Joshua Schmidt Reacts to The Art of Making Reads in Yu-Gi-Oh 

When pro player misplay, there are 5 different ways to play out where non of them are wrong. Just one is the optimal with the correct prediction. When I misplay, I put Promethean Princess with I:P on the board forgetting I'm locked into fire. We are different....

A finl so insane the "a" is gone

Fuck it we ball > play around handtraps

I love seeing joshua reacting to this type of videos

This aspect is quite popular last decade in poker: Probability based analysis versus game theory analysis (assume opponent always has near the worst case possible given the line you would use) versus reads. - The plays the opponent makes gives also ranges: if he would have , he would or would not have gone for this line etc. So in dominating positions you would play closer to "game theory optimal" (near-worst case analysis; covering off top-decks and certain handtraps like nib), and in more equal situations it is typically better to use probability based analysis (maximize probability of cases you get into winning position). (I haven't watched the video past 5 minutes, I hope to see these points come into play)

For a second, I thought that Jesse was between a Rock and a Hard Place, but I didn't see the line that Josh explained. Great insight overall. After watching the original video I didn't really get what else could have been done.

bro my mind exploded when you were talking about just using cryme on reino grave effect. Idk why i didnt think of this i automatically was thinking about the value reino would get after sending and probs wouldve flipped cryme immediately as well.

MINOR SPELLING MISTAKE

The finl was definetly insane

At ycs sydney I played around nibiru getting a negate on board first, he goes to nib, I'm like haha negate then he drops a veiler and negates my negate I didn't think to play around nib+ hand trap

Too bad hani is so full of himself, I don't see how anyone can be a fan. Also, why are there ads literally every 5 minutes?! C'mon, Josh. C'mon. Good video, still.

The phrase I like to use is, "Some days, you just have it" I can't always make the right read no matter how good I am (and I'm not) so I try to not let that discourage me.

The poker term is called game theory optimal (GTO)

Hani is both the best and most annoying yugioh player

Josh chat try not to glaze the life out of Ishizu Tear format challenge (impossible)

World champion difference ☠️

Hani is still a jerk

Truly one of the finls

I know I'm dumb but why didn't Jesse chain the shuffler to send away the bystial magna target

I can see the progress in your videos!

That play smelled bluff for 1 reason: If they actually had a Tear name, specifically a monster, they would activate Sulliek with no effect, then activate Sulliek effect to send that Cryme cannot negate, force Cryme with Reino's GY effect, then on their turn NS that tear monster, use Sulliek so that they control no monsters and proceed to play normally since the Bystial Magna would get for Jesse wouldn't be a quick effect. While Hani's unknown was what decided the duel, I don't like how underestimated Jesse's position is in this by having a secret Shuffler. He could safely call the bluff to check the identity of the card in Hani's hand, then put Hani into a "normal summon something to walk over Merrli then try to play against my Mudora in GY". But negating there gave Dweller (with no mats) even more value because it could run over Merrli and allow a Tear play with "the tear in hand" during MP2. So in the end negating the activation of Sulliek was a checkmate.

If hani wanted sulliek to resolve, he could've flipped it face up in draw phase, since cryme only negates activations. I don't know if he thought so far ahead "I better keep sulliek face down so I can flip it face up as bait" but him not activating it ahead of time is another indication he didn't actually plan on it resolving

Utterly Jebaited

I never thought like that. If I make a call to play around a specific interaction and it turns out they dont have it then I just accept my line. I wouldn't necessarily say my lines are chosen based on what I think my opponent has but rather it's lines I chose based on what I know is most impactful to my hand. Imo it's better to end on a slightly weaker board than to play into handtraps or disruption that I KNOW would shut my turn down Less is more than nothing, basically. I'd rather be able to safely set up a field rather than go all in and then run into something I can't play through

Finling so hard rn

Finl.

I love how jessie still won 2 or 3 ycs after that my man grinded tear format

The more I think about it, the more I start leaning towards not using Sulliek being the better play - but maybe I’m missing something. Unless you’re absolutely sure Jesse fires the Cryme when he does, I think guaranteeing retaining the Dweller applies a lot of pressure considering the last card in his hand is Magnamut. If you don’t bluff with the trap, Jesse either plays into Magna anyway in MP2, or retains Merli for Cryme but is left insanely vulnerable. Hani could use Magna to summon itself then search + summon Druis in the end phase (playing around Cryme pitch a tear name / shuffler removing targets by doing so with Dweller’s lingering effect still active) and threaten a boardstate that is any 700atk body away from an unpreventable lethal. The only thing that stops that is Jesse’s unknown (it’s Keldo, but Hani doesn’t know this) being a Bystial to bodyblock with - but even that turns off Cryme, which opens up a line to make Beatrice to force out the last shuffler in grave whilst retaining a material for the turn after. If you don’t retain Dweller, Hani doesn’t have a live draw to get the required 2400 damage on board for lethal - so Jesse basically guarantees a turn thanks to his 3 disruptions, and either forces Hani to run himself out of interactions by baiting Cryme, or threatens to make a Cryme-insulated push the turn after with any tear name off the top. But with Dweller on field, Jesse probably has to Cryme the Magna to not risk losing to any ishizu / tear name / bystial (tribute over Dweller just about does it) - at which point Hani is the one who is greatly favoured in a top deck war. If Hani had the read that Jesse was always biting there, it’s a genius play. If he was purely gambling, I think it might have been quite punishable.

idk if anyone else has noticed but the "a" in Final is not present. (ik people noticed)

Hani is a pretty good player

Tearlaments format was the only tier 0 format I enjoyed

Finl?

Finl?

We talk alot about how Jesse mistake but i think we need to give appreciation to Hani too.. Not only he is calm but he manage to "acting" perfectly to bluff or play mind game.. Look how he seem disapointed when Jesse activating Cryme even tho we know that actually what he want! He want Jesse to believed that he has tear in hand until the end..

Finl

You pre watch everything you do. SMH 😂😂😂 You funny

I miss tear format It was so cool to watch and learn from at a high level...

18:14 you cannot cryme the reino in the gy because literally every single Tear Card has a gy effect, so in the scenario where hani has a Tear Card He can 100% for Sure Chainblock the reino. You could have crymed His field effect but that would BE also a gamble depending what the discard would be in that scenario.

Claiming first so no one else does

man, I miss tear format

I couldn’t watch it because im not watching anything with Hani in it. Because I’m tired of this community giving a pass to terrible people just because they’re good at yugioh. Garret is a big example of that.