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Originally Posted by herbalerv
would say that referring to yourself as a legend in your thread title, definitely adds to the criticism and ridicule being justifiable.
It's just a joke, man, mostly because of my reputation on 2+2, basically 90% of my HH posted in the micro stakes forum were criticized a ton and had a huge amount of trolling going on(mostly by other people ofc lol)
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Originally Posted by Maverick93
Fair enough I suppose. I'm going off of what others have said regarding your supposed long stay in the micros, so apologies if I'm mistaken. For all I know you could've been at the micros for less than 2 years, which isn't so bad after all. Regardless, I moved up quickly by listening to players who played at higher limits than I did. From what I've seen, you listen to advice but you don't truly take it in. Most of your responses are spent justifying your own decisions with little regard for the rest of the world outside of the box.
I don't know what you guys expect from me, but I'm already playing really well, man, since I've improved a ton post-flop, this is my 50z graph:
More than 6bbev, really good, strat changed a bit between the graph, but it was mostly pre-flop stuff, decided to tighten up a bit to lose less to rake and avoid breakeven spots, as well as fighting for pots slightly less/valuebetting slightly less thin/trapping more
You guys go really nuts on some spots that aren't really that important, like in that KQcc hand, it doesn't matter if I just overbet jam or bet 33% OTT, hand has so much equity that the only important thing is that we're betting. There's not much to butcher on spots like that. That's one of the reasons why I'm quite stubborn in some spots. Sometimes I won't understand why some advice is good, so after some time I change my mind and accept that advice, like I've done so many times here. But I'm not always accepting all advice people post here, just look at mirage's advice, most of them are terrible, I change my mind when things make sense to me.
It's easy to see a play that is unorthodox and call it a spew, while it could easily be printing. In poker we're taught to be nits, and tbh, nits are rewarded even in today's games. Just as an example: the guy in the hand I folded a set over set, I have 3k hands on him, basically more hands than I have in the best 50z reg. I wouldn't be surprised if that 18/6 with 2% 3-bet guy was break-even or winning by 2bb/100.
But for me, the goal in poker was always to try to get the maximum of all spots, to break the game, take every opportunity and beat each opponent to the maximum. And it's impossible to do that as a nit. If I had followed all advice people gave me on 2+2, I would still be a nit, probably I could have made some more money, but not that much. Instead, I've put myself in a ton of tough spots and improved a lot.
It took me a lot more time to reach higher stakes, but I learned a ton. And tbh, most of the problem happened last year when I was spewing off like crazy, had a -10bb/100 winrate over more than 30k hands.
Right now I know how to play a reasonable strategy, not overbluffing, not underbluffing and I learned how to adjust vs some players. There are spots that I know villain has a weak hand trying to go for thin value, and that vs the average player in the pool, he would fold to a big river check-raise, but I don't bluff because I know they won't fold vs me. I valuebet super thin instead.
I was reluctant to post this hand, but here it goes, played it sometime ago. Look at the entire action OTT and OTR before opening the spoiler and ask yourself: How often is villain calling? How many times have you seen someone bluff with that action sequence?
Btw, lead turn was a mistake because this guy was protecting his checking back range, he probably had AQ/AA/QQ/AKc, I quickly read his note and I had it marked that he had those tendencies and in less than 1 second I threw the 3-bet OTT.
PokerStars - $0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
BTN: 100 BB
SB: 131.1 BB
Hero (BB): 100 BB
UTG: 159.98 BB
MP: 103.18 BB
CO: 98.22 BB
SB posts SB 0.5 BB,
Hero posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has
fold,
fold,
fold,
BTN raises to 2 BB,
fold,
Hero calls 1 BB
Flop: (4.5 BB, 2 players) 9
6
A
Hero checks, BTN checks
Turn: (4.5 BB, 2 players) Q
Hero bets 2.82 BB,
BTN raises to 11 BB,
Hero raises to 30.72 BB, BTN calls 19.72 BB
River: (65.94 BB, 2 players) 4
Hero bets 67.28 BB and is all-in,
fold
Hero wins 62.64 BB
This play looks like a massive spew, and it's terrible from a GTO point of view, we have 0 blockers, 0 equity, represent a narrow range and we're against a very VERY strong range. But if you take some time to think, if someone posts the same hand, but when hero actually had K9cc, everyone says "std", "wp" but nobody says: wait, but which bluffs are you using in that spot? "You have to be careful and bluff there sometimes, otherwise you will underbluff and let villain overfold his low flushes/sets there".
It's easy to say one specific hand is spew, or that something is bad, but the most important thing in poker isn't how we play our individual hands(most of the time), but how we play our range. Vs a fish, we opt to play a very unbalanced range towards the nuts because they won't fold, but if we're playing vs thinking players, simple strats like that won't cut it.
Last edited by Rapidesh123; 03-09-2018 at 05:35 PM.