Lol at those complicated terms nick howard uses haha. Did he study literature at uni?
I prefer watching old galfond videos over nick howards videos on youtube, nothing beats galfond opening a .txt file, pokerstove and vaaaaamo!!

Galfond is a legend, lets gooo

I think it was16 or 17 at 50nl

The terms are complicated and if you're not dialled in and paying attention it's easy for it to just sound like gibberish. But his last two vids on 20/40/80 review are actually very very good imo. He's literally saying the same thing as mirage too.

Mirage confirmed on Nick Howards level.

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Alright so 2 days late on the video upload

Here it is:



Pretty disappointed in myself for the delay in upload. Clearly mental leaks are getting worse (lack of discipline and laziness).

Going to aim for a double upload this week. Business responsibilities have died down so no excuses for a second upload for Friday.

I recently watched Innerpsy's latest video and tried to make highlights a little more interesting with some editing (last hand of highlights). Let me know if you enjoy it or it just distracts from the highlights.

Def like the whole video concept

1.)QJss would prob give this one up blocking the bdfd that missed but if you think pop. is overfolding won't fault you too much.

2.) I really didn't like the 77 OB river hand but then you got called Think villains call is horrible in anonymous pool FWIW don't think pop has close to enough bluffs

3.) Just a general note but would grind PIO hard as far sizing as I have noticed a few mistakes on diff textures in some of the vids (Ie: really never going half pot on KT6FD)

Keep it up and GL at the tables

QJss on A4T97
After we're called on turn I think we have to give up river. Normally our turn bet successfully isolates his range to Ax+ and vs that we don't have FE on then river imo. Pretty bad removal too to be shoving this. I don't think potting turn is necessary since it leaves us in a pretty bad spot on the river and we probably have a -EV call vs jam. Awkward SPR though.
A3cc on 89hh4d
I don't think it's too weird that villain checks the flop as cold 4b, not the worst board for a lot of your defends and he should definitely have some xf's. Vs the double check, I think we just need to probe turn, vs population it should be autoprofit. I quite like the overbet and tbh expect to get called a fair bit by this hand. The double check is almost always going to be AK though so I think we should be betting turn with this hand.

Gotta run to the gym but might have a look at the replayer hands in a bit. GL cya soon

Thanks I try and make the videos a little different to all the other poker content out there.

Honestly I think population as a whole are not folding enough in this spot. I think regs are overfolding in this spot. However with the preflop line of villain, it most definitely looks like a "weaker" player. So vs this player this seems pretty bad.

Yeah I generally tend to make a lot of sizing mistakes. Probably due to auto pilot mode/bad memory/more work in pio?? Usually I recognise the sizing mistakes after reviewing (i.e. the KTo on KT6 hand I said in the video I should be making it larger). However sometimes I intentionally use non-standard sizes to exploit population leaks.

And I will need as much as luck at the tables as possible, cheers

Yeah totally agree with this. Turn is where we have most of our fold equity and when villain calls we are probably pretty screwed. Yeah I just pioed the spot and it looks like it doesnt like to pot here either. Prefers to check call QsJs (probably because we do not want to get denied so much equity if we do get jammed on).

Great videos.

I really enjoy the study at the end.

Keep them coming and gl.

you have a strong enough draw to bc a jam there so I prefer betting. giving up on river though.

i am probably missing something, but what's the difference between the first half, and the 'strategy' part of the videos? also would be really good if you include some pio studies. keep them coming

I don't like the AQ hand, where you triple on K722, I think when you barrel OTT vs a fish and he calls, it doesn't matter what he has unless he has a draw(which he cant in that texture), he isn't folding any SDV. Sure, some weaktight fish do and surely overfold, but a std fish will have a hard time folding SDV OTR after calling turn, they usually think "well, if I was ahead, then I'm still ahead".

