Bryce is "In the Well"

[Farfenugen]

What do you think has helped you improve your game the most?

[yellowjack]

Did you tilt vs. schnibl0r when you played him a few days ago?

In the Classroom 108 you give us a brief glimpse into solving hands w/ PokerStove). How many different cases did you do before you had a general sense of how to approach each flop given your holding? Also, are you going to continue this particular aspect of the classroom? It seems vital in improving one's game.

Imagine you are in a game where your opponent is raising at every opportunity preflop, bet/calling every flop, calling or raising the turn, and folding the river 60% he does not have the betting lead, calling 25% of the time with a pair, and bluff-raising 15% of the time. How does this affect your PF hand range, and what postflop look like?

What factors into finding:
1) optimal re-bluffing % on a dry board (e.g. J44r)
2) whether or not to free SD on the turn

How many hands did it take for you see your edge vs. a player in your:
1) 5/10 to 30/60 days
2) 50/100 to 200/400 days
3) current games

[Abbaddabba]

firstly (to settle an argument i had with another ap midstakes guy), what is your vpip on the button and in the big blind? clearly it varies, so let's say against an opponent who plays well preflop and mediocre postflop. just a rough figure will do.

second, have you ever negotiated a handicap for heads up matches? i have seen a few people do this; usually both sides are competent players. if you have, how do you gauge the competence of the other person or negotiate what the handicap should be set at ie: 5 bet payment for a 50 bet freezeout.

[Acein8ter]

I find that playing AA in EP (UTG or UTG+1) can be pretty tricky.

Let say in 100nl Full ring play that you have AA UTG and raise it 3xbb. It is possible to get 4 or more callers to see a flop. (No one 3 bet) Lets say that 2 of them called with lower pairs like 44 and 77 and the other two called with hands like KQo and JTs.

There is a decent chance that your AA is not the best hand after the flop, whatever it is. What do you think about this situation? Based on the texture of the flop, do you just go ahead and fire 3/4 pot? And if you get 3 bet by a late position player, do you shut down? (Depending upon your previous reads of the player)

I know you can raise 4x, 5x+ w/AA UTG, but that starts to telegraph your hand. Most observant players will definetly put you on QQ+ or AK.

At 100nl, a lot of players will call $3 to see a flop and hope to hit 2 pair +. You see LAG's doing this w/76s (basically any suited connector over 56), one gappers, two gappers, Ax, Ax(s), Kx(s))

I've laid down AA post flop before, and it's tough to do. You would think that having AA in EP is easy, but I'm sure it's a hand that a lot of people have been stacked quite a few times with it.

[joker122]

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Did you tilt vs. schnibl0r when you played him a few days ago?

In the Classroom 108 you give us a brief glimpse into solving hands w/ PokerStove). How many different cases did you do before you had a general sense of how to approach each flop given your holding? Also, are you going to continue this particular aspect of the classroom? It seems vital in improving one's game.


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[The Bryce]

I missed that entire post.

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Did you tilt vs. schnibl0r when you played him a few days ago?

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That match was pretty intense. I hadn't played much with Simon previously and he ran extremely well in the first few hours of our match while I was trying to get a feel for what his bluff / made hand distribution was when he was check-raising flops, and eventually it got to the point where he would have had to be aware that I was taking some cracks at him when he raised, so when he kept showing up with answers every single time I pushed a couple hands even harder. Simon later had an interview wherein he discussed a few hands where I ran a big bluff into a made hand and turned it into a tirade.

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In the Classroom 108 you give us a brief glimpse into solving hands w/ PokerStove). How many different cases did you do before you had a general sense of how to approach each flop given your holding? Also, are you going to continue this particular aspect of the classroom? It seems vital in improving one's game.

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Once I get done with the LHE blinds series and the reverse coaching HU LHE series I'll be moving onto some stuff that will have a more mathematical lean. As far as how to use pokerstove to weight ranges, what was in that video was all there was to it. Examples of how to apply it will continue to come up throughout different classroom videos, though I may dedicate a video specifically to providing some examples, since this is not the first time this request has come up.

