Yes, but within the first 30 seconds James shows that I've underestimated it's importance.

Great material. Thank you, Jonathan and James!

Used to teach it...

I thought I did, But Romero does such a great job of integrating them with GTO theory and practice that it feels like I might finally be able to apply them effectively. Excellent player, excellent teacher. Glad he is with the team.

This one was an eye opener, thanks for the content Jonathan!

It has to be offsuit and you have to return the money.😆😆😆

Our pleasure!

It really is!

You're welcome!

Thanks for the comment. It actually backs my view that most poker coaching is a scam, including this nonsense of a coaching video. I’ve played poker for 23 years, always try to get better and help younger players. Poker isn’t math. Math is a part of poker. No one has a lock on what’s correct. It’s a game of incomplete info. So it’s easy to scam as a coach. I know what to do, I’m a winner 🏆. Listen to me, I have math. Most fools will pay to get the golden ticket to WIN. I have it for you and pay me for it.

This is Game Theory Optimal (GTO) data, which assumes all players at the table play by the same GTO standards. Of course in reality nobody plays perfect GTO, not even the top pros, it's so hard to make such accurate plays constantly, within the time limitations of an actual game. More so, recreational players tend to be total deviations from GTO, in many various ways. So here comes the exploitative part of poker, in which you try to identify whatever it is that your opponents do wrong and adapt your plays accordingly. GTO is a strong fundamental guideline from which you should deviate depending on your opponents.

Tiny pocket pairs have practically zero value outside of set mining and jamming pre with a sub 10BB stack depth in tournaments (and even when jamming shallow in tournaments, all you can hope for is to be a tiny favorite in a flip and to win the flip rather than being crushed against a bigger pocket pair when the chips go in). There may be the occasional rare board/runout when heads up where any pair is likely good given what your opponent’s range is going to look like, but outside of those rare occasions, if you don’t flop a set, even if you feel like your opponent may just be drawing, it’s still a -EV play to proceed beyond the flop without the set. Even smaller suited connectors play much better postflop and give a tighter player more board coverage to use their tight image to get semi bluffs through when flopping front door draws.

@@jaredcarrick3468 set mining has 12% probability of success on the flop, 45s does not.

@@mikezilberbrand1663 you’re talking about the odds of flopping a hand as big of a set. Yes, the odds are only 1 in 8. Do you know what board coverage means? It means even smaller suited connectors are going to interact much better with a much higher percent of all the possible flops than tiny pocket pairs, even if it’s just flopping a front door draw. This means that a much higher percent than 12% of the time, smaller suited connectors will at least give a tighter player a decent draw, and tight players may then exploit their image to get semi bluffs through in a lot of those spots, as to where if you miss your set on the flop with a tiny pocket pair, you are pretty much never supposed to proceed against a bet, even if you feel like it’s likely just a draw for your opponent, as it would a negative EV play.

@@jaredcarrick3468 12.75% is the probability, odds 14.6% = 1/7.

This is why GTO is overrated garbage

exactly...what thw f is this: lol