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Learn poker tournament strategies from Andre Kozlenko’s detailed hand analysis and practical tips for deep stack play and bet sizing.

## Key Takeaways

- Use appropriate 3-bet and 4-bet sizing to avoid giving opponents good pot odds.
- Post-flop bet sizing should be small to medium to maximize value and minimize losses against strong ranges.
- Avoid passive play and limping premium hands to protect your stack.
- Adjust strategy based on opponent skill level, exploiting amateurs when possible.
- Understand that large stack deep play requires patience and precise bet sizing.

## What the video covers

- Andre Kozlenko analyzes a poker tournament where a viewer replicated and surpassed his success by winning a Sunday tournament.
- The video focuses on deep stack tournament strategy, including pre-flop 3-bet and 4-bet sizing and post-flop bet sizing.
- Incorrect small 3-bet sizing gives opponents good pot odds and reduces value from dominated hands.
- Post-flop continuation bets should be smaller (around 1/3 pot) to extract value from weaker hands and avoid losing to stronger ranges.
- Large bet sizing on dangerous boards with potential sets, straights, and two pairs is discouraged.
- The video emphasizes understanding opponent ranges and adjusting bet sizes accordingly, especially against amateurs.
- Andre uses GTO Wizard software to demonstrate mathematically optimal strategies and bet sizing.
- The importance of avoiding passive play and limping with premium hands like aces is highlighted.
- The impact of rising blinds on stack size and tournament dynamics is discussed.
- The video is both educational and motivational, encouraging viewer interaction and participation.

Answers

## Questions about this video

Why is small 3-bet sizing problematic in deep stack tournaments?

Small 3-bet sizing gives opponents good pot odds, allowing them to call more easily and outdraw you, reducing your value from dominated hands.

What is the recommended post-flop bet sizing against strong ranges?

A smaller bet sizing, around one-third to one-quarter of the pot, is recommended to extract value from weaker hands while minimizing losses to stronger hands.

How should you adjust your play when facing amateur opponents?

You can widen your calling and opening ranges to exploit amateurs who tend to play weaker hands and call more often, increasing your expected value.

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Speaker A

Hello, friends. This is an educational and motivational video where I will show you how to go from the first hands to finishing first and getting great tournament results. My viewer, who watched three of my breakdowns where I reached the final table of this tournament three times in three months, decided to repeat the success and even surpassed it, because he conquered the Sunday tournament, which usually has a higher guarantee than the daily versions. So, it will be even more interesting to watch. Our hero is a chef, and he participated in the tournament on his phone while working. So if there is any passive play or sit-out at some point, it means the person was busy with their job. And, well, it’s understandable why something might not have been played quite correctly. Let’s take a look at this tournament. We see an open, we see a 3-bet. Given that the stacks are deep, the standard 3-bet sizing in position is usually 3.5x or 4x, but he went smaller. And out of position, we want to reraise against one person in deep stacks to 5x or more when there’s been a raise and a 3-bet. But again, we don’t want to go too small, so 5x or 6x the opponent's raise size. But our hero today reraised too little, even less than 3x. What is the problem with this reraise? The problem is that we are giving our opponent good pot odds. He only has to pay a little bit for the potential to win a large pot. So we end up giving the opponent good pot odds to outdraw us, and we earn less from the hands we dominate, like suited Ace-Queen, King-Queen, Ace-Jack, or Ace-Ten. If these hands are planning to call a 4-bet, we simply earn less from them. That is why we shouldn’t use such a small sizing. We should have bet more, and if he reraised again, we would have concluded he had Aces or Kings and would have simply folded. So, we got a call. And here, always think about what I would do. You can pause the video to think about what I would do, then watch what our guest did, and listen to my commentary on why I think you should act one way or another. Of course, we want to make a continuation bet to collect value from Queen-Ten, King-Ten, Ace-Queen, and so on. But you need to understand that a 4-bet call is an incredibly strong range that includes King-Queen, Kings, Queens, Jacks, Ace-Ten, and Ten-Nine. And it turns out that the hands that pay us off and are worse than ours might be fewer than the strong hands that we are losing to. Therefore, we should bet small here, like a third or a quarter of the pot. We immediately bet half the pot. I don't like this sizing; we shouldn't fear straight draws and flush draws because there aren't many here, since it's an early position raise and an early position 3-bet. I mean, not everyone 3-bets suited hands, and those that do might not even call a 4-bet. So, you need to understand that we shouldn't fear flush draws—they won't be there that often—but we should fear two pairs, sets, and straights, so I would choose a smaller sizing. We got a call, a Jack comes, and everything gets even worse. If the opponent had suited Ace-Jack or Jack-Ten, that's now trips, respectively. Hmm, should we continue? Yes, we could try to get some value with a third of the pot against a suited spade draw, like an Ace-five or an Ace-three of spades. Try to get value from an opponent who might be a "calling station," someone who doesn't like to fold anything, and will pay with tens, Queen-Ten, and so on. But you shouldn't use a large sizing because weaker hands won't pay much, you'll lose more to stronger hands, and there are more strong hands now that the Jack has landed. Yet, as we can see, we are betting big. No, I don't like this sizing. Then again, everything weaker than us could have already folded by now. We bet and got a call. And on the river, we ask ourselves: what weaker hands are calling in this situation? Well, something like King-Ten suited, but considering we hold one King here, the opponent might not be 3-betting all suited King-X hands, so for King-Ten, there are either two combinations, one, or none at all. If a player doesn't 3-bet them, they might not call a 4-bet with them, simply because they aren't in their range. And it turns out that, well, Queen-Ten definitely isn't calling. King-Ten might not be there, nor King-Queen or King-Jack. We lose to Ace-Ten, we lose to a Jack, we lose. So, the majority of hands in the opponent's range beat us. And so, if we think this is an amateur who won't fold much, maybe he won't fold Ace-Queen, Queen-Ten, King-Ten, or maybe he has King-Nine or Tens. We could bet a tiny amount, like 10, 25, 30, 40% of the pot, something like that. And if he raises, we definitely fold. But going all-in is a catastrophic mistake because our expected value is negative. We either lose everything or earn nothing. He folded, and it turns out we either earned nothing or would have lost everything right now. You shouldn't do that. In this case, I saw the first hand because I wanted to scroll through the hands where our hero folded, to understand where the sit-out starts and where to begin playing. But I haven't seen the rest of the hands, so it will be interesting for all of us to watch them together. Because I will be playing this tournament myself along with you. And in total, about 570 hands were played in this tournament. If you like this analysis, be sure to hit the like button and let's get started. And don't be lazy about writing comments. The more comments, the more this video gets promoted on YouTube, and the more motivation I have to spend time recording such cool videos for you. I am opening the GTO Wizard program for you, where mathematical strategies are calculated. And as we can see, against an early position raise and a 3-bet from the big blind, even with 200 big blind stacks instead of 300, Ace-King is a 4-bet, although with a slight plus, and the sizing used is not 18, but 29. In this case, that's about 3.5x. Well, because usually, the larger the stacks, the less we really need 5x, 6x, or 7x 3-bets. But if we were playing against one player, as I said, we see 5x 3-bet, 6x 3-bet, so a large sizing is used. So just remember here that you need to re-raise a bit more pre-flop. And as we see, there isn't a super high profitability because the stacks are huge and there are simply few people who will gift us many chips, so to speak. But it is still profitable to 4-bet Ace-King. Well then, let's move on. Ten-Jack is a call. If we know there are amateurs, we can enter, because amateurs will lose a lot. If you don't know if they are amateurs or not, then you don't necessarily have to enter. Here, of course, it's an easy fold. Here you could open, again, if there are amateurs behind you, they will play bad hands here. This hand could be opened, but our hero didn't open it. Understandable, busy in the kitchen, no questions asked. The same thing here, yes, offsuit hands of medium strength won't bring you much money. But if you see people rolling their faces on the keyboard, you can enter against specific players because they will give you a lot. And here again, it's a call; we are in position with a suited hand, but it's clear our hero was often sitting out. Apparently, he didn't play medium-strength hands. Because this is obviously a call, but he was busy with work. And that is why we will see a lot of folds here. So let's just skip straight to the hands where there actually was some action. By the way, you see, the stack became smaller right away, 270 blinds, and then less and less. That's because when the initial stack is large, the increase in blinds shrinks it very significantly. And so, once again, what do you need to win? Don't limp with aces so they don't get cracked. But again, that's because our hero was just busy with work. And we see that his stack seems to have melted by about 130 blinds, and that was only after about 20 hands. It's interesting how quickly a stack can melt away due to the rising blinds. But that's at t

00:18

Speaker A

tournament three times in 3 months, decided to repeat the success and even surpassed it, because he conquered the Sunday tournament, which usually has a higher guarantee than the daily versions. So, it will be even more interesting to watch. Our hero is a

00:35

Speaker A

chef, and he participated in the tournament on his phone while working. So if there is any passive play or sit-out at some point, it means the person was busy with their job. And, well, it’s understandable why something might not have been played

00:49

Speaker A

quite correctly. Let’s take a look at this tournament. We see an open, we see a 3-bet. Given that the stacks are deep , the standard 3-bet sizing in position is usually 3.5 x or 4x, but he went smaller. And out of position, we want

01:06

Speaker A

to reraise against one person in deep stacks to 5x or more when there’s been a raise and a 3-bet. But again, we don’t want to go too small, so 5x or 6x the opponent's raise size. But our hero today reraised too little, even

01:22

Speaker A

less than 3x. What is the problem with this reraise? The problem is that we are giving our opponent good pot odds.

