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Question 1: What do you think you could play differently than suggested in the BSS Starting Hands Chart and why?
Play more (looser) closer to the button and very tight utg and from the blinds. I think it must be possible to calculate the ev yourself for every hand, so that in theory it would be possible to play every hand which has more then 50% ev.

Question 2: Post a hand for evaluation where you have a question regarding your pre-flop play.
NL25 AKo

Question 3: What is the equity of AKo against the top 5% range? 5% means: 88+, AJs+, KQs, AKo?
Text results appended to pokerstove.txt

1,109,572,992 games 0.667 secs 1,663,527,724 games/sec

Board:
Dead:

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 46.324% 37.92% 08.41% 420706872 93287754.00 { AKo }
Hand 1: 53.676% 45.27% 08.41% 502290612 93287754.00 { 88+, AJs+, KQs, AKo }

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Question 0: Download and install the Equilab. (You can download the Equilab for free here: PokerStrategy.com Equilab.
[x] done

Question 1: You are holding KQ. What is your preflop equity against an opponent who has 33? How does the equity change on this flop: J53? (Tip: you can use the Equilab to help you with this task.)
From a coinflip to almost drawing dead, in numbers:
Equity Winst Split
MP2 48.14% 47.75% 0.39% { KQo }
MP3 51.86% 51.47% 0.39% { 33 }

Board: Jd5h3s
Equity Winst Split
MP2 3.23% 3.23% 0.00% { KQo }
MP3 96.77% 96.77% 0.00% { 33 }

Question 2: What would you do in the following hand? (Remember that it is important to explain your reasons, simply posting "Fold" or "Call" isn't enough!)

Turn: ($0.25) 5 (3 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $0.22, BU raises to $0.44, BB folds, Hero...?
Fold he can have a 4 so you must fold, or you should have a flushdraw possibility but I don't think that is the case here.

Question 3: Do you have questions about your postflop play? Post your hand for evaluation. (Post your hand in the hand evaluation forum and provide a link to your hand in your private thread in the Locker Room.)
NL10 AK

Question 1: Post a hand for evaluation in which you have the initiative postflop. (Post your hand in the Hand evaluation board, and provide a link to your hand in your private thread.)
NL10 AK

Question 2: Evaluate one of the hands submitted by other members. (Choose a hand from the Hand evaluation board and post your own evaluation in the thread. Post a link to the hand you have evaluated in your private thread. You can evaluate as many hands as you want, but try to choose hands not yet evaluated by other users.)
NL2 AK vs donk bet flop

Question 3: You are on the flop with KQ. The board cards are J, 9, 8, and your opponent holds 77. What is your equity in this spot?

Board: Jd9h8s
Equity Winst Split
MP2 41.41% 41.41% 0.00% { KQo }
MP3 58.59% 58.59% 0.00% { 77 }

Question 1: Post a hand for evaluation where you have based your decisions on the stats of your opponents. (Post your hand in the Hand evaluation board, and provide a link to your hand in your private thread.)
This same hand again for the third time, since it's a fish and his steal stats were getting higher too when we got 3 handed.
NL10 AK

Question 2: Evaluate one of the hands submitted by other members. (Choose a hand from the Hand evaluation board and post your own evaluation in the thread. Post a link to the hand you have evaluated in your private thread. You can evaluate as many hands as you want, but try to choose hands not yet evaluated by other users first.)
NL2 AK vs donk bet flop

Question 3: Consider the following situation:

What action would you take, and why?

Bet since there's a possibility he has 78 and you want to know if your hand is still good too. And you already took the innitisative.

Question 1: Post a hand for evaluation where you have based your decisions on the stats of your opponents. (Post your hand in the Hand evaluation board, and provide a link to your hand in your private thread.)

Question 2: Evaluate one of the hands submitted by other members. (Choose a hand from the Hand evaluation board and post your own evaluation in the thread. Post a link to the hand you have evaluated in your private thread. You can evaluate as many hands as you want, but try to choose hands not yet evaluated by other users first.)

Question 3: Consider the following situation:

What action would you take, and why?

Question 1: Post a hand for evaluation where you have either a) freeplay, b) slowplay, or c) multi-way pot situation. (Post your hand in the Hand evaluation board, and provide a link to your hand in your private thread.)

Question 2: Evaluate one of the hands submitted by other members. (Choose a hand from the Hand evaluation board and post your own evaluation in the thread. Post a link to the hand you have evaluated in your private thread. You can evaluate as many hands as you want, but try to choose hands not yet evaluated by other users first.)

Question 3: Consider the following situation:

What action would you take, and why?

Question 1: Post a hand for evaluation where you have played on a 6-max table (short-handed). (Post your hand in the No Limit: Hand Evaluations forum, and provide a link to your hand in your private thread.)

