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Only 20 minutes ? Honey can you last longer than that next time ?

Jokes aside. Great video as always. Thank you

CrushLivePoker only works for 2-5 or lower. Most 5-10 regs are way better than that.

Sorry to hear RIO canceled your course. I played fair amount of home games. Let's just say I have seen shit too. There is definitely a dark side of poker.

Anyways, the games I play usually gets 500+bb deep. I was hoping your course would focus on deep stack situations since you are a deep stack live cash game specialist and rest of the RIO focus on mostly 100-200bb. Please send me a message when your course is out.

There is a popular game called PLO double board bomb pot going on now. People want to play one hand for every dealer change. Do you have any experience playing those live ? If so, would you make a video about it.

Thank you.

Love your video as always. Thank you for the inspiration.

Still waiting on your course. Is it gonna be like a all around course to teach people from ground up ? or is it gonna be like a advanced course for those of us that's looking to play 5-10 and up.

Thanks again

@38:50
Why betting ½ on the river is bad ? on a board of 383ddsKs7s. People have a lot of 99 TT 66 8x on the river that might call a 1/3 bet but will not call ½.
@51:00
Ac7h on 3h6kh9htd
You said we have two bet size again 1/3 or 1.5x.

Why either using 1/3 or pot + at river in general?
Can you explain a bit more please?

Thank you

Love this video.

River decisions are very interesting

Question @6:56 ATss on KKsJs6s4, river. You said we either bet 1/3 here or jam here. And you prefer to jam here because its good for your entire range. The solver does not like we bet half our stack on the river.

Why is 2/3 here bad ?? and why is jam better than 1/3 ?
Could you explain this a bit more please ?

I’m guessing, by jamming here we are able to bluff more. What are some of the good bluff here? We have 4 combos ATos with As ? 4 combos of AQos with As. 3 combos of QTs, that’s 11 combos. Our value here is 2 combo KJ s, 3 combos of JJ, about 4 combos of A high flush and 2 combos of other flush. That’s 11 combos. Are we over bluffing here ?

BTW: when is your next book coming out ?

Thank you.

Edit:

Thank you so much for the detailed explanation and the article.
I'm looking forward to the course.

Oh yeah it makes more sense now. Thank you

Hey in the AJ hand, you said if someone is 3 betting IP more than 12% of the time, we must 4 bet at least 60 combos to keep their balance in check.
That would include all the TT+ AQ+ ATs AJs A2-A5s all the suited connectors and gappers. 65s to t9s 64s to t8s. And that is only 10%..........

Its only we adds all the suited As and broadways we get to 12%
12% seems insanely high to me. Does people ever 3 bet that much in game ?
Am I missing something here ?.

small cliff:

1. Its okay to make some nit fold with AQ pre against good player really deep.
2. 3 bet A4 in position. Bottom vs co.
3. 3 bet a 20bb with 77 board AAJ he lead out half pot, we have to fold here because we are flipping against QT.

Thank you for the video. I have a few questions

Question 1 at 9:57
Bottom opens, we flat with J4ss. Flop AJ7cc. we check. Bottom c bet 63 into 55, why do you say it’s correct to use large sizing. What’s the benefit here using over bet instead of ½ pot ?

Question 2 at 17:42
We open KQhh sb flat with J52ccc. We min bet. What’s the min bet strategy on mono board if our opp does not check raising us ? What’s the plan on the turn if it’s another club vs a non club ? Thank you

Question 3 at 24:34
We open Q9. BB flat. Board is T783K on the river. We rolled 90. So we over bet shove 865 into 275. Do we only bluff this sizing like 10% of the time ? Do we have a non-all in over bet sizing in other frequencies ?

Cliff:

Check raise Q9ss on 563css turn Ac over bet 1.5x , they need to fold 60% here for immediate profits
162x+(4060.2-2440.8)(1-x)=0 when we have 20% equity , they actually only needs fold 41%
River slight overbet. They need to fold a bit more than 50%. Reason is they are really capped and we have one of the worst hands here.

C bet 88 in 3bet pot on A3Khcd, double barrel on turn to fold out some TT JJ type of hands.
4bet QQ small 25% c bet on 92krb. Turn A, check check,
Not calling c bet with AdQs on K24ddh even with rec behind because sizing.
Not sure about river over bet with K9 on 4t5k7.But I do agree with the fold when he check raise a overbet. IMHO people rarely bluff raise a overbeat.

Don’t be greedy with AJ on 6T56J after check call. Just donk river we might get called from 88 99 77.
3bet AA flop 648rb. We gonna check here a lot so we have to check AAs. 3bet caller bet and we check raise ? Do we do this with AK sometimes ?

