Thank you postwar! Glad you enjoyed it.

Thanks mat!

14:00 - Unless I expect them to be over folding quite a lot to flop cBet I wouldn’t start betting a hand like Q8. Mostly because I dominate a decent part of the hands that I’d fold by cBetting. When it comes to other weak showdown value hands I’d definitely lean towards betting them OTF since we benefit much more from generating folds from holdings that beat / dominate me.

Very extreme. In my experience, most recreationals just tend to bet the flop when they’ve got something and their checking range ends up being really weak so if I have that read I’d start probing a lot both for protection and as a bluff. Similarly, I’d expect to make less money on this node with my very strong hands so I’d start to bet smaller with them to encourage calls from their Ax region or to check and allow them to improve to a worse hand.

So you would expect their range to be too heavy in ace highs and airballs?

Exactly!

Hey pocket, good question.

These two spots are actually fairly different even if they look quite similar. When thinking about sizing we shouldn’t only take into account the fact that the board is double flush-draw.

The main difference in terms of choosing sizing in these spots comes from the equity of our top pair hands. While on A85 J they’re doing quite good since there are no 1 card straight draws, on Q62 5 OOP will improve to a tiny amount of 43s and a bunch of pairs will now become pair + straight draws. Therefore, our TP’s will go slightly down on equity and that will encourage us to size down just a little bit.

There are also other ‘’minor’’ differences between these two spots that come from the nut advantage of IP. On A85 J IP is doing much better in general just because of the disproportion towards nut combos in their favour (top 2 pair, sets) while on Q62 5 OOP is way more uncapped and doing better in general.

Nuno Alvarez Great response! I know you teach us, but who teaches you this stuff?

My friend PIOsolver and his little brother Range Explorer :P

Nuno Alvarez Range explorer is the best. You can formulate so many important heuristics through studying with this tool.

Hey innvit. Thanks a lot for the kind words!

Very good point, I agree with your assumption. I think that the combination of the board being monotone and 3 high cards made me feel like I was going to take it down extremely often because their range doesn't improve that much but recreationals will often certainly have more suited hands (and even sometimes more broadway hands) than they're supposed to in this node as you mentioned.