100%, the problem is that few people ITT actually care about Rapi and instead would rather just troll/sit on their high horse.

I'd have guessed that too when he said this last March itt .

With the calldowns you've made against me I'm pretty sure you're in the feeling category haha.

This!
Most people come here just to bash me to feel better about themselves. But I get some really solid advice too which is totally worth even with all the hate and trolling imo.

Yep

Your assumption is just too narrow, maybe you're taking your forum approach too explo, have you thought that worldzmine could be balancing his posting range?



haha

I don't, that was just your interpretation of what I said. I do think it sometimes leads to "over-analysis" in spots where others think less and act more exactly as others tell them to act "because it works" though. An INTP that eventually "puts it all together" can achieve much better results that virtually anybody as you've rightly pointed out in the case of linus, for example.

"Whales do weird **** from time to time" when you're getting such terrible pot odds, you need to be almost certain he's doing this with worse. And you're clearly not certain, you're just guessing. Admit the call was awful and don't make calls like that again.

Mind blowing stuff, yeah, that's exactly me, I overanalyze too much in spots where people just listen blindly to their coaches/rio vids. I have the need to know exactly what's going on in a spot with a high degree of evidence and parallel studies of similar spots to be confident about that spot.

Maybe that's why it took me more than 1 year to listen to some of brokenstars' advice he gave me during his coaching sessions. That way of thinking is very dangerous given how poker is complex - we can't have all the evidence we need and gotta have some simplifications or just faith.

So is it more likely that INTPs have a higher variance when it comes to success in poker?

Played 2 days so far, 3k hands on each day! Couldn't play on saturday nor sunday because I was in Brasilia making an exam to be a taxman. Even though I quit studying I will keep making those tests for experience + endurance(this one was 5h long and had 160 questions of true or false) and it is obv my long term goal.

I'm starting to get used to 3-tabling and the action is so fast that I start thinking too little in spots, making more misclicks and tilting a bit. Still want to play 3 tables because I think the drawbacks won't outweight the EV I gain for having an extra 35%-40% hands/hour

Some hands

H1: I already knew that this brazilian read my thread, what I didn't know is how can he still play like that in these days. I've been thinking lately that some of the bad regs could be putting some time in the lab, improving their games and I've even seen clowns like quasselinho starting to play more like a solver and quitting their stupid BS moves.

But this guy just read that I called one whale super light vs a massive jam and who knows wtf he is doing in there with this leveling game lol.


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

Kimrasang (BTN): 76.18 BB
n00ki5 (SB): 100 BB
Rapidesh123 (BB): 103.28 BB
°ÆNJ0y42D4y° (UTG): 360.28 BB
kikuchan0326 (MP): 98.5 BB
koji0906 (CO): 98.02 BB

n00ki5 posts SB 0.5 BB, Rapidesh123 posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Rapidesh123 has 7 8

fold, fold, fold, fold, n00ki5 raises to 2.5 BB, Rapidesh123 raises to 7.5 BB, n00ki5 calls 5 BB

Flop: (15 BB, 2 players) 5 4 3
n00ki5 checks, Rapidesh123 bets 7.12 BB, n00ki5 raises to 92.5 BB and is all-in, fold

n00ki5 wins 27.78 BB


H2: vaaaaaaaamoo!

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

BTN: 121.64 BB
SB: 124.3 BB
BB: 179.28 BB
UTG: 273.36 BB
MP: 205.28 BB
Hero (CO): 101.5 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K T

fold, fold, Hero raises to 2.32 BB, fold, SB calls 1.82 BB, BB calls 1.32 BB

Flop: (6.96 BB, 3 players) 3 Q Q
SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets 1.66 BB, fold, BB raises to 4.64 BB, Hero calls 2.98 BB

Turn: (16.24 BB, 2 players) T
BB bets 7.72 BB, Hero calls 7.72 BB

River: (31.68 BB, 2 players) 5
BB bets 9.04 BB, Hero raises to 86.82 BB and is all-in, fold

Hero wins 47.28 BB


H3: not folding vs this muppet

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

BTN: 134.34 BB
Hero (SB): 105.58 BB
BB: 150.54 BB
UTG: 65.68 BB
MP: 85.26 BB
CO: 100 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 7 7

