Running 15 mins late. Sorry!

live now, sorry for horrible lag delays

Stream was pretty stressful due to weak connection and video quality. Need to sort that out for next time. Managed to get basically unstuck which was good! Still struggling to adjust to being railed live but i imagine it's a learning process. Had some keyboard warrior giving some trash talk but that was fun!



He hit a queen second runout here :s



Stationing a very fun player



Pretty busy week ahead. Will grind tomorrow and then stream wednesday too!

glgl

dat ev

haha been running below for a while now. Don't mind it, would just like to run a little better in pots!

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Swingy end to the day. Played super well compared to the stream yesterday. Bout evens for the month now and ~1k below ev. If i keep playing the way i am i imagine an upswing is coming. Lets not get entitled yet though



vs passive rec, phew



yuck vs reg. could exploi fold somewhere i guess



Likely no grind tomorrow as i'm at placement.

glgl

For us mere mortals, please could you explain your thought process (or as much as you can) on this hand? When you check back the flop after 3betting and he bets turn in a way that sets up a river shove, what are your thoughts on his range when he shoves the river?

link to the stream?
couldn't find it on twitch idk why

Not sure it was made available to watch afterwards.

https://www.twitch.tv/benabadbeat

But there is no archive.

ul man I could be wrong here but QQ has got to be one of the worst bluffcatchers we can have?blocking Q9s is pretty irrelevant
fwiw i think you can comfortably fold the river,i think the CC in the BB means 88-JJ almost always and I doubt any reg is taking this line with 99 or T9s?!(if he even has that)as a bluff
gl Ben!

QQ on JT8cch 42r looks pretty grim yeah.

Its hard to guess what the population do with AK + AQ these days in the SB facing that action, but if hes not cold-4betting all of that I imagine its pretty easy for him to overbluffing (16 AK, 2 AQs) vs maybe 8-12 set combos if hes aggro.

Again dont really know how ranges typicaly look in these spots so hard to guess really!

tldr think calls ok readless. If it were me as villain Id prob bet 3x pot OTR with a balanced range of JJ, T2s and A4hh blocking your checked behind bricked backdoor flush draw and the middle end of your lead fifth pot OTT range OOP.


PS enjoyed the stream!


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Having seen this man in the flesh both on and off stream play poker, the way he takes some of these beats is seriously awesome. I've broken many a mouse for a lot lot less!

Yeah, legitimately one of the most chilled guys I've met and helped a lot with my mental game when I was playing a lot more live.

still nothing in the archive i am sad

ty yeah, the next 3 vids will all be archived

Thanks for the feedback on the hand boys. I think that as acidhaus said, it's super easy for someone to overbluff this spot. I do block KQ but he rarely calls pre, + if he did they would only be KQs which is only bock 2/4 of those combos. If we assume he calls a lot of AK pre (which he does cus i was 3betting a weaker player) then we can also assume he has all AQo combos. I would discount 888 combos most of the time too fwiw.

tbh i imagine it's prob an exploi fold cus population doesn't tend to bluff here with the range i assigned enough. Plus its a regular making a river bet = strong holding. Gotta remember that for next time!

naw, thanks guys. Means a lot, however i did slam my hand against my desk today when i got a bad beat. I also shouted '**** OFF' at another one. Only human

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As you can see my graph was hideous for the majority of the day. Was 5bi below ev before i knew it, flips, bad beats, coolers, you name it. But dug deep and got out of it.



this was the hand i blew up at



yeah sure. I'm actually curious bout river sizing here. I think bet folding for 2/3 might be better than shoving, or maybe 1/3 fold. Really tricky



To get me unstuck. What dreams are made of



Got footie tonight and will also then be streaming from 9.30-11.30 WET.

Tune in! It'll also be archived for you skivers

gl

If I'm not at the Hippo railing a friend or at work I'll try and tune in!


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Enjoying the stream, thank god you won that Kings vs nutflush draw 400bb pot - I feel it could have put you over the edge!

hi mate! how are you dealing with the mental stuff? I'm also playing Z200 and find myself playing very well, but my mental state is my biggest weakness (play more/less time than I want, relax and start playing worse when winning/losing, etc)

QJs interesting spot on the river. I guess my answer depends on who the BB is.

I think when you flat the BTN facing an UTG and get to the river after betting F+T I think its actually really hard for you to have any bluffs with good blockers, let alone many that can really 2x jam the river. You don't have any offsuit KsXx hands unless youre flatting KQo pre so itd literally have to be like QdJd, 7x, or 5s5x, or even value betting AQsx twice then deciding to turn your hand into a bluff. Its always easy when you know the cards though.

Think with this specific holding betting a bit smaller makes a bit of sense as he cant have the J high flush, and his range is probably dense in Ax. In general though as its hard to find bluffs, and without puttin on my dork 101 hat think we should be going a bit smaller with a lot of our range if were trying to play good poker.

tldr if vs spud mash pot

PS jokes 86s hand always nice to get out the hole!








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Mohito and a maccy ds later ive run the sims....

-Assigned 50% frequency to slowplayed 2p and sets on the flop
-Gave like 80% of Kxss
-Gave a reasonable number of BB suited hands.
-Assumes only one bet size, and BB calls such that we are indifferent yadda yadda ya







Tldr about 60% vs a good player makes sense. I also looked at the equity with say Q2ss (so we dont block the J high flush) and the graph tells is we could prob go 70% instead





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BB is a total boss, jamming QJss what a fish

Shame you couldn't tune in mate! Congrats to your boy on the third place finish though

hahaha, i know right. That wouldn't have been a fun one. nahhh I woulda acted cool

Hey pablo. I like to think i'm dealing with the mental stuff very well! In terms of taking beats etc i act exactly the same off stream as i do on. I only get a certain number of hours to grind per week so it's super important to maintain a resilient mental stance. Best of luck and is your sn outed?

Good analysis as always mate and yup, i agree, a smaller sizing would be optimal.

lmao, bb is the new whale to the pool

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Thanks to those of you who tuned in yesterday. The subs are starting to flow in and while the live viewers are still relatively low, I'm optimistic that they'll increase the more i stream. I just made a thread in the twitch section in case anyone wants to check it out. There's nothing more in there than in here but i'll obv put reminders in there when i'm grinding.

In other news i'm playing the £1k pokerstars festival tomorrow in the hippodrome. If any of you are making the journey to play then drop me a pm and come say hi!

If i bust i'll obv grind online and maybe put in a stream.

HUGE shoutout to my boy smb in the final 30 of the aussie mills main with 1.6 million up top. GO ON STEVE

There will be more streams I'm sure! Might try pop down and say hi at the Hippo tomorrow, can't miss the opportunity to see you playing live. Otherwise catch you on stream as will prob have a quiet one if playing on Saturday.

Very unenjoyable tourney experience! Lost big pots with AA and KK then shipped 33 vs an open for 18bb. Lost to 88.

Come play the £75 at the Cromwell Road Gentings tonight!