
Essential Pro
Alexandra Fagaras
Alexandra Fagaras discusses how turn barreling strategies differ depending on whether you elected to range bet the flop for a small size or already polarized your range with a pot sized c-bet on the flop. After a quick introduction of the main pros and cons of both c-betting strategies, you'll learn how and why barreling frequencies can be susbtantially different with various hand classes depending on the flop strategy you selected.
June 16, 2025 | 5 p.m.
Alexandra Fagaras is joined by her friend Robert and they walk through some of his recently played hands to see if there are heuristics that can be implemented as a result.
June 9, 2025 | 5 p.m.
Alexandra Fagaras picks up the analysis of this 6-table session with a focus on tips and tricks on rebuilding your confidence when returning to the tables after a break.
May 31, 2025 | 5 p.m.
Alexandra Fagaras, fresh off her live play trips, finds herself a bit rusty as she looks to navigate her old stomping grounds in $50NL.
May 22, 2025 | 5 p.m.
Alexandra Fagaras uses the footage from one of her students as the backdrop for a discussion on how to pick the best bet sizes in various situations.
May 7, 2025 | 5 p.m.
Alexandra Fagaras loads up a few different sites and plays a session mixing in some analysis from the solver where warranted.
April 23, 2025 | 5 p.m.
Alexandra Fagaras offers her thoughts on theory and exploits particularly at the micro stakes and how to implement both successfully in an effort to increase your bottom line.
April 7, 2025 | 5 p.m.
Alexandra Fagaras continues her BvB series this time focusing on BB strategy on connected boards in a single raised pot.
March 19, 2025 | 5 p.m.
Alexandra Fagaras reviews a 6-table session she played across CoinPoker and Unibet walking through the hands and occasionally turning to the solver to see the best course of action.
March 16, 2025 | 5 p.m.
Alexandra Fagaras offers a study methodology to improve your general approach to the game and advance your thought process. She illustrates the process by reviewing a selection of marked hands with a focus on detecting leaks that point to a suboptimal thought process.
Feb. 17, 2025 | 5 p.m.
Alexandra Fagaras continues her exploration of blind v blind situations this time focusing on connected boards and honing in on the approach of the SB.
Feb. 5, 2025 | 5 p.m.
Alexandra Fagaras gives a peek at a coaching session with one of her students where the focus is on getting the thought process right.
Jan. 20, 2025 | 5 p.m.
Alexandra Fagaras continues her exploration of blind v blind situations this time turning her focus to middling disconnected flops where we can develop an overbet strategy on the flop. She discusses the benefits of deploying this strategy and teaches you how to proceed on turns when playing this high frequency checking strategy.
Jan. 6, 2025 | 5 p.m.
Alexandra Fagaras reviews the common scenario of BvB in a single raised pot and focuses on broadway textured boards in this installment discussing the best course of action when ranges are so wide.
Dec. 22, 2024 | 5 p.m.
Alexandra Fagaras wraps up the review of her recent $200NL session before turning to the solver for a deeper dive into the most interesting hands.
Dec. 12, 2024 | 5 p.m.
Alexandra Fagaras set out to record one type of video but turned the camera on for a live play session and ended up with some pretty interesting hands in this player pool that's fairly soft.
Nov. 20, 2024 | 5 p.m.
Alexandra Fagaras returns with the second part of this session review that features her student grinding at $25NL and a focus on deviations and exploitations that are available at this stake.
Nov. 6, 2024 | 5 p.m.
Alexandra Fagaras reviews the film from one of her students and discusses the exploits available at this stake which can make it extremely profitable.
Oct. 17, 2024 | 5 p.m.
Alexandra Fagaras continues her exploration of BvB which is an exceedingly difficult spot and looks to minimize the never ending series of leaks that seemingly pop up.
Sept. 30, 2024 | 5 p.m.
Alexandra Fagaras continues reviewing the footage from her student who is taking a shot at $50NL and seemingly holding his own.
Sept. 9, 2024 | 5 p.m.
Alexandra Fagaras reviews the game tape from one of her students battling it out at $50NL and talks about everything from player pool reads to individual decisions within the key hands.
Aug. 26, 2024 | 5 p.m.
Alexandra Fagaras grabs a few of the key hands from her recent session that featured some out of the box plays and discusses the theory and human element behind her decisions.
July 29, 2024 | 5 p.m.
Alexandra Fagaras takes a look at a session that she played at $1/$2 where the competition wasn't really up to par and she discusses the best way to take advantage of these folks.
July 11, 2024 | 5 p.m.
Alexandra Fagaras gives a peek behind the scenes at a coaching session where she focuses the lesson on check-raising in single-raised pots and how to assure you don't mess up the play on future streets.
June 23, 2024 | 5 p.m.
Alexandra Fagaras runs through drills for blind v blind spots in single-raised pots in an effort to develop some heuristics for this notoriously difficult situation.
June 6, 2024 | 5 p.m.
Alexandra Fagaras continues with her exploration of facing turn bets and explores how to react with different holdings on various textures.
May 13, 2024 | 5 p.m.
Alexandra Fagaras helps you fix common leaks when facing turn bets in single raised pots discussing how to assure you find enough raises while also continuing with the correct type of hands in the calling range. The examples provided focus on defending in the BB vs an in-position player.
April 19, 2024 | 5 p.m.
Alexandra Fagaras offers her take on building a strategy from scratch and utilizes the services of GTO Wizard to accomplish that. She utilizes the example of c-betting SB vs BB in single-raised pots to illustrate the process.
March 31, 2024 | 5 p.m.
Alexandra Fagaras continues exploring 4-bet pot strategy putting the focus on turn and river play in the BTN vs CO configuration while also drawing comparisons to the BvB situation that was discussed earlier in the series.
March 4, 2024 | 5 p.m.
Join this dual video with RIO coaches Paul Gough and Alexandra Fagaras who use real hands as the backdrop to see whether the solver approach or an exploitative approach makes the most sense in a variety of situations.