Shifty, thanks so much for taking the time to look into that spot in depth, even though the ranges may be slightly off i can actually see a LOT of sense in the analysis you/pokerstove gave. It's so so hard to find any pure bluffs that he has and he doesn't always value shoves AQ otr so we find ourselves in a pretty thin spot. I would definitely be interested in running this through crEV myself and see what i come up with too. Thanks again man.

Ty spew, hope things are going good mate! Maybe you can help with the crEV stuff

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Made decent money today but played no where near as much as i had planned. My HDD completely filled up (i have to vacuum my db every 2 days but i had forgotten to do it) and my pc crashed mid session. It meant the vacuum took AGES like 2 hours (usually takes 15 mins) so i ended up going and chilling in clapham common playing cards and enjoying the sun...



vs fish



vs reg:



Best pot of the day. Missclick 3b pre hence the tiny sizing. Now i see why the bots make it this sizing with these types of hands all the fkn time:



Getting owned by weak reg:



Big grind tomorrow before taking all of sunday off for family affairs.

glgl

My pleasure, I need the practice . Since I do a poor job of marking tricky spots during my play, I like analyzing other people's hands. I'll probably throw them in here when I see a spot that I'm unsure about if you don't mind.

GL with the big grind tomorrow!

Yeah, as you've discovered you actually need a decent overhead of space to do any database maintenance in HM2 (or whatever). I seem to recall that there may actually be a decent risk of corrupting your db if you don't have the headroom, so watch out for that.

Additionally, if this is on an SSD (surely it is?) you need to keep up to 20% of space free anyway. If it's full and you can get it back down to 80% you should notice a substantial performance increase.

Fish in hand 1 is probably ranting in the Riggie thread as we speak

Hey Bena,

Not read the whole thread but read the last past and going to jump in here. I saw in another thread that you live in Clapham, I live in Clapham North

Good luck at the tables.

I'm only 2 or 3 miles away myself. Small world.

SSDs are so cheap, you really should just buy one.

Definitely do, it'll be seriously helpful for me! thanks again

Yeah, I've become a bit of a computer boss since getting notecaddy and how many issues i have with it constantly. This time it simply slipped my mind and i paid the price. Yeah it's an SSD of course!
Hey mate! haha there seem to be an insane amount of south london grinders. PM me your skype and i'll get this chat set up

jesus! same goes for you man

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So the big grind was certainly big in terms of volume but not quite the same in profits. I am soooo pleased to have got unstuck ($140 down counts as b/e when stuck nearly 2!) Got stacked twice at 1k today and lost another bunch of pots there too. It's really destroying me so far...

Graph in $



and in BB



Just gotta get used to it i guess. Still feel unbelievably uncomfortable at 1k. I had jesus on a ridiculous fish too, he was absolutely abysmal and ended up moving to 2k 6m unfortunately.

vs him:



hs had a 35% 3b over decent sample and i had this horrendous spot. I guess i COULD call pre to the 3b but i just dunno:



vs bad reg. So so tilting that he didn't stack. Although i did bink river so hey:



vs good reg at 1k:



vs reg:



Bizarre hand vs fish. Donker was a reg:



Going to watch some dog racing with the guys tonight and maybe gamble it up a little!

glgl

That night I ain´t forgotten...

It's only on the bloody poker playlist bro.

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Spent all day doing various family affairs, birthdays, fathers day etc. Driven about 7 hours today and absolutely dead. Tomorrow is gunna be a short day grinding wise, visiting a relative in hospital and got a ton of other stuff to do. Sure I can provide a variance fuelled graph still though

Hope your family member gets better soon!

Jeez you boys all live close by! I'm only down the road in Camberwell PM Sent.

They're not in a good way but thank you for the kind words mate

haha, christ. All accept invites and we'll get that thread started today!

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As expect today my volume was minuscule but this:
is certainly something that i can provide



Kinda ridiculous session today. Games were sooo bad but i happened to get stacked 3 times in quick succession and then miracle a MASSIVE pot (biggest all year) to get unstuck.

Stacked by good reg. I'm actually pretty lost as to what to do ott. Check call seems good, bet fold seems kinda out the question but bet call feels horrendous too. Upon reflection check call is probably my best line(?)



Again, a debatable spot vs reg. Can definitely check back turn. Bet fold doesn't feel like it would be an option either. Tbh actually happy with my line:



aaaaand for the big boy. This guy was a MONSTER whale and had somehow run his stack up to ~5k by coolering/badbeating everyone in his way. Fortunately for me it was a deep table. Missed out on the extra $130



footie tonight and my mate mayo the don has surprised us all and come back from his travels early. Likely to be grinding even less now that he's back!

gl

Hi Bena

very nice thread !!

I'm new to the forum and learning the game atm to become a better player

On hand 2 I would like to understand why you just call his bet and don't make a raise?

Thank you.

p.s I am from London too

Its 2015

I must read your tread so much that I dreamed about playing you last night . Very weird as I don't even know your stars sn and I don't even play stars lol.

Hi mate, thanks for checking out the thread!

