Just finished Part One on Range-Oriented Thinking.
Found the use of graphs to visually map out the frequencies of different parts of the ranges to be very helpful.
Have a discrepancy with the example on 24-26.
Issue: The book argues villains range is polarized and disproportionately weighted towards the bottom pole. Villain however can only get to the river with a few hands that Hero's A4-no pair actually beats. These hands are 56s, Q9
, and QJ
afaik unless he's floating real light with 64/54 type of hands.
Hands that villain will value-bet biggish on the river with are all two pairs, slowplayed sets, turned set, some float like KT or KT
, possibly even AK if he's fishy pf, quite a few hands it seems.
So it seems the amount of hands villain can clearly value bet on this river outweigh the possible combos of air (from which are derived the hands he can bet air with) that he gets to the river with.
Regardless, the concept about what to do when villain is polarized and over-weighted toward the bottom end still makes sense, so I"m just being a nit I guess. Great book so far.