The Tournament Poker Edge Podcast
The Tournament Poker Edge Podcast
October 24, 2025 -- Sylvain Loosli, Zombie Hunter
Clayton Fletcher (@claytoncomic) and Sylvain Loosli (@sylvainloosli) discuss past VR adventures in Vegas. Then, it's time to get serious and analyze a final table hand from an online high roller event.
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Welcome to the Tournament Poker Edge Podcast. Brought to you by TournamentPokerEdge.com. The only podcast dedicated exclusively to Poker Tournament strategy. Here's your host, Clayton Fletcher.
SPEAKER_01:Hello, once again, everybody, and welcome to the Tournament Poker Edge Podcast, presented by Jaccoaching.com. My name is Clayton Fletcher, and I am in serene, safe, beautiful New York City. Happy to be bringing you yet another episode of the world's longest running poker strategy podcast ever. I'm very excited this week. I'm being joined here via Google Meet by a player that I admire and respect very much. He is one of the uh top players in the history of the European Poker Tour. He's also made the final table of the World Series of Poker main event where he got fourth place. And uh he's got over eight million dollars in lifetime earnings, according to Hendemov. I want you to welcome for the first time on the podcast my friend Sylvan Loosley. Sylvan, how did I do with the pronunciation of your name?
SPEAKER_04:You did all right. Thanks for the thanks for the kind uh introduction.
SPEAKER_01:All right, now you say your name correctly, so I get it right next time.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, actually it's it's uh pronounced Losely.
SPEAKER_01:Losely, okay. All right, so uh first off, welcome to the show. Thank you for taking the time to be on the podcast with me.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, thanks for having me. Pleasure to catch up. Yeah, haven't seen each other since uh Vegas, probably.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, so you and I have hung out together. We have a lot of mutual friends, um, most notably my bestie, uh Anton Wig, who is uh an excellent personal trainer as well as an excellent poker coach.
SPEAKER_04:So you and I in a lot of disciplines, doesn't he?
SPEAKER_01:Yes, he really does. And he's uh he's a really good uh motivator. He he kind of gets me in the gym so that I don't end up after seven weeks in Vegas being as fat as most of the other Americans that you see. But I know you best as a uh expert zombie hunter. Tell the audience about our zombie hunting experience.
SPEAKER_04:All right, I see what you're referring to. Um yeah, I mean, I might have been the highest scorer in that uh VR game, right? I mean, you know me, I'm a competitor, so I'm always gonna strive for scoring the highest points in any game.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, so a bunch of us took one day off from the World Series of poker and went over to this place called Area 15, uh, which is uh not too far from the strip, and they have lots of games and fun things to do. Some of you might know Mega Mart, it's over there. So uh this was a virtual reality zombie hunting mission. Uh we had full uh outfits, right? We had like a gun, we had a helmet, we had costumes. It was crazy. We had all these uh what do you call motion detectors all over our bodies, and it keeps track of who kills the most zombies. And uh you absolutely crushed. Do you feel like you were really in the zone that day?
