a hugh difference. he might not open 55 and 66, but over all that seems also like a considerable option. what would you think?

hey guys,
I really liked the video,especially what jason pointed out about flating a9o from the sb in that ~20bb effective spot with the tight bb.
however I had two thoughts:

1. I assume you're gonna bet call against checkolino in the kjo spot at 8:46, because of the great pot odds and our propably two clean overs.

2. k3s defending spot 19:36: I think given that villain is so tight our hand is not more than a bluffcatcher against someone who doesn't bluff, which means that I would come to the assumption that flating the flop and then folding to any other bets is propably the best play, especially because of his narrow utg opening range and because we assumed that he doesn't bet his draws on the turn. Assuming that, I literally can't think of 1 combo which we beat if he bets because I don't expect him to be beting stuff like qq or jj with a heart. And a thought that I want to add is that amateurs are usually pretty scared of 3 tone boards (even if we don't have any possible flushes). And I even don't expect to get bluffed a lot if a 4th heart comes on the river and we can easily check/fold.

cheers and good luck guys, really appreciate your vids!