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How was life as a tourney grinder coming from cash? Softer? More tiring or exciting?
Also what new computer did you get? Thanks and welcome back

A few times you would raise and get a flop like AKQ or K743 and say this flop is good for my range, but then you would just bet 30% on the Flop then give up with Q9 and A5. If it’s good for your range isn’t it a good spot to start putting on lots of pressure? Or were they just opponent specific give ups? Thanks for the vid, good as always

The bluffs that didn’t work are pretty fancy and a lot of players esp at lower stakes hardly ever pull such big bluffs, as you move up do you think pulling moves like these are essential to having a good win rate in the modern game?
If bluffing big and it not working effects your mental bandwidth would you recommend doing it less or working really hard to it being no big deal to you?
Thanks

Love your videos but Isn’t it a bit of a contradiction to not complete the sb or marginally defend the bb for rake reasons but to play on stars with 1% rakeback where you could get 40-65% on party poker when the rake is v similar? Are the games so much softer on stars to make up for it?

Great video Nick, i really think this volatility theory applies to me and my game, do you have any other in game applications for the theory? Is it mostly just about avoiding marginal spots? I think playing 77-JJ and calling 3bets with AJ and lower that things often go wrong

I also play in these games, if Hero would like someone else to chat strategy in these games with please drop me a PM

At 36.40 why call the J10 on the turn to fold to river bet when all the flop draws missed? Doesnt nearly every reg follow through with a river bet around that size with their 109cc just to fold out your K10, A8cc etc?

In one part of these videos or just here if you prefer could you talk about the profitability of a mid stakes cash player becoming an mtt reg? Should a good player absolutely be playing both? How do you split your time these days between cash and mtts, is it heading further in the direction of less cash more mtts?
Thanks

You can't review a hand for ten mins where you 2x pot bluff shove the river and not show us the result!

In the first hand you talked about how it's much better to just call a hand like 33 on A83 because he will stack off with the same range but by calling you keep his bluffs in aswell. Although this is obviously true how confident are you that this provides you with more value than the times the board runs out bad for a hand like AK and you lose value. Say the river runs out QJ or heart heart villain will always check fold a hand they would have stacked off with if you raised flop. Add in the times it runs out A8333 or A8382 which greatly reduces villain bluffing off with their j10hh hands then suddenly I think it's very close which line is more profitable, Especially if you add in the occasional flop bluff raise and semi bluff with the 108hh hand you had. I guess it's a complicated one as it is also villain dependent and slow playing the turn or not adds more complexities

Think you put yourself in a tricky spot betting the QJ 3 times but v small on river on the KQJ38 board. With the turned FD there becomes a bunch more hands he can call turn with but can never call the river. By betting 1/3 pot on river don't you kind of say I'll fold if you shove. Why not check / call river? If you're beat he will definitely bet bigger than you did but atleast you get to see a showdown.

You talked about meditation in your last video, can you recommend how I can get into it? Good websites or books etc

May I ask how you are going to change your plans for next year with the changes to stars vip program? Gonna play a lot more 2/5? Spread play over multiple sites to get rakeback at 5/10?

I've thought about this before and thought it could work. A poker site for the players, owned by the players.

Thanks for doing the live session, I thought it worked really well and would like to see more of this format, I think the pace was good

When you check raise hands like the 53s on 776 from the BB and pickup equity on turn like say an 8 that also gives you a flush draw, obviously you bet but you'll often brick on the river. How do you decide whether to bluff shove? I guess you're more likely to give up on an off suit 2 but shove if it's an ace? Pretty tilt to check an ace river and lose to 89 which he most likely would fold. I just think it's a very thin line between being good aggressive and spewing off chips so find it interesting how good players manage these decisions

I like your videos and the slow pace deep analysis can be really useful but I'd also like to see you to a more erazer / Zaza style just 3 tabling 500 or 1k zoom making decisions on the fly as that's what we have to do in reality. Thanks

What software do you use to know in what % of hands any given hand is?
Thanks great video

Yeah thats me. Still grinding NL cash, not that much on stars or ftp though more on euro sites and transitioning to plo on stars

Yeah think it was bad call by him as I'm def not shoving 88 or 99.
He is a bit of a whale lagtard reg though. He loves to station me....
http://youtu.be/WgBCXiJbUv4

I'm up about £55k vs him

Hard to say as no HUDs on sky poker but probably about 40k over last 7 months

What do you think about players like this transitioning from NLHE playing with deep stacks in the plo200 and 500 zoom games? Better to get 100bb game on point first? Or is there so much more value in playing deep you should try to master it from the off even though your mistakes will cost you a lot more?

Yeah that makes sense I just find it very hard to play lower than PLO 200. Having played NLHE up to 10/20 consistently I just find I play worse because I don't care about the money, which I know is completely retarded. So I guess I'll either get over my ego or work really hard and get good quickly!

+1 for live 2/5 zoom video. 3 tables + replayer works best imo

I love these videos, you could never make enough of them imo

like all your videos. This was great as it is very unique in covering areas many vid producers don't, please keep coming with a mixture of these and live zoom sessions