So it seems things have calmed down a bit in here, happy to see! Poker went well today, the games were randomly unbelievable. There were multiple 80-95 VPIP whales that were just throwing money away for hours on end. Got in good volume and made around 1500.

This was one nice fellow:



Grim hand vs the same dude:



vs our mate reg:



The daddy of all whales who dropped at least 2.6k (13bi) today



Maybe this one was a little thin from me...



Had to have the worst hand at some point i guess



vs reg. Still can't really make up my mind if i think they're good or bad but this hand certainly goes into the not good pile:



We played the final tonight and jesus christ it wasn't a walk in the park as expected. There was torrential rain throughout the whole game making the surface horrible to play on for outfield players and ofc horrible to goalkeep. We were 3-1 down with 8 minutes to go and managed to scrape 2 goals to go to a penalty shootout. Each team took 3 pens, and all were scored, then into sudden death. They went first and shot wide and to our delight peter804 tucks home the winner for our 5th title! Sad not to make a save in the shootout but extremely happy that we didn't collapse and lose the match! The league starts next week however most of our team is missing due to EPT barcelona and other holidays.

2 days left of the month for me so we'll see how things develop.

gl at the tables!

That 89 hand takes balls

The rain was pissing down up here in Newcastle too and most of us also had a nightmare game tonight. The ball is just so slippy and so is the surface.

Im saying this in a non-hater, extremely jealous way. Whos dick did you suck to run so good vs fish?

Every pot is like: sigh fish in a big pot...shock its vs bena...oh bena has nuts and fish decided to just spaz donk/call 2pair on 4straight+flush board.

How does one do it?

haha...thought it would come across as a hater post. And most people know my negative-dicking about posting history-style sooo thought it would have to be phrased like that

haha i was hating it so so much. He just cbet and tripled close to 100% and never gave up

haha yeah it was pretty grim. Unfortunately we're going into that time of the year again It's gunna get a whole lot worse when there are leaves all over the floor too...

haha i appreciate you're comment and fwiw it's fine to not always make positive comments itt. I'm sure you can appreciate it's extremely hard to answer this question as i don't know why it seems i run good vs fish, maybe i do - i wouldn't ever rule that out. All i would say is that i genuinely believe that as a whole regs play terribly vs fish and i think i abuse that fact a lot. Now i'm sure one can say, well yeah you will always play better vs them cus you always have the nuts, however, if you looked at ALL my pots played vs fish, coupled with my extremely plummeting redline you would see that i'm milking myself so much vs fish in non showdown pots too. Of course if i'm all in vs a fish that i've been 3betting 25% from every position you're going to see them spazzing out with random hands, but i think it's very easy to forget (and rightly so if there is no showdown) the times you see me losing a 50bb+ pot where i've bricked my 2 overs and gutshot for example. I assume you're not just talking about this month but you mean in general, over the time we've played together i've run insanely hot vs fish and i guess i can't justify this either way, but i would say that there would likely be more to the thing you perceive other than i simply 'run good vs fish'.

ps. who are you on stars? PM me or add me on skype

It's grind time!

ye you do play very well hehe

it wasnt a negative comment. just a jelly comment of your skills vs fish xD

Bena just runs v well in life. Gf, milestone hands, coolering fish - u name it. Imo gods way of showing mercy to being forced to live in london

Lol

I hope this is true. I am due a huge upswing if so.

yah i know it wasn't negative. Didn't win the money today, seems you jynxed me!

God i wanna win another milestone so bad.

It's coming man, it's coming

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Today was a weird one. There was a UK fish at my table who was being a racist scumbag and it just beyond angered me. To the point that he was being so obnoxious and braggy about life and poker that i told him that everyone was at the table cus he was sitting and when we had finished with him there would be another 5 regulars waiting for him at the next. I really have no idea why i reacted this way but it's gotta be something along the lines of feeling responsible (because he's british) that people like him really bring the rest of us down. Anyway, from that guy onwards i just couldn't focus and didn't have the foresight to quit either. Quite disappointed with myself but these things do happen, buttons are pressed emotionally and in turn we do stupid stuff sometimes.

Just after the above blow up, i then had this hand and proceeded to berate the reg. lol what the hell was wrong with me today tbf tho, that turn shove, my god so so bad



a new 100vpip whale today.



Probable mistake vs reg:



lol v fish:



1 more day of grinding then the month is done. Looking for a more positive day tomorrow.

gl

No need to feel bad imo for telling the scumbag what an idiot he is.
I also hate it when other Germans are talking **** about refugees or so. I had such a situation few weeks ago when i was on a live poker trip and for me it was also hard to stay calm. Sucks that you couldn't play 100% focused anymore, though.


The JJ hand of Villain where you have TT. I'd like to ask why you say his shove is superbad. Maybe you can explain a little further.
Is he just folding out too much there with the turned nuts?

