how to think about ranges on the flop | playing vs Recs | small-stakes blasting [Pr0digy]

 Pr0digy talks the mental framework how to "picture" ranges post flop

"if you want to play at really high level - need to be able to close your eyes and picture what hands you have, and what hands they have." 

it doesn't happen by accident, you just have to train it

flop - if you don't know how many hands beat your aces, how do you know how much money you should be putting in

how to think about playing vs Recs

calling all these weird hands pre, on the flop / turn, than having to fold a lot on the turn / river

Pr0digy: main mistake at small stakes - you guys are not aggro enough. 

when i play low stakes recently, i didn't stop blasting. ppl have lot of excuses for not being aggro enough. and value-bet more. put more money in.

let's put some fakin money in. if you put more money in than your opponent on avg, you'll win more money w/o even knowing why. it's what happens when a 6max reg comes and play HU. they just won't realise how often you have to bluff a terrible hand in HU. you have so many dusty hands when playing HU, you have to bluff loads but also value bet super thin - 6max regs wouldn't do either.

ppl used to over-fold loads - looking at solver at thin VB, there's no way anyone ever calls here with worse - what am I gonna bluff with to punish them for not being able to VB this hand. did that on repeat. kept going up like that

"I've learned how to bluff before learning how to value bet" bluffing is just more fun

these days am more looking at spot dynamics in a solver - look at a spot and see:

• am I at a big disadvantage here - not suppose to put ton of money in
• then it's intuitive to me how to bluff for a low freq betting volume

• the more you drill it, the more you'll start seeing patterns 
• swing hand classes, which were going to SD, but are now turning into bluff because the board got so good for me.

advanced: once u can't define your opponent by macro mistakes - able to notice which way he's swaying. for HS you need to also be able to make more sophisticated adjustments then just "bluff more" or "fold more".. like "i want my range here to be stronger and then am going to defend it properly"

.. if you don't build this foundation and try to shot HS games - your skillset doesn't match up - a lot of these MDA guys end up capping out

"vs some guys i can get quite lazy - as in, i don't really need to think about this spot - the guy just folds"

HU skills transferable into 6max/MTTs:

studying HU - as you gain higher level of understanding as you go deep into certain spots - because the game tree is so small compared to 6max/MTT - those skills transfer over (to 6max/MTT) - instead describing spot as "CO vs SB, SRP" - you can think of it as a list of certain dynamics which u understand well, and you can map them onto a spot and aproximate

the MTT's guys cbet freq will be better than mine, they'll nail that, but they won't understand the dynamics - and later down the hand they'll end up repping nothing because they won't know what's going on

you'll only look at BTN v BB spots for the next 2 years.. your general poker knowledge will get higher

ppl overstate ICM - not that hard to learn, but it's counter-intuitive