Yh I do but its not massively important.

Yh I dunno either, I wanted to cbet (bluff) more than I would usually because 1. He is OOP so probably folds more than normal and 2. His range is ever-so-slightly wider due to pot odds and so might fold flop more.

Yes, I definitely considered this and I am not sure. It seems logical especially on this board.

I have got QTs and QJs in XB range I think and included the ones with BDFD so its also possible to have flushes in my range if I XB and it goes runner runner (this could be total BS obv).

I'd tighten up UTG if you're not confident you're a winner at 50 yet. I think Q hi boards are ones you shouldn't be cbetting as often as A hi and K hi boards simply because you're not perceived to have as many combos which hit it and it's easier for villains to have overcards. I wouldn't work out 'I want to cbet x%' and then construct ranges from there, I'd construct a cbetting range without looking at that.

Balance both the C-bet and XB range by checking back some monsters/ big hands OTF some of the time then,contingent on what your current C-bet % is and what V tendencies are ?

For example, if you're c-betting 75 % as you say, checking back QQ is deceptive since a somewhat thinking aggro player will look at the C-bet percentage, look at you, decide you don't have much, and try and take it away OTT.On the contrary, if you're against a stationy/ passive player who won't stab turns, but will float C-bet QQ.

Flexibility is key in a game in which villian tendencies vary so much, I agree with TheDefArticle that we shouldn't rigidly decide to C-bet x or y %, 75 % is a lot also.

That UTG range is pretty loose also, definitely a leak if you're playing FR.

Awesome thread. I'm just starting out. If you had it to do over again would you still start with No BS 6max course or would you go another way?

No idea how I wasnt subbed to this. glgl.

I will have a chat with staker wrt UTG opens, thx for advice. Wrt setting a cbet open %age I only did that b/c if I don't I will cbet about 30% . Its not the plan to set a certain figure normally, thx again.

Thx for help CD.

Don't worry, its usually very boring!
You know what, if you haven't got a lot of time to study then yes, I think I would recommend it for someone just starting out (then post loads of hands where you think the decisions are tough etc). I think I have got a lot of recommendations for someone just starting out as I feel I made a tonne of mistakes in my learning process.

Schedule and Short Term Goals Update - 11.07.2014


Schedule 11th July 2014

08.30 - 09.30 = Set schedule and update weekly goals.
09.30 - 09.45 = Update group timetable and catch up.
09.45 - 10.00 = Import marked hands.
10.00 - 16.00 = Follow routine for poker habits.

No play tonight will be working until 2200 hours

05.15 - 05.45 = Train
05.45 - 06.40 = Poker video then at the tables.


To Do List.

1. Continue to put all standard preflop ranges into Flopzilla.



Short Term Goals Week Commencing 7th July 2014

1. Watch 5 minutes (approximately) of poker video as warm-up to EVERY session (unless very short session expected). Measure as running total (X/Y). Aim for 100% completion. - Yes! Day = 1/1. (Week 5/5)

2. Stay focussed (turn off Skype and browser and play 4 tables maximum). Measure as a mark out of ten and estimate overall for each session and include awareness of action at all tables. Keep cumulative total for week. Aim for at least 8/10 average. - Excellent focus! Day = 10/10 (Week 43/50).

3. Mark 3 hands EVERY session for a flop question to ask. Measure as YES for achieved and NO for fail. Two hands is a fail. Aim for 90% completion. - YES! Day = 1/1. (Week 4/4)

4. Check a preflop range versus another player every time your trigger cue happens. Measure YES or NO and keep running total. Aim for 100% completion. - YES! Day = 1/1. (Week 4/4)

5. Post your marked HH's for preflop questions. Post at least 3 per day. Measure as YES for achieved and NO for fail. Two is a fail. Keep running total. Aim for 90% completion and make any left over HH's into a video or do replayer session. - Posted. (Week 4/4)

6. Play 12 hours. - Played 7 hours 29 mins. 38 mins ahead!! Got good long session in last night but late night with daughter's show meant not much this morning. Working late tonight and probably all day tomorrow (Saturday) too. It is gonna be a struggle for a few weeks now...

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Great day! Sorted video study timetable out and also had some great HH discussion (thanks GB) and also had a little look into CREV which looks like the sort of tool that would really suit me. Could not win at SD during session meh!

Ha, so strange!
I bought CR-EV yesterday. Pretty sure we got flopzilla on like the same day as well!
Will probably chat to you about this when I'm next online!

I was going to PM you and ask what those rec's are, but I think it would probably help a lot of people other than myself. I'm in a similar situation where I work full time etc., starting from the bottom and would really appreciate it. Any rec's for general motivation (read your post on "Why" which is awesome), learning faster etc. I would love to hear. A "what I'd do differently if I could start over" post. Cheers!

Crikey, what a mission it could be to answer that! Honestly I am not sure I can do much justice without filling out two pages of 2+2!!!

