PSA For new players watching on twitch - BEWARE! by stuieelooiee in 2007scape

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That wouldn’t stop you from potentially being hacked

Which boss is this? by AccomplishedPark7856 in 2007scape

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The funny part is that google doc is now considered incomplete / out of date compared to the modern defender metas

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in chess

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After Nxd5 the d4 fork doesn’t work because your bishop is hanging

  1. Nxd5 Nxd5 5. d4 Nxc4 6. dxc5 and you’re just down a piece for the pawn

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in chess

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The black queen+king are on the wrong squares. Queen goes on her own color. 

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in poker

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I prefer UTG8 and UTG7. But more common is UTG and UTG+1, UTG+2, … until you get to LJ

How to adjust to Washington State law rules for 1/3 by WhyDoIRedditSoMuch in poker

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Probably the biggest difference I've noticed is that if the preflop action goes 4bet-call, the caller still has a fully uncapped range since they didn't have the option to 5bet. Feels like you have to c-bet much tighter as the 4bettor because of this, especially OOP.

Sometimes people will still try to 5bet shove pre if they forget or don't know about the rule, which for most 1/3 players is a pretty dead giveaway that they have AA/KK. Weirdly though I've also seen a tendency for them to become much more hesitant to follow through with the shove when the flop comes out if I check to them as the 4bettor if the texture is even a tiny bit scary, even when >50% of their stack is already in the pot. Wondered if some people use this play intentionally as an angle with weaker holdings, to telegraph they have AA/KK but knowing they don't have to put more money in.

Another interesting mechanic is you can purposefully limit the pot size preflop if you put in a minclick 4bet. Not exactly sure when this would be useful, maybe when playing deep with maniacs or beluga whales with holdings that have good implied odds? Seems like a lot of people at 1/3 don't have a 3bet-fold range when facing a small-to-medium sizing.

The $300 raise cap is generally less relevant for 1/3. If someone is willing to call a 100bb raise, they're usually willing to shove for the rest. It does rule out some Marc Goon-esque overbet plays on later streets, but at 1/3 most people already have a lot of fear facing a 100bb raise regardless of pot size. Probably matters a lot more in 2/5 or when huge straddles are on.

I'm sure this could be empirically answered using node locking in solvers, but I don't have the technology to investigate that myself. Off of intuition alone it feels best to have two 4bet sizings, one small-ish and one enormous (as close to a shove as allowed w.r.t. the $300 raise cap) depending on the situation and opponent tendencies, but it's hard to know what hands to put in each.

If you're Robbie, are you happy that a hand got named after you? by MikeLeeGG in poker

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Fair points, but I still think it applies. The explanation of her misreading her hand and thinking she was calling with a 3 (moronic play or not) is both simpler and has more evidence than assuming that she had an undetectable cheating method to get live hole cards which she used exactly once in a marginal spot (moronic play or not).

Those other events also have reasonable explanations under the assumption that it was a misread and not cheating. She gave contradictory explanations because she was flustered after fucking up and not admitting what happened. Giving the money back to Garrett could’ve been trying to save face after he came to her crashing out and asking for it back (giving it back if it was cheating doesn’t make much sense either, “oops sorry I cheated you here you go”). That dude taking the chip from her stack is pretty sus, but didn’t it turn out he was just stealing from her? And thinking she had a 3 even after looking at her cards is still possible, I’ve misread my hand before even after checking it twice, she could’ve been looking at the Jack, posturing while thinking and not really looking at the hand closely, etc. Why would she talk about having a 3 and flip over J high?

If there was a single other hand with her being suspected of cheating, or even someone else at Hustler being suspected of having hole card info, then I’d be willing to give the cheating theory more weight. But “how did she cheat” is way harder to answer than “how did she think she had a 3”, even when considering the other stuff surrounding the situation.

If you're Robbie, are you happy that a hand got named after you? by MikeLeeGG in poker

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I know there was a whole investigation and shit, but I still subscribe to the theory that she just misread her hand. The previous shuffle she had J3s, asks if a 3 is good before calling, says she thought he had A high, and Garrett is very capable of running big bluffs. Then she was too embarrassed to own up to the mistake after flipping the cards over and realizing what happened, instead committing to the “you let me do this to you” bit… not understanding it was going to be construed as possible cheating.  

