Week(s) In Review #60 May 24-June 6th 2026
POTD devotees may have noticed there was no Week in Review last week. That is because as I was putting the finishing touches on last week’s Week in Review, my wife went into labour and shortly thereafter delivered our second child. I am not known for being a live read specialist, but there were some clues I missed, such as my wife saying “I think I’m having contractions” on Friday night, approximately 12 hours before we left to go to the hospital. All’s well that ends well, and my sleep schedule is not totally ruined yet. A small victory that I do not want to brag about, lest I jinx it, so we will move on.
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I have some evergreen Week in Review topics I can write about, such as what constitutes “fair” markup, when should late registration end in tournaments, and what makes a good poker broadcasting team. I also have some more esoteric ones, such as game theory and wagering in Jeopardy!, and what is wrong with the Toronto Blue Jays? But this week, I wanted to ensure I got something published, so I am keeping it brief, but I will put this in bold before asking you to subscribe.
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Additional Sims For Premium Subscribers
Premium Subscribers are given access to a Google Drive folder where they will also be able to download the raw files of sims I used to write my POTDs, sims that are more accurate and appropriate than equivalent sims in the big public libraries. The past two weeks I uploaded
A PIO sim look at my response to Brewer’s large preflop size for POTD #285
A Rocket Solver flop sim (and several failed tests) for POTD #286
Several HRC sims testing when five-bet shoving KQs is best for POTD #287
A Rocket Solver sim looking at the three-way three-bet pot POTD #288
A PIO sim for POTD #289
A PIO ICM using custom preflop ranges for POTD 290
Additional Analysis for Premium Subscribers
Everyday Premium Subscribers get an extra bit of analysis not included in the main post. Today, I’ll share #onemorething from POTD #285, where I wrote about what my response might look like vs. a slightly smaller three-bet size.
POTD #285 onemorething
What if Chris picked a large, but slightly more normal three bet size, let’s say he three bet to 15bbs. I’d still mix preflop folds with pocket pairs, but the folds would start to kick in with pocket sevens and lower instead of pocket nines like we saw above. I would never fold AKo to this size, but would start folding KTs, QTs and suited connectors between T9s and 76s. 65s is still the super star and always calls.
When he three bets to a smaller size less of his three betting range is AA, so he still c-bets a lot, but more betting volume goes into a quarter pot size and less goes into half pot. When he bets quarter pot I raise the flop around 15% of the time with all my 5x combos, including 65 and the raise is enough to get JJ and TT without a spade to start folding right away. When I reach the turn 5x with a flopped backdoor flush draw mostly gives up on the turn, but the 5x combos without a backdoor flush draw usually keep barreling. A 60% pot turn bet is enough to get some of his weakest Kx to start folding right away and even some AA and AK combos start folding. The river strategy remains the same, he will bluff with 5x and 76 so I lose to some bluffs and block a whole bunch of his bluffs and I have a very easy fold. So it looks like using “normal” ranges my flop play is a little better and I should have given more consideration to barreling the turn, but my river fold is good. One of the questions one needs to consider when analyzing this hand is: Is his big preflop size actually similar to what the solver picks or it is just a sizing error and his range will more closely resemble a 14bb or 15bb three bet range? But in this hand it doesn’t matter all that much, my hand can raise the flop and barrel the turn, but it needs to fold the river.
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