4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Aug 2007
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Originally Posted by dranger7070
This is a fantastic idea for practicing hand reading, and I think I'll do it myself. I find that reading hands/putting villains on a range is by far the weakest point in my game, and its starting to become critical that I do so, if I want to be a solid, consistent winner at 50nl+. Thanks for this Robb, as usual you come through with another amazing post.
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To filter in HEM, I use VPiP = False and ShowDown = True with FinalPot > 50 BB (I think - I'm at work, so I'm guessing a bit). That gets me hands I didn't participate in that typically have 2 or more streets of betting to help narrow things down.
I also use my chunking method for grabbing preflop ranges. I described that method here:
Practicing Ranges
My goal is to use the same method each time I practice so that I can get better and better at EXACT range estimates (knowing the exact number of combos/hands in the estimated range). Each chunk is ~5% of all hands, and I've grouped them according to hands I think play similarly and in groups I can easily work with.
The hope is that several months of practice will lead to estimates like: "180 combos total, he's calling this flop raise with 30 of them, shoving with 20, and folding 130." If the estimates are reasonably accurate, then I'll have a real advantage at the tables.
Not there, yet, by a long shot. Short term, though, I can get reasonably close by cycling through each chunk, dropping "half a chunk" and so forth. Which is tons better than I've been doing, which is not thinking too deeply about ranges at all.
And that, my friends, is the #1 way I've found to really suck at poker. **Bad, Robb - stop that!!**
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