SPEAKER_04:I'm not sure, but I when it had fun, it was a good experience. Uh definitely a place to visit if you're in uh in Vegas. Yeah, lots of cool um, you know, cool attractions. That's why I love uh about the city as well.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah, we had we had a good time that day. And so, yeah, I've been following your career, and uh, you know, I didn't realize that you were involved in the coaching as well. I mean, I just I feel like every time I look and see what the latest high roller at the EPT or you know, whatever's going on around the world in poker, your name you know pops up so often, and I'm always like, hey, I know that guy, he's a friend of mine, I'm cheering for you. But then I log on to jockacoaching.com and I'm checking out what's going on that day, and they have a live coaching session that I actually talked about a little bit on last week's episode, and I was surprised and thrilled to see that you were actually uh coaching Cindy Spire on her three circuit events that she's won already in 2025. Talk to me a little bit, um, if you could, Sylvan, about how you ended up getting involved in the the coaching aspect of the game.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, right. So it's kind of like a semi-long story. Um, but yeah, I mean, I've actually been approached by um I mean some guy we had mutual friends with, like uh I think it was around 2020. Okay. Um so some guy who created the poker community had a YouTube channel, um only French speaking, actually. And he approached me because he wanted to create uh a masterclass, some content mostly about the mental uh sides, mental aspect of poker. And he wanted someone you know from the industry from to basically create some actually strategic content as well. And I kind of like the idea, like the idea of um uh kind of like giving back to the community and uh creating some some content, putting some content out there of like high quality. So we started working together, and it's kind of like how I really got started with um uh coaching. And then you know, fast forward today, we have like uh basically coaching uh website, like a big community. Uh and then I also got involved with uh Faraz, who's a you know friend of mine. We were basically part of like a study group together for the past few years, done you know lots of study, traveling together, meeting at like a bunch of stops here and there. Um, so yeah, I took the opportunity to do some coaching for uh Jack A coaching, and it's been it's been fun. Actually, you know, you know, meet people from like all different types of backgrounds. And I mean that's one thing which is you know, like a saying which is really true, it's that you do get to learn by coaching, you know, by by teaching people, you do improve your skills as well.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, for sure, because you're reinforcing things that you already know, perhaps. You're also maybe re-examining your own game a little bit through the lens of somebody else. Obviously, the players that you're coaching, generally speaking, won't be anywhere near your level of uh poker knowledge or achievement. That's why they're coming to you for coaching, but you can still learn something from somebody who's been in the game a shorter period of time. Uh, one thing that helps me in speaking with some of our members uh at Tournament Poker Edge is uh just kind of seeing how the newer player might might think about a certain spot and help you get into their minds a little bit. And then, of course, as a coach, you're trying to help them get from the mindset that they have now to the mindset that they need to have in order to uh you know improve their games. So, what are some of the things that you've noticed a lot in your experiences coaching uh that you think then maybe the newer players really struggle with or should focus on first?
SPEAKER_04:Uh yeah, that's that's a good question. But kind of like coming back to what you said, realizing that people uh you know approach the game in like a different way, it's actually also kind of good in your understanding of actually you know how the general population, how like kind of like weak players are gonna you know approach a variety of situations, right? Because you know, actually you're gonna have like a better understanding and better idea idea of how to exploit people. So in that way it's kind of good for your own game. Um but then I think yeah, it's mostly about yeah, like you said, I think breaking down concepts into into like more digestible um chunks of information. Yeah, I mean I think most people are just most people who kind of like take poker uh you know at some point are gonna like like sometimes like a good fundamental understanding of game. Yeah. If you don't have like good a good baseline, it's gonna be hard to you know kind of like move on to like higher stakes and actually succeed and beat beat uh bit the field. Most of the time the focus is actually mastering the fundamentals, you know. Just mastering the fundamentals, making sure that you you know how to approach your um your process, you know, improve your process to with your game to become better every day. Most important uh task, I think, for a coach, you know, assessing your clients or like um user skills and giving them like good um good methodology so that they can improve, they can improve their own process, become their own coach. I think that's uh the ideal goal.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, to eventually get fired. That's the goal.
SPEAKER_04:At some point, you can't expect them to you know the gate touching from you forever anyway.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I I don't need you anymore. You're done. Uh this is great. I uh I really appreciate the uh the download there and and the way you you are looking at things. I feel like this is really important for the newer players to understand is that you've got to master the fundamentals first. You know, I think that sometimes because the solver can sort of like you know, we use GTO Wizard. I always talk about GTO Wizard and how I incorporate it into my study and everything, and what an important tool that is. But the GTO strategy, it's almost like starting at the finish line. Like you see, this is what the solver would do. But I think it's more important fundamentally to understand why.
SPEAKER_04:Why it is doing something, exactly. Yeah. And so you should also never start, you know, never start by like looking at the solver, but more like start by asking yourself questions and then look seeking for answers, right? Seeking for answers with a tool if you can't come up with all the answers by your by your logic. Yeah. I think that's the right approach. Because I mean GTO makes sense when you're playing against you know very good opponents who have like you know very very solid understanding of the game, very solid strategies, then you have less room for you know deviations for exploits. But against you know, most humans, you you want to you know exploit their tendencies and the and their mistakes.
