my first breakthrough as a player came, when i realised i can just mess with ppl - on certain boards, i could tell a story that would make all of your range bluff-catchers.
.. capped range. 2012 if someone had a capped range and you put your stack in, he'd just fold.
it got so extreme - for ex: UTG opened, I flat BU, board came 558 (ppl were not opening 65s, 54s) - i was in a frame of mind of "am calling your first two bets and shoving over your third one, and you're never calling me with anything"
once i realised i can fuck with ppl, my winrate got really high really fast. I started moving up stakes.
on Bet Sizing:
- in reality, one size is far preferred for KK and you need to work really hard on a counter-strat to make it close (to another bet size which solver usually uses in the mix), as it is in theory exploitable (betting big with your strong hands, small with marginal hands)
- that's how you play vs recreational players up to certain skill level (even a lot of professionals) - just pick the best size for each hand, assuming they won't pick up on it easily enough.
- can get away with it at 100, 200, 500, 1k NL - still lot of guys grappling with getting the basics of the game right - they're not in this mode like "Oh, this size is going to be unbalanced, AND am going to react with my range this way" .. they're more like, "how should my range even react to this size?"
>> what does my hand wants to do?
key concept - so much more freedom compared to what solver tells you to do:
how wide can you open UTG; can you have a cold-calling range in spots where theory says no (why does it says no? how big of an issue is it?)... there is a ton of fun stuff you can go into
.. you get to the river with all these +/-1bb bluff catchers:
#1 can i makes some sort of a read ? if yes -> great, if not - then it doesn't matter if you fold or call
'bag of tricks' & 'game plan'
Poker today - the 'game plan' is very accessible - solvers hand it to you on a silver platter.
ppl are so improficient at adapting - and you'll never know that until you're brave enough to stick finger in their eye and see that they;re not doing anything about it. your world-view of poker will change once you start doing that
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