msm89

Are you planning on buying licenses for Denmark?

How will your balance in focus be between cashgames and tournaments? Are you planning on having a good program of GTD tournaments and maybe your own series?

And thank you for this big initiative.

Hey - nice vid thank you, agree with almost all your thoughts and action, but

33:50: K10ss OOP on 7s-2x-7x: You know he opens wide, but you say its not a good flop for you.. you are alot of the time ahead of his range, and even if he cbets Ahi it will be checked back on turn from him alot. You have plenty of equity to improve. You can also rep PP or better. The price is low, which is key.
What's your thoughts behind snapfolding - sounds like you didn't even consider calling

37:25: I think your bluff was good, you have the worst hand you can have = fine hand selection.. he's a bit too sticky here for sure, and calls blindly, not your fault..

Velkommen til :)

We call. The 3b is for value and we can expect to be doing fine against his 4b jam

Hey clutch hero

Thanks for your vid! I have some comments throughout, feel free to respond

03:30 You say you want to fold vs a clickback (if you raised) even though you have massive odds to call and see river? (not to mention we are underrepped)

04:00 You say that you think villian will fold 88 and 99 here often, I don't see how that is possible or good in anyway (exploitative or GTO) to fold that wide vs a random line where Hero in a SRP chb a monoflop and then only calls turn. I like the riversizing by the way, I think it maxes our value with all the hands that villian is "required" to call with

06:30 I think we can easily make a 2,5x raise (cr) vs the cbet here on that flop, since it makes sense with our range, we can rep some strong made hands and draws that can't be bluffed out to a flop3b. We also have some Kx in our perceived range, even though we might not CR them (I wouldnt), but it still accomodates the CR quite nicely that villian can't rule out that we CR Kx here (and we have all Kx except AK). One of the main reasons for cr is of course that our hand is very vulnerable.
That said I don't think a call-line is bad, I just think cr is better in these kind of situations, and with the current tendencies it's good to have some more CRs imo

20:10 Definetely a good A6ss open, regardless of the strength of the BB. BB is OOP with a range disadvantage unless he 3-bets. If the players behind in LP are light 3betters or flatters, then that is a much more important factor, but doesn't seem the case

23:00 pretty sure we have to CB here, since he could have many combos that has to call here and we actually rep a less strong range by cbetting imo, compared to chb, where we almost always have SD and probably 6x-QQ.
Thus I'm not sure we're gonna get much value with delaycbing from hands that wouldnt call flop, and with a flop cb we also have the opportunity to get 3barrels on good runouts (I was actually writing this before I saw he had K10..)

35:00 flop check-raising is really bad option here imo when we don't really fear many runouts and we could have so many floats that are worse hands, so let villian bluff and vb light instead. I btw also don't think that KK is a slowplay flatting option here, much more vulnerable OOP and unwise to let BB into the pot if we hold KK.
Most importantly however, with AA we block UTG from having some strong Ax to GII with, but with KK we could still get action from strong Ax if we 3b.

I agree with the other hands and your thoughts - and got a couple new ideas (ie the 810s flat on BTN vs CO open pre-ante)
I like your videostyle by the way - alot of hands, fast paced and good content

You have waited so long for that comment! :D

Since the title is "The Art of MTT's" and the author is you James, I was actually expecting a little more content about what kind of things that makes MTT's like an art compared to the linearity in cash-games and the GTO applied in those. Especially with the nice first part that pointed out the need for a more exploitative view on poker in MTT's because of the structure that affects emotions and so on. It feels like you diving into 'timing' is only the tip of the iceberg of what can be discussed under this umbrella called "The Art of MTT's"

So what I'm saying is... can you make a part 2 and give us some more of your insight?

Very nice format with the replay and HH!

Really nice in depth video with great mathematical arguments, thank you Sam

I have one thing I hinge to though.

What I'm thinking about is that it is super relevant to discuss our perceived range in these rivercalling spots, and more so what it means for the hand considering our opponents possible range. In these 2 particular situations I think the "value" of our perceived range is sooo different (I say "value" instead of strength bcuz it is kind of abstract what the strength is).

