If anyone here uses Pokersnowie, you'll must be aware of the "Scenario" feature that lets you input everything (stacksizes, positions, preflop/postflop actions) upto the decision point, where Pokersnowie then tells you what's the correct play and bet size.

Ofcourse, this ignores live reads and the fact that live bets should be bigger than online... but besides that, do you guys think Pokersnowie's advice can be sound for live games too?

At 1/2 and 2/5 I would largely ignore it, live play requires an absolute exploitable style whereas Snowie focuses much more on being balanced and unexploitable.

i second the "exploitable is best" for lol live

As a mathematician I would question the initial premise that this program actually tells you what "correct" play is.

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I've seen the preflop ranges that snowie recommends and by and large I think they *can* be used in low stakes live games, although not entirely necessary, and could certainly spell trouble for a novice player attempting to apply them. For instance I think snowie goes all the way down to raising hands like J6s, K2s, 85s and such on the button. This is great and all but when those 1 or 2 limpers you were looking to isolate end up in a 5 way pot because the blinds both called, these hands can be very difficult to navigate. Especially considering how in live play you arent necessarily isolating weaker ranges, as many times your opponents are limping AK and JJ and stuff, not to trap but because they're just scared to raise them. I would think snowie could result in an amateur valuetowning himself under such circumstances.

I dont know what kind of postflop aggression it recommends though. Personally I just stick to a self-constructed range of hands that either smash the board or miss completely. Suited connectors, pocket pairs, and suited aces basically.

Read through Arty's recent commentary and you should be able to pretty reliably answer your own question.

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