Jonathan Little has complained that I unfairly give his books poor reviews. Here are my notes on his latest book 100 Essential Tips to Master No-Limit Hold'em.

The location and page numbers refer to the kindle edition. Also, ignore the word "yellow."

Mason

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100 Essential Tips to Master No-Limit Hold'em by Jonathan Little

Basic Principles

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money .
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The problem with this paragraph is that the standard deviation of the difference should be way too large to conclude that he wins more in one game than another. While it's true the $10-$20 game might be tougher than the $5-$10, it has nothing to do with the statistics he presents.

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What's interesting here is that he can see the solver results but obviously has no idea why this is the case.

Preflop Strategy

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suboptimally ,
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This seems to be assuming that the majority of players sitting in a game are losers, which is probably not the case. Little needs to understand the amount of time winners put into the game versus losers.

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poorly .
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Against good players. But not necessarily true if the game features several poor players.

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luck .
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Probably not statistically true. You can only say that their expectation relative to the hands dealt is the same. This statement implies that if you have run bad, for instance, you can expect to run good at some point in the future so that you can catch up to the average.

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lose .
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No. You need to take into account the severity of the mistakes. And, for instance, this means that you can make many more errors than your opponents and be a significant winner. Little need to read about trading mistakes.

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15bbs .
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While all of this is fine, he needs to understand that small deviations from these numbers will have virtually no impact on EV.
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time .

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Given that this is only one hand in your range, I doubt it'll make much difference.

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strategy ,
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probably by only a little bit.

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equity .
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In some cases you might be happy to get away from these hands.

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bluffs
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And the reason for a smaller percentage of bluffs is that with a smaller effective stack you can't have as many rounds of betting - multi-round game theory.

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run .
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This is only against a player who's playing well in a GTO sense. Against bad players it doesn't have to be true.

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ante .
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This probably assumes the raise is to the same size. If the raise is larger to account for the ante and no rake, then the results would be closer to the cash game recommendations.

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little .
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Again, this assumes your opponent is playing well/GTO.

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doing .
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But do they defend tightly enough. Defending tighter than normal, and defending as tight as thy should can be very different.

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odds .
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it should say "reduced implied odds," not "lack of implied odds."

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flops .
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Should explain how he got the 25%.

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up .
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Should mention how you would usually play if you don't flop a set.

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hands
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This can only be true if the remaining opponents do not change strategy. But if, for example, they begin to 3-bet more, you would then tighten up.

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He's missing the idea that in a multiway pot the rake gets shared by more people which in a sense reduces your individual rake in the long run.

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ranges .
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Even if they are now playing well before the flop, it does not mean they will be playing well on the later streets. The tradeoff may be well worth it.

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spot .
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This may be true but it seems to me you'll have to play an awful lot with these players to know this.

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defend .
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And part of the reason why you defend with less hands is that you 3-bet more.

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call
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Again, you're 3-betting more often even though you're playing less hands overall.

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fold .
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Good point.

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equity .
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The problem with this is that the excellent player might want to give up a small edge in a tournament.

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more .
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Now he's starting to cover it.

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dictate .
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First pointed out by Sklansky.

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tightly .
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Unless you have a very large edge against your opponents.

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tendencies .
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While true, how do you know this?

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strategy .
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Except they won't crush you playing GTO. They'll need the appropriate counter strategy to crush you.

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This is an argument for not 3-betting as much and moving some of the 3-bet hands into your calling range. I suspect that the solver output here is based on the initial raiser only and not considering the players yet to act.

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bets .

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bluff .
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They can also damage your hand value by just calling since they'll have position on you.

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raise .
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But they should fold more often to the larger 3- bet. So, how can you tell if this statement is true. The standard deviation on the result should be too large to make this conclusion unless you have a large amount of data on them.

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losses .
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I think this will depend on exactly how many small pots they'll concede. Again, it'll be difficult to know if they are conceding enough relative to the ones to call.

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hand ) .
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Also, in small stakes games this will be true of most players, especially live.

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range .
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Actually, how often they'll fold to a 3-bet should be the determining factor. Just because they think that when 3-bet they're up against a strong hand doesn't mean they're folding a lot.

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you .
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This is clearly over simplifying. Many poor players, even if they'll fold to a lot of 3-bets, will also payoff large bets on the turn and river way too much. In this case, a better strategy might be to call with some of these hands and then hope to get lucky.

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equity .
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Again, not necessarily. It would depend on what type of errors you think they're capable of making later in a hand. You need to understand that collecting a large bet every now and then can make up for many other small errors.

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This is only because your bet is large compared to the size of the pot. If your bet was small compared to the size of the pot your all-in hands would be range aggressive.

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calling .
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Again, while perhaps true, how will you know this.

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This is also true of the initial raiser. Why sometime fold them out when they have the potential to go off for a lot of money. This is especially true if the effective stack is large.

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10s .
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Except that finding out you need to fold has value.

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hand ,
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This is often harder to tell than if they don't like their hand.

Flop Strategy

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rounds .
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While they may make a higher percentage of mistakes, they won't be in as many hands as the rounds progress. So, this statement is probably not true. However, the mistakes made can be more costly because the size of the bets increase and the pot is larger.

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time .
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Notice that this is not game theory which would base the size of your bet on how well your range relates to the flop.

