1) 0:44 Raise more from the small blind. When players deviate from GTO play exploitative. Raise with any A, any pair, every brodway, strong SC; limp everything else. 2) 5:15 Don't bluff when your opponent has rather strong absolute hand strength e.g. 2 pairs+ on the river. V should be folding a lot more according to GTO as relative hand strength is not so much, but not a lot of middle-low stakes players understand that concept. Use that weakness to value bet your strong hands. 3) 11:20 C-bet when you have the range & nut advantage and give your opponent a good reason to fold by using a bigger bet. Bet your value bets big as well as your opponent won't check raise you with weaker hands so often to do this job for you.
I used to raise from the sb in low stakes sng’s with anything, small raise, almost always called, then half pot the flop no matter what, in early rounds, and this worked quite well as people didn’t defend nearly often enough. Don’t know if this would still work. You didn’t have to worry about being exploited because not very many hands get to the sb without someone already being involved.
What should we do in your 3rd example with C-betting on AQ9 rainbow board with our 54s when the villain calls? It is really hard for us to improve neither on turn nor river, except for some runner-runner cases. Should we continue barreling on turn and river? Especially in those cases when we don't know much about the opponent.
Its so true - I started splitting my range bvb way too much and it hurt my results. I kept waiting for those limp/reraise spots to seem clever but they happened way too infrequently to make up for the loss of EV from RFI. I love this content - practical as opposed to just pretty. BTW, I'm going to have a hat embroidered with "Go ahead and go bananas".
Would you try to aply this theory in zoom/snap games too? I know its a Dumb question, but i am just starting out and for a lot of people i think its easier to start by playing those tables cause you get to play more hands Quicker. LOVE the CONTENT.
After watching this video I checked my BB raise % and it is something Ben would call a catastrophe, but there are few things to consider - I play turbo spins where you begin with 30BB stacks, a lot of population are fish players who will trap in SB 5x more often than a regular and will not fold their garbage hands against my bluff izo. Under those circumstances, is there any point in trying to push them out of the pot with hands like Q6o and 85o? I really don't think so. I'd rather add Q8s, J9s and A5o into that range.
i lost it at 15:55 nice video, i tend to bluff in spots where i feel "i have to, to stay balanced" in micro where people don't fold a freakin pair.. and i feel absurd after busting.
At micro stakes you'll be lucky to bluff someone off top pair never mind trips, even for their tournament life. You have to always keep in mind that 90% of your opponents are pure level 1 thinkers, they're ONLY interested in their hand and how that connects with the board or otherwise. The gap between the very small stakes and the big stakes is so big it may as well be a totally different game. Enjoyed the video as always, you seem a really good, intelligent bloke and I hope your career continues to go well.
thanks Ben, the third one iam no sure micros are too tight if you cb de flop en then de turn the villain will callyou with medium pair + proyecto my xperience in nl5 is play tight 😭
I have a higher frequency of limp/raises from SB vs aggressive players. They hate folding anyways, so I don't care about being balanced in these spots and show profit by doing it. Against tighter opponents I normally just raise or fold. Could lay traps vs specific stack sizes though. With BB antes being a normal thing in live poker these days, it actually makes the SB vs BB spots more interesting, as I would assume that BB is defending psychologically, which make players tend to play overly aggressive. Just food for thought.
Amazing video. Thank you! At 9:20 you compare the EVs. I understand you look at your opponent tendencies/ranges first. But often the EVs are very equal. As a rule of thumb. At what point do you think the gap between the EVs of betting and checking becomes too big which makes you decide to take the bet/check line? So AhQd PIO prefers to check with +0.0546 while with AdQh it wants to bet +2.3795. What is for you the threshold where you clearly want to chose 1 line? Sure this is only about 2.8 chips. And people won't fold their trips. But what if you expect people to play close to the PIO ranges? And also the size of the pot impacts this threshold right? At the river in a 3b pot the EV gap between checking/betting will be bigger. Do you have a similar rule like 2-5% of AA?. As in if the EV difference of the whole put between 2 lines is bigger than 5% we chose the call line? Danke schön!
I dont have a general rule of line for when taking a specific line to be honest. If its marginal in theory, I look at exploitative reads that might increase the EV of a respective line. If it remains marginal (probably everything around 5-10% difference is also a good rule of thumb. If you are deeper and your betsize is around 50bb, I for sure want to have a 15% higher EV in betting than checkin (only speaking about these high variance plays when I know my opponent is capable of folding trips).
