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thanks a lot for detailed answer!

i think if you struggle to find action on nl500 across all the available sites you are not looking enough :) if you want to achieve smth in any area of life you need to make some sacrifices, in your case it would be either to add more poker rooms to your list and scout all tables or play better hours. better not for you, but better for action players ;)
don't want to be mean sarcsastic but if you planning to open up pokerstars in the EU morning after nice breakfast and find fish waiting for you, im afraid thats not gonna happen.
my advice would be add all the available poker rooms if you cannot play evenings, but much better to your money EV is to play evenings

well, i don't have one :| as i said bc my results/stats are untracked my study hours basically look like this: watch a video on topic i find interesting/struggle with, train some preflop spots, go thru marked hands on gto wiz, click around buttons there.
i prob still take smth from it, but it feels like a v non efficient way of learning

there's so much more from CFP you get than just a 1-1 coaching. even if you compare just the money investment factor, u have to ask yourself how much more will i making after i.e one year in CFP if they improve my WR by 10-20%. and the simple math will tell you it's just +ev investment

Hi Matt, huge respect and thanks a lot for providing high value to all readers! your recent response regarding the lack of study direction resonated with me a lot bc thats exactly how it feels for me. i have been playing in the untracked sites for past few years (ante games on wpt mostly) so pretty hard to evaluate my own weaknesses so i study bit of everything and prob learn nothing. any advice on this? btw we prob played together if u play on wpt gold

i would ch/c flop (given theres no raise), the board hits CO and SB range pretty good. No need to inflate the pot with non-nut draw and weak SD value. Also fold flop given your spot. Ch/b rvras played. Hes either folding or has a better hand (Q9s, boats, some BD flushes).

that yes , i just dont think Lodden ch/r any value hand OTF when weak player called in the SB

I think lodden 'bluffed' himself from the hand :)
His line is so retarded , and he knows mateos knows that. That being known, mateos still has decent value range (99, A9s, 33) and his only bluffs are floats which bet/call flop multiway so its really tough for him to call rvr. And i really think he ch called turn because he has some SD value + 4 outs to nuts :)

i think its fine to bet/fold against most of the opps here unless you have very nitty/not bluffy image or he is very tricky otr
very interesting question what should be good candidates in villains range to ch/r rvr as a bluff. with any Kx we can just call rvr. i think we could choose 8x hands for this, the ones without spade, and not blocking 67 or 69, so stuff like Q8, J8, A8.
i presume we raise our flopped sets most of the time, so our value range would be KT, maybe K8, and maybe sometimes TT which we didn't 3bet for some reason, so its ok to add few 8x hands as a bluff

hi there !
12:10 J9o
im not really well into limping SB strategy, but don't you think its a better ch pre hand ?
also, after him calling turn , i don't ever see him folding blank rvr , so would just give up rvr here. after seeing SD from this specific player it becomes even better plan :)
Also, QQ hand (14:50), looking at his turn sizing i want to just fold turn. It looks like hes not gonna give up rvr, and as you mentioned you will have all AK hands and KQs, which you can call all 3 streets (maybe fold KQ rvr). so folding 99-QQ against this sizing looks ok to me. what do you think ?
thanks

6:30 QJo , question for preflop : do you 4bet that hand as a std ? for me it makes sense to call against vs aggro SB 3bettors (like 20ish % +) , since we have pos and decent eq vs their range and 4bet more tight opponents as a bluff ? 10:20 similar question for A6s vs BB: since his range is usually polarized, doesn't pretty much all suited A play better as a call ? you dominate his bluff range a lot, and not that many value Aces. I would rather choose 4bet suited Ks or Qs or fewer offsuit A

i have 4bet/folded KK in live games and don't regret that at all :)
generally speaking, its ok to raise and fold KK in spots, where weak players call their entire value range except AA which they will raise/shove. lets say a sample hand which happened to me some time ago : i raise EP 80 (10/20 game) EP with KK, MP1 weak players raises to 280, folds back to me i raise to 900, he raises 2.6k leaving behind 3k. i hate my life but i fold. reason for this : his range for 3bet will be smth like AK and QQ+, which he will never fold to 4bet, but ONLY call, and his 5bet range will be AA prob 8/10 times and other times KK or QQ, AK
in your hand its snap fold for the reasons Apotheosis stated.
against good regulars you don't raise/fold KK but start considering calling instead of 4betting

i prob even would not have a 6bet range here, and just call all value hands, including AA. If hes 5beting KK for value, you will stack him anyway,and if hes 5betting AK or bluff hes not GII pre (but he is on K or A high flops often when holding AK). against very polarized range its better to call here preflop i guess
postflop kinda similar spot. i would consider leading some semi dangerous turns like Q-T, but this one i would ch
OTR, after his ch back OTT, i dont see much value in betting. if he ch backed hand like KK he will bet anyway + bet some bluffs,and i really doubt he will call with AK if you bet rvr here. so ch/call rvr. if he happens to have hand like AJ (although i dont see much reason in cbeting AJ OTF), then say nh and move on to next hand :)

and shoving rvr is a spew obv :)

i think it depends on his adjustment to stack sizes what concerns opening range. if he loosens up a lot - lets say starts opening 70 % instead of 50 ish , you should increase your bet size to prob 120ish or so (just en estimate)
if he continues playing same open range, i don't see any reason to make it 18 bb 3bet, your success rate will be rather low adjusted to how much you risk, and you will be OOP in already big pot with lots of monyz behind against usually competent player. Overall, i think the deeper you are the less you should 3bet OOP against good opp. If hes opening pretty much std range, i would even consider calling more hands vs 3betting given that BB is not super squeeze happy

thanks. Hm, ok, regarding flop : i flat smth like that preflop :
Range

so yes, ATo looks like a fold now, we will have a lot of better hands to continue with.
any comments on preflop range ? :)