1. Learn what it means to YOU to be successful and then HOW to become successful (this is the bit that could take two pages!).
2. Learn about variance and **** results!
3. Find a mentor. Most people would ignore this one but it is massive. If you aren't good at mental issues (motivation/discipline/work ethic etc etc) then you might need two mentors even if one is a work buddy.
4. **** results.
5. Get a network of people who WANT to learn.
6. Most people are not as good as they sound. Question everything (another reason for a good mentor).
7 to 100. To follow........

Thanks man, looking forward to 7-100 😉

Schedule 14th July 2014

09.30 - 09.45 = Set schedule.
09.45 - 10.30 = Do weekly update and goals results.
10.30 - 11.00 = Set new week goals.
11.00 - 11.30 = Update group timetable and catch up.
11.30 - 11.45 = Import marked hands.
11.45 - 17.00 = Follow routine for poker habits.

No play tonight will be working until 2200 hours

05.15 - 05.45 = Train
05.45 - 06.40 = Poker video then at the tables.


To Do List.

1. Continue to put all standard preflop ranges into Flopzilla.

Weekly Progress Update 14.07.2014

Graph for week





Results For Short Term Goals Week Commencing 7th July 2014

1. Watch 5 minutes (approximately) of poker video as warm-up to EVERY session (unless very short session expected). Measure as running total (X/Y). Aim for 100% completion. - Week 6/6. Happy with this and am now going to consider this a formed habit so can remove from goals.

2. Stay focussed (turn off Skype and browser and play 4 tables maximum). Measure as a mark out of ten and estimate overall for each session and include awareness of action at all tables. Keep cumulative total for week. Aim for at least 8/10 average. - Week 52/60. Really good focus.

3. Mark 3 hands EVERY session for a flop question to ask. Measure as YES for achieved and NO for fail. Two hands is a fail. Aim for 90% completion. - Week 5/5. Good but need to further this somehow.

4. Check a preflop range versus another player every time your trigger cue happens. Measure YES or NO and keep running total. Aim for 100% completion. - Week = 5/5.

5. Post your marked HH's for preflop questions. Post at least 3 per day. Measure as YES for achieved and NO for fail. Two is a fail. Keep running total. Aim for 90% completion and make any left over HH's into a video or do replayer session. - Posted hands all week but I don't think I get enough from this, I need to focus really hard on one aspect of strategy. Week = 4/4

6. Play 12 hours. - Played 9 hours 59 mins. 2 hours 1 minute behind!! Target was possibly unreasonable as working on properties all hours I can over student vacation period. Will have to reduce slightly.

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Comments:
Better week in terms of meeting goals but volume is going to suffer over this summer period so failed on hours (will reduce this week).

3 buy-ins down for the week but I think I have run pretty badly this week so its fine just variance (I hope).

Need to try and focus the STG's a bit more just so I work on a particular concept.

Short Term Goals Week Commencing 7th July 2014

1. Stay focussed (turn off Skype and browser and play 4 tables maximum). Measure as a mark out of ten and estimate overall for each session and include awareness of action at all tables. Keep cumulative total for week. Aim for at least 8/10 average. - Same.

2Back to preflop! Mark 5 hands EVERY session for a preflop question to ask (focus on facing a raise). Measure as YES for achieved and NO for fail. Four hands is a fail. Aim for 90% completion. - Going back to preflop as not good enough still.

3. Check a preflop range versus another player every time your trigger cue happens. Measure YES or NO and keep running total. Aim for 100% completion. - Nearly done on this but need to finish it off so same.

4. Post your marked HH's for preflop questions. Post at least 3 per day AND MAKE A DOCUMENT! Measure as YES for achieved and NO for fail. Two is a fail. Keep running total. Aim for 90% completion and make any left over HH's into a video or do replayer session. - Mixture of old goals here.

5. Play 10 hours. - So tough for next few weeks but got to set a target to aim for. Almost all play will be at 0500 hours but will be knackered!

Schedule and Short Term Goals Update - 15.07.2014


Schedule 15th July 2014

08.30 - 08.45 = Set schedule.
08.45 - 09.00 = Update weekly goals.
09.00 - 09.45 = Catch up in Skype and update group timetable.
09.45 - 10.00 = Import and mark hands.
10.00 - 17.00 = Follow routine for poker habits.

19.45 - 22.30 = Poker video and at the tables

05.15 - 05.45 = Train
05.45 - 06.40 = Poker video then at the tables.


To Do List.

1. Find videos showing HH reviews (use of CREV etc).



Short Term Goals Week Commencing 14th July 2014

1. Stay focussed (turn off Skype and browser and play 4 tables maximum). Measure as a mark out of ten and estimate overall for each session and include awareness of action at all tables. Keep cumulative total for week. Aim for at least 8/10 average. - Day = 10/10. Only one short session but really good focus.

2. Back to preflop! Mark 5 hands EVERY session for a preflop question to ask (focus on facing a raise). Measure as YES for achieved and NO for fail. Four hands is a fail. Aim for 90% completion. - I did not even play one hour but I did mark 3 preflop hands. This is more by luck than judgement! What I see I need to do now is have a reminder before I start my session of something I particularly want to focus on. And need to make this a HABIT! Not going to mark this as session too short.

