КАК ВЫИГРЫВАТЬ ТУРНИРЫ? Разбор с подписчиком (5$–2500$)

Educational poker tournament analysis with subscriber Yura, focusing on strategy, hand review, and exploiting amateur opponents.

Key Takeaways

Exploitative play against weaker opponents yields better results than strict GTO at low stakes.
Position and hand selection are critical for profitable tournament play.
Pre-flop mistakes have a small but cumulative negative impact; careful decision-making is essential.
Continuation bets should be sized to induce folds and exploit amateur tendencies.
Understanding opponent ranges and tendencies allows for more profitable bluffing and value betting.

What the video covers

The video features a detailed hand-by-hand review of a poker tournament from start to finish.
Guest player Yura shares his poker journey, learning methods, and results since 2023.
Discussion includes pre-flop decisions, hand ranges, and the importance of position.
Emphasis on exploitative strategies against amateur players rather than strict GTO play.
Analysis of continuation bets, bluffing opportunities, and pot control in knockout tournaments.
Use of tools like GTO Wizard to evaluate EV and hand playability in tournament contexts.
Advice on when to fold, call, or three-bet based on opponent tendencies and stack sizes.
Insights into reading opponents' tendencies, especially at low stakes and amateur levels.
Motivation and educational tips aimed at improving viewers' poker skills and mindset.
The video contains practical examples and explanations tailored for beginner to intermediate players.

Chapters

What is the main focus of this poker tournament analysis?

The video focuses on reviewing hands from a poker tournament, emphasizing strategic decisions, exploiting amateur opponents, and improving tournament play.

How does the guest player Yura describe his poker experience?

Yura has been playing since 2023, learning mainly from videos, and has gradually become profitable, accumulating winnings over several years despite some breaks.

Why does the video recommend exploitative strategies over GTO at low stakes?

Because most opponents at low stakes are amateurs who make predictable mistakes, exploitative strategies that target these tendencies are more profitable than perfect GTO play.

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Hey, friends. We have a new educational analysis where we'll watch our guest follow his success in a poker tournament. From the first hand to the winning one, we'll review the hand history, pick out the most interesting ones, skip the boring ones, and fill

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the video with useful information and motivation for you. Please tell us about your journey, how long you've been in poker, how you're learning, and generally about yourself, so that the guys will find the analysis more interesting.

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Hello everyone. Uh, my name is Yura, 28 years old. I've been playing poker since 2023. Just last year, I quit my job and was playing a little bit, 5-10, uh, intermittently, bankroll-slicing, all together. There were times when I'd

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skip four or five months a year. Uh, I'm learning, uh, on videos, I watch Andryusha's content, there's Fedya Lorem, a little bit of, uh, GTO, uh, and basically that's it. Uh, so yeah.

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Yeah. And you also wrote to me like, wait, do you... Well, are you generally playing in the plus or minus over the long term, or is it still unclear?

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Yes, yes. Yes, of course, in the plus, of course. Somewhere up to 15-17,000 uh over these 3 years.

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Ah, well, just watching the training video. Uh, well, looking, working on the game a little, uh, well, I see a lot of yours. Uh, 1517, on GG, about nine, and on Stars there are a little more. Uh, also there, uh, 9-10 uh over 3 years.

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Uh, at first I started in the minus. Yeah. That's it. Uh, and literally there 1.xia 3 on GG, too, my friend and I were there, 50 there. And so, minus 100 dollars in deposit. Minus 100 dollars in deposit.

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Uh, and then little by little, since 2023 I started... Yeah. playing. Great. Well, we'll see. Okay. This is a knockout tournament for us, right? But the problem is that we don't cover our opponents, and we enter the button with

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85, a dominated hand. That's a bad call. Do you often make calls like that, and do you think it's a good call, that we'll be introducing a good plus?

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Well, in general, I might call more often in this position at the beginning. Mm, is it better to just fold or even 3B? And if a hand isn't suitable for calling, it's never suitable for a three-bet, uh

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, for the reason that, let's say, playability is important here. Well, let's say that's how I put it harshly.

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I'm primarily talking about this for the guys who still play poorly there, because you can take a hand, pull it out, and it will play better in a three-bet than in a call. Because when we call, we have a big pot, and when we

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squeeze in this situation, either everyone will fold us, or we'll be playing in position against one person.

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So, it's clear that trib is often played better, but you need to be able to play it well. And considering that most of our viewers will be mediocre or poor players, then yes, even 3BL will be bad. So, to make this analysis more

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educational, we'll now look at which hands are best to enter here in a second round.

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Yeah. Here's our game situation. I opened the hijack, called cats. And this is roughly what the calling range looks like. So, we have six suited hands, even considering we're in position, they call to breakeven. 85, obviously, will call to

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lose. And here you can use this trick in GTWird: you can click on EV. And we immediately see that everything green plays well, light green, good, dark, something like that. Again, we'll play well, because we're in position against

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weak players in a tournament with a $5 entry. But overall, we just have to understand that anything red is, well, often going to be a bad play. So, first of all, we're moving toward what's most likely to bring us a profit. Okay,

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let's see what happens pre-flop, because usually, even if we make a mistake pre-flop, the expectation is slightly negative, so to speak. Let's say here it's -0.16 blinds, which isn't much, but if there's a serious screw-up pre-flop, it could be a disaster. So,

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we'll see. There weren't any screw-ups pre-flop. Excellent. So, the retrib is generally not bad. Especially considering that our opponent is stack-covering us, he's inclined to go wider to knock us out with a lot of dominated hands. A three-bet is an

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option. The only thing is, the more players we have behind us that we're covering, the better the call is because we're playing with hands we're dominated. And if we see a tight player opening, we can call with a suited hand

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more often to prevent their tight range from four-betting us, which would burn our chips and potential.

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So, okay, we three-bet, and our opponent folds. Great. Race, we three-bet a great hand, we're in position. He also min-raised from the blind. The blind usually attacks 3s up to the big blind. Therefore, we can assume this is an amateur. We want to

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play a pot in position against an amateur with a good hand. Plus, he might fold, and we'll take it pre-flop.

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And, a good hand for a continuation bet, in fact, against an amateur who's, let's say, straightforward, we can bet less, maybe a third of the pot. Our goal is simply to knock out some 10 of hearts, not give them free

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implementation, and take advantage of their loose calls like king of hearts with jack of diamonds, 10 of spades, and so on. We can simply close our eyes and bluff two streets. On the flop, he'll draw an eight, six of a pair, and

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fold the lost one, and so on. But if we bet bigger right away, the problem is that the range will simply tighten by the turn, and bluffing will be more expensive. It's clear that if we look at the GTO Wizard, we'll actually want

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to bet bigger on certain board textures, but it's shown that way because our opponent is also a wizard, who will be more aggressive against our smaller bets. People at low limits play much, much weaker. So, yes, we need

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exploitative strategies here, not GTO strategies. GTO strategies are where we play perfectly to avoid being exploited. At the same time, ideally, the most profitable strategies are when we recognize our opponents' mistakes and exploit them precisely. Yes, yes, yes.

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So, the board isn't the best for a continuation bet. Here, the opponent has a ton of straights, flush draws, and combinations. But if we see that this is an amateur, he calls with any two cards and, say, tends to give up a

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lot on the flop, then a continuation bet might be appropriate because we can immediately try to knock out trips, dashes, and eights. But there's no information yet. We can also check because most of his hands are empty, and we're higher than them, if we want

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to knock out some low pairs and, say, some ace, which will still draw and try to see an ace before the river. And if we check the turn, check the river, and he keeps checking and a king, queen, or

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jack comes down, which could scare him off, then we can bluff somewhere on a late street. That's no problem. So, we checked. Uh, actually, you can sometimes kind of draw because your opponent doesn't bet much. And for those who don't know, maybe this is

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their first time watching me or maybe just recently, I've done about 500 reviews, if not more, and most of them are with subscribers. There's even a playlist, a review with subscribers, guests, and there are, I don't know, 170 videos, and that's not all the

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reviews. And I know how amateurs think, well, and besides what people themselves say when they come to reviews and see what they do, they're often very afraid of having their strong hand outdone by a drop. And if someone had a set of deuces, a full

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house, or a ten, well, it's clear he's not afraid of a full house. Well, let's say he has a deuce or a nine or a ten, he'd often bet a lot, and when he bets small, it's most likely a straight draw

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or a flush draw, which we beat with a tuxhai anyway. So, there's the option of calling now, we can simply be bigger. And if a straight or a flush hits and the opponent checks, then we can also

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bluff, try to hit a nine or a flashdraw with a kicker from the pot. So, folding isn't necessary, but if we folded, there are no problems. I completely understand that. We calle

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There are arguments for that. The main thing is that if he checked, we should have bluffed. He continues to be aggressive. Okay. He could have a ten, he could have a straight flush. We fold , of course, but we should have

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definitely bluffed on check. Yeah, right. Okay, they opened, so a call is in order. We hit with a queen with a kicker weaker than a jack.

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Ace-tens. Great. Well played. Okay, they opened. Good. Tu-tu-tu. No point in continuation betting. Great. Well played. Tu-t-t-t. Open. Call. We call.

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Okay. We can pull a third of the pot. Half a pot against two is often a stronger range. You have to understand that, again, based on analysis with the guests, people heads-up against a wide defending range of the big blind forget

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to continuation bet. And against two, they are even more afraid. And here the guy is not only not afraid, he also banged half the pot. And it could be that he has, say, ace-queen now and we only have two outs.

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I hope I folded. I hope I folded here. But I'm not sure. Yeah, we didn't fold here. Okay then.

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A four comes through. Do we have information that the guy is crazy and constantly checks? We always check. If we don't have that information, it's better to be aggressive ourselves, because his four might scare him. And he, let's say,

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might invest now with a queen or only on the river if we check. But if we bet the turn ourselves and the river ourselves, he might not fold this queen , as he always says, "What if he's bluffing?" Without thinking about

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ranges at all. That's why it's better to be active here. We definitely raise because a small sizing could be either an insecure queen or a drawshdrow, which we want to valuebet. Great. But do you see any problem here?

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A little more is ok, right? There are 15-14. Uh, definitely 15-16-17 because, yes, we want to make more money. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I agree. You always have to think about what range you're playing against. In this case,

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what are we trying to make? A straight flush draw and a queen. And if those hands pay more, we need to make more.

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That is, we need to present our hand as some kind of in-demand commodity. And if we have, I don't know, the only coffee shop in the whole city and they serve incredibly delicious coffee, then no matter what reasonable price we set,

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people will still take the coffee. So in this case, there's no point in selling coffee for 11 hryvnias when you can do it for 17. Okay, the opponent called. And on the river, of course, value. BT. And again, yes, if you'd bet

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more on the turn, the pot would be bigger. Yeah, what's the point of betting such a huge amount in a knockout tournament? But he bet all-in, not all-in, because the guy's looking at the knockout, looking at that pair,

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and that's it, everything's all in a fog, he's calling. And sometimes, someone might think, "Yeah, he left it on purpose to hype it up, he's bluffing ." But those are the minority. Often, people would still like to see a full

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draw to fight for the knockout. But if I were covering, I would always bet. But here, it's kind of like that.

