Is that u in the pic?

that food looks really good, especially the teriyaki tomato chicken and thank god hicham has good taste in women

glgl!

What are you doing playing poker? You should be in the culinary arts! Can't wait till I travel over there for face-to-face coaching so you can cook me some of that!

obv. gotta love my manboobz

tyty, tasted great too!

haha thx bro, u re welcome here anytime!!

***update***

theres a little problem. the goal i set myself is really counterproduvtive. going for 300+ games every day sure has its benefits in terms of supernova however even with the best work ethic i believe that will lead to me roboting my way through the hypers which i dont want. so i decided to tone it down in terms of quantity and amp up the quality of my play. obv i will rake less doing this BUT if things go well i could be looking at a december at the 30s which will get me supernova easily. today i woke up with a headache and went straight to 3tabling. ended up playing/running meh and bigger headache and obv thats not optimal for my goal. people having the volume freeroll, here is my suggestion:

i double the amount but this time its '[ ] make supernova' ie $30 for each of u if i dont. deal?

Do I have a freeroll? If so, no deal;p

fellow hypers grinder (albeit high stakes grinder) Leon aka notgoingnewhere jsut posted an amazing piece of stratgy/mental game that imo is worth a very thorough read!

here it is

not the greatest of volume days but VERY happy with how i played today. made tons of herofolds that i am confident were all the right plays and made great bluffcatches as well. guess 15s have chnged their mind about me afterall. coincidentally today was the first time I played fellow german hyper HU grinder 'ohly' despite having played more than 3k 15s so far. (obv i won )

played 2 micromillions donkaments today, event #1 (the $0.11 crapshoot) and event #2 ($1+R 3x turbo). blew through bout a buck in the former but cashed the latter for a total profit oooooooooof bout 10 burgerz

gonna shot for BIG volume over the weekend starting tomorrow!

***guys with the freerolls lemme know please whether u accept the extension over till the end of the year or whether u want the terms to be unchanged. obv i ll pay up if not but i just dont see much point to ursuing a goal thatll screw my bottom line whereas i can make supernova by playing more A-game and moving up/being moved up***

today:


glgl all, will post hands tomorrow

sick day, crushing as always, gl!

hi all

i've read this thread from the beginning, you're amazing i'll follow

keep the good work!

thx

wow, not sure how you managed to go thru this massive beast of a thread but big thanks for doing so bro thx for the kind words!


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decided to revive my old routine and save hands during each day of play and review them before the start of next day's session as some kind of warm-up routine. peole have been talking about implementing sth like that into their routines and most have been doing pretty well because of that (skraper comes to mind) and so i figured why not.

so here are a few hands from yesterday:

#1: very first hand vs an unknown. where doe we start calling? 44? 55?

BTN/SB: t500 25 BBs
Hero (BB): t500 25 BBs

Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 2 2
BTN/SB raises to t500 all in, 1 fold

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#2: I think this might actually be the first time i folded in a spot like this in hypers but I really feel that unknowns are insanely unlikely to take this line with anything we beat. might very well be drawing dead vs JT here.

BB: t520 26 BBs
Hero (BTN/SB): t480 24 BBs

Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with A 3
Hero raises to t40, BB calls t20

Flop: (t80) A Q K (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets t35, BB calls t35

Turn: (t150) 9 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets t75, BB raises to t150, Hero folds

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obv gotta post a herocall again. ive been playing around with donkbeting quite a bit since a recent match vs a reg that was hunting me. he used to donkbet flops like T65 quite a bit and that made me realize how helplessly we have to fold a big chunk of our range here given that we re just lacking options even with hands like KQ or A5. so i ve been looking for flops that are really hard to hit strongly esp with a wide button opening range and will keep trying to find those spots.