Ah5h on Kj6hh we gonna use small size on Broadway broadway low. Over bet turn T. opp check out. River A Opp donk small. I think A5 is almost never good here ? He does not have much bluffs here. Even the worst hand he block bet bets us. But the price is too good to fold.

I always take notes watching you play. Thanks for the video as always

Please make more.

Cliff:
- Don’t be afraid to XXB. And bet the worst hand given how we work out our range
- We gonna have to check a lot out of position. Don’t sweat it. Construct a range around a flop check. If they get aggressive, we will make more money on our bluff catcher.
- 88 flat in sb, often result in 3 way pot, which really “eat into our equity”
- 3 way in bb, we can fold some hands that we would call HU, because the cold caller really eats into our equity and we are under realizing our equity.
- On low paired board, 80% of the time should be bet and check raise. But we live in the real world not in the world of GTO
- We are a little sky on low paired board, we should bet a lot with small sizing.
- 3 bet A8ss with 25bb against a loose open EP open
- Playing our range with Q9 on Q45K turn, not just our hand

Great video as always. Thank you and GL on the tables.

Hey Sam:
After some heavy shit from uncapped cash games, I decide to take a break and go play a $1100 live tournament tomorrow. As part of my routine before tourney, I always watch one of your videos to refresh my tourney memories. I’m so glad that you made this video. The format is fantastic and there are tons of interesting spots. Thank you so much for putting this content out. Can’t wait to see how you handle the final two tables.
Anyways, here is the cliff.

Cliff:

• Shove 89ss for 23bb on HJ close to bubble. Strong play but theoretically correct making half a bb. But is it worth the variance ? The answer is yes if you want to keep it gangsta.

  • Shoving 49ss for 15bb effective sb vs bb. Standard

  • AKdd on KK7hh 9h. Sam says its close to a check raise. That would be a strong play imho.

  • 21 bb shove with 55 on lo jack. Slightly +ev given the bb is a good player. He would defend correctly if we just raise.

  • good player open in co. 10 bb stack jam. We reshove with AQ. Standard spot. We have a lot of his hand dominated.

  • sb raise 2.5bb with 20bb stack. We shove KJ in bb. Try to not worry cuz we have good blockers.

  • strong sizing with AJdd on A75dd6d7 river. 120k into 160k seems a little too strong

  • J9os shoving 15bb stack blind vs blind is fine. Barely +ev

  • c bet AQos on 746rb against a bb defend seems lighting money on fire in cash game but I guess its okay in tourney.

  • 15bb qjss utg shove very standard. Our opponent calling 77 with 4 players behind is just barely okay.

  • we open A7os otb. Sb shove 15bb. We kinda have to fold here. But we calling A9 and probally A8

  • when I was 7 years old, my mom told my uncle if he wants to see me growing up, he had to quit smoking. So he did. But it was too late, he died of lung cancer 3 years later anyways. To this date, I have never smoked a single cigarette. I kinda regret it though, because Piosolver gave me cancer anyways. It way over complicated much simple problems. Like on the board of 9T8J, flop check check. Turn villain donks out. This spot just way underbluffed and we have plenty of better hands to defend. This is an easy fold with 86. But pio thinks we should smoke some crack and call here sometimes.

  • misclick is okay. Everyone does it. Don’t ever tilt over it.

  • A7ss on 984dsd. We check and fold on the flop but this is should be a call according to pio.

  • 88 with 11bb is almost always an all in against a raise.

  • QJos 11bb in BB against a shove from sb. Slam dunk call

  • 21 bb AQ we shove against a open, but if we are slightly deeper, we can 3 bet to induce some rejam.

Thanks again. Hope you are running good in poker and life. GL

I have been doing well. Hope you are too.
I played a live donkment two days ago. I made the money with 1.5bb. I was dancing like a clown on my way to the cashier and everyone was laughing and giving me high fives.
The bubble boy made a really really really strong play with 20bb on the bubble. I busted like 2 hands after him hahahahahaha

Good to see ya still making strong plays. For a lot of the HH, I'm gonna quote one of your dear friend " I would fold, but I know you raise"
Thanks a lot for the video. It's always educational and entertaining.

cliff:

I'm 4 years behind in learning

i doubt villain has any back door flush draw in his turn check raising range. We have KThh, Ah is on the river. What's the check call on the flop that contains 2 hearts ? one combo of QJhh ? and yes, he could have turned 78 into bluffs. But if this is the same villain that saw us flat QT straight to his over bet on the turn on AKxJ the hand before. He has to know that we protect our range somewhat. So we could have a lot of the full house combos here at the river and we could also just hero him with a flush or even trips. I think "Generally I'm not trying to move a guy off a range of trips or better" said it best. in this spot, we just rarely see a bluff, he is never value shoving anything less. He has 12 combos of value that beats us and i can hardly think any bluffs he could have. and given the A hit on the river, it discounts it even more.

cliff:
Nick makes grown man cry

But for real though, you inspire me to do what I always wanted to do.
Thank you

Great video but I dont know man. You seem to flop a set in 3 bet pot very high percentage of the time. Care to share the hack ?

Hey Sam, I heard you repeated saying stuff like “hey we need 25% equity to call here, we certainly have 25% with this hand, it would be rarely a mistake to call here.” But we are talking about pre flop decisions here, yes the pot offers us 3:1 and our hand have 25% equity against their range. But that’s given we see all 5 cards, which we often wont. Like the hand at 28:00 when we have A6s. we open 500, and got 3 bet to 1225. We are getting 3:17 to 1, which we only need 24% equity. Of course we got 24% equity against their range, but that’s given our opponents check it down to us, which rarely happens. If we take positions (we are out of position), our hand strength (we are denominated by his value Ax hands and could lose a lot of money if A flops), we can argue strongly for a fold here.

Okay I just read through the comments, and you did address this topic. I think a better program to use than equilab is flopzilla. For example, for A6ss, we can see that we flop 2 pair plus 4.31% of the time, top pair 16.3% of the time, and flush draw 10.9% of the time. So around 30% of the time, we can flop good enough equity to go with the hand. I think use this program to evaluate preflop decisions are way better than equilab, because when we call preflop, we only get to see 3 cards, not 5.

Anyways, great video, Thanks Sam

Hey Sam, it has been a long time since I view your videos. I used to do a lot of “cliff”. I hope everything is good with you. I’m glad you are still putting out a lot of strong plays. I have been playing deep stack private cash games mostly, but I just made to the final day of a 500K guarantee tournament at my local casino with 4th biggest stack (95bbs). I think the average stack is 30bb. The final is 2 days from now (I'm guessing about 150 players will qualify. So I’m spending some time refresh tournament strategies. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Anyways, here is my notes a.k.a cliff

-At 16:00 the AQJJQ hand, I thought in my head this is a fold before I see the result. The reason is that we have all the Qx and Jx in our range that would get to the river this way, it too much risk for him to turn his pair into bluff here. He is also unlikely to have totally air and decide to check flop and turn then pot river (he would bet flop mostly). So in my humble opinion, this is rarely a bluff.

-Strong play at 20:00 with AQ on 732cc8k triple barrel. “am I really betting QQ on the river? Possibly” but not really hahahah. I still like the play.

-23:20 I love this over bet with T9cc on 574cc8

-29:05 we have KcJ on AcAT7c6c, our opponent bets turn and we called, he then bet 72000 into 185722 at river. I think this is a good spot to bluff raise it. You got the nut flush blocker and you could have all the boats. Its gonna be pretty hard for him to call with a naked A or even a smaller flush. Of course he could have A7, A6, or some 77.

-30:30 the triple barrel with 3t is pretty cool. Our opponent is capped at this spot, and we have a huge perceived range advantage.

-33:57 I like the river value bet with QJ on 8QA4A, after he check the river to us.

-39:00 flop the nut, must be nice sir, must be nice

Great video as always. Keep making those strong plays. Good luck Sam.

Thank you so so so much for the advice. I'm gonna go check out OO and propokertool. And also dive in the articles in your link. Again, thank you very much.

Mike Basic told me some of the stories you guys had in those games, definitely very interesting.

Hey Teunuss I’m back!!! Glad to see you are still making bomb ass videos. I’m gotta check them all in the next a few weeks. I really like hand history review format. Hope you do more of them!!!

yo yo yo thanks for reply me on crushlivepoker

hey thanks a lot

you mean like this one ?

Okay I did a new sim with adjusted range of people behind me. I gave them a ready tight calling range QQ+ for smaller stack and a slightly bigger range for those 2 big stacks. But the result turns out 77 becomes a +ev shove here. And without FGS its even more plus ev.

Here is a link of this problem http://www.icmpoker.com/icmizer/#mHYFUD Can you guys see if my set up is wrong or something ? I have input the payout already.

Thank you very much guys

Omg you are absolutely right. I forgot to set the calling range for the people behind me.