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bet
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I think the immediate defense numbers you're giving are only correct if the defender can only call. But if the defender can also raise, he doesn't have to defend as often. You can see this in the solver example you give on page 111 where the solver defender strategy folds 40 percent of the time but also woks some raises in (including bluff raises), and the aggressor has bet only 20 percent of the pot. According to the table that follows, the MDF should be much higher.

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GTO ,
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This statement is wrong. The size of the bet depends on how well your range relates to the flop. There certainly can be flops where your bet as the aggressor should be 30 percent or lower. You already gave one example with the T44 flop in chapter 4.

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them .
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Again, this is not GTO.

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bluffs .
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What the solver is doing, I think, is dividing your range into two sub-ranges. One of these sub ranges is strong for this flop. Thus, in this sub-range you bet larger but male less value bets and have a higher percentage of bluffs. The second sub-range is weaker for this flop. Now you bet smaller but have additional hands to value bet, but your percentage of bluffs is reduced. Also notice that with certain hands like JJ you block a lot of potential calling hands. That's why you either bet small (to get additional calls) or check. With a hand like AKs you're again mostly betting small (when you bet) to get additional hands, such as any ace, to call.

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manner .
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This makes sense. The problem is that you need to know why the solver sometimes bets big and other times bets small (as well as sometimes checks). This is not explained.

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advantage ,
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This implies that my above comment may be explained later on the book.

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time .
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The reason for betting every time after the big blind checks is that there are a high number of value bets in the aggressor's range which means that when you add in the bluffs all hands will be covered.

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sizes
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The reason the small sizes are mostly used is the big blind won't be able to call very often for the larger bet. I suspect that if his range was stronger, the aggressor would make more large bets.

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raiser .
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Your bet size should be determined by what proportion of your range consists of very strong hands and how often the defender can call large bets. The higher these proportions, the large your bets should be.

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54.7 % .
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It's not that they have far less equity, it's that they have far fewer value bets. Now their bluffs will get all used up before all the hands in their range are exhausted. However, since with this flop the range of the defender is now stronger, he'll be able to call larger bets more often. Thus, the aggressor should now bet larger when he bets even though he'll bet less often.

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stacked .
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I agree.

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size ,
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and bet less often but with a high percentage of bluffs

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smaller
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and bet more often with a smaller percentage of bluffs

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size .
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But they bet more hands for value with a smaller percentage of bluffs. Also, if the bet is small enough, they should begin to make some negative expectation bets (and perhaps a lot of them).

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draws .
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And that's because when making large bets a higher percentage of those bets should be bluffs.

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large .
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This is correct. The larger the proportion of strong value hands, the larger the bet should be with a high percentage of bluffs. And if enough value hands are available to bet, the bluffs will use up all the remaining hands on the flop due to multi-round game theory.

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preferred .
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Not quite. The small bets are preferred since to be profitable they require calls from weak hands which the large bets won't get.

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time ,
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I don't think this is correct reasoning. The reason the aggressor desn't bet all the time is that he doesn't have that many value hands and thus uses up all his bluffs before his range is exhausted. While this may be correlated to range advantage, it's not the same thimg.

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advantage
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No. First, he bets small due to having only a small number of nut-type hands. But with small bets his opponent will call more often which widens his betting for value range but reduces his bluff percentage.

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advantage .
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But make less value bets and use a higher percentage of bluffs.

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advantage .
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But with a smaller bet size make more value bet but use a smaller percentage of bluffs. In fact, at a very small bet size, some of your "value bets" may have negative EV.

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flops .
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And that's because you can divide your draws up into two categories. Those that get there and those that fail. This means you'll finish with more very strong hands than if the board was staatic.

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caller ,
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What happened to his 3-bet hands. They're not in his range which should weaken it.

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draws .
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The weak gut-shot draws are probably the bluffs to go along with your very strong sub-range. That's why they get bet big.

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protection .
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It's not really protection. It's the fact that the larger you bet the less value hands you bet (with a higher percentage of bluffs). Thus, it becomes correct to check hands that could be bet with positive EV. It's not quite the same thing.

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small
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It's not exactly range advantage. It's the fact that with this flop, your range will have less value hands. So you have less hands to bet. And since there are also few very strong hands in your betting range, you bet smaller to assure that your weaker value hands, some of which would not be strong enough to bet for a larger amount and some of which may even be negative EV, will now get as many calls as possible,

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ton !
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But suppose you had much less than 1.7 big blinds left. How often would you now bet.

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infrequently
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The reason you're betting infrequently is that you don't have a lot of value hands in your range.

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size
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And the reason the size is small is that you don't have a lot of very strong hands in your range.

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I suspect that if you were playing deeper, the number of check raises would be reduced. Also, with this particular flop, the aggressor will have many legitimate value bets in its range and will probably bet (due to multi-round game theory) almost every time

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time .
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The reason it doesn't bluff every time is that the allocation for bluff raises gets used up.

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bet .
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No. When you call on the flop, because of multi-round game theory, you should reduce the number of bluff catchers as the rounds go by. A pocket pair, since it only has 2 outs will almost always stay a bluff catcher. Thus, it gets dropped a lot from the calling range as the betting rounds go by.

