A player should not lead with a bet on the river in this spot because it eliminates the opponent's opportunity to bluff and puts the player in a difficult position.

“and this is a spot where like as you said it kind of looks like Okay so she made two pair right you know maybe I really don't like to play for a lot of reasons because you know it's essentially like a brick right and you've check called the turn and now by betting like you're eliminating all of jung”

Spending time chips in a small, marginal spot to avoid a tough decision is a negative expected value move.

“I think here like if she just flicked it in and actually made the wrong decision, that's probably better actually than spending the coins, even if it doesn't seem that way, because the decision was kind of close in her mind to begin with.”

He views high-level poker theory as a secondary tool and ultimately trusts his long-standing intuition over theoretical models when making final decisions.

“I really like doing that under pressure of shot clock as well because it just translates well it creates a more pleasant experience for players if you play Fast all of the the normal things so I like to be able to make decisions quickly but one habit that I formed is I will try to rank the best card”

He chose to limp on the button against a short stack because he wanted to trap the opponent into shoving so he could win a flip.

“my original thing was because was we were we were I think it was 16 blinds and what my what 14 well maybe it said you had 2.8 and the blind was 200 so okay well what my initial thought was was I'm going to limp he's going to make it 3 and 1/2 4X and I'm going to shove and he's going to fold that's m”