I like c betting the Kxx cc flop with AJ and the a of clubs there

QQ: I bet more (half pot) OTR: villain can call w/ Jx often enough.

AJ: Again, I bet more OTR.

AA: Yes, fold flop.

QQ: What's the question? It's fine, obviously.

AK: I'm not sure about this one. Villain only has 70bb. On the other hand his 4bet looks really strong.

Sub'd. Was wondering where your thread was gone.
GL.

Do you still play at home & work. How do you set up your tracker software on two pc's?


PS. I can see you tiltedpoker.org blog fine (top ten leaks).

PPS. )
I was looking at your videos on your blog. I have no sound coming through on the first video. Second one has sound ok.
In your videos your tables are stacked which makes it fairly hard to follow the action. Would it not be better to tile your table when you are making a video.

subbed, keep on with the grind!

I think 3 way I might have done but I just think I get called a lot against so many players.

QQ: Im not sure about the bigger bet. Theres 4 to a straight and 3 to a flush on the board. I guess with the hand I raise the river it does show that they will call even with obvious stuff on the board.

AJ I agree, maybe more on the turn as well but the back door flush isnt that likely so bigger on the river.

QQ: Just wondered about the fold really. That first session I just got smashed and everyone seemed to have hands against me.

AK: I hate that I turned AK in to a bluff but I dont like flatting pre but if they 4bet then I cant see been ever good so I guess AK is the very top of my bluffing range.

Thanks.

I try not to play at work now. Elliot and I decided that my time would be better spent if I had some spare to actually do some studying of poker and I have managed to do a bit so far although work has kept busy when its usually quiet at this time of year but still trying to learn where I can.

Hem has a license to use on 2 PCs so its just a case of exporting the hands from my work one and importing them in to my home one.

Not really sure about the sound with that one. I used to tile tables but I would find my mentality would be tested when I saw I was getting 3bet and things where as if I have them stacked it gives me a little bit of seperation. Maybe I will try tiling again some day but at the moment stacking works well for me even if I do give up a slight edge by doing that.

Were the videos any good? I honestly cant remember what they were like and dont know if they were any use.

Thanks.

On the improving note Ive just signed up with a new coach so thats pretty exciting and I have my first session with him on Tuesday which is the first of a total of 12 hours. Really looking forward to it and hopefully I can see some improvement if I can put the work in.

I cant hit a set for toffee at the moment and when I bluff that I have flopped one this is what happens.

Villain is a reg and his slow calls should have made me open my eyes.

55: Your river bet seems quite spewy. On the other hand isn't calling OTF and bluff raising OTT better? Esp. IP?

River bet is speww but of course you know this

I think I hate the hand from almost start to finish and its probably really unnecessary. I should have known when the villain took so long to call that he were feigning weakness. I guess AA calls the flop and possibly the turn but meh probably should just fold the flop. I seem to have terrible timing when it comes to making bluffs.

All hands have been discussed, but I wanted to say something about 2 hands, or well share something.

With the AJ hand, I know we're 4 way but we have the Ac + a hand that can catch a lot of backdoor draws, we can fire pretty much 3 barrels on a lot of run outs and villain is going to have such a hard time calling us, hell even bottom or 2nd set on that board has to think twice before calling. With that being said, I probably would've bet the flop and only give up if the turn is an absolute brick, like the 6h.

AK: I know 4b looks strong, but are we completely readless? stacksize wants me to believe he's a fish, and we both know fish just click buttons, I'm asking because I am not 100% sure I like the fold.

GL Man.

You write well, and i'm interested to see how you do!

I think the the AJ hand at the moment I have it in my head that I dont hit many scare cards and when I do and fire the turn I dont get many folds. That is starting to get a bit frustrating but in all honesty Im probably picking bad spots and bad villains to do it against.

Ak was my first hand at the table. Im not sure on this one really, on one hand he is a fish with his stacksize but on the other hes UTG and given we have a caller as well I just dont ever see this been too light.

Thanks.

Another crushing session just played and dropped another 2 buy ins. I cant seem to catch a break at the moment. I havnt flopped a set in over 3k hands now and any time I flop big people insta fold when I raise. Getting really frustrating but still not tilting which I guess is good.

Villain here is a big fish. Not sure on the flop play, he really could have anything.



Pretty sick cooler on this one, as soon as he raises Im thinking he has AJ all the time.






This one is possibly the worst hand. Villain is 9/4 over 56 hands. Do these guys flop a set everytime they see a flop? I just get totally owned on the river. I never have a value hand here and its like he can see my cards.




This is this villains first hand at the table. I nearly 4bet pre, again not sure about the hand.

hey mart, GL this year, Ill see you at the tables.

will have to read this through completely when im not grinding.

AK: Well played

JJ: Sucks but I'm not folding

AQ: I don't like the flop cbet to be completely honest, it's not a flop we get folds on and we have 0 backdoor draws. With that being said, on the river I would just call, and tell myself ''surely I must be right once in 2000''

QQ: I'm deffo not backraising QQ here unless I have a solid read villain could be light here, postflop is meh but I'd probs play it the same way.

