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my pleasure!

thanks for watching!

thanks man - that's actually very useful feedback. It means I probably crammed too much info in this video and should've spread it out over a few ones instead

no

ahhaahaa

I assume you had QQ? Nothing wrong here, unless the table is full of nits - most of the time you should be happy to stack off preflop with QQ being 100bb deep in a cash game. The looser the table, the better - if they're only stacking off with AK and QQ+ you have 40% equity with QQ Versus AQ+, JJ+ you have 51,34% equity Vs AJ+, TT+ you have 58,91% equity etc...

Yes, I had QQ..first to raise folded JJ...if I'd have just called, then all the money was going in anyway..just a big disappointment to hit top set and get beat..seems like QQ is the hand I often lose with..might just start folding them to any raise..

@@RVGambler11 sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, that's poker - but I've seen 1/3 players shove 44 or KJo in similar spots so at worst calling here is a breakeven play because of all the dead money in the pot and at best you are printing money with QQ there vs villain's range

I agree, do not ever, under any circumstances, for any reason, no matter what, no matter when, for any reason whatsoever

only in Super Sayian mode bro

@@GokuPoker I assume you got the joke. Like the time I suggested Patrik Antonius start a hair care product line.

@@jeffshackleford3152 hehe good one - not sure if you know Dragon Ball, but I've got the heart of Goku and the hair of Krillin

yeah I know the feeling, but then comes a time when you hit everything like crazy

Here's a link www.oddsshark.com/poker/hands/odds-outs

@@GokuPoker thanks!!

sure, but to simplify it's good to learn the correct ranges for ICM push/call spots assuming opponents are also playing correct - then if you know a specific player may be shoving/calling more loosely/tightly, you can adjust

my pleasure sir

yeah when you're opening this app for the first time there's a lot to take in

in short I would put it that Poker Snowie is a good introduction to GTO for beginners, and GTO Wizard is the natural next step for diving deeper into GTO

I like both but GTO Wizard definitely has more to offer. You can go deep into any particular hand and analyze it from the GTO perspective, whilst pokersnowie only offered limited insights into each decision. I've played around with pokersnowie a year ago so don't know if they've improved since then, but comparing snowie from then and GTO Wizard from now, snowie is a simple app for beginners, and GTO Wizard is a complex tool for much more experienced players

@@GokuPoker so follow up question. I would be a newbie to gto. Would you recommend snowie to start over gto. I am tech savvy. Also if you recommend snowie which subscription pro or intermediate. If gto what sub would you get

@@patrickoliverio7131 I'd go for GTO trainer as they've got lots of tutorials and materials on how to get started and it's better to learn GTO this way - probably start with starter for cash games and take it from there

Watch it a couple of times, then go play some, then watch it again, and keep repeating until you feel comfortable with your starting hand selection in PLO

that is correct, pot raise should be 450 so the 350 raise is just a 3,5x raise - good eye my friend

GTO is balanced - your checks cannot be exploited because you also check with very strong hands and medium strength hands so when your opponent bets every time you check, you will be printing EV

@@GokuPoker I'm not sure, it seems GTO will only defend to the end with very strong hands. When villain bets aggressive enough, it will show no hesitation to give up any strong /medium strength hands. So chance is around 20% or so when you have very strong hands, 80% of the time you have strong /medium /below strength hands. Villain gets away with 80% of the time from stealing, and GTO ambush successfully 20% of the time. So GTO vs aggressive villain win ratio 1:4. In order for this 1 to worth 4 steals, GTO must all in on the river to get max value, when villains sees such strong determination he can give up. imo GTO is only strong when ai can build a statistics of certain players' past history like various ratios to determine what type of player he is to adjust ai's behavior accordingly.

@@TerryWong12345 that's an interesting point of view - playing GTO by definition won't lose you any EV no matter what the opponent does because it's unexploitable. That doesn't mean that you should play GTO vs a player you're describing that's just an aggro maniac - in this case, it is indeed better to adjust your strategy and exploit their tendencies. Also, it's obviously impossible to play perfect GTO or near to it as a human because it is way too complex.

