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Love seeing some live MTT content. Thanks!

Also you did not let us know if your op should be calling w A8 facing your jam

Please make more live MTT videos in $500-2k buyin range. RIO is lacking in this content, Thanks!

I love this FT hole cards up format. More please!

timestamp 2:20: My guess would be that K9ss/A9ss would be 3betting at a much higher clip in computer land.

A slide at the end of the video reviewing some general concepts that we just learned would be helpful. I enjoyed this video. Thanks!

The charts(DTO) I have show that JTo is a pure fold and that QTo(94%) is close to a pure fold Btn v CO. How do you view these various outputs?

For chips @20bb eff is Q9ss from SB a jam vs CO? Charts I have say yes. Do you still think this is too loose? What adjustments do you make in ICM spots in regards to rejamming vs LP opens?

In the 1st hand are you ever in favor of jamming the AQo from the BB instead of the low frequency call? Do you have any 3bet jams from the BB here?

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I always considered QTss, suited Ace wheel, low pairs, A8o to be our superstar open jams off 20bb from the btn. Is this a standard jam or are you ripping 20 here since you think the blinds are overfolding?

I enjoyed this format. Please make another video like this one as studying ICM spots is quite valuable. Thanks!

12:28 With A3ss in the sb are you calling the flop if you are closing the action? I could be calling too much here in this spot due to the fact that I have some backdoor equity. Or are you folding regardless of closing the action due to ICM implications?

Love it. Thank you!

The title is stupid and pointless. The thing about trying to be funny is you actually have to be funny. This is not funny. Editors "trying to be creative"?? Imagine if this was the peak of your creativity? I would suggest learning to play the guitar, attempting to beatbox, or picking up a new hobby such as painting. I am not impressed by the editors "creativity".

Love the content Hunter. Please keep up the hard work!

P.S.
I am looking to form a new study group with any and all Austrian sicko's who are currently living in their mother's basement. Dm's open.

Patrick Brooks I am really appreciating how you explain complex concepts in an easy to digest manner. I am learning a bunch by you going through these hands and giving your advice on how to play certain spots. My only request would be that you start to use a semi-decent microphone for recording your audio? It would make it that much easier to understand. Thanks and keep up the great work!

I appreciate the birds eye view approach you are taking with this series and your intention of not getting too lost in the weeds in regards to specific combos and the like. Great work mate!

5:31 CO vs BTN facing a 3bet with 96ss at 60bb eff do you always fold here? My guess is this is close to a pure defend. Did you have some specific reasons behind your fold or is this just a standard fold for you?

19:45 BvB AJo 45bb effective : My guess here would be that this is a mix of raise, call and shove. Safe to assume this is never a pure shove in this spot??

1st hand: I feel like I am always folding the low unsuited Aces in this spot. Is this a pure call for you or do you find the fold here sometimes?

Thanks! I am excited to see part 2 of this series. Love to see you learning how to navigate shorter stacks HU.

Hey Sauce,

Thanks so much for doing this, you are an invaluable resource to the community and we are all so lucky to have you.

I am a live midstakes NL pro and while I know this isn't your domain, I was wondering if you could help out with a few questions I have.

1. We quite frequently play bomb pots (Every player antes in $50 in a $10/20 game with effective stacks of on average $3k and normal play begins after a flop is dealt). I was wondering if you have any experience in bomb pots or if you intuitively have any ideas regarding how to best approach them both from a GTO standpoint and from an exploitative standpoint. Also, what do you think would be the best way for me to study/improve in bomb pots?

2. Wondering your thoughts on a particular hand I played. $5/10/20 blinds.

I open to $60 JhTs in the CO. Reg calls in the SB (I've seen him play relatively tight/not 3b much from this spot in the past. Think he can have a lot of strong hands up to AQ and maybe even TT here) and a recreational player calls from the third blind. $4k effective.

Flop KhQs2s. Checks to me, I bet $200 into $190, only reg calls from SB.
Turn 2x. I bet $800 into $590 he calls.
River 6sss I bet $1300 into $2190 he calls.

Thank you for all the videos and for all the help you've given over the years. Happy Holidays and New year to you and your family!

Hey Ben, super cool idea and very kind of you to be doing this, we all greatly appreciate it.

My question is do you have any tips for a mid-stakes, live, cash NL pro in terms of the best and also under utilized ways to exploit other regs and also recreational players in these games (5/10,10/20)?

