Uri - 200NL pt1 & 2: Bluffing: Story, Coherence and Frequencies at 200NL & Curiosity Over Attachment: The Mindset That Beats NL200 [new Lab 2.o vids]

 QQ 3b in SB v MP

- 976dds bad board flop us, start with a check. 

- ip checks back - now we can start piling money in. if he shoves we are snapping it

- ip calls 4s turn, river 5d - it's a rough one. our hand is prob x/f

- ip bets b50, we fold, he shows AJss bluff (spades obv most likely combo to take his line)

[note to myself - some 200nl regs capable of running this bluff]

Lab 2.0 request - Uri's approach to studying [re-read]

 https://discord.com/channels/1169741710465703976/1420184151666987129/1421061253073469462

[also check out this vid he did for gtowiz]

Uri fires up solver and shows practical most effective way to "study"

Absolute fire, the post discussion too (see below the screenshot)

• be more (spot) structure oriented - think of the things more structurally (rather than looking at freq.)
• hone in on principles that govern huge shifts in strategy
• range v range interactions
• look at the EQ buckets (!)
• solver giving up w the worst hands
• wants to bet the most with TT-KK
• traps with weaker trips
• mixture of defence & offence.. is one of them more important vs my opponent?
• let's say he's passive -> don't need to bet my AK medium hands (he'll let me see the river), and should bet all my value hands aggressively
• if he's aggro then we want the opposite
• bad card / good card - just look at how the Equity number changes (!)

Structures... ev buckets is just one way to visualize it

but i'm more in the camp of - this is a very aggro card for me, i'm gonna look to bluff these handtypes, and then look and see if that is actually what happens

or i'm out of position in a very polar spot, i'm gonna have almost no slowplays and mostly giveup when i check, randomise low amount of slowplays and checkfold with my air

... each node in poker has a shape .. so i'm very focused on the type of node and the shape of it:

• flush comes in what happens?
• straight comes in what happens?
• board pairs what happens?

and the answer is not in frequencies of flushdraws barreling but more big-picture general: "barrel these handtypes, switch this one for that one, up frequency, lower sizing" etc.

specific example - questions to ask yourself:

BU v BB, cbet flop, turn middle card pairs:

what's my value range, what sizing I want to use?

what are my bluffs 

opponent - weakest hand he's calling

any slowplays?

3bet / 4bet pots - framework - structured thought process

 3 high-level board archetypes:

splitting the range on the turn - sets as a baseline to throw in the 'Checks' bucket for protection/babysitting

obv exploit (level 1) adjustments: if opponent is passive -> no traps, go full aggro

4bet pots 

similar, but is really about A, K, Q high boards - lower cards like T doesn't matter as much as in 3bet pots

"AK / KK effect" governs everything:

• navigating AK & KK on A-high board
• or navigating AK & KK on 9-high board

- baby sitting KK on A-high board - often AA (and some AK) will go in the same line as KK

- baby sitting AK on 9-high board - often AA will go in the same line as AK

-> in theory. not necessarily in practice vs weak passive opponent who will underbluff - we can just bet our AA, AK, check back KK

Bomb / Splash Pots

 Uri:

1/2 game , $20 splash pot

1. A splash pot is like a big ante, in this case it sounds like it's 10bb or more ante
2. the strat in this should be to limp extremely wide - think 40-50% of hands from UTG
3. and then everyone limps behind wide
4. 
   
if you're going to raise, probably go something similar to the splash pot+blinds size as your go-to raise from late positions - so say raise button cutoff to 24$


5. from earlier positions you can go smaller, even as small as 8$, because a lot of the guys behind you have to fear getting squeezed

shortcuts:

turn the game in your mind into a bigger blind game (and translate stack depth accordingly)

• with 10bb ($20) dead money in the middle - the game has become a 5/10 game (rather than 1/2)

and so every one is effectively 10bb deep (!)

• that is why now if everyone limps to the BB, he can start shoving 33+

practical exloit adjustments:

• pool tends to be too tight:
• you can limp or open way wider
• presumably call tighter vs agg than the charts suggests?

1. video:
2. https://discord.com/channels/1169741710465703976/1415786934474903623/1416468678366724097

Uri - Elite Cash Game Exploits [free content]

playlist

Uri - Blueprint - working with solver [Range mechanics / heuristics]

https://members.upswingpoker.com/courses/drills-preflop-ranges/lessons/drilling-with-lucid-poker/

somehow skipped this vid

>>  some key nuggets / heuristics:

3:00 timestamp : how close in EV lot of the post-flop actions run (!) 

** EV loss is so tiny - any other factor (dynamics / image / player you feel (or not feel) comfortable playing against) easily outweighs it

6:20 timestamp : framework for post-flop decisions that run close / similar EV

11:30 timestamp - KK in BU v BB SRP:  2nd FD coming in on the turn - now there will be 2x more flushes on the river >> our hand wants a smaller pot

13:20 timestamp : river decision-making framework based on how "tricky | straightwfd" is our opponent 

BB Defense ranges

vs UTG / tight opens:

- the reason why A9o, KTo, QTo are folding and hands likes 74s are calling - these are "pot odds calls"

- they can improve vs UTG open range, while hands like KTo are often dominated

- we want hands that can make str8s, flushes, trips

as we face looser opens - our suited region doesn't change much, but we start adding more offsuit Ax, and offsuit broadways

BB vs SB 

- plus offsuit trashy hands = bluffing with our calling range once the calling range becomes very wide, we get to make these wide bluffs, avoiding the middle range

How to adjust to/exploit Range bettors [Uri]

https://youtu.be/L3pp75u1I90?si=inaGjcI8JCvUC_1d

#1 call wider

#2 check / raise more 

#3 probe river more aggressively

Uri nuggets: Couple adjustments to our mid-low stakes STRAT to integrate

Integrate:

this would be a good turn raise vs guys who are not aware of theory - and just bet their medium strength hands with this middling size on the turn

• they’re often bet /folding to pressure

• as played villain’s raise size doesn’t feel big enough for a hand that wants to stack-off (33, 54s)

“the more you feel free to attack these sorts of spots, the more you’ll get a feeling for when ppl have it and when they don’t”

>> very powerful concept: can extrapolate from that, and apply to how different players think about the game when facing aggression:     

    -  aggro guy will be better skilled at assessing the spot than a nit, who himself doesn't really bluff this spot

nugget: here I like checking back our TP - it’s like the opposite of low-mid stakes meta game, where ppl bet all their good hands.. having TP in our check-back range is very deceptive and as such opponents are more likely to make bigger mistakes compared to if i were to just stab the hand

just going to shove here w 25BB in the pot already. (got called by KTo !!)

nugget: the adjustment to someone who is too loose preflop is - adjust your 3bet range - no bluffs & wider for value

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 bet, to 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

playing KK post-flop metaphor  https://upswingpoker.com/pocket-kings-postflop-philosophy/

"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/

200nl zoom - Uri reviews PlayItSmart play [nuggets]

can't cbet your whole range when already 3betting bullshit range ))

 BvB, 22 in SB x thru to river 9T645, facing a small stab

- pocket pairs don't do well in these spots - both cards block his air. A2-high better than 22 here

BB v BTN - A6o - big (2x pot) x/r his B33 river bet on 856 5 K - turning hand into bluff after x/x, b/call, x/r - as we can credibly rep most all the nut combos

3bet spots

 - flush coming in on the turn - generally good for the PF caller. the advantage of the 3bettor lies in the premium one pair region and high offsuit hands. 3bettor needs to slow down

- 4 flush board - now this is good for the offsuit heavy range - who's got more single diamond hands