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After 2-3k hands, it becomes really hard for me to focus too.
I did actually have a 10k hand session last month. By the end of it my head hurt a lot and I was seeing weird colors:

I used to have 10k sessions back in fr days, but I was 23, it's insane how much energy/sick cognition skills people have in that age lol. I also used to go in partying and stay in there from 9 pm to 9 AM, by the end of the university I couldn't stand even until 2 AM anymore haha.

But from what I recall, I used to play extremely ******ed in those fr days, was 5-bet jamming J6s, 3-betting 43o , 6-betting 93o haha.

Played a small session today, played really well

H1: the main monkey business haha vaaaaamo!

PokerStars - $0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 144.76 BB
SB: 98.5 BB
Hero (BB): 113.26 BB
UTG: 105.98 BB
MP: 131.24 BB
CO: 100 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has J Q

fold, fold, fold, BTN raises to 3 BB, fold, Hero calls 2 BB

Flop: (6.5 BB, 2 players) 4 5 9
Hero checks, BTN bets 3.1 BB, Hero raises to 8 BB, BTN calls 4.9 BB

Turn: (22.5 BB, 2 players) 3
Hero checks, BTN checks

River: (22.5 BB, 2 players) Q
Hero bets 11.12 BB, BTN calls 11.12 BB




H2: vs station reg, I know how strong I get to this river and population does that too, even though he is a station I think he will see that. So I can't let his AK get an easy check-fold or his AQ to ever see showdown here. Given how dry the flop was I will have very few floats that are std bluffs OTR. My plan OTT was to call and jam almost all rivers, I don't think the turn call is that great on its own, but if we take the fact that we're very strong OTT, gotta call some garbage hands otherwise I'll be very value heavy on most rivers and will allow some very easy explo folds by villain

PokerStars - $0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 108.74 BB
SB: 100 BB
BB: 121.38 BB
UTG: 232.42 BB
MP: 108.7 BB
Hero (CO): 135.88 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Q A

fold, fold, Hero raises to 2.32 BB, fold, SB raises to 8 BB, fold, Hero calls 5.68 BB

Flop: (17 BB, 2 players) 2 8 K
SB bets 8.08 BB, Hero calls 8.08 BB

Turn: (33.16 BB, 2 players) 4
SB bets 15.76 BB, Hero calls 15.76 BB

River: (64.68 BB, 2 players) Q
SB checks, Hero bets 104.04 BB and is all-in, fold

Hero wins 61.44 BB

H3: too thin? Vs bad players that will jam their JJ/TT OTT I think I'll have to valuebet this but vs competent people who will call their sets and are capable of folding AK/2p OTR I think it's too thin, specially since KK beat me

PokerStars - $0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): 102 BB
SB: 100 BB
BB: 150.02 BB
UTG: 141.22 BB
MP: 103.78 BB
CO: 241.1 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 4 4

UTG raises to 2.54 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 2.54 BB, fold, fold

Flop: (6.58 BB, 2 players) J T 4
UTG bets 2.06 BB, Hero raises to 9.84 BB, UTG calls 7.78 BB

Turn: (26.26 BB, 2 players) 3
UTG checks, Hero bets 18.7 BB, UTG calls 18.7 BB

River: (63.66 BB, 2 players) K
UTG checks, Hero checks

Aren't you like 28 years old? You're talking like you're 58 or something.

I'm 25 right now and feel better than ever in any aspect.

Maybe consider living a bit healthier lifestyle with some sort of recreation/gym. It could help imo.

H2. What the hell are you doing on the river? lul

H3. Only you, are bad enough to check that river. lul

Lurker here, gl with your goals, this is an entertaining thread

This is true so much for me, I played fullring in like 2011-2014 and agree that if you played decent volume in that time it's very hard to get away from the overfolding mindset. I know it sucks, but you just gotta bluffcatch sp much more than in nitring

don't you think we have enough sd value to just check behind aq

hes jamming the aq then checking back the set in the next hand. lul.

Yeah, AQ will win the pot sometimes if we check back, but I think the EV of jamming is higher. In that spot if I don't turn AQ into a bluff I will be underbluffing like crazy. Just think about which hands call flop and call turn that are std bluffs otr. Imo it's only AsJx, maybe AxJs, but not sure if that hand is good enough to call the flop.