SPEAKER_01:So as as you were going through some of those hands with Cindy Spire, I noticed that a lot of the quote unquote mistakes that she was making, in other words, if you put the hands into the solver, the solver would be less aggressive in many spots than Cindy was being. And she had her theory behind that, her justification was uh I was playing against a bunch of old guys.
SPEAKER_04:Right, right.
SPEAKER_01:And so the the players would be more afraid and less likely to defend properly, I guess.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, exactly. I mean, this is actually one you know, uh very fundamental part of poker is like defending against aggression is actually it's tough. It's probably one of the toughest things. And if you want to beat, I mean any stakes, but especially like you know, like low stakes, mid-stakes, you need to you know have more aggression in your game and find the right situations where you have like good bluffing frequencies and you're putting pressure on people, especially when it comes to like you know, late stages of tournaments where people are you know gonna be a bit more scared, they're going to value their tournament lives more. Uh so where you can uh you can pressure people.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, that's that's very well said. Well, I know you have a hand for me, and I did promise you I wouldn't keep you on the phone all day. So I want to get to that. But first I want to tell my listeners you know, you've got Faraz Jacca, you've got Sylvan Losley, whose name I'm now pronouncing better. The people who coach Faraz are on the site as well. So if you really want to work with the people that you know have the background and the accomplishments, the accolades, but they also have the knowledge of the game and the ability to explain high-level concepts in terms that you can understand. That's really what it's all about.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, I can also uh mention my friend uh Tomas, Tomas Boavin. He's also a good friend of mine. We've been uh you know like kind of like study partners for many years. He's also like really good at simplifying concepts and making great coaching material.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, uh that's a great point because Tomas is not only a crusher, but he's also a great teacher, and that's the rare combination that for example, like if I'm trying to learn how to sing and I just ask somebody who's got a natural, beautiful singing voice, this person might not be able to actually break it down for me. I don't know, I just open my mouth and the beautiful music comes out. Well, that's not gonna work for me. I need I need lessons. So you you kind of need both, you need someone that knows how to play, but also how to teach. And I feel like that's what Paraz is doing really, really well. Is hand selecting.
SPEAKER_04:I mean, himself is is uh also a great coach, obviously.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, of course. I mean he's his name's on the site for a reason, and and obviously he's you know had so much success in poker for two decades now. But I have a deal for my listeners, you guys can get 20% off a membership. This is the only discount that they're offering right now is through TPE. So just go to jocka.poker slash TPE. So that's the promo code TPE. You can just click that link. Uh, you get seven days free and then 20% off, which is uh you know substantial savings. And I think you guys will really enjoy it. I'm learning a lot from the website. I really like how the coaches will incorporate the solver into the training, but also kind of separate that from what we're doing theoretically and what we're doing in this real life situation, which unless you're playing a high roller, it's probably going to be fairly different a good bit of the time, right?
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, no, no, for sure. High rollers and different stakes.
SPEAKER_01:You're playing a ladies-only event or a seniors event. Uh it's you might not have to worry too much about what what GTO wizard wants to do facing a three-bat. You could pretty much just fall.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, no, exactly. I mean, you have to do know the tendencies of your you know of your opponents of your fields, and they're gonna vary a lot depending on you know on the stakes, depending on even countries, you know, like playing style differ quite a lot from like US to Asia. And that's why you know poker is also so beautiful because the um Bia Ball is always like you know, evolving, always somewhat different. The game is evolving with all the tools uh we have available right now. So it's always like a nice um, I'd say a nice you know mental challenge. That's the beauty of a game, never perfectly solved far from it, especially when you play tournaments.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, and it's never the same game twice, which is what keeps me interested all these years. So, where what what is the uh the hand that you have for me? What tournament is it from?
