What Is Pot Geometry In Poker?

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الملخص

TLDRDie video bespreek die konsep van potgeometrie met 'n fokus op geometriese weddingsgroottes in poker. Dit verduidelik hoe 'n geometriese weddingsstrategie die teenstander se verdedigingsreeks maksimeer deur gelyke fraksies van die pot op elke straat te wed, wat uiteindelik op 'n al-in teen die rivier mik. Daarbenewens word die idee van 'helderziendheid' in poker ondersoek, wat verwys na die kennis of jy voor of agter is. Praktiese voorbeelde met behulp van sigblad-visualisering word voorgestel om aan te dui hoe hierdie teorieë in regte poker-situasies toegepas word. Die video dek ook nie-geometriese strategieë en beklemtoon dat reekse nie altyd perfek gepolariseer is nie, en dat ander weddingsstrategieën meer effektief kan wees, afhangend van omstandighede.

الوجبات الجاهزة

  • 🎲 Geometriese weddingsgrootte maksimeer teenstander se verdedigingsreeks.
  • 💰 Altyd 'n gelyke fraksie van die pot per straat wed.
  • 🔮 'Heldersiendheid' beteken om te weet of jy die wenhand het.
  • 📊 Gebruik sigblaaie om weddingsgroottes te bereken.
  • 🔄 Nie-geometriese strategieë kan effektief wees in minder gepolariseerde situasies.
  • 🚀 Hoe dunner die stapel, hoe wyer moet hulle verdedig.
  • 🍀 Goeie weddingsstrategieë help om mededingers se reekse te verduidelik.
  • 🏆 Die nut voordeel is belangrik vir waardering van die hande.
  • 📈 Oorbetsings kan gebruik word om te ontneem aan trekking gelyk.
  • 🃏 GTO strategieë is dikwels meer doeltreffend op latere strate.

الجدول الزمني

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    Die video bespreek die belangrike teorie van geometriese inzetgrootte in pokervariante, wat 'n basiese beginsel van potgeometrie belig. Dit dui aan dat 'n speler die pot in proporsionele fraksies moet verbet, met die doel om teenstanders aan te moedig om meer geld in die pot te sit.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    Die konsep van 'perfecte polarisasie' word gedefinieer, wat beteken dat 'n speler of 'n baie sterk hand of 'n bluf het. Die video benadruk die belangrikheid van 'clairvoyance' - die begrip van wie die wenende hand het, wat 'n sleutelrol speel in die toepassing van geometriese strategieë.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Praktiese voorbeelde en 'n spreadsheet word aangebied om spelers te help om die geometriese insetstrategie te verstaan en toe te pas. Dit illustreer hoe 'n speler met 'n spesifieke potgrootte en stapel kan aanpas om optimaal te speel in verskillende situasies.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Die video ondersoek hoe stapelverhouding (SPR) die vereiste verdedigingsgereedskap verander, en hoe 'n speler se insetstrategie moet aanpas na gelang van die grootte van die pot en stapel. Dit beklemtoon hoe jy 'n 'gladde' stortingstrategie kan gebruik om meer geld uit teenstanders te haal.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:28:05

    Ten slotte, die video bespreek nie-geometriese strategieë en die noodsaaklikheid om nie altyd die geometriese benadering te volg nie, aangesien nie alle hande dit regverdig om so te speel nie. Dit sluit in dat die aanpassing van strategieë om die teenoorgestelde te dwing in verskillende speltoestande belangrik is.

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  • What is geometric bet sizing in poker?

    Geometric bet sizing involves betting an equal fraction of the pot on each street, helping to maximize how much money goes into the pot by river.

  • Why does pot geometry matter in poker?

    It maximizes the opponent's defending range, forcing them to put more money into the pot when you have a polarized range.

  • What does 'clairvoyant' mean in the context of poker?

    In poker, it refers to knowing whether you have the winning or losing hand, while your opponent does not.

  • How can geometric strategies be implemented in practice?

    By using a spreadsheet or visualization tool to calculate bet sizes based on pot and stack sizes.

  • What are non-geometric strategies?

    These strategies involve smaller bet sizes or mixed strategies, allowing for more information gathering and better range management.

  • Why are over bets used in some situations?

