Can't you just do it on your iPhone and for all anyone knows you're just texting / farting around? I constantly record notes on players using this method, even sitting at the table (making sure no one is peering over my shoulder when doing so, not that they would likely be able to read the font size from a distance anyways). Home game might be slightly more difficult; lottsa bathroom breaks?

GcluelessnotetakingnoobG

Thanks is there a good app?

Probably just do some searching. I use PokerJournal (which has a very useful Players Notes feature which I use), but I can't recommend it due to (I believe) it not being updated / supported by newer versions of iPhone.

GgoodluckG

Isn't it the case that (absent a sizing tell or similar read) the larger villains open the more often we should be three-betting?

On the iPhone, I like "Notes."

If you want to look like you are texting or reading social media or something, you can always text yourself or direct-message your own Twitter account, or something like that.

IME the bigger the open size, the stronger the range we can assign. So we should be 3-bet bluffing less from the small blind and using larger sizing when we're 3-betting for value.

Stack depth is critical as well. 5x opens with 100BB effective stacks limits our options post-flop.

How do you you guys approach small pair type hands (22-55) in the blinds facing a Button straddle?Folding them in normal EP (non-straddles) situations is fine, but how much does the extra 2 BB affect their play?

it's probably a leak of mine, but I'm never folding small pairs. Depending on the table, I would either limp along and then call a reasonable 3 bet to set mine if we were deep enough/going multi way, or just open as per normal.

Hero has AdQc in small blind.
UTG +1 limp, btn limp.
Hero raises +25
Call, call.
V1 310 utg +1 and V2 BTN 260

Ac-Qh-4h

I check, V1+35, fold, Hero x/r to 110, call

Turn - 6h

X, x

Ah

Hero jams

Standard? Villian had 175-180 on the turn/river. Villian had been running badly.
Am I overthinking this?

I'd just lead flop but whatever, looks fine. Having trouble putting V on a hand, I'm assuming he folded river or the hand wouldn't bother you.

Likeliest hand is Ax, no? Call flop with TP, no value in betting turn, fold trips on a four-flush board.

Oh. Right. I didn't notice that the board had four-flushed. Same answer, jam is best.

Yeah sticking it in all day long.

Okay, yeah. I thought it was pretty standard, but just wondered if there was another angle here I hadn’t thought of. He did fold river. He range seems exclusively Ax, flush draws and 44, A4 here.

This hand has been bothering me all week. I would make the same play every time but interested to know what others would've done here.

1-2
Hero BB ~$300 K7
Villain SB ~$250

Folds to V in SB: completes
H in BB: checks

Villain has shoved preflop with 22 and JJ in the last 20 minutes, taking the pot both times. He was pretty drunk at around 1am Friday night, a very bad player but good for the table. His MO was to raise very large pre (or shove) with any PP or any hands with 2 nice picture cards/A's.

Flop: 24K

Villain: "$200!!! No, I push!!! All In!!" and pushes his pile forward.

The Dealer says "the bet is $200" and spends a minute or two counting $200 from the mess.
So I've got a rare bit of thinking time (this is "turbo" at Crown Melbourne where the dealer presses a 10 second shot clock if players delay their action at all).

Hero ?

Normally I put a guy who does this on a set and I fold.
I can't help thinking he would've shoved with a PP pre though, and with TP plus the FD I'm thinking I can't be in bad shape against anything other than a set.

Hero: Call.

Turn: 6

V: "I shove!!! All In!!!!!!" and pushes his remaining $50+ in.

Hero: call

River: 4

Villain turns over 42 and wins with a FH.

I was 51% on the Flop against his exact holding (I didn't know this at the time. I checked it after the session). Unless he had a set I was never in worse shape than 51% on the Flop.

Standard

How can you possibly fold?

1 second after dealer rules his flop shove a $200 bet, I jam my chips in. I can see him do this with flush draws, TP, straight draws and ******ed bluffs, as well as all two pair hands. Doubt he open ships a set and he doesn’t have top set anyway. Hard to see a range we’re not ahead of.

I don't know if this is a fold ever, but it's certainly never a fold against this described villain.

Normally you'd put a generic villain on a set? I don't even get the use of "normally" here. I'm not sure I've ever seen someone open jam 100 bbs into a 2bb pot.

1/2 game.

Hero (250, SB) is a tight player, has a reputation as such.

BB (covers) is loose, mostly passive but sometimes aggro, but has shown the ability to fold top pair to a pot sized 60BB shove on turn when I raised pre, and bet flop.

EP1 (covers) is decently snug, this session. Can spaz but is up to 1k and shows no sign of being on anything but lockdown for big amounts.

EP2 (covers) is an older man, unlikely to put big money in without a nuttish hand.

both 1 and 2 cover.

CO (60) has recently bought in but is already down ~100, seems pretty loose.

EP1, EP2 and CO limp, hero looks down at 99 and completes the blind, BB checks. Pot 10, raked to 9.

Flop 367

Hero checks, BB checks, EP1 bets 5, EP2 calls, CO calls
Hero raises to 25, BB calls, EP1 folds, EP2 calls, CO shoves 60.
Hero shoves all in for 250ish total.

Thoughts?

First thought is "welcome back, corlath." Line looks OK. BB and EP2 should be very capped here, after calling twice. So should CO, though somewhat less so. You block a lot of SDs, which sucks a bit, but you also block the outs for 58 and 8T.

Good luck dodging clubs!

I'd raise pre there but limping isn't a disaster.

Definitely betting flop though. I don't understand checkraising at all. That's overplaying your hand hugely, there are a number of commonly limped hands which hit this flop hard.

As played, shoving there definitely best, but we are in way too deep with this hand already.

2/5. Hero raises AhAs BTN over a limper to $35, BB and limper call. Limper is older gentleman who can be fairly loose pre. Hero eff. $375.

Flop ($105): 3-4-5ddd. Limper donks $50, hero calls, BB folds. Turn ($205): 7s. Limper checks, hero bets $75, limper calls. River ($355): Js. Limper checks. Hero?

Thanks,
DT

5/5, 500eff
UTG^30, I call with 77, BB calls
Flop: 633r
UTG bet 35, me and BB call
Turn: 8cc
Checks to me- straightforward bet for protection/value against 2overs, FD/SD, 6x? Or check to play rivers?

5/5, 500eff
UTG limp, CO ^30, Hero with 97hh?
Call fold or 3b here? CO pretty straightforward TAG, blinds passive

1st hand, I really could go either way, but see myself betting 1/2 mostly for protection, maybe some value vs 54, 6x hands (though we block a lot of 67, so mainly A6). I think betting this turn will also induce a lot of checks on the river, so kind of like a preliminary blocker.

2nd hand snap fold. We're pretty shallow & not getting the implied odds. If CO opened instead of ISO'd, maybe we can use this as a polar 3b vs someone who'll overfold pre, but since he's isoing the UTG limp, his range should be tighter than a normal CO open. Also with his 6x sizing, we'd be committing ~20% of our stack with 9 high. Playing 100 bigs in live poker with large pf opens doesn't leave a lot of room for creativity.