I have no idea who is reading my blogs but I’ve been using this technique lately of just merging all the preflop graphs together to have a much better way of “memorizing” (don’t ever memorize these things) the preflop ranges.
For example (this is taken from Poker Coaching), let’s use this as an example. Doesn’t matter what position this is and don’t worry about what to raise here. The point of this is that most people will look at this RFI chart, then go ahead to the villain’s response:
This is just some random vs RFI chart I found on Google. Once again, not important what’s on here.
What I would do is change the transparency on one of the charts, or manually go on a range builder and quite literally merge them so that when you hover over a square, it not only shows you what the RFI is, but the response is at the same time. And then assign 4~5 different colors (of your choosing – just make sure they’re consistent so if you make a raise red, then keep it red), and just use ONE GRAPH.
Seriously, going over each graph one by one is going to overload your brain as you’re going to have to manage a billion different graphs.
Imagine, for MTT, you’re going to have like 6+ different blind sizes, each with their different RFI + vsRFI response. Oh don’t forget Blind vs Blind as well.
This is why you shouldn’t even bother to memorize them in the first place, but merging them makes it easier imo.
But then again, I’m a hardstuck mid 5 figure poker player so take it with a grain of salt.