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Beating Medium Difficulty Levels
Any suggestions for beating the Medium level trainers (like Big City Lights) over a large number (10,000+) of hands? I am to obtain an edge over 1-200 hands but longer term am struggling.
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I would suggest continuing to work on varying your play since the opponents will adjust to your game. Also, I typically like to look at the reports->hands to see if there are certain hands I appear to be playing worse than I should over larger samples. Finally, I would definitely recommend looking at the hands where you lost the most money (sort by profit in the https://www.advancedpokertraining.com/poker/select_hands.php page by clicking on the profit column) and see if there were ways you could have avoided some of this. A couple big avoidable losses are often the difference between overall profitability and losing. Some losses there isn't anything you can do about, but sometimes you can see hands where you built a pot too fast and got yourself into a really bad situation, or something like that.
I hope this is helpful,
Allen
Thanks Allen - Very helpful. I notice that when I get AA or AK everyone folds or folds with 3BB. At the same time the AI will bet more aggressively when they have strong hands and players stay in. Is this a feature to reduce reliance on the strongest hands?
It probably is one of two things. Most likely, it is just small sample things and humans have a bias to notice events that stand out to them (bad beats, opponents folding to AA, etc.). The other alternative is that you are predictable in the hands you play or your bet sizing when you have strong hands. I think that is probably less likely, but it is a possibility. The bots don't have any superpowers beyond learning from prior play.
I am having similar issue with Big City Lights table (medium table.) I already know how to be patient and play ABC poker. I am trying to learn how to read players and play draws with right pots odds etc, but I feel like if I do things correctly, I am a losing player at this table. So for a week, I have tried to play lots of suited connectors, play in position and all these things to up my game and I was just a big loser. So I went back and just to see, played straight up ABC poker folding great hands to all re-raises and all the re-raises have a monster hand so I made the correct decision. But at end of each session play very conservative, I came out ahead. So I feel like I am not learning anything. And it seems like everyone always has a monster hand, whereas in real poker, these monster hands are few. I also agree with thepope2019 that every time I have big hands pre-flop, everyone folds, even if my bet size is the same. Just feel like this site teaches how to play solid ABC poker, but I was hoping to get to next level and feel like I am not learning anything.
Guys, to be completely honest, this sounds just like a bad beat thread on 2+2. If you are losing when you try to expand your range, it just means you aren't playing it well yet and you need to practice more. If you think that you are seeing more big hands, it's just personal or small sample bias. Everything is random. This is the same type of stuff I see posted on 2+2 all the time about how Stars or any other site is rigged. I get comments like this about our site regularly, and I've just gotten used to it and stopped trying to fight it because there is no point. There are plenty of people who win vs. our bots - focus on your training plans and improvement and not on trying to detect bias that doesn't exist.