copokahaha

Here is how after a few posts

became

Pretty much a joke.

copoka, you're bluffing right? So you want BETTER hands to fold, right? So you're targeting BETTER hands. RIGHT?

If you want WORSE hands to fold, you don't understand poker very well.

Once again, you just want to win this hand. That's not a good reason to c/r.

copoka good HS winning players are trying to help you for free with your game

If you're making a lot of clear but small mistakes (As I suspect you are) and you think it's obviously the right play, you'll break even for 9 months even when you don't think you're doing anything wrong.

Silly.

Today is the first day that I realized that I am going to have to stop playing HUHU in the near future



I dont really understand what has happened. It feels like they have it every time, and they always do. Literally every time. Bluff ranges that I used to profit vastly from have simply dissappeared. I cant tell you the last time i called down bottom pair 3 streets and it was good. Yet so many of my opponenets 3 barrel 100% of their range... so I call and call and call and pay and pay and pay.

5 minutes ago I just lost two consecutive flopped straights in a row and barely even thought it was strange.

Really is nothing more to say. Its been almost 2.5 months, 236 hours, and I can say that I honestly FEEL like im tens and tens of thousands under EV at showdown. I dont feel like I've changed my style of play at all, but I feel like even though it SEEMS like im getting really unlucky that maybe I just dont have an edge anymore. This is definitely a very sad time, alot of people I know are B/E for at least a couple months.

I think in the next few months we will see what a lot of poker players are made of as this cash cow begins to die and the games become both more scarce and aggressive. The ones who wont adapt and learn other games will either go broke or stop playing poker entirely.

well glad the NC thread is here for me to vent on. But seriously, very sad days, seems like everyone is losing now

He believes they are only winners because they are luckier than him.

Yes, I'm not c/r Q7 for value.
But I'm not pure blufing either.
I 'd love some small pairs to fold, but if they dont, I have outs.
And i dont mind if Q7,8,9 would fold.
And another reason, I dont really want ****load of garbige in his RANDOM range take the pot away from my Q.
His j hi is not going just check it down to a river, you know.
It wil berel. Street after street. The same way 74o tried to do. And my Q will have to fold.

But since I do want to win pot I have to keep that scenerio, which btw, complettely missed you, in mind.

Its a random range, you know.
There is a lot of aggressive air in there.

I had 8 break even months last year. I thought I was getting unlucky and that it would pass, but eventually, I had to come to the realization that I was doing something wrong. I thought I was playing the same way as I was when I used to crush HU, but in reality, my play had deteriorated to such an extent that I was permanently stuck on D-game auto-pilot. My advice, take a week off. Don't even think about poker, then thoroughly comb through a large sample of hand history files. You might be surprised by what you discover.

As OTR succinctly put: it's a small range you are targeting.

murder: if i'm reading things right, you are ~0.8BB/100?
Sucks as your short-term results do, you can take solice that you aren't even running that horrid - no need to question your ability. Just bad at your higher stakes.

Yes. So like I said. You just want to win this pot. But you can't win every pot. Sometimes you need to find hands to c/f. Sometimes you c/f the best hand. I don't know what else to tell you.

Any of you fish going to play the tourny in 30 minutes? If not, I guess I'm the best...

Check raising, I'm targeting anything that does not have A in it + unfoldable pairs or better.

How small this range is?

And again. Its a dual porpuse.

If better hand folds great.
Taking initiative from worse hands and not letting them use a possision to fold me is very important part of the play.

Call down with Qhi is not easiest thing in a world to do.

Please, common.

And if you want to find anything to say, please tell me, why this is wrong.

And if it's not, why you did not get to think about it.

I mean yeah im not losing money but also I used to beat games for almost 4bb/100 at all the same stakes played here. Just getting insanely crushed...

I have a feeling that it might be a combination of things. Probably what fresh juice said and also being on subtle tilt and also the games getting tougher all just have conspired to destroy my once solid winrate for an unbelievable amount of hands.

I've already told you why it's wrong. The only value you get from c/r this hand is that you can get some K highs or better Q highs to fold. This is too narrow of a range for you to target given the size of the pot and the fact that you're oop. You've said a couple of times that you expect a pair to fold here? I think you're completely unrealistic if you think that is going to happen.

The other reason you give for "bluffing" here is that you don't want to get bluffed (basically). I really can't tell if you think that this is the right way to think about poker or not? You have Q high. If jack high folds, that's not a win for you. You're also opening yourself up to getting rebluffed relatively often here on this drawy board texture.

You'll also be c/r a range that is way way way too weak if you c/r this kind of hand regularly along with your normal semibluff range. So yes. You say you're balancing, and that you'll be owning him when you have top two, but your range ISN'T balanced. It's way too weak, which will make a default strategy of waiting for the turn with a lot of value hands and some semi-bluffs pretty good. This is especially true if you threebet preflop. I'm not familiar with your game, but I'm assume you do.

In any case, I'm trying to help you here. You may think you're poking holes in my argument, but believe me, you aren't. I guess you want me to answer why I haven't considered what you've pointed out about this play. My only answer is that I have considered those things and have rejected them. c/r because you don't want to be bluffed is not a good way to think about poker. You should be thinking about equities against ranges.

Qd7d has crappy equity on this board texture even against a random range. The pot is relatively small on the flop and you can't get many hands that are a. better than yours or b. have very good equity against your hand to fold before the river (when they're equity is realized).

spelling error, argument invalid

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I'm not playing 1 guy for the title of Best LHE Player.

Tournament Voided. HULHE is dead. RIP.

wait i just reread the whole thing srsly are u not calling down the pair of aces hand ???

folding in that situation seems far more exploitable than calling

lol.
and noone has even mentioned how abysmal the turn barrel in hand 2 is. Copoka, do yourself a favor and try to listen to what people are trying to tell you. Maybe there might be something to be learned from someone as good as OTR?

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Absolute Poker $15.00/$30.00 Limit Hold'em - 2 players
The Official 2+2 Hand Converter Powered By DeucesCracked.com

Pre Flop: (1.667 SB) Hero is BTN/SB with J 7
Hero raises, BB calls

Flop: (4 SB) A Q 3 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets, BB calls

Turn: (3 BB) A (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets, BB raises, Hero 3-bets, BB calls

River: (9 BB) 4 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets, BB calls

Final Pot: 11 BB
BB shows 2 5
Hero shows J 7
BB wins 10.975 BB
(Rake: $0.75)

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Ok lets do that.

The reason people c/ring A hi flop is that its hard for him to have one.
If I think he plays any 2 and i see an A on a flop, now I'm against random minus A and I'm right most of the time.

I don't think 57 42 is such an crappy equity after all.

But if I'm preventing Jhi, Thi, 9hi, 8hi, 7hi etc relentless bluffing and thus not folding to it, it is a win for me.

I'll deal with it when i see it. Why should I beat myself?
In fact, i did not see it this time from the hand that is made for rebluffing, btw. (so much for him playing his hand right)

Looks like you benefiting from knowing my hand a little bit, dont you.
When you dont know my hand and I check raise flop I tell you that I have an A, card that you most likely do not have.
Now i'm following through on a turn having a lead while representing big hand and you call it abysmal?

Do yourself a favor, brush up some basics.

You don't have 42% equity here. It's more in the 35%-37% range depending on the exact range you give him.

He did in fact try to bluff you, even tho for some reason he waited till the river to do it.