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I suck at writing diaries, have a lol blog elsewhere so hereby starts my strategy thread that I keep because I always forget everything I learn like a microsecond after. If you like anything, please post. I am an attention whore, and if you give me attention I will be your whore, i.e. fulfill your desire for strategy.
I will not bore you with silly graph updates but it will contain:
- hands evaluated by PS coaches
- key points from videos that improved my game
- summaries of book chapters and math
- random concepts that come to me during meditation. Or cleaning the bathroom. Or doing your mum.
My background form November challenge.
[November Marathon] - [LemOn36] - Doc.LemOn
You can follow my blog here:
http://lemon.liquidpoker.net/
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Ill update the thread OP as well when I make a post for easier review.
P1: Oblioo video - hand review 2/12/13
Concepts:
- No need for 3betting range on the flop IP
- importance of planning for the whole hand when deciding flop sizing.
Oblioo's group coaching was cut to 60 minutes by PS. Which I hope will get fixed soon as 1hr is really very little in a group coaching with many questions for hands posted.
Anywho I had 3 hands evaluated
H1:
http://wt.ag/IAJAJi
Opponent: Eduts - former NL600, took some shots at nosebleeds, is good very aggressive.
Against good opponents on the flop - Oblioo does not have a 3bet range at all flats all draws, sets, overpairs, floats. I mean it makes sense, makes you harder to play against, much easier to balance and bluff villain villain later in the hand.
In general against good players keeping my range as wide as possible is a great idea, and really there is no point in wasting position.
Obviously with this hand in any strategy it's a flat on the flop as we can peel any turn pretty much and even shove if we think we have fe there, and when we do reraise we get it in crushes like always.
H2:
http://wt.ag/IAL3Q7
30/23 3AF 83hands
call 3b 3/6
wwsf 67%
bet vs missed cbet 3/4
-We have to bet flop for protection, and when we get raised we are folding.
When we check the calldown's good.
Comment: A big reason why I checked was because I didn't want to just fold QQ vs a raise here. I hate folding but guess on a club I'd have to fold anyway and get bluffed by total air.
Oblioo says cc with QQ with a spade is good as we don't have to protect against a club anymore.
H3:
http://weaktight.com/6298430
Seat 6: Player6 ( $25.88 USD ) - VPIP: 20, PFR: 16, 3B: 11, AF: 2.4, Hands: 670
3bets 15% vs steal
cr flop 18%
Oblioo brought up a very important concept here: Thinking in terms if the whole hand not just one street. We need to decide if it's 2 or 3 street hand and base our flop sizing on that. After which he proceeded to call my sizing a big mistake obviously because it makes the stacks awkward on future streets.
- Either bet $4.50 shove turn or bet 28ish % of pot to make it 3 street sizing
- Vs the raise Oblioo defo shoves because he doesnt expect a bluff later on this board and doesn't want freecards and is not folding. Again plan the hand, think about what villain is likely to do and act based on that. Complete hand rather than 1 street thinking.
He'd also just shove turn himself and as played call river
Pre-Flop: ($0.75, 6 players) DocLemoN is SB Q
Q
1 fold, Player2 raises to $1.50, 2 folds, DocLemoN raises to $5, 1 fold, Player2 calls $3.50
Flop: 8
4
6
($10.50, 2 players)
DocLemoN checks and calls 3 streets without a spade
Addition to P1:
In 1st video review this spot Oblioo didnt like the check and liked it more with a spade
"-We have to bet flop for protection, and when we get raised we are folding."
Tonight I was watching a video to make me sleep from Zazano (one of the best 1knl zoom regs) and here was his take on this vs a good opponent:
What is pretty cool about check calling is once that check call the flop, very often you are representing a spade. Zaza thinks that it's good to check QQ-AA without the spade, because once you check call people usually put you on a hand that has a flush draw in it.
So when that's very likely what you are going to be put on and when a spade rolls off you are much less likely to be bluffed, rather than when you cbet and then turn is a spade you will be in a much tougher spot.
Obviously you should still have some hands with a spade in your check call range.
P2: my epiphany on having a plan/thinking in ranges
Im adding my random ramble from 2 months back that I need to contantly go to
here goes:
I've been very results oriented recently not feeling like I'm moving forward, always got tilted by bad beats and took plays v players so personally. And I was bored/frustrated.
Since my long break I forgot one totally fundamental part of my thought process. When I was at my best I was influenced by "where the buffalo roam" series and my thought process was very much like that. Basically I'd think about the spot and consider what I want to do here with all my range ignoring my holding (in that series they have cards covered completely) and when I decided the cards just fell into that range, and I could move on when I made the decision
I guess that's totally standard for you guys but I somehow forgot or got lazier and lazier until I stopped doing that completely and just played my hands, putting more thought process on the villain his range, dynamic and how to play it with these two cards.
=>CONSIDER WHAT RANGE YOU WANT TO PLAY WITH, not the hand. Hand just falls into that range. Im not necessarily talking about GTO or balance, but simply creating a plan in a hand against specific opponent and then just let the hand fall into that plan.
The time flies by when I think like this. No
time to think about beating bastards, when I go all in I made my decision and it's nor good or bad when I lose. When I do this, when the spot comes but I have different cards, I have already thought about it before which takes a lot of pressure of my brain
P3: Bootcamp: Uri Peleg live at NL200 video notes
Here's the video: http://www.pokerstrategy.com/video/31713/
My notes with commentary, enjoy.
1) On exploiting leaks:
If someone has an obvious leak, you don't want to make exploiting it too obvious.
E.g. someone folds to 3bets too much you don't want to bet him every orbit in order not to make it obvious and force him to adjust quickly.
2) Regs widen their ranges with fish behind, but continue with same ranges vs 3bets. So when a reg opens with a fish in blinds you can widen your 3b range IP.
3) Theoretically when you are folding 50%+ vs cbets against regs they'd have to pot bet 0 equity hands for that to be correct.
Likewise when someone folds to cbet >50% you can cbet any2 cards with standard sizing.
In order to stop you from making autoprofit cbetting:
with 85% sizing they need to continue 54% of the time
with 75% sizing they need to continue 57% of the time
with 65% sizing they need to continue 61 % of the time
If villain doesn't, you can cbet any2 cards. Uri prefers semi-bluffing hands in our range preflop range over high card value hands vs regs that allow you to make autoprofit on flop when you cbet in normal and 3b pots.
E.g. better to 3b K5s than KJo vs people that allow you to make autoprofit on the flop.
Note though: just like with autoprofit preflop e.g. against people that fold huge 80% pre and stuff, as his fold to cbet goes higher it is
important to remember that their next street ranges are stronger - i.e. theyll hit hands more often and it's important you dont autocbet/barrel against people that are exploitably tight on earlier streets.
If you do so you can turn a hand that shows autoprofit on one street into a -ev hand.
My note on micros: I believe on Micros it's optimal to have an exploitably high folding frequency on one street and allow villains to make autoprofit on one street, especially when we have position, as an average opponent at micros will pay you off
way too often on future streets, failing to account for your strong range, which allows you to "make up" for the equity you are giving up on earlier streets.
4) When you are considering a squeeze on CO or BU, Uri looks if the caller in MP has 3betting range vs UTG. If he does he likely 3bets AA KK etc. and we can squeeze in that spot lighter than if he's one of the people that flat everything.
5) Adjusting ranges vs villains with leaks: Finding leaks in someone's game and knowing what you can exploit can translate into your preflop ranges as well. i.e. you'd widen your range with certain hand groupings vs a player with leaks as their EV increases.
Say you have KJs against one player, as the players have worse and worse leaks you can add KTs, K9s [...]K2s in your preflop range and it plays rge same as KJs vs a person without a leak.
Finding leaks means you can widen your range, so you can play more hands profitably. One of the side benefits is that other players will make mistakes vs you as you appear looser than you really are against them => This is why cutting tables and focusing hard
on others and finding leaks in their game is so important whenever you are struggling at a limit.
6) 3betting low pairs is good vs nits that fold too much preflop and flop - guarantee +ev and you cooler them when they flat a good amount too.
7) Vs a reg C/R as preflop raiser 3way with fish: Most regs these days know they look like FOS so first time Sirry gives these random lines credit the first time
8) on a TTXs board when Uri called in the blinds v BU: against a reg that folds too much to raises and/or cbets too much uri just raises hands with backdoors to see what happens. I usually stay away from that as it's hard to rep value hands but guess people just look at their air and muck a lot.
=> if someone seems exploitable you don't need to rigidly try to rep a wide value range in order to bluff them.
9) Uri likes to take the good ol' minbet call line vs fish that hardly can have a better hands than us when we have e.g. TPNK, Midpair etc.
10) You can also see this in my video, but with fish behind with >80VPIP they are often insensitive to sizing so you can just 4x-8x preflop and theyll call theyr air anyway
P4Tendler's performance bell curve
theory copied from my spewcember thread:
I recently listened to first 47mins of Mental game (Tendler, 2011) and an interesting concept came up - the performance bell curve.
basically the frequency of your play can be summed as this:
you have a range of game quality, most often you play B game etc.