In your second example, could you node-lock Villian that he never lays down trips or straights and re-run the sym and play that strategy? Does pio just not bluff when you do that?
@@bradleylittle1469 when you manually change villains strategy in the solver and then Pio resolves the hand with those ranges. Its a pretty standard thing to do when working with solvers
A.question please about all using pio solver or any sover. If the solvers gives always the correct gto play, why does not everybody plays 1 table and use a solver to play every hand and make every bet, call or fold? Preflop, and post flop, puting in the solver the heroes cards and the flop, turn and river and then do what the solvers recomend
@@RaiseYourEdge yes, but eventually the solvers will get better and faster, and all the people will use them in another computer when they are playing and take a huge advantage. I ask you and tell you this because i dont want to invest time and money getting bettter at online poker if in some years it will be dead because of the solvers and other programs also
Why is villain calling J8 in the first hand on the river but not 6x? I dont see too much of a blocker advantage for two pair over trips or am I missing something?
Would definitely say a great exploit is cbetting super small on paired board and monotone flops vs weak opponents who under defend. E.g. not peeling backdoor straight and flush hands
In paired board the pair is important. On QQ6 small bet will work more often than on 772 board. If your goal is to make them fold - even weaker opponents won't fold their high cards on a paired board if you bet too small. Especially if you are playing live. Nobody wants to look stupid. Instead you can bet around 3/4 of the pot. This will further increase their fold frequency, kill their bluff check-raise frequency and almost for sure give you 2 free cards if they do decide to call. I think betting big in this scenario is more profitable against certain opponents.
Also dont bother checking flop with top pair to "protect your check back range" because these lower stakes guys arent attacking light or with bluffs when you check back,no point inducing bluffs when they are weak as piss! I have often even bet flop check back turn to induce bluffs from hand with no SDV or bets from top pair/middle pair but the wimps just check most of the time. You miss out on value and just give them free cards to outdraw you. Of course if you play a specific guy that will attack check backs then its good to do from time to time;-) Value bet more and larger and fold more to their aggression (especially raises on trun or river)than GTO would advise
I actually disagrees with the don't bluff so mutch tip. Inspired by this video I did a fb analysis for the last 12month. I played around 7500 mtts with an av bi of 57$, so mostly low stakes and occasionally 100$ mtts. I filtered all my hands for paired boards, paired boards + fd and similar combinations. People are over folding in these spots tremendously. Maybe my sample is skewed or smt else is going on. I think people are over de fending their bb these days, even vs utg. I can't go into much detail but I strongly disagree with the example hand u gave. Anyways, raising more from the sb is Def much better in these stakes. Wouldn't mind if u could give me your opinion or could say more about what sample and stakes u Analysed
My tip is for not making bluffing in big pots and not attacking the bb or bluffing 1 or 2 streets. If you cant go into detail, neither can I :) If you dissagree and dont want to share your details, we cant have a debate about that.
Thanks Ben, I know you play a wide range of buyins eg Sunday Storm and High Rollers. Are there any methods you use to differentiate tables which play differently so you can tailor global strategy or do you just keep it on an individual level and rely on HUD stats? Thinking of changing felt colour for my toughest vanilla tables.
If one registers for the expert tournament class, do you get a copy of the solver or at least have permanent access to it so we can play around with it?
Please put a high pass on your sound (maybe around 60 Hz), you have some very low frequencies rumbling around (I barely hear them on my studio monitors). This a) creates a very uncomfortable audio experience and b) lowers your general perceived volume, since a lot of energy is wasted on that low-frequency garbage. Anyway thanks for your great content.
CG players usually are better players, they understand ranges better. So espacially the strength hand exploit(which i am used too) is more effective in mtts. But in low stakes cg there are a lot of people who dont want to let go of top pair and better aswell
Those ranges for mp pfr and bb defence are ridiculously wide. Youre opening K4s from mp and BB is defending any 2 suited. Why are you using these ranges?
Ok so I was destined to lose. I got aces I raise .20 cents dude calls everyone folded. Flop has nothing I check they bet 24 cents. I call turn is nothing he bets 64 cents I call. River is a king. A bet 2 dollars he calls. He had pocket kings. How do I not loose my butt in that. Can only say luckily I wasn’t all in
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1) 0:44 Raise more from the small blind. When players deviate from GTO play exploitative. Raise with any A, any pair, every brodway, strong SC; limp everything else.
