Hello Janda, it's me again
You often speak in your book about Range comparison of both players postflop and that we should take that into consideration. My question is how do you apply this? (I am a little confused) I give an example:
CU opens. BTN calls. FLOP: A
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CU Preflop Range:
-22+,A2s+,K7s+,Q9s+,J9s+,T8s+,97s+,86s+,75s+,64s+,5 4s,ATo+,KTo+,QTo+,JTo (334 combos)
BTN Preflop Range:
-TT-22,AJs-A8s,KTs+,QTs+,J9s+,T8s+,97s+,86s+,76s,65s,54s,AQo-AJo,KQo (170 combos)
CU: 2Pair+ 19.3% 52 Combos
BTN: 2Pair+ 15.2% 22 Combos
So at first I thought that a quick shortcut would be to count quickly how many combos each player very strong hands has on the flop. However in the above example CU has more than double, strong combos than BTN and the percentages don't have that huge difference so that shortcut might be incorrect. Another sollution could be to memorize how many combos, ranges have preflop and then do a rough quick approximation on the flop for how many combos get removed from each range. And after that do another approximation of what percentage of very strong hands each range has. But I don't think this can be done at the tables. Unless each player has 5 minutes to act
Or perhaps it can be done if you practice that a lot... don't know.
I made that question because you say in a part of your book that good OOP play requires to have a good understanding of each player's range and who's got the range advantage. Perhaps I may seem perfectionist here about this one... In the above example I defended less than 57% vs a 75% PSB letting my opponent profitably bet any 2. In order to defend more I had to call with hands like 99, 88 which I don't think it's profitable and this flop hits very hard CU range giving him 9 combos of sets while us none. Also I didn't raise 2pairs since he has a lot of strong hands and KT 16 combos (not sure if this strategy it's correct). So this flop greatly favours CU. Anyway about my question, how do you think we should compare players ranges on the flop? Can this be done at the tables or is it learned mostly while studying and at the tables you just do it intuitively?
Last edited by DribP-N; 05-15-2016 at 07:20 AM.