Hi Mark, few notes : i think A4cc is a fold OTT. when he 3bets OTF, i think his range is usually sets+, and almost never a random bluff since your calling range hits that board very well and hes deep OOP. On turn you are facing 250 into 400 , but against a range of TT-99,77,J8s,86s,AdJd (AJ as a bluff for him)
you have only 17 % and reversed odds when he boats rvr and u call with flush
also since his range is strong here, i expect him to ch fold almost never OTR, exept maybe when the Jc or 8c comes and he has a set. even worse four your exact hand :) by that i mean you don't have enough good cards to bluff OTR together with poor direct equity OTT.
AA on A66 is a fancy play which im pretty sure doesnt give the best EV. I really doubt any good regular would float a 5bet on Axx flop, so your small sizing on turn doesn't accomplish anything : if he has KK he folds turn no matter how much u bet, and if he has AK, AQ (very rarely though), QQ u loose value since AK might (and prob should) fold to pot bet jam OTR,

yes, i would consider 5 % turn raise pretty low, but also would look how much he wins at SD when he does so, if you have 44 opportunities for him raising turn in 3b pot, that should be huge hand sample.
so, his value range is A4-A7s, 44, 55, 75s, 86s (2 combos), so total around 13 combos, and his bluff range is smth like 65s, 76s, maybe 66 or 88 once in a year, so total ~ 6 combos, i would not count in any air hands pretty much never. So against his semibluff range we have ONLY ~ 64%, and we are drawing pretty much dead against his value range. So i think calling is out of question, since we let him realize his semi bluffs "cheap. imo the choice is between shove/fold.
if you think he might play semibluffs aggressively and hes not weighted towards value majority of the time , shove is a better option. i would choose calling stronger hands on turn, like A4, A5, and AA

yes, its very close even with your very optimistic assumptions (wide calling range pre and high barreling frequencies). in real life i think less than 5 % of the field will value bet K7 on this board or double barrel this turn with "any two". thanks for input , still got some things to think about !! :)

how do you end up having 88 OTR here ? :)
agree that blocking A is not that good, but not much to choose from here

i think if you want to fold, then fold turn.
on the other hand, if you fold AQ, you basically don't have a calling range here

You should think GTO when you dont have additional info or you play vs very well balnced opp, and play exploitative otherwise. Theres no sense play GTO if your opponent makes obvious mistakes AND YOU KNOW IT. So lets say against this guy bluff less with no equity and pick good spots to bluff rvrs
Here it might be ok to bluff all 3 if you have really good reads about his rvr play, but it should be big sample, good history, etc.
As i said in this spot, i would expect close to 0 FE otr after you pot turn in 3bet pot

I think when he calls pot on turn, henever folds rvr, so you saved yourself some €€.
Dont like the sizings all streets , would go 80-90 preflop, and around 100-120 otf. Turn ipdepends on his pre-flop tendencies. Since you have a lot of AJ, AK, J9, 89s, turn FDs , i dont like the pot bet on turn, hes never folding a Q, and against other hands you have decent equity. Against active floater, would ch/r turn
Otr we are overbluffing esp with these stacks

Agree about not 3betting preflop. The deeper u are the less u should be willing t do that. If u loose less by 3bet , i think there are some leaks postflop...
Flop is a bet i think, this flop doesnt hit his calling range most of the time, his range will be very heavy weighted towards broadways usually, and you have somebarreling potential AND two pair draw :)
I would choose between betting smaller turn, or even cheking to protect our ch/c range
Rvr i would ch/f, esp after your turn pot bet, hes either going to SD with TT-QQ type hads or jams better hands

dont agree here ;)
i think majority of the field will overfold here readless , not overcall. i really expect to fold a lot players (and this esp) big portion of there v range , what is AJ+
i know i rep thin, o the other hand there's no bluffs i can have except turning A into bluff. the river raise is kinda big, so not v good odds to call too for opp
But agree with above that A2 and A4 are best candidates for this

Firstly, i don't see any reason to overbet turn agains weak opponent. His flop c/c is usually pretty weak, and with overbet you pretty much targeting AA-KK hands which he might play sometimes (very rarely though). especially since hes OOP vs 2 opponents. But he would very often play QQ this way "OMG i hit nuts i have to trap !!" :) reasoning. i understand you want more money in the pot but i thinks its not the max EV solution here. So, i would bet in the area 60-75 on the turn. When he raises, i think majority of his range is QQ. Ofc if you know hes being aggressive preflop he might end up having AJ or QJ too, maybe QT (the only hand you beat). i dont think a "random" recreational player would ch/r AcKc here, especially against overbet. Range you have given is too optimistic, imo you just trying to justify call/shove ;)
so, i think its a bet/fold OTT as weak as it looks. Now you may start to argue that if we bet fold this we are being exploited and so on, but i think recreational player will never think of it and just play his hand ;)
against regular ofc we dont bet/fold turn

Nice vid ! AT hand would be more interesting if villain bets the turn. Whats your play there ? Also, with the range that will have pair + gs or just GS+ over(s), so hands like KQ, KT, Q9,Q8,97 etc ? looks kinda too weak to call, but can we balance that out with strong enough value range ? As played i agree that no sense in bluffing the river, we pretty much trying to fold AQ or AK exactly, maybe some 77-55 type hands, but thats about it, and very few players will try to bluff with B-X-B line when that turn improves our perceived range