Not him and not gonna post regs name publicly ofc

Fair enough. Nice job on recent results

TY!



Unfortunately, the honeymoon is over. Last night's session was going fairly routine/uneventful then around 3 hours in I got dealt KK<AA 3x in 15 minutes and AKss<KK CO/SB. Unfortunately, 2 of the KK<AA were at NL400. So I got fairly bludgeoned pretty quickly.

Outside of those hands I played fairly well last night. Tried running one big bluff against a whale which didn't work out too well which I'll post below.


6.22 Money Pinata



Hand 1) Big bluff gone wrong against whale
Usually NEVER bluff this type of player, but decided to try here. I'm risking 154 to win 126, it doesn't have to work THAT often to be profitable. And given his light sizing on flop/turn/river I figured him for some weak pair. The question is... does he fold it?




Hand 2) 3 barrel against more reasonable rec gone wrong
This one is for sure fine




Hand 3) Interesting spot against decent reg

Surprised that he gave up river. Would have snapped ofc.




With my flight out to Vegas around 2 weeks away, I'm starting to get really excited! I don't get excited by much so I'm trying to keep myself calm and remind myself the Main Event is a stupid MTT and I'll most likely bust somewhere in the middle like most of them.



I'm also looking at car rentals for the 12 days that I'll be there. I can get some standard run of the mill reliable call for $400-600 range. But I'm tempted to ball out since it's a bucket list vacation and rent some convertible/luxury convertible for twice as much. I'm also staying with family so I won't have to pay for housing accommodation. But I also won't be driving that much (just to and from casino every day mostly). What do you guys think?

Read the last few pages, wow, how have I missed this thread until now? Gotta be the best active strat posting thread on 2+2, your thought process in your mini paragraphs before each HH is superb.

Subb'd and will read whole thread this weekend.

Save on car rental and spend on hookers and blow ldo

How far will you be from the Strip?

In the AA vs KK hands that you had, how often are players 4-5 bet bluffing? At 10NL and 25NL a 4-bet is always Aces or Kings.

What site are you playing on? I'm at 25nl and people are 4betting way way wider than that, both for value and bluffs.

Thanks for the kind words. Good thing no one reads this


From what I understand like 20-30m each way. But I haven't done the google mapping and planning yet



PF games play muchhh more agro as you move up. That doesn't mean you can just play tight and collect spew because then you get paper-cut to death as you're losing too many small pots.

There's a ton of 3/4 betting. I would say most 200-500 regulars 3bet light a lot, 4bet light a little, and 5bet light less (a lot of very reasonable players never). So given the dynamics in place, people are very happy to get things like QQ/AK in pre. Which makes KK a monster.

The bottom line though is that AA is just such a strong hand. The whole point of all the PF gimmickry is to ensure that you can get your AA in pre and "cooler" whatever the other guy is willing to call off. Obviously, if people catch on that you're ONLY getting AA pre then you'll never get action which is disastrous.

Something you may want to take into consideration, the relatives you are staying with for 12 days, are they the type that are going to get sour at you spending a little more on your rental? You are staying there for free, presumably eating for free there as well. It's definitely petty if they did get upset, though some ppl are like that.

If you're trying to justify spending an extra $50/day, I don't think you need to. You're on vaca and it's fine to splurge a bit, especially on a bucket list thing. Personally, I wouldn't upgrade the rental unless I'm doing other things besides driving from the casino and back, or if I'm chauffeuring others.

Thanks for the reply. I always play full ring and I suspect that the bluff frequencies are going to be even lower because of this. I'm starting to think that I won't truly know how to play poker until I learn how to play 6 max and heads up.

@Fatnsweaty: My family out there is pretty well off/chill. I'm never in Vegas and they're rarely on the east coast so we're all just happy to spend a little time together. If anything they'll make fun of me for rolling up in a POS.




Last night's session was another good one. Slowly but surely getting used to the swings at 400. Definitely putting up a good week or 2 of play there is helping. It sucks that I'm almost "done" with poker as I'm getting comfortable playing bigger than I have in the past.

6.23 solid



Hand 1) Mash

V is a 200-400 reg. I don't have a ton of history with him and when I don't have history with 400 regs I tend to give them a little more credit for playing well. Anyways, it's hard to criticize people's play after sucking out big but I'm going to.

I think his flop x/r is not very good. A lot of hands he'll be able to get 2 streets of value from using a different line he's just getting to bet/fold flop. And any hand that's ahead of his hand is never folding.

