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Leading the Flop as the Preflop Caller

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Francesco Lacriola

POSTED Jul 06, 2019

Francesco Lacriola discusses the rarely seen line of a player leading the flop as the caller of a preflop raise. The convention of checking 100% of your range has bene long established and he looks to dispel the notion that this must be done.

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Tarpon85 5 years, 8 months ago

Very cool and well thought out! I like the part about how to take adv of the asymmetrical trips on 775 where the ip in 6 max and esp fr just doesn’t have the 7x other than A7/maybeK7s when opening ep/mp. Would like to see a solver game tree laid out with how leading leads us to make more mistakes and how to combat leads. Thanks!

simrud 5 years, 8 months ago

Could you please post your tree for the paired boards - thanks.

Francesco Lacriola 5 years, 8 months ago

Hi, the tree is huge and my connection not so amazing, so it's easier if you try to run it yourself. My recommendation is to try to experiment a bit with defending ranges to see how it impacts on the leading frequency/having a leading range at all. You can try two sims:

1) wide preflop calling range with tons of offsuited hands (including offsuited 7x);
2) tight preflop calling range with less offsuited hands (and less offsuited 7x).

This exercise is important because you have to contextualize the results over population tendencies you might face/ranges you see in play at your stakes.

simrud 5 years, 8 months ago

I mean just the the configuration - the sizes for bets and raises etc. that you put into Pio - I'm not getting the same results and want to see where we are diverging.

Jeff_ 5 years, 8 months ago

hacen't seen much leading on paired boards in highstakes games (both HU or 6max). Surprised to see that BB have a ton of EV on 775off board, pretty interesting results. Probably if we change it to 995, leading should fall off or to TT5

Francesco Lacriola 5 years, 8 months ago

Yes, this line only occurs when there is a strong asimmetry in the nutted portion of the ranges in favor of the OOP player (f. ex many more offsuited trips/2p/straight combinations). It will not happen on 995 or TT5, as the trips combos are roughly equal between both ranges.

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