i tried keeping in all his bluffs as he really can't rep anything. impossible for him to have AK/AA given preflop action. so that leaves 6 combos of slow played sets, and the rest is air. sets are going in on river anyways. i didn't think he would do that with a FD...





Just had a sweat session with my coach, went very well. usually during sweats not a whole lot of spots come up, but we had a couple of spots that came up today. he also brought me some run good and i ended the session +3bi's.

have some stuff to do so i will play more later on tonight.

Well this month has been hell. Seems like I get stuck early in every session and end up breaking even, or I make a couple of BI's early then end up losing it all.



some river spots where i feel like im lost.











What the hell does he fold here?






Coolering a reg






Balancing my flop c/r turn barrel river checking range...lol..






It's time to hit the books. I'm getting crushed on ACR vs 3bets. I think I'm folding somewhere around 70-75% which is too much. Regs are also 3betting somewhere around 15% from the blinds, and are never folding to 4bets, so I need to defend more. I will be reading this:

Or you can raise less.

The only place that pure theorical quality poker can win is on stars where everyone is damn nitty. Any other site you need to just straight adjust.

Guy 3bets too much in blind? raise 1.5x and only strong hands. (30%~) = massive profit.

I switched to pot from all position and 3x on btn a month ago and it makes a massive difference to stop fighting these idiots that are completely clueless and just letting them do mistakes and adjust badly.

Seems like an interesting idea i am a usa players as wel....

Yesterday was cool.






This might be a bit thin. Is it still a check back vs a whale?






How to know when worse are betting?






We are in Bovada land.






We are in Bovada land.






Turn might be a fold, I'm not too sure. Anyone bluff this river? Given I have the Jd, I block JQdd,KJdd, the 2 bigger combo draws. So I'm thinking his range is heavily weighted towards value.






Past couple of days have been kind. Hopefully it continues and end the month on a positive.

I am currently min-raising my BTN opens. I don't think a 1.5x open will do much, I'll just end up losing more.

Why do you call them idiots? Some of them are actually very good regs. Since I'm folding around 70% to 3bets, they have the right to 3b me with any 2. Now it's my job to find a solution.

Always thought you were american! :O

when did you move to stars?

subbed gl

raise 30% otb. then you call playback more without changing your playback range.

i dont understand whats not simple about this.

raising 50%+ btns at micros is godawful unless both blinds are 85%+ fold to steal

raise big and only value hands

following gto advices from videos from guys that play vs mostly 5 other regs at midstakes on a low rake site with massively nitty regs is not something you want to just apply everywhere.

Hi squirtle

I am. I wish I was on stars! The hand history on Bovada is somewhat similar to PS. Since you can't use HEM/PT on Bovada, there is a hand converter you can purchase, and it converts the hands and imports to your HEM/PT as PS hands.

Thanks, and gl on your live adventures as well.

I'm not sure on numbers, but I'm pretty sure if I'm min-opening 50% of BTNs, and both SB and BB are folding around 60-70%, 3betting 10-15%, and calling 15-20%, it is still a +EV play.

I just want to have some sort of understanding of GTO. My game is very weak when it comes to facing 3bets, and need improvement in that department.

It doesnt matter if its +ev or not. You are playing on a soft site and you're making +1bb ev plays instead of +15bb plays.

Following the basic gto plays will net you **** at micros. Just look at runitonce's latest videos of google's nose. He plays gto vs ****ty regs at 50hu and he gets destroyed. In his head he played fine and yes he'll win like 5$ an hour long term but if he followed logical things he had learned from the years of midstakes play he would of crushed both guys no matter what the cards were.


Ill make it simple.
You have a fish that never folds
raising 73o in position will be +ev but it will coumpound mistakes/frustration and TIME WASTE.

Drop all but the top 50-60% hu vs him and your winrate and hourly will be much much higher. Then raise 3x instead of 2x since your range is stronger you want to make more in position.

Same thing goes with ****ty regs. You're costing yourself tons of money opening a ton vs them.

#1 mistakes that low stakes player do is try to play "better" like higher stakes players when those plays arent better plays vs the type of players you are playing at 50-100 on really really soft sites or even regular sites.

This sums up what I have done with my play recently (50nl, and currently a couple of successful 100nl shots) and it seems to be very profitable. I honestly think that playing somewhat ABC is the most profitable way to do it at these stakes. I've also been looking into GTO as well though and I believe it's a nice topic to look into, it should help your all around game although I wouldn't apply every concept at these stakes. Just Imo. Enjoying your thread thus far!

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Yesterday was also kind to me.






Can I fold this river? Villan was an aggro whale.






This guy was also a bad aggro fish. Call river? I didn't think he'd pot a Q on the flop.






We are in Bovada land.






This is probably never a bluff. It's a min raise, he's a whale.






