He has a point. If you're a professional poker player, you're taking money from many people who need it for survival. You're effectively destroying their lives. Some even end up committing suicide.
Perhaps when you play online you don't really realize this, but I've played live poker in the past vs people that put all of their net worth on the table, knowing that if they lose they won't be able feed their own children tomorow. As a reg you still go and take their money, though.
It's kind of hypocritical for poker players to care about random strangers or to try and take the higher moral ground in such issues. I always felt the same way about those poker pros that donate their winnings to charity. You're like a deformed Robin Hood. You're taking money from the poor and then giving it back to them. You're destroying random people's lives, just to improve the lives of some other people you don't know.
Imagine applying this kind of dumb concern trolling to wall street executives, pharma executives or anyone who actually ruins people's lives or puts them in poor positions. Someone with $200 to their name going to the casino is not the poker player's fault, but those in society with much more influence and power.
Imagine applying this kind of dumb concern trolling to wall street executives, pharma executives or anyone who actually ruins people's lives or puts them in poor positions. Someone with $200 to their name going to the casino is not the poker player's fault, but those in society with much more influence and power.
This, people love putting our community down when there are bigger problems to deal with. I hope that at the end of this people start valuing more healthcare and education, it's unbelievable that there are some people out there defending a private healthcare system.
Spoiler:
The GTO solution for the hospital is always to ripoff their clients to the max, a surgery in USA is 4x the price of the same one here in Brazil
Back to positive! So good to make a comeback and get out of that downswing!
Lagging a lot and had insane amounts of problems with bodog, their software is so buggy and I can't believe I went through all of it without tilting pretty hard lol
H1, H3 and H4: Very well played.
H2: I'm not sure. This could be a great fold or it could be a bad fold against some random 8x hand. I'm extremely curious to see the results of this one.
H1, H3 and H4: Very well played.
H2: I'm not sure. This could be a great fold or it could be a bad fold against some random 8x hand. I'm extremely curious to see the results of this one.
On point man, on H2 he had A8, I was surprised with that, tbh I don't see it as an absurd fold if he is shipping K8+ and all flushes/FHs with 0 bluffs, it's probably still a good fold vs that, now if he has some pair + nut FD in there and all 8x, then it's terrible.
My reason for folding was more because whenever I called, if I would be against better I would be almost always 100% dead and couldn't find many bluffs(whales don't x/r AsKx AsQx and x/j OTT, that type of play just isn't in their books, even regs don't do it much). Also I couldn't imagine how could someone butcher an 8x so much in there to just ship it, imo it wasn't even in his range.
Also I wasn't folding higher flushes, this was pretty much the best one I would fold, maybe T7ss or T6ss.
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Originally Posted by Day_Dreamer
H1 check call tho? Fold as played.
I'm not gonna let this donkey get away by betting midpair for that small and x back OTR, always a x/r and after he goes with the super imbalanced min-3-bet it's an easy fold. Now if he ships I have 0 clue in what I would do, would probably fold, would you guys call?
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Originally Posted by ZKesic
^ He is prob range checking.
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8Jss when fish bet pot IP after a check OTF, I'd tend to give them low credit for a flush draw. Tendency-wise. Also when he 3bets the turn, I'd call, as he can easily not give you credit for anything. In his shoes, your CC range OTF is Ace high and small pocket pairs mainly. Thats how hed play them if he was hero. As a bonus for us, fish will rarely fire through OTR, in my experience, after min-3betting the turn as a bluff. I think folding turn as hero is giving away a lot of EV.
79ss as it has been said, you will see 8x often enough to justify a call. As I said in the 8jss hand, fish rarely play a flush draw that way (not refering to the flop raise, but rather the turn xr mainly - but flop will be played passively by fish too with a fd often. depends on the fish.)
A3o I like your catch OTR, because it looks like villain is trying to get you off the exact kind of hand that you have. Reasonable fish will taper down their sizings with 9x OTR. Good call imo.
55 nice play I guess, but bet turn for protection. (if u fold river vs raise u lose the same amount and u deprive urself from protection) id bet river too after betting turn, on a safe river (like the 3h) but nice play rapid! u owned him haha
8Jss when fish bet pot IP after a check OTF, I'd tend to give them low credit for a flush draw. Tendency-wise. Also when he 3bets the turn, I'd call, as he can easily not give you credit for anything. In his shoes, your CC range OTF is Ace high and small pocket pairs mainly. Thats how hed play them if he was hero. As a bonus for us, fish will rarely fire through OTR, in my experience, after min-3betting the turn as a bluff. I think folding turn as hero is giving away a lot of EV.