    Over bets may be used to deny draw equity rather than maximizing the opponent's defending range.

  • How does betting on later streets differ from the flop?

    On later streets, betting strategies tend to be more polarized as equity crystallizes and ranges become clearer.

  • What does 'minimum defense frequency' (MDF) mean?

    MDF refers to the minimum percentage of a player's range that must be defended against a bet.

  • Is it advantageous to always use geometric strategies?

    Not necessarily; sometimes smaller bets on earlier streets can help manage ranges better.

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التمرير التلقائي:
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    let's talk about one of the most
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    influential theories when it comes to
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    bed sizing in poker I'm speaking of
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    course about the geometric bet size in
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    this video we're going to talk about the
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    concept of pot geometry we'll talk a
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    little bit about Clairvoyance why this
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    matters we'll put Theory into practice
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    and then we're going to say why this
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    doesn't always happen in GTO without
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    further Ado let's talk about pot
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    geometry
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    so the geometric bet size is a really
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    fascinating theoretical Concept in poker
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    in this video we're going to discuss
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    what is pot geometry we're going to talk
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    a little bit about Clairvoyance and
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    polarization
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    we're going to talk about why this
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    matters following that we're going to
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    put some Theory into practice so you can
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    learn how to actually implement this in
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    your game
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    and lastly we're going to look at
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    non-geometric strategies
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    so what is pot geometry well in poker
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    this refers to betting an equal fraction
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    of the pot on each Strait such that
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    you're all in by the river for example
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    sixty percent pot sixty percent pot
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    sixty percent pot Chef now why does this
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    matter why is it that you would want to
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    bet an equal fraction on each Street
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    well like I said this concept is
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    fundamental to bed sizing Theory a
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    geometric betting strategy maximizes
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    your opponent's overall defending range
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    this theoretically forces them to put in
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    the most money into the pot therefore
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    when we have a perfectly polarized range
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    in other words we have the nuts are
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    nothing we want to use a strategy that
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    maximizes how much money they put into
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    the pot the best strategy is then to bet
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    the same pot percentage on every street
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    such that we're all in by the river so
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    before we go on let's just go over some
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    Basics what is perfectly polarized well
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    perfectly polarized means we either have
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    the nuts or a bluff and villains range
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    is Bluff catchers relative to our range
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    so they always beat a bluff and they
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    always lose to our value now given that
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    we're perfectly polarized
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    we are clairvoyant
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    now Clairvoyant is a fancy word outside
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    of Poker you might think of it as
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    psychic having outside knowledge that
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    you shouldn't have but in poker or in
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    Game Theory it refers to a situation
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    where you know whether or not you're
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    ahead or behind you know if you have the
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    winning hand or the losing hand
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    conversely villain who has a bluff
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    catcher does not know if they are ahead
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    or behind and that information
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    dissimetry is fundamental to why you'd
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    want to use this strategy so enough talk
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    let's actually show you this concept in
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    practice now like we said the core idea
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    is that it will maximize how much money
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    villain puts into the pot let's go take
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    a look at the spreadsheet so we can see
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    that in action
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    so here is a cool tool that I've made to
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    help you visualize and better understand
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    this concept so here we can see
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    we can enter the pot stack number of
