POKER RANGES: How To Use Them 

Do you think in terms of RANGES? Has this helped your poker game?

Big help. Best explanation of practical range analysis I have seen. Thank you.

I .. DO ... NOT ... UNDERSTAND ... ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!

My friends and I just recently started playing poker almost every time we see each other, so this helped me understand the basics of range enough to get an edge

Your videos have all been really helpful. This was a great range explanation!

Thanks JL. I am trying to think in ranges and this has helped. Thank you.

Really helpful vid, thank you!❤

I been playing hold'em long but played poker longer , u never learn about ranges and odds n everything and juss really start learning about my friend told me about you about a year ago and I still have a long way to go .. keep up the hard work Johnathan and your team !

Keep em coming! Love the videos!

A very useful video even as a reminder to an old reg. Thanks!

Thanks 👍 something to utilize

Johnathan, this content is super helpful. Thanks!

This video makes a lot of sense. I'm in a strict study mode right now for a few days and I can really apply the lessons in this video. Thank you

Thank you as always!

One of the best ‘range’ videos I’ve ever seen.

Thank you for the content.

Should the 75ss ever check raise the flop here with the existing stack sizes? Great analysis as usual.

What do ya do when u have fishes at you're tbl that call all top pairs/plus flush or str8 draws?

Do you think you could post a video about narrowing our opponent’s range as the hand advances to the later streets? Like what their range looks like when they check-raise the flop/turn? When they check call the flop and turn? Thanks for the awesome helpful content

Excellent. I am going to watch it a few more times. An interesting follow-up would be do do that same hands from the other player's perspective. It seems like a bigger river bluff was needed. I'll try that math myself -- which means I need to think about ranges from the other perspective as well -- but it would be great to get the master's answer as a follow-up.

Good video man

Jonathan Little, thanks for great explanation. My questions is how i can remember or calculate the ranges during online game? Is there any tools for that, or practises?

Is this action solver available with a premium Poker Coaching membership? I am trying to figure out my range and where I am making blunders on betting vs checking post flop

Honest question: I frequently play the SAME range differently in the same position, especially Ax suited and small pocket pairs, sometimes 3x raise, sometimes 10x raise, perhaps with any hand other than AA, KK, AK. Say 77, I'll raise enough to get the low SPR player all in, otherwise I'll raise expecting to set mine. In the typical cash games, the situation (limpers, callers, 3-bets) and opponent type are more determinate than range. Only slightly exaggerating, but in late position against the right players, I often do better if I don't look at my cards! It's THEIR range I'm concerned about.

Hey coach,mind if I watch this one again?...Tks coach.

So I understand how I'm supposed to guess their range in this kind of spot, but what I dont understand is if I'm actually supposed to calculate how much equity I need AND HAVE to calculate if I have to call. Like how I am I gonna accurately calculate that without Equilab if the opponent has this wide of a range. I'm always gonna be off by quite a lot so its pretty much guessing either way. My math goes more like this: He has a lot of missed draws + his range is generaly very wide + how often does this guy bluff + my hand looks weaker than it is = call. Obviously I look at the price I get but I dont calculate how often I need to win. I feel like that wont help me because I also dont calculate my equity in these kind of spots since their range seems just way too wide to accurately guess it. Am I thinking wrong about this or do I understand it somewhat correctly that you just use this as guidelines in most spots? I do understand that it is necessary when you have a flushdraw and so on but there it is easy to understand how much outs you have and your equity is pretty clear. But in spots like this? Would appreciate an answer since I've honestly never understood this. Thank you for your content.

Great video

Big fan of these shorter videos. Thank you!

On the last slide, we assume that our opponent will bluff failed draws but check marginal made hands. Why is that? It seems to me (a beginner) that you would play for example ATo and ATs the same way on the river if you didnt hit anything. Can anyone explain the difference to me?

Hey Jonathan! Quick question, at 3:05 when you're discussing the range chart for the Q82 flop, why is Q8 not considered in range? Is it because the hand won't consistently substantially improve upon the two pair (due to the full house being too statistically improbable to consistently hope for)?

Question, how do you remember that table in your head though when playing live and all the percentages? Like you literally just used a calculator to compare the values.

At 7:48, when I hold 76s (spades), with two spades on the board, I know I'm drawing to a flush. But how is 76s (hearts) a draw on a board that has one heart and only one card coming? There is no gut shot straight draw. What exactly am I drawing to? 77 or 66?

I was obsessed with RYE but there's always something about RYE that makes me feel inferior and implants doubt in my head. You Sir, KNOW how to speak from a relatable point of view. You have absolutely great content and as soon as I can afford to do so. I will purchase whatever I can to in order to support you. In the mean time. If you have patreon. Please post a link. At least I can support your time invested in these videos bit by bit. Thank you so much for your content.

I liked it...I subscribed to it...I have no idea what you are talking about. Is there a book out there that talks about this stuff so I can read it s....l...o...w...l...y? Thanks!!

Hey Jonathan, I think your audio quality is not quite louder than I expected.

How can you put people on ranges and then calculate on the fly that your pot odds are better than their % of bluffs at the tables?

