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Fighting Simplification

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Shaun Pauwels

POSTED Jul 28, 2021

Shaun Pauwels begins the video by defining simplification and why we as humans need to implore this tactic when playing in our games before touching on ways that one can get carried away with simplifying resulting in a serious loss of EV.

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RunItTw1ce 3 years, 8 months ago

RIO needs to pay more for your content, pure gold. I thought it was very impressive how much information you gave in this video without repeating yourself!

The only part I disagree with is at the end of the video (35min) on Jh-9d-2h board where you mention mostly a small bet is going to be used. On dynamic boards where there are many draws possible but no straights or flushes possible I think these boards are going to mostly use a big bet strategy. Small bets will still be used but roughly 1/3 of the time as the bigger bet.
On your sheet a similar board you can see bet size here. I think the smaller bet is used when it's 1 high card and 2 cards 8 and lower. Two cards 9 and higher typically favor IP quite a bit, so bigger bets are being used. I like to think of it as set advantage where IP can have all 3 sets and OOP only has bottom set, so bigger bets are used.

I didn't solve this down all the way, but you can see bigger bet being used here on the J92hh about 3/4 of the time with two sizes given of 30% & 75%.

Everything else in the video looks spot on! Thought you did a fantastic job.

Shaun Pauwels 3 years, 8 months ago

The only part I disagree with is at the end of the video (35min) on Jh-9d-2h board

You are right. I did solve that board right now. BB doesn't fold a single hand (outside of some AT) that has 2 overcards against our marginal hands. Which leads to a big bet being preferred.

It was only a matter of time before I made an error. No surprise it's you who finds it :D.

TheCheddarman1 3 years, 8 months ago

This video, simply ;) , blew my mind. I never knew why frequencies were they way they were on boards like A84 vs. AK4. The rule for betting small and big makes a tonne of sense.

In the second last example, JJ7ss strikes me as a small bet only board, as with most paired boards, and I would range bet. Yet, you say the lack of marginal hands requires us to bet big more often. I was thinking perhaps this is an exception to the rule at first. However, I think as we share nutted hands with trips we don't bet as big, and as we actually do have a fair amount of marginal hands (AK, AQ, 99+), it makes sense that it's a pure small bet board. I have included an image with the equity graph and highlighted all hands from 50-80% equity, of which there is clearly a huge advantage for BTN.

Shaun Pauwels 3 years, 8 months ago

Glad you enjoyed it.

You seem to be right about the JJ7. Our stronger unpaired hands still benefit a lot from opponents folding range. Guess I need to look into that a bit more myself, nice find!

StackerTim 3 years, 7 months ago

Wow amazing video! Really helpful to have such in depth insights to a really common spot!
Also big thanks for sharing this very well constructed report with us. Looking forward to all your valuable content in the future, cheers :)

omgalbertojoao 3 years, 3 months ago

Have binged your videos think they are really good with the material you give and the fact you give follow up videos on the various subjects. Don't have nothing to add on the subject just "pad on the back keep on the good work" comment :P thanks.

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