I think their is far greater perceived equity in playing suited Aces hands live than actual equity b/c people are so afraid of flushes, especially that group of players that chase flushes and straights.

That equity shows itself in games as increased FE.

But A2-A5 will play better than A6-A9 due to their added wheel equity so more Turns and Rivers are are opportunities to bet.

I have never seen too many flush over flush hands for more than 200 BB (total) but sure, when they happen, they are memorable.

H4 looks good to me because your range on that run out vs v's range is much stronger, you have a ton of FE and actual equity.

Imagine if you both had another $1K behind....v's hand plays terribly on that board... or am I missing something?

No I agree completely re hand 4. I think I was just results oriented to be disappointed when he snapcalled lol.

Idk re the suited aces, I feel like they're the absolute nuts. I play them a lot like sets and can use their fold equity very nicely. I.e. 347hh flop, we can check raise A6hh vs a strong uncapped cbetting range and get overpairs to fold ez in the games I play in. It works well at the stack depths I play at too. So there's fold equity as a major + but then also the flush over flush equity, if you know how to value bet properly, I cannot stress how important this is. If a pot goes 5 way, and it often does, and two players flop a flush, if you have a higher density of A high flushes than 8 high flushes than your opponent, you'll be winning way more coolers.

GL! I'm a philo major as well, say the same things about being an employee. And I write stories and read a ton. Subbed.

Thanks mate! Cool to have another Philo major in here. Hope you enjoy the thread.

The two earlier hands where I asked for reads, fwiw I played them out w/o looking at your results and made the same decisions.

totally

2 years ago a company I am still a director of hit a bump in the road. We could not trade for 9 months until it was sorted out. The cashflow "warchest" we had built up kept us alive. Today, that company is on the verge of liftoff. And I still got a share in it . Really not that different a concept than sound bankroll management.

Reason #487 I Hate Treasury Casino

EP bets $50 on the turn, CO shoves for $260, dealer mucks CO's cards. Dealer calls floor. Floor calls pit boss. Pit boss comes over and says she needs to call her boss, we sit here for 30 minutes bickering over what the protocol is. 5 hands per hour this hour???

been there from the start but never got around to comment
GL dude, its been an enjoyable read so far!

Good to have had ya on board mate!!!

I hope you protect your hand like a mad man at this place

He got compensated but still so bs, such a fk around. Lucky for him tho that his hand got mucked because the other guy had the nuts :')

Daily Update - Saturday 23/09

Hours Played: 4.9
Profit: -$197

Notes: After finishing my session last night at about 1-2am, I had some time to kill before my breakfast date at 9am. Kinda lazed around in bed and read some MGOP and listened to a bunch of podcasts. Below is my breakfast date review.



Legit tho if you guys get around breakfast, follow me on Insta for a bit of a fun piss take. :') @mealereviews

Went home after that and went to bed. Woke up at 9:30pm (lolwot) and head to the casino after some breakfast. 15th on the list, waited probably 90 minutes for a seat? Same old story, didn't win any big hands, nothing much happened. Played fine I think, just unlucky. No hands to note either. Annoying because I only got 5 hours in when, if I'd not waited so long on the list, it'd have been far more.

I'm going to try to get back to the casino again tonight, hopefully a little earlier so I can beat the after dinner rush to get a seat.

Full Results & Giraffe: https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?...7C8876B842!334

I would have gone with 8.876/10 but hey, what do I know...

Precision mate. It's all about the precision.

The Enemy of Happiness

"It is quite impossible to unite happiness with a yearning for what we don't have. Happiness has all that it wants, and resembling the well-fed, there shouldn't be hunger or thirst."

I was sitting at breakfast today and read this line in "The Daily Stoic", one of the books I'm currently working through. I wanted to see how it could be applied to poker. Basically, it states that happiness in the present moment and desire are mutually exclusive. It's impossible to be happy and want a better winrate or hourly. If we're constantly yearning for better results, we will never be happy in the present moment, and that's all there ever is.

So it's important then to remember to be grateful for what we have. Replace our feelings of desire with feelings of gratefulness. I'm grateful that I have an hourly >$20. Of course, I desire to have a >$30 hourly, but my focus cannot be on that. So instead of riddling myself with this desire for a higher hourly or winrate, I'll focus my attention on being grateful for what I do have until that desire fulfills itself.

Refurbished My Blog - PHILOSOPHICAL RAMBLINGS

So today I've spent most of the day updating my blog. Previously, I'd write articles about a variety of different topics, often philosophical in nature, on my site harveymeale.com. Well, I want to continue doing that but I've slightly altered the model to focus more around a newsletter.

Each week I'll write a "philosophy tidbit" which is designed to be both entertaining as well as educational. None of this is poker related but philosophy and writing are also passions of mine and I'd love to share some of my work with you.

So if any of you think you'd like to check it out, head on over to http://harveymeale.com and chuck your email address into the subscribe box so I can send you some cool stuff once a week.

Super keen to hear feedback from you guys about A) the new design of the site, B) the articles (when I get round to writing them) and my writing style.

The benefit of this new design is that it really pushes the envelope as far as joining the email list is concerned. Building a list is going to be super important for me if I ever want to build a platform (which is the no. 1 requirement if you ever intend on selling creative non-fiction books). So I'm hoping this new blog develops a readership I can reach out to further down the track when I look at potentially becoming an author.

