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Great video Qing!

Great point that protection betting works only against hands that fold. A lot of weaker players think the opposite, that they should "charge draws", which actually backfires with your weaker value hands.

I agree with all the points you raised comparing between the A42 and AKQ board. Id like to share an additional line of reasoning:

Another reason to bet the AKQ boards with marginal hands is that with BTN having so much AK/AQ,AA,KK,QQ hands in their range that the BB doesn't have, we can bet a depolarized range without them CRing much in response. It forces a passive strategy from the BB which we want from hands like Kx and avoid the probe line which makes us indifferent.

This is not as true for the A42 board.

Another reason we bet sets with the backdoor flushdraw (55 with spade on A42ss) because while holding the spade, we hit a set on boards where a flush isn't possible, making our EV significantly higher.

Cheers!

Hey Qing Yang, I loved the video!

For the closing question, I don't think its possible to increase the EV of a strategy by playing a -EV hand due to Shania. Here's why:

The short explanation: a Nash Equilibrium for a game, by definition, cannot increase its EV by changing a part of their strategy.

Another way of thinking of this is say if you added a hand that was -EV at equilibrium preflop, your opponent does not have to change their strategy in response. Then, the rest of your hands would have the same EV but you lose chips every time you play the -EV hand.

This is one of my favorite vids on RunitOnce, and I dont even play PLO.

Hey I've played Hyper HUSNG's for years, so can answer some interesting questions from the video:

1. Low pocket pairs are 4bet shoved over 3bets as they have around 50% equity vs unpaired hands which often call the shove, and are terrible at realising equity postflop with low SPR. Bottom pair is hardly better than air, and its too shallow to get much value from sets.

2. Removing limps from the SB range is a bad strat which would be exploited hard by regs. All decent HUSNG players limp 25BB deep, some limp 100% to simplify their strategy. Fish don't really mind vsing limpers as they call always shove over a limp.

Thanks :)

Also, what's the public solver for 5 card PLO?

What solver are you using for these mixed games?

If the opponent is opening wide from the SB (in this case 100%) you can learn alot from the BB ranges played in HU pots, since its basically the same spot, although the added 1/2BB from the small blind incentives even wider flats and raises. It sounds like you don't do alot of flatting from the BB. You should not only 3bet him more but also flat a pretty huge range (wide BB ranges are really common among HU players but rare in 6 max players).

On the flop checking and betting is fine.Not a spot to cbet everything OOP tho 

+1, how to improve between your bi-monthly vidoes would be very helpful, especially since you seem to have a unique approach to poker study :D

Yes under the conditions that:

1. There is in fact more than 1 GTO solution to HUNLHE

2. You know both GTO solutions

3. The opponent is not playing GTO

One of the GTO strategies will perform better than the other.

Good coverage of the basics of GTO Sauce :) You be take over Phil Galfond's title as the best poker teacher ever by the end of the series. I sincerely hope that the comments section doesn't turn into a debate about the terminology of GTO (however, don't expect your vid to solve qualms about the concept as experience shows that some people will never understand regardless of how sound the explanation)

I think you might find it interesting that almost all top HUSNG players use a mixed limp and steal range from the SB 10-25BB deep (although they are from position).