Watching new vids, leaning new concepts= you expand your A game
Improving how you play when tilted, tired, under adverse conditions=working on C game.
Theory is that you should strive to shift your performance bell curve up as a whole by working on your A AND C game so you play good quality game way more often.
As when you only focus on your A game your play like a superstar in the rare times when you are at your peak, and as a retard on steroids when tilted, but on average your game is all over the place but on average worse than if your A game was worse but C game closer to it as you can see in the following diagrams.

However, improving your C game is infinitely harder than working on your A game.
When you are 100% focused and play low amounts of tables you can use the rational part of your brain which is slow, doesnt multitask well tires out very very fast but works with pure logic and can change in an instant.
When your rational part of the brain gets tired (and it does that real fast) however, your unconscious mind takes over. It thinks instantly, can multitask infinitely, never gets tired, hell it manifests itself even stronger when your rational thinking is tired. It does so with almost no logic, but instead uses emotion and long engraved instincts and habits (Kahneman, 2001). Needless to say it's very hard to re-program and can only be reprogrammed with endless repetition you read about in books such as Mastery (Leonad, 1991)
References
Leonard, G. (1991) Mastery. Available at: http://swq.es/business-management/Social%20Interactions/Mastery%20-%20The%20Keys%20To%20Success%20And%20Long-Term%20Fulfillment%20-%20George%20Leonard.pdf
Kahneman D. (2001) MAPS OF BOUNDED RATIONALITY:
A PERSPECTIVE ON INTUITIVE JUDGMENT
AND CHOICE. Available at: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2002/kahnemann-lecture.pdf
Tendler, J; Carter, B. (2011) The mental game of poker. Available at:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mental-Game-Poker-Jared-Tendler/dp/0615436137/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1387095608&sr=8-1&keywords=mental+game+of+poker
P5 Kanu7 Xflixx coaching
P6 my thoughts on "What are things I can do to improve myself/better my life?" as a poker player
So a Q was asked on liquidpoker:
Being on the computer at home doesn't exactly help me improve as a person. What are things I can do to improve myself/better my life?
think my response is strategy thread worthy:
1) Lift
- Poker's the very best profession for that. It gives you freedom to go whenever you feel like it, and to fuck yourself up then sleep for four hours when you want to.
- You can go whenever you go, best is daily in the morning really. You can regenerate in pool, go for yoga etc, accommodate your friends and get a gym buddy whenever you want. You can hire personal trainers too to make it easier.
Benefits for poker:
Stamina
other goals to work on
clears your head
you can focus more
you get healthier
get confidence
can get laid by doing one arm pushups on the dacefloor
2) Competitive teamsports
- yeah so you lack routine? Get into a competitive sports. Poker's the very best profession for that - you always have time for scheduled training. You can always rest up/warm up before competition.
benefits of competitive sports
no effort motivation
no effort friends
no effort social contact
confidence, fame if you good enough
goals besides poker
no effort schedule in chaotic lifestyle
shit that lifting gives you too
3) Nutrition
- when you get to that level of earnings from poker, you can have an invincible diet, hire a personal nutrition coach or even a chef.
benefits of focusing on correct nutrition
increased energy levels
balanced weight
daily routine divided by frequent meals
balanced body sugar means less mood swings, longer focus, balanced mood
4) Studying psychology, self-help, personal development etc.
- these teach you how to understand yourself and others. How to live a good life, importance of goals, how the brain and body works, how to interact with other people, how to understand and accept yourself, forgive, maintain positive attitude.
Benefits of studying and applying psychology and self development resources
mental strength
happier life
increased motivation
understanding of others and how to interact with them
enjoying the grind
know how to set goals and how to reach them
5) A productive hobby
- whatever you like poker gives you time, you can do a few hours in a local charity, go hiking with family every week.
benefits
something else to focus on
increased mood
social contact with the right hobbies
OR scrap all that and get this one:
Needy girlfriend
benefits
you get laid
no time to think about what to do with your time
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P7 Zazano concepts (nl1k video)
P8 F. Boyanovski NL25 zoom vid
1) when regs call in position and their VPIP to PFR Gap is really small, it means their calling range is very pocket pair heavy, they call for setmine value so we can cbet a lot against them on flops containing broadway cards
2) preflop sizing in SB
- minraising sb v bb is only good if you have reads on villain and know he folds too much and doesn't adjust (AKA Nits). As when you minraise a wide range he can call literally any2 profitably. 3Xing the SB is still standard and probably best.
3) SB call range v UTG often contains a lot of pocket pairs so on e.g. Td 6c 2d flop your plan should be to barrel twice a lot and expect profit.
Best cbetting hands are hands are hands with backdoor potential like Kd Qc you are better off checking hands that can't barrel many turns on the flop, cbet hands with backdoor but when you do cbet you should do it with the plan of firing at least 2x
4) in SB v BU with QJo
- if you are facing a button raise with a hand like that and you think its close between folding and calling, consider 3betting as an option instead use the hand for blocker value
5) with small pocket pairs oop on paired boards when villain check backs flop
e.g. 4h 4d on Tc: 2h Td 5h you should always bet the turn to get value out of hands like AQ etc. that always call once (plus you protect your hand as well). Even when he's giving up with hands like KQ we don't get any extra value but don't let him realize his equity with his 6 outs for free.
My note: one of the things at micros and why it's rly easy to play them - tons of people turn their ranges face up a lot, when they check they have weakbluffcatchers, when they bet they have strong hands, and those that do try "deception" do it in a totally imbalanced obvious way like checking QQ on QXX to check call flop check raise turn etc.
P10 - Uri Peleg Coaching
Uri Peleg Video Review
Sup dudes. I'm hangover, play preety bad so decided to do something productive and watch Uri's coaching. Watch out for podcasts, it was really good and I assume it'll be released.
1) Small stakes regs cbet too much with midpairs
e.g. QT KTX
KK AXX oop etc.

