LSB - module 4 - getting better Flashcards
poker
Why are heuristics so important?
-Solving the given board, positions etc within 30 seconds (or even a longer period of time…) is impossible for humans, so we need to have a heuristic prior to being in this spot
-The unconscious mind drives our decisions in poker
What are the steps in building a heuristic?
- Find a pattern
- memorize it
What are most heuristics in poker?
Most heuristics in poker are how equilibrium is being played out in a specific circumstance.
What does drilling accomplish, recognizing patterns or memorizing them
Both. By getting immediate feedback and making mistakes, I get to recognize patterns I didn’t even know existed.
By getting positive feedback I’ll automatically memorize the pattern/
What’s the most important thing to have when I study?
HAVE FUN. Without having fun, no study method will be sustainable,
When drilling in GTOW, What action type should I use and why?
Grouped - there’s no real difference in practice between 25% and 33% bet size, or 66% and 50%.
After drilling a full hand session, what should I do and why?
Go over my mistakes - recognize a new pattern so i can set up a spot drill.
Give an example of a heuristics card
Front: “on the turn,Dry paired board, when i have no draws,no FD blocker and 2 middling cards”
Back: “mix 20/80” which means bet 20% of the time and check 80% of the time
Front: “on the turn,Dry paired board, with fd blocker, two middling cards”
Back: “mix 60/40”
Describe how to use drills to improve in poker
- drill full hands for, say, 40 minutes
Don’t worry about the mistakes, keep logging hands. - Recognize where I made the most mistakes, or what I didn’t know.
- Build a specific spot drill for those nodes. Drill
- View reports after practicing spot drills, and figure out heuristics.
- Write those heuristics into flash cards.
What questions should I ask when reviewing hands I played?
What are the thresholds? (eg threshold hand for value check-raise) What are the frequencies (check-raise frequency of my range on that board).
What’s the appropriate sizing with my range?
Which are the best bluff candidates (the hands that I raise as a bluff the most often)?
What’s my most frequent size with my Qx region?
Low-frequency candidates? (solver sometimes check-raises for example)
What range do I target?
What hands in my range are pure strategy?
How should I approach hand review? What tools should I use?
Hand review is a puzzle, use notepad/pen&paper to answer the questions.
How many hours a day should I study?
2 hours is ideal
What does it mean to get better in poker?
95% integrating and refining heuristics,build heuristics into my unconscious mind.
What drill types should i use? What are they used for?
- Full hand mode - discover zones in which I lack heuristics
- Specific node drills - memorize the patterns
What are aggregated reports used for? What do I need to use in conjunction with those?
Find new patterns. I still need to drill the new heuristics into my unconscious mind by building specific node drills for those.
-Verify a new pattern
