very nice thread indeed.

couple of questions if u dont mind answering,

how often do you tilt?

what do you do when u tilt? (move up, play looser etc?)

do you use a stop loss if so what is it?

how often do you play live cash games £5/£10 or above?

will be following thread, gl sir

Yeah it's something to do with that. Got it half fixed by downloading the Hem update, but now it's stopped working again. Maybe it will sort itself out soon!

I used to tilt a lot like 2 years ago for the usual reasons. These days though people hitting sets on me once we've seen the flop etc doesn't really bother me as it's kinda in my control once we see the flop. But yeah, losing like 6-7 aipf's in a row when its a flip, thats probably the only thing that tilts me these days.

Regarding what I do, I just play a lot looser, will 3bet more than I already do, will call 4bets with **** etc. Can't really move up as i'd prob be already playing the highest games that are running.

If I lost like ~$35,000, so around £20,000 in a day, which has happened like 5-6 times then i'd stop for the day.

I only play live cash when I go to Vegas, which going by the last year, is 6 times a year. There I play the $10/20/40 straddle game that runs at the Bellagio.

Day 10:
Ran terrible today. Can't remember winning a coinflip allin pre... Still showed a profit though. So tilting seeing the second graph, about £35k below ev in 10 days.

takes a lot of tilt-control to realise that your exactly where you were ~26k hands ago and not spew

Just 5 days at the office bro

Sickest life ever ^^

When you started out how much time did you spend analyzing hands compared to playing? I probably play 2-3 hours a day with an hour of study, not sure if I need more study though.

I've heard that it should be around an 80-20 ratio of playing to studying.

I play probably 98% to 2% studying. The 2% studying comprises of me thinking how I could have played it different/where I went wrong after I played the hand whilst continuing to play.

lol, i'm exactly like you regarding HUD's, videos and studying. Good to know there's someone playing much higher that dis-regards all of that stuff.

Your brain essentially becomes a hud if you learn through experience. That way you think more logically about hands and can hand read better in my humble opinion.

Do you find HU more draining than 6max OP?

sick. subscribing coz your my idol and hope to learn from you

Easy game? How is 10bb/100 even possible for that long?

Yeah this is exactly it. Some of my friends have to play with the HUD on, which I really don't understand as they will base the decision of their hands souly on data from previous hands. They should be basing their decision on factors which affect this hand - the board texture/bet sizing/betting speed/table dynamics/current metagame/who bet/what position they are...etc.

Hopefully I will run a bit better on day 11 (today)...

do you do coaching for hand readings?

Don't know if it's been asked already, but how many tables u play at a time?

No, just play more and your hand reading ability should get better.

9 on average.

Day 11 graph so far:
Profit of ~£4,650, but running below EV as usual.



After day 11 I find myself up £33,178. The EV line says I should be up £75,131. After day 11 I need to be up approx £15,060... So to be over double of my projected I am happy with. But to be £42,000 below EV is just FML.

Just to clarify profits on each day have eventually ended like this (I planned to not play anymore on the 16th of July (Day 7) but ended up playing more):

Day 1: - £12,373
Day 2: + £7,040
Day 3: + £20,664
Day 4: + £12,605
Day 5: + £7,192
Day 6: - £2,674
Day 7: - £152
Day 8: - £306
Day 9: - £6,937
Day 10: + £3,463
Day 11: + £4,654 (at the moment)

Profit after Day 11:
33,178

I want your life Sir

(I also live in London and play euro sites...you can find me at the 10/25nl tables on Boss Media haha)

Seriously, awesome blog but please post more hands with some of your thinking. I know it's selfish of us to ask, but some us are intruiged by what goes on in the head of a 10bb regcrusher who doesn't use a HUD and has never watched a training vid...

Lookin' good! Good luck

I play a bit on there, not much, maybe 10% of my hands are played there.

Yeah, no problem. It all kinda seems standard to me so nothing really interesting. What kind of hands would you like me to post?