SPEAKER_04:All right, um, so it's an online tournament. This was a hand which was submitted to um our coaching program. Basically, we have like with my partners, we have a French YouTube channel, it's called Tilt Tilt, and we have a training program. Uh it goes throughout the whole year. So people sign up at the beginning of the year and they get like content every week. And they also get to submit some hands, you know, and get some reviews by the coaches. So I've sected the hand, which I thought was interesting because there are like different layers, decision points at pretty much every street. Uh so it's uh our student played the hand on the final table.
SPEAKER_01:And what we can do if you don't mind, when it's the student's turn to act before we talk about what the student did, why don't we say what we would do and what kind of things might influence our decisions?
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, for sure. I think that's great. So final table of uh 250 euro buying online, so like down to six. We are sitting in the big blind, we have 13 big blind, and we are like lasting chips tied with another guy who has also 13 bigs. So the average stack here is 27 bigs. Uh we're facing an open from hijack. Hijack is with 32 bigs, he's covered by the button, button has 42, and small blind has 36. Kind of like pretty close from the other stacks, but he's doesn't have the best opening spot, you know, being covered by a button. And falls to us in the big blind with Queen 9 off. So there's already a decision point, right? It's like do we defend or do we fold?
SPEAKER_01:One thing I can tell you for sure, all my listeners will attest to this. Where I really struggle is I don't pay enough attention to ICM. And so this is maybe something that for for me personally, for Clayton, is not a strength, it's definitely a weakness of mine.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, I think that's also something that you know most people should focus on when they actually study poker. They, you know, they do have time to study. Because this is where actually you make the most money, it's not in the early stages of a tournament. In the early stages, yeah, you're gonna if you improve, you're gonna, I guess, you know, be able to build up a stack more consistently. But the big money, the highest stakes, I would say, you know, they are at the end of a tournament when ICM is involved. Uh, so every mistake is actually gonna cost you a lot of money potentially.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, so with that in mind, because we have the shortest stack, but only barely. I mean, the guy who's going to be the big blind next has just you know one and a half big blinds more than we do, or something. I don't know. Maybe should we try to ladder up? Just fold this hand and and try to ladder.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, actually, you know, it's it's actually a very close uh spot. Um so GTO says fold here. Basically, our hand is like a little bit too weak. Uh we actually have like a lot of risk premium, even though we're like lasting chips, we're not like so far from everyone else, right? If we double up, we're like back to the average type.
SPEAKER_01:Right.
SPEAKER_04:So, you know, it's one reason to be fairly tight. Also facing an opening range here, which is not like the widest, it's not like a button, it's not a cheap leader opening. So our Queen 9 off can actually be dominated because if he starts, you know, even if he opens bits too wide, it's gonna start opening ace 9 off, king 9 off type of stuff. Obviously, quintenoff, quinthoff, so it's not great for a hand. And here in theory, the bottom of our defending range would be quintenoff, actually. So, first off, you know, our our student makes you know small mistakes uh defending Que9off.
SPEAKER_01:Right. So you're saying that Queen 10 is a defend, but queen nine is a fold, so it's really right there on the on the verge of correct. Yeah, got it.
SPEAKER_04:He calls, uh finds uh this beautiful flop, queen98 with uh two diamonds, so as a flush drawn board, uh checks to the pre-flop razor and if he's facing a small c bet for one third pot.
SPEAKER_01:We we don't really have any leadouts on this flop, do we?
SPEAKER_04:Of course not, because we defend in the big blinds. Uh so queen nine eight, so we don't have any sets there, we're probably jamming in always queen nine eight. So no reason to lead. We're gonna check our whole range.
SPEAKER_01:So we check and he bets one and a half big blinds into five point two big blinds.
