I love your advice and content. But can you please start to provide more content with 8 and 9 handed strategies, because most tournaments aren't six handed.
I find this way of teaching very effective for me. I find the charts overwhelming. It is impossible to memorize the charts and most training don't teach the "why" behind the charts in a manner that makes sense to me. This episode explained the logic behind the charts. This was helpful.
Yes the why is often missing so that the theory, the reason is omitted. Thus listening here is like listening to music without knowing how to play. The teaching doesn't have the equity "why" and the thought process that goes into arriving at the "why". Most instruction fails for that reason.
I agree. Jonathan’s way of explaining the theory and why it works is what makes him one of, if not the best coach on RU-vid. So many of his videos have been put in to practice and it just makes sense. I fully believe he’s the reason I’ve gone from a losing 1/2 player to a winning 2/5-5/10 player
I was a losing player until I followed you and I'm a winner now....actually doing really well 😎 small adjustments just and not tilting like the Titanic anymore lol
19:24 also, I am curious about the colors on the grid. I believe orange means raise, green means call but what does blue and gray mean? why is AA gray as is J7 offsuit?
I agree with you 1000% in a game full of donks you don't won't to raise draws no body is folding you want to keep as many folks in the pot as possible, when your straight comes in at least 3 donks are calling when you shove.
Watched your video on my way back to the Bay Area today. Entered the Run Good Bankroll builder for $135. I called a raise out of the BB with 96 spades heads up. Flop was 8 spades 65 diamonds. I check raise the flop and take it down!
Thank you for the videos Jonathan, making it to the money way more often after watching a bunch of ur vids. Yesterday made it fifth on pko tournament with field of 3k+ players.
how are all these hands like 93 and 82o in there in the first place? That seems pretty wide defend. But I guess I am not as optimistic or good as the GTO pro.
I like the video. One question i had that i didnt see here. When you're on a draw and then you reraise the opponents 1.5 bet what do you do if they come back over the top of your raise? I know you said a lot of the time that you'll have go fold to their all in bet, but what if the reraise they make is not an all in? Are we jamming at that point, calling, or folding?
You fold to any large reraise. This is the entire point of the video. You raise with low equity hands (vs small bets), because you don't mind folding if you get reraised. With high equity hands you don't raise as much to avoid being reraised and forced to fold correctly.
I play in a seriously soft 1$/2$ cash game here I definitely need to exploitatively under raise because I have no fold equity. Also I'm usually not heads up, I am in a lot of multiway pots. I think the strategy is pretty much to just play a tighter range across the board. Move many of my draws to my check calling range to realize equity, and try to pile it in when I have the goods. I think I am looking for it to be more complicated than that but its not. Sometimes I do feel like I am too nitty in this game but it seems like theappropriate exploit. I do think there is more opportunity to barrrel it off more especially since despite how wide villains are calling pre and post flop on the river, there is an opportunity to bluff hands since they are not arriving at the river balanced at all. I do have your book Jonathan on mastering small stakes. I am going through it a second time right now. Are there hand breakdowns of you playing in any truly wild cash games? Like where standard raise is 8-10x and are usually 3-5 handed to every flop?
You’re exactly right, just tighten up like crazy and fast play nutted hands since you’re against a lot of opponents, all who have a little bit of equity and make your hand more vulnerable
You're playing it just right. Be prepared to rebuy, and play a nutted range to exploit people who call too much. There are situations to bluff, they're just very player dependent. Build an image first as tight, then bet big in spots when scary cards come in that will push off even the biggest calling stations. Used to play in a game like that, and once I adjusted it was easy pickings. Not necessarily the most interesting poker, but profitable nonetheless...
