Hello 2p2 – I am n00b here, be kind

About me – I am 24 year old Male 5’9”. I work in reptile enclosure at local zoo in bristol, where I live all my life. People always ask me what my favourite reptile is, I love snakes people think they are cold but really they are warm and cuddly and misunderstood.

In my spare time I like to play darts, browsing internet forums, rapping, watching old episodes of The Man from U.N.C.LE (Napaleon Solo is my favourite, sorry Russia!) and play poker tournaments with my friends

My Favourite football team is Bristol rovers…I love them! I supported them since I was born. I go to all there home and away games and am always the last drunk person thrown out of the Bristol Room on match days

My Hero is Mr Motivator. He is the very first black man to present excerscise calsses on British morning tV and is a really cool guy who does loads of really great charity work. He was also one of the first people to show that manly men can wear tight fitting pink clothes and not be gay, he has beautiful wifea nd has very athletic legs.

He also supports best team in the world BRISTOL ROVERS!!! My dream is to watch a game with him at the Memorial Stadium before one of us dies

My poker story is like this – I started playing poker with school friends, we played 5 card draw for pennies (Lol), I soon found out about Texas Holdem when I started watching Poker tournaments on TV. My favourite player was Ian “The Raiser” Frazier, He taught me the importance of aggression and how to go all in to see where you are at. This made realise poker was not all luck and had some skill I decided to put money on Party poker to practise in my spare time, I played sit and go games and redeposit a little bit every time I run out. Someone online told me about this sight and I have been reading here for a while and improving.


THE PLAN

I have decided to play cash games, I have read that it takes more skill and makes you a better player!

I will start with $500 and play 10c/25c, If I drop below $400 I will play 5c/10c until I have $500 again.

I will only play 2 tables so that I can learn and think about my game.

I have bought the “poker Blueprint” which I here is very very good, I am going to read this over the next few weeks to make me better (If anyone knows any other good books please can you tell me)

I also have bought a subscription to Dueces Cracked, I am going to watch at least one video a week J

I will post hands that confuse me here so I can learn and talk strategy with other players.

That is all for now, thakyou Two plus Two

Good Luck

Thank you

GL man, love your title

Go mcfold!!

tytyty

I played 1st session of my challenge poker goal. Played 2 tables of 10c/25c for an hour.

Was really boring, no big gambling hands

Finsihed down a few bucks, BR=$409

I had some hands I wanted to show but hand converter wont work, help please?

I remember how one went in my head:

Reads on villain is that his is very straight forward ABC man so far, he does not like playing aggresively after the flop, he likes to get his marginal hands to showdown and is a bit of a scaredy cat! He has 100bb, I have him covered. I have been playing aggressively but don't know if he would have noticed!

Table has 4 people, I raise to $0.75 in the CO with QJ

Folds to villain in BB he raises to $1.75, I call

POT = $3.60

FLOP: Q J 5

Villain bets $3.00, I raise to $9.00, villain calls

POT = $21.60

TURN: Q J 5 5

FUFUFFUFUFUFFUFUFFUFU POKER GODS, WHY

Villain bets $8, I fold

I think he has only JJ-AA and maybe AK

Please tell me what you think of my play and what I didn't do good, ok?


THREADSAVERS

My experience reading other poker challenge goal threads says you need to post some sexy fleshy pictures to reward people for reading and encourage helpfull comments, I do not want to disapoint on this front:










Now i go to see finish of Cardiff vs Palace game, I hope Palace kick there butts! I dont like Cardiff because they knocked Bristol Rovers out of the Carling Cup in 2009, I was at that game...I will never forget the sad feeling after

BUMP

Hey Guys, I have been having loads of fun playing poker tonight

I played a 2 hour 2 table session and got in around 400 hands!

It started off bad, getting stacked AQ vs AK all in before flop against same crazy donkey who was shoving K6o as well as taking a few more hits...was down around $40 after half an hour

I hung in and turned it around though...had some really soft tables and hit some hands, ended up being a $114 winner for the session

I stacked one particular villain playing HU twice who was just waaaaaaaaaay too aggro short handed, strange because the dude was hella tight when the table was full, then as soon as the table breaks and we go HU he 5bet shoves 22 preflop

Still trying to figure out how to convert hands, 2 + 2 doesn;t seem to like POKERStars hand history

Will hopefully get that bug fixed for the next day and put some fun hands up!

I remember this good one of the top of my head.

I am in BB w/K7

Folds around to a very "recreational player" who's all up in the SB, he opens to $0.75 (effective stacks are $25). I call.

