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For me educational = entertaining. At least when you are the teacher. Please continue these videos.

I think this happens because of the way you set up those ranges. If 4 players go allin with QQ+/AK you probably need to hit a Set to win with KK or QQ, because it is very likely that another player has AA or hits an Ace or a Straight with AK. So with QQ at least nobody is blocking your set outs.

This effect is even stronger e.g. with 6 players all in where KK has 0% Equity and QQ around 10% (I checked this with Equilab) because the amount of AA or AK in the other players ranges basically ensure that somebody has AA and your outs with KK are blocked.

Shouldn't we size up the flop to something between 50-100% in the first place? Sure, betting small and with a high frequency is nice to get a lot of folds from hands bb shouldn't fold, but at the same time we loose a lot of value from our nuts advantage and additionally villain might underdefend/underraise also vs a big sizing on the flop.

Generally I do play tighter OOP and multiway. However, I wonder if flop calls like this are even +EV.
Here with KQ and OESD, 2 Overcards and BDFD we are doing quite well but what about slightly weaker Draws like 98, Q9 etc? Would you just fold them on the flop or check/call once and giveup ~80% of turns?

I have checked my database and I loose about 16bb/100. However the sample is pretty small. It's true though, that I often end up folding by the river.

Hi Patrick, nice video as always :)

How do you decide which size you want to use to simplify your strategy?
The KJ5s board is the 2nd highest using a potsizebet, but overall the 1/3 is still preferred here (in terms of frequency).

Do you just go through every sizing with a different sim and look at the highest EV sizing or do you choose the sizing with your intuition?

Hi Peter, nice video as always. Could you upload Villain's cbet strategy on the KT4 Flop? I wonder if 1/3 is really the preferred sizing here because Villain can easily defend all of his Pairs, Gutshots etc. against that size. Maybe my preflop ranges are bad but on flops like this I usually see the solver betting quite big at least with some frequency.

I was responsing to DNegs98's comment, sorry for the confusion :D
So basically you start with a specific flop, think about your strategy and then slightly change the parameters to see how that influences your strategy, right?

Good explanation! Do you have a recommendation for a systematic approach developing your strategy in a given situation using solvers? Do you pick random flops and analyze your cbet on the flop and then go on to the next flop or do you cover different turns and rivers for a specific flop first? I find it hard to draw general conclusions from solver outputs because situations always change and I don't know how to generare more generic answers for my questions which can be applied to other situations as well .

Thanks for your detailed answer.

"while you want to be checking your flushdraws at a pretty high frequency and similarly your straight draws do a lot of checking here although this is based on the fact that you're going to be checking a lot of your strongest overpairs, trips and boats expecting to face aggression from villain which may be untrue in practise."

Do you mix your overpairs on the turn between betting and checking? Is your plan to checkraise with them?

"I think the reason that we typically do a lot of checking with flush and straight draws is because they can raise when they hit their outs, don't tend to "gain outs" by betting and have equity vs the nuts when we x/r them and get called"

What do you mean with the first sentence here? They can raise when we Check the Turn Villain checks behind and we x/r the river?

Well sure, given we play microstakes we usually want to deviate from equilibirum, but I want to understand those spots from a theoretical perspective first and then change my strategy accordingly.

With 55s, 66s, 77s you mean having a spade? Do you think it is relevant here since Villain shouldn't have a Flush?

Hi Ben,
do you think it is possible to move up to mid-high stakes while working at a regular job at the same time? What do you think is a realistic number for hours/day necessary to play and study (let's say for slightly above average intelligent people)?

1. Do you think that this also applies if Villian chooses a small sizing? From my experience a lot of players (and coaches) just cbet very wide on the flop with one high and two lowcards. Or is your statement based on the assumption Villain bets > 50% Pot.
   Would you flat Preflop Hands like A7s?