Hi everyone! I'm an Australian NLH cash game semi-professional. I play 500nl-2Knl and am posting some live plays and hand reviews.
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Notice in the 22 hand on the river that regs tend to either be trapping with better or giving up, its extremely polar, as such I think your intuition is picking up on the fact that they're either trapping with a set or top two pair, or folding. There are rare instances that villain has say Q3s for a spiked top pair with OESD on flop and backdoor flush draw. What I find interesting in this spot is that due to the over folded nature of villain in this line, you literally have to bluff every combo you arrive to river with, which seems to only exclusively be 67 for complete air and maybe K3s. Which stresses the importance of why solvers continue with some weird hands because obviously they're too weak to call, but they make up some value as bluffs when the river checks.
Yeah I don’t expect villains to deliberately trap here at any frequency. It’s just once in a while going to be 44 that thinks it’s too thin to go for. So it’s mandatory we go for the jam since there are some 54 Q4 Q5 QT combos that could be here and choose to call. Absolutely bluffing any air we have here, it’s going to be a give up line so often. Not sure if we even want to reach higher up than pure air - hands like A2/A4/A5/65 could be candidates if we double call flop/turn
hey man love your vids you seem like a good guy, but the tanking preflop is just getting ridiculous, you tanked 13 seconds pre-flop with pocket 6s on the button, youre clearly opening that, its really bad for the and youre gonna drive funny players away from the game. youre not gonna give away " timing tells " bro, youre not playing againt linus and stefan.
@@jeffgreen-v7z hey mate, I think you’ll find that I’m just playing slower in general when I record because I’m trying to explain my thought process on other hands. It’s quite tough to talk and play at the same time. I’m never deliberately tanking 66 on the button! For what it’s worth there is MDA on timing tells preflop and these games are the highest stakes on ignition, so there are going to be some crushers around, so I’d be losing EV if I wasn’t considering timing against regs. Certainly no need to consider my timing vs recreationals though :)
Good video, some good stuff in their, ran bad but still posted, thats good to see, I know you chose zoom to make videos but Fast fold tables are tough as ranges are compacted, even poor players can wait for good hands, viz a viz the 13bb guy with AK.
i don't really understand the jam with AQ at 25:00 - what are we repping there - pocket 5s, 6s, don't think we have AK in our range.. are we also jamming KQ in the same spot? i feel like even 25nl reg will perceive mainly missed draws in our range.. but then again maybe my perception of the player pool is different. i get that we have blockers to his value betting range.. but then a call or just a min-raise to fold out a random pair that decided to bluff would make more sense..
Jamming here also generates fold equity against hands like 77-JJ that the assumed fish can start "value-bluffing" with (=when a fish is not sure if it's bluffing or value betting 😁). By calling here, we lose against random pairs and by minraising we don't generate folds against bigger pocketpairs and weak Kx hands. Recreational players tend to focus on their hand and think less about opponents' ranges. Edit: typos and rewording.
@@gamer-uv2fb if we assume he can be betting the river with middling pairs then the shove starts to make sense. although Jako assumes opp range is either Kx (TP) or nothing
Great stuff, some interesting spots in there. Can you make the tables bigger and just show the graph at the beginning and end of the video? Its hard to see the action on my monitor when the tables only take up 1/4 of the screen.
Have you ever tried playing on GG from Australia? I played a bit before and it seems a lot better regulated than ignition, although I did find the cash games on ignition were alot softer and GG rake is high
He doesn't memorise - he learns and understands concepts/heuristics; then applies. It is always impossible to learn every unique situation/spot you will find. Less so in cash games, but still - he would learn as much as he can and apply his understanding through approximated thresholds and heuristics
The KK v T9hh, Tx is indifferent on the turn and mostly folds without backup. Whether or not the Tx that arrives at the river is supposed to bluff is quite sensitive to the inputs on the model. AI solved with 1 flop and turn size the tiny bit of Tx without clubs that arrives doesn't bluff. With the standard solution data base that is more complex Tx is bluffing the river. However I am not sure how relevant these models are being that T9s is a mix continue pre v 4b, mostly folds turn and I think population is arriving to the river with a lot more Tx than the computer. I leave the node locking to you. Oh I think you can use either turn strategy B33 or Jam on the double FD A turn. It's so close that when its Td8d5c the AI uses B25 but when its Td8c5d it uses AI. Basically 1 combo of A5s changes the single size turn strategy.
Great analysis thank you! Yes a very close spot overall, but I think it’s a reasonable assumption population will underbluff river with Tx, so folding vs jam makes sense. Does KK fold vs jam in the sim you ran?
