Yeah I agree with you guys that a flat on the turn looks good and re-evaluate on the river. Thats why I was frustrated with this hand because of course at the time I jammed the Turn and villain flips over a K high flush.

The problem again stems from a low timebank. Most tables I had saved up 40 or 50 secs but there is always one that has ticked down. So I had 7 secs here when the clock flashed up. Before I can blink its on 4...3 and I just jammed as a spazzy reflex action. So maybe something to get better at is my timebank management. Wish I could get an AHK script to create a big fcuk off clock showing what secs I have left for the active table. I always detach the chat box cos my HUD likes all the screen retail space to himself.

Noted a few hands from tonight to post that seem relevant.

Top set vs Fish on a monotone board sounds familiar right. Slightly different brand of Fish tho 33/17



Guess who's back next hand. It is my fishy 55/25 Russian buddy who was stacking the sh*t out of me last night with his flopped straight then his flopped flush. Pre it looked like a decent spot to experiment with limping behind and playing as many pots as possible with this dude. I had been owning him in a lot of small pots and seems my agression was starting to get to him.




On the river^ I call expecting to lose but he had been making more and more frequent spazzy raises and his line here just felt weird. After 400 hands with his 55/25 he is running at 110 bb/100 just in case anyone doubts that his VPIP isnt optimal.


Next up its me vs 55/25 again






^At the time I wished I had 3bet the Turn just a little bigger as the PSB on the river here looked a little bit mean. He had been making a few spazzy raises tho so I was conscious about going too big and letting him off the hook. After this I pounded a few more smaller pots out of him. He reloaded then spewed chips fast and then dissapeared.



vs a different Fish



Think I was planning on jamming the river there until the T comes. Then I thought I fully expect this dude to have J9 now so ill go smaller. That thinking is clearly a leak cos when he has 45 for the lower straight he will call and lose less and when he has J9 he raises and I have to call anyway so the full stacks only go in when I am beat.


Finish with this one vs some random 23/16 I only have 40 hands on.

I've come up with a rhyme to remind myself not to spazz out on the Turn.

"Row row row your boat, gently down the stream. Flat the Turn and Jam the River, life is but a dream"

Those turn and river set ups on Stars are the kind of hands that tilt the hell out of me.

I have played enough hands now that I am well used to it. You see the latest Stars changes?

Opinion seems to be split between people saying, this is the end/the sky is falling. And others are pleased that they are dealing with seat scriptors finally.

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/en/blo...t-164866.shtml

I have never used a seating script so it would seem good that I now have a fairer chance to get the Jesus seat.

But time penalties for constantly switching tables. I am happy to play if the game is profitable but there is no way me or any other Reg is gonna play 9 handed if the table is just all Regs and no fish. So constant table switching would seem inevitable under this format.

I played a bit on FT when they had this system and I was still able to be +EV. The creators of seat scripts are saying this wont stop scripting, they will just make new scripts to check the amount of fish within the pool. I think people tend to over react a bit with this kind of news so think I will just carry on as normal and not worry about it too much.

I seen rumors on 2+2 about Stars adding screen name changes or anonymous screen names as a future update to prevent bumhunting. That would be annoying cos you would then need to play a couple orbits to find out if there is any fish at the table and it would kill off taking notes on your opponent and "Playing The Player". Playing a few orbits every table in a non profitable lineup due to no fish would lower almost everyones winrate a bit I reckon.

So seat scriptors and marginal BE players would have to either quit or move down in stakes and play where the rake is higher, which is exactly what Amaya want it seems.

You obv never know with Amaya, but I don't think screen name changes/anon will ever be a thing at Stars. It's where the "pros play"/hs action is, so not being able to play/rail them anymore would be a downside for some recreationals I believe.

It's a shame we won't be able to rail hs anymore tho, we only get to watch the biggest pots in observe mode similar to how zoom works. If there even is hs around in the near future.

I find it hard to picture Stars tables being anon screen names too but if Amaya feel it will benefit Fish and kill off some more Pros then it sounds like something they would be interested in implementing in the future.

I rarely get time to watch the HS tables. I watched a couple hands the other night though and bet sizing looked very weird from what I am used to seeing. There was a hand with 2 Pros and the flop cbet was like 1/5 pot or something. The cbettor lands a nut flush on the river and bet like 1/4 pot. I was thinking wtf is that looked like they were soft playing each other to me but wtf do I know about HS, he was prob just making sure his hand strength is polarised with that bet sizing.

Yeah the not being able to rail thing is a blow. If I was Phil Galfond I would be taking note of that. If he can get the HS action on RIO Poker and allow people to rail then that would seem like a good way to promote the site. Get casual players over to rail some Isildur HS action then sign em up with some promotions.

