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What's up guys? Doug pulk here and I'm joined by Nick Pietrangelo. Welcome and good to have the video for you today. Hey guys, how is it going to be good to be here? I'm excited to go over some hands with you. Okay so let's talk about what we're doing today, this is the last day of the open cart period for our new course, winning

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We have four hands that Nick recently played in a $2000 online tournament that he won and we're going to look at some of the more interesting hands from that tournament and from there it sounds good, yeah, yeah, perfect, okay, great, so you want me to talk a little bit about this tournament. It's a 2k round. Stars, yes, so this was a 2k I played on a Sunday. during the W coupe I played a decent amount of volume during the W tube and I always attack this to Sunday UK High Roller whatever time I am playing. It's a smaller and more difficult tournament, but it's fun, it starts very deep and what we're looking at here are the last two tables approaching the bubble with a lot of hard rags and we probably have around 17 left here as we those are missing seats so that leaves 17 or 16 and the minimum cash is 5k for a a K. for n so two and a half for and min cash I am one of the chip leaders and this hand actually occurs against another of the big stacks, so yeah, there's some prize pool considerations here, some interesting stuff, so I think those are some good spots. here and then as we move to other places they are from the final table, okay, that sounds good, let's jump here with our first hand, so under the rays of the gunslinger we decided to make three, but right now let's pause before showing decisions. for the video, yeah, what are your thoughts here?

This is a place where you know, I just think when I've played a lot of

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in these types of situations, it kind of sucks because there are so many players that fall behind. You have to act particularly on some of these short stacks, where you really have to decide the way you are going to play your range and I feel like there are very few hands that we would like to be flat on in this case, what is it? your breakdown of flat 2 3 about here when you use the side to play yeah, I think you're absolutely right about that.

I think there's another factor in that: the big blind is too short, the small blind is too short, and the small blind is too short. The big blind around the bubble isn't stealing as much equity as he normally would, but obviously letting him in there and I was playing a three-pot with suited King Jack is a little worse than it would be if he had 50 cash . right, that's a consideration, we probably want to leave him out with all his very easy and profitable reviews, especially for a minimal race, so you know, like I said, it's not really him, he shouldn't beat so hard because the bubbles are coming out because it's still like 17, there's 11 left in cash and they're easy by far and in last place, so they'll probably overcall pretty wide and then you know we're going to have less value in the pot than if it goes in multiple directions. .

Ah, for the deepest stack, but in general, I think with so many ranges behind you want to make three bets a ton just because, like I said, you know we lose a lot of Equity in multiple directions, even with a hand like this, even with our Aces suited, so we want to play. a really substantial three-bet strategy and we actually want to scale it down a little bit because we're pretty linear rather than being, you know, a button-savvy kidnapping or something. We are in three bets and we can do a little. a little larger size because we have less ranges behind us and because we have a wider range versus a narrow range where we are quite tight.

I think we should use a nice size, you know, a little bit smaller, three bets, a lot of our ends that they were playing and there really won't be any tear calls here. I think every hand we want to enter the pot with here we're going to have a three-bit frequency and we're going to play four chips. I think this should be around 50% and then when you consider that we are in an ICM situation against another chip leader, sure maybe my frequency will go down a bit, but at this point I'm happy to play a more focused strategy in chippy and not really.

I'm worried about, you know, letting the chip leader to my right take all the pots. I still think there's a lot of equity in playing aggressive burst em's now, so yeah, that makes sense, look, okay, I get you, so it makes a lot of sense in this situation. What I like to think about when you get close to the bubble is that it's very different if you're like one or two off the bubble when we're looking for spots between two of the biggest stacks in the tournament, it's very different because when you're like one or two up of the bubble instead of being like four or five outside the bubble because in a scenario where you double through this guy, he's in a situation that you know isn't very good, he's very likely not going to collect anymore. , so while yes, he eliminates you if you go all-in and stacks, I still think you have a lot of pressure on him not to stack, while that might change as you meet one outside the bubble or something like that , then he is much more.

You're probably going to cash some of these really small stacks, yeah, I think it's definitely overkill to let someone covering you dictate your strategy, for one thing I'd say is a pretty general rule for him to be an absolute savage. with aggression in the verse, especially out of position, he needs to have a much bigger chip lead than he has now, you know, that range of having a chip lead that allows you to just run over people is more like the chip 1.5 X to the fact that the tournament will end on the next hand and we should feel like removing value from our stacks, which of course in that scenario we wouldn't want to face because we have a lot of value locked up. up, but we still have to play for this prize pool and the payout increases are really significant, like we're not on a satellite or something like we're playing for a seat that we want to lock down and we have a lot of them. of chips we are going to have 11th place here is 5k and 7th place is 8k so you can't win a lot of money by putting me in a position to go from 11th to 7th, but I can win a lot of Eevee by playing very aggressively and being in a spot to finish in the top three and playing another chip leader who I think might be opening loose because he thinks there's ice and pressure, it's probably a pretty good strategy for me, it all makes sense, so we decided to bet 15,000 here, yes, like I said.

