No idea how I missed this, subbed obv and best of luck man!

Welcome and gl to u2.

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Played a session yesterday, again had few deepruns but couldn't get to any FT.

Big50 on .ES, no running away from this ? (I'm putting question mark altough I know it's super standard)




Also had this one, would like to hear thoughts altough it's a preflop mistake imo. 12 left, Villain was CL and semifish type of guy playing 40 38 or smt like that and I noted that he was opening 3x for bluff which is what inclined me to flat pre and not 3bet. He's opening stuff like K8o A3o 3x as I saw his few showdowns and few snapfold vs 3bet. Should I just 3bet vs described villain or do it like this ? I'm thinking if I just leveled myself into the flatting since I'm scared to GII 50bigs here but I dont think that is the case actually. And do we valuebet river ? Seems like I'm never getting called by weaker hand but then again it seems too strong to x on river. Im probably result orriented since I never pick up any semitricky spot in deeprun and always lose these type of hands whatever I do, so I'll start sharing them here.




Anyway, I'm again failing hard at health part. No excersices, eating junkfood and smokin while playing. This is mostly caused by inability to get good sleep. When I finish session ( 2-4AM ) I go out for a walk and get to bed and there is no way on earth I fall to sleep in the first hour or so, so I usually stand up and bingewatch something on netflix and sleep from 9am to 4-6pm and wake up tired AF. I hate this but I know that it's caused by physical inactivity and stress that I just dont get out of my body anyhow and it seems crucial for my mental/physical health to change this, but every time is the same pattern. I start good then at the half of the month I just come back to the same ol' cycle, but I guess I'll improve by trying. Read a ton about procrastrination and tricks aint working, some inputs for this would be appreciated.

1. Hand one is a fold preflop or possible 4bet. I know you're in steal position, but giving him a 3bet range of 66+, Broadways, A9o, and suited aces your hand is 47% against that range. If we add in suited connectors 76s and bigger and suited 2 gappers 97s+, your hand is still only 49% against that range. Even if we add in all of the remaining aces, all of the remaining kings, Q9s, and the remaining pocket pairs, you're hand is still only 52.2% against that range. You're out of position so realizing your equity will be hard. Plus he has a 37bb stack to begin with so he shouldn't be 3betting that light. Finally, you're getting a ****ty price. If you think he's 3betting you too wide you can 4bet.

2. Hand 2 the flat is good given stack sizes. Once he raises to 10% of his stack you're just 2 pot sized bets away from getting it all in. You keep his bluffs in too, and have a camoflagued postflop value hand. I can get on board with a flop check. I'd bet the turn, though, for value.

Hey man,

1.Actually thought the same about KQo hand.

I generally dont like to flat 3bets OOP with offsuit broadways cauz i ll have a hard time realizing equity post and may as well "trap" my self. Not being results oriented or anything and i also do hate when i have to just fold pre, but some times u just have to i guess.

2. QQ hand is interesting. I ve been reading CRAIbaby's PGC and followed a discussion about thin values and "how most regs dont go for th-v OTR" fearing they won't get called by worse. I honestly dont know if its too tight to cback this river, dont know what call us either (u already mentioned that fwiw), but in-game i think i would lean to a c-back. I make most river decisions VERY player-dependant though, so vs strong regs i dont think i would go for v OTR.

That being said, in spots that i think are "1-bet kinda situations", meaning that i mostly likely go for value once (ott/otr), in this situation i like a lot your turn bet but i would go bigger! Get all the value i can from fd's and T's as board is very juicy OTT, with the intention to c-back OTR if get called. I hope the above make sense.

Just my thoughts.

Keep pushing m8!

PS: Please let us know about the non-Sundays and how they work out for you. Its really interesting to hear ur thoughts there.

PS2: gap between bins is SUPER important and i get 100% what u say as i used to do major mistakes in this area in order to "hit volume". All i was doing was play many tables (more than i should) with little attention and "mental disapointment" when i would bust the "important" tournaments at the high-end of my bins.
When u have a small gap, every tournament is important more or less! That helped me a lot with my focus too, as i dont have the "naaaahh scre.w that who cares is only 5x times less than those other two timbys so whatevahhh/lets go bananas aggro etc etc" attitude!

Subbed! i didnt plan to write a reply but the couple messages above were good so i just wanted to say i agree alot on whats said there.

Do u think ur sort of, trying too many changes at once? It must be mentally ****ing draining to try to play sick volume and try to change things in ur life. I would try to shrink the change, set very easy health goals when grinding hard. Cause reaching ur current goals seems too hard and then you go back to square one. And you seem to hate going back there

1. Reads are pretty important in this spot. If villain is tight this seems like more of a fold pre because we will be a sizeable equity dog vs his range. Ie if he 3 bets like AJ+99+ or something we often just bleed chips post flop when his pairs outkick us/we don't get value from his A highs etc when we hit top pair. Notably his sizing is also massive which makes this more of a fold I think because it's much tougher to realize equity. Vs. larger sizing we should mostly 4 bet or fold more.

Everything changes if villain is a loose 3 bettor and will 3 bet hands like J10s/K9s/KJo etc...then we are an equity favourite vs. his 3 betting range and then flatting becomes much more appealing/much easier to realize equity and play post flop.

2: Mandatory 3 bet pre for value imo. Especially because if villain is opening this loose I will 3 bet them lots and it s important to extend value range when doing this (to balance bluffs). Also when he opens bigger sizing we prob want to 3 bet more in general as opposed to flat. I think I'd fire a small bet on flop for value/protection. River value bet is quite thin but I don't mind it. Holding QQ blocks a lot of the SD floats he can have which fold river anyways, we can deduce he has more Tx, becomes even better if we have Qs but meh I think as played a ssmall value bet is prob necessary. We will value cut ourselves occasionally vs trapped Kx/flushes but a good value betting strategy involves value cutting yourself sometimes.