2) 5:15 Don't bluff when your opponent has rather strong absolute hand strength e.g. 2 pairs+ on the river. V should be folding a lot more according to GTO as relative hand strength is not so much, but not a lot of middle-low stakes players understand that concept. Use that weakness to value bet your strong hands.
3) 11:20 C-bet when you have the range & nut advantage and give your opponent a good reason to fold by using a bigger bet. Bet your value bets big as well as your opponent won't check raise you with weaker hands so often to do this job for you.
You saved me few minutes. Thanks Daniel
Yeah emotional attachment to absolute hand strength is really an underrated concept. Thank you for this amazing content.
100%, you are welcom Shaggi!
Yea amazing how many players think trips on a flush/str8 board is almost the nuts
The little funny edits kill me...good stuff
Glad you liked it man!
@@RaiseYourEdge The best one was the bananas imo hahaha
What I like about Bencb is that he understands that everything he does at the poker table conveys information!
I used to raise from the sb in low stakes sng’s with anything, small raise, almost always called, then half pot the flop no matter what, in early rounds, and this worked quite well as people didn’t defend nearly often enough. Don’t know if this would still work. You didn’t have to worry about being exploited because not very many hands get to the sb without someone already being involved.
thank you Ben, would really appreciate if you could share 3 more tips for post flop later streets
Always working on new content
Very clear. Nice to see people explain GTO>Exploitative transition mindset well.
What should we do in your 3rd example with C-betting on AQ9 rainbow board with our 54s when the villain calls? It is really hard for us to improve neither on turn nor river, except for some runner-runner cases. Should we continue barreling on turn and river? Especially in those cases when we don't know much about the opponent.
Its so true - I started splitting my range bvb way too much and it hurt my results. I kept waiting for those limp/reraise spots to seem clever but they happened way too infrequently to make up for the loss of EV from RFI. I love this content - practical as opposed to just pretty. BTW, I'm going to have a hat embroidered with "Go ahead and go bananas".
haha, send us a pic when you got that hat!
Im going to try this out, if i go broke, thats your fault.
Good bankroll management is key! Proceed with caution!
lol
No, it's Mike Postle's fault.
@@monsterstackwizard9313 watch out for his magic cellphone!
Alright, I took everything out of savings to try the 10kNL table... only have 88 BB's though. If this doesn't work I'm unsubscribing
Would you try to aply this theory in zoom/snap games too? I know its a Dumb question, but i am just starting out and for a lot of people i think its easier to start by playing those tables cause you get to play more hands Quicker. LOVE the CONTENT.
Hey, love the editing!
Thanks for the video! Very cool and informative. I would love a follow up to this for post flop.
After watching this video I checked my BB raise % and it is something Ben would call a catastrophe, but there are few things to consider - I play turbo spins where you begin with 30BB stacks, a lot of population are fish players who will trap in SB 5x more often than a regular and will not fold their garbage hands against my bluff izo. Under those circumstances, is there any point in trying to push them out of the pot with hands like Q6o and 85o? I really don't think so. I'd rather add Q8s, J9s and A5o into that range.
great video, also thumbs up for those short jokes :D
Thanks bud!
i lost it at 15:55 nice video, i tend to bluff in spots where i feel "i have to, to stay balanced" in micro where people don't fold a freakin pair.. and i feel absurd after busting.
Feelin like trying to play GTO in small stakes u exploit more urself :P
Really enjoying content although.Wp
Glad its helping
At micro stakes you'll be lucky to bluff someone off top pair never mind trips, even for their tournament life. You have to always keep in mind that 90% of your opponents are pure level 1 thinkers, they're ONLY interested in their hand and how that connects with the board or otherwise. The gap between the very small stakes and the big stakes is so big it may as well be a totally different game.