I'm a smaller team because of all the ranges behind us, you don't want to be stuck in a three-big bay with a bunch of short stacks behind you that will just get stuck if they wake up with something, so yeah, it would be quite the dump. if they decide to go with it after this guy, okay, now this is getting interesting, we see a four bet and a lot of the things we talked about a little earlier start to appear. plays well, we're starting to see now that he wants to try to be aggressive against us understanding some of the implications of the requester, but again, he's not at that 1.5 - 2 in the ICM scenario is what you want to do here with some things like Ace Queen out or like Jax or Ace King in balance is just pushing like you have 75 blinds, it's not too much to push and that part of the ICM factor.

It's definitely something that, yeah, I don't want to cancel it in my tournament life, but for this small, not small, I mean it's a normal size, it's a little over 2.5 X, which is about what We look at this place first of all it looks like your range a little bit, I think it's probably a little more flexible than normal because of the illusion of pressure and I think that means something like a little bit of suited spy, maybe maybe a little bit of the same suit 10 and then maybe. he's jamming jacks and betting a little bit and mostly calling them and then betting queens Plus and Ace King suited and he's king sometimes he's king.

He should be mixing in a lot of trades and some betting and probably not too many calls at 75 but a little bit, so I make a range first, I can call this hand purely. I can purely call King ten suited King Queen suited Ace ten suited Plus and I'm doubling Queen Jack suited, which would probably have put this three bits, but I'll have some frequency because of the way the stacks with 6 more and increasing as the torque goes up and when I have from six to ten, I'm going to call this and I'll have pretty decent frequencies with those. hands because I'm going to be the victim and calling is a little weak with the stack layout behind me and those are really good hands to put a 3 bit in here because when I call to call, the other chip leader and flop a set, you know that was a huge boat, there's a lot of future Evie in that play, so my range is going to look like a lot of those peers, a lot of Broadway students.

My ace suited is that I decided to do this with what would be the ace 5 3 H. 3 and ace nine suited plus mostly ten years of the same suit Plus and ace Queen out of the suit I will probably get the pajamas a times and sometimes flat why do you decide to stand a hand like King Jack suited but fold Queen Jack suited you know when I? Think about those hands, I think they would probably mix both in my calling range. Is there any particular reason you think it would be a dropout? Yeah, I think that's just the advice because he would like the Kings to have that extra capital.

Verso Queens is like a really significant pip when we consider that it is for the betting range, it is so close that you do not continue with the lows of the pairs that he bets with a very high frequency, also like with the Queen Jack it adapts to your dominated for its a little bit lighter as the Ace Queen is the Queen of the same suit and you are still on your luck against the Ace King, who should be interfering a lot, so you are actually dominated by more hands with the Queen Jack of the same suit to the point where I think you should start with your Broadway ooze King and double the next oka, it all makes sense, okay, we decided to call, we got a money flop here, ten, eight, three, rainbow, so this one It is a place where we should expect great size. him a lot if you think about what we just said about the ranges he should have, like half of his range should be over pairs and when I'm going to triple bet a lot of those pairs, you go ahead and versus him and you have some of my Weaker hands like this hand that has like 15 percent equity against that range or whatever, it's actually letting me realize that with this better size, like my weakest, you know, Ace Jack suited, King Jack suited, Queen suited came, um, actually I should. double this a lot and call just a little bit with the backdoors and then double completely pure like obviously the diamonds, but the suited king queen king jack probably gets the call like twenty percent of each suit and you really shouldn't face this small size a lot, so I think when I'm faced with small size, plus I like the nice flop of small size, I can peel off and take advantage of the population trends here, where maybe if you have a spore suit, you just don't He wants to make that big C bet, but when he has queens, I think it's pretty intuitive that you should deal with the big size and then when he has a plus like Jack, if we get a brick on the turn, we probably expect him to continue to force the money. stack most of his range and then just check his ace high sometimes and sometimes with Jack's, so I think we can take one off here when we're facing small size, but like I said, we should fold like three quarters of the time with each one. suit and just continue for a bit, that makes sense to me and gives us some pretty good Bluff candidates on later streets.

