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29:30 3BP OOP PFR BB vs HJ kind of amazing how AA gets to shove this river for 300% pot. I double checked wizard on this one and if you go b33 you are allowed to shove but its like 244% on wizard. And If you choose B20-X- then on the river its using a lot of B150 or B300. I didn't think 1 pair hands were able to shove here for value. But unblocking the bluff catch range makes sense. KQ QJ KT etc.

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SRP IP PFR B125-X-X line. On the river I think our equity is so low that we need to bluff 1/2 pot or OB. I agree the 5 connects with the BB's calling range, but doesn't mean he is going to call right? Maybe we get to value bet a hand like A5 here for a small size and tried to get called by 4x 2x. 53s Ks5s etc.

20 min T#1 you iso CO 4bb with 55 v HJ limp. Earlier in the video you iso 3bb K7s on the button vs Hj limp. Shouldn't this be the other way around? Iso bigger on the button with positional advantage and less players behind you and iso smaller with more players left to act behind you and less positional advantage? Also just curious why you iso different sizes.

19:30 another tilting hand to watch.
Preflop hero raises, HJ 3bet, btn cold 4bets. Flop comes and HJ donk bets and btn just folds. Has to be like QQ or JJ right? But why donk bet into the cold 4 bettor? Idk why these hands annoy me so much.

18min this hand is so far off the rails. I can't make sense of it but makes me not want to play online because its such an action turn card. Entire hand just feels tilting to me. Everything just seems completely backwards by villain.

Villain Limp call preflop. Donk bet 42% flop with no bdfd. 28% turn and then 3bets your turn raise. And checks the river.

On the turn vs a B-B3B line without really any outs to improve I think we should fold the turn right? Some times I'll raise the turn to try and freeze the river from facing a bet, but they just end up playing B-BC-D and destroy me. Curious of your thoughts after the fact because the turn 3bet was pretty much a snap 3bet. Then any time there is a 3bet postflop I mostly only want to continue 2 pair+. If I had aces here I would probably just fold the turn.

16min T#4 AQc Btn vs CO 4bp very difficult spot, but if you watch it back you can see how your mind shifted from wanting to exploit fold the flop vs the 33% cbet, to wanting to not be exploited on the river and over fold. Krzysztof Slaski you started listing hands like red jacks and red tens as possible bluffs, but it goes against your flop thought process.

This is something I've been trying to clear up in my head as well. Constant battle in my mind from checking because theory checks range to betting because its a passive fish. To using 1/3 cbet because its the correct sizing to sizing up because I want more value or more fold equity. Bluff catching river because theory doesn't fold this hand to wanting to fold everything but hands that dominate their value because they don't bluff often enough. Its really hard to be consistent in our minds with these spots. Just have to trust your gut and have a blue print strategy you stick to so there is less chaos in our minds.

36:35 I'm a bit surprised to see Jh8x folding on QT3hh board. Also K9s folding unless it has a bdfd with it.

14min mentioned Dwan raises QTs from EP and that K7s should be a vpip from the Co and 100% from the button. Wizard BTN defense vs LJ 2.5x using cEV. Where these k7s-k2s hands are losing money as calls. These hands are only calls at 200bb+? I'm used to playing a range of 22+ AJ+ KQ+ 9Xs+ 54s+ AXs+. Most hands outside of this range Imo don't do too well without a significant post flop edge.

Does this look right? Any tips for raise sizes on the river like certain multipliers?

Patrick Sekinger This is kind of embarrassing for me to share but its a part of my game where I didn't understand the math and wondered if you had any tips for bluff raising. I know its Risk / (Risk + Reward) but I thought a pot size bet (PSB) and a pot size raise (PSR) would be the same percentage for fold equity. :-(

For example if the pot is $100 and we bet $100 as a bluff we need 50% fold equity.

If the pot is $100 and we face a $100 bet, a PSR would be $400, but now we need 67% fold equity.

Any tips for knowing if bluff raising is profitable? I know in a lot of CFP river raises are supposed to be very profitable, but seems to be punts in live games.

I've been trying to bluff raise the river quite a bit recently and its been a little bit of a disaster when the river is not bet thinly enough in the first place.

Maybe I can make a chart for different river raises sizes and fold equity needed for each size.

A video on the "high-low" or "over-under" bluffs as I call them would be interesting. I'm used to seeing them more on rainbow dry boards where there are not a lot of draws to choose from. But you get middling pairs to fold and draws to call. So called by worse and fold out better. But there are no elite videos on these and are often over looked. Not sure if anyone knows how to use them correctly.

49min you mentioned on KsQd9s-9h that A2c would be a high frequency barrel. I think your mind is heading in the right direction with these types of bluffs, but on boards that don't already have the straight possible because we have more GS type hands to choose from for our bluffs.

If you change the board to KQ88 using the same suits, now A2c will barrel.

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48min you gave solver like 50, 70, 133 sizes. Do you not use 33% size on 4 liners?

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* 34:35* On QQ32 you mentioned The J9h / T9h combos matching the suit of the turn barrels 70% of the time. I was wondering about the volatility of these hands compared to using a BXB line. I face some very strange lines some times where I'll find these bluffs on the turn and improve to a pair on the river, but then face a 1/3 or 1/2 donk bet. I think I pay off these river donk bets too often. Same thing happens with a lot of JJ-77 combos where I barrel the turn with a plan to check back quite a few rivers, but end up facing a donk bet. I am not sure how to proceed in these situations.