Dodged a bullet here. I think pre should of been a flat, this villan is nitty, opens about 10% UTG. However he did 4b/call AQs vs me on another table in the BB where I 3b a BTN open with AKo in the SB. We had no history at the time.






It's the weekend. Time to relax and enjoy the nice weather here. I will put in some volume, but will take it easy on the weekends. GL.

Hey bro, meant to ask way back. Is poker your primary source of income or do you have other cash flows? Reason I ask, I plan to grind 50/100nl starting January 2015 as my only source. Have the bankroll but currently saving up 6-8 months of living expenses. Thanks for any reply bro and is nbd if you don't feel comfortable answering.

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Yes, it's the only way I make money.

I wouldn't consider myself a pro just yet, more of an amateur. I need to reach nl100/nl200 before even thinking about giving poker a shot.

Have a full year of living expenses before giving poker a shot. I feel 6-8 months of living expenses goes by really fast, and during that period if you hit 1-2 months of a downswing, it's going to be really hard on you, and it will hit you mentally. Whereas if you have a full year of living expenses saved up, it will be a lot easier to deal with it.

Thanks! I'm giving myself until January to save up all the money and build my roll (online and live). Definitely wouldn't try right now as I'm just talking shots at 100nl and barely have my feet wet. And as you said, 100nl/200nl I think is necessary to play for a living! Thanks for your reply!

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No prob.

Yeah definitely move up to small stakes before you decide on anything. You do not want to be playing anything less than nl100 if you're playing for a living. You do not want your life to be a grind...

I have a years worth of living expenses saved up, but I don't think I'm ready yet. I want to get to small stakes and beat it at a decent rate before making any decisions.

My phone got stolen last night. It feels like my identity has been stolen, everything was on that phone. Went down to the police station and filed a report. These cases rarely gets solved, and I'm pretty sure my phone is gone. I spent the day changing all my passwords, and even went to the bank to get new debit/credit cards.

The bank assistant starts asking me questions while she sets up my new debit/credit cards, standard procedure. Then she asks for my occupation, and I'm stuck. I don't have a job. I just tell her that I'm unemployed at the moment. She then needs to know my annual income. She asks how do I make money. My account is pulled up and she obviously sees I have money sitting in my checkings account. She really put me on the spot here and I don't know what to say. I didn't want to lie and get myself into any kind of trouble, so I just told her I play poker semi-professionally. She smiles and tells me she has a few clients who plays poker professionally and moves on. Phew. No biggie.

So I got a temporary debit card for now, and my new credit card will come in the mail in the next couple of days. As I'm walking out of the bank, I ask myself why I hesitate to tell people what I do to make money. Yeah poker isn't socially accepted. But so is a lot of other things. I should be taking pride in what I do. I enjoy what I do. So the next time someone asks me what my occupation is, I'll just tell them I'm an aspiring poker player.

As for the phone... I had the Samsung Galaxy s3. It currently runs about $300. Maybe the cheapest $250 if I can find a deal. As for now, I don't know what to do. I mean $300 is a lot for a phone, but I'm going to have to buy one sooner or later... Looks like I'll be phone shopping tomorrow.

Hey guys I'm back. Took an extended weekend break. Back on the grind.

Had my first $1k day








Ehh I don't know, I couldn't fold here.






Brilliant check back by him.






Cooler I guess.






Soul reading regs.






Bovada hand of the day. Umm, what are you doing sir?






I also lost a bunch of pots where I was slightly favored AIPF. I'm also not sure if these regs are just clicking buttons or actually studied their brains off and learned GTO. I mean, is it standard to flat 4bets OOP with A2o/96s/66/etc? You obviously 3b bluffed pre, so why do you keep flatting 4bets? I'm really trying to understand why they do what they do, but nothing seems to click. I don't get it. They obviously know something I don't. Let's just say I've been getting owned in 3b/4b pots this month.

Subbed bro. Keep up the good work, glad I saw this thread. Even though I don't play anymore, I still am rooting for you. Maybe in a few years when I have more time I'll start up again.

Bro, are you still at Intertops? I'm very tempted to move. I'm tired of not getting RB at bovada and wpn is reg infested...

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Thanks Russ. How are you? Looking good man. No **** haha

Yeah I am. Even though there is no RB on Bovada, the amount of fish on there make up for it. Yup, WPN is the most reg infested site for USA players. RB/The Beast on there ain't too great either imo.

@ExpectedV, they blocked out the word hom.o haha

44 is awful if the reg is half decent

that deep no one reraises even a small overpair, you had 44/55/a7/straight nothing else

its a clear cc turn and river unless he overbets. This aint highstakes, ;P .

Been good, just really hectic schedule. Starting my law enforcement career and studying to be a nutritionist as well. Still hitting the gym about 10-12 hours a week and went from 180 lbs to 160 lbs in 12 weeks. Thanks and might try to do some big tournaments at borgata sometime, miss playing. Looks like you been killing it online, keep it up.