Even if we're often ahead? On the other hand I agree with you villain never folds on this flop...

Yes, I know folding is not bad but calling must be even more profitable. I should call more often in such situations in order to practise playing in 3bet pots...

Thx!

If theres a chance that you will spew post flop then folding will be the most profitable line by far, but yes you should be practicing playing 3bet pots and its a decent idea to start doing it IP with really good cards like this, id do the same with AK here rather than 4bet as well.

With the AK hand i know what you are saying but how frustrating is it when we bet the flop, the turn is a blank and we check behind only to see our opponent bet in to us on the river. It seems any check in the micros people just take it that they should bet(probably not far wrong like).

No, I'm def. not spewy. My problem is I fold a lot as I often can't really decide if I should float to try to win the pot on later streets. Esp. in 3bet pots.

Yeah, but that's why I asked if I should have bet turn too?!? I think so, but I'm not sure (and it's a 3bet pot...).

One hand from my last session (3bet pot again). Villain was 27/24 over only 38 hands though. He raised vs cbet 2/2 (this was the second one) and he was basically too aggro postflop (inf Agg and 56% AFq). Being OOP I don't really like to call OTF so it's a shove or fold. But which one?

A winning day but I'm still very unhappy with my game.



The following hand was (almost) the latest one today. BTN and BB were huge fish, SB was an aggrodonk who lost a lot and had been playing a bit more straightforwardly in the last few minutes. BB donked 2/6 and was quite passive postflop.

A small losing day... I'm still struggling... I flopped a lot of sets/boats but only one was payed off. But that's poker, isn't it?



These are the hands which tilt me most. Villain was unknown. After having my old database restored I'm going to check if I'm winning with flopped two pairs in the BB?!?



In the second hand villain was an aggro player (35/21, 3/4 steal from the BTN, 1/4 fold to 3bet over only 38 hands though). Some hands earlier I had 3bet/shoved w/ QQ and he won w/ KK. I cbet OTF for value but what about OTT?

Q6 hand villain stats? generally i would cc otr with this board texture to get value from bluffs (missed draws). if villain is a passive c station, then line looks good imho.

JJ hand: cf if you think villain is likely to follow with another bet otr once he bets ott. our hand would be face up too. cc if you think we can get to SD for cheap, but it is rare and board is scary (also our redraw is weak). biggest question is if cbetting this flop is good or not imho.

He was unknown (ten hands or so). I think I miss value if I check OTR.

I x/f'ed although I doubt he bets with a K. Flop was an easy value bet IMO (against him).

BR now?

It's $780.

I'm playing a quite straightforward game in these days in order to reduce variance so I think I could also take a 4BI shot at NL25. Thx to PS promotion I'll be platinum star by the weekend which will last till end of September so playing at NL25 would result in a lot of VPPs. On the other hand my primary goal is to improve...

Hey mate,
Nice thread and awesome idea for a challenge, will follow this one.

Thought i would add my 2c on the JJ hand, I would fire most turn except that card haha, I think you cant beat much on his calling range on the flop except maybe if he had 99, or 1010 or if he tried getting tricky with QQ, I think if i put together all the hands youre beating compared to hands that beat you its a pretty clear ch/f. After the turn youre essentially bluff catching... It sucks youre OOP this hand haha

Result of two shorter sessions from today.



In the first hand villain was a fishy 23/7 (over 73 hands), raise CB: 3/6. I didn't think I had too much FE but I hoped I had enough pot equity against his whole range.



In the second hand villain was a laggy player (28/20 over 62 hands), turn AFq: 56%, river AFq: 25%. I don't think I like my calls.



Villain in the third hand was an unknown possbily tight player. Standard?

Thx joshmeyer!

Yeah, I x/f'ed as I didn't beat anything but a bluff OTT. On the other hand I would expect him to check back with a made hand when the third flush card hit. I don't know...

I think this is not a bad beat. Villain was 51/17 over 56 hands. Had he been full stacked I would have folded but it's still a mistake to shove. Fish min 4bets mean KK+ and I should have realized this by now.

