I have tried to drop the multi-tabler ego thing of "I play x amount of tables and x hands per hour/month"

For now I am judging how many tables I play by feel. If I can add more I do it, if not I dont worry about it too much. I still try to get some HU action on FR tables and sometimes play shorthanded on FR tables. When the table is shorthanded or HU action moves 10 times quicker so there is no point in stressing over trying to have x amount of tables open all the time. I will just play by however many I currently feel I can bring my A game to. If I am tired or have been playing a long session then that might mean playing less tables. If I am fresh and there is a ton of good tables going I will play more.

Throughout this challenge my default amount of tables has changed a lot. I tried to play 24 tables. 16, 14, 12, 10... I would always cut down on tables when running bad and then add more when I got overconfident. You are gonna have a higher wr at lower stakes so it may be more optimal to play more tables at the micros and then cut back to focus on quality more as you move up.

Recently I have been mainly trying to get 100NL tables open but there arent that many running sometimes. I also feel like I am the only Reg who plays 100NL and doesnt use a seating script which makes it hard to get tables. I tried playing across different sites last year and can say I hated that experience. So for now I will just take what I can get and concentrate on getting better rather than being a volume BE guy.

Damn that was a good FPL rant ... keep up the good work.

There are some ***** on FPL that just always run good ... no matter who they pick, those players always do the business.

Every week im thinking .... well as long as X, Y and Z dont do much then im ok .... then X, Y and Z have bloody blinders.

Nothing worse than seeing a team score and you think .. well as long as its not him im ok .... fek, its him again !

I really shouldn't or there will be a wall of text in here every Monday about what went wrong this week.

The dude who is top of the £10 entry league we are in apparently has no clue about football. My mate works with this guy (Accountants) and he says the dude in 1st was asking him if Mame Biram Diouf from Stoke is any good.

Of course they told him that he is a top notch striker and the guy signed him. The next week Mame Biram Diouf was off to the Africa Cup Of Nations lol Then he was back asking for advice if Bournemouth are any good, they told him what he wanted to hear and he replaced Diouf with Callum Wilson who never even played at the wk end.

This is the guy who is beating us

Last year a girl was top for 3/4 of the season. A right football expert, she picked her team using Auto Select - no joke. She was captaining Vincent Kompany every week and we had to watch on in amazement as he scored, got a CS and 3 bonus points every time lol.

I have some blank notebooks in the wardrobe, I might sacrifice one to the cause of FPL and start writing down some of my crazy theories about this game. I will be less tilted at the poker tables if I am doing well in FPL so its all for a good cause

My intentions to turn you into a grumpy old ba$tard like myself is gathering pace.

On that note time for some positivity itt.

vs Fish

Why do you raise that flop in that spot vs a fish?

I knew somebody would ask this.

Because I was playing too many tables at the time and clicking buttons quickly, I hadnt noticed that I had paired the 5, thought I was raising just a FD.

Actually I wasent even playing that many tables it was more to do with having HEM problems yesterday. HEM was spazzing out and freezing so I was having to act very quick when it regained consciousnesses so I didnt time out, I will elaborate more in next post.

I was trying to do something productive there but cant focus cos this is still on my mind.

See if you can spot the point where HEM spazzes out and freezes my tables. I know exactly what the villains hand is here cos I know what moves he pulls when X Y and Z are present at the table.




Then it gets worse. My tables have come back into focus and I have just rivered a straight and have been timing down on this other table. I had a straight flush draw on the Turn and the Turn had brought the 3rd card to the flush.

I never even noticed the bet sizing that the Reg had overbet jammed the river or that there was 3 cards to the flush on board and I called quickly without thinking before HEM crashed again. So I spewed 100bb with some crap straight losing to the nut flush. Disaster.

Tbh I am not bothered about losing the money but I am bothered about my winrate taking such a big hit cos of something like this. I am pretty sure the problem is HEM. I had played several sessions yday without restarting computer and things seemed to be getting slower as the day progressed, so think I will need to restart comp in between sessions next time.

I will need to take the positives out of this and recognise that there are problems in my setup that need to be addressed before I play any higher stakes.

