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Part 6: Note that PokerStove automatically removes impossible hands from Villain's range.

I have seen several examples of posters including hand suits when giving a range, and I would like to show that this is almost always unnecessary.

We raise the CO with A J and get flatted by the BB who is 40/10 with a 3% 3bet. Flop comes Q J 6, we bet, and Villain check/raises us.

We want to put his range in PokerStove, so we (this is not a complete range and is merely for representative purposes):

Don't waste your time figuring out all of the possible hands yourself because PokerStove will automatically do it for you. Compare the above to:

Note in particular the "pots won" column in each picture. They are exactly the same! When PokerStove sees "66, AQs, AQo", it expands it to all possible combinations, then it inspects our hand and the board and removes the impossible combinations. So don't waste your time doing it manually. And if you find yourself saying that someone else's result is wrong because they erroneously had AdQd in Villain's range, you are actually wrong because PokerStove will remove it automatically and it will not affect the result whatsoever.

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