He is saying unless you think your opponent has AQ then 7 2 (two pair) on that board is the hypothetical nuts and should be played aggressively. He's not telling you 72o is a great hand in general
@@rickyfiorentina there are not two pair for you on a flop of AQ7 when you have 72o (however the F you got there in the first place... Because solver, I guess)
@@TomRauhe should we trust the guy with 2 WPT titles and 7+ million in earnings or Mr. Tom Rauhe, who probably is a losing player at his local 2/5 table? I’ll go with the poker pro thanks
@@PokerCoaching thank you for all the help. I had never played poker before a month ago, lost $200 within 5 minutes of sitting down for a cash game at my local casino. Then I bought and listened to your book strategies for beating small stakes poker and studied the preflop charts on your website. Which lead to me getting 5th place in a tournament at Caesar’s palace in Vegas last weekend. Now I need to figure out how to play when I miss the flop.
Love these, I'm playing much better since starting to watch. It would help if the chart had a key, I'm too much of a noob to know what the different colors mean.
The problem is GTO is based on the computer playing more hands than a human could in a lifetime Bet if your hand is in top 33% of villains range for his position might be more practical
Agreed. It's based on millions of hands, but in a tournament you aren't going to see millions. The numbers are not going to even out in the long run because the sample size isn't large enough. In tournaments, there will be huge variance to GTO numbers based on millions of hands. I'd like to see GTO strategy based on 1000 hands or 5000 hands. GTO seems like it's more for cash games where the cards run forever. Tournaments have a final hand. The next tournament is it's own thing. Can't mix two tournaments statistics together and get a good tournament strategy. It doesn't represent the small card sample size.
Clarification please - preflop the suited combos on your range chart indicate any given suited combo. Confirm that your range chart for post-flop play indicates a suited combo as ONLY the suit with the draw on the board. All other hands eg. suited in hearts/clubs/diamonds on the first example with the spade draw, are now counted as 'offsuite.' Is this correct interpretation?
That all depends on: your opponent, relative stack depths, and board texture. Try to study the solvers tendencies on specific board textures by grouping board textures and observing each positions bet sizing relative to the situation at hand
In my experience, playing your possible range at a 1/2 table is how you lose all your money to bottom pair. Too many donks. Unless the game is filled with regs, I’m playing 1/2 extremely tight and going huge when I have a made hand.
What’s the adjustment if your playing a nit who only C-bets if they connected with the board? If they still bet small are you still supposed to check raise with these hands?
Sir I love you❤. The content you are giving in free is such valuable content. And your explanation is understandable to me. Thanks alot kerp these videos coming. Much love❤
Think of equity as real estate. The ranges of the players are the land up for grabs. If someone under the gun(first to act) raises, their range says they are raising something like pocket aces, kings, queens Ace king, etc. They are representing something good. Now, let's say you have a J7 suited. The flop comes A J 2. You have a pair of Jacks. This would beat cards in their range they would have raised with like TT, QT, KT. They have you beat with AA, AK, AQ, etc. If the opponent has 10 hands they would raise with, and you beat 5 of them on the flop, then you're 50/50 equity. If you beat 4 out of 10 hands in their raise range, you have 40% equity. Also, after the flop hits, you take the hands of theirs that you don't beat and calculate the outs vs your outs to beat those hands to know if you should continue the hand. Basically, the process on the flop is... 1. If there are 10 pieces of real estate in the opponent range(hand they would raise with) how many do you beat right now? 2. Calculate outs of their possible hands left in their range vs your hand outs. 3. Calculate pot odds. 4. Pot odds vs. Your outs. 5. If you have better out odds(3 to 1) vs pot odds(5 to 1) then you should stay in. If you have bad odds(1 to 5) vs pot odds( 3 to 1) then you should check/fold.
For your example, you say "you will raise 22% of the time". Ok fine. But how does it unfold at tables ? So I have to not raise 78 times in a row, and then 22 times in a row I will raise ? How to apply that correctly ? Should we consider wind direction ? Air pressure ? Temperature ? I'm joking of course, but this is to say that it's pretty difficult to use this rule accordingly IMO. thanks anyway for the great content! 👍