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

Flop: (6 BB, 2 players) Q K 3
Hero bets 1.42 BB, BB raises to 5.7 BB, Hero calls 4.28 BB

Turn: (17.4 BB, 2 players) K
Hero checks, BB bets 9.26 BB, Hero calls 9.26 BB

River: (35.92 BB, 2 players) K
Hero checks, BB checks




H4: vs unknown, meh, I feel it's always a weak ace, what do you guys think? On the other hand I've called fish in some random spots and they had random air from time to time. Maybe I should call this because of the ****** factor

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

Hero (BTN): 106.68 BB
SB: 86.02 BB
BB: 100 BB
UTG: 143.28 BB
MP: 165.98 BB
CO: 394.66 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 7 T

fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 2.32 BB, SB raises to 5 BB, fold, Hero calls 2.68 BB

Flop: (11 BB, 2 players) A T 2
SB bets 4 BB, Hero calls 4 BB

Turn: (19 BB, 2 players) 3
SB checks, Hero checks

River: (19 BB, 2 players) 2
SB bets 2 BB, fold

SB wins 18.04 BB


H5: vs unknown, good fold? Guy went soooooooo big, I rarely see fish using these big sizings often on such a dry texture

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

BTN: 109.88 BB
SB: 70.42 BB
BB: 119.92 BB
UTG: 239 BB
MP: 100 BB
Hero (CO): 127.16 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

UTG calls 1 BB, fold, Hero raises to 4 BB, fold, fold, fold, UTG calls 3 BB

Flop: (9.5 BB, 2 players) 5 5 9
UTG checks, Hero bets 2.26 BB, UTG raises to 16.54 BB, fold

UTG wins 13.32 BB


H6: such an easy decision for villain -.-

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

BTN: 375.82 BB
Hero (SB): 120.68 BB
BB: 112.32 BB
UTG: 117.8 BB
MP: 101.56 BB
CO: 103.68 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

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

Flop: (6 BB, 2 players) 7 J J
Hero checks, BB bets 3.14 BB, Hero raises to 8 BB, BB calls 4.86 BB

Turn: (22 BB, 2 players) J
Hero bets 15.68 BB, BB calls 15.68 BB

River: (53.36 BB, 2 players) 2
Hero bets 94 BB and is all-in, BB calls 85.64 BB and is all-in



H7: do you guys 4-bet here? After the min 5-bet always folding, right? Vs fish

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

Hero (BTN): 100 BB
SB: 35.86 BB
BB: 50.6 BB
UTG: 71.02 BB
MP: 100 BB
CO: 55.68 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 2.32 BB, fold, BB raises to 3.64 BB, Hero raises to 11.42 BB, BB raises to 34.76 BB, fold

BB wins 23.34 BB

Do not fold vs that 2 bb bet

What do you mean by "****** factor"?

Maybe this is why I don't play cash but how can H5 ever be a fold? Wtf are we putting villain on?

Edit: H7 is nowhere close to a min 5b either.

Why do you ask questions in the JJ hand but not in the QTo hand, making it seem like u just got unlucky there...

T7 hand is spew

I can't see how QTo is bad, the only street that it is too loose it's otf, but under certain assumptions we might want to x/r very agressively in there. OTT it's better to bluff with this than most Ax/Kx because we have less SDV and might get folds from Ax/Kx floats. OTR we have all the overpairs and we should just ship 88+ for value in there with a big sizing and this hand has no sdv and decent blockers against villain's Jx.

I don't know how do you think that out of all of those that one is spew, maybe you're too nitty and you're afraid to bluff in spots like that? Vs some guys it's criminal to bluff otr because they won't fold any pair, but vs a reg that might overcall pairs OTT I think the river jam is printing a lot.

Some really horribly played hands there, no offense.

H2: just call or fold. horrible river raise, what is it supposed to achieve exactly?

H4: you called off 96bb in a tiny pot earlier, but you fold getting such amazing pot odds here - why? some chance you could be ahead of something like pocket 99's or KQ, and even if not, you can get relatively cheap information. there's no logic behind any of your decisions.

