H1: Call

H2: Shove for value with only pot size bet left

I'm guessing you were beat in at least 1 of the hands. Also K9s a bit too loose to open from LJ. Worst king you should open there in cash games is KTs/KJo.

Moved out of your mom’s basement yet?

Hey there, thanks for the comment.

I personally very much prefer to live my mom, and she wants me here. It’s just me and her. She’s my best friend and vice versa. She loves the company, as do I.

Doing well financially of course, so money is not a problem

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Part 2: The Road to Pro

Ever since I started meditating 15+ minutes daily pre session, I’ve been in a pretty good place as others have noted, and itching to do some more damage.

A pop off March certainly helps though!

Here are some of my favorite posts itt to date… enjoy!


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Losing a 2K+ pot in my very first Vegas session ever!
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Edited down a bit

My setup

I think this post is an important one, as I think it contains most of what I need to bear in mind in order to achieve my goals from the previous post. I hope I take my own advice to heart

And thanks again guys
completely meaningless, but nice to pop off in a week like this considering the following picture was just for one of the three accounts was playing on.
Can promise this one’s the furthest thing from brag. I think putting thousands consistently away like this is a habit that will consistently pay dividendsss well into the future.

Setting a good example means a lot to me, and while I may not always succeed- I do try.

Very tempting to play super high or be a baller, but it’s much easier to blow EV than it is to grind it. So happy with this one more than anything.

More than anything though, just incredibly grateful to be in a position where something like that is even possible and don’t want to blow this

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Huge goals by 25! Both the poker + Life goals!

Beating HSNL on mainstream sites and having a good career/social life is basically conquering life.

Good luck!

I didn’t know that they allowed people to ash their cigs on the tables at Caesar’s.

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Yeah! While I’m definitely super excited wrt the life that I can carve out for myself through poker, more importantly just over the moon I get to wake up every day and do what I love.

No amount of upward mobility, money, stability, can transcend that passion imo!

gl to you as well friend

haha was just happy to be there mate!

Solved charts I reference (zenithpoker) go all the way down to K6s in the LJ. KJo is mixed, and K7s also for some reason I don't understand when K6s is pure.

Folding K9s is nitty. I'd argue it's a better hand than KJo, anyway. You should be more sensitive to suitedness. In general suited high cards are pretty good and I think pre-solvers people undervalued them, and overvalued low suited connectors.

I think its because K6 makes money off an A on 2345 boards.

Congrats on your success rtp. I personally didnt learn how to work hard until I burnt out on poker and got into finance, good to see your effort is paying off.

hero slowplayed his hand so villain sees it as polarized at best. With the Ad completing the flush Villain could be checking any number of value hands; especially if he is weak as suspected.

Well said! Happy to hear this take

agreed

Thanks! And welcome

Yeah. That's a good angle on the hand.

Most of my hands are going to be versus regs (of varying skill levels), however when it comes to feedback (itt) I much prefer hands that are multi-way, versus recreational players etc. Solvers are far less useful for this kind of spot and the discussions are a lot more fruitful.

Can't just post a sim and be done with it. There is usually lots of room for creativity along the way as well

Definitely wouldn’t classify this as a slow played hand at all.
It’s mostly pretty standard.
V does not have any number of value hands, or if his line makes sense at all, he shouldn’t. V has a flush with this line almost never. I still think a small bet is better than shove personally.

Yeah

It’s interesting as ott im not really doing much raising, however hard to tell how V is going to perceive that.

I think DMW makes some good points.

Obviously not rooted in theory, but that’s totally cool with this kind of spot of course

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Have a couple hundred spots I’ve marked for review on backlog.

Going to sim a lot of those and think over them and try to clean the slate by the end of the week.

enjoying the journey man, keep it up!

once you've been in the game for a long time, you learn that consistent hours is way more of a legit brag than winning 50k in a month or whatever

Thanks! And welcome

Gl to you as well!