Thank you and Happy Holidays!

Hey Ben, great video again as always.. I really really enjoyed it

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We block and you say it's a good sizing for how his range is constructed. I am a bit confused because I see this as a board where he has very very few folds and our sizing doesn't really pressure a large portion of his range which are generally PP's in this spot. If you can please elaborate on why you like block here, that'd be great!

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I understand that bluffing every AQ combo here would be a severe overbluff, but is AQ the best 4b bluff candidate for this spot because of blockers or are there others that do a better job for other reasons?

Thanks a lot for all the help!

Thanks for the reply! I still don't fully understand what makes this a high frequency spot, would greatly appreciate it if you could expand on that please! :)

Thanks Ben for another amazing video

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what specifically makes this flop a high frequency c-bet and why for such a big size? Should we have multiple sizings here?

Thanks!

In a vacuum, I'd lean towards folding preflop. Assuming you don't have a spewy image, this hand would perform so much better as an occasional 4bet bluff due to the K blocker. I feel like calling here is teetering between break-even and -EV.

As for the flop, I'm going to deviate from the rest of the audience here and advocate a FOLD:

Although 1-α is usually a concept that is worked with away from the table, any time villain only bets 1/3 pot (or close to it in this case), you should be looking to ditch no more than the bottom 1/4th of your range to prevent villain from auto-profiting. You seem to be aware that you need to be calling wide here. However, the fact that this is a 3bet pot changes the dynamic a bit:

If this were only a single-raised pot where the BB lead into you, this is an easy call with an occasional raise thrown in vs. a player you know you have some fold equity against. However, given that you raise/called the BB's 3bet, your range is much narrower here. Does K8hh make the cut of being in the top 75% of your range?

I don't know. It depends on how wide both your and your villain's ranges are in this spot. It's pretty dicey.

However, the secondary factor that is nudging me towards a fold here is your reverse implied odds -- When you raise/call the BB's 3bet here, you are significantly more likely to be dominated by K9s, KT, KJ, KQ, or AK and lose an extra bet in an inflated pot when a K arrives on the turn, or be dominated by Axhh and lose your entire stack on a heart/heart runout.

In conclusion, your flop decision could go either way depending on range vs. range interaction. Defaulting this hand in either your raise/fold or raise/4bet bluff range will be more +EV in the long run.

Sounds about right. Much to all our dismay, faster money doesn't necessarily = easier money. With Zone poker, getting $$$ out of the player pool can sometimes feel like trying to get blood from a stone; people are much less inclined to stack off light.

Here are a few things to keep in mind:

When playing in loose-passive games with recreational players, we make money from the marks/fish/donkeys in the game who overCALL to our BIG bets with hands that end up GOING TO SHOWDOWN.

Quite the inverse is the case for nitty tables:

When we play in tight-aggressive games with other grinders, we make money from the TAGs in the game who overFOLD to our SMALL bets with hands that end up NOT GOING TO SHOWDOWN.

As a result, your red line (non-showdown winnings) is going to be doing a lot of the heavy lifting rather than your blue line (showdown winnings)

To adjust to this different game dynamic, you're going to have to LAG it up a bit:

The two positions/opening ranges that are affected most when you change gears from TAG to LAG are the cutoff and the button. When playing my default TAG game, my PFR from the CO and BTN are 25 and 41 respectively. When transitioning to a more LAGish style, I up those numbers to around 45.4 and 51.5.

By doing this, you WILL be putting yourself in more marginal situations postflop, so you do need to make sure that

1) Your hand reading game is on point and
2) You are playing a more aggressive, yet well-balanced postflop game.

Since you will be playing against competition more densely populated with tight regs, the profitability of the occasional well-timed bluff will be much higher.

Example: Betting or check-raising the turn or river as a bluff would almost always be a blunder vs. someone who is unable to fold top pair. However, employing such tactics vs. a tighter player pool will most definitely become +EV when implemented at correct frequencies (which brings us full circle back to the importance of being well-balanced).

Definitely start deep diving into some GTO Theory videos here on Run It Once if you haven't yet already. While playing "perfect" is not humanly possible, GTO is by far the best strategy to try to emulate against tight regs and/or an unknown player pool.

Good luck!

@17 what do you think about limping with 55 in milos spot to prevent you from making the pot so big

last hand dont you think milos has some disincentive to play a big pot vs you with 2 very short stacks compared to him? or do you just think KT is just too strong to play small ball with there