Comments on: Thinking About Ranges

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Maximize Your Poker Hand Equity - Win Big! — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 13:10:09 +0000

[…] your advantage over an opponent’s range, like 22-55, helps when they always fold to certain bets16. Also, using ranges online can boost your equity realization, like an A9 hand achieving less […]

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By: Master Poker Hand Ranges for Winning Play

Master Poker Hand Ranges for Winning Play — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 10:16:54 +0000

[…] Monitoring how often your opponent folds can reveal their tendencies. For example, if someone folds small pairs like 22-55 often, they lean towards stronger hands. Knowing a tight aggressive player folds QJs, KJs, and KQs 75% of the time when raised can indicate bluffing chances15. […]

By: ABC

ABC — Sun, 31 Dec 2017 00:06:30 +0000

Folding or calling based on soley SPR is too simple. Author wants to show that there are other factors that weigh in our decision.

Great article.

By: foucault

foucault — Fri, 26 May 2017 00:48:28 +0000

In reply to Michael. Thanks, Michael. I guess the responsibility is ultimately mine, as the author, but yes - these guys are missing the point of the HYPOTHETICAL.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 26 May 2017 00:35:19 +0000

Wow! What an article! Now that is what I call explaining how to use ranges! Thank you so much for this goldmine!

SPR is purely mathematical, poker is not. The example used here is not random’s fruit. It is an extreme example yes but a necessary one to show the true value of range thinking. It’s quite useless to call when you’re beat and that you have very very very little chance of improving (knowing that he has the same odds of hitting his A as we do for our J). Accepting to lose 11.5 BB just for the sake of SPR, that’s insanity.
Readers here should not question the examples here for the goal is not to identify mistakes in played hands but a concept, as Gary pointed out.

By: Gary Fury

Gary Fury — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 15:49:26 +0000

How can it be insane to fold a hand that you’ve quite rightly deduced to be beaten? He said that we know the villain is a nit that will only get it in with a set.. kind of the whole point of the article isn’t it? To move away from the “I’ve got a set in a 1 spr pot, so I have to go all in” way of thinking.
I had a hand the other day where I narrowed down a nits holding to quads on the river.. I called a river raise wrongly, as I knew the nit could only raise quads in that spot.

By: Jabroni

Jabroni — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 14:38:32 +0000

In reply to John. That does seem extremely tight. Also, wondering why we are not getting it All-In pre against a 16BB stack. I realize this is an extreme example, but this seems like a fold pre if he is opening QQ+ AKs and we are folding when we hit middle set. There must be a better spot.

By: John

John — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 21:43:26 +0000

Folding a set in a 1spr pot? Are you insane?