I vaguely recall someone with a PGC thread that claimed to have played 200,000! I just do 50 hands a day as a warm-up session, about 20 days a month.
A bit of both. Pre-flop, I try to play exactly as Snowie would (I've more or less memorized its ranges). Post-flop, I just try to play to the best of my ability, trying to win all the playmoney. Sometimes I find myself in spots where I'm in a no-win situation, because I know I'm crushed by its range, but folding (and saving chips) will be marked as a blunder.

Example spot: I 3bet/call JJ in SB v UTG. I know that Snowie's UTG 4-bet range is weighted towards AA and Axs and I really don't want to pay it off. Apparently I'm supposed to donk the flop, but I just check-called. Then it shoves the turn. I made an "exploitative" fold, because I'm sure I'm beat, but Snowie says that folding is a blunder.



It turns out that in ^ that ^ spot, Snowie always has AA or quads, so I'm basically dead.
But Snowie says calling has an EV of 18bb, which might well be true against the "random agents" it trained against, but clearly isn't true against Snowie itself.


That's the kind of thing that annoys me about playing it. Calling off would be "correct" against random agents, but it loses a stack against Snowie, so it's catch 22: my error rate gets worse if I fold, but I lose a stack if I call.

Sometimes, when the stack sizes are little outside what it's used to, it marks up an error and gives advice that is just plain funny.



It said that 8-betting was "a bit too aggressive" and I should have flatted the 7-bet in order to create an SPR of 0.08.

Interesting examples, thanks for posting Arty!

+1!

Are Snowie's preflop recommendations based on rake on Pokerstars?

I believe that is the case, yes. Certainly it's the case that Snowie trained with ever-decreasing rake as the limits increase. (Which is why it is much tighter in simulations of the micros, in comparison to 50/100)

This is not a question as such, but the latest version of Snowie came out today, and it now "understands" antes, and even features them as an optional component in the challenges, so it might finally be of some use to tournament players. Has anyone tried it?

It doesn't seem to understand push/fold yet though

Does the starter version worth it?

Will I be able to see how diferent parts of my range play on a specific spot? Or that is just for the most advanced versions?

I tried the "challenge" with antes and it crashes my computer every time. The "scenarios" do work with antes. Hopefully this can be fixed, as It's pretty exciting to have antes.

I found one thing about Snowie's preflop strategy that seems strange.

If BTN opens for 1/2pot and SB 3bets 1pot. Then Snowie chooses to 4bet to 1pot. Why is a 1pot 4bet better then a 1/2pot 4bet in this spot.

But now consider the same situation for the SB vs BB. SB opens 1pot and BB 3bets to 1pot. Here Snowie want's to 4bet to only 1/2pot.

This seems strange beacuse I thought you wanted to 4bet bigger out of position to decrease the SPR postflop, since you have the disadvantage of being out of position. But when you have position then 4betting smaller makes more sense.

And this is with 100bb stacks.

I'm guessing here as I don't have Snowie in front of me but is it maybe using a more polarised range otb and hence the bigger sizing?

That might be it. Snowie is 4betting a wider range in the SB, including most of the pocket pairs.

Is this strategy something I should implement in my own game? My strategy now is to 4bet a tighter range in the SB to 1pot against a BB 3bet. And on the button, I 4bet 1/2pot with a wider range.

But Snowie do the complete opposite, so maybe I'm doing something wrong

It's not something I've really looked at so I wouldn't like to give an answer. There'll be others on here who could probably be cplain it all *cough* 'Arty'.

The pre-flop battles in BvB are really strange for me, as they are quite unlike how real people play in the microstakes. Snowie will basically stack off 55+, most Axs, AJ+ and KQs in BvB. It's as if Snowie is happy to get 100bb in with 55, so it makes a half-pot 4-bet with it, almost as if it is trying to induce a 5-bet it can jam over. :/
I think that against the 'exploitable' players in the micros...
... is probably a more profitable strategy, as you won't see many light 5-bets in any position.

Looks like snowie added antes to sims - interesting

Hi,

Thanks a lot for bringing this up. It is true, after we released the ante yesterday we had 2 crazy days in which we worked hard to fix a few unexpected glitches.

Hopefully we just released on our AI server a few fixes that should make PokerSnowie working fine with Ante in the Challenges, Scenarios and so on. We are still testing on our end ad we are looking also for customer's feedbacks.

Thanks,
The PokerSnowie Team

Can you guys bring back the option to show Snowie’s hand when the player folds in a challenge?

I had recently downloaded PokerSnowie and spend sometime study about the PreflopAdvisor module. After studies, I am very curious what assumptions and variables had been applied to generate these preflop ranges. what made me curious are for example:
- Every positions' opening range consists tons of Axs but hardly found any suited connector in the early position's opening range .
- 65s looks like an unbeatable hand that the software suggests to use it flat any early position's open, however you hardly see that the software suggests you to flat with other suited connector (eg:98s,87s,76s). If these suited connector are not in early position's opening range, Why not flat with these suited connector?
- The software suggests that facing UTG open, BB should only 3bet with KK+,AKs, but when BB 3-bet UTG should flat this 3bet with UTG's entire range even AA and KK. If we know BB is only 3-bet with those monster hand, why we dont just fold ?
I know the PokerSnowie is one of the most advance AI software, but the above results are very confuse me. Guys please give me some hint or prove me wrong.

Why don't add the all in bet size?

That would be very insightful for short stack plays, and useful for tournaments.

They would if they could

On antes being introduced, it's a little surprising that the ranges don't become that much wider, especially in later positions.

edit: opening ranges that is.

65 performs better than 98s vs that range.
Can only flat so much

Let's compare 98s and 65s.

1. Which of these hands has the most equity vs AA?

2. Which hand is less likely to be dominated when it makes a pair?
3. Which hand gets stacked more often when it makes the "idiot end" of a straight?
4. Which hand gets paid off more often when it makes the nut straight?
5. Which hand improves the board coverage of your range the best?
6. Which hand is my absolute favourite?