Lesson 7+8

Question 1

BU vs BB SRP, flop comes K32r.

BU B33, will BB overfold or overall on this texture?

Answer 1

BB will overfold, Kx has a higher prevalence in BU’s range, it’s a dry board, and BB won’t have tons of 3x 2x

Question 2

BU vs BB SRP, flop comes K32r.

BU B33, what’s BB continue threshold with:

1. Hands with SDV
2. Hands without SDV

3.What are the worst looking hands that are allowed to bluff raise?

Answer 2

1. any pair will call of course, A7 is arguably a hand with SDV which calls

2.QJ/J9/QT with backdoor fd will continue as a raise or a call.

3.Q4 with backdoor flush (+backdoor straight).

Question 3

When facing a bet, what main thresholds should I identify?

Answer 3

1. The bottom of my value raise range (hands that are indifferent between raising and calling)
2. The bottom of my robustness range (=made hands that are indifferent between calling and folding). Made hands can be A-high/K-high.
3. The frailness threshold: Hands with no SDV can go either way (fold,call,raise)
4. The frequency of bluffs

Question 4

What are the first hands that I want to change their action if I’m exploiting?

Answer 4

The hands that are already on the cusp, or torn between two different actions already

Question 5

How does it happen that a hand can fold,call or raise vs a bet in theory?

Answer 5

When the ev of calling and raising is the same, in theory we will be indifferent between those two actions. If the ev of those actions happened to be 0EV, then it will also be indifferent to folding(!).

Question 6

What is recognizing 3-way-mix hands vs a bet so important?

Answer 6

It helps me to recognize the shape of my entire strategy logically

Question 7

Why is it important to run sims with R33?

Answer 7

Because if I think that pool does it a lot - the solver reacts to it very differently than it reacts to a non-range bet by a solver.

Question 8

How does the solver react to not-theoretical range bets?

Answer 8

Solver continues a lot more, and raises a lot more.

Question 9

What’s the definition of a bluffcatcher?

Answer 9

A hand which will be a favorite vs all of villian’s bluffs and an underdog (in equity) vs all of villian’s value hands.

Question 10

How does Carrot define a valuebeater?

Answer 10

a hand strong enough to chop or beat ANY ONE of villian’s value

Question 11

How does Carrot define a frail hand?

Answer 11

a hand that can lose to villian’s bluffs

Question 12

How do we classify bluffcatchers?

Answer 12

1. Its equity vs value
2. its equity vs bluffs

(1 and 2 relevant only before the river of course)

3. its blockers

Question 13

How does the bluffcatching system work?

Answer 13

We divide our non-drawing hands into 3 categories:

frail, bluffcatchers (A,B,C within that category) and value beaters.

Question 14

The number of bluffcatchers we are going to call depends on what?

Answer 14

-World favorability

-Villian’s sizing

Question 15

How do i recognize a value beater when looking at the sim on the turn?

Answer 15

a hand that purely calls and when looking at villian’s value range, beats it. easy.

Question 16

How do i differntiate between grade A,B and C bluffcatchers?

Answer 16

Grade C- folds a lot
Grade B- mixes some folds
Grade A- usually a hand with sth on the board- pure calls.

Question 17

What’s the “expect to lose” fallacy when calling with a bluff catcher?

Answer 17

The belief that if I lose most of the time, then villain is under-bluffing.

But actually, if I’m faced with 50% pot sized bet, it’s ok for me to lose 75% of the time.

Question 18

SB vs BB SRP, 943sds x/x
turn 4c, sb goes B33.

1. How wide should BB defend?
2. What does it mean exploitatively?

Answer 18

1. BB should continue WIDE, pure continuing on KQo,KJo,KTo (and sometimes raise those).
2. Since this doesn’t happen, since people overfold vs this small bet and don’t defend their check back range, it means that sb’s B33 is printing money.

Question 19

LJ vs BB, AT2o X/R33/C
Turn Qd X/B75/C
river 9c X action is on LJ.

1. What bluffs does solver choose?
2. What does it mean when playing vs humans?

Answer 19

1. Solver find bluffs in hands like KT,88.
2. Since people don’t bluff with those hands, they underbluff this spot. So I can overfold vs a random human.

Question 20

What’s the important factor on the river when contemplating whether or not to call with a bluffcatcher?

Answer 20

Its blocking properties. How much of villain’s value range does it block? How much of value’s bluff range does it block?

Question 21

What are good exercise to practice calling situations?

Answer 21

Spot exercise vs 2-barrel and 3-barrel, think about random bluff catchers and rank them.