Just had this hand at HU cash:

villain was probing 80% of flop check backs yet pretty much never bluffing rvr.

thoughts here?

GAME #6895888939: Holdem NL £0.25/£0.50 - 2016-01-26 01:59:55
Table Ermua
Server poker8.ipoker.com

Seat 3: Z00eyDeschanel (£56.75 in chips)
Seat 8: karmapush (£93.63 in chips)

Z00eyDeschanel: SB £0.25
karmapush: BB £0.50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Z00eyDeschanel [HQ DQ]
Z00eyDeschanel: Raise To £1.50
karmapush: Call £1.00
*** FLOP *** [C10 H10 DJ]
karmapush: Check
Z00eyDeschanel: Check
*** TURN *** [C10 H10 DJ D10]
karmapush: Bet £2.25
Z00eyDeschanel: Raise To £8.00
karmapush: Raise To £14.00
Z00eyDeschanel: Call £6.00
*** RIVER *** [C10 H10 DJ D10 S3]
karmapush: Bet £78.13
Z00eyDeschanel: Allin £41.25
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Z00eyDeschanel: shows (mucked) [HQ DQ] (Full house)
karmapush: shows [S10 S4] (Four of a kind)
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot £149.38 Rake £1.00
karmapush: wins £149.38

ffs its so so so irritating to be so awful at HU cash. It is just so tilting to battle for ages and then lose, to see them constantly do wierd stuff.

If I play SO SO strangely and exploitable that everyone is playing super weird to exploit ME - if this has been happening for so long - WHY HASN'T ANYONE TOLD ME!?!?!?

oh -

im know (ish) GTO in that QQ hand is to call original turn probe and bet river when checked to (or raise rvr, fold sometimes to 3bt)

I am aware of this. but how do I exploit someone who is probing A LINEAR RANGE OF 90% OTT BUT NEVER BLUFFS RVR?!?! !?!?

Is it not to raise turn with the bottom and top of our range?!? maybe my mistake here is that QQ isnt near enough the top of it. ffs fml

pls someone help

My red line is tanking in HU cash and has been forever. what are common leaks for this?

please please someone help me.

Why dont u get a hu cash coach ?

He was cbetting every 2nd pair, (90% cbet) so I began to check raise bluff him.

He then started calling, so I began to check raise the bottom and top of my range...

***** Hand History for Game 1111111111 ***** (IPoker)
£50.00 GBP NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, January 26, 12:51:30 ET 2016
Table Kirn (Real Money)
Seat 8 is the button
Seat 3: Hero ( £173.33 GBP ) - VPIP: 63, PFR: 37, 3B: 16, AF: 1.3, Hands: 503
Seat 8: Player8 ( £54.63 GBP ) - VPIP: 60, PFR: 46, 3B: 9, AF: 4.1, Hands: 463
Player8 posts small blind [£0.25 GBP].
Hero posts big blind [£0.50 GBP].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hero [ 8h 6d ]
Player8 raises [£1.00 GBP]
Hero calls [£0.75 GBP]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3h, 7d, 2s ]
Hero checks
Player8 bets [£1.75 GBP]
Hero raises [£5.00 GBP]
Player8 calls [£3.25 GBP]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 4c ]
Hero bets [£10.00 GBP]
Player8 calls [£10.00 GBP]
** Dealing River ** [ Qh ]
Hero bets [£157.08 GBP]
Player8 calls [£38.38 GBP]
Hero wins £118.70 GBP from main pot
Player8 wins £108.26 GBP from main pot
Player8 shows [Ah, Jh ]


So despite him making a dubious cbet, a dubious cbet call, then calling river when he should arguably be folding turn OR never even dreaming of playing the hand like this...
Am I really a HU cash fish? Please someone help lol.

Sometimes I just don't understand how I lose.

I want to cry

Would prefer not to comment on this. Sorry.

Just tried to help

hehe its ok.

Ok, I guess I can say this -

I have worked with a lot of top HU players, and have learnt many good things but as yet I have not been told that any mistakes I make would cause me to lose at rate I am currently lose at in HU Cash.

It is becoming a mystery for me. Is it REALLY variance?

Look at that last hand lol - should I be losing to that guy?

The 68 x/r otf and barrel off is just really unnecessary. You don't even have a bd fd. I'm not sure what might be going on but perhaps you're trying to do too much? I'm assuming that the general 50nl reg is probably playing too tight and I would say that it could easily be an over adjustment to play hands such as the 86 like this. Try chill out in hands a little!

