Poker Strategy: Mastering Textures for Beginners

The author advises starting with the most frequent situations to determine the most valuable ones for analysis. GTO Wizard has already done the work of determining the frequency of different situations.

The expert Tombos21 calculated the proportion of single-raised, 3-bet, and 4-bet banks. The most common and important 3-bet bank is the button against the small blind. The big blind is most often involved in the banks.

The author suggests categorizing flops into three main types: straight, non-straight, and paired. High flops, such as A-high and K-high, make up 40% of all flops. The author advises focusing on two-tone flops, which make up 55% of all flops. Non-straight flops make up 64% of all textures, straight flops 20%, and paired boards slightly less than 20%.