Hi Everyone:
I'm going to come back and go through some of the posts in more detail. But I wanted to make a few basic comments.
Recently, I've read three poker books where the author is often looking at solver results, and they tend to repeat them without understanding exactly what the solver is doing and/or why the solver does what it does. For one example, you can look at my notes for the book
100 Essential Tips to Master No-Limit Hold'em by J Little which you can find here:
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/3...ittle-1835015/
The solver can do a lot of things which if you're trying to compute the underlying Game Theory Poker Math will just be too difficult to do. But if you understand how the game theory poker math actually works, you'll be able to understand better why the solver does exactly what it does, and this should help your overall strategy.
Here are a few examples:
1. As the defender, the solver sometimes doesn't seem to call with enough hands. What's often happening here is that the defender is working in some raises, which includes bluff raises, so the defender doesn't need to call as often as appears necessary.
2. The aggressor sometimes makes a range bet on the flop. What's happening here is that the defender won't have enough legitimate bluff catchers in its range, so the solver will now have the aggressor bet every hand in its range (for a particular flop) and these bets will usually be small.
3. The solver sometimes holds back legitimate value hands by not betting them. But this is only done when the bet is large compared to the size of the pot (and when the bet is large the percentage of bluffs is also large). But what's not understood is that when the bet is very small compared to the size of the pot, it can be correct for the aggressor to make negative expectation bets because by checking the expectation will be even more negative.
4. The size of the bet that the solver prefers is linked to how many very strong hands the aggressor makes on the flop. So for an UTG aggressor, his bets will tend to larger on an AK2 flop than a J52 flop.
5. But when the aggressor goes to a smaller bet, he'll frequently bet more hands for value (but a smaller bluffing percentage) than when he makes a large bet (relative to the size of the pot).
And this list is not complete.
Mason