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Happy with my mental game, and how I handled that specific HH above (lol´d hard while playing obv, but never ever considered the hand he showed up when reviewing. Actually my main concern when asking about my turn action is if it´s the best considering a realistic range. Not any sign of results orientated thinking).

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Gotta watch out for them short stacks, they sometimes play only premiums.

If no continuation bet on the turn, do we check? I don't mind that sizing at all, why he limps with AA is one of those strange plays.

Other play is to check and see if villain is on draw, did they get there.

All in all, not much lost in the hand. Would you have folded to 3 bet? If 3 bet, then would you be a bit more cautious here? Have you run a sim with possible ranges for villain?

I sometimes raise KQ there pre-flop, sometimes don't.

The sizing on turn is totally fine. Can't win them all.

I'll look at some hands where guys play PPs bad and post one or two here.

Oops, nice eye lol (not that it would have been hard to spot )

Yeah, bought the BTS lab, and Scrimitzu's Micro Stakes System. The latter is their lite (older) preflop bible with Scrimitzu's adjustments for todays microstakes games. Plus, he has a bunch of videos and some GTO+ databases to go along with it (and yes, I do plan on buying GTO+ at some point in the near future lol). That one cost me $87, and was only available when buying the lab. I think there might be plans to release that outside the lab.

The lab itself was $7 for the first month, and $15 each month after. Looking at the site now, looks like I got the early bird discount as the price seems to have doubled. Still early to determine how good the value is for the lab. I don't think there's anything about MMA going from 10z to 50z, but I haven't checked out all the videos available so far yet either.

They also introduced the lab plus, which has additional content. I think that one is $99/month. No plans to upgrade to that at this point though.

why is that hand even a question? first of all, villain is a 22bb nl10 player, no need to think about balance and ****, just print.

2nd, obviously you don't have many bluffing combos on the turn, but your range is very tight (i guess) isolating this size vs shortstack. it's not like you have random K9o hands in your range to worry about. flop bet is even smaller i think than what you did btw in vacuum.

This is probably a pretty big waste of time until you are better imo. Spot doesn't happen that often at all.

@enzet Obv the showdown was an aberration. My concern is getting value from the other hands fish will usually be sticky otf. Unless I hear a convincing argument against it, vacuum vs fish always, never thought anything else

@PokerPhilosopher ty, will check it.

@SelimSuuuup I´m either raising/sqz KQo or folding. Never limping it behind. Maybe on the SB might be ok, don´t think it plays that good IP but totally open to being wrong on this one. Btw, was so sure I´ve seen someone with your exact 2p2 sn playing, but made a huge mistake. You´re someone else. Got it from the HH

@FutureInsights Yeah, would fold to a 3b, limp/raise is usually a very strong line from what I´ve seen so far. Actually, from my db never seen it done with bluffs (not saying it doesn´t happen, but if they did, they got the fold equity ). No sim yet, not sure if it accomplishes much as this is not a common spot (I was a little tilted it turns out, as obv 99.9% of the times I won´t be seeing this spot).

@MMSS About 30% of the times I RFI from EP the flop goes multiway. So I have to disagree on this one, as it´s a common spot at full ring.

@SelimSuuuup I saw that hand a few minutes ago. Same trap, and lucky river for him. Do not forget to make a note btw.

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Was willing to play a little more, but huge lags and disconnects prevented me from doing it. Hate when this happens at the very best times and days. Anyway, I´m already tired so might be for the best

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A positive I forgot to mention is that Fazendeiro´s BR got above 30 BIs for 10nl, so risk of ruin and fear for that has drastically subsided. Still want 40 bis before I feel 100% comfortable, but 30 seems to have drop any scared money effect already while I´m playing.

Btw, while thoughts about next shots are already coming to my mind (and I think this is actually quite bad, should instead live/play in the present), don´t really want to leave any stake, no matter how high my roll gets, if I´m not winning at the stake considering overall # of hands.

Good luck! Fingers crossed you can make the leap for good this time sir

@ejames209 ty very much.

Post your 10NL graph.

Also if I’m sitting 10NL you probably should choose another table for your WR.

I can’t imagine you’re winning much or at all when you do that.