2) Small samples
-uri doesn't pay attention to them if they are close to average at the stake
e.g. a reg has 4-7/10 fold to 3bet Uri would pretty much ignore that, but the closer it's to 0 or 10 the more he'd tend to skew his ranges.
3)cold 4betting
-in steal situations e.g. BUvSB in BB we can cold 4bet any 2 blockers at SSNL and expect it to be +ev
4) sizing vs fish on river
-when his range has a lot of air or bluffcatchers
- bet small target air OR
- bet large target bluffcatchers

5) calling BBvCO 2.5X open
Deciding what hands we can defend vs a raise
0=-A+P*R*EQ where
A=amount to call
P=final pot
R=%equity we realize
EQ=minumum equity needed
i.e. in BB vs 2.5bb CO open where we estimate we realize 70% equity
it'd be like this
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0%3D%28-1.5%2B5.5*.7*X%29&dataset=
So any hand with >39% equity we should defend. make it a bit higher adjusted for rake. You can use the equilab range calculator to decide these.
note that R will be lower for offsuit hands generally
Equilab magic I had no clue about
You can select a whole row in equilab using a ctrl key
behold

*there's a range calculator
Say your villain has a 26% range - you input that into equilab
Use this: w34z3l's 6max walkthrough - (microstakes edition)
or this: http://www.pokerstrategy.com/strategy/bss/2252/1/
you call BB v CO and want to know what hands have at least 40% equity, you click on that green arrow, put in 40 and click calculate and it gives you all hands with 40% equity vs his range
Behold

P11 - R and BBvBU v 2x ranges
Addition to R (% equity for a hand we expect to realize) from another thread
It's never easy who plays 400ish showed this range for defend bb v bu 2x that a was shown in "a" video:

and asked if it's any good. I tried to give my 2 cents using what I learned from Uri:
the more reads and better plan you have, the more of your equity you will realize (The variable R).
For the junk hands without reads it's hard to go much above 50%
if you realize 50% equity u'd just defend this vs bu
22+, A2s+, K2s+, Q6s+, J8s+, T9s, A2o+, K6o+, Q9o+, JTo
if you realize 60% it's
22+, A2s+, K2s+, Q2s+, J2s+, T2s+, 95s+, 85s+, 75s+, 64s+, 54s, A2o+, K2o+, Q2o+, J5o+, T7o+, 97o+, 87o
Think 55% is closer for offsuit hands which gives you this
- I saw a spreadsheet and it was around this value from Stuff like KXo
22+, A2s+, K2s+, Q2s+, J5s+, T7s+, 97s+, 87s, A2o+, K2o+, Q6o+, J8o+, T9o
If you combine these and do R=60% for suited hands and 55% for offsuit hands you get this range for a profitable call:

insert the 3b hands that are at top of your folding range and it's pretty much the range the OP suggests, only a tad tighter so it should be pretty sound for your stakes.
The R is irrelevant for the better hands as it'll be higher , it should be higher for suited and connected hands too as with backdoors and draws they'll be closer to the better bluffing hands postflop so you don't have to XF em so much
you can just put the input for R (%of equity you realize) and X (Equity of a hand vs opening range) in 0.XX format and see what you get here:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0%3D-1%2B4.5*R*X
To get raw ranges that have the necessary equity once you input R you can get by using hand range calculator in equilab
The lower the stake, the more you have to trim ranges as the rake will hurt ev of marginal hands.
How wider to go above minimum defend to deny autoptofit all depends on how well you will play those junk hands and how high your R will be with them vs villain really the def range can even wider than the op suggested if you will play well postflop. Like if you somehow manage to realize 73% equity+ you should defend literally any2 including 72o and 32o
P12 - Apotheosis leak finder
Hey guys, my notes on Apoth. nl50 leakfinder. Was on my to do list so I figured why not share em
- AXo are bad for 3b range SB vBU
Fundamentals to beat NL50
squeezing

