Cloud Sims

Lucid Poker comes loaded with solver-backed strategies ('Cloud Sims'), allowing you to study poker like top pros without ever having to use a solver yourself.

The Upswing Poker team consulted with top poker pros and coaches to create a script with preflop and postflop sizes, then used that script to run the Cloud Sims.

Sim Details

The Cloud Sims were created with Hold'em Resources Calculator (for preflop) and PioSOLVER (for postflop).

Rake structure:

• 6-max Low Rake: 5%, 0.6bb cap
• 6-max High Rake: 5%, 4bb cap
• Head-Up: 5%, 0.3bb cap

All spots were ran to a very low convergence index (CI) of between 0.1 and 1 (averaging around 0.3). In other words, the Cloud Sims were ran thoroughly to maximize the expected value of the strategic outputs.

Sizes

The script inputs sizes into the solver based on the stack-to-pot ratio for a given situation (click here to see part of the script). We've summarized the sizes used by the script below.

100bb 6-Max Sizes

Notes:

• Bet sizes listed are a percentage of the pot.
• x = multiple of the current bet
• 2e = 2 street geometric size
• 3e = 3 street geometric size
• All-in is included as a bet sizing option on all streets if it represents less than either 300% or 500% of the pot, depending on situations

The script inputs sizes into the solver based on the stack-to-pot ratio (SPR) for a given situation (click here to see part of the script). We've summarized the sizes used by the script in the tables below.

In addition, we use a Betsize merging algorithm to eliminate sizes that are within a 14% threshold of the immediate bigger size. The distance D between 2 sizes is defined as follows:

    D(bigSize, smallSize) = 100*[-1 + (100+bigSize)/(100+smallSize)]

• Whenever D(bigSize, smallSize) < 14, smallSize is removed.

Example:

    {20%, 33%, 50%, 75%} would become {20%, 50%, 75%} since D(50%, 33%) = 100*[-1 + (100+50)/(100+33)] = 12.8 which is < 14