fact

one of the biggest mistakes

- when you fold the best hand on late streets

- folding nuts on the flop much <<<<<< smaller mistake than folding on the river

-->> proper 3 barreling & proper plan for the remaining streets on the flop == huge winrate boost !!

on flop play

• Ppl only think the turn is the hardest street to play in poker because people play the flop so poorly.
• Balanced betting ranges make dbl/triple barreling very easy.
• Picking the right types of bluffs and using the right ratio of bluffs makes the following street very easy.

If u pick the right types of hands to bluff the flop with, lots of the times ull get almost spoon fed what turns you should bluff (lil SD value but good amount of Equity).

Than on the riv u usually wanna bluff with hands that have rly good removal effect,..

On the flop we dont have our bluffs nicely handed to us, its much more diff to know what to do

weird lines / adjustments due to history

..yet now since you and your opp are both playing so weirdly trying to exploit one another, as soon as one of you goes back to your default game you'll crush the other player.

mixing it up on th flop (simplified)

- on very dry boards, u wanna raise much less

- on very wet boards, there are usually so many turn cards that put nut type hands into your range that you want to raise now for protection and know you can be strong on most turn cards anyways.

- when the board is in between, then u shoyuld slowplay some biog hands and raise some so your range is protected on the turn.

wanna go for the glory?

A player who loves the intellectual challenge of the game and wants to play as high as possible will need a different approach (than just grind and learn techniques required to beat the games now).

-> much more emphasis on theory, hiring good coach etc.



Every serious player needs ppl he can discuss hands with. You cant have a back and forth conversation on the forums or watching a vid

 I would say standard raise first in for 6-max is around 15% UTG, 20% MP, 28% CO, and 45% button

types of Equity

we can jam OESD + FD with 52% equity and it will be very likely +EV because it retains all or most of its equity against the opp's value betting and raising range.

if we did that with a pocket pair with 52% equity, we would get destroyed.

exploitative play for SSNL

* be very quick to fold when you are being shown aggression after betting yourself. (ppl dont bluff enough when you cant be strong, much less when you can be)


* slow down and ask yourself if your opp can be bluffing on later streets. Did he have to pass up a +EV bluff earlier? Is he capable of this? Most likely not

- e.g. we open CO w K6dd, BTN calls. flop Qh6s3d. we cbet, he calls. turn 2s goes x/x. riv is 2c, we check, he bets. now, hes almost NEVER bluffing here - this is marginal value hand trying to get value. we shuld NOT call.


*  I check back turns and VB riv small all the time vs regs.

- logic: when I bet the turn. I can threaten betting the riv. When I bet the riv the hand ends, and I don't trust him only folding to a single bet.