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exciting and rewarding phase of a tournament, and being… Attacking Paired Flops From the BB Paired flops present unique challenges to both a preflop raiser and a BB caller. The… KK vs QQ vs JJ at WSOP Main Event With only fourteen players remaining in the 2023 WSOP Main Event and blinds of 400K/800K/800K,… Responding t... |
to have helped your opponent. In all likelihood, he will fold to a bet, fearing the possibility that you are the one holding three of a kind. Opponent Is First When your opponent is first to act and bets into you, call with any pair or big ace. There is just too good a chance that your opponent is trying to pick up thi... |
now? Answer: Bad moon rising. The king is a scary card, and Player G doesn't seem to be going away. 120 You should cut your losses right here. Action: You check, and Player G bets $130. You fold, and Player G takes the pot. Hand 5-22 Situation: In the middle of a single-table online tournament. Players A and D are very... |
Bet Any chips voluntarily put in the pot (VPIP) by a player where the amount required to call to see the next street increases. |
C-Betting As the OOP Preflop Raiser Position is an extremely valuable advantage in poker. Most players would describe the comfort zone as being in position (IP) coupled with having the stronger preflop range. This situation, known as the ‘bread-and-butter’ of poker, occurs when we raise from late position and are calle... |
more potential to win (or lose) chips on later streets, and the higher the implied/reverse implied odds. Let’s compare how the solver opens the HJ at different stack depths in a standard cash game: HJ open: 50BB deep You should also consider how likely your opponent is to put in chips on later streets. For example, you... |
position (EP) in a multi-table tournament and the BB calls. Both… The Art of Bluff Catching Bluff catching—calling a bet with a modest hand which you expect to win only if… Exploiting Excessive C-Betting by IP On some flops, it is simply not possible for the preflop raiser to continuation bet… Is Limping Pimping? In a ... |
lojack it would be unlikely that the hijack has a hand like 10 deuce offsuit or queen 3 off suit but it's very possible the hijack would have aces or kings or ace king and if the flop comes king king jack there's a high probability that the hijack will have made a strong hand on this board including over pairs trips fu... |
who himself is playing gto this strategy may be exploited by an opponent that is closely tracking frequencies so in these instances even if the e regret for a particular action is low it may still make sense to refine the class further so we have now established that we can greatly simplify our learning of gto by devel... |
extra nine big blinds is like having a second life and tournament poker and as you can imagine if everybody else enters the turn with one life and you have two lives that's excellent so these are the fun most fun boards to manipulate you can throw in that over bet if you have a pissy young kid you can just go for the b... |
eight just have to fold um and then here's where the solver doesn't like my play it wants to just bet big with this hand is like this one hand that it wants to go all in now I want to tell a story to Fred frenzy Fred I want to say I've got a seven I don't think me going all in or bit import or three quarters pot tells ... |
About David Sklansky David Sklansky is generally considered the number one authority on gam- bling in the world today. Besides his twelve books on the subject, David also has produced two videos and numerous writings for various gaming publications. More recently David has been doing consulting work for casinos and gam... |
J Q 10 7. The fourth card is below a 10.' 'I stay regardless of the size of the fourth card, with one exception. If I have only one opponent and he has a king or an ace over me I am beat in sight unless I make a pair or catch an ace. I would fold if I'm beat in sight at this point of the game; that is, if the opponent ... |
THE CONCEPTS 188 and challenge you with a resteal raise. Your bet size should be somewhat smaller than your “typical” bet because this is really an either/or bluff. Either your opponents hit the flop, or they didn’t. If they missed, they’ll likely fold to your small bet. If they hit, they’d likely call or raise even a po... |
and myself Alex and Matt are adding new hand quizzes every single week as well so that database is just gonna keep growing and growing Jonathan also has over 30 coaching challenge webinars from his inner circle program and he also has live coaching challenge webinars every month and so do the rest of us instructors abo... |
the flop comes A♣-9♦-3♥ and now you’re in the catbird seat. Generally, in this situation, the pre-flop raiser will bet out. When that happens, most players holding your strength would flat-call, not wanting to scare off the customer. You might flat-call, too, and that’s probably right most of the time, since you could ... |
the betting strategy here in the the key takeaway here is that we're gonna polarize and never use a small sizing and always use the bigger sizing here on the turn and then as you'll see here will start bluffing with a lot of our ace highs because of some of the blockers we'll block a lot Bluff a lot with the ace of clu... |
