zachary nunyabiznass

Dude, it's great you're putting out live sessions again. Could you stick to doing them for awhile since it's been so long. A lot of us in essential who play MTT's just watch your vids and I basically pay the 10 bucks a month just bc of how well you explain play in live settings/flow. That DOESN'T mean you shouldn't do other types of vids, but if we aren't getting a series every couple months/quarterly, something is wrong IMO.

Thanks again for the great work you do, and the value with RIO is definitely there, so i DON'T want to sound like a complainer.

Keep it up!

ROFLMFAO, is this a joke, at NL5, I am fistpump getting it in here......wow.

Man it really hurts, but as play I think we have to fold it.

I bet 45 percent of pot on flop probably or thereabouts.

Hmm, I love your videos and thought process Akira; you're hands down the best video producer at Essential imho.

That being said, can you explain your analysis at 29.30 in what appears to be a rather innocuous hand where you raise Q9dd in mid position against nits behind. Now, I don't have an issue with stealing here, but I don't quite understand you saying we WANT this uber nitty BB to defend bc Q9dd is better than his defending range. I would have thought his defending range would have been mostly above Q9 with his stats' what am I missing here?

Also, and maybe this is something I am missing or doing wrong in my own game, but it doesn't seem lik you pay too much attention to game flow vis a vis your own image to villains....like you're playing fairly laggy preflop in that hand from what they've seen does this make their reshove range expand/widen a bit, or am I looking for monsters under the bed here/ reasons to wimp out on opening marginal holdings?

Thanks again.

Love calling pre here as we've slightly underepped our hand and can profitably bluff catch a lot and sort of manage the size of pot OOP in a tournament where that is advantageous, or so I am told, lol.

C/C flop and proceed in bluff catch mode from there imho.

( ) That amazing.

I play the same; I can't imagine folding flop there....that's insanely bad equity wise versus his range. I at least need to see turn and have him fire something reasonable to go away.

A 3b is definitely preferable here.

We lose to one combo which is rare combinametrically(sp?)......I think we have to have a better read than the one you put forth here to ever consider laying this down at these depths. If he has it, GG us. I probably take some time to make a read/ try to talk to villain in a live setting.

Good for him; he made a HORRENDOUS flat on the turn....he has to basically stack you each time he hits your hand or think you're mucking a lot more often than you are with that turn bet imho.

3.75 to 1, you don't need huge equity, the suitedness and connectedness makes lot's of flops attackable/shoveable and bluff catching isn't that bad at those odds either. That's the thing with these smaller and smaller 3B, at a certain point you just have to be calling compelled by insane pot odds.

AdX(paired board)

KdJ/Kd10

Q9

.........

EZ call in my 2/5 world....

Pre is fine.
I prefer C/C on the flop personally as he'll put your range well under where you're at and continue firing on a lot of good turns for us.
Turn is fine, I guess bc we don't want to stop him from firing and don't want to close him out on the turn witha C/Shv, right?

River check is fine to induce, no?

Call flop. fold turn....How is shoving the turn even entering someone's thought process really?

With that spread it's a marginal fold per ICMizer....

Guys, you need to post all the pertinent information to get a good answer; when you have two shorties and a huge gap to 1nd and 2nd and third like this, you'll get some nittier folds ICMwise.

It's super marginal both ways, and depending on how the table was playing and how the blinds are playing and my image right now, it could be a shove/fold to me.

EZ call in my world; ICM aside, we become easily exploited if we are folding 10 10 here to a reshove consistently, no? If our reshove calling range is JJ+ AK, than isn't it basically correct for people to reshove like almost ATC against us?

Calling is fine; lets take a flop with a nice drawing hand that can bluff catch if paired.

You're fine calling, but I never understand why people post the villains image/stats and not their own in these posts.

What has villain seen from you?

I think it's definitely a flat, especially since you're suited.

I still don't have all the stacks/payouts etc. so....

I think it's definitely a shove then. Not loving it, but pushing properly is part of our edge and this is a spot.

Stop playing in that game IMHO. You'll develop all sorts of bad/passive habits that'll manifest themselves in your game.

My 2 cents.

Well in hand one you say you have the shortest stack at the table but then again you list BB as shorter, so that's confusing. If you're the shorty, I think it's a clear shove pretty much....sucks but antes add so much dead money, you gotta let her rip here imho.

With someone shorter, now it's maybe marginal...depends on stacks, payouts, etc.

I don't think we can open/fold here with how AQ plays against reshovers ranges. I also think you're kidding yourself if you think the SB "always" shows up with QQ+; JJ 1010, AQss.....even lighter with spews show up.

I am absolutely puzzled how, with the above listed dynamics, you minraise flop.....What was the reasoning here?

As played I guess it's a fold, but I hate putting myself in this situation with a raise of the donk lead.

I wanna say you have to call off, but when you start constructing a range for him, it gets ugly equity-wise. I am also a big believer in the non-linear value of chips beyond ICM, so even if I could be EV neutral here, I probably fold with our very workable stack and assumed edge over the field.

1) Snap ship w/o ICM considerations.

2) Fold bc guy's range in EP with 9BB is pretty strong relative to our hand and there are ICM considerations and there are people who can wake up with great hands behind us, right?

Try not to make your mind up when you see your starting holdings that you're going all in. I see a lot of weaker/beginning players do this and it's a costly habit. Assess each situation when it's your turn to act independently of expectation.

So you're trapping for a squeeze with A10ss?

Ya, I don't like it at all.....

First question, do you think we're ahead of UTG+1's opening range here?

Hey Nick, you're one of my favs and definitely one of the reasons I stayed on with subbing awhile back....sad to see you in premium when I just reupped, but I can understand it.

I am completely in tune with your hand reading and postflop game for the most part, but bc I never really grinded cash online (nlh) and didn't get into watching training sites will a couple yrs ago, I feel like I am missing the basics of where, when and why we're three betting in hands like the 109ss hand.

What are the stats, factors, stacks we are looking for when making a play or evaluating it preflop. If I had assumed the opener to be weak, I would in practice usually flat in an MTT and maybe 3B in a live ring game....as I like to reduce variance in MTTs and put pressure on weaker players with position in ring games.

Am I doing it wrong?

I feel like im really missing these three bet spots a lot that top players get and it's one of the final pieces in making me a solid MTT player at lower limits.

If there is a video series on here to help, i'd be all for it too.

I actually used to think this way earlier in my poker career, and you are correct EV neutral spots are a pass bc of preservation of MTT life/ICM, etc, but this isn't an EV neutral spot at all. You'll snap lots of A2 A3 A4 22 33.....and have small edges over the KJ's of the world. You also become way to expoitable when you're folding pairs here tbh, and while that might not hurt you in the micros, it will hurt you higher up or in arenas where people get a large sample size on you. e.g. 45 mans, if they still run....

Xb turn, call most rivers.

A comma after o.k. would make that sentence.....

Ya, no one is that big of a jackass.: )

I can look at HH or meta numbers for you and give you some feedback. I am kinda in the same boat but think I am a solid microMTTer and have the stats (lol sample) to back up that statment.

PM me if you want to work together, bc I struggle to get off the table work done outside vids/twitch.