Uri - "Why GTO Needs Exploits" (new interview)

my first breakthrough as a player came, when i realised i can just mess with ppl - on certain boards, i could tell a story that would make all of your range bluff-catchers. 

.. capped range. 2012 if someone had a capped range and you put your stack in, he'd just fold.

it got so extreme - for ex: UTG opened, I flat BU, board came 558  (ppl were not opening 65s, 54s) - i was in a frame of mind of "am calling your first two bets and shoving over your third one, and you're never calling me with anything"

once i realised i can fuck with ppl, my winrate got really high really fast. I started moving up stakes.

(River) Bet sizing theory

 

solver likes to go geometric here:

B125, B125, shove B100

Uri - Elite Cash Game Exploits [free content]

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Uri - Blueprint - working with solver [Range mechanics / heuristics]

https://members.upswingpoker.com/courses/drills-preflop-ranges/lessons/drilling-with-lucid-poker/

somehow skipped this vid

>>  some key nuggets / heuristics:

3:00 timestamp : how close in EV lot of the post-flop actions run (!) 

** EV loss is so tiny - any other factor (dynamics / image / player you feel (or not feel) comfortable playing against) easily outweighs it

6:20 timestamp : framework for post-flop decisions that run close / similar EV

11:30 timestamp - KK in BU v BB SRP:  2nd FD coming in on the turn - now there will be 2x more flushes on the river >> our hand wants a smaller pot

13:20 timestamp : river decision-making framework based on how "tricky | straightwfd" is our opponent 

BB Defense ranges

vs UTG / tight opens:

- the reason why A9o, KTo, QTo are folding and hands likes 74s are calling - these are "pot odds calls"

- they can improve vs UTG open range, while hands like KTo are often dominated

- we want hands that can make str8s, flushes, trips

as we face looser opens - our suited region doesn't change much, but we start adding more offsuit Ax, and offsuit broadways

BB vs SB 

- plus offsuit trashy hands = bluffing with our calling range once the calling range becomes very wide, we get to make these wide bluffs, avoiding the middle range

Mid Stakes CGWC - Venator abusing the button

here

and torching 300bb's blasting off on a bad runout vs Stefan

new vid - 50nl crush

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like this dude's style - in a similar camp as Pr0digy:

big theme: 

- playing with intensity - trying to soak up every little piece of info we can pick up at the table (SS players give off a lot - they're not deceptive / balanced enough)

- fishing for reads: 

        induce them to give off info by : small bets, checks, ..

- timing tells (betting small on a low wet board, watching if he snap-calls)

- should have everyone colour coded playing in these games, notes on timing tells, etc

- watch your customers intently (interesting hands you're not involved in etc.) the more you do itm the better you become at it, start noticing patterns etc.

heuristics: "the lower the stakes, the more you can deviate from the "story" and "abuse" (e.g. this play, even at 3k nl vs unknown where he bluff shoves the brickiest river) - he seems to not care much about the "story" vs recs

shark mentality - shift in perspective: ** so much for him to be worried about on this runout **

river bluff sizing 

calls 2 small bets ip, then shoves river for 1x pot when checked to.. (NOT strong story / OK runout & blockers)

timing & bet size manipulation exploit

and here  / cool hand & explain /

** cbet small on low dynamic board - if he snap calls - not too many strong hands - we can run multi street bluff **

widening PF 3bet range IP vs high VPIP (consider SPR (stack / open size)

uses 50% raise pf for 3bet sizing

A4s min 3bet BvB - spicy

"sometimes you need to care less about how good your story is, and more about how much you can bully them into folding"

sometimes = "the snap-check was not built to face more than 2x the pot, when the board pairs"

How to adjust to/exploit Range bettors [Uri]

https://youtu.be/L3pp75u1I90?si=inaGjcI8JCvUC_1d

#1 call wider

#2 check / raise more 

#3 probe river more aggressively