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On the contrary, look, when you're covering, yes, you're aiming to take his knockout, but when he's covering you, you end up wanting to bet all-in because he has additional, uh, motivation to call you down, and you have a strong hand, well, yeah.

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So, what conclusion do we draw from this hand? First, the guy called aces pre-flop for some reason, even though he's covering this guy, motivated to build the pot with him. He doesn't have anyone behind him to entice. There are

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no short stacks. And this guy, the shortest one, won't open wide. So, he wasn't afraid that the guy would fold a wide range on 3B. He doesn't have a wide range to begin with, because he opens with five people covering him. So

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the player immediately played poorly on the flop, immediately exposed the strength of his hand, and we should have folded. But again, we were lucky to hit one of our two outs, so to speak , but then we played everything well.

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So, Limp. Yeah, there's an O, and then Alyn knocks out. No questions. Yeah, I'm just screwing up. Good. Ah, great. But the only thing is, we have more, more, which of which range are we hitting now ? It's either a 6x flush draw, meaning

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65 hearts, 9x flush draw, flush draw, uh, a broadway flush draw, meaning king jack, king 10 jack 10, hearts top pair like aces queen, king queen. Same thing with the coffee example. They'll pay 13 for a pot of 39 plus a knockout.

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They'll pay with all these hands, but they'll also pay 19, so we'll get more.

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And what's worth noting is that you took the initiative here instead of checking. That's great, because the flop was a three-bet into a pot of 17.

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So, it's obvious they don't want to invest much, so we need to seize the initiative when the hand gets better.

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Great, well played, only the sizing could be bigger. Well, it's funny that we beat the guy with both aces and kings two hands in a row.

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Yeah. Oh, it's my own fault, as if, uh, first of all. Okay, yeah, right, right, friends, and please, if you like the analysis, leave comments, like it, because the more activity you show under the video, the better it gets

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promoted on YouTube, the more views it gets, and the more motivation it gives guests, and I have to spend our time and invest it in creating useful content for you. Plus, I try to reply to all the comments, so it might be

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both useful and interesting for you. So , call race, continuation bet. Okay. You can even bet right away, say, four and bluff on one street because the guy here has two. He can call and check-catch 45, 42, some king nine with

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the king of clubs, and on four he'll immediately go, oh, not everything, the next hand. Okay, called the turn, it's good to bet again. And for the reason that we can turn away pocket pairs with clubs, a ten, a three, and a-e, plus we

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have an out to improve. So, here's a simple rule: turn away, if we have four or more to improve, and we see obvious hands that can be knocked out, like second or third or fourth pair, we need to be aggressive. On the river, we

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calmly surrender. So, we missed positive aggression. Okay, two. M. Can we bluff here? Well, in general, you might think about it if we see that the player is straightforward. Why? Because it's unlikely he'll bet an ace with such a sizing. More likely, it's often

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some queen who's testing how she stands , yes. But can we represent something strong with a raise? We can. We could easily have a weak ace in our opponent's eyes, a hit eight, uh, a 10- of-a-kind, a queen-of-eight. And again,

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players at low limits, they often don't think in ranges perfectly, yeah. What he's depicting. They just have a weak hand, I'll bet small on aggression, I gave up, something like that. Okay, so.

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And stupid, well, there's no need to open that, again, uh, we're turning to the wizard. Even if we assume that this is a knockout tournament, that we're covering everyone, we have an incredibly large stack of stacks and all the karatysh

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behind us. The problem is that, simply from a mathematical standpoint, we see that even an ace doesn't open. From a mathematical standpoint, when we have seven or eight people behind us, each will have some 5%of hands that they

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three-bet. Strong hands—yes, sure, you could say that at low limits, but no one's going to three-bet those pairs , no one's going to rebet that, yeah.

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But they'll three-bet ace-king here, ace-queen there, at full strength; well , maybe not fully, but partially. Okay, let's say it's not 5%, but 3%, but there are seven or eight of those people behind them, depending on the table size. Besides that, they'll have

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7%or more of those calls. So it turns out that when we open TU5 offsuit, well , in about 50 dash75, or even more cases, someone will call, three-bet, and at low limits, people also like to crowd into the hand, and we can't

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comfortably play a hand like TUUS offsuit, so it's an easy fold. The exception might be the final table, where we opened, everyone's scared, everyone's folding. Yes, you can kind of put pressure on them there, but then again, in this case, it's not the final

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table, there was no need to open. So, we're folding. It would seem great, yes , many beginners will call me with open-ended draws, but if the straight comes, it won't pay us anything, so another green is already a call, right?

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If the king is green, of course, because then we have a straight draw, and a flush, of course.

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And, let's say, if the straight came four in a row, the person sees it and obviously understands what we might have. And when it comes to a flush, they see it too, but the likelihood of a flush is lower in their eyes, because

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you have to have two cards in your hand , not just a ten. That's why we drew flush draws, but not straight draws.

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And so we limped. A good limp. Eh, betting here is also good, but one blind. Our goal is to flop something like, say, 10-9 off-suit. That's more than enough. At low limits, they limped any two, bet, and printed money. The

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turn is problematic, right? You already flopped an increased size. So, most likely, some hands like, I don't know, queen nine spades could have already been there, maybe they would have tightened up and folded. His range looks like ace, king, queen jack, jack

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10, sometimes a deuce. And on the turn, 2 xshdrow improved. Those broadways are still not folding. So, most likely, there won't be much fold equity here.

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Of course, if you're like, "Okay, I limped" pre-flop, he probably would have raised most of his aces. That's it , I'm playing three bars here. This can happen, but it's important to know your opponent, because people often, well,

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give up badly from blind to blind, so against many people it might not be a good idea. So, race call call call.

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Okay. Now, when the raiser checked and the second one checked, we kind of assume that they most likely bet an ace or a jack in most cases, and here a third or a quarter of the pot achieves good results. Yes, of course, we can

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assume that here a person could check hands like ace 5, tu 2 dash ace 10, yes , because he doesn't make a flush and loses to a jack. But this is, again, a cheap tournament with a $ 5 entry.

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People here often don't think like that . They're like, "Oh, I'll bet an ace, that's it." So yes, here you could have bet and knocked out sevens, eights, nines, tens easily.

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Yeah. Okay, that's it, pass-on here. Okay, race. Now that's what I remember. There's a mistake here. What could be the mistake?

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Call, entice. Yes, there are three more positions. No, look at the sizing. A little smaller, a little smaller. Yes , yes, yes. Uh, when a player opens with, yes, a short stack, the smaller his stack, the smaller the

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3-bet sizing we want. Why? Because we want him to make a mistake. If we reraise a lot, he won't make a mistake.

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Again, the program is GTO Wizard. What does it do? It shows us, uh, mathematical calculations of millions of hands, after which it shows which hands are plus, which are minus. Now, if we take, again, let's see, and, let's say, it opens, uh, now let's take

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the same stacks. Okay, let's not even take for, uh, knockout, but just a chip . Now, let's look, let's say Catov opens, and we see that with 2.3 buttons in position, he 3-bets 8, that is, 35x.

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And if we take stacks of 30 big blinds, then the same positions are already 3x, not 3s. If these are stacks of 20 big blinds, it's already 2x because the smaller the effective stack, the less sighting we use. It's all logical.

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Let's say he opened now, I don't know, there are 910 suited, he'll call on 5.5 , and fold on 7.2.

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Okay. We were unlucky here with the call. Now if someone wanted to say that we won on the periap, well, it's not as easy as it might seem. And again, it's better to three-bet such hands than to call. Why? Firstly, you cover him, he

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has less motivation to call your three-bet. Accordingly, it's rare that you three-bet, and he calls you with king-queen. Although king-queen calls a three-bet here at a loss. That's why a three-bet is better. And with a three-bet, you knock out the ace of

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five spades behind people's backs, the 10 of spades knocks down, as if you're escaping dominance. Uh, you're playing in position against the guy, and you get a lot of folds pre-flop. What hands are better to three-bet pre-flop?

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Yeah. So, uh, it's a fold. Why is it a fold? First, here the player squeezes against three opponents from early position.

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This is a strong range. The second guy isn't afraid and calls. Someone is clutching their heart and thinking, " Andrey, can I make a straight? Can I make a flush? Why play poker if I can't call with a hand like that?" But you

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have to understand that a flush-draw-flop is only 10%. And one of them might have a better flush-draw.

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And a straight-draw-flop is also about, maybe a little more, but not a lot. And a straight-made flop reflush is 1%or so . Besides that, this player can see 32 in the pot, I have 34, I have TsDam, I

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have a jack, I have tens, I have nines. I'm all in. So here are all the arguments for folding. Okay, let's move on. Lim race. You can call here. Pay a little here. The hand is good, playable . People don't have such strong ranges.

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Great. And when we see a player who limped, our rule is to always isolate all the hands we would have opened if he hadn't limped.

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Exception: The more people who call besides him, the less likely they are to fold to the race. And we continue to isolate strong hands, but with a larger sizing. We add one blind for each person. But, let's say there are deuces

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now, it makes sense to give 3 from the blind so that either he folds before the flop and we take 3.7, or so that he calls and often loses to us out of position. We'll either bluff him on the

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flop, or on the turn, or on the river. But when there are 2 or more players, isolating with deuces makes little sense, then we'll call. For example, if there were two or three limps now, I wouldn't isolate everyone there, but

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I'd go in and play in position, because limping is bad. We're now giving the big blind the opportunity to see a flop with a king of all suits.

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And we wanted to knock them out with a preflop raise. So. One of us just gives up here without a backdoor flush draw. The person behind us, if we want to resist, needs to give a 3 with four, knock out

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a five, six, ten with a weak kicker in the big blind. He has some queens and jacks there, knock out. That's how to draw in a three-way pot with no backdoor flush draw in position.

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Yeah. There are arguments, but we need to play very well postflop. It's better to give up. And here they raised well. But the problem is that there are more draws and flush draws and matches than there were to lose, right? So if we

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bluff, then if we just raised, then with cards that didn't complete any draws on the river, we need to bluff, knock out king queen. King nine, queen nine. Yeah, I hope that's what I did, yeah. But you see, again, uh, you're

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telling an illogical line on the turn. You say: "I have a set jack, two pair, everything's great." Nothing closed on the river. It's easy for you to come up with a huge number of draws. King queen , king nine, queen nine, flush draw.

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And when you get to the jack with strong hands, you want to bet big, but you bet little. So, you're basically saying that you're weak, not that you're strong, because if you were strong, you'd be motivated to bet more.

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Someone might object in the comments: " But we're enticing him; we specifically want him to pay." But the problem is, there's nothing left. If there were a set of fives or a set of sixes, I wouldn't bet like that. I never would,

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right. Uh, the point is that with a really strong hand, we have to ask ourselves: "What hands am I hitting with?" Well, essentially, I'm hitting mostly with a jack, because a ten would probably bet more off the flop. And

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since I'm hitting with a jack, he'll pay a lot. Why should I entice him with a smaller sizing?

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Yes, but you have to understand that many people are simply afraid to bluff with big sizings, and that's their problem. Uh, opening too wide here has been opening for about eight years, seven years. You're certainly covering everyone, but then again, you don't

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have super-skilled play yet, or a super-understanding of boards. Uh, it's better to skip sizing choices like that ; it won't be a problem at all.