My laptop is 12gb RAM, i7 processor so I reckon it should be fine to handle what I am playing. When things were acting weird I checked task manager and there didnt seem to be problems, there was no spikes in the CPU, Disk or RAM usage so I can only assume the problem is HEM or a database problem which maybe the same thing.

Moving forward, I think I will export/backup my HEM database overnight and keep it for a backup. Then my database is full of HH from the Micros which I prob dont need any more.

I could try to export my hands from 50 & 100NL.

Create a new database and import just the 50 & 100NL hands and hope things run smoother on a new database. I hate all this fcuking about with databases but based on how bad I feel about that last session I need to try something. Wouldnt be surprised if I lose a few days of playing time trying to do this.

tbh I might have raised the flop anyway.

We were 200bb deep, I want all of the 200bb when I make a flush vs this guy. Not gonna get 200bb in by calling on the flop.

I give crap cleaner a run and noticed something odd.

There is a file for "System - Memory Dumps" that is 3.1 gig in size.

Dont know what that is all about but might have contributed to recent performance problems.

A quick google search for large memory dumps says:

"BUT if you are repeatedly getting these dump files, it may be advisable to check for any third party drivers, especially anti-virus products or any other network related software. Sometimes older versions of such software may not ‘play well’ with Windows 8.1 and may be causing a stalled network operation, in turn leading to these dump files."

"The Windows Error Reporting feature will then use the minidump to help the Windows development team figure out if this is a ‘trending’ issue, prioritize it and then hopefully fix it if it is due to an issue with Windows. The ‘larger’ dump which I mentioned above is not normally uploaded unless the development team ‘asks’ for it again via the Windows Error Reporting and Action Center mechanisms (to ultimately give the end user control on what gets submitted.)"

I did get a another monitor recently. I only have 1 HDMI slot so the other monitor connects via a USB 3.0 to HDMI converter.



This might be the driver that is causing the large memory dumps. During play that monitor sometimes blinks to an all black screen for like 3 seconds then comes back on. Maybe that is temp crashing windows and then creating a big dump file in the background of the error every time.

Then while I am trying to play internet pokers windows is writing a 3 gig file in the background which is causing my Poker session to grind to a halt??? hmmmmmm

Fcuk it, I will buy a new HDMI adapter and see it helps and try to keep tabs on this memory dump situation.

Sometimes you gotta just fold and let everyone else fight over it.

Sick hand ... just wondering why you flatted KK OOP in the SB though?

Because the BTN has AA

Yeah the BTN obviously has AA here and I had a read that the other guys had sets preflop. So I decided to flat pre just to jack the pot up a bit and then slip out the backdoor when the gunfight kicks off.

Dont worry I will be 3betting from the SB plenty in that spot but sometimes I like to mix things up a little.



Well I got absolutely rekt at the tables on Fri night, felt like a -10 BI session. Never had the heart to look at any G raffs after it. Tried to get the show back on the road tonight but still not in the mood for checking results for a while.

I do have some good news though. I have no idea how this promotion works but I am clearly a bo$$ at it judging by these winnings:



That smashes my previous record of $2 and I can add Jacks Or Better to the skills section on my C.V.

that's the worst feeling, spazzing out by rushing decisions with low time banks, i've noticed that is one of the factors that sometimes affects my game too, so if there isn't an important reason to stay in the table with a low time bank I will change it to prevent that

that makes sense, didn't noticed the stack sizes

where you able to fix that background memory dump situation?

Yeah I am the same I make my worst decisions when the timebank is low/empty. Rather than thinking the hand through you end up doing a mental coin flip and clicking a random button. At 100NL there isnt great a deal of tables running so its more difficult to change tables.

I bought a new USB/HDMI adapter. I just checked there again and there is another 3.6 GB memory dump showing up. Maybe that has always been happening and I havent noticed it til now. Will run CrapCleaner more often to get rid of it. I got another monitor recently which I mentioned. I think this has led to me using the Mouse more often to click buttons on the tables rather than using keyboard hotkeys. The mouse is one of the first things to show signs that things are starting to lag as the cursor gets laggy moving across the screen. I also notice that using the mouse seems to create more of the small freezes where as using the keyboard hotkeys seems to allow things to run smoothly.

