Daniel Negreanu

So the first player to act, they could have any one of those hands.

Right.

Right.

Anyone randomly dealt.

Right.

But let's say now that that player raised to three thousand dollars.

OK, well, you can eliminate now from this grid a whole bunch of hands that this player can no longer have, because if they had a two and a three, they wouldn't do that.

So you can say, OK, he probably has a big pair.

He has ace king.

You know, you've you've narrowed the range of hands down right now through every action on the flop, on the turn and on the river based on the decisions they make.

You narrow it down even further.

So the range of hands is the entirety of all the possibilities that this player you believe could have.

And sometimes they fool you, or they have a hand that you don't expect them to have in their range.

And maybe a little bit unorthodox, doing some things you don't expect to throw you off.

But a range is essentially all the possibilities, and it narrows.

Before the flop, it's endless.

Player raises, okay, it's minimized.

Now player bets the flop, okay, it's minimized further.

And then by the river, you can narrow down...

the entire range to, you know, just maybe even a few hands.