My pleasure - glad I could help :)

thanks for the tip - it's certainly smarter than what I have done :D I've already recorded quite a few episodes ahead but will try and to focus more on specific individual spots in the future.

yep

thx, appreciate it

pretty simple right?

if it works it works

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how many times have you watched this video?

you can practice with solvers to find answers to such questions - app.gtowizard.com/ The solver is calling here with all KQs combos imgur.com/a/UOQFKAC

yeah it seems this way but I gotta say, it surprised me because there are still 4 players behind us and we are kind of incentivizing the blinds to call super wide if they have a bigger stack

I think the rationale is probably that if we check, we keep all the villain's weaker hands which they may bet with on this Turn and if we bet, we make them fold a lot of these hands

@@GokuPoker I feel like by betting we basically say, "hey dude, this card somehow affects me in quite a way" and thats pretty bad, if we ever called his 3bet pre with a speculative hand like suited connector, we wouldnt randomly start bluffing on the turn like that ever. If we check the chance is high that he bets even if he has no Ace because he wants to represent the card that we actually have. He can also have Low aces that we all hard dominate. He also might double barrel bluff on turn and river with hands like KQ that blocks the best of the aces in AK and AQ. On the river he could use that to give us a really hard time if we have called his pre3 bet with a hand like A10s.

@@burstday I do like your rationale for checking, however, I think we have to bet this ace very often with our entire range - perhaps we should elect to check the biggest Ax hands to protect our checking range, and instead, bet here with hands like A7

you don't - you try and take a best guess, when you're making a decision and then after the session, you analyze the biggest hands and see if the decisions you made were correct or not, and with practice you simply get better at your best guess estimations to the point where they are pretty much spot on

you mean by playing with solvers? every pro is studying with solvers nowadays

@@GokuPoker yeah probably, but I find it difficult to start my own study and this was educational and entertaining enough to get an idea on where to start

@@tehjoch if you're only just starting out playing poker, I recommend getting the fundamentals right first - you need a solid base understanding of the game to start working with solvers to get the most out of it

kind of like crawl, walk, run approach

yeah, great stuff for practicing MTT push/fold spots

thanks - hmm, it seems like the sound is fine here, I just put on my headphones and I've got sound in both earphones so probably the issue is somewhere on your side

@@GokuPoker Ok thanks, i will look again on my side!

it's the final countdown!

4 to 1 odds are not 25% - they are 20%. What you do is add the 2 numbers together (4+1), then divide 100 by the result, and you end up with 100/5=20%

yeah, a difficult spot to give up on but you are exactly right

the answer is in the video

​@@GokuPoker which poker book should I follow for poker math and hand ranges ? please suggest me.

@@hemantachowdhury9801 no idea - do some research but probably best to get some online course e.g. at upswing poker

Last time I read a poker book was probably 10 years ago and the scene have really leveled up since then - there are definitely some good books out there but most of the best stuff you'll find in courses

Thanks - it's easy for me because it motivates me to work on my game

I respect these videos for that reason as well.

Thx 🙏

go through my course and practice as I recommend in it and you will know the answers to these questions

@@GokuPoker Sir I have seen all the videos of zero to hero poker course. but I do not find the answer of it. sir please help me. I am a beginner.

@@hemantachowdhury9801 how many hands have you played of real money cash games?

