The EV calculation you pointed out there is for a SINGLE decision, not for a whole hand. You can't really calculate the EV of the whole hand easily like that.

So, you could, say calculate the EV of your river bet using that, or calculate the EV of your turn call using that formula, etc.

Let's say hero and villain are both deep stacked and villain bets a pot sized bet on turn. Hero had an oesd to the nuts. Does hero have enough equity to call the bet?
thanks.

Direct odds, no. Implied odds, probably, depending on what "deep stacked" means, and depending on your reads of how easily you think it'll be to get it in with villain if you hit given the range of cards he has.

It depends ...

If villain has TP, probably not
If villain has a lower straight or top set, maybe

Really depends on the board, the villain, how much eff stack is left, ...

Post a specific hand if you really want to know.

Most likely you're not getting implied odds though.
People tend to over-estimate implied odds by a lot. Especially on the turn.

I know if you're on the button (for example) and someone limps in front of you you should add a big blind to your raise, but should you tighten your range a little bit given you're investing more money in?

How do you collect casino winnings? There is a festival in slovakia I am assuming 300k GTD so first should be around 50-60k, how do we claim that amount of money in EU? Revolut is an option or not? Many banks don't like gambling winnings, and we can't get cash over 10k+ to flights...

If you are in a tournament, this is probably true. In any case, if there are callers before you, their calling ranges are at least somewhat strong, so your button betting range must be stronger then opening with no action in front of you.

Hi,

In a flush hand can the same number or picture card be used twice? Example:

Board: 7♦️ 4♦️ J♦️ J♦️ 2♠️

Player1: 9♦️K♣️

Player2: 2♠️ A♥️

Would player1 win with a flush?

"flush - any five non-consecutive cards of the same suit"

Only in a game that used an abnormal deck and such rules.

In normal Texas Hold'em, no.

What are "implied odds hands"? As in: "Implied odds hands play well enough when getting good odds in multi-way pots".

stuff that can get in cheap and will make potentially big hands. suited connectors is usually a decent example.

What should be our standard size when we 4bet vs. a min 3bet pre?

NLHE 6max micros 100bb starting stacks
We have AA in HJ and open to 2.4bb
BTN makes it 3.8bb
Hero raises to?

I think I remember reading somewhere that you should 4bet to the size you would have used if villain would have raised to a more standard 3bet size. This makes sense to me, but I'm curious what yins do.

Thanks!

Min 3b is usually a good hand, so as a minimum deny him the implied odds to hit a set, then as much as you think he will call. This is naturally easier and more profitable if you raise more initially.

That makes sense. Thanks for the reply.

What are some things that can help you determine how much he will call?

Is it things like what did he call with in the past in the same scenerios with you or other players?

Let's say 6max cash, 100bb, hero UTG raises, BU calls. Flop comes down J62. I read that if the flop hits your range you should be, but if it hits their range you should check (mostly), but what about if it hits both of your ranges? Also what if it smashes their range, but you actually hit as well?

This is actually a pretty advanced and hard question imo.
It depends a lot on how BTN is playing and what kind of range we're looking at.

We should have both a range and nut advantage on this flop.
So we want to be betting a lot.

If we're using a small (25% pot) and large (75% pot) bet sizing, solver likes to bet 75% of the time and check 25% of the time.
For simplicity I went with 1 bet size (40% pot) which leads to us betting 64% of the time.


This is what our range looks like in my sim, which is just an estimation of how I see the average BTN caller.
Blue is bet, green is check:




If we check and BTN bets, here's our reaction:
Blue is raise, green is call, red is fold




Now this is pure GTO, so it doesn't account for any weaknesses you've spotted in your opponents or general player pool.

Against bad players you most likely want to be value betting more often and bluffing less often.
Against very aggressive players you want to check more strong hands.
Against people who fold too much you want to be betting more hands.
...

This is something you learn from playing a lot and analyzing lots of hands.
It's very hard. No one at low/mid stakes is good at this.

This must be obvious but I'm a total beginner and can't find any info online. I'm looking to play my first tournament soon, something at the Wynn Fall series either $1,100 or $1,600 buy in. How do I buy in? Do I need to have that much cash with me or do you use a credit card, or is there some sort of way to wire the money or have it on some sort of account in advance? Any help would be appreciated.

Assuming the Wynn Fall is a legit casino, you should be able to pay with cash and cards.
You'll most likely also need an id card or something, not sure how that works in other countries.

Wiring up front might be an option, just check with them if it's possible.

Should you ALWAYS take a certain action with a given hand (a moderately strong hand or a premium hand, such as AJs+, KJs+, and JJ+) in a given position preflop? Or is it better to do a mix of different actions (such as flatting and raising or flatting and 3-betting)?

Here are some specific hands and scenarios:

If a player in UTG or UTG+1 raises and it folds to me in HJ and I have AKs, should I always 3-bet? Or always flat? Or do a mix of 3-betting and flatting?

If CO open-raises and I have AKs on the button, should I 3-bet this hand every time?

If the button raises over a few limps, SB calls, and I have AKs in BB, should I 3-bet every time? What if I have AKs in SB?

If MP raises and two players, including the button, call, and I have AQs in SB, should I 3-bet every time?

If UTG raises, two players call, I have AA on the button and 3-bet, and it folds to UTG and he 4-bets, do I 5-bet or shove with AA every time?

Nuts, my first two thoughts might be enough...? Others can chime in with more depth if needed.

1. Never say never is a poker maxim. Therefore, always say always can not be correct.

2. Is this live play or online? Because online with everyone using a database, I would think a balancing strat of 80/20 (as an example) is better. Live play I would think close to ALWAYS is correct if the underlying strat is correct.

I should clarify that my question applies to LIVE poker. I almost never play online.

Well then KF's advice is correct. If your live game environment is such that you're playing against the same small group of regs all the time, then it's different (e.g. my main game right now is just a low limit tournament where we can expect the same people every week with little/no new players), but if you're in a larger location with a lot of turnover, do some maths. If you were playing 40 hours a week then you're probably looking at 40-50k hands a year - you're folding a huge portion of those, so say you're only actually playing 10-15k hands depending on how tight/loose you are and actual speed of play. Then think about how many different players you're playing across said one year period, how many you're seeing more than once, and how often you think you'd get into a similar spot multiple times with any of them. If as KF says you want to go 80/20 on a given line, you're going to need to play something 4/5 times. That is of course if they are paying attention, if villain is always wasted or otherwise not paying attention then do whatever you want all the time.

Diverging a bit, but it would be kind of interesting to see someone who plays a larger Zoom pool which might reflect the dynamics of a live environment to take a 50k hand sample and tell us how many hands they've played against each of the 10-20 most frequent opponents, and how many they've actually VPIPed (obv anonymise the player names).

This is a very simple question, but I cannot find the answer easily. How do I type suits in posts?? For example, how would I write AhKh with the red heart images?

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