Michael Addamo SNATCHING SOULS in a $300k Buy-In Tournament

[@KiiroiSenko1]

There isn’t a single aspect of this video (analysis, editing, interesting commentary) that isn’t absolute gold.

[@jcw8955]

except for the way he pronounces “Addamo”

[@michael2305]

ac/dc still roaring while he starts talking wasn't particularly great editing but that's just nitpicking.

[@literallyme3845]

AC/DC sucks, so there is that.

[@J.Braxton]

The final lyric being a cheesy cover was pretty cringe, other than that top tier

[@NoJumper]

another amazing video. this addamo guy is a god!

[@kylewittkop3684]

I see adam is still playing acr mtts…

[@redbullfacts9116]

When you getting back on live at the bike?

[@FindingEquilibrium]

Thanks brotha!

[@johnmalto3392]

And another amazing intro

[@larsvegas6001]

@@kylewittkop3684 he plays in every Site. You can see him in every Highroller online Tournament or Mtt's with overlay and good Value. No matter the site. He is out there battling.

[@devafterdark]

This is a mystery man. Computer scientist? Mathematician? Self-taught poker player? Developed a solver, knowledge of data structures and algorithms, and practiced in discrete probability. I think we all look forward to the big reveal

[@alakazaam4292]

Thank you for this amazing content! Getting into the nitty gritty without being a boring turd is very hard.

[@darrylmeeking6839]

What a beast and what a great video, thanks

[@Raoul-Duke]

I may not be able to afford to use your software. I absolutely love the content you post using it. Thank you so much for the quality content.

[@asb3pe]

the big overraise is a play that seems difficult to formulate a strategy for, in terms of when/where and why, esp for those of us who don't have our noses buried in a solver... that would seem to be one good reason to fiddle with solver outputs like you are always doing. really enjoyed this one, thx!

[@GeneticallyEngineeredCatgirls]

You don't have to use solver to have a rough idea for this, simply check some of your strongest and weakest hands on the turn if your opponent takes a passive line which usually signifies marginal hand.

[@danmartin9086]

I agree, how much more fold equity does a 2x pot raise achieve than a 1x pot raise? What am I missing?

[@noodles6175]

@@danmartin9086 fair bit more fold equity generated in early MTT stages depending on sizing. The relative BB at this stage makes his range way more polarising than just a normal raise. His range doesnt include 2 pairs, maybe not even sets. Purely top of value (ie straights) and bottom (airballs)

[@dp26385]

Excellent video. Thank you.

[@arashparsi9992]

Great content as always! Thanks for the analysis.

[@MrKh4O]

The intro is fire! Just like Addamo!

[@evrenturan5632]

Michael A 🐐 in the making

[@bobcooter]

Great video lol I remember thinking Negreanu was crazy at the time.

[@patatequichauffe7740]

great content as always

[@OsefKincaid]

I don't get how the solver could fold AK and call pairs (especially TT) in the Negreanu spot, am I misreading this?

[@OsefKincaid]

Also what's the difference between A2o and A2s?

[@Rathbun222]

@@OsefKincaid o means off suit and S means suited

[@OsefKincaid]

@@Rathbun222 Nah but I'd really like to know tho, this is counterintuitive to me so I'm interested

[@tavishmcdonell6615]

It is imperative that we arrange the Addamo-Hellmuth heads up battle ASAP. Whoever wins, will probably only last 5 minutes though.

[@izang5800]

Nah Adammo vs Dwan

[@abhiksaha9692]

First...these videos are awesome...the best poker content...keep it up

[@531phino5]

really good content, keep it up

[@cain2548]

That outro was the best

[@JuraIbis]

Tossing the timebanks is a legal angle shoot. By performing these physical, visible steps of thinking he has a decision, he's trying to intimidate his opponent in disguising his weakness. A weak opponent would have give up already. This is all part of the performance, and i would not be surprised that while using the timebanks he was just thinking of what he was going to do for his vacation in a few weeks or such. His decision was already taken. The cheapo blue mask is also part of the theater.

[@sesloajit5185]

🙄

[@StuartFerguson55]

@@sesloajit5185 lol, wp.

[@Stefanburakov]

The mask is so he not get prison when Come Home to his dictatur country.

[@isaiah5217]

@@sesloajit5185 he typed a whole paragraph and edited it 😏 But could it have been aliens?... Ancient alien theorists say, "Yes."

[@AryehLifeProject]

Was waiting for this video. Amazing. Will you review some of the hands he played later in the tournament?

