You're clearly the best poker channel I follow, active and quality content are always here. I just became pro on NL50 zoom and I learn a lot by watching your videos and apply your advices IG. I realize more and more that I'm a fish though haha, thank you!
After watching your videos and digesting them, for the first time in my life I can manage to have about stable redline. Granted, playing almost lowest stakes there is and small sample size for now, but still I finally feel like I could get it all together for trying to make this at least serious side-income. All I need is for my opponents not to almost always hit sets or straights on preflop 4-bet pots, but even with that bad run I am close to break-even. Things like true ev and hand reading, focusing on what is REAL and focusing less on stuff like ranges (which is important, but people at lowest stakes do whatever so less reliable and thus should be focused a lot less for now). Sure, if there is a reg with decent looking stats I will consider ranges as well, but in a lots of spot I can just bet / raise / fold depending on what I expect opponents in general to do / have in that spot. Looking more at the actual game in practice and letting theory stay in as background... Sigh, I wish I could have understood so simple concept earlier.
pete 21:30, we dont 3bet enough for a reason, exploitative reason: most of my opponent limps, and when they raises, their ranges are stronger than a "normal" opening range, hence my 3bet gets smaller fold equity than "normal" situations. Plus my opponent are generally passive post flop, i can realise my equity a bit more than "normal" situations for a hand like A8o in the big blind. Hope this makes sense.
Great channel, I study a lot of books and I also play online cash games on poker stars and these videos are teaching me things I have not seen much elsewhere, definitely advanced.
What books have you studied? I'm asking because after solvers came out a lot of the classic books are "wrong". i think the Cole south book was the last one i read. ""Let there be range" or something like that.
"ouch I should never have..." the more you play the more you realize that the biggest challenge in poker is mental. If one is able to focus purely on mechanics, longrun and not shorterm outcomes, thats the biggest weapon in this game. I finally need to open that fucking book and do some more mental lifting. Thank you for the vid, good work
Great video! I really thought you were going to say your favorite quote at the end: “You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one.”
46d hand looks like a river check to me to on that board, ranges start wide but his flop check condenses his range somewhat. By the river I feel villain would bluff hands you are trying to fold out at some frequency so his check condenses his range again and looks a pretty good spot to bluff catch to me.
I don't know if we get called by Kx with lower kicker very often in T8 spot. On low stakes it is more of the folds than calls by playerpool I guess. I do 3 bet A8off a lot but on the flop I am betting big, and if this draw does not complete I end off with all in on the river getting snapped by Qx. I don't have a brake pedal sometimes :D I guess I am just different type of the fish 🤷♂
Well a break pedal can be a bad thing. Many people become totally incapable of bluffing off stacks via the process of ingraining a nitty avoidance mechanism.
Great points as always and completely agree but that 675hh board was just not the one for an example 😂 Pretty sure every 200 reg is range checking that OOP. I have very much enjoyed my opportunity to be a keyboard warrior, thank you.
yeah, my 3bet stat is nit-city. I'm working on it, and it is (slowly) improving. but it's not great. meanwhile, every time I watch one of your videos, I convert 100 pounds to dollars . . . and I might (finally) be at a stake where it makes sense.
Pete the daisies analogy isn't great. While the odds that garden A has the same number of daisies than garden B are not big, without information it should be ok to make a decision based on average/aggregate data. Now if garden B is in a part of the town that is less conducise to growing daisies or where traditionally there are less daisies, then we can start making the assumption that garden B will predictabilly have less daisies. The point is not if players are following GTO but rather how they are predictabily and systematically deviating from it in a way that can be exploited. You convey this very well but carefull with lazy analogies coz they may bring confusion.
What you said in 8:51 is not True. If your opponent can have many nuts aswell you should not overbet even if you have the nuts. River toy games show this. Amazing content anyway. Thanks man.
it grinds my gears how carrot poker course #3 is standing on an olympic thinghy and it is highest although in a competition format number 3 should be lowest 😢
Ouch - I shouldn't have. This is something I wrestle mentally with, rationally I know often I made the right play but my lizard brains give me bad feelings.
64s easy river check, T8 hand i blocker bet the river, looks like a busted draw weak bluff given the c/r, villain likely calls his Kx or does something stupid like jamming, liked the last 2 hands
I would argue that the raise frequency is considerably lower vs a small bet than the bluff frequency is vs a check and therefore that could be a large EV loss vs the air region. It does make a bit extra from Kx but not as much as jam makes. It’s an interesting idea but I’m not convinced it’s the highest EV play.
If there is no good option to vote on (there are not any, and have never been any good option in any vote in human history) u are indifferent and should not support such idiocy
You're clearly the best poker channel I follow, active and quality content are always here. I just became pro on NL50 zoom and I learn a lot by watching your videos and apply your advices IG. I realize more and more that I'm a fish though haha, thank you!
After watching your videos and digesting them, for the first time in my life I can manage to have about stable redline. Granted, playing almost lowest stakes there is and small sample size for now, but still I finally feel like I could get it all together for trying to make this at least serious side-income. All I need is for my opponents not to almost always hit sets or straights on preflop 4-bet pots, but even with that bad run I am close to break-even. Things like true ev and hand reading, focusing on what is REAL and focusing less on stuff like ranges (which is important, but people at lowest stakes do whatever so less reliable and thus should be focused a lot less for now). Sure, if there is a reg with decent looking stats I will consider ranges as well, but in a lots of spot I can just bet / raise / fold depending on what I expect opponents in general to do / have in that spot. Looking more at the actual game in practice and letting theory stay in as background... Sigh, I wish I could have understood so simple concept earlier.
pete 21:30, we dont 3bet enough for a reason, exploitative reason: most of my opponent limps, and when they raises, their ranges are stronger than a "normal" opening range, hence my 3bet gets smaller fold equity than "normal" situations. Plus my opponent are generally passive post flop, i can realise my equity a bit more than "normal" situations for a hand like A8o in the big blind. Hope this makes sense.