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Choosing a larger sizing isn't bad because there are a ton of streak draws , and flush draws can be used to knock something out right away, but globally, a third, let's say, a third plus a big one on the turn often works better

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because a wider range goes to the turn, and you, let's say, knock out more hands. Plus, uh, if your opponent raises, you, say, bet two, call on seven, and bet four on 15. Well, that's not something to be afraid of. You

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can't bet black because the ten has improved him. Well, you have to fold, of course. The sizing is too big. Too few people bluff like that at low limits. Okay, right. Okay, race call.

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Good. We defend any suited hand. Super. You can call here when you have a backdoor flush overcard. People usually go wide at low limits, but there are some who draw everything on the flop, and there are some who called for 10

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different years and then folded on the flop. Well, this is clear, we're going to bet. The only thing I don't like is that we're betting a third because he still has Ace2, Tournament, Cloud Ace5 on the turn. King Queen Vale, Queen 10,

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Vale 10. That is, he has a lot of hands that pay now but don't pay later. You can safely bet half a pot. The river can actually still bet 3-quarters, at least 10%, because he's hit all sorts of Queen Jack, oh, Queen 10, Jack 10,

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10x flashdraws, and a nine might not fold there. Bluff-raising will be very rare at low limits. Again, the opponent played poorly too. We raised the call.

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We checked, he has to bet a third to protect. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, we raise the call straight.

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This is very bad. Why is it bad to call here? Then I'll just stick small pots in with a turn expert right away.

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Okay. Look, he has jacks now. You call, turn, queen of hearts, king of hearts, ace of hearts. Okay, he doesn't pay you right away. Raises are there, of course. Let's say he has queens three [ __ ]. You call, and a six, ten,

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hearts, eight, jack comes out. That's it, he's scared, he doesn't pay you anymore. The guy bets almost the whole pot on a board with a straight draw. F fshdrow. They put a deer in there for him and that's it. So, we're calling 15

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in the pot right now, we have 30. That's it, he'll call all his overpairs . He'll call 10 here, call their 10 stacks, and call overcards with a rake.

Speaker A

If the blinds were 50 there, then there wouldn't be any all-in on 18 rake.

Speaker A

And here again, you can donk because the six scared him. He can check strong hands, but you shouldn't check a call.

Speaker A

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Speaker A

Blev 3B is like this. First of all, we don't cover it. When people cover us in a knockout tournament, they just go crazy calling. I recently watched a stream of a high roller who plays, including 10,000 tournaments. Here he

Speaker A

is, on the wall, with all sorts of 10s. Well, amateurs tend to go even wider.

Speaker A

And there are more standard hands for a three-bet, like queen-eight single-suit , for example. So calling would be more standard than three-betting.

Speaker A

Can you fold too? You can fold, of course. But then again, if you see weak players there, you can, maybe, take a pot on your opponent, yeah, yeah.

Speaker A

Oh, yeah. Well, we just have to be aware of how well we're playing. So let's see, if the visor here is a queen seven, queen six of the same suit— it's a zero call out of position, as I

Speaker A

say, yeah, there's a queen 8B. Got it. That's cool. Three-bet, the guy folded. Well, many people don't understand that sometimes after a three-bet, you can lose a lot even if you're calling out of position. So, checkraise for value.

Speaker A

Super, excellent, well done. So, they folded well on the call, raised well on the tussam. I would have chosen 3 with po, to get paid more often. Okay. Let's check. The board was very good for him.

Speaker A

Super. Absolutely excellent. Aha-ha. Well, it's probably better to fold. We can't call here, with thought, and now a boom comes, I have a blocker. So, if we had house, we would never check on the flop, so here we usually get

Speaker A

something that beats us. So, yes, I prefer folding. I'd fold as many as four people behind my back here. We're not covering our opponent. Basically, I'd miss. Our hand is dominated. We can post one blind, one and a half, because

Speaker A

if someone often calls with a wide range, they won't hit. And again, one and a half blinds usually give the same real as this, well, in short, the result, yes, it will be more or less that we achieve the same goals.

Speaker A

Again, 2, and 2 don't necessarily have to open. Two blinds have the same potential, but when you get tribt alls, you lose 10%less. Well played here. Of course, the short stack gets in here well.

Speaker A

Oops. Okay, well, masterfully sorted. Okay, Alyn is a good Alyn. Here, two different kings are shoved. Great.

Speaker A

Okay, we fold. Great. Okay, race call. Good. When we have a backdoor straight draw plus some kind of flush draw, if we saw that the opponent opens wide, we can checkraise. But here the player we both cover opened. He most likely

Speaker A

opened with a stable range. A good fold . So. It's really good to squeeze here.

Speaker A

We cover both, the guy opens two hands, the one he covers, and then there are short ones. Plus, this guy is kind of in late position, covering him and the others. He can go wide by default. Here , eight blinds gave us money. I don't

Speaker A

know why I didn't squeeze. That's interesting. But I was tightening up a little. I can easily imagine the reason for this being, say, someone could have a gigantic knockout behind them. I'd like them to push or call with weaker hands.

Speaker A

In that case, a call would squeeze better. Or at least not badly. So, check-check-check. Everyone checked.

Speaker A

Good. Check-check-check. Everyone checked. Well, in general, you can kind of bet for the reason that, well, it's unlikely that there are any significant differences here, either bigger, better , or always smaller. It doesn't matter if our goal is simply to knock out a

Speaker A

gigantic hand, we should first think about what range we're targeting, what goals we want to achieve, and then adjust the funds to those goals. If our goal is simply to knock out a huge number of hands in the ace-9-shot

Speaker A

format plus live cards, king-jack, jack -10, then a third of the pot will really be enough. If we want to knock out some more hands from the BB, maybe some five or six, then we can bet half the pot. That is, if our goal is to

Speaker A

represent that five or six hit the fives, and so on. We just logically figured out, well, damn, everyone checked the flop, everyone checked the pot, most likely there's nothing strong .

Speaker A

Yeah. Okay, we hit an ace, we just call. Great. Okay, that's the hand. Call.

Speaker A

Super raised. There's a good flight here. Usually it opens with a queen 10, but we cover it. A small stack won't stack here. We cover that. We're ready to go all-in. Everything's clear. Super. We won the coin. And I'd rather limp here,

Speaker A

given that here, when there's a short stack, if there's a big knockout, so that he goes for one blline with wi 2 blline, he folds them. There. But that's only possible when there's a big knockout like that, yes. There, I forget to use that. There

Speaker A

. Uh, I like that you use half-pot against a big stack. Where, as we already discussed today, there are gutshots on top, gutshots on the bottom, flush draws. That is, there are a lot of things that can pay. Ah, I'd still bet

Speaker A

big. Yes. We have Fullha House. Well, it's not a full pot, it's 60%, 75%, because the guy has X flash draw, T3x flash draw, just an ace, Bradway with a flush draw, and so on. I like it great.

Speaker A

And the river, it turns out, the drones have arrived, they're not paying anymore. Only the ace pays, well, 18, probably something like that. The five, I think, will show itself either on the river, or on the turn. That's why I'd

Speaker A

rather cut the five if we waited, he probably got greedy here. He got greedy . Well, it depends on the opponent, right? If you saw that there was some kind of phone, that the guy never folds , never folds, of course, that's a full

Speaker A

pot, a perfect draw. Super. The fact that he didn't pay is not a big deal.

Speaker A

Most likely, a draw, which wouldn't have paid anyway. I wouldn't bet. Excellent. Okay. You could come up with a small bet there if there's only one spade. Okay, okay. Calling is good, they just checked well. But if the guy

Speaker A

didn't bet the king, most likely there's no king, which means he could have 10 here, 10 9 10 jack there. If we bet the whole pot now, we'll just get 90%of the chips, most likely because there are...yeah, we could say, "Damn,

Speaker A

there could be lower nines, we won"— yeah, but we don't care, because we won these hands even when checked, and they won't fold to a bet. But if we can knock out a lot of higher hands, we need to bluff. Ideally, this should

Speaker A

work super well. I hope he bet here. No. Yeah. Well, no big deal. It's so interesting. Here you also need to understand that when we were looking at the flop in the opponent's eyes, on the turn we had king queen improve, king

Speaker A

jack, king 10, king de, queen nine, tussem. Our only abluffs are, yeah, well, 89, obviously, some 97, but people often don't even think about them when they have, well, like, the backbone of a huge number of strong hands.

Speaker A

Yeah. Okay, Reis call should bet more on the turn. Why? He has a million weaker aces . He has 7x flash draws, he has broadway flush draws. Well, we need 75% of the turn, we just smash and that's

Speaker A

it. Okay, Reis. Well, I get it. Lyn, win. Great. Okay, Reis call, I'd rather check there, because there are a ton of aces and broadway on the SB, and on the BB, if we see, I don't know, check-checks on the turn again. The

Speaker A

same eights, nines, tens, jacks can be knocked out on the turn. He won't say it's a bad bet, I just like checking better. You also need to understand that in $ 5 tournaments, yes, there are a huge number of weak players. Why?

Speaker A

Because, well, entry is cheap. And people really like off-suit aces. You can easily see a flush with seven different hands there. That means there are a lot of aces. But here, in fact, you can do the same as I suggested

Speaker A

before: bet a lot, like 75 dashes for 100%of the pot. We immediately hit a ten, an eight, some bad shots, don't get a checkraise, and so on. And we only fold if, I don't know, a club doesn't come. Uh-huh. Okay. So, race

Speaker A

call. Good. Oh, well, I see, if there's information that the opponent knows how to bluff. What do we play? Call. If not , you can bet a third, try to hit with two parries, a true straight, and so on

Speaker A

. Okay. So, race call. Good. We don't bet because the guys got the flop, but we didn't. Great. As an amateur, we don't draw overcards. Excellent. We bet five. I would probably still give it a third here, because sometimes you can

Speaker A

knock out pairs under nine. Sometimes you can hit a ace. Or something like that from Broadways, which an amateur wouldn't bluff there.

Speaker A

But here it's fine. They bet both for protection and for the bet. Check-check . Win. Great. Well, again, yes, here's the opponent, well, that's why amateurs are super weak, well, he has a third of the stack in the pot, he has a flop

Speaker A

overcard, he gave the full pot, he gave all-in, that's it, we folded. That's why poker is a game of skill, guys, watch, learn, absorb everything, be sure to watch. Algorithms like videos to be watched as long as possible

Speaker A

because they have a lot of useful information. People at low limits don't know this. And you'll know, you'll make money, maybe it's just a matter of luck , but the better you play, the higher your chances. Okay, well, we played

Speaker A

poorly here. And check-call, great. Check-check. What conclusion do we draw ? If he'd bluffed, he'd have bet ten.

Speaker A

He could have knocked out threes, twos, pairs lower than an ace. He didn't. So, what does he have? He has a hand with showdown value, meaning he can show some value at showdown. That is, he has a weak ace.

Speaker A

Half of it is five-six. No, look, you need to bet big where it's easy for you to bluff, and in this case there are a gigantic number of bad shots with fours and fives. He has kings, queens, a jack

Speaker A

, he has a ten, he has an ace. Plenty of hands to call, please. We'll bet 65-75%on value.

Speaker A

That's it. Look, he didn't pay 1.8, and he wouldn't have paid seven. And with the hands he could have paid, he would have paid both.

