Phil Galfonds State of the Games 1k NL

Discussion for Phil Galfonds State of the Games 1k NL.

Nice video, would be really interested to hear more thoughts from you on flatting these small 4bets with position. I know from my experience if someone competent flats my 4 bet I really don't feel comfortable unless I have the top of my value range. I've also noticed some players 4betting smaller to around 23 bbs oop where as in the past it was more like 27. I suppose if their opponent is never flatting only jamming or folding this is good. What's your preferred sizing?

Flop was 8h4h9d and 293 in pot and 372 left. Two betizes strategy: For example push: 9x-JJ, openended, smallish fd, at least AQ,AK with bdfd. Bet small JJ+,AQ-AK with fd, weaker than AQ to b-f. What u think about the basic idea in generally? ( If we forget that opponent is possible bad.) It feels wrong to bet-fold AQ with the stack sizes. Sure feels dirty to simply push but if the opponent is good the turn without fd or pair will be difficult? (Sorry I cant speak good english..)

Very nice. Stakes. No of tables. Commentary. Would like to see other instructors play MSNL 6 max too.

"I did a plo vid last week so I'll do a NLHE this week" Phil even balances his video production.

phil, interesting discussion regarding turn raises. pls continue with more of your thoughts on this & flatting small 4bets IP nxt vid; as a reg in these games i'll say that i have experimented myself with floating flops and making small turn raises over guys that are barreling high, with pretty good success. as far as i can remember most of the time i was getting a fold, although the last couple times i've done it comes to mind i was shoved on, but that was probably just do to my opponent actual

Hey, can u record a 6 max video w/ durrrr in it? since he's one of the best online, it would be facsinating to see how you play vs him and also, we can watch his play closely ourselves ...

Great vid Do you have any OMG Vs 'The king of swing' vids for us?

Thanks Phil! The vid is awesome!!! This is the format I personally like the most!

I really liked the discussion about c/r turns. Would be nice with some more discussion on that. I often feel like Im repping a little too thin. I´d like to balance it with some draws but I dont feel like raise folding a decent draw on turn ( if he shoves ofc). I guess you could raise bigger so you get the odds but a smaller raise fits better with bluffs and value raises

As far as the AQ hand, yes, I do think a 2 betsize strategy is a good one. I'm just not sure which betsize category I want to put my AQ into (or what % of the time I want it in each). I'm still not sure what's best in that spot, and I don't think it matters a whole lot. What's more important is that I have a bet small-fold range and a bet small-call range, as well as a somewhat balanced shoving range.

... (from post below) concept video if people have interest

Graffa... Yes, I call 87s but A5s is more marginal. I don't have proof for you, but yes, I think the fact that you're so often dominated by AJ+ makes it worse.