It's nice to have some, you know, on a board like this, how many drawers do we really have? Obviously, if we are retiring. Queen Jack suited Rock can have Jack nine, so we're not going to have a lot of these holdings, so we're going to have to float some weaker hands and the only candidates that you seem to know that well or maybe some like the ACE King ace queen hands where we block a lot of things yeah, like ace king,yeah, sorry, ace king, job, we don't have it that much, very good, that also makes sense because we decided to match, yes, I went to see, this is where We hope that many top couples actually have a mandatory mandate, you know, like Queens, you really don't want your opponent to realize that with something like a suited Jack, they just have to put up money, they wouldn't have a flush.

In the draw, you can do some really weird things here in these three, the hot sauna position where you just bet like a medium size actually and then like Ace King and you know your pot likes to bet like 50 or 60 percent of the pot, here it's fine and then with the ace king that doesn't block the club tie, you can cancel it and fold the others. and it puts me in a difficult situation when I have things like Jack's, you know, I can't just put them in there and when I have things like, you know, my a is ten of the same suit, I can't get it, it makes it really difficult. when I don't have the view you like, like 50 60 K, but from what you say about Masari, I'm like a 50 or 60 percent pot like the block bet is: there are some points where the block bets really good here, but out of position here.

I don't think you can block on a tear and that's the wettest in my continuous range. You have a lot of protection problems when your blocking doesn't really accomplish as much as you'd like. against my range, so I think if you're going to bet, you're going to want to bet more than 50% of the pot and you're going to mix in some cashouts with ace and king, which is a little strange, but you're also going to get something immediate. protection and some immediate folds from my pairs who are in such bad shape and you'll get another call of things like King 10 or Jack 10 or Jack off suit, maybe a suited Stein obviously blocking the Aces so you can play a jam here. for a small frequency, he can play as a 60% pod, effectively a jam that allows him to double the weaker kings and cancel the one that doesn't block my flush draw jam and you expect him to check with his ace high.

He bluffs by passing with his Ace King and decides not to use that strategy, which will also happen quite often. Passing with his ace five of the same suit, those are not clubs, so when he passes here it will be a bit of Jack's kings, not really. It's very slow to play here because I have a pot to play and when he checks, yes, we hope the ace is high and some of the weakest ones are Jack, who doesn't win as much trying, it's queens and kings, Duke. I also think Jax is going to go preflop less, given the given situation, yes exactly, I agree, so how do we plan to play our range here?

So what do we look for when betting on the turn versus check and how do you build it? that I made a mistake here because of the way I said the range is I. You should just make a quarter pot bet, maybe a 30% pot bet and just do your, you know, random bluffs with a second ace of the same suit or a random low frequency ace, Jack, or you know. ace queen or it's a pretty high frequency ace king suitable that you know like you know their uh spades hearts diamonds have to fold so I think I can achieve a lot with just a very small bet here and get the immediate folds from the ends that I want to fold and then push the bricks like you know, half or two thirds of the time like a push on them comes into play.

What I was thinking was when he checks here, if he checks twice in a lot of run outs, then I have a lot of visibility and I can just improvise and he's going to have a really hard time even if he knows my face up strategies, he can't call with ace king. and I thought I could take that into account, I still have I'm not playing, there's basically a zero percent increase for my range versus the right of bed, so I have everything, that's why I can make the turn bet of 25 or 30 percent and have aces and kings.

I'm a little bit wider than him so that's my problem, but it's not much, we're pretty close, almost like a floppy, it should be 60/40, but once you see the bets and I call, we're pretty close and I can take advantage of that with a small bet. so you are saying a small bet with almost all your weapons, yes, I think I can make a good bet. It would seem like my hands had something extra. I will be like I said, like my 7 and my 9, they will bet less. off and still has some frequency, but it's okay to let him pull to an outside 6 now I'm fine with that instead because he should still have a check jam range with some of his like ace king of clubs, they'll probably do that like half of time, so it's really bad for me to bet 9 and fold to that Jam when I can check back and be able to make a protection bet with those hands.

Sometimes I can call with my best aunts. which I have as a full frequency with this line, which is, you know, Queens Kings aces tens eight-six sometimes have a lower frequency than the others, but they're still there, so if you play this little three-bet strategy preflop then you are in a very good place to place the small bed, you are pretty well protected, I understood you, yes, and if you use the small bet too often or we start a small bet with almost all of your range or the vast majority of your range, then you are out of position. the value of checking with your good hands increases, so you also want to convince him that it is too attractive an option, which one are you going to use?

