Watch me fight some AI baddies in VR Boxing in my latest post

It's in the intermediate book, and u didnt explain it better in advanced book too.

"So if someone folds 70% to 3-bets, you probably should be using a bluff:value ratio of 70:30. This plan does not necessarily fit well with every situation but could be used as a simple guideline to aid in the construction of ranges."

Yes. It's not necessarily linearly correlated to this.

Lets assume Villain have this stats in a situation:
OR: 30
Fv3B: 60%
4B: 15%
Cv3B: 25%
Fv5B:40%

How should we construct our ranges?

I talked some ms players and they suggest this:

1) villain dont have a huge postflop leak (high fold to cbet etc...)
2) Fv3B:
-55 -> few or no bluff
55-60-> 40:60 bluff:value
60-65 -> 50:50 bluff:value
65-70 -> 60:40 bbluff:valueuff
70%-80%-> 70:30 bluff:value
80%+ -> few or no value 3b

what do you think?

I think it's extremely difficult to derive "perfect ranges" for every situation. I would suggest doing so purely based on the open raise %.

So vs this particular guy, let's say he opens 30% in the SB. When we are in the BB, we want to use a multiplier of 0.33. So we 3bet 10% of our range in a 1:1 value to bluff ratio.

Since he folds a little more than usual (60% is slightly higher than the optimal defense frequency), you add maybe 1-2% extra bluffs, leaving you with ~5% value range and ~6-7% bluff range

The 4bet % and FV5B looks pretty normal so I'm not going to change up my ranges too much. If his 4b is extremely high and his FT5B is extremely high, I would just start increasing my value range instead and add stuff like 77/66/55/AJs

thanks your response!

got owned by the news post I'm a little annoyed that I spent 30 min making a post

Completely forgot it was 1 Apr. There were so many tell-tale signs that it was a fake. Offer sounds too ridiculous to be true, esp the 20k and the 2 weeks of coaching w pleno1 (I don't think he would be willing to commit so much time)

Originally posted by mbml
got owned by the news post I'm a little annoyed that I spent 30 min making a post

Completely forgot it was 1 Apr. There were so many tell-tale signs that it was a fake. Offer sounds too ridiculous to be true, esp the 20k and the 2 weeks of coaching w pleno1 (I don't think he would be willing to commit so much time)

haha got so owned too and when I read it, it is soo obvious wp PS!

Originally posted by thazar

Originally posted by mbml
got owned by the news post I'm a little annoyed that I spent 30 min making a post

Completely forgot it was 1 Apr. There were so many tell-tale signs that it was a fake. Offer sounds too ridiculous to be true, esp the 20k and the 2 weeks of coaching w pleno1 (I don't think he would be willing to commit so much time)

haha got so owned too and when I read it, it is soo obvious wp PS!

I didn't get pwned, but I replied anyway. ♠_evil:

Without your blog I'd get owned as well

our community won 1-1 coaching with pleno at 2013 september. and we re stil waiting. he did not even respond. ♦

I actually did post in the main post but my comment was deleted, so were a few others. I think the mods gave up on deleting after too many ppl caught on.

Anyway here's a new post from my own site. I evaluate some hands on video. Maybe it's a little slow. I guess you get to see what I'm thinking while trying to evaluate a hand.

It's a lot slower though, I usually take around 2 min to reply a low level question, 2-3 min to reply a NL50 hand, and maybe 3-5 min to reply a NL100 hand on the PC.

http://galvinbay.net/2014/04/04/i-evaluate-some-hands-from-the-pokerstratey-forums/

http://galvinbay.net/2014/04/04/hand-history-evaluation-part-2/

I might be hosting a coaching session on the 23rd. What would people like me to cover?

hi!

postflop play in 3bet pots
postflop range construction

Postflopplay after passiv defending your BB vs BU minraise, how to construct your XR-/XC-Ranges etc. That would be awesome!

i'll try to take that into consideration but i can't go too much in-depth

Originally posted by everyoneissolid
Postflopplay after passiv defending your BB vs BU minraise, how to construct your XR-/XC-Ranges etc. That would be awesome!

+1

also SB def strategy.

it turns out that I can't really talk about such stuff during the coaching. I had to constantly try to fix the echo during my stream, play 2 tables and answer a bunch of other questions. If I do more coaching in the future I'll try something different.

Biking in North Vietnam

http://galvinbay.net/2014/04/25/biking-in-north-vietnam/

I just came back from a motorcycle tour in Vietnam. Pretty fun experience

Hey guys,

I have been spending the past few days making some changes to my website. I've even written a short e-book entitled "Cruising through the Limits", which you can download if you subscribe to my Insider's List.

Check it out

Bought Art of Poker Intermediate a while ago and read some but forgot about it while really busy. Just getting back into it now, it's a good read and I really like the way you explain your full thought processes for situations.

Though, I did notice a lie here: "Made hands are always favourites against draws"

Originally posted by metza
Bought Art of Poker Intermediate a while ago and read some but forgot about it while really busy. Just getting back into it now, it's a good read and I really like the way you explain your full thought processes for situations.

Though, I did notice a lie here: "Made hands are always favourites against draws"

yeah that's a mistake, my bad

http://galvinbay.net/2014/05/21/our-first-contest-winner/

finally back from my 11-day trip to Indonesia (Bali + Lombok). I want to start busting my ass and working hard on my game but my sister just gave birth again so I definitely have to help baby-sit Baby number 1

Immediate goal for the next week - Finish Will Tipton's second book.

Finished Tipton's book yet? Any good?

Should have had plenty of time if babysitting.