Lesson 10 Flashcards
In the context of blockers, how does removing a card (a green brick in the wall example) affect Villain’s strong hands?
It’s a very small effect: Villain now has a strong hand 74.6% of the time, instead of 75% of the time.
What is the Blocker Limitation Rule?
Never make a decision based solely or primarily on blockers.
What is the Insufficient Reason Trap?
Concluding an action based on one factor while ignoring other relevant factors.
Fill in the blank: Adam (calling all in x100 pot with ATo on KJT because he blocks AQ and TT) suffers chronically from the _______.
insufficient reason trap.
What is blocking?
removing the hands in your opponent’s range that make a candidate play by you more likely to achieve its optimal result
What is the optimal result of double barrelling (c-betting) the turn when I’m bluffing?
What does this mean for blockers?
Villain folds.
Villian calling is bad, villian raising is the worst result (as I won’t be able to realize my equity).
Therefore,I want to block villian’s continue range (even if those hands aren’t the greatest in terms of equity).
What is the effect of Turn Flush Draw Removal as the Aggressor?
Blocking hands in Villain’s range that would continue to the bet, in this case specifically flush draws
What happens to flush draws after they miss on the river? Does it mean we never bluff those?
They are no longer good hands (in terms of blockers) with which to bluff. This means that if I’m in a neutral world, I almost never bluff those. IF I AM IN A FAVORABLE WORLD IT’S A DIFFERENT STORY.
What should you do when your range has become far stronger than your opponent’s?
You may need to bluff hands with very little SDV, even with negative blockers such as flush draws.
For example, if I call as BB the flop vs HJ with a flush draw, and turn went x/x, river is a mandatory bet for many flush draw hands - even with their negative blockers.
Remember: no blocker effect is commonly great enough to compensate for huge range inequality and the extra fold equity that comes from when our range is much stronger than Villain’s.
What is the goal when bluff-raising a flop c-bet? How do blockers affect that?
Reduce the amount of time your opponent continues. If I block backdoors, I block villian’s continue range (he will never fold frontdoor anyways).
What do you prefer when thinly value raising a flop with top pair and why?
I want villian to call me with backdoor flush draw, so I want to block the dead suits (eg have suits in my hand that are not present on the board).
What happens when the flush gets there on the river?
Give an example
Flush blockers increase the EV of bluffing and thin value bets.
On a board of AA328hchsh
as HJ vs BB on a triple barrel node,
KhJd (nut flush blocker) is a pure bet.
KdJs is a pure check (giveup)
AJ no hearts (trips) is a pure check
A with jh is a pure bet.
When raising a river bet, what is not sufficient to achieve and why?
Getting Villain’s bluffs to fold, If this were our only goal we could merely call since call of our SDV beats all of his/her bluffs any way.
In bluff raising the river vs. a very polarized range, what is crucial?
Using blockers to Villain’s value range.
as BU vs BB,
flop comes 932sdc X/B75/C
Turn 2c (bringing a flush draw).
Rank the following hands in terms of betting frequency from highest to lowest, and give the logic:
QcTh
QdTs
AcJh
AcJh - NO frequency - while it has the perfect blocker to villian’s continue range, this hand has a lot of SDV. Blockers are used only when decisions are very close.
Don’t get blinded by blockers and forget relevant factors like SDV!
QcTh - a very frequency - has a blocker to villian’s continue range and no SDV.
QdTs- low frequency - no SDV but favorable world.
when should I be more selective with my bluffs?
When I have a very narrow value range (just a few hands), I need fewer hands in my bluff range, or otherwise, I will end up over bluffing.