So you're going to use your nines and your sevens to check back a lot there and still have some pairs and still have some straights when you check and you'll also have a bunch of suit combos that will be your highest frequency checks there, so that if you had King Jacket Clubs that almost always check, so that will also protect you when you go to check, check, and you will have strong hands, yeah, that's a particularly suffering hand, yeah, yeah, like we don't care, we didn't like it. there's no equity in this pot with King Jack, we don't care about that's having, so I think it's a pretty bad decision on my part to do that, but that's fine, but I would definitely prefer to bet small here, so now.

We face a walk along the river. What size do you think makes the most sense there? When you go to check, check there now. I think I have to take advantage of the fact that, on the one hand, I think in one position, it's actually not like that. don't build ranges in position that are less than 50 percent because, although the block size bet is primarily a function of being out of position and trying to do so, you are using hands that you would often prefer to check to make a small bet, but you're out of position, you don't want to check them, so in position it doesn't really make sense to have that kind of block betting range because it's not really what the function of bet size is because it mostly comes from being out of position. , so when I'm in position, my best smallest size is 50% here, so I think with something with the worst blockers I could do maybe 50%, but I think in my hand it's pretty decent, since it doesn't I like jacks and I think kings are pretty high in terms of hands, so you could do this, with jacks being the most frequent after the flop, but I really think that even if we're not thinking about cars and just go out of the world of the solver for a minute like People just don't take this line with a strong hand and at that point I decide that I'd rather just put maximum pressure and also take a line that a lot of people don't take as a Bluff in tournaments like I think. that the tendency of the general population here is to think that you know I'm doing something complicated more often and that I'm doing something aggressive trying to take the pot with a white possession when I check the turn there, especially when I have things like that. aces and kings in my preflop range I think I maybe get more credit for a pot size bet, here when I have two pot sizes left than for a 1/2 pot, which might get some ace high calls, while one a pot full and I think H kings, he's the king and his queen or he just folds and that's what I'm going to look for.

Does it change how much you're going to bluff because you're eliminated from the tournament or not? close enough to the bubble to consider that because I guess that's one of the main reasons people might go for a half pot size here is to protect, but I think they are more valuable chips being last. Right now, when I win this pot, I'll almost have that magical chip lead over these guys, where I'll be able to play like crazy in the bubble and the future TV of that because like I said against this line, I think it's going to overtake a big percentage. of the correct time, like if he checked preflop, half of his hands were ace high and now he took this line after the flop, so if we already start at 5050 and I'm betting four pots, I'm getting pure suckers from a high.

I think I'm in a really good place here, so I'm giving it away since you win this tournament. I'm going to go out on a limb and assume this will get done. He called them with Queen Jack and I had the huge chip, yeah, so I think, yeah, like I said, there's also no, it's pretty flat there from 11 to six, you're not doing like five clients for that many jumps and we 17 left and the first one is 20 links so yeah I think when I got to that point near the flop like I said it was already low frequency so I don't have a big problem when I try there because it's not like I'm getting to that point every time he had that King Jack.

I should fold a lot of the flop I should do it where everything makes sense, well, next hand we open with the ace. The queen gets to the small blind's face, eh, yeah, she bets 3x, so yeah, this is a little awkward, this is nice. from an awkward place, this is a strange place, so we have Bartek for sure this is where you know, like some of these, now is where the final five of the tournament are, so fifth is 11, fourth is 18, so we're getting a pair, but you know, three and a half ends there, so there's three and a half and they jump now and the jump from fifth to third is ten buy-ins, I mean five, sorry, 10k , so these are something like that. significant jumps here because if I survive Bartek and fish, I'll get five buy-ins and with the way the spread is and the chip leader, the chip leader was a tough regular, but second place was a guy who had no had.

I've seen it played before so I assumed it was a new player coming to W co-op so yeah this is a place where defeating Igor is pretty expensive because the stacks in between so don't get it wait wait wait Farah's device is the same. the middle stack should be pretty passive with each other at this point because look, Darwin has almost twice as many chips as me and you know, doubling puts me even with him and the other guy has 531, so it's not like I will double here I am in a hugely different scenario where I'm winning the tournament a lot more, you know, because the other guys have chips, so I know that Igor is quite charming, he's quite smart, he's quite complicated and he's quite rich, so I thought, uh, I was probably more likely to get a little leverage here when I'm walking out of the guy into the unknown stack.