01:29

Speaker A

He only has to pay a little bit for the potential to win a large pot. So we end up giving the opponent good pot odds to outdraw us, and we earn less from the hands we dominate, like suited

01:41

Speaker A

Ace-Queen, King-Queen, Ace-Jack, or Ace-Ten. If these hands are planning to call a 4-bet, we simply earn less from them. That is why we shouldn’t use such a small sizing. We should have bet more, and if he reraised again, we

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Speaker A

would have concluded he had Aces or Kings and would have simply folded. So, we got a call. And here, always think about what I would do. You can pause the video to think about what I would do, then watch what our guest did, and

02:06

Speaker A

listen to my commentary on why I think you should act one way or another. Of course, we want to make a continuation bet to collect value from Queen-Ten, King-Ten, Ace-Queen, and so on. But you need to understand that a 4-bet call is

02:22

Speaker A

an incredibly strong range that includes King-Queen, Kings, Queens, Jacks, Ace-Ten, and Ten-Nine. And it turns out that the hands that pay us off and are worse than ours might be fewer than the strong hands that we are losing to. Therefore, we should bet

02:38

Speaker A

small here, like a third or a quarter of the pot. We immediately bet half the pot. I don't like this sizing; we shouldn't fear straight draws and flush draws because there aren't many here, since it's an early position raise and

02:50

Speaker A

an early position 3-bet. I mean, not everyone 3-bets suited hands, and those that do might not even call a 4-bet. So , you need to understand that we shouldn't fear flush draws—they won't be there that often—but we should

03:05

Speaker A

fear two pairs, sets, and straights, so I would choose a smaller sizing. We got a call, a Jack comes, and everything gets even worse. If the opponent had suited Ace-Jack or Jack-Ten, that's now trips, respectively. Hmm, should we

03:17

Speaker A

continue? Yes, we could try to get some value with a third of the pot against a suited spade draw, like an Ace-five or an Ace-three of spades. Try to get value from an opponent who might be a "

03:28

Speaker A

calling station," someone who doesn't like to fold anything, and will pay with tens, Queen-Ten, and so on. But you shouldn't use a large sizing because weaker hands won't pay much, you'll lose more to stronger hands, and there are more strong hands now that

03:41

Speaker A

the Jack has landed. Yet, as we can see , we are betting big. No, I don't like this sizing. Then again, everything weaker than us could have already folded by now. We bet and got a call.

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Speaker A

And on the river, we ask ourselves: what weaker hands are calling in this situation? Well, something like King-Ten suited, but considering we hold one King here, the opponent might not be 3-betting all suited King-X hands, so for King-Ten, there are

04:07

Speaker A

either two combinations, one, or none at all. If a player doesn't 3-bet them, they might not call a 4-bet with them, simply because they aren't in their range. And it turns out that, well, Queen-Ten definitely isn't calling.

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Speaker A

King-Ten might not be there, nor King-Queen or King-Jack. We lose to Ace-Ten, we lose to a Jack, we lose. So , the majority of hands in the opponent's range beat us. And so, if we think this is an amateur who won't fold

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Speaker A

much, maybe he won't fold Ace-Queen, Queen-Ten, King-Ten, or maybe he has King-Nine or Tens. We could bet a tiny amount, like 10, 25, 30, 40%of the pot, something like that. And if he raises, we definitely fold. But going all-in is

04:41

Speaker A

a catastrophic mistake because our expected value is negative. We either lose everything or earn nothing. He folded, and it turns out we either earned nothing or would have lost everything right now. You shouldn't do that. In this case, I saw the first

04:56

Speaker A

hand because I wanted to scroll through the hands where our hero folded, to understand where the sit-out starts and where to begin playing. But I haven't seen the rest of the hands, so it will be interesting for all of us to watch

05:07

Speaker A

them together. Because I will be playing this tournament myself along with you. And in total, about 570 hands were played in this tournament. If you like this analysis, be sure to hit the like button and let's get started. And

05:20

Speaker A

don't be lazy about writing comments. The more comments, the more this video gets promoted on YouTube, and the more motivation I have to spend time recording such cool videos for you. I am opening the GTO Wizard program for

05:31

Speaker A

you, where mathematical strategies are calculated. And as we can see, against an early position raise and a 3-bet from the big blind, even with 200 big blind stacks instead of 300, ace-king is a 4-bet, although with a slight plus

05:44

Speaker A

, and the sizing used is not 18, but 29 . In this case, that's about 3.5 x.

05:50

Speaker A

Well, because usually, the larger the stacks, the less we really need 5x, 6x, or 7x 3-bets. But if we were playing against one player, as I said, we see 5x 3-bet, 6x 3-bet, so a large sizing is used. So just remember here that you

06:06

Speaker A

need to re-raise a bit more pre-flop. And as we see, there isn't a super high profitability because the stacks are huge and there are simply few people who will gift us many chips, so to speak. But it is still profitable to 4-

06:21

Speaker A

bet ace-king. Well then, let's move on. Ten-jack is a call. If we know there are amateurs, we can enter, because amateurs will lose a lot. If you don't know if they are amateurs or not, then you don't necessarily have to enter.

06:34

Speaker A

Here, of course, it's an easy fold. Here you could open, again, if there are amateurs behind you, they will play bad hands here. This hand could be opened, but our hero didn't open it.

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Speaker A

Understandable, busy in the kitchen, no questions asked. The same thing here, yes, offsuit hands of medium strength won't bring you much money. But if you see people rolling their faces on the keyboard, you can enter against specific players because they will give

06:59

Speaker A

you a lot. And here again, it's a call; we are in position with a suited hand, but it's clear our hero was often sitting out. Apparently, he didn't play medium-strength hands. Because this is obviously a call, but he was busy with

07:15

Speaker A

work. And that is why we will see a lot of folds here. So let's just skip straight to the hands where there actually was some action. By the way, you see, the stack became smaller right away, 270 blinds, and then less and

07:29

Speaker A

less. That's because when the initial stack is large, the increase in blinds shrinks it very significantly. And so, once again, what do you need to win?

07:42

Speaker A

Don't limp with aces so they don't get cracked. But again, that's because our hero was just busy with work. And we see that his stack seems to have melted by about 130 blinds, and that was only after about 20 hands. It's interesting

07:56

Speaker A

how quickly a stack can melt away due to the rising blinds. But that's at the beginning; later on, when the stacks become smaller, the rising blinds melt them less. Okay, he said that was just at the start, so I think it will be

08:07

Speaker A

more interesting further on. So, raise-call, a squeeze with a suited hand that hits both straights and flushes. We don't continue further here , everything is quite logical. We don't enter with anything here. Jack-five. A good hand to defend with. Didn't hit,

08:20

Speaker A

folded. Okay. Something interesting here. Opened, got a call from two sides . Continuation bet. Raise. Just call.

08:26

Speaker A

There's no point in reraising here. Hit a straight, got a big one. You shouldn't bet more into the pot than what's in the opponent's stack. We want to collect everything at once. You shouldn't do that. Why? It's unlikely

08:39

Speaker A

that your opponent in a $ 57 tournament is some super ultra-mega top reg who just check-raised 5-3 and is going to triple-barrel bluff. And if you shove now, you'll force out all those bluffs.

08:51

Speaker A

In all likelihood, this player, whether an amateur or a pro, just has a strong hand here. A pair plus a flush draw, some 9-10 of hearts, a king, or two pair. And we want to get value from all

09:04

Speaker A

of that. If we call now and a five comes...a heart, a six of hearts, he might not pay us off anymore. If he has , say, 5-3 of hearts, he will call the shove because there's 47 in the pot and

09:16

Speaker A

he has 26 left. But if, say, an ace comes, he no longer has any draw and will just check-fold. That's why you just need to shove on the turn here.

09:29

Speaker A

Well, in fact, we would have gone all-in either way. But on the five of hearts, or the six of hearts, or if an eight or seven appeared, his two pair would be ruined, worth nothing, and he wouldn't pay anything. Therefore, I

09:44

Speaker A

think we didn't get enough value in certain hands where bad cards came out. So here, when there are as many chips in the pot as in the opponent's stack or more, I always advise you to shove strong hands. If it wasn't the eight of

09:56

Speaker A

hearts, but some two of clubs, a total blank card, then yes, of course, you could call and let the opponent keep bluffing. Here, the situation is different. This card ruins everything.

10:05

Speaker A

Or conversely, in this case, it helps to extract value, because here the opponent might shove on us with some draw that got there on the turn. 8-6, raise, call. Good. We have a gutshot.

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Speaker A

We call. An eight sometimes improves us , a six helps, and a seven always helps . And if the opponent checks, we can bluff at him. Well, that's it, there was no check. Okay, next. Ace-Jack, raise, 3-bet, great sizing, hand,

10:29

Speaker A

position, everything is perfect. The flop is not bad, considering we block his flush draw. We have a backdoor flush draw ourselves. We can fold out low pocket pairs right away, or hands like 5-4 suited, which have good equity

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Speaker A

. I like a continuation bet on this flop. We just fold, because when we checked, the opponent might think we have nines, tens, or jacks and try to bluff. He isn't very polarized against our range, so if he bets, it's usually

10:56

Speaker A

a strong hand or he might be triple-barreling on the river, which we don't want to play against. This is, of course, a fold. You can't call in a non-knockout tournament. And this is a negative-EV call. Let's look at the

11:08

Speaker A

calculation. Well, for those interested , let's see how the hand ended. We got it in ahead, but we must understand that we should always think about what range we are getting it in against. 14 big blinds. The opponent will shove

11:22

Speaker A

with A-x, pairs, high Broadway that dominates us like King-Jack, and, of course, high pairs. It will be very difficult to play against such a range, so it's better to save those 12 big blinds and not call such a shove when

11:36

Speaker A

we opened against five players and got a shove behind us. As we can see, from a mathematical standpoint, even in a chip-EV environment early in the tournament, our calling range is roughly this, which, of course, does not include Jack-8, and Jack-10 is not

11:50

Speaker A

a call either. King-Queen is a break-even call, Ace-10 feels good, and sixes plus feel good. This is against such a shoving range. And some players might sometimes try to shove it there.

