How about you give me some blue, I'll spot you some red?

With my name being Rednaxela747 one would not expect me to need that

Well that's just unfortunate. I started my own challenge around 22 days ago and it's been mostly red. Don't know how effective I'm going to be at 200NL+ though.

A healthy red line is way harder the more you move up. Well, it was for me. Though obviously it does not matter how your red line is if you win

That's what I was thinking as well. Don't know how I'm gonna hold up yet but I'm currently working on fixing blue a bit more.

i heard redbaron has nightmares of you alex

I wish

This redbaron-guy is supposed to be some super-sicko, right? Why exactly is that?

read his thread

Xela love your topic, your a sicko, respect.
I have been running like **** at 50NL,could u look at like 5 hands and give your opinion, would love to see your though process on some radom hands

probably this

Because he makes most money at 1+2knl and does so with very little table selection. I have not played him much (think our play times overlap only somewhat), but I have not doubt that he is one of the best at those limits.

Think you would get really good answers if you posted your hands in the micro forum. I am not used to the dynamics of those stakes anymore plus I don't think it would be a good idea to start doing this :-) Will post a few hands on here tonight though, so please feel free to ask questions in regards to those.

hahaha this guy right here...

\month. And what an end it was. In the morning I had my best session ever $11.5 in 870 hands only to lose half of it again in the next 900 hands. After that I had to stop as I hit my stop loss, went to the cinema with a friend and decided to call it a month when I got back.

Overall month has been a bit disappointing compared to my last month but as others pointed out to me I guess I cannot really complain too much about a 20k + rakeback. I guess I am mainly upset with the fact that I played bad on some days, though I think I have been back on track lately.

In other news I have decided to take Donald as a student. I have always been reluctant to coach simply because I don't think it is EV plus for me to coach (unless someone offered me a LOT). On the other side I do like teaching and I also like the idea of having a protégé and Donald has always struck me as someone very eager to learn and with good potential. So we agreed on a profit sharing deal for a month. While it was a spur of a moment thing I am excited about doing a bit of that.

Also playing in this http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/18.../#post37228605 from tomorrow noon London time. You can follow my progress here: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/17...ckage-1305150/. I certainly prefer cash games to tourneys but I do enjoy playing live MTTs once in a while.

Hey Xela i currently trade bond futures and bank bill spreads for a prop firm in Sydney. Just wondering what the job market is like for traders in the UK? Seems like most people (UBS etc) are doing more firing than hiring....

I guess the whole investment banking sector is not doing as well as it used to and I wonder whether it will ever get back to where it was. Though I do not know many traders as I never did trading myself.

Really struggled to find some interesting hands from yesterday, but managed to find a few in the end.

vs top reg:




vs reg:




vs kind of passive fish, that I 3b like 30-40% of his opens:





Oh, and here for a change a hand from yesterday vs a fishreg (hope he is not reading this ) that I think played pretty poorly:



vs unknow fish:

Is TT standard for you vs unknown fish?
What would you overbet bluff in the 99 spot?

Ty in advance and obviously cool if you don't wanna answer.

why don't you like how you played 55?

TT is borderline, maybe c/c flop is better but there are so many cards that can that we don't want to see. I don't understand second question, I would obviously bluff with a hand that I don't beleive has SDV. But mayhap I don't understand your question.

Think raising flop on such a board is borderline with bottom set and when we get re-raised we are pretty much always behind. Also river might be a fold especially with the BDFD coming in. Sure we get a great price but kind of doubt he plays 98 that way much and doubt he is capable of bluffing there.

In before donald crushing HS

Well we are laying him 36% pot odds, so we need to bluff ~36% of the time. Given we have JTs 22 99 KQs for value (if we 3bet QQ which is obviously debatable), that is 10 value combos, we can use about 6 bluff combos. I have no idea how wide you float the flop but I assume the worst hands you have are ATbdfd, AJbdfd, TT maybe idk.
Was basically wondering what you would put in your bluff range here and also was debating in my head wether an overbet was best, but given we don't really have many potential bluff hands and we don't really value cut anything apart from AK I pretty much answered my question anyway by writing this ha.

I think of the hand on a pure GTO basis which certainly cannot be correct. Not sure I want to say more :-)

In before Xela regrets taking me on when I pester him with 10 hands and 3 expansive theory questions/day