do both, variety is the spice of life

Landed a new job for a hedgefund a few
Weeks ago so ain't been at the tables. Will probably jump back in soon though


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do what you enjoy! it's not like you're going to be a loser in one and winner in the other, so at the end of the day, does the $ incentive really matter? you only live once, don't slave it away

Congrats on the new job Henry!
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There is some good advice up there. Looks like its going to be a mix for the time being.
Played some zoom today, b-gaming mostly. Called the session a day after
I caught myself opening A8o in CO for no good reason.

BTN was fish, BB seems to be a very greedy reg fastplaying cooler spot.
I'm pretty much folding AK in this scenario.

Another nice run. This is going to be a heck of a month regardless what happens
in the upcoming days.

Nice scores man. Been toying with MTT's myself for whatever reason the last couple of days and I'm intrigued. I think they do a good job of highlighting a lot of mental game stuff and the whole being able to grind thing so I have no doubt getting really strong in MTT's would carry over in a few ways and help ones cash game. At least for me. And omg the softness, not sure why I'm surprised but jesus christ.

Gl in the big $22!

Yeah, I would guess overall EV can be a good bit higher but variance is crazy and I would imagine they can be soul destroying to grind.

Hey Salmo, ty.
Kinda butchered it while I was in a very good position to take it down.
Were u playing as well? (big22)
Hard to judge which one is more EV for me atm or in general.
Session about to start. GL everyone who is playing.

Yeah I could have done some damage as well. Never on your table but if you ran into a not very good aggro russian with a commanding chip lead later on you met my chips at least

Gl!

Hello 2p2. Here I am again with a short update.
Played some cash lately - very low vol.
Other than that I joined a gym (about time).
Not sure If I mentioned but Im soon to be 35 and I lack any phisycal activity.
Right now im overweigth but not obese. Especially the long mtt sessions
seem to have taken their toll of my body. Getting outa bed and feeling tired
already - something had to be done.
First impression was great - I tried to avoid gyms. Preferred to do something
in the open but without structure I give up on jogging or anything similar.
Also I had the wrong idea about what gyms look like from the inside.
I have no special goals - just wanna be fit again. Intending to go 3x/week.
Cardio, then working with weights (starting out suuuuper low), then some cardio again. We'll see how it goes.
Another point of attention - I am more of a non smoker than a smoker for
the past few years but I do always start smoking when I go on vacation.
Usually I say Ill quit when I come back but most of the time it takes a bit longer. Atm Im smoking and I intend to quit again start of July.
That was real life - pokerwise..

Played this hand few minutes ago. MP is a loose fish but I opted to not 3bet
since BB seemed recreational too - seen him for the first time and he was 1tabling.

Poker Stars, $1/$2 No Limit Hold'em Cash, 6 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

Hero (SB): $212.61 (106.3 bb)
BB: $200 (100 bb)
UTG: $177.01 (88.5 bb)
MP: $79.04 (39.5 bb)
CO: $211.81 (105.9 bb)
BTN: $243.73 (121.9 bb)

Preflop: Hero is SB with 9 9
UTG folds, MP raises to $4, 2 folds, Hero calls $3, BB calls $2

Flop: ($12) 9 7 4 (3 players)
Hero checks, BB bets $6, MP calls $6, Hero raises to $30, BB calls $24, MP folds

Turn: ($78) A (2 players)
Hero bets $51.92, BB calls $51.92

River: ($181.84) T (2 players)
Hero ?

What do you think about this river looking at villains range?
Which play seems better? Jam or check to bluffcatch?

I don't think it makes a lot of difference tbh - if he turned Axhh he'll probably call a jam, I THINK KQhh also turns their hand into bluff otr but kinda depends whether villain is loose passive or loose aggro. Either way I don't think whether we x riv or jam is going to make or lose a lot more EV than the other.

How's your diet look? Cardio and weights is an excellent idea for fat loss. Remember regarding the cardio stuff, you want your heart rate to fluctuate throughout the workout - like a sin graph. HIIT is good as are sprints. tbh cardio 1-2 times a week is enough if you're lifting 5-6 days a week and eating proper - your fat loss EV is at least 50-60% diet.

glgl

I don't think either play is bad. You want to be able to have enough value combos when you bomb turn and river to avoid being exploited. BBs range is primarily weaker pairs, maybe turned top pair, and busted draws. I'd be inclined to jam because this is what we would do with our bluffs. But again, both plays have merit

Thanks for the input guys. Time to reply.
@ meale
I havent changed my diet much. I dont think I eat that much at all
but I surely could go somewhat healtiher in that department.
I had a conversation with the staff there and they said Im best off doing
10 minutes cardio, then weights (on 7 different tools) and finish with
15 minutes cardio again. About the weights - Im at the 2nd lowest level now
(18kg) and the idea is to gradually build from there. On each tool I do a 3x15 series.
Been there for the 2nd time now and I have to say this was one of the best decisions
I made over the past few years. The focus is not that much to loose weight, I guess
thats going to happen anyway but just to build some stamina again. Havent done
anything but sitting in my chair for the past years.

