tbeckett

I was reading an article on auto profit spots. And it said to find autoprofit spots you need to work out the required fold equity and then compare it to how much your opponent is actually folding.

Requied fold equity for my bet:

Bet size / (Bet size + Pot size)

How much my opponent is actually folding:

Actual fold equity = #Fold / #Total

If the "actual fold equity" is above my "required fold equity" it's an autoprofit spot. Which means I can bet any two cards and make money.

I just wanted to make sure I understood the underlying theory correctly. When it says I can bet any two cards. It's because I can take any hand put it in a spot and when I run it against my opponent's entire range he's folding enough for me to profit.

So lets say my opponent has 120 hands in his range, I can take 72o, put it in a spot and then I run that spot 120times (every hand in my opponents range) and if he folds the required amount I auto profit. Thien this can be done with any two cards in my range.

The maths for a bluff is:

bet/(bet+pot)

So if I make a pot size bluff it's 1/(1+1) = 1/2 = 50%

So I will need my opponent to fold 50% to make a pot size bluff profitable.

But how do you actually use this while playing??

I thought it would be about bluffing on boards that don't connect with lots of hands.

So I make a potsize bluff on K72r because I can expect villian to fold 50% of their range.

But on a board like J 10 9 I'd expect villian to be calling most of his range, so in this spot I need to bluff with a small size.

However when I watch good players video's they seem to be doing the opposite and bluffing small on the dry boards K 7 2r boards

If someone has $1000 dollar stack and the opponent has $500. The effective stack is $500. So if there is a spot where one player has 20 hands in his range and the other has 5 hands. Could you say the effective hands are 5.

I love to gamble and try to take people off hands. But sometimes I think I'm doing it too much. How do I work out whether I'm bluffing too much??

I'm trying to get a beter understanding of the maths in poker and I'm struggling with MDF. To me MDF seems the same as pot odds. But it's obviously not because the formulas are different.

MDF:

pot size / (pot size + bet size)

Pot odds:

(bet size) / (pot size + bet size + call size)

When an opponent bets, I use pot odds and equity to work out "what hands to call with". Which to me is the same as saying "what hands to defend with". What is MDF doing that's different?? Is it ok to not worry about MDF or is it important.

When I 3bet AK and the original raiser 4bets all in. What sort of range does he need to be going all in with for AK to be a good call?? Would him shoving AA, KK, QQ, AK be enough??

I'm not someone who naturally understands that being in position is much better than bein OOP. But when I listen to any good player it's the first thing they say. Is being in position important because you can see free cards, and have some control over the size of the pot??

People will often say you get more information but I really don't get it?? If I slowplay some of my big hands then the opponent can never really know if I'm weak or strong.

I feel like I'm just not understanding it, and that's evident in my game because I will call 3bets out of position without a second thought. While everyone else thinks about it

If a player only 3bets AA and KK would GTO just fold everything it opens or is there still reasons to call??

I was watching some heads up on youtube and saw a hand that interested me. Effective stack was 200bb

SB opens K10hh on the button 3x

BB 3bets 4x to 12bb

SB calls

Flop : Qc 3d Js

BB bets big. SB calls again.

Turn: 2d

BB bets big. SB calls

River: 7s

BB checks

Final board is: Qc 3d Js 2d 7s

What is the correct play with K10 here?? Do you have to bluff jam river?? I mean if you check your gonna lose to loads of Ax, but what can you represent on the river??

To improve my poker skill I will always watch higher stakes. One of the things that immediately looks different at high stakes is the ranges for shoving over 3bets, and calling all ins(we 3bet and villian shoves all in, we call).

In the later positions I will see hands like pocket 10s happily stacking off. However when I try to apply this at low stakes it just doesn't works. I was wondering how you work out when you stack off with these lower strength hands.

Is the decision just a feel play or is there maths behind it.