Seeing as bet sizing is 100% of what poker actions and skill are defined by, I consider everything. I try not to give away any tells by what I go through to pick the number. An early leak I took years to plug (because it wasn't enough to keep me from strongly winning) was that I'd balance snap actions with the nuts with snap bluffs, but I didn't balance both of those versus the time it takes to make hard decisions. Wasting people's time goes against my grain, but a certain percentage of the time, it is necessary for balance. Players who know me, know what situations give me hard decisions, and letting them narrow my range to those hands, is unacceptable. As for specific things that come into my bet-sizing decisions all the time, I'd say the usual technical stuff, plus a lot of table-image and ebb/flow timing issues. Who is ready to make a stand when I have the nuts? Who is ready to stop bleeding cash one time as a calling station? Whose view of me is altered by what's happened in the last hour? Who is ready to gamble and go home? Who would interpret a minraise as stronger than a shove? How much of their range is drawing dead against the upper 10-20% of my range, and they'll think I'm begging for a call by offering huge pot odds?
Hi Jonathan, I struggle a lot appreciating the range advantage / nut advantage thing. When the BB could have any two cards. Also, when playing I try and us similar bet sizes generally, so as not to give away my hand strength. Lately I've had so many bad beats with top starting hands, I'm generally getting better results by keeping the pot small, and not assuming I will win until after the flop, or turn, or even the river. I'm checking a lot more after the flop, with a bigger range of hands and trying to remain balanced. Once people realise I'm not a beginner it seems easier to play as they soon have to give up on just trying to run me over. I've also found an improvement in accepting that I won't always get good cards in anyparticular session, so I'm less prone to tilt, which seems to happen when waiting ages for decent cards. I'm wanting to find live poker tournaments to play but Covid closed down all the tables in my local casinos, so it's been difficult the last few years to get a decent game. Hope you are still thriving.
Great content as always. Concerning learning all the dynamic betting sizes, does "win rate" per 100 hands matter anywhere near as much in tournament play vs cash play? So not implementing all these dynamic bet sizes will lead to less tournament cashes (min cashes or top 3) vs implementing them?
does most of the course focus on GTO and solvers? I really dont understand them at all and don't think I would learn much if that is what the crux of the course focuses on.
On the LJ vs BB 40bb hand with the flop KsQdTh I get different solver results. It suggests that I should be betting 60% pot roughly 85% of the time apposed to your 53%, I used your LJ range and the BB calling range was 99-22, all suited hands except for AKs, all off suit aces except for AKo and A6o, KQo-K8o,Qjo,Q8o, JTo,J8o, T9o,T8o, 98o, 87o, 76o, 65o, 54o, and some mixed calls with A5s-A3s, K8s,K7s,Q9s,Q8s,J8s. Do you have any idea why I would get such different results? dEV was 0.1%
Is there really any flop situation where we DON'T have the range advantage? It seems like that no matter what, we always have the range advantage as the pre-flop aggressor, I mean
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What else do you consider when deciding on your bet size when playing poker? 🧐
Size of the pot. Whether opponent will bet/raise if i hit my draws/flushes/trips/two pair combos
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Seeing as bet sizing is 100% of what poker actions and skill are defined by, I consider everything. I try not to give away any tells by what I go through to pick the number. An early leak I took years to plug (because it wasn't enough to keep me from strongly winning) was that I'd balance snap actions with the nuts with snap bluffs, but I didn't balance both of those versus the time it takes to make hard decisions. Wasting people's time goes against my grain, but a certain percentage of the time, it is necessary for balance. Players who know me, know what situations give me hard decisions, and letting them narrow my range to those hands, is unacceptable.
As for specific things that come into my bet-sizing decisions all the time, I'd say the usual technical stuff, plus a lot of table-image and ebb/flow timing issues. Who is ready to make a stand when I have the nuts? Who is ready to stop bleeding cash one time as a calling station? Whose view of me is altered by what's happened in the last hour? Who is ready to gamble and go home? Who would interpret a minraise as stronger than a shove? How much of their range is drawing dead against the upper 10-20% of my range, and they'll think I'm begging for a call by offering huge pot odds?
Hi Jonathan, I struggle a lot appreciating the range advantage / nut advantage thing. When the BB could have any two cards. Also, when playing I try and us similar bet sizes generally, so as not to give away my hand strength. Lately I've had so many bad beats with top starting hands, I'm generally getting better results by keeping the pot small, and not assuming I will win until after the flop, or turn, or even the river. I'm checking a lot more after the flop, with a bigger range of hands and trying to remain balanced. Once people realise I'm not a beginner it seems easier to play as they soon have to give up on just trying to run me over. I've also found an improvement in accepting that I won't always get good cards in anyparticular session, so I'm less prone to tilt, which seems to happen when waiting ages for decent cards. I'm wanting to find live poker tournaments to play but Covid closed down all the tables in my local casinos, so it's been difficult the last few years to get a decent game. Hope you are still thriving.
Great content as always. Concerning learning all the dynamic betting sizes, does "win rate" per 100 hands matter anywhere near as much in tournament play vs cash play? So not implementing all these dynamic bet sizes will lead to less tournament cashes (min cashes or top 3) vs implementing them?
Yes, win-rate in BB is still important. It will be heavily correlated to ROI.
does most of the course focus on GTO and solvers? I really dont understand them at all and don't think I would learn much if that is what the crux of the course focuses on.
On the LJ vs BB 40bb hand with the flop KsQdTh I get different solver results. It suggests that I should be betting 60% pot roughly 85% of the time apposed to your 53%, I used your LJ range and the BB calling range was 99-22, all suited hands except for AKs, all off suit aces except for AKo and A6o, KQo-K8o,Qjo,Q8o, JTo,J8o, T9o,T8o, 98o, 87o, 76o, 65o, 54o, and some mixed calls with A5s-A3s, K8s,K7s,Q9s,Q8s,J8s.
Do you have any idea why I would get such different results? dEV was 0.1%
Is there really any flop situation where we DON'T have the range advantage? It seems like that no matter what, we always have the range advantage as the pre-flop aggressor, I mean
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So how do you exploit people who cbet too big on Q55?
Raise very tiny, often!
What I'm holding and who I'm playing against
In the end, it doesn't matter ;)
why should I bet smaller when i dont have the nut advantage?
Because you are less likely to be crushing your opponents.
The Correct Bet Sizing Is Always All In On The River If Your Draw Missed To Make Your Opponents Squirm
1/4 pot with nuts on River. 2x pot allin if draw missed. I have found this strategy unbeatable.
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Dude....
Solvers say you’re completely wrong if you missed the front door flush draw. Those river all ins get called at a pretty high frequency
you talk to much get to the point, then the video it worth watching.