Showing posts with label study. Show all posts
Showing posts with label study. Show all posts

Tuesday, 2 June 2026

Pr0digy - Using solvers to crush HS

  • 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

Wednesday, 15 October 2025

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?
  • Thursday, 8 August 2024

    focus area: BB defence (passive bias)

     hit that 3bet button more often - can likely get away w wider range than what solver suggests:

    https://youtu.be/l8hg2Xe7ung?si=lah-p0xBCtnzxfnh


    - all hands that are mixing 3bets in GTO-land - one can argue that they'll be even higher EV as a pure 3bet