1) if we are going to squeeze, $6 is better
- $7 (14bb) needs to work 65% of the time pore
- $6 (12bb) needs to work 61.1% of the time
I assume that the difference in FE won't be much larger wit $7 squeeze as with $6
2) overcall seems better here because:
Suited and Connected. Multiway pots the average hand strength people value bet goes up. A hand like 56s makes a lot of hands that are good - flushes, straights.
The times we don't hit it makes a lot of weak/poor hands like 6pair or 6 high. So we can happily fold K,Jx flops etc. And at lower stakes people will pay us off too much e.g. om 378 boards with overpairs sets etc. And if they don't we can put in check raises etc. and should get a lot of credit 3way with good semi bluff opportunities.
Heads up pot: The value of making decent pairs goes up
when we get 4bet here, this is a bad hand vs a shove
we don't have any blockers to his strong hands preflop - people will 4bet less often when we hold eg AQ. he has 29.6% less QQ+AK combinations as opposed to when we hold 56s.
you can check out blocker effect out in equilab
just put blocker hand in

open up the 4bet range
untick display card removal to see number of combos without removing your 2 cards

the tick it, see the difference in combinations and percentage

Note that with hands like AXs you also remove hands people 4bet fold with like their AJ AXs... i.e. you block their blockers
setmining
e.g.
setmining should have higher value at these stakes as people will fold less postflop and should squeeze less. Also at NL50 it's more likely for an unknown to be a recreational player so value of sets goes up.
Apo thinks the difference between 22-55 when we flat EP,MP opens we should treat them the same. Also note that with aggressive villains or at higher stakes 22-55 should be folded MPvUTG almost always vs 3x, but at 50 it's an okay call.
4 sizing IP- 1.95x to 2.2X, oop 2.2X-2.3x
Hand selection: blocker hands like ATo should be preferred

vs a reg when we get called vs our 4bet here and check flop call turn, we can fold river vs most multitabling regs as they shouldn't be capable of bluffing here much (even though this is near the top of our range for 4bet and check back flop)
- GTO should not be overrated at these spots at 50nl, people underbluff or rarely bluff spots like these often
vs small 3bets
when we get 3bet to less than 8x BvB we can call hands like T7s etc.
e.g. vs a $3.75 3b when we 3bb pre we need 30% equity
against e.g. a hand range like this
we have 42.7% and need to realize signifficantly less than 100% equity to make it a call preflop. i.e. we don't have to sweat check folding when we wiff completely as the odds are so good.
cbet sizing IP
when someone's range is weak e.g. here

and we cbet large we do villain a favor. When we bet big villain can just fold his weak hands like KJ 44etc. and be correct. By betting small he either has to learn to call like KJo oop vs us in this spot on flop, or he'll fold it and we autoprofit.
Also we want to keep his range wider - If we want to be able to bet our hand 3streets we have to bet small pretty much, if we bet big we narrow his range much quicker so when we 3 barrel we can even lose money vs his calling range. Apo would go 60% [f], 60% [T], check [R]
or 40% [F,T,R] here on rags.
I will not bore you with silly graph updates but it will contain:
- hands evaluated by PS coaches
- key points from videos that improved my game
- summaries of book chapters and math
- random concepts that come to me during meditation. Or cleaning the bathroom. Or doing your mum.
My background form November challenge.
[November Marathon] - [LemOn36] - Doc.LemOn
You can follow my blog here:
http://lemon.liquidpoker.net/
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Ill update the thread OP as well when I make a post for easier review.
P1: Oblioo video - hand review 2/12/13
Concepts:
- No need for 3betting range on the flop IP
- importance of planning for the whole hand when deciding flop sizing.
Oblioo's group coaching was cut to 60 minutes by PS. Which I hope will get fixed soon as 1hr is really very little in a group coaching with many questions for hands posted.
Anywho I had 3 hands evaluated
H1:
http://wt.ag/IAJAJi
Opponent: Eduts - former NL600, took some shots at nosebleeds, is good very aggressive.
Against good opponents on the flop - Oblioo does not have a 3bet range at all flats all draws, sets, overpairs, floats. I mean it makes sense, makes you harder to play against, much easier to balance and bluff villain villain later in the hand.
In general against good players keeping my range as wide as possible is a great idea, and really there is no point in wasting position.
Obviously with this hand in any strategy it's a flat on the flop as we can peel any turn pretty much and even shove if we think we have fe there, and when we do reraise we get it in crushes like always.
H2:
http://wt.ag/IAL3Q7
30/23 3AF 83hands
call 3b 3/6
wwsf 67%
bet vs missed cbet 3/4
-We have to bet flop for protection, and when we get raised we are folding.
When we check the calldown's good.
Comment: A big reason why I checked was because I didn't want to just fold QQ vs a raise here. I hate folding but guess on a club I'd have to fold anyway and get bluffed by total air.
Oblioo says cc with QQ with a spade is good as we don't have to protect against a club anymore.
H3:
http://weaktight.com/6298430
Seat 6: Player6 ( $25.88 USD ) - VPIP: 20, PFR: 16, 3B: 11, AF: 2.4, Hands: 670
3bets 15% vs steal
cr flop 18%
Oblioo brought up a very important concept here: Thinking in terms if the whole hand not just one street. We need to decide if it's 2 or 3 street hand and base our flop sizing on that. After which he proceeded to call my sizing a big mistake obviously because it makes the stacks awkward on future streets.
- Either bet $4.50 shove turn or bet 28ish % of pot to make it 3 street sizing
- Vs the raise Oblioo defo shoves because he doesnt expect a bluff later on this board and doesn't want freecards and is not folding. Again plan the hand, think about what villain is likely to do and act based on that. Complete hand rather than 1 street thinking.
He'd also just shove turn himself and as played call river
Pre-Flop: ($0.75, 6 players) DocLemoN is SB Q


1 fold, Player2 raises to $1.50, 2 folds, DocLemoN raises to $5, 1 fold, Player2 calls $3.50
Flop: 8



