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05-09-2023 , 07:48 AM

keuwai

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Instead of thinking about what you block or unblock, trying thinking in terms of how your strategy can be countered.

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05-10-2023 , 04:02 PM

Yogurt Daddy

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Making sure I'm understanding this right.

The general reason behind this is to call with a spade/s at a frequency that doesn't allow our opponent/s to play a simple strategy of folding out their busted flush draws, and bluffing with impunity when they don't have a spade (or whatever suit)?

And if we were to flip this and look for an exploit. If we somehow deduce an opponent is folding when they have a spade (or whatever suit), and calling when they don't......then we can bluff more when we don't hold a spade, as its more likely they will hold a spade and therefore fold?

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05-11-2023 , 11:55 PM

keuwai

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Originally Posted by Yogurt Daddy

Yes, in that case non-spade hands become excellent to bluff with (and spade hands become terrible).

Your example actually shows why the solver usually prefer calling spades: because it's rarely good to allow your opponent to have a region of very +EV bluffs, and a region of very -EV bluffs. Instead we want to make his bluffs as close to indifferent as possible--thereby gaining the most amount of EV ourselves.

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