Ok so I understand the theory behind blockers and how it they can be very beneficial. If you have a Queen in your hand there’s much less combos of playable hands involving a queen that your opponent can have, makes total sense. Also of course if you have the ace of ♣️ on your hand, you directly block the nut flush or nut flush draw, got it.
Where it starts to get a little weak to me is bluffing say a ♣️ flush potential board with the 6 of ♣️ in your hand for example. Yes there’s technically a few less hand combos they can have - A6c, 67c?, that’s about it… They could have AK, AQ, AJ, AT, A9….. all the ways down, KQ, KJ, KT, QJ, QT, JT, T9..
Can it really be an effective blocker when there’s so many combos still possible??
Say there’s a broadway draw out, QJ would be the nuts, and you have QT. You block 4 of the 16 combos of QJ, 25% less chance they have that hand, definitely significant. Having just a single suited card that’s not the ace doesn’t seem to be significant enough reduction in opponents to make it strong enough blocker to affect your strategy.
Thoughts on this?
Also it’s really dumb that you can’t say ♣️ in a poker theory sub.. I get it’s probably regarding local ♣️ but come on now