POT = $1.5

FLOP = K J 7

SB cbets $1, I raise to $3.25, SB insta re-raises to $8.75, I shove and SB tank calls.

SB be tables JT and fails to receive a miracle, I scoop $50

THat is all form me tonight, I have to get up early and feed the reptiles tomorrow. Night night 2 + 2 = 4 forums

OP was beyond epic.

May you have the best of luck my friend.

great savers, hope u run guud. That QJ hand you gave him alot of credit for AA/KK i dont think he would flat ur flop raise with qq/jj there, Iam pretty sure that the 5 dosnt really change much as he is less likely to call the flop raise with 5x. I think id check shove turn quiet often and expect to be up against KQ/AQ more often than not.

Thankyou for appreciating my story

TY Mr, I hope to run goot too

Hmmm...I had thought villain could have a Q of some kind, like KQ/AQ...but not many because I had seen him go to showdown a few times and he seemed to really want to get home to mummy showdown with anything he considered marginal, he definitely wasn't a Barry Big Balls guy, more a of a little johnny wet the bed type.

I'm really not sure if the thought of entering Rambo mode with KQ/AQ pre flop even occurs to him as an option against my super powerful CO raise!

But I do think it's close, it's not impossible he has a Q...but little johnny can only have 16 combos of AQ & KQ right (I might be wrong, I am n00b at the combination magic), and once we weight for him not always 3betting KQ/AQ then he prob has less combos of KQ/AQ than he does AA/KK - is this stupid reasons?

You could be right though, but I'm addicted to being a calling station and always make dumb ass calls, calling is like crack to me. So my new mantra for the moment is "if it's close fold"...I am hoping this will keep me out of trouble

Ok ok ok ok ok ok

HELLO 2P2!

I hope you are all filled with a zestfull lust for life this morning, the planet is you oytser! Go out into the world and do what you must do to be great

Today is indeed a beatiful day. beautiful and cold. So cold. When I rode my bicycle to the zoo this moring I thought my balls might freeze of

But it is ok, I checked and they are still there

Those of you who are good at being observing have probably noticed that I have not posted for a few days, this is because of 2 reasons

Reason 1: I am lazy. It is sad but true.

Reason 2: Texas Hold Them Cash Games is a hard and brutal game, and that makes me sad, and when I am sad i lose motivation to post

The last few days have been like an emotional rollercoster, I was running good for some time, I spun my account all the way up to $670, I felt great, I felt like kind of a big deal, I looked around my room, I had many leather bound books and it smealt like rich mahogony. I felt like Ron Burgandy. I was the leader of the gang, I was the man, everybody in the town looked up to me. I was going out with the hottest girl in the office, a fiery broad from Texas, and all I wanted to do was poker all night long.

Let's just say that id been going to the same party for 1000 hands and in no way was that depressing.

Then that bitch ripped my heart out! It betrayed me, hand after hand after hand after hand after hand after hand after hand

How could she do this to me, HOW!!! BAXTER? Is THAT YOU BAAXXXTER?

I lost every flip, every time I got it in with 50% equity, I ended up with 0% $....

Every time I had a pretty nice hand, somones hand was nicer...

My account tumbled, I hadn't shaved in days, I was in a glass cage of emotion. Milk was a bad choice.

I blamed the cards, I blamed the poker gods (FU poker gods), they were kicking me in the bals and I had left my cup at home in the sock draw.

Bet then I realised...this is my choice. I only have myself to blame. I took a long hard look in the mirror. I said "Listen up McFold...maybe, MAYBE...maybe you just ain't good enough. Look at you dammit, you're a mess! You ahven't shaved in days and your beard is covered in stale milk."

There was an awkward pause...the smell of sour milk filled the air.

"I'm not finished with you yet DAMMIT! where do you get off moping around feeling sorry for yourself? You think this is the kind of work ethic that got Mr Motivator the spot as the first black excercise class presenter on UK Tv? You think he got those powerful muscular thighs by sitting around on his fine ass all day in a pool of his own self pity? Maybe you're not good enough! But that can change. Sure you can cry your bitch ass to sleep tonight. But tomorrow you're gonna wake up and smell the F^*king roses."


So anywhay, I am chanign my goals. Firstly, no more cash games for a while...I'm too n00by...I don't know what I'm doing.

I am gonna play heads up sit & gos to learn hand reading and basic poker skills. I will play at least 1000 HUS&Gs before I ever play cash agian, that's discipline people! I'm also going to include some healthy body = healthy mind goals because I need discipline and tranquilarity in my life If I'm gonna go from rags too bitches anytime soon.