Losing 226bb KK v AA is just one of them things you need to accept and move onto the next one.

vs Reg

We are at the last day of the month and Premier League games and stuff on Tuesday evening so not sure if I will play any. Gonna do my monthly review now.

My 50NL hands are still in my old dbase, I was up 8 BI in 8k hands from what I remember, not really worth making a graph for it.

Next up 100NL:


Up around 16 BIs @ 4.4 EV bb/100. My previous stint @ 100NL I was smashing the deep stack tables but overall in the 100bb games I was losing slightly. I would say this represents some progress. If I am gonna be honest I am bit dissapointed with the graph just because I was up and doing well early on then things fall off a fkn cliff. I should prob go back and review what happened there but think it was the fish rivering me in the big pots and some real poor variance all at once.

I am at ~18K VPPs and I have just about enough StarsCoins to get one of these:


$ Graph for January looks like this including rakeback:


And dont forget to add on the $400 from 50NL and my $50 prize money from bo$$ing the Jacks or Better no skill game.

Round that all up and I think we can call it $3k for January. Decent but it should have been better!




Think I have been Under Pressure to put out a decent graph for 100NL, used some Logic to get me through it.

"Work so f*cking much my greatest fear is I'ma die alone
Every diamond in my chain, yeah, that's a milestone
People calling me, asking me for money, man
The only thing I'mma give you m*therf*ck*rs is the dial tone"

Logic - Under Pressure

very nice month man! quite impressive, keep it up!

What is the most you have ever won in one month?

99% of what amaya does is awful but imo they had to do something about seat scripting.

Do you not think its a bit loose to call the flop vs that sizing by aggro fish with 53s ? you have to fold almost every turn.

any plans to play 6max in the future?

gl with goals

Nice work. Had the same feeling of disappointment with my own graph. I checked it mid month when it was at its peak and didn't realise I had an 8bi downswing immediately after that.

Good question, I am not even sure tbh. Some months I have forgot to add my rakeback to HEM. I had a spreadsheet somewhere with monthly summaries.

tbh $3k might actually be my best month if I have had better it wont be by much.

Yeah getting tables has been a real struggle lately so will be interesting to see how the change works out.

When I checked the replayer for that hand I remember thinking how the fcuk did I get into that spot with 53s but I see it was a limped pot and I limped behind, not my standard play but I was obvs trying to play a few speculative hands vs a massive drooler.

You could argue that I maybe shouldnt get into the pot in the first place with 53s and wait for a better hand. But when I am in there and I have made a pair on the flop on a rainbow board I dont think I can fold. If I was going to fold a pair on that flop there would be absolutely no point in taking the flop in the first place.

Its not like I am gonna get carried away and end up losing 100bb with a pair of 3s with a 5 kicker. Also, the Turn cant complete any flushes or straights if it brings a 5 or 3.

ty, dont have any immediate 6max plans yet. For me to start playing 6max I maybe have to drop down a few levels and endure some BE months and get used to playing against a whole new crop of players. So I dont see the point in doing so until I have mastered FR.

I'lll check out your thread after this reply and see how things are going. Yeah them 8-10 BI downswings are really annoying. If I have a 10 BI upswing of course that is just normal. But when I lose 10 I always question what went wrong. If it is just a bad patch of variance that is fine. But I am always concerned that a big amount of negative variance all at once isnt good for the human brain so whilst I can sit there and grind through it and not get angry or smash things I do wonder if I am playing sub-optimal by that point.

Your brain knows that it isnt mathematically possible for the villain to have the nuts every hand. So after you have lost 9 stacks in a row to the nuts you are thinking "no way they can have the nuts again I am calling down with my 2 pair" and then you lose another one.

Not checked any results since last update so not sure how things are going just trying to concentrate on playing each hand rather than worrying about winning sessions.

Couple hands, they were played 10 secs after each other on diff tables vs same villain. I think this is the same bad guy who triple barrel bluffed in the 4bet pot for 223bb when I Hero called with KK.




Given its a SRP, on the Turn I am not believing he has QQ, AA, AQ. I'll give him 88, 77, and I doubt he would even raise 87 there. Then he can also have 56, T9, TJ and maybe some spazzy bluffs. I thought about bluffing the river here but no need to when I already have the best hand a decent amount and I open myself up to be re-bluffed if I do.

Then 10 secs later next table. I get the impression dude doesnt like me so I was wondering if he was angry tilted on the Turn here when things are heating up.





I thought I would overbet jam the river just to let him know that I did in fact miss my Flush draw and "Wheel" him in

Love the wheel hand. Nhnh

gabi really is 1 of a kind

Thanks bro.

