Bro these hands seem quite aweful/ spewy. Do you do much work with pio?

I love you, thank you for the long posts <3

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Thanks that means a lot! I hope it helps. But like I said before, its easy to say all these things in theory. Now I need to prove that this stuff works by getting out of the DS. Then I will happily take comments like this.

Yes as I said I thought I played really poorly on this day. I honestly don't think any of the plays were really +EV except the 6d5d hand. Even if they werent super bad they would have been very breakeven.

Now I am assuming you ask me if I "work with pio" because it seems like my fundamentals are off. I actually want to take this opportunity to say that this session is a prime example of using "too much Pio". So I overadjusted too much moving up to 500nl i.e. I was balancing way too many bluffs with value. For example the QhTh hand is standard "Pio" hand. However if villain's turn call range in population is extremely strong vs an overbet i.e. they are never folding river then it is probably -EV to bluff the river (in fact the triple with QhTh is breakeven but needed in overall strategy to increase the EV of my triples with value hands).

The problem with pio is that almost any hand can be justified because almost every hand has some frequency in the overall strategy (for balance). Going back to the QhTh hand. In Pio I am supposed to take that exact line with the heart heart QT at ~31% of the time. This is actually quite a relatively high frequency. However I probably do not realise this exact spot/scenario enough to justify whether I am doing it 31% of the time. Therefore we have a sample issue and cannot see if this is "good".

Had I just played my normal 200 nl strategy (which is driven by population analysis - using my database- with minimal Pio work) then I probably wouldn't have taken so many "spewy spots". My friend put it in a great way, I was just taking so many bottom 20% frequency plays that I really didn't need to.

Pio is something that a lot of us probably misuse. I personally misuse pio quite a bit and am working on fixing this study leak. It is better to identify patterns within the output of Pio and use intuition and logic to apply to the tables.

But yes I will take this as a lesson to not overadjust when I move up to 500nl. The next shot I take I will just incorporate my standard 200nl strategy and then slowly adjust as I get used to the pool.

Definitely overadjusted. Play the same 200z strat and gradually adjust based on differences in the pool. Esp in Zone games, you can get away with murder. This isn't Stars when every reg has 10k hands on you and knows your CO RFI, foldv5bet, and what you ate for breakfast. Pio should give you an understanding of how ranges interact with boards and how certain turns/rivers change things - but you should largely just be playing fairly straight forward and exploit pop tendencies.

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Hmm so all of the hands showed in this video are that far away from GTO its not funny. I understand that sometimes PIO can deviate you away from what you may think is an optimal strat. Im more talking about your bet sizing is getting you into bad spots where your just being taken advantage of, I refer to the A7s as an example where villian bet like 1/3 pot and you had awesome odds to call and you fold. You bascially only have QJ here , you need to start thinking about your range more instead of what villian has in their range. Ask yourself what does my range look like here and why is villian betting this sizing.

I refer to the J10 hand when you check jam turn. Ask yourself, what are you check jamming the turn with with a huge SPR that isnt check raising the flop for value? You never have a set, you never have anything but a poorly played J10 off. If he pots the flop you have a cc, agaisnt a 50% pot bet this specific hand is a C/R especially if your going to check jam a turn card that improves your range. If you C/c a hand like j7 and spike 2p on the turn. Are you really check jamming for value here? Villians sizing suggests that you dont really ever have a value hand on the turn and he can size up his value range since you discount all sets and 2p plus on the flop, in actual face the barreling range of villian actually improves on this card not so much yours.

I understand in your previous vids you say you need to find bluffs in most spots, you need to build your range to include bluffs and value hands, dont just decide on a turn card that you have a bluff in range and you will decide to just pump in 80 bbs with basically a capped range.
Just FYI your probably not even going to get a fold from AJ given turn play with J10.

With PIO you need to build your ranges, i see alot of empty strat to your thought processes. I have this in range and he has this in range, ask yourself why and what is this sizing going to accomplish.

Goodluck mate hope you could get something out of that.

Thats too advanced, seems like something skuz only needs to worry about once he hits 1knl...

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Also hand where you have a 10x straight and you check back, im probably block betting 90$ into 280 to target 2p and sets.

Yea I agree my bet sizes in certain spots are not that great. Something that definitely needs work.

Yeah this is something I always do.

Yeah totally agree with this. This was 100% my worst played hand. This was my last hand at 500nl because I knew how bad this was. This is tagged as "tilt" in my database.

Yes I agree with this. Justifying bluffs in certain spots without a coherent on consistent strategy is not GTO (not in the literal sense).

Thanks for the input. Yeah some of the hands were complete spew and some of the hands were over adjusting. I will keep this in mind moving forward.

Ok, yes this makes sense. Another spot where I normally thin value but didn't because of lack of confidence.

hey man how about u use ur insane gto knowledge to print money instead of wasting ur time in this thread

I see pre flop mistakes leading to post flop mistakes. JTo, Kqo, 56s vs squeeze all should be folded pre imo.

Yeah totally agree with this. Never has "fold Pre" been so true.

I usually play 18/16 - i.e. this doesnt include these hands

Another prime example of trying to overadjust

INB4 brokenstars makes fun of my 18/16

Printer ran out of ink. Just having a couple days off whilst the ink comes back. You moving up to 1k or 2k? Might have to upgrade to a laser printer if so.

You certainly dont play 18/16.

tight strat at zone is fine, maybe even optimal. I've consistently tightened my ranges since I started from 28/22 down to like 24/20. I still think a lot of hands I play are pretty much breakeven.

I worked that out the second day I played there. Anyway. There is no way he plays 18/16 opening 56s utg.

I find it weird to patronise op about pio and then start talking about blocker bets.

Also **** folding 56s to any 3 bet ever on ignition.

how about u print urself some better sims

omegalul

sup Skuz, u still in syd?

Yeah mate

Was a squeeze. You have lots of better hands to flat in that spot.

I think they were referring to the 65dd on 8dj7d. I defended 3b vs SB

New Video out today:



Been a bit of a delay in uploading. Tried contacting Ignition to download missed hands on the 3rd of July. However they emailed back today saying its not possible after download period expired. So the graph in my recent video is not 100% accurate.... I think it is missing 2 or 3 losing buyins?

So basically the plan from now is to grind myself out of the downswing. Once I am back to what I started with last week then I will take another shot. Its been super tempting for me to jump back into the 500nl zone pool, particularly in the last few days since it has been very busy. However from a disciplinary approach it would not be smart to do so.

Video structure will go back to normal as I have the tables set up to be recorded nicely.

Update for Weekly Goals:

Forgot to post these



Pretty good in terms of the schedule. Unfortunately did not play any live.

Update on the "Climbing out of Downswing Post" (found on page 13 if you interested)

- No real new updates to the mental strategy. Basically following what I listed and working well. Last few days have been good and climbed quite a bit out of the hole.
-Now that I am partially out I think the next big important step is to not get complacent. Just because there are signs of positivity, does not mean that variance won't come back and fk me.
-Employed note taking again whilst playing which seems to be good.
-Win flips

Nice volume.

nice live volume