Poker

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• Thoughts after a few more days

  • I’m starting to be able to predict the strength of the opponent’s hand by observing their bets
    • (Maybe it’s because I’m in the beginner’s room, so it’s easy)

• Thoughts after playing for a few days on the WSOP app

  • It seems important to have a thorough awareness of randomness
    • For example, even if good cards come out after folding, I think it’s different to think “I made a mistake”
    • I should evaluate my actions based on whether I was able to maximize the expected value
    • Highly Random Things
  • If I feel like I’m being influenced by the opponent’s raises, it seems better to give up even if I was planning to raise myself
    • This may not apply universally when playing against advanced players
  • Even if I try to evaluate probabilities on the spot, counting the number of possible favorable outcomes is the limit
    • Like having only 2-3 good outcomes or having 5 possible outcomes
    • It’s clear that this is wrong, but I can’t think beyond that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shRfL5Uux2E

rickshinmi lecture

• Hand

• Position

  • Being in a later position is advantageous

• Number of players

  • Fewer players is advantageous

• Hand chart

  • As a premise, you should actively fold bad cards
    • I didn’t have much of this sense (blu3mo)
  • How to use:
    • Use it when you have your own hand
    • It can also be used to read the opponent’s hand
      • I see (blu3mo)(blu3mo)

• I’m not sure if A+ and the others are really that valuable

  • A also has a role as a kicker, so maybe that’s why it’s highlighted in yellow (blu3mo)

• Pre-flop

  • If you’re not in the big blind, you should choose either ①raise and participate or ②fold
    • Checking is generally not recommended (unless there has already been a raise) (blu3mo)(blu3mo)(blu3mo)
  • There are various theories, but generally a raise of about 3BB is appropriate
  • It’s difficult to make the right move when facing a big raise from someone after raising pre-flop

• After the flop, first round

  • You should try to predict the opponent’s hand to some extent
  • When it’s the original raiser (the person who raised pre-flop)
    • It’s important to mix up your patterns so that they can’t read your hand
  • When it’s not the original raiser: it’s better to avoid a donk bet
    • It’s not good to raise before the person who raised pre-flop (the original raiser) acts
    • It’s important to know how the original raiser will act in this round, so it’s not good to raise before obtaining that information

• Subsequent rounds

  • Consider whether you are winning or not
  • When you are almost certain to be winning
    • => Value bet
  • When there is a possibility of winning (like being able to make a flush)
    • => Bet strongly
    • The goal is to eliminate the opponent’s possibilities
      • This is very important (blu3mo)(blu3mo)
    • Since there has already been a raise at this point, you can expect to make a decent profit (blu3mo)
    • To eliminate the opponent’s possibilities of a flush, etc., you should bet a large amount (around the size of the pot)

      • What’s important is to bet based on the amount in the pot

        • A “bet n% of the pot” move always has the same meaning in terms of expected value
  • When you are almost certain to be losing
    • => Bluff bet
    • Bluffing should only be done when you have some hope

• Things to avoid

  • Making small raises
    • It doesn’t serve as value or bluff- Long-term Strategy
  • Always be aware of the chip count in BB units.
  • Start feeling the urgency when the stack is around 20BB, and consider folding or making an all-in move.
    • Avoid gradually losing chips.
    • All-in move.
    • Even if the stack is reduced to around 5BB, it doesn’t have much power.
      • It’s better to use the all-in move while still having significant power.

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• I don’t know any rules.

• It seems interesting and I’m curious.

• It relates to Neumann’s game theory (tkgshn).

• I’m good at it (rickshinmi).

  • Let’s play (tkgshn)(tkgshn)(tkgshn).
    • Definitely! (I’ve been saying I’ll play for a while without actually doing it) (rickshinmi)(rickshinmi)(rickshinmi)

• I roughly understand the rules of Texas Hold’em.

• It seems important to have the mindset of 60fff7cd79e113000047ebfa in poker.

• However, constantly calculating probabilities may have its limits, so developing an accurate intuition for probability calculation seems important.

  • (rickshinmi) Rough probability calculations sometimes use the rule of two and four, but it would be ideal to rely on intuition.
  • https://poker101.jp/beginner/the-rule-of-two-and-four/

• I want to try it at school after summer vacation.

  • I want to try it (aka).