Speaker A

Uh-huh. So, Alyn, you win. Good. Okay, but wait , we didn't win. Well, I mean, a win in the sense of a well-made decision. But otherwise, we don't really influence the outcome. Our goal is just to play well. Well, it's clear here, the guy

Speaker A

has two blinds there. Uh-huh. What can you do? The outcome is the same. Yeah. Interesting. Okay, there's something to think about here. I'd probably still call. For what reason?

Speaker A

There's a karatysh here. Uh-huh. I see. They're most likely opening and calling into it.

Speaker A

If that's the case, yeah, then of course, we can play some eight there. Again, when we're in position, we don't need a super-large sizing. We're already in position. If she has a wide range, they'll fold like that. But if

Speaker A

it turns out that we squeeze and are forced to fold, the situation is not very pleasant. Therefore, if we don’t know that this is an opponent who will go very wide after our squeeze because he understands that the pot odds are

Speaker A

already there, a quarter of the stack is inside there and so on, then I would rather play Call, so that he enters the pot with us more often. There. Well, if he squeezed, which I generally don’t mind saying, then davo

Speaker A

se 7, povo something like that, yeah. Yeah. So, uh, 2 c through 12, I don’t really understand why we need 2 c2.

Speaker A

Also, again, well, well, Karots will go for two and 2.5, but at the same time we scare other people. We say: “Guys, I have a strong hand, please don’t make mistakes, don’t bluff three-bet me, don’t call me with dominated Aces x,

Speaker A

Queen x.” Okay, we've limped. Good. Sometimes you can draw a dong, one and a half blinds, to try and kill the overcard there. We fold. Great. Okay, solid. Okay. Okay. Well played.

Speaker A

Excellent. Call call. Uh, why are we checking? I don't know, I don't know. Maybe some comments?

Speaker A

Go ahead, go ahead. Okay. Good. And what kind of opponent would it be that you want to check against? Well, a more aggressive one, one who would bet a bigger checkraise. Well, I understand that it's still a checkraise anyway.

Speaker A

Well, look, if the guy is the most aggressive on the planet, you bet, he'll bet on your check too. You have a strong range, opened from early position, bet a little, he'll play a race, please, call. You're better than

Speaker A

him with 2 3 6 78. You have a backdoor flush draw, you have two overcards.

Speaker A

Don't worry about it at all, there are plenty of cases against the big blind.

Speaker A

There's an exception if we have 20 blinds, we have sevens, and the board is 8 9 10. Well, you shouldn't bet there. We almost never kill better hands, and we can't call open-ended hands against a shill. You can check

Speaker A

there, you can check third pair, but you have to bet here. Remaining. Remaining. Yeah. Okay. The river is probably a check because the pot came an ace, a flush draw came, we bet, he called, the flush hit. So, if

Speaker A

we bet now, we're not afraid of his flush, and we either have an ace or a flush. Well, sort of. So there's not much we can bet out of here. We checked super, absolutely excellent. I was kind of

Speaker A

afraid of him. I was afraid. No, you played well, as if not...Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's possible there, it would be possible to bait there, if there was some kind of tough phone there that would never fold an ace. Then it would be possible.

Speaker A

Listen, you need to bet the turn here. Look, we opened. He has a super wide range. He has a bunch of 8x hands, 4x, there are some pocket hands. We bet the turn, we hit with 8x flashdraw, 4x

Speaker A

flashshdw, we don't give free realization on the river. No, look, he bets half the pot on the river. Calling . He has 567 78. Maybe he'll win with an eight or a nine. Maybe he was holding there with a nine ref, but you

Speaker A

would have made the same on the turn, you wouldn't have given free realization. Well, both are valid. He won't say you played badly. Here I don't like 105 in four to open. That is, already, also already, yes, in a good way, something like

Speaker A

107mas opens here. Let's say, for example, you don't cover one player now, but, let's say, you would cover everyone in a knockout tournament. Let's take the hijack, you have, I don't know, let's take some insanely big stack. And behind you? I

Speaker A

don't know, we'll find something now. Well, yes, plus there's no coverage there. No, no, you cover everyone except the button.

Speaker A

Everyone except the button. Well, let's say you cover everyone there, let's say that we have the hijack. There. And we see that 107 is the lower limit of the open; when you have 84 blinds, you cover everyone, but

Speaker A

here you have half as many chips, you're not playing like Wizard, and you also don't cover the button, who is in position on you. So, yeah, you want to play this zone, it's boring.

Speaker A

Well, open a TV show at the same time, look at how it would misclick. I don't think I would ever lay it out like that. 2 on one happens. That's it, no big deal. Okay, race call. You have to be very careful

Speaker A

with calls like that when people open. Fold calmly, right? Calmly. If the person always opens three, we go because, well, there's a wide range.

Speaker A

And if he always opened two, and here he opened three, then most likely, yeah , it's a strong hand, we can just fold.

Speaker A

Okay, here for some reason they increased the pot, although the board isn't particularly drawy. A third of the pot is quite enough. We don't need to give our opponent the idea that we have a very strong hand. Here's a check

Speaker A

, why did the six improve? The queen doesn't pay. We split with kings, and on the river they can bluff the under-hit jack 10, 9 910. Great. Well, no, I don't think so.

Speaker A

I wonder what that is? Let's think about it. Well, look at this, he bets 65%. And I was talking about the under-hit, of course, yes, but then the queen came, which strengthened us.

Speaker A

Let's say we bet the flop, we have a king, queen, ace. The guy has a queen and a six. What do we have with the king? A pair of kings, a pair of queens , kicker 10. So, if he has king jack,

Speaker A

he beats us. Well, that's basically just the kicker. Okay, it's not that important. You have to look at your opponent. If he's an amateur, okay, we can call. He can bet all his kings here , and we kind of beat them. But damn,

Speaker A

there are a lot of queens out of six x's. Especially since people in a $ 5 tournament don't often donk a six.

Speaker A

I think I thought about it and folded. Well, right now I honestly don't remember. Interesting. I think I folded , too, and I had the same idea in mind, exactly like you.

Speaker A

And it's interesting. Now we'll see. Well, this is the kind of spot where there are arguments for and against. You have to look at your opponent. What other argument against is so good? The fact that we have a ten

Speaker A

, it blocks his main bluffs. It's jack 10, 910. This is basically important. Okay, we folded. Great. I like it. Okay , we're on queens. Well, it has to be an all-in, of course, two flats, so that the queens and the seven can rush

Speaker A

in, because if there's also a juicy knockout, then people behind us, like behind our two juicy knockouts, can rush in. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, what do you think?

Speaker A

Well, in general, well, I can estimate, yeah, there's a knockout, let's say, for 50 bucks, you have a five-handed tourney, you have a super short stack there. Well, I'm not judging anyone really.

Speaker A

Yeah, there were seven people there. Yeah. I think there was something like that. Yeah, well, that's really bad. Just shove it badly. That's super bad. It's especially four short ones.

Speaker A

Uh, yeah. Look, first of all, when you bet he, you don't give people a chance to get into you. Let's say we have ace-king, we raise two blinds, the guy behind us with ace-dama bets all-in.

Speaker A

When we bet all-in sixteen blinds from the main group, he folds that ace-dama faster than the wind, because our range is transparent to everyone. Right now in the tournament, our starting stack was 10,000, now there's a big blind of

Speaker A

25,000. So, we've made it far. Well, everyone wants to get to the final table, they want to win the tournament, and you bet about 16 blinds from the main group. Your range is transparent: you have aces, kings, queens, ace-kings

Speaker A

, jacks, and tens. No one wants to play against that range. And when you raise two blinds, your opponents see you as having a super-wide range, especially if they saw your queen-seven, and that you went all-in. They might easily

Speaker A

think you're opening some off-suit queen-ten or queen-jack, and you've easily been dealt a bunch of weaker hands. You left it, you're not giving them room to make mistakes. That's bad.

Speaker A

So, in this case, we would have gone all-in with tens anyway, but we're preventing a huge number of situations where we're super-high, and we're keeping people with super-low hands out of the picture. It's a pretty good all-in if the guys have big knockouts.

Speaker A

Okay, so we'd want to do the same thing here, but with just a king. But if we'd bet all-in, we might not have pushed or called our hand with eight. But okay, let's listen to your story. Race call

Speaker A

call call. The guys checked. Yeah, we can assume they don't have an ace, but the problem is, first of all, we don't know for sure, because here, let's say, the guy is like, "Yeah, I've got some ace 5s there right now." But here, the

Speaker A

guy has a really small stack, something's suspicious. Let me check, maybe he'll buff. Okay, so basically, there could be an ace here at some point, there could be kings here, there could be a queen here, there could be a

Speaker A

strong range here. So, to go bluff here , well, it's just like, you know, what if it weren't an ace that came out, but , say, a five, not a five, some random six, even a six. Okay, the deuce just

Speaker A

doesn't give us any bad shots and so on . We can bet the turn, well, not two, but more, because if we have a real flush, we want to, well, like, make more money. We don't want to bet two,

Speaker A

we want to make more money and protect. So, you could tell them a story about how you have a flush, and in reality, you have more than 40 flush combinations in the big blind, but you have to do it with a big sizing and

Speaker A

grind the river. But globally, the guy's range here is very narrow. He went for 12 big blinds pre-flop. So, even if he has nothing now, he has a king of hearts and a king of hearts, he has a lot of equity, so yeah, I would

Speaker A

just check and give up here. So they gave me chips. Gave me. Gave me. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Speaker A

Check. Not always weakness. Okay, flight. Oh, this is absolutely terrible . Oh, this is terrible. Why is it terrible?

Speaker A

Does it look strong? Definitely yes. If I were in that guy's shoes, I would, you know, throw away the [ __ ] in horror. The problem is, it's not me there, it's the guy from the $ 5 tournament. He'll see your knockout and

Speaker A

phew, come here, my dear. And then, I don't know, maybe for the opponent. But otherwise, well, maybe there's, you know, 80 and so on, probably. That's bad. In PIP, 80 means that the person enters the hand eight times out of ten, and you don't want

Speaker A

them entering the hand with you now. I mean, well, that's why I'm tribbing, and don't look, but what does 80 mean in PIP? For those who don't know, uh, on G , if you click on a person, it shows

Speaker A

how often they enter the hand. But there are different parameters, three or four. There's PIP—that's how often a person enters a hand. There's FFR during flop races, that's how often they raise. PIP and FFR are different things. You can't look at PIP and draw

Speaker A

conclusions about FFR. So you can't say , "Well, if he had a Race 100 pre-flop, and you're like,' Well, he opens a lot, he'll fold a lot to a three-bet, 'then at least that would be some kind of

Speaker A

argument, but still, I think it would be, uh, invalid. It couldn't be used in this case. Why? Because if the guy has 80 in PIP, that means he doesn't like to fold. And even if he opens wide and

Speaker A

doesn't like to fold, you won't be happy now that you three-bet, and he calls you with 108 hearts, because he has more hands that dominate you than the hand that you dominate. And he could just shove some of them, and you

Speaker A

wouldn't realize the potential of your hand. And you invested 40%of your stack in this venture, which is not very good . So, yeah, when you In a knockout tournament they cover, be careful.