DocLemoN checks and calls 3 streets without a spade
Addition to P1:
In 1st video review this spot Oblioo didnt like the check and liked it more with a spade
"-We have to bet flop for protection, and when we get raised we are folding."
Tonight I was watching a video to make me sleep from Zazano (one of the best 1knl zoom regs) and here was his take on this vs a good opponent:
What is pretty cool about check calling is once that check call the flop, very often you are representing a spade. Zaza thinks that it's good to check QQ-AA without the spade, because once you check call people usually put you on a hand that has a flush draw in it.
So when that's very likely what you are going to be put on and when a spade rolls off you are much less likely to be bluffed, rather than when you cbet and then turn is a spade you will be in a much tougher spot.
Obviously you should still have some hands with a spade in your check call range.
P2: my epiphany on having a plan/thinking in ranges
Im adding my random ramble from 2 months back that I need to contantly go to
here goes:
I've been very results oriented recently not feeling like I'm moving forward, always got tilted by bad beats and took plays v players so personally. And I was bored/frustrated.
Since my long break I forgot one totally fundamental part of my thought process. When I was at my best I was influenced by "where the buffalo roam" series and my thought process was very much like that. Basically I'd think about the spot and consider what I want to do here with all my range ignoring my holding (in that series they have cards covered completely) and when I decided the cards just fell into that range, and I could move on when I made the decision
I guess that's totally standard for you guys but I somehow forgot or got lazier and lazier until I stopped doing that completely and just played my hands, putting more thought process on the villain his range, dynamic and how to play it with these two cards.
=>CONSIDER WHAT RANGE YOU WANT TO PLAY WITH, not the hand. Hand just falls into that range. Im not necessarily talking about GTO or balance, but simply creating a plan in a hand against specific opponent and then just let the hand fall into that plan.
The time flies by when I think like this. No
time to think about beating bastards, when I go all in I made my decision and it's nor good or bad when I lose. When I do this, when the spot comes but I have different cards, I have already thought about it before which takes a lot of pressure of my brain
P3: Bootcamp: Uri Peleg live at NL200 video notes
Here's the video: http://www.pokerstrategy.com/video/31713/
My notes with commentary, enjoy.
1) On exploiting leaks:
If someone has an obvious leak, you don't want to make exploiting it too obvious.
E.g. someone folds to 3bets too much you don't want to bet him every orbit in order not to make it obvious and force him to adjust quickly.
2) Regs widen their ranges with fish behind, but continue with same ranges vs 3bets. So when a reg opens with a fish in blinds you can widen your 3b range IP.
3) Theoretically when you are folding 50%+ vs cbets against regs they'd have to pot bet 0 equity hands for that to be correct.
Likewise when someone folds to cbet >50% you can cbet any2 cards with standard sizing.
In order to stop you from making autoprofit cbetting:
with 85% sizing they need to continue 54% of the time
with 75% sizing they need to continue 57% of the time
with 65% sizing they need to continue 61 % of the time
If villain doesn't, you can cbet any2 cards. Uri prefers semi-bluffing hands in our range preflop range over high card value hands vs regs that allow you to make autoprofit on flop when you cbet in normal and 3b pots.
E.g. better to 3b K5s than KJo vs people that allow you to make autoprofit on the flop.
Note though: just like with autoprofit preflop e.g. against people that fold huge 80% pre and stuff, as his fold to cbet goes higher it is
important to remember that their next street ranges are stronger - i.e. theyll hit hands more often and it's important you dont autocbet/barrel against people that are exploitably tight on earlier streets.
If you do so you can turn a hand that shows autoprofit on one street into a -ev hand.
My note on micros: I believe on Micros it's optimal to have an exploitably high folding frequency on one street and allow villains to make autoprofit on one street, especially when we have position, as an average opponent at micros will pay you off
way too often on future streets, failing to account for your strong range, which allows you to "make up" for the equity you are giving up on earlier streets.
4) When you are considering a squeeze on CO or BU, Uri looks if the caller in MP has 3betting range vs UTG. If he does he likely 3bets AA KK etc. and we can squeeze in that spot lighter than if he's one of the people that flat everything.
5) Adjusting ranges vs villains with leaks: Finding leaks in someone's game and knowing what you can exploit can translate into your preflop ranges as well. i.e. you'd widen your range with certain hand groupings vs a player with leaks as their EV increases.
Say you have KJs against one player, as the players have worse and worse leaks you can add KTs, K9s [...]K2s in your preflop range and it plays rge same as KJs vs a person without a leak.
Finding leaks means you can widen your range, so you can play more hands profitably. One of the side benefits is that other players will make mistakes vs you as you appear looser than you really are against them => This is why cutting tables and focusing hard
on others and finding leaks in their game is so important whenever you are struggling at a limit.
6) 3betting low pairs is good vs nits that fold too much preflop and flop - guarantee +ev and you cooler them when they flat a good amount too.
7) Vs a reg C/R as preflop raiser 3way with fish: Most regs these days know they look like FOS so first time Sirry gives these random lines credit the first time
8) on a TTXs board when Uri called in the blinds v BU: against a reg that folds too much to raises and/or cbets too much uri just raises hands with backdoors to see what happens. I usually stay away from that as it's hard to rep value hands but guess people just look at their air and muck a lot.
=> if someone seems exploitable you don't need to rigidly try to rep a wide value range in order to bluff them.
9) Uri likes to take the good ol' minbet call line vs fish that hardly can have a better hands than us when we have e.g. TPNK, Midpair etc.
10) You can also see this in my video, but with fish behind with >80VPIP they are often insensitive to sizing so you can just 4x-8x preflop and theyll call theyr air anyway

P4Tendler's performance bell curve
theory copied from my spewcember thread:
I recently listened to first 47mins of Mental game (Tendler, 2011) and an interesting concept came up - the performance bell curve.
basically the frequency of your play can be summed as this:
you have a range of game quality, most often you play B game etc.

Watching new vids, leaning new concepts= you expand your A game
Improving how you play when tilted, tired, under adverse conditions=working on C game.
Theory is that you should strive to shift your performance bell curve up as a whole by working on your A AND C game so you play good quality game way more often.
As when you only focus on your A game your play like a superstar in the rare times when you are at your peak, and as a retard on steroids when tilted, but on average your game is all over the place but on average worse than if your A game was worse but C game closer to it as you can see in the following diagrams.