I'm under pressure five, so you know kidnapping or sex and everything, oh, yeah, yeah. tricky point I think I can block this quite often, it's a hand that benefits a lot from blocking, but calling is really good and if he's bluffing I'll dominate his bluffs a lot, he'll almost always use them and a sex or like a king queen or like a queen nine proper to achieve here, those are really good candidates, so I think the call is better for those reasons, yeah, and that's really the question or the question doesn't even call or Jam, only one of them wins money. a comparison, yes, you can contrast them and find out what you know, what frequency makes sense, do the one that makes you the most money more often, yes, and, yes, like when I think about ace queen, it's a good hand to be able to play.

The stack sizes are maybe even a little bit shorter than this, I would say, and you get a lot of value if, you know, they just take the pot and prevent you from getting your equity, but they're in position here. I think the stack size is the SPR will be something favorable for us after the flop, when we know that we can have a hidden ace or a queen, we can easily accumulate profits profitably in those situations, so yes, I think I like the decision to plant here. Yeah, I like the way we would work it out in depth, like you try to compare, you try to figure out what your average result is with the call and with the jammas and then you figure out how much those chips are worth. on the prize pool it seems like I said, I don't think we really need to get caught up in that because that model does, that model assumes that they have some rigid assumptions that aren't that realistic, so now on to this. on the board when he passes me I think I do have I'm going to call I'm opening and calling probably 5s plus and a bunch of suited aces and nine suited tens I don't think I'll be allowed to drop that preflop there The added benefit of making these calls in position for me is that we are supposed to be passive against each other after the flop and if he has a hand like a ski, I will have to face him more often and forI don't do that.

I don't think I have to be strict enough, quite aware that I don't have many strong hands here and I definitely have all the sets. I probably show Jax sometimes and sometimes I call, so yeah, I think I'm doing okay on this board, but I think. check I think I'm going to make a bet and fold I think my hands are too good when I can check and somehow go to the showdown. I have a back door, not straight drawers and yes, I have too many, probably right on the edge. Equity to make a bet and just lose my hand with a check raised by something you know, like if he made this move with clubs like Queen Ida or if he only has an ace of the same suit or if he's going to do a check race with only queens or whatever, does it make any difference in your mind if one of your cards is diamond level?

I think I checked more often because it makes the conversation easier as we talk about how much equity can be bet instead of just Anyway, controlling when we're supposed to be passive with each other makes sense, yeah, and it's not like I can either. bet and use that blocker like it's something meaningful when our SP is doing so well and he still has to just stack when it's like he's loaded if he passes calls with slow play he's like a carry diamond and he just decided to check and call on the flop with Kings or King Jack suited or whatever I had before, it's not like I can just Don't discard it because I have a diamond blocker because it's not like I can just stack a flush when we start the end with 50 blinds and you put so much pre so we decided to go ahead and bet here, yeah.

I don't like it that much, as you can see, I'm not explaining, what I actually did is, in my opinion, I already made two mistakes, so it's especially fun when you can choose the hand to do that. Even better, just use the bigger pots, we wanted hats and that's it, yeah, like that, like that, a fifth pot, what do you think about the size of the bet you used to make? I like the best size just because I don't think I need it when it's lightweight. will have some of those Eastern maximums like the ACE 5 students, these 4 students, although I like to call a lot of people, they use them and then you will have some of their kings/queens against yours, you know, sent them or whatever .

Pick up some equity and take me on the turn with some of my range. I also have, like I said, any time you have such a strong range on a board like you have everything here, you can take advantage of that with a small bat size with your range especially. in places where it doesn't matter what I have, that's a strong hand, I can use shallow enough that I can get all my chips on the river, so I start with a small bet and benefit the rest of my range by being protected with my small bet with my On a big hand, I can really max out my protection against Ace King with all those pocket pairs I have and there's not much you can do about it in balance to discard me because I still have everything else.

It's another place where with my pocket pairs I can I'm playing like a pure call with the exception of maybe something like tens and Jack at some frequency benefits from a jam, but I really don't think he's back, he's three behind calling nines here , so that kind of equator goes I went out the window and started playing in a pure spine position, so I think whenever you have so many strong hands in your range and whatever your level is relatively uncovered, you can use a bat small to benefit your entire range and then continue from there when You can always place it however you want in position like on future streets, but when we use this size and as we discussed earlier, we shouldn't have too many hands betting here because we don't want our capital to be taken away.

