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Looks fine. On regular tables you'll also play a lot of hands against the same regs, so you'll develop reads quicker, just take notes :)

Pre is fine, esp against this sizing. Fold flop, you're pretty much at the btm of your range and may have reverse implied odds on a K or J.

lol calculaments

Ah I see, my bad. I assumed he made videos as well, cause of the avatar thing.

Still, saying in this thread that he's made great posts and contributed a lot to the forum discussion feels wrong to me, when a good portion of this posts were misleading or outright lies.

I wonder... Does nobody from RIO check someone's rPTR before hiring them? That should really be part of the vetting process imo. I feel that RIO could be a bit more self-critical in this case and be thankful that people outed this borderline scamming.

I'd certainly call on a spade or diamond river. Folding on a club seems fine imo, as I think he can barrel all his NFDs here.

Wow this is so scummy... especially to come here after being exposed and defend himself with fake graphs. wtf dude

Party seems decent for MTTs. Reg cash games suck as you need to get an "illegal" converter to use a HUD or play at a severe disadvantage against other regs. Fast forward you can use regular HUD. Rakeback is much better than on Stars now since they've introduced the chests.

Buy cash boni? I also read somewhere that playing "The Deal" is actually +EV if it's over a certain threshold... not sure if that's true tho and what the specifics are.

Depending on where you play, live low stakes NL can be ridiculously soft and most villains will make a ton of mistakes. If you want to make hundreds of thousands, you'd have to play high stakes tho, which can be very tough I assume (I never played higher than 2/5).

Hi Iain, nice video!

Regarding the QQ hand at 31:00, where you advocate checking back the turn. Wouldn't it be quite bad to give a free card to a hand with 10-20% equity (like 7c6c, Ac8c, AdJd, ...) that villain decided to bluff the flop with and then give up? If villain has AA/KK, we're stacking off on the river anyways as you said. Considering that villain should realize that we most likely have an overpair, I don't see him jamming many of his flop bluffs on blank rivers for less than 1/2 pot.

edit: didn't refresh page so didn't see that ULpiano had pretty much the same thoughts until after posting... :)

Sounds interesting, posting here to follow

With your hand, you're looking to get two streets of value usually, so checking the turn and then calling or betting river when checked to seems like a good line.

Certainly fine to call against this sizing. Assuming villain bets range, we have more than enough direct equity and we can pick up additional equity on a bunch of turns.
I would call with my whole continuing range on this texture being IP as I don't see a strong reason for raising any nutted hands.

Calling is fine

I might not be able to find a fold in game. But if you think about it, your hand is very face-up as AK/AQ and even the fun player will realize that, so I doubt he's shoving AJ/AQ type hands here. So his value range should be AK+ and usually the fun player won't have enough bluffs here (unless he's some kind of aggressive whale). If he has hearts, he's very likely x/c the turn.

Villain is very unlikely to fold a better hand to this raise size... also getting shoved on would suck. Just call, he gives you an opportunity to draw super cheaply.

Your sample size is basically meaningless but have a look here:
http://www.runitonce.com/chatter/joe-ingrams-take-on-zoom-vs-regular-cas/

So you range villain on no value hands at all and exactly 4 bluff combos? Would you bet/call 99 in this spot?

Another great video, Diego. Keep up the good work!

Excellent vid, very helpful!

I really like Tyler Forrester and sauce for Elite and Cameron Couch for Essential

@masticlox: Great thinking process for a new player!

I agree that you rep so little value combos by firing three here. And you have some SD value, so I don't like betting 3.

I call, pot odds too good. 30bb effective is shallow but if BB checks, it's still SPR 10.

I usually just treat these min-donkbets as checks by villain

Easy bet/call. While turn raises are usually nutty, he can easily have a overpair himself that he decides to shove with.

yup

Betting pot/pot is certainly a good line. Whether you get it in over 2 streets or 3 streets doesn't matter too much imo. We should definitely be all-in by the end of the hand though! So turn check seems like a mistake... just bet turn 1/2 pot again and shove river.

I think you def want to take a note that he's capable of turning showdown value into a bluff in this spot. The vast majority of the NL50 player pool probably snap-checks back Tx in that spot.