Learning about combos?
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I'm just touching the concept of combos and I'm wondering if being equally weighted of two hand types and heavily more weighted to the third hand type is a bad thing. Is your range more polarized with more weight to one side or does your range become polarized when all hand types include the same amount of combos. I seem to be heavily weighted towards one hand type and the other two are almost exactly equal does that make me an exploitable player?
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I you think of 3 types of hands.....Strong, Middling, and weak...
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Then a polarized range (sometimes called non linear) consist of strong and week
3 beting QQ+ and AK, as well as A2s-A5s and 45s-89s....type thing...here you have 34 strong combos and 32 week combos
Where as a linear range (or depolarized)....would be the strong and medium hands.
That is QQ+ AK, but now you add in middle hands like 88-JJ and AQ
So now you would have 34 strong combos and 32 middling combos
I actually don't worry about being exploitable...I worry about exploiting them and not exploiting myself. Which of the above two ranges would be best for 3 bets (or if another might be better) would depend on how I expected my opponent to respond.
If I though he would fold or 4 bet me then the polarized range is better....If I though he would defend by calling more then the linear range becomes better.