Thanks for dinner the other day!

I can tell you are getting frustrated from being in good games and not showing a profit for the session. We all know the feeling, but if you keep putting yourself in good situations at good tables the wins will come. Just hold it together and keep playing your game and I am sure things will turn around soon!

Stay positive and play well!

Yea I don't want this to turn into complain about bad beats. I've run well in poker despite being down a ton over the past ~500 hours, and like I posted in fogodchao's thread, I truly believe that poker rungood only accounts for like 1% or less of your life rungood. So yea I could literally lose every single hand of poker I ever played and still be lucky compared to most people in this world, so I always need to put things into perspective for myself. I mean, some people can't even like, physically run good.

Up $605 in 5 hours. Trying my best :P

If you don't like losing, you better switch to a different career. You can go for years, and be on the wrong side of variance.

Touche

I will try my best to get used to it :P

Honestly it's the whole bankroll situation for me, which is why I finally learned how important it is to play overrolled so this stuff doesn't affect your mental health. If I still had all my winnings from last year I'm sure I wouldn't be even slightly affected at all by getting set over setted for a 2.5k pot on LATB, but now I'm just like "noooooooooo", lol

I'm probably complaining too much anyway. TBH I'm very happy with my life right now.

As of right now I'm kind of actually in negative money, as I didn't realize how much I need to pay for taxes. Yea yea irresponsible I know

Just watched repay and that was a killer hand set over set. IMO the player "Patrick" played it badly but what can U do.

Link to most recent LATB feat. Aesah?

I think I missed a river raise here. He didn't have anything anyway but yea, not to be results oriented...

5/10 NLHE, 2 limpers, villain who seems competent but was raising very light (A2s, 86s, etc.) makes it $35, hero makes it $120 with K7, folds to villain calls.

Flop K86, pot $250
Check/check.

Turn K, pot $250
Villain leads $150, hero calls.

River 2, pot $550
Villain leads $280, hero calls.

Up $919 in 5 hours.

Yea. Your hand really looks like the "oh he missed clubs or something and that's the only way he can win" type of hand if you raise river. Which is perfect. Thus getting 99-JJ and ace 8s to call. I probably make it 750

Just a heads up as it may interest you once you move to San Diego:
Starting march 30th Oceans 11 will brining a 5/10(20) 3k cap half PLO/NL game.

I don't hate raising the river but I'd rather click it back to raise/call than try some awful raise/fold where he thinks our range is capped and ships it in.

I also don't hate under betting the flop if he is the type to go ape **** trying to get us to fold JJ etc. Checking back is fine too and they might be of equal value.

Up $1035 in 6 hours today.

Straddled pot at 5/5 NLHE, couple limpers, hero raises to $75 with KQ in SB, BB calls, one of the limpers calls.

Flop KT7, pot $240
Hero who bets $180, BB calls.

Turn J, pot $500
Hero checks, villain jams for $1000, hero calls and wins on brick river.

Why did you check that turn?

Not criticizing--I just want to understand.

What worse hands can call?

Obviously since our opponent shoved 2X pot we probably had a read that he wasn't passive (spewtard?). So letting him shove bluffs that he would fold to a turn bet is pretty good.

Going for the c/jam to get V off AK obv

^BradleyT's answer is spot on. Couple more hands.

Hand 1: Hero raises to $20 from LJ with KT, young black guy with headphones/hoodie/tattoos in BTN calls, SB calls. Seems to be thinking player at least on some level.

Flop KKJ, pot $65
Check, Hero bets $30, BTN raises to $60, hero calls.

Turn 4, pot $185
I check, BTN bets $150, I call.

River 9, pot $485
I bet $250, BTN quickly folds.

Hand 2: Tournament winner raises to $15 from UTG, I've seen him do this as wide as A7o. Hero raises to $50 from UTG+1 with KJ, UTG calls.

Flop K75, pot $110
Check, hero bets $75, villain calls.

Turn 2, pot $260
Check/check.

River 2, pot $260
Villain leads $160, hero raises to $460, villain calls, doesn't show.

(I just noticed the last 4 hands I posted all involve me having Kx on a K high board lol)

Thanks everybody. The preponderance of weak/tight/passive players in live poker was clouding my mind. It's very rare that I have a decent shot at inducing a shove

That hand 2 is great. 99% of the player pool is just going to call his river bet. You end up with a $1000 pot when most of the player pool aren't even 3-betting PRE and they would end up winning a $150 pot if they were in your seat.

Agreed. That aggression was sexy.

Would you say that if villain showed up with KQ/AK, AA? Or if villain 4bet and hero had to fold?

This, although I definitely don't think the hand was played poorly at all. That thin value in the river is sexy, no way in hell I could ever do that.

The more you test the potential value-own spots, the better you get at it and ideally, the less you value own yourself. This is just an example of a spot where Don was able to thin-value raise b/c thats what crushers do.

You need a decent roll to feel comfortable doing it though.

Hand 1 seems interesting. Not sure I like river play. Perhaps Check to induce>blocking bet to induce>your play.

I thought he would check back Jx a lot there with his line.

Up $1877 in 7 hours.

Had an amusing spot where I was pretty sure the BB was gonna 3-bet ATC vs me...

Hero opens BTN with 52 to $15, SB folds, BB makes it $50, hero makes it $135, BB calls. Effective stacks $1500.

Flop KQQ, pot $275
Check/check.

Turn J, pot $275
Check, I bet $100, he folds.

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Don't give away your stack, and people will give you theirs. Most of my profit was from a PLO hand where I held AKK2 on JT5 bet $100 and got c/r'd to $300, I jammed for ~$1k and he snapcalled with a lower flush.

I sort of agree with this line of thinking. It's easy to be results oriented and say "wow what a well played hand", but trying to iso a loose player from UTG+1 with a weak holding like that is playing with fire imo. That's really the only part of the hand i disagree with. The flop, turn, and river especially are very well played and are a perfect example of how lines vary based on the villain.

I agree that 99% of the player pool either goes bet, check, call or blows villian off the hand with a bet/bet/bet line and wins a much smaller pot.

His range for getting to the flop is literally like 30% of hands (did you guys see the part about A7o?), I'm not worried at all about the chance he has AK/AA. I mean yea he might have AK and I lose, that's why we call it "thin value" and not "bet the nuts"

Up $1790 in 4 hours.

I think I missed a river bet here? I'm rusty in PLO now, lol.

4-handed, SB is in mandatory straddle, Hero raises pre with QQJ4 to $30 from BB, CO calls, BTN folds, SB calls.

Flop QT6, pot $90
Check, I bet $80, they both call.

Turn 2, pot $330
Check, I bet $300, BTN folds, SB calls with $600 behind.

River 7, pot $930
Check, I check behind.

Played with the legend J again for an hour. I literally folded 100% of my hands while he was at the table though, too bad. My bankroll isn't healthy enough to give him loose-ish action.