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- What happens when one of the best high-stakes professional poker players in the world joins a table full of recreationals and riff-raff? WATCH this video to find out!
Original Vid: • Mikita Badziakouski, M... - Hry
Mariano asking if Mikita has the balls for a 20k USD raise bluff? LoL
It’s sarcasm, he was fishing a reaction
@@nikitaorap8154 I see… I didn’t watch the stream that would be possible as well
@@wildpleasureswildpleasures2355 He immediately looks down at his own hand after saying it. He doesnt even look at Mikita for a reaction.
Definitely a joke, Mariano would never say anything like that to any of the spots in the game, so it’s very clear he respects Mikita and understands he’s in a bad situation.
"Mikita is not your typical Fish." Well done 😂
I’m surprised they even let Mikita play in this game
Why?
Of course they will,he is a top g
@@victordavalos6198because they usually don’t invite top pros as they are usually too tight and also not as enteraining
They won't call him more than couple of times fs. No-one wanna play against these top regs.
Was anyone else pleasantly surprised to see Mikita in the game? Outside of Triton cash games at mega nosebleeds, I really haven’t seen him in the cash realm. Good job Hustler! And always, well done here in the most underrated poker channel on YT!
Yea id like to see more of the elite players in these games but i doubt the regs there would welcome it ;-)
I thought my Channel is the most underrated channel!
100% He's a phenomenal player online and live! Not many can pull both off at a high level. He's got mad skillz!! Mariano is a great player and I like how the video illustrated there are levels! Good video!!
@@Gos1234567 lol…pretty sure you’re 100% accurate there! ;-)
I learned in the video that he played at Hustler lol..
I wouldve watched for sure knowing in advance he played there.
Similar to when Dwan played, you can tell they are on a different level.
The end of the video is very important too, Mariano immediately assumed the nuts when Mikita xRaised, which to be fair, probably every opponent Mariano has faced up to this point is only repping the nuts in this spot. But going through the entire hand, we know neither player has the nuts in their range anymore, so Mikita can raise strong but not nutted hands, and Mariano should shift to wanting to block that range of hands more, not a straight that's no longer in range
Yes and thats why this play is so unreal good. its like 0% mariano have KQ JJ 1010 AA and a very good chance he have AJ A10 AQ and J10s so just excellent read
excellent breakdown as always . I particularly like the part where you spoke about how equities change in XXXX lines, with stronger MMHs increasing in equity and weaker ones decreasing, and the effect this has on strategy. Never heard anyone talking about this before
MMHs?
@@tobyc8905 Marginal made hands
@@Tobi-pn2xs blah blah blah
“I’d rather have AQ” is a classic thought process mistake that good but not great players fall into. Overfixation on blocking the nuts and no consideration of unblocking bluffs.
or because it would be way easier to fold
@@virajs.8864 he was clearly saying he’d rather have AQ as a bluffcatcher imo
J and T block bluffs too. Any pair of J/T with K/Q kicker could bluff.
Yeah. You must be the guy who plays big stakes as well. Where can we see you playing?
In this case, blocking value is more relevant than unblocking bluffs. JT blocks sets
Wonderful video! I always love your content but it's getting even better :)
I watched all of your videos, that one of the best, you finally getting little slower and more clear, cool bit behind, and as usual very interesting hand
I know Mikita for many years personally, he is insane poker player
Thank you, keep making your videos, you are as good on poker CZcams as Mikita playing)
Ps: thank you for 200bb straddle Vs positions 🤝
Yes, big improvement in this video
Your content is literally a gold mine! Please keep it pumpin 🙏
I don’t want to get a headache and watch it, what did he say?
@@YallaMiamiexactly. Just sounds like blah blah blah
@@santaclause3487 bro! He is talking nonstop and the background is filled with bunch of tables with colors and you have no idea if you should listen to him or zoom in on those tables and what exactly they mean!
I love this game, beautifully complex, yet logical. Its funny cause in this spot if Mikita just went like 4k, 10k, 20k he probably would've made more in this exact situation, however, with very balanced lines like this he's obviously infinitely harder to play against than a typical live player. And of course knowing these theoretical concepts will improve your game in every spot, not just one specific situation. Thanks FE for sharing them with us
Mikita is unreal good IMO always was and always will be
There are also levels to poker videos. This was crazy. Your graphics and breakdown broke my brain.
