More on that. Liked that piece a lot. Made me realize that i am treating myself like my mom does treat me, and that in turn makes me really really think.

Instasubbed!

I was wondering, if you say that volume>brm>theory. What would your advice be for a nl10z player regarding brm assuming he plays 150k hands and has the minimum theory knowledge of 4/10?

so, about the 65 hand. 3way equity-wise, 65o is on par with J4s, with about 24%. Connected hands seem to perform fairly well in 3way situations with good pot odds, but i guess 65o is pushing it, yea.

so, about Thailand. Thailand? Didn't i say i am in Norway?
Wherever i am, i don't think that my lifestyle is representative of a poker players lifestyle, or that living with these guys represents living with poker players. It's cool though, but i would call it living with inspiring people, and trying to make the most out of every day.

So, about "Simon says". We never play it

Oh boy.. Alright.

Yea, i also don't know how to subscribe. Glad to have you on board though

Lapka - Yea, i'll keep talking about that when it comes up.

TheJag - It all depends on your mental game, because it all depends on actually having a winrate. If you arent comfortable with your bankrollmanagement, then you might play some sessions without having a positive winrate. At that point, your rating is 0/10 anyway.
That said, i think that you can push yourself to be able to be more aggressive with your bankroll, and still play good poker.
That said, i'd go for 25 BI's at anything lower than nl100, and for 40ish BI's for anything lower than nl600.

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I don't feel like updating this thing.
I am working on some stuff, and pushing myself out of my comfort zone. I do that occasionally, and it usually doesn't make me happy for a while.
It will get better.



Played this hand against my good friend Jo.
While i don't know what his preflop range is, it's likely that he has a range disadvantage on this board, but is gonna cbet like a monkey anyway (especially with this sizing).
Once we've established that i think the way i played the hand makes a lot of sense.

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I am about to change a lot of stuff in my real life. I'll write an update on that fairly soon, cause it's interesting. Peace out.

I'm not sure how he has a range disadvantage on this board? are you supposed to have more Kx when calling the 3bet from these position than he does? or is it because he wouldn't 3bet 77?

^think you can happily fold river, what's the worst hand you get to river with? Flop fine, turn fine

Well, it's polarized range vs linear range on a dry board, so i should have an advantage on paper. I do agree though that his polarized range might get that equity back somehow.
The raw equity matters in terms of calling frequency per street, so i don't think the nuts vs nuts ratio is that important.

Hey guys, long time no see.

Today was a pretty crappy day. I woke up and had the sh.its so that didn't start well. In fact, I've had the ****s on and off for a week now, since I ate some sketchy chicken and got food poisoning. Hopefully it will go away.

Been playing a lot these last few days, unfortunately it's been a bit of a downswing, mostly at 600nl where I've been getting crushed harder than grapes that are turned into wine. Bad times.



I'm taking a day off tomorrow, I need to renew my Visa, I think the Finnish authorities are fairly efficient so that should be fast, I might do some snowboarding too if I don't have the sh.its again

Here's a hand I played today where I won, so that was nice :

why are you not creating your own thread?

Where's the fun in that

subbed glgl

Hey guys, long time no see.

These last few days have been pretty kewl. Since my mini-downswing I went to get my Visa renewed (I couldn't find the place at first so this cute girl actually drove in front of me to help me find the place, swedish girls are so nice !), played some poker, and went snowboarding on water today and landed my first 540. Poker has been going pretty well too, I've started to crawl out of my downswing and I'm now up for the month which is very nice.

This will actually probably be my last update for a month or so (maybe more, maybe less), because starting tomorrow, me and a friend of mine are doing a little trip around South Eastern Northern Europe. For those of you who suck at geography, that means a trip around the South East of Northern Europe, so I will be visiting places like Stockholm and Helsinki and ****. I will try to get some cool pics and stories to tell you guys. We're gonna start our trip with some diving and should see some type of whales or shrimps or something I forgot which one. Either way it should be really sick. Since this is my last update for a while, and because I got some hate-mail today, I will actually post some strat here !

Yeah that's right ********, I received your angry PM. I will disclose it's contents here but will leave you anonymous as I believe in online anonymity.

Thanks ! Actually I think people are very interested in my updates since someone even suggested I make my own thread

Allright allright, here comes the strat. This is a hand I played today which was very interesting for a few reasons. Mostly, its because I made a royal frush and stacked villain, but there's actually some real strat on the river.









Ok. So on the river here, I went for the " reverse mumbo jumbo chicken ****" move. It's actually I move I learned at the cheezburger steaks last week. Well last week 5 years ago actually. So the idea behind this move is that you slowplay all streets (or make it look like a slowplay, for the bluff version), and then on the river, when it looks like you don't have anything, and it looks like he doesn't have anything, and there's a chance for a split pot, then you make an over the top bet (an overbet) to try to make it look like you're just buying the pot. However, the "reverse" part of the trick is here. If villain is smart, he knows exactly what you're trying to do (and this villain is indeed smart), so he's
thinking that you probably are going for the bluff version. So he goes for the reverse mumbo jumbo chicken **** bluff. Now that is a move that can result in tremendous profit when executed with the correct timing.

Of course here I have the nuts so I wasn't doing the bluff move, but I made it look like I was, and so for villain, instead of a successful move, he ended up mumbo jumbo chicken ****ting his pants in the few milliseconds between my snap call and the cards being revealed.

