Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 1,873
I think blockers would be part of it. But I suspect that went into deciding which hands were indifferent in the first place, a hand with no blockers perhaps not rising to the level of indifferent. It's probably a combination of not betting/calling/folding all indifferent hands, as that would be too many, and giving you coverage over as many boards as possible to give you playability later in the hand. For example, if a backdoor flush and a backdoor straight were both considered indifferent, if you favored the flush draw over the straight draw an opponent could exploit that by not paying off against possible flushes as much as he should, and attacking more against possible straights.
When dealing with solvers, keep in mind that the solver isn't thinking about the solution. That's what we do. The solver just runs a gazillion simulations based on certain parameters and provides the solution with the highest ev. Then we mere mortals try to interpret why.
