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Originally Posted by MisterL
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
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.
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Originally Posted by Myher
very nice painting man, u got skills
thank you sir
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Originally Posted by MatteoBounce
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.
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