In Finding Poker Leaks Part 1 I talked about how to use Hold’em Manager to find leaks in your c-betting strategy. In the second part of this series of an undetermined size, I’m going to talk about analyzing your line to find out if your line has a good risk-to-reward ratio. Like the C-betting article, this one was also inspired by Jason Ho over at Stoxpoker. I highly recommend you sign up and watch his videos. It’ll be well worth the money. Enough ass kissing. On with the show.
Here’s what you’ll need to analyze your line:
A program like Hold’em Manager or PokerTracker3 that’ll give you stats on your villain
A program like FlopZilla or Pokerazor to show you how often your villain’s range hits
This .xlsx file that I made from watching Jason Ho’s video
The hand history you want to analyze
Step 1
Grab the hand history you want to analyze. And look up the villains VPIP stats and C-bet percentage in Hold’em Manager or PokerTracker3.
Step 2
Select your villains range (VPIP) in FlopZilla or Pokerazor as well as the flop cards and run an analysis to see what percentage of the time he makes certain hands with that range.
Step 3
Insert the percentages from Step 2 on the Excel spreadsheet as well as the villain’s C-bet percentage.
Step 4
Fill in the pre-flop, flop, turn, and river bets on the Excel spreadsheet.
Step 5
Enter the possible lines you could take (check/call, check/call, check/fold; check/call, check/raise, bet; etc.) in the designated are on the spreadsheet. Then enter the minimum and maximum loss/gain that each line could give you.
Step 6
Using the percentages you got from Flopzilla/Pokerazor and your opponents actions, decide which line gives you the best return on investment.
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I realize these steps are a little vague if you’ve never done this before, but I promise that once you get the hang of it you’ll be able to find the most profitable line in any given situation and spot a ton of post-flop leaks in your game. If you want to see a video version of this, you can sign up at Stoxpoker and watch Jason Ho’s videos. When you do, you’ll understand why I have such a bro-ner for the guy. He’s a genius.
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