Lecture 2

Question 1

If I am going to use a one size toolkit, what question should I ask?

Answer 1

How big is the polarisation advantage on this spot?

Question 2

What’s the recommended bucketing system? How does it compare to Saulo’s recommended system?

Answer 2

5 buckets. For example, when mixing check/bet I’ll have 5 buckets:

1. Pure check
2. Bet infrequently
   3.Bet sometimes
3. bet frequently
   5.Put bet

This is exactly the most simplified bucketing system of Saulo.

His other bucketing system would be:

1. Pure check
2. 20%
3. 40%
   4 60%
4. 80%
5. pure bet

Question 3

CO vs BB SRP,
QT7 X/B75/C
Turn 5 X/X
River 3

BB wants to bet Tx for B33 and two pair plus for B150 in general.

Why can he bluff rarely with B33 and more frequently with B150? Tx is common?

Answer 3

To be balanced, value/bluff ratio should be 80% value 20% bluffs.

Therefore, the most common bluff sizing will be B150.

Question 4

HW2:

CO vs BB,
442shd X/B75/C
turn 8c X/X
river 4

What do I do with the following hand with the that rng?

1. 3c3s, 51

Answer 4

This is a still-lake texture, BU has only AA pretty much as an overpaid

3c3s, 51 - good enough to bet, will be called by A highs. Frequent bet for value B75/B50

Question 5

HW2:

CO vs BB,
442shd X/B75/C
turn 8c X/X
river 4

What do I do with the following hand with the that rng?

2. Qh8h,12

Answer 5

2. Qh8h,12 - “Same as 1, we can bet it for B120 as 77- can call us” - yes I can overbet this is true, but pure bet and not frequent bet (slight mistake). Solver pure bets 8x with one exception: it likes checking A8 a lot (as CO will bet a lot of Ax for value, and BB can X/R)

Question 6

HW2:

CO vs BB,
442shd X/B75/C
turn 8c X/X
river 4

What do I do with the following hand with the that rng?

3. 7c4c ,14

Answer 6

3. 7c4c ,14 - frequent overbet (I have quads but it’s effectively the same as 8x here) - since I have 7c maybe it’s a pure overbet since I slightly block 8x (87cc). Maybe hands like 54s are just often bet.

In reality, I very infrequently bet this hand!

Question 7

HW2:

CO vs BB,
442shd X/B75/C
turn 8c X/X
river 4

What do I do with the following hand with the that rng?

4. KhTh,79

Answer 7

4. KhTh - I actually have a slight SDV with this hand on a stillake texture - pure check(!).

Question 8

HW2:

CO vs BB,
442shd X/B75/C
turn 8c X/X
river 4

What do I do with the following hand with the that rng?

5. AQ ,96

Answer 8

5. AQ ,96 frequent bet B33 for value,
   B33.