What are you raising .23 EP and calling a 6x 3B

You can go a few pages back and see my graphs, including the overall one, but my performance and struggles are pretty much an open book

It was a squeeze pot if I´m not mistaken, and I can guarantee to you that it´s a narrow and strong enough range that should do well even OOP. Totally open to be wrong if I should even have a calling range there with the rake, but I´ll only check it tonight.

Have no problems facing regs stronger than I (not saying that´s what I think about you, or denying it, actually I won´t ever say my opinion about regs I face everyday) even if I´m losing to them, esp bc table was good enough.

With that said, I wasn´t on my best for sure and made way bigger mistakes on other tables, so ended up quitting the session anyway

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With that said, I´m doing a HH review and turns out even my specific holding shouldn´t really be calling there, and actually lost quite a bit of EV. Should have folded, so point for you lol

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Not playing too much volume, either bc I´m not happy with how I´m playing, or bc I just don´t want to play. Anyway, got huge donators this afternoon/evening so it was just impossible to not end up with a winning.

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Now's a good time to switch to zoom 6max Fazendeiro.. They've put antes on the nl2z to nl10z tables. I think the regs are out of their comfort zones. It's like the wild west of poker again lol. Ok, so I've been playing nl2z to get used the antes and maybe it was kind of like that before. But, I think it's even softer now. Anyway, just thought I'd mention it in case you wanted to try it out.

Pretty sure most regs (incl your friend Fazendeiro here ) don´t know the correct adjustments, and that should lead to a bigger wr if you do know, until they figure out how to play these games (or quit obv lol).

I must confess I´d be more thrilled if they made it deep ante tables, instead of only ante. Forcing you to play looser and to see more marginal spots postflop with a 4.5% rake (effectively/realistically uncapped) can´t be that good. Maybe with tons of fish it is

Obv stars won´t bring deep tables back (and especially my bread and butter from back in the good old days, the 40-250 bbs no ante tables lol).

Be prepared for even more variance @PokerPhilosopher

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Considering the odds of failing on most risky endeavours, be it entrepreneurship, or poker, or anything else that is risky but that I can´t think about right now, the usual advice of not trying and always playing it safe is the best one for all humans (if there is, let´s say, 80% chance of failing at smth, then besides pure human nature arrogance, no one has the right to think it would be different for him, he´s special etc. This is just common human delusion). Risk to reward is an issue, but even for businesses, this should be a negative number.

So if anyone comes to me, or to you, or to anyone else, saying he´ll try smth risky, the most rational advice to give is for him to not even try and stick to the safer path. Yet we wouldn´t ever heard of most successful stories we know if everyone played it safe.

To all 2p2ers who read my thread and give the "safe" advice everytime you see someone proposing the riskier path (on a poker forum, this obv being playing poker and trying to move up etc), why do you do it? Do you really think the world would be a better place if everyone always played it safe, never taking risks, always mimicking what is the standard way of thinking, living etc?

Obv considering probabilities and how most ppl here fail etc, you guys are 100% right, but I wonder if the boring world for everyone is what you really want this world to look like.

Taking a shot at 16nl right now

Post #1346 just shows that I can´t really keep up with my own plans lol. Shot went well and there is enough 16nl fr tables going during prime time that volume shouldn´t be a problem. It´s just 1x 16nl and 3x 10nl anyway, always bumhunting the best looking table at the higher limit.

I have a good reasoning tho: motivation dropping again, not finding any challenge at 10nl (not saying I´m strong there, ofc I´m not, but game is so easy right now that I don´t have to be), so in order to bring motivation back for the second time this year, I need to find more challenging conditions. Roll at 336 and I´ll keep the shots while it´s above 320. Might add another table later if profits keep rising without larger ds and I get my roll to 400 or so.

Not sure for how long those wonderful little underwater creatures will remain donating their savings, so I´m in a bit of a hurry and feel taking calculated risks right now might be the GTO thing to do. And trying to improve along the way obviously.

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I thought I saw deep tables in the full ring games. Maybe not for the right stakes? Didn't really pay close attention, just a quick glance to see if antes made it there too.

Good luck with nl16 shots (and beyond)!

@PokerPhilosopher Long time since I saw those tables. Used to mix 2nl deep ante with 5nl back in 2014. Obv didn´t know how to adjust that well other than loosening up quite a bit from lp

tyty, gl with the zoom grind u too. And please do not tilt anymore lol

gl with the NL16 shot sir. Always felt like NL16 was softer than NL10, so dw too much