Hey, blakk and other players,
I have been keeping tabs in a lurking sort of way, but have been too busy to comment and play poker recently. I might be back to the tables pretty soon, but glad to see you all still kicking it around. Good going, blakk; and sorry to see the downswing, joshm. Let's hope we all have a good year in one way, or another, in any case. Be seeing ya.

subbed, gl

nh wp gg etc

Where are you from Blakkman?

supsup its been a while. thx bro andbest of luck to you as well. be seein ya

thx 4 sub. ty, u2 nh gg wp nf etc.

I m from all over the place. Among my favourites are St Petersburg, Russia and Berlin

Ha I not going to start coaching to busy playing, just curious that's all

Hi blakkman08


What do you think about the field in pokerstars.fr compared to pokerstars.com?

It is a good option for a NL 25 and N50 player 6 max to choose pokerstars.fr?

Wish you the best

looks like the market is well and live tbh

very honestly i have been having a pretty hard time adjusting to the players on .fr:



thats all my hands i played on that site since i made my account (including my session yesterday that i forgot to update about). mainly 25NL with some 10NL and one session of 50NL in there. i do think the player pool is full of bad people however I ve been pretty bad at exploiting their specific type of bad as regs and fish alike take lines i havent really seen before with both nuts and bluffs and its really hard to figure out when they spazz and when they have it. If you have the time and play few tables i d deffo suggest trying it out because despite the high rake id think there s tons of money to be made. however the action alltogether sucks ass and the rake obv is 50% higher. but since i really am not intending on staying on .fr for long as the action above 25NL almost doesnt exist at fullring I m usually just massgrinding trying to clear the remainder of the bonus and be done. i m currently 60% of the way there and believe it or not i m actually still in the green by a few bucks haha

seems like they're either playing rock-paper-scissors with optimal frequencies or just randomly clicking buttons and it's just variance.
post some hands or maybe your (detailed) stats if you don't mind to share (or just pm me)

its variance to a big part (i m now 16 buyins below EV) but also major spew in spots where i either figure my definition of reg to be bluffing where frenchies show up with lolnutz or where i figure my definition of reg to be folding where frenchie ends up snapcalling second or third pair no kicker. tbh i think if i reduced the table count and focuses on adjusting to the french player pool i could easily crush (despite the fact that over the sample there i ve pait 1k euros in rake , avg stake is nl25) but i only have to play 12-14k more hands and i ll be done there for likely ever so I just try to spew less and spitecall less and it should all be good)

did get raped for 300 euros in the latest session two nights ago tho:



completed 1/6 of my painting goals yesterday tho so i m happy anyhow:




volume still pretty low this year which is mainly due to the fact that this month is marking the last month for a long while when i ll be able to spend time with the gf (i ll be moving over to hanover and then malta in feb and she ll be doing a semester in amsterdam) so i havent been in grind mode much, basically just trying to finish of my french grind and coach some of my students. i do still plan to go crazy this year though so when i move in with my friend in hanover (SNE grinder) sh*t s gon hit the fan!

glglgl

Not running so wel Blakk? Ul man! Painting is looking good, props buddy! I'm happy to read you are almost done at .fr. I assume you are going back to the other PS client? Looking forward to meet you there

very nice painting man, u got skills

i assume that you're generally giving the avg.player too much credit, for either being capable of folding (even if it's tpnk on a 3 flush+ paired board) or being capable of bluffing and you might overadjust by projecting your abilty to handread on your opponent. most of your opponents simlpy don't have the same ranges you would have (esp. speaking of turn/river play).
you said you it in your post yourself, that your definition of a player might have been wrong, and that's likely true (he was probably totally unbalanced/never ever bluffs in this spot)
a huge part of exploiting the avg. player at small stakes (at almost every form of poker) is simply often done by folding, and we do it becuase they're ranges are so narrow and easy to play against.

running like aids and played pretty badly too.

thx bro i actually really enjoyed painting it too which was nice. already have my next motive in mind so maybe i ll amp up my yearly goal of six pictures to sth more if i rly get back into it.

thank you sir

not really. while i absolutely agree with your statements above i think my problem was something else entirely which i will discuss above, not my inability to handread, fold, or sniff out both good bluffing opportunities or bluffs by villains.

my problem on .fr was that i didnt take it really seriously, 'it' being adjustments to the players which i generally am pretty decent at *if* I reduce table count and *want* to adjust. the problem was that i didnt really move over to .fr. i merely didnt want to have a full wea off poker when i was in france and happened to see their first depo bonus. so though meh why not go for the bonus and hence started playing 24 tables right away. since they only have about 15 tables tops running on 25nl i ended up mixing in the 6 tables on 10nl and the 3 tables of 50nl running along them never really trying or wanting or actually seeing a need to figure out why regs are limping why everybody limpreraises AK UTG why they take lines that people never take on .com like checkcall flop checkraise turn (which is a decent line to take as a bluff vs aggro regs but here people literally did dumb stuff all over the place and i didnt rly pay attention). my goal was to get the bonus without changing up my game too much because, well, id be back on .com and didnt want to go through the process of changing my gameplan again after i clear that bonus. so mass grinding took the front seat and i ran bad which obv isnt negligable part of why i ended up losing money overall and couldnt even compensate for it with my 52% effective rakeback i had.

