Yeah probably in this case

Hey man, thanks. Appreciate it. Where about in Scotland?

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Edinburgh. Used to play a bit (bad reg standard) in the good old days of online poker but stopped due to having kids. Then realised online poker and sleeping toddlers work well together so playing again and messing about with crypto. Your PCG ticks a load of boxes and rooting for you. Thanks.



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Thanks man, appreciate the kind words. Hope the poker/crypto thing goes well for you.

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Decided to take the entire weekend off, as I was feeling really lazy. The Hearthstone WC was being streamed on twitch, so just nerded out all day and watched that. I dunno if anyone plays HS at all, but it's pretty nuts the money that is on the line considering that even at the very highest level (arguably more so, due to increased proximity to perfect plays) soooooooooooo much of it just comes down to pure RNG.

Anyway, above is my graph from today. 1000 zoom popped off for a little while, so I got in on that action. Pleased to rustocko after a mediocre start, still yet to make any money this month though.

Some hands:

1) Brutal runout



2) Good reg, maybe I only want one raise sizing here



3) Reg



4) Good reg. Decided on low freq flop float here, river is whatever



5) Rec



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Crypto still having a pretty rocky time of it. I've learned my lesson when it comes to trying to short it though. So am currently just riding out the storm and buying up some of the bigger dips.

Pretty loaded up on BTC between the $9k-13k mark, and will likely be holding this for the long term. Barring any hyper pump madness of course.

Hand 3 is interesting. I've been trying to incorporate more turn/river leads into my game. Can you give an idea of what your river range should look like in a lead spot like that?

Feels like the river lead is very random, I'm not sure what your plan was with your range there, I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on this. I would have been completely fine with it if it was against a whale though.

I'll try and answer this without going into absolute detail, as villain probably reads thread.

Not everything I do is in an effort to be perfectly balanced. In the hand in question, turn is pretty terrible for a lot of villain's range. To the point where many regs play a simplified strat of checking close to range. Villain is (IMO) not an elite reg, and so is going to be at the least polarised on the turn, for this sizing, if not heavily weighted towards strong hands. Especially given that we block pretty much all of his bluffs. Maybe he jams river with all of his turn value bets (2p+) anyway, maybe not. But I'm not overly expectant of check calling and finding a bluff here ever.

I agree. Im not exactly talking balance but I think there are tons of spots where turn/river donks make sense (esp in live poker, going along with what Xeno is saying) and while I so far usually just do it with the nuts, I still think of hands I could do it with that are not the nuts.

You see criminal check backs and ludicrous call downs in live poker, both of which want to make us donk value more. But i think overall there are spots to do it from a "balanced" perspective too. Villain is going to want to check turn with most of his range and river too. I want a counter to that, which is why I've been experimenting.

but even against the range you described, wouldn't you be losing value by leading yourself?

He could also start folding a wider range of hands that he was betting for value whereas some of those that he now folds to your shove might be shoving themselves for value.

Yeah for sure it's something I think we can do often vs weak regs and recreationals in live poker. People generally hate folding, but don't seem to mind making incredibly nitty river check backs.

Just as an example, I used to often play live with a fish who had loads of small value heavy IP turn raises in his game, followed by snap check backs on rivers. I got owned by him for quite a while, then started developing river lead ranges and turn 3-bets.

Agree to disagree here, but I think river gets defended wider vs this line than pool tendencies will value bet. Thanks for the question though, I could for sure be off base with my assumptions.

Not a cg player, but ive been reading this thread cauz of the interesting hands u post and ur hands' analysis.

I think it improves my thinking and obv i see some plays i would almost never think of making.

I struggle to understand this hand from villains perspective though (although i get ur analysis about turn play from his part).

Appreciate the updates and i follow regularly despite the fact i do not post that often.

Best of luck in future battles! Keep HH flow

thanks for the kind words, glad to hear you're finding the content helpful!

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Last two days graph. Played well for the most part, but running pretty awful bost post and pre-flop. At least the win rates are consistent across the
various limits! Down around $6k at cash this month, so still recoverable. Hopefully a couple of days worth of heat to come.