This size doesn't leave us much room to bluff because if we use a very small size and we can't bet as often then what does the bluff frequency look like? I think we can bluff like I have king high. I wouldn't have had any problem bluffing here. I was just saying that I don't like bluffing hands that have overs and can potentially win in the showdown, but I think so, do you mean if we end up not bluffing often on future streets or just on this street in this straight, yeah I think we can bluff often, like what I was saying, because we have so many pocket pairs that are good here and so many good jacks, etc. a lot of good flush draws, like if you think about our preflop range, we still have Queen 9 of diamonds every 9/10 suited every King 9 suited King ten suited probably King ten suited not what we would want a better hand like ten nine sudhir because I think I would be inclined to check it out, but if we get it, it depends on whether you're using, if it's going to go like 7d or it just gets stuck, which I don't think it just gets stuck, so hands like that I don't. do.

I think it's a big deal because I don't think you're just going to check Jim's stuff like Queens, or you should be building a range that has like 70K if you want, even if you were checking Queens, that's not the case. a terrible outcome, pretend it's not, yes it's true, so yes, I think it's a bad bet with this manual, with our range, we're fine and if I had something like an ace five of clubs I'd be very happy to bet . does it make any sense, okay, I should pay brick turn, well, not really brick backdoor color, obviously, there are some straight bars out there now, so I think when I see this situation, I'm really inclined to do check with this hand on the turn. we'd have a lot of other better bluffs if we bet ten nine if we bet our clubs if we bet diamonds I'm probably fine betting with those hands but the stack size is a little awkward, yeah sure, I think we're going to spend a lot here, the biggest problem is that when you go to check call there, it's much more common for a hand that has a light like an ace king of clubs on the flop or like an eight ten of clubs or even an A seven of clubs like that, but I think the fact that we don't have a dime club in his hand is really a problem putting money in the pot here when we're getting so shallow and he's really going to start. check jamming things like that and maybe if he used a five six suited, it would be like a crime check hand on the flop, that would be a pretty out of place bluff in my opinion, but if he was going for it. it's a reasonable combination, like it's okay six seven of the same suit is also there eight seven of the same suit is also there the jack ax check call pick pick up flush drawers here the king queen of the same suit check call pick up flush drawers here the queen ten of the same suit, etc.

So yeah, I think it really decreases our equity versus range, it really decreases the chance that we get, like you know, a bet over here, so yeah, I think it's a pretty bad turn compared to something like, obviously, the two of hearts might be something where you get to knock them out of King's face a lot more often, the other thing is, yeah, I just don't think he's going to have a pretty decent position. I think if I had a random holding of Ace King, there would be a lot of exits for us that we are really credible when it comes to check, and we bet again, given that the FAFSA is that it definitely makes sense, I think we are good, the representative is direct with a four or a nine or a ten or a queen when it comes to He checks and then we check again on the turn, so yeah, I think it's probably pretty good for our range because we have as many as I want to check and we'll do well there with all of our pairs of hands and our proper connectors, so in this river I feel like we're going to want to use two different sizes, we're going to want to have a small subset of Jam hands given that we can have some jacks and we're definitely going to be able to have some colors, but we want it mainly when we bet, we will probably go free with more half pot size because given the strategy on the flop we can definitely have tens of nines, even a hand like sevens.

I think once this line is taken, I think I feel confident, so I think I would probably combine a small subset of jams and then a more common half-polished bet. Sighs, what do you think of that? I agree and I also think that our specific hand ends up doing a really good job. removing Jack suited now has to be hearts, so hearts or yes was what the man who lost Jesus Chris sued, but anyway we blocked his suited jacks, we blocked his ace jack-off and, like you said, now We have some credible value bets, like nines and tens, you can probably bet. half a pot here and maybe you know to take a call from an ace high or a lighter triple bet like a king eight suited or an ace eight suited or whatever, in any case, yeah, I think that we can go for it, but not when We have a club and we also expect him to make some block bets if he played slow, like he himself had tens.

I think that's the tan with him, it's like a main block bet for him, where he can bet 30%, so yeah. We feel pretty confident that we can probably get them out of this decent amount, but I don't think we have matchup value. I don't think we can verify this and I think it's pretty decent for Bluff, how would you do it? select bluff candidates for largest versus smallest size. I think if we have something like, you know, even just the base queen with the ace of clubs, because we don't really care that much about the ace suit ace jack error because the frequency doesn't really change much before the flop, so if we just have less blockers for the two-suited Ace Jack and then more non-flush blockers, that's pretty good, I probably got here with something like h10 with a club.

I would push there, well, how are you getting here right now? The club. I don't think that turned out well at all. I'm probably very close. The specific depends on how much we think Igor is bluffing, but yeah, maybe, maybe my threshold there. it's ace it's a jack, but you probably know that the ace queen with any of the clubs is a pretty good ace of clubs with priority and then some probably see some of the other hands that are very good for bluffing, we probably would have kept bluffing on the turn , like. So some of the King, some of the King has, I would probably bet the turn, so I think we want to have the club box for the gym because any high club box will pass anyway, so I went with half medium.

