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For a more complete understanding of the article, we recommend that you first study the material: fold equity in poker and bluff mathematics.
As is known from the basic concepts of poker mathematics, there are two ways to make a profit in the game:
- Due to the equity of the hand, when it was possible to collect a strong combination;
- By winning the pot without opening, making a bet that the villain does not want to pay.
This article will focus on the bluff strategy in poker, which brings a lot of profit to those who use it. This action is called auto profit. The term “one-street exploit” is also often used.
1. Auto Profit
Auto profit is a bluff action that brings automatic profit at a distance, based on the mathematical features of earnings in poker.
More specifically, the profit due to the "refold" by opponents against your aggression at a distance the long run. Let's look at this concept in an example. You bet an extended bet sized 30% of the pot against one opponent, the board is
. There is confidence that on average оpponents throw 50% of their hands on the cbet in such a board.
According to the simplified formula of earnings at the expense of fold equity, it turns out:
- Bluff break-even point: 30 / 130 = 23%
- Profit: 50% - 23% = 27%
This results in such a big gap between the necessary and real fold equity that you get an incredible 27% of net profit immediately on the flop every time you bet on the entire bluff bet range. This is a single example of “auto profit”, when without much thought you earn chips by performing a simple action.
The lower the limit played in poker, the more auto-earning strategic moves there are. Learn how to do them and you will quickly increase your ROI.
Low limits in tournament poker up to ABI$15 are defeated with a giant winrate and ROY simply through basic strategic concepts, which can be obtained free of charge from the Exan13 poker school in the form of a special self-education file and a free course "Basics of preflop and postflop games".
Further, as much auto profit as possible is added to these basic concepts, and poker at these limits becomes very positive. Finding and implementing these actions in the game strategy is a key task of a professional player at any limit. The lower the limit, the more simple and understandable the actions bring mountains of auto profit.
There are several good options for quickly learning these concepts:
- Buy a post-flop bluff course - the highest level;
- Take an individual training session from Alexey Exan13 or another site coach
And a few longer, but still available options:
- Get the course for free by accumulating a special currency of the site – U-points;
- Carefully study the debriefings and poker streams.
In this article, MTT coach Alexey Exan13 will give one example of an auto-profitable preflop action that 95% of tournament players don't perform before $33.
2. steal from the small blind in 100% of cases
A simple steal from a small blind against a big one at limits up to $33 inclusive brings a big winrate with any starting combination. This action will give a higher winrate than the limp in a similar position. The lowest part of the range of offsuited cards shows the winrate in the open raise of 50-80 evbb\100, which is a greater profit than the lower half of the range of the standard opening at any of the positions.
You need to take into account one point - after an auto-profitable action on one of the streets (in this example — preflop), you can lose the earned chips by playing the following streets very negatively. Therefore, with each quick-money button included, there is a simple instruction on how not to lose profits.
In the 100% open raise SB vs BB example, it is important to follow simple rules:
- 4-bet on premium hands only.
- Call in 3bet pots only with allowed hands.
- 100% cbet sized 30% of sweat.
- Turn tightly – 80-90% of the pot in a bluff or immediately give up.
- Refuse to continue the bluff on the river.
By following this short instruction, you will get an auto-earning bluff-raise on either hand and start earning more.
3. Conclusion
The strategy of playing poker is not always thinking at different levels, trying to lay and compare the game range and make some complex calculations.
In many ways, strong poker is just a set of automatic decisions (sometimes completely illogical at first glance) that bring a lot of profit. The Exan13 School website will feature a number of strategic articles highlighting these auto-earning activities for limits up to $33 so you can grow and develop!