I know it wasn't really aimed at me.... but I'd love to see some hands where you bluff raise turns. It something I rarely do and you rarely see discussed in forums or on sites.

Inspirational 'blog' btw.

Ok so in response to the latest post, here is a failed check raise on the turn! I filtered my hands on my Hem to those that I check raised on the turn. Tbh this is the first time I've ever clicked filter on my hands in my Hem and looked at previous hands played. Pretty much all of them I was holding the nuts/close to the nuts, and won the pot.

So therefore I should be raising a lot more on the turn with air? I'd think that would be a good improvement to make... But then I'm looking at the hands and pretty much all of them went to showdown! So maybe not...

The hand I have posted above though, it looks pretty donkish tbh. I basically 3bet this guy raises out of the blinds a lot. He knows that. I know that. People say one of my leaks is that I 3bet out of the blinds a lot more than I probably should... Because of the usual reasons like first to act on the flop bla bla...

Anyway, this reg is one of the reg's that loves to float flops... So I was thinking any two cards are in his range once he's called the cbet on the flop. Normally he'd probably call with the flushdraw (in hindsight) due to the Ace on the flop... Which makes me regret the turn check raise a little bit more as it makes a flush draw less likely in his range.

If I knew he had for example KQcc then I'd play my hand like I did. By flatting the raise pre I knew he didn't have AK/AQ/AJ/A10/A9 as all he'd prob 4bet me with, ofc the latter 3 prob he would fold if I shoved over him.

So if he's calling the flop then betting the turn, the only hands I'd be worried about him having are A3/8 suited and 333/888... Not many then. Compared to the times when he's floating my flop bet then leading turn I think I can be shoving air there quite a lot of the time and be successful.

Obv if he does have low clubs and misses I ship a nice pot with a pair of 5's

Im generally not a fan of c/r the turn as the pfr 100bb deep. Imo I think there are usually better options.

Do you have any examples of hands where you have called a pfr's cbet (your in the blinds) and c/r the turn turning a weak made hand into a bluff? Is this something you do much?

Or any hands where youve called/floated a flop cbet in position and bluff raised a turn bet pretty much as a pure bluff?

Im keen to get ideas for spots which will help me boost my redline which is traditionally flat or slightly -ve.

I apologise if im asking you to do rather alot for free! Its worth a try tho!

everytime i check this thread i get a motivation boost ! keep up the good work, and good luck.

Yeah I agree, 100bb is probably not deep enough to be CR-ing air. Unless you have a specific read that the opponent is one to be floating continuation bets. The spots where I have 3bet pre, say for example I have AQdd, and it comes down 10d 7c 3h. I will be betting that flop nearly always, and if called... And the turn is a diamond, no matter how high or low, I will probably be check raising all in on the turn (if 100bb deep) - or just bet the turn and shove the river. If called on the turn, I'll be shoving i'd say 80% of rivers - all diamonds obviously, and then any over cards. Probably not 10 if that comes as 55/66 more likely to call as most reg's would check their AA if another 10 came down on the river. If i held AA then I'd still be shoving given my loose aggressive playing style.

I'll check my Hem for examples of hands tomorrow before I start. Off the top of my head though, I definitely do sometimes float a hand which maybe has a back door straight or flush draw, and if the turn gives me the openender/double gutter or the flushdraw then I would check raise the turn then bet the river.

Regarding floating a Cbet in position - I do that all the time. I'd have thousands of examples in my Hem but I tend to do it most in the following situations: I raise pre, get 3bet, I call in position. Flop A99 - they bet I would call with any two. Turn 5 for example. They check - I either check or bet my air here, opponent related. Then if a Q came down or something on the river, where I could easily be betting A2 just for a split pot call (if it came down a 3 for example and I had like A4 I would be more likely to just check it) - so I'd bet my float now and more than likely get a fold.

Same. Thanks, you too.

sick analysis. hopefully i can get out of the lowstakes soon enough to play with people like you. but i need to work on my game a ton to do that hahahaha very inspirational blog