Foucault takes a new spin on Poker Coaching, and uses the Adventures of Tighty McNuts and Floppy McSetterson to teach players important Poker Concepts. Follow the lessons from these short stories to improve your poker game, and get you thinking like a poker player!
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Grab the iPod! - Tighty and Floppy aren't done with Game Theory just yet - Join Foucault for Part 2 of this 'Game Theory' episode as he explores Nash Equilibrium and GTO Play.
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Basic User
Wow. Do you actually count combos etc. and *ESTIMATE*<--(keyword) equity like this when it comes to in-game scenarios? If so how far do you actually go into mathematical exactness? A hand-history scenario where this application into your thought process would be ideal.
This makes me feel like I "estimate" way too much infromation that is actually useable to be more exact if only I paid better attention or studied the math to where it was instinct. IDK tho...I know that you can't calculate this each hand, but the closer I get to being able to do quick-calculations similar to this definitely couldn't be detrimental to my game.
Plus Team
Hey ESP,
I can't speak for Andrew but, it's not too hard to make baseline estimations about hand combos in game, and figure out baseline equity.
Let's say the flop is 842r, and you have AA and villain check-raises all-in
His value range is pretty easy to build:
-88 (3 combos)
-44 (3 combos)
-22 (3 combos)
So, there are 9 hand combos you currently lose to, assuming you're getting about 2.5:1 to call, he needs to have enough bluff combos you currently beat so that your pot odds justify a call.
Say he has 6 bluff / worse value combos here - well that means 6:15 of his hand combos are bluffs, or more than 33%.
Since 2.5:1 < 33% equity you have vs his range, you can call.
Etc.
I think more importantly than running 'exact' equity calcs in hand is recognizing how wide/narrow someones value range is in a certain spot, and then determining what their bluff range looks like.
On 933 for example...a value range is quite narrow...meaning his bluffing range can be quite wide, even if his frequencies for bluffing are low.
Hopefully that makes sense
Basic User
That definitely makes sense. Only two grey areas:
Is there a cheatsheet or anything you studied to memorize hand combos? I mean I know I can count out the fact that there are 4 suits of 8's so his combos of 88's are 3 possible for a set, however is there something to memorize so it's an on-hand calculation?
16 combos of hands that whiff that do not pair with the board.
12 combos of hands that hit one pair on board.
6 combos of hands that are pocket pairs that don't hit sets on board.
Is something like that accurate and/or reliable?
Basic User
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