LlinusLlove v Charlie Carrel | GTO vs. Exploitative | £50k Triton FT 

"it's purely an exploitative play by Charlie based on some type of cosmic connection with the universe". LMAO. Love it. Keep the great analysis and commentary

This channel is amazing. Its basically a nerdy, nitty-gritty version of Doug Polk's channel where the logic is expanded on in a thorough way. Im almost certain that this is what these training sites are selling, but here its explained for free. Needs more subs IMO.

Wow. This content is fantastic! I watched it twice just to make sure I didn't miss anything. I love the dry humor here too. Nice work!!! Looking forward to more videos.

This is the next wave of poker content

Really really awesome content, This channel is one of my favourites, checking daily for new vids! Keep it coming, awesome work! I love to have an understanding of how what the solver would do in these spots, aswell as your thoughts behind it. Thank you!

Great stuff man look forward tot the next video the insight and knowledge of solver GTO strategy is really helpful. Thank you for the effort and time spent making these videos much appreciated.

Great video and Analysis bro Loved this battle b/w Charlie and Linus..good plays,some speech plays, some talks, all in good sport..Triton series was so good to watch!!

Very deep analysis, thank you!

Good stuff once again! I Like your work ethic and the time you put into these videos.

What a great technical video. My head is spinning.

Been waiting for your analysis even before the tournament started

Absolutely loved the content

Just found your channel, very pleased with the content

I feel a lot of irony when watching the Daniel N Masterclass ad before this video.

this channel isn't gold, its diammond! thank you so much

Nice analysis as always!

This is incredible content. Superb analysis. And funny. Love it.

Another brilliant video. In a matter of less than a week (I just discovered your channel a few days ago), this has become my favorite RU-vid channel, and I don't say that hastily or lightly. Thanks for bringing the thunder when it comes to poker content.

Based on the thumbnail I thought it was two pictures of the same guy one with hair one without.

Hey man, amazing vids your doing. I really like what you said at the end about most players at the highest level are using a mix of GTO and exploitive play. Even Doug Polk includes exploitive factors a lot, and Charlie Carrel has admitted to using GTO theories to have a solid fundamental strategy. It's more which side of the blend they lean towards and not likeing other players trash talking one extreme of the game, so they choose to represent the other side. In actuality, nothing in this world is completely black and white. Balance is key, especially in poker when balancing your GTO fundamentals to exploitive play.

Can we see GTO breakdown of the Chidwick J5 hand, hero calls on solvers are really interesting? P.s loving the vids

Great format dude ✌️

Holy shit this content is on another level. Liked and subbed.

I don’t have time to watch this yet. I just came to like and comment!

Awesome channel!

Hey man, I just wanna say I love your videos and thank you for making them. You have some great content. Are there any books you can recommend for a more modern approach to holdem? I took like an 8 year hiatus from playing so now I’m trying to catch up.

10/10 somehow your videos keep getting even better!

thank you vey much for the vid

Great content, thanks. Subscribed :)

hey man great vid as always. question how much does the full version of piosolver cost? seems like a must buy in order to move up from mid stakes to high stakes right? especially online...

Do you think Linus is looking up at a clock? Maybe as a randomiser?

Really great content thank you for this

That raise to fold with 4s was so good

Well played by both

I ran the 76 hand through a top highstakes GTO reg and they came to pretty different conclusions than you. 76 shouldn't be a bluff candidate. Q8 and Q9 were the highest frequencies, which makes a lot more sense imo. I guess you and they may be using different preflop ranges. Nice videos, by the way! 100% right on the cosmic connection with the universe :')

Hey Finding Equilibrium, do you know why PIO likes to check back K54r with underpairs like JJ, TT but in another spot likes to bet range with these same hands on K93r board ? Is it bc 9x hits more BB defend range thus, it likes a bet more than on K54r ??

I think Charlie was right about Llinus not being fully aware of the stacksizes. Anyway, great video.

Love the analysis - do u have a website, more info on yourself?

Best poker content on youtube. Can't wait for the next one.

does linus has a pio in his head? wtf

For linus to call w/ 76o to be +EV, carrel would need to have a plethora of bluffs at a similar frequency to the solver. Furthermore, in general, most players seldom have bluff frequencies akin to a solver. Ofc humans are only capable of replicating solvers to a certain degree but imo if he was to just call in that situation it'd be -EV and maybe why he elected to shove. This isn't to discredit solvers but being balanced an indifferent against a player way out of balance requires mitigation.

Realllyyyy great vid

Great vid thx 🙂

I love seeing the minbet on the KK hand. It's something I've been experimenting with when I have a board absolutely crushed. People feel silly folding to a min bet so they tend to spazz vs it. Seeing someone as good as Llinus using it makes me feel really good about my thought process.

Amazing.

Interesting that Q7s was a check raise from the BB in the hand (on a K 5 4 flop) straight after Charlie Cr'd wrongly with Q7s on a K 9 3 flop.

haha this series has so far been so serious that I literally LMFAO when hearing Llinus human solver Llove v Charlie fuckGTO Carrel😆

I understand pio so far (i dont have it), but what does it mean when a bracket isnt fully coloured? Does it mean that he only has this hand X% of the times in his Range?

Its like Linus have the program you use in his head. Always does the right thing.

where is Linus looking at repeatedly? (19:40) is there an RNG hanging from the ceiling?

great video

14:03 why are low pairs not included here? Are they 3bets?