These middling pairs I speak up on the river being 3rd pair and even some TX are indifferent vs this donk bet on wizard, but then again the donk bet shouldn't exist, so run into solver noise.

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29:15 Why does As5x barrel but not As3x pure check?

Off suite flush draw region

Just wanted to point out that black box throughout the video blocking the flop texture when looking at PIO is extremely annoying when I can't remember what the board texture is when analyzing the PIO output.

7:45 I like how you pointed out you block J8d T8d and some AdXd hands and unblock QJs QTs hands that fold. My first inclination was to barrel a suit that is not on the board to unblock the XC XF range. But I guess on paired boards we want to block trips.

Steve Paul TRUEPOWER Steve does an excellent job on student reviews! I only suggest doing a replayer format to get the most out of it. Preflop is just a small amount of EV exchanged, so I would just play a session and filter for hands that saw the flop and pot is over 6bb+. 70% of the hands played in a session are just winning the blinds, folding, or cbet the flop and win. Cuts out a lot of wasted time from the student review the 6bb+ and saw flop filter.

You should try and get a student review done yourself. Very beneficial! There are a lot of spots we don't even know we are messing up because we focus so much on the medium and big pots. But its the small pots where we over fold on the flop or over bluff on the flop that make our redlines tank.

This hand demonstrates it all.

Raises pre UTG1 65o! CB the flop. Gets raised. XC 75% turn barrel. XC river 90% pot. So we have a 600bb pot where he beats almost nothing besides 33/44 without a heart. It was MW on the flop as well when Ling raises. He even says "if you are bluffing with a 3 of hearts..."

Going back to June 2023 over the last 36 sessions Luda has won $958,000!

He is winning on avg $26,611 per session in a $25 ante game.

That is $5,322 / hr! Even if you make the Big blind $100 that is still 53bb/hr!

Does anyone actually believe this is not cheating?

As Garret Adelstein said in the spaces when discussing with Ryan Feldman. Starts around 1min 15sec.

Why was Luda banned from LATB? Why did Ryan throw a fit and pleaded with the management to get him back on the stream?

Does anyone ever see Luda play outside of HCL? Doesn't play on pokergo, The lodge, LATB, etc. Why does he only play at HCL where is room mate Ryan has access to the cards?

4:45 3bet 88, call 4bet, flop quads. Good life! When you XC-XRAi on the turn I like your reasoning but do you have any bluffs here? Are you shoving any KQh type hands or just AK+? A88hh-Jx

One spot I've sized down a touch is BB cold 4bet vs BTN open, SB 3bet. Our 4b range is strong and linear anyway and SB range is wide and plenty of it is already in a bad spot even vs small 4b size.

Brian Hastings and you have position vs the SB as well. I really like this size down spot. Even if you just click it back. So much of their range is "pretty" but is dominated by the cold 4bet. They end up flopping a lot of top pair or 2nd pair hands and losing stacks post flop.

Brian Hastings if you want to quote someone just use the ">" arrow before whatever you put in quotes.

4betting (3bb -> 9bb) and that uses a 2.5x 4bet, but I see if I shift to the "GTO" tree (3bb -> 10bb) now OOP is splitting between 2.1x 4bet

This was a good find! I never noticed how 3b size impacted 4bet size. What I would do in the past is use 2.5x OOP and 2.2x IP. Just to keep it simple but never really thought about their 3bet size unless I couldn't 4bet less than 30% of my stack, then it was call or jam.

Thanks!

27min Learning how to play flop 3 bets vs an equity driven range would be a nice follow up to this video. Low stakes live cash has a ton of small raises IP & OOP as players are just raising to see where they are at. Learning how to punish this correctly would be a big help. A lot of hands have awkward stack sizes as well, so tempted to just shove flop quite often rather than raise PSB which would be like 1/2 the stacks given the pot gets so bloated preflop from 4-5x opens and MW dynamics.

I did hear one regular say they raise small with a combo draw because in their mind they have already won the pot, so they raise small to just build the pot for when they hit. As if its a guarantee they will hit their flush draw. In their mind they already won, so they are just building a pot.

In this spot PFR cbet $10k into $30k. XR 2.5x to $25k. Should we 3bet the flop for a PSR to $105k?

BvB the BB is 3 betting the bottom of their calling range. The SB gets to 4bet the bottom of it's calling range. Polar vs Polar range and use small 4bet sizes.

Given Krab mentioned some constraints about using GTO wizard with the multiple bet sizes, it would be nice to have some custom Ai sims loaded up with the size villain's used in game. Especially the ones where they miss a range bet and check back. Increasing the checking frequency to see how you are supposed to play turns and rivers on these unexplored nodes. You did this for the last hand of the video.

39min you mention you want to fold AQo CO vs BB vs a tighter opponent. I usually would play it as if I were in the HJ vs BB 3bet when the pool under 3bets. Everything gets a pip tighter as you mentioned.

Taking studying to a new level.

There was one hand you were wrong about towards the end that you didn't want to dive into because you said it would be a waste of our time. These rabbit holes are one of the many reasons I have poor time management! Its nice to see some efficient studying staying on topic and not jumping all over the place.