Francesco Lacriola

Francesco Lacriola returns from some much needed time away and hops into a review of a recently played session where he looks to make sure that he hasn't lost a step.

Francesco Lacriola takes a hard look at multiway pots on boards containing both an ace and a broadway card and discusses our general approach and how to gain an edge over the competition by exploiting common mistakes in this situation.

Francesco Lacriola contrasts linear and polar 3-betting ranges to showcase how shape determines strategy.

You'll explore three head-to-head comparisons to truly understand why and how our postflop approach differs in each scenario and what we try to accomplish with the range we hold.

Are you pulling the trigger often enough in seemingly standard spots? In this video, Francesco Lacriola covers five real hands to raise your awareness to lucrative opportunities where choosing the most aggressive line can turn you into a nightmare to play against.

Step into the shoes of our Italian hero Francesco Lacriola and play six tough hands where the action is on you!

At every key decision point of the hands, you'll get to decide which action you want to take before matching your thoughts against Francesco and the solver.

In this video, Francesco Lacriola shares his best advice for navigating poker in the post solver era. Dont worry – this is not a poker is doomed vibed video.

Instead, you'll learn to embrace the new challenges and opportunities to set your path for success in today's environment.

Get ready for a lesson on advanced exploitation – training your thinking and adaptation skills that can allow you to deploy greedier and effective strategies against your opponents.

Francesco Lacriola sets the stage with the key points to consider to prepare yourself for these new moves before illustrating how they work with real hand examples.

Francesco Lacriola explores the important topic of mixed strategies in 3-bet pots.

You'll learn how to adjust your strategy if you know villain is deviating by overdefending or underdefending vs cbets, overstabbing or understabbing vs checks – and how to proceed on turns in each of these scenarios.

Francesco Lacriola found himself involved in a number of interesting hands that encourage a deeper review of his thought process at the time and the peculiar mechanics of the spots.

Francesco Lacriola takes a theoretical look at playing ace and broadway boards in single raised pots which are both prevalent in frequency and high in difficulty.

Francesco Lacriola discusses how to implement effective study with the goal of exploiting recreational players. He illustrates how to approach this study technique at the example of playing a 3-bet pot in a wide range scenario.

Francesco Lacriola looks at losing hands from the previous week and discusses how to go about reviewing them and implementing the findings to your game to plug leaks.

Francesco Lacriola seeks to break the mindset that we need to c-bet an inordinate amount of times in these situations and offers different options for better lines.

Francesco Lacriola continues his mini series illustrating his study routing for returning to the tables after a longer break. He reviews all VPIPed hands of his first session to ensure he's not missing any potential leaks and inaccuracies that might have creeped into his game.

Fresh off of a vacation, Francesco Lacriola reviews the hands from his first session back and looks to make sure he didn't lose anything during his time off.

Mixing bets and checks or raises and calls is a crucial arsenal in today's games against tough opposition. Yet, in this video Francesco uses real hand examples to shed light on reasons and common spots where purely opting for the aggressive option can boost your EV.

Francesco Lacriola discusses the tricky situation of 3 bet pots when a broadway straight is possible which makes things even more difficult and usually involves large pots.

Francesco Lacriola uses recently played hands to illustrate exploits that he takes advantages of when playing against recreational players.

Francesco Lacriola breaks down some of the key heuristics dictating play in out of position 3-bet pots with the help of real hands he played recently.

Francesco Lacriola offers a favorite of poker players around the globe with big time river bluff catches and utilizes real hands and PIO solver to discuss some of his recent ones.

Francesco Lacriola takes a theoretical look at 3-bet pots in the BB v button scenario to establish a framework for avoiding major blunders.

Francesco Lacriola enters the world of the mind and psychology focusing on how tunnel vision can have both positive and negative impacts on our decisions at the table. He illustrates everything he discusses with the help of hand examples and practical advice.

Francesco Lacriola continues to review a session with all VPIP'd hands making for a series of interesting situations at various points of the hands.

Francesco Lacriola reviews all VPIP'd hands from a session that's fresh in his mind and breaks down the keys and potential missteps.

Francesco Lacriola continues his discussion of hyper-polarizing in BvB pots this time focusing on the approach of the SB.

Francesco Lacriola analyzes his recently played session that saw him playing a bit below his best and how to overcome this situation.

Francesco Lacriola explores the difficult situation of a blind battle in single-raised pots that features SB check and developing a hyper polarized strategy.

Francesco Lacriola explores the often misplayed scenario of ace high boards in 3 bet pots when playing in position and offers tips and tricks for mastering this node of the game.

Not all approaches are created equal and Francesco Lacriola explores how different flop c-betting strategies can have downstream implications.

Francesco Lacriola offers somewhat of a part two on the previous installment on how to approach 0 EV bluffcatching scenarios this time focusing on situations where ranges are wider.