Sharpening reads with blockers

Holding a single ace cuts their AA combinations from six down to three.

The closer the decision, the more this matters.

When a blocker line appears in the explanation, read the spot again with it in mind.

• blocker

  A card in your hand that your opponent therefore cannot hold, which removes some of their strongest combinations.

• range

  All the hands a player could hold in this spot, not just one guess. Decisions are made against the whole set.

• mixed strategy

  Playing the same hand differently some of the time, so an opponent cannot read your holding from your action.

20 hands or more, with an optimal rate of 70% and average EV loss no worse than 0.10BB