Enjoyed the video as always, you seem a really good, intelligent bloke and I hope your career continues to go well.
thanks Ben, the third one iam no sure micros are too tight if you cb de flop en then de turn the villain will callyou with medium pair + proyecto my xperience in nl5 is play tight 😭
I have a higher frequency of limp/raises from SB vs aggressive players. They hate folding anyways, so I don't care about being balanced in these spots and show profit by doing it. Against tighter opponents I normally just raise or fold. Could lay traps vs specific stack sizes though. With BB antes being a normal thing in live poker these days, it actually makes the SB vs BB spots more interesting, as I would assume that BB is defending psychologically, which make players tend to play overly aggressive. Just food for thought.
hahha the edits are actually too good
Amazing video. Thank you! At 9:20 you compare the EVs. I understand you look at your opponent tendencies/ranges first. But often the EVs are very equal. As a rule of thumb. At what point do you think the gap between the EVs of betting and checking becomes too big which makes you decide to take the bet/check line? So AhQd PIO prefers to check with +0.0546 while with AdQh it wants to bet +2.3795. What is for you the threshold where you clearly want to chose 1 line? Sure this is only about 2.8 chips. And people won't fold their trips. But what if you expect people to play close to the PIO ranges? And also the size of the pot impacts this threshold right? At the river in a 3b pot the EV gap between checking/betting will be bigger. Do you have a similar rule like 2-5% of AA?. As in if the EV difference of the whole put between 2 lines is bigger than 5% we chose the call line? Danke schön!
I dont have a general rule of line for when taking a specific line to be honest.
If its marginal in theory, I look at exploitative reads that might increase the EV of a respective line. If it remains marginal (probably everything around 5-10% difference is also a good rule of thumb. If you are deeper and your betsize is around 50bb, I for sure want to have a 15% higher EV in betting than checkin (only speaking about these high variance plays when I know my opponent is capable of folding trips).
Great video Ben!!
AlvinTeachesPoker might disagree on this last tip. It would be interesting to see you discuss...
Thanks Ben! Great info
In your second example, could you node-lock Villian that he never lays down trips or straights and re-run the sym and play that strategy? Does pio just not bluff when you do that?
Exactly, pio would never bluff then!
@@bradleylittle1469 when you manually change villains strategy in the solver and then Pio resolves the hand with those ranges. Its a pretty standard thing to do when working with solvers
Thank you sir you are a great person,love your free content♥️👏🧡
Hi, why at the rivver he bets more often the 1010 or the 88 than the Jacks? Thanks for the videos Ben
Really nice input. Thx a lot...
@15:57 - Siam Park, Tenerife - I live 10 minutes from there!
One of exploits that I use is size up with value, bet small as a bluff.
the value bet bluff is one of my favorites haha. Feels so good when it works
Good content again...
beautiful thank you sir!!
I fucking love how you add memes in between the videos, it’s fucking hilarious 😂 population pool 💧💦
That juanda i had trips clip :DDD
Keepin' it light 😃
where?
A.question please about all using pio solver or any sover. If the solvers gives always the correct gto play, why does not everybody plays 1 table and use a solver to play every hand and make every bet, call or fold? Preflop, and post flop, puting in the solver the heroes cards and the flop, turn and river and then do what the solvers recomend
Because it takes the solverto analyse a hand multiple minutes, if the game tree and the stacks large even up to 1 hour
@@RaiseYourEdge yes, but eventually the solvers will get better and faster, and all the people will use them in another computer when they are playing and take a huge advantage. I ask you and tell you this because i dont want to invest time and money getting bettter at online poker if in some years it will be dead because of the solvers and other programs also
@@manum4352 no it wont.
Why is villain calling J8 in the first hand on the river but not 6x? I dont see too much of a blocker advantage for two pair over trips or am I missing something?
Glad we put TimThompson here at 12:24
thanks for your tips ben.
Thanks Ben!
Thanks a lot for your good advices ben ;) i love it man
good vid ben
Gaaaarbaaage Daaay :-)
Would definitely say a great exploit is cbetting super small on paired board and monotone flops vs weak opponents who under defend. E.g. not peeling backdoor straight and flush hands
Good one too!
In paired board the pair is important. On QQ6 small bet will work more often than on 772 board. If your goal is to make them fold - even weaker opponents won't fold their high cards on a paired board if you bet too small. Especially if you are playing live. Nobody wants to look stupid. Instead you can bet around 3/4 of the pot. This will further increase their fold frequency, kill their bluff check-raise frequency and almost for sure give you 2 free cards if they do decide to call. I think betting big in this scenario is more profitable against certain opponents.