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    bets and it's going to calculate a
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    geometric sizing so for example let's
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    say it's a button versus big blind
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    single race pot the pot is five and a
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    half stacks are 97.5 and we want to get
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    in over three streets
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    well if we bet
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    115.8 percent of the pot on flop turn
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    and River
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    we're gonna get Stacks in smoothly such
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    that we're all in by the river villains
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    final calling range is about 10 of their
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    original starting range
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    how do I know that well it's an
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    estimation based on the minimum defense
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    frequency
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    on each Street
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    so 46 times 46 times 46 percent equals
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    about 10 percent
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    now there's two interesting things you
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    can do here for one you can play around
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    with this to try and see
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    for example how wide their final calling
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    range is based on different sprs so
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    imagine a button open versus small blind
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    three bets let's say they three bet to
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    11 big blinds so the pot will be
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    22 plus 1 23 and the stacks are 89. well
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    now we see that they need to defend just
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    over a quarter of their range as the spr
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    decreases their stack-off range
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    increases
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    so for a single raised pot
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    here we can see if we bet an equal
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    fraction on three streets
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    they're going to defend about 11 of
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    their range whereas
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    if we just open ship they only defend
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    about six percent of their range
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    according to minimum defense frequency
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    whereas for a three bed pot where the
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    spr is maybe closer to three four
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    they have to defend significantly more
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    of their range
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    and we can estimate that their final
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    stack off range is somewhere between
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    this blue line and this uh green line is
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    it green or yellow I'm colorblind anyway
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    the idea is
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    the shallower the stacks the less money
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    behind the more they have to call and
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    that has a direct effect on your
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    strategy right because they're going to
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    have to defend more When there's less
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    money behind and that dulls the value of
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    the nut Advantage whereas in like a 200
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    Big line Depot
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    the nut Advantage counts for so much
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    more because by the time you get all the
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    money in you're only looking at like a
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    tiny fraction of their original starting
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    range anyway back to the geometric
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    sizing we can take a look at this tab
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    here
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    now what I've done is I've just entered
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    a bunch of arbitrary betting strategies
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    that happen to get it all in
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    by the river so you can go like 10 20
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    percent and then you know 900 percent
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    or you can use maybe something a little
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    more reasonable like 120 170 60.
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    something like this
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    and what I've done is I've graphed
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    or I've calculated how much money they
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    tend to put in so this here is just
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    their final calling range based on MDF
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    times the pot
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    and then on the right here we have
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    villains total contribution that is to
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    say The Times They fold the Flop or call
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    flop and then full turn
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    or call flop and turn and then fold
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    River or call all three and see a
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    showdown
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    and then subtract the original starting
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    pot so
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    this is how much money villain
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    contributes to the pot based on our