SPEAKER_04:So the uh effective stack is so it's uh 11 big blinds, so it's roughly stack to pot ratio of about two. So already on other decisions. Like, do we call? Do we slow play with like top two pairs, keep his bluffs in, or do we just raise and try to get the money in against you know a queen, against another pair, against uh bluff drawer?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I I think if this is uh okay to shove, maybe I'm crazy, but the board is so wet. I mean it's queen of diamonds, nine of spades, eight of diamonds. We've got top two pair. We would be check raise shoving with so many draws. Yeah, it might be difficult for for villain to fold anything decent against the shove here because we're going to have a lot of semi-bluffs, if you will, in our ring.
SPEAKER_04:So, yeah, I mean, um, you know, I think I think all decisions are on the table basically. I think you know, raising is good because it's quite a dynamic board. So sometimes when our opponent has his queen, king queen, you know, like as a bad turn or river, and we don't get to you know kind of like cooler him and take all the money. But at the same time, you know, we block a queen on a nine, so it's less likely that he has actually strong hands, more likely that he has like just ace, gutshot, something like that. So this is super close, you know. Like in theory, you should like race sometimes, call sometimes, you know, there's no no wrong answer or right answer really here. Unless you have like you know a specific grid on your opponent. Uh you know, if you think it's gonna overbluff like on later streets, then you know slope laying makes sense. Otherwise, you could raise too.
SPEAKER_01:Okay. I wanted to ask before we continue. Um, if we do race, it's a shove, right?
SPEAKER_04:Would you are there any other actually are if I mean you could I think you could jam, which is fine because you kind of want to jam some like node flush draws, some like king eye flush draws. But the solver always also likes um you know raise raising non-olin, probably taking some like weaker bluffs, maybe some like gut shots, and including some super strong hands like ours in like uh you know, like 4.5 big blind raise or something like that. Okay. But I think I think of course jamming is also fine. Anyway, he uh elected to call uh and slow play, which is uh reasonable, and now a turn is a ten of spades, so it's quite nine eight ten double flush draw, not the you know the turn card we want to see. Uh he checks and is facing another bet now. Three big blind into eight.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, this is pretty brutal. We've already we've already put in uh 25% of our stack with what was top two pair, but now the board is Queen of Diamonds, Nine of Spades, Eight of Diamonds, Ten of Spades. And well, let me ask you this. We did check this turn card. Do we ever want to lead this?
SPEAKER_04:No, I don't think we want to lead. I mean, that's obviously a good question, but I don't think you know we have like that many strong hands that we want to start leading. Of course, we have a bunch of traits. We could we can have like you know, King Jackov, Jack 9, 10 9, maybe Queen Jack is mostly raising the flop. But we also have a bunch of like you know, one-pair hands, some weak flush draws that they want to raise the flop. So you kind of have to protect our range. I think just check everything here because just not good enough. Like we would lead on, like, for example, a nine board pairing, because we probably have more nine than the hijack, uh, maybe on an eight, but the ten is not like basically good enough for a range where we can start leading. I don't, I don't think.
SPEAKER_01:Right. What about a queen on the turn? So, man, will we will we check that card as well or will we lead that one?
SPEAKER_04:I think we'll probably check a lot because a lot of our strongest queen queens are gonna raise flop anyway, right? Um yeah. So it's not like it's gives us like a huge advantage as a big player.
SPEAKER_01:Right, so that would kind of actually be a maybe a better card for our opponent's range, although we would have a full house with that card, but yeah, yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_04:And we also want to keep his bluffs in, right? Yeah, yeah. Okay.
SPEAKER_01:Okay.
SPEAKER_04:So now we have a clear continue, right? Uh our end is just not strong enough to raise. Um, even though a bunch of rivers can be still tricky to play. But basically, against some of his bluffs, we you know we have like still like a lot of equity, some like ace, some king eyes, they don't have a lot of equity. And against uh straight, obviously, we're doing very poorly. So there's no reason to raise.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, so we're just gonna call it three big blinds, and we call yeah.
SPEAKER_04:And the river is the eight of spades, so bringing a backdoor flush, right?
SPEAKER_01:Is this the worst card I can think of? Is this one of the worst cards I can think of for the river?
SPEAKER_04:It's pretty, it's pretty bad for sure. So we check, and obviously we face the the all in, so it's around 6.3 big blind effective into a pot of uh 14.