[@isaiah5217]

Why KsAh and KsAd so different in x freq. than KdAh on 5c 7h 9d flop?

[@iambadatpickingusernames6669]

Any thoughts on that Bill Klein AJ vs Addamo QQ hand for all the chips at the FT?

[@julio6377]

We miss your videos!

[@tobyc8905]

Another wizard in the mix

[@carloscortes9181]

What levels were those hands? Just curios since the best are very heavy and what are the stack depths?

[@thomasdoyle6812]

Why is AK a fold on the river but KK, JJ etc and A2 is a call?

[@davicola56]

Always check the range that the solver is using against the calling range to get your answer.

[@jakobschmidt274]

Look at the weight of the hands like TT-KK (you can see it for TT at minute 11:36). Its .... e^-8 or sth. = basically 0. That means that for the very few times you ended up bet-calling turn with these hands you apparently have to bluffcatch river alot. Kind of an analogy to the old wisdom: "When you play against people who fire three barrels and you overcalled the turn, you also have to make some very uncomfortable river calldowns or else you will get destroyed at non-showdown". More likely though is this: The solve is not 100% accurate, we probably see a small error here. If its really perfectly solved than these hands are never calling turn and this situation doesnt occur. Now i made a similar comment in another video and maybe thats the reason why the programm now has a weight bar. Move it so that all combos < 1% are removed and it will be alot less confusing. This is also really important for the EV-Regret number, the EVR (when simplifying your strategy to one action for the entire range) can be unintuitively high if some almost infinitely low freq. combos prefer a certain action. But this will simply skew your analysis of a spot since its likely due to a small error that the combo is even relevant.

[@fredydruger]

This guy is a modern rockstar

[@beta7899]

Great stuff, where the vlogs at tho.

[@donmasacre4919]

What is the name of the analyst in the GTOX videos?

[@vinnycout.]

What an Intro!

[@andrewfraancis]

S tier video

[@Nash9r]

He is almost as on fire as Postle in his best days.

[@TheEvilJade]

Question When Dnegs called was the tournament a freeze out?

[@morrowcosom]

Interesting bet sizing. It reminds me of watching Isildur1 play.

[@Trizzer89]

Bonomo had almost the top of his range. Geez, I don't know about that fold

[@Zoggyboyzimmy]

I don’t think he’s doing anything mega wild, he just doesn’t show his opponents any respect, and they seemingly do no deserve it.

[@Stefanburakov]

This is why Daniel should continue as late as possible, comment off The year: before Daniel even get his first cup off green Tea. Lol.

[@lamm-prinzessin1116]

link to the music?

[@misclic2408]

7:00 what is ? ev regret

[@Trizzer89]

I hate it when people ask what you would do on an overbet jam but they never say how the preflop action went

[@AntoninLemon]

He is the new god of poker !

[@davidfong7848]

The more I think about the Schindler hand the more I'm questioning how good Adammo's play was. I feel like Jake's betting range is pretty polar, right? QQ is almost the bottom of his value betting range since Addamo has 99-QQ often himself. Solver has Jake betting hands like 6x-7x and 88-TT but facing Addamo I'm not sure people are actually betting that wide. The other, much larger, portion of Jakes range is Kx, nutty slow plays, and backdoor floats that missed. I guess if we assume Jake can fold some Kx then Addamo's X/shove is better, but idk how realistic that is. The other part of Jake's range is air and Addamo's hand beats air. I just feel like Addamo is targeting such a small part of Jake's range. He could be exploiting something tho? That's always a possibility.

[@Demondoink1]

i get what you are saying, but it just doesn't really matter a ton because he still needs bluffs regardless. what is the alternative, to never bluff? that means that Schindler can safely bet/fold a hand like KQ or KJ. so yeah, some spots in poker you are kind of spewing when you opt for the bluff (as there is a high likelihood of being called) but you have to do so regardless otherwise your opponent can just fold every time. exploiting in these spots is overrated. it's not really common in large river bluff catching spots that you are exploiting your opponent, its usually in spots on earlier streets when they do things such as misconstruct their ranges and then over fold. on the river they tend to have a fairly tight range once multiple bets have gone in, and even nits are prepared to call down light if they think you are buffing (at least that is the case with me). my river bluffs are probably -EV this year, but it means i get called more often with value bets otr.