79ss as it has been said, you will see 8x often enough to justify a call. As I said in the 8jss hand, fish rarely play a flush draw that way (not refering to the flop raise, but rather the turn xr mainly - but flop will be played passively by fish too with a fd often. depends on the fish.)
A3o I like your catch OTR, because it looks like villain is trying to get you off the exact kind of hand that you have. Reasonable fish will taper down their sizings with 9x OTR. Good call imo.
55 nice play I guess, but bet turn for protection. (if u fold river vs raise u lose the same amount and u deprive urself from protection) id bet river too after betting turn, on a safe river (like the 3h) but nice play rapid! u owned him haha
The small bet-min-3-bet line is just never a bluff man. It's obvious that the fish was inducing and that he always has it. It's such an insane assumption to make and very far from theory but that's how humans work, that's why I've made so many consistent folds vs minraises and a lot of other regs do, even doug polk which is the biggest station explo folds vs them fwiw.
79ss is a call, it was a mistake to fold that, it was one of those spots that I was just making bad folds and it was hurting my winrate a lot.
March results
March was a pretty mediocre month, had trouble with internet and buggy software, also bodog lost some of my HH, I think around 5k-10k in which I've won an extra +$2484, so the final result for the month was + $1654.
I couldn't have done better with the volume, sadly, but on this month I think everything will work fine and I will put the hours in!
Bodog meta vs Stars meta
It was amazing to play on bodog, tbh I haven't had this much fun playing poker in ages. On stars I always had to keep my frequencies on check vs pretty much every station fish or station reg and good regs too, it was really annoying to have to choose combos just for the sake of balance(or just underbluffing like crazy and hoping I were right, which tbh it was in most cases).
It's liberating to be able to play like a monkey(in a smart way obv) and use all the theory I've studied and print in a ton of spots I couldn't ever do on stars. People would punish me a lot after a few hands with me and also with my spewmonkey image too.
I think this new format is way better for people who are more into theory, there are so many spots where we can disguise ourselves as some part of the population that are heavy underbluffed and get so many folds. The hardest thing in order to do that is to see if people are actually folding a lot in those spots.
Also I have a lot of limitations that made everything worse for me on stars: like not being a "street smart" person and more like a "book smart" one. One example of the opposite would be gazzyb123: whenever I saw him on stream he would be punishing people sooooo much, soul reading them like crazy, I couldn't believe how insane those whales/bad regs were getting owned and I just couldn't see the logic in there.
I'm improving a lot too, coming with a lot of new strats and fixed a ton of leaks last month. From the HH I can see that I'm owning the pool at a higher rate than at 50z on stars, rake is actually 1.2bb/100 smaller and my winrate was slightly below 4bb/100 in there, so I think it's a fair assumption that I'm beating 200 zone by 5bb/100 or more. Let's see if I'm right
Corona virus
Still not infected, haven't left the house for 1 week. Tbh I've never been happier with my life in a while, not that I'm having a lot of fun, but I've been working on myself a lot during these times: swimming 2h/day every day, playing A LOT and studying a lot of poker too. I've even started reading a book called "Crime and Punishment", from Dostoievski. It's really good to feel I'm finally progressing in life.
I used to go out with some people to some places I actually didn't like that much, but forced myself to go, it feels good to just focus on myself and not let people slow down my progress. This situation has helped me to realize that, also that playing poker was really a very good choice.
I've never considered poker to be an option, but this crisis made me think about things differently: dollar is insanely high compared to Brazilian real(it was 3,50 not so long ago, now it's 5,34), a lot of engineers are getting fired/earning less and poker is doing great during these adverse times. I was taught and reinforced to myself that there was just no future in poker, that it was just a side project and that's it.
Some of it was because of my education, tbh very educated people just don't value these things and are very skeptical about those "different jobs". A lot of my friends that are in their 30s don't view poker as a good thing, now my 20 year old friends think I'm a boss or something, they really believe it's a good thing to be a poker pro and now I'm starting to view it as a good thing, quite amazing to see how our minds can change, I used to feel afraid but now I feel hope.
Still not sure about what I'm gonna do in the future, but I'm going to give poker a real chance and will work very hard on it. My plan is to save as much as I can and invest so I can retire in 5-10 years.