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    betting strategy
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    and what you'll find is that ridiculous
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    jagged
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    strategies such as you know check check
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    1600 ship
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    are going to cause them to defend
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    as tight as possible and therefore put
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    in the least amount of money into the
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    pot
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    conversely
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    smooth betting strategies such as 110
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    110 110
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    caused them to put in more money into
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    the pot
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    and if you're a theory nerd like me you
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    can do some math and calculate the
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    standard deviation that is to say how
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    similar are these numbers and the more
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    similar these numbers are flop bet turn
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    bet and riverbed the smoother the
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    betting strategy is so we can say that
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    smooth betting strategies
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    tend to do better or tend to cause
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    villain to put in more money than rough
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    betting strategies
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    and of course I had to graph this
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    because graphs are fun
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    and so here we see the amount of money
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    villain puts into the pots based on how
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    smooth it is and as it gets smoother and
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    smoother the more money they put in
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    lastly I wanted a way to visualize all
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    three bets and the total money going
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    into the pot
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    so it's difficult to do this well
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    because it's hard to visualize four
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    dimensions on a two-dimensional screen
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    but here's what I came up with
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    so this top line here is the total
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    amount of money they put into the pot
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    and these
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    here are the sizes of the bets so for
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    example
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    you get this massive River bet
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    and like smaller flop and turn bats when
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    you use these Jagged rough strategies
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    there's less money going into the pot
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    but as the strategies get smoother and
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    smoother
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    that is to say
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    you're betting a similar portion on each
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    streets to get Stacks in by the river
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    they're going to put more money into the
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    pot
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    anyway if you want to play around with
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    this a little more uh link to this
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    spreadsheet is in the description also
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    in the presentation
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    and you'll just need to make a copy
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    to play with it yourself
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    next we're going to look at some GTO
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    wizard Solutions and reports to see how
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    you could implement this into your game
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    so here's a really common example of the
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    geometric bet size in practice
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    let's say you're playing the big blind
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    against button single race parts and for
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    this example I've selected Queen four
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    four but to be honest you'll see this in
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    a lot of spots where the button checks
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    back the flop
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    let's take a look at turn reports
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    the most common sizing when we do bet on
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    this type of texture is going to be
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    either block bet
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    or an over bet and it's 250 percent
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    what is special about 250 percent
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    well that just so happens to be the
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    geometric size for this spr over two
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    streets
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    so
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    let's pick I don't know an ace looks
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    like a pretty good example
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    now you don't want to do a lot of
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    betting on an ace you want to be
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    checking quite a bit but when you do bet
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    you're basically representing trips
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    or a bluff maybe a little bit of top
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    pair but for the most part trips
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    or a bluff we can see how this is