Vs regs it's good because they should fold a lot of their KQ in there, board has 0 draws and it's very hard to find natural bluffs. But vs some stationy regs, your turn bet isolates his range heavily towards Kx, the only reason for me to bluff the river again vs those guys would be if the guy is explo defending turn(with hands like 33-66), so he would have to fold a lot of rivers. Vs a range that has almost always TP, I don't expect to get 50% folds.

I think both fish and regs can easily call twice and fold river with 99-QQ, that's up to 24 combos that could fold, compared to a max of 10 combos of AK/QKs, discounted because AK will sometimes 4bet.

+1

Thats 21 combos, you block QQ, also fish have way more combos of Kx, they have K5s in their preflop calling range, KJo, KTo and imo most people fold 99-TT ott. Even if the fish called all those hands OTT and folded them OTR, villain wouldnt fold enough, and vs whales theyre not even folding those neither.

In a sn site vs a reg you have to bluff this, otherwise wtf would you be bluffing there? But since its anonymous I dont think it would be +EV to bluff in there. I dont play on ignition, but from the plays Ive seen on average on stars, I wouldnt bluff the river if there would be a reasonable chance of villain being a fish/whale with a range that has so many TP.

Also regs calling range OOP is way tighter than a fish's calling range, so on average it adds more % that villain would be a fish. If reg/fish ratio is 2 but fish defends vs 3bets with a 66% of their RFI and a reg only does with 33%, theres a 50% chance that youre up against a fish postflop. Also if you consider regs defend more with 4bets OOP and fish mostly defend that with calls, then it should increase the likelyhood youre facing a fish in that spot by a lot.

How is the KT sizing a mistake? You think he should go bigger in that spot and try to mimic solver frequencies perfectly, or smaller and with range?

Why should you go bigger w/ KT on that board?

wet texture/?

confirmed 25nl player

Good question. I am still trying to work out exactly how I want this series to be structured. I initially wanted the highlights segment to just be highlights. However receiving feedback from the first video, I realised people enjoyed me talking over the hands as they were replayed in normal speed. I also realised that the entertaining or interesting element in watching poker videos is the inherent strategy aspect. So I guess, in the highlights segment, the analysis is a lot shorter and maybe a little bit more of a commentary, whereas the strategy, I spend a little bit more time trying to dissect the hand. Generally I record each strategy segment 2-5 times but I find it increasingly difficult to keep it within the 2.5 minute mark so even these I find a little lackluster at times. It is also really difficult to keep everything under 15 minutes as a whole.

Recently I added some thoughts of the week (or time period of the video highlights) to make it a little bit more personal.

If anyone has any suggestions on how I can improve the content please let me know and I will see what I can do.

I want the content to be entertaining and not too strategy focused. I tried to make this series appeal to all types of viewers.
- Strategy - For the less experienced players who can learn some basic stuff
- Highlights - For those who like to watch hands and use this as study i.e. think about the scenario (ranges, bet sizes and positions) and work out whether I am making a mistake or not.
- Result Updates - for those who are purely interested in my progress

Think the videos are already great as is but if you're going for entertainment value and more views I would suggest:

1) Include more wtf hands where either you or your opponents make super light hero calls/spewy bluffs/hero folds that turn out either really bad or really good.
2) Keep big pots as a priority. Like 400bb+ pots should be in there even if both sides played super standard.
3) Mix in the interesting hands (hands with lots of options or require deep hand reading) at a lower frequency than the above 2.
4) 15 minutes is too long for casual watchers. I would drop the strict strategy part and just mix in the analysis with the highlights.
5) Use keywords in your title so the videos are easier to find in YouTube's search algorithm (Ex. Bovada, Zone, Poker, ect).

Have you thought about doing twitch streams as well? The youtube videos are awesome btw

These are excellent recommendations!

Not at the moment. A couple of reasons why I have decided not to stream anything.

1. I would get seriously distracted when I play. I love responding to comments/questions so I could see myself spending more time focusing on chat than playing.

2. I generally do 2 hour sessions so my stream would be on and off and I don't think this is good for maximising viewers on stream? (any twitch experts).