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Pedro Garagnani's avatar

Great analysis Sam

Sam Greenwood's avatar

Thank you Pedro. I hope you have a relaxing holiday.

Jeremy Steel's avatar

Textbook japanese discipline to not windmill the bluff. Honestly in this spot I think the dagger you deliver to the opponent nets you considerable ev.

I feel like the lazy betting pattern of small flop, medium turn, larger river is a bit of a trap I fall into the Jesse has experienced here. I’m not sure what bias it is that makes us do it but it’s super common

Matt Matros's avatar

Great post! "So Ryuta should short-cut to bluffing his pair+gutshots when he has a heart" I assume you meant a club here? If not, please explain.

Sam Greenwood's avatar

When I ran a PIO sim for this hand I picked a random rainbow board and didn't look up the suits and wrote the whole post referencing the PIO sim instead of the hand. I thought I correctly turned every "heart" into club, but I failed. Changing it now.

Zachary Neugut's avatar

Where is the hand grade?

Sam Greenwood's avatar

The perils of writing a blog in one day. He made three decisions that I think were suboptimal, but collectively lost very little EV and then one decision that lost boatloads of EV. I'll give it a C-