1) V balanced line here from reg with all those potential bluffs that want to check flop, kinda wanted to fold river but sigh called it off



2) Blockers gone wrong vs nemesis reg



3) vs rec



4) vs reg



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Had a $10k score in MTT land last night in one of the biggies. Was well positioned to ship it for quite a bit more, but lost a massive 80%er for all of the chips 4 handed as 2nd CL vs CL. Still, nice to make some money and puts me in the green for the month overall.

Seems like a pretty bad bluff from reg w/67ss imo

Agree if we're cherry picking bluffs then AJo/AQss/QTss combos will outperform 67s, but he does probably have like 30 value combos that wanna jam river here. Bluffing spades kind of irrelevant also.

hmm well I mean I might be biased because it would be closer to my gameplan, I just assume that if somebody decides to split his ranges there it would make his leading range slightly stronger or maybe just polarized. So as the in position player I would think some of the hands I would shove for value against the checking range become -EV as bluffcatchers but are still +EV as a shove

What your option on Steem? Thinking about chucking some money into it, but I'd like some input from a crypto guy (I've only ever bought btc before)

Also, sorry if you have discussed this itt before. I've always tried to avoid reading crypto posts on 2p2 until very recently.

Lol sure

I've seen worse.

Nothing but respect for anyone riding the crypto wave, my best mate is involved in an ICO and he seems to be printing some zeros right now.

But...

In the UK and much of the Western world, here are two terms you will be hearing much about crypto-wise in the next twelve months...

AML (anti money laundering), which is the responsibility of the FCA.

Tax (specifically Capital Gains Tax), which is down to HMRC.

ML and Tax Evasion are both crimes and the FCA and HMRC are both Prosecuting Authorities in the UK, so they have all the power and clout they ever need to chap on anybody's door and demand their wedge.

Moral of the story: ride that tiger, surf that wave, but keep 30% (ish) stored for the Nice Man at No 11 Downing Street and get ready to pull the handle (aircrew term, means eject) when the Nice Man at Threadneedle St loses his patience with the whole shebang.

Coming to you from a very sunny Dundee...happy Burns Night!!

fk the man don't pay him ****

I can confirm this is lies, so I don't trust the rest of the post.

What you're saying makes a lot of sense, but also relies on villain having perfect information on how we split ranges on river (in the instance where we check, of course, as he won't know whether we have a lead range). Like I say, could be off base on this assumption.

I like Steem as a concept, but there are a few similar community reward type coins. I haven't done enough research to say buy/no buy and not sure if it is the best option in this corner of the market.



Hey, thanks a lot for this input, really good stuff and definitely something I'll have to look further into! AML is more of a concern to me than the tax thing. I have my own company, so can do some tax tricks there should it come to it. Although, not sure how taxing Crypto would function, as it's essentially foreign exchange. I'm sure they will manufacture some way to get their pound of flesh though!

Fight the power, brother!

Haha, I'm sure it was sunny once.

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Dug my way out of another big, almost immediate hole today. Not sure if I maybe need to be doing some mental warmup routines (PIO stuff, watch a video, even do some sudoku or something...) in the morning as a readiness thing, or if its just variance that all my sessions start out like hell. Going to give it a try next week and see if there's any noticeable difference.

Feeling pretty divided about whether to keep up the constant updates in here. A lot of the interactions I've had as a result of this blog, and constantly posting HHs have been negative with other regulars, and I really cba dealing with that. I'm not at all trying to build a brand here, have no plans to stream/vlog or whatever, am not selling coaching packages, so no monetization of the content whatsoever. I'm literally doing it because it's fun for me, and allows me somewhere to vent a bit. But lately its really not fun, as most of what I'm getting back is grief from regs I've offended or whatever.

I'm a little bit bipolar on this stuff, so maybe I'll feel differently in a week or so. Currently just not feeling the love haha, it's hard work making daily updates of online cash seem interesting!

/Rant

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1) vs reg



2) vs reg



3) vs reg



4) vs reggish



5) vs reg



7) vs reg



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Thanks for reading

does this mean i should post here instead of just lurking?

keep on keeping on man

Pissing off regs would motivate me to post more tbh

Nh w teh jj

Haha, it's a start.

Thanks man, you too

That's just not me man. I get that poker is personal and all, but I'd rather have positives relationships with regs where possible. Cba with the drama!

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Why are the cards you got dealt in Hand 7 not the same as the ones you muck?