grampabumkin

Hi Phil, thanks for the great video. In the second hand if we are bluffing all of our kqjx hands and missed flush draws and only value betting AA, QQ, and 2xxx hands, isn't that a very unbalanced river betting strategy against which he can just call with any pocket pair? Thanks in advance for your response

what else is in your calling range at 32:50 when you call with QTs at this stack depth?

I like the video so far. One criticism: at 43:40 you say mention the difference in laddering between this tourney and the wsop main event based on the number of people you have to outlast in order to ladder. However, it seems to me that the percentage of the field you have to outlast in order to ladder would be a much more appropriate way to measure the difficulty of laddering.

Could you go into some more detail about the villain's play around the 26 minute mark with T7os please? I think it's a good spot to check back, but you seemed to suggest that using a different sizing would be ok for a c-bet, what kind of sizing were you referring to?

Really enjoying the video so far, I love when you say at 20:50 one of the best ways to win at MTTs is to do this as little as possible and just sit back and wait for people to do this.

Also have a question about the K7o squeeze. Why isn't it a good board to C-bet, and what about that situation made you think that he wouldn't fire multiple barrels with a bluff?

Would you have just check folded the pocket 8s hand at around the 4 minute mark if it were a freezeout all else being equal?

Nice video Brian.

Around the 28 minute mark with A2ss you say that pretty much everything that calls the flop has us beat, but I think it's really common for a random opponent to just be floating this spot with two overs, KQs like you said or other combos of suited broadway hands. You said the only pairs he might fold to a turn bet would be 7s or 8s which he might just rip pre, so that actually leaves only a few hands that he could have that would be better than ours. Basically we would be putting him on 55, 66, a set, or a suited connector with a 9, all of which would have either raised flop or ripped pre (55, 66) at least some percentage of the time.

That being said I think this is actually a pretty good turn bet since we don't want to give up the initiative and get bluffed by two overs, and obviously we should have 10 outs against most value hands that decide to peel again. What do you think?

Great video, thank you.

In the hand with QT you fire the turn to set up a river bluff and then balk when you river 3rd pair. I would have liked if you had talked about specific hands that you expect him to call a turn bet with and then fold to a river shove... As I was watching I assumed it was specifically designed to make him call turn with 2nd pair (jacks) and let it go on the river. I was very confused when you decided to check back after you river the T because it really doesn't change anything.

"The topic of not over-adjusting in an attempt to keep your opponent playing a certain exploitable style yet adjust enough to take optimal advantage of it is an important one, and one I plan on covering in a video at some point." Very true, looking forward to that one.

I'm having trouble seeing why 3h5h would be dominated less often than Q6o. You gave a couple of examples of hands that he would call the 3b with that dominate Q6o. I could also point out that he will be flatting with 6s5s, which will have 5h3h dominated, but is dominated by Q6o.

In the J8 hand you said you thought you should have c/r'd flop. I agree with this. My question is if benny folded and HK called, what would be your plan for different turn cards?