When Should You Continue Barreling on a Brick Turn Card? - Upswing Poker
Optimal value-to-bluff ratios are easiest to calculate on the river because our bluffs should have 0% equity when called.
This is in contrast to preflop, the flop, and the turn, where our bluffs will almost always have some equity when called. So, let’s work backward and start by evaluating a river example.
Suppose the pot is $100 on the river and we want to bet 75% of the pot with a perfectly balanced and polarized range.
This means that our opponent will risk $75 to win a $250 pot ($100 pot + our $75 bet + his $75 call), which means that he needs to win 30% of the time ($75 / $250 = 0.30) with his bluff-catchers in order to break even on his call.
Preflop RFI Strategy - A Simple Way to Open The Action
Which Hands Should Be RFI?
As previously mentioned, hand selection and range construction are the first key components to developing a strong RFI strategy. Given that folding yields an expected value (EV) of zero, you want to choose to raise with hands which will have a positive EV.
Below is a chart outlining the RFI ranges for a 6-max table (taken from our free preflop charts), assuming effective stack sizes are 100 big blinds:
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Interesting situation from a bounty tournament
Little and Alex Weldon are wrong calculating how much the bounty is worth based on the starting stack.
Watching the players directly to your left
I realize there are a lot of poker players skeptical about the value of poker tells. But I guarantee you that you can make or save a good amount of chips just by keeping an eye on the player directly to your left.
