wow one of the smartest and most honest poker videos out there. Watched you first on Johnathan little's channel and within 10 minutes realized you had a different level of understanding of the game with a great skill to articulate it that very few people have. Love watching and learning from your videos keep it up.
thanks for explaining why you still take a mix strategy in zone. That was something I was confused about but that makes total sense. I just wasn’t sure if I had a fundamental misunderstanding of why we balance in the first place 😅
Thanks for the free content :) 1)23:29 you ISO J8s from LJ - Are you generally isolating with your RFI range for a given position? This hand makes me wonder if I am missing some +EV ISOs. Any advice on how wide we can go with our ISO ranges? 2)30:28 you double barrel A8/A87 5 with 150% pot size - I would have gone with B75 given the turn card. Are you just simplifying to B150 for turn double barrels?
The hand you had 99 in the BB and faced a 5x RFI from the SB, I was surprised you didnt 3bet. Those 5x RFIs are not a particularly strong range from my sample in my database, but even without knowing that, it makes sense to expand your 3bet range range relative to your calling range when you have barely more than half the pot odds you normally have in a BB defense spot. Since 99 is already a pure 3bet BVB, it seems like a slam dunk mandatory 3bet here against a probable rec.
Table 1 at 3:52 A9o is a bad bluff, even if villain is overfolding. Usually we are playing a semi polarized strategy with big sizing OTF. Even if you want to play small sizes A9o there is never a bet. Villain is only folding worse Ax and the cards he is folding usually dont have much equity against us anyway. Whereas if we check, we allow villain to catch a 9 or an A and we take him to valuetown, or go to showdown and win. Overall A9o is usually a pure check OTF on most boards it doesnt hit, except on rangebet boards.
A9o is a pure bluff here. app.gtowizard.com/solutions?gametype=Cash6m500zGeneral&depth=100&preflop_actions=F-F-F-R2.5-F-C&history_spot=12&gmff_depth=100&gmff_rake=NL500&gmfft_sort_key=0&gmfft_sort_order=desc&board=Ts7c4cQsJh&flop_actions=X-R1.8-C&turn_actions=X-X&river_actions=X
17:30 you call a 3bet with AQo. Wizard says it's mostly a fold and sometimes a raise. 4% it's a call at nl 500. Did you really use rng or did you screw up?
I have the same experience with Monday's on Bovada being really good. However I disagree about Sunday's imo its one of the best days for cash on there.
On the KJo hand at 20:20, for someone trying to simplify their decisions (and vs mid-stakes pool), would it be ok to bluff-raise the spades/straight blocker combo every time (especially in an anonymous pool) vs a less-than-pot bet? Or do you think that you must have some mixes/calls with that combo. Since you called from BB, I guess it can be assumed that you don't have AQ/AK - so in a 3-bet pot, perhaps you could pure bluff with that combo since you'll also have AK/AQ/QQ/AA/KK in your range for value. Also from an overarching perspective, if you were playing in an anonymous pool all the time, how much weight would you assign to mixing any decision when the opponent won't be able to get a sample on you anyways? It seems to me that in most scenarios where the EV difference is minimal between the aggressive and passive decision, in an anonymous pool you could default to the aggressive decision. I get that it depends on the specific circumstance, but is this a flawed way of thinking generally?
Yeah you are right, I thought at 500nl 68o would be a pure or almost pure fold, but it's getting called around 70% of the time. My mistake. I should be careful when giving preflop advice for these limits since I haven't really studied the ranges for them. 6max/3max are the same ranges by the way, it's just blind vs. blind.
At the 36min mark you haves 9s and You say we need to pure call the river bet if we had a spade, any chance you could explain that because I would have thought the opposite. thx
When you’re playing how long are your sessions vs breaks etc? I’m trying to do a ~90m study session, followed by 3 ~90m playing sessions with a 15 min break between each. Previously (as a part-time player with another job) I’d just been playing 2 90m sessions, trying to up this to 3 moving forward, but don’t want to overplay if I’m mentally fatigued. Currently, I’m trying to put in volume, but my A/B+ game is winning, B game is probably close to breakeven after rake, and my C game is pretty punty. I think the polarization of my play is holding me back from moving up more than my technical/theoretical game knowledge. So I want to maximize volume while staying mentally under control. Do you have any suggestions/criticisms? Perhaps even a part 2 to your Tilt/Mindset video about Process/Routine…
I pretty much never take breaks. Once I get into a session I have a hard time pulling away from it. I try not to play much longer than 4 hours in a session though unless I have a really good game and I'm "in jail." Three 90-min sessions seems totally reasonable. If you can't play at least around 20 hours per week, you're probably not going to make much money in poker.
@@mobiuspoker thanks! Fair enough, I don’t love taking breaks either but I find if I’m playing poorly sometimes the break can reset me enough to play better. Thanks for the video btw, really enjoy your content. I resonate with how you explain things.
