Climbing Through the Limits: The Conclusion
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Really well done series of videos. You covered a lot of concepts and including play videos helped a lot.
At 18:10 solver likes to fast play sets and 2pr with the flush draw but slows down without. It seems it should be the opposite as when we have the flush draw we don't need as much protection and we block opponents continuing range whereas without the flush draw we want to bet more for value and protection. Do we fast play because we are looking for freeroll spots? Are there other reasons?
Thanks.
Hey SoundSpeed !
Thanks for the nice words :)
I just had a closer look at this spot and it seems like we x/r all QQxx , so for this category, backup does not matter.
If we look at TTxx, QTxx combos, we indeed only x/r when having backup in form of a FD. The main reason for this is that if we don't have any backup, we can be way behind our opponents value range. Whereas if we do have backup in form of a FD, our equity is never really bad if we run into a setup. With QTxx+FD we are capable to have some freeroll situations in our favour whereas if we don't have any form of backup, then we are the player who will run into these negative freeroll situations when x/r QTxx/TTxx no backup in these spots.
For the sake of completeness, 55xx is pretty much always being x/c on the Turn.
Let me know if that made it more clear to you :)
Best,
Emty
Thank you Emty for that great reply. Yeah that makes sense. I know in plo compared to nlh having that freeroll potential is huge.
I notice that you switch between vision and monker in this video. Do you prefer one over the other? Are there pros and cons to each one? Thank you.
Hey SoundSpeed !
I'd say that both have their Pros and Cons.
In Vision you can easily dissect hand categories and it's visually very appealing and easy to follow. The Practice function definitely helps to train certain spots and see where you still lack an understanding.
In Monker everything is a bit more technical and you have to be quite good with the syntax and other settings in order to dissect hand categories properly. The advantage with Monker is that you can run sims for exploitative plays and also Multiway sims for any kind of position and also play around with different sizings. Monker is very prone to errors, so if you do not create the right inputs for your sim you will get very trashy outputs without even noticing and end up learning wrong stuff.
I find both to be very complimentary but Vision is adding more and more stuff over time so at one point Monker might not even be that necessary anymore.
Best,
Emty
Emty Thanks for another elucidating video, and your analysis SoundSpeed on the approach to sets/T2Ps.
I learned a lot from your series, especially this video offering an in-depth look at potpourri concepts, looking as prepared as it can be. Many of the situations are frequent occurrences, for example, Hand 2 JJ22 on Axxss and Hand 7 AAxx on SS Q/K/J-low-low boards with the bare NFD blocker. Learning what I'm trying to accomplish and the ranges I'm trying to target definitely clarified the thinking process.
And in the grander scheme of the series, building a more solid cold-calling range as well as constructing the bluffraise-fold combos were two of the most useful concepts. Before this, I've never really thought of the possibility that we can bluff-raise up to 50% of our raising combos in SRPs intending to fold. Deploying this has already shown improvement in my game.
Hand 5, AsKsJ4 on QJ8sss shows there's much nuance in options after the flop, especially on a board where all kinds of hands are possible. At each street, it seems that there instances where a similar hand group is divided up to take on different approaches/betsizes as well. I would really appreciate it if you can take more hands, in future videos, down the game tree with Monker/Vision like in Hand 5. It would definitely highlights lots of refined concepts in why choose a size for value or what bluff combos to construct.
Thanks again!
Thanks mate tokyojin ! Sounds like you could take many things away from this series, great! :)
Best of luck implementing these new concepts and stay tuned for more videos in the near future.
Best,
Emty
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