So we will have only 6 std bluffs max in that spot, for value we probably have at least 10 combos of flushes, 9 combos of KQ and 6-9 combos of sets. In the worst case scenario I will have 25 value hands otr, villain needs to be right around 33% of the time. If I bluff all AsJx/AxJs I will bluff only 19%.

Now I will have more 5 combos of AsQx and AxQs, if I bluff all of those too I will give villain almost a breakeven call (if I have AxJs in my range, which I think I won't, also while underestimating my value combos which could easily be 35 and not 25).

I think even with that play I will still be underbluffing the river, but by making that play at least my range will make more EV if villain is overfolding in that spot(which he should).

The only type of player I won't bluff in there will be vs massive brainless station regs or whales.

Yeah, I'm 28, and I never ate so well in my life and I'm going to the gym 3-4x/week. Not sure why it's like that.

Yeah, gotta call them a lot, tbh I don't feel afraid of calling anymore, taking way more rational decisions atm, if I think my blockers are ok I just go with them. I'm just sticking to what I learned in pio in those spots, it's the only area of my game that I follow pio blindly (because my gut feeling is often bad lol). Obv only in spots where I think people can actually have bluffs, in spots I'm 100% sure they will underbluff I just fold, but not by being afraid, but by using logic.

At 28, isn't it about time to focus on getting a job and building a solid career? This poker thing clearly isn't going anywhere for you. You won't listen of course, but you have an engineering degree, which is more than most people have. It would be a big shame to waste that.

Haven't you read here that my main focus isn't on poker? I'm just playing as a competitive hobby instead of playing videogames.

And being a hooker is a more viable career than engineering in brazil lol, probably even being a professor is more rewarding.

Let me get this straight. You have piosolver? You use it somewhat frequently?

How is it possible for you to have such a bad understanding of fundamental poker theory and concepts?

I can answer this for Rapid. He can correct me if I'm wrong (I'm not). He has Pio but exploitability is a thing so he tilts it to a point that he's comfortable with thus rendering it a complete waste of time and money.

Obligatory vamoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Fair enough. As long as it doesn't consume your time to the point where you're neglecting other more important areas of your life.

Why don't you move abroad then? An engineering degree would be in demand in other countries. Hooker has never been a viable career path for a hetero male btw, not sure why you are mentioning that.

How do you not bet that 44 OTR? It's the easiest value bet in history.

Well said.


Vaaaamooooooooo!

That hand is probably a 100% call in pio and it's probably playing less aggressive on that exact turn than villain. What I mean by that is that you gotta make some uncomfortable calls in some spots your range is already well-protected because those hands often overrealize their equity on later streets.

Pio makes a lot of calls/mixed plays to protect itself on different runnouts, obv it won"t defend any garbage, it has a good reasoning for defending each hand it does.

Is calling garbage on turn to bluff river part of theoretically good poker rapidesh?

it seems like you understand your leaks. why don't you call more turns/rivers and after 20k hands or so filter your database and see how your calls are performing. obviously super small sample but it's better than taking it one hand at a time where it always seems like they have it because our brains are stupid

btw I actually like the 99 hand besides pre. though against a whale I'm playing pre the same too tbh so nh

the 44 hand where you flopped a set it's criminal to check river. you have bluffs there, he can't just fold 2p or you should be printing $$

I'm already calling more ott/otr, loving it. Also it's way more enjoyable to play, folding everything is way less fun than snapping people off like a boss haha

In that 44 hand the thing is that all his 2p are suited preflop, so it reduces those combos by a lot. He has only 6 2p combinations and 9 set combinations + 1 AQs. So if he always call us down with 2p+, we will have a bad valuebet, if he starts folding those it's a disaster. I would only valuebet that vs someone who is quite loose pre and can have all offsuit combos or if they're stations who love calling with AA/KQ(which will most likely have both leaks in their games + potentially jamming turn with their sets/AQss).

Gotta keep in mind also that since all J, K and T have different suits villain will have one less 2p combo too.

Yes, in some scenarios where you will overfold on early streets and will run out of bluffs otr and villain can identify that it's a fine play.

Gotta think of your range on all streets, if I fold AxQs and AxJs I will get to the river with only flushes, TP, sets and the nut draw vs one guy that likely knows that.

If pio is calling a hand on some turn, is that hand garbage?

What do you mean when you say garbage?

Rapid you have hands other than AJ+spade to bluff with and im not talking about AQ