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Originally Posted by EasyMoney92
Post the big 25/50 hand at the end of previous session? Where you won $5k or whatever?
Cool to see some of the biggest hh
Great thread, gratz on 5* already. Very sick stuff!
I got A4 vs JJ aipf and hit an ace, heads up. Tbf it was the 3rd/4th time he played back at me in like a minute so had enough of it. Maybe the bad run is over!
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Originally Posted by Swire
Great thread, already a thread i check on a daily basis. What does the future hold for you after the year ends? Continue playing poker?
IRL do you keep poker to yourself? or do you class it as your profession of being a poker player?
Also you mentioned each month you take out 3-5k thats pretty sick amount to take out, i presume your living in london... Ridicolous prices overthere compared to over here in the north :P
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Yeah i'll need to continue, at the moment I have no desire in me whatsoever to get an office job. I want to get to the top one day so I guess I'll keep playing until I achieve that!
All my friends/family know I play poker for a living now, and yeah its my professional now that i've finished Uni.
The 3-5k I cash out is probably like every 3 days, from a site that i'm doing well in. I may put in money into a site where i'm running bad on. But in the main i'm looking to take out around £30k a month from all the sites I play on.
I know! The rest of my family live in the north of England, i suggested moving up there to my gf but she wasn't having any of it.
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Originally Posted by richbrown360
Just say i am following this thread because it is awesome that someone can do this and show its possible to crush mid- highstakes still.
not sure if asked but do you mix stakes if not many games going ect?
I see your actually profits(green line) seem to follow your blue line but your redline is still sick. I think i see lots of others with + redline but their red line is similar to their green line. If you understand what im trying to say.
what do you think makes your redline go up like that? I know this is asked a lot. I understand most of the reasons and theory behind why that is happening but what do you specifically do differently compared to others that makes this happen in your opinion?
Yeah i'll always mix stakes - some people I have spoke to hate doing that though. I don't seem to have a problem with it. Although if I have a Nl5k table going on and the rest 1-2k then i'll have the Nl5k in the centre of the screen and be focussing on that more than the rest...
Me personally, I bluff alot, I double/triple barrel a lot, I have a high continuation bet on the flop. If for example I 3bet preflop (with Kings), the villain calls. The flop is something like Jh 7h 3c. I bet they call. Turn 2d. I bet, they call. River 8c. (so the flop flushdraw misses) - I'll always be shoving in (or if deeper than 100bb), be value betting the river. The reason for me doing this is because I think Jx or pp's are a lot more common in that spot than him having a flushdraw. I think most regs with a flushdraw will look to raise the flop and get it in, especially if they have Axhh. I see people checking the river a lot there and getting checked behind by like KJ/99 type of hands. The red line won't be going upwards as much if you take that line. If they had the set and were slowplaying, you'll still be calling their river bet - so you may aswell be the aggressor and put them to the test imo. Obviously they could put you on a hand like Axhh (or just a spazzed AK/AQ) and may still even call you down on the river with a low pp.
I think another reason why my redline goes up like it does is because i'll be playing the dealer position alot. Alot of 3bets and continuation bets, and then a lot of floats to take down pots vs those who give up after a failed flop bet also can improve the redline.
I think the new thing to do is cold 4betting also. If someone is 3betting a lot, then i'll cold 4bet out of the blinds with anything really. Put it this way - if I 3bet AJ/A10 (maybe even AQ) and get 4bet out of the blinds, i'll be like FML I have to fold... So picking up the pot that way will again increase the redline alot. When doing that, you'd have to be looking to do it vs someone who isn't nitty enough to only 3bet AQ+ and also not good enough to realise you're doing the 4bets with any two, and hence getting shoved on.
Various lines you can take that will make the red line go up are pretty useful and look weak to the opponent getting them to stack off pretty light...
One of my favourite lines is if i flop a set on a 2 flush flop. Eg) Pocket 3's and the flop is Jd 7d 3c. Faced with an original raiser UTG I will probably just flat out of the big blind. I'll check to him. He will be betting pretty much all the time. I'll check raise (obviously). If he calls... Turn - e.g. Kh. I'll check again to him. At this point most regs will be thinking (**Must be on a flushdraw, i'll value bet my J or whatever here to make him pay for it**)... Then i'd just ship it. You'll get called pretty light in that spot imo - even QJ J10 etc will call there from past experience as they'll just think **Ok, trying to win the pot with his flushdraw, I call**. If they do fold, the red line will go up, and they'll be left feeling outplayed and wondering what we had.
If you think someone has a tendency to float flops a high % of the time, and then when checked to will be betting... Then simply bet the flop with the made hand, check raise them on the turn (or just call and let them fire the river, if the board is dry) - another way to improve the redline.