Hero (BB): t490 24.50 BBs
BTN/SB: t510 25.50 BBs

Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 9 7
BTN/SB raises to t40, Hero calls t20

Flop: (t80) 6 T 4 (2 players)
Hero bets t40,

In this instance i flop a gutterball which is too weak to checkcall and too ugly to checkjam (tho the later deffo is an option). I opted to donk. donking serves a bunch of purposes: It folds out his overcards which obv beat me. It makes him raise all nutted hands like midpair+ and strong draws all of which crush me. it also makes him likely play really faceup if he doesnt raise. villain here is perceived to be the reggy spazzy type.

BTN/SB calls t40

Turn: (t160) 7 (2 players)
Hero bets t70,


when called i put villain on weak draws like my own 5x/4x and then some overcard floats but mostly no flushdraws. so while it looks like a mediocre card for us it actually gives us the effective nuts here. given that i think villain is mainly empty and/or drawing to flushes now i decided to bet smallish o get value from 4x/5x and give villain to spazzship his turned equity.

BTN/SB calls t70

River: (t300) 2 (2 players)
Hero checks,

when we re just called i think its fair to assume we wont be able to get any value whatsoever out of his weaker made hands just because i so credibly rep tp or a flush or 2pair. so i decide to go for showdown putting villain on worse pairs/busts mostly.

BTN/SB bets t360 all in,

and according to my perception of villain as well as him *snap* jamming here i think i still hold the nutz unless he did play a flush this way which given all three flop, turn and river seems very unlikely.

Hero calls t340 all in


BTN/SB shows A Q (high card Ace)
Hero wins t980

Quality > Quantity.



Keep up the focus bro, seems to be working.

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Choon!

crushing hu hypers now blakk. shame about your taste in humour/women life in general is horrendous. youve got poker sorted now work on being a proper human being :P

i keeeed i keeeed

lolz I m just fine with my taste in wimminz and humor tbh its called black humor bro, u ll never get it

How comz we haven't seen any pics of some hot Malta women?? WTF are you guys doing, playing poker all day or something?

^ Maltese women are hard to find nowadays, it has been raining here since like the last 4 weeks, they melt in rain.

true dat. winter is grindtime, summertime is botyhuntin time around here


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sw0ngz:

graph since the stake started:

rascist ban

played a few more and managed to pump the ev up a little

***session review***

pretty sure i wasnt playing at the peak of my abilities yesterday but also just ran funny which tends to happen quite a bit in hypers. in the evening i proceeded to play cap HU on FTP but ran bad there for the first time and dropped 3stacks then quit before playing my last hypers session on stars running meh there as well. blablabla here are some hands:

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#1: hand was played pretty much readless.

Hero (BB): t460 23 BBs
BTN/SB: t540 27 BBs

Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with J 7
BTN/SB raises to t40, Hero calls t20

std.

Flop: (t80) 6 4 J (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t20, Hero raises to t60, BTN/SB calls t40

std, mainly because of the huge number of hands that can continue on this texture


Turn: (t200) 8 (2 players)
Hero bets t80, BTN/SB calls t80

I deffo see reasons for betting bigger but i decided to go for thinner value from 6x, 8x, 4x and weaker draws so i bet smaller. against an unknown i feel this is the most profitable sizing but not sure about this.

River: (t360) 6 (2 players)

pretty much the nutworst card in the deck for me. i basically only beat his straightdraws at this point so i decided to checkfold. feels like a big stretch that villain would bluff here enough for a call to be better, dont see any reason in betfolding either rly

Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t360 all in, Hero folds


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#2: really no idea about how to play this hand tbh. guy was pretty aggressive on the flop, raising more than calling vs cbets. in retrospect i thin a checkback could be better against this villain and just going for two bluffcatches considering that i have two decent backdoor draws and if raises the hand will close to always play out like it did here:


BB: t520 26 BBs
Hero (BTN/SB): t480 24 BBs

Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with T 8
Hero raises to t40, BB calls t20

Flop: (t80) 8 5 Q (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets t40, BB raises to t80, Hero calls t40

Turn: (t240) 9 (2 players)
BB bets t400 all in, Hero folds

as played i just think the turn hits his range way too much for me to do anything about it and shipping flop is kinda crappy too. i think i should just betfold the flop IF i decide to bet or just checkback here. thoughts would be much appreciated.

