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Originally Posted by kvnd
why are the 4 bet ranges snowie gives for some situations so weird compared to what I am used to seeing recommended? Does snowie do a bad job giving ranges when you use bet sizes that are not pre programmed?
Snowie uses a larger 4-bet sizing than most regs. It generally pots it as a 4-bet (so it can be 30bb or more). This means it's pretty much priced in to call a 5-bet jam, so it chooses to be value-heavy when it 4-bets, as it is likely to stack off. (It doesn't want to put 30bb in and then have to fold).
Humans apparently play badly against the smaller 4-bets that most humans use, (probably folding too often, because people hate flatting 4-bets even if they have a great price to call), which means you can 'get away with' cheap 4b bluffs in real life. If you used a small 4-bet vs Snowie, you won't have as much fold equity as you do vs humans, as it will call and play fairly weak hands even with a very low SPR. Snowie appears to prefer to go big, so that it maximizes fold equity (preventing the cheap realization of equity) and plays bigger pots with the top of its range.
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Originally Posted by kvnd
Also I noticed something weird with SB defend vs 3x CO open. The ONLY hand snowie wants to flat here is 77. How is this "GTO"? If we flat SB, our opponent knows our literal exact cards and can play against us perfectly
This is one of the "flaws" of using a neural network to calculate strategies vs "random" opponents in a multiplayer game. Snowie built a 'generalist' strategy that will do reasonably well vs all possible strats played against it, but it does not play optimally vs a "nemesis" opponent that effectively knows Snowie's strat. i.e. 77 might do fine as a call vs a group of players that vary between being more aggro and more passive than average, but it wouldn't be fine to flat it if the opponent played a 'perfect' "anti-Snowie" strategy.
In some ways this makes it quite useful for real life games, because you can be in a position where 3-betting in the SB might be best if the BB is a lag/reg, but flatting could be significantly better if the BB is a fish. Snowie apparently found both options are equally viable on average, even though it would make it exploitable by an opponent that had full knowledge of Snowie's strategy.