After an extremely long hiatus for myself and for the first time since I started POTD. I will be travelling to play live poker. On Wednesday September 2nd I will be flying from Toronto to play Triton Jeju. I have secured an invitation for the invitational from a POTD subscriber, keep your eyes on Triton’s social media and my own for the announcement of our pairing. I plan on playing every tournament, well I plan on skipping a few tournaments because I am too busy winning the previous tournament, but I will be playing poker every day while in Korea and while I am in Korea there will be some changes at POTD.
Let’s start with the good news, POTD will be publishing daily. Everyday when I am done play, I will pick my POTD and write about it. My writing will be looser and bloggier, I will write a first draft, send it over to the POTD editor extraordinaire and go to bed. The timing of publication will break from the normal format, but I will try to make it as consistent as possible. Currently, I try to write a posts days in advance, such that they’re are edited and scheduled to post well before the actual publication day and they are usually emailed to you at 6:00 EST sharp. Jeju is 13 hours ahead of Toronto, so what you will see is likely something like, I finish a draft Wednesday at 22:00 (which is 9:00 Wednesday EST), I send off the draft to my editor, then I’ll go to bed. Pray I get a good night’s sleep and wake up at 8:00 Thursday (19:00 Wednesday EST). Then I’ll give the edited copy a once over, hit publish and you’ll receive the post in your inbox immediately. POTD was designed to be something you’d read with your morning coffee it might become something you read with your evening whiskey. Of course if you live in a certain Asian or European time zones, you might finally get to enjoy POTD with your morning coffee.
To promote my return to the SHR scene, I am offering a deal that will price POTD at the lowest it’s ever been offered at. If you subscribe at https://www.puntoftheday.com/jeju, you will get 90% off a 1 month subscription. Since I am in Canada, all my prices are listed is CAD, but for one month you will be getting POTD for ~$1 USD a month. Paid subscribers will also get access to the entire archive of POTD, including over 200 paywalled posts. Next month it will revert to the normal $10/month.
While you should subscribe at this low, low, price and become a “paid subscriber”. I’d also suggest you go the extra mile and become a “Premium Subscriber” or as Substack likes to call it a “Founding Member”. For the price of ~300 USD (give or take fluctuations in the CAD:USD exchange rate). You will get all of the posts without a paywall, plus daily video analysis from me, both going over the sim and playing vs the trainer. I also upload the raw files of the sims I ran and they are in a private Google Drive folder where Premium Subscribers can download them. There are many other perks including access to an exclusive Discord channel and some more I’ll write about below.
This week from Monday-Thursday I will be rerunning some Premium posts from the past, so people interested in becoming Premium Subscribers can see what they’ve been missing. I have some specific hands scheduled already, but if there are commenters who want to see specific posts get unlocked, feel free to make requests.
Finally there are two more changes that will start once I am in Jeju, since I am writing about hands I played that very day. I will only share my hole cards before the paywall if the hand showed down. If you (or my opponents) want to learn what I had in a specific hand, you’ll have to pay $1. The #onemorething, an additional bit of analysis for Premium Subscribers/Founding Members, will become #onemorehand another hand I played where I punted or maybe just one I found interesting. So if you want to play along with me in Triton Jeju, please sign up using this link or clicking the button below.
Additional Sims For Premium Subscribers
Premium Subscribers are given access to a Google Drive folder where they will also be able to download the raw files of sims I used to write my POTDs, sims that are more accurate and appropriate than equivalent sims in the big public libraries. The past week I uploaded
PIO sims beginning on the flop and beginning on the turn for POTD #325
PIO sims on the flop and one that forces Mike to check the turn for POTD #326
An HRC sim showing the preflop strategies for POTD #327
Additional Analysis for Premium Subscribers
Everyday Premium Subscribers get an extra bit of analysis not included in the main post. Today, I’ll share #onemorething from POTD #327 where I write about how to adjust your preflop ranges at a FT vs a BB who will make losing overcalls.
POTD #327 #onemorething
My preflop flat is ambitious, but at least it’s a hand that I am supposed to VPIP. Nic Chouity’s flat with A5o is especially ambitious. It’s a hand that mixes folds for chips facing a minraise. So is almost certainly a fold vs a 2.33x, when I am flatting extremely tight. In this GTO Lab sim, A5o mixes three bet and fold facing a CL 2.15bb raise from UTG9.
There’s an argument here that by flatting AQs, I let Nic make losing calls and I recoup some EV. However that’s also true of folding AQs. The EV of folding will be greater than because Nic and Igor will play bigger pots, but the rebate is not enough that I’d want to fold AQs. The other argument here is that if Nic is going to play too loose in the BB, I want to avoid playing three way pots vs 1 and 2 in chips as much as humanly possible and that Nic’s losing preflop calls are mostly leaking EV to Igor and the other short stacks. I am not 100% sure, which side of this argument is right. However, there is an easy tiebreaker here, go with the play that you know is the right play vs a BB playing an appropriate range. At final tables you might identify a leak in your opponent and not have the right hand to exploit it or be legitimately unsure if you can exploit the leak in a given hand. In that case reverting to solver baselines is appropriate.
Media
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