Speaker A

These moves, they rarely lead to anything good. And you again, yes, you're taking a risk, uh, it turns out you want to win five, but you're risking 6 hands on top in a situation where you won't get many folds. Okay,

Speaker A

good. Here again, if there's a really big knockout in the BB, you can raise so that he, yeah, comes in with a lot of dominated hands. Okay, race. Good.

Speaker A

But again, yes, by opening 2.2, we don't lose too much. Anl is standardly super, everyone called. Limping is good, they put in one blind, they put in 1: 2, but there one is enough. Okay, you can bet small.

Speaker A

Excellent, absolutely super. We block their flush drop, which they can now push. And we ourselves have outs to improve. Everything is fine. They opened everything, folded. Good. Kolko called. I like it super. If he had bet about a third, more You can call. Half

Speaker A

the pot with his stack still looks scary. Good. Super. This is, well, this is just something. Well, look. First of all, if you're not afraid to do this in the late game, when the big blind is already 100,000, then you have the

Speaker A

makings of a top pro. Why? Because a profitable aggressive strategy is the most profitable thing in poker. If you look at the programs that calculate millions of hands, they are insanely aggressive everywhere. That is, if you practice well, well, that's it, you'll

Speaker A

conquer the high, mid-stakes and start making a killing. But you still have a problem with hand selection, right? So, if we look at this situation, a guy with a big stack opens aggressively and covers everyone, right? So we just open

Speaker A

Wizard, take knockouts, and we get 10% of the field, if not less. We take the biggest stack in the world, which is calculated here. 66 um, so, well, he's in the big bet with 66. Let's take, for example, 46 doesn't cover either. What?

Speaker A

I just think more, you know, not even at hand, but based on the situation and position. That is, he also, I understand, was probably watching him, to see if he was opening some kind of pot, maybe there's a good regular

Speaker A

showing up there. I see. Look, I'm telling you this, I understand perfectly well why you're doing this. Look, this guy has 45 blinds, he covers everyone. He's opening a wide range. Well, it's a wide range. And it turns out he opened it.

Speaker A

You're sitting on the button. There were nutnams. Right. Right. Yeah. And we have, well, like, Wizard, seeing a wide range, understanding that he'll play perfectly in position, but he doesn't three-bet. King five is mixed.

Speaker A

Why? Because there's an aggressive person to our three-bet, he's also like , look, firstly, we have a person in the big blind for A back who will simply shove 5%of strong hands in the SB. There's a guy in the BB who will

Speaker A

shove 5%of strong hands. There's a guy in the hijack who opens aggressively. He'll call 37%of hands. Yes, he'll fold 37%of some worse hands, but he'll also shove a lot, and call, and so on. So, firstly, you'll get an insufficient

Speaker A

number of folds and, in a way, you're investing 25%of your stack. You picked a good situation, but at least you picked a bad hand. Well, at least a king 10 is ideal.

Speaker A

And again, you also have to take into account that, look, now, let's say you're covering a guy who's knocked out , and you're covering him, and his move doesn't work, you're no longer covering them. Well, not really, I'm asking.

Speaker A

Well, you have to give them credit. The two bluff tributes we made worked. We've got it again. You're getting knocked out in a knockout tournament.

Speaker A

You need to three-bet. And it's good to call if there's, well, a super ultra mega aggro guy who bets three blinds.

Speaker A

How could he possibly be on a $ 5 tour? Interesting question. That's why we three-bet. Check-check. Uh, okay, yeah, we're picking up eights, nines, and an ace there. There. Okay. We try to play strong hands aggressively, which is the

Speaker A

most profitable thing at low and mid-stakes. All this brings in a lot of money. All right, why should we three-bet? We just three-bet, and he played a jack-ten suited, and he played a column. Is he going to put us in with

Speaker A

a five now? Yeah, of course not. A guy opens in a deep run in the back, and a guy with a 27-blind stack bets him seven. But that looks really strong. No one's going to put a stub in there with

Speaker A

sixes or fives. So, just put all in and don't Give the guy a chance to realize queen jack, king 10, queen 10, 10 for us, well, not ours. Alyn, five blinders took, we're having a blast. Okay, race call. Super. Oh,

Speaker A

and I remember this hand. I remember, let's say, if it's a fish who bets 100 times 100 continuation bet, Alyn is a total joke. If there's no info, then call, because the guy, well, he'll think, what's our button range? We

Speaker A

could have tens, nines and eights, could be queens, maybe, maybe 109, maybe, maybe. We have a ton of two pairs, straights, sets, and he's not afraid and bets half the pot. So, it could happen here that if we bet ulin,

Speaker A

we can just always get out against there combo draws or aces kings queens and also straights two pair sets.

Speaker A

Here's the blline 20, Unstoro 100. Blinds 30 in the right place. Well, a call would probably be better. Super in general I like it. Ah, well, here it's not so great, of course. There is a clarification. I remember, honestly, I

Speaker A

just remembered the hand there and so on. It's this Brazilian, uh, such an agro too. And he bets for value, and he bluffs. And I just looked, I also remember the timings, that is, I just, I knew that I just press call, call,

Speaker A

call, call, if there isn't yet a jack of hearts, a heart there, yes, there might be a queen there, uh, that is, and there it is, he, I knew that I was just calling him.

Speaker A

Look, if you have information that the guy is super-ogre and we can easily come up with the same tens as us, and tens with a big spade, let's say, and all sorts of things there, I don't know, king jack of spades, but we

Speaker A

should lynchas Bet. Why? Look, you're calling in a 37.5 pot, we have 14. If he has the ace of hearts now, what will he do on the river—five diamonds?

Speaker A

He'll check-pass, and by going all-in, we'll collect 14 from him. And someone in the audience might say," Well, wait, we can call. "If the heart comes, we won't lose anything." There's a problem. If the heart comes, and he

Speaker A

has the ace of spades, he bets all. We fold and get bluffed. And there are three times as many chips in the pot, so strong hands, yes, you need to be aggressive on a board with a draw, play aggressively.

Speaker A

Yeah. Exactly like a king 10, he would have called anyway, yeah. Yeah. And then I thought for a long time, suffered, uh, really suffered and thought: "No, well, if we've already chosen to call call call there and, uh,

Speaker A

there, although, well, what are we revealing anyway? Well, here's a king 10, there's an ace 1 for a split, there's a 10 straight, I don't know, apples, to be honest. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I folded because the king 10. You

Speaker A

just need to understand that in this case you've got a good opponent, but very few people will play a king 10 here.

Speaker A

Oh yeah, half a pot. Okay. I'll just play back and forth. The river is a real scary hand. And besides the natural king 10, there's also a queen 10, there are queens, there are jacks, there's a jack X, there's a flush draw that turned

Speaker A

into a flush. And bluffing with some 3fshdrow is worse for him because he's kind of blocking what he could have knocked out of you.

Speaker A

Yeah. Uh, so you have fewer made hands in your range. So that's it. The turn is absolutely fantastic. Well, yeah, well, for courage, it turns out to be a stroke of poker skill, he masterfully exposed the bluffoon.

Speaker A

Well, even I don't understand him. Well , it's a bluff after all, no matter what, it's a 100%bluff, of course, he should, he's a good guy. He thought on the river that he was risking 14 big blinds, but he could win twice as much.

Speaker A

It's a fantastic bluff. He can bluff any two cards here. But the problem is, few people playing low limits realize that this is just, well, a fantastically profitable bluff, yeah.

Speaker A

Well, it's a cool hand, cool, of course . So. See, you still have arguments for being a tight player. You're not afraid to bluff-free bet and you're not afraid to call bluffs either. It's just, well, it's a really cool base,

Speaker A

yeah, because the biggest dopamine hit comes from, you know, calling and or bluffing, but everything is just really cool.

Speaker A

For example, I don't like it when I bluff and someone takes a long time to think, it irritates me. It's just a feeling inside. Ah, but when you have a feeling, you've opened it up and a good feeling, like, oh, how cool I, like,

Speaker A

read that, it can be a hindrance, because you can try to look for bluffs too often, and especially at low and mid-stakes people bluff very little.

Speaker A

And that's exactly the problem with most people, that they over-call too much. Here, for example, look, both the card is good for a bluff three-bet, and so is the opponent. And if you three-bet and he shoves into you, you

Speaker A

won't lose good potential, like what happened with 78ma. Here, from a mathematical standpoint, the regulars are super-beautiful. Here it's much better.

Speaker A

He shoved, they folded. Okay. Yes, there again, the opponent is huge, it could be with our dynamics, and it's not necessary to three-bet him, but here this three-bet works better than in other situations. Yeah.

Speaker A

So, race call check. Sweat. Super. We immediately knock out some different ace-dums. Pairs lower. Barda. Super.

Speaker A

Excellent. Okay, race call call. This is very bad. Why is it bad? Because we don't let him make a mistake. Yeah.

Speaker A

There's a guy sitting here right now, he has a queen jack of spades. I'd like to bet a third so he'll call. A queen-jack of spades came out, and we took his entire tech here. I want him to cut some jack 10s in the blew.

Speaker A

But as it is, he'll just fold eights and weaker pairs, and call a third. We just don't let our opponents make mistakes.

Speaker A

Okay, Alyn. We Alyn. Super, super, super-duper turned out. Good. Dafaminechik played too, huh? We fold so well. Super. I like that you don't get into any unnecessary hands.

Speaker A

I can sin like that in the early early hands, but in the late deprants there are ace-dums. I even asked myself that question. I think, I hope, I'll fold there, I folded. But how good is it in the early going? At the beginning of

Speaker A

the tournament, against...well, in a $ 10 tournament, it's always a default. Let's just figure out if it's a pass-stop at all. Well, if the guy is a fish, it's good if the guy is a regular . Let's just take this. Let's say it's

Speaker A

a regular tournament. The guy opened a second three-bet, and he had a strong range. Here's what the three-bet range is, well, strong. But people, in fact, often don't use this, they'll use a stronger range. And against him, we see

Speaker A

that ace-4 is played in plus, blind out of position. At the same time, well, we won't play as well out of position as the program.

Speaker A

We have to check-raise perfectly. Check-raise, check-raise, dong as a bluff. Right, we won't do that. So, yes , it's a fold. Here again, if we turn on the EV tab, we see that, well, there are very few hands that are profitable

Speaker A

here, and even ace queens are folded early. Even in chips, where you just need to win chips. Simply because early position has a strong three-betting range, and in reality, people's three-betting range will be even stronger because they'll consume fewer

Speaker A

bad hands and more good ones, because the program, let's say, early in 100%of the time, quickly different hands, while people can consume 100%of the time. So, limp call, good. Check call, good. Yes, we need to donk. Why did

Speaker A

we donk? We didn't donk. We didn't play optimally. Why should we? Yeah. Yeah. Well, make yours from all the flush draws, queens there, of course, yes. Because the problem is that, uh, this range suits us. We have a huge

Speaker A

number of two pairs, we have a huge number of straights, sets. And the question is:" Why the hell should he bet anything now with the ace-five of spades? "Well, no [ __ ] way. If we check, he'll check. So now we have to

Speaker A

bet him the whole pot on the turn. Why, he has the king-jack-spades, what will he do? Well, he'll call, of course, she checks, he'll check. He has the ace-nine of spades. Same thing. He has the ace-queen of hearts, check. He'll

Speaker A

rather check. He doesn't want to bet all-in, get it, and fold. So let him pay the whole pot on the turn.