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    constructed
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    and
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    will note that
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    once we met 250 percent
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    button doesn't have a raising range they
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    don't need to when we bet this large
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    let's just pick some Brick River and
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    again it's the same fraction of the pot
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    on the river so we get to go
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    250
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    250 to get it all in this is a nice
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    smooth betting strategy that's going to
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    maximize the efficiency
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    of
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    how much money goes into the pot
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    conversely if you use something like
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    I don't know a 75 percent here
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    well
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    now it's almost impossible to construct
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    the realistic shoving range because it's
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    like 700 pot and if you do go for this
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    villain's overall calling range is gonna
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    be so much tighter that it's just not
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    realistically
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    a great strategy
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    so turn probes are by far one of the
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    most common spots where you'll see
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    geometric sizes in practice
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    um
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    particularly I think a lot of people
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    over Probe on the turn with small sizes
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    or medium sizes but realistically if
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    they're checking back a reasonable range
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    you want to use
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    a lot of turn over bets and in
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    particular
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    stuff that's closer to the geometric
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    size which is about 250 percent in this
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    case
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    here's another example
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    so this is a cut off versus pipeline
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    single race pot the Flop is A7 deuce
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    we start with a one-third bet
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    and I know what you're thinking Tom why
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    aren't they using the geometric size
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    here
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    I'll talk more about this later but
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    essentially you can't construct the
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    perfectly polarized range on the flop
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    your range is not perfectly polarized
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    in fact it's quite merged there's plenty
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    of medium hands in there so in practice
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    instead of starting with this extremely
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    nuts or Bluff strategy
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    it starts with a smaller size which has
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    the effect of clarifying your opponent's
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    range
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    after making this bet it's going to be
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    easier to construct a more polarized
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    range on turn and River
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    blind calls and let's give this King of
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    Spades now the reason I've chosen a King
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    of Spades is because this card is
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    gives you the least incentive to one a
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    bet small and that's because
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    your king X has literally nothing to
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    gain
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    by making another batch here
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    realistically it just folds out worse
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    and gets called by better and there's
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    already an ace on board so you're not
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    worried about being outdrawn by over
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    cards
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    so when your middling hands have no
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    incentive to bet that just leaves your
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    strong hands
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    and in that case you usually want to
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    construct something that consists of
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    extremely strong hands and Bluffs
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    which is perfect for the geometric bet
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    size
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    so here we see for example
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    we use a range of two pair very strong
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    top pair
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    and gut shots and some other
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    very weak draws
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    or just complete air as Bluffs
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    so the geometric bet size here is
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    something like 195 which is something in
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    between these two sizes maybe closer to
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    175.