However, improving your C game is infinitely harder than working on your A game.
When you are 100% focused and play low amounts of tables you can use the rational part of your brain which is slow, doesnt multitask well tires out very very fast but works with pure logic and can change in an instant.
When your rational part of the brain gets tired (and it does that real fast) however, your unconscious mind takes over. It thinks instantly, can multitask infinitely, never gets tired, hell it manifests itself even stronger when your rational thinking is tired. It does so with almost no logic, but instead uses emotion and long engraved instincts and habits (Kahneman, 2001). Needless to say it's very hard to re-program and can only be reprogrammed with endless repetition you read about in books such as Mastery (Leonad, 1991)
References
Leonard, G. (1991) Mastery. Available at: http://swq.es/business-management/Social%20Interactions/Mastery%20-%20The%20Keys%20To%20Success%20And%20Long-Term%20Fulfillment%20-%20George%20Leonard.pdf
Kahneman D. (2001) MAPS OF BOUNDED RATIONALITY:
A PERSPECTIVE ON INTUITIVE JUDGMENT
AND CHOICE. Available at: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2002/kahnemann-lecture.pdf
Tendler, J; Carter, B. (2011) The mental game of poker. Available at:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mental-Game-Poker-Jared-Tendler/dp/0615436137/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1387095608&sr=8-1&keywords=mental+game+of+poker
P5 Kanu7 Xflixx coaching
Stars released coaching vids from Kanu7
http://www.highstakesdb.com/profiles/pokerstars/Kanu7.aspx
Pokercast with Kanu:
http://pokercast.twoplustwo.com/pokercast.php?pokercast=294
Vid:
Video link
1) against players that bet too much when checked to it's way better to check a lot of your hands, especially made hands. Think about it - why do you cbet to fold out their air when you could get at least one bet from them when you check.
E.g. QQ on 547s OOP vs a guy that bets a lot vs cbet Kany would check every time. He'd also check flush draws etc.
CC and CR is both fine. I actually listened to Kanu's podcast and against very good players where he has to play balanced he doesn't want to have a hand 100% in one range, so he'd say 50% of the time check call 50% of the time check raise.
Using your judgement will lead to biases so he likes to use either random number generator, or look at clock, if it's odd number cr even number cc etc.
2) Against good players you want to look at your range and come up with reasonable frequencies. Makes sure that when you are checking you don't check call every street with every hand -which would make never bluffing correct for the villain. Vice versa if you fold way too much of your range he can just always bluff and be correct.
Basically you try to determine a reasonable frequency, then look at your range and call with the top of it, fold bottom etc.
The same way you can exploit villains - as you could see in 1) betting too much when checked to is easily exploitable by checking everything.
At micros people almost never fold enough % of their range so rarely bluffing is correct.
A lot of coaches say that at small stakes people then fold too much and are too tight - so again you can tilt your ranges towards bluffing.
When playing a very good player that's just better than you you feel like you are owned/you play a lot with him it's important to watch your own frequencies and never tilt your ranges too much towards one side.
And when playing bad players, look for the tendencies where they rarely fold, always bet when checked to etc. Basically where their range/actions are is tilted too much to one side, you can usually exploit them by going the other way.
3) timing tell:If someone 3 barrels and snap bets river it probably means he will never have a thin value hand
4) Nobody really knows what the best preflop sizes are - it's good to try different things out and see what works for you, a lot of highstakes players still have different sizings PF and Kanu changes it around too.
5) When you move up in stakes it's best to play your normal game, use normal sizing, play the same game as you would at the lower stake at least for the first few session. When Kanu moved to 3/6 he saw everyone playing aggressively and he tried to artificially adjust and and he started spewing.
It's best to play as you know, get some sample sizes, sit down with holdem manager and look at opponents and how well your game works and then reasonably adjust your game based on evidence.
http://www.highstakesdb.com/profiles/pokerstars/Kanu7.aspx
Pokercast with Kanu:
http://pokercast.twoplustwo.com/pokercast.php?pokercast=294
Vid:
Video link
1) against players that bet too much when checked to it's way better to check a lot of your hands, especially made hands. Think about it - why do you cbet to fold out their air when you could get at least one bet from them when you check.
E.g. QQ on 547s OOP vs a guy that bets a lot vs cbet Kany would check every time. He'd also check flush draws etc.
CC and CR is both fine. I actually listened to Kanu's podcast and against very good players where he has to play balanced he doesn't want to have a hand 100% in one range, so he'd say 50% of the time check call 50% of the time check raise.
Using your judgement will lead to biases so he likes to use either random number generator, or look at clock, if it's odd number cr even number cc etc.
2) Against good players you want to look at your range and come up with reasonable frequencies. Makes sure that when you are checking you don't check call every street with every hand -which would make never bluffing correct for the villain. Vice versa if you fold way too much of your range he can just always bluff and be correct.
Basically you try to determine a reasonable frequency, then look at your range and call with the top of it, fold bottom etc.
The same way you can exploit villains - as you could see in 1) betting too much when checked to is easily exploitable by checking everything.
At micros people almost never fold enough % of their range so rarely bluffing is correct.
A lot of coaches say that at small stakes people then fold too much and are too tight - so again you can tilt your ranges towards bluffing.
When playing a very good player that's just better than you you feel like you are owned/you play a lot with him it's important to watch your own frequencies and never tilt your ranges too much towards one side.
And when playing bad players, look for the tendencies where they rarely fold, always bet when checked to etc. Basically where their range/actions are is tilted too much to one side, you can usually exploit them by going the other way.
3) timing tell:If someone 3 barrels and snap bets river it probably means he will never have a thin value hand
4) Nobody really knows what the best preflop sizes are - it's good to try different things out and see what works for you, a lot of highstakes players still have different sizings PF and Kanu changes it around too.
5) When you move up in stakes it's best to play your normal game, use normal sizing, play the same game as you would at the lower stake at least for the first few session. When Kanu moved to 3/6 he saw everyone playing aggressively and he tried to artificially adjust and and he started spewing.
It's best to play as you know, get some sample sizes, sit down with holdem manager and look at opponents and how well your game works and then reasonably adjust your game based on evidence.
P6 my thoughts on "What are things I can do to improve myself/better my life?" as a poker player
So a Q was asked on liquidpoker:
Being on the computer at home doesn't exactly help me improve as a person. What are things I can do to improve myself/better my life?
think my response is strategy thread worthy:
1) Lift
- Poker's the very best profession for that. It gives you freedom to go whenever you feel like it, and to fuck yourself up then sleep for four hours when you want to.
- You can go whenever you go, best is daily in the morning really. You can regenerate in pool, go for yoga etc, accommodate your friends and get a gym buddy whenever you want. You can hire personal trainers too to make it easier.
Benefits for poker:
Stamina
other goals to work on
clears your head
you can focus more
you get healthier
get confidence
can get laid by doing one arm pushups on the dacefloor
2) Competitive teamsports
- yeah so you lack routine? Get into a competitive sports. Poker's the very best profession for that - you always have time for scheduled training. You can always rest up/warm up before competition.
benefits of competitive sports
no effort motivation
no effort friends
no effort social contact
confidence, fame if you good enough
goals besides poker
no effort schedule in chaotic lifestyle
shit that lifting gives you too
3) Nutrition
- when you get to that level of earnings from poker, you can have an invincible diet, hire a personal nutrition coach or even a chef.
benefits of focusing on correct nutrition
increased energy levels
balanced weight
daily routine divided by frequent meals
balanced body sugar means less mood swings, longer focus, balanced mood
4) Studying psychology, self-help, personal development etc.
- these teach you how to understand yourself and others. How to live a good life, importance of goals, how the brain and body works, how to interact with other people, how to understand and accept yourself, forgive, maintain positive attitude.
Benefits of studying and applying psychology and self development resources
mental strength
happier life
increased motivation
understanding of others and how to interact with them
enjoying the grind
know how to set goals and how to reach them
5) A productive hobby
- whatever you like poker gives you time, you can do a few hours in a local charity, go hiking with family every week.
benefits
something else to focus on
increased mood
social contact with the right hobbies
OR scrap all that and get this one:
Needy girlfriend
benefits
you get laid
no time to think about what to do with your time
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P7 Zazano concepts (nl1k video)
Ill expand on these zazano concepts later, have lunch with family
1) folding or calling your entire range means you think you are a wizard
Some people don't think in terms of bottom of their range, middle of their range top of their range...They just think in terms of: "Ok, do I think He's bluffing or not?"basically. They basically play a leveling game and try to win at it.
Zaza told to many of his students: Don't try to do magic. Sure there is spots where villain's range is geared super heavy only towards value or bluffs, problem is that people translate that into too many spots and they start to play the leveling game, and when you're playing somebody who's pretty competent its gonna be hard. When Zazano bluffs it was because he thought it was +ev and he had blockers etc. and he will keep bluffing in good spots. People will think too much into that, and think this guy is a bluffer or try to be magician mind readers.
But unless you're pretty good at it and have a lot of reads and notes on certain people it's going to be hard, and people that think like that don't have as good results as they should have.
So instead of trying to be a magician and start the leveling yourself, look at the range you have, the blockers you might have etc. and play your range accordingly.
-this is consistent with Kanu and Ike's thought process, and also with Uri Peleg's as I've seen in his coachings.
2) Evolution of check raising strategies
1) people that never check raise
- only cr when they are deep, sometimes random bluffs/value
2) 8-10% cr
- they do it based on board texture
3) 16-20%
less regs use that strategy these days. It used to be much more common, but with ranges being much wider, and people defend much wider in BB dont fold 70% like in the past. And given your range is so much wider means your range will be a lot weaker
3) Importance of blockers postflop
Zazano gives priority on bluffing and bluff catching with hands that block part of villain's range
example:
Poker Stars, $5/$10 No Limit Hold'em Cash, 5 Players
MP: $1,000 (100 bb)
CO: $2,324.50 (232.5 bb)
BTN: $1,442.02 (144.2 bb)
Zaza (SB): $1,005 (100.5 bb)
BB: $1,799.50 (180 bb)
Preflop: Zaza is SB with A
Q
MP raises to $25, 2 folds, Zaza raises to $100, BB folds, MP calls $75
Flop: ($210) 8
5
Q
(2 players)
Zaza bets $105, MP calls $105
Turn: ($420) K
(2 players)
Zaza bets $210, MP calls $210
River: ($840) 2
(2 players)
Zaza checks, MP bets $585 and is all-in, Zaza calls $585
Results: $2,010 pot ($3 rake)
Final Board: 8
5
Q
K
2
MP showed 6
7
and lost (-$1,000 net)
Zaza showed A
Q
and won $2,007 ($1,007 net)
1) folding or calling your entire range means you think you are a wizard
Some people don't think in terms of bottom of their range, middle of their range top of their range...They just think in terms of: "Ok, do I think He's bluffing or not?"basically. They basically play a leveling game and try to win at it.
Zaza told to many of his students: Don't try to do magic. Sure there is spots where villain's range is geared super heavy only towards value or bluffs, problem is that people translate that into too many spots and they start to play the leveling game, and when you're playing somebody who's pretty competent its gonna be hard. When Zazano bluffs it was because he thought it was +ev and he had blockers etc. and he will keep bluffing in good spots. People will think too much into that, and think this guy is a bluffer or try to be magician mind readers.
But unless you're pretty good at it and have a lot of reads and notes on certain people it's going to be hard, and people that think like that don't have as good results as they should have.
So instead of trying to be a magician and start the leveling yourself, look at the range you have, the blockers you might have etc. and play your range accordingly.
-this is consistent with Kanu and Ike's thought process, and also with Uri Peleg's as I've seen in his coachings.
2) Evolution of check raising strategies
1) people that never check raise
- only cr when they are deep, sometimes random bluffs/value
2) 8-10% cr
- they do it based on board texture
3) 16-20%
less regs use that strategy these days. It used to be much more common, but with ranges being much wider, and people defend much wider in BB dont fold 70% like in the past. And given your range is so much wider means your range will be a lot weaker
3) Importance of blockers postflop
Zazano gives priority on bluffing and bluff catching with hands that block part of villain's range
example:
Poker Stars, $5/$10 No Limit Hold'em Cash, 5 Players
MP: $1,000 (100 bb)
CO: $2,324.50 (232.5 bb)
BTN: $1,442.02 (144.2 bb)
Zaza (SB): $1,005 (100.5 bb)
BB: $1,799.50 (180 bb)
Preflop: Zaza is SB with A


