Studying poker away from the table, how's it done???

Study ranges and equities. On the strength of this, know how much equity you need to shove in common situations. Further, look at different types of player and think about how much fold equity you have and therefore how wide you can get away with shoving.

practice hand reading and equity estimation (I rarely do this by the way ).

To a lesser extent, study our opponents by reviewing how they play their hands. It's not as useful as we rarely encounter the same opponents often enough, but it gives us an idea on how the good, the average, the bad and the general population plays.

Originally Posted by rong

Study ranges and equities. On the strength of this, know how much equity you need to shove in common situations. Further, look at different types of player and think about how much fold equity you have and therefore how wide you can get away with shoving.

So i should just stove say OESD on the flop vs a villains range then at the table i can get a fairly accurate estimation of my equity. Then change villains from calling stations to nit to competent reg etc.

So say i'm analysing oesd on a rainbow flop. So say a villain who opens quite a few hands preflop at 6max opens from the CO and i flat on the BTN with 67s he cbets a high % of the time as well. I have reason to believe he is capable of folding a decent hand and isn't a calling station.

so the flop comes 45K rainbow.

Text results appended to pokerstove.txt

736,560 games 0.013 secs 56,658,461 games/sec

Board: 4h 5d Ks
Dead:

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 42.953% 42.80% 00.15% 315252 1123.50 { 76s }
Hand 1: 57.047% 56.89% 00.15% 419061 1123.50 { 22+, ATs+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, ATo+, KJo+, QJo, JTo }

I know vs this kind of standard range i have 42% equity on a rainbow flop. Villain cbets like i expect him to, so i decide to raise to build a pot if i hit on the turn and fold out all his air. But villain calls so i change his range to AA KK 44 55 TPGK's and hands with moderate showdown value TT-QQ.

Turn is 9 of clubs a blank. Villain checks. I shove. Hoping to fold out all his showdown value hands AA TT-QQ KJ KQ. I feel i can credibly rep a set or 45 on given previous actions and on this dry board texture i know i am not drawing dead vs the top of villains range also. I have 18% equity but believe i have decent fold equity vs villain if he folds AA TT-QQ KJ KQ that is 48 combos out of 57 if my math is correct so we have a lot of fold equity so this would be a good spot to shove an oesd vs a villain who isn't calling with out the nuts, taking advantage of your position and fold equity and image if you haven't been to active/overly aggro the past few orbits.

Is this what you mean? just keep doing this for all common scenarios then just change about villains tendencies and abilities/skill level. And i will get better overall.