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    and so the idea is that we can construct
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    this very strong polarized betting
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    strategy
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    again
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    big blind does not need to raise very
  • 00:14:56
    much at all facing these big over bets
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    that's because we're putting in so much
  • 00:15:03
    money into the pot that it's not
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    required
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    the check raise
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    and I've just given some Brick River
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    here
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    we can construct
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    the shoving strategy
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    so now that we've seen some examples
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    let's look at some big data here I've
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    got a flop report that contains
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    strategic information from every
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    possible flop
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    for this example I'm using the complex
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    Solutions
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    these Solutions are useful because they
  • 00:15:34
    have a ton of bad sizes and I can graph
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    those bad sizes and zoom in to get a
  • 00:15:41
    bigger picture
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    so
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    when I first
  • 00:15:46
    when I was first exploring this
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    I was quite surprised to see this
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    bimodal distribution that is to say in
  • 00:15:55
    this spot which is button versus big
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    blind single race pod
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    we see plenty of small sizes not a lot
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    of medium sizes
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    and then over bets why is that well it's
  • 00:16:08
    largely because you either start with
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    these small medium block bet sizes which
  • 00:16:14
    help clarify the ranges these are used
  • 00:16:16
    with less polarized strategies more
  • 00:16:19
    merged in these cases you typically
  • 00:16:21
    polarize on turn or river
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    or
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    on some occasions
  • 00:16:27
    you can construct polarized strategies
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    right from the Flop and these are going
  • 00:16:32
    to be closer to geometric remember the
  • 00:16:34
    geometric size here is about 116 so
  • 00:16:37
    somewhere between these two
  • 00:16:39
    however we see even larger sizes than
  • 00:16:42
    geometric and you might ask yourself
  • 00:16:46
    why is that you know you can't get more
  • 00:16:49
    polarized than perfectly polarized
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    and the answer to that question comes
  • 00:16:54
    down to draw Equity so instead of trying
  • 00:16:57
    to maximize villain's defending range it
  • 00:17:00
    may actually be worth it to
  • 00:17:03
    it may be more profitable if they
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    overfold on earlier streets when that
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    fold Equity is more valuable right you
  • 00:17:12
    can blast them off some draws
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    and that's why we see some really big
  • 00:17:17
    over bets in here
  • 00:17:19
    and in fact we can switch over to table
  • 00:17:21
    mode
  • 00:17:22
    and I'm just going to sort by
  • 00:17:26
    oh you know what I'm actually going to
  • 00:17:28
    group the actions together
  • 00:17:30
    sort by over bets
  • 00:17:34
    so Ace Queen 8 for example should be a
  • 00:17:36
    good one
  • 00:17:47
    and I'll ungroup these now
  • 00:17:51
    maybe I'll even graph them yeah I like
  • 00:17:53
    the graph here
  • 00:17:54
    so Ace Queen 8 is a fun one because we
  • 00:17:57
    can construct an extremely strong range
  • 00:17:59
    with very strong top Air hands
  • 00:18:04
    two pair
  • 00:18:05
    uh sets however there's also a ton of
  • 00:18:09
    draw Equity right there's flushes there
  • 00:18:12
    are straight draws there are gut shots
  • 00:18:15
    and so what the silver prefers instead
  • 00:18:18
    of a geometric size is something
  • 00:18:19
    slightly larger like 150 size bets or
  • 00:18:23
    even a 200.
  • 00:18:25
    and these are fun
  • 00:18:27
    because they have the effect
  • 00:18:30
    of blasting the big blind off a number
  • 00:18:32
    of their draws
  • 00:18:35
    maybe I just expand these for a second
  • 00:18:38
    you can see they're even folding some
  • 00:18:40
    flush draws off the bat
  • 00:18:42
    um
  • 00:18:43
    holding most of their gut shots
  • 00:18:47
    folding like
  • 00:18:49
    for example most of their second and
  • 00:18:52
    third pair and even some top pair which
  • 00:18:55
    all have outs against us
  • 00:18:58
    so
  • 00:18:59
    in practice you're never really
  • 00:19:01
    perfectly polarized or you're rarely
  • 00:19:04
    perfectly polarized
  • 00:19:06
    but you can still create very strong
  • 00:19:09
    hands and very weak hands and construct
  • 00:19:11
    the betting range like that
  • 00:19:13
    and instead of using a geometric size we
  • 00:19:17
    see it sometimes go even larger than
  • 00:19:19
    geometric for the purposes of denying
  • 00:19:21
    Equity early on
  • 00:19:25
    let's take a look at another example
  • 00:19:28
    so for example we can say uh
  • 00:19:31
    cut off opens
  • 00:19:34
    button
  • 00:19:35
    three bets cut off calls
  • 00:19:41
    so the geometric bet size here is about
  • 00:19:45
    65 percent
  • 00:19:48
    and if we take a look at what bet sizes
  • 00:19:52
    are preferred we note that everything's
  • 00:19:56
    kind of spread out here but it drops off
  • 00:19:58
    drastically after the geometric bet size
  • 00:20:02
    um this is a function of the lower spr
  • 00:20:05
    right like you're never going to see
  • 00:20:06
    these 150 over bets
  • 00:20:10
    on in like a three bed pot
  • 00:20:13
    because they're overkill for the spr so
  • 00:20:16
    we can use the geometric bed size to
  • 00:20:18
    gauge what is an appropriate bet size
  • 00:20:21
    for this spr and in this case it's you
  • 00:20:25
    know about two-thirds pot is close to
  • 00:20:28
    the maximum again we do see some larger
  • 00:20:30
    sizes to deny some of that draw equity
  • 00:20:36
    but for the most part
  • 00:20:38
    it's going to be about two-thirds spot
  • 00:20:42
    as a maximum so let's let's go ahead and
  • 00:20:44
    sort by that
  • 00:20:45
    find some examples
  • 00:20:47
    Ace Queen 10 is a good one
  • 00:20:52
    yeah so Ace Queen 10 is another similar
  • 00:20:55
