6 hour session tonight. Played B- game. Winning session but felt like a loser. Made a couple good plays, couple bad plays, 1 marginal mistake and a big mistake. Ran well when I got it all-in. +$1062 over 6 hours

As for above, he bet the river small, If I raise to just under pot if he folds a chop ~45% its +EV. I think he would have..

More on that hand I should have bluff raised the river:

straddle to $20 on button, fold, fold, harry limps, I over limp KdTxJx8x in MP, 1 other limp, btn checks.

Flop ($80)

Td 9d 7c

harry leads $80, hero calls, rest folds..

Turn ($240)

As

harry (covers) leads $240, I ($2k+) tank call

River ($730)

7c

Harry snap donks $300, hero calls.

I like how I played the hand until the river. I was planning on bluffing checked diamonds with the blocker. I thought sometimes I could bluff paired boards... I really think making it ~$1200 here is +EV. If he never bluff jams or has a boat and he folds a chop ~55% its +EV.

Awesome date last night. Half spanish/Jamaican girl. Really in-touch with her body/feelings and not great with logic. I'm the polar opposite which got us into some interesting discussions..

Got a very warm welcome on the 2+2 of REI. Asked some questions regarding the mobile home investing and got some great advice. Still planning on pursuing that in a couple months.

Since I've been on a heater I'm coughing up $1k and going to Argentina for a couple weeks to visit djross. Gonna book ticket sooooon.

Colombia on Mondayyyy

Played a really cool hand where I turned my hand into a semi-bluff on the turn..

straddle, limp, I overlimp J876ss HJ, limp, limp,

Flop ($60)

Jc Jd 3s

villain bad rec player leads $60, hero calls, folds..

Turn ($180)

5c

Villain leads $90, hero raises to $360..

Villain is Bad and has bet-size tells. Gives away his hand as a non J Full house here. He's almost always got a better hand than me, but I'm pretty sure that when I raise this turn he plans on calling and folding any river he doesn't hit a full house on.

Villain calls,

river ($900)

6

This rivers funny because I actually hit my FH. he checks, I bet $500 to try and get a call, villain open folds JT**.

So, djross is leaving Argentina in a couple weeks.. Chances of going to Argentina are crippled. May just chill/grind/whore it up in Colombia for a 6 weeks then fly to tampa. Found out $1/2/5 PLO runs daily in Tampa.. Msg'ed a guy on airbnb thats renting out a room in an awesome looking house.

Apparently PLO in LA doesn't get going early, even on Saturdays.

Ughhh complete fail on volume. I have hardly played at all this month. I Hung out with Jamaican/Spanish girl last night. I was planning to go to the casino around 8.. called at 7:30 and the game hadn't started yet. One thing led to another and I ended up chilling with her at the hotel for the night.

I'm not very motivated to play. Live pokers is boring me and its a 60minute+ drive to the casino from where I'm staying. Plus, the engine light just came on the rental car..

Considering this lack of live volume... I'm gonna have to own online volume in Colombia. The first couple days will be slow.. The plan is to Explore / Snorkel / Surf the coast for ~7-9days, average 3 hours of pokers a day.. Then, get a room in a house in Medellin and average 5 hours poker day. I'm going to drop to PLO50 and re-adjust to online/HU.

I've shown a real lack discipline the last 2 weeks and I'm not happy about it. Part of it was drinking/partying/girls-- This seems to be a pretty large deterrent for working. I think I should start a one night of drinking/week policy. It will help my health/work sooooo much. Also, I'd be better off getting a girlfriend once I get "settled" in Florida instead of spending energy chasing girls around in different cities.

Anywho, I'll do an LA re-cap now:

LA profit: $7314.00
Hours: 18

So just informed I may be deported from Colombia if I don't have a return ticket. Booked ticket to Ft lauderdale on Aug 30th. Price? $250.

80% sure I'm meeting up with Aesah in FL.

Excited for colombia. Also excited for online pokers.

