straight river

Hi thanks for your imput guys. I actually have both a trackballl mouse as well as a couple of vertical mouses but they unfortunately didnt do much for me. It has been a good two years since i last tried them though so maybe i will give them another shot.

I was wondering if something like this was possible, thanks for the tip!

Nice mouse mat there bro :) I have heard these can help some, thinking about buying one!

nice, will be doing this!

Tnx for your input buddy. I have tried some of that now and then but it seem that the problems just move from one hand to the other. Also im using my xbox controller somewhat lately where i use both hands

Tnx guys thats probably a good idea, will be playing with the pointer at max speed in the future. My mouse still needs a fair bit of motion though even at max speed. Is high -resolution mouse a thing that moves way faster than "average" mouse or is this speed change enough?

thats looks like a very good idea actually, will def try that.

welcoming more tips ppl!

Kalupso: Hi, thanks for your reply. I have given this some thought before but couldnt see how to implement it properly. The problem is that you have varying numbers of hands that can bluff and number of value hands in a situation. So e.g betting a fixed percentage by getting a random number isnt enough it seems to me. You need to know how many combos of value hands you have as well as how many potential bluffing combos you have in any situation. This can be memorized going from preflop to flop easily i think, but moving on from there and to the turn and river i think things will get messy pretty quickly, doesnt sound practical to me.

So I guess its possible to work out some heuristics to approximate some good frequencies based on this but I imagine it will need quite a bit of thinking to make it good. So im not so sure about this.

Also you will end up having to bluff hands that have neither overcards, nor backdoors, nor gutters. Sounds a bit non appealing to me when i could rather bluff with combos with more potential. Of course these nothing hands could be taken out of our pool of potential bluffs but that would require loads of even more counting.

thanks that is good to know

Hi, Sauce good videos.

I wonder how you are able to keep track of the amounts of bluffs you use in a given situation. Myself I try to system it so that i first bet gutters and then expand with the best highcards I can have and go linear down from there. That way its easy to not overdo or underdo it. However it becomes a bit mechanical and its not optimal since you often would like to bet the hands that have good backdoors as opposed to what i do, i.e gutters and then AK, AQ, AJ, KQ (depending on board). Also, if i were to bet all kinds of random backdoor hands like you do all over the board the combocounting becomes more time consuming than just betting specific hands, so seems harder to do while playing.

So how can I bet all kind of random backdoor hands like you do and still know that im not over or under doing it?
thanks

Looking forward to it :=)

looks very Nice. but arent these determined by raw Equity? so how about using pokerjuice ranges instead?

Hi, i was thinking a little bit about the situation where you think you might be overbluffing, at 34:29 right table. If your strong value hands here is AT,AJ, A2, A3, A6, A7, 45s, 22, 33, 66, 77, then bluffing with Q4o and Q5o and your 94s, T4s, J4s and equivalent hands with a 5, then i think you are overbluffing by a large amount. Your suited 4s and 5s alone is enough the way i see it.

Do you think this is accurate or what are your thoughts on this?

thanks

Hi, superb video series.

40.00 : You bet big because hes capped and you have alot of Qx here and more Qx than him overall.

The way is see it you have very little air in this situation OTR. What are you planning on bluffing here to support the psb? Most of your range is either paired or straights and villain is weak.

thanks

I think picking up Jandas NL book just to learn the concepts. Then create analogies to PLO.

And some of Sean Leforts videos, specifically the one called Book keeping i believe.

Hi, yes but i cant use pokerjuice while playing so im sort of looking for heuristics or mental tools that can help me.

Hi, it seems pretty hard to find anything that is like the obvious best range to check. I do like the suggestions you have with high value+blockers and dry nut draws +overcards. Potentially one could add weak pair + dry nut draws.

Assume the following subranges 1 value hands, 2 middle str hands, 3bottom of middle str hands/upper air, and 4 air or bottom of range. Then concider if it is the best line of playing for villain to bet polarized (1+3) when checked to and check back his middle strenght hands and air (2+4). Im not sure this is a good idea but lets assume it here.

If we bet
1 will raise (and we fold)
2 will call
3 will fold
4 will fold
if we check
1 will bet and we call ( fine but we are not pushing ev here even with implied)
2 will check and give us freecard
3 will stab and we call
4 will check and both get a freecard

Betting vs 1 is bad. Betting vs 2 is suboptimal. Betting vs 3 and 4 is optimal.

Checking vs 1 and 2 is optimal. Checking vs 3 and 4 is suboptimal.

So its not super clear what is the best play. It seems that the benefit of checking is mostly because we can achieve a freecard vs 2 and we are not raised off our hand by 1 (but i think 1 is a relatively narrow range compared to the other ranges). We must also remember that if its an OESD its going to be tainted on the dynamic/highly dynamic boards and we have no real guarantee of implied odds when hitting. However, if its checked through we are playing vs a capped range so maybe a delayed cbet may be a good solution vs his 4.

If checking were to be the best option here, then i guess that vs opponents that will bet the flop merged instead (more of 2 and less of 3) we dont have the freecard argument any more, pushing the solution more towards the bet region.

What are your (or others) thoughts on this?
thanks

Hi, first ill say that i think these vids are very good.

So why do we want to be checking dry nutted draws (exceot NFD) on dynamic and very dynamic boards ?

I do understand that we need some hands to strenghten our checking range and having nutted hands is a good thing when we are oop and guessing. But can we really check call oop with a dry nut gutshot or dry nut oesd? Isnt that a bit too weak? Sometimes villan stabs with airy hands he still is doing fine against those hands the way i see it, spike a pair and hes often good. So i dont feel like we are helping our checking range by any substantial amount here, or what?

And dont we need to protect our range with a littlebit more hands than these hands? What hands do we further include in our checking range if villain is an avid stabber when we check? (e.g what would Tom Chambers check?)

Anyone got any thoughts on this?
thanks

Maybe your red and blue lines can give us a bit more info on how you play.

This vid is very solid and clear in its messages, well done.

can this be interpreted as hole card sharing taking place at your stake?