Poker Academy SH Advice

MisterNatural · #1 12-12-2005, 07:05 AM

These are notes from a few hands out of 100 where I thought the answers were either different than what I would do, or what I thought would be contrary to a lot of the advice here. What do you think?

6max 3/6 all players play only the top 25% of hands. Rake is set to Party Poker.

HAND 1: folded to you on button with A9o, ADVICE: fold 100% of time

HAND 2: 1 limper,you raise TT in sb, limper rr's flop with KJ7 2 flush, ADVICE CALL 47%, RAISE 53%, FOLD 0%. You call, turn is KJ75 no 3rd flush card, ADVICE: BET 98% !? You bet, and are rr'd ADVICE: RAISE 45%, CALL 55%, FOLD 0%. RIVER: KJ759 no flush card. ADVICE: CHECK and CALL BET 100%. Opponent had A7 for bottom pair no flush draw you win.

HAND 3: folded to you in the SB with AJo, ADVICE: CALL 100%

HAND 4: folded to you in utg+1 with 66. ADVICE: CALL 91%, RAISE 9%. You call, only BB checks. Flop is K53, 2 of suit matching one of your cards. BB bets. ADVICE: RAISE 100%. You raise, BB re-raises, you call. Turn is K533 no flush card, BB bets. ADVICE: 45% CALL, 55% RAISE, FOLD 0%. You raise, BB calls. RIVER is K533Q no flush, BB checks: ADVICE: BET 97%, 13% CHECK. You bet and BB mucks.

HAND 5: UTG raise to you holding 44, ADVICE CALL 91%, RAISE 9%, FOLD 0%. You and BB call. Flop T82 rainbow, utg bets, ADVICE: CALL 98%, RAISE 2%, FOLD 0%.You and SB call. Turn 82T8, UTG CHECKS. ADVICE: BET 69%, CHECK 31%.You bet, SB calls, UTG RAISES. ADVICE: CALL 98%, RAISE 2%, FOLD 0%. You and SB call, RIVER cOMES 82T82, UTG BETS, ADVICE 100% CALL. SB FOLDS AND UTG wins with QQ.

HAND 6: Folded to you on button with 66. ADVICE: CALL 91%, RAISE 9%.

HAND 7: sb open completes and you check with Q2o, flop is K44 rainbow and sb bets. ADVICEL CALL 96%, RAISE 4%, FOLD 0%. You call, turn is K449, sb checks. ADVICE: BET 71%, CHECK 29%. You bet, sb calls, RIVER is K449Q, ADVICE: BET 88%, check 12%. You bet and sb calls and mucks.

HAND 8: folded to you in CO with 33. ADVICE: CALL 91%, RAISE 9%.

HAND 9: You are utg with A4s: ADVICE 91% CALL, RAISE 9%, FOLD 0%. You call, CO raises folded to you and you call. Flop is Q3K 1 of your suit, 2 of another. ADVICE: CHECK 67%, BET 33%. You check, CO bets. ADVICE: CALL 97%, Raise 3%, FOLD 0%. You call. Turn is Q3K5 no 3rd flush card or backdoor flush for you. ADVICE: CHECK 60%, BET 40%. You check, CO bets. ADVICE: FOLD 100%.

HAND 10: folded to you in UTG+1 with AJs, ADVICE 91%, CALL 9%. You bet, raises, folded to you and you call. FLOP K72, 2 flush of another suit. ADVICE: ABOUT 53% CHECK and 47% BET. You Check, CO bets. ADVICE: CALL 97%, RAISE 3%, FOLD 0%. You call, turn is K725 with a 3 flush. ADIVICE: CHECK 54%, BET 46%. You check, CO bets. ADVICE: FOLD 100%.

HAND 11: BUTTON Open limps and sb completes to you in BB with 77. ADVICE: CHECK 100%. You check flop is 539 2 flush. You have one of suit. ADVICE: Bet 85%, Check 15%. You bet button folds, sb calls. TURN is 5394 3 flush, sb checks you bet, then sb raises: ADVICE: CALL 53%, RAISE 47%, FOLD 0%. You call, river is 53946 giving you a straight, sb checks you bet and sb mucks.

HAND 12: 1 limper to you with TT, you raise, BB re-raises and limper calls. ADVICE: RAISE 91%, CALL 9%. You raise, BB and limper call. Flop is 394 2 suited matching one of your T's. BB bets, limper calls, you raise, BB raises, limper and you call. TURN is a blank, BB bets, ADVICE is to RAISE.

HAND 13: UTG limps, Button raises, to you in SB with KQo: ADVICE: 100% fold.

HAND 14: folded to you in UTG+1 with Q9s. ADVICE: CALL 91%, RAISE 9%, FOLD 0%.

HAND 15: folded to you in sb with QJo. ADVICE: LIMP.

HAND 16: UTG+1 open limps and CO calls to you on button with 77. ADVICE: CALL 91%, RAISE 9%. You call and BB checks. Flop is 539 2 flush. You have one of suit. BB bets, UTG+1 folds, CO calls. ADVICE: Call 76%, RAISE 24%, FOLD 0%. You call. TURN is 5394 3 flush, BB bets, CO calls. ADVICE: CALL 87%, RAISE 13%, FOLD 0%. You call, river is 53946 giving you a straight, BB checks, CO checks, you bet and win. This is the same hand as #11, but in different position.

waffle · #2 12-12-2005, 07:07 AM

the advisor's pretty broken. the strong points of this software are sparbot and vexbot.

scotty34 · #3 12-12-2005, 07:08 AM

I have no idea what all of this is, but after reading a few of them, yes it seems like pretty awful advice.

It seems mostly to be tight-passive strategy with the occasionaly hand where they recommend you to ridiculously overplay it (ex: the TT hand with a K and J on the flop).

ghostface · #4 12-12-2005, 07:13 AM

No experience with poker academy, but it seems to suck.

POKhER · #5 12-12-2005, 07:16 AM

Wow, Bots like that can make us rich! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

MisterNatural · #6 12-12-2005, 07:45 AM

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Yeah, it also seems to set you up to be on the top of everyone's Buddy List. It hardly ever recommends that you steal or make isolation plays and then has you raising when you are probably behind anyone but a super donk lag. This is from the free demo. After 100 hands it just repeats giving everyone the same hole cards but in different positions. I'd say there were maybe 2 or 3 hands out of the 100 that might of helped my game, but if you haven't played much, this advice seems like it would make you look drunk. The demo gives you AA 3 times and they always hold up against someone capping you so at the end of the 10 hands you've won like 200 fake bucks.

Waffle, i'll try the vexbot and sparbot (heads up bots).

waffle · #7 12-12-2005, 08:00 AM

ok, here's a little description:

sparbot - this bot is an approximation of an optimal lhe strategy. its goal is to make sure you at best, break even. however, it does not attempt to exploit your mistakes. it just plays a solid game. it does not change after time or adapt to your play. however, it does use mixed strategies (in the exact same situation, call 90%, raise 10%, as an example)

vexbot - this bot is an attempt of a maximal lhe strategy. it attempts to exploit ever error you make to make the most money. it adapts to your play. however, it learns pretty slowly and needs a few K hands on you before it begins to get a grasp of you, according to the author. i haven't had the patience to play it very long

edit: just loaded up my old copy. bleh. wish there was a way to play with the broken party BB/button system!