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Again, as the bet gets larger, the value betting range gets smaller. So there will be less hands to effectively check-raise against.
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The larger your opponent bets, game theory says the less you should call. Thus, your weaker bluff catchers should be dropped out on each round.

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use .
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You need to explain why this is the correct size to use. It has to do with how many very strong hands are in your range. The more, the larger the bet should be.

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use .
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I'm sure you have no idea as to why this size gets used.

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When they make a tiny bet, it's almost like they didn't bet and you're second to act. Plus, tiny bets mean they can begin to bet some weak hands for value since your calling range should now be large, This means that your checking range (after the defendor makes a small bet) when betting large doesn't need to include strong hands as often.

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dynamic .
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I doubt this is correct, Even though your opponent has bet small, once you call that bet, the pot is bigger. Thus your raise, which is now like a bet into a bigger pot meaning that you bet a larger absolute amount.

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size .
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And that's because GTO play says to bet less hands for value with larger bets.

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bluff .
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How is this worse. You'll know exactly what to do.

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gutshots .
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Since you only bet 1 big blind, after your opponent calls that bet there will b 6.5 big bets in the pot. He then bets another 4 big bets (which is his raise). So, since he's now making a fairly large bet into the pot, you don't call a lot.
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response
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You're now playing many more hands because his (real) bet is much smaller.

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aggressively .
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This is fine.

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While it's true that AA-QQ are less likely to be outdrawn, you're raising enough that some of your value bets should be checked. If you were to raise to a smaller amount, this wouldn't be the case. It's often better to look at raises as first making a call which brings the pot to a certain size, and then you bet a certain proportion of the pot.

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flop .
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The larger your bet, the less hands your opponent will call with, so the stronger his range. Thus, when you check on the next round, given that you have checked, the more value bets he'll have.

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draws .
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Remember, when betting a draw, some of them will mature to winning hands. So, you're only bluffing with a portion of them, and the rest, a smaller proportion, are actually value bets.

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flop .
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With a 40 big blind starting stack. With a 100 big blind starting stack, I doubt that this would be true.

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deep ,
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Again, I think with larger stacks, much of this won't hold. This looks like a tournament situation and not a cash game situation The author should make this clear.

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Why is the solver betting exactly the pot. Is this an option that is given to it or out of the world of all possible bet sizes, does the solver determine that exactly a pot size bet is best.

Note - 38 Value Bet Wider Against Calling Stations on the Flop > Page 148 · Location 1413
Little doesn’t seem to understand that with multi-round game theory the large majority of your flop bets should be bluffs.
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adjustments ,

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Except your passive action may be inducing bluffs.

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time .
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While this statement is true, many players slow down their aggression on the later streets when the pot gets big. And this is consistent with multi-round game theory.

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bluff .
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I can't help but think that Little doesn't understand multi-round game theory which requires a lot of bluffs on the flop.

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range ,
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The problem here is that if the maniac moves in with hands that do beat you plus many hands that have the potential to draw out, you can be the favorite to have the best hand on the flop but not on the river.

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pairs ,
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While this may be the case, the reason you bet larger is that this flop is much better for your range giving you more strong hands. Also, the larger bet means you should bet less often for value but bluff at a higher percentage.

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polarized ,
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And that's because the larger bet requires a higher percentage of bluffs.

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through .
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No. The fact that you can bet a little more often has to do with the fact that by checking they weaken their ranges which means that more of your hands can be bet for value.

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range .
Note - 40 Bet More Cautiously in Multi-Way Pots on the Flop > Page 154 · Location 1477
The reason for the large bet is that since your opponents checked, you now have more relatively strong hands.

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ideal ) .
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While it may not be the best play, by betting small this will cause your opponents to call with more hands which can make some of your marginal hands positive EV bets.

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folded .
Note - 41 Continue More Cautiously in Multi-Way Pots on the Flop > Page 156 · Location 1492
When playing multi-way GTO the calling burden needs to be shared by the defending players. If the small blind did not call, then you in the big blind probably should. However, in this case, the small blind did call, which means the calling burden is now taken care of and you don't need to play your bluff catchers.

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pairs .
Note - 41 Continue More Cautiously in Multi-Way Pots on the Flop > Page 156 · Location 1495
I question this. I suspect he forgot there is already another caller.

Turn Strategy

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Note - 42 Do Not Bet Just Because You Probably have the Best Hand > Page 161 · Location 1535
Suppose you bet the size of the pot. This means that your opponent should call with half his hands. But now the weakest of the upper half will be weaker than if you had bet on the flop since no hands from his range have been eliminated yet. Thus, you'll have more hands to bet for value.

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Again, this depends on the size of the bet. If you only bet a small amount then you should bet aggressively without thinking about pot protection.

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draws .
Note - 43 After you Bet the Flop, Bet the Turn Polarized > Page 162 · Location 1544
Again, you don't seem to understand multi-round game theory where some of your flop bluffs will now drop out. Also, if your range has a high percentage of value bets on the flop, your polorized range may include 100 percent of your hands on the flop.

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frequency ,
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That's because you also have the option to raise. When this is the case, you should fold more than if you were not allowed to raise.

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realization .
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If your opponent is playing GTO, this statement won't be true.

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I suspect that again you have no idea why betting the flop with your entire range is approximately correct.

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range ) .
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Again the small bet will produce more bets for value, but with this flop there are still less value bets. So, even with multi-round game theory you'll still be checking a fair amount of time.