like in terms of the big game it starts to get a little bit narrower up here um we're going to start to polarize more on the turn so here we're at 60 and I have seven4 dece but this is two tone so we're slightly different stock size here and it's going to change a little bit because it's two- tone so 74 Deuce so what's... |
two cards nine or higher lots of suited connected hands of suited gapped hands so all the hands that are in white opt to fold all the hands in blue up to shove all right let's talk about small blind strategy here I wanted to show you the main difference where I definitely recommend you don't play the shuffle fold strat... |
Table 11: EV Gains and Loses Versus Different Villain Types As seen in Table 11, GTO play can’t lose or win EV vs a GTO player, but it gains EV vs suboptimal players depending on the severity of their leaks. MES on average gains 6.4bb/100 more than GTO vs suboptimal players but doing so creates a leak that can, on aver... |
Hand Range 94: Stack Depths for UTG+1 Push |
weak, like a squeeze. Remember that your profit in this situation comes from lesser made hands or pure air. Lesser made hands might bet again on the turn if you flat-call on the flop, but pure air certainly won’t. Your best chance to get his chips is to raise and let him read you for weak. The same would be true if pla... |
to outlast the other players now you may say why wouldn't the big side just go along with anything then and make you fold a ton because when you do actually wake up with a hand that can call like aces and kings and you do call it is just an absolute disaster for that player because they took their stack that was very b... |
example of a hand like 10 9 suited 10 9 suited yeah I can make two pair but it can also make a ton of straights and flushes so we're really looking at suited miss and connectedness when we're playing 150 big blind seed that's the biggest thing you need to take away from this when we're 50 big blinds deep you want hands... |
what… What is Equity in Poker? The term “Equity” is ubiquitous throughout poker theory. Equity refers to your chances of winning… Range Morphology “Morphology” is the study of form or structure. You’ve probably heard terms thrown around such… What is Expected Value in Poker? Expected value (EV) is the most fundamental ... |
normally would. Competent Regs normally float flops quite wide in position. It's natural to balance your strong flop calling hands with some weaker ones that expect future fold equity, especially when in position vs. wide ranges like in BB vs. SB battles. This means that Hero must not play turn cards in a fit-or-fold m... |
conservative so we're not gonna give them the king queen and you know even if we start to take out some of these like queen ten to the king ten cities that we're not sure if he's shoving or not it'd be pretty optimistic you know ace Jack here is pretty break-even at like 0.3 0.2 so basically what I figured out now is a... |
on its own, but understanding… Probe Betting As far as rules of thumb go in poker, “check to the raiser” is a… ICM and Blind Battles: The Big Blind This is a companion piece to this article on the SB’s strategy for blind vs… ICM and Blind Battles: The Small Blind ICM incentivizes more conservative play, which means tha... |
cards matched by the board. A low can still be made, provided some combination of five cards can be played without a pair. In Omaha jargon, you have a “live ace” for low. Example Five Your hand: A-A-4-7 Opponent: 2-5-6-K Board: 2-4-7-8-9 This time, your opponent wins the whole pot. His 9-high straight beats your two pa... |
If you hold a hand such as A-Q or T-T, you are generally better off just calling a limp by a tight player. Conversely, you can play aggressively behind a loose player’s limp, in an attempt to isolate him in the pot. It is nearly always a desirable situation if you can play a pot heads up against a weaker hand. If a loo... |
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Win rates tend to be a lot higher in live games compared to online games because live games are almost always softer than online games. Casinos attract all kinds of recreational players looking to gamble, socialize and have a good time. These players do not play anywhere near fundamentally sound poker, resulting in str... |
a short stack, the postflop play against the BB should… I’d Rather Be Drawing Which is the better hand on a K♥8♦5♦ flop: K♠T♣ or 7♥6♥? OK, I’ll admit… The Curious Case of Open-Limping Buttons Before the advent of solvers, open-limping was considered the province of passive, gambley recreational players… Cleaning Out St... |
Unless Villain is particularly aggressive facing c-bets it's very likely that a c-bet will have an immense amount of fold equity. The reason for this is two fold: Villain already folds to a large amount of c-bets according to our HUD. The most common hand he'd call a bet with (top pair) is now far less likely due to He... |
Now, how can we adjust our own 3-bet game to maximise our EV vs. an opener with 60-80BB? BU is just the type of player Hero would love to 3-bet bluff a wide polar range against for fold equity purposes. Hero's value range will be narrow and his bluff range will span quite far down into his would-be folding range (hands... |
