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Stack-to-Pot Ratio Poker. Standard Paper Remittance Medical, Government, Medicare. Sarcoplasmic Reticulum. What does SPR stand for? List of 561 SPR definitions. Top SPR abbreviation meanings updated January 2021. This is a discussion on Position and SPR within the online poker forums, in the Learning Poker section; I believe the key factor in importance of position - is SPR (stack to pot ration). SPR is the effective stack sizes divided by the size of the pot on the flop. Let's say you raise to $6 in MP before the flop in a $1/$2 NL cash game. One opponent calls on the button and both of the blinds fold. If both you and your opponent have $100 in your stack, the stack to pot ratio would be.
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SPR, short for stack-to-pot-ratio, is a powerful concept that can help you take better lines both preflop and postflop. If you can understand and apply SPR strategy in poker you will have a mathematical framework for commitment. Here is the SPR formula: SPR = Effective Stack Size / Pot Size.
Stack to Pot Ratio, or SPR for short, is a tool for helping to plan your hand around commitment decisions. In short, by providing a quick, easy framework for relating the size of the pot to the remaining effective stacks, you’ll be able to more easily determine if your hand strength warrants playing an all in pot or not.
Let's get a firm hold on using the stack-to-pot ratio (SPR) to take the best action in your next tournament. Profitable poker is a matter of defining the best risk for the potential reward for. Stack To Pot Ratio. In Professional No Limit Holdem, the authors describe how our decisions vary based on the size of the pot in relation to our stack. For instance, if we had pocket kings on an Ace hi flop with a pot of $1, we might play the hand differently if we had 1 cent behind, than if we had $100 behind. SPR What Does It Mean in Poker? SPR stands for Stack-to-Pot Ratio, which is the ratio of the shortest stack in the hand (aka the effective stack) divided by the pot on any given street. For example, if the pot is $10 and the effective stack is $100, the SPR is 10 (100/10).
Calculating SPR
SPR is easy to calculate. It’s the ratio of the size of the pot, to the size of the effective stack (chips still left to bet). So if there is $50 in the pot, and $100 left to bet, the stack to pot ratio is 2 (100/50). The important thing to remember is that SPR is calculated by the effective stack. If we had $2000 in the example, but our opponent only had $100, then the SPR with them is 2 since $100 is the most we can bet before they are all in. It is also possible to have different SPR’s with different opponents in multiway pots. If there was a 3rd player in the above hand, who, like ourselves, also had $2000 left to bet, then the SPR with the short stack player is still 2, but our SPR with the third player is 40 (2000/50). We would be willing and profitable to play many hand strengths all in vs. the short stack that would not be profitable to play all in vs. the other big stack.
Example:
As a basic example of extremes to help illustrate, suppose you have AhAd and the flop comes KsTc3d. Are you willing to get all in on the flop? If the pot contained $10 and the effective stacks had $1000 behind to bet (SPR of 100), getting all the money in would be rather insane and a losing play, because no one in their right mind will put 1K more in the middle in a $10 pot with a hand that can’t beat 1 pair. If, however, the pot contained $1000 and you had $10 left to bet (it’s an exaggerated hypothetical, bear with me here), of course you’d put that last $10 in. You would even put the last $10 in without a connection to the board… not only because you have a correct price to draw to anything, but you may have the best hand right now with something like ace high or king high as your opponent will eagerly (and correctly) put the last $10 in with any 2 cards and 1K already in the pot.
Practical Application
The lower the stack to pot ratio, the larger the pot is relative to what’s left to bet. Thus, opponents will be getting a better price to play for the rest and should be willing to do so with lessor holdings. While the example above was made with extremes, it should be clear that this is the basic logic of SPR.
One of the ways we can use this tool is to understand what kind of SPR we might have on the flop that will allow a player to get all in on the river with reasonable sizings. For example, if the stack to pot ratio on the flop is 13, it will take exactly 3 pot sized bets to be all in on the river. We can see this if we walk through the betting each street as follows:
Pot size = P
Effective Stack = 13P (SPR = 13)
If we bet 1P on the flop and are called, there will be 3P total going to the turn, and we’ll have 12P left to bet. On the turn we pot it again betting 3P and are called again. Now there is 9P in the pot, and 9P left to bet for a pot sized river all in.
You can work through a similar process for various effective stack sizes, and bet sizes. Let’s conclude with some general (not written in stone) guidelines for certain flop SPRs and willingness to play for all the marbles:
SPR 4 or less: This low SPR on the flop is one where we should feel comfortable getting our stack in with strong 1 pair hands. It will only take 2 pot sized bets to get all in, or 3 smaller sizings, and most players will have a hard time folding their pairs, particularly their better ones, in this sequence.
SPR 10 or more: The higher SPR’s make it precarious to get stacks with one pair hands. The more money there is to bet relative to the pot, the less likely an opponent will be to put it all in the middle without a very strong hand.
SPR 4 to 10: These middle of the road stack to pot ratios on the flop can go either way. Take the AhAd and the flop comes KsTc3d example from above. If our opponent were a known calling station, we can feel very comfortable getting in across 3 streets even on an SPR of 10, because stations will pay us off with many worse one pair hands. If our opponent were a very tight, conservative player however, we may not be retaining much edge getting all the money in on an spr of 5, because that opponent type is loath to play for stacks without very strong hands. What if you have no reads? In micro stakes, it’s safe to err on the side of assuming players will call too loose and too often, and be willing to go for the value with your strong one pair hands at a bit higher spr’s.
The basic premise of stack to pot ratios is simple… the larger the stacks relative to the pot, the stronger a hand we need to be willing to stack it all off. And when the money left to bet is shallow relative to the size of the pot, we should be reluctant to give up on that (relatively) large pot and willing to get in much lighter.
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Do you take SPR into consideration?
Note – SPRstands for Stack to Pot Ratio.
Poker Term Splash The Pot
I think a lot of SPR importance is based solely on the texture of the games you are playing in. To say a general statement like 'SPR of 13 is bad for top pair' would be wrong, since with aggressive history 13 is an amazing, optimal even, spr for top pair.
Poker Term Spring
I don’t even really see how you could discuss spr as a theory, its just something you should intrinsically keep in mind.
One thing related to spr that I’ve always found fascinating, but difficult to describe:
Poker Strategy seems to involve lots of dualities, wax/wane dynamics. Few examples of these:
Poker Term Spr
– You have a gutshot and an overcard first to act on the flop in a heads up pot, with x dollars in the pot, and effective stacks F(x). If F(x)=x its an easy shove. If F(x)=2x its an easy c/f, if F(x)=4x bet folding or c/rai can be correct. If F(x)=8x then you might bet 3-bet. Its basically a sine wave that decays as x approaches infinity.
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– Unbalanced range leveling. Basically whether you decide to bluff someone when its obvious their range is mostly bluffcatchers vs yours. You’ll not bluff if you expect a call given your history, assuming your on that level, or you will decide to use that information as an excuse to bluff even. Your opponent will have to decide what your level F(x) will be. If he feels you’re a str8forward player he’ll set F(x)=1 and fold, but as he sets F(x) to higher and higher numbers his analysis will become basically useless and he’ll simply assume you are bluffing a decent amount and end his analysis right there. Once again, decaying curve.
Anyways I guess when ppl are in quote/unquote 'tough spots' that just means that they are not at one of the relative peaks/troughs of the sine wave, and are instead toward the equilibrium point.
This is why 4-bet bluffs are so tough to deal with with 75 and 150bb stacks, and so much easier by comparison to deal with when stacks are 100bb or 200bb deep.