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Imagine you are in a game where your opponent is raising at every opportunity preflop, bet/calling every flop, calling or raising the turn, and folding the river 60% he does not have the betting lead, calling 25% of the time with a pair, and bluff-raising 15% of the time. How does this affect your PF hand range, and what postflop look like?

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Up until your turn/river description this is fairly standard fair for HU LHE play, so pre-flop doesn't change much. Your scenario engenders a lot of river bluffing.
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What factors into finding:
1) optimal re-bluffing % on a dry board (e.g. J44r)
2) whether or not to free SD on the turn

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1) If you mean game theory optimal bluffing the short description is: opponents cost to re-bluff you : pot size = GTO bluff%.
2) This is a pretty large topic, but generally raising for a FSD is only an effective sort of play when either a) it has some semi-bluff value or b) your opponent is both very unlikely to barrel with a draw and very likely to have one. Raising for showdown also can have some interesting applications in multi-way pots where either a) the pot is larger, and there's maybe some value in protecting your hand (in small pots it hardly factors) or b) you can knock out some players behind you who may have better hands (often big value).
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How many hands did it take for you see your edge vs. a player in your:
1) 5/10 to 30/60 days
2) 50/100 to 200/400 days
3) current games

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One of the things I'm very glad I took a lot of time to do over a year back was I put a lot of energy into thinking about how poker "should" be learned, and what would be the most effective way to break it down. The first 15 months or so I spent a lot of time worrying about stuff that didn't matter and asking questions that would never prompt particularly useful answers. The last 12 months or so has been a lot of work, in the sense of all the away-from-table stuff I've been doing, but I've been cooking with gas. While it's certainly been extremely challenging at points I basically ratcheted up through 30/60 to bleeders in time with the growth of my bankroll (which I've been pretty conservative with).

[Gelford]

Dunno if this well is still alive, but could you say a bit on what range you should raise with vs the one that you just check behind in HU LHE, when playing with a SB that completes a lot ?

[The Bryce]

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Dunno if this well is still alive, but could you say a bit on what range you should raise with vs the one that you just check behind in HU LHE, when playing with a SB that completes a lot ?

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Playing against a limper is actually a very large and somewhat complex subject. Some basic advice: the more likely the limper is to play fit or fold post-flop the larger a range you should raise (technically, against a guy who plays true fit or fold with a weak range you could raise any two here, but if you feel like you can't just raise any two indefinitely you may as well lean towards somewhat stronger holdings). When players become more resilient post-flop or start to limper a stronger range of hands you're less inclined to raise. Against players who continuation bet 100% after limping you're also less inclined to raise, since you can then just check-raise flops that you want to try and win UI (getting the same amount of money in the pot that you would by raising and betting). Against intelligent players who do bet the flop a lot after limping you may find it a good idea to mix things up and do a bit of both so that it's harder for them to get a lot of information on how aggressive you're actually being.

[Gelford]

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Dunno if this well is still alive, but could you say a bit on what range you should raise with vs the one that you just check behind in HU LHE, when playing with a SB that completes a lot ?

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Playing against a limper is actually a very large and somewhat complex subject. Some basic advice: the more likely the limper is to play fit or fold post-flop the larger a range you should raise (technically, against a guy who plays true fit or fold with a weak range you could raise any two here, but if you feel like you can't just raise any two indefinitely you may as well lean towards somewhat stronger holdings). When players become more resilient post-flop or start to limper a stronger range of hands you're less inclined to raise. Against players who continuation bet 100% after limping you're also less inclined to raise, since you can then just check-raise flops that you want to try and win UI (getting the same amount of money in the pot that you would by raising and betting). Against intelligent players who do bet the flop a lot after limping you may find it a good idea to mix things up and do a bit of both so that it's harder for them to get a lot of information on how aggressive you're actually being.

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Thx Bryce [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[DavidC]

why did you choose videos of yourself playing instead of just reviewing your sessions in poker tracker, as a learning tool?