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checked .
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What's happening is that due to mult-round GTO your flop bluffs are dropping out. But your turn and river bluffs are still there.

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turn .
Note - 43 After you Bet the Flop, Bet the Turn Polarized > Page 165 · Location 1575
When this happens, your turn bet will now be larger (relative to the size of the pot). Even though your range will now contain more hands that it can bet for value, you'll actually bet a smaller percentage of them(due to the larger bet) but a higher percentage of bluffs.

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There's a good discussion of why this is concept in The Theory of Poker Applied to No-Limit starting on page 200.

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time .
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The nut advantage is what's driving your bet size up. But now you check some of your value hands and bluff at a higher percentage when making the larger bets. By the way, if only the large bet size option was allowed, many of the hands you bet small would now be checked.

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Not quite. You check more often because you'll now have less hands that can be bet for value. While perhaps correlated, this is not the same thing as range advantage. The reason why you now bet smaller is that it now becomes advantageous to get your opponent to call with more hands, and this smaller bet means you'll now bet a higher percentage of your range for immediate value. However, since you have less value bets overall, you'll still bet less often.

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bets .
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Correct, but keep in mind that nut advantage and range advantage is not the same thing.

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size .
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The reason you use a larger bet size on a dynamic board is that the defender should have more hands which are better than just a bluff catcher. Thus he'll call with a higher percentage of hands. Also, keep in mind that a hand like a flush draw is sometimes the effective nuts on the river and often not worth much.

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range .
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Not exactly. Due to it connecting well with your opponent's big blind range, it means that you won't have as many hands that are true value bets. And that's why you check more often.

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pot .
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Keep in mind that this sub-range is relatively small on this flop which means you'll only have a few value bets at this size.

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This should probably be explained why.

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bluff .
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In this spot, these now become your worse river hands and that's why you now bluff with them.

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size .
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Not quite. You use a small bet size because your number of nut hands is small but you still have a fair number of hands that have value. So, to get more calls, as opposed to collecting a smaller number of very large bets, you bet small.

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K -
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If the spade is the king, I wonder how often this hand should be bet relative to the spade being the 8. I suspect you would bet it less often since it can not only make the second nuts but a king might produce the best hand.

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advantage ) ,
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And also bet big due to the large nut advantage.

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dynamic .
Note - 45 Bet Larger on Dynamic Turns > Page 173 · Location 1640
The board looks fairly dynamic to me. But this is probably balanced by your running into a top notch hand too often. So the solver is saying that you don't want to lose that large bet a lot.

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advantage .
Note - 46 Lead When the Board is Good for Your Range > Page 174 · Location 1651
But if the flop does produce a lot of very strong hands for your range, then the bet should probably be larger, you should then check some strong hands, and bluff a high percentage of bets.

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comes .
Note - 46 Lead When the Board is Good for Your Range > Page 175 · Location 1656
This isn't completely clear. Is the ace on board or in your hand?

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strategy
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One of the problems with this book is that, as in this example, the size of the bet is not given.

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range .
Note - 47 Lead on Middle and Low 4-Straight Turns > Page 176 · Location 1665
Where does 25% come from? Since you'll have lots straights and two-pair in your range (next sentence) that's reason to bet large. On the other hand, your opponent won't, because of this board, have many calling hands in his range which is a reason to bet small. The small bet should get him to call with some ace-high hands where he'll be drawing dead.

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does .
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Not quite. What's happening is that the button to call often enough (at GTO) should be able to find enough calling hands without going to extremely weak hands as the LJ must to call often enough. Thus, very marginal hands, that you might have bet for value before, and this can include some negative EV hands, will now see their EV become either less positive or more negative, thus you can't bet as often. This is an example of the solver not only taking into account your range, but also the range of the opponent.

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none .
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Same issue as before. Why 25% when you have so many strong hands?

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straights .
Note - 47 Lead on Middle and Low 4-Straight Turns > Page 177 · Location 1673
What's happened here is that the range advantage as well as the nut advantage has moved to the LJ. This means that you should now be the defender instead of the aggressor.

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All these examples are for 40 bbs. I suspect that with 100 bbs, as in a cash game as opposed to a tournament, you would lead much less often.

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hands .
Note - 48 Lead on Middle and Low 3-Straight Turns > Page 180 · Location 1699
This isn't right. Whether you have fewer or more nut type hands, your betting range can still be polarized. However, with fewer nut type hands your bet size should probably be smaller which means that your bluffing percentage is smaller, however, it's still polarized.

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size .
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I suspect the author has no idea why the solver would have you bet smaller (or check) with bottom pair.

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advantage .
Note - 49 Lead on Middle and Bottom Paired Turns > Page 184 · Location 1748
You lead with more hands because you now have more value hands in your range. Having more nut hands in your range means you should bet larger. However, this gets counterbalanced by the fact that your opponent will have many hands in his range which will call a small bet and lose to you but won't call the larger bet.

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often .
Note - 49 Lead on Middle and Bottom Paired Turns > Page 185 · Location 1756
You should also be playing more hands because of the smaller bet from the aggressor.

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few .
Note - 49 Lead on Middle and Bottom Paired Turns > Page 187 · Location 1776
When your opponent has relatively few combinations of trips, he won't have as many value bets and companion bluffs. Thus, he won't bet as often. Add to this that your range will now have more combinations of value hands (and companion bluffs), it means that yu should lead more often.

