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Our new “Lab” section is designed to create an advanced learning process
- 3 selectable BB stacks and/or open sizes to compare & contrast the differences in the strategies.
- Toggle side cards up and down.
- “Category table filter” to only view which strategy categories you'd like to.
- Buttons to draw random hands within categories.
- Hide results in “Guess mode” to be able to self-quiz yourself.
How to use
1 Select whether you’d like to compare 4 or 5 card strategies. 2 Select the three formats you’d like to compare. You can choose and mix any rake structure, stack depth and open sizes. 3 Enter the starting hand you want the strategies to be displayed for. You can also draw a random hand by clicking on any category button. The up and down buttons above and below the hole cards are used to adjust individual cards. For example, changing AKJT to AQJT or AKJ9 etc. 4 You can change to EV mode to display expected values or to Ag mode to view aggregate strategies for each situation. 5 You can use the “Category table filter” to hide unwanted strategy categories. 6 Enter “Guess mode” if you would like to self-quiz yourself. If you turn this on with the toggle button in the top right corner, results won’t be displayed automatically when you query a new hand in any way. After you’ve guessed the results, you can reveal the strategies with the “Show results” button.(For example, set stacks to 30bb 50bb 100bb, set the “Category table filter” to only show RFI, click a random hand button, and ask yourself at which position and stacks it opens/folds. Click on “Show results” to display the correct answers.)Learning in EV mode
Turn on EV mode to find close fringe scenarios. Keep these in mind when making adjustments depending on your opponents. An example might be a very close decision at rfi. If you find yourself at a tight and/or easy table you could elect to raise, instead of a default fold. Also keep in mind the hand's response to further action, like facing a 3bet. Does the next closest scenario clearly call or clearly fold?
Example:
In this example you can see in some scenarios where this hand folds or mixes (at 40bb and 50bb), however the EVs are close. As a default, one would choose to follow the strategy, although at a tight table one adjustment could be to open these hands at EP. Then looking at "rfi vs 3bet" category we see that facing 3bets the EVs in all scenarios is a clear call. A takeaway from this is that if you perhaps mistakenly opened a hand from a fringe rfi spot, this category of hands is very likely to still call vs a 3bet. Sometimes you might find yourself in a scenario of uncertainty about whether to rfi, and THEN what when faced with a 3bet?
Thinking process in a summary:
1 40bb MP rfi & 50bb EP rfi very close but default folds, tight table = open. 2 40bb CO v BU 3b, clear call by a wide margin, thus if you chose to rfi MP at 40bb, also a clear call vs 3bet.
Here is another example of the opposite:
1 100bb UTG rfi, very close but default fold. 2 Tight table = open all positions. 3 Vs 3bet, looking at MP strategies, it's an obvious fold vs all position 3bets. So, we'd open UTG, and clear fold vs 3bet.