500NL Zoom Hand Review With Top Pro BenaBadBeat! GTO vs Micro Stakes Analysis!

[@ssio-sn3lp]

BenaBadBeat is a Legend definitely there for all the videos you make with him!

[@eastyyy22]

He really is! More to come in the next few weeks :)

[@deancrowley1443]

One of the best poker videos I’ve ever watched. Great breakdowns with really good questions by you to keep people like me engaged hahaha. Ye should have your own series or something.

[@eastyyy22]

Thanks very much, Dean! Really happy you liked it, and that you thought my contribution was useful!

[@alekseimarkov1665]

My favorite format of material - super insightful and educational. Thank you!

[@eastyyy22]

Thank you!

[@adamkimberley2575]

Brilliant video. This channel is a real service. Thanks!

[@eastyyy22]

Thanks a lot, Adam!

[@shippy5952]

Nice to see Ben on! I've lurked your videos and some streams before. Keep up the good work man!

[@eastyyy22]

Thanks mate, appreciate you watching my content!

[@leonardoegavaudan2813]

shippy!

[@timnickoll]

one of my favourite strat videos I have seen, brilliant work. Keep it up

[@eastyyy22]

Thanks so much Tim! Really glad you enjoyed it.

[@curtissharpe6528]

Such an interesting watch!! Great content!!

[@eastyyy22]

Thanks Curtis, I appreciate it!

[@chesscoachgerry4140]

Wow nice! Already excited for more of these :)

[@eastyyy22]

Thanks, Oscar! Few more to come in the next couple of weeks!

[@maxhdr]

Excellent video, so good to hear the thought process of a good 500nl player.

[@eastyyy22]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@maxhdr]

@@eastyyy22 yeah and that's a chance for you to know such a good player, it will help you improve a lot faster and find the right mindset 👌

[@zyzzmirincomeatme]

Great video! Please do more videos with Bena. Those vids are the best

[@eastyyy22]

Thanks a lot! Can't get him all the time as he is very busy but I will rope him in to some more down the line.

[@Pablo-jq4kf]

Great video. Lucky I found you on twitch yesterday

[@eastyyy22]

Good to see you there! Thanks for watching.

[@user-xr4bq3eo7s]

Content is on fire lately! Keep it up!

[@eastyyy22]

Thanks so much! Want to keep improving it all the time, but this is really my favourite content so far!

[@davidlewis3099]

Looking forward to this

[@eastyyy22]

Enjoy!

[@Ollychamberlain]

I’m learning so much from these videos.

[@eastyyy22]

Good to hear mate! Thanks a lot for watching.

[@seandoyle5229]

sick vid!!!

[@eastyyy22]

Thank you Sean!

[@j.hurley5510]

Nick you weren't lying, this was insanely good stuff, ive shared it everywhere because I think its pretty nutted for YT content. You asked so many really good questions that I was thinking myself too which I really liked. TBH I thought you were gonna sit back and just listen which still woulda been good but by questioning ben we get such good information into his processes and how they differ to ours. Seriously man this was sick ;) I have the one question if ben is around? The KTo hand 15:00 OTT. I dont think you mentioned it but you mightve so forgive me if so. Does his turn bet not also mean he dosent really have that many flushes by the river. I would imagine his pure FD (so excluding things like 67dd,78dd, A3dd,A2dd) would check turn? I might be way off here but he is kinda repping 5x hard OTT. And then by the river his sizing makes no sense like you say after the turn bet. Just curious if the turn bet made you alot less worried about flushes also? He obvs can still have some but not at 100% Id imagine? But I really appreciate you doing this, I dont think Ive heard someone convey their thoughts so clearly before in a hand review. Thanks alot Great stuff :D

[@eastyyy22]

Man thanks so much, I'm really glad you liked it! I did want to strike a balance but mostly probe Ben with questions and let him roll! He really is excellent at conveying his thought processes and I'm really lucky to have had him on the channel and to be doing a few more with him too! I'll mention to Ben that you've asked a question, probably best I let him field it haha. Let him deal with the Hurley essay for once! But yeah, awesome man, thanks for all your support and glad to be able to offer you something like this after dealing with my crap for months haha.

[@BenjaminRaven]

Yeah i think your assumptions are generally pretty accurate, but other than the mentioned excluded FD's, there aren't a whole lot more, therefore, river flush range is drastically reduced. It's obviously a lot easier to come to those conclusions post hand, whereas in game i was relying on river sizing more than anything. I wish i could say that i had the whole hand already figured out ott!

