Polytarp
Legend
Bronze Level
Been re-reading the posts in the various course segments and am developing an appreciation of the influence of this course which is helping me to ask better questions (I hope).
As professionals against professionals, what do you look for in an MTT when assessing someone's price point for their bluffs, calls and raises while you're putting them on a card range? Obviously this is being done in reverse but how often have you been surprised by what your opponent held at a showdown on the river vs having extracted the maximum value and having pin pointed their hole cards?
I've led a few opponents down a garden path hand-holding them to the river a great hand and betting (what I believe to be) the right amount to extract value and to keep them in the hand only to lose to a bigger full house, flush etc. when they hit their 1-4%. It takes a while to make up such a loss, if at all. Should I continue playing in this manner or would it be better to shove and probably take the smaller win..in the long run?
As a side note, Alan Turing would try to solve a challenging problem on his own first rather than look at someone's solution to a problem upon hearing about it. Throughout your course segments I've tried to logically solve them rather than apply some wishy-washy thinking or look up "the answer" elsewhere. In all of the questions that have been posed within the course, how many of them have exactly one right answer? Or, what are ALL the only applicable answers that apply relative to the constraints of the question? At present, I can't recognize a properly framed poker question that can be answered in only one way...so I'll keep studying and asking questions.
As professionals against professionals, what do you look for in an MTT when assessing someone's price point for their bluffs, calls and raises while you're putting them on a card range? Obviously this is being done in reverse but how often have you been surprised by what your opponent held at a showdown on the river vs having extracted the maximum value and having pin pointed their hole cards?
I've led a few opponents down a garden path hand-holding them to the river a great hand and betting (what I believe to be) the right amount to extract value and to keep them in the hand only to lose to a bigger full house, flush etc. when they hit their 1-4%. It takes a while to make up such a loss, if at all. Should I continue playing in this manner or would it be better to shove and probably take the smaller win..in the long run?
As a side note, Alan Turing would try to solve a challenging problem on his own first rather than look at someone's solution to a problem upon hearing about it. Throughout your course segments I've tried to logically solve them rather than apply some wishy-washy thinking or look up "the answer" elsewhere. In all of the questions that have been posed within the course, how many of them have exactly one right answer? Or, what are ALL the only applicable answers that apply relative to the constraints of the question? At present, I can't recognize a properly framed poker question that can be answered in only one way...so I'll keep studying and asking questions.
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