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[PokerShaman]

Nope. I've never worked as a dealer anywhere,

[PokerShaman]

Remember that these are "implementable" GTO ranges, in which playing one hand at 100% frequency is a substitute for playing multiple similar...

[PokerShaman]

Depending on how much you are willing to pay in transaction fees, using bitcoin runs from fairly easy (higher transaction fees) to a minor pain in the...

[PokerShaman]

I believe it is true that you can get 27% rakeback directly from ACR, but I am not certain of it. Players have the option of getting rakeback, or signing...

Hi PokerShaman,

I have a newbie question on getting rakeback at Americas Cardroom. Is it correct that one can get 27% by just downloading...

[PokerShaman]

Never played PLO, have you?

[PokerShaman]

Folding to the flop raise would be absurd. Folding to a c-bet on what is basically a brick turn card is also absurd.

I think you are letting...

[PokerShaman]

I am only familiar with grey-market US-facing sites, basically the Winning Poker Network (America's Card Room, Black Chip Poker) and Ignition/Bovada....

[PokerShaman]

Cash games are predatory hustles in a way that tournaments simply are not.Cash game regs of necessity are always looking out for the weaker players, the...

[PokerShaman]

Yes the villain has more 77 and 55 in their range, but their call of our preflop three-bet eliminates or deeply discounts premium hands. "Nut advantage"...

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The problem with this board is that it has both an ace and a king on it, and a villain with a 67% button opening range is going to have all of the Ax...

[PokerShaman]

A subscription will cost you eight buy-ins per month (unless you can chase down a discount, which is far from impossible). The question is, will subscribing...

[PokerShaman]

Preflop, I think our sizing is a bit off. We only have 19bb in our stack, so every chip is precious. I would open the minimum, to 2bb.

On...

[PokerShaman]

Pretty much the only AhX the villain can have that hasn't paired up to beat us is Ah9x, and Ax9h is pretty much the only bare 9h in their range. I wouldn't...

[PokerShaman]

When we ask why we three-bet AK, we should look at why we three-bet any hand in our three-betting range. The answer is that three-betting makes money...

[PokerShaman]

Since Power Equilab costs $5/month to rent, with savings interest at 1% that makes the equivalent purchase price some $6,000. $25 is two orders of magnitude...

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I had thought that the ranges in the Tools section were made by a solver, presumably Monkersolver. HRC is nowhere near as elaborate as a solver, and so...

[PokerShaman]

It isn't the wild, gamb00ly play of the bad players at low stakes that make them hard to beat; it's the rake. 5% with a $3 cap may as well be an uncapped...

[PokerShaman]

Flopzilla Pro is Flopzilla on steroids. I have only begun to scratch the surface of using it for multiway analyses.

Most of what is out there...

[PokerShaman]

The point of squeezing is that it is dramatically profitable, especially against a 66/56 aggro-whale. If we don't squeeze we will be playing a multi-way...