SPEAKER_01:Queen of Diamonds, Nine of Spades, Eight of Diamonds, Ten of Spades, Eight of Spades on the River, brings the the flush, the backdoor flush, the backdoor straight flush. Uh it pairs the board.
SPEAKER_04:Uh yeah, it's just a brutal card, but the question comes down to is our opponent finding enough bluffs? And uh also does he what does he think of our range, right? I think it's very key in that situation. Is does he think that we get you know to the river with like a bunch of trades still, but we have some flushes as well? So is he gonna find enough bluffs or is he gonna you know like shut down too many too much stuff like I don't know, like stuff like A7 offsuits, um, you know, king six of diamonds, this kind of hands are they gonna bluff or or shut down now?
SPEAKER_01:And you know, it's only half the pot, so we're getting three to one on a call.
SPEAKER_04:Getting three to one, but you also have to factor in ICM actually. That's why it actually gets tricky because on the final on the final table, when you have to bluff catch for your tournament life here, you kind of have to add the risk premium, which means you're getting actually worse portals than if you were playing, you know, a GPV sport like in early game.
SPEAKER_01:Right. Oh, yeah, this is a great hand for you to bring because there's so much to think about. Let me ask you this if we don't call here, then what hands do we include in our bluff catching range, if any.
SPEAKER_04:Right. I mean, um we're gonna have actually some strong hands, right? Because if we slow play queen nine, we can potentially slow play nine eight. We can slow play Queen 8 always only gonna be like the suited versions, right? We're gonna have a bunch of straights because we don't necessarily need to, you know, jam our straits on the turn. Uh so King Jack, that's straight, Jack 10, queen, queen jack, jack nine. And probably a few flushes as well. You know, like Queen Exospades mainly would be like uh we do you know get to the river with a bunch of like stronger hands too.
SPEAKER_01:Right now, we would have check raised some of those hands, at least some of the time on the flop. Yeah, but but that's why it's important for the listeners. This is why it's important to play a mixed strategy and not always so that you can't ever have Queen Jack here, right? We we talked before that you might check raise Queen Jack on the flop. Now we want to have it sometimes in our bluff cat. We can't always check raise it on the flop, or we never end up with it on the river as played.
SPEAKER_04:So you kind of want to be protected. That's that's the uh idea. That's kind of like what GTO can teach us. Is you kind of you kind of want to have a bit of everything in your range, especially when you arrive at the river. So your range is you know a bit protected and probably easier to defend against aggression. When I saw this spot, I I just thought that since I mean since we do have a bunch of strong hands in our passive range, I don't think people are gonna go out of their way to find bluffs. I'm not saying that this guy is not finding bluffs on this specific situation, but I do think that it's gonna be I don't think it's gonna be over bluffing that situation. That's kind of what I'm saying. Because the the ball looks looks scary in some ways, you know, it kind of hits our defending range, you know, fairly different decently when we check call flop and turn, right?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it really does.
SPEAKER_04:Obviously, we're a bluff catcher, we don't beat any, we don't beat any value at this point.
SPEAKER_01:Right, right. We can't even beat pocket kings anymore.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, the question is like, is he valuing pocket kings on the river? Uh it's quite quite thin. I'm not sure whether they is value betting. I mean, he's I think the bottom of his value range is straight. I think we have to agree on that.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, okay, so yeah, he controlled with like ace jack or something. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Ace Jack, yeah, King Jack would be like I think uh the most common um value hands, especially if they're gonna be offsuit combos, right? So that's uh that's obviously more combos. Even though it feels like you know, we set the trap by check calling the flop, sometimes you also have to re-evaluate and and uh you know change your plan when the run out is not in your favor.
SPEAKER_01:Right, right. Yeah, this is uh tough spot. I I guess I'm with you. You kind of talked me into it. Originally, I wanted to call.