If you're c/r here you're just c/r way too much. Make it raiser for yourself. Take a back door flush draw and life will feel easier later on. You don't have to worry about exploiting the guy when you have this combo on this board. Other combos will come, just be patient. I think that's a lot of what hu cash is about, especially at this stakes, being patient and Ofc game selecting.

How are you game selecting? Take is extremely high so it seems like it would be tough to win at these stakes against anybody who you need to be c/r bluffing them with no fe

wp on the solid Sunday!

not gonna comment on the HU hands cause it's not gonna help you

edit: bc I'm bad at HU, not because there is no hope

Hey guys, thank you both so much for the response I was of course hoping of course that guys like you might answer my pleas for help and Pads - very nice to see you in here

Ive just woken up from a horrible Armageddon type dream that was so so damn god awful so genuinely feel like sludge right now. so please go easy on me!

I really really don't want to be THAT GUY who asks for help - then gets it - then argues with said help. I really do not want to be because I know how rude it is. But I feel I should still answer you both.

At this point I will mention his some of his stats:
Cbet 83%, turn cbet 60%, rvr cbet 75%, delayed cbet 92% (lol)

Open BTN: 84% 3bt 9%, fold to steal 45%, fold to flop check raise 40%

Turn probe 90% LOLOLOLOL

agg factor FLOP: 42%, turn 60%, RVR: 31%

Obviously, when I see this guy repeatedly cbet, tp, 2nd pr, 3rd pr, he is clearly cbetting waaaaay too much. So I felt that it was a reasonable adjustment to increase my CR bluffing.

Clearly I am going nuts with my CR (it was 32% (lol) ) but that was my reason. But IF i get the the river with my hand I am convinced it is an essential bluff for 2 reasons:

1. Where I am in my range (which in my head justifies every street) + blockers.

2. Look at how weak his river range is. If he gets to the river with this much of a weak range how can a <pot shove OTR not be +EV?

So isn't my strat of putting pressure on his weak range good? Are you both suggesting that the adjustment I should make to his overcbetting, should be to check call more rather than check raise? Is that a more standard and correct adjustment?

As my red line in HU is tanking and terrible, I assumed that I am SOMEEWHERE doing too much check folding, folding, or bet folding or basically being too passive :/ It is my red line which concerns me more than anything.

Pads, Ben and anyone else reading this.... pleeeeeeease don't think "f this guy, never posting here again, he will just argue. f him."

I am probably coming off incredibly belligerent but that is not my intention. I am just more flummoxed with everything to do with HU cash right now.

Had such a mind fk few days and just had one of the worst nightmares of my life, so fair to say I am pretty stressed out right now.

Id say that's fair, i'm pretty damn stressed What was it you said you did at uni again Ben?

Pads: I am game selecting HU cash by not playing stars. But you could be right, maybe I am just not patient enough in HU cash. I honestly think that I don't tilt in HU but maybe I do - maybe bringing in combos to you range that you know are questionable at best IS tilt? Would you say it is? I guess I don't really know what patience IS in HU because you are playing every hand V a weaker range than you will play anywhere else. But maybe tilting is but adding in random combos that are not in you std strat. However, my stupid ***** brain seems to allow this, if I call it an "adjustment". FML

You guys must say his stats seem weird for HU? If so, are there any adjustments you'd make that stand out as being a bit different.

Siigh, guys thank you both for replying in my time of need, I hope I will not always be this touchy in future Fk once again, I feel i've been rude this whole post, sorry if it comes across that way guys, just I am desperately trying to improve. Fk i am stressed

self saver needed:

haha thank you

and thanks again for the edit! haha

this is saving me right now. would recommend to those of you who are stressed.

haven't finished my session yet but blow of the day goes to this chap...

U mean that you where coached by them ? Theres a diff betwen talking
and knowing and actually be coached and learn a series of concepts and strats that have in account your actual BI level etcetc

gl

I have been coached by many many different people yes.

So played some SNGs today and it went kinda meh. Tomorrow is a new day

Gl everyone. So far I am really happy with the volume I am putting in and sticking to my schedule pretty damn closely!

Just had great stacks in everything, before getting shafted with 20 left. Insane how long this can go on for.

