Agree with first part, disagree with second.

I think a better way to frame the question would be at what stack size does your QT play start to become mixed? Not sure. At super low stack sizes we just checkraise every ten and just call down with our one pair hands and good ace highs, maybe even some king highs. At low/medium stack sizes we want to mix in some traps, but probably only want to trap with the best hands to trap with (maybe AT or so? We block villain from having ace high to checkback with so he's bluffing more turns). Not sure if there's room to exploit someone doing that. At 200bb or so, you're probably deep enough that the button can start mixing in bluffs to move you off a weak ten, and if your range is improperly balanced, he'll know which boards he can start doing that on. So between 50 and 200 bb IMO, around 120 or so sounds about right.

But yeah, this seems like just a straight solver problem.

Can someone ELI5 what the text in bold means? I hear it a lot in the forums and poker training videos but don't know what it means.

Anytime you fold, you forfeit your equity in the pot that you would have won if there was no more betting and the hand was dealt out. A hand like 65s realizes its equity more often than a hand like A9o because you are less likely to forfeit on hands with significant equity like a flush or straight draw while you can more easily be made to fold ace-high when it might be the highest equity hand.

"Realizes equity well" basically means "gets to the river quite often". As BDH said, hands like A9o don't do this so well (especially with deep stacks), because hands like A9o can completely miss the flop and have to fold even though it might be the best hand. 65s is almost certainly the worst hand on K74r, but it's not folding any time soon.

Straddle so that effective stacks are 100bb deep. And then use all you know about 100bb games. Such an easy solution.

Equity realization is simply the relationship between a hand's EV and its equity. If a hand has a much higher EV than its equity share of the pot, it might be said to realize equity well, and if the converse is true, it would realize equity poorly.

It is not really a concept that encodes any deep meaning, and best understood as a colloquialism, so that things like "I'd fold pre, this hand realizes equity badly" can be said efficiently, in place of things like "I'd fold pre. Although a naive comparison of our pot odds to the equity we have might suggest this is a call, a lot of our equity is concentrated on flops on which we have bluffcatchers and other medium-strength hands, so our EV is going to be substantially lower than predicted by our equity and thus we should fold" or other lengthy interpretations that might be applicable in a specific spot.

It's a concept people occasionally use in nonsensical ways. Like, I see the phrase "check back and realize your equity" a bunch, seemingly tying equity realization with checking and getting closer to showdown as if they are fundamentally intertwined. (When betting has a higher EV, then you are actually "realizing your equity" better by betting!)

Im confused. Never 3 bet AQs, fold tons of pairs to a single raise?

Lol. Imagine on Poker After Dark somebody opens to $600 and Berkey just tosses 88 in the muck.

Almost all big online winners use tracking software and a HUD and you should as well.

Learn your tracking software and HUD well. Have someone help you with this if you can, if you are not a master in this area.

A number of video makers film with no HUD but use one otherwise, so don't kid yourself.

1. Off suit connectors increase in value when deep stacked because you can cooler sets. Specially top set can be taken for a lot of bb


2. Low flushes and low sets see reverse implied odds.

3. Bluffing and bluff catching become a more important part of the strategy.

4. Overbetting becomes more necessary.

I was incorrect in saying that the ranges assume GTO but they do assume a snowie preflop raising range. When you adjust that range based on the opponent the equities can change and therefore change the call/4betting range a great deal. I posted that specific situation with the various stack sizes not as a bible to be followed religiously but rather a concerte example of how stack sizes effect play in some pretty drastic ways.

I do use a hud and have for years. The difference is that I mostly play live and as a result forced myself to not become dependent on it. In general I say anything that gives you more information in an imperfect information game is a good thing but it should not be used as a crutch.