The Secret to Crushing Limp-Raised Pots

GTO Wizard helps you to learn GTO and analyze your game.

In this video, 2022 WSOP Main Event Champion Espen Jørstad teams up with GTO Wizard to reveal the secrets of crushing limp-raised pots. As part 1 of a 3-part series on leading/donking the flop, Espen dives deep into the strategy of leading in BvB Iso pots. Espen believes that leading in these situations are both an under-studied and under-utilized weapon in an MTT player’s arsenal. Through in-depth analysis and practical examples, he breaks down the key factors to consider, including range advantages, board textures, and exploitative adjustments. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from one of the sharpest minds in poker, and stay tuned for parts 2 and 3 of this invaluable series on leading the flop.

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The Secret to Crushing Limp-Raised Pots

0:00 Intro
1:29 Global Leading Frequencies
2:09 10bb
15:20 20bb
25:32 30bb
31:29 40bb
33:18 Summary

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[GTOWizard]

Espen: "Leading the flop in limp-raised pots is crucial to crushing MTTs."
Me: _furiously takes notes_ "So donk-betting is actually good... got it!" 📝🤭

[TomRauhe]

Good to see 72o finally gets the respect it deserves. Also good to see, that if I know you play GTO and I am sitting on A7o, I am crushing your ENTIRE shoving range at 3:00

[zfrtmmj]

Were you meant to change the setting in the 30bb ai solve to use 2 bet sizes? Otherwise it doesn't make sense to use the dynamic feature

[hikikomoriechi]

you can lock first the ip range and then put range check oop to have the exact range of betting :) Very cool video!, im gonna study it fore sure!

[joas]

I don't think anyone has ever lead the flop on those boards against me. So it's a nice spot to gain some extra EV :)

[deepakramachandran]

I'm confused about something in the KKQ spot. If the GTO strategy for SB is a lot of leading and SB deviates by checking range, it has to be the case that BB's GTO strategy can't do worse than before. So when you node lock BB as well to be betting as much as he was in GTO previously, why does his EV fall so drastically? Is it because the range composition in the nodelocked version is very different from the GTO strategy?

[michaeldumas]

what plan uses limps...or am not subscribed yet and dont see that option....or is it custom?....thanks

[kevinkennedy]

so if we check on the KKQ or the Qxx board and villain bets too much, i guess we can check raise way way more than seems natural?

[MttCrusher]

I do not agree with your statement that we should massively adapt as the ISO raiser if SB does not donk. Checking range would lose much more EV ifvillain does not react as he should, which is also likely i he does not know what is going on here. So if he does not XR and XC enough against our c-bets, we should not adapt and X range or we would be GTO-trapped ourselves.

Nice content anyway, sir. Thanks!

[pistihufnagel]

@UhlenPoker Doesn't your experiment prove that in practice we should just check instead of leading these kind of flops? As the SB we can't lose too much EV by simply checking range but if we do lead we prevent the BB to do a big mistake even if he would only cbet the original GTO freq (but in practice the population way-way overcbets most of these flops).
I get that they would make mistakes even after the leads, but it seems just such an incredible printing option to let them make this very frequent overbcet mistake.

[brianwilson]

You tend to talk with an upward inflection like you're questioning the validity of your own claim with the tone. Sweet video? Thanks for taking the time? Definitely one of the best videos I've seen in a while?

[bobbysprague]

Anyone else fall asleep listening to him yammer on and on?