12:01

Speaker A

And in this case, yes, if an opponent shoved 9-10 there, they could also shove jack-nine, jack-ten, and king-jack offsuit. Accordingly, there are even more hands that dominate us, so we need to fold six-seven suited. We open, we get a call on the flop. If

12:17

Speaker A

your opponent is cautious, you can bet a third of the pot. We will fold out a huge number of hands. If your opponent check-raises wide and calls a lot with the goal of bluffing you later, you can use a large sizing because there are

12:29

Speaker A

bottom gutshots like 5-4, and top gutshots like jack-ten-queen or ten-queen-jack. Therefore, an increased sizing can be used. Well, four to five big blinds. In our case, the player used three BB. That's perfectly okay.

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Speaker A

We got a call. And here comes the nine of spades. Ask yourself if you want to bet with this hand or not. And by default, yes, of course, we primarily want to bet hands with equity, but when our opponent has a huge number of hands

12:56

Speaker A

like queen-jack, queen-ten, jack-ten, 2x, king-high and low flush draws like king-seven of hearts, and he folds all that on the turn...continuing to barrel is...It's a good idea even with this hand. Our hero does exactly that. He's a great guy. And he takes the pot

13:17

Speaker A

without a fight. Let's look at the flop . We see the program wants to bet either 20%of the pot or 83%. Our guy took something in between. 2.5 big blinds. Also perfectly okay. Just, well , from the program's point of view, it

13:32

Speaker A

has less expectation. But our opponents play tighter than the program, so whatever you choose will be okay. But the most important thing on the turn is whether you need to bet. And as we see, 6-7 is indeed bet with any suit. We see

13:51

Speaker A

a check is 0.8, but aggression brings us more expectation. And, actually, why choose a 55%sizing in this case?

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Speaker A

Because while, let's say, 83%......the program has more expectation, but our hero didn't bet that much. Let's take a look at it. 55%of the pot. What do we fold out? Actually, we see that we fold out a huge number of unmade hands, some

14:18

Speaker A

bottom gutshots that could have bluffed us. We fold out a bunch of flush draw combinations. We fold out a bunch of Broadway combinations. 12 combinations.

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Speaker A

Queen-jack, queen-ten, jack-ten. Really sweet stuff. We fold out some 2x hands, but that's closer to fourth pairs here.

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Speaker A

As we can see, yes, 2x hands like these fold without a flush draw. We partially force out second pairs. Against many players at low and mid stakes, we can force out second pairs entirely. Well, those without flush draws, of course.

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Speaker A

In total, yes, our opponent folds either 37%or, if the sizing is higher, a full 47%of hands. That is a lot. In reality, people will fold even more. So , betting the turn here is profitable.

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Speaker A

As we can see, with any unimproved hand . That is, we are already ahead with pairs, but unimproved hands can always be bet on the turn here. Therefore, the most profitable streets for bluffing are usually the flop or the turn. At

15:20

Speaker A

low and mid stakes, only the very strongest hands often reach the river. And bluffing there is only needed in specific situations, which I usually show you regularly in my videos. I assume that we will be able to see such

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Speaker A

situations with you today as well. And moving on. So, 6s, they folded to an all-in. Super. Excellent. They are in a knockout tournament. There is no reason for us to call. Raising, or if the opponent checks, often at low and mid

15:50

Speaker A

stakes, it's better to show aggression, because people check-fold a lot and rarely check to trap with a weak ace.

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Speaker A

Therefore, betting and immediately forcing out 6s, 7s, 8s, and a bunch of overcards that could improve or bluff you out is a really good idea.

16:05

Speaker A

Check-check-check. In the end, 98 beat us. Raise, call. You can 3-bet, you can call, both work. Good. On the flop, if there is no information that the opponent is prone to suddenly bluffing when checked to, it is best to bet

16:20

Speaker A

yourself to get value from weaker pairs with a spade, for example, kings, queens, or jacks with one spade. Well, in this case, there is no queen, but betting kings, jacks, tens, a nine, or an ace if they somehow checked that is

16:31

Speaker A

good. Usually, if you have a strong hand, betting is the best strategy. Okay. So, 7s. Raise, call. Continuation bet. Good. J8, raise, call.

16:44

Speaker A

Continuation bet missed, and tough luck . In all my videos, I regularly show and tell you that the big blind defends a super-wide range, hits the board super rarely, and the most profitable strategy is simply to fire a

17:01

Speaker A

continuation bet. The big blind defends a very wide range, and will often miss this board. And, accordingly, we can use any sizing, even 1/5 of the pot, in order to force out a huge number of hands. They simply fold 45%to a 1/5 pot

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Speaker A

bet. Even a super-aggressive program does. Normal people will fold even more . Why we aren't betting, I don't understand. Just a continuation bet here with all the hands that opened.

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Speaker A

Result: check. Well, we've already managed to bet the flush draw. So, moving on. Opened King-Jack. Got a 3- bet. Calling is good by default, it's a good hand, but if you've seen the player is tight, you should fold,

17:44

Speaker A

because they 3-bet a narrow range against early positions. Aces, Kings, Queens, Ace-King, Ace-Queen—King-Jack performs poorly against those. Well, by standard, if there's no info that the guy is super tight, a call is standard.

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Speaker A

Just call. It might seem the opponent is trying to see the turn cheaply, but they could also be betting like that with a set, or with Aces, Kings, or Queens, so just call. Okay. If you see that the player is, I don't know,

18:07

Speaker A

straightforward—bets small with weak hands and large with strong ones—then there are no questions at all. Raise, shove, everything will be super profitable. So, we checked down, now let's bet for value. Checking here isn't very good, because when the

18:19

Speaker A

opponent didn't bet the turn, they almost never have Aces, Kings, Queens, or Ace-Jack. And we want to collect from Queen-Jack, we want to collect from Ace-King or Ace-Queen. You absolutely must bet a third of the pot on the river. Missed out on value. Of

18:33

Speaker A

course, they might not have called, but in a situation where we are definitely ahead, we want to try to collect value.

18:40

Speaker A

Well, not definitely, but with a high probability, yes. So, raise-call. Okay. Ah. Checked. Good. If only there was at least one diamond. You could even bet on the flop. Quite comfortably. We want to show aggression on the turn. We have

18:54

Speaker A

an open-ended straight draw. Yes, it's possible. Or there's a Queen here. Yeah , Ace-Queen would likely have just shoved preflop with a stack like that.

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Speaker A

Accordingly, if they have King-Queen or worse, they will just call our bet. We ask ourselves: "If I bet four big blinds or three right now, can I force a fold from better hands?" Of course, I can. Then we have the motivation to be

19:12

Speaker A

aggressive. You can also ask yourself: "If I check now and the player bets four big blinds, will I pay?" Of course , I will pay. Then why not invest those chips yourself right now to immediately fold out Ace-deuce, small pairs, threes

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Speaker A

, fours, or fives? Why not fold out better hands? You need to fold them out . Therefore, we should have bet here ourselves. Well, in the end, we hit our pair. And it's interesting that we didn't fold on the river. Although,

19:37

Speaker A

again, yes, one could ask the question. Uh, what do we beat in a situation like this when you plan to call down a river bluff? You must ask yourself what bluffs are there. If you cannot come up with any bluffs, then there's always

19:50

Speaker A

value to be found. And in this case, the player on the button could see that none of the opponents bet the flop.

19:56

Speaker A

Most likely, there is no strength. No one bet the turn, most likely, there is no strength. And besides, people would likely have bet a flush draw. And it turns out that the player is, first of all, motivated to bluff here with a

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Speaker A

bunch of pocket pairs and Ace-x hands that they might not have bet before, because they see these ranges as weak.

20:13

Speaker A

But most importantly, they aren't representing much here, are they? That is, when an opponent isn't representing much, we can look for, let's say, bluff catchers because, well, surely if they were in position against two checks, wouldn't they have bet King-Jack, an

20:31

Speaker A

overcard, or a flush draw? Well, it's unlikely. And it turns out that they aren't representing many strong hands here. 7-8 with a double gutshot would have bet the flop, which became a straight. King-Jack would have bet the turn, and a flush draw, which is now a

20:44

Speaker A

flush, would have bet the turn. And it follows that since they didn't bet any of that, they likely have nothing. And we most likely have the better hand.

20:52

Speaker A

Therefore, if you see that an opponent is telling an illogical story— bluffing, and the more plausible the story you tell, the more likely it is to be believed—then you can call. We called, we won, credit is due. The hero

21:05

Speaker A

of our review is an absolute legend for reading this situation perfectly. But what is also worth highlighting is that if we had bet the turn, we would have knocked out the opponent, and we were lucky that we hit the ten, because

21:17

Speaker A

otherwise, they would have won at showdown. So, we played it amazingly on the river. We could have played the turn well too, but we missed that opportunity. If you don't want to miss regular giveaways of tournament tickets , poker software subscriptions, poker

21:34

Speaker A

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21:49

Speaker A

Ace-King. We open, get 3-bet, and get shoved on. If this were deep in the tournament, we could fold, because a 3- bet against an early position is tight, and a 4-bet all-in is, of course, also very tight. But when the big blind is

22:04

Speaker A

now 700,000 with a starting stack of 15,000—meaning people can re-enter— they are inclined to shove much wider, so we can see Ace-Queen, King-Queen, and suited Aces there. A very wide range. Therefore, we are in good shape putting our chips in with Ace-King

22:21

Speaker A

against these all-in ranges. Even in the event that we don't manage to win, we'll still have about 32 big blinds left. So, full steam ahead. And wow, wow, wow, wow. We crushed the Aces and the Jacks. Mind-blowing. Well, with the

22:39

Speaker A

Jacks, if we were still flipping a coin , we definitely steamrolled the Aces. Insane. Wow. Okay, so we're not entering here, obviously. Alright, we open Ace-Ten, call. I like that we're showing aggression right away. I probably like it a bit less that we're

22:55

Speaker A

using a large sizing immediately against middle position. In a situation like this, let's say, the player might get wary that we opened from early position and bet big immediately, showing we have a strong range. At the same time, the opponent has sets that

23:08

Speaker A

we are losing to. He has Jack-Queen, which could have also played as a call.

