- I lose the most money when I start playing with too small hands and then try to bluff. Don’t do non-value bluffs at all at the beginning because they seem hard for me. The same with trying to call out bluffs. Most often I lose my money when I try to call out bluffs. Try to not do it at all at least if I don’t have any value in my hand.
- Play consistently. That way I get to see if I actually win in long term with my skills when tilts aren’t ruining the data.
- What range of cards the opponent would do what they did? What they think I have so it makes sense for them to do it.
- Sometimes I need to do coin flips and sometimes opponents with smaller odds win but it’s normal and I shouldn’t tilt.
- One weird habit I have is to raise to get sense of what opponent has. If it’s a value raise, it makes sense. If it’s a bluff raise it makes sense but don’t just bet something to get action and make it easier to predict their range. Only bet if you know if it’s for value or bluff (semi-bluff, pure bluff very rarely).
- Think in every hand
- position
- how many players are left (in position, out of position)
- how many chips do playing players have (low stack - deep stack)
- if someone raised:
- pot odds (+ implied odds + reverse implied odds)
- card odds
- what they believe is my range and how it changes if I call
- Do I have the best hand, can i draw the best hand, or (in extremely rare situations) am I trying to totally bluff assuming they cbet too often
- what’s the opponent's range
- if thinking of raising:
- What’s the range opponent would pay
- am I raising value, semi-bluff, or bluff? How likely bluff or semi-bluff works with the opponents range?
- if thinking of re-raising:
- What’s the range opponent would pay
- am I raising value, semi-bluff, or bluff? How likely bluff or semi-bluff works with the opponents range?
- When I know a player’s range, what is the ratio of combinations of winning hands to losing hands
REM → range, equity, maximize. This framework is basically how to play profitable poker. Everything else are in these three steps.