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In this episode of Upswing Poker Level-Up, Mike Brady and Gary Blackwood list 7 of the most valuable strategic discoveries of the solver era. Whether or not you study with solvers yourself, you’ll get a lot of value from this discussion.
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Hard to put this into practice in live games. Many med-low stake players play super tight especially on the flop. Range advantage only applies when people are playing the correct pre-flop ranges. Playing this way against a table of nits will be hyper-spewy because effectively the group/table kills your range. You raise 7x after 4 limpers, they all call, you are done. This stuff if mostly for heads up very high level players where blinds force play. In a 2/5 where everyone is 160blinds deep, people can be very patient even if it's theoretically wrong and their losing $7 in blinds more often than they should, but then they stack each other with cooler hands so who cares about $7.
This was really helpful as someone thats taken a break for the last 6 years and wanting to start online again
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This stuff is gold, and thank you. I am learning so much about the theory and loving it. But the hardest part, for me, is figuring out how to stray from the theory to exploit the massive mistakes my $2/5 and $5/10 live opponents are making. Really good example: around 17:00, you talk about how solvers aren't bluffing missed flush draws on the river, so it's actually better to bluff-catch with blockers to the flush draw. But in practice, bluffing missed flush draws still seems to be wildly popular. And it's amplified by vloggers, who you hear say, "Well here I am at the river with four to a flush and queen high. I'm not winning the pot by checking, so I bet." None of the vloggers say that they're teaching you poker, but many people do learn that way.
The point is that if I were playing against Mike Brady or Gary Blackwood, maybe I'd be more inclined to bluff-catch when I block the flush draw. But I'm too smart to play against people as good as you. And my opponents are still bluffing their missed flushes. It's not my first decision point in calling a river bet, but if I find myself in a very close spot, I may add a couple of grams on the "call" side of the scale if I don't block the flush draw.
Does that out of position check-raise strat apply to heads up as well?
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Great stuff Upswing!
Awesome!
About point number 6: can you suggest the most two common (one for the block, the other for the big bet) sizes as a % of the pot? Thanks.