23:13

Speaker A

So I would probably prefer half-pot, but it's clear that this is by no means a negative-EV play. So, we opened Ace-Ten, got a fold. Here, considering our hero doesn't seem to miss any tasks , we're scrolling through everything.

23:28

Speaker A

Calling a bet to hit a set is all good. Betting here probably isn't necessary, because, without information on the opponent, it's strange that he didn't C-bet the flop. It could mean he has a Queen with a weak kicker, like, say, he

23:43

Speaker A

3-bet Queen-Nine, or maybe Nines, Tens, Jacks, or some 7-8. And, let's say, it's not always the case that if he checked, his range is weak. But if you saw that the player is straightforward and almost always has Ace-King there,

23:54

Speaker A

then okay. But often, there will just be a better hand there. Didn't forget to hit the three. Big value bet, excellent. It's easy for us to come up with a bunch of bluffs, like 6-7 or 9-10. Gorgeous sizing, super. Didn't

24:05

Speaker A

get paid, no big deal. Picked an amazing sizing. Here we just have nothing hands, we can't do anything.

24:12

Speaker A

Folding everything. Folded well everywhere. Okay, raise. Excellent. We fold immediately to a large sizing; people usually do that with strong hands on draw-heavy boards. Good play.

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Speaker A

Ace-Ten 3-bet, super. The only thing is , the sizing is very large. When the effective stack, that is, when we or the opponent have less than 30 big blinds, we want to use a sizing of like 2.5, 2.7, or 3x the opening range. 3.5

24:39

Speaker A

x is way too much. We're tipping the opponent off that we have a strong hand , and consequently, he will make fewer mistakes. Okay, all-in call. Okay, in this case it doesn't matter, we would have won and gotten it in anyway, but

24:50

Speaker A

there's no need to give the opponents tips. Easy fold. Excellent. There were opens from Ace-Queen, Ace-Jack suited, Ace-Jack offsuit, but there is someone there who really knows how to shake things up with a stack like that.

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Speaker A

Ace-seven, of course, does not belong in that range at all. King-Jack is an easy fold. Everything is clear here, we're just getting trash hands, so we're folding them. So, Queen-Ten. A good open into four people. Folded to a

25:15

Speaker A

squeeze. Great play. Missed the Ace-Queen. That means there was work to do again. Okay. So, let's scroll directly to the hand where there was action. Queen-Ten into six people. A bit loose. You need to play post-flop very well to make this profitable, and

25:30

Speaker A

have very passive or weak players behind you. That's it. But still, okay, we decided to open, it didn't work out.

25:37

Speaker A

So, raise-call is good. And a lead is generally not bad when we think the opponent will check back a bunch of Ace-X hands they opened, while we need them to call. Then it's good. But let's say the problem is that there are also

25:51

Speaker A

Broadway cards that won't pay this sizing, whereas if we had bet maybe one and a half blinds or one blind, they might have stuck around on the flop to hit their pair. That's why you could choose a smaller sizing, because we'll

26:02

Speaker A

get value from Ace-X anyway, pairs will shove with that stack, but Broadway hands might pay more often with a smaller size, but in any case, it's okay. I like that a smaller sizing was chosen so that the player would

26:13

Speaker A

continue with overcards including a heart. The all-in call here is super pointless. We had already bet the flop where we have flush draws and pairs, and all of that strengthened on the turn. I don't know, it seems to me that

26:30

Speaker A

an all-in isn't necessary, he already beats our 6-7 and the like. It doesn't seem necessary unless, of course, he thought we would fold some pairs. The problem is that against his stack, those pairs could have 3-bet or shoved

26:44

Speaker A

pre-flop. In general, that's how it is. So, in these positions, Ace-Seven can be called if we know that the opponent is shoving super wide, like Broadway cards, some Jack-Eight suited, all Ace-X hands, without information on that. Easy fold, we folded for the sake

26:59

Speaker A

of example, yes, a similar game situation. We opened from the button and get an all-in from hands like these . On average, the all-in range will look like this. The only thing is that people quite rarely shove these types

27:11

Speaker A

of hands and these types of hands. And in the end, a call with 10-7 on the button is indeed viable. But again, on average, players 'ranges will be a bit tighter than this one. Accordingly, folding Ace-7 really isn't a problem

27:26

Speaker A

for that number of blinds. Alright. Ace-Jack opened, everyone folded. Ace-King. Excellent. He pushed a call with Ace-small. Considering we have a significant stack here, we could probably squeeze, say, nine blinds, so he might make a mistake and call with

27:42

Speaker A

something like King-Queen or Ace-Jack. But if you don't want to play out of position or you're busy working as a cook at the same time, you can just shove. Of course, that will be profitable. And again, when I laugh,

27:53

Speaker A

it's not at the chef job, I respect all jobs, of course. I mean that I really like how poker allows you to have great leisure time, do something useful, and you can do many different things in parallel while playing on your phone,

28:10

Speaker A

which is what I'm constantly doing. And it's cool when people, hopefully it doesn't interfere with their work, manage to play while at work too. So, we decided to check. I think I would still prefer to bet something like 25%

28:23

Speaker A

or 20%of the pot so a hot-headed player with King-Queen of diamonds might check-raise. They would call with some fives, fours, eights, or nines, because once a high card comes, those hands won't pay off anymore. Therefore, you often want to bet for both a bluff and

28:38

Speaker A

value when it gets checked to you. But if we checked to catch an opponent's bluff, we just need to call. Okay, a little card. Oof, as always. Of course, if we are bluffing and want to represent a strong hand with a large

28:51

Speaker A

sizing, we also bet our value hands with a large sizing. Excellent. Again, we decided to hide the strength of our hand on the flop, but if we had bet, we would have gotten a raise or an all-in and earned 21 blinds. So here, again,

29:05

Speaker A

remember and write this down: bet your strong hands, that's it, no need for any checks. And it's worth noting about the opponent, he played poorly too. On the flop, the check-raise is understandable, okay. He bet the turn —that's understandable, okay, he

29:19

Speaker A

wants to get value from ace-three, ace-five, ace-six, and weaker ace-x hands, but on the river he checks, even though our ace-three, seven, fives, and sixes aren't motivated to bet, and he will almost always get a check from us

29:31

Speaker A

with these hands, whereas if he had bet himself, he would have extracted value from us, or someone else. Therefore, checking with jacks here is a bad play.

29:39

Speaker A

He should have bet for value himself. So remember or write this down: if you have a strong hand and you checked to trap, and the trap didn't work on the flop, you need to bet yourself. There are a huge number of hands that will

29:52

Speaker A

pay off a bet but won't pay off a check . And a call here is usually ace-queen, ace-jack, and there could be higher pairs too. Here you need to bet either something really tiny, 10-20%of the pot , or check, for the reason that, well,

30:05

Speaker A

the range here is still quite strong. I would have bet even smaller. Okay. Won the coin flip. So, seven point seven blinds. Ace-ten suited. Okay. We are up against an all-in range. Good. There's a bunch of pocket pairs, a bunch of

30:18

Speaker A

ace-x hands. All weaker ace-x hands. Ace-two through ace-eight. There are stronger ones too. But besides his seven point seven blinds, there's another 2.5 blinds sitting in the middle of the table. Excellent, super.

30:28

Speaker A

We were ahead, we won. King-jack. Don't check a raise-call. Bet one blind with your entire range. The board is dry.

30:37

Speaker A

You have to realize that if you didn't bet on a king-king-x board, you're telling your opponent that you have trips, because if you had nothing, you would want to bet your whole range, as I already showed today. And it turns

30:50

Speaker A

out that if you check, you give away the strength of your hand. Also, a huge number of people who have seen GTO Wizard know that on such boards, there is a wide check-raise, and they can check-raise as a bluff here at 20 to 30

31:03

Speaker A

+%. Hands like five-three of spades, diamonds, or hearts. Why not get that check-raise from them by betting one blind? Therefore, you must bet on these boards. We are missing out on serious value. So, sure, there are people who

31:18

Speaker A

might get aggressive against a check, but you need to watch the table carefully. This is an insanely negative EV action that was committed. Raise ace-jack. A positive EV action. The small blind three-bets an open from early position. With what range? A

31:34

Speaker A

strong one. And even if one of you tells me: "Andrey, but there are bluff three-bets like ace-five, there are bluff three-bets like king-jack." I will tell you: "Yes, indeed, such hands will be there." But, firstly, at low to

31:46

Speaker A

mid stakes, most opponents might not have such hands, or there won't be enough of them. That's the first thing.

31:53

Speaker A

The second. These hands won't lose much to you. At the same time, when they have aces, kings, queens, jacks, ace-king, or ace-queen, you will lose a lot. Therefore, this call is ultra-negative. Seeing this, I can only conclude that even though my viewer

32:11

Speaker A

told me he has been playing as an amateur for 4 years and watches my videos regularly, learning a lot from them—and we see he does many good things, like that 6-7 bluff—this call here is just absolutely disgusting. You

32:25

Speaker A

just shouldn't do this. It is just insanely and terribly negative. Let's see how the hand ended, and I'll show you the preflop calculation. We, of course, have to fold. Phew, we didn't mess up here. We opened from an early

32:37

Speaker A

position with a large stack of 72 blinds, and a stack of 39 blinds. With what hands does he 3-bet us? He 3-bets us with super-strong hands. And there are also some bluffs there. In reality, there will be far fewer of these bluffs

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Speaker A

. And even against such a wide 3-bet range, of course, GTO Wizard, which understands that all these hands are there, does not call with ace-jack. It doesn't call. It's negative EV. Don't call, guys. Offsuit hands are trash. In

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Speaker A

a 3-bet pot against a strong range, you will have a ton of problems with them.

