Friday, 2 May 2025

Uri - Blueprint - Key Concepts / Heuristics [re-read]

Bluffing

Overarching heuristics: (intuitively feel out an appropriate amount of aggression)

positions & board runout - determines how connected we should be to the board

MIMIC a hand that wants to betto tell consistent story

sticking to "good board / bad board" naturally keeps you to theoretically correct (!)

Exploit: "Discontinued Aggression": when opponent bets and then checks, they are often telling you "bluffing should make money for you here" -> bluffing should be the DEFAULT

(look at it from a "story-telling" perspective)

Draws

Always take your fold equity when you have a huge draw AND your opponent has a lot of potential folds

Hand reading and Visibility

A lot of players are far too often, too straightforward

JT3 BvB - if SB would bet his Jx but he checks back - BB can go 3 bets w a hand like KT

-> pay attention to the narrative, especial "discontinued lines"

-> one of the reasons for the "bet small everything" strat on the flop - to keep everything together, so you don't know where my weak hands are

Positional mechanics

As ranges get narrower, pocket pairs and suited cards are a higher portion of the range; hence, draws are more common postflop

As ranges get wider, there are more offsuit hands and lower proportion of st8s, flushes, sets and overpairs
  • one pair hands go up in value:
    • BvB overpair goes for stacks
    • UTG v BB overpair: 3 bets

Hand selection PF

playing fluffy / marginal hands not in PF charts:
- 3betting 33 in SB v BB - zero-ish EV - any reason you want, go ahead and play it (you're board; you think you have an edge,..)

Random bits


"Continuously re-evaluating your hand’s strength based on the board texture and betting action is a core principle of strong poker."

SRP vs 3bet pot heuristics

- ppl are much more aware in 3bet pots - in SRP they play much more face up (in terms of bet sizing tells,..)
- when pots get really big, they are hyper-focused, hyper-aware - they don't tank and do weak sizing with a weak hand

Nuances

Board with multiple high cards - all hands get devalued: 
- ppl play every suited Ax and Kx - suddenly every 2 pair is on the table

River bluff bet sizing heuristic 8:20 minute

(BB v BU call, we x/c T74r, turn 3 x/x, J river: 

- we need to decide what hand are we repping to have - a T or 7 = bet small | 98 or 65 = bet big. or bet small, get raised by a Jack and shove! :)

One card is NOT the same as two card STR8 / Flush

https://members.upswingpoker.com/courses/blueprint-in-action/lessons/what-are-straights-and-flushes-worth/

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