Hand Reading Q&A With Doug. Jan 29th 9pm ET.

TheGameKat

Hey everyone:

We're back with a new year of live coaching sessions for our PRO subscribers. Doug will be kicking off the series with a presentation featuring one of his students, Kent. The two of them will analyze a hand in some depth, illustrating both hand-reading concepts as well as the coach-student dynamic.

We're tailoring the format to encourage audience participation (hence Q&A), so if you're in a friendly time zone, please plan to come along.

You'll recall the streaming platform we used in 2019 wasn't always the greatest, so new year, new platform. We're switching to Zoom which we used for the Zac and Ross free webinar on GTO+, as well as Fox's presentation last month. You'll find a registration link on your PRO dashboard. If you don't currently have a Zoom account, this will link you to their easy set-up which will be good for all future live coaching sessions.

See you there!

~ Kat

ps: We realize that time zones are an issue for many of you (partly because our presenters are frequently in far-flung ones), so as in 2019 a replay will be posted in the GCS archive.

TheGameKat

Thanks for coming, everyone. Any thoughts on this style of presentation, please let us know below.

Jb213

It was very well done (espicially considering how many questions i was asking!) Since i was actively typing i lost myself in the presentation quite often. I will need to watch the replay to get a better idea then i will dive in here.

I will say it was very interesting in the Q106 flop hand that the solver output gave an almost exact split between checks and bets for heros range. Does this suggest that hero took a non optimal line on the previous street?

I am quite tempted to take a trip to Manila right now...

TheGameKat

Jb213 wrote: »

It was very well done (espicially considering how many questions i was asking!) Since i was actively typing i lost myself in the presentation quite often. I will need to watch the replay to get a better idea then i will dive in here.

I will say it was very interesting in the Q106 flop hand that the solver output gave an almost exact split between checks and bets for heros range. Does this suggest that hero took a non optimal line on the previous street?

I am quite tempted to take a trip to Manila right now...

I'd have to check the replay, but I think the implication was hero's line was fine, but that there was an equally good alternative.

Jb213

Put another way, how are we inducing mistakes if the solver suggests a 50/50 split?

BFSkinner

I don’t think we are. It seems similar to inducing a mistake by shoving with ak and getting called by qq.

TheGameKat

Suppose as the OOP player we're supposed to check 50%, bet 50%. We can do either and V can still mess up.

TheGameKat

If our part of the bet tree is bet-call for V's actual hand and they fold, they just made a mistake.

TheGameKat

The replay can be accessed by all PRO subscribers through this link or the PRO dashboard.

Incidentally, if you find the video is blurry, check the gear icon. For some users this has been defaulting to 360p when it's much better at 1080p.