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Speaker A

Do not call. I also said what conclusion I can draw from seeing this ace-jack hand. The conclusion is that this viewer has not watched the 4- year-old video in the "Poker Training Course" playlist about what to call or

33:26

Speaker A

3-bet with after a raise. I showed these situations with ace-queen there, explaining that in such a spot, you shouldn't call. According to the Wizard , it's slightly profitable, but in reality, people will 3-bet fewer hands against an early position. And this is

33:36

Speaker A

a truly negative call. Also, if you haven't seen it, here are the secrets of micro-stakes that no one talks about . There is also a 4-hour video with the coolest tips for micro-stakes. At the end of the video, I'll remind you about

33:48

Speaker A

this cool video again, so let's continue watching this breakdown. Right , sixes, nice call. Excellent.

33:59

Speaker A

Immediate raise for value. You shouldn't do it like that. Why? Because most people at low and mid stakes don't know how to triple barrel. That means betting three times as a bluff.

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Speaker A

Accordingly, if you aren't going to get bluffed for three streets, why call? You want to raise immediately, increase the pot size and collect value from weaker but still strong hands, like top pair or a flush draw. And that’s it,

34:26

Speaker A

we didn't get further barreling, while with hands like, I don't know, ace-ten, king-queen, or queen-ten, we could have collected more chips. Pass. Okay. We just gave the person a chance to see the next streets for one blind.

34:38

Speaker A

Ten-seven raised. Three point five would work, but okay. And the hand is a good choice. And they raised.

34:43

Speaker A

Everything is sharp. Checking here is fine, because the small blind hits this texture well. Check, check-check. Okay.

34:52

Speaker A

Hmm, bad luck, they had a better hand. It's not scary. Kings opened, got a call, and bet on the draw-heavy board.

34:57

Speaker A

Super. Continuing to bet. Super. You could size a bit larger so that an all-in fits on the river, because the opponent has ace-queen, ace-ten, and suited ace-rag. So there's a lot that pays 6.5 or 7 on the turn, it fits

35:09

Speaker A

perfectly well. And, of course, we go all-in. Yes, we might lose to ace-king or ace-eight, but they also have queen-high flushes, jack-ten, and weaker aces, so you have to bet. But again, in this case, the stack isn't perfectly set up. You could bet 18, for

35:25

Speaker A

example, but I would just aim for flushes and trips like ace-jack or ace-ten, which many amateur players won't be able to fold. Just super, great job, super. Maybe a bit more on the turn, but otherwise, it was played

35:37

Speaker A

perfectly. Strong hands also need to be played correctly. King-ten. Opened, everyone folded, okay. Seven-eight. A good hand for opening four-handed. Got three-bet. It’s definitely a call in a knockout tournament, but in a non-knockout tournament, because this player is more passive, you can easily

35:54

Speaker A

fold seven-eight. Well, with this sizing, you have to stick with top pair , we might be ahead and we have outs to improve; on the turn, obviously, we fold. Okay, so we opened tens and got three-bet, super standard; here in late

36:09

Speaker A

positions, a player can three-bet quite wide, it's a strong, cool hand, everything is sharp, unless there's info that the player is super ultra-mega-tight, then it's a pass, we don't consider calling. Okay, super.

36:21

Speaker A

Why don't we consider calling? Because there are bluff three-bets with things like queen-jack or king-jack, and we'd be giving them free equity, which isn't great for us. And if they only have strong hands, why would we want to see

36:35

Speaker A

a flop and hope that no overcards come? And even if they don't, we'd still end up losing everything with an overpair.

36:40

Speaker A

That's why against that type of opponent, I would just fold pre-flop. So, everyone checked. We check, check, check, check. Calling on the river is hardly worth it, because the big blind can have a jack with a weak kicker, a

36:52

Speaker A

hit eight, or a nine. If he really wanted to bluff, he could have bluffed with a larger sizing. Therefore, I don't think it's necessary to call here with sixes. So, raise, call. Okay, we fold. Super. Ah, we're opening

37:07

Speaker A

queen-ten. But then again, maybe I was distracted, because we saw that he wasn't opening tight into a large number of people. And such calls are best avoided. Why? The person has a small stack, meaning they are likely opening a tighter range. Against a

37:22

Speaker A

tighter range, ace-six performs worse. Besides that, there are two short stacks behind us who, upon a raise and call, will often want to shove since there are many chips in the pot. And consequently, this is bad for us

37:33

Speaker A

because, most likely, the opponent can reshove, and we'll just be giving away two blinds. Therefore, calling here with 10-6 isn't the best idea on the flop if we assume their range is mostly ace-high pairs, and many high ace-x

37:45

Speaker A

hands might not fold on the flop, so checking is quite a good idea. Well, and then we just folded. We already have 10%of the field left. The big blind is 8,000. Here we see a similar situation; an 18-blind stack opens, and

37:58

Speaker A

we have as many as 80. And even in that case, ace-six is a losing call, and ace-five is a breakeven call. These here are bad calls. That is, the EV tab . And we see that everything red, clearly not green or yellow there, well

38:11

Speaker A

, calling is so-so. At the same time, these aren't resteal stacks here. But if we were to add that there are resteal stacks here, which shove more often than these stacks and wouldn't let us enter the hand, then these hands

38:21

Speaker A

would also often disappear from the call range. So remember, it's better not to play such questionable hands in similar situations. Okay, moving on. We decided to open ace-nine into five players. A bunch of stacks there are waiting each other out. Quite

38:35

Speaker A

understandable. Continuation bet. Good, could have bet a blind, the point wouldn't have changed much, but okay.

38:40

Speaker A

Going all-in is super profitable, especially if the opponent opens very aggressively. If he opens from there, we just call, keeping the domination without getting into strong hands. Call . Okay. Check-raise on the flop.

38:51

Speaker A

Gathering value from a straight draw. Flush draw. Weaker king-x. Weaker jack-x. Super. Call, excellent. The turn is disgusting. I would like to play either check or a third. A third is also okay. Yes. The ace strengthened the opponent. Ace-queen. Ten-four

39:06

Speaker A

offsuit. But there are also weaker kings here that might still pay, knowing that on the turn we can continue betting with a flush draw, so there's a bunch of weaker kings. You can bet a third on the turn. Absolute

39:18

Speaker A

legend. We fold to an all-in, of course . Uh, what nonsense is this? Let's just think about it. If our opponent had a flush draw, considering there are 11 big blinds in the pot already, and after his call there will be 14, almost

39:36

Speaker A

as much as he has in his stack, he would probably be motivated to shove a flush draw because he could force us to fold a bunch of hands, like, I don't know, King-Two, which we raised, and then facing a 25 big blind all-in we

39:49

Speaker A

might decide to fold, or maybe some check-raise with 4-5. There is some sense in raising with third pairs sometimes to fold out hands between the four and the ace or some equity hands.

40:00

Speaker A

In general, shoving with a flush draw there makes sense. An Ace completes a bunch of second pairs. There is the Ace-high flush draw. Sometimes, if an opponent played it as a call, like, say , Ace-Four of diamonds, if the player

40:13

Speaker A

is playing normally, and a straight completes on Queen-Ten. Could a player play a weak flush draw like, I don't know, 5-3 of diamonds that way? Well, certainly, but that's just one combination. There aren't that many bluff combinations here that would play

40:29

Speaker A

like that, yeah, there are some Queens with diamonds, but it's not like there are a million of them. So there are more stronger hands here than weaker ones. That's why I personally would prefer our hero to fold here. No, let's

40:41

Speaker A

see what the opponent had. Two pair and we got there. Wow. Well, honestly, that's a call, but a questionable one.

40:52

Speaker A

You just need to understand that when we raised the flop, the player is afraid of that, right? So, if he thinks we are bluffing, then he...If he thinks we are bluffing, it's still hard for him to shove bluffs here because, let's

41:12

Speaker A

say we are bluffing some lower flush draw, then with a Queen-X flush draw he is already ahead of us, right? So it doesn't make much sense to bet. Only if he knows that we can bet a third here

41:23

Speaker A

with a King, but at the same time, those strong kings, like King-Queen, which we might bet with, he might think we would have shoved preflop. So there's not much sense in shoving with weak hands, but with strong ones,

41:34

Speaker A

there's a ton. Meaning he has sets, two pairs, and straights. Well, that call, of course, leaves much to be desired, yes. That is the right way to say it.

41:45

Speaker A

In general, yes, I wouldn't have called that. Well, no big deal. It happens sometimes; we can't all play perfectly.

41:54

Speaker A

Or rather, we can't all play every hand perfectly, something like that. Well, the main thing is not to rush before making a decision, because it felt like this decision was hasty. Because many of you just go, "I want to guess." Yes,

42:06

Speaker A

right now it feels like a bluff, but it’s almost never a bluff. If we were calling there with a second pair where the opponent was representing a flush —but he wasn't really representing anything, because he would have checked

42:18

Speaker A

his draw hands earlier—then here the person is representing a lot, and there's no reason to distrust it. Here you could have just called to catch a resteal, but a 3-bet is okay too. You can 3-bet without necessarily increasing the sizing too much. So,

42:35

Speaker A

let's watch. Pushed with pocket eights. Super. Here, with up to thirty big blinds, even up to 25, eights are easily a shove against a raise. Unlucky that they had ace-jack. Lucky to hit an eight on the river to crush them, but

42:45

Speaker A

basically, yes, it was a coin flip. We were slightly ahead. So, you can easily make a continuation bet. Okay, they didn't do that. You can do it on the turn. We have some kind of flush draw.

42:54

Speaker A

You could, for example, take king-eight with the eight of hearts and bet 3.5 or four blinds to force a fold, right? I mean, it's a hand with good equity; you can force a fold from a three or a

43:02

Speaker A

seven. If I hadn't bet the flop, I would have bet the turn. Okay, checked.

43:06

Speaker A

Well, as I understand it, we aren't trying to force folds from a three or seven, which we could also try to do on the river. Okay. So, five-two. Everyone folded. Good. Ace-five is a gorgeous hand for a bluff 3-bet. If the opponent

43:22

Speaker A

opens wide, super, everything is clear. Call. Okay. The flop is clear. Anything small is a re-push. Ready to commit.