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cautious .
Note - 49 Lead on Middle and Bottom Paired Turns > Page 187 · Location 1777
I don't think this explanation is quite right. When your opponent has more combinations of trips, he'll have more hands which he can bet for value, and with milt-round GTO on the turn, he'll now also have more hands that he'll bet as bluffs. Thus, when you check, he's more likely to bet, and this is the reason for playing wha appears to be a more cautious manner.

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draws ,
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With four to a suit on board, you can't really have a flush draw unless you're counting the four flush board as a draw.

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turn ,
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You did bet small which means he should often call.

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river .
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This would only be true if you either have many value hands in your range or you plan to bet small again.

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time .
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I think what's happening here is that as the suited turn card gets smaller, you opponent will have more legitimate value bets in his rangs. Thus, you should check more often to him. However, the less value bets he has (as well as the less companion bluffs), such as when a suited ace hits, the more he should check after you check which means you should lead more often.

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Not really. It probably implies that they have more value bets than you. But in most situations this will usually be positive correlated with the range and/or nut advantage.

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draws .
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This statement is not accurate on the river where your raises should coe on your worse hands and if your hand is best, you can't be outdrawn.

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draws .
Note - 52 Check/Raise the Turn > Page 197 · Location 1871
Straight flush draws aren't bluffs. They're a combination of strong winning hands and bluffs. So, for instance, if you have 15 outs, you're raising with the winning hand approximately 30 percent of the time and bluffing at approximately 70 percent.

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nuts .
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First, raising 7.4% versus 10.2% isn't that big a difference in an absolute sense. Also, you're raising to different bet sizes so this is like comparing apples to oranges (and you should probably raise more often, for a particular situation, and these two situations are different, with the smaller bet size).

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This one confuses me. Since the button is betting the size of the pot, and you have no raising range, it seems like you should be calling much more than 25.5%. The only thing I can see is that on the flop, you must have been check-raising a lot with many marginal hands which now won't be in your flop calling range. Thus, you use up all your bluff catchers fairly quickly and are now only left with hopeless hands, and since you have no check-raising range, these hands become folds since they lose to many of your opponents bluffs. This leaves you with a calling range that's only 25.5% instead of the expected higher number. The small calling frequency may also have something to do with how unfavorable the last round will be to the caller.

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GTO .
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While not the point here, when playing 100 percent GTO you will produce giant swings. That's one reason not to do it.

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well .
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By my count the aggressor will now bet 15.5bbs into a 24.5bb pot. This means the defender should call a lot because the bet is relatively not that big. Does Little not understand this?

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equity .
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Assuming this is true, you should be calling more liberally on the flop. I don't think this is taken into account.

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recommends .
Note - 54 Bet When Checked To on the Turn > Page 207 · Location 1970
Again, in these spots, you should also be calling more liberally on the earlier streets to put yourself in this situation against this type of player. Little seems unaware of this.

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This contradicts a player who calls too loosely on the flop.

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hands .
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Perhaps when starting 40bbs deep. But I doubt that this statement is true at 100bbs deep.

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times .
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And when you're betting 25% of the pot on the flop, this will definitely be true.

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ranges .
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Again, checking ranges should only be protected when the bet is large (relative to the pot size). If the bet is small, range aggression is the answer.

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time .
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This assumes the maniac is not someone who will reraise your raise. However, keep in mind that later in the hand, many early round maniacs do calm down.

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junk .
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Which means they're not playing like a maniac anymore.

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call .
Note - 56 Trap Maniacs on the Turn > Page 218 · Location 2073
This assumes they're still playing like a maniac, which won't be the case with all of them.

River Strategy

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calls .
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This sure sounds like a cash game. Why are you only 40 bbs deep?

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range .
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This is one of the issues with game theory. By playing this way you'll occasionally end up all-in on the river, chasing a small investment, and it'll increase your fluctuations. While technically correct, may players won't want to do this.

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Probably stupid to do this. Why teach people not only how you play but how they should play.

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reasonably .
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Playing reasonably means that they'll still be calling with some of their bluff catchers.

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make .
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This is an argument for sticking with game theory in most situations, In many games you can do far better than this.

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turn .
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This is misleading. They're only occasionally bluffing the river.

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frequently
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And that's because you now have many value bets in your range.

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size .
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I suspect with a 100bb starting stack, you would be betting here less often. That's because you can get raised (including bluff raises).

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bet .
Note - 59 Be Willing to Bluff on the River > Page 225 · Location 2132
And that's because with a large bet such as in this example, your bluffing percentage is also large. If your bet was small, this statement wouldn't be true.

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often .
Note - 59 Be Willing to Bluff on the River > Page 225 · Location 2138
And that's because you won't have as many value bets.

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none .
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Plus with one more round to go, multi-round game theory increases the number of legitimate bluffs.

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No. You use the small size because your nut range is small but you still have many value bets providing you make it correct for your opponent to call a lot. I suspect that when Little says "large range advantage" he doesn't understand exactly how game theory works. If you were to make a large bet, the number of value bets you would then have would be reduced and now your range advantage won't come into play.