MP raises to $25, 2 folds, Zaza raises to $100, BB folds, MP calls $75
Flop: ($210) 8



Zaza bets $105, MP calls $105
Turn: ($420) K

Zaza bets $210, MP calls $210
River: ($840) 2

Zaza checks, MP bets $585 and is all-in, Zaza calls $585
Results: $2,010 pot ($3 rake)
Final Board: 8





MP showed 6


Zaza showed A


P8 F. Boyanovski NL25 zoom vid
1) when regs call in position and their VPIP to PFR Gap is really small, it means their calling range is very pocket pair heavy, they call for setmine value so we can cbet a lot against them on flops containing broadway cards
2) preflop sizing in SB
- minraising sb v bb is only good if you have reads on villain and know he folds too much and doesn't adjust (AKA Nits). As when you minraise a wide range he can call literally any2 profitably. 3Xing the SB is still standard and probably best.
3) SB call range v UTG often contains a lot of pocket pairs so on e.g. Td 6c 2d flop your plan should be to barrel twice a lot and expect profit.
Best cbetting hands are hands are hands with backdoor potential like Kd Qc you are better off checking hands that can't barrel many turns on the flop, cbet hands with backdoor but when you do cbet you should do it with the plan of firing at least 2x
4) in SB v BU with QJo
- if you are facing a button raise with a hand like that and you think its close between folding and calling, consider 3betting as an option instead use the hand for blocker value
5) with small pocket pairs oop on paired boards when villain check backs flop
e.g. 4h 4d on Tc: 2h Td 5h you should always bet the turn to get value out of hands like AQ etc. that always call once (plus you protect your hand as well). Even when he's giving up with hands like KQ we don't get any extra value but don't let him realize his equity with his 6 outs for free.
My note: one of the things at micros and why it's rly easy to play them - tons of people turn their ranges face up a lot, when they check they have weakbluffcatchers, when they bet they have strong hands, and those that do try "deception" do it in a totally imbalanced obvious way like checking QQ on QXX to check call flop check raise turn etc.
P10 - Uri Peleg Coaching
Uri Peleg Video Review
Sup dudes. I'm hangover, play preety bad so decided to do something productive and watch Uri's coaching. Watch out for podcasts, it was really good and I assume it'll be released.
1) Small stakes regs cbet too much with midpairs
e.g. QT KTX
KK AXX oop etc.