Nice relevant instrumental selection Finding Equilibrium. One of my favorite songs!
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mariano got ego for sure 'has he got the balls' - baby boy trippin this Mikita Badziakouski staring back at you not your spoilt ass nephew
yeah I was very confused lol, Mikita is a killer and has made bluffs for 20x that amount
Deadass lol. Considering he’s made over 40mil in winning id say he has the balls to bluff 20k
@@paulhiggins140More like 100x +
fish2013 online legend
How I miss commenting this one?
I've seen this video 4-5 times and it's one of my favourites. Great analysis!
This was amazing content thank you !
Great video like always!
This is the difference between a pro like Mikita & a run em up gambler like Mariano. Mikita knows spots, and he knows where the max value button lies, man v boy
Very solid content
insane analysis keep it coming
Sick video! Subscribed!
What software is this?
Yeah, I was surprised to see Mikita on HCL. They have such an aversion to good poker.
It’s crazy to see how good at poker some people are
Great choice of music…there’s gonna be Dreams and Nightmares in this hand
Can you make a part two for the A10 of spades from Mikita vs 910 of hearts from Marianno from last night? Quite an interesting hand wich I feel like both parties could've played better. The hand was played at the end of the first hour.
I don’t even understand why this person would even analyze this hand. If just about anyone flops two pair against a flopped set, value is going to be extracted. Matter of fact if he bets big on the flop he probably get all of Mariano’s money.
Good stuff. Thanks.
What software are you using?
Mikita is such a beast
Dnegs folded a str to Mikita’s boat. Remember that one? Great clip. Now I need to see if you broke that one down. 😂 Thanks for the vid!
he preferred having AQ because he would've had a much easier decision.... lol
Was just about to comment that
and then his following comment of " instead of this crap " just denies your deduction. You're welcome.
I'd like to comment before i finish the video just not to be biased by the outcome.
I guess Mikita has a decent portion of his range on the river that just wants to go to showdown (weak suited Aces, 2nd pairs etc) and therefore has a decent amount of natural checks. Given he opted for the passive line with 9s twice its probably one of the best ch/r candidates available on the river because he unblocks villians most likely valuebetting range on the river (AQ,JTs etc etc) and the only way to increase his value by a single street is to ch/r or go for a massive overbet himself. Overbetting has the downside that you probably end up betting smaller than a ch/r would allow you and checking 3 times is way harder to balance with your nutted range + in the real world not often occuring therefore the bluff catching portion of most people would increase in calldown frequency. As a simple man would say "what do you want to tell me mate...call" xD
Lets see what happens, thank you as always for your analysis :)
Does GTOx have a trainer where u can just play hands vs the AI or is it only a review tool?
How is it possible for anyone to be thinking a fifteen minute videos worth of calculations and analysis in a high stakes, high pressure situation such as this?
Great analysis and showing the next level of the game.
While this was an amazing play it is interesting Mikita won $23,675 on this hand and finished +25k on the night. Variance of one night I guess.
I didn’t understand the comment at the very end, which said to prioritize blockers of value combinations when the blockers involved contained both types of blockers (value and bluffs) because there were more of them. If there’s fewer bluff blocker combinations, then wouldn’t blocking these be more important?
I love slow playing hands like these, it usually ends up in large pots because your opponent thinks they are winning and they get an ugly surprise.
“There’s levels to this” as Mikita manages to torch over $40k the second night and Mariono wins close to $90k….
I got one question,at @13:57 it's said that we always prefer to focus on blocking value since there are more value combos than bluffs,but shouldn't we focus insted on unblocking bluffs? ,because if we block bluffs ,we could potentially be blocking a bigger % of the villains bluffing range ,we know that the wider the range,the less important are blockers and off course the value range is wider than the bluffing range.
Not always- It depends on the specific situation, but in most scenarios you are "supposed" to have more value than bluff on the river. Blockers are a function of shifting probabilities and so you generally want to focus on the combos that change the probabilities of as much of villain's range as possible. Ideally you want to focus on both value and bluff but sometimes it can be hard when there's an overlap of cards that bluff and value bet, so the suggestion to focus on the value portion (which should have more combos) is just a way to simplify complex spots.
@@FindingEquilibrium yeah,off course ,actually on the river we must have more values than bluffs,otherwise we would be obviously overbluffing.