3. Check a preflop range versus another player every time your trigger cue happens. Measure YES or NO and keep running total. Aim for 100% completion. - NO! Had a bad day at office yesterday and did not get much poker stuff done. Day = 0/1.

4. Post your marked HH's for preflop questions. Post at least 3 per day AND MAKE A DOCUMENT! Measure as YES for achieved and NO for fail. Two is a fail. Keep running total. Aim for 90% completion and make any left over HH's into a video or do replayer session. - I posted a couple of hands yesterday and need to read replies now...

5. Play 10 hours. - Played 59 mins. 27 mins behind. Just had a big work day yesterday. Someone asked me to put my whole day on here for people to see but not sure its very interesting tbh!

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As I say was just a massive work day yesterday so was tough to get much done. Pretty exhausted but did not train this morning preferring to get an hour of poker in. Wife is busy tonight so I cannot work on houses so will spend time with kids and get couple of hours in when they go to bed.

Someone asked me to put my whole day/schedule on here just to show what can be done in 24 hours but not sure that is interesting? Let me know if wanna see.

Ran pants!
(Oh hang on I flopped a straight and got paid some by AA!!)

Linecheck for "iso-raise" and OESD versus fish

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

BTN: $50.00 (VPIP: 38.46, PFR: 30.77, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 27)
SB: $41.01 (VPIP: 31.58, PFR: 10.53, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 19)
Hero (BB): $53.82
UTG: $37.93 (VPIP: 27.78, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 18)
MP: $59.97 (VPIP: 27.69, PFR: 23.08, 3Bet Preflop: 16.00, Hands: 67)
CO: $50.75 (VPIP: 19.68, PFR: 16.67, 3Bet Preflop: 5.29, Hands: 511)

SB posts SB $0.25, Hero posts BB $0.50

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.75) Hero has K T

UTG calls $0.50, fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to $2.50, UTG calls $2.00

Flop: ($5.25, 2 players) J 4 Q
Hero bets $3.30, UTG calls $3.30

Turn: ($11.85, 2 players) 3
Hero bets $7.47, UTG raises to $14.94, Hero calls $7.47

S'ok?

Looks fine to me. I think there's a pretty high chance you'll stack him if you hit as his line looks nutted and he looks pretty terrible.

Although I do think you can achieve the same thing with a smaller raise pre flop. I'd personally size it at $1.75.

Good opponents can pick up on what you're doing here and 3bet you quite liberally. Especially on a reg table where the dynamic can become quite obvious. By sizing it smaller you lose less the times you fold to the re-iso, and have a better SPR in general which allows for flatting a bit more often.

Rockets versus probable fish, bet sizes and shove river?

PokerStars - $0.50 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

CO: $73.74 (VPIP: 33.33, PFR: 28.33, 3Bet Preflop: 8.70, Hands: 64)
Hero (BTN): $50.00
SB: $20.57 (VPIP: 75.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 10)
BB: $65.11 (VPIP: 28.07, PFR: 21.05, 3Bet Preflop: 12.50, Hands: 62)
UTG: $60.12 (VPIP: 50.00, PFR: 30.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 10)

SB posts SB $0.25, BB posts BB $0.50

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.75) Hero has A A

fold, fold, Hero raises to $1.25, SB calls $1.00, fold

Flop: ($3.00, 2 players) 3 4 3
SB checks, Hero bets $2.50, SB calls $2.50

Turn: ($8.00, 2 players) J
SB checks, Hero bets $5.75, SB calls $5.75

River: ($19.50, 2 players) 7
SB checks,

Well I am BB here so only person can re-raise me is the original fish limper which I am not worried about. Also I am going to isolate 5x OOP anyway most of the time and although I do admit it could be exploited 1. I am not sure many people will and 2. there is only BB left when I am OOP isolator and if he is that good I am gone anywayz!

Didn't notice you had the chance to get the free flop. I'd probably just check then but I'm sure there are good players who prefer your move.

My points were about general iso's.

I think post flop is fine still.

Good Luck mate

As long as you make sure you have less then PSB on river.

Thanks big man.
TY sir.

Flop check? Turn XB? Plan for turn river?

PokerStars - $0.50 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

UTG: $33.98 (VPIP: 100.00, PFR: 66.67, 3Bet Preflop: 50.00, Hands: 3)
CO: $58.03 (VPIP: 50.00, PFR: 16.67, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 12)
Hero (BTN): $81.17
SB: $55.91 (VPIP: 27.67, PFR: 21.74, 3Bet Preflop: 5.77, Hands: 262)
BB: $50.00 (VPIP: 26.24, PFR: 18.72, 3Bet Preflop: 6.13, Hands: 1,803)

SB posts SB $0.25, BB posts BB $0.50

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.75) Hero has K A

fold, fold, Hero raises to $1.25, SB calls $1.00, fold

Flop: ($3.00, 2 players) T 8 6
SB checks, Hero checks

Turn: ($3.00, 2 players) Q
SB checks,

So what is my plan here? Check back turn and call all rivers (sometimes improve too) and sometimes just get to SD? Is there any reason to bet turn?

Pretty easy bet