Some poker-theory work

26 January 2010

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Here’s an example of some ‘away from the table’ work I’ve been doing the month. I know the picture is too small to see the detail, but after a quick description this zoomed-out image is pretty interesting anyway. Its a calculation of the heads-up pre-flop position in NLHE, given infinite aggression. So we assume the [...]

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Why we ‘add 10% nonsense to their range’…

10 January 2010

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In this hand I almost folded a set, only to find out villain has 3-bet shoved an (often good for a call) top-pair-2nd-kicker. Villain is kind of nitty, so when he shoved the river it looks like QQ, 99, KK or JT.  But he probably only bets the turn with all of those except JT. [...]

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November 2009 Graph

29 November 2009

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This was a really tedious month, after the initial upswing; 20k hands of being unable to win at showdown at all, both from losing EV to outdraws and a good few stacks to coolers. I’ve had set under set twice in 400bb pots, one of which was at €10/20, so winning just those two pots [...]

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This session is typical of this month

27 November 2009

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This session is typical of this month

For cash games that is. This was mostly at 3/6, with some 5/10. The final graph is not going to look good, but I still have the weekend to get a few more hands in. I think I’m currently running €15,000 below expectation over around 25k hands, and €42,000 below EV for the last 6 [...]

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