The hand I had, I thought was the worst hand I'd bet/call on the flop (given the backdoor). Also 89ss performs better than weak QX against the KQ/AQ parts of his range - if he's choosing to x/r those things which again is imo bad. My hand retains a lot of equity on a lot of turns and a lot of turns should freeze the action (flush completing card, king, queen, ace). Mashing helps too




Hand 2) Peeling small 4b vrs fish

My game doesn't include peeling 4bets often. Only when it's undersized. I have enough equity to do so against a range of even KK+

Probably should have thought a few more seconds on the flop, but I wanted to fold out a potential QQ. Never a disaster though with the nfd and a big pot




Hand 3) Interesting spot vrs good but slightly overagro reg

River I was probably x/jamming. Although... I don't know if this guy bet/folds flushes and or/sets and as he demonstrated here he showed restraint going for very thin value OTR. I figured with top top I'd have just enough sdv to warrant calling the turn instead of raising (bluffing) and could always x/r riv if necessary.




Tonight will be my last session of poker for a few days. Unfortunately, I have to go on vacation (yuck ) and won't be playing this weekend, so no Sunday MTTs ().

Go for the more balla car in Vegas. The thought's in your mind now so if you don't do it you'll regret it.

Tough swingy night of poker. Didn't run too bad, didn't run too well. Net net a small loss. Thought I played pretty well for the most part very few clean/good spots. Definitely started my session in a grumpy mood which is never great, but I don't think it took much of a toll.

Looking at the session, I'm surprised I'm not down more. I won very few big pots which is generally my bread n butter. I actually had a really steady/be NSD line for a lot of my session which is rare for me. Weird #variance

6.24 swongz



Hand 1) 5bet light with not the best combo as table breaks
V made some comment the other day when I c/r'd flop as table was breaking that it was "obvious" I was trying to steal. Thought he was 4betting here to combat an "obvious" steal again. Anyways, wish I were suited here. AJo performs pretty crappy against 4b/c ranges. But went for it anyways. Fail




Hand 2) Sigh... very similar spot to the KQs from the other day
V just doesn't bluff here. I don't beat enough value hands. I honestly do not think he shoves AQ here otr if we get there this way. And he just doesn't have enough (any?) pure bluffs. It's gross but one of these spots where I should x/call turn wide (as in lots of oesds+sdv, JJ+, AX) but x/fold everything on the river worse than 78. Obviously very exploitable/exploitative, but I kinda knew I wasn't supposed to call AK here even though it's sooooo close to the top of my range. Dumb

Honestly, it's not that V *needs* a bluffing range here. It's one of these silly narrow spots on the river that doesn't come up THAT often. And as I demonstrated, why would he bluff when the fish can't even fold tptk.




Hand 3) Same villain

Was tempted of course to shove the river. I did spew off in chat a little about how I made a dumb call with AK/etc like 4 minutes before this hand came up. So for game flow reasons I decided not to jam here. Also, lots of things bricked. And while I don't think villain ever checks really strong hands he's still capable of x/calling to bluff catch. I think given turn sizing+river check I was getting snapped here.

Anyways, in order for the turn call to be profitable. I either need to have the best hand and sometimes get it to showdown OR I need to bluff some rivers. I think given the texture, I'm going to get a lot of credit on a lot of different cards (any 4 straight and any flush completing river should be pretty effective).




Hand 4) Same V again, surprised I got looked up

Played a hand like 2 days ago where I slow-played a set on a similar board and it went to SD. I know he knows I'm capable of having what I'm repping. Guess he wasn't in a folding mood.

Turn call is a bit thin, but with the intention of bluffing some rivers it's probably marginal/okay

Bit of a random strat question but when do you flat 4bets 100bb deep? It's something I've done a few times recently but without any real overall strategy guiding my decisions. I've done a few with value hands where villain 4bets a fair bit but folds to 5bets and I've called a few with strong hands in position that I'm not happy to get it in with but think villain has a fair number of bluffs, mainly BTN v CO.

I dont. I do 5b light though if they have a reasonable 4b and fold to 5bet

Want to clarify there's nothing wrong with calling 4 bets as long as logic and reason guide your thought process.

For ex in a toy game if vil always folds to 5b it would be criminal to 5b jam aa

I just think many regs who call 4bs often do so without a thought process or plan. They 3b 89ss and get 4b and just decide ahhh **** it I'll outplay the guy and flat the 4b. These guys are annoying and "tough" to play against but often don't win big.

In theory it's probably optimal to mix in some 4b calls with strong hands and medium hands and you can probably generate more ev than just 5b/f especially ip

Yeah I've got a light 5bet range but my heart's in my mouth everytime I use it

6.27 It's (not so) good to be back


After my short 2 day vacation I was ready to get back to work. Got back to meh-game quality followed by meh-run and meh-play by me.

All in all lead to a small losing session. I'm definitely finding some of the higher stakes games slightly frustrating especially if I'm a little card dead. Often, I've got a reg on my left 3betting and barreling like a monkey and a reg on my right opening wide and never folding. So without making hands I'm just bleeding away.