Think I picked up a tell at 15:06

That outro music is the nuts. What song is that?

i would love to see a check with kk on that turn

LLinus looking up during the KQo hand like Beth Harmon in Queen's Gambit

Gg. Keep going. Ty

Linus is the Connor McDavid of Online Poker... not just bc he is the best in the game, but he literally looks disturbingly similar to like Connor McDavid

Ele tava praticamente nuts duas vezes e olhou pro teto, acho que foi o Charlie deveria ver isso como um tell

I wonder how Stu Ungar would do at this table..

24:20 that "f*ck gto" smile ahaha

Great video! Name of last track, please

Omg, I thought that dude was going to bet that Q6 on the river. That would have been the worst-bet / bluff of all-time. And, Linus's last all-in was a good play. He happened to be wrong, THIS TIME, but 65% of the time (about) that bluff works.

Why are pocket pairs for the big blind range all blanked out??

Linus definitely didn't have enough behind to fold out anything Charlie was value betting. The odds behind mean it shouldn't be a bluff for the player who has to call which is why Charlie looks disgusted as he calls expecting to see a hand like 107 or 106 raising 1.4 million giving Charlie ridic odds when there's 5.7 million in the pot and he has to call 1.4 more. but this move would work much better in a cash game and is a solver preferred bluff candidate on a paired board, a move that goes back to Doug Polk several years ago trying to fold Antonius off a straight in a similar spot. I mean there are people out there good and competent enough to remember what the solver says they should do in certain spots but I cannot imagine a solver would ever recommend to bluff here with any frequency that is relevant to this spot.

PioSolver only shows bet size values and not percentages? Bet 30% is much easier to discern than bet 2475.

Finding Equilibrium what stakes you play bro?

Tangent, but I feel that GTO players looking up at the ceiling (I've seen Sam Greenwood do this) is looking at something for randomization purposes?

Mike Postle keeps looking down into his lap .. Linus keeps looking up .. Some secret formula to winning ?

lol check Jason Koon at 15:11

What does spr stand for?

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is he looking up at the clock in the room to randomize?

Nice video again. However, I got quite confused when you brought in the comparison of ICMvs no ICM. I didn't quite understand how the OCm affects post flop play nor do I understand why the solver strategies are different.

so in the end of the day exploitative poker aka cosmic connection with the universe took all those sweet GTO logic based chips )) great result ty

Loeniger is basically representing pockets 77's or 66's since he has 1 of both wich could take this line and it makes sense, could easily have mad at least A highs fold, so it was a good play imo even tho he got called. Good analysis.

Can tell charlies really into his live reads constantly staring

Jesus, Linus is a robot. A GTO machine

What's next in poker? How about 4 color cards in live games?

@Finding Equilibrium Does it makes sense to propose a 25% Cbet sizing for Charlie? (Iirc Pio likes this sizing on this structure?)

Something I don't get about Charlie is he says a big read when someone is bluffing/doesn't want a call/raise is when the opponent smiles at you it means he's weak. Every time I see Charlie doing his bluff plays he smiles at the person. And when he has a strong hand, he isn't smiling....

Could you imagine how owned Charlie would be if the best cash player in the world took some time to learn to balance false tells in conjunction with GTO wizardry. That would be a thing of beauty.

There is an irony that the first hand that Charlie had the best hand in this video Linus went broke 😂 I think we need a bigger sample to deduce anything here 😂

How is GTO even achievable? The theory sounds great but your math cannot be anything less than perfect to execute GTO. Computers that play trillions of hands against itself arent even executing "Game Theory Optimal" correctly. Solving is a bit of an overstatement to a game this complex.

Is there any way to contact you?

its a weak continuation bet, after the flop, meant to fool, am I wrong?

Good video as always, the table bb turn strategy %, are the frequencies only for turn Kh or all possible run-out? Thanks

The last hand he was turning his 76 into a bluff probably thought other guy was on a weak ace or something

Love when he turns over the str8 fold,hilarious!

charlie looks very lost / psyched out on this one. great player tho! great video! thanks!

I like Linus’s shirt

Why would Linus shove the last hand, the only thing better he could get to fold is a weak ace, right?

Mateos vs lodden ept ft pleeez🥰🥰🥰

haha he looks up to randomize

Se Loeliger bettava 2000000 al river avrebbe rappresentato un bluff o un draw mancato. E forse Carrel avrebbe chiamato.

Hi I think the viewers are more interested in the actual play than your analysis. Thank you.

A read does not have to be that opponent is either strong or weak. It can also be "opponent is either really strong (like having nuts) or bluffing. And it's more likely he is bluffing". This happens for instance when you see that opponent's hands all of a sudden starts to shaking when making a bet. I am all for GTO but it's not fair to make fun of reads like you did when he bluffraised flop vs topset.

its pio not piu

What an amazing video, thanks so much. I don't think the bluff raise river range in the last hand with ICM enabled is necessarily a bug, notice the EV difference between call and raise bluff of 76o is bigger with ICM. Solvers often tolerate playing with negative EV in order to balance their value, otherwise they would only have value and they would be prone to exploitation if opponent never bluff catch. The trick here might be that the difference between raising and folding with KQo = -2100ish is bigger than the difference between calling and raising 76o = -4500ish. so solver chooses to lose the least in order to balance value range and remain unexploitable. Notice in non-ICM, difference in EV of calling and raising 76o is much smaller, making it a better bluff candidate. Also i am absolutely flabbergasted by solver choosing a pure 100% raise river with KK in non-ICM scenario. WTF is even that? a value? wth does charlie carrel float, bet on the turn and then bet/call river that is beaten by KK? and he needs enough of these combos to compensate all the times KK gets value cut. a bluff? he doesn't block anything. a triple range merge?

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