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The way we measure our performance against the Trainer is by tracking "EV Loss" or Expected Value Loss. The best possible result after you pick your action is an EV Loss of 0. This means your action breaks even against a perfect player.

When EV Loss isn’t 0, the number shown is the amount of big blinds that we would lose taking a specific action in the long run.

It is possible to make a poor play (high EV Loss) that results in you winning a specific hand. I’m sure you’ve all seen players make bad plays and win the pot or make the right play and lose the pot. Over time EV Loss will track closer and closer to actual losses.

We only care about EV Loss, we don’t care whether or not we win any one particular hand.

This allows us to have a long term mindset towards poker that focuses on the quality of our decisions and not short term results.

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Learn The Strategy For The 5 Cash Game Hands You Just Played!

Today we’re focused on a typical cash game spot where you’re in position against a tough player in the Big Blind after making a standard opening raise from Middle Position.

Both player’s ranges are somewhat wide here consisting of between 15-20% of total hands. As the preflop raiser your range is uncapped, while the Big Blind’s range is capped as they would be 3-betting with most of their big hands in this scenario.

When stacks are deep and ranges are reasonably wide, the in-position player has a very large advantage postflop. With wider ranges postflop hand strengths tend to be weaker which can make it tough for the out of position player to fully realize their equity with many of their holdings against a tough, aggressive player in position.

This dynamic means that as the in-position player you get to do a lot of continuation betting postflop in this scenario. On static boards you will have a significant range advantage and will often use a smaller c-betting size. On more dynamic boards solvers prefer a mixed strategy that tends to favor a larger sizing when you do bet.

Remember that dynamic doesn’t always mean coordinated, it simply means that turn and river cards can significantly change equities. This is true of coordinated boards, but it is also true of less coordinated boards containing low cards (particularly when paired) as many over cards can have a significant impact on player equities.

See how close you get to 0 EV Loss and high percentage plays, then reread the advice above from the LearnWPT Pros.

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