TOXIC Players FIGHT for a 200k Pot!

In this video we are reviewing a hand between heated rivals Matt Berkey and Nik Airball. WATCH as the fireworks fly.

[@PokerGiraffe]

Good point about the Ad blocking more bluffs than value! At this stack depth I would be very surprised if Nik wasn't raising every combo of Ax suited pre, so it should be something that translates quite well into practice.

[@jeremymorley5670]

The Venn diagram of people who idolize Airball and people who think Robbi didn't cheat on HCL is a circle

[@samwisegametree]

Revisiting this hand with SOAD instead of the table banter was a healing experience. Thank you. I think overplaying your hand here is a natural nervous system response to the noise, chaos and animosity in the room.

[@OGRE_HATES_NERDS]

I think Persson knows a thing or two about long bathroom breaks

[@SketchyPoker]

Berkey is a fish

[@DAWEAP1]

Would have been interesting to see what Airballs bluffing frequency would have to be to make Berkeys call profitable.

[@FindingEquilibrium]

If he is overbluffing to essentially any extent, in theory you should call virtually all bluffcatchers. But this assumes your opponent can't re-adjust to you overcalling, which, of course he can. So in practice, I personally just turn any bluffcatchers that I feel like could go either way into pure calls.

[@valuablesandwich]

*at Panera being asked what I want as my side for my sandwich* - "MY chips, motherf**********"

[@valuablesandwich]

Thanks

[@EduardoHernandez-vj8vx]

Both these guys are clowns lol super fun to watch.

[@miafora7308]

#solveforwhy

[@nomnomnom612]

Its a good combo to actually block bet river and fold to a raise. Then we can b/3b our nutflushes for balance obv.

[@laor55]

I prefer check call mode on the river. You're playing against an extremely wide range, you only have 1 pair and are put in a super tough spot if getting raised.

[@HibiscusFlowerFC]

Lynn's laugh lol.

[@carpediem6431]

Finally a real f…ing7 hour game with the ups, downs, shit talk, pettiness …….. lol ……..I had fun watching it too

[@aidascharasauskas7549]

The delivery on "his name is fucking airball" made me spit my tea out

[@SpectreXS]

Good analysis all around like always!

[@iambadatpickingusernames6669]

AA with a diamond there has got to be a pure fold. Not many bluffs to pull from without it for Nik, unless they’re a total airball

[@TheRealXidious]

Bro love it or hate it these are the few who are bringing way more eyes back on to poker is it possible were starting a new Era? The attitude era, perhaps like wwe?

[@BigD751]

Yeah I hate the ways these players (badly) but love the action they are bringing to the live scene. Its very profitable for me :)

[@justmusic2353]

When I first saw this hand I was very surprised by Berkey’s check raise on the flop. Glad to see that it was bad like my intuition told me.

[@donrane]

Played that flop like it was 2002 :-)

[@schranzmuke]

@@donrane u cant compare it with gto, they have history so they prob just doing mind games

[@danielegarja]

it's not bad vs a fish

[@derekluna7700]

there was very little difference in EV between the two actions. you gto fish are something else

[@newyorker19810]

Airball never been punched in the face and it shows

[@FindingEquilibrium]

Everyone should be punched in the face once at least.

[@JohnSmith-su3ze]

@@FindingEquilibrium Been there a few times my friend and I'm all the better for it, but at least once is mandatory.

[@TheTree1]

I wouldn’t make this call but there is a meta dynamic I don’t know about.

[@RyanSpicer]

How do you use music in your vids if they are monetized? do you pay for the song, or does youtube premo allow you to do this?

[@FindingEquilibrium]

They have a licensing system where you can use the music but all proceeds go to the copyright holder. So, yeah, I don't make any money off these vids.

[@RyanSpicer]

@@FindingEquilibrium thats dedication to the art

[@leonidasp.3813]

good job. keep it up. we need you.

[@jf5618]

Oh man…while there’s somehow mixed comments on the stream, I found the whole train wreck entertaining and locked in for the full ride. Outside of some mega nitty-ness, and blown away that some, such as seat 4, even got action, the stream was highly entertaining. Felt bad the ‘somehow’ Berkey was sandwiched but outside of that…highly entertaining from the ‘wtf is going on’ perspective

[@lolololo-io5je]

with long bathroom break🤭

[@user-cp9id1mj8b]

What kind of software is featured in this video?

[@NoWayFolding]

The SPR being 10. Is that before or after the flop cbet?

[@209twitch]

Excellent song choice by the way

[@steveng8727]

What am I missing? Since Berk has the Ad I thought Nik would have Less flushes so should be a call??

[@jeremyrogers6179]

Berkey just sat there all quiet when on his podcast he acts like a tough guy. 😅

[@ChrisM-wv4gs]

He doesn't want to talk to airball.

[@jeremyrogers6179]

@@ChrisM-wv4gs because he's a scared bitch in person, he acts like a real tough guy on his podcast but get him face to face and Berkey is quiet as a mouse!🐁 in the words of Airball "give me your chips!"

[@JohnSmith-su3ze]

Berkey constantly shit talks on his podcast, but doesn't say shit in person The guy is a total hypocrite. Berkey thinking he occupies some kind of moral high ground is ridiculous. If Berkey dropped the pomposity I'd probably really like him

[@donrane]

They deserve each other.

[@davidholmes892]

compare to so many dark, anti-humanity, despicable shows and movies on netflix, this was nothing. i dont know about calling it toxic players. it was entertaining despite the over cackling and bad behaviors. keep up the great work!

