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A shaved head a decent look for you. Also agree with others that you bring extreme value to the essential tier at runitonce. Last hand was indeed an interesting exploit.

~18 min facing UTG 2.5x open with A8ss in the SB.

Good video. You mention you sometimes play up to 20 tables. How are you able to play so many tables at such stakes at such a high level? I'm sure practice makes perfect but could you elaborate on any software/setup tips you might have that help you in this process? Are you playing tiled or in some sort of stack and tiled setup for the most part?

Help me understand the first hand from the villain's point of view. I understand his snow going into the last draw in hoping it makes you draw, brick, and then fold to his bluff but once you pat off his raise isn't he lighting money on fire by betting after you check to him with no draws to come? Are you ever check/folding here?

@42:52 Your strategy had a min raise fold range as well at this stack depth which would have presumably contained some of the hands you were including in the shove range in your model. AQ is probably still a call for that villain but I don't think your model is completely accurate by just removing the top of your overall range.

You spoke about not always betting when you draw fewer cards than your opponents if they have an equity edge on you in the hand. I'm not sure if it's as important but wont that tip them off as to the strength of say your patted hand allowing them to play closer perfect against you on future draws? Possibly in other hands? Say in the hand I'm referring to above that the original cutoff raiser had folded. You get HU with your made 87xx3 pat hand but in an equity disadvantage against the BB. If you pat there and don't bet out doesn't he put you on exactly that sort of hand?

Also, I'm curious if you would have broken your hand had he stayed pat on the 1st draw.

@20min why do you think BB should raise him out when you stood pat in the hand. While he has a better hand/draw than the 3rd player in the pot he doesn't always stand to have a better hand than you as you stood pat. By raising isn't he risking you putting in another bet on him and him value towning himself in the hand that way? Your range is still uncapped and you could have a pat seven already. Of course you are at the bottom of your range in this spot and he would stand better to probably raise against your actual pat hand but overall are you sure that's his best strategy here?

Enjoying this series. Nice concept and analysis in this video series. An idea for a future series; blind defense with consideration to ICM. I think it would be an interesting concept to expand on with this series.

@22 min you mention about the BB villain having a rather high cold four bet in that spot. You then go on to mention that you'd be sometimes be jamming small pairs here as opposed to A4hh. Why exactly? Do small pairs really have more equity against his cold four bet calling range in a button Vs SB Vs BB spot? Seems to me the A4hh would have more equity and blocks his calling range. Maybe though blocking his calling range is counter intuitive when it also blocks a lot of combos in his 4 bet bluffing range? idk, let me know. Thanks.

at around 18 min with that AK hand where you check back the turn in the 3bet pot. With consideration to the K river what sort of hands are you doing this with as a bluff on the river after taking a bet, check, bet line? Are you ever shoving worse than AK for value here?

Nice video, Jason! I had some appreciation for the Kevin Pittsnogle references. I attended Pitt during that time and he played quite the villain in that rivalry. Miss the Big East :(

Nick, I didn't read through all the comments so I'm not sure if you received your answer regarding the filtering of your HUD or not but with regards to filtering players per table in your HUD you should be able to overlap players per table in the HuD. I have mine set 7 to 10, 5 to 8, 3 to 6, and 2 to 2. So basically if my table has between seven and ten players it will show stats filtered between 7 and 10 players. Once the table drops to five or six players it shows stats between 5 and 8 players. Once the table drops to three or four players it shows stats between 3 and 6 players. Heads Up will only show Heads Up stats(I play a fair bit of SnGs with MTTs) . The overlap will give you some more relevant info on how your opponents play full handed, medium handed, and short handed with limited data when your sample sizes are small on your opponents. Hope this overlap concept makes sense. Gl.

Agree about your perceived flop calling range not containing a lot of air.  By the river probably the worst hands in your range are 10x hands{ex. Q10, 109), maybe some 6x hands with a back door flush draw that bet/called the flop too.  His river call with his hand is very optimistic to say the least considering all the hands in your range that improved or have reasonable showdown value on the river. 

I think the turn is probably where we get most of our value against his bluff catchers.  Would you really be betting this turn with that sizing, ~40%, as a semi bluff/blocker/semi value with a lot of our medium strength hands, draws?  I think you would just be value cutting yourself alot of the time against him or just putting money in bad.  I think I have a wider check back range in this spot and prefer betting a smaller betting range.  Probably betting larger with some of my strongest Kx hands and Jx hands and balancing it out by bluffing with some of my weakest draws.  Checking back most of the other stuff in the middle.

I know I posted in my OP that we can bet big on the river as well but on this river thinking about it now there just isn't enough air in our range or weak hands we would want to turn into a bluff using this sizing.  Still don't hate it as people just love click the call button when the better bluffing cards for their opponent run off.

Good win!  Any consideration to altering your default bet sizing strategy post flop?  I think you are losing a lot of value considering you are implementing a fairly balanced flop cbetting % strategy.  It's not as if you are over cbetting boards and I think you may be losing value and making yourself easier to defend against by cbetting and barreling these smaller sizings postflop with your balanced range.  Especially on the wetter board textures.   I'd like to here your arguments as to why you prefer these smaller sizings or the advantages of them.

@13:55 - (right table) you turn trips after calling a check raise on the flop IP.  Why do you choose this betsizing on the turn?  Shouldn't you choose a more polarizing bet size as he mostly has bluff catchers, draws that are slowing down, or complete give ups after checking this turn.  This is one of the best cards for your range in this spot and thus you should probably be betting big with your strong hands and semi bluffs to put the most pressure on his range when you decide to bet this turn.  I think you lost a lot of value in this hand as if you had bet bigger on the turn the hands he gets sticky with are also going to probably call an even bigger bet on the river.  Regardless Turn seems like it's a must for a larger sizing with your entire betting range.

Great video.  Really enjoyed the way you went through the hands.  I think with the reads you had at the time that you played that you really cannot do anything differently in the A4o hand.  Regarding his QQ limp.  I think it's a reasonable play to limp the button with that hand some % of the time if he wants to develop a balanced Button limping strategy without having a capped range.  I'd just make sure to take a note on it.

Also, sorry to add late but a lot of my above post was assuming the majority of players in the BB are still calling a shove from the SB much wider than the FGS ranges you came up with from your work in Holdem Resources.  If some Regs are starting to go more so by those ranges than the close to 100% which I think you see more often in the todays game then I think the correct adjustment it to shove the majority if not all of your range in this spot.  Ex.  60 to 65% calling range you got from the FGS in the simulator.  In practice I don't see the majority calling that tight at my limits.  I still think completing has some merits.  Let me know what you think, Thanks.

Nice Video.  Watching it now.  Question regarding the 78ss hand in the Hyper Turbo where you had 2BB's in the SB with the heavy chip leader in the BB.  You said that you ran future game scenarios where it is a shove because he has some incentive to fold some hands given the stack setup and future game bubble pwnage.  In straight ICM you said it's a fold because it assumes he is calling 100%. 

What about completing the SB with the majority of your range in this spot rather than shoving?  There would seem to be a lot of good outcomes for you in this scenario if the BB is observant of the situation and you would often realize your equity without the risk of your stack.  Seems like it would be beneficial for him to check down a lot of hands even if he did in fact feel he had you beat.  Leaving you with 1BB is probably more beneficial to him than stacking you in this spot. BTW, I'm not implying we check down our entire completing range postflop.  I'm just saying that I think the chip leader has less incentive to bluff us/and or try and thin value us in this situation and would probably be happy to check down a lot of hands.