GTORB Analysis of My River Check-Raise

For those of you who aren’t sick of this hand yet, here’s a video I made analyzing my river check-raise, discussed on Episodes 143 and 144 of the podcast, with GTO Range Builder. This is free because the production value is a little lacking. I was doing this analysis mostly for myself, and I figured I might as well record while I was at it. There are some audio issues for the first 20 minutes or so, but the sound quality is markedly better after that.

3 thoughts on “GTORB Analysis of My River Check-Raise”

  1. TYTY

    That was awesome.

    It is awfully hard to digest what the different ranges look like because individual hands are split so often.

    I think the most interesting difference between my intuition and the GTORB solution is how strong the river ranges are.

    It also helped to see how much blockers probably affect the choice of both bluff and value hands. I don’t think about blockers hardly at all while I’m playing.

  2. The probably strong blocker effects also has me wondering:

    If blockers matter then your specific hand range assumptions are going to matter a lot too. I don’t think they’ll affect EV very much but they are going to change which hands bluff and which hands value bet A LOT.

    For example, you showed one spot where Villain value bet ATs, A8s, A7s but not A9s. I wonder if this has to do with how you constructed Hero’s range at the start?

    I’ve collected a decent number of hands from Bovada where the hand history shows all of the hole cards. It has been interesting to look at pre-flop ranges and find that they are much more continuous than what we tend to put into tools like GTORB. We tend to do things like include 100% of A9s but 0% of A8s. In reality it is something more like 60% of A9s and 40% of A8s.

    If blockers matter in range construction then we need to do a good job of including the right hands in the right ratios or the resulting strategy is going to be off.

  3. You didn’t talk much about board coverage. I think board coverage is sometimes the motivation for what otherwise look like slow plays or strange bluff combo choices.

    I’ll stop now. 8)

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