NEW GOALS LIST


Life Goals

[ ] Meditate for at least 15 minutes every day

[ ] Go to gym at least 3 times a week

[ ] Go to sleep before 1am every weeknight


Poker Goals

[ ] Play 1000 HUS&G

[ ] Post at least one hand a day in the HUS&G forum

[ ] Watch at least one video a week

[ ] Update this thread at least once per day regardless of activity

[ ] Reflect on goal acheivement once a week (Sunday Night)

[ ] Profit

I am going to start playing $3.50 HUS&G, this includes regular and turbo speeds, when my bankroll hits $600 I will take shots at the $7 HUS&Gs

TL;DR
No cash games for a while, gonna sort my life and game out and play 1000 Heads up Sit & Gos. Will re-asses the situation after that.

That's all for now, will be updating tonight in line with my goals.

Stay Classy san Diego

McFold your posts are hilarious , you will be legend status poster SOON
I remember Mr Motivator on GMTV!! around 1 hour before or after The Power Rangers

So is partypoker the only site you play at currently? Why?

"no more cash games for a while...I'm too n00by...I don't know what I'm doing"
What makes you think you won't be as n00by at HU SnG?
To really kill it at poker, you have to do a lot of experimental plays, understand
what each opponent will think in every spot, so beware of sticking to any legitimate
"strategy" that limits your options - books, most training sites will be useless to you,
most coaches are not winning in their games, the highest winning guys at any level
will keep to themselves mostly.
Getting a coach who will stake/back you is usually a good option. I'd suggest this.
Even if you'd prefer playing from your own $, the value of playing for someone else's
for a while can send you to the top quicker. And you'd need to confirm they are a great winner in whatever format you're training for obviouslé Just imo anyway.

GL

Best OP in PGC I've seen. The post about feeling like Ron Burgundy killed me! gl with your challenge McFold and yes, Mr. Motivator is a true legend!

TY for the nice things you say Mr CRABfish. I just try to write what I feel. Ron has always been a aspirational figure to me since I saw the documentary about his life.


In Other News

Ok 2p2. I made my first foray into the HUS&G forum, I have only read one post by this guy who seems to be a man who knows what he is talking about:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/18...h-bah-1078795/

A lot of his words made a lot of sense to me, especially one thing he said was to take one day off from poker completely a week and not think about it at all. I think that is a good idea. Balance is important. See below:



So from now on monday is my day off from poker, I will not be playing or updating on Mondays in this thread. Meditation and bedtime rules are still on though.

BTW I did not remember to say before. Current Bankroll = $510.21

Goodnight 2+2 = 4 forums

BUMP

Ok, as is in the rules here is an update

Busy day so only got 9 games in tonight. Won 5. Profit = +$1.64

BR = $511.85

Will talk more about my thoughts/experience tomorrow...

Peace out TwoPlusTwo

Yo 2 + 2 = 4 forums, what is happening!

Last night I said that I would talk more about how my trip into HUS&G adventure land went and I am here to prove that McFold is a man of his word. Also I am very bored at work and there are only so many craps you can take in a day...

Ok, so it's like this - I played 9 $3.50 Turbo HUS&Gs and my impression that I got was that the average opponent there is very very very "recreational"! I didnot play one single guy who seemed like he had any idea what was happening..."technically" speaking...

I had two matches where I won in the first few hands because villains called there entire stack off with bottom pair or A high (lol?)

The obvious leak that EVERYMAN i played had was that they all limped the BTN waaay to much, and they all called waaaay to much in the BB. I played at least one person who I think limped almost 100% of his BTNs and called 100% in the BB!!!!

Even the dudes I played who did sometimes raise only did it with TJ+ from what I could see and limped most of the rest.

This just seems so bad to me, why would you let me see a flop with a big lump of cheese when you could just make me fold it and take my BB? I was thinking maybe it's because they are used to playing other "recreatioanl" guys at this level who never fold BB and so think they don't have any fold equity??? Anyway I think they are making it very easy for me to play.

I pity the fool who limps his BTN too much.


Ok, so the other obvious leak that most people I played had was that they call waaaaaaay too much. I think these guys just want to see how pretty there hand will be by the 5th card. Was pretty standard for me to see guys call 2 or 3 steets with bottom pair of A or K high!

One thing I did notice was that all in bets have so much more fold equity than non all in bets, even if those bets are quite large, I guess it's a psycological thing. People don't want to call off all there chips and lose, but they don't really see the same risk when calling off 80% of there stack with K high...