SPEAKER_04:Calling is reasonable if you're against like a very tough player because they're gonna be thinking about this pot, and like, yeah, I want to find enough bluffs here. Uh I think my opponent still has you know some like parent gut shots, some stuff like maybe King 10, some Queen X. Uh, but I can still fold out by the river. For what it's worth, I I kind of like looked up this spot in the solver, and our hand was like mostly calling but folding a bit. But then when I looked at the bluffs, but the imposition player has to find, I think most people would find would not find all of them. Uh so then it becomes a very clear fold because I think I think people are not gonna be aggressive enough with the bluffs like on both on all like on all street on like flop turn and river. Stuff like you know, ace five offsuits, you know, ace 7 offsuit with like a spade, this type of stuff. I don't think that necessarily you're gonna always bet flop turn and river in backline.
SPEAKER_01:And especially when we appear to be fairly popular. hot committed having put in half our stack already. So yeah, I think in my experience people generally don't bluff enough when my stack is already in there because they assume I'm always calling.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. If they assume you're yeah calling a decent amount of a time your range is not like super capped. Yes we didn't raise the flop but we st we still show up to the reader with a bunch of strong hands. So yeah I think for this reason I like the fault I can't forward the call either. I don't think it's like uh super bad to call here.
SPEAKER_01:Okay.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. I mean for the reference for the results the opponent had ace jack our student did call the river and ran into it. But yeah I think it was quite interesting hand.
SPEAKER_01:Ah that's rough. Villain bets seven big lines or six point three big lines all in and uh hero calls with Queen nine and then villain turns over ace jack with the ace of spades and you did point that out uh when you did your solver work on this one that having a spade changes the bluffing frequency right yeah no for sure I mean it's gonna it's gonna increase the bluffing frequency if you have the ace of spades it's a good it's a good blocker to have to to bluff as well for for in position.
SPEAKER_04:Also like good reason to to value bet Ace Jack there. I mean I guess you can value bet probably any jack anyway given the SPR is you know it's very it's very shallow it's very small. Right.
SPEAKER_01:But you're less obviously a bit less concerned of like your opponent having uh having a flash yeah that ace of spades is such a very important card there for that that's a tough way to go out flopping top two pairs of short stack and still managing to lose the pot.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah I mean it's also like one of the spots where you know if you don't play so much you don't get to so many final tables you might regret like slow playing the flop and say oh I should have raised the flop right but it doesn't mean that slow playing the flop was a bad decision.
SPEAKER_01:Right.
SPEAKER_04:You know it's just also the ro probably like one of the worst runouts you can get for your hands. You have to make uh tough decisions under pressure.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah yeah thanks for talking us through that hand that's uh you know really interesting I will actually run this hand through GTO wizard uh for next week's episode and we can look at all the decision points we'll use the ICM mode in uh we'll really look at what the best uh course of action is we'll look how Sylvan actually noticed that Queen 9 is a fold but just barely so because queen 10 is a call and then each street we'll do our full analysis. GTO Wizard is actually my favorite tool for analyzing my game combining that with Jocka coaching I feel like I'm just getting better and better uh every day if any of the listeners want to try out GTO Wizard I've got a deal for you there as well uh we've got a what do you call it an affiliate link where you can get 24 hours free access and then save 10% off your first purchase and that is gtowizard.com slash P slash TPE. All right so Van Thanks for uh coming on and uh talking some poker with me today.
SPEAKER_04:Nice to see you nice to catch up. Yeah before we say goodbye how can people find you are you on Twitter Instagram like where do you I'm I'm on both Twitter and Instagram uh at uh Sylvanosley uh so my first name and my last name and I do put out some you know some content uh on Instagram some reels uh so yeah some in French some in English we also have a so our YouTube channel is called Kill Tilt uh Kill the Tilt right um most of the content is in French but actually some of the reels now it's like all you know like translated into English as well so that's great and we will uh include a link to that YouTube page as well in the description of this podcast uh Sylvan much continued luck and success to you sir thank you of course and so for Sylvan mostly and for everyone here at Tournament Poker Ed I'm Clayton Fletcher thank you so much for listening to