    situation where
  • 00:20:57
    you have enough of a nut advantage that
  • 00:21:01
    you can construct very polarized ranges
  • 00:21:04
    it does go a little bit bigger because
  • 00:21:06
    there are again a lot of draws here
  • 00:21:09
    but if you go about 61
  • 00:21:13
    on each Street
  • 00:21:18
    then that's going to maximize
  • 00:21:21
    how wide cutoff calls
  • 00:21:24
    in the end
  • 00:21:29
    here we can see the geometric size would
  • 00:21:32
    be maybe 70 here and it's basically
  • 00:21:35
    splitting between these two
  • 00:21:37
    so
  • 00:21:39
    again you could kind of explore these
  • 00:21:41
    graphs
  • 00:21:43
    these flop reports
  • 00:21:45
    and you'll notice that the geometric bet
  • 00:21:47
    size is present in all of them
  • 00:21:50
    so now that we've discussed the
  • 00:21:52
    geometric sizing at length let's talk
  • 00:21:54
    about the elephant in the room
  • 00:21:57
    non-geometric strategies
  • 00:22:00
    why is it that hijack doesn't just bet
  • 00:22:02
    125 percent change why don't they just
  • 00:22:04
    try and make a perfectly polarized range
  • 00:22:06
    I mean if we look at the ranges tab
  • 00:22:09
    and check out the equity distribution we
  • 00:22:12
    can see they have a massive range
  • 00:22:13
    advantage throughout hijack has all the
  • 00:22:16
    strongest over cards they've got the
  • 00:22:18
    over pairs they've got the strong Jack X
  • 00:22:21
    but they don't have one important factor
  • 00:22:24
    that all important not Advantage you see
  • 00:22:29
    big blind
  • 00:22:30
    actually has the nuts they have all the
  • 00:22:33
    trips here and so if hijack were to use
  • 00:22:37
    this super polarized geometric betting
  • 00:22:40
    strategy right from the Flop that end up
  • 00:22:42
    narrowing themselves against this
  • 00:22:45
    extremely strong range where they're way
  • 00:22:46
    behind instead a much more effective
  • 00:22:49
    strategy is going to be using a smaller
  • 00:22:52
    size from the start and polarizing on
  • 00:22:55
    later streets so for example a 33
  • 00:22:58
    percent bet on this board forces an
  • 00:23:01
    interesting response
  • 00:23:03
    we can see that because the board is so
  • 00:23:05
    dry
  • 00:23:06
    big blind has to overfold a ton they're
  • 00:23:09
    folding 50
  • 00:23:10
    whereas MDF says they should fold
  • 00:23:13
    something like 25.
  • 00:23:15
    and in order to prevent hijack from
  • 00:23:18
    betting with impunity from just betting
  • 00:23:20
    any two cards
  • 00:23:22
    a big line needs to discourage them with
  • 00:23:25
    aggressive Check Racing
  • 00:23:27
    we can see them check raising 20 of
  • 00:23:30
    their range here
  • 00:23:32
    this has the effect of giving us
  • 00:23:34
    information right
  • 00:23:36
    when they check raise that's where
  • 00:23:38
    they're going to put most of their trips
  • 00:23:40
    some top pair and some Bluffs
  • 00:23:43
    and when they call their range is much
  • 00:23:46
    more condensed towards medium hands
  • 00:23:49
    right pairs made hands Ace highs stuff
  • 00:23:52
    like that
  • 00:23:54
    so we become more Clairvoyant when they
  • 00:23:59
    call
  • 00:24:00
    and that only happened because we forced
  • 00:24:02
    them to split their range by starting
  • 00:24:04
    with a small bet which forces this uh
  • 00:24:09
    check raise response
  • 00:24:11
    for that reason it's not always
  • 00:24:13
    effective to start with geometric
  • 00:24:16
    strategies sometimes it what the silver
  • 00:24:19
    will prefer is to start with smaller
  • 00:24:20
    bets on earlier streets and only
  • 00:24:22
    polarize on like turn and river or
  • 00:24:26
    sometimes it'll wait until the river
  • 00:24:27
    before it starts polarizing at all
  • 00:24:30
    something else to consider
  • 00:24:32
    and someone's definitely going to point
  • 00:24:34
    this out if I don't is that
  • 00:24:37
    the term value and Bluff is not well
  • 00:24:40
    defined on the flop if we take a look at
  • 00:24:43
    the equity
  • 00:24:45
    for example
  • 00:24:46
    top airtop kicker only has about 75
  • 00:24:49
    percent here
  • 00:24:52
    um even trips only about 90 so the value
  • 00:24:55
    is in pure value and the Bluffs aren't
  • 00:24:58
    pure Bluffs
  • 00:24:59
    you're not perfectly polarized
  • 00:25:02
    however in general
  • 00:25:05
    as you approach Showdown
  • 00:25:08
    your value will become closer to Pure
  • 00:25:10
    value and your Bluffs will become closer
  • 00:25:13
    to zero that is to say the equity tends
  • 00:25:17
    to crystallize on later streets that's
  • 00:25:20
    why in general
  • 00:25:22
    uh on the Flop you're gonna see smaller
  • 00:25:25
    sizes more merge strategies at first
  • 00:25:28
    because your ranges are naturally less
  • 00:25:31
    polarized
  • 00:25:32
    and your ranges will naturally become
  • 00:25:34
    more polarized on later streets
  • 00:25:36
    therefore geometric strategies and in
  • 00:25:40
    general just over bets you know nuts or
  • 00:25:42
    nothing betting strategies are more
  • 00:25:45
    common on turn and River than they are
  • 00:25:47
    on the flop
  • 00:25:48
    all right let's wrap this up so in
  • 00:25:51
    conclusion the geometric bet size is the
  • 00:25:55
    idea that you bet the same percentage
  • 00:25:57
    the same fraction of the pot on every
  • 00:25:59
    street in order to get Stacks in by the
  • 00:26:01
    river this has the effect of maximizing
  • 00:26:04
    villains defending range which maximizes
  • 00:26:07
    how much money they put into the pot
  • 00:26:09
    this strategy works best when your range
  • 00:26:11
    is polarized that's because your nutted
  • 00:26:14
    hands want to extract the most value
  • 00:26:16
    possible which happens when they defend
  • 00:26:19
    as wide as possible
  • 00:26:21
    I also noted that you can use the
  • 00:26:23
    geometric bet size to approximate stack
  • 00:26:26
    off ranges
  • 00:26:27
    and I've covered this in some of my
  • 00:26:29
    previous mechanics videos but
  • 00:26:31
    essentially if you compare their
  • 00:26:34
    defending range versus just shipping it
  • 00:26:37
    on one street versus spending an equal
  • 00:26:40
    fraction in all three streets
  • 00:26:42
    multiply the mdfs out
  • 00:26:44
    and you can roughly approximate how wide
  • 00:26:47
    they'll defend in total which can be
  • 00:26:50
    used to gauge the optimal strategy and
  • 00:26:52
    gauge the relative value of the nut
  • 00:26:54
    advantage
  • 00:26:56
    non-geometric strategies are used
  • 00:26:59
    because your betting range is not always
  • 00:27:01
    perfectly polarized these strategies are
  • 00:27:04
    best for pushing your middling equity
  • 00:27:06
    and gaining information Equity tends to
  • 00:27:09
    crystallize as you approach the river
  • 00:27:11
    that is to say your value becomes closer
  • 00:27:13
    to Pure value and your Bluffs become
  • 00:27:15
    closer to zero as you get further and
  • 00:27:18
    further towards Showdown we also saw
  • 00:27:22
    that betting larger than Geo is
  • 00:27:24
    sometimes used to fold out draw Equity
  • 00:27:27
    this is typically the case when
  • 00:27:29
    immediate folds are more valuable than
  • 00:27:32
    maximizing their calling range however
  • 00:27:36
    it is fairly rare in practice anyway
  • 00:27:40
    that's it for the video guys I hope you
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