Where are you staying in florida? Ive been wanting to check out the games there for a long time

Landing in Ft Lauderdale. I'm undecided between Ft Lauderdale, Tampa, and Jacksonville. If you can make it out around that time I'm down for checking out some rooms. Gonna aim to lease/rent a place Sept 1st onwards.

looking forward to follow your online grind. Would love to see alot of posts about your game and hands etc.

tyty. Me too.

Arrived in Colombia yesterday. Walked around a ton yesterday and today. Foot is blistered/hurts.. so may end up playing a lot over the next 2 days

The hostel I'm in is super small and I'm here with one other guy. Internet seems good so far. For $9/night its good value. May upgrade to a place closer to scuba/with more people.

Tried surfing for the first time today. Practically no waves here, but I swam around with the board and got a feel for it. I will have to make a decision to either venture north looking for waves or do 7-day scuba dive program in Cartagena.

I booked Medellin (pronounced "Med-e-yin") for the 26th. Got a private room in a good location with the best internet possible for $20/night. boom. I've heard that if girls is what I want, Medellin is where I should be

First online session in 6 weeks about to go down. omg omg.

Played horrible today. Sort of expected to be rusty, but not whale-like rusty. Had some spots, but don't have time to go over now.

Will grind more tomorrow.

Played B- today. Small sessions every hour or so.. Mostly got action from regs, not sure if this is standard at PLO50.

Some spots:


PokerStars - $0.50 PL Hi (2 max) - Omaha Hi - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BB): $151.69
SB: $53.76 (VPIP: 58.21, PFR: 52.24, 3Bet Preflop: 21.88, Hands: 70)

SB posts SB $0.25, Hero posts BB $0.50

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.75) Hero has J 7 9 J

SB raises to $1.50, Hero raises to $4.50, SB raises to $13.50, Hero calls $9.00

Flop: ($27.00, 2 players) 7 5 5
Hero checks, SB bets $26.50, Hero raises to $53.00, SB calls $13.76 and is all-in

Turn: ($107.52, 2 players) 3

River: ($107.52, 2 players) 3



This one is close.. against his 4betting range I'm a big dog but I feel like bad regs don't pot it on the flop with AA/KKdd. Thought I was actually ahead occasionally, had ~20% equity most the time. I think its pretty close.. Need ~36%, say I'm a ~75% favorite 30% of the time and a 22% dog 70%. That comes 37.9%. That discounts hands like 5***/AAdd that have me crushed.

Hand 2:

PokerStars - $0.50 PL Hi (2 max) - Omaha Hi - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: $131.82 (VPIP: 83.50, PFR: 63.11, 3Bet Preflop: 31.91, Hands: 112)
Hero (BB): $50.00

SB posts SB $0.25, Hero posts BB $0.50

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.75) Hero has A 5 7 A

SB raises to $1.50, Hero raises to $4.50, SB calls $3.00

Flop: ($9.00, 2 players) 5 3 5
Hero bets $4.50, SB calls $4.50

Turn: ($18.00, 2 players) K
Hero checks, SB checks

River: ($18.00, 2 players) 6
Hero checks, SB bets $13.00, Hero raises to $41.00 and is all-in, fold



He's so heavily weighted to straights/air here. I likey.

Hand 3:

This is just off a betsizing tell. Never see players bet small on this wet of a board on the turn..

PokerStars - $0.50 PL Hi (2 max) - Omaha Hi - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (SB): $78.23
BB: $57.55 (VPIP: 96.15, PFR: 53.85, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 57)

Hero posts SB $0.25, BB posts BB $0.50

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.75) Hero has A K 5 K

Hero raises to $1.25, BB calls $0.75

Flop: ($2.50, 2 players) 2 6 8
BB checks, Hero bets $1.75, BB raises to $7.64, Hero calls $5.89

Turn: ($17.78, 2 players) 7
BB bets $13.00, Hero raises to $56.28, fold



Hand 4:

Timebanked the river.. anyone check here?

