Afaik PPT is not capable of constructing ranges but CREV is.

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Hi, i cant figure out 1 question - "When is bluffind B with air better than bluffing L?" Its the question on page 293 about block betting.

I asked the same question about 1 year ago: http://www.dandbpoker.com/product/ex...ment-763755472
Will's response here: http://www.dandbpoker.com/product/ex...ment-765593672

Ohh tnx man this block betting thing is hardest thing to understand so far for me.

Anybody else has the issue that EDVis considers hands in the equity distribution on the right which are not in the players' preflop ranges?

Additionally, I have been working on the test yourself exercise on p. 184 and was wondering how to calculate how much you have to win with semi-bluffs when called (nr. 6).

Sorry for double post, couldn't edit anymore

It's a "feature" not a bug. All hands are included in the x-axis proportionally to the fraction of the hand in the distribution, so hands with 0% get zero horizontal space

If turn comes Ad or 2d loks like BB is continuing about 70% of time. If pot on turn is 13.5 BB and we bet 9 BB in 13.5BB pot bluff has to work 9/(9+13.5) = 40% of time. It means BB has to fold 60% of time and this time he dont do it (he calls 70% of time).
If stacks are 100BB and we semi bluff we need to have at least
93.25=0.3*106.75+0.7*84.25+X*(9+9+13.5)
2.25=31.5X --> X=7% So our semi bluff would need to have at least 7% equity vs BB’s calling range to make bet profitable.

so S (stack what we have right now)=0.3*(stack we will have when villain folds)+0.7*(stack we will have when villain calls and we give up)+X*P(equity needed to capture some part of pot just to break even with this bluff )

I still dont quite understand all about this blocking thing and what distributions would fold to blocking bet but wouldnt fold that much more to regular bet. I mean how can you fold almost the same amount to blocking bet than facing a normal bigger bet. So probably i dont understand situations and distributions when we should be block beting with significant part of our range. Can any1 help me with this?

I think the point of the exercise is to show that block betting is effective against opponents that don't adjust correctly, i.e., don't call frequently the small bets relative to the pot size. The form of the last equation shows this: when the benefits (difference in gains between betting B and betting L) outweigh the costs (difference between the bet sizes).

You're correct -- "calling" should be "folding" in the third line of second paragraph on pg 254 (first printing).

Well, I guess it depends what sort of planning you want to do, but in general, equity distributions aren't quite as useful before the river, because they don't capture exactly how they might be affected by river cards. We won't use equity distributions as heavily when we study earlier streets (i.e. in Vol 2).

The idea here is just to write down your EV of betting and checking and see when one is bigger than the other. If Villain's folding enough, maybe you have a no-brainer bet. If not, maybe you need to actually win the pot some after you're called to make the bet profitable.

The question of how much of the pot, exactly, we can expect to capture on the river after making or not making our turn bet isn't something we've talked about yet in the series, but just make a reasonable assumption for now (e.g. maybe you just capture your equity in the pot).

Does this post help?

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...1&postcount=86

Now ill start to read those examples and they combined with this i hope could give me some idea about blockbetting Thanks.

Hi Will, what are the basic requirements or any other general advice for reading your book?
I've a really basic (and confused) understanding of GT and nothing more...

Hey, in short, I don't think there are any requirements beyond algebra and an interest in the game, but check out the free excerpt on the book's website. It includes the preface where I say a bit more about prereqs, my approach towards teaching this stuff, etc.

I've installed the trial of mathematica in the hope of playing around with mathematica files on the books website but I'm pretty clueless on how to interact with the files now that I have them open. Could anyone please help me out?

Thanks

I just bought the book yesterday. I'm winning at the 25NL and 50NL games on Carbon FR and 6max and was thinking about playing HU. Would this be a good first book to learn HU? Is it a good book to improve my 6max game?

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No, it's not a good book to "learn" HU.
Yes, it is a good book to improve any NL game.

No worries, worked it out.

good stuff, thanks bud

The only strategies for Heads Up that I have read is the HU chapter in the Easy Game book. Any books or articles that you would recommend me reading to get started playing HU?

In the beginning i felt like i really liked "Heads-Up No-Limit Hold 'em" by Collin Moshman. You wont become very good but i think it was good for getting started. Also maybe u can try "Mersenneary Heads Up Poker Ebook". You can get it on husng.com for free.

Hi, I just got to the example sections for this book and can't find the hands they're talking about! I got the kindle version from amazon.com. What gives?