Why XR with Qh FD?

Solver doesn't understand nor include outplaying. In a sim every player plays every spot perfectly, with perfect balance. Solver wants to check-raise certain amount of hands in this spot, and that range has to have perfect amount of valuehands and semibluffs. The problem with solver strategy is that if opponent doesn't play perfectly, the optimal strategy against him would not be solver's strategy. So our goal is never to mimic solver, but for an example to look for ways how solver builds balance to it's ranges.

PLO is such a large game, that with postflop solver sims the consensus is that you need to simulate each postflop spot separately. If you run a preflop sim, it will calculate all the possible postflop scenarios based on your parameters. But to make it possible, it puts different hand combinations and board categories to buckets. Without those the calculations would exponentially explode and no computer could do the calculations. Therefore the preflop sim is quite accurate, but flop situations are simplified for the sim and not accurate. Once you go to turn, it gets even more inaccurate.

I don't know how Flophero has tackled this probelm (or have they), I am hoping I can investigate it and discuss with them in near future. It might be that they are using bucketed sim or something else.

Back to this spot, and let's put the solver way for a while.

We want to check-raise our sets and strong made hands here for value. If we only raise them, and opponent spots it and makes a note "raises only for value", he can exploit that easily. So we want to have something else in our check-raise range. Once opponent knows we raise more than just sets, we will get value more often for the sets when we raise them. It doesn't make sense to raise as a pure bluff here, so the natural way to expand our raise range is to put strong combo draws in it. We have good equity, but we need to hit something to win the showdown. When we raise, opponent can fold so we gain fold equity. When we combine that with our real equity, we can estimate if the situation is favorable (+EV) to make that raise.

There are also situations where we don't want to raise this hand at all: if opponent is calling station, and we don't have that fold equity. Or opponent bets only the nuts.

There are also situations where we raise more with our semibluffs: if opponent is very aggressive, but doesn't continue with crappy hands when facing aggression. Therefore we have more fold equity than normally.

Ahh thanks you explained it really well.

It's I think also smart to read our https://forums.pokerstrategy.com/forum/thread.php?threadid=267242 thread. It's easier if you use hand converter and than you and is easier to read.

Cheers,
SDK1987