PokerStars - $0.50 PL Hi (2 max) - Omaha Hi - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (SB): $58.01
BB: $115.82 (VPIP: 72.22, PFR: 64.81, 3Bet Preflop: 43.48, Hands: 62)

Hero posts SB $0.25, BB posts BB $0.50

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.75) Hero has 3 Q Q 2

Hero raises to $1.25, BB raises to $3.75, Hero calls $2.50

Flop: ($7.50, 2 players) 3 3 J
BB bets $5.00, Hero raises to $11.50, BB calls $6.50

Turn: ($30.50, 2 players) T
BB checks, Hero bets $13.50, BB calls $13.50

River: ($57.50, 2 players) K
BB checks, Hero bets $29.26 and is all-in, BB calls $29.26




Played the river really loose today. Def got labeled as a fish by some regs

Btn open 84%, I want that over 90%.
1-tabling last 2 days, I want to start 2-tabling soon

Wow, thought I played a standard hand yesterday but actually made a mistake on the turn:

PokerStars - $0.50 PL Hi (2 max) - Omaha Hi - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (SB): $50.91
BB: $49.00 (VPIP: 34.78, PFR: 21.74, 3Bet Preflop: 15.38, Hands: 23)

Hero posts SB $0.25, BB posts BB $0.50

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.75) Hero has 5 4 J 3

Hero raises to $1.25, BB calls $0.75

Flop: ($2.50, 2 players) 2 J J
BB checks, Hero bets $1.25, BB raises to $4.00, Hero raises to $6.75, BB raises to $22.64, Hero calls $15.89

Turn: ($47.78, 2 players) 8
BB bets $25.11 and is all-in, Hero calls $25.11

River: ($98.00, 2 players) 8




board: JdJc2s8
Hand Equity Wins Ties
AJ, KJ, JQ, J2, 22$ds 82.12% 486,229 12,979
J345 17.88% 100,792 12,979


So I need 26% to call, and I have 17.88% vs a reasonable J***. Assuming he has 5% equity if hes bluffing, he needs to be bluffing often.. assume hes bluffing 10% and has strong J* 90%, we have .10*.95 + .90*.1788 = 25.59%, or a fold. Basically he needs to be bluffing more than 10% here do make a call +EV. Pretty sure its a fold vs an unknown when he pot 4bets the flop and jams turn.

It's me again

What's the best way to deal with 3bets, assuming the 3bet range is wide and isn't just aces? I'm calling lots IP and OOP to 3bets with almost every hand, and generally only continuing if I hit the flop pretty hard with either 2pair+ or a strong draw. Sometimes I win big pots, but I feel overall like this is costing me more money than winning, because I have to fold a lot of the time.

No need to be embarrassed to ask questions!

vs a wide 3bet range 100-150bb deep I like calling wide IP, 4betting wide oop..

In 3b pots your should be continuing with much worse than 2pair+/strong draws, esp IP..

If your afraid/unsure how to play back post-flop, don't bother calling the 3bets wide oop-- your better off folding pre.

Decent grind today. Medium-low volume.. Got in 461 hands, 3.6 hours. Gonna shoot for 4 hours tomorrow and keep gradually bumping that up over the next week. Playing better overall. Still don't feel 100%, but getting there.. I was thinking of playing 2 tables at PLO50.. but I think its better to just move up to PLO100 and experiment with a second table in a few days.

Courtship fail story: I approached a hot girl in a public place knowing she likely did no speak english. Turns out I was right... She spoke less english than I spoke spanish. Ended up flirting/getting close with hand gestures. Partied with her and a friend I made in the hostel and found out towards the end of the night that she wants money for sex. The best part: She told my friend to tell me in english. So.. somehow end up picking up a hooker a small city when I randomly approach a girl at 8pm. Runbaddd.

Signed up for scuba diving. I'm doing an online course, 2 confined dives, and 4 open water dives. Price is sky-high at $850 + ~$20 in taxi costs. Could have cheaped out at $600 but this place got tonnns of positive reviews + the instructor speaks english well. First dive on Monday. Doing ~8hours of coursework online over the weekend.

Been thinking about something the girl LA told me. It stuck with me because it was the only negative judgement she passed over a few days of being together. She is convinced I'm doomed with woman because of my (troubled) relationship with my mom. I feel like she is right, but I'm not sure how right. There is some sort of correlation, I've read about such things (psyc 101/wiki).. but I have yet to see any empirical evidence/studies that prove such theories.

