With the success of my previous PC&G thread I've decided to start a new one.


Off to a pretty solid start so well on track for making the goal.



I won't be updating after every session but I'll try to keep the thread updated as much as possible.

Please post any questions

Credit to ImYourBluff for asking me to start a new thread

Kicking the thread off with a bad beat story! Signs of good things to come.

(Both AIPF)







From 96% to win the chip lead pot with 14 left to out in 13th in the Big $109

Ended up with a ~breakeven session which is always nice when playing MTTs.

ul thats gross man
do you play staked?

Yeah, I do.

Few breakeven sessions. I had loads of pictures and BOOM!s but I lost them

Gl you are running well. Ur gols is already 44% archived, gl mate.

Month started off well but been brick-brick-bricking for a few days. Hopefully won't get too far into this downswing

Really tilting 11th place finish. Was chip leader and dominating from 30+ players down to about 14th. (as evidenced by the below picture) Then I went on to lose a couple of hands where I was dominating them. AK<A2 and then another hand I can't remember. Didn't lose much on a big Sunday schedule so no real complaints. Lots of near misses recently, would like to hold the rungood until the top 3 soon

Pretty interesting hand in the B109. As played he can have all nutted hands in his range. Better FDs usually have good backdoors too, so he can check those OTF. Jx should check flop and a lot of Jx combos are now boats. Seems like an odd line to go for value with a 9, so I don't think he has straights for value. He could also have worse flushes for value which makes it a mandatory call.

I'm wondering what people think of his line? Can he expect enough folds from me on this runout.

I also don't think there's too, too much to discuss about his limping range. V is a reg so I assume his limping range is somewhat balanced so it should include higher suited combos and J7/8/9/T

villain very clrealy an idiot

My thoughts too, he's jamming into such a strong range. Gunna have to add some notes I missed in game soon.

good luck mate, rooting for you!

Gl - what sort of stuff do you play? What sort of BI? Turbos or regular or both?

$11-109 + Milly is buyin range with sats in into 215s. I've recently cut weekday hypers out of my schedule except some over the weekends. I've also stopped mass tabling recently. Decided the edge I was losing with the divided focus was more than the added value of adding in more low stakes games. That was one of my better poker decisions recently, highly recommended.

Thanks mate Hopefully I can get it done.

(big $109) V is unknown reg with locked SS

I REALLY wanted to check back this river (not being results orientated BTW, legitimately thought about it and wanted to) . I figured that checking back top 2 was just way too weak.

I think flop can go either way, might lean towards a check but I decided to bet on the larger side to fold out a lot of his range that can improve on a lot of turn cards. He has a lot of hands that have BDSDs that can call flop to a 1/3 size and play some turns.

On this turn I figure I can get 2 streets of value vs his Qx (flop counting as the first street) and I thought checking turn and betting river is better since we could have more bluffs with this line and we can't V bet to be called by Qx OTR if we bet turn anyway, too many folds OTR.

As played on the river - Can we exect Qx to call a bet on this river? All of our range has now got there so V can't expect us to have that many bluffs. We can value from his Ax floats OTF and KQ. I can't realistically see him having many Kx flop floats because of the flop size.

What stable are you staked by?

It's a small one, not 100% what information I can give out. Don't wanna be breaking any TOS.

I really recognise your username, have we done business with action in the past?

Wow. Dat Hand. I like preflop but thats pretty much it.

I think you really need to work on your understanding of Ranges and how they will affect your betsizing.
Against a super wiede BB defend Range it's pretty easy to bet 1/3 bc u wanna bet this texture with a superhigh frequency and AK is part of your valuerange.
By bombing the Flop you are folding out may Ax and take the chance away from the BB to hit worse top pairs against you. He jzst wont make any kind of mistake vs that sizing.
Additionally you're isolating yourself against pairs/trips which is horrific.
Flopsizing makes absolutely no sense with your range and less sense with your actual hand.
Turn you have got yourself in a spot where you want to check now, bs Qx might fold and he only has Qx and 7x now. maybe some pairs between. How come? Cause you bombed the flop and he cant continue anything worse.
By betting Flop small you can get 3 streets easily with AK on that turn bc range is so much wider, might even have some KJ KT with BDFD calling on the flop and now having worse pairs.
River is the same thing, easy valuebet.

As played when he shoves there u will fold 100%of your range @ the river if you fold AK there. Folding 100% is bleeding money. Maybe think of jamming the River w/ Blockers but sizings are so out of line that I would just skip it.

No offense @ you or your game but this Hand and your thoughts really REALLY need a lot of improving from basic range construction, sizings and all that stuff.

I play these games myself so please don't take it as a random flame/knowing better type of post. I don't need to tell you bc it would be really good for me if you dont improve but I'm just not that kinda person.

glgl

No offence taken, I gave all of my thoughts on the streets to get this kind of a comment so thanks for taking the bait (Y)


All of your thoughts are very valid and make total sense. I'm aware that some of my postflop play is incorrect and is something I'm currently working on. People's understanding of postflop over these last few years has come on tremendously (probably thanks to the help of certain solving software)

Your comments on the flop bet sizing and how it effects later streets caused a bit of a lightblub moment for me, so thanks for that too

90% of the hands I play could be weird/questionable. I'm probably not gunna post any standard stuff on here.

Speaking of jamming rivers with blockers in B109.

Thoughts anyone?

spewy, would snap you with almost any pair that I would valuebet. ^^

agree with cold_smile fwiw

Surely that can't be be that great. We have so many more value combos.

Going for a b/x/b line with an overpair can't be that bad either surely? (I b/b/b in this spot btw) but And if he leads river we jam for value. That's got to at least be a consideration for him.


Plus people overfold to rivers shoves in MTTs anyway though. In a vacuum shoving ATC in this spot probably generates enough folds to be breakeven here. It only needs to work ~50% of the time