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Old 08-02-2007, 12:15 AM
derosnec derosnec is offline
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Default Re: Mathematics of Poker Push/Fold strategy

exactly. alot of people love to bluff flops or c/r cbets or push any pair when blinds are high. or some are too tight. so adjust for those people.

even the authors hesitate from advocating following the tables blindly. for example, on page 271, they say that jamming is better than raising a lesser amount when your stack is 7 times the pot. but that's at a table with multiple players, not heads up. and the jam/fold tables are for stacks much bigger than 7xpot. so following the tables might not be the best approach when stacks are bigger, even though tables say you can jam/fold at the bigger stacks sizes. for example, i can jam AA at every blind level and stack size and never make a mistake. but why would i? even if my opponents are not playing optimally (in other words even if they call 2% of the time my push with AA when stacks are 200bbs big it does not mean that jamming is best option. yes it's +EV because my opponent is not playing optimally, but we want to make some real money here).

btw, when blinds are high, it is really hard for opponents to play incorrectly by playing loose. they can call with alot of hands. so even loose players are often not making a mistake at the 50/100 level. look at the crappy Q7 hand in the tables. it's a call at 8.
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