Speaker A

Check-check. We've lost the street value. Seven is not enough, because we can come up with draws there that don't close. Uh, we have 9 10 from 9 to 13, it's really easy. A call would have gotten us all aces now,

Speaker A

and the turn would have been collected, and on the rear they would have come up with some unclosed Cherov spades, and so on.

Speaker A

Yeah, well, in any case, don't worry about it at all. It's not that you're playing badly, but all the viewers, who will have tens of thousands of views for this analysis, are like," Oh, that's easy. "Everyone makes mistakes.

Speaker A

Everyone who plays low limits, they make them because they make mistakes. So, yeah, the more mistakes we find, the better everyone who watched the video gets, the better you play. You can afford to, uh, after some good success, make some higher-stakes forays

Speaker A

and have a better chance of success. So , how much are we betting? We're betting somewhere around seven 7 with a pot. We're less interested in this player. We're interested in this player making more mistakes. 7 7 is a great

Speaker A

throwaway, jacks. Well, the player was unlucky, there's nothing he can do about it. He played well. And here you can consider the limp option. And there's a big knockout. Again, bait someone. Brilliant. That I remember this, just a click. It's not

Speaker A

this layout, you know, that's the point . It's not like this, it's almost the pre-final somewhere.

Speaker A

Got it. Yeah, yeah, it should have been 2 and 2. Got it. Well, no big deal. In any case, if I bet all the way, we're already betting with a gadshot fshro.

Speaker A

Yeah, right. So, well, 2 2.5 would be more standard, because we're now collecting pair, with a draw, before the board gets worse. It's a bit low here. We can provoke unnecessary aggression. Alyn, good, the bigger the knockout, the more often I'd play race

Speaker A

or limp. I'd like my opponent to have a chance to make a mistake. It's a bit harder to make a mistake on lyn. I'd call here if there are big knockouts, I'd want to bait. I remembered, like, I

Speaker A

remembered. Yeah, yeah, legend. So, what's the check? Well, why ? We should bet, right?

Speaker A

Of course. Look, he has, uh, a queen 10 of spades now, and he's not ready to call, let's say, but by checking, we give him free realization with this hand, a queen 10 of spades, uh, about 30%to win. Well, in our case, less,

Speaker A

because the queen of diamonds and a ten aren't suitable, but still, the equity is good. Moreover, we give free realization and also give him the opportunity to bluff us, which is not very good.

Speaker A

Yeah. Okay, we checked. Well, now we have to bet. Super. Excellent. Got it. I had nothing, wouldn't have paid anything, couldn't come up with anything.

Speaker A

Also, it's super ideal for us in deep stacks to three-bet tens of jacks. Well, a third of the pot doesn't make much sense.

Speaker A

Well, a little less, okay. The turn doesn't make sense to bet value bm rather, because, well, I probably would have managed to bet for years since no one bet on the turn, so some...Yeah.

Speaker A

A third of half a pot, I'd look for something like that with a six, a nine, an eight, knock it out, something like that. Okay, limp. Well, again, yeah, three 3s with a pot. If you saw that the guy was always raising, and then

Speaker A

suddenly he limps, you can call cautiously. Also, if there are some big knockouts here, you can call, to kind of give the opponents a chance to push and chase the knockout. Okay, check-check, do we want to bet here,

Speaker A

bet, bet, we can probably. If there's a jack that will push, then it doesn't matter. There weren't many outs against him anyway. And it's easy to knock out now, like, someone has 5p6, and someone has 7-8. That's it, there's already a

Speaker A

million in equity, I like it, they folded perfectly. I like it. Okay, that's the race. Uh, actually, you can three-bet here, if, say, there's a big knockout, because the guy can open wide . We're knocking out a ton of aces,

Speaker A

overcards, and so on. And I like the race call. Absolutely super, I really like it. They folded perfectly. Okay, race call. Good. Of course, the stack is small, so to speak, yeah, ace nine of hearts, which could knock out a

Speaker A

continuation bet now. They're bulls pair for Volyn. That hits well here, I'd probably still check. Super.

Speaker A

Excellent. Okay, race call. Again, the smaller the stack, the tighter the range will open. He'll shove something like that more often on a three-bet. I like calling. I like check-checking. I don't want to get check-shoved and lose . And if we bet now, we'll essentially

Speaker A

only knock out some sixes, ace nine, ace, but we can knock them out on the river, so not falling into the trap, I think, is a pretty good idea. And that's why I'd like to check more. Oh well, check, check, check, check. Yeah,

Speaker A

they paid a little too much, but it's nothing terrible. Okay, I really like that you're using very small sightings.

Speaker A

I actually even bl-lined, giving my opponent a chance to make a mistake, but he didn't want to. Okay, they opened well here, called, small stack, took the coin. Super.

Speaker A

Yeah. Oh well, what should I do? It's an open-ended bet after all. Check-check. I definitely need to bluff. My opponent has a huge number of hands like ace-king, ace-deck, king-queen, queen-let. They don't all bet the turn.

Speaker A

Let's say he has queen-jack, king-jack, he has a draw, but he might be afraid that we have a flush, and so on. He might have ace-2, teu, Duce, ace-5, something like five or six blinds.

Speaker A

That's the direction I'd be looking at. Excellent. I'm not really four, not really, right? Or is it okay? Four. I even screenshotted it. I'm thinking, let's bluff for a bigger sizing or something like that. But I also immediately understood that I needed to

Speaker A

grind this further. You also say:" Excellent. "I hid it there, by the way, with aces-high, like there's a tuzlet or something. Yeah.

Speaker A

But, well, ideally, yes, as I said, today people are afraid to bluff with big sizings. And it turns out that when you bet four into a nine-hand pot, like 40%, well, it's easy for you to come up with a bunch of hands with one diamond.

Speaker A

Therefore, as I said, yes, uh, towards six, there's five-six, yes, it's just more full equity, it's more likely that your opponent will believe you. Well, I don't know, imagine if you bet him nine now, well, everything would go to hell.

Speaker A

That's why I also, I, I immediately felt that it could be more even if it was a ten.

Speaker A

No, look, in this case we would have never knocked out a ten, that's clear, but knock some. The king of hype, yeah, well, a ten is clear, it doesn't matter what they celebrated, we lost anyway.

Speaker A

Okay, well, that's a fold. We're just battling it out. He's just careful. That one on the left, I think he was really, really careful.

Speaker A

Well, we have to see. Well, again, yes, it's simple math. Strong hands from these guys will also be playable. Here, well, it's clear that all other things being equal, if the conditions are right, there's a big knockout in the BB

Speaker A

, everyone might be tight, it could be a plus experience, of course. If that's how you calculated it specifically in that situation, then it might be perfectly okay. I would bet and get it all in here if the opponent wants the

Speaker A

turn. Does it make sense to bet the turn? That we can knock out the turn?

Speaker A

Well, probably, when he's also short-stacked, he probably doesn't have a ton of 6x7X hands that we can knock out. So, I probably like checking better, because we probably won't knock out the king anyway. I like checking better. Super.

Speaker A

Excellent. We've arrived. We bet all-in . Mm, I probably still like all-in. Why ? And he bet now, if we raise nine, what are we representing? A flush or a five? It turns out we'll get paid a flush or a five. And a flush or a five?

Speaker A

It'll pay even more, especially when the guy has us covered stack-wise and the pot is already 14 to 16 all-in.

Speaker A

There you go. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's clear that here you can actually come to the conclusion that, let's say, he wouldn't pay fives on all-ins. Well, indeed, that could be true. But then again, I don't think so, not in these

Speaker A

tournaments, yes. The difference is essentially that with 5.6 big blinds we might not make enough money, but we can win seven more . Sounds good. Okay, the race folds.

Speaker A

Good. Okay, great. The pot's fine. There were just another one or two blinds at the table. I'm also going to be aces up here somewhere.

Speaker A

Well, that's the pre-final, right? Yeah. Yeah, it's a long shot. Everyone's going to be [ __ ] themselves. So, let's say I'm a micro-limit player, and I've got a ton of money in the pre-final, twice my bankroll, for the first one. Well,

Speaker A

obviously, it's very scary. Let's even take, say, a similar situation, if there is one. Let's say we have 30, they have 14, 12, 10. What do we have here? Okay. Our situation is even worse , right? Let's say in this situation it

Speaker A

doesn't get pushed, but our stacks are almost half as big as theirs right now, right? Yeah, there's definitely one or two blinds at the other table, two stacks there. I think, well, there's no way to prevent someone from shoving.

Speaker A

No, well, we don't shove there, of course. Well, unfortunately, yes, there's no such calculation here. It doesn't make much sense to calculate all that now, but the point is that people here, let's say, have to call from there with 10, I understand that

Speaker A

we'll push wide, and they might even fold Tussvaletus Dam, because every player who busts brings them a ton of money now. So, yeah, I like it. If you're unsure about the all-in, you could, say, play Race 2, fold to these

Speaker A

all-ins, and call this one, but overall it's definitely fine. Even Tussvaletus called us, and against Tussvaletus, we have, well, 38 dash 40%, what's that?

Speaker A

Yeah. Yeah. So, Race called Bpas. Well, it's fine, in general, of course, you need to call DSO and Flash.

Speaker A

Plus, if it's an amateur, let's say he's most likely, well, or weak, he'll give up somewhere later, and we'll either bluff or realize on shevity on two streets. But then again, yes, if you don't hold a DSO flush draw, then

Speaker A

the logical question is:" Why are we defending 96 different ones when we have, like, a super short stack?

Speaker A

Against a big stack, we won't have much to play out of position anyway. "So folding, yes, and forgetting is not a problem at all.

Speaker A

Yeah. Again, yes, let's take the final table, the final table, there's a max. Let's say we have, say, 30 blinds. I opened there with 43, let's say, and there aren't even, uh, not even many short stacks.

Speaker A

Well, there are 13 blinds, one short. There are no 9-shelves here. So, we have to defend very carefully at the final table. If you look at EV, you see that even with a king-eight, they don't defend very well, so yes, defend

Speaker A

carefully in the final table. While in a normal situation we can defend any two suited hands in a min-raise, that's not the case in the final table. There, these same-suited hands are easily folded, considering it's hard to play

Speaker A

out of position. And these can be safely folded. Okay, let's move on. Calling isn't necessary either. Eh, the logic is clear. It's actually not bad that you call, because, well, if the guy in the BB understands anything, yeah, he might checkcut a d-shot there,

Speaker A

and you just call, he won't bluff anymore. Overall, it's fine, but if you don't know for sure what kind of guy he is, he might just always raise with those two pairs, and you can still just ...

Speaker A

well, he showed potential, this chip leader, he'll show it later. That's why he called, yeah, I remembered. Still, it's not terrible, I think, yeah. Well, I folded anyway, he kept choking. Well, but no, well, the card is bad, of course.

Speaker A

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Lynx, yeah, yeah, nothing to do. Okay, a fold is a fold. Oh, well, it's short here again. If there's some really big knockout, then okay, fine.

Speaker A

But in general, it's dangerous. Okay, well, a fold is fine. Uh, well, if it's careful, then fine, if it's careless, then it's probably better, because it's very careful. Very careful.