Also dont bother checking flop with top pair to "protect your check back range" because these lower stakes guys arent attacking light or with bluffs when you check back,no point inducing bluffs when they are weak as piss! I have often even bet flop check back turn to induce bluffs from hand with no SDV or bets from top pair/middle pair but the wimps just check most of the time. You miss out on value and just give them free cards to outdraw you.
Of course if you play a specific guy that will attack check backs then its good to do from time to time;-)
Value bet more and larger and fold more to their aggression (especially raises on trun or river)than GTO would advise
I actually disagrees with the don't bluff so mutch tip. Inspired by this video I did a fb analysis for the last 12month. I played around 7500 mtts with an av bi of 57$, so mostly low stakes and occasionally 100$ mtts. I filtered all my hands for paired boards, paired boards + fd and similar combinations. People are over folding in these spots tremendously. Maybe my sample is skewed or smt else is going on. I think people are over de fending their bb these days, even vs utg. I can't go into much detail but I strongly disagree with the example hand u gave. Anyways, raising more from the sb is Def much better in these stakes. Wouldn't mind if u could give me your opinion or could say more about what sample and stakes u Analysed
My tip is for not making bluffing in big pots and not attacking the bb or bluffing 1 or 2 streets.
If you cant go into detail, neither can I :)
If you dissagree and dont want to share your details, we cant have a debate about that.
Thanks Ben, I know you play a wide range of buyins eg Sunday Storm and High Rollers. Are there any methods you use to differentiate tables which play differently so you can tailor global strategy or do you just keep it on an individual level and rely on HUD stats? Thinking of changing felt colour for my toughest vanilla tables.
Changing felt colour can definitely help, but it's important to be table aware all the time whether it is in a tough tournament or weak tournament.
@@RaiseYourEdge Thank you
If one registers for the expert tournament class, do you get a copy of the solver or at least have permanent access to it so we can play around with it?
That software is called PIOSolver, and it has nothing to do with RYE. Price for this tool is from $249 to $1000+.
@@SimonasMorkunas Thanks for the info.
thanks ben
GTO doesnt work on small-mid stakes.
Only exploit
It should actually make a big difference if he calls 87s, 76s, 65s, 54s or 3-bets it, right? But the point is clear anyway. :)
2nd spot of course.
Please put a high pass on your sound (maybe around 60 Hz), you have some very low frequencies rumbling around (I barely hear them on my studio monitors).
This a) creates a very uncomfortable audio experience and b) lowers your general perceived volume, since a lot of energy is wasted on that low-frequency garbage.
Anyway thanks for your great content.
Ben please don’t explain concepts like this because I am a low and mistake player and I am afraid of getting exploited by your audience
That's why it's important to stay on top of your game and don't fall behind!
i am also a mistake player
Im a slow and mistake player too
Then all 3 of you need to study, implement what you learn in your game. Or don't play and go back to the rat race.
Is this applicable in CG or just MTT? :D
CG players usually are better players, they understand ranges better. So espacially the strength hand exploit(which i am used too) is more effective in mtts. But in low stakes cg there are a lot of people who dont want to let go of top pair and better aswell
Those ranges for mp pfr and bb defence are ridiculously wide. Youre opening K4s from mp and BB is defending any 2 suited. Why are you using these ranges?
Ah this is tournament stuff. I guess there is antes. Still K4s from mp? Is that standard in tourney?
@@mikegoodwin5951 yes
OK, so I'll recap all I understood:
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Well, if you can't beat em, join em....
Go rus , please:)
So inflate the pot out of position with marginal hands and hope you realise your equity enough of the time to turn a profit?
Ok so I was destined to lose. I got aces I raise .20 cents dude calls everyone folded. Flop has nothing I check they bet 24 cents. I call turn is nothing he bets 64 cents I call. River is a king. A bet 2 dollars he calls. He had pocket kings. How do I not loose my butt in that. Can only say luckily I wasn’t all in
You’re a genius Ben, and not just in poker.
Meanwhile I’m an idiot wasting my life :(
i just get needled if i play garbage hands lol cant win hahahaa
dont bluff, saves money)
Always enjoy the content but gotta say the "extra" clips just really bring nothing to the table and just distract
Some like it some don't...just enjoy for what it is sir.
@@RaiseYourEdge They are fine. Especially the more fresh the meme used, the better ;)
This is nothing for me
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