Also,I agree that in some situations,blocking value may be more important than unblocking bluffs,(seen as the general impact of our specific hand in creating that sort of umbalance in villain's bluff-to value ratio).But, my point is that in general(not considering an specific spot,instead what could work in most cases),we should focus more on unblocking bluffs,for the reason explained in my last comment .
This example comes in my mind:
- pot size bet ,villain has 10 value combos and 5 bluff combos(balanced),
-we have a hand that blocks 5 combos of bluffs and 8 combos of value.
If we focus or prioritize value,we could be tempted to call right? (because ,as said in the video,there are more value combos than bluffs available).But the fact is that even though we are blocking only 5 bluffing combos ,those represent 100% of villain's bluffing range.
Im aware that im giving an specific example ,but wouldn't it work in most cases aswell? since what remains true in all spots is that in order to be balanced villain is supposed to always have less bluff combos than value combos(as a necessary but obviously not sufficient condition).Also it could be even more critical in spots in which the bet size is really small.
all this analysis is nice and everything: but how about this…Mikita knows that Mariano is super aggrressive and that he is able to go bombastic even when he has nothing….so the good way to play against this guy is to occassionally trap him in this brutal way
Badz is such a good player I just root against him in Triton events… it feels weird rooting for him here but HCL is the Kardashians of the poker world. So good job Fish.
i think exactly the same lol
nice
I can't root against him, I feel Im learning so much just by watching him.
why do you root against him exactly?
@@rooksman64 he wants underdogs to win
Such levels... profiting off a cooler.
I think Mariano said he would have preferred to have AQ in this spot so that he could fold, but idk obv.
I’d like to see his reaction if Mikita showed 22😂
oh damn why did u delete the vid
The disrespect of the 1500 bet is insane
Lol I know.
We all see this a lot in our games.
It's funny to pull the trigger after that.
This was a good analysis, I learn important concepts from watching this channel. The comments though ! All the armchair quarterbacks putting down Mariano. He's just a kid who a few years ago was delivering pizzas and now he's playing high-stakes all the time with a bankroll he built from playing cash. He got to the river cheap with the second best hand, that was under-repped and the solver even shows that he should call. One of the comments states that the $1,500 bet was "disrespectful" lol. What I think is disrespectful is the tagline of this video, which one is Mariano supposed to be, recreational or riff-raff ?
Mariano bet the river because good players don't miss out on value, you are almost crazy not to bet for value in that spot. What intrigues me is the size, it is almost a check and his reaction doesn't gel with "oh I was hoping he'd raise" so why bet at all? If he bets 60% pot or 120% pot, assuming he is best and can beat most A's or slow played QQ-KK, if he get's raised like this, it's an almost immediate fold. He made it harder to fold to a river raise by giving Mikita the opportunity to raise HUGE, making it look like a bluff (something a player of his calibre, is capable of). I think it's a fold for Mariano, but in a beast vs beast vacuum, the entire hand makes a lot of sense. I think Mariano played outside himself with that tiny river bet, due to a sense of occasion, naturally, I think he bets big there, to polarise his range but his tricky dickiness got him in trouble.
@6:24 how much is is a medium bet?
would have been fun if they swapped hands and Mikita found the 3b bluff w JT OTR
Honestly, Mariano played this hand very well. Can't fault him for calling river against a capable opponent.
What are y talking about ? His river size bet face up his hand ..he should bet big ip. River play was 2/10
I think calling here is not really good. The reason for that is most of J pairs QQ and KK just call the river, considering the bet size and just overall big number of hands that may call you. Not enough bluffs here for me, considering the price - value ratio
WoW ! what a hand, what an analysis !
Yeah checked flopped checked turn had me on the edge of my seat zzzz....
Alternatively, 99 is a three street hand on some run outs and 20k on the river does not make up for the lost value.
“There’s levels to this poker sh!t”
-Meek Mill
Idk how you can call here. Just a crazy big overbet. I think the check raise was way too large here because it’s unlikely Mariano has an extremely strong hand to call. He’d have to check back the turn with 2 pair for Mikita to get value.
😂 suggest all in because your opp can't have better try it and watch ur opp snap with straight
I thought Mariano wanted to have AQ in that spot so his decision (to fold) would be easier, not that he'd rather call with that hand.
@6:24 does bet 10.00 mean bet 10BB?
Owned..
Holy shit, the LSG Hank shriek in the middle of Mariano's decision. So good hahaha
I don't really know if this is a good example of their being levels. Mariano plays his hand just fine and I think Mikita missed value by not going bigger with his raise.