Speaker A

Okay. It's just that when knockouts are covered in tournaments, people aren't really inclined to fold us.

Speaker A

And then again, if it were careless, we always check because we block hands that toughen us up, and at the same time, let them bluff us if they check.

Speaker A

But against a careful player, then we just collect value and that's it. I'll fold anyway.

Speaker A

Okay, call. We need a big call here. No , no, definitely a bait. Why? Because the opponent has a huge number of hands like jacks, 10s, and 10s. You can come up with a ton of bluffs like poternut,

Speaker A

flashshdw, and smash. It's almost always the last street of value. It's very rare that you'll be all-in with a 5x flushdrop. And there aren't that many of those combos combined with the others. So, I think a bait is a must.

Speaker A

Well, a call, of course. Okay. Okay, I don't get it, what kind of guy is this?

Speaker A

He seems to have a simple all-in preflop. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's weird. Kudos to him. Well, it's a $ 5 tournament, so what's surprising about that? Okay, we don't need such a big sizing here, because a guy with such a

Speaker A

stack is unlikely to have a huge number of 3x, 6x, or hands like 74 at the final table against the OTG, which are going to bluff us now. Here, we can easily keep a quarter or a third of the

Speaker A

pot and be happy. And that's just unnecessary. And I, you know, just remember that he, uh, was such a telephone-playing Brazilian regular, I think he really loved to call.

Speaker A

And so now you're citing arguments in favor of not betting Lunyn. Yeah, but uh, I agree. Well, about drawing, you know, drawing, even like that. You're on the flop, look, you bet him more on the flop so he wouldn't

Speaker A

draw. If you'd bet a third, I would have completely understood the arguments against me.

Speaker A

Look, okay, let's say you bet, well, he folded something there. He folded something there at the final table. And so, with this reasoning, you know, I think, honestly too, I just saw how he really drew there, well, in

Speaker A

general there wasn’t even that with high and all that stuff. And I, well, we don’t know in what situation he drew. And now it’s the final table , but back then it wasn’t the final table. Plus. Ah, look, let’s say,

Speaker A

well, look, well, let’s imagine that he drew an ace, nine of clubs and a three. Well, what will he do with them for six blinds? Fold them. Right, right? Yeah, right. And why Alyn? Why Alyn? 14 blinds, if six blinds achieve the same

Speaker A

thing. Not 100%left. These are the same coffee shops. Two coffee shops are next to each other. In one the coffee costs 14 hryvnia, and in the other, six. You’re like, I want 14. But they’re the same. There’s a

Speaker A

cup of the same. You say:" I want it this way. "That's it. Well, why is that ? It's not clear. Well, again on the flop, yes, a third achieves the same thing. Okay, he drew on the flop a lot on a third,

Speaker A

you'll bet the lost one, there's also 65%and sub-skills. Okay, yeah, it worked out. We brought out emptiness.

Speaker A

Uh, not a bad three-bet. Dude from the button, ah, covering the BB. And you cover him, and the hand is good. This is awesome. Cool. Okay, the race folds.

Speaker A

Okay, I'd raise. You say yourself, you're a calm guy, right? And we give him 45 to realize there 37%to win or something like that, right? With Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker A

Okay, check. Good. Call. Good. Check. Check. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Just call. We don't really need this three-bet here. Why? Because we're deep stacks. We don't need to fight each other. We're in position, he can't really do anything there. We don't

Speaker A

really need a trip here. Okay, okay. Again, if we cover, well, limping is good, but a raise will be more profitable if the guy is tight. You don't need to bet or call. Well, again, if we think he's tight, then we don't

Speaker A

need to, because he has an ace, three, two pair, and so on. And if there's no such information, then calling is fine.

Speaker A

Okay, again, a raise is better. For some reason, they didn't bet on the flop. Although the guy has any two cards, which rarely hit here. So one blind line is automatically profitable.

Speaker A

We need the guy to fold once in 25%of the time. Well, that's how it will be.

Speaker A

Obviously, he folds more than 25%of the time, which will lead to a loss. Well, he kind of fpub-bet jacks and fours often. Since he didn't bet, he has an even weaker range. We definitely need to bet the turn with a gutshot. And we

Speaker A

didn't do that just now. And we need to bet the river, since we didn't bet the flop or the turn, because even if he checked the four, he would have shown it on the turn. And it turns out that

Speaker A

his range mostly looks like queen-high, king-high, nine-high, hands that beat us. So we either had to raise the flop or bet the turn on the river or, well, wherever it is on the flop. Well, in short, with a nine,

Speaker A

we could, yes, have won this hand in four cases, but we didn't win in any of them.

Speaker A

Okay. Yeah, well, a three would probably work well here for the same reason, because the guy is outlasting everyone. An unpleasant situation.

Speaker A

There. But okay. Okay, so, call-a with, well, not bad, by the way. Well, the main thing is to fold on the loonie, because he bets very little in two, he can bet wide, so it looks cool. Call.

Speaker A

Oh-oh-oh. Well, check, or even let's think about what range we're playing against. When he bets small, it could be ace-king, it could be with a heart, it could be two pair, a set.

Speaker A

Rather, I prefer to bet myself, because , firstly, we value-bet, and secondly, we control the size of the pot. If we check now and he gives us a lot of yalin, then there seems to be no need to call, because there aren't really

Speaker A

any bluffs. And weaker hands won't pay a check, they can check or they can bet and check rear, so it's about half the pot. Half the pot would be bet something like that. Call. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker A

Yeah. That's right, yeah, yeah. That's it, I remember. He's also capable, and that's why all these checks happened.

Speaker A

It's trash, of course. Well, well then, this pre-flop 3b is lame. Then, if the guy is fighting back like that.

Speaker A

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was probably scared . I don't even remember, I just remembered. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker A

I would have bet the flop if I didn't have information that the guy is insanely check-cutting flops, I'll lose .

Speaker A

Oh, yeah, probably call, because with a raise there are 16 combinations of straights and king-10 and another 16 at 108. That is, there are a ton of straights, weaker hands. Yeah, they can pay the turn now, but the river is no

Speaker A

longer a guarantee that he will pay, so I'll probably call and wait for the opponent to bluff. Great. A call is obligated to call. Yeah, there might be flushes, maybe flushes, straights, but he might still value bet two pairs if

Speaker A

you're weaker, not expecting a flush draw or a straight drop, or even a straight, which we'd probably bet on the flop. We have to call. There are bluffs. Unfortunately, we were unlucky.

Speaker A

Yeah. Yeah. We played well. Yeah. If he opened actively, then All-in, because he'll obviously open wide there. Or if we don't want to All-in, there might be some five, five, or five-six blinds because they're so effective and small.

Speaker A

If there's some really mega-knockout, well, of course, we can call to get dominant hands in. We also have to call here, like 10, 9, 67 flash draws, which are simply higher or have outs to improve. Great. Okay, race. Good. I'd

Speaker A

rather check. Yeah, we have a pick. We're blocking flush draws. And if anything happens, we have backdoor to flush draws, but just pairs that we'd like to knock out, uh, the SB shoved, and he comes in with exactly the kind

Speaker A

of Broadway hands that hit here well. Yeah. Okay. Call. Call. Check-check. We have to bluff. Six plans should be more than enough. What check? What check? He has kings, queens, jacks, some kind of king eight, king de. Now he has ace-2

Speaker A

and we bet six. Which he'll fold, of course, because our only bluffs are converted single-pair hands.

Speaker A

Yeah. Yeah. Well, we played badly, and he played badly, because he should bluff on the river with queen-jack, since we obviously have a ton of single-pair hands. That's why, yeah, we both didn't finish.

Speaker A

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Speaker A

course. Okay, we're supposed to limp well. For some reason, we didn't stamina. We limped. The guy checked, he has a really wide weak range. We posted one blind, he folded, and we're having fun. Oh, and then I'll lose, the same

Speaker A

thing. We can even bet on the river because a three or five would have already realized itself somehow, and he can get a tuskha, a harulhai, and so on . Okay. Well, he played badly too. He should have bet or flopped if he wanted

Speaker A

to play profitably. Okay, fine. The turn continues. So, why aren't we betting theory? Well, we have a godshot and two overcards to pairs that aren't a king. We can hit a four, we can hit a six, we can hit sevens, eights, nines,

Speaker A

if the opponent didn't want to shove them pre-flop. Well, again, yes, the rule is, we bet the flop and on the turn we always, or almost always, continue if we have four outs or more, and in this case we have more, yes,

Speaker A

because three outs to an ace are also live. If we can hit second, third pair, or third, fourth pair. In this case, we can hit third, fourth pair. That's a significant part of the range. We need to turn and bet. Okay, well, fold. Got

Speaker A

it. Yeah. We bet. I wouldn't bet that much, because, well, weaker hands won't really want to call. Well, you can bet small, because low cards, they might not lead. There are a ton of overcards that can be immediately knocked down.

Speaker A

Pass. No need to call, because the opponent has Aces, Kigers, and top pairs in his range. He double-bets, not worrying that the BB might have some of those hands. So, well, the Ace is too bad to call. Well, then we need to

Speaker A

grind if we called on the turn. Oh, yeah, we have some flush draws, some Aces, fives, and T-counts, but still, fear has big eyes in the final table.

Speaker A

It's not hard for us to put Ace, King, King, XFshdraw, right. So, it would be good for everyone to put the blinds in on the river.

Speaker A

Okay, and betting the flop is a must. We have a libbet with a jack, a king, a ten, and a nine, they missed a bet. We call, a good raise is even possible, in theory, the guy bets a third here. So,

Speaker A

what do we think, he's betting a third with a straight, two pair, or a strong queen on a board with a ton of draws?

Speaker A

That's highly doubtful. Paralyze, if he called the river checkpass. That's it. Okay. Oh, no way. Well, that's a bad play from him. He bets a third with two pair. We have a ton of hands like 10- year-olds king-10-year-olds 9-

Speaker A

year-olds, 10x9x flash draws. So, never use that sizing when he's calling a ton of weaker hands. Ah, right. Race 2 with is a completely unnecessary sizing.

Speaker A

You're short-stacked, you're knocked out. If there's something strong there, it'll come anyway. BB would, yeah, fold sometimes, but generally speaking, we won't knock out strong hands anyway.

Speaker A

I'd probably prefer to limp here, probably with king-queen. We don't want to get all-in from the pocket aces and lose three blinds. We limped, he did the same, and we lost half a blind. And if we, uh, limped, he raises, we can

Speaker A

still go in and see the board, realize the potential of our hand. It's generally better to go all-in out of position, when the stacks are similar.

Speaker A

If it turns out that the guy shoves sixes, it's a disaster for us because the value of the chips we win is cheaper than the ones we lose. Because the further we go in the tournament, the more money we make. And all our

Speaker A

stacks are very similar. That's why Alyn is the best play. And also, if some guy calls a suited 10 right now, he's got like 40-45%to win, and he'll convert them in position, yeah, and it might be hard for us to play without

Speaker A

position, so yeah. So, is this some kind of 3-s-shit from Vatyatin, right? Yeah. We folded, and the guys, I don't know, got tens in eight, and the guy got busted, and we got paged. And so we lost chips, and, well, if that had

Speaker A

happened, we wouldn't have let him bust . This was also a 3-s-s-pair, and we went, like, that's it, we have a new strategy. I mean, you know, it's one thing when you pick up a decent hand in position and just decide something, but

Speaker A

that looks scary. But as soon as you do it a second time in a row, the fear is a little less intense, because they see it wasn't you that decided to block aces, and you're not posing, and someone is covering you at a cam

Speaker A

tournament. Sort of. I don't know why it suddenly found us for some reason. Well, it's the person, yes, but it's just a bad board.