rake is another issue too. i did some math and it looks like from the normal 5-6bb/100 of rake i pay on .com i ended up paying 10-11bb/100 of rake on .fr which is a significant drop in profitability and basically reduces the profitability of the bonus i am earning because most of it is used to compensate the massive decrease in my winrate due to rake.

couple all of those (massgrind cuz lolbonus, not adjusting, massive runbad, and huge rake) and you get this beauty right here:



but on .com my first session looked like this:



making me at least confident that my overall gameplan works fine with the way the fullring games run on pokerstars.com to which i now have decided to switch back looking at the fact that historically my hourly was way above what i can expect to make on .fr even if i run hot. (50euros left to clear that just dont make it worth it)

i will be playing the miniFTOPS HU event in an hour but then i ll be grinding massively on .com and .com only. starting at 25nl to get back into the groove of things but likely move up within a few days if i feel i ve gotten back in the swing of things. one thing i took from my experience on .fr tho is that the dynamics of playerpools tend to really develop in different directions, much like my perception of zoom vs regular tables, and each require time and effort to be adjusted to accordingly what works in one will not neccessarily work in the other because of already-established dynamics in gameplay. oh, and that bonus-whoring is ******ed

Seems nice thread subbed.

Def interested in a video btw

Maybe 2 tabling 25-50NL zoom??!

I dont play much zoom but i could make a 2 tabling vid for the simple fact that theres more action on less tables so easier to view

thx for subbing

Yeah exactly. Zoom is probably ideal for making vids because of easy to view and you can step up or slow down the pace at any moment

Just for the record: Your graphs are pretty vague and hard to read. Gl at the main clien of PS. Should be all ok for you!

just coolered the hell out of a really aggressive reg. match started out with me being kinda passive feeling him out (and my PT4 taking too long to load lol) and then i started adjusting by threebetting him relentlessly as he was opening almost every button. he ended up folding to 90% of my threebets

i made two pretty tough folds vs what looked to be very polarizing checkraises but imo given gameflow he just wouldnt bluff in those spots

then i turned a set vs two pair

will consider that towards the end of the month make sure to remind me as i have a memory like a greatgranddad

the latest graphs seem fine if u click on them to expand. not sure what else i can do to improve them tbh as a screenshot lmost certainly will be of worse quality

through to round three.

villain #2 was a pretty predictable aggroish fish that played pretty faceup postflop. i ended up making him turn his third pair into a bluff vs my underbet with top two and snapped him out of the tournament. moneyround now

Yeah I see but the numbers are hard to read. Did you resize them or anything?

i dont do anything to them but uploading :s

just busted the HU shootout in the moneyround vs a pretty aggro solid reg. sad cuz i think i actually played fairly well but oh well what can you do. will go over the hands later but gonna grind a MASSIVE cash session now. hoping to knock out 8k hands or sth silly

beem playing the miniFTOPS donkaments today. had a good start in my first 2 entries and doubled both stacks up quickly but then lost with both getting my nut flush in vs a boat both times. #nutflushnog00d

went on a decent heater n one of those entries and currently closing in on the bubbl with anavg stack. probly should be even in those two counting bounties.second donkament just started so glgl me.

also been playing fr zoom on the side cuz i felt i needed to nit up a little bit ater my last few sessions. slowly and steadily grinding out a little profit there too.

UTG+2: t4720 78.67 BBs
MP1: t7472 124.53 BBs
MP2: t4510 75.17 BBs
Hero (CO): t7715 128.58 BBs
BTN: t6048 100.80 BBs
SB: t4780 79.67 BBs
BB: t4675 77.92 BBs
UTG: t2641 44.02 BBs
UTG+1: t7439 123.98 BBs

Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is CO with Q A
5 folds, Hero raises to t180, BTN raises to t480, 2 folds, Hero raises to t960, BTN calls t480

Flop: (t2010) A 8 8 (2 players)
Hero bets t675, BTN raises to t1920, Hero calls t1245

Turn: (t5850) K (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets t3168 all in, Hero calls t3168

River: (t12186) T (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: t12186
Hero shows Q A (two pair, Aces and Eights)
BTN shows 9 2 (a flush, Ace high)
BTN wins t12186

ITM in the $13 KO with 18 bb

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Poker Stars $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players
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BTN: $65.13
SB: $11.21
BB: $77.43
UTG: $25.00
UTG+1: $25.35
UTG+2: $22.98
MP1: $33.22
MP2: $23.75
Hero (CO): $120.06

Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is CO with A A
5 folds, Hero raises to $0.75, BTN raises to $2.25, 2 folds, Hero raises to $6.75, BTN raises to $16, Hero raises to $29.85, BTN raises to $65.13 all in, Hero calls $35.28

Flop: ($130.61) 9 7 2 (2 players - 1 is all in)

Turn: ($130.61) 9 (2 players - 1 is all in)

River: ($130.61) 2 (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $130.61
BTN shows 4 A (two pair, Nines and Deuces)
Hero shows A A (two pair, Aces and Nines)
Hero wins $128.61
(Rake: $2.00)