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Wow, its quite tough getting there! I'm at 9%ish and it feels like so much haha :p

What is the BB 3b % the solver suggests BB vs Bttn?

I agree with your end video assessment; play and explains are important. It's a good exercise to be able to just watch a winning player execute in real time. There's some value in just seeing it applied rather than just speculating on it arbitrarily. Monkey see monkey do isn't all bad ;)

I liked hearing your thoughts on the different textures in 3b pots.

Takeaway from the AQo hand on AT3r; constructing our range vs EP to block the top of their range, Ax, Kx hands. Something I hadn't considered too much because of fear of domination issues, but makes sense to block their 4b range and realize more equity.

also from the same hand; realizing how a ATx texture will give us more low equity hands in our range that want to bet, leading to a higher freq flop bet, leading to wanting to use a smaller sizing.

I thought this was quite strange. if people are calling with an 8 here against a 4x pot bet, then I suppose this is really good. In the live games I play, I imagine a 4x pot river bet would make an 8 fold at a decent freq.

i was thinking the same thing as bingo. This makes a lot of sense against a player who isnt going to repop the 9x because of the stronger hands in our own range, so when we do get repopped, its prob against a range we are drawing close to dead against.

I liked the focus of the content. Choosing a theme and then providing multiple examples and explanations. The images were super dorky, but please keep them haha Overall one of my favorite vids made recently. Look forward to future content from you.

In the first hand with KQo against the rec, I think you can also just bet 1/3 of the pot to ensure he calls much too wide. I think vs a 2/3 sizing players can still fold some Kx, but if we go 1/3 we can capture all the Kx range and maybe even weaker hands.

@38:10, this may seem like a silly question, but facing the PSB on the turn w KJ, where is the EV of this call coming from. We must be turning this into a bluff on the river at some frequency. I suppose it's one of the best combos to balance our range with(QQ/TT/77, 89, QTs). Are you just jamming this combo on the river every time we face a check on a blank river? It seems that a lot of his range blocks our outs(AA, AQ, AK), so we have to be gaining EV somewhere else with this hand. Are there hands I'm not considering that just give us more EV than I think(J9s, A9s) come to mind. Even if this is the case however, we still have to fade a river jam or else we don't have the opportunity to bluff.

Main point being, how are you analyzing this? I'm a bit confused on how to assess this situation and would likely be doing a lot of folding.(this may also be more correct in the games I'm playing), but still very interested in your thoughts here.

Thanks

I would call this raise pre. I think shoving is bad with this combo because UTG could have easily limped a hand like AK that he plans on defending and we have to contend against BTN’s uncapped range which we can assume is tighter than average because he reopened the action to the original limper.

I would open shove this hand pre also. It is better to realize our equity with the hand pre than to take the chance of folding the best hand later on. With this stack size we are priced in toncall a shove anyways and the shove is harder for our opponents to play against.

This is a simple equity calculation. When we face this shove we are getting 13.16 to 8.66 to call here or 1.52 to 1. Against a range of something like 88+ and AJs+ AQo+ we have about 43% equity which is more than enough.

Yes we always want to add on IMO. Anytime we have less chips we are at a disadvantage, so always add on.

against sticky and exploitative regs, who are calling and raising more against c-bets, why would the exploitative strategy for OOP be to c-bet slightly more? I would think that because players are playing back more, that our preferred option would be to decrease our c-bet from 5% rather than to increase it.

22:58 w the flopped 56 straight. if you are so concerned about him missing that flop so much, you could just bet really small to induce spazzes+get light floats. You at least build the pot this way, get value from a really wide range

19:40 w the AQss hand. I would be betting this texture constantly in my games 100/200nl american site, and in live games. It does make some sense because AQ has reasonable showdown vs calling range, and if villain isnt folding much PP's to aggression, it seems like a good combo to have in a check back.

Curious as to your thoughts here tho.

Tough spot! After some thought I think QQ should be the bottom of our defense range vs this shove on the turn. If we think about our range after we bet the turn we are still uncapped with 4 combos of KJs and 6 combos of AA and QQ that can defend against villain's shove. It would take a read that villain is pretty bad aggro to defend hands lower in our range IMO but TT is certainly close and a very tough fold in game for sure.

As you pointed out, we can severely discount his AQ combos because he might not defend all of them preflop, AQ raises this flop some %, and AQ does not want to raise this turn all that often.

at 1:03 against the ak8032 guy when we have AQ and check down and he shows KT. Vs a player like that, i often will fire a 1/4 turn bet w a hand like AQ intending to get called/folds from some marginal Ax, maybe even Kx occasionally. What do you think of this? AJ, AT, A9, maybe lower from him could just peel seeing the small sizing. prob an exploitative play, but something that i think does well because he is going to be betting most small pairs by the turn for protection

good commentary haha

w the QQ hand at 24 where you called a 3B from the CO, im curious about your reasoning behind choosing a 50% bet sizing when check too on the 346ss flop. I am curious because your range will contain hands like 77+, and others, and these other portions of your range may want a smaller sizing on the flop. would you be checking some of these behind and polarizing your range more, and this is why you chose the larger flop sizing, or would you still be betting all of these hands as well for this sizing?
or because it is anonymous, might you also be choosing multiple sizing?

Thanks!

3:25 - ATK7 - why do you use this hand as a squeeze in this spot? Would this hand be to weak to defend with for a call on the button?

i often hear things like..."this is really close" would be useful to hear that followed up with, "because of x"

around 12:36, you talk about flatting 98s from the HJ vs an UTG open. even on a weaker table, I don't see how a call here can possibly be +EV. I mean, maybe in a live game where your implied odds are incredible, but even in weaker games online people aren't always just stacking off with top pair or worse every time

I have heard that Mac users do not have any problems with bovada/ ignition freezing and crashing. Have you had any problems like this while using a Mac on this site?

6:07, A4cc, why do you choose to go for a C/C line vs a C/R line?

100NL/200NL is pretty solid ;) would disliking seeing below 100nl given you are one of the better video creators for essential and look forward to the content you create at 100NL and above

I bet/ fold RVR. If we bet he can still call with the hands we are beating (JJ-TT, JcTc maybe?) and if we get re-raised players at these stakes are not going to have enough bluffs to support calling.

3:37 T8s top left

I am curious as to why you like just calling as opposed to raising and getting it in with this hand vs the 1/3 pot cbet on this board. Villain can certainly have some bluffs (AQ, AT, T9s, ect...) that we can fold out by raising which is a good thing because they have decent equity against our hand. We also have like 50% equity vs the top of his range (AK,KK,JJ).

Thanks

I think pre is a bit splashy. Our bluffing range cannot be too wide here given the fact that there are 3 people that flatted behind UTG all of which can have hands as strong as AKo and QQ.

It looks like the villian that called the squeeze in the SB is a weaker player so I think we can make a 1/3 psb or so and expect folds from AQ, AJs kinds of hands. We also have 6 outs vs JJ, 99, 77 that might check and call one street. A larger cbet will get more folds from some of the lower pocket pairs that might call pre so we can think about going like 33% - 40% pot IMO.