Daniel Negreanu

it really should never expand.

The range of hands should always get smaller, right?

Like, again, we start with the full scope and then you should factor in like, okay, these are all the possible hands you can have on the flop now, right?

We can't have new hands on the turn.

And if you get to that point where you think, oh, well, maybe he has this hand, then you sort of misjudged his range prior.

So you're not thinking clearly.

It should always shrink from the full scope to, you know, hopefully just a couple.

Yeah, so that's another big thing that's different about poker from, you know, my day to today is that back in our day, we would like put people on one hand.

I'm like, you probably have king nine or you have jacks or something like that.

Now, people are cognizant of the idea that you could have an entire range of hands.

So then you ask yourself in situations, all right, I know what I have, but...

What I could have in his mind or my opponent's mind is any one of these hands.

What would I do with the entirety of these hands?

And so a lot of people that are trying to play optimally, you know, game theory optimal, they think in terms of what their range of hands would do rather than their very specific hand.

Not exactly.

So an optimal range, like if I bet the river, if I'm playing game theory optimal, a portion of my range is going to be, I have it, I got the best hand, and a portion of my range is going to be bluffs, and they'll be balanced.

So in theory, no matter what you do, no matter what you do, if you call or you fold, in theory...

It's just you're printing a zero, as we say.

You're not gaining or losing any EV if you were to do it that way.

What's EV?