Alexandra Fagaras

Alexandra Fagaras looks at BvB situations, specifically a 3Bet pot and asks the question - can we range bet in this scenario?

Alexandra Fagaras continues her exploration of BvB situations and discusses the best course of action when each decision is relatively close.

Alexandra Fagaras examines spots that are exceptionally close in single-raised pot BvB situations and discusses how to navigate them with a focus on us playing as the small blind.

Alexandra Fagaras offers a guide for facing turn probes by inviting you to a practice session that focuses on close decisions. Throughout the video, she walks you through some of the key takeaways that will help you retain the most important heuristics.

Middling boards with connected cards are some of the toughest to play that many of us struggle with. That's why Alexandra dedicates this video to clearing up the common pitfalls on these textures, so that you'll feel more confident the next time one of them hits the table.

In the previous video, Alexandra Fagaras broke down playing straight completing turns as the button in single-raised pots. In this follow-up video, we'll step into the shoes of the big blind to understand how we defend this node.

Alexandra Fagaras examines how to approach straight completing turns after range-betting the flop.

While starting to become slightly less common, there are still a ton of players executing small range c-bets for simplification or exploitative reasons particularly at the lower stakes.

In this video, Alexandra provides a thorough breakdown of how to improve your defense skills versus this strategy. Next to finding the usually quite wide calling thresholds versus the c-bet on the flop, you'll also learn which combos to raise for value and as a bluff, as well as how to proceed when facing the double barrel on turns.

Alexandra Fagaras continues her series on triple barreling after opting for a turn overbet focusing on the river where a straight completes.

Are these rivers good or bad for us as the turn aggressor? What's our value threshold and which size should we use? Which hands should we triple barrel bluff or give up?

Jump in to find the answer to all of these questions.

It's a situation that's one of the most obvious examples for huge pots and as more and more players deploy turn overbets as natural parts of their strategy, the nuance of how the the overbet affects river play can have a big impact on your bottom line – especially if your opponents are guessing themselves.

Learn how to stay focused and make better decisions in high-pressure situations at the table by embracing, rather than fighting your emotions.

Alexandra Fagaras introduces the idea behind Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and how six simple pillars can help you reach psychological flexibility to benefit your mindset while playing.

Most of you know Alexandra as a professional poker player – little has she ever talked about her background as a psychologist. It's time to change that!

In today's video, Alexandra dives into the hidden psychology behind tilt and self-sabotage covering how transactional analysis can open new ways of understanding our mind as poker players compared to the wider spread theories from cognitive behavioral therapy.

Get ready to uncover which emotional states dictate your play during a session, how each of them has their positive and negative sides and how identifying your internal drivers for playing poker is beneficial for long-term success.

Having explored the winning pots as part of her warm-up routine in the previous episode, Alexandra Fagaras now turns to the losing pots illustrating how assumptions and their corresponding corrections can be a powerful study technique when working with solvers.

Alexandra Fagaras showcases how she uses a quick paced session review as an effective warm-up routine before playing in the right state of mind.

Alexandra Fagaras grabs some footage from a fellow Run It Once member and offers her take on the hands at microstakes which can often present some very unique situations.

Alexandra Fagaras offers her take on making adjustments preflop including the use of new preflop solvers and how they can offer profound insights on when to deviate from standard preflop ranges.

In the third episode of her Simplifying Delayed Lines series, Alexandra discusses betting the turn after having checked the flop as the in position player, both in single-raised and 3-bet pots.

Alexandra Fagaras continues to look at delay c-bet spots this time focusing on out of position 3-bet pots discussing all of the considerations required for success.

It's easy to get carried away with complexity on delayed action lines and in this series Alexandra Fagaras seeks to eliminate some of these needless difficulties and opt for a simpler approach without removing a ton of EV.

Alexandra Fagaras partners up with her student to continue the review of his play in these microstakes games and help him improve in crucial areas of his game.

Alexandra Fagaras continues analyzing the game of a fellow Run It Once member battling in app games with a strong focus on taking advantage of the many exploit opportunities that present themselves.

Alexandra Fagaras reviews a RIO member in APP games that are chalk full of recreationals and the goal is to take full advantage.

Alexandra Fagaras discusses the best approach to learn the game if you're starting your journey as a true beginner.

Alexandra is joint by fellow member Capybara_Poker who's still fairly new to poker and currently plays at the micro stakes without any solver experience.

Our hero shares his in-game thoughts and reasonings which makes for a great lesson to strengthen your own thought process and understanding.

Alexandra Fagaras reviews all the hands in which she lost during a recent session looking to see if it was sub-par poker or just bad luck.

Alexandra Fagaras takes a theoretical look at the way to choose bet sizes and discusses the best approach how to do so quickly and effectively in game.

Alexandra Fagaras dives into a very frequent mistake: ignoring the crucial differences between 3-bet pots when playing SB vs BTN compared to early position defenders.

While there are some similarities you might be shocked how drastically different you need shape your strategy on different board textures and nodes of this spot.

Alexandra Fagaras walks step by step through the process of analyzing range vs hand analysis and offers key tips to help newcomers to the topic.

Alexandra Fagaras reviews actual hands to explore various concepts including hand vs range analysis as well as when to consider exploits as opposed to theory.

Our apologies for the audio quality that's a bit below the usual standard. The sound will be polished again for Alexandra's next video.

Alexandra Fagaras concludes her cutoff v button series with a look at in-position play. After touching on some theory points, she illustrates the key concepts with a practice session.