smuft1

I laugh out loud every time you play your banjo. I'm not sure if I laugh out of enjoying the sound it makes or because it feels so ridiculous and out of place in a poker video.

Content was interesting; enjoyed the history lesson and got value from your practical mental game advice.

In this video you 3b KTo from the SB vs CO and said you may call a 4b OOP here not without history where you've also already flatted stronger hands in this spot.

Last video you did something similar where you opened A2s on the button and folded vs a 3b from the blinds, again saying that you'd call with history where you showed your opponent you have a strong flatting range.

So this seems to be a somewhat consistent philosophy from you where you fold the bottom of your range until you have shown your opponent the top of your range. My question is, do you think that these calls are only profitable if your opponent sees the top of your range? Or are you consciously giving up a small amount of EV in that particular hand in an attempt to make yourself overall tougher to play against?

(KTo is probably a bad example as this is a borderline 3b vs the CO and definitely the bottom of ur range, very surprised you said you'd ever flat this vs a 4b, maybe we can pretend you had something more reasonable like AJo/KJs)

Both styles have their merits. "why" is easy enough to deduce for most mid/high stakes players from just watching the action and hearing a brief comment. Seeing how Sauce deals with a wider volume of decisions will be more beneficial for these types of players. We also have a comments section where we can go into depth on any "why"'s that are beyond the scope of the video.

Could you talk a bit more about your SB v BB open raise of 70%?

In my DB filtered to 5-10, 4-9 players, I have the SB open raise % at 37.4. You're advocating roughly double that. Couple related questions to get you going:

1. How can it be profitable to open 70% of our hands when villain is getting 2:1 in position?

2. How can it be profitable to be forced to call 3 bets OOP with hands as weak as A7o, J9o, K5s? (27th percentile hands, rough assumption on what we'll need to call to healthily surpass 1-a minimum defense frequency when opening 70%)

3. Kind of a side question that seems more relevant than ever when we're pushing our SB opening range so far - if 4 players folded before us in a full 6 max game and we are opening T4s SB v BB, the BB does not have any 2 cards and is slightly more likely to hold Ax or Kx hand. How much does card removal weigh into the strength of BB's range?

In depth analysis is nice on some hands but I would prefer a video where you just let the footage run and make very brief comments on each hand without pressing the pause button. Even better would be a video in real time so that in 1 video, we get to quickly see how you play ~200 hands as opposed to slowly seeing how you play ~20 hands.

Nice video, appreciate the thoroughness and integrity of your replies.

PS - please stop using "So..." as a period (I don't know if you listen to your own videos but you do this about ~10x per video)

The very first hand of game play w/ T9o on T8XddX8:

You get to the river and say something along the lines of "we don't have very many bluffs here and if we bet more than 1/2 pot he's likely to fold".... This sounds pretty ridiculous to me.

Considering we're getting 5:1 preflop here we will have almost every possible flush draw and straight draw on the flop and with both those missing by the river, we will have a huge range of missed draws to bluff with.

You didn't mention the effects of rake at all here. Consider that at .50/1 the rake can be up to 3bb per pot and at stakes even as high as 3/6 the rake is still 0.33bb/pot. Surely this has to effect which hands we can profitably defend with.

The 88 hand you folded to a small squeeze near the end of the video seems a bit tight. Immediate 28 for 70 with a little more than 400 behind I have trouble folding here and dont even consider the back shove vs this smallish squeeze and 110bb starting stacks. Can you go a bit deeper into the thought process of call vs shove vs fold?

@23:00 you make some comments regarding 3 handed play vs 6 handed something to the tune of you should be playing looser 3 handed than 6 handed. You then proceed to min open 53o on the button since play just went from 6 players to 3 and you wanted to get in a quick steal to capitalize on that.

Is 3 handed poker any different at all than 6 handed poker folded to the button? Why?

+1

I don't really understand how you can use "the pot is not very big" as part of your reasoning for choosing a particular action; I've heard you say it a couple of times throughout your videos and this time in the 88 hand in the beginning of the video. I could see it being valid if you are super mass multitabling and would rather put your effort into other more +EV decisions but if we are just looking at any one hand individually "the pot is not very big" doesn't seem to be relevant, a play +EV bluff is still +EV whether the pot is 10BB or 100BB. Am I missing something?