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Hey. When moving up in stakes you enter a new player pool. Any advise for how to adjust your game to playing against a bunch of players you dont know, and who dont know you?

True. But if this strike only gets support from those directly affected (SNE and 5-10+ cash) then it is not going to be very effective. They are a small number of the overall player pool
All players need to see that if there is no real push-back for PS against these kind unreasonable changes, then there is nothing stopping them from doing it again. And the next time it might affect a different group of players

What are the numbers normally for Super Tuesday? Feel like the numbers there are going to tell us a lot

Would it not be good if you reviewed older footage of yourself, when you played differently?. Should be good since you know why you played certain spots differently back then (A discussion between old and new Phil)

The best one is when I first started watching poker TV. Tom Dwan was asked what his biggest loss in a day was, he said "Around a million, and that was back when a million was a lot of money"

Regarding the hand on the bottom right table at the 18 min mark: Does anyone know a video where Phil (or some other instructor) goes deeper into the question of when you can expect your opponent to be bluffing with the nut flush blocker and when he is more likely to have it?. If not then I think it would be worth going deeper into the next time a similar spot comes up, or make a video on it if there is enough to talk about

Great video as always. You decide not to start your rebuy tournaments with a double stack, what your reasoning behind this?.

In the first hand I would normally re-raise preflop with a double suited like that without an ace, because my flush in much more likely to be good against one player rather than two. And also my hand will be perceived stronger than it is, because I rarely re-raise from out of position, which is always good.
Would love to hear if you see a flaw in that play.
Great video

I don't really like your limp re-raising strategy from early position. Because stealing is so cheap/profitable in this format, I would much rather have a wide opening range that included your strong hands. Even when someone calls, you have a 20 k pot of which of which you only have invested maybe 5 k.
And also it is such a waste when you limp your premium hands, and get a family pot

You should get other MTT pros to make more ante up videos, and make more yourself to make it more popular. I am sure most players will like the format if they try it, and maybe the sites will run more tournaments.
And as you say, people are not to good at the it.

@Jonna. Tnx for reply. I agree that this line makes much more sense against a reg. how understands what you are rep.
My problem is that it seem to easy for our opponents to open light from cut-off or button, and cont. bet if we don't play back on boards like this with blockers.

@ 3:40 you auto fold 3588 on a K57 rainbow flop. I would always call here, because I can easily rep 86 or 89 when the straight hits,(and maybe try to rep the king, if a 2nd K comes) and often win at showdown when 5, 3, 8 hit. Since he raises pre and we block 8's, he is unlikely to have the hands we want to rep(minus the K).
Would love to hear if you think this is a leak and why

My question also comes from watching some of your older videos.

You seem to make a distinction between a good and a tough player. If so, what do you mean when you say a player is tough or has toughness? 

@ 18:47. Table 5. Would it not make sense to push the 67s with 4bb, since the blinds are folding so often and you are getting around 65/35 odds against the openers range?. (You are paying 1170 to win 3110). Especially in a turbo tournament where you don't have much time to wait for a better hand.

Sorry for going off topic, but I have tried the video request thread without any success. But could you do a video on ante up tournaments (or any MTT coaches). 

Most players adjust really badly to the format. So it would be profitable for the members to learn how to adjust format. Plus it is a really fun version of the game.

Even if none of the coaches feel like they are experts on the format (I suspect not many people are) It is not a reason not to do a video, because there is still a lot of value in the discussion in the comments

Almost everyone plays higher variance/slightly minus ev early on in tournaments, when they play much lower stakes than they are used to. So it defiantly makes sense to check what other tournaments your opponent is playing, or his normal stakes, and adjust to it. (I find this to especially to be relevant for the "red" tournaments on stars) 

I suspect that many players are also doing it unconsciously. It is just human nature to gamble more, when you play much lower than you normally play.      

A video on ante up NLHE tournaments. These tournaments are really soft, because most of the players don't know how to adjust to the format. So a video on how to exploit players, who don't adjust to the format correctly, would greatly benefit the members greatly.

At 08:12 there is an open from the UTG (100 bb+) and a flat from the HJ (20 bb) and you fold Ah8h89 on the button. Why not play play it like a small pair in NL, trying to flop a set, nut flush/stright? Would this spot be different in a deep ante game? 

I know this spot is probably standard to you guys, since Phil auto-folded (I am relatively new to Omaha), but I would greatly appreciate if someone could explain 

The last six WSOP are from the "new school".

I said characters are good for TV (in my first post), but that DN and JH overvalue the importance of it, because they seem to think it is everything. Maybe I understated the importance a bit, trying to make a point :)

I agree that having characters on TV is important (especially human interest stories are a good idea, so we can an idea about who the people are). I just don´t think that it is all that matters, which Hachem and DN seem to think(I think it is around 30-40%). And I don´t think strategy talk is destructive (if its done right) which Hachem and DN seem to think. Especially for the people who potentially are going to develop an interest in poker.

NBC heads-up is a good example of this. They invite the 64 players that they think will make the best TV(which I dont have a problem with). They have relatively shallow stacks and fast blind structure, and almost no strategy talk. I can't imagine people who are new to poker, or semi pros and pros, enjoying that show. Imagine how much better that show would be for everyone if the structure was better and they had 3 or 4 segments where both the players talked about what they where thinking during interesing hands    

Great post. Especially the part about whether or not advanced strategy talk should be part of the TV broadcast or not. When I first started watching poker on TV my favourite part was the players explaining their thought process in a hand, and I assume that is the case for almost anyone who became a longterm "fan" of poker, from watching it on TV. 

When advanced poker strategy (if it is not too advanced) is explained well, I think it leaves recreational players thinking "I have never thought about it that way, that makes perfect sense" rather than "what is he/she talking about" (Like Phil said it is similar to a TV detective solving a mystery). And it makes it easier and more interesting for the viewer to follow the game, and makes it more likely he will start playing the game.

Of course having characters in the game is good for TV. But I think JH and DN way overvalue the importance of it. The people that only watch because someone is playing with a crocodile on is head, or because someone is likely to blowup etc. but does not care about any strategy is never going to be a longterm fan of poker on TV, or start playing the game themselves. It would be like trying to encourage more fighting in hockey, and putting all the focus on that, and leave out all the strategy talk   

How much did it influence your decision that you where very likely going to get to see if you made the right fold or not with the QQ hand, right after making the fold :)