It's big, which I would like to see myself smaller, yeah, so this size seems a little strange to me just because I don't feel like it's clearly in line with the value of the hands that we're trying to represent that if it's bigger, then it's pretty clear to me, it's like we're saying we'd have a jack or a flush, there's a bad trap and if it's smaller, you're saying you can have some of these pair hands, yeah, it seems. It just seems a little strange to me. I think you should go with the half here and make sure we get them, just wrap the nines and tens, you know, maybe the very strange thing they played in Queens is worth it. half a boat pipe, but yeah I agree, I think he was trying to go like a cat who doesn't have club lockers, sighs, but that doesn't make sense, I think you think Jack's are definitely worth pushing here, so yeah, but yeah, yeah.

I've got a jack, I'm sure, okay, I don't know how much, yeah, this one's quick, actually, hey, Jack. It opens the flat button, so yeah, this is another hand where it's quite awkward with the batteries, but I think so, this hand. He's one of the few we almost always want to call. I like it, you know something. I did a lot of research on this place when looking at a few different gameplay samples, the one thing I always found players didn't do. It was already enough to play hands on the button, and obviously you have to think about the blinds behind you, as if it would be much better for you to play hands here with a huge stack and a small blind, a low guy and the big blind, and vice versa, true, but I have always seen that many hands on the button have profitable win rates, certainly, every hand pair and I feel that many players tend to play a little too tight on the button versus openings, yes, I think that you know, even regardless I see things.

You should have a substantial dialing range here, even with the 10 big blind stack, just like a bunch of connected students, there's a bunch of king and queen students that we need suitable for safe stuff like that, so yeah, I think people are probably a little bit too tight, I agree King eight seven, he checks, yeah, I like what we talked about, we should be pretty wide here free, which means we should build a substantial range of protection bets and we can do it because we are leveling the sevens. eight king five suited probably king six suitedsure and everything else like nine ten suited jack ten suited like we have a ton of equity here the range when we press the button is significantly higher than his, you know he's probably opening something like thirty, ya you know, the ten big blinds maybe like thirty percent and then we're going to call something like twelve or fifteen, so he's got a check for us here and he respects our range just because we're a lot more condensed than him. he has to do a lot of full checks, so we put protection sighs there and then this turn.

I think the Queen is pretty good for us because obviously I don't like that she's not going to just check call like Queen 10 and Queen Jack. and Queen 9 and we're going to bet those hands and we were already starting tighter than him in the first place. I think King Queen goes for a chip quite often on his flop when he induces that little bet on our part. Ace Queen will probably shoot it for sure, it'll be the bottom of the sea so hearts and I think sometimes you'll see that in the control rate so yeah I think we can put Brettly in we can condense it into a bunch of 7 8 X highs on Sunday. can be some sixes and then nines tens and jacks have a really very high frequency there and we have the king 5 of diamonds, the king 5 of clubs, blockers, so we have the blocker 7 5 of diamonds, if the flush comes, the ace 5 of diamonds. so yeah, I think we can start betting and then continue on the river to get similar pots.

Are you worried that you have a lot of straight draws here that are kind of obvious in terms of picking bluff combos? um I like to use these pocket pairs and places where I just don't have any cards that interact with this fold range and I think that's more important and then yeah, I would have a lot of those straight draws that I bet a lot on. less frequently and I just mix them all up than with the hands that I think have the best removal in their bluff caching ring in their check-call range like I'd like to take my ace suit here and just go for it, I'd like to take my two through six and try it and then, you know, I think we do better by combining check and bet with 9 10 Jack 10 and our 5 6 is probably fine to try as well, we like to bet like the straight draws that they're like straight bottom draws so you like when we bet five sixes and fold 910 here, that's really good for us, same with obviously getting the full form of Jack ten where we actually complete. a straight that destroys us so I like it yeah 4 5 5 6 my little pocket there's my ooze ace would be my main bluffs here and then the ones that have some equity, but yeah, I think we're good just because I don't think I don't think that you have to worry too much about bluffing too much because our range is so condensed to start on this board first that opened that we have a good amount of leverage, it makes sense and this is our Last time we took a look at today ten seven in the big blind we fold, I assume this is just a one hundred percent call and yeah, yeah, what happens with people who do the ICM thing against other big stacks like you.