Some hands
H1: the best hand of the month and bodog lost it, but gotta share this one:
Hero has AQ on SB, BTN RFI for 3bb, we 3-bet to 11bb, call
Flop is K K 7, we cbet for 5bb, he calls,
Turn is a 9, we bet 22bb, he calls
River is a 2, we check, villain ships for pot, we call with A high.
fold, fold, CO raises to 2.5 BB, Hero raises to 7 BB, fold, fold, CO calls 4.5 BB
Flop:(15.5 BB, 2 players) 2 5 T CO checks, Hero bets 4 BB, CO calls 4 BB
Turn:(23.5 BB, 2 players) 4 CO checks, Hero bets 16.75 BB, CO calls 16.75 BB
River:(56.99 BB, 2 players) A CO checks, Hero bets 13 BB, fold,
Spoiler:
Pre Flop:(pot: 1.5 BB)CO has T J
H4: I hate to x back these flops with an imbalanced range like those nits love doing, but they make so much EV vs the pool. Also it's somewhat easy to identify those who know that exploit and abuse it and play accordingly vs that.
H3 vwp imo. Distancing yourself from the sheep with a bet of that kind OTR. He made a good fold vs playerpool, and you made a good bet vs playerpool.
Can't give you enough love for H4, he played it well but so did you. cant blame a call here either with A blocker
TT vs 7Qo you gotta start realizing that people fastplay their made hands widely esp. if they're recs. They see the tourney WSOP games on TV and dont understand that theres a lot of dead money in tournaments that dont replicate these scenarios in cash games. Give credit to the playerpool for making bad decisions "just like that" and see your EV rise
A2dd nothing to tell you. rapid gonna be rapid lol
AA you should limit the # of interesting hands that you post haha
A good Dostoyevsky book, if you're interested, is The Gambler.
150 year old degen stories and it's like 1000x less pages to read
Really cool, gonna take a look at it, I like to imagine how life used to be in those times, specially old school gambling, not gonna quit reading crime and punishment though, got so much time on my hands now and the book is really interesting!
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H3 vwp imo. Distancing yourself from the sheep with a bet of that kind OTR. He made a good fold vs playerpool, and you made a good bet vs playerpool.
Can't give you enough love for H4, he played it well but so did you. cant blame a call here either with A blocker
TT vs 7Qo you gotta start realizing that people fastplay their made hands widely esp. if they're recs. They see the tourney WSOP games on TV and dont understand that theres a lot of dead money in tournaments that dont replicate these scenarios in cash games. Give credit to the playerpool for making bad decisions "just like that" and see your EV rise
A2dd nothing to tell you. rapid gonna be rapid lol
AA you should limit the # of interesting hands that you post haha
wp TQo
rest is fine. gj wp
Ty finland, yeah, I gotta post less, I always make such massive posts, I can't hold myself, I think those HHs are so fascinating lol.
A2dd I know a lot of people would play differently and my coach was watching and saying to just bet and ship turn, but the CC has so many PPs and specially TT/JJ/99 which I think just never fold vs bet and jam. There's another guy in the pot too, so IP I think x back and realizing our equity is slightly better, we also got some K and Q bluffing outs and we will surely overealize on those turns.
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Originally Posted by Jaznin
Could you please tell me how many bb/100 you are paying in rake at 200NL?
Also, how did Bodog lose your HH?
GL
Around 5.8-5.9 bb/100 so far, tbh some of the HH was lost because I didn't ask it in time, but I'm pretty sure some HH are missing too, maybe it happened during those times the software was crashing pretty hard. I can't understand how is it so hard to just make the games keep going lol.
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Originally Posted by ZKesic
If you had AK there, you'd probably snap it off and be like:
hey rapi ive been lurking in this thread for a while and a lot of your plays have me scratching my head but these last few hands you showed were actually not bad well played for the most part. Maybe a little overfolding vs the turn barrels sure, but vs most pools if you are going to lean one way or another, overfolding is usually less of a mistake than underfolding. cheers
A2dd I didn't even see you made the flush, thought it was a bluffship OTR. My bad.
I'm crazy but not that much haha
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Literally just finished reading Crime and Punishment yesterday. It was a bit meh. And I normally like Russian literature.
Such a coincidence, really? I'm enjoying atm, still at the beginning
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If you like Dostoevsky Brothers Karamazov is the nuts.
It's the first of his books I'm reading, not super into literature, the last one I've read was brave new world some years ago. Not that I don't like it, I just didn't develop the habit of reading and spent too much time watching netflix/anime/movies instead.
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Originally Posted by ejames209
hey rapi ive been lurking in this thread for a while and a lot of your plays have me scratching my head but these last few hands you showed were actually not bad well played for the most part. Maybe a little overfolding vs the turn barrels sure, but vs most pools if you are going to lean one way or another, overfolding is usually less of a mistake than underfolding. cheers
I posted almost all my bad hands in here to induce people on stars to spew more vs me lol. Now I don't have to do that, so HH got a little better quality haha.
Breakeven city so far, at least the software isn't crashing as much as last month, doing my best to put some good volume on, but I'm running so badly.
Some hands
H1: it has been a loooong time since I did this, good to be back in action with the banana plays haha