@@GokuPoker I am playing online cash table games from october 2022. I have learnt the basic math of no limit hold'em. I am studying poker books also. Overall I am a beginner.

good, sounds like you need practice and a lot of it - after you have played 10k hands post a graph of your results from Poker Tracker and I will analyze 1 of your hands

you need to know the ranges that your opponent is playing based on the action preflop and position

@@GokuPoker the opponent is a very tight player. He bets, I raise and he reraises. I reason that he has a strong hand such as top pair, strong draw and I worry that he has a set. my question is how i calculate the total number of his top pair hand combination ? (opponent's position was not in the question )

@@hemantachowdhury9801 action preflop and the positions determine his range preflop, then action on the flop allows you to narrow down that range - you can think about it and share your analysis and I'll share what I think of it

@@GokuPoker( 1). there are three remaining kings. so the number of combos to make a set is ( 3×2)/2=3. similarly there are three remaining tens. so the combo is 3. total number of combos to make a set is 6. (2). next is top two pair combos. for KT there is 3×3=9. for T2 there is 3×1=3 and for K2 the number of combos is 3×1=3. so the total number of top two pair combos is 15. (3). next is strong draws. we have QJ for an open-ended straight draw. we know total number of combos of QJ is 4×4=16. now is flush draw. there is 13 spade card. 2 is on the board and 1 is in our hand. so the remaining spade card is 10. so to make a spade draw we can choose any 2 card out of 10. that can be chosen in [10×(10-1)]/2=45 ways. but Q♤J♤ is already counted in straight draws. so the total number of big draws is (16+45-1)=60. (4). next is top pair combos that i am unable to calculate here. but one over pair is AA. so the combos of AA is 6.

@@hemantachowdhury9801 first you need to establish what your opponent's range is based on the action and position preflop e.g. if they just called a single raise from BB they don't have AA/KK because they would've 3bet it pre etc. Then based on the action preflop you can make some more assumptions about their range and only then you can start counting combos.

Thx

Anytime great explanation! Even tho I don’t play much PL it definitely is confusing 😄

indeed, tbh I also rarely play PLO nowadays but it's a fun game especially live

you are missing the point - this is just an example and it's not 100% accurate. To get the exact numbers you need to know the exact ranges and count the combos.

@@GokuPoker Sir when you calculated EV why you used 75% & 25% instead of 85% & 15% ?. Please explain it.

​@@hemantachowdhury9801 all the cards are known by the river so you calculate what got there (I estimated 75%) and what did not (25%, for example AK, KQ etc) - no idea if those numbers are correct but feel free to take the ranges that are in the comments, calculate, and share below

@@GokuPoker The probability of hitting flush on the river is 4.1 to 1 which is roughly 100÷(4.1+1)=20%. so the missing chance is (100-20)=80%.

@@hemantachowdhury9801 no idea what you are referring to - there are other hands than flushes that beat us on the river

yep, the numbers in the video are just an estimation, they are not exact numbers (you are not going to calculate exact numbers when you are playing so you need to learn how to estimate ranges quickly) - if you look through the comments you can see the exact numbers look like this: JX and TX -- 49,7% Flush and straight draws -- 43,2% JT, 55 -- 7,1% and in the video, it's 48%, 38%, 14% so I'd say good enough, but obviously not precise.

check out the comments below in the thread with JoshRocker79

@@GokuPoker the formula is (available 1st card× available 2nd card)= 2×4=8. I am really confused. Sir please help me.

@@hemantachowdhury9801 now I am confused - did you read the comments below? Flush draws 11 combos of AXs (AK,AQ,A9,A8,A7,A6,A5,A4,A4,A3,A2) Straight draws 7 combos of AK 7 combos of AQ 16 combos of KQ 16 combos of Q9 16 combos of 89 =73 combos of straight and flush draws There are 8 combos for AK/AQ in total but one of each is counted as the flush draw combo.

@@GokuPoker Sir AK & AQ in flush draw are two different combos. But AK & AQ in straight draw makes 8 combos each. Then why 1 is subtracted from 8. ( i.e. (8-1)= 7.) I don't understand. Please help me.

@@hemantachowdhury9801 just read the comments from the other thread and think through them - if you find gaps in the logic, point them out. It's entirely possible I made some mistakes when I was thinking about this 5 years ago.

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