Mariano tryna run wit the bulls... and he got the damn HORNS on his ass yo. Max val baby boy. Good night.
Nah if he bet from the start could have got 30k or at least the turn
@@mrhumble2937 Baby boy vs the entire range Mikita's line GOATed
@@mrhumble2937 thats true, but by betting every street he doesnt know where hes at and he runs the possibility of running into the nuts. he played the hand brilliantly. he managed to greatly disguise his hand and also know exactly where hes at by the river.
I think this is an odd way of saying flopped trips held off against an open ended straight post flop with both people checking entire board to river then donk jammed hoping to buy off a bluff.
You think Makita 10X'ed preflop with K,10 or J,8 ?
The guy who runs like the wind getting raised huge on the river and calling without even top 2 on a board with a straight tells us all we need to know. Don’t take poker too seriously guys
All the graphs on the planet don’t change this game. It’s high variance, period
Don't get why gto nerds are creaming their pants after seeing mikita "super pro" winning his first session at hustler, when most of his profit was from this single cooler him flopping set over Mariano's 2p. Like he wins this ONE big pot and everyone's like omggggg he's too good for the hustler regs. When he's actually just nitty and extremely boring to watch lol
Mikita got owned and was pushed around constantly on his second appearance, down almost $50k and only bought back in short stacks. How about a 15 minute analysis of when he limp folded 74o early position for your next video?
He'd prefer to have AQ so he can fold immediately.
I'm surprised dolk polk did one great analysis 🤣
Mariano had some of the biggest coolers ever go his way, and he plays in lineups of recs mostly ... he's not that great
Checking set nines is not fine. It is a bad play.
I think I'd have called to be honest. Fish can definitely have AA here, probably KQs and KQo, probably JJ (but less likely with the blocker) and maybe 99 (guess he definitely can have that) or TT (less likely with the blocker). He can also have quite a lot of bluffs here because of how capped Mariano looks. I feel like any pair with a Q or a K is decent and of course QQ or KK. Sucks that you don't lock the straight but at the same time I kinda like it because you don't block the cards he might turn into a bluff. Very nice check on the turn from Fish though. I like the sizing on the river too. I'd have gone for 16k, he went even bigger with 20.
I typed that before you showed what the solver would have done. Nice.
Not really sure why you are calling Mikita ‘fish’ here. Also not really agreeing with your analysis on x twice with a straight, think KQ is a pure bet both streets since we unblock every calling hand besides pair+draw. I think both players played this hand really well regardless of outcome.
@@DrEdMaN616 I mean I've always known him as Fish from back in the day. Yeah I don't think I'm checking OTT with KQ that often but I do think I can find it some of the time. I would have been more concerned about AA though, from Mariano's perspective. Which also means I'm probably calling with JT. I guess AJ is the best bluff catcher because you block AA and JJ, the two hands that make most sense imo.
@@DrEdMaN616his online name is actually fish
This is such an easy river fold.
Mikita is extremely strong
Why mikita is playing against fishes in here
It's disgusting how good fish2013 is
almost got there and made the laydown but had to call didnt he.Probably Nikita knew this guy is a calling station and wouldnt stand being bluffed on livestream,hence the huge check -raise. nice fishin Nikita!!
did you even watch the video? wasn't even a bad call according to the solver
Mariano is hardly a calling station, what are you talking about ?
This analysis is very result oriented. If Mariano had a hand more in line with his actions, or if he just checked back for a third time, would everyone be saying that 3 checks with virtual nuts was a fabulous play? Mikita was very lucky that Mariano was at the top of his range. and more typical lines would have yielded similar result without the risk of making no money. Imagine Mariano had a hand like JK (very much inline with his range), Mikita would have given him 2 free shots at his 8 outer, and if Mariano bluffed the river with a similar bet Mikita would have won the minimum, while allowing Mariano to realize his full equity for nothing.
No one’s saying it’s a ‘fabulous play’ FE is purely showing that the line he took is solver approved albeit a rarer line.
I think it’s a great line to take against Mariano specifically, you can figure out why for yourself
What the fuck is Marianos haircut? 😂
I didn't understand a word you said, I'm sticking with BTO, GTO is too complicated.
I. Understand. Nothing. "Michael Scott"
I heard that if you play GTO you break even? Then I hear GTO will make you rich - does GTO print from opponent’s mistakes?
