Bennnn good to see your downer is over man, how you finding the masters grind?

i love it more

it truly is. I'm kinda addicted to buying them. If you got any retro suggestions then lemme know! I've been trying to find the david seaman 1996 top for about 2 years now

nsfw



We should totally do a poker players football match. Sort your team out doctor

bzzt

haha, unfortunately i'm still no where near out the downer! I think i'm like 15k away still The masters grind is fkn tough, but i wouldn't change it for the world - loving it! How've you been mate?

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Went out last night to a place called Katzenjammers which is a german themed beer hall. Was totally knackered after a late one, but managed to do about 4-5 hours on my essay and put in a 90 min session. I've written about 1k solid words so far. Just another 3500 to go...



Guess i should check fold here. Hard to find any bluffs



More of the same tomorrow. I imagine i won't play any poker

glgl

Mini update. Haven't played since last update. The essay grind is slow and arduous. Looks like there's a decent chance i won't play all month which would be a shame. Roll on 2017 i guess!

Hope the xmas games are treating you all well glllllll

Good to hear youre enjoying it! it is a tough grind for sure. I am just getting back into the pokers, playing mainly live. Got sun run by some of the worst players I have ever played with last night lol. Otherwise its going well!

Ah, nice. Where are you based nowadays? haha, that sounds about right. I've played live a few times in the past couple months and have ran like total trash.

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Got so sick of working on the essay that i put in a session. Ran real nice in pots and real awful in all ins. The games were disgustingly good. Really missing out on some seriously profitable games atm.



He knows that i know that he knows that i know that he knows that i know he's capped



Not teh vurst river



That's christmas games baby



Will probably aim to put short sessions in here and there since the games are so good. I'm quite conscious that i don't wanna get in a hole though so i can work on my essay - probably not the best mindset to have though.

glgl

Can you explain your thoughts/ sizing in the last hand? What if btn overlimped?

What if KQo?

Trying to equate this to live poker where it's 13 limps to me in the bb with QJs.

*****' love that place, great night out. Munich Cricket Club in Victoria is pretty sweet too.

Yea Germans in general are the nuts

Sizing is slightly small, but not far off - prob 1bb more would be optimal. if btn limped 6x is good. KQ would be played the same as KJs here

haha i got no idea about live i'm afraid!

was so much fun - will suggest the other place to the boys!

hmm, if ya say so. My sample is you, julion and marcel - pretty rotten bunch

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Games were great, couldn't get much going.



Dreaaaam



dreaaam



anti dreaaam



vs weak reg



glgl

tyty

Yes live is a scary dark and dreary place

Seems like you wanna raise hand one pre river somewhere

good to see you crushing mate

have a merry christmas

If u get his runouts absolutely no need to

Pretty redundant thing to say without knowing the opponent.

I think this is actually a relatively common spot in live cash games. I think as long as the following criteria are met I would isolate this, rather than limp, and for a very large sizing to ensure this gets HU.

1. There are no limp re-raisers UTG.
2. UTG's EP limping range is not super strong (AQ, KJs etc), such that we invite a cascade of cold-callers.
3. All of the effective stacks are > 100BB. I think this one is probably the most important.
4. I have a good winning table image.
5. There are no more than 3-4 major VIPs in the game.

I think while checking QJ in the BB is completely fine, here's why I prefer raising:

1. We have initiative.
2. QJs is such a fantastic hand to barrel vs weak ranges (on many flop textures we'll have at least a couple of back-door straight draws, which mesh well with our perceived range i.e. if a K comes off on a 9xx board.)
3. We can "rep" any A or K.
4. Its a relatively nutty hand that can over-flush and over-straight strong holdings, although yes people do like to overlimp suited aces and kings.
5. If we raise to £20 over 8 limpers in a £1/£2 say, our raise needs to work about 60% of the time. I think this is large enough where it just about works enough of the time, apart from the most exceptional of games. Remember the LP over-limpers are going to be extremely wide here with things like 85s, 96s, Q4s etc as well as pocket-pairs they'll auto-call with. If you've seen UTG limp in with some rather "speculative" things like Q8o, this is a print money raise.

The range I'd probably do this with in the BB would be something like:

AA,KK,QQ,JJ,TT
AKs,AQs,AJs
KQs,KJs
QJs
AKo,AQo,AJo

The hands I put in red are extremely close, and I would probably lean towards just checking especially AJo.

It really doesnt have that much playability in deep multi-way pots, and is generally good for a couple of medium streets of value in these type of spots i.e. it doesnt mind seeing a flop multi-way (i.e. as long as we're relatively cautious we can get some nice value from random overlimped Ax etc). This probably seems extremely nitty but I might even check AQo and TT for the same reasons, especially TT. I'm generally not nitty enough to check AQo though personally.

Sorry for the thread hijack!

chk bb with AQ/TT with a bunch of fishy limpers?

plz no

pretty jelly of all this sick strat bet gets in his thread

That's cuz he updates his thread innit Bruv

haha it really is

naaah, whale with only a pot btn when he has agg option means we call

thanks max! have fun in vegas

lol yeah, been running great all yeah m9



lolol, it's all good stuff man

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Merry Christmas everyone! Had an awesome day with my family, tons of food, movies and games. Getting close to finishing my essay! Cannot wait to have my freedom back

Enjoy boxing day and win some $$$

Yo! So christmas and boxing day was a really nice way to step away from london life, grinding and essay writing. Very nearly finished my essay now too. I've finally hopped on the instagram hype in case anyone wants to follow @benjaminpraven

Took this photo of the river in the town i'm from



Put in two decent sessions and managed to get back to even for the month!



Interesting line from this guy



Pretty normal cooler



Hoping to close out the year with some volume at the tables.

gl

Gave you a follow! Gl on finishing off the essay the grinds

Man Im really enjoying this thread. Keep up the good work and best of luck with completing your essay!

Do you work primarily on your own or do you have small circle of players you regularly chat with. I just had my small skype group break up recently and I contribute our weekly sessions and focused approach to learning and working with PIO to much of my success in poker. Im worried now for 2017

Hes part of teh uk gay crew. Probably teh most prolific pokercrew these days. Problem though is you have to be gay in order to be part of or at least ocasionally engage in gay activities (probably can pm kreuznagel for this bc he isnt really gay afaik but engages in mentioned activities to strengthen his game)

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Marsh Lock innit

Lovely bridge that, good job on getting out of the months hole! Hope you've enjoyed your time off.