several hundred dollars sitting on the table that you still consider yours. Of course, the money is not yours because of that one last improbable card on the end that beat you. With so many people staying to the end in each hand, implied collusion is rampant. Bad beats are an unavoidable cost of play. Putting people on... |
Effective nuts A hand that is not the literal nuts, but given the actions throughout the hand, can effectively be played or treated as though it is the nuts. |
RAISING BEFORE THE FLOP 69 Reasons to Raise There are at least six main reasons to raise before the flop in no limit hold ’em. Depending on the stack sizes and your opponents’ tendencies, some reasons may become more important than others at different times. The six reasons to raise before the flop are: • For value • For ... |
so, you have so little time to make money that you just have to forget about those possibilities and push your good hands to the limit. You should assume you have a lock hand, and try to figure out the best way to get Player F's remaining $590. I'd bet $200 to $250 here, figuring that the pot odds would force him to ca... |
aces up in my book.' He raked in the pot. 'Where's the geldings T 'Hitched out in front.' Hairlip tore up his cards and snarled at Monty. 'You common son-of-a-bitch, you tricked me!' 'You tricked yourself, simpleton.' He turned to Jack who was watching. 'Take over, Jack, if anyone wants to continue.' To me he said, 'Ch... |
say OOP bets half-pot on the river. How much equity would IP need to make this call? The classic way to solve this is to use the simple equation: Required equity = (call) / (pot after you call) For a halfpot bet: 0.5 / 2 = 25%; IP needs at least 25% equity to call this bet. Another way to say this is that IP needs to r... |
got to bet the flop for a cheap shot at denying their opponent’s equity , and when that didn’t pan out, they enjoyed high equity realization themselves by seeing the turn and river cards. If they still haven’t improved by the river, they may get some equity denied by a bluff, but they’re no worse off than they would ha... |
ninety percent of the time. It’s important to use a new set of flops each time, as the goal is to hone your ability to predict betting frequency from flop texture, not to memorize frequencies for a specific subset of flops. Step 3: Big or Small For each flop on your list, predict whether UTG will most commonly use a “s... |
bluffing? Of course not. First, he knows there’s an all-in player who can’t fold. So he can’t be bluffing that guy. Second, you look awfully pot-committed anyway, potcommitted and strong. So he shouldn’t be bluffing you. If he can’t be bluffing, then your queens or jacks can’t be good. So if someone wakes up withaces o... |
High Donk Bet Frequency Flops (50%+) There are about 34 distinct flops that result in an average donk bet over 50% of the time against both the BN and UTG. They are in ranks 7-x-x and 6-x-x with one to three possible flopped straights. The higher the number of flopped straights, the smaller the donk bet-size and the hi... |
1.2 EV - The Currency of Poker Contrary to what you might think, the currency of poker decision-making is not money, at least not as we know it. In the real world, money is a stable currency that reliably represents the worth of what we buy and sell. If I sell my car for $5000, I'll get $5000 for the car. I make a tran... |
Player2 Solution We know that P1 always bets with AA, so when they check, they are giving up with QQ. This means that when P2 sees P1 check, he should check back and win at showdown with KK because there is no value in betting, as P1 will always fold QQ. To solve the game for P2, all we need to do is find his strategy ... |
Here our absolute hand strength is very good. A straight is a fairly difficult hand to make and one that wins more often than not, but we don't care about that. How's our relative hand strength? It's incredible! This hand is the nuts since nothing can beat it. The question is: how is our hand's equity relative to our o... |
some equity with trash hands or start bluffing with them, while keeping the pot size under control when you are beat. This action is often referred to as pot controlling. Weak hands Weak hands benefit from checking back when the Villain’s range is strong and you risk getting x/r and pushed off your hand. However, they ... |
The Art of Bluff Catching Bluff catching—calling a bet with a modest hand which you expect to win only if… Exploiting Excessive C-Betting by IP On some flops, it is simply not possible for the preflop raiser to continuation bet… Is Limping Pimping? In a past Discord post, one of our members noted that an upside of impl... |
from early position in a raked game is that your opponents are strongly incentivized to 3-bet if they choose to contest the pot. Small raises enable you to lose the least with your weaker opens while still often getting you the big pots you want with your stronger hands. In games with more casual, inexperienced players... |
you one of the best flops for the big blind and they only have 47% and because of that they have to check every single time because well they have nowhere near you know like 54% Equity okay so as you have more of an advantage you bet more often position also is going to heavily impact your strategy in general you're go... |