PokerStars Hand #147789840390: Tournament #1452558718, $10+$1 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XXVIII (4000/8000) - 2016/01/27 22:27:32 WET [2016/01/27 17:27:32 ET]
Table '1452558718 1' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Dmaster681 (432797 in chips)
Seat 2: BRIANA15 (219270 in chips)
Seat 3: Solidthought (205880 in chips)
Seat 5: mihalevich (318773 in chips)
Seat 7: UPGRAYEDD420 (268479 in chips)
Seat 8: MachadinhaRS (407604 in chips)
Dmaster681: posts the ante 1000
BRIANA15: posts the ante 1000
Solidthought: posts the ante 1000
mihalevich: posts the ante 1000
UPGRAYEDD420: posts the ante 1000
MachadinhaRS: posts the ante 1000
BRIANA15: posts small blind 4000
Solidthought: posts big blind 8000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Solidthought [Ad Td]
mihalevich: folds
UPGRAYEDD420: folds
MachadinhaRS: folds
Dmaster681: raises 10000 to 18000
BRIANA15: folds
Solidthought: raises 186880 to 204880 and is all-in
Dmaster681: calls 186880
*** FLOP *** [Jd Ks 4c]
*** TURN *** [Jd Ks 4c] [7h]
*** RIVER *** [Jd Ks 4c 7h] [Jh]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Solidthought: shows [Ad Td] (a pair of Jacks)
Dmaster681: shows [Kd Qh] (two pair, Kings and Jacks)
Dmaster681 collected 419760 from pot
Solidthought finished the tournament in 12th place and received $141.48.
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 419760 | Rake 0
Board [Jd Ks 4c 7h Jh]
Seat 1: Dmaster681 (button) showed [Kd Qh] and won (419760) with two pair, Kings and Jacks
Seat 2: BRIANA15 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: Solidthought (big blind) showed [Ad Td] and lost with a pair of Jacks
Seat 5: mihalevich folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: UPGRAYEDD420 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: MachadinhaRS folded before Flop (didn't bet)


PokerStars Hand #147787926046: Tournament #1452558718, $10+$1 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XXV (2500/5000) - 2016/01/27 21:55:01 WET [2016/01/27 16:55:01 ET]
Table '1452558718 1' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: Dmaster681 (185334 in chips)
Seat 3: Solidthought (317799 in chips)
Seat 4: ricardons8 (118043 in chips)
Seat 5: mihalevich (124921 in chips)
Seat 6: Showdan10 (124944 in chips)
Seat 7: UPGRAYEDD420 (250117 in chips)
Seat 8: TaBuLA_Ras4 (67999 in chips)
Seat 9: Nurlux (163433 in chips)
Dmaster681: posts the ante 625
Solidthought: posts the ante 625
ricardons8: posts the ante 625
mihalevich: posts the ante 625
Showdan10: posts the ante 625
UPGRAYEDD420: posts the ante 625
TaBuLA_Ras4: posts the ante 625
Nurlux: posts the ante 625
Showdan10: posts small blind 2500
UPGRAYEDD420: posts big blind 5000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Solidthought [Jc Jd]
TaBuLA_Ras4: folds
Nurlux: folds
Dmaster681: folds
Solidthought: raises 5000 to 10000
ricardons8: folds
mihalevich: folds
Showdan10: raises 114319 to 124319 and is all-in
UPGRAYEDD420: folds
Solidthought: calls 114319
*** FLOP *** [Qd Ah 8d]
*** TURN *** [Qd Ah 8d] [5c]
*** RIVER *** [Qd Ah 8d 5c] [5s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Showdan10: shows [9s As] (two pair, Aces and Fives)
Solidthought: shows [Jc Jd] (two pair, Jacks and Fives)
Showdan10 collected 258638 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 258638 | Rake 0
Board [Qd Ah 8d 5c 5s]
Seat 1: Dmaster681 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: Solidthought showed [Jc Jd] and lost with two pair, Jacks and Fives
Seat 4: ricardons8 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: mihalevich (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: Showdan10 (small blind) showed [9s As] and won (258638) with two pair, Aces and Fives
Seat 7: UPGRAYEDD420 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 8: TaBuLA_Ras4 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: Nurlux folded before Flop (didn't bet)

amongst others.

so endless

in great spot an a 4max now.

would be tragic not to win it from here

laughing it off

15k GTD sweats. 28 left

Another day grindeded.

Did my best

See you at the tables tomorrow

Results coming soon/updates.

Hello people,

today Stars crashed 4 times, each time was like a massive glitch when I got to like 16 tables and stars just didn't respond. was weird cos Its not table count cos i regularly get to 24 tbs and my PC is fine, its a monster.

I think it was a stars update. Did anyone else have any issues with stars being dodgy today?

anyway, im grinding hard today. Another shift being logged now. ACtually got 4 decent stacks left

Feeling

um

good. :/

As long as there is nothing wrong with my PC I am happy MENNAA

mina

Final Table of THE 3$ rebuy

7/9

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