Lab 2.o - Capped Ranges [Uri]

 Capped Range mechanics

• if your hand is above the cap, you can put any amount of money you want into the pot
• in practice: as ranges get capped, bet sizes increase for the player who is less capped

• way to exploit capped ranges :: just put a lotof pressure on them, until your opponent proves he's capable of making a light call

I'd enjoy doing this years ago in this spot for ex:

• BB needs to bluff-catch for stacks w Ax - ppl not comfortable doing this and hence would be overfolding:

Lab 2.o - 3Bet Pots - Broadways And Range Asymmetry [Uri]

 SB 3b vs CO

SB doesn't have T or lower offsuit combos in his range, whereas CO calling range is more low-card heavy

3bet pot strat:

- if the board hits our BW region, we keep playing aggressively

- KJ4ss 7h - such a good board that we keep firing turn with lots of bluffs, although being oop we want to bluff with some equity - even 55,66 are bluffing sometimes

even e.g. 994r (not great board but not terrible), once we cbet, 

- turn 8 - we need to start playing defense - checking AK and some overpairs

- turn K - we keep firing with most of our bluffs

765ss - terrible board - start by checking close to 100%, handing the ball over to opponent

Lab 2.o - SPR Principles [Uri]

 

Lab 2.o - Postflop Strategy [Uri]

hand matrix for several different boards

(plan for each hand as the IP pfr)

super connected board:

- 22 unlikely to win at SD; much less valuable than on e.g. 765 - opponent much more likely to hit the higher cards

Lab 2.o - "You Don't Need the Nuts to Overbet" [PlayItSmart]

(just need the best hand vs his range)

having the skill to increase your blue line where you think your hand is worth more than in theory

you can expand your overbet range, when your opponents playing too face-up with their range

esp. if you're perceived as aggresive reg - expanding your value overbet range will print - you'll get called more

some rules:

• the less you want to bluff certain player type, the thinner you want to go for value
• this strat crushes fish and "non-believer" (sticky) regs
• the fewer combos opponent has that beat us, the wider and bigger you can go for value
• using this strat vs other regs can really hurt their confidence and induce them to make more mistakes vs you in the future (shows them you understood their range very well)
• [psychological warfare]

he's betting most of his FDs and Qx on flop or turn - our AT very high equity vs his river range

checking back flop vs agro fish - don't want to get x/r - my hand not worth 3 streets on that many most run outs (!)

use in 3bet pots as well:

cool line - check back flop w TP, then start bombing once he checks twice

reg 3bets pf then checks back flop:

Lab 2.o - Expanding X/R Range [PlayItSmart]

WORK "you will end up having to go thru the journey of finding the exact thresholds and the exact spots"

post in discord to talk about the spot you get into

• adjust to player type / positions = vs more sticky player or EP use bluffs w more equity - e.g. pick just 32s w BDFD

• FDs - if opp c-betting wide and over-folding - these hands are printing

• if you want to go really wide - can start x/r even hands like QTo, JTo with a diamond 
• they do have SD value, but their EV is much higher in x/r line
• these can turn a lot of equity

• hands like Q9o w diamond won't necesserily fold out better hands on the flop, but will barrel very efficiently almost any turn 

Lab 2.o - Pre-flop Strategy [Uri]

Finding the EV

Suited Connectors :

gappers like 75s, or a 43s rarely get to open - played mostly from the BB when we are closing the action

they don't really flat opens or 3bets

[75s and 43s have only 2 ways to make OESD, 85s only 1 way (!), compared to SC like 65s - 3 ways]

Suited vs Offsuit Connectors

76s vs 76o

big difference - similar to suited gappers  - offsuit is a big no no

Squeeze IP

sizings: 2,25 open & call, 9.75 BU squeeze, 24-25 4bet

Lab 2.o - River Strategy

 

the toy game in "General Concepts" Lab video is eye-opening in terms of the mechanics of building out river strat around our most common value hands

see how the betting strat changes from having just AA  - going all-in 5x pot

to holding 25% AA and 100% TT - block betting B25 most of the time

to holding 25% AA and 100% TT, 99 - now we start checking as well trying to showdown 99 vs 88, 77

Lab 2.o - Exploits [Uri live play]

Opening ranges OTB

- vs loose pasive rec in BB (under 3betting (premiums only), and over-defending by calling) - you can probably open something like 80% of hands (depending on the SB also)

in SB 

- vs someone not 3betting enough (pretty common leak) - can open pretty much the same 55% range as the exploit BU range - i.e. anything playable

Lab 2.o - Bet Sizing

!concept!:

• then on turn, modern becomes more like the big bets strat - big hands & bluffs start betting big on turn & river, small hands check back and see the river and face the same issue (but you're already on the last street so you don't need to worry/protect as much)

• solver is going to prefer one or the other strat - based on your range: 
• lot of middling hands - small bet strategy
• lot of strong hands - polarised big bet strat

= huge concepts that you can study for a long time

• by seeing someone's bet size, you can start to understand what their range construction likely is (what types of hands you gonna see when they check / bet small / bet big)

Uri: "a lot of pros have 1size flop 1size turn and 2-3 sizes on rivers"

Overbets

Bottom line: When you have the nuts, Overbetting makes you more money:

* opponent calling frequency according to MDF

As your (value) hand gets further away from the nuts (i.e. you lose more and more the times you get called), overbetting makes less and less sense

For overbets to make sense, a large portion of our range should be the effective nuts

Lab 2.o - Uri - live webinar: 7 Ways to Exploit Poker Players

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRC3tjWZ8H8

Note taking 

'getting used to the process of recognising mistakes, and then adjusting to them. and doing so with confidence, with preparation, where you play the hand, you see the SD and you're like: OK, this is the note i'm taking, these are the adjustments i'm making.'

1. Passive in small pots (doesn't fight for it)

.. how drastically you can adjust your range once you spot this leak... (defending in BB vs someone not fighting for small pots).. potentially any 2 cards.. however, if he sees you doing that he might change his strat.. so doing it with "reasonable looking hands" (most suited stuff looks ok)

insanely printing lines .. guy is not gonna call vs overbet in this small pot - he's not interested ..  whenever he checks back you hit him with 2x pot with no equity

.. be creative with how far you want to push it, experiment 

2. Calling station in big pots. doesn't know theory?

- there is a ton of stuff you can do and extrapolate when you see that (i.e. he's not very good player, will be missing a lot of lines, bet sizes, will have a lot of the classic leaks)

3. Calls c-bets too wide

• cbet wider, blast turn with bluffs into his wide range
• get into a lot of pots with him

4. Doesn't know how to bet size / bet size = hand strength

• in order to exploit you need to know theory 

Lab 2.o leaks - Uri

 calling low PP vs 3bet ip, 100bb deep 

-> 0 EV ish play, changes if we have an edge on opponent. 

- calling 33 in BU v BB 3bet, flop comes KT8r - fine to float vs B33, with the intention of bluffing when checked to. (not trying to show down 33). 

- no interaction with the board, doesn't block his folding range - 99, JJ, AJ,,