Win rates will still mostly come from the recreational on the table, so that’s my focus. But you certainly have to be aware that some players on the table can be bots at any point in time. Not great, but that’s the state of poker in Aus :(
like the format, straight to the point and simple to apply in my game (while playing decent postflop when called). gotta hit that 3bet button from BB vs steal more often!
There is enought good action on Ignition 2/5+ game it seems . I have plan to play there but country side am not allowed. What have to do in order to play there? Go some allowed country then verify it?
Red line is your non-showdown winnings whereas blue line is you showdown winnings. So basically every time you fold you lose non-showdown and so your red line goes down and everytime you make everyone else fold your red line goes up.
Been enjoying these play and explains. You isolate limpers with a larger sizing than I'm used to seeing from other regs, and with a fairly wide range even versus sub 40 stackers. Gives me something to think about.
I don't really play any 25z except for this series so I'm not really sure unfortunately. The Z tables in general die during peak Aus times so I mostly just play reg tables
Thankyou for this! (From a hardstuck 25nl player) I'm also in Australia, what time is the zone pool playable? Whenever I jump on there's no one there 😂
1st subscriber, 1st comment: Amazing format Jako, I really like it, it matchs what the average poker player is looking for ! I will get in touch to you soon to become your number one student. Maybe not the first one but for sure, the number 1. Cheers and keep up the excellent work !
@@AndyDouglasChannel while the general tendency of being too passive will apply in MTTs, the ranges will be quite different because of antes and the effective stack size. So I would only apply this directly to cash games
The button right next to the hand replayer (the button that looks like two cards) will show you what both players had if the hand went to showdown. I think I must have already had it open on my other monitor hence why you didn't see me click on it
@@JakoPoker ahhh thankyou!:) On another note, would coaching sessions do any good for me? Kinda stuck playing .10/.25c on ignition😅 I feel I can play alright against the 9max fish, but always get rekt playing 6max/zone.
Are you ever concerned about running into RTA users/colluders when playing on ignition? I gave ignition a try earlier this month after a year long hiatus and was shocked how many pots ended up all in multiway with action that made zero sense
yeah absolutely its an issue - hence why I'm pretty careful table selecting and identifying where my winrate on the table is coming from. As long as there are soft spots I think I have a positive winrate even if some of that is being taken up by colluders
I know you’ve said the extent of your study doesn’t go past free YT vids and hand history discussions with other regs. How high do you think you could go with 6 months to a year of solid coaching.
@@stilesmwhite6625 are you talking me personally? Or for yourself? There’s definitely plenty of room for me to get stronger theoretically and/or learn some more MDA exploits. These are the highest stakes on ignition, so it’s more that further coaching would help solidify my winrate
@@JakoPoker The A2o hand where you checked the stats and recent agression was <1.0 dont you prefer to bet the flop if villian is barely probing the turn?
@@T.G.Lautenschlaeger Since we 3b a super polarised range from bb we have a lot of trash hands in our range which are doing really bad on this board, so we need to implement lots of checks. GTO is mixing 60% check here with range. So A2o is going to be a nice candidate check back where there isn't too much EV to be gained by betting for value whereas we can protect our checking range and gain EV by bluff catching turns and rivers. Our hand isn't worth 3 streets of value so no need to start betting flop even if we think villain is passive on turns.
Hey Jako, love the videos! What software are you using for the ignition HUD? Do you know if they're allowed by ignition, or more of a gray unenforced area - I'm somewhat interested in using autoHotkey and just wondering if that's bannable.
@@harrychan6814 they are allowed and not against ToS to my knowledge. But obviously being an anonymous site ignition limits a HUD from tracking people over time across multiple tables, so they’re significantly less effective
Ahh cool thanks mate, what time of day do you find is the best to multi-table cash games in AEST? I’m only doing 4 tables of 50NL but just wondering if you had any insight
Great video Jako, knock off work early on a Friday and get a sneaky session of poker in mate? Have you ever dealt with a lengthy downswing and do you have any tips for dealing with it?
Hahaha had the arvo off. Dealing with downswings is easiest with a strong mental game - so making sure that is in good order would be my recommendation. Check out the 'Mental game of poker' by Jared Tendler if you haven't come across it.
@@JakoPoker yeah I started reading it, I should finish it actually lol. I've been trying out a few moves of yours in my low limit online games, my favourite is overbet cbet sb v bb, that seems to work like a charm, thanks for that!
Thank you mate! GTO Wizard will be the easiest/most accessible tool to use - it's free to make an account, so worth checking it out if you're not across it :)
I agree hahaha, I don't like it when watching it back either. It's an indication i'm deep in thought! But I will try an minimise it when recording because it is quite distracting.
