--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "ggman444" <gleng4444@...> wrote:
>When the machine folded pre-Flop, it always had unsuited hands like 9-2, 10-3 and similar -- but it OCCASIONALLY raised pre-flop with those hands. The only pre-Flop fold with a face card I saw was unsuited Q-4.
It's got some kind of ratio, like for Q4o maybe 90% raise and 10% fold. On the button it's doing something like raise 80% and fold 20% and off the button it's doing something like reraise 33% and fold 5% and call the rest. Occasionally it just checks on the button, which always means something, you should keep track of what that means and play accordingly. If you just call on the button, it thinks you're weak and raises maybe 90%, which gives you a chance to reraise. Eventually it should figure out what you're up to (check-raising your best hands, right?), but then again maybe not, keep in mind it's just a bunch of nuts and bolts and overheated axle grease, not human. A lot of people claim it doesn't adapt to your play, which would seem to be a serious weakness, but I think it does eventually adapt, but it is slow about it, so hopefully by that time you have taken countermeasures, now checking your weak hands and bluffing out on the flop. Slow to adapt should also be a weakness. Also if you constantly check-raise your best hands, your raised hands become weaker, and the bot might figure that out and exploit as well, you always want to be on the lookout for any sneak attacks on your other ranges. Keep observing how it plays and pay attention to variations, some are just random, some are just to throw you off your game, but others are important.
>On the other side, the machine will bluff with nothing throughout the hand (but not very often at the end) and (with cards still to come) will semi-bluff with stuff as weak as an inside straight draw. It's hard for someone accustomed to 9-10 player games to call those bets without having some kind of hand. I probably should have RE-raised more often when I instead either called or folded.
You should reraise your best hands for value, and then bluff reraise a certain amount of junk such that the machine gets the same odds whether it calls or folds, that way it can't just put you on a strong hand anytime you reraise. Adjust the amount of bluff reraising to its fold frequency, if it folds a lot you should raise junk more, if it starts calling a lot you should raise junk less, and so on. It really does not like calling (so it's a bully?), and you can exploit that, but eventually I think it learns that it needs to do some calling, not just raise or fold. Try to call down (get in cheap) the middle hands (low pair, reasonable kickers) for value.
> I hope that those observations help someone. I do intend to play the game again and would enjoy communicating with anyone who's similarly stubborn.
There you go, trust me, you don't need to be an expert head's up player, however you do need to know your way around slots and slot club systems. That radio show archive I posted earlier about the former pit boss turned machine pro was mostly about problems with slots and slot clubs (like the crazy M-Life) than about expert heads up poker. From what I see a lot of poker room regulars don't like this machine, because they have no clue about how to play slots and the kinds of insane angle shooting and just plain cheating that casinos use against slot players, or aren't flexible enough to gamble outside of their comfort zone in the poker room.
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