[@j.hurley5510]

@@BenjaminRaven Gotcha, just wanted to make sure my read OTT was okay because if you didnt say it I was like "Well I guess thats not important" :D Thanks again

[@matthewwalton5270]

Great content, look forward to more

[@eastyyy22]

Thanks Matthew!

[@christophbinder3679]

Wow! Good questions - very good content! Got more??

[@eastyyy22]

Thanks Christoph! We do have a couple more videos with Ben coming up in the next few weeks! See you then.

[@Sejdr]

This dual-perspective video was very interesting!

[@eastyyy22]

Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching.

[@CaptainJesus]

Ted here keep up the good work !

[@eastyyy22]

Thanks Ted, hope you like the video!

[@steburnst]

great avatar you got there

[@ig8388]

Awesome video man really enjoyed it. I wish you would have briefly talked about what combos would be bluffing the river on the QJ 7 7 A board (with the T9dd) - I guess T9cc as you mentioned?

[@eastyyy22]

Thank you! I haven't rewatched this in a while but let me get back to you on that!

[@samuelmelchione8586]

ARE YOU KIDDING ME! this is insane value! benabadbeat is absolute crusher had no idea you knew him ty ty tty

[@eastyyy22]

Yeah I'm pretty excited to be able to offer this one! I've known Ben a while but only recently back in contact. A very nice guy and obviously super generous with his time. Glad you liked it!

[@yooyoo8637]

Amazing poker video, I guess 500z players still make mistakes like we all do. Have to sub after this video, keep it up 👍

[@eastyyy22]

Thank you very much! They certainly do, but they are much, much better at using them to learn. Appreciate the sub! More with Ben next week.

[@paulelement3416]

Good Vid!!!!

[@eastyyy22]

Thanks Paul!

[@KrishanBhattacharya]

good strat video, thanks brah.

[@eastyyy22]

Thanks very much!

[@liveslowlivesimple]

11:40 KQo in the BB should only 3bet SB open 15% of the time? did i hear that right

[@eastyyy22]

Hi Chris, that is correct! Maybe Ben will dip in with the exact reasons for this but I'd venture they are very good ones haha. Thanks for watching!

[@BenjaminRaven]

In my charts this is true yeah. Disclaimer: there are infinite preflop solves that will yield similar EV's, so my 15% vs your x% won't change/impact gto solutions all that much!

[@NikNik-jr1vm]

YAY

[@eastyyy22]

Hope you like it, Nikki!

[@BigDaddyGee85]

its so sick which kind of transition you have to make from Micro to Mid/High Stakes...its almost a different game

[@eastyyy22]

Yeah it's certainly very different! Lots of things we are used to are just no longer considerations due to how well our opponents play and how balanced they are. Thanks for watching!

[@BigDaddyGee85]

@@eastyyy22 yeah right. You will need to have way more Buy ins compared to micros where you dont have to call of so often on rivers. I honestly think you really should play the highest stakes possible for your Bankroll right from the beginning, cause the knowledge you gain in the micros cant really help you or even hurts your ev in mid stakes..

[@eastyyy22]

@@BigDaddyGee85 Yeah we should aggressively move up if we can afford to and are happy with our play! A lot due to rake structures at lower stakes. We should always be seeking to have a solid strategy rather than just pure exploit everywhere though, which will still help us later.

[@BigDaddyGee85]

@@eastyyy22 thats true. But i would really like to know how much effective money we would make with our micro-exploids..cause we would fold a lot more in some spots on flop, where those highstakes players go broke on river.

[@adamkimberley2575]

At 12:00, why wouldn't you expect to see a raise if villain had Kx? (Sorry if that seems naïve, I'm a bit of a newbie). Thanks again for the great content.

[@srki22]

In the hand with 9Ts on SB, Ben said that he is using only one size on the river which is shoving with AQ, X7 (because we check Qx). My question, what is our bluffing range on the river? I guess some suited K like Kh6h or something like that that does not block diamonds or X8 and blocks KT?

[@TheHmbn23]

Early Squad!

[@eastyyy22]

Thanks man!

[@daverogers4195]

Got to be talking about charlie c in that K554Q hand ?

[@eastyyy22]

Not that I'm aware of!

[@FefeLeVrai]

I like the flop call with AK in the first hand. Actually AK does better than 99 or TT, showdown value is effectively the same, while AK has better removal and more equity against value hands. Hands 2 and 4 are some pretty maniacal calls tho. He has no blocker to diamonds in hand 2 for the river call, and having a ten in hand 4 blocks their bluffs.

[@eastyyy22]

Yeah I think the AK call is very reasonable, but as said, maybe a shove is also pretty good. Hand 2 is an exploit call as discussed, and hand 4 Ben states that he is very unhappy with the call and thinks it's an easy fold.