Actually fired up HEM to see if you were on that table for you to know the villain there. But I see you must have reverse engineered that solution from the KK 225bb hand. Dude seems to go out his way to try and stack me, someone must have told him I am a Brazil fan. What can I say? Scotland don't do World Cups so I learned to support a team that does from a young age.

How is 2017 treating you, 200NL much tougher than 100? Looks like a lot of the same villains from hundo.

Here is something you dont see every day:



I thought StarsHelper was broke for a minute, was thinking "Why is the decimal point in the wrong place?" I didn't contribute anything to that so dont look at me.

SA is a shortstacker for those who dont know. Wonder how many flips that was.

Nice work Dev, I just checked out your progress. I'll be keeping an eye on this post to see your future progress

Zeecube

haha god i hate SA. Used to play with him at 100nl 6 years ago when you could buy in for 20bb :s

hah fwiw he's like that vs everyone even fish, some of the punts I've witnessed from him against fish are ridic, but you gotta give it to him kid's got heart.

as for 200, yeah it's most of the same guys, but with less of the terrible regs so you don't have as many donations coming your way.

lol @ sexy's stack I bet he's still ripping it vs an open from someone with the same stack

Welcome, come along for the ride. I'll try and make it to the top before this game dies off.

I was reading some poker text yday about 20bb poker and shove/fold ranges. I thought this stuff doesnt apply to me I'll just skim over it. Fast forward 2 hours, I min open the BTN and SA jams his 20bb stack down my throat, lol.

6 years ago, wow. I would think that if you do this for a living that at some point you would make learning 100bb poker a priority but I guess not.

Haha I have doubled up the fish on a few occasions myself in poor spots so I cant really talk. Some of the Regs I see (when I check the lobby) at 200, 400 and 600 are quite surprising to me. I start to wonder if the skills these guys have that allow them to play higher are more to do with BRM, mental game and experience as I think some of them have very obvious leaks and play kinda rigid and predictable a lot of the time. Feels like some of the nitty guys are almost clones of each other.

The angel gabi-Gol back at it again.



We run it twice (dunno why it doesnt show that) and he binked a Q the 2nd run so if he hadnt gotten unlucky with no Q on the first run out he would have almost had my stack. Gonna do some bench presses then hit the tables again later. edit: I should probably add btw this guy has a very nice winrate in my HUD, maybe not very accurate due to sample size though.


This one vs 20/13 over 1.5k hands.

Was tryna figure out this dudes story.

Flop Raise: You aint got KK and I am all but ruling out 22 as well. I have the nut flush blocker which means there is alot of Ax you aint got. I am now getting sceptical. No point in jamming, if he has 99 then nh and he snaps me off.

Turn check: Is your set of 9s not getting worried about the FD or the FD ?? no

River: J
Well you aint got JT, J9, QJ, JK, AJ of If you have just did me with 87hh or T9hh or something like that then fair play. If you have something spazzy then jam it in so you dont have to go to showdown and show everyone how clever you are.

You should be sizing your 4b's up a bit mate. The AK oop with stack depths was far too small.

Cool, fair point you are right.

villain is getting 26% to call vs ur size in AK hand pre.

I just played a similar spot and royally fuct it up.

Fish open limps, Hero goes 4x with AKo in CO. A nitty 3better makes it 11.5x from the BTN. I had a ton of drama on other tables so my thought process was on some C game level. I suspect the villain only gets it in with AA and KK in a lot of spots. On the BTN here he maybe jams AA, KK, QQ. Only problem is I didnt realise this until after the hand.

Anyway I 4bet to 25bb. Villains jams, Hero calls and villain has KK, no surprise. I should have been either flatting the 3bet or 4bet folding.

At the exact same time on another table vs exact same Villain I open AA UTG and he calls in EP

Flop comes T J T

I check call my AA on Flop
Check call on Turn
And I believe I check call on River

Against this villain I should have prob folded the river after he fires third barrel. Villain of course flopped a boat, so was dissapointed to have paid a nit off twice at one time.

I could have played them spots much better but too many things kicked off at once. At around the same time I overbet jammed the river after making a flush vs a fish and he promptly called and turned over a better flush.

I then lost QQ v KK, BB v CO AIPF.

Then lost a 3way pot where I had decent odds to call on the Turn with a combo draw.

I did win a few a stacks to start the session off, but I maybe lost 5-6 BIs in a short time period and I dont want to see the graph fall off a cliff like last month. So while I feel 0% tilted I think I will just take a break from the tables until 2moro now.

First time I've clicked on an xnl to ynl PGC and seen that the OP's actually made it up the stakes. Nice work man.