Hand 1) Yum
Weak river-call by reg imo. He beats nothing



Hand 2) CRAZY spot vrs fish with limited reads
Turn I was x/f'ing! Then I'm like hmmmm



Hand 3) Brutal cooler to table mark




Hand 4) Brutal river vrs agro whale



Hand 5) Same thing, brutal river to same guy
Given his sizing I might be able to fold this one. But I don't think he ever slow plays 2pr. And what 7x can he really have? Thought oesds/combo gutter-fds was more likely. Oh wait lol peel 2 outs get rewarded



Hand 6) Dishing out a cooler




Hand 7) I really should check-jam here
Chickened out... It's not always easy to pull the trigger on these. But I think this guy has AK almost always and it really *should* fold.

I was kind of of the opinion this guy dbs very thinly so I started to second guess what he had =/ then just made an appropriate fold. That being said I don't have a ton of bluffs in a spot like this and QQc is a pretty damn good one

I have a question about hand one. How do you play paired boards on the flop? What things do you look for to know if something like a flush or straight is good? I get into too much trouble on these boards.

Well, I had a straight-flush draw so I figured I'd have to try to complete that.

Generally, paired boards are terrible for both straight and flush draws because you can't make the nuts. And generally, if you complete your draw and villain wants to play for stacks it's because they have a FH. So often, if I take a lot of heat on the flop with a draw on a paired board I want to let it go. If for some reason I choose to continue, it will be either showdown cheaply or go for thin value (with reads).

The issue is, if ranges are very wide, some villains are capable of bluffing on paired boards, in which case a reasonable draw makes for effective floating.

Thanks for the response. I usually play it similarly but will get into spots with villain where I either miss a value bet or pay off with second best. My win rate would be so much higher if I plugged that leak...lol

6.28 Slightly winning, very frustrating


As the title states last night was both winning but frustrating (rare-ish). I won tons of huge pots and was gift wrapped 100bb quite a few times by the fun players.

But despite doing well in a lot of the big pots, I got quite run over in pretty much every other spot. Not because I was playing especially weak/passive (looking at my PF stats yesterday I was playing quite well and at least PF not getting lazy), but just didn't have much in those other spots to fight back with.

The final straw was 2nd NF<nuts which was like "yup, I don't want to play anymore" inducing. The villain who I know PF is an uber nitty-fish, and post-flop I assume is pretty nitty as well, check shoved the turn cold from the sb over a fish lead and a pretty big raise from me. The fish folded and I'm faced with a nit check-shoving the turn while I just completed a flush and hold the second nuts. I kind of figured it was the nuts a lot, but was hoping it was non-nut flushes sometimes and occccccasional sets. He also tanked really long, which made me think maybe it was a weaker flush and he was considering a fold. Nope, just the nuts. Last time I pay that guy off ever.



I was hoping to post a few HH but the 2+2 converter is not cooperating.

With the month almost over I find myself in the middle of 20k b/e or so. Obviously, b/e >>> losing. 20k is not so long (had a 50k earlier this thread). Looking to push through and have a decent session or two before July and the WSOP

Those sessions can seem a bit frustrating but I'll take them anyday over the opposite ones where you feel as though you are playing like a dream, picking up a ton of small pots and getting folds everywhere with your bluffs etc but everytime your stack is in the middle you lose. Feel like Sisyphus in those ones.

Tonight's session was very similar to last night. Quite swingy, quite stressful, and slightly winning.

I've made a few PF adjustments to my game recently which I really like. The results haven't followed yet, but I think these changes are for the better. Without getting into the specifics, I think it's going to add a bit of variance to my game, but overall for a better winrate (which should reduce variance). Tbd...

6.29 Stressful


The hand converter is still not working so no HH yet again.


I have some plans tomorrow evening, for all intents and purposes I'm done with this month. I may play a short afternoon session though so I won't upload the June graph just yet.

As suspected I didn't play any poker yesterday. Unfortunately, I really fkd up my ankle running yesterday and I suspect I did some damage . Going to potentially be in crutches in Vegas

Anyways, here's the results from June.



I raked ~$9,300, so using a conservative RB, that's an additional ~$2k in RB. Promotions were pretty weak in June so not much on that front. Without looking into my exact MTT results, I suspect I was up a negligible amount.

So all in all ~$15k. I'm not particularly happy or upset about these results. I will say that 10 days in I had generated 8k in EV (heater) and figured/hoped I was going to generate closer to 20k in EV this month. That would be quite a bit more than I've done historically per 100k hands, but given that I've been mixing in the higher stakes it was definitely doable.

In terms of volume I only managed 80k hands or so of cash. That's not because I was putting in fewer hours though, it's just that things were a bit slower in June (summer weather to be expected) so I found myself playing fewer than 9 tables very often.

Looking forward to July, I'm heading to SF on the 5th for vacation and then Vegas on the 7th. I'm going register for day 1b or 1c for the Main Event and obviously going to win the whole damn thing. Outside of the Main, I'm going to try to find soft 5/T cash, if not I'll play the 2/5.