I created a new database in HEM2 and imported my 100NL hands and tried it yday. In task manager HEM2 is now using like 300mb Ram compared to 1GB before. But is doesnt seem to have made playing any smoother. I do use a beastly amount of stats on my HUD so maybe that is part of the problem.

But it is kinda confusing as I dont see what area my computer is lacking resources for any of the problems to occur. In fact since yday I have a new problem, some of the tables seem to accept my action but the table doesnt seem to update/refresh and the Fold Call Raise buttons still show on screen. I can click off the table and click back and it updates but its annoying. It might be the mouse clicks doing this again so will try stick to keyboard til I resolve this.

Probably been an age since I updated my Stars software so will do that now.

from applications of nlhe, it states that overbets are best used when your opponent has a bluff catcher, i've found them particularly useful in spots where villain has showdown value/a hand he can call river for 1/2psb-3/4psb and rather than us bet at this size or check behind, overbetting will get more folds, its just difficult to do this with value hands as well altho it probably doesnt matter

subbing for later too, gl.

ty, not seen you on 2+2 for a while.

Im pretty sure there is a new Janda 2+2 book scheduled for release this year. He said in the thread for AONLHE that he wasent pleased with the preflop ranges so maybe he will redo that. Tbh I change my philosophies on poker every 6 months, just as well I dont put books out.


I had a few hands to post but my memory has gone blank. I think the Russians have been sharing notes on me that I am full of sh*t every hand as they were calling me down all night. So got paid off in a few spots

Here is one.

Think I played 4 consecutive 3bet pots with this gangsta across a few tables so a lot of meta game stuff going down.




Horrible runout for KK in 4BP

This was fun, vs Reg

hahaha, everyone lost their mind there

I have noticed a few spots and boards that Regs at 100NL seem to play differently from 50NL Regs. I see a lot more XR in certain spots. As soon as I saw the Turn here I thought he was gonna check raise. When he does I still hesitated a little to think things over. I have 4 written notes that I have taken on this guy.

2 of them involve creative plays he has done from the SB which is where he is here. The other notes him XR jamming the turn in a 3 bet pot with the nut flush draw.

When I bet half pot he must sense weakness from that, he probably thinks if I have a set I will bet larger to charge the multitude of drawing hands. I dont have any hearts so I unblock the heart flush draw. I cant just fold like a b*tch everytime I get XR on the Turn.

If he has a set or 2 pair I still have outs to the straight. Given the notes I have taken on him it seemed like a decent time to look him up. It would have been nasty if he had AK or AQ and I got out kicked. Ultimately I felt like he was on a draw here so I went with my instincts.

I bluffed him off our next 3bet pot and he played rather timidly vs me after that.

I am going to post this hand just so I stop going over it in my head.

The villain here is a 55/25 his aggression % is around 39% and this is the first time I have played with him so dont know a great deal. I have seen him bet the river with air.

I played a pot with him early on when he had an 80bb stack. He flops a straight on a very wet board and he min raises my flop cbet, think it was a 3bet pot. I had an overpair and he ends up taking it down and doubling up.





-So relative stacks are 160bb here
-Last time villain min raised he had the nuts, which he done on the flop. This time we were multiway on the flop so he maybe plays differently.
-I am not scared to lose $160 so I want maximum value whenever he has a worse set and I have top set here.
-I am cbetting big to charge the flush draw.
-When he min raises the Turn I fear he has the flush.
-How would he play his sets here? Does he call on the flop while the pot is multiway, then when we go heads up on the turn does he min raise his sets or would he call down with a set and only raise with a flush?

-If I flat vs the min raise the pot will be around $136 and the fish has $95 behind on the river. The money is probably going in on the river anyway and by flatting his FDs get a chance to draw out on the river but I also get the chance to boat up if I am behind.

-If I jam the turn I dont see him folding any sets or good flush draws, if he has the flush I still have outs to boat up but not great equity for such a large pot. So with top set do I jam the Turn or flat and see what the river brings?

nice analysis, it helps to leave some outs like you did just in case

tough one... call to reevaluate in river? you are getting a good prize plus implied odds and because of the info you have seen so far from him

we need 24% to call turn, i think we can call to boat up with our implied odds too. i think jamming is bad so yeah i call turn and try to not talk myself into calling river when it bricks