(Just my thoughts hopefully that helps and it's not too hard to read haha)


In regards to sleeping etc: Have you ever tried going to a sleep study? It sort of sucks but they hook you up to all of these monitors and you sleep there for a night. They monitor your breathing/heart rate/brain wave activity etc. They can tell if there are any irregularities in your sleep.

Seems like your sleep schedule is pretty whack in general lol. Not sure how normal those hours are for the body and maybe that's why you feel weird? That's good that you get out for walks and everything (even that is some good physical activity compared to nothing). Do you have a gym membership? Make a bet with somebody that you need to go to the gym x amount per week and that will force you to go!

BTW: Not sure where you live (I think Russia?) but try the following supplements for sleep...they should be available in pharmacies there: melatonin, zinc magnesium supplement.

Both will work wonders for sleep! GL man

Ty for subbing. I'm in mess on all fronts and I agree that implementing too many changes at once isn't brightest idea, that's why I didn't went HC on everything, just trying to improve on every side just for a liiitle step at a time. Ive read a lot about habbit-changing-concepts. Last night I did some pushups and sheit from pure anger so I ll keep doing that after sessions. I would rather take some time off from grinding and relax wherever but I'm in really bad place since I'm almost broke and all this pressure is pilling up on all fronts so I have to find solutions while walking deep in the sh*it basicly. I will probably do a full body scan sometimes in the near future and when I see the results about some sheit I'll pbb be more inclined to go with eating healthy etc...

I agree for both hands and it was a guy with a bluffy btn vs co range so my line is fine I guess, not much I can do postflop there. and for the QQ obv very mandatory 3bet. I'm trying to find why I do somewhat fancy things in deepruns lately. I had huge spew hand today on some semiFT and I'm freakin clueless why I did it.

As for the sleep study I'm not sure I have that available here (I'm from Serbia btw, it's like 5.5kkms far away but w/e, similar mentality I guess and we're Slavic). It's all good when I actually fall to sleep for the first time, but I guess watching the monitor for 10 hours+ and finishing sessions 4am-6am when sun is rising is the problem itself so I ll just try tiring myself more. Will try those suplements tho, altough I heard that melatonin works like a charm but it's very hard to go to sleep after you stop taking it and I dont want to end being addicted to it Gym is incomming in March, but then again it's very tough to schedule it in when I fall to sleep at 8am. Everything is f*king mess but if I didnt gone insane yet I don't think that will happen. Ty for great post man.


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Anyway, the spew hand. It's very bizzare imo... guy is a reg and I leveled myself into calling bcs it seemed pretty bad to play his overpairs like this since I ll fold like 90%+ of my flop calling range vs this sizing so I guessed his range is more 2overs+FD heavy. It's just silly and I'm so clueless WHY THE F I leveled myself into calling off. Seems like pretty easy fold when he commits himself like this, but I'm trying to figuere out what makes me do that QQ flat and this calldown.



Session still alive, new big50 semift on .es ( had same last night ), hopefully will get some rungood since I'm sitting on 20bbs. Cheers boiz

I took day off Saturday and will be taking day off today. Have a funny story about what messed my sleep schedule right when I thought everything will be set back to normal.

So Ive played session on Friday and was pretty tired so I stopped registering around 22pm and bricked everything around 00:30, and altough I was again unhappy with bricking I was happy since after looong time I felt like I could have long night sleep. Did some pushups and practice and WimHof, took a shower and went to bed. Think I fall to sleep around 1:30 or smt, however, my phone went crazy around 3 - drunk exGF dropped like 30 sms messages in a row, it just went dingdingdingdingding, and as long I wanted to ignore it I also had to go to the toillete so I went and was officially waken up after 1 hour of sleeping. Was mad AF on her for messing with my sleep and altough I really don't want to have anything with her Ive told her to come so I could channel that ICANTSLEEP rage in the right direction. We did what was suppose to happen and obv I couldn't sleep after it, ended up bingewatching 1.5 seasons of The Wire for the 5th time while she was sleeping. And that show is for real every time, really the best show ever, it's not even close...

Had a plan to hold up to Saturday evening and drop my head around 20-21h but couldn't handle it and passed out around 16pm. Woke up at 4am (5 hours ago) and realised that I've missed going out with a friend that came back from Peruvian prison after 3.5 years ( he did some dumb sheit way back, he went there without informing any of the friends/family and one day I woke up and saw it in news ). I mean on Thusrday we had chat on viber and I reserved some cool spots in good club for Friday and completly forgot on it while my phone was off whole day. Classic WP day...

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Anyway, pokerwise I was/am productive today, did some reviewing and decided to change a little bit my learning habbits. I was thinking about what I was doing good while I was printing money on SS and realised that I changed way of learning. Nowadays it just comes down to looking the stats for different stacksizes, some marked hands and I've realised that I didnt do (sorry for grammar im sure tenses here are way off but idgaf ) proper deeprun review in months. That's where I should be looking for bigger edges and missed spots and exploits and I simply didn't watch even 1 of my deepruns this year for sure, so I looked some of the last week ones and found a couple of missed spots in almost everyone. So I found those missed spots and then runned a filter about it trough last couple of months and it's obv okay but I think this is the best way to go since stats wont show how loose am I calling turn in 3bet hands etc. I also plan to do this type of reviewing of multiple tournaments and share some spots that I found interesting/tough here.




So I find AJo pretty tough hand in this spot. Villain is an regular that looks solid but I dont have much of a sample, 3b 10 overall on 200 hands. I did this spot zillion times in HRC vs different 3b ranges and only certain thing is that AJo really plays bad as 4b shove here as