Samoleus Three Barreling

I really hate this format, I think in a live video you would have the option to address such a broad range of topics that would be much more interesting than scenarios you created in a hand replayer.

Phil will basically teach "call even if the worst card comes since if they hit it, they can also have a lot of other stuff" , While you´re going to teach us "barrel barrel barrel, scarecard comes, Barrel again!"

samo is a very good, deeply thinking poker player BUT there is a lot of contradiction in this video and a lot of "facts" of todays games are just not true(most players c/r jx on a j86 after utg raise and BB call? come on ...) If you ignore this "bad stuff" you still get a lot out of this video

Interesting video, but i really dislike the AQcc riverbluf. So u want him to fold 99/TT/8X ? I think he calls those hands more then 50% for sure, because: (1) there are a ton of draws that missed, which will tend him to call a lot (2) he'll think u can valuebet worse boats (which is not much the case, but this will encourage him to call lighter) (3) he won't believe u that much u have QQ+ because you check those on turn some % too.

I forget all examples, but sometimes you contradict your earlier statements. One I can remember is you say you might check behind QQ-AA on turn in the last hand, but then you also say he rarely has Jx so why would you ever check turn w/ QQ-AA? Minor math error on the end, your bluff has to succeed 35/77.5 or 45.2% of the time, not "less than 1/3rd of the time".

The last one I strongly disagree. Every hand that got to the river is calling pretty much. Most draws are not continuing after the turn, and you are never going to get someone to fold 8X, 6X and forget about getting them to fold 99. 1, 2, 3 situations are great.

Also, you might be aware of this but your opponent loses 21k in every hand and you win 56.5k. Can I play in this game? :P

There seems to be one huge flaw to this video... the fact that every hand is simulated and all of these plays are done "in theory," not practice. If you're playing at the $500/1000, you're not going to be playing against a bunch of lvl 1 drones who chk-call chk-call chk-fold, which is basically the idea. Likewise, if you're playing at the NL$50... you're probably going to get players who call you down simply because they don't really know what they're doing.

Video is a waste of time... did this video help any other users? The bluffing looked like C betting / overbetting and the opponents would have to be terrible players. And why show a simulation? we could easily read theory in a book. I really don't think that style of play would work. If it does please post a REAL video at those stakes showing how it really works. Anyone can make a simulated video and have them win. Maybe I'll make a video and show myself winning only the buyin will be a million

Niman - nice video. I agree with some of what has been said about the last spot. This seems like a marginal spot to continue firing, mostly because I haven't run into anyone that folds any pair in this spot, and you beat all of the missed draws with your AQ. An interesting idea for a video would be to go through the different combinations of turns and rivers and how each different card alters the decision to keep firing or give up.

On the Q/Q/10cc board, I somewhat disagree with the 3-barrel there for a big reason. When the Jc hits, and you bet for value, it really eliminates a huge part of your range because you are now only value betting a really strong flush, the nuts straight (this is even questionably a check) , or a full house. Given that fact, and given the way the action went, he now gains a lot of equity calling you there with a 10 knowing that your range has significantly deminished and a lot of your hands have turned into bluffs, knowing that you can't really have something like A/Q, K/Q K/J (unless you turn it into a bluff, only hoping to get him to fold a queen, which is another unlikely situation) . So it takes out that huge portion of your range that is beating him that would check behind, and now leaves you with bluffs (your pairs from 22-99, 10/9s, 9/8s sometimes) and then your hands that do indeed beat him only being A/K. and a few flushes, and then 10/10, Q/Q, Q/10, and Q/J, possibly A/A and K/K with the club as blocker. You can also more than likely eliminate Q/10o and Q/Jo, therefore reducing your winning hands even more. Given that range that you can now have, and running it through poker stove, A/10 now has a very high equity to make a call knowing that you should not be betting most of the hands that were originally in your range.