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pairs .
Note - 59 Be Willing to Bluff on the River > Page 227 · Location 2157
Except that you don't need to protect your range when you make a small bet. This can easily be seen since you check very little meaning that there is very little range to protect.

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run .
Note - 59 Be Willing to Bluff on the River > Page 227 · Location 2158
Again, you only include many bluffs if your bet size is large and if you have many value bets. But when you make your bet size small, even if this increases the number of value bets, your bluffing percentage gets reduced.

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No. The main reason for this is that you don't have many very strong hands. Thus to make your value bets profitable you need to be against more calling hands. Thus the small bet. The reason for the small number of bluffs is that when you make a small bet your GTO opponent will now call with a wide range of bluff catchers which all beat your bluffs. This is basic GTO betting. Also, if your bet is small enough it can become right to bet some hands with negative expectation. That's because the negative expectation will be even more if you check.

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indifferent .
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This depends on the size of the bet that is made. If the bet is large, some of these hands will probably become clear folds and are not indifferent.

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bet .
Note - 60 Bet Tiny from Out of Position when the Turn Checks Through > Page 228 · Location 2170
No. If you bet large with a nine and get called, there's a good chnce you'll lose. But by betting smaller, there will be many more hands that the defender can call with which can swing this to a profitable bet.

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This is because when you bet large GTO says not to bet all your value hands. So here some of these hands get moved to the smaller bet range.

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10s .
Note - 60 Bet Tiny from Out of Position when the Turn Checks Through > Page 228 · Location 2172
And the smaller you bet, the smaller your bluffing percentage should be.

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bet .
Note - 60 Bet Tiny from Out of Position when the Turn Checks Through > Page 229 · Location 2177
Since this is a fairly large bet, you won't be calling that many of these.

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Q .
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See earlier comment

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through .
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But they may not be extracting value. On some of these bets, you may be avoiding a check where your EV is even more negative.

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indifferent .
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This is a good example of trying to interpret solver results without understanding how GTO works. The reason you bet larger when second to act is that you don't need to make any negative expectation bets since instead you can always check for an expectation of zero. Thus, you don't need for your opponent to call with as many hands to maximize your minimum expectation.

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view .
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And again that's because tiny bets imply that you'll be making some bets against a GTO opponent that have negative expectation. And when second to act you would just prefer to check with these hands since 0 expectation is better than a negative EV. However, if first to act, many of these hands should be bet because checking is even worse.

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advantage .
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Again, you make a small bet in order to give you enough profitable hands since, on average, your hand strength is marginal. That's not the same as range advantage.

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sizes .
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And that's because with a large bet your GTO opponent won't call as often.

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Not if your bet is small. Also, some of this is the effect of multi-round game theory.

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frequency .
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Again, for the GTO player his bluffing frequency will have something to do with the size of his bet.

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call .
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You win 36 not 40 percent of the time. That's because if you beat their value range 20 percent of the time and that range is 80 percent of the hands they bet, it comes out to 16 percent, and 20 +26 = 36.

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40 % .
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This number has to be adjusted because of the previous error.

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strategy .
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This won't be true if he plays close to GTO.

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strategy .
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As before, Little doesn't seem to understand that for the GTO player the size of the bet dictates the percentage of bluffs.

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strategy ,
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If you're calling with a GTO strategy you don't care what your opponent's strategy is.

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time .
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And that's because these hands are needed to assure you have enough calling hands to satisfy GTO.

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blocker .
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This may be right if playing exploitively, but it's not correct playing GTO. Perhaps that's why no solver output is shown. Given that the river is a heart, the bettor should now have more value hands in his range. However, his percent of bets that are bluffs should remain the same. Little seems to be assuming that since the bettor was more likely to complete his hand, he'll have less incentive to bluff and thus the percentage of bluffing hands will be reduced. That won't be correct for the GTO player.

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the
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this should be "raise bluffs on the river."

Format Adjustments

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often .
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Or the difference between his all-in and your raise is tiny.
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succeed

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If they are almost certain to succeed, they are not high risk plays.

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ranges .
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Also, since you shouldn't have played with these players for very long, it's doubtful that you would know this. The exception might be if this is the tendency of most players in the tournament.

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equity .
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And also the fact that a loss on your part is more significant than a loss for your opponent.

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equity .
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I suspect that Little is over valuing fold equity here but under valuing the relative cost of losing versus winning against a bigger stack.

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range .
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This might depend on exactly how much he raises to.

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hands .
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Again, this depends on the size of the raise.

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hands .
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Same comment as before. If the raise is now a smaller amount than what it was with an ante and no rake, there may not be much of a Exploitive.
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battle .

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And again, Little is assuming a similar bet size.

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situations
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This is the GTO approach. Exploitively, you might choose to make a small mistake hoping to get your opponent(s) to make large mistakes later.

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straddle .
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Button straddles can be profitable, Also, a standard straddle might be profitable if it puts some of your opponents into a short stack and these are players who play short stacks poorly.

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gamble .
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Someone who understands deep stack play may also not want to straddle.
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tighter .

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This is actually a good point, and I know of one poker room that has ended allowing button straddles because of this.

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Button straddles may also increse the edge of the excellent players when their stack is deep and one or more bad players also have deep stacks.

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possible .
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Should also point out that bomb pots are ideal for colluders and therefore should not be offered by poker rooms.