[@isaiah5217]

Addamo has made non-GTO exploitative plays at final tables before. I think the main impetus behind the bluff is the icm pressure he can apply as the big stack, believing Schindler will not call without a boat, blocking 77, and the passive line Schindler took esp. the check back on the turn

[@isaiah5217]

and maybe Addamo has hacked the code Imsirovic and Schindler are using to signal their hands to each other

[@misclic2408]

12¨00 doesnt danniels A , has reverse card removal qualities/ betting lines ..!?

[@CalebJNelson]

In the first hand, considering how long it took Addamo, QQ would’ve been a fairly easy call.

[@monishr4631]

Dude a qq, since you have created all these cool tech in place , why not see their efficiency this year in wsop . Would be interesting to see how well it fairs , cheers .

[@samuraijack1371]

Dnegs made a classic NiT mistake. Calling based on hand strength in such a polarized spot. A6,A7,A8 are much better calls. The tighter the ranges the less raw equity is important. And if raw equity isn’t imp then obviously it’s based on blockers.

[@tomfritz6257]

true, i do think daniel isnt overlooking better calls these days after a lot of hu and range work. i think he i just caught up in dynamics and thinks michael is overbluffing the 64, 63, j8, 108, 79, 78, 76. 98 ,96 and that is a rough estimation. because you need him to be bluffing 75% of the time, and thats a lot.

[@synchronium24]

Nits overfold, so this is certainly not a nit mistake.

[@Stefanburakov]

He should continue buy in late this is what happen when a donk play vs a pro with 100 or more BB.

[@Eastcoastwes92]

This makes sense, but I think it would be "the more polarized the ranges" (not "the tighter the ranges"). One thing I was trying to figure out is why solver calls with TT. Don't we block some bluffs we beat (like T9 turned into a bluff,T8, JT etc.?)

[@Johnny-cz2wv]

@@tomfritz6257 it's 3x pot so he only needs to be right 40% or so

[@tassv5909]

Doug summed it up nicely in a recent podcast. "but when I hit a hand, I am one of the players who gets paid off the most":

[@00Visor]

If you are implying that we choose a "worse" strategy which makes us more money with other hands or in future spots (where we get paid off), that this is not part of GTO. GTO is always isolated the best strategy (most EV) for this hand in this spot.

[@tassv5909]

@@00Visor so do you think Addamo is playing GTO or the "worse" strategy?

[@00Visor]

@@tassv5909 He didn't make any -EV plays according to the solvers as far as I saw, so that would be GTO.

[@tassv5909]

​@@00Visor Whenever I always go for the aggressive option, when I am supposed to mix to not be -EV, it ends up being + EV. I am just saying that I can`t be the only one who noticed that.

[@00Visor]

​@@tassv5909 You make a good point. If there are multiple options, you also have to choose the right frequency according to GTO. If you are deviating (being more aggresive), it should be either because you are opponent is not calling enough against the aggressive option and you are bluffing more or he calls too much and you are valuebetting. From a balanced standpoint there is no reason to bluff and valuebet more, so your "good hands gets paid off the most".

[@maxvaluemax]

The path of violence

[@soren8994]

Thunder! He is a sicko

[@TsongaJose]

Im sorry but something is wrong with the results on your video. KK-TT cant be calling when AK-AT are folding at this 3x pot river on this board. Actually impossible.

[@jakobschmidt274]

A common problem in these otherwise great videos. Look at the weight of the hands like TT-KK (you can see it for TT at minute 11:36). Its .... e^-8 or sth. = basically 0. That means that for the very few times you ended up bet-calling turn with these hands you apparently have to bluffcatch river alot. Kind of an analogy to the old wisdom: "When you play against people who fire three barrels and you overcalled the turn, you also have to make some very uncomfortable river calldowns or else you will get destroyed at non-showdown". More likely though is this: The solve is not 100% accurate, we probably see a small error here. If its really perfectly solved than these hands are never calling turn and this situation doesnt occur. Now i made a similar comment in another video and maybe thats the reason why the programm now has a weight bar. Move it so that all combos < 1% are removed and it will be alot less confusing. This is also really important for the EV-Regret number, the EVR (when simplifying your strategy to one action for the entire range) can be unintuitively high if some almost infinitely low freq. combos prefer a certain action. But this will simply skew your analysis of a spot since its likely due to a small error that the combo is even relevant.