Anyway, let me know what you think!

Daily Update - Mon 25/09

Hours Played: 9.6
Profit: $1,188

Notes: Was about to write Reason #489 why I hate the casino but decided I will benefit more from sucking it up and embracing it's shtness. I need to learn to enjoy it there, even if I currently despise it. There are good things about the place, although only very few.

Also got EXTREMELY lucky today. See below hand.

Hand 1

One limp, CO ($1,400) opens $35, BTN calls, hero squeeze AK in SB to $150, only CO calls.
Flop $340: AJ9cc
Hero check calls $150.
Turn $640: Ao
Hero check calls $150 again.
River $940: Ko
Hero donks $300, villain calls, and we scoop a $1,540 pot vs JJ. Verrrrrrrrrrry lucky river.

Hand 2

Hero opens AK UTG, call, blaster calls.
Flop $85: KT4r
Hero cbets $55, fold, blaster calls.
Turn $195: 8
Hero check calls $165.
River $525: T
Hero check calls $300, blaster insta mucks. We scoop $1,125
Perfect exploitation of this player type imo.

Hand 3

MP opens $25, BTN (wide) calls, hero overcalls in SB w AJo.
Flop $80: J94r
Checks through.
Turn $80: 5dd
Hero bets $45, fold, BTN calls. (We ****ed up pot reading and therefore sizing once again).
River $170: To
Hero checks, BTN snap-bets $105, hero ???

Hand 4

Hero in MP isos to $30 over UTG limper w QsQd, BB calls.
Flop $65: 69Tss
BB checks, hero checks.
Turn $65: 7o
BB bets $40, hero calls.
River $145: 8sss
BB bets $75, hero ???

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Cool to get such good volume in today after sleeping all of Sunday. Gameplan now is to finish the week stronk. I have a repeat brunch date with a girlie on Wednesday but we should still be able to get decent enough volume in tomorrow, Wed night, and Thurs to get the weekly volume in.

I've been up since 4am yesterday, it's 4am currently. So I need to go get some sleep if I want to repeat today's good session at the casino tomorrow.

Peace

R&G: https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?...7C8876B842!334

H1 I think should be a bet/bet/bet. lots of hands you want to get value from

H2 wp

H3 Call. T8/QT/Diamonds all missed. Also he could have KJ or QJ

H4. Bluff raise unless villain is a station. make it big too like 325ish

H3 call
H4 bet flop, ap sigh fold lol

May i ask why you went for thin value? I see his turn bet seems weak, but i still think something like $500-$600 on the river is better. I feel as tho you missed some value. (maybe results oriented idk) GG tho keep at it!

Tbh my hand is so face up by this point, I don't think I can get much value OTR. I think it's a pretty bad call from him imo. My hand/range is super narrow from preflop and just feel like when I have the nuts and he has like no AJ in his range, we can't bet too big OTR. He almost did and should have folded too.

H1-Why check flop? as played would x/r river
H3-think u miss out on too much value by checking river, think u have to call u beat some of his value
H4-well played, raise river

Hand 1 is def a river check with the line you took of you are $1400 eff

1- mainly cbetting. As played I'd def x river. Give yourself a chance to stack worse boats and allow him to bluff. You could also have a turn xr range vs this sizing.

2- I'd rather barrel most AK and potentially call down wider than normal if he's floating/bluffing too much. Too much downside xing AK hand and letting his worse Kx off the hook for 3 streets.

3- Call esp. w/o the Ad Axdd should make up a decent chunk of his bluffs.

4- I think this hand prob makes the best bluff raise blocking QJ and spades.

Checking flop because our range is so narrow preflop that we look a lot like QQ/KK. We'll want to check here with most of our range. Also for pot control at this stack depth and unsure we can get 3 streets vs worse.

H3 I really don't think we can value bet this river, think xc is much better.

Interesting everyone has said to xr river in h1. Obv that's the standard line too. Not sure what villain's range looks like. Wasn't really thinking about it the entire hand tbh. JJ, QQ, KK, AK, AQs maybe? Come the river it's more like JJ, AK, AQs. I think there's a very decent likelihood JJ and AQ will strongly consider checking the river back here because A) they don't want to get jammed on and B) we look exactly like what we have. When I was called on the river, three people simultaneously said "Ace king" just as I go to show my hand, it was that obvious. IMO donking something like $500 instead of $300 is better and feel like it's better than xjam - to which I think he folds too much. Or maybe you're all right and I botched it and left another 1k on the table.

Hand 3 we call and lose to 78dd. This is a spot where I think we need to be able to look at the river bet and question whether they do that with a pure bluff. This guy is capable of bluffing here 100% but the wayy in which it's done - is there some sort of live tell we can garner here? I feel like even if villain misses the river and decides to bluff, the way in which they'll do so, sizing, speed, etc, might well be very different. Is there anything we can do to figure it out? Or is it a sigh fall back on GTO spot?

Just wanted to stop by and say that I really enjoy your thread meale. It actually gave me the motivation to chronicle my own journey. All the best in the future. I'll be sure to keep following closely.