Question 2: Evaluate one of the hands submitted by other members (Choose a hand from the No Limit: Hand Evaluations board and post your own evaluation in the thread. Post a link to the hand you have evaluated in your private thread. You can evaluate as many hands as you want, but try to choose hands not yet evaluated by other users first.)

Question 3: Consider the following situation:

What action would you take, and why?

Question 1: Post a hand for evaluation. (Post your hand in the No Limit: Hand Evaluations board, and provide a link to your hand in your private thread.)

Question 2: Evaluate one of the hands submitted by other members. ( Choose a hand from the No Limit: Hand Evaluations board and post your own evaluation in the thread. Post a link to the hand you have evaluated in your private thread. You can evaluate as many hands as you want, but try to choose hands not yet evaluated by other users first.)

Question 3: Consider the following situation:

What action would you take, and why?

BONUS Question 4 (optional question): Consider the following situation:

What factors and concepts that you have learned so far would you use in evaluating this situation? What would your action be?

BTW I think I forgot to copy paste the color or suites of the cards, I will look into this later. So perhaps I didn't read some questions right, I was wondering why there were no suits.

Good job! Homework #1 Done!

Well, actually you don't have to post like that all the homeworks. ♦ Could easily just paste it when you are done with them. Kinda hard to follow when you update your post since I wont see it. You have to always post another post that you updated your homework.

I used to play also Q2/Q3, although if I could take back the time I would definitely switch to poker right away. ♦ At least can earn solid money with it.

About your grinding and learning much it's really horrible. With just playing in long run you ain't gonna fix your leaks which actually you should pay attention in the beginning and get used to analyze your sessions rather than ignoring it. Force yourself to analyze all the time and most of the weakness can be fixed with posting hands (analyzing your session). We will start writing feedback to your play. Usually negative feedback will put you into thinking phase and trying to fix all those leaks. It's almost the same as you lose money, you will remember it more than winning part. By this situation it's gonna be that negative feedback you gonna remember and try to avoid them next time.

Tight style is usually called playing rather few hands. Like following the Starting Hand Chart. Aggressive should be also pretty clear that already the word says how you should be playing. But the problem playing aggressively is that you have to watch that you don't play too aggressive. Find good spots, find good targets. About The tight-aggressive strategy you can read in this article: "What is the Big Stack Strategy?"

Welcome to the Course and Best of Luck. Some more points earned.

Good job! Homework #2 Done!

Totally agree with you about the stealing ranges. They can be very easily be balanced with even wider range. Depending on the opponent you can as well put a wider stealing range. Against some shorties you can even steal with smaller raise. But don't overdo the stealing situations. Sometimes you might just put yourself into too many difficult spots if opening with marginal hands.

About Question #3:

       Equity     Win     Tie
UTG    46.32%  37.92%   8.41% { AKo }
UTG+1  53.68%  45.27%   8.41% { 88+, AJs+, KQs, AKo }

Hopefully you enjoy the School so far. Some more points earned.

Good job! Homework #3 Done!

About Question #1:
Preflop Equity:

       Equity     Win     Tie
UTG    50.78%  50.40%   0.38% { KsQs }
UTG+1  49.22%  48.84%   0.38% { 3d3c }

Postflop Equity:

Board: J♠5♦3♠
       Equity     Win     Tie
UTG    26.46%  26.46%   0.00% { KsQs }
UTG+1  73.54%  73.54%   0.00% { 3d3c }

About Question #2:
There are few situations on turn:
a) If we take just odds for the FD and we take into account that all our odds are clean. There which means:
Total Pot = $0,91 ; We have to Call = $0,22 -> According to that it means we are getting ~4,16:1 odds. For flushdraw we would need 4:1. Which tells us that we are getting perfect odds.
b) If we consider the opponent having sets here:
Which means we have to discount outs, for example 6:c and also 3:c. Which means we have 7 clean outs. Which means that we need 6:1 odds. That tells us that we need ~$0,41 on river to make it profitable. If we expect the opponent being loose enough and being able to pay us no-matter what then we can do the Call here properly.
c) We might even have overcards as outs or even 4 as a out:
Although this kind of situation ain't that likely. I'd rather discount that one and either pick a) or b). Most likely towards Call.

You are doing great progress! Some more points earned.

Good job! Homework #4 Done!

This weeks homework was a bit easier. But the idea of that is to help you go through last weeks stuff if you didn't go through everything. Or either way maybe even read some more articles, watch some videos and of course attend in the coaching. What will also help for your game is the evaluation part of other members hands and of course posting your own hands.

If you have interests you could try calculating the equity with a formula which you can use even on tables(either playing online or live poker):
(Amount of outs x 4) – (Amount of outs – 8) = Your Equity

About Question #3:

Board: J♠9♣8♥
       Equity     Win     Tie
UTG    41.41%  41.41%   0.00% { KsQd }
UTG+1  58.59%  58.59%   0.00% { 7h7c }

Hopefully this wasn't too easy homework for you. Some more points earned.