43:28

Speaker A

Equity is super, everything is clear. So, raise, call. Definitely bet, no checking. Super, excellent. Everything, half-pot is also good. A bunch of hands that will pay a third or half-pot, I don't think you needed to bet super big

43:40

Speaker A

. So, raise, 3-bet, super. The only thing is the sizing—probably 7-7.5 BB is better, that looks more like a bluff 3-bet than what it currently is; we wouldn't want the opponent to realize that our range is so value-oriented. If

43:55

Speaker A

we wanted to 3-bet now, we would probably want to put in seven or 7.5 BB , and with a strong hand, you'd probably want to bet a bit more. So, check-raise and call. Alright. I don't want to bet-fold such a strong hand.

44:06

Speaker A

Just calling against a wide open from the button after a raise is something I like, because we collect value from various King-X hands they opened, or suited King-Deuce they opened. Here, though, from an early position, they don't open those hands. Consequently,

44:20

Speaker A

they have a stronger range that won't pay extra for such a check-raise, and we'll fold out the bluffs and could lose a lot. That's why I would prefer to just play call. Damn, that's funny.

44:32

Speaker A

Turn. The situation is actually almost exactly the same. There was also a King-Jack again. One second. Wow, that's already funny. Okay, not that one. Op, turn. Well, we were off by one on the kicker. Damn, that's very cool.

44:48

Speaker A

So, where is this hand? Ah, here it is, it should be somewhere around here.

44:53

Speaker A

There. The situation is not the same. And Queen-Ten all closed, just like in the previous situation. Ace-Queen, Ace-Ten, Ace-Jack, Ace-King. Also, yes.

45:02

Speaker A

But here, there are no King-X hands that we were getting value from last time. If last time there was also a flush draw on the board and we could put them on a bunch of flush draws that continue on the turn, then here, other

45:13

Speaker A

than maybe some Queen-Nine or Ten-Nine of diamonds—just two combinations— there are no hands we would check-raise and bet the turn with. And there's no King-Eight suited, if they opened it, or King-Nine; they won't pay on the turn anymore, so there's no need to bet

45:26

Speaker A

the turn here. Super, well done. Okay, so, check-fold it is. Fold. God, how awful. Well, that's very bad. But if the player wanted to bluff, to tell a story that they have a straight, two pair, or a set, they would have done it

45:40

Speaker A

on the turn, because in our eyes, their Ace-Queen improved, their Aces became a set, plus Ace-Queen, Ace-Ten, Ace-Jack, Ace-Five. But here it turns out they didn't bluff the turn, and on the river they're like, "Eh, I'll bluff half-pot.

45:53

Speaker A

" Well no, this just looks like a value bet. There are no bluffs. Bad call.

45:58

Speaker A

Really a very bad call. And the problem for the majority of viewers watching this video is that you don't believe your opponents. Arguments I hear constantly: "Well, what if they're trying to bluff me?" Damn, we have a cool situation, a cool example, when a

46:12

Speaker A

person can really bluff—when all the really strong hands that would be there on the river, they would have bluffed with on the previous street. Oh, not bluffed, but bet. But since he didn't bet, he doesn't have the strong hands

46:24

Speaker A

he's representing; accordingly, those strong hands are likely there. Why is that not the scenario here? Because when we check-raised the flop and got called, he easily has hands like ace-queen or ace-ten that have no incentive to bet the turn, because our

46:38

Speaker A

check-raise represents a strong range. The player is simply afraid of running into a check-shove and not realizing their gutshot potential or their second pair. Also, he might have, say, I don't know, jack-queen of diamonds, jack-ten of diamonds, which he didn't fold on

46:51

Speaker A

the flop. He might think there’s no point in betting, yes, and let me realize my equity. And then, he hits his flush and bets for value comfortably. So, in a situation where the opponent has strong hands in this

47:02

Speaker A

case, he isn't representing a flush for half-pot; he's representing two pair, or some trapped set of aces. Maybe he figured that we wouldn't pay off a bet right now. A set of kings trapped, and so on. Two pair, ace-king, trapped. So,

47:14

Speaker A

in this case, he has strong hands but no logical bluffs. However, we don't just need him to have a bluff; we need a sufficient number of bluffs. From a mathematical standpoint, we need him to be bluffing one out of four times right

47:29

Speaker A

now. Well, damn, what kind of bluffs could those be? So, it turns out that if he bets 100 times, we need to see 24 bluffs there. Well, what bluffs are those? That’s very few bluffs, right? Well, of course. Well, in fact,

47:44

Speaker A

yes, we have to count his combinations —all his two pair, sets, straights played that way, flushes—and find one bluff for every three value combinations. And where are we going to find that many bluff combinations? It could just be a situation where the

47:57

Speaker A

opponent has zero bluffs. He might just never bluff like that. Even if he bet our check on the turn and the river, he would still have to turn some jack into a bluff. But what if he just folds his

48:07

Speaker A

jack to the check-raise and doesn't call? In general, it’s a very, very strange situation. We earn chips by bluffing well here and there, like firing a second barrel bluff, or with strong hands—well, it's not hard, everyone can bluff with strong hands—

48:23

Speaker A

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Speaker A

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48:50

Speaker A

So, raise, call, let's bet. Super, well done. That's it, no checking. Ah, five blinds, all-in, called the all-in, we are in. Okay. So, raise, call. Ah, the continuation bet could be larger.

49:04

Speaker A

Sizing 4 to 5 blinds, there are a bunch of gutshots I'd like to fold out immediately. I don't really like this hand. We are giving a free realization, giving the opponent a chance to start bluffing us. Well, that's it. Yes, he

49:15

Speaker A

easily, he has some Jack-Six suited now , which he would have folded on the flop. Now he has bluffed us. To prevent this, making a continuation bet is a very, very profitable activity. Here, again, I won't be lazy and will open

49:28

Speaker A

GTO Wizard. We see that we can bet with all hands here. And at the same time, we see that you could say, yes, checking has higher expected value than any other bet. But you need to understand that when a program bets,

49:45

Speaker A

say, 55%, another program plays a check-raise with second pair, plays some check-raises with a portion of Ace-highs, yeah, there is weight there.

49:57

Speaker A

Well, we see it, right, the red part. I'll show you more like this now. Like this. A bunch of check-raises. People don't have such wide check-raises.

50:06

Speaker A

People don't call super loosely, they don't, I don't know, pull along some Ace-Ten offsuit here against a large sizing, yeah. Meaning in reality, people fold more and check-raise less than the programs. If you select in Wizard, there is a "one sizing" tab so

50:23

Speaker A

you don't have to memorize which sizings, like small, large, medium, or multisizing. If we take one sizing, we see that the program suggests like 73% pot with all hands, because it is really just profitable and people will fold a lot. So give it a try, it's a

50:39

Speaker A

very lucrative topic, you will fold out a bunch of stuff and won't let yourself be bluffed. Let's move on. Aces. Whoa, a 3-bet. Well, the sizing is okay, late position. Could be six, could be 6.2, but again, if the opponents don't know

50:55

Speaker A

us, then it's crisp, cool. The same Aces again after a round, the same suits, the same player. I don't like this here. We gave 5.5 against a 34- blind stack. The opponent's stack became smaller, and we increased our

51:09

Speaker A

sizing. So that’s illogical, right? Understood. Maybe in our case, the Hero was cooking something in the kitchen at the same time and just clicked somewhere, that's all. But simply from a logic perspective, the smaller the effective stack—that is, the stack we

51:23

Speaker A

can win or lose against our opponent— the smaller the sizing we choose. So, against a stack of 5.5, okay. Or six blinds in both cases. But it's strange that the stack became smaller, yet we used a larger sizing. So, pocket nines.

51:37

Speaker A

Raise, just go all-in. We fold out overcards, get it in against weaker pairs, and so on. Everything played out perfectly. All-in. Gorgeous short stack . Shoved into six blinds. Great play, a mathematically profitable move. I don't like it at all. Why? The hand is

51:54

Speaker A

gorgeous. First problem. There are four resteal-capable stacks behind. Raise, call. The guys have any pocket pair or two suited broadway cards. They go all-in. This guy goes all-in. That's it , we just gave away 2 big blinds for

52:09

Speaker A

free. That's the first thing. Second. The problem is that when people, especially with a short stack in late position—now 50,000, big blind, wow —open for 2.2 blinds, it’s often a stronger range. We don't want to enter with this hand against aces, kings,

52:25

Speaker A

ace-king, so folding is much better. If he had opened to two blinds, then a 3- bet would be possible. An excellent idea, because we fold out king-queen, king-jack. And people behind have ace-ten and so on. But calling against

52:38

Speaker A

an increased sizing, I don't like it. The opponent checked back. We decided to check so we wouldn't walk into a check-push or something. By the turn, you want to bluff if you didn't bet the flop. Okay, super. So, jack-deuce.

52:48

Speaker A

Everyone folded, excellent. Nines. All-in. Good. Check, check. A third pot is possible. Okay, got a call. Super.

52:57

Speaker A

Good thing it's not an all-in. Here he has an open-ended straight draw and a flush draw. Actually, you could bet again, but the problem is that if the opponent shoves here with a flush draw, like he already bluffed today with 10-

53:09

Speaker A

high, then we don't really want to call , because besides that, there are sets, two pairs, and flushes, so it's better to check and see. River. We decided to bet, but the problem is that if we get an all-in, especially with such a large

53:21

Speaker A

sizing, he might never have ace-high, but he could definitely have all the strong hands. And in reality, the situation won't be very pleasant.

53:28

Speaker A

You'll need to consider folding, because you might just have 0%equity against a flush. Since we bet the river , we should check. Oh god, no, never do that. Why? A negative freeroll again.

53:40

Speaker A

And if the opponent has a higher flush, we're screwed. If he hit a straight with a ten, he isn't going to fold it.

53:45

Speaker A

So we can't just say, "I'm moving all-in with a set to fold out a ten, representing a flush." But, obviously not. What value hand is he supposed to call with? Basically, the only thing that can call us here is a weaker set,

53:58

Speaker A

but that would have raised the flop, and eights would have bet. It turns out , there simply is no weaker set there.