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#3: I think i massively overplayed this one vs a guy that bluffs a decent bit.


Hero (BB): t610 30.50 BBs
BTN/SB: t390 19.50 BBs

Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with A 4
BTN/SB calls t10, Hero checks

Flop: (t40) A 5 5 (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t60, Hero raises to t120, BTN/SB calls t60

i dont mind my flop clickback at all tho because when i call i look like monster anyway so might as well get money in looking as bluffy as possible so nothing wrong here

Turn: (t280) 6 (2 players)
Hero bets t250,

however this is just plain bad as now i ll only get action from splits or nutz. I much prefer a check here to get max value from his nonbelieving flop floats. sure i give him a freecard but a guy that floats a bunch and bluffs a bunch probly will just snapjam 80% of the time when checked to here. or at least stab small agaisnt which i can then proceed to jam for value/protection

BTN/SB folds


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#4: funny spot vs an unknown

BB: t540 27 BBs
Hero (BTN/SB): t460 23 BBs

Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with K Q
Hero raises to t40, BB calls t20

std.

Flop: (t80) T 5 2 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets t40, BB calls t40

std.

Turn: (t160) A (2 players)
BB bets t80,

once that turn fell i already was in gear for a triple barrel then villain loldonked. thats about 90% of the time a weak pair like 5x donking to avoid being bet into but most of the time they are betfolding as they are genuinely scared of that ace. he *could* have turned nutz with Ax/ a str8 /a flush but it seems unlikel he would bet flushes to that size (let alone bet in the first place) and even if he did i still am driwing pretty solid vs both. and since i think he ll fold his weak made hands very often i decided to ship.

Hero raises to t380 all in, BB folds

in retrospect the jam was wayyyyy to big tbh and i think a smaller raise potentially has more benefits as sometimes villain calls turn and checkfolds river, as whenever he donkcalls turn he is always folding river. plus, when he jams over my turn raise i still get odds to call so i dont lose much but gain lots making it t185 in that spot imo.


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#5: hand against a guy i had tagges as aggro.

Hero (BTN/SB): t500 25 BBs
BB: t500 25 BBs

Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 7 7
Hero raises to t40, BB calls t20

Flop: (t80) 8 K 6 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets t40, BB calls t40

i think against and aggro guy i should just bet to take it down and give up when called. the flop is raggedy enough to get me enough folds i guess. but i guess a checkgiveup is just as good with less variance here

Turn: (t160) Q (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets t90, BB calls t90

when we get here though i feel like i hav to barrel this card and potentially go for 3 barrels turning my hand into a bluff vs 8x which along with 6x and draws is a substantial part of his range. i go bigger to set up a river jam on any brick or hicard T+

River: (t340) 7 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets t120, BB calls t120

but i run good and now my plan changes substantially. betting river small is obligatory here imo to maximize from his stationing range which as we see results in me tagging the guy from aggro spazztard to massive callingstation. guess i was valuebetting 4th pair all the way lol

Final Pot: t580
BB mucks 4 4
Hero wins t580


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#6: readless.

Hero (BTN/SB): t500 25 BBs
BB: t500 25 BBs

Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 6 6
Hero raises to t40, BB calls t20

Flop: (t80) Q Q Q (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets t30, BB calls t30

made my std sizing on paired flops. could go bigger here but seems ok

Turn: (t140) Q (2 players)
BB bets t40,

I think i misread the spot. i think very few people will actually donk the nuts here (or have Ax in their range in the first place?). feels much more like a Kx hand trying to get info. bv i have close to the nut low here but i think i can credibly rep Ax and get him to fold? i think he could very well have a hand like J8s ot 9To that went for a float/stab line. i ended up being a nit here and folded but not convinced its the best play here

Hero folds


session now! gogogo

GL

Keep studying and everything will be good