Other Topics

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year
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This is like 3000 hours of live poker, which sure seems like a lot.

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6,000bbs
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I suspect this number is too small. At how many standard deviations is the confidence computed at.

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time .
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With an edge of 5bbs per 100 hands and a reasonable standard deviation, you should be well above 50 %

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often .
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This statement may not be true for those tournaments that pay a lot of places.

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years
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Again, as more and more large tourneys increase the number of players they pay, this may not be true.

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variance .
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While using the word "variance" is what everyone, including me, does, it would be better to use "Standard deviation."

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behind .
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I have no issue with this chapter except that there should be diminishing returns based on the better you play.

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While possible, this is very unlikely.

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tournaments ) .
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Providing you're one of the better players.

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player ) .
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Not true. If you play tighter by folding your marginal profitable hands, it should reduce your bankroll requirements a fair amount but at the same time only reduce your win rate by a little.

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losing !
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The problem with this advice is that as your playing bankroll gets small, it can cause you to use an inferior strategy.

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well .
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Except there are reasons to quit when your stack grows large.

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tomorrow .
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This isn't true because the stack sizes, as well as your opponents, can be different.

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avoided .
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It will also statistically reduce your sample size.

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play .
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I think Little is being fooled by variance. Your expectd ROI should probably be the same. But if you get lucky and have a big win, your actual ROI may be large (but not real).

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that .
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But your expected ROI might be exactly 30 percent. Here, I suspect that he doesn't understand that the distribution around a mean becomes approximately normally distributed as the sample size grows large. But in the example, for this to be true ,it might be a very large number due to the shape of the underlying distribution.

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tournaments .
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This depends on exactly how the money is distributed and exacrly what the juice is,

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poker ,
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This should say "positive expectation." You can certainly be a winner at poker over a finite amount of time with a negative EV.

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rich .
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Isn't this their choice?

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ins .
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This sentence is stupid. Your ROI should be approximately the same as long as the other players are of typical skill. The fact that you can occasionally have a much larger win in a standard tournament should have no effect on your ROI. To see this, while a win fir 30 buy-ins is certainly larger than a win of 10 buy-ins, it won't happen as often.

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Little is assuming that you only play one satellite. But for the cost of the tournament buy-in, you can play a bunch of them. So this equation is not realistic.

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tournament .
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It may also be because they feel that in general these players are not as good.
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changed .

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No. Because of the re-entry, a lot has changed.)

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minimal .
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Little is taking into account how many people play. From an ICM perspective, what he's saying is not accurate.

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ROI .
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Whenever you get your stack in poorly, you're giving way equity.
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stack .

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And what does normally mean? With a short stack you should use a "normal" short stack strategy. Is that what Little means or is he not taking the short stack into account.

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enter .
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Players who play like this are at a dosadvantage to those who correctly play faster since their re-entry has a positive expectation.

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bubble .
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Little has just made an argument for a re-entry.

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business .
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This is also an argument for not tipping.
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3bbs .

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I guess the rake might be this high in some places, but that's not the case in Las Vegas.

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$
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Strive for multiway pots and you'l reduce your rake.

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terrible .
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Little has neglected to mention that the players at the higher game tend to be better.

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bankroll .
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Again, Little doesn't understand that multi-way pots reduce rake.

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3 % .
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Something I agree with.

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rake
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This is not the case in Nevada

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possible .
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Why? If you play tight, you won't contribute as much as some other players.

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flush ) .
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These calls are often correct in any game. Your edge comes from them playing almost any ace.

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Poker
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Which was an incredibly terrible book that Litte should try to get away from.

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discipline .
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No. It comes from your mind not understanding why bad events can and do occur.

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pot .
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It won't help to model your behavior after someone else if you don't understand the underlying mathematics of poker.

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pot .
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There's no such thing as "happy tilt." What happens is that players who are doing well will sometimes over estimate theiry skill advantage and begin to play too many hands. For tilt to occur a player must lose the ability to think rationally, and this does not occur when someone is doing well, though their good short-term results may bring them t a wrong conclusion.

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variance .
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You may not experience more variance, but with a lower win rate (in terms of big blinds), variance can have a larger impact on your results in the medium term.

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win .
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This isn't true in the long term assuming you play well.

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mindset ,
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Another stupid statement.

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carbs
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I don't think there is such a thing as a fatty carb.

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equity .
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Misuse of the word "equity."
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chest ) ,

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This comes from Brunson and is complete garbage.
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folding .

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Out of Caro's Book of Tells. Little never gives credit to anyone.

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draws .
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The comment about draws comes from Sklansky's Hold 'em Poker.

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hand .
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And this is often correct strategy as long as they are also bluffing at the proper frequencies or understand that their opponent is using GTO to call.
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flop )

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Which may also be a strong exploitive move.

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you .
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Coming from someone who's quick to attack people.

These are valid criticisms

So 4.5 out of 5 stars?

I kind of want to buy the book now and go through it with mason's notes.

Lol

This would be interesting.

Mason

Mason,

If this book had been sent to you for publication by a new author and 2+2 didn't already have books covering the topics, would this be an example of a book with too many mistakes that couldn't/wouldn't be fixed by you or David and therefore rejected in its current form? If so, is this book an example of the quality of what was submitted to you by Little previously and rejected?