have flopped a full house. Now you need a lot of money in the pot to continue playing a straight or flush draw. On the other hand, if the flop is it is unlikely that you are looking at a full house. Rational players, even those who do not play well, generally throw away hands like 92. Thus, not only should you at least... |
When to (and When Not to) Use the Sklansky-Chubukov Rankings In the last section, we explained what Sklansky-Chubukov (S-C) numbers are, and we gave you a basic idea of how you might use them to make decisions. But we gave you only a basic idea, and we would be remiss if we left things there, as there are right and wro... |
When To Encourage Multiway Pots in PKOs PKO I was recently shown this fascinating PKO hand from the GTO Wizard PKO library. Somebody asked me… 19/02/2024 12 min. / 48 sec. |
board coverage. These stack depths are deep enough for the BB to call a SB limp/raise with many suited hands due to being in position, so being re-raised isn’t such a disaster because the best suited hands can always call and play post-flop (Hand Ranges 151-154). Hand Range 147: BB vs SB Limp (15bb) • All-in 8.2% / • R... |
10.1 Polar 3-Betting Let's start with a generic example of a polar 3-bet range and introduce the colour scheme we'll be using throughout this chapter. Warning: The polar range example below (Figure 50) is not intended for use in any old 3-bet spot. While there are real poker situations in which it would be a fine choic... |
Combinatorics Combinatorics is a term for evaluating the number of possible “combinations” (combos) of any given hand: the combination of 2 cards of certain ranks and suits. For example, there are four combinations of As: AK, AK, AK, AK. |
Load – Unnecessary distractions. This can be from an external source like having the TV on in the background, something internal like anxiety, or even poorly created study materials that make the task more confusing. Germane Load – Otherwise useful learning techniques (like the ones we are about to explore) that are si... |
♦ GTO Player: This player will call a 15bb SB push optimally with a 28.5% range. ♦ 10% Loose Player: This type of Villain is a bit sticky and calls a 15bb SB push with a 31.4% range. ♦ 25% Loose Player: This type of Villain is a bit stickier and calls a 15bb SB push with a 35.6% range. ♦ 100% Loose Player: This type of... |
how much of the pot a hand will win, on… Variance and Bankroll Management Variance and Bankroll Management. Vital Soft Skills for Every Poker Player. How to Become a GTO Wizard Welcome to the wonderful world of game theory optimal poker! This article will serve as… The Three Laws of Indifference Indifference in poker i... |
decreases the chance that our opponent has an ace the suited kings can make the king high flush and also these hands have the ability to make top pair one way and then our drawing hands have the ability to still make sets and straights now a polarized range is used more for aggressing as opposed to defending because wi... |
unraised pot. You shouldn’t. If I don’t have anything in the pot to protect, I never jeopardize very much money without a real good hand. I don’t go out of my way to win nothing pots. Another important part of my playing philosophy I want to remind you about is this: You should constantly be trying to get as much value... |
pot. A rank beginner bets all-in when he hits his straight because he's excited and doesn't know any better. "I've got a big hand! I can bet all my chips! Yee-haw!" 164 Then he's crestfallen when everybody folds. A normal player with some sophistication would think "I've got the nuts, I need to make something more on t... |
this include? A pair (including bottom pair) or a draw. 26. Are we saying that you should never check-raise? No. If your strategy was to never check-raise, your opponent would begin to realize that when you do check you don't have anything. 27. Do you call as much on fourth street as you do on the flop? No, except agai... |
Pre-flop: To recap, Hero can develop a flatting range out of the small blind due to the open not being in a steal spot as this reduces the likelihood of facing squeezes from the BB. This hand is just about playable enough vs. Villain's likely range, even out of position. Flop: Hero could develop a raising range on this... |
Consider a gambling game where there are 20 total chips in play. Hero is P1, what is Hero’s probability of winning with different stack sizes when: ♦ The game is fair (both players are equally likely to win) ♦ Hero has a skill edge (52% probability of winning each individual gamble) ♦ Hero has a skill deficit (48% prob... |
because hands like AQ and AJ actually have some showdown value. A ♥ 4 x and A ♥ 3 x are better shoves, and even A ♥ 2 x shoves because the value of blocking two pair outweighs its showdown value. BTN shoves most of their worst unpaired hands , even without a heart blocker. Higher unpaired hands like QJ are undesirable ... |
really really don't want to be against a range that is well protected and contains those hands so this is a spot where even though we very likely have the best hand when we go check check we're going to win this pod almost every time if we bet and get raised it is awful and if your opponent's anywhere near decent they ... |