I'm not sure what you mean, do you mean preflop or on the flop? I can give an answer once i know which part of the hand you mean glgl

hahaha absolutely amazing. My stars screen name is BenaBadBeat in case you were wondering

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Today was goooood but could have been HUGE. Oh well, great to have a +1k day



Weirdly i had another sick whale at 600 deep. Seems there are a load of them atm

The next few hands were vs the same guy:



kinda tilted by this one!



getting lucky vs him. Would have called a lot of brick rivers too so i was definitely lucky:



lol running so good vs him:



Haven't had one of these for a while...



Hopefully got an interview for another therapy placement at a University in London, just gotta arrange the date and take it from there. Would be so awesome to work with students as it's pretty much the nut age group for me.

Month is kinda picking up but i'm still not satisfied. Got a week to turn it into a big one.

gl guys

ps, the south london chat is up and running so if there are any more of you lurkers (dw you can be from anywhere in london!) then hit me up for an add.

So basically u play poker for a living and work a real job for funas. Siq life

haha i guess so... I've finished my studies and volunteer 1 day, hoping to up to 2 days a week alongside poker. Give it a go mate, sure you can find a soup kitchen to bumhunt

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Played super bad today. Was in full monkey mode. Seems like i keep taking 1 step forward and then 1 step back straight away. Better than 2 back though i guess...



vs fish



vs good reg. Don't even ask...



yep, not sure what was going through my head here either. lol, at the time i was like yeah, this will be a really bad turn to lead 'BenaBadBeat bets $10.57...' fml



Guess that's all the embarrassing of myself that i fancy doing right now. Back on track next session for sure! Crushed a team 8:1 today, really decent team performance.

glgl

lol biga

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Another losing day. Definitely played A game today and had no tilt issues although it was soooo hot in the flat today that it definitely was harder to concentrate. Apparently it's gunna be up to 31 degrees next week so that'll be an interesting test



I've booked in some coaching with someone i chat to regularly and had a session with them today. Really feel that he can offer me so much in terms of theoretical understanding and it's a breath of fresh air to try coaching while i'm winning instead of in a sick downswing! Another aspect of his help plus a lot of the mental game stuff that i practice (and kinda try and teach) is that checking my results so frequently does nothing for me in the short term. Whilst this is true i have tried and failed many times when it comes to not checking results, particualry when it comes to posting my daily graphs in here. What i'm going to try and do is weekly graph updates, but continue posting HH every day. That way i can post hands without checking results (take out the winning/bb per 100 tab) but maintain activity in the thread.

Well we'll give it a go, but tbh i wouldn't be at all surprised if i've checked my graph again by tomorrow

Hands from today. This was vs a fish:



vs sick good 500z reg. Feel his turn call is bad..?



vs bad reg:



I'm gunna be playing live tonight for the first time in a LONG time. Hopefully will find a 5/10 game. Meeting up with a couple fellow 2+2 posters so should be fun! I'm sure i'll have some great HH to post come the end of the session.

glgl

So last night was a lot of fun and we were able to turn a decent profit. There was a 2/5 game running but one of the guys i was with told me it was just all regs. I got on the list anyway and waited whilst playing a 1/3 game. By about mid way through the night we were playing 6 handed and straddling every hand so it was playing like 3/6. To start with the game was 7 handed with 2 fish and 4 awful regs. By awful i mean guys that couldn't beat 10nl online over decent sample. To be honest there were very very few interesting pots, just a few bluff squeezes that all got through and a couple other standard pots. There was one big pot too though.

First average hand:

Dealt to Hero [AQ]
UTG limps $3 ($£00)
fold
fold
Hero iso to $15 (£1000)
fold
fold
UTG calls

POT £34
Flop A77

UTG leads £30
Hero calls

POT £94
Turn 6

UTG leads £60
Hero calls

POT £214
River 5

UTG leads £100
Hero calls

Results:
UTG slams over A2
Hero shows AQ and scoops £414
Hero gets called a snake for only playing good hands

Big pot of the night

Straddled pot

Dealt to hero [99]
CO Hero raises to £20 (£1000)
BTN calls £20 (£1000)
SB calls £20 (£1000)
BB folds
Straddle calls £20 (£400)

POT £80
Flop 9KJ

Checked to Hero who bets £55
BTN folds
SB calls £55 quickly
Straddle folds

POT £190

Turn A

SB checks
Hero bets £155
SB quickly calls £155

POT £500

River 5 (dream runout)

SB checks
Hero bets £450
SB calls before hero has even got all the money over the line

Hero shows and scoops £1400. SB mutters something in french to his mate and mucks. I think he said AJ but i'm not 100% sure.

Other than those 2 hands there wasn't really anything much of interest.

Mandatory massage photo. (£30 that i'll never see again )



and boss 1k chip with the rest of my stack



All in all a really fun night out. Met up with Day n Night and Parsons Grinder. I'll be expanding the South London Chat to just all of London so all you sorry North of the river dudes can get involved!

Aim to play online today and hopefully win some money back...

How long is that massage? 30 quid for a massage seems like a sick hourly. Maybe I should giving out massages at casinos. I have very soft hands.

I think at the ept they take 1.50€ per minute