Speaker A

He has a huge number of hands of this format. Tu2, Tu3, Tu4, Tu5, 678, and so on. X-hands, a bunch of overcuts with backdoor, flush draws, which can be drawn or not. Well, basically, yeah, we don't need that at all. It's normal

Speaker A

when I'm covering, you can move up to three blinds, because the stack is small. And I'd bet small, I'd want to immediately knock out some queens, valetref, king queen unsuited, and so on. Basically, take the initiative into my own hands. Well, if you're going to

Speaker A

call it anyway, it's better to just call it yourself, right? Yeah, terrible. Especially since, let's say, yes, you could continue your aggression now on the turn, trying to knock out an ace with a heart, some five, four, and so

Speaker A

on. Well, we have to call. We have to call here. Why? First of all, we're higher than all sorts of 67, 68, 78 flшдw. Sometimes he might bet a five, a four like that for protection. Even if he bets a ten like that. We have

Speaker A

three outs on the king, three outs on the jack, we have four outs on the queen—that's 10 outs. Multiply by two for one turn, that's 20%, and we need 19.88. And if, well, someone says:" Well, that's a call to break even. "But

Speaker A

we also take into account that he has a bunch of hands that we beat. Queen, jack, or, I don't know, jack and jack of hearts, 678, and so on. So, considering we have outs to improve and could be higher, well, we have to call.

Speaker A

So, check, check, check, check, checkpass. Okay, one limped check. Well , again, one blind is enough. We're achieving the same goals. We limped min-raycall. Good job folding. Good.

Speaker A

Two blinds are enough. So, well, I like the limp better, and three blinds better. Again, there's a tag, in short, I prefer the limp. It's a fold. Why?

Speaker A

And when we're choosing hands for a raise, we have to keep in mind that everything always revolves around the NT. In cash games, the opening and calling ranges are always narrower because there are usually no ante. And, accordingly, in one run, people there

Speaker A

earn one and a half blinds, and not 2- queen with a pono, like we do.

Speaker A

Accordingly, at the final table, the ranges should be much narrower, because the fewer players at the final table, the smaller the ante in the center of the table. So, if we look at it, the final table, four people. We have a tag

Speaker A

of 15 blinds. Let's even take the shortest ones, imagine. Uh. That's where the game starts. In our case, two stacks cover us, right? So, the situation can't get much better. So, yeah, it's not really a race here. And

Speaker A

also, when this action doesn't work, we approach this player, which we don't need. Alyn. We allyn. The perfect situation, because we knock out Karatysh, get knocked out, and we ourselves become better. Do you like it ? The only thing is, if there was a

Speaker A

really big knockout, I probably would have shoved one blind line, again, one is enough. So, the race just called.

Speaker A

They just folded the call. Yeah, he was afraid, he was afraid. But otherwise, it's good. That's good because you have all the aces, kings, ace-king, a ton of aces. We often shove all of that preflop. Uh, if we know our

Speaker A

opponent can bluff and give up, then call. Okay. If we don't know, well, some aggressive guy always doblees.

Speaker A

Well, that's too bad. Again, 2 with a pot is not necessary, two is enough.

Speaker A

And I would add if there's a big knockout. Okay. Okay, the hot-spot isn't long, guys, let's not quit. Hot-spots are very important because that's where the main money is played. I don't like it at all. You don't give

Speaker A

your opponent any room to make a mistake. Ah, so the standard play is to limp. Why? We want our opponent to, uh, either check hands we dominate or push all-in. Here's another GTO Wizard link in the channel description; it has free

Speaker A

charts for pre-float chips, for the early stages of tournaments, and for heads-up play. So, let's say we have 18 -blind stacks. We see that king-nine is suited—both a race and a limp have the same expected value, and limping is

Speaker A

10%worse. And that's assuming the program, knowing we're shoving wide, can call weaker hands. Humans, in fact, often won't call weaker hands, and we won't get all-in higher, so limping is best. And if any of the viewers have ever played heads-up play, they might

Speaker A

know that you can limp very wide. A person might shov king-four, king-five, king-high, queen-high, and then 67 or something like 5-high against your limp . These are hands we dominate. And if you're shoving, you don't let him make

Speaker A

a mistake. That's why it's not a limp, it's a limp. Why limp? Because hotzap is played with wide ranges, and if you raise, you can often get punished with limps. That's why limping is done with stacks of 30 big blinds or less. A

Speaker A

pretty standard strategy. Limping is good, folding is great, played perfectly. Raise calling is good. I would have called somewhere around 3 with more than the blind, but the board is drone, I want to figure it out right now. I would have bet more because,

Speaker A

when the straight and flush hit, he could have checked strong hands, which we can easily beat on the river. And most importantly, it's easy for us to come up with bluffs. It's easy for us to come up with a king of diamonds,

Speaker A

it's easy for us to come up with a queen, jack, queen, oh, king, wait, jack 9 10 years 10, a huge number of draws that didn't hit. So I'd go for a bigger sizing. 3 with a blind doesn't

Speaker A

have that sizing. We don't play at a regular table like we do at a regular table, out of position on the small blind. We're both on the small blind and on the button, meaning we have position. So, we have two options:

Speaker A

either limp or race. We can't raise 3 with a blind, meaning we have the minimum allowed race. So what's the problem? Yes, instead of losing half a blind more, you lose three blinds more.

Speaker A

So, limping is fine, or checking is fine. If we think the pot will hit well , and there's a check-raise, then checking is better. So, limping is fine , we can, if there's an ant, sometimes there are hotspots without NT, you can

Speaker A

limp any two cards in position, but only on dry boards do we always post one blind, because the opponent's range is any two cards, we just knock down a lot of things. They should post the turn, we don't bet again. They should

Speaker A

post the parry. It's easy for us to come up with a bunch of aces. He doesn't have them, he would raise or push them. We knock out the queen highjack high 10 with a higher highskier. So, we could have won here,

Speaker A

but we didn't. And call, okay, we checked for value. What check? Well, you shouldn't check. The opponent has a bunch of hearts, a match plus a heart, yes, some queen, but at the same time, there could be a bunch of hands with

Speaker A

one heart that just check. So it's better, I'd like to bet more. Well, caller, yeah, maybe a queen, but there are a lot of hearts that can kind of bluff, and if non-heart hands can bluff , that's even better. In his place,

Speaker A

fours, that's Lyn, would have knocked a bunch of overcards off us and would have been happy. So, in a Hutzap, it's a call king 7. That's too high a hand.

Speaker A

But okay, if the guy was checking all the time and then raised, well, we can fold, no problem. It's a good hand for bluffing 3bta if we see that the opponent is active. We bet small because the opponent rarely hits it.

Speaker A

The board is dry, even smaller is possible, like four blinds. Okay, we can limp check. We can check. Either way. Good. But we don't need such a big sizing, because weaker hands won't pay out, and we'll lose more to stronger

Speaker A

hands. Poker is all about logic, so we always think logically. Let's call here, he'll bet us any two cards, of course, all the matches on one street for a cheap sign should extend. Maybe just higher, maybe five outs to improve here. Or two

Speaker A

blinds, or limp. Why not bet with a gutshot? He never has an ace, he'd shove them. Loeb pushes harder with this one. Well, obviously, I don't like the shared straight here. We don't give our opponent a chance to make a mistake

Speaker A

. Let's say we limp, he gives us three blinds, we all-in. We've collected everything from his garbage runs. Let's say he doesn't want to call on Toos2 now, but he himself would have shoved Toos2.

Speaker A

So, well, in this case, nothing would have changed there soon, but the main thing for us is that our strategy is profitable, and the result doesn't matter. Okay, so, unfortunately, we didn't win a good coin flip in the

Speaker A

sense that we had a high chance of winning, but overall, we played great. I enjoyed the analysis—analysis is meant to catch mistakes, but all the potential for good development is there . There were many interesting, compelling hands. I'm sure it's useful

Speaker A

for you guys. Don't be lazy, like it, subscribe to the channel, leave comments, and watch other videos. There will also be links to useful analyses at the end. I want to thank you for taking the time to come and analyze it.

Speaker A

For viewers who also want an analysis, you need to understand that it's very easy to win at low limits. Well, I mean , there are a lot of you, and a lot of tournaments, and a lot of people

Speaker A

wanting it. So people usually come and say," Andrey, analyze my $ 300, $ 500 win, "and so on. Unfortunately, I can't analyze them all. In this case, I always tell guests," Like, for a $ 300 donation, I can analyze it. "So, just

Speaker A

in case, so you don't get upset unnecessarily in this case. And the analysis turned out well. That is, it's profitable for me, but it's also profitable for you, and it's profitable for the guest, it turned out profitable for everyone, I think. Awesome. Wasted

Speaker A

time, spent productively. Thank you very much. Maybe some advice. Oh, wait, you also want to stream, that is, uh...

Speaker A

Oh, yeah, I'll send you the link, come on over. It'll be in the first pinned comment in the morning. Where do you stream and how often do you plan to?

Speaker A

Uh, I plan to upload every single time, I hope, four to five times a week. It's a pleasure.

Speaker A

What are your goals? What are your goals? Just to make streaming more fun. No. The goals are specifically to also build an audience, to develop a little in all this, in this whole thing. Plus, uh, friends say that it will work out

Speaker A

and I like listening, watching there, and some of my blockers, you know, they gave me this whole thing to start with.

Speaker A

Now we’ll start, like, with a plus of morality, and so on. Yeah. Yeah , cool. Well, then those social networks that you give me, I’ll add them in the first closed comment. Thank you very much. Thank you, Andrey, for the

Speaker A

analysis. Very useful, very nice. We’ve analyzed everything. Uh, with pleasure. I think this is not my first time here analyzing.

Speaker A

Everything is great. Then we’ll wait with more success, for the guys to write: “Oh, how you’ve matured, cool, you’ve fixed the mistakes, like , everything and so on.” Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you very much.

Speaker A

Thank you very much. Good luck to you. Bye-bye. That’s it, bye-bye. Bye. Bye . I record from one to seven videos on poker every week, and they are on different YouTube channels. To stay up to date, please visit the Main tab and

Speaker A

open the playlist for new videos. Just this week, I recorded a bunch of triton analysis, in case you haven't seen it.

Speaker A

And besides that, there's a fresh video on bluffing. I bluffed three times in a row in the tournament and analyzed the situations for bluffing. So, I recommend watching this video. The analysis with a subscriber, how he got 14,000 in the tournament for first

Speaker A

place, is a analysis with Topreg Hero, and an analysis with Tolya Filatov, who took first place in the online tournament. Overall, there are a lot of great new analysis videos that you might not have seen. I definitely recommend fixing that. Good luck to

Speaker A

everyone. A new analysis will be on this channel in the next few days. M.

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