John Mackay

hand one defo tripling here 

hand 2 i just call the flop 3B, i think jamming is a mistake given we have little fold equity, our hand has way too much equity to fold and we are getting a bit better than 4:1 on the peel

nice to see some 6max players hands at FR, may even have a dabble on the large tables today

can you post any links to episodes where FF is commentating?

any news on this ?

would like to see otbRedBaron please (dreaming obv he probs wouldnt do it)

in for an essential one of these, GL in ept brah :~)

edit : congrats on finishing third

well ATs has only one combo plus he may not always bomb turn n riv with that.

pretty sure he always opens KQo utg opening 14% thats like the nuts from that range :~)

Not really any flush draws that have no sdv on the riv here eg. all AXdd have TP, KJdd impossible, KQdd beats us, the occassional light open with a hand like 89dd make sense for a triple barrel bluff. I don't see villain value betting worse very often at all. Given the fact that its a small flop bet, then the board gets drawy ott and he bombs turn + riv i call here and make a note on his play, but defo not a happy call down for me.

TT and KQ are the only hands that make sense, an maybe AA aswell.

I think there is a whole nother game theory argument here, an vs a really strong opponent who we play a lot with CCin down is certainly correct regardless of sizing stuff in this spot.

Congrats this is awesome

not sure the note "fold early when facing mutiple bets" is a relevant since its down to how your range does vs villains, for example if you know they open 100% of hands and barrel off a very high percentage having third pair is a fist pump calldown.

lets say you 3B otb vs a 24% raise first from CO reg who has a pretty tight 4B range (lets say 4.5% with JJ+ AK+ foir value) and you just decide to call - now your at a range disadvantage - villains 4B range would be something like this...

while your only ever gonna be happy to slow play AA from your value aipf range in this spot (although that would be bad since villain can 4bet call with 44 out of 60 combo's) so villains range is stronger

also would appreciate my monthly helping of galfondue

defo a good week to be bet calling brd pair rivers i3BPs :)

the cold 4B BB vs CO/Btn you say you cold 4B a linear range, i think you should specify that means for value - saying that you never 4B bluff in that spot (which is actually reasonable since 2 players have position on us, better doin it vs Btn/SB since we have position on SB) - if we cold 4B as bluff surely using some suited Aces would be decent there, making our range polarised

more live vids pls, they are valuable for me in terms of learning (i seem tio remember things much better from live play vids and can translate the thought process over to my play in game better than a replayer vid)

Great vid man, very informantive - was curious about the AJhh hand at 17mins where your cold 4B by Hope_Flooky and you end up folding saying its a great hand to 5B ship with but your don't know enough about his game, can you offer an explanation on what you would like to see - as i understand the cold 4B stat takes a very long time to become accurate (standard deviation is 5% up to a sample of 1000) so are you using the 4B% as a guide? also i notice a bunch of regs who have a pretty agro button vs blinds 4B games but rarely use the BB cold 4B as a bluff, so using the 4B stat could end up being misleading in that situation. Are you just making an assumption based on how active someone is preflop overall?

+1 on the SN thing its not rocket science

i totally agree unexpected action causes tilt in my game 100% more than anything else, i can lose 10 flips in a row and it doesn't effect me that much, but say i get in a spot where i am unsure of villains range and he makes some kinda weird raise (for example i played a hand where HU i 4B 250bb deep and villain calls, its chks down on dry brd to river where i make a decent TP, i value bet and he CRs HUGE, i am capped to one pair obv and i call b/c of that he shows top set otf, just mega tilting imo haha) Also i think about the spot constantly after, how i could have played it different to gain more info blah blah - i instantly switch to my C-game cos i am not focussed on the current hand

Cool video Lucas, actually listened to this while i played an 8 table sesh an its was kinda relaxing made me play nice an solid and cruisy :~)

Can you provide a link to any of the info regarding sitting too long btw, thx

you skimmed over a spot @12.10 where you folded 55 vs a 15% utg rfi, you started explaining your thoughts on calling vs folding there an then since its live got you distracted (understandable obv) - can you give your thoughts on calling pairs 22-66 vs an EP open depending on RFi percentages, and also what would make you deviate from calling (eg.agro blinds squeezers is something that'd be pretty important obv, howver people really vary their play a lot just sqz vs MP/CO/Btn/SB and don't really attack utg as much)

hmmm wanted to watch the preview got some final table donkament review? is that b/c i am not a full memeber yet or something else thx ?

ok cool thx Dan

Hey Dan any idea when this may be introduced? since its a new year and everyone's frothing to succeed was hoping to start a blog on here, if not ill use another host for the time being - cheers John

i use it for zoom, its really fast and haven't had any problem, apart from running a shit ton under EV :/

Haha yh should do really :~)

ah dude this would've made my ideal monthly PG video, was wondering if you guys would consider letting people chose which single vid they wanted on a monthly basis rather than having a designated one (since i don't play PLO so that part of my subscription is wasted this month)

Extremely villain dependent, really depends how he thinks about the game and approaches playing out of position in single raised pots, against most 50NL average players i expect folding is best, but that's a generalisation. As always with poker everything is situational. Assuming that villain has a turn CR bluffing range with blockers and all that good stuff i certainly don't hate calling here with a read.

i don't like CCing flop here, personally i don't mind CBing and barreling the turn here, or just chkfolding flop. If i had some better backdoors and they always bet when chkd to i don't mind a CR. But by chkcalling flop its gonna be too hard vs someone agro to get to SD enough to make it +EV.

As played i think the turn lead is pretty bad since he can have all 2 pairs / straights in his range, how to you continue if you get raised here? Shuving over a raise seems seems pretty bad since we can be so crushed pretty often. River seems like happy times for you :)

Yeah i have been CCing mode previously in these kinda spots, but wanted to start applying some more pressure. Also i don't really agree with your point saying that if we CR these hands we'll have a gutted CC range, well we will in a total theoretical sense however since this isn't like a late position v BB spot which will come up much more frequently b/c of the wider opening / defending ranges, the play of our opponent unless he is doing work away from the tables (unlikely at 100NL zoom but not impossible) is most likely going to be based on his recent experiences in these spots (what "sticks" in his head basically) So to be expolitable we would have to play this spot identically each time & our opponent would have to triple off whenever we CC flop - but since that totally depends on the frequency that we CR/CC at and both lines are totally possible at any given time, by having both available to us (from our opponents perspective anyway) makes us much tougher to play against in SRPs

Also without coming across as a bit of a t**t (lol i obv am gonna but whatevers) i think that high stakes pro's who get about 20 "likes" per post b/c of who they are should be excluded from getting the free month since it constitutes a big blind to them