Phil Galfond Live at 25/50 NL

Discussion for Phil Galfond Live at 25/50 NL.

Looks like the tournaments and tv appearances worked out.

AQ you shoved vs AK you said you couldn't call any more cause of timing tells. Don't understand that: You could not only have the hand you actually had but pretty much every hand other than one single hand: AK. I mean if I played this hand I would maybe call with not only AQ/AJ but middle pairs and oftentimes even AA and KK for sandbagging reasons. So what would you tell you opponent when using the time bank other than you had not AK: pretty much like nothing.

awesomeness tyvm

Phil after hearing your talk about grinding diff games and stuff -  just how good are the midstakes PLO games? If I were to switch from NL (I only play like 1/2NL) today it would take me around 6 months to break even or to beat midstakes plo? My guess is this is tough to answer because you don't know how intelligent or non intelligent I am but do your best :)

Thanks.

 

Great video as always. Despite being an MTT player for the most part, your videos are always extremely interesting and I really enjoy hearing your thought process. Perhaps one day I'll even learn enough to be good to play midstakes cash. Two questions (one slightly frivolous): 1) When you raised with 75 on Q5x board, how much did the fact that it was 3 way affect your decision to raise? If you had been heads-up with Gogo and he was the preflop raiser, would you be more likely to call? If that is the case, why? In multiway pots, do you generally like to up your aggression level when the preflop raiser has shown passiveness? 2) Your chips/the dealer button/chips/decision buttons were all different from the normal FTP client. Is that something special you got or is it just an option we can all have? I thought they looked really cool. Thanks! Looking forward to more videos

omg phil you are so pesimistic in this one that i dont wanna play anymore xdd start calling Q2s from bb to minraise and call so it wont be as boring ^^;

If there is no EV at 25/50nl 100bb deep why are your making a video there? Your depressing me!!!.

only one question: is this the your happy face or is this your normal face? if its your normal pls show all your 4 faces in the next video

 

Thank you for the vid here - rly good job!

Min. 4 – A9s:
I would like your plan to barell it here off when you would be the BB, not the SB.

The thing is that when the BB is an aggr. REG (Idk this,but if this is so), you probably would 3bet most of your broadways pre instead of calling it(?).

So you maybe cannot in reality rep here so much hands…

Min. 12 – A3s:
Is C/Jamming on the flop an option here to also trap in stabs from some broadways of his 3betcallingrange?

Or do you thing that something like for example KQ would not stab here too often b/c in your 3betrange are obv. many Ax-combos which could go perceived for a C/Jam?

As played,

Why you jam here the river? Just to maybe make sometimes chops folding in combination with the fact that you anyways cannot C/F?

Min. 53 – J9s:

I would like here a donkbet on the flop with many parts of m range if the Board would have been for example a KQXs, QJXs..., type of board b/c these are boards where ppl do not cbet a wide range in this spot.

But on a AKXs-Board, Villain will cbet a wide range -> hence I think that a donkstrategy with any part of your range isn`t for an overall gameplan  so good.

I mean, I woul prefer to C/R here my combodraws, valuehands b/c of the fact that Villan will here cbet a lot.

 

About the A 2 3 4 5 board: I once heard from one of my coaches to never call a big bet expecting to split. If you would of checked and he pushed, would you have called and if so can you explain how the reasoning is correct and my coaches reasoning is wrong?