[@slowwonka]

perfect comments..

[@danielhenry6777]

is airball even good?

[@jeremymorley5670]

No

[@susymay7831]

Who is leading the match and by how much?

[@FindingEquilibrium]

I think Berkey is up like 700k?

[@jelk1]

Preflop ranges seem shit. BB is raising way too often against the limp and not polar enough. SB is not raising linear enough.

[@FindingEquilibrium]

I ran a custom sim for exact stack sizes and ante.

[@jelk1]

@@FindingEquilibrium which sizes did you use? The responses don't seem correct if you use reasonable sizes.

[@hrubin7]

Outro song?

[@jcompton3947]

Toxicity - System Of A Down

[@vinsente6752]

2 of the biggest tools of poker livescene

[@TheTree1]

Berkey is a force for good in the poker world.

[@johanrinus]

@@TheTree1 I think Berkey has the edge on Airball in pretty much every type of field considering this poker beef situation that's going on, (poker strategy, mindset, community, self awareness etc etc) and yet comes across as a really shitty person as well. I think he has all the tools to being this "good for the poker world" type of guy but I feel he's not delivering on that at all. He keeps talking about self improvement and "the stuff that really matters" and yet seems to not follow up on any of those beliefs by trashing Nick and Doug as much as they are doing to him

[@Eric-tj3tg]

And that's one big toolbox.

[@kineahora8736]

@@TheTree1 Not entirely sure. I think Berkey is very into “political correctness”, which i have never liked. And i also think he’s kind of smug without results to back it up. I personally greatly prefer Polk, who doesn’t hold back-just speaks his opinion whether it’s “popular” or not-and has A LOT of results to back it up…

[@supremeleaderarmy9164]

​@@TheTree1 Berkey 🤡

[@pokersoftwarereviews5051]

Such an easy fold, lol.

[@hylens5111]

Who is that beautiful woman next to Mr. Airball??

[@OGRE_HATES_NERDS]

cant believe he said the b word

[@edwinmckay7685]

Like for SOAD song 🤣

[@kineahora8736]

I think the conclusion is: Assholes get eyeballs as long as they don’t go too far-like Hashtag king insulting players’ family. that isn’t fun. poker: interesting-nice point that A♦️ actually blocks Niks BLUFFS more than his flushes in this spot because it was a limped pot…

[@Schubeedoobee]

CLEARLY, nik has changed his game over these last few months... he's become much tighter and selective now even though his range can be overly wide especially for a deep stack cash game. anyone that has watched the hustler game for a while can see this trend. I think at some point we're going to get a back story on his arse, and I dont think it's going to be pretty... unless hes the one that won the lottery from several months ago.

[@donrane]

Yea no fucking way Nik is a baller in the corporate world.

[@lukamilas8648]

Team Airball 💯

[@quiet_erp]

Berkey is far from toxic.

[@bcni4732]

I'll never understand how these (in Nik's words) creatures and all the sh!t talkers like Young, Persson or Matusow can seriously be found entertaining. These kinda people made me quit playing live poker and watch streamed games with them in it

[@AT-bw4cm]

Me neither, but we are in the minority. Smut sells.

[@keithkelso9872]

It was set up

[@HawesyEU]

!

[@dankahan4796]

Yawn

[@ninthie]

Man so boring with all those stats, video started out good. booooring

[@ChrisM-wv4gs]

You do realize the whole point of these vids is to tell how a hand should have been played

[@apocalypsepromotions7676]

First

[@jonathansykes4986]

Trans rights are human rights.

[@JohnSmith-su3ze]

lol

[@Bhodisatvas]

Lasted 2 minutes watching this stream and bounced out because of the chattering and noise. Was hard to watch the game.

[@sixdroid]

you keep going with that gto wizard but they don't play in that way. that combos thing are useless. that just works if the opponents play perfect gto not like them or like micro limits. they play like in micro limits.

[@donrane]

It gives GTO results giving you a good feeling about how much you should deviate from that when you are up against say a player with airball as a nickname.

[@Cowtymsmiesznego]

The "GTO only works against GTO" nonsense is getting kinda boring... The assumption that your opponent is playing the equivalent equilibrium strategy (also sometimes called "indifference principle" in game theory) is only a mathematical means of arriving at the solution - it's not actually a requirement for the equilibrium strategy to be unbeatable, quite the opposite. The entire point of GTO is that it works regardless of the opponent's strategy.

[@pokersoftwarereviews5051]

​@@Cowtymsmiesznego Very true. At the same time, I'm under the impression that GTO is usually only slightly winning against most styles. Therefore, the moment there's any rake it becomes slightly losing against most styles. So you actually need to bring some exploitative corrections in to be profitable at most poker tables.

[@Gos1234567]

@@Cowtymsmiesznego it works but explorative works better against an Airball type

[@Cowtymsmiesznego]

I don't think the "only slightly winning" theory is correct, but even if it is: Exploitative is a guessing game. There is not much space for objective analysis. Everybody is free to try and incorporate exploitative assumptions when they actually play, and indeed almost everybody does it. But you can't really make a video on it because you rarely have enough evidence that these assumptions are correct. And even if you do, it's not gonna be possible to fit it in a single hand analysis video. The way FE does it makes sense imo. He describes and explaines the theoretically correct line, and sometimes makes sidenotes about when the particular deviation might be a sensible adjustment.

[@ChipBleeder]

Airball is about as entertaining as your videos. Find a new hobby, this ain’t it, Mr. Noviews!