Nice video. Calculating the Pot Odds is pretty straight forward. But calculating the equity of opponents river bet is a bit confusing. The way you calcuated the equity on the river seems logical, but I haven't got it at all so I crosschecked with Flopzilla :): So I putted KJs vs. his bet (33,AQs,ATs-A9s,A7s-A4s,KQs,KTs-K9s,K7s-K4s,QJs-Q9s,T9s,T7s-T6s,97s,76s-75s,65s-64s,54s,AQo,KQo,KTo-K9o,QJo-Q9o,T9o) and considered the board, thus I get a completly different equity as you calculated. KJs has an equity 56,79%, villain has 43,21% Where is the mistake ? Thank you.

JL is tha best!

How do you calculate all that stuff during a hand?

Opponent will show up with set of 8's and 2's on the river from time to time as well. Seen weak/passive players check/call till the river with stronger hands like bottom set, then when its more than obvious they have best hand (they're paranoid about flushes/straights) they bet on the river like this one did.

should I be betting junk when I have mosly premiums hands and draws in my range?

First hand @6:00... Isn't your checking range really face up at that point? Wouldn't you want to mix in some of the premium hands?

The problem with always betting your premium made hands and checking your marginal made hands is that when you get to the river after checking turn, you never have a stronger hand than a jack. So opponent can exploit you by using a massive overbet sizing on the river, and can go as thin as Q2 for value. The way the solver deals with this issue is that it always checks back AQ and KQ on the turn, to punish opponent for betting huge on the river with a queen. You can even be trickier than that, check back nut hands on the turn, induce a big overplay on the river from a queen, then raise all-in. You can't cap your range when you check.

AWESOME,,,,.p

What is AAo vs AAs?

At 3:00, after the flop comes out Q 8 2 and we're holding KJs, the breakdown of the range of aces we could be holding all make sense to me, with two exceptions: AKs and AJs. Are these two considered marginal made hands because we have high card and face card kicker?

Great video. But I play mostly micro stakes and I feel that sometimes my opponents don't even think this way and I lose my focus and stop playing this way.

Question: you are on BB with JJ raising a limped pot and getting two calls. Flop is A44. You c-bet and get all-in from LP. Do you call?

Why is Q8 not a hand to check or bet?

In my opinion.. the hardest part of poker

This is so cool. You were just some quiet kid on my TV screen playing poker at the Mirage. Years later, you show up in the algorithm. Congrats man on all your successes and keep up this great coaching for us Neanderthals!

I liked the video, but I really prefer also cbetting some eights and duces on the flop, because otherwise if a second eight or duce hits on the turn your opponent can just over run you. So mixing in some A8s and A2s is a logical conclusion even though they are marginal made hands.

hello joanthan , i make profit on every pair except jacks can you tell me how to play them ?

@PokerCoaching so if the BB player was good he should've either betted pot or ripped all in for the bluff? This would have destroyed your pot odds and forced you to fold?

Sir where I can get this range tool??

It's like learning to ride a pack of cards!

Is it bad if I go play Texas Holden ($1/$2) and double my money in 30 mins then leave? Should I be playing longer making more money? Today I played for 35 mins and won 2 small pots and an all in profiting $230. Anyone thoughts on this?

why is Q2 not a playable hand on the board?

Study for the LSATs and learn how to be a better poker player at the same time?? Challenge accepted

Should we not also be thinking about our opponents range on the flop?

I always raise “suited aces”

Suited Aces? I want suited aces!

Video is at 25-30% normal volume level. It's unwatchable without an amplifier.

Anyone know the official ruling for the following scenario in a cash game? Player A bets. Player B raises. Player C goes all in for less. Player A calls. Both player A and C have huge stacks for potential side pot. After sorting out side pot on the flop, dealer then burns and turns both the turn and the river by mistake. Never tapped table in between either just burned and turned twice as fast as possible. No chance for anyone to stop dealer. Snap turn, snap river with no option for two remaining players to act on their hand on the turn. What should ruling be here? Floor rules to leave all cards with no turn action at all, then continue betting on river. Explanation I received was that none of us "stopped" the dealer from prematurely exposing the river. Even though we all agreed there was no real chance to do this because of how quickly it happened, and it was clearly dealers fault.

you explain it so well ,a muppet like me understands it,,,,

How am I supposed to think of all this during a hand

Ranges only makes Sense for middle/high stakes. Micro stakes we have players that only play KQ+ so If a ace hits the flop 90% of the time they have It. They also dont know about ranges so even If you have nothing and they have the lowest pair on the board, they Will call. Only when we face decent players we can really use ranges to its Full potential

This is really good stuff, but up against Dodgy Dave @1/2 who is deeply unbalanced, the deviation from playing like this is stark.

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Se mamis

Do you think ranges even help when your against players who dont even know ranges or play stupid poker to an extent.

You have to raise your volume... I hardly listen

Why AKs is marginal but AQs is premium ?

I get what he is saying but that is a lot of assumption. Adding stats to the end of assumptions is too tricky

I raised with A5 of diamonds a dude called me with 64d the flip goes 6J6 and In another hand I raised with AsQh and the same dude called me with 84h and he flopped a flush. This was a 2/5 game. Ranges don’t exist

that was painful to listen to.

I guess I must be dense. I understand the concept of range by itself and equity by itself but how are you going to calculate the combination at a table of 9 players after each street? Seems daunting to me.