2) Small samples
-uri doesn't pay attention to them if they are close to average at the stake
e.g. a reg has 4-7/10 fold to 3bet Uri would pretty much ignore that, but the closer it's to 0 or 10 the more he'd tend to skew his ranges.
3)cold 4betting
-in steal situations e.g. BUvSB in BB we can cold 4bet any 2 blockers at SSNL and expect it to be +ev
4) sizing vs fish on river
-when his range has a lot of air or bluffcatchers
- bet small target air OR
- bet large target bluffcatchers

5) calling BBvCO 2.5X open
Deciding what hands we can defend vs a raise
0=-A+P*R*EQ where
A=amount to call
P=final pot
R=%equity we realize
EQ=minumum equity needed
i.e. in BB vs 2.5bb CO open where we estimate we realize 70% equity
it'd be like this
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0%3D%28-1.5%2B5.5*.7*X%29&dataset=
So any hand with >39% equity we should defend. make it a bit higher adjusted for rake. You can use the equilab range calculator to decide these.
note that R will be lower for offsuit hands generally
Equilab magic I had no clue about

You can select a whole row in equilab using a ctrl key
behold

*there's a range calculator
Say your villain has a 26% range - you input that into equilab
Use this: w34z3l's 6max walkthrough - (microstakes edition)
or this: http://www.pokerstrategy.com/strategy/bss/2252/1/
you call BB v CO and want to know what hands have at least 40% equity, you click on that green arrow, put in 40 and click calculate and it gives you all hands with 40% equity vs his range
Behold

P11 - R and BBvBU v 2x ranges
Addition to R (% equity for a hand we expect to realize) from another thread
It's never easy who plays 400ish showed this range for defend bb v bu 2x that a was shown in "a" video:

and asked if it's any good. I tried to give my 2 cents using what I learned from Uri:
the more reads and better plan you have, the more of your equity you will realize (The variable R).
For the junk hands without reads it's hard to go much above 50%
if you realize 50% equity u'd just defend this vs bu
22+, A2s+, K2s+, Q6s+, J8s+, T9s, A2o+, K6o+, Q9o+, JTo
if you realize 60% it's
22+, A2s+, K2s+, Q2s+, J2s+, T2s+, 95s+, 85s+, 75s+, 64s+, 54s, A2o+, K2o+, Q2o+, J5o+, T7o+, 97o+, 87o
Think 55% is closer for offsuit hands which gives you this
- I saw a spreadsheet and it was around this value from Stuff like KXo
22+, A2s+, K2s+, Q2s+, J5s+, T7s+, 97s+, 87s, A2o+, K2o+, Q6o+, J8o+, T9o
If you combine these and do R=60% for suited hands and 55% for offsuit hands you get this range for a profitable call:

insert the 3b hands that are at top of your folding range and it's pretty much the range the OP suggests, only a tad tighter so it should be pretty sound for your stakes.
The R is irrelevant for the better hands as it'll be higher , it should be higher for suited and connected hands too as with backdoors and draws they'll be closer to the better bluffing hands postflop so you don't have to XF em so much
you can just put the input for R (%of equity you realize) and X (Equity of a hand vs opening range) in 0.XX format and see what you get here:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0%3D-1%2B4.5*R*X
To get raw ranges that have the necessary equity once you input R you can get by using hand range calculator in equilab
The lower the stake, the more you have to trim ranges as the rake will hurt ev of marginal hands.
How wider to go above minimum defend to deny autoptofit all depends on how well you will play those junk hands and how high your R will be with them vs villain really the def range can even wider than the op suggested if you will play well postflop. Like if you somehow manage to realize 73% equity+ you should defend literally any2 including 72o and 32o
P12 - Apotheosis leak finder
Hey guys, my notes on Apoth. nl50 leakfinder. Was on my to do list so I figured why not share em
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- AXo are bad for 3b range SB vBU
Fundamentals to beat NL50
squeezing

1) if we are going to squeeze, $6 is better
- $7 (14bb) needs to work 65% of the time pore
- $6 (12bb) needs to work 61.1% of the time
I assume that the difference in FE won't be much larger wit $7 squeeze as with $6
2) overcall seems better here because:

The times we don't hit it makes a lot of weak/poor hands like 6pair or 6 high. So we can happily fold K,Jx flops etc. And at lower stakes people will pay us off too much e.g. om 378 boards with overpairs sets etc. And if they don't we can put in check raises etc. and should get a lot of credit 3way with good semi bluff opportunities.



you can check out blocker effect out in equilab
just put blocker hand in

open up the 4bet range
untick display card removal to see number of combos without removing your 2 cards

the tick it, see the difference in combinations and percentage

Note that with hands like AXs you also remove hands people 4bet fold with like their AJ AXs... i.e. you block their blockers
setmining
e.g.

setmining should have higher value at these stakes as people will fold less postflop and should squeeze less. Also at NL50 it's more likely for an unknown to be a recreational player so value of sets goes up.
Apo thinks the difference between 22-55 when we flat EP,MP opens we should treat them the same. Also note that with aggressive villains or at higher stakes 22-55 should be folded MPvUTG almost always vs 3x, but at 50 it's an okay call.
4 sizing IP- 1.95x to 2.2X, oop 2.2X-2.3x
Hand selection: blocker hands like ATo should be preferred

vs a reg when we get called vs our 4bet here and check flop call turn, we can fold river vs most multitabling regs as they shouldn't be capable of bluffing here much (even though this is near the top of our range for 4bet and check back flop)
- GTO should not be overrated at these spots at 50nl, people underbluff or rarely bluff spots like these often
vs small 3bets
when we get 3bet to less than 8x BvB we can call hands like T7s etc.
e.g. vs a $3.75 3b when we 3bb pre we need 30% equity
against e.g. a hand range like this

we have 42.7% and need to realize signifficantly less than 100% equity to make it a call preflop. i.e. we don't have to sweat check folding when we wiff completely as the odds are so good.
cbet sizing IP
when someone's range is weak e.g. here

and we cbet large we do villain a favor. When we bet big villain can just fold his weak hands like KJ 44etc. and be correct. By betting small he either has to learn to call like KJo oop vs us in this spot on flop, or he'll fold it and we autoprofit.
Also we want to keep his range wider - If we want to be able to bet our hand 3streets we have to bet small pretty much, if we bet big we narrow his range much quicker so when we 3 barrel we can even lose money vs his calling range. Apo would go 60% [f], 60% [T], check [R]
or 40% [F,T,R] here on rags.