The Compounding Effect
Posted by Francesco Lacriola
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practical approach. human-esk, i like it
Good stuff. The example about playing against an Ax heavy range on ace high boards was really interesting.
Glad I follow you, James. I love your video recommendations.
Makes me feel good about c/r a portion of my weak FD's w/ gutters OOP and calling my Ax and Kx FD's. Definitely the right play some times. Especially since if gives you balance when you c/r your two pair/sets.
Great video, Francesco! Ciao!
Very good explanation of compounding effect and the common mistake is really common.
Exploiting strategy against players seems really effective, hope to see more exploiting strategies. LOL
Big fan! Keep it up. I have enjoyed all of your content immensly.
I'm slightly conflicted here because I absolutely love these theory / concept videos, but part of me would also like to see you do a more traditional format with live analysis of hands so we can get a better sense of how you approach the game. Either way, though, I love the content and look forward to more of your stuff in the future.
Lastly, can you be a little more specific about what you mean when you say you want to have strong hands on the most common board textures? Intuitively it makes sense, but I'm curious how you apply it in practice. Does that mean mixing in a higher frequency preflop call with hands like AK/AQ that are normally 3bet, or even mixing in some preflop flats with QQ+?
Hi, thank you for your feedback. In the immediate future pokerstars.it is going to introduce the "seat me" function for cash games, therefore I expect players will prefer playing zoom. In this case I might shoot a live play video -I think zoom works better than normal 6 max tables-.
There is a conceptual preflop guide video coming in which I'm going back to this topic in a more specific way. This concept is more important in bigger pots than in smaller pots (so more important in 3bet pots) and is important expecially against aggressive players that are going to capitalize on imbalances between nutted hands in the ranges. Practically you need to improve the EV of your whole range on the most common boards (A high being the most common, followed by broadway ones), therefore you cannot defend too many small PPs against tighter ranges. They tend to be break-evenish hands facing a 3bet, however calling too many of them is going to hurt your hand distribution on most flops and force you either to overfold or to call too lightly and be in tough shape on later streets.
Flatting AK with a decent frequency against 3bets makes a lot of sense, also from the BTN against a 3bet from the blinds. QQ isn't an auto 3bet against EP-MP (expecially if players are opening less than 20%), therefore it makes sense to coldcall it with a small frequency against a single raise. In general every hand you're not comfortable playing for the stack with preflop should be mixed as simple cold-call/3bet and call 3bet/4bet; sometimes we are going to prefer the most aggressive option, other times the passive one. If we're playing against players who have significant leaks we can play a pure strategy (3bet/4bet) with these hands, in other situations we need to be aware of the context (PFR/3better tendencies, other players that might get involved with the hand) to shift towards one side or the other of the equilibrium.
That makes a ton of sense and thanks for the in-depth reply. That helped a lot!
Hi, I think it's interesting. I think if the player making the initial mistake (for example calling too wide pre flop) then would theoretically play like the solver he's not compounding his mistake but playing a range too wide would be very difficult to play well as a human.
Perfect video <3 Thank you very much !
As a fish I feel this one is a bit spot on for me, I recently started working on my game. Even did some work in PIO where I put in my coldcalling range on the BTN vs CO open, and observe spot on what you are saying and most easy fix is to clean up my range and start folding more. I know I need to fold out more of the bluffcatchers, yet the story show it is hard for me. Loosing more big pots and winning the smaller ones. Did a filter for last month with 50bb+ pots, with rags or draws on turn but where I saw river and showdown. If you want to see how a loosing station looks like in this spot, here are a few numbers.
Loosing more than 2k bb/100 with a 400 hand sample for this situation.
So well, did a filter for IP, maybe this will be better off?
Or not...
How about my 3bet pots then, should at least be bigger?
Oh well... slightly higher EV at least :)
Keep up the good work making awesome videos, so I might get those winrates a bit higher.
Great breakdown! Full disclosure, I ended up playing A4 off from the big blind in a multiway today, and predictably ran into trouble. This made me laugh when I found you used this hand in your example. Great way of explaining how being too lose can create problems. Thank you.
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