christopherlouorlina
Rising Star
Bronze Level
Thinking about hand ranges would help a poker players game exponentially.
So what are ranges?
-I simply define it as a set of hands a hero or villain may play in certain situations.
Lets elaborate:
what are these situations?
1. Pre-flop raising
2. 3-betting
3. flat calling
4. c-betting
5. and many more
you can start by thinking about your own hand ranges, so what range of hands do you play pre-flop depending on position?what range do you 3-bet with? etc.
once you start thinking about your own range, thinking about hand ranges of your opponent will follow.
What are the benefits on thinking about ranges?
1. hand analysis becomes easy > instead of pin pointing a certain hand of your opponent you can think about the range of hands they are playing in a situation and come up with a better guess
2. decision becomes easy > when you decide based on what your opponent may have it is a very tiring decision to think hand by hand but if you decide base on their hand ranges the decision becomes easy and much more precise
3. you make less mistakes > it is because if you specifically assign a hand to a villain there is a much bigger change that your guess is wrong thus you will make more mistakes compared to decisions you make when you base it on a range.
hope you enjojyed reading..Godspeed
So what are ranges?
-I simply define it as a set of hands a hero or villain may play in certain situations.
Lets elaborate:
what are these situations?
1. Pre-flop raising
2. 3-betting
3. flat calling
4. c-betting
5. and many more
you can start by thinking about your own hand ranges, so what range of hands do you play pre-flop depending on position?what range do you 3-bet with? etc.
once you start thinking about your own range, thinking about hand ranges of your opponent will follow.
What are the benefits on thinking about ranges?
1. hand analysis becomes easy > instead of pin pointing a certain hand of your opponent you can think about the range of hands they are playing in a situation and come up with a better guess
2. decision becomes easy > when you decide based on what your opponent may have it is a very tiring decision to think hand by hand but if you decide base on their hand ranges the decision becomes easy and much more precise
3. you make less mistakes > it is because if you specifically assign a hand to a villain there is a much bigger change that your guess is wrong thus you will make more mistakes compared to decisions you make when you base it on a range.
hope you enjojyed reading..Godspeed
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