especially in live cash games most of the time when you raise everyone else is either gonna call or fold right but there are going to be times where you raise and then you get three bets re raised the term three bet will be used throughout this masterclass as opposed to re-raise because re-raise is not necessarily clea... |
The following equity realization heatmaps (Heatmaps 1-4) were generated by Pio Solver. They show results for situations where the BB is playing a single raised pot against either an EP or the BN in short stack and mid stack scenarios and they account for a 12.5% ante. |
between the small blind and big blind force no-limit players into uncomfortable situations,… The Art of Learning Poker In his book The Art of Learning, chess and Push Hands champion Josh Waitzkin describes… Is Donk Betting for Donkeys? “Donk betting”, or betting from out of position into the player who was the aggresso... |
I'd raise, too, if I hit Kings-full at the river, but with this board, would I completely discount the possibility of my opponent having the remaining two Aces or even one Ace and the remaining King? Player 2 with Kings-full has seen 7 cards, which leaves 45 unseen cards, 2 of which his opponent has. Pick 2 cards from ... |
Sizings Solver solutions with multiple bet sizes often involve a lot of mixing between those sizes,… River Refinements: When Your Opponent Won’t Check-Raise One of the biggest strategic differences between playing in versus out of position involves betting… Turn Barreling in 3-Bet Pots There are two articles on the GTO... |
actually consider this a blunder I think it's actually a very well played hand especially when we want to keep our chips for as much easier we can make against um little pump but yeah he he folds so that's nice and sometimes we have to like step away from the silver a bit and think like what's our opponent really going... |
be a dicey proposition in single-raised pots. Cold… Dynamic Sizing: A GTO Breakthrough Dynamic Sizing is a revolutionary new poker algorithm that automatically simplifies your strategy with the… Dynamic Sizing Benchmarks Dynamic Sizing is a revolutionary new poker algorithm that automatically simplifies your strategy w... |
pot. He said in a subdued voice, 'There's my five hundred and I raise two thousand. I'll have to give you an IOU.' 'You will in a pig's ass. Go get it.' 'How can I? The banks are closed.' 'You ain't got no two thousand in the bank. Put up or shut up,' said Bones. 'Monty, will you take my IOUT asked the producer. *Let m... |
THE SKLANSKY-CHUBUKOV RANKINGS 145 Hopefully, that’s a startling conclusion for you. Very few people’s instincts would tell them to move in for over 150 times the big blind playing with their hands face-up with anything less than aces or maybe kings. The reason this conclusion is hard to “get” is that most people gener... |
All-in When a player in a hand bets all of the chips in their stack. Some people will say that they "stacked off", which means the same as "went all-in". |
Whenever we are exploitatively opening a wider range than usual and face a 3-bet, it’s fine to over-fold. You are exploiting the fact that you won’t get 3-bet often enough by playing off-range hands. So, when you get 3-bet, your adjustment should be to fold all off-range hands and even hands that would be the bottom of... |
get out of line like that you're going to beat them up with the fundamentals by the way the hands not over if you call here guys there's still a river to play you gotta let this one go so let's go back to the big board of exploits and discuss this one put it simply when loose passive players start bombing the pot get t... |
going to make everyone go crazy and if everyone's going crazy at the other table and your table is a bunch of good players or players playing reasonably the table where everyone's going nuts is going to be substantially more profitable so do not be opposed to changing seats and changing tables ideally with the intentio... |
a sign to me hey wake up Sir wake up sir why are you on tilt what's going on in your head why are you frustrated and the answer is all almost always I'm frustrated because something silly happened and I'm acting irrationally and that's stupid don't be stupid Jonathan little and to be fair I'm a little bit harsh on myse... |
range advantage over a BB caller, enabling them to… C-Betting Against ICM Preflop Ranges You raise from early position (EP) in a multi-table tournament and the BB calls. Both… The Art of Bluff Catching Bluff catching—calling a bet with a modest hand which you expect to win only if… Exploiting Excessive C-Betting by IP ... |
or two players, neither of your opponents has much of a hand. Often both have been on draws that never materialized. As your hand-reading skills develop, you will learn when bluffs have the greatest chance of success, and you can limit your attempts to those times. Do bluff when scare cards hit. We discussed this in Ti... |
can't really defend to a three bet in this position so if you're at a passive table you can play it but uh looser aggressive tables you're probably just going to want to throw this away so under the gun plus one and under the gun plus two so for utg plus one uh we added in a rough roughly another three percent we've in... |
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