You're still supposed to defend very wide because you're supposed to defend in these depths, even like you're not supposed to get fooled as often as people think and you can just go to the matchup and you're not supposed to tighten up as much as people do. . makes sense yeah, we'd like to see you go with the large size here and just start forcing us to do the pleats that are a really good value, for example, you should spend like 80% and then we have, like Quinjet, the sticks and we just have to double it like this, but you guys go with a small size, verse small size, we just check the rise like 70% hot or whatever, we check by raising the two pairs each time and then you know I'm going to do my six bolts and then.

This turn we played very polarized like you don't fit into any of those blocks because all your good top pair chips are like some of them have those backdoor dump boxes that are worth, you know, betting eighty percent. of the boat or the boat and they are even like ours. Jack ten suited, it's good enough for the pot and we didn't check the linear increase that we need to put the block size in and when we get that brick turn we just go for the large size. I like it, do you look at it? put this in your control range because sometimes it's nice to occasionally have some strong controls on the turn so you know it's less important on turn three, but as an example, on a turn like eight or six, where we can definitely have a lot of hands that convert pairs and we may want to check if we decide not to bluff with them.

Do you do everything possible? Try to pass some of these types of hands to protect them or it's something you're not doing. really very concerned with uh yeah, I'd like to do it for sure um, but I think we don't need to waste a hand that's so good, we can do it with something that you know is going to be a very good Bluff receiver. Well, first of all, yes, we can do it with our ace ten up to the jack ten, like those turns where now we need less protection and we have some pretty decent kickers that we can make two pair in the river or block their top pair. or whatever, but for the most part, yeah, I think when we have two pair here, we probably don't want to waste it on a check call for protection when we only have like King ten, it would be completely fine to just check if you wanted to.

Mixing some strong technical controls just wouldn't make the two pairs make sense and I think this is a point where it would have almost no cheating. I don't always see many, yes, and having a range of traps, there really aren't many. lost hands that might even bluff, the only thing that really comes to mind is a hand maybe like ninety suited, maybe it succeeded, but all that, yeah, and we have to bluff a lot here, so we have to make sure go and get everything. with our ten, seven, our seven, five, totally cool and yeah, the interesting thing about this hand is that it calls me with almost pure abandon, so yeah, I think you need, you want to have like a ten at the end, you want. you've got a suit in your hand I've got a bunch of six fours I've got a suited score that backdoor flush draw or whatever like my ace four is probably a very prominent bluff on this flop and that hits there the four sixes hit there a lot of sets in two bears, so I think you need a little more than that.

I think you're supposed to double call there for sure and then you're supposed to escape down the river even with that two-parent blocker, yeah, well, if it hits a At that point we were like I had a set blocker and two pair, that It's going to be a lot of hands when you only have a couple, yeah, yeah, yeah. I also have to still try, like we're saying, "I'll take this." The line with is ten King 10 Queen ten of the same suit, so I don't think the seven is that important once we get to the river and get that nice brick, we have to go for it like we were saying because we still have them.

Jack nine eight nine answers a pretty high frequency for us, some of those backdoor, backjacket flush draw guys think we'll have a pair in there too, so the two pair blocker won't necessarily be a big deal; sounds good man, so Before we continue, do you want to talk a little bit about the course that you created with us, maybe for people potentially interested in checking it out a little bit about the type of material that you published and, I guess, just an overview ? from the course that you put together, yeah, sure, basically what you can expect is that it's in three parts and it's a preflop, post flop and play section, and it's explained in the preflop section that I created, you know, I think it's like 250 charts preflop they are in emergent format from 15 blinds to one hundred blinds and cover Ray's first to call the verse opens in what - three days what to mark how often and that is verse from each position in verse every position verse blind blind that is basically the exact strategy that I play and that I see other high roller teams play that comes directly from the solver, so it's a lot of things that I used a lot of computer power and a lot of time to create that maybe people don't have, You know? the time or resources to create, so all of those ranges come from solvers and I'm basically going to give you a preflop playbook with that section, which I think is probably the most valuable part of the course for a lot of people and then I'll publish it. flop I cover how to play out of position in a lot of late position versus gadgets because I know that's a word that a lot of people have told me they have difficulty with as many friends as possible.

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I learned a ton from that just by doing it, I really did, so you know, I know exactly what you're saying because I took a course, and not only that, but having trained a lot of people, sometimes the best way to learn is By expressing your thoughts, you know, telling your thoughts to other people and having to explain why, it helps you understand your positions more fully and you can also learn from them, by the way, if you sign up today. You will receive a free $300 course, we will start selling it for 300 hours starting tomorrow. It's an ICM course that you created, Nick.

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