I try and take a break every 30-60mins

When you say break do you mean getting up and making another drink?

That counts yeah. I don't really take breaks when I stream though

That kind of batch-processing appeals to me. With Snowie, it took me about two weeks to analyse (and take range-notes on) just 45 flops, and I couldn't spot many useful trends from such a small sample, let alone memorize the frequencies.
There was a guy doing that 4-tabling at 6m 2NLz last month (playing something like 11/5), as if he was stuck in 2009. I don't think he's a winning player, or at least not a crusher. I kept asking him if he was a bot, and he never replied, but he's probably just a stupid human.

45 flops is a lot..... I look at maybe 10 flops then change them slightly (so I guess it is more than 10) (rainbow, two toned, monotone), paired/not paired and differing connectivity. Identify trends and nodelock and stuff. One spot pry takes a couple hrs or more and then I revisit it again and again

In reality there are 5 major flop categories I study and then I subdivide them from there.

It's huge free advice imo way more important than what to do, but yah I'll explain tonight after work

I was just kidding...and I agree with you. Dont give it away for free. You should have a lot of coaching traffic in 2018.

Ive aleady explained 70% of it

Total number of unique flops = 1755

Goal: Reduce 1755 flop textures to < 50.

How to:

| If A = A
| If L = 2 thru 9
| If B = T thru K

Then possible flops are:

AAA
AAL
AAB
LLL
LLB
LLA
BBB
BBL
BBA
BLA

Running probabilities ->

LLB > LLL > BBL > LLA > ABL --> 5 flop subsets which account for ~90%+ of possible flops

Further subset these 5 main flop categories by:

1. two toned (55.1% probability)
2. rainbow (39.7% probability)
3. monotone (5.2% probability)

5 subsets into ~10

--->

Further diversify by connectivity giving arbitrary connectivity rating of 1 (high) ---> 3 (low) connectivity

~30 flop subsets to study covering >> 50% of flop types

I would have paid 50 bucks for that

People have. (with significant more detail tho ofc.)

Out of curiosity, is that a “known” thing? (Have you seen flop study approached that way on like RIO?). Or was that how you decided to tackle it?

Very simple, but very clever.

This is 100% my strategy. I'm sure many people have similar approaches though.

Honestly worth >>>>>> $50 too

If I was grinding online still I'd be verrry grateful for the last few posts ITT!

Long time lurker. Really enjoy the PCG and study related posts are really insightful. Thanks.


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Welcome!

It is difficult to know what to do if one has no understanding of what you described in your set theory analysis above. Bravo though, making a complicated game simple for us nublets.

Appreciate the wisdom players like you and Ben bring to the table though. I may have hung it up 150k hands ago if it weren't for reading your two threads. Best of luck this year!

I started with about 20, using a very basic algorithm (roughly equal amounts of aces thru deuces, a few paired boards, roughly the right proportion of two-tones and a random mono), and then looked for "holes". i.e. I had my list of 20 and then realised "****, I don't have any two-tone jack highs with possible OESDs", so I had to keep adding flops.
I just checked my spreadsheet and I studied 40 flops for BTNvBB, but by the time I got round to doing UTGvBTN, BvB and 3-bet pots, I'd altered a few of the selections as they were too similar and added a few more. As an aside, it's kind of interesting how sometimes the order of the suits can alter the strat a bit. e.g. Ah Th 7d can require a different strat to Ad Th 7h, while a rainbow with the same card ranks is completely different.

Specifically with an A yah

Yeah thanks. Definitely a lot of material with regards to how to efficiently study out on YouTube though (not specific to poker).

Rather work smart than work hard.

Gl

It's funny you should mention that as I was looking at Snowies strat for resteals and expected big difference based on whether the Ace was part of the flush draw on board or if it was the offsuit card and iirc there wasn't much difference.

Even superb poker content on the subject has been 100% free for me (twitch and youtube) but it seems like one of these things where people actually take down content, maybe they get yelled at by friends or something.

Fun (well, interesting I guess...) topic by Will Tipton with some decent discussion: https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/1...-game-1408420/

The thing you listed is similar but different. That's for ev calcs

Building that red line