Mike87

First, I think what you should look into is to try to resolve your tilt issues. When you notice what are your symptons when going on tilt, you can find different ways to fight through it, like taking deep breaths and sitting out of the tables for a few minutes, reminding yourself stuff that will help you to combat tilt, like "Variance in poker is inevitable, I need to learn to play in those circumstances", etc.

There is also a reason why you tilt in the first place. I suggest you to read Mental game of poker, it helped me a lot to improve my tilt issues and everything is really well explained.

Good luck

Well I think it depends. If villain is capped, then you can use such a strategy

You should watch Lefort's series 6 max concepts, I think that would give you a really good starting point.

Thanks a lot for the long post, I watched the videos of Lefort regarding blinds defense and I didn't think about using it for 4bet situations like this. I think a lot of people 4bet too much IP and I'll definitely flat more hands in this spot.

I'm still unsure about how I should go about a small 5betting strategy, it's tough to not give villain the odds he needs without committing us to the pot (obv changes when we're deeper).

Robster, if I remember correctly there was 2 players that learned to play recently using this program and they did BE at 500nl. I don't know the sample. I won't give the link for that as it's on another training site and I don't know the policy here. But the pros on that training site seemed to be worried and that information came from one of them (about the guys BE at 500).

I agree with most of the stuff you're saying in your posts tho. After reading all those good players being so worried about the future, I was a bit sad, but now I refocused on what's important, working hard and improving.

GL at the tables.

I think this program has to be taken seriously.. It seems like it can BE on zoom 500 already. If it's really the case, then I think that if the program is getting better, it really is a question of time (a year or two) before NLHE is dead.

Obviously I don't know anything about this program and it's just my random opinion. Maybe it's time to learn PLO?

Nice post GT. I don't understand the meaning of the last part where you say that by raising bigger than $40 on the turn, we get called more often, after saying that we should not be vbetting the river. Do you mean that giving better odds to villain on the river will widen his bluff catching range which will give us more than 50% equity against his calling range?

Yes you're completely right, it amazes me how easy it is and I didn't get it at first lol

I agree on the part that the value hands have the same EV. But the caller will only face bets with hands that beat him, and he shouldn't call at all if an adjustment is made (it will no longer be GTO tho).

Villain would increase his EV imo, since instead of betting some of his bluffs and getting called half the time, he checks all of them which represents 0EV. He gains EV in his overall betting range since he gets value from his value range and never get caught bluffing with his bluffs.

At 21:50 with JTs, can you explain why you choose this bet sizing and what's your plan on the turn if he only calls on the flop? The pot will be 270 with 370 behind. And I'd like to know what you would do on J, K, A turn as well.

Thanks

At 10:30 with K9dd

In villain's shoes, what do you think about a shove when holding a blocker like 5x. You would c/r a certain % of your sets on the flop, and if we have blockers to some of them (let's assume we hold 5x), then you're left with 2 combos of PP that are boats/quads, and 2 others combos of A9s, for a total of 4 combos. You would c/r (imo) around 50% of the time with A9/55/99, so it cuts out to 2 actual combos that will call the river shove.

You have more 9x combos that c/r and fold. On top of that you hold miss draws that will c/r sometimes as bluff. I'm curious about what you think about that.

I have read the thread and I thank you all for the interesting discussion.

I have some questions.

First, if I understand this right, playing GTO means that you'll never change your strategy based on opponent's tendencies, and it will be impossible to show a profit playing against someone that plays perfect GTO.

Then, I want to refer to bigfiszh example about the river play, but let's change something. There's one person playing GTO, and that's the one facing the river bet, with a bluff catching range, against villain's polarized range.

This means that the person playing GTO will call the river bet 50% of the time. But let's say villain decides to never bluff the river and only valuebet, how can we not change our strategy and be unexploitable? Villain could play GTO in all the other areas and only vbet this river for value and his change in strategy would now give him and edge over the other person.

This brings another question for me, that might answer the last one: Is there any range stronger than the opponent's range in GTO, at any time in a hand, if we suppose both players are playing perfectly against each other? If there is no polarized vs. bluff catching range on the river, then there is no problem anymore.

Thanks

I think there's random hands in his range as well. A fish could take this line with A7 that c/c flop and doesn't know what to do on the turn when facing that second barrel. He might have lost a stack in the last 5 mins and be tilted.

I agree that the river bet really looks for value, but at the same time we have some great odds and I see fish do random things.

As far as raising river, I think it's my worst option since I would not give credit to the fish for being able to make those folds, at least not often enough to justify it being a +EV play, especially without information.

I'd like to have your thoughts about the use of this software as it takes a long time to work with it for each single situation. Do you think focusing on it will be more beneficial compared to other ways of studying the game (HH reviews, watching videos, etc.)

Thanks and nice video.