Bankroll requirements in general are a moot point for people with other incomes, which is most people. They can generally come back the next time and play the stake lower than 2/5 if it doesn't go well.

I think even if I only had 10K to my name and had nothing besides poker to rely on, I'd still want to take the shots I described in my post (soft lineup/playing my best that night). 1/2's a bit of a rake trap in most live card rooms; 2/5 basically every pot plays significantly above the rake cap, so it lets you out of the trap.

Yeah, maybe when the situation is right.

I've spent my fair share of time worrying about money from week to week/month to month, and I put a ton of value on not returning to that.

I also put a lot of value on having an invulnerable BR for the stakes so it's never a factor in my play. Either from how I play hands (though I'll always prefer less variance) or from feeling a lot of negative emotions when things don't go well.

In general, I'd rather just work harder than shot take. Put in an extra session. Study more. Pound out a good promotion at a smaller game.

2/5/10

Approx 1.1k eff stacks

Winning reg opens LJ 30

Co loose/passive player calls button very loose/passive calls

I have T8hh in BB and 3! To 180

Straddle folds

LJ 4! To $395 at 1.1k eff approx

Folds to me

Call or fold?

According to my math i need 25% equity which I definitely have against QQ+, AK+ and wheel aces as bluffs

I wonder whether I'm actually fulfilling my equity against that range however? Seeing as I'm playing OOP against a good reg with stacks that are going to be very shallow.

Just call pre the first time

Fold the second

Uhh snap fold the second time around and sigh fold the first

Is this plus EV? We have AK off

1/3 I cover all

V: overall pretty passive OMC which sucks here but he has 115 dollars

V1 tilty only has 45 to start

OMC RAISES UTG to 15
Other v jams we make it 115

Is this plus EV against the OMC raising range with the 45 of dead money out there? We can expect to be up against AA/KK A FAIR amoint

What do we have? That is an important factor in an EV calc

Off the top of my head it’s probably never +EV. It’s not even $45 of dead money really

We have AK off haha sorry

What’s he open utg?

Does he ever fold? If so what?

I don’t know him very well at all. RARELY raises . I think he has a fold button. I would reasonably expect him to fold 99-JJ prob call QQ possibly fold AK

Just speculations tho

Well based on those speculations he will fold way more than he will call. We block AA/KK and 2 combos of AKs. So when he does call with his +QQ and some of his AK we are not ABSOLUTELY smashed

Assuming this other tilty V has a wide range as tilty short stacks often do, we may be in luck in this very particular instance.

I would suggest throwing some things into equilib, flopzilla or whatever software you young whipper snappers use these days to be sure.

In general I’m not thrilled in trying to get a short stacked omc to fold his utg raises with good pot odds to boot.

I have a funny hand against a very "special" opponent.

By "special" I mean this is a person who has no idea how to play poker but whenever he gets dealt a big pocket pair and there are no overcards to his pair he will call any bet no matter how the board looks like. Also when he bets he always has AT LEAST top pair. That's my strong read on this player. SOMETIMES, very rarely he will bet a draw.

So, the "special" player open raises to 3bbs from MP.

We have A9s on the SB, we call, BB calls as well.

Board is 942rainbow. We check/call villain's bet of 6bbs into a pot of 9bb. BB folds.

Turn is an Ace and completes rainbow. We have top two pair. We check and the villain bets again, bet of 15 into a pot of 21. We think about raising as we would do against any other player but given my strong read that this guy never bets anything less than top pair on the flop, I decided to just call the turn.

River is a 2, so the board is 942A2, we have top two, we check, villain bets 30 into 51.

We just call.

Guess what he had.

AA

22.

AA is correct.

1/3 NL

I raise from the button to $12 with AhTc and get 3 callers.

The flop is 7c8d9h. Villain in the SB bets $20 and it folds to me. I call.

Pot is $90. The turn is a 6h. Villain acts like he is going to raise, pulls his hand back, thinks a bit more, and checks. What do I do here?

Hi all,

2/5. Hero raises black AA UTG, three callers including V, a whale. $450 eff.

Flop ($60): 9-Q-Kr. I bet $25, whale raises $85. Folds to hero.

Thanks,
DT

Bet $50.

If OMC really is passive, then I think this is a fold, and is probably a fold to his initial raise in a vacuum as well (even without the other dead money), unless you see him doing this with AQ/AJ/etc. a lot UTG (but that doesn't read passive to me). We should also have very little FE this short (I'm expecting him to sigh call it off with TT with these small stacks and tilty dead money, no?).

GcluelessNLnoobG

I there were a lotta limpers to us (it's unclear how many there were), then I now mostly just overlimp this weak hand. If there was like 1 limper to us then I can certainly more get behind a raise (and just a little unfortunate if non incredibly loose blinds both came along).

Flop is slightly dicey. We're getting about 3:1 to chase our OESD, but we should have poor IO and may even have poor RIO against JT (there's a rule out there that someone always has JT in a multiway pot). Being in position I think a call is ok, especially since the turn may check, so I'm ok with it, but it's not like a slamdunk either, imo.

I'm not one for tells, but if you are, one of the more reliable ones is the ol reach-for-chips-to-pretend-my-hand-is-so-strong-and-then-don't-bet-cuz-I'm-really-quite-weak-and-want-my-opponent-to-check-behind. I'm either/or on the turn. If he has a weak hand, it's unlikely he's going to continue, so we could check behind and try and get one more bet out of him on the river. But there are also a crapload of scare cards that could kill our action, plus it's possible he has a hand he might not fold (two pair, set, pair + draw). So I'd mostly lean to a bet here.

GcluelessNLnoobG

I think this is the second time I've seen in the past few days that someone has said this to you -- "whale" is not a sufficient read, because there's all sorts of whales. I can think of times I've played against somebody who was just a total calling station, somebody who played about 90/75 preflop, and so on -- and might classify them all as whales. But I would probably muck this flop against a true station and straight up open shove over the $85 vs. a crazy action type.

2/5. $280 effective. Raise JTss MP1, lag on BTN calls. Flop JT9ccc. You bet $20, he raises $80. Hero?

Thanks,
DT