The Four Categories Flashcards
1
Q
Category 1 Criteria
A
2
Q
Category 1 Examples
A
3
Q
Category 2 Criteria
A
4
Q
Category 2 Examples
A
5
Q
Category 3 Criteria
A
6
Q
Category 3: Choosing Bluffs
A
7
Q
Category 3 Examples
A
8
Q
Category 4 Criteria
A
9
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Category 4 Examples
A
10
Q
Polarized Range
A
- Strong or weak: no medium-strength hands
- River bets are polarized: you have a strong hand looking for a call, or a weak one, looking for a fold
11
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Merged Range
A
- Strong, medium, and weak all present
- All RFI ranges are merged
- Any situation where your entire range makes the same action is merged
- Generally, preflop ranges are merged, and postflop ranges become more polarized
12
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Capped Range
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- Hands in the range are medium or weak
- E.g. MP call vs UTG open
13
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Equity Realization
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- Raw all-in vs postflop realization equity are different
- All-in pre: no postflop consideration or skill
- KJo favoured raw: makes strong pairs, so favourable all-in pre or on shorter stack
- As stack size increases, so does complexity and therefore role of skill
- Value of a pair stays the same deep, while value of set/straight/flush increases
- So, we rank 87s, 55 higher than KJo: less all-in but more realizable equity
14
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Reranking the Hands in a Range
A
Categorize hands as Value, Check/Calls, Bluffs, Air