Anywho, massive learning day tomorrow. 2 hours of scuba, 4 hours+ of pokers, 1 hour+ spanish.

Thanks. How wide would you continue with?

Are you continuing with things like weak overpairs, non-nut flushes and weak straight draws? Are you donk betting, check-raising or check-calling OOP? Are you calling or raising IP? I realise this is a very wide question and dependent on so many things :P

Yeah pretty much continuing with everything I would have raised IP, oop not as much..

What to do post-flop really depends on villain, can't answer that..


So played a session today and went on mini-tilt. Kept running into gross runner runners and didn't adjust properly to villain. Played good at the start, and started failing after ~45minutes. Need to take a deep breath, think, adjust.

Starting to come down with a cold which is baddd news considering I already paid for scuba diving. I'm crushing Vitamin C and water but not so sure I'll make it to Monday.. Also makes grinding much harder as its harder to think.. looks like I'll be moving back down to PLO50 for a bit

Playing Sub-par last few sessions. Playing WAY too stationy vs fish. I've been calling off rivers super light when I think villains have tons of air, but the thing is their bluffing frequency is super low... Ugh. Pissed 1.5 BI in expectation on loose river calls over 3k hands.

W%SD is 43.33%, and 40% if checked. For reference, It's about 51% lifetime over 6max. Mostly a result of thinking too much about ranges when playing against a fish. Also lost a few hands to regs that were capable of vbetting the river thin. Didn't adjust well..

I'm still only a few days into the online grind and I'm playing a new game. Still have tons to learn and I should be expecting this to come slowly.

I'll grind lower more today. Gotta go search for some good ol' colombian coffee first, though.

what are your stats, 30/20/10?

For 6max, started off nitty, PT3 has YTD at 24/17/6.7. I think towards the end I was playing closer to 26/19/9. Would play 30/20/10 if <4 tables.

sick thread man, subbed. when u play live is it always PLO as well? ever mix in NL?

medellin may have some action for you. Casino Allegre in premium plaza friday/saturday nights. A poker club called offix kinda close to where you'll be staying but mostly low limits, and another club called As de espadas that spreads PLO. hit me up on skype anytime if ur looking for live PLO and I can see whats around.

thats alotttt for the scuba lessons, but its so worth it in the end, you have your card and can go on dives anywhere you want, gratz on getting that!!

hope you enjoy cartagena and medellin!

^^ tyty

I prefer not to play NLH, it messes with my head and I get "mistake tilt" more easily from making mistakes. That said, I will play if the action is great.

I had no idea live PLO was spread in Colombia. Will look into it.

That said, I just found out there is a $500 PLO tournament in Cartagena(the city I'm in now) on Saturday. Just so happens that I booked my flight for Friday. Arrrgh. I'm going to look into re-scheduling the flight. It's 200bb starting, 15minute levels. ROI Has gotta be in the 50-100% range. If I can figure a way to re-schedule the flights/accommodation for <$150, I'm staying.

Also get to meet sirfreddy83 (plo50 pro grinder from colombia)

Just lost 10BI vs one of the biggest fish ive ever played. Sigh.

Between which stakes the "play style gap" is the biggest?
I mean, I'm playing plo2 (6max) right now, 100bb, with kind of a nitty BRM, opening about 11.6% from UTG and MP, and super wide from the button, rarely 3betting, just getting it in with the nuts, with very rare hero calls/thin vbets...
I wonder in which stake do you think that you should get more aggro (because of the regs, or whatever it is), start 3betting more, calling 3bets wider and 4betting more than aces, etc?
Also, is it a good strategy to move up just by playing kinda tight, vbetting the nuts and not getting into marginal spots, or getting in without the nuts or a very good full house is a must some times? (except playing against marked aces)
Asking this because I still don't have a huge volume playing decent (some months ago I tilted too much, or got myself into sh***y spots way to often, then I started to study the game more) so thanks in advance for any help!