[@roberto5136-g3i]

like in the dark

[@eastyyy22]

Hope you like it!

[@steburnst]

so......no content on calling 10x pot river shoves? not sure how much this can help me tbh

[@eastyyy22]

I think the lack of its presence may be the message you are needing here haha

[@BenjaminRaven]

all i'll say is... wait until the next video :D

[@steburnst]

@@BenjaminRaven i'd made that comment before i saw the last hand so now i know we're thinking the same way (and will ignore evidence to the contrary)

[@crabluva]

Really great content. I would encourage you to not focus too much on the meta of your main stake. If you do, will end up playing the same way and getting wrecked by more aggressive players. Playing like benabadbeat at micros will definitely perform much better than metaslave, max exploit "everyone here always does xyz". Just think how well these bluffs Ben's opponents make would work at your stakes...you'd win such a high percentage of hands

[@eastyyy22]

Thanks Andrew! I am mostly trying to play a theory based approach as it can be kind of hard to exploit when I stream all my hands and a decent amount of the players are at least aware of me!

[@krsnadasafernandez7105]

Btw, what are you studying? What is your studying material? Coaches, courses? Im playing NL5 but I feel stuck now

[@eastyyy22]

I use GTO+ a little bit, but mainly my Discord! Feel free to join and start posting some hands!

[@OsefKincaid]

We establish that villain probably has two sizings and doesn't size like this with AA and KK, and then we argue that AK makes a good bluffshove because we block AA and KK ;)

[@OsefKincaid]

We see a very weak hand and conclude that he's betting range, when if he's polarized he should bet his very strong and his very weak hands ;)

[@OsefKincaid]

We think it's better to bet flop with a backdoor flush draw than with JhTh, when actually the bettor wants IP to have a backdoor flushdraw to call with, so JhTh unblocking the weak calls of IP's range is a great hand to bet flop and then multibarrel ;)

[@BenjaminRaven]

As far as i can tell, I didn't discount AA/KK for the small sizing once, (EDIT: in fact just having watched it back i literally say that he will use small sizes with aces and kings). On the contrary, AA/KK will find its way into both a block size and an all in size (I know that as villain i will roll my RNG twice, once for bet/check, and once for small/large). Further this villain is one that will also mix sizes within hand class. With that in mind the question definitely does need to be asked whether we wanna shove AK for blocker effect (which i acknowledge by saying I wanna mix all three options of call/raise/fold with AKhh). As to your second point, we are making assumptions based on villains decision to bet a holding that is in a pure checking hand class, therefore, because ranges are so tight BB v UTG, it would be a relatively fair conclusion that if villain is betting one of the worse hands in his overall range, he's betting too much (whether that is range or not is clearly the thing that we are speculating. To your last point. We are mainly concerned with generating the highest EV. And simply put, betting JThh yields a significantly lower EV than checking. Your analysis that JThh is pretty conclusive, but im curious, have you actually run the sim? Because if you had, you'd see that your analysis is very very far off the mark. in this exact scenario EQ >>>>>>>>>> unblocking ip folding range, it's not even close.

[@OsefKincaid]

@@BenjaminRaven Ok :)

[@steerpike50]

He could have pocket 4s 8s 2s 3s A5 56 or a single 4,8,2, 3,T

[@BenjaminRaven]

first glglgl

[@eastyyy22]

Cheers for the video mate! Looking forward to Punt or No Punt!

[@sircallalott4622]

Ben (and Easty) thanks SO much for your time. Ben, on the last hand you mention you are very unhappy about not having diamond(s) (I think Nick thought you’d be happy not to have diamonds!) because you think he would be bluffing that suit least on river. Could you please explain that a little more? I would have thought you wanted to not have diamonds so he has more bluffs here 😔

[@BenjaminRaven]

@@sircallalott4622 Cheers dominic! You're right that there could be some argument to wanting to not have diamonds because it increases villains bluffs, however, in their shoes, they really want us to have more diamond diamond combos that fold the river. To put it simply, when bluffing the river, you want to unblock your opponents folding range (in this case diamonds). When IP chooses to bluff hands like ATdd for example, it means that OOP is far more likely to have value hands. It all really boils down to the EV of bluffing combos - diamond combos will yield low or negative ev for villain to bluff, and therefore it is better for us to have at least one when calling a river all in

[@sircallalott4622]

@@BenjaminRaven thanks Ben for the explanation! If I could just put the following ... “when IP chooses to bluff hands like ATdd, it means that OOP is far more likely to have value hands” then why does the reverse not hold true? I.e. if OOP has dd (which is what you said you want to have) then why could IP not have more value? Thanks again for replying in the comments section... boss!!