Thank you! That is very nice video. Btw strategy with rangebets on K75 goes exact from the reason nobody check raise near enough those boards
Great channel, I study a lot of books and I also play online cash games on poker stars and these videos are teaching me things I have not seen much elsewhere, definitely advanced.
What books have you studied? I'm asking because after solvers came out a lot of the classic books are "wrong". i think the Cole south book was the last one i read. ""Let there be range" or something like that.
Great stuff, love this "true EV" content.
"ouch I should never have..." the more you play the more you realize that the biggest challenge in poker is mental. If one is able to focus purely on mechanics, longrun and not shorterm outcomes, thats the biggest weapon in this game. I finally need to open that fucking book and do some more mental lifting. Thank you for the vid, good work
Could not agree more.
Great video! I really thought you were going to say your favorite quote at the end: “You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one.”
Saying in every video might be a Tal order
@@CarrotCornerPoker 😝
I don’t 3bet the A8o out of the bb because in my games the standard open is 8-10x and average villain calls like 70%. Linear 3 bet ranges for the win!
Simply great! Thats all! Thank you Sir!
46d hand looks like a river check to me to on that board, ranges start wide but his flop check condenses his range somewhat. By the river I feel villain would bluff hands you are trying to fold out at some frequency so his check condenses his range again and looks a pretty good spot to bluff catch to me.
Yeah this could well be an underfolded spot and it’s certainly an overbluffed one.
Great content, thank you!
on the t8 spot, can't you block bet river to be called by Ks and still induce shoves
What kind of offsuited Ax do you guys 3bet from BB to BTN pre? When/How do you deviate?
"For 90% of you watching, you don't bluff enough out the big blind enough by 3-betting. You're playing like a fish." - I felt that, lol. 😂
Sorry but the algorithm likes it when I verbally abuse people.
Me too. Nice to be seen and spoken to.
I don't know if we get called by Kx with lower kicker very often in T8 spot. On low stakes it is more of the folds than calls by playerpool I guess.
I do 3 bet A8off a lot but on the flop I am betting big, and if this draw does not complete I end off with all in on the river getting snapped by Qx. I don't have a brake pedal sometimes :D
I guess I am just different type of the fish 🤷♂
Well a break pedal can be a bad thing. Many people become totally incapable of bluffing off stacks via the process of ingraining a nitty avoidance mechanism.
I love your check with t8 after u explain it
I never would've seen it but I loved it. Really hoping I can recognize and find the same spots
Pete what is your winrate at 200nl? Curious as I'm considering the full scholarship
Great points as always and completely agree but that 675hh board was just not the one for an example 😂 Pretty sure every 200 reg is range checking that OOP. I have very much enjoyed my opportunity to be a keyboard warrior, thank you.
I woud never 3bet pre with a spades combo
yeah, my 3bet stat is nit-city.
I'm working on it, and it is (slowly) improving.
but it's not great.
meanwhile, every time I watch one of your videos, I convert 100 pounds to dollars . . .
and I might (finally) be at a stake where it makes sense.
I'm not indifferent to your videos Pete. ❤️
I feel like Poker Therapy is +ev and relevant to this video.
Pete the daisies analogy isn't great. While the odds that garden A has the same number of daisies than garden B are not big, without information it should be ok to make a decision based on average/aggregate data. Now if garden B is in a part of the town that is less conducise to growing daisies or where traditionally there are less daisies, then we can start making the assumption that garden B will predictabilly have less daisies. The point is not if players are following GTO but rather how they are predictabily and systematically deviating from it in a way that can be exploited. You convey this very well but carefull with lazy analogies coz they may bring confusion.
Not to give away my poker strategy, but my big Mac has no pickles, onions, or middle bread
What you said in 8:51 is not True. If your opponent can have many nuts aswell you should not overbet even if you have the nuts. River toy games show this. Amazing content anyway. Thanks man.
it grinds my gears how carrot poker course #3 is standing on an olympic thinghy and it is highest although in a competition format number 3 should be lowest 😢
When you say "good to fold nothing on the flop to a pot sized cbet" not sure if that's a joke or I'm dumb lol
Good to fold nothing as in air I mean, not good to fold zero combinations!
Ouch - I shouldn't have. This is something I wrestle mentally with, rationally I know often I made the right play but my lizard brains give me bad feelings.
Yeah it’s so natural.
"you're not that special" 😂
64s easy river check, T8 hand i blocker bet the river, looks like a busted draw weak bluff given the c/r, villain likely calls his Kx or does something stupid like jamming, liked the last 2 hands
I would argue that the raise frequency is considerably lower vs a small bet than the bluff frequency is vs a check and therefore that could be a large EV loss vs the air region. It does make a bit extra from Kx but not as much as jam makes. It’s an interesting idea but I’m not convinced it’s the highest EV play.
Bad shove there with 89 he cant call LOL. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Gotta love when people treat the fish like cows... You can't milk them, buddy, bet big!
Don't think like a fancy little trappy nit.
Sometimes people just can’t stand the feeling of not being paid so they decide to settle for losing EV instead.
snowmans
feels like Pete could do a good pro-voting video explaining people they are not indifferent to political issues.
You are wrong
If there is no good option to vote on (there are not any, and have never been any good option in any vote in human history) u are indifferent and should not support such idiocy