AK: How much FE do you think you had? I'm really just asking as I fold a lot here which may not be the most +EV move.

JJ: It's just a cooler esp. against a shorty.

AQ: What about just calling OTR?

QQ: Pre is fine IMO. This may sound silly but I could find a fold OTT.

Thanks.

AQ your probably right. I think this villains hand is quite face up and Im not getting many folds. I certainly should just call the river and see what he is up to.

Ak hand I guess Im never in that bad shape unless he smashed the flop. Its one of those spots where I just looked at his stacksize and thought it cant be that wrong to shove.

QQ Hand his line just reeked of AK which was why I called the turn. Just thought it were a really strange way of playing KK.

A couple of hands from earlier tonight.

Thought Process And Villains Range:-

Pre: Calling pre to set mine and also thinking I may possibly bluff raise some good flops.

Flop: I was thinking its a pretty good flop to raise as if called I can bet any 4/5/Spade/Possibly A/K

Turn: Villain calls so I expect his range to look a lot like Overpairs. I dont see him slow playing a set too often but I guess he could certainly have 66/22/33 occasionally.

If he did call the flop with hands like TT/JJ/QQ theres no way he can continue on the turn so I think I like betting again here.

River:




Thought Process And Villains Range:-

Pre: He opens 11% from EP so decided to flat given he is folding to a 3bet so much.

Flop: Decided to raise the flop thinking I can rep sets quite well and if he does call with an over pair then any A/3/6/7/Club is going to look like a scare card to him.

Turn:

River:

Hand #1, no need to raise the flop, just call. As played turn bet is fine but I wouldn't expect a fold from 99-QQ type hands all that often on the Turn at least. You can still bet any 4/5/spade on the turn if they fall or raise the turn as a bluff or for value.

Hand #2, Flop raise is really bad vs this player, just look at his HUD stats. He bets 40% of flops, and 70% of turns, A quick look at his HUD stats tells you he only bets flops when he has a made hand or some sort of very strong draw. (hence the low fold cbet to raise stat) When he bets the flop he is betting a made hand the vast majority of the time or some monster draws. You have about a 39% chance to have one of your scare cards to fall on the turn but the problem is villain needs to have enough air in his range so that the scare card falling actually scares him and also that you dont get 3 bet on the flop. Seeing as him flop cbets indicate extreme strength (assuming he doesn't CR a ton which is easily verifiable by his flop check fold stat) we can't look at the hand and say 39% chance of your scare card falling, easy raise and take him off the hand. IE he could have a hand like AQcc AJcc, 55, 44, 22 A3, or AA, KK, QQ JJ etc. Even if he has a hand like 99-TT and a club falls he can hold a club in his hand and peel again.

Given the info on villain, I think this is a -EV move. Better villains to do this against, IE guys who open wider, cbet a weaker range on the flop, and fold their cbets to a raise

So with hand 1 I would be flatting the flop with the intention of raising the turn on good cards? I guess that line is going to look strong to a lot of villains. If the card is not favourable then unless the villain checks then were are done. Do you think the raise on the flop is ok and still a +EV play or is it you just think raising the turn on good cards is more profitable?

In the AK hand I think in retrospect I didnt pick a good villain to make the raise against especially not really knowing if he could fold to a raise when he does actually bet. Just out of interest against a guy with a wider range and is cbetting more if I did for whatever reason call with AK pre do you like the raise on this type of board?

Hand #1:

It really depends on the villain as there is far to much unknown information that you didn't post for me to tell you what the correct play is against the villain. I always talk in vacuums when there is not enough information available, so "in a vacuum" the most +EV play would be to flat the flop bet and re-evaluate depending on the turn card and what villain does.

Folding or 3 betting pre may even be a better option seeing a show there is a 40bb stack in the blinds ( is he a 40bb reg or a fish?) To many unknowns atm to make anything more than a "vacuum decision" Before flatting a hand like 44 which is really difficult to play without flopping a set or some sort of draw in the btn vs a cutoff open, you should have already looked at the villains opening range, his flop cbet%, double barreling frequencies, WTSD % and flop check fold stat.

Hand #2, if you picked a better villain I don't mind it but I would still consider calling. IE if your villain cbets really wide on the flop and gives up on the turn a lot I would call. If he double barrels a lot I would lean towards raising.

Ok Thanks. Im really guilty of not checking or making full use of my HUD. It is a slight problem that I dont put a lot of hands in so never really get that many hands on a lot of players.

I never took in to consideration the small stack in the blinds and these guys will look for opportunities to squeeze(well the reg ones anyway) as I found last night when I caught one shoving A5o when someone raised and got about 3 or 4 callers. Are we considering this as a 3bet simply because of the shorty or because the CO probably opens so wide and its going to be hard to get paid off when I do flop a set against that range?

It seems I do need to get in to a habit of checking certain things, although I do have some of the things on display I dont have WTSD and flop Check/fold anywhere other than a pop up. I would say its fair that one of my leaks is that I play too much on `feel` without making use of the information that is actually available to me.

I think with hand 2 I got far too carried away with the flop texture without considering the villain, again guilty of not reading the information I have correctly.