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Price is a threshold, not a decision
Fictional river exercise. The pot is 80 BB before an opponent bets 60 BB. Calling costs 60 BB. Your bluff-catcher beats every bluff, loses to every value bet, and never ties. Ignore rake. What follows from the price?
Three cells, how many hands?
Fictional range exercise. A chart highlights AA, AKs and AKo. With no known cards there are 22 physical combinations. If As is unavailable, how many of those combinations remain?
What can seven opportunities tell you?
Fictional observation exercise. An opponent folded in 4 of 7 opportunities to respond to a continuation bet. Which note best separates observation from inference?
A better result on one deck
Fictional review exercise. You replay an alternate legal line on the same deck and receive 8 BB more than in the original hand. What have you established?
Discuss your own assumptions
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