I pity the fool who calls off 80% of his chips with K high


The final thing I noticed was that players bluff waaaay more in HUS&G than they do in the Texas Holdem 6maximum Cash Games. in the 10c/25c games I was playing most people would not really bluff that much and if someone bet a few times you could pretty easily fold okish hands. in the HuS&Gs though it seems like even the more passive players will auto bet a lot of the time you check to them, but maybe this is just my wild imagintation getting me in trouble again, we will see...

Anyway that is all for me from now, time to feed the lizards

Any pics of reptile enclosure/zoo?

Good to see you're analysing your play already - your main adjustment for people
who call too much is to bet much more often for value and gain the "lead" in the hand
very often, you can't rely on winning their money against their bluffs (without the lead)
compared to betting them for value or your bluffs(with the lead)
e.g bet 22 on 89A, bet A5 on 223 etc.
One of the best things about employing an aggressive strategy is that it helps
for playing more hands and discovering new spots, you don't come across new money making plays when playing cautious.

Generally all recreationals play the same in many bluff pots so you will come across
the same spots again and again with a few variants,
a poor opponent will underestimate the value of showdown hands on 4 flush boards
that aren't flushes and often bluff with the best hand or check/fold a winner.

Hey Entim,

Thanks for the tips!

I'm not sure what you mean when you talking about gaining the lead, do you mean it's better to just keep betting value hands instead of trying to sloplay/trap/induce bluffs and all that jazz?

Or are you talking about something more subtle than that?

The thing you say about "recreationals" bluffing with t he best hand and not understanding the value of there hand is interesting, I've seen some guys do weird things like bet K or A high on the river when it's usually the best hand but nothing better is ever folding. it makes me think like WTF because sometimes I've called with K or Q high in thsoe spots where think villain has a lot of bluffs and he tabkles a better no pair hand

I pretty sure they're not just doing some high level thin value thing because:

a) I just don't think they are putting that much thought processes into the game

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b) I've usually called mostly because I've seen them check back like bottom/3rd pair in those spots and so know there range should be mostly air.

After what you said I think it's just because they don't realise that their A or K high has a load of SD value in those spots!

Do nto really have any photos of Zoo, I'm not really a photo person (don't even own a camera) - We have a website with loads of photos on it though including some of the reptile enclosure (bristolzoo.org.uk) - its a really cool zoo, you should check it out if you ever in Bristol!

Good luck OP

Thanks...again...

I bought the poker blueprint and deuces cracked as well. I am also grinding the micros but I am starting out at 10 nl. Will be interesting to see how you progess. You should post graphs

1ST PIC how that god damn ? that the girl from big brother ?


last pic looooooool

I don't know who she is, I just looked for some hot poon online and she fit the bill imo

I've decide to play 1000 HUS&Gs before I play cash games again to get experience hand reading and exploiting opponents, I will most likely be moving back to cash games after this though!!!

BUMP

I played 9 games again tonight, won 6 lost 3. Profit = +$8.34

BR = $520.19

Total games played = 18

Gonna get HEM so I can track results and post graphs and what not, hopeful will have all this modern technology stuff figured out soon

GL Mcfold.

You seem like a great guy so i hope your poker journey turns into a good one. Just understand you are really far away at the moment from where you need to be to make consistent money and move up in stakes/ buy ins.

So, my advice to you is when you think you have figured it out because you are in an upswing realize that you probably have not, and if you start losing, try not to tilt off the money you have worked hard to make. Understand that there will be ups and downs, and that the first downer you have after you've made a step forward can be a crushing one if you let it. Just keep learning and learning. Vids and two plus two is a good way to be. Again, GL to you. Oh yea, I am from the USA , but isn't it futbol? not football?

TY Sir Jay

Your advice is cool and solid and I really appreciate it. I will try to keep my feet on the ground and not get too affected by bad runnings!

What you call Soccer we call Football, I think Futbol is what they call the same sport in Brazil (and maybe the rest of south America) but not very sure to be honest, so maybe that's why your confused?

Also something I did not mention yesterday was that in the games I played the some of the villains seemed a lot better - not so much calling stations, less calling OOP, more BTN raises, more aware of position. I think it might have something to do with th etime I played (was a lot earlier) - so maybe at that time there where less "recreationals" and more people like me trying to think about the game and be good and not just try to see how pretty there hand can be by the river. Could just be random though!

I don't mind, I think it is probably good practice to play villains who are at least a bit good!

Mini BUMP

I played one more game last nigth befor ei went to bed. Played 1, won 1. Profit = +$3.14

BR = $523.33