So that's all the strat there is for today. Thats a pretty powerful move so hopefully you guys can learn from that, and avoid being the victim of the reverse version, cuz it's pretty painful (I actually mumbo jumbo chicken shat my pants a couple of weeks ago vs a fish at poker, well I shat my pants in real life too but that's another story).

Hahahaha, please out the PM sender. Keep posting imo. So long as OP doesn't mind which I guess he doesn't (assume you're friends and he gets the joke)

Sick strat. Games just got tougher!

Lol awesome strat post thank you!

Today is a memorable day. We all learned the hard way not to trust a person who calls himself "Fatcat".

I have to admit, when i received his application for being my personal sl... housemate, i was disconcerted by the fact that his name was Fatcat.
Well, there's this 9gag-hype about cats, i figured, and we all love cats anyway, don't we, so i gave him a chance. Also, i don't know his real name yet. It might be something nice, like Marc, or Anthony, or Simon.
It could be something ok like Daniel, Matt-Eagle or Hardrock.
And even if it was something horrible like Karl, Clay or Kloney, he might still have a great personality.

When he arrived at the secret location, i was relieved. He looked normal. He was tanned, so he had to be outside sometimes. He had gorgeous blue eyes, which i really like in my personal sl... ****, housemates.
He was big. He wore amazing clothes. This couldn't be that bad.
He walked towards me, offered me his right hand, and said:
"Hey man, i am Dr. Fatcat."

Turned out, his name was Dr. Fatcat. His first name is "Dr." (yes, with the dot), and his last name is "Fatcat". At this point, i was a little worried again.
And now i find my worst fears confirmed. Coincidentially, around the time that i start writing my blog, Dr. makes the decision to steal a blog.
And now, be it fate or something more sinister, he ends up STEALING MY BLOG.

Now, we are all gonna be civil around here. I am not gonna demand him to stop, i don't want any polls popping up or people posting some extreme opinions about this matter.
how about we

My next entry is gonna be about all the positive changes on my real life, and how i am gonna be a better person.

No offence meant but is this secret place where you are located possibly a mental institution where you are having treatment for multiple personality disorder?

Lol, when I get to my laptop I'm rating this 5stars for sure!

I would say at least 5% of 2+2 have multiple personalities.

Typo above

50%*

“There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.”

So much merit. So much joy. So much emotions. It is only over when the fat cat lady sings. Or is it...

It is hilarious how people get offended and entitled. Getting annoyed is such a bad misleading emotion. Annoyance is always linked to a powerless state of mind towards a matter at hand. Anger or hate are much better and powerful emotions that can be used to change. Someone who is annoyed always and often never leads a fun filled life and mostly is a stagnating wimp not realizing potential at all. Annoyance is for bitches!

I am a dog person though...

Man. That was annoying jeez

Obviously not.

Waffle - I like your style. I have no idea what you're talking about, but keep it up man!

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Well, let's start with real life changes.
I started writing a book. I figured that i needed to add a routine to my day, so everyday, i write a book called "Big Bad Book" for 30 minutes.
The title implies that it doesn't need to be a good book, i just need to keep writing it.
I will also need to work out more, and i am not sure how i'll tackle that yet.

I have a younger brother who has Aspergers, and as that's a scale rather than a "You either have it or you don't" thing, i sometimes feel like i am in the middlish region of that scale as well, cause i can grind through boring things pretty well, and i would be pretty content just not doing much for pretty long periods of time.
I have watched some videos on success recently, and i am getting a pretty good idea of how i need to treat my brain in order to be able to get the max out of every day.

Book recommendation: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoi. Best book i've ever read.

Music: Rachmaninov, Piano Concerto No. 3, played by Martha Argerich. She was actually pretty hot.

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Well. I run horribly. I haven't really checked results, besides sometimes occasionally seeing them for a single session, but i know that i don't run well, or that my winrate dropped by around 15bb/100 within the last 3 months.
I find the first more likely.

I got added to a really amazing strategy group, so i do have to say that my game and understanding of poker has changed pretty drastically over the last month. I can't go into that for obvious reasons.

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I hate that sentence: "I can't go into that for obvious reasons". "I have a five-figure sum invested". "I have some inside information, but i won't be able to say what i know, who i know it from, what's it about, why i said this, what your question was, who i am, or how big my dick is."
"I am a self-centered ******ed prick who jerks off to mental images of all the amazing powers that he has but doesn't quite share with anybody but ALMOST shared with some people but didn't QUITE end up sharing it using amazing words like "disclose", "obvious", "semi-", "five-figure",....."

OK sorry i can't keep going now, i need to take a cold shower.

I am also very skeptical of your strategy but it's great to hear new ones from good players. If I hear/see a similar strategy from other players I respect, I'll have give it some more thought.

Do you have one in mind? Meanwhile, exercising regularly and using a sleeping mask seem to have cured my sleeping problem.

Steppenwolf. Read it. Understand. Profit.

Indulging into writing is something I also want to do, maybe I write some short stories and start a blog about the mundane poker profanities too. Or I maybe highjack your thread and claim to be the schizo part of embedded personality of yourself that you opened up talking about mild autism/aspergers as an option to troll the **** out of people. Maybe I am serious about it and start to care. I don't know. Might destroy the fun of it.
For now I just post weird stuff as a passenger here because it is fun to do.

Rachmaninov was a very smart person. He moved to Paris when the **** hit the fan in russia and hightailed it out of france to the states expecting what would later be known as the biggest desaster of european history beginning a couple of years later. If he had a betting blog, I would have subbed it in a heartbeat.

I want to get in on that strategy group.







For obvious reasons