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Originally Posted by GntlmnsHndshk
No he doesn't, you're saying silly stuff again. This is why I can't give you the benefit of the doubt.
Even if we pretend for the sake of argument that I had claimed the terms "value" and "bluff" were worse than worthless in all possible pre-flop situations (which I did not do, but let's pretend), this would not imply that they were necessarily worse than worthless in all possible flop situations, and thus it would not be hypocritical to use the terms when describing the construction of a flop range.
I realize that English is hard, but it's a language worth learning, I assure you.
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Originally Posted by GntlmnsHndshk
There's no such thing as a "polarized" preflop range where your value hands have 100% equity and your bluffs have 0%. Can you clarify what you mean by polarized?
Sure. The first thing you ought to understand is that all river bets should use polarized ranges, and yet not all of your value hands should have 100% equity against the calling range. In a similar vein, turn bets should also tend to use polarized ranges, and yet very few of your "bluffs" should have 0% equity against the calling range. Thus, it is flat wrong to say that value hands must have 100% equity and "bluffs" 0% in order for a range to be polarized. Instead, a pre-flop range is properly referred to as "polarized" when it contains discontinuities - that is, if you wanted to highlight all the hands in it on a 13x13 chart, you would need to pick up your pen. A "linear" pre-flop range, on the other hand, contains no discontinuities.
As an example, consider offsuit aces in the SB facing a 3-bet and in the BB facing an open-raise. Suppose you wanted to 3-bet a linear range from the BB and 4-bet a polarized range from the SB. A linear range might include AT+, while a polarized range might include AK,A9-A7. Make sense?
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Originally Posted by GntlmnsHndshk
post 92... "It depends on how much you bet and how the board runs out, obviously. I wouldn't be at all surprised if there were some reasonable sizings/run-outs where getting 3 streets of value was possible at equilibrium."
post 104..."If my range is too strong and overly weighted towards value hands, yes. I try not to let it be though.... The only hands that DON'T want a small pot on any particular board are strong value hands. Yet it seems obvious that one cannot have a c/r range consist only of strong value hands. One should either never c/r or c/r other hands as well. On this particular board, I feel many combos of 4x make decent hands to balance a c/r range with, and I believe many combos that people would use as c/r semi-bluffs actually play better as calls."
Perhaps I should have been more specific. Would you kindly call attention to some examples of me using the term "bluffs" (without quotes) when describing the construction of my flop range?