H6: don't raise flop. that turn card is awful to continue on. give up river, pure spew. another huge mistake which cost you a lot of bb's.

H7: call the 3bet if you don't know what to do to a 5bet

God ur so obnoxious...

Do you even understand what this turn card means for ur range if ur XR'ing this combo? Do you know what it means for IPs range after calling a flop xr vs half pot stab? Do you have any idea how the flop equities run? Can you tell me why u even decided to xr over any other options u had?

All I see is well this is better than Ax/Kx to bluff (what? How is that even relevant?) so I guess I'm all in becus...well... we block Jx and we have overpairs.... (again, you don't even know ur own range or what they are even remotely supposed to look like if u think u have overpairs and yea no **** you block Jx just like any other mid-high offsuit broadway combos).

I started feeling empathetic towards you mainly becus of Finlands abuse but man stomp some humility in ur head, seriously...

Lol his break down of QTo. You are never check raising over pairs on that flop or Jx, that turn is terrible for you, basically repping quads and villain isnt folding most boats. Knowing how you play I know you basically just ship air on that river, and some dog sh it small sizing with value.

I mean... We should be bluffing some % of the time, right? And QTo has pretty good blockers.

This is why over complicating poker has held some of you back. Anything a 50z rec calls the turn with is not folding the river and it's just a terrible, hopeless punt at that stage. The lowest stakes are easy because you just value bet and don't try to get people to fold hands they're never going to fold. The rise of GTO, blockers and fancy terminology just creates an excuse to try to justify bad plays.

"GTO, x frequency, blockers, certain assumptions, bla bla"

Doesn't take a genius to work out a 50z player isn't folding 7x there. Or maybe it does.

Villain isn't playing pio and if you've studied that spot with the right assumptions, there are 3 possible strats villain might be using in that spot and none of those is remotely close to pio. I would be surprised if it's even possible for a human to mimic pio well even with a randomizer.

My guess is that the guy is stabbing too often, so I like punishing it by playing that spot very aggressively with a lot of bluffs and thin valuebets and big sizing OTR.


Yeah, I'm so afraid to valuebet thin, you're right mirage.





Always on point, it's funny that people make fun of you because you play nl20 but you're a far better player than a lot of guys in here, if I had to bet money on which is the best player: you, gazzybusto, tiggty or meale I would bet on you.

You might be surprised at how many people might call the river with quads only, sure that some will never fold a 7 in there, but it's easy to spot those.

Stop trying to rationalise your bad play and then agreeing with people who confirm your bad play. It seems like you don't actually want to progress, you just post these hands to confirm your own viewpoints and/or massage your ego.

Very unnecessary shot firing Rapi, I've stuck up for you multiple times in this thread and in the threads of others recently.

I think you have a bit of a confirmation bias with people you agreeing with.

I think the QTo is also spew. I don't mind flop raise vs someone over stabbing on occasion (yes, it's too loose but it's not insanely too loose)

From a strategy perspective, QTo "blocking" Jx is gonna be fairly irrelevant he's still gonna have a decent amound of quads since he has a BB defending range and since he has at least J7o and up. It's not like an EP vs BU spot where his CC range is much more narrower and blocking some suited Jx would be relevant.

I think Eenvis post is 100% correct tbh.

Yes, people are def dicks to you but I think it's important to keep an open mind regarding all strat content, just because one player agrees with your play doesn't mean it's always right ( and vice versa)

Trying to change your whole life is too much imo - when I've had tough times mostly the key to getting back on the horse was to write down an achievable set of goals/rough plan for the next day before going to bed, then try to tick everything off. you'll fail sometimes, but if you can muster the discipline to do this every day you'll move in the right direction faster than you'd guess. i understand the book 'atomic habits' analyses this in much more detail if you can get your hands on that.

My apologies man, didn't think it would make you upset.

Ty man, gonna run some sims about that spot later. The blocker part wasn't why I jammed the river, tbh I wasn't trying to give this opponent a breakeven decision.

A+ post, I started to get obsessed again with poker and played today until I was so tired my mind wasn't functioning well. Gotta take it easy like you said, but it's so hard to stay balanced one way or the other.

Poor guy wrote an essay for rapid and it was in one ear out the other