I guess you actually take in to consideration our perceived range in the first hand but I feel like you overlook it a little in the 2nd.
In the first hand the board favors us so much (esp when he 3/4 as you pointed out), because Ax is a better card for our range and our turn check-back often has showdown-value (including Ax-high). I think that he is aware of this and tries to exploit this fact (reversely) to make you fold non Ax hands (and you don't really have any Qx+ on turn). But case in point being: his bet is weird and we should consider bluff-catching since this is our board. Your mathematical solution to how wide we can bluffcatch is sufficient here I guess :)

But in the second hand villian crushes our range when he bets considering capped-ness etc, his top-range is so much better than our top-range. Since the board is two-tone and there's also gutshot options, we do not have very many slowplay checkbacks like Ax and strong Kx on turn. We probably have some weak Kx we checkback, but even those could easily bet turn, to extract value and protect, since Kx is going to call a river bet on blank anyway. With the same logic we could actually be betting turn with an even wider range for value and protection, thus leaving us with a pretty mediumstrength and low-to-nonestrength range on the river. Furthermore I think something that is very important here is to not just look at his combinatorics and suggest that they are all weigthed the same, since on this boardtexture I am sure he has so many more valuebets with his range than hands that select to bluff (i.e.: he bets every time with Ax and most Kx, but doesnt bluff all the time with 54cc). I think it is bad of him if he takes out K9 from his valuebetting, but I think you're right in leaving out QJ as a bluff bcuz QJ has decent SDvalue. This makes his possible range compared to our perceived range so crushing that I think you should have emphasized it a little more in such and in-depth analysis. And to consider in your vid a little more that we don't need to have much of a calling-range here because of this emphasis (the possibility of fold).
However, even though I think you skipped over our perceived range a bit in the 2nd hand, and that I think it is a spot where we really would like to fold a lot of the time, we don't have very many better bluffcatchers than small and medium PP in my opinion, so it's def worth considering to call with such. Case in point being: I don't necessarily disagree with the call, would have just liked you to argue a little more about the difference of our perceived range vs his range in this hand than in the other calling hand, since I think the difference is important and exciting.

I'm a little worried that I didn't get my thought out as clearly as I would in this reply, but let's see what you make of it first

Would be cool with a video format once every half year from 2-4 Elite Pros pooling together their thoughts on the current tournaments player pool tendencies (and what they have progressed from) - that way we can get a discussion running between the pros, and all us watchers can enter the discussion too, whilst getting valuable information on the current tendencies

It would be great if it would be outlined as 5-10 sentences (=5-10 tendencies) within a bunch of categories, such as pre-flop, flop, turn, river play and in different stages etc, so that it is easily digestible and rehearsable

Sorry for my english

08:39

Very good shove spot (were you dont shove) with J9o in a turbo considering 1) BB's stack, 2) the shorties (who almost fold the same with 3-4x as they would deeper vs MP shove), 3) the strength of our perceived range, 4) that we get 25% increase of stack and 5) that we have a pretty decent hand vs a calling range

It is my standard, do you have an opinion on this?

Hey David, thanks for your vids, enjoying them.

66 at 47:13, I think that shove is a bit spewy. At the least I think it is one of those hands that you have to comment on in the vids, compared to other spots where you give an explanation.
I would like to hear your thoughts here?
I consider it readless since nothing else is said, and therefore I think an UTG+1 range has too few steals, that folds out, and more importantly a pretty high % of the range that will call an MP shove, where we are in bad shape vs that range. Even though your shove looks kind off strong from that pos, we don't necessarily fold out 77-99 since you are weighted more towards AJs and AQ+ than 1010+. He can call the shove and still have a decent stack to continue.
Other factors to consider is 1) that we have alot of players to act behind. 2) our stackdepth is quite comfortable going forward, we don't achieve exceptionally much by picking this pot up, compared to the risk of being up against a crushing range for our life

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It was a very entertaining video, with your thought process being from another perspective than usual; with more doubt in your decisions and how you handled that (ex tightning up)
Also a bit motivating to see you making some errors ;) It's cool that you're humble like that

Can you please elaborate on why you generally betsize so small? Especially when you're deep. For example your A2K4ds hand, you size 420ish in 1300 11kish deep on 8-9-10r. I think that's ridicilous and accomplish nothing - and I dislike it with our entire range. This is just an example you usually size smaller than what I would prefer, especially since it's PLO and not NLHE (where most would tend to size smaller). So please elaborate from a general point of view, but also more specific would be nice.