Most people sitting at poker games are losing players. Vast majority

First, Little never submitted a book to us for publication.

Second , if this book was submitted to us for publication, it would be returned to the author.

Mason

A more useful platitude is, "What percent of regulars are losing players"?

Also, how does the percent of losing players change as the stakes increase.

And, how would you get reliable answers to these questions. **


** I am strictly referring to live play

My bad. I must be mis-remembering the facts of a dispute from years ago.

Little stated that we turned down his first book, but let's just say he misremembered and had never submitted the book to us for publication.

Mason

I have only listened to the audiobook version once while paying attention 65% but plan to relisten.

This is a very thorough list thank you for your hard work.

I am going through your list and wondering how you would summarize his overall mistakes/incorrect assumptions ? and how you would adjust ?

Thank you sir

Little never said he submitted a book to you for publication. He said he approached you about publishing a book and you were not interested, but upon further questioning, he freely admitted that he did not have a book written at that point. He wanted to write a book, and wondered if you would be interested in publishing it if/when it was written. But even in the face of him openly, politely, and completely believable clarifying that point, you have consistently claimed otherwise. You are lying.

Really? I suggest you read this post:

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/s...3&postcount=58

For a quick recap, Little/FieryJustice wrote:

you are unhappy with your decision to not publush my first book when I presented it to you about 15 years ago.

No book was ever "presented" to us if that word, as opposed to "submitted," makes you feel better. Also, and going from memory, Little did later agree in the thread that he never submitted a book to us for possible publication.

Mason

Right, he agreed with you that he did not submit a book. It was a poor choice of wording when he initially wrote it, and so he clarified that he asked you about publishing a book - one he had not yet written - and you responded by criticizing the wording/grammar in his message. So like I said, he freely admits / clarifies that what he meant was you rejected his approach, not that you rejected a written manuscript he sent you, but you persist to this very day in claiming he was lying somehow. You are the one who is lying.

Edit: I've said this before, but I'll say it again: maybe to you in the publishing industry it "deciding not to publish my book" has a 100% clear meaning, and to you it definitely means the book is written; but to a casual non-publishing industry but very literate reader, I can certainly understand someone who WANTS to write a book who approaches a publisher and is turned away using that same phrasing. You have still never acknowledged this point, and instead claim he meant the other thing. Thus you are a liar. But now I'm repeating myself.

Sorry I can't help you. If Little hadn't yet written the book (at that time) since he never really talked to me, that was something I didn't know, nor is it something that today even matters.

For your information, over the years, we turned down a lot of books that were submitted to us, and sometimes we did this because at the time we were just over loaded and couldn't take on another book. In fact, I believe that D&B publishes four books that we turned down, and our turning them down doesn't mean they were bad books.

If you look at my post above, I used the word "misremembered." I don't think that word is a negative word. In fact, I think that you would agree that this is exactly what happened.

MM

Without addressing any specifics in Little's book in this space, let me put it this way. Having the solver output is, of course, correct. But what I'm often pointing out is that the explanations for why the solver does what it does is, in my opinion, sometimes not what it should be.

The way we would try to adjust this is to get together with the author, and this assumes we're interested in publishing his book, and go over with the author exactly how GTO poker math works and what its implications are. This shouldn't be a lengthy process. Then it would be up to the author to submit to us another version of the book. If the author doesn't want to do this, he would be free to take the book elsewhere.

And this is exactly the sort of thing we did with many of the books we publish.

Mason

And one other thing. The next time Little is in Las Vegas, I would be willing to sit down with him and spend some time, probably a couple of hours, going over these notes. All he has to do is contact me and that can be done through this website..

Mason

What % of regulars lose money at the casino? I’d say 95-98%

Losing players % goes up as stakes increase as it’s harder to beat higher stakes without ****ing up

I disagree. If you walked into a major poker room, such as The Bellagio or Wynn here in Las Vegas, and took a snapshot of all the players seated in the games, I think you would see about 70 percent winners (though some don't win much).

Think of it this way. If Play A plays 1000 hours a year and is a winning player and Player B plays 10 hours a year and is a losing player, A should count 100 times more than B. That's why our estimates are so much different.

Mason

Thank you for that explanation. I totally agree the reason WHY is more important than the solver results, hopefully i can remember one of the two at crunch time hehe.

I am a fan of his and have 3 books of his. I think some of these tough spots that you need to "feel out" don't have much applicable advice you can quantify and so Little is providing "something" at least. Not sure if that is a good thing but regardless I absorb it with my own view on his opinion built in.

I will be buying the new book you guys released "Help Them Give You Their Money" this weekend on amazon and look forward to learning from you.

I doubt it’s anywhere close to that. This just recently posted a graph showing he’s been a loser in vegas at 10/20 for 7 years. Year 8 he showed a profit


Additionally in your example I see player A losing lots of money to the house or to better players

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This is an interesting point. If you're writing a book and give the reasons why the solver results are what they are then you should be giving the correct reasons. I think this is obvious.

However, if you're a player and just have a good feel for what the solver results are, perhaps by studying a lot of solver output, you should be able to play well even if you don't understand exactly why the solver produces the results it does. Or put another way, even if your understanding of the mathematics of poker GTO is lacking, you can still play well.

Mason

Is it allowed to post so much parts of the book in this forum????

Is this not a copyright infringement?