You are not thin worth wagering enough
18/03/2024

You are not thin worth wagering enough

Dara O Kearney

Dara O’Kearney Thin worth wagering, particularly on the river, is an element of poker many people do not comprehend. A great deal of gamers will wager the flop and turn with a one set hand, and encourage themselves that they can’t get a 3rd street of worth on the river. They make certain that just a much better hand will call 3 streets. They just fire a 3rd barrel if they are 100% positive they have the finest hand.

That’s not the method to think of thin worth bets. By meaning, you just need to be ahead more than 50% of the time for a thin worth bet to be successful.

Fight of the middle varieties

Among the most underrated tools in GTO Wizard is the equity chart function, which reveals 2 line charts, one for each variety, representing the equity of each variety. It actually highlights just how much thin worth you can obtain from your challenger.

Listed below is the river for a 50BB area, single raised pot, UTG vs BTN. The flop is J ♥ 7 ♣ 5 ♦ and it goes check/check. The turn is the Q ♥ and it goes bet 55%, then call. The river is a blanky 2 ♠. Below are the varieties and the equity chart for the area:

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Click to increase the size of UTG has 56% equity in general. As you can see, around the middle of the chart UTG jumps ahead of the BTN in regards to equity. If you hover over the line, it will reveal you the hand where your cursor is and the matching hand in the challenger’s variety.

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For example at the middle in the chart, UTG has JTs for 2nd set and the BTN has 76s for 3rd set. At the 65% mark of the chart UTG has AJs and the BTN has 99. At the 70% mark UTG has QTs and the BTN has KJs.

These are all hands that would likely call and you are losing out on worth if you check/call with them. These are all hands that would definitely examine behind when inspected to.

As shown by the equity chart above, thin worth wagering is everything about the middle of your variety. Yours might not be that strong, however if theirs is weaker, you need to wager more. This is where most beginners miss their worth.

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