konrad

At first I couldn't imagine Andy's 3x with Q5s (20:00) being profitable but after playing around with HRC, it seems to do well (of course only because such a large open will force players behind into jam/fold mode, and their rejam ranges will be tighter than vs, say, a 2.5x open). Indeed, it seems that a 3x with ATC is profitable when players to act rejam only 8.6% each (66+, AJo+, KJs+, QJs), except for the BB, who will shove 12.5%. In this case, Q5s nets .19BB. I realize this is is not an accurate model of how the spot plays IRL (you will get flatted sometimes and rejam ranges might be wider), but your point about manipulating the rejam ranges of the players behind with a different raise size is interesting and worth studying (at least for me). Seems like something you can only do once in a while though ;)

Hi Dylan,

About the J9s vs the rejam at around 7 min. Now, because of his perceived lack of fold equity, I doubt that villain is jamming as wide as HRC suggests he should, but assuming that he is, I'm not so sure you can afford to pass up the expected .73 BB of a call.  Im dont think I agree with the argument about passing up on this EV because of the way losing would effect the utility of your stack. After all,  this is a turbo and I think edges come from taking these "small" EV spots, and you'd still be left with 60k if you call and lose, i.e. more than villain had to start the hand, and therefore, you'd still have decent FE on future rejams.  This is my intuition, and its likely wrong, but Id be curious to hear what you and others think.

Yeah those are nash calling ranges, way wider than the blinds' actual in game ranges, eg. it has sb calling q9o and j10s with a big stack in the bb. Most players fold 98s and k4o in bb to that shove too. With realistic calling ranges, Id estimate the j8o shove nets at least a small blind.

Hi Stephen, great video as usual. I don't quite understand why you add 3k to pots when a player is AI in the superKO.  My reasoning in such spots has always been the following: (1) at the start of the tournament, I buy in for 300 and get 3000; (2) 3000 chips is worth 300 dollars, at least early on; (3) the bounty is 150; (4) therefore I need to add to add half the starting stack (1500) to the pot when a player is AI. 

Can you please tell me where I'm going wrong? Thanks!

Its fine.

you have a soothing voice.