Haha you’re right sir

Couple hands

H1

1/2 online. 6m

V seems like a whale. >50% VPIP at the table and splashy. No showdowns. Everyone else is a reg.

$200E

OTTH

Pre-flop: V RFI $9. Hero 3b SB $32 with A K. V calls.

Flop ($66): A Q J. Hero checks. V bets $33. Hero calls.

Turn ($132): A Q J 9. Hero checks. V jams $135E total.

Hero?


H2

1/2 online. 6m

BTN is a good reg. Not sure if they're human. Seems fairly balanced all around. No relevant notes.

$220E

OTTH

Pre-flop: V RFI BTN $6. Hero calls BB with Q J.

Flop ($13): Q J 10. Hero checks. V bets $10. Hero calls.

Turn ($33): Q J 10 2. Hero checks. V bets $50.

Hero? I have $200 ott.

Ran a few sims w some different parameters and pio (solver) really likes this sizing here by V from what my monkey brain can understand.

Tough to play against this line on this texture when we flat the BB here and are OOP with a 15+ SPR vs a good reg.

We don't do much raising vs this sizing usually but I kind of like a jam here..

Let me know what you think. There's no right/wrong answers.

H1 - why aren't we betting the flop? No chance I am folding against a whale AP

H2 - I think we can't do anything but call. Pretty sure we don't get to raise anything on the turn and folding is obviously nonsense. Seems like villain has a massive range advantage to me.

H2 call

H1 sigh fold seems unlikely V wouldn't just check back a hand like A5s or K8dd or 55 or whatever the fk, maybe you have a better read than I do to consider hero calling

H1 fold

H2 the real fun begins if you call. I assume robo-villain is shoving all rivers?

H1 not folding vs whale but like like a good fold normally so flip a coin and follow your desire

H2 I think jamming folds out anything we beat so just calling fully expecting he's jamming any river and just hoping it's AA or AQ not AK or something weird that wins

okay, here’s an app sim for h2 for those that are interested. more convenient to post straight from phone than pio sims.


V ob strat OTT. V should be doing this around 40% of the time in optimal. Most aren’t, this V could be




hero’s response, including our hand



V’s strat facing x on 5 river



hero’s response v jam on 5, including our hand


V’s strat facing x on 5 river



hero’s response v jam on 5, including our hand

H2 V plays well and leverage his AK advantage ott. You never has AK here and you don't have much raise range. Call the evaluate the river, mostly call down on a blank river.

ty for the feedback everyone

tempted to jam H2 here bc V's have too much value here and aren't tripling enough with their bluffs- so we're incentivized to just rip it in now, but not raising often here is probably just better for sure


h1- V seemed splashy. Not sure if checking is best, but that's why. this turn card isn't great though so I do feel like getting away is reasonable but dunno

V can definitely get away with sizing extremely often in H2 yeah

yeah for sure



well, the card as well as what V's holding is will certainly matter for H2.

but yes, I do feel as if V will be relatively balanced with the river shove.

see the simulations, I think V is probably playing similarly to that.

see above for my thoughts and the sim

being OOP makes things harder here ofc in both these hands.

just be careful when you're running sims

a huge mistake a lot of people do with solver work is have the solver operate on the assumption viliain is also playing balanced gto style

instead you should be getting sim to respond to population tendencies, i would be particularly suspicious of a poker bros nl200 villain playing optimally, if you look at the solver for hero it's quite apparent while it may be correct for villain to do something like bet heavily with A8o for the reason you mentioned that AK is clearly not part of your range, he's still not doing that regardless of whether or not you i and the entire world know you don't have the nuts here

i'd be very curious what solver says if you narrow his bet range to something he'd actually be betting with

you have a better idea than i, but I'd put his range to something like this T9+, 99+, Kx, 9x and see what it says then, villain just not betting hands like A2o or 43s ever here even though that's technically a good play according to the solver