Francesco Lacriola

Francesco Lacriola reviews a selection of mid-stakes hands where he faced interesting bluffcatching decisions. He utilizes the hands to illustrate how you should go about evaluating the involved ranges and how to yield an effective thought process to reach the correct decision in game.

Francesco Lacriola tackles the topic of river bet sizing and how splitting your bet size can effectively leverage the nut advantage.

Francesco Lacriola breaks down two close bluff-catches at the $5/$10 tables. Instead of just discussing these already interesting hands as they played out, he utilizes them as examples to think about whether there would have been a way around facing these marginal river decisions.

With a decade of professional poker under his belt, Francesco Lacriola looks back on this experience and tries to sum up the keys for success that he's learned during this time.

Francesco Lacriola picks up where he left off on his deep dive into SB v BB play which presents a number of troublesome situations that are often difficult for humans to navigate using just intuition. This second installment switches perspectives and we play as the big blind.

Francesco Lacriola utilizes GTOW to train SB vs BB acting as the SB in each hand and playing a raise only strategy to establish the best course of action for this frequent yet wildly complex situations.

Francesco Lacriola invites you to a hand history lesson on playing 3-bet pots out of position. In the early sections of the video, he puts a special focus on how to maneuver the checking lines with a focus on understanding the deeper logic behind your strategic choices.

Many people have raise/fold strategies but in this installment, Francesco Lacriola explores the profitability of calling out of the small blind and uses real hands to illustrate the approach.

Francesco Lacriola grabs a few hands that he played against some regs that were particularly complex and breaks them down with the aid of the solver to see whether his lines made sense.

Francesco Lacriola takes a theoretical approach to 4 card, monotone boards and although rare, offers his take for success in these scenarios.

Francesco Lacriola returns from vacation and looks to she the rust off with this examination of all VPIP'd hands from his recent session.

Francesco Lacriola discusses a selection of hands that saw him take exotic actions to maximize his EV based on assumptions he makes about how his opponents might react.

Francesco Lacriola presents a practical learning model for effectively reviewing your mistakes that you made in-game. The model consists of five steps that will allow you to take away the most from your review.

Playing in autopilot mode is usually considered a negative habit that we want to avoid when playing our absolute best. In this video Francesco Lacriola discusses why this is only partly true, why the autopilot represents a powerful asset of professional poker players and how you can improve your autopilot.

Francesco Lacriola loads up three recent hands where he found himself in a 3-bet pot as the out-of-position preflop aggressor to discuss the impact that our opponents' defense strategy has on how we proceed with the hand.

Francesco Lacriola turns on the filter for hands where he fired all three barrels and discusses how and why deploying this strategy can make sense and be the most profitable play both from a GTO and exploitable standpoint.

Francesco Lacriola illustrates how he studies complex boards in 3-bet pots through discussing a mid-low texture in a SB vs CO setting. This video will enable you to figure out your best exploitative response for flop and turn play if your opponent makes different mistakes facing a check from the preflop aggressor.

Francesco Lacriola invites you to a drilling session aiming to internalize our BB strategy in 3-bet pots vs BTN with the help of his own sims in PIOTrainer. This video represents a nice follow-up to his series on how to study efficiently with GTO Trainers.

Francesco Lacriola explores how your approach preflop can dramatically impact how you cbet on the flop and discusses how you can pull the levers to get the results you want.

Francesco Lacriola dives into a themed hand history review to improve your ability to perform in 3-bet pots as the caller. He makes sure to share his thoughts on exploitative deviations in spots where options are very close to each other.

Francesco Lacriola launches a study session on bluffraising the turn in single raised pots. He explains the crucial factors to pick the best bluffing candidates, when you can get away with exploitative bluffs and when to follow through on the river.

Francesco Lacriola hops into the second installment of his series on how to get the most out of your study time with GTO Trainers. In this part, he advises how to approach learning from the mistakes that you make in training sessions through the example of OOP 3-bet pots vs the BTN.

Francesco Lacriola discusses how to get the most out of your study time with GTO Trainers and tackles the advantages and limitations of different tools. After presenting the methodology, he illustrates the presented method in a practice session for 3-bet pots.

Francesco Lacriola follows up his past video with the theory portion required to excel at developing a coldcalling strategy from CO, BTN and the SB. He breaks down the essential dynamics you'll run into and mixes in some further examples of real hands.

Francesco Lacriola explores the topic of coldcalling from the CO, BTN and SB and explains why it can add to your winrate even in slightly higher rake environments. In this first installment, he talks about the general preflop ranges that can be used to coldcall from these positions and which table dynamics support the development of a coldcalling strategy. Then he hops into the review of real hands played at NL200.

Francesco Lacriola explores how mindfulness and specifically meditation can provide benefits to both your poker game and life in general.

Francesco Lacriola breaks down the action from a session that saw him involved in a number of interesting and tough spots both 6m and HU.

Francesco Lacriola illustrates what you can learn from seeing a showdown and discusses why you should carefully keep track of how your opponent constructs his ranges. He showcases how this process can help you find the best river decision in three hand examples from 3-bet pots.

Francesco Lacriola teaches you the most important concepts and considerations that you need to understand when designing your preflop strategies at 200bb deep stacks.

In this video, Francesco Lacriola explores the ins and outs of 3-betting from the big blind. He provides you with a deeper understanding of the polarity of the 3-betting range and when it can make sense to shift to a slightly more linear range. Later in the video, he discusses how this translates to post-flop decisions and which exploits to consider.