Hi guys,
had a short talk about red and blues with a friend and been thinking about it alot lately. I want to talk about categorizing ( in a very general way) players by their graphs, getting tendencies and reads out of how their blue and redline run.
I made some (pretty logical) assumptions about this:
Positive Blue/Negative Red:
This is probably the most common style nowadays. I would say that mostlikely weak players have those kind of graphs. They are not capable of making certain moves or decent calldowns. They are probably not that good at handreading and by that easy to exploit. In general I think those guys are the softest regs to play against. They make life easy for you caus they aren't deceptive enough. Their ranges are too narrow, they turn their hands face up etc etc..
All those aspects are sort of elastic and proportional to the course of red and blue.
Negative Blue/Positive Red:
Postflop tendencies are usually aggressive/light. Hard to barrell of hands hard to bluff. They go to SD too light and also have unbalanced bluffing/raising frequencies. Easy to trap Easy to adapt. Hard to put on hands just caus they have so much shit in their range and some valuestuff in between. In general hard to play if you have weak SDV caus they wont let u get to SD cheap. I think as soon as they balance their frequencies abit more they become way tougher any way more deceptive also their blueline will flatten by this or even get positive.
Positive Blue/Positive Red:
I don't see alot people capable of playing this style and usually they are big crushers. They have balanced frequencies and are capable of making good calldowns/big moves -> good at handreading. I assume they also have a better sense for weakness than the NegativeBlue/PositiveRed players so it also will be hard to get to SD with weak SDV. I personally think this style turns out to be the most effective in Poker just caus it's so deceptive and balanced.
Ofcourse there's more styles to add and same graphs can have different playstyles. But their tendencies are almost identical.
Just would like to hear what you guys think about this. I know I'm being very general and I don't specifically like that. Again I'm just going by very basic tendencies and reads. Figuring out how they play and then adjusting with more specific reads/stats.
Jason
With time you will adjust and get better, start improving your nonSD winnings etc. Rather work with the style which has bring you money than try to do something else which you ain't capable of doing. Very often what brings you to when trying to work too much on nonSD winnings is that you will end up spewing a lot money, brings you to the part where you will lose all the money you have made those past few months. -> Afterwards lose confidence in your game, start losing motivation to grind, etc.
