Pr0digy - Using solvers to crush HS

vid

• Once you get to a certain level, you just need the solver to orient you.

• Every HS reg should know all the basic nodelocks and what resuly they're going to produce (w/o having to check them)
• Once you've done enough of them - some of the results are not intutitive - but you see them enough times and you make sense of them

• Mostly looking in the solver to make sure your instincts were in the right ballpark

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