54:05

Speaker A

So we're essentially value betting into nothing. Well, we already had a situation like this today where we moved all-in and were dominated, yeah, the very first hand. It turns out we could only lose, and we couldn't win.

54:16

Speaker A

Therefore, in a situation where weaker hands don't call you, but stronger hands exist, you cannot move all-in.

54:23

Speaker A

Some of you might think, but if one of the opponents, this player here, had a flush draw, he probably would have bet the flop himself instead of playing check-call. We can't know that. Maybe this player is an amateur, and he was

54:34

Speaker A

afraid to bet the flush draw, get shoved on, and not want to fold it. He could easily have taken it to a check-call. That's the first thing.

54:40

Speaker A

Second, he could have pocket tens with the diamond right now. He could have Ace-Ten with the Ace of diamonds, he hit his straight, and so on. Therefore, you can't assert anything here. But it's easy to logically conclude that

54:53

Speaker A

the opponent has straights and flushes here, and weaker hands aren't calling. So you don't need to move all-in here.

55:00

Speaker A

Let's move on. Ace-Jack. A gorgeous open. And everyone folded sixes. I don't like it. Deep in the tournament, ICM is incredibly important. It's a model where the chips we win are worth less than the chips we lose. And in a

55:21

Speaker A

situation where we have four resteal stacks behind us, who might want to steal the blinds themselves against a steal and a call. It will often happen that we call, get shoved on, and are either forced to commit or have to fold

55:34

Speaker A

against that player, essentially giving away chips for nothing. Therefore, over the long run, this call won't bring us anything good. Three tables remaining.

55:43

Speaker A

There are seven of us. The player opens with a 25-big-blind stack. Even when there are four stacks of 25 behind, rather than 10 like we had, which will bet more often, we see that a call with sevens or sixes is neutral, but we need

55:58

Speaker A

to make it profitable. And we see that these pairs really play poorly in the long run when we, the opener, and the players behind all have short stacks.

56:10

Speaker A

And how did this hand end? We hit a set , and again we didn't bet the flop, even though we could easily have bet something like 1.5 big blinds. The opponent bet. If you lack info on whether the opponent can bluff or not,

56:25

Speaker A

you could raise, because we shouldn't give a free look to a flush draw, though in reality, flush draws aren't that common there. And if the opponent wanted to push us off our eights, nines , tens, or jacks, we should let them.

56:36

Speaker A

That is why I would still most often just call and not raise. two. Well, this likely looks like some jacks, tens , or eights that were trying to get value from weaker hands. Therefore, you need to raise, but not all-in; in this

56:54

Speaker A

case, something like eight or nine big blinds. Okay, super. I like that we didn't go all-in on the river, because they might not have paid off in the long run. But again, we see the result.

57:05

Speaker A

We didn't bet the flop, we didn't build a big pot, and we didn't collect all the value. Not great. As we can see, people know how to check back strong hands. We need to punish them for that by betting our own strong hands. So,

57:18

Speaker A

they checked, we bet. The opponent has a lot of Ace-Queen, Ace-Jack, ten; we could bet even more. 3.5 big blinds.

57:24

Speaker A

River. God, how awful. Disgusting. I don't like it. Why don't I like it? On the flop, we assumed they didn't have a strong hand. On the turn, they have a hand. We are thinking queens, jacks, tens, like Ace-Ten, Ace-Queen, Ace-Jack

57:37

Speaker A

. If we had a bluff on the river now, like Jack-Nine, Queen-Nine, or a flush draw, would we want to bet two big blinds or eight big blinds for a bluff?

57:50

Speaker A

We would want to bet nine big blinds, and so on. It is the same with value; you need to bet big to collect a lot of value. We got raised to eight and ultimately decided to call. In reality,

58:00

Speaker A

betting eight ourselves and folding to an all-in is much better than betting small and calling a raise. Why? Because here the player is already representing that they hit sevens, 8-9, or a set of tens. The problem is, let's say, uh

58:21

Speaker A

it's unclear what he's bluffing with here, right? Will he really bluff ace-queen, ace-jack like this? Well, there's little point with such a small sizing, right? I mean, if he had bet 10-12, it would look like he’s trying to fold out our second or third pairs.

58:34

Speaker A

But here, it doesn't look like that visually, so I would have preferred to just bet eight ourselves and value bet weaker hands. In the end, we called, and he had tens. And yes, if we had bet eight, we would have lost eight to the

58:48

Speaker A

tens specifically, just like what happened. But we are playing against a range of playable hands. And the opponent's range has plenty of weaker hands, so we should have continuation bet a larger size. And here, an all-in is profitable if we know the opponent

59:01

Speaker A

in the deep run will open wide against the chip leader and so on. If we don't know that, we can bluff three-bet to like six big blinds, and get it in with that. If the player is aggressive, then

59:11

Speaker A

shoving is good. We called. A call is less likely because this is a resteal stack. Well, okay. Uh better to fold; a broadway board hits us more often. And the player is more motivated to check more often. And, like, this eight of

59:27

Speaker A

hearts doesn't really give us much. Okay. So, I would fold to six big blinds, but this is the pre-final table , after all. Chips are very important.

59:38

Speaker A

Here's a six big blind all-in. The stack distribution is a bit different, yes, our stack is bigger, but considering the effective all-in is six big blinds, as we can see, in a deep run at the pre-final table, offsuit

59:48

Speaker A

king-ten doesn't cut it. But if we keep winning, then we can call. That's a joke, of course. So, raise fold is good . Ace-ten raises. Calling is best here for the reason that we have a fantastic , playable hand. The opponent might not

60:08

Speaker A

be opening as wide as they should. We just fold. Super. No flush draw on the board. We have no info on how aggressively the opponent plays. On the flop, we can either bet or check. If we think we'll often face a raise or an

60:20

Speaker A

all-in. Our hand has good potential. On an ace, we are obligated to bluff. I would have preferred to bet 3.5 or four big blinds to fold out everything except an ace or a pair plus a draw.

60:31

Speaker A

And here, let's say, they fold 5-8 to four big blinds, but they don't fold to two. They just fold, yes, nothing you can do. Short stack, everything is super. Five or 4.5 big blinds left, or even 4.2. Wow. Well, we made a good

60:49

Speaker A

all-in there, won something like a coin flip. Ace-king fell. Wow. The player played raise-fold. For us, that's a super win. We shoved on the short stack . Of course, we call. There are a ton of weaker aces and weaker broadway

61:01

Speaker A

hands there. And wow, what a suckout, damn. I wish I could experience those emotions when you're constantly all-in behind and you win. Absolutely fantastic, super. I would have preferred to raise here, if there's no info that the opponent is very, uh,

61:15

Speaker A

aggressive. If there's info that they often raise or shove over a limp, then limping is ideal. We bet right away. A super excellent strategy. No need to check and hope the opponent decides to bluff something. You need to get value

61:26

Speaker A

immediately from gutshots, king-high, tens, and so on. And the ante is a full half. And an opponent with that stack will often open tighter than they should. You can easily fold 6-7 here.

61:38

Speaker A

It's going to cause a lot of problems. There won't be much good to come of it.

61:41

Speaker A

I like shoving all-in more, for the reason that, uh, hands like jack-ten open, they fold to us, but this way we let the button and big blind realize their equity. We call. Could be a high card, could be a flush draw.

61:54

Speaker A

Check-check. I would have bet something like two blinds in hopes of getting value from straights, two pairs, and so on. There's that jack-ten, by the way, that I mentioned; why we want to shove to knock them out. Same thing here. I

62:08

Speaker A

wouldn't call. The ante is small, the final table is coming up soon. Very strong opening range with a stack like that. Just a call. If I believe that, well, if I saw that this is a player who constantly opens regardless of

62:20

Speaker A

stack size, then I should shove, because our equity is incredibly cool. We have an open-ended straight draw, they could have, let's say, king, I don't know, six of hearts, we knock them out immediately and everything is fine for us. If they have ace-king,

62:32

Speaker A

which they won't fold, we still just have an open-ended draw to a six or a seven, everything is cool. If we thought it was a super-strong range that we don't want to shove against now , then we shouldn't have entered

62:40

Speaker A

pre-flop. Yes, we shoved, great, but they had pocket queens, which is logical to assume pre-flop, right, when a player with nine blinds min-raises.

62:49

Speaker A

That's why we don't usually want to enter with 6-7 in this situation at a semi-final table, where the final table is about to start and the average stack will grow to 100 blinds. Ah, they shoved. Okay, good. So, all in. Good

63:02

Speaker A

game. Good game. All-in and a call from both sides. From both. So, we have 18 blinds here. We reach the final table, and it immediately becomes 45. This is done so the average stack is more or less playable and people can show their

63:17

Speaker A

skill at the final table and really feel the game. So, 8-6 offsuit. Again, against a small stack, you can defend if they are opening wide there. Well, they might play passively at the final table, but then again, at a final table

63:30

Speaker A

with a big stack, there isn't much motivation for a person to open wide, so it would have been fine not to defend. Well, on the ace, obviously, we just check and play it calmly. So, limp-check. They bet. Okay. We give up

63:41

Speaker A

on the turn. The opponent has a ton of pairs and draws that are hard to fold out. We understand that. For 10 hands, nothing was coming our way. A raise-call is good. Terrible, disgusting, monstrous. Horror. You can't call this even in chip EV. That

63:56

Speaker A

is, when we are playing for chips. Why can't this be called? Because the player opened at the final table from an early position with a tight range.

64:04

Speaker A

And on the flop, they bet a huge number of hands that are better than ours. We call now, a king comes, they have ace-king, king-queen, aces, kings, ace-five, and so on. You can't call this. We called. But the donk on the

64:19

Speaker A

turn is good because the opponent's range has a huge number of hands like ace-king, ace-queen, king-queen that we fold out, representing that the eight filled our straight, or that 3-6 or 9-6 strengthened into an eight, and so on.