Now if he goes half pot on each street he would had the same result..
can’t wait to see end bosses like Linus get invited and destroy all those vloggers who think they r on top of the world
Do is overthinking this shit lol
Exactly it’s all fun and nerdy until he plays with garbage and has a house in a 4 bet pot 😂
I think everyone knows that the people you see on these streams 90% of the time have bankroll, not skills. They have MONEY. they are businessmen. It doesn't mean they're the best talent. not even close.
Dude running this channel is so clueless he doesn't even get what Hustler tries to do. It's not all about nerd poker buddy. The best poker games in the world are nerd free and that's why they are the best. Their goal is to present as close to a home game atmosphere as possible. They randomly let a fewnerds in but for the most part they don't ruin their stream letting the cockroaches in. It's common sense. That's why its the best stream going right now.
typical american line: does he have the balls for this lololol
So you don’t think Mikita could have gotten more if he just c bets ? As played the River was beautifully played but I think he could have actually gotten more with a c bet. And it would have been an epic disaster if Mariano folded the river.
which he probably should have. I think the point here is, firstly, protection of check range (so value not in this hand particularly, but overall), and secondly, the river decision.
Watch the video again... this board smashes Mariano's range so much... He has better sets and flopped straights, pairs+SD. While Mikita has those as well, he has a lot more overpairs that lose equity on this flop. You're only considering the player's holdings while FE is considering their whole range which is what good player should be thinking. Of course if Mikita could see Mariano's holding he would cbet big and bet 3 streets and win more potentially but that would remove the essence of poker.
@@DavidGarcia-uy2sx well to start I’m never checking this flop with bottom set. It Has nothing to do with knowing villains holding. Just my holding as played.
personally I don’t think Mariano is flatting TT JJ with his late open against a single straddle 3 bet. He seems hyper aggressive to me so I’m only really worried about KQ (which he still might 4 bet pre) and a landmine type Q8. And checking here because you’re thinking maybe he has the nuts or a set is more fearful than anything.
And if a “good player” is considering his “whole range”, he should also be thinking about the hands he gets thick value from… like an AJ/KJ/QJ, AT suited with backdoors. JT. Etc.
Again, I just like a c bet here because I’m only really worried about KQ (based off Mariano’s Image, and even then I think he’s 4 betting that prelfop along with better sets). And if Mariano did flop the nuts or 2nd nuts, all your outs and Backdoor outs are clean and you’re still not a massive underdog.
Nits are more likely to show up with sets here. Maybe Mikita doesn’t consider that because he’s not as familiar with his game as someone who watches his vlogs/streams.
Edit; small typo.
Dude u using your charts too justify pros playing badly! Gives you thumbs down.
It’s too bad you don’t have 20 minutes to work this all out in a hand…
Everything Mariano did on the river is absurd IMO.
gto nerds should not be featured in these games
Great analysis but I feel like you dont looks at previous hands in this session where Mariano got bluffed off handed a few times that night. To me this is why he called the big bet on the river. If he is playing well he makes great laydowns but I think he really lost his way in the session
In saying that mikita masked his hand so well with the checks and Mariano wins when he is putting the pressure on but doesnt do well when on the other end.
I admit I didn't watch the whole session. There may have been exploitative considerations at play but my main focus on this vid was just on the GTO strat. From what I've seen, Mariano is a solid player and I don't think he played the hand poorly (perhaps other than the small river bet, but that probably wouldn't have changed the outcome much).
Let’s be honest all this overkill analysis, finding equilibrium guy probably can’t beat nl100
This is why you forget what solvers say and just bet your strong hands for value. If Makita had of bet flop and turn he'd have won a massive pot v 2 pair instead he got fancy and won a much smaller pot than he could have.
Would love to see these breakdown videos with the content creator not being able to see both players whole cards or hand results just to see if holds up everytime . I dont believe in any of these new age poker . Everyone sounds smart and poker knowledgeable in hindsight.
you dont have to be smart to interpret a solver lol what a moron
Jeez man I play poker a lot and understand the lingo, but this is way too complicated. Can someone explain this in simple terms please?
Dunno not sure why such a boring hand got this much analysis lol. I was expecting a crazy hand here check check raise call lol
Why do you need all these graphic views for??
Mariano plays this very well and Mikita got min not max value
@FindingEquilibrium have you ever watched or even played poker? If so, you would get a completely different result