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I dont understand the consept of 'defending the blinds".... Why you have to protect it?? If you steal the pot on button preflop for example,, then you already have the blinds. Its hard for me to explain what I mean but I think you can "defend the blinds" on every position the future blinds.
GTO will cost you a bundle. I watch people coming in with a raise for the cutoff with j-8 suited and losing a fortune when a jack comes on the flop. Crap cards will always be crap cards.
I’ve noticed at my local live tournaments ($20/$40 buyin) there are a lot of people who limp in with premiums and a raise is essentially a 3-bet strength. Any ideas on exploiting? Tighten up and work to outmaneuver post flop?
The way you’ve explained in this video has made it a lot easier to follow. Obviously memorising the common pot odds is down to the player but is there a simpler/faster way of calculating the pot odds? My division isn’t that good and in online games you don’t have long to act.
Like for example yesterday i was on ft bubble 4/9 and chipleader in my table 3bets me, and for some god punting reason i go ahead and 4bet shove ak and bubble the ft when he calls 99 and holds.
I didnt understood if you're saying that as shortstack, one should settler for little money insted of using the bubble for trying to grow up and play for the win, or the opposite. Anyone could make it clear for me? thanks
He's saying if you have a big stack, try to make it bigger, but if you have a medium stack you should consider tightening up and taking pay jumps instead of battling for all the chips. And short stacks should definitely be willing to accept pay jumps instead of trying for the dramatic comeback.
Nice to see you relaxed, enjoying the conversation and showing yourself to be a really nice guy who understands the value of a community, @PokerCoaching
When you where taling about your open ender hitting 16% wouldnt it be 32 since you have the turn and river to come meaning 8×4( you have 2 more cards to come ) even with or without imploed odds shouldnt you continue?
I really don't know how I feel about all in minus 1 blind it would seem just raising large would accomplish the same thing, that play has always looked silly to me and if I'm continuing against them I always put them all in anyways. If you're doing it with a mix of good and bad hands why not put in a third or a half of your stack so it at least appears like you have some folds. I guess the only place that makes sense to me is if you're going for a bluff and you know you're no good if called so mostly river rather than preflop when even your bluffs still have equity.
Hi Jonathan, I just started reading your mastering small stakes book and it’s been quite helpful so far. However, I can’t seem to find the Float The Turn app, and the website is password protected. I realize it’s dated, but i’d really like to get some of that practice in. Any way you could help me out?
Final 8, 34BB - 3rd in chips, in BB with 66, folds to SB with the smallest stack at 13BB who limps. I jam and he calls with 1010, should I just raise small/check instead? or jam is ok?
Hi Jonathan, amazing content. 👌 Do you have a recommendation for games with add on. I play a 35$ local re enter tournament with add on option. When the re enter phase is over the blinds are usually 1k 2k, starting stack 50k. Add on 10$ for extra 30k chips. I studied 40bb fundamentals, I guess as long as I’m in that range I should be fine, but the players tell me it’s a mistake if I don’t take the extra 30k chips and I often have the feeling that I lose some edge then. I would really appreciate some general advice. Thanks a lot.
You should always add on. You’re buying 50k chips for 0.07c each. The 30k add on chips only cost 0.03c each. It’s a better value. And it’s always better to have more chips. Especially if you’re short, like doubling your stack from 30k to 60k. The only exception I can think of is if you’re really deep. Like you built up a 400k stack; now 30k is not so important.
Johnathan - Good stuff. If there is ICM pressure how does that change some of the bet sizings and ranges? Or in small stakes tournaments likely the competition quality makes it less important?
as a baseline you can cut off the threshold opens. be a little tighter. however it depends on the limper, and table dynamic. if they like to limp monsters, you can limp behind with ur stronger but non nutted hands. and if they limp with a capped range, you can switch to a blocker based rfi strat and attack the limp with a wider range. also remember to raise bigger in correlation to the amount of limpers.