Now to the hand..

I wasnt looking that much for some GTOish answer. There is a huge likelyhood
BB is a recreational and I may never see him again. The obvious answer always
is to shove but it intrigued me a bit while playing. In the end I ended up checking
and he valuejammed Th9h.

What I find to be crucial factors here:
1. We block a lot of TP hands villain may be donking with OTF so his range should
be weighted more towards draws to start with.
2. Villain OTR has even less nutted hands since I expect undersets to fastplay some
OTF, or OTT - not saying he doest get there with sets but we are indifferent to
his toprange since he is jamming that himself. Same goes for all 86s combos.
3. If we dont jam we are going to loose value vs his AhXh hands that are very likely
calling but we wil force folds from all other hearts combos.

So to find an answer wheather check or jam has a higher EV we need to have a look
at the ratio of AhXh hands and XhYh hands he may be bluffin with.

A lot of this is going to be assumptions but ill try to make it realistic as possible.
The range he gets to the river with and we arent indifferent against is the following:



Yellow we wanna bet against, blue we wanna check against.

I did not give him all the fdraws only J-high+
There is some merit in examining his Thxh and 9hXh combos that wil nearly always checkback but bluffcatch sometimes.
Normally when fish have a big draw they end up being entitled to the pot
so lets assume that half of his ThXh and 1/4 of his 9hXh are calling a jam.

The total combo count OTR is 41.
Always calling: 7
50% calling (ThXh): 5/2=2,5
25% calling (9hXh): 3/4=0.75 ... a total of 10.25 combos

26 of his combos are unpaired. Thats 63,4% of his entire range.
15 of his combos are bluffcatchers, and 10,25 of them are calling.
So he bluffacthes with 25% of his range.

If villain bluffs with 25/63,4=39% of his unpaired range it doesnt matter what we do.
If they bluff more which in reality I think they do (after all we look like we are giving up)
check becomes better. These numbers are a bit arbitrarily chosen but its nice
to play around..

The only valid conclusion is that its going to depend of villains bluffing frequencies and that
his river range is very weak.
However its surely not a spot where check should not be considered and not so long
ago Id just be closing my eyes and jamming here. I loved my check in game
but Id have loved it even more if villain had a bluff

Monthly recap:

Looking back at my best month ever. Man the two big cashes were really
sweet.
Cash volume was very low due to MTTs mainly. Would have been even
worse hadnt I put in a 3k hands session yesterday. I already feel the gym
benefits when it comes to stamina and how I feel all together - and I've only
been three times. Bought an unlimited membership since I intend to go
every 2nd day.

For the next month I intend to play more cash. I started feeling very comfy
at the 200 tables but its too soon to make any predictions. Curious what
the new stars changes will bring - apparently not much good. Guess we will
find out very soon.

Some numbers:





Lets see what July brings.

Cheers.

Donkaments FTW! Very nice month.

July has started well - weee (Winamax monster 50)



Still got couple of nice stacks left.

No more playing drunk.

https://www.boomplayer.com/24453254_B2966B388D

Thought I had an open ender - not that this makes thing any better.
It does make em funnier though

I can see why BB c/c the river with the As but jesus that's a thin call even though you don't rep ****. problem is if you turn weak pair hands here into a bluff check calling A high here turns from breakeven/slightly losing to clearly -ev. Mbn to win that hand tho

lmao thin

wat

No hangover, nice

@Mav are we really gonna discuss this hand from a technical perspective? :P
Its obvious GTO from both sides if u ask me.

Hah sorry forgot to read the preceding paragraph. I also didn't notice the flush completing otr. That being said I still think BBs c/c otr is bad.

Brief update


Tonight I played three final tables for the first time in my.

Bitter loss in big22 (KKvAQ for 2nd stack 6k up first) - out 5th
5th on the french prime time with very nice bounty $
3rd on the french money time

Losing AK v AQ for chiplead with 80 remaining (fish called 40bb jam) in the builder 55
hurt too but all together not a shabby night with 2.5k profit.

Havent played any cash - gotta figure out how the new rewards system work and
I really dont feel like doing it.

I was so tempted to slowroll here vs russian aggrowhale but couldnt do it in the end.

https://www.boomplayer.com/24493764_0B11D08F11

Nearly 10k month already - life is good

Another great run - (massively) butchered it in the end.



Monthly total should be around 15k by now MTTs and cash combined.

Cheers!