64:30

Speaker A

But we don't know that such a card will come often, so the turn donk is good, but the flop call was bad. Well, and we didn't forget to hit on the river too.

64:37

Speaker A

It's good that we bet for value. Again, you could bet a bit more for that reason, like 8.5 or 9, because there are queens, jacks, nines, tens there.

64:45

Speaker A

There. But the problem is that, yes, when we don't hit, we miss out on earnings. When we hit and they hit, or they had a strong hand, we can lose a lot at a final table where there are

64:54

Speaker A

other stacks that might bust out, and we would get a pay jump from that.

64:59

Speaker A

Otherwise, we could have busted out and gotten nothing. In GTO Wizard, there are post-flop calculations for final tables that account for ICM. And as we can see, even at 20%a continuation bet with king-jack doesn't hold up. It's a

65:15

Speaker A

minus. And king-queen might seem okay, but the profitability here is super small. And despite all that, a player in an early position might not open such a range. They might not open ace-five offsuit. They might—well, clearly, in this case, the trips is

65:27

Speaker A

good. They might not open these king-x hands that we dominate, and accordingly , against them with king-jack, okay, we will call. A person might, like we did many times today, choose not to make a continuation bet on the flop with weak

65:39

Speaker A

hands, but make one with strong hands. Therefore, of course, I wouldn't recommend calling here, not only with king-jack, but I wouldn't advise calling with king-queen either. And, of course, the visor just showed calculations for 20%of the pot, but the

65:53

Speaker A

player bet a third of the pot. Meaning, paying even more. Accordingly, against a third-pot bet, king-queen doesn't call either. So, ace-nine is a call. A continuation bet wasn't placed for some reason, even though we could fold out many hands that won't get their equity

66:10

Speaker A

realized and won't bluff us. They bluffed the turn excellently, but I would like to see a larger sizing so as not to give the opponent equity realization. Here again, if we think the opponent is opening wide, it's better to bluff three-bet to something

66:23

Speaker A

like 6.5 or 7 big blinds, for the reason that, well, if they opened with, I don't know, ace-jack, they'll just fold to a three-bet because there are short stacks, short stacks, short stacks. By just calling, we keep dominated hands in the pot, like

66:35

Speaker A

king-queen, which would fold to a three-bet, or king-nine and ace-nine. Therefore, at the final table, it's better to bluff three-bet more and cold-call less. As we can see, in a similar situation, queen-nine three-bets well and is a negative call,

66:51

Speaker A

while suited broadways higher than a ten are okay to call, but again, queen-nine, suited king-x, and suited ace-x should be three-bet first, not called. So, how did this end? The flop is bad. We don't want to bet the turn

67:06

Speaker A

because they mostly check with pairs and ace-x, which won't fold on the turn . We could bluff the river if they check the turn. But no need to bluff now. Check. Oh, how bad. Why bad?

67:17

Speaker A

Weaker pairs won't pay us off. They have king-queen, queen-jack, checked-back weak ace-x, and kings.

67:23

Speaker A

This bet makes no sense when weaker hands won't call and we lose to stronger hands; aggression is forbidden here. We just gave everything away. And with a preflop three-bet, you would have forced the player out just the same. But at a final table, with a

67:40

Speaker A

bunch of short stacks, the guys have the motivation to pressure us. You don't necessarily have to open a weak ace here. Continuation bet. Good, super . It’s unclear why we don’t bet jack-eight on a king-4-4 board, but on

67:53

Speaker A

a king-9-10 board, which is a tougher board where the opponent connects more often, we do bet ace-four. Even though you should bet in both cases. Here, again, the action is profitable. It’s just unclear why we aren't afraid to

68:02

Speaker A

bet into a scarier board, but we are afraid there. Ten-eight opened. Okay. Got shoved on, folded. Super. Threes.

68:10

Speaker A

Negative opening. No need to open. You need to understand that even in a chip-leader environment at the start of a tournament, opening threes in a four-bet spot is questionable, especially with short stacks, because it's just a poorly playable pair. As we

68:24

Speaker A

can see, even fours barely break even, meaning we still have to play well post-flop, but opening them is a losing play. And that's with everyone having 30 big blinds. The more short stacks there are, like we have here—13

68:35

Speaker A

blinds, eight—the more they can pressure us, and the heartbreak of busting out now would be much greater with short stacks around. Consequently, fours in this situation won't break even either; they will be a losing opening. So, another opening, yes,

68:50

Speaker A

because of the short stacks. We understand that a big stack can open wide. We could make a light three-bet to six blinds, pretend we have aces or kings or queens, and force a bunch of hands out of his range. Decided to just

69:01

Speaker A

call. Okay, just calling. Raising is bad. If we get a low flop now, we have to fold. Well, if the plan is to raise and force out all his bluffs, if we aren't ready to go all-in or call three

69:13

Speaker A

barrels, then okay. But overall, it's not a pleasant situation. Got a call, the situation is unpleasant. Got a call , the situation is unpleasant. There's nothing to be done here now. Have to move all-in. There's ace-king, nothing to be done. There are also aces there.

69:27

Speaker A

There's a weaker king, some suited or offsuit hands, and so on. Yes. But again, the problem is that weaker hands don't pay us off, and if it wasn't ace-king, but sixes, fours, or a completed flush, we would just bust out

69:38

Speaker A

with a bunch of short stacks left. That's why pre-flop, especially at final tables, it's better to three-bet than to just call. So everyone folds to 96. A loose opening. It's acceptable.

69:54

Speaker A

If our opponents are playing very tight because of the short stacks, then okay, right? People will be folding everything out of fear. Especially with such a great seating arrangement. The chip leader in the small blind will resist less often than on the button or

70:04

Speaker A

big blind. He would have resisted more often. So it really depends on how these guys are playing. Okay, got a call. A continuation bet is excellent.

70:13

Speaker A

Last time we didn't bet with a strong hand. Now we bet and then just call carefully, because if he's bluffing, let him keep bluffing. If he has a nine with a better kicker, I wouldn't want to lose. The turn is super. Oh, and he

70:25

Speaker A

could have hit his flush. And we have a full house. Unbelievable. No, no, no, no, no. Mm, well, realistically we should shove all-in and get value from weaker flushes or weaker nines. If we have precise info that it’s a good

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Speaker A

regular who, uh, I don’t know, would fold to a shove, knowing we have a full house, then okay. Wait, am I just ranting here? But we only have a 20- big-blind stack. Well, let’s say we have, like, a 31-big-blind stack. If we

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Speaker A

know we’re up against a good regular who considers us a fish, we can make a small flat raise since he might not pay off an all-in, but he might bluff with, say, the Ace of hearts or something.

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Speaker A

But considering this is our whole stack , clearly it’s a good play, but the player just got unlucky. Or maybe he was bluffing, who knows. Right, well, the effective stack here is one of the blinds. He’ll be shoving with a bunch

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Speaker A

of Ace-x hands weaker than broadways, so we call. And we were ahead, but didn't hold up. Okay, Queen-Ten. Raise, call. Good, we bet immediately. There's Ace-Queen, Ace-Ten there. Like, a third of the pot. Excellent, super. We play it straight-forwardly. There will

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Speaker A

rarely be any bluffs here. Often a player might raise a Jack with the intent of checking back the river, so we shouldn't give him a free river card . Plus, he might put us on a draw if we

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Speaker A

shove. In the end, you can’t fold the Jack, even though I planned to fold, so it’s a good play. I don’t like limping Ace-King because, due to the short stack and others being short, the guy won’t shove on us or raise a

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Speaker A

bunch; he’ll check everything, and we’ll give him a free realized equity . Say he has 4-5 suited, 45%equity, we’re giving him a free look. Why? We need to raise. Okay, good. We raise Ace-Queen. Super. Ace, everyone folded.

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Speaker A

We raised Ten-Four. An excellent raise. Ace-something, everyone folded. King-Seven, an excellent raise. King-Queen, raise, call. Good. We don't bet anything here. That check is suspicious. Yes, the player didn't bet the Ace, he's hiding something. Looks like a good shove. Why can't the person

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Speaker A

call anything here? Because the guy only has three big blinds. And from small blind to big blind, we obviously shove any Queen there. I like it a lot.

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Speaker A

Excellent. Didn't win, but played well. I liked it. Also a great shove when we have a big stack and others have short ones, we pressure them with strong hands. Well, pressure them in poker terms. We raise with strong hands.

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Speaker A

Everything is sharp. Okay, King-Eight. Ah, an all-in, super, everyone has super-short stacks. And because of the super short stack, everyone is going to play very tight. Excellent. Playing it well. They're giving us the blinds here . Playing it perfectly. We should shove

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Speaker A

. No, no, no, that's not a very good hand. Well, it's not bad, but let's say we raise to two and get a shove from a pair of sixes; we'd have to fold, but by shoving ourselves, we force that six

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Speaker A

to fold. We can force someone to fold Ace-Queen or Ace-King here. Why? Because for him, doubling from 12 to 24 blinds doesn't make a huge difference.

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Speaker A

And when the stacks are two blinds and 55, they are about to bust, and we will be heads-up and get a bunch of pay jumps. That's why I like shoving 10-8 here much more. I see, we would have

73:38

Speaker A

gone all-in anyway, but this generates more folds. All-in. Super cool game. Ladies. Op, just calling the BB. Super.

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Speaker A

Plus four. All-in. Excellent. Didn't win that one. Not a problem. All-in. Great game with a big stack. All-in is just top-notch. Everything is landing perfectly. And now we have a heads-up that will last. Well, listen, it will last for a certain number of hands. It

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Speaker A

turns out this player just destroyed us . Then we go all-in against seven blinds. About 40 percent, maybe 42, to win. Didn't win again, but in the end, we finally finished them off. If you liked this video, be sure to hit the

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click the "new videos" playlist, open it, and find all my latest videos here in a row, which can be both useful and interesting in terms of motivation.

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Again, there is a huge number of diverse videos here. Thank you all very much for watching, and best of luck. M.

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