Made a note to make poltically incorrect comments now every time u call a 4bet oop. Thanks for letting me know ur weakspot

burns' SN is easy

hello

i was the one who write to you about insulting him. i think u r right as a human being but i still prefer to just being nice with everyone (not only the fish) on the tables
actually this guy plays quite often so i hope we will find him again

wish you the best

Agreed, imo always better to call mod in such situations if u rly have to or troll him or insult him but telling him hes teh mark is ohhhsobad

Shoving folds out all benas air. He's going to stack sets almost always otr anyways so no reason to jam for valur

There is the issue that both players have some fds and a draw completing river might kill action for either of them.


Bena might be over bluffing flop and turn so his "anger" that villain played a turn top set fast is negating benas ability to spew off a ton of rivers. Which in fact Bena should be thanking villain for playing suboptimally instead of berating him (which Bena already knows)

then again maybe villain would play his draws that way which makes jamming JJ fine

Yes definitely

i think one issue you might be having with your results is even though aren't checking them you are trying to emotionally guess each day what you are up or down. Every day you write in here about a specific $ amount you think you are up or down. So it's really like you are checking results every day, not once a week. Just a thought.

I thought so as well that sets will gii on (blank) rivers anyway. But still, why not gii when you are good (against draws and so on) and when there is no action killer card.

I don't know: How bluffheavy are you in this spot? I think it depends a lot on that.

I mean UTG+1 checks as pfa 3way so might imo fold a lot of times (esp when Bena xR vs MP3) so this might even be a good spot to be bluffy otf/ott as to MP3 it could still look really strong when Bena xR 3way(???).

I am not so often bluffing when multiway which might be a leak.

Thanks for answering btw. Still genuinely interested in Benas thoughts.

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As for the scumbag fish who seemed to be really braggy about his poker from what i read: Ofc it is not good to tell fish that they are fish and so on but not everything is about poker and how you can make the fish comfortably ship their $$$ to you.

I think that someone who is so braggy about his poker will also be more like "jajajajaja this Bena guy is the fish who is hunted by me and the other good players, not me."
Might be true, might not be true.

But after all fish/gamblers won't leave the game that fast because of an unfriendly comment. They want to gamble...

Honestly with this stuff if someone's being clearly a dickhead I just remind them that it's embarrassing that they'd never have the balls to act like this if they weren't at their keyboard and didn't have the protection of not being face to face with other people. They will usually be like whatever, add one or two more insults and then they pipe down a bit.

Yeah it can be really frustrating seeing someone from your country acting like a total idiot. As for the hand pokerarb sums it up pretty much perfectly. I'll answer the different posts to give my thoughts too.

haha, you can't tilt my i'm afraid mate

fyp

I am nice to 99.9% of people, but just for the sake of 1 fish at 1 table who plays semi regularly, who is so arrogant that nothing i say will make a difference to him coming back (i was ofc blowing up at him for my own benefit) i sometimes will have a limit to not saying anything. I appreciate what you're saying ofc and you shouldn't catch me doing it again! good luck

yeah same applies to above. It's obviously not ideal what i did but it won't be happening again any time soon.

haha the bolded part is very well put

The problem i have with this when people justify that they shove draws here is the word 'maybe'. Generally nit FR regs don't ever shove draws here and that's why the justification that he might shove draws holds no real baring in my opinion. I can almost guarantee that if villain had a NFD here he'd call turn and never shove. Another way of looking at it was when he shoves turn, in my opinion he is shoving because he knows i have a set and will be calling as oppose to balancing his shoving set/draw range.

i know I just can't help keeping a tally man. So many years of playing and checking results every 2 minutes is very hard to get out of!

Hopefully the response i gave to Fayth can clear up my thoughts a little bit. I can see what you're saying about protecting your hand vs scary rivers but there lies the point im making. If, in his shoes you're expecting me to bet call a super draw here (which is definitely feasible) but bet fold a bare NFD or bluff (a gutter or up n down) then surely it's a better option to just call turn and call 100% of rivers to allow those busted draws to bluff. You're gunna stack my sets either way, you're gunna lose if the combo draw gets there, so surely the best option is to call and call again no matter what the river is. It just seems nonsensical to me shove to a turn bet here. Imo, this specific player narrows his range to exactly JJ but unfortunately it's kinda impossible for me to fold.

YES

I think this comment is far too reasonable for someone with his IQ

Monthly Update

So we're done and it feels like a good time to quit as i'm starting to feel pretty brain fried with having played my usual monthly volume in just 18 days. (lol 53k hands) Extremely pleased with how things have gone of course, especially after the catastrophe of last month. It coulda been an absolutely huge month but some mental game issues + maintaining 22bb/100 got in the way!

Graph:



Stake brakdown:



Goal review:

Pretty much nailed my targets this month which is awesome.

Great VPP's again too.



Need 32,000 VPP's a month for the remainder of the year to hit 400k which should easily be doable as long as i'm still playing the limits i am now for the next 4 months.

Miscellaneous:



Goals for next month:

[ ] Continue to average B+ game
[ ] 60k hands
[ ] Start with 3 new clients
[ ] Research masters courses
[ ] Find a new place to live! Our tenancy is running out at the start of october so my gf and i are moving out of this place and living just the 2 of us

Will be away until the 31st as of tomorrow which means i'll have a full month of grinding next month with no holiday.

Good luck for the remainder of the month! I'll be floating in and out of 2p2 while i'm away too