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Looking forward to it!

Really loving your content and format

Also if IP response is to put its stack in on all continues could you not save money on bluffs by betting small? Conversely If the entire betting range was small wouldn't oop bluffs loose value?

I have not looked into your question specifically but if you check out the Vision Discord group the designers say (as I understand them) that Monker mixes quite a few sizing options so in order to make it useful they had to narrow it down. One way that they did so was to use player pool data of preferred sizings on board types. Perhaps this is why Vision is set up this way in this spot.

Not an expert so take this with a grain of salt. But I think its several factors. 1. We do not have a heart so we unblock the hands villain will continue with (with Ah your hand is quite aggressive). 2. Further to not having a heart AK is viewed similar to AA in that it has showdown, I believe this is demonstrated in how both hands play when they do have a flush draw, you don't really want to narrow villain's range to 3x+ and the hand will be able to extract the amount of value that it does have later (In addition to helping protect our check back range). 3. Looks like UTG is betting 49% of the time so UTG might not have the range advantage you expect and if non heart blocker combos are added in it is starting to over bluff. BB has KK 9% of the time, AA 3%, 3x 7%, 88 2%.

I recommend looking at what the hand does with different blockers, and using the exclude cards function to investigate. Also the hand class function is useful although I find it to be a bit cumbersome and unwieldy.

I do not have any recommendations in that regard.

Often the low cards more valuable in 3 and 4b spots. I do not have the answer for why, but 8,9,T are often especially eschewed.

I speculate that the reason is because when you get to 3 and 4b pots these cards loose value vrs both value and bluff range for various reasons. My thought is that the significant part of your hand is pair equity and that these cards do not aid in the effort to realize that part of its equity enough to overcome the domination effects, not to mention the straights that these cards make face domination/redraw issues. Card removal might be having an effect making it less likely these cards make a hand. Also the 2p they make are more likely to be in a bluff catcher role (bigger 2p or straights present) instead of being able to bet for value. In short you just more likely to be in a meh situation with them and both parts of the hand do not work well enough together to overcome its raw equity deficit.

You will notice that the 67ish rundowns are not 3b 4b so possibly the wheel cards have more equity on the wheel straight runouts in 3b 4b pots, not to mention that wheel cards themselves are not often 3 or 4b unless they are with AA which we block with our Ace.

This is confirmed merely by me thinking about it. Would love to see someone with more knowledge or experience jump in.

Solver finds its bluffs from the parts of range that are barely profitable as calls and makes them bluffs. These disconnected ds hands realize equity better with a shorter spr.

To generate the sums needed to pay for your study, and build your roll to move up in stakes, it will require a magnitude of hands at micro stakes that is prohibitive to ever arriving there.

If you can afford it, forgo micro stakes all together and just invest in the training realizing that to be profitable at mid stakes requires some sunk cost. Vision's "Streak" in an excellent vehicle to do this with. Find local home games, app, or casino games that are soft to actually build a roll for those same stakes instead of the long long long slog through the micros at the major sites. Find experienced friends who can steer your in the right direction and help smooth the edges of the learning curve. The rake at micro stakes is enormous and very hard to overcome and moving through them is more like work than work.

I cant recommend Streak highly enough. The depth of knowledge you can gain asking yourself why the solver is doing what it is doing in a spot, and the repetition of implementing the logic or heuristics has been invaluable to me.

Taktocnan, equity realization is an important component. By running simulations the solver has found that K653ds in profitable in the rake structure its programmed for (500 zoom on stars I believe) while KK96ss is not. The reason the K653ds is playable and KK96ss is not even though KK96ss has more raw equity pre is "equity realization".

Equity realization itself has several components such as polarization and KK is more likely to end up in unappetizing bluff catching scenarios or unable to value bet much of its overpair equity, thus negating some of its value. In addition to this the solver does not make loose calls pre and is very aggressive, making life for KK very difficult.

Be careful to study why the solver does what it does though. For example I play in an app plo group with low rake where my opponents do not 3 bet with even premium AA, plus they call too wide and do not bluff properly pre or post flop. So in my app game KK goes way up in value vrs what the solver tells me because my opponents do not play correctly.

It takes alot of effort and study to learn what is what, and I am not an expert, just a guy who has watched RIO plo vids, and spent many hours in Vision. Take the above for what it is worth.

I strongly disagree, and like to see the thoughts laid out

Very good series Emty. Looking forward to more from you in the future.

Much love for the series Emty.

You married Richard?

Great series Emty

Love this type of vid Cory! Thanks!

Like it? This vid was fantastic.

Ive enjoyed this series quite alot. The agregate report is helpful.

This hand is an open according to Vision.

According to vision your always calling your hand and folding it with a single suit.

Could it be said that their are other variables that should be calculated to arrive at 1-A so that we are not actually deviating from it but rather getting closer to it?

Are you planning on producing a vid of this style for squeeze spots? Would be cool, I have a few questions after working through the spot on Streak.

Who are these humans who are getting 29 in a row correct in srp? We need to find these people who know that you always bet the 4h but never the 5h, and make sure they are properly worshiped or we are risking their wrath.

I'm really enjoy these, but am a bit biased towards them because I'm actively using streak so have a bit of connection.

Enjoyed the vid, also really liking the Streak feature. I'll get a lot of training in that I otherwise wouldn't. Visions ease of use and utility is fantastic and I'm really looking forward to its continued improvement.

Big fan of this type of series Cory

I don't have the answer and cant model this one in Vision, but in other scenarios I've seen when you have the front and back door covered with little direct connectivity a smaller bet on the flop is used at this spr, and the fact that its multi way would push you farther in the direction towards small bets I would imagine.

Turn seems to hit villains range a bit harder than yours with the straights and KK connecting which would lower your bet frequency and make for larger sizing when you do bet I believe, so your pot bet would be fine in my view. However the closest I can model in Vision is sb vrs btn 3 bet and your hand is checking 70% of the time and when it does bet uses half pot when the turn brings the backdoor flushing K.

Yea, its irritating because it will also say you made an error on a pure 50/50. Doesn't really bother me though regarding these close spots. Some spots I'm pretty close to anyway and my lack of clarity is in the margins, so more reps means I will see more of what I actually need to work on and the spots I need a lot of work require more reps as well.

Kitty, cut and pasted from the thread you started on 2+2 regarding this hand. I ran the spot through Vision.

" AK43ds in BB always flats UTG and MP, mixes 3b vrs CO when its not AK and 43 of the suits, and always 3b BTN unless its the AK 43 combo"

My profile is the similar to OP. I'm also using and really liking the streak module (currently still working on the pre flop) I'm seeing something I don't understand and hope Thallo or someone could help me out. Typically flush cards are higher value if the top and bottom have some distance between them (A4 having more value if it makes a flush than AK because its more likely to cooler villain). In some spots however this is not true and I am wondering if anyone can explain the logic to me.

ATM I'm looking at AKQQ on the BTN vrs UTG RFI. If the AQ is suited its 100% flat, if the KQ is suited it is 100% 3bet. I have some ideas why this is, but can anyone clarify or provide some certainty what the logic is here? I also see it in say CO vrs MP KJJ8ss where its a decision between flat or fold. The KJs gets called at a higher frequency than K8s.