[@TsongaJose]

@@jakobschmidt274 Im pretty sure the first hypothesis you said is not correct in this case. Because for example AT is 100% better than TT on all fronts, so you only start to call TT when you are already calling 100% of AT...Im pretty sure of this. Now, i agree with the second part. It is very likely an accuracy problem in the solver or not low enough exploitability (they are the same for the purpose of this topic i guess...) i dont have this software, i dont know too much about ev regret, but i would imagine it works with weights and maybe is robust vs this problem. I also dont understand why in the video he doesnt think its strange this situation even after talking about this results. Its kinda obvious it might be a problem, specially to him that is used to view the weights and as you said they are really small...

[@thailanduncensored2669]

Aussies rule 😎

[@alexandreleal7402]

Amazing how can he pick 87 in that spot! Brained

[@misclic2408]

2:43 is not a 4x ... but ty f the video

[@luoat7637]

I think there is some problem with the analysis since there is more ante in MTT game which would includes A3o and 57o as a legitimate defending candidates at BB. Having those in the customized range, I believe the 57o hand would raise more often rangewise, even if we don't deviate the strategy of Addamo to a tendency of higher percentage of bluff.

[@guywillgamble9978]

I don't want to be consumed by the fears that encumber most men either 💰

[@Romans8-9]

Good vid but I disagree with the Negreanu hand. I´ve watched alot of Addamo online and live, he is unbalanced when he overbet jams especially like 3x-4x pot but he gets paid off because he is considered "capable" or "willing to bluff off his whole stack". This is flawed logic. In the biggest spots he overbet jammed against DNegs and Bonomo, he had it. Its the same online too. Not that it matters that much anyway, since he is in a league of his own right now.

[@vrhkrv4696]

I can tell you haven't seen enough. Go back and watch some more.

[@Romans8-9]

@@vrhkrv4696 The other hands are not relevant. Addamo never 3x overpot jammed in the tourney as a bluff and I have never seen him do it online either. (Not saying he cant or he hasnt, I just think he is way unbalanced when he does).

[@sergiozack974]

@@Romans8-9 Had the same filings. When he risk his stack he got straight vs Daniel, when he bluff with 76s he doesn’t (he cover Villain 2x).

[@larsvegas6001]

Dnegs drinks a lot of Tim Horton's Coffee nowadays. Green Tee is out.

[@Stefanburakov]

Lol when Will he start with vegetarian milk?

[@Gos1234567]

300,000$ is the average house price in Vegas?????That wouldnt buy you a shack in rain soaked backward Ireland,what am i doing with my life????

[@patriciofalotico1940]

you are a masterpiece, and addamo it's fucking Insane what a player, so annoying, Im sure that overbet on the flop is going to be a future meta

[@crabluva]

The AK bluffcatch is really bad. Good analysis would talk about why solver prefers to call TT-KK at a high frequency (block 5xs). Just because solver does something at a frequency doesn't mean it's the ideal action...2.5% call on the river even against a maniac (and maniacs have nothing on solver for aggression level) won't make much money. With ICM even with this being Level 1 it can easily be a fold in a tourney. If you think about/look at all the bluffcatchers Daniel arrives to on the river AK is one of the worst.

[@andrewcole1564]

gg coke can dan

[@samsontay8567]

Instructions unclear, down 5buyins in 1/2

[@danmartin9086]

Surely there is no point playing GTO when your opponent is not or during a tournament when you will not nearly be playing enough hands to create a strong need to balance your behaviour?

[@fakeras4405]

I play like that every day, but win only sometimes. That says the old truth. U just need luck

[@lh5636]

what really happened was addamo thought how big is chance of him putting me on this bluff with combos to fold makes it the best spot to go for it and when this vid came out, wow some dude got crazy over it, while i tried to max ev against human from a logic perspective in that moment of time

[@imalwaysbluffing]

No he’s def a gto bot

[@0ne595]

I feel like he's just playing pure exploit and you're trying to give it meaning

[@Thejacka47]

GTO makes poker boring, its a FEEL game. Not for bots.

[@lrzday1704]

He hacked the GTO

[@Unam469]

Do the analysis without a computer.

[@literallyme3845]

AC/DC SUCKS!!! One of the worst bands ever.

[@skillfuldabest]

A bit funny seeing the maniac poker player being scared of something that will almost never harm his demographic.

[@prenomnom6203]

very likely wearing it for the live tell avoidance value

[@Brandon-hg7ic]

Or he's not vaxxed

[@skillfuldabest]

@@Brandon-hg7ic he's not old and obese so doesn't make sense, because it doesn't stop the spread.

[@Brandon-hg7ic]

@@skillfuldabest I am just informing you of the rules for this tournament.

[@skillfuldabest]

@@Brandon-hg7ic Ah ok :)