A typical day.



In the first hand villain was a huge fish (81/6 over 82 hands, postflop aggro (turn AFq: 45%)). Std?



The same villain some hands later. Have I told you how much I hate flopping two pairs in the BB in limped pot?



My red line doesn't like that I b/f a lot. Villain was unknown but he had 100% VP$IP over 6-8 hands.



Finally a hand against another unknown but tight player. Did I misplay it?



At least I've managed to reach the Platinum Start status. I though I would try to play at NL25 but I'm waiting with it as I'm not too confident these days...

im curious bout ur volume and how many tables you play? sorry if its somewhere else in here lol

QQ hand i would bet ott to pick up dead money. otr given that we checked ott villain could vbet with worse so calling is fine

Improving is great and everything but it's something that should be done as you move up. You're rolled to play 25nl, take a shot.

With the AK aipfr vs the 57/17 who min 4bet you, i wouldn't say this is a fold in 6max, depending on the sample size you have. He can show up with so much crap that you dominate and the worst case scenario is he has AA which sometimes he's just going to have.

I'm shoving there all day.

+1 to betting the turn with the QQ hand. You're missing value and giving away a free card.

Also, gl to you in the 100k freeroll.

Very low volume as I'm exclusively focusing on improving. I play 2-4 tables (currently 4) and I put in 15k-20k hands a month.

Yep, you're right.

I don't really think so.

Thx, I have smaller than the average stack currently, but how knows...

Well this is the reason why I don't really want to take a shot.



I have currently $740 on my account so I'll try to reach $800 first before taking a shot. I'll do it in order to regain my confidence (I hardly have any ATM ).

Meh only 430 hands, any chance i can see a life time?

Btw, how is the freeroll going? Still in?

Yeah, I know. Currently I can't post my whole graph as most of my hands is only on a portable disk as my laptop crashed some weeks ago. I'll post it as soon as I get my final laptop.

Just kicked out. Lost w/ JJ vs a maniac PFAI and then I had to call w/ ATs and lost again. Next time... What about you?

haha out as well, AT vs K8, Flop A82, turn K, river blank.

Kinda sucks but thats tournaments.

What's your overall WR at 10nl, do you have that? Over how many hands as well?

As I don't have access to my old hands I can only estimate it: it must be around 4.5 bb/100 over 120k hands at PS (and decreasing ). The problem is I'm BE in the last three months (around 50k hands). It's getting harder and harder to say it's just variance...

I've managed to copy the graph from yesterday.



In the first hand villain was a 35/10 fish (over 158 hands). He was somehow passive postflop (22% AFq) so when he raised OTT I knew he had a flush. Spew (against him and this deep)?



In the second hand villain was a huge fish: 63/19 and he had overshoved 5-6 times before this hand (but he never got called). I flat called preflop to keep him in the hand.



This is what I never (really!) do. Villain was a huge fish 76/21, with lower aggression OTF and OTT but overly aggro OTR (64% AFq). Given his river bet size I thought he was weak... He snap called obviously.



It seems I have to stay at NL10 for some days yet...

KQs meh, i would say it is a cooler. should need sick reads and a good sample size to be hero folding it. there is a straight right there, lots of two pairs combos and he could have a lower flush. u need to put him pn one hand only, so wp imo.

AKo i am 3betting this pre for value, especially given table dynamics, and positions. this villain mightlevel himself into shoving again bc we are RStealing and his image. ...postflop meh....as played he almost always has us beaten imo, people just dont try to move us off Ax here, he might be pushy preflop but on such a board what can he be bluffing with? sure we sometimes win vs. a worse A. hard to fold vs. such a drooler though

A5o. kinda loose isoraise pre. i dont hate it but should look deeply into villain's postflop stats. flop and turn look good imo. otr meh, this guy didnt fold three times, river is a brick, he seems a fish, he might call very light. also raise size is way too small.
i dont like it tbh.