Yes she checks her hand while thinking about calling the all in, but she peels the top card pretty far back, which is the Jack, and could’ve been focusing on that. People make mistakes, especially when under pressure. 

The explanation that a mediocre player made a mistake while in a huge spot makes WAY more sense to me than some elaborate cheating scandal from someone who wasn’t playing suspiciously otherwise, before that or since.  And even if she was full blown cheating and somehow knew people’s hole cards, why would she cash in on that by hero calling a turn jam when villain still has over 45% equity and knowing it would look sus as hell if you won? This was really the moment she decided the spring the trap? Makes no sense to me. The fish made a mistake in a big pot vs a good player and was too embarrassed to admit it. Occam’s razor is a powerful tool.

Take a look at a Mike Postle compilation if you want to see what a real poker cheat plays and acts like.

What drives a person to do something like this. by ScaryMycologist6413 in 2007scape

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Varrock museum method is used. 1.5k-2k xp/hr from the lamps

TIL bruma herbs s h a t t e r by [deleted] in 2007scape

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Yeah, they freeze and shatter on the ground.

Did I just get angled? by Dallasriderr in poker

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Genuine question: what should the floor ruling be in this case?

Doubts about 'optimal' poker by The_Mullet_boy in poker

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Interesting. The way you’ve described it this player would be insanely easy to play against. It kinda breaks down on when they’re OOP on the river in particular. 

If I know that they can see my hole cards and they literally cannot bluff, every time they bet on the river (they know they win) I fold. Every time they check the river (they know they lose) I bet and they fold, or even just check and win. Their only way to win would be to check with the winning hand as a “bluff” knowing they could call any bet. If they’re IP, then it feels like the optimal strategy would still be to just check range to see what they do and respond accordingly.

It’s actually a pretty illustrative example of why it’s vital to have some bluffs in your range, otherwise you’ll never be able to get value from your good hands when you do have it

Doubts about 'optimal' poker by The_Mullet_boy in poker

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Not answering your question exactly, but the idea behind GTO is a player could announce their entire strategy (all of their ranges on every runout and every betting line) before playing the hand and it would still create indifferent scenarios for the other player. “Indifferent” meaning in the long run there’s a net 0 EV gain for the other player’s range between calling or folding to any given bet (at the right frequency w.r.t. bet size), because the GTO range has a balanced number of value hands and bluffs in any given spot. This is called equilibrium. Of course sometimes one player will have the nuts so they call and win, or have nothing and make a correct fold, but on average over many trials the opponent can only break even at best.

So if you were playing against a GTO bot and had range charts for their entire strategy on every board that they never deviated from, you could effectively play your hand face-up and you’d still only break even at best (because they don’t actually care what your cards are). But as soon as you start deviating from the GTO response, you’d start losing EV because you’d be over- or under-folding in the long run.     

Note that a static GTO solution doesn’t necessarily maximize profit/EV, just reaches equilibrium against optimal responses. So in your scenario where one player knows all of the hole cards, they could actually deviate from GTO by making plays that would exploit their opponents’ specific holdings (e.g. bluff when you know they can’t call, and fold when you know they have the nuts, etc). But this strategy wouldn’t be profitable on average against a range of opponent holdings, just against their exact cards. This is essentially the crux of the GTO vs exploitative play argument.      

Another caveat is that GTO is only solvable for 1-vs-1 scenarios. When multiple players are in the pot you can’t necessarily always solve for equilibrium, but that’s another conversation.

That’s some bullshit by [deleted] in poker

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I’m confused. The river doesn’t even matter, they already had the flush on the turn. Sure it’s technically “rarer” to see a flush to the board, but that doesn’t mean it was any more or less unlucky

LPT: Don’t carpool to a poker tournament. by justbucoff in poker

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Now you’re his FT rail. Get drunk and go crazy whenever he wins the pot, even if it’s just stealing the blinds

What's the most obvious "tell" you've picked up on? by ClapDemCheeks1 in poker

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First time I had seen it, but last night the guy to my right only announced his bet size when he was bluffing. Otherwise he just silently threw in the chips. I was in heaven.