[Jerrod Ankenman]

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Jerrod, Jared...this is getting confusing... [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Anyways, this is about Jerrod's example of betting the turn with the "correct mix" of hands. I know how many pair-combinations I play in certain positions and I can ballance it by adding as many other combinations like 2-suited-card or offsuit-cards with max-stretch. Unfortunately I have no idea how often those 4-card draws and those made hand monsters come up on the turn, so all that knowledge doesn't help. If I bet everything just as it shows up, I am almost certain to have an incorrect mix.

It would have been nice to see some stats tables in the book and maybe one of example of how the ballancing is done, but that's of course missing....too bad I am not Brian Alspach.

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Well yeah, if we knew how to find "the correct mix" then we could easily find the optimal strategy. So we guess in an informed way, with an eye to making our distribution reasonable no matter what cards come on later streets. This isn't hard in holdem because you can easily mix together draws and made hands in all sequences. It's not so easy in stud, where if your board is 952 rainbow you just can't have much of a drawing hand. i don't know what the answer there is; mostly I just try to play a lot of hands in the same way so that I'm not very readable.

jerrod