flip4chips

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rage lol, hes alive and well. I'll text him this screenshot to let him know hes missed by the community lol.

Been a member for 8+ years, watched well over 1k videos, and this is top 3 funniest video. Was effective and informative, but not since some of Kruk's old stuff have I heard such sarcasm and oy-ness 😂. A fun and informative watch.

Love this format. Its a happy and easily digested medium of theory and live play. Also, its a more effective way to learn bc you're seeing the concepts reinforced in real time.

You've become one of the better RIO coaches in the past year. Your videos have become more efficient and you've become more confident. I don't have a question, I just felt like giving deserved props. Recognition is nice sometimes and might make your day :)

Your bluffs vs his bet. Like youll have some Ac that youll wanna shove. Just wondering if your hand ever gets considered since i think the Queen is a reall good card to have as a complete unblocker since all his Qx flop floats are now 2pair+ and less likely to bluff.

Really curious what your bluffs are around 33:00 in the KQ hand. Obviously super tough spot. Will you only bluff some low pps? My thinking is he runs out of bluffs on this runout (especially when you choose large cbet and he doesnt have 7x to bluff river) and has to bluff some Jx and 10x. So unless he also needs to bluff some weak Kx, your hand becomes appealing bluff unblocking his bluffs, no? You usually go super in depth but maybe you believe this spot is so under bluffed that it wasnt worth discussing.

Really surprised Qd10c checks at 100% at 37:00. I get that it does a really bad job at generating immediate folds on turn but it seems like it would be a good river bluff as double barrel. Unblocking spades, folding out Ace highs that peeled turn, and our exact suits block the Q6s and 106s combos that are high frequency checks on flop. You think it checks purely cause it does so poorly on turn and we have so many bluffs available? Like do you think this hand might bluff more against a 3x open where our range is a bit more narrow and we dont have as many hands to bluff with?

Yes, its dry but its great. Would really love to see the lp vs bb version(s) that you alluded to.

Good stuff as usual. At the 33:00 mark, do you ever check behind the K9s when the 21bb stack limps? Like is it almost too good a hand to raise fold? Or is the upside of all the weaker hands that call just too good to pass up the raise?

Think you nailed reason for blocking A3cc on river. To expand further: When you hold an ace, its more likely villain bets as you block check backs. Which is also the reason AA is checking half the time on river. So A3 prefers to block itself to deny villain the chance to bluff. Lol now THATS a true block bet. Also having a 3 is always good.

Think whats going on at 24:40 with the higher 8x gutters check raising more than the low 8x has to do with clean outs on turn. Like when you raise K8 and fold out KJ, your King out is cleaner than in the check call line. Obviously same apllies to Q8 and A8. Could be wrong though.

Good stuff. Would love a blind on blind exploits video.

Mark, buddy, ya gotta trim this HUD lol. Good work as usual though.

At 39 minute marker, the reason we dont cr many two pairs is because of how dynamic the board is. Theres about 20+ turns that bring straight or flushes so we really dont wanna bloat pot oop. Kinda the same reason ip doesn't wanna 3bet flop in your first hand example like you pointed out. So instead we use these hands to give us strong bluff catchers on brick runouts. They perform nicely in that node and poorly as cr.

Great video!

Your content is solid but my only advice would be to trim out the simpler stuff. Like we don’t need a 2 minute explanation on why we should float QJ with a heart on Kxxhh against a block or 2 minutes on why we should 4bet bigger when OOP. Other than that, your content is good : ) . Just save the thorough explanations for the spots they’re warranted.

Excellent point about reason to check A3 at 14:30. Another reason is when you have the ace, you block some of the ace high that you’re opponent will check and show down with so they’re a little bit more likely to bluff than if you were holding K3.

At the 35:40 mark, I too was pretty confused by Pio preferring Jd to Kd for bluffing. My best guess is it has to do with him having KQo and specifically AKo combos in his range. He won’t fold the KQ on blank rivers obviously, but on diamond rivers they start mixing folds. Even though he only has a few AKo combos, we still block them and they’re pure river folds. And since he has no folds on diamond rivers that contain the Jd (other than 3 combos of JJ) pio likes having it. Essentially we block KJdd, J10dd, AJdd, and the trace amount of J9dd while unblocking his immediate AKo folds and the QJ suited combos we’re targeting on diamond rivers. Plus the Kd only blocks one flush the Jd doesn’t; K10dd. So it prefers bluffing Jd.

Good content as usual. At the 44 minute mark, I’m curious if you would raise a lead on the 6 turn with your hand under the same logic you went with big bet. Like if he seldom has a 7 in the check call flop range, would you mix raise when facing a lead on turn for protection/value or is the prospect of raise folding your hand too much of a disaster? What’s the threshold? Obviously over pairs but Better 6x? 7x+?

At around the 36 minute mark I’m actually curious if pio will prefer a turn block if you give it the option on the J789 board. It seems like a turn card where you don’t have anymore bluffs after check raising. On the 9 turn, your worst hands are all pair+ straight draws (96,Q9,95 etc). You have very few true bluffs (some KQ that didn’t 3bet pre/raised flop and a couple combos of 45s). I’ve noticed that Pio prefers to block similar spots when we no longer have true bluffs. It’s also easier to execute as you dont have to split ranges until the river when it becomes much clearer what your specific hand wants to do.

Pretty sure what’s going on with KJ and AJ checking back turn in Berkey/gman hand has to do with shared cards and the fact AK is floating 100% on flop but folding turn. KJ and AJ can’t bet three streets and are incentivized to check not only for bluff catching rivers but because when our opponent rivers Top pair, we make two pair. Q10 also bets at this stack depth at high frequency on turn because it will only ever get to bet large on river on a 10 or 9, so its more incentivized to merge bet for protection since it struggles on almost all rivers. Plus by folding out oop’s AK on turn, it will be able to more comfortably bet Q rivers.

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Hey love the video as usual. Quick question: in the hand against Sam where you have KJ on KK10Q why do we bet 1/3 when checked to on turn? It seems like the only hands we wanna bet with after he check raises flop instead of taking out equity are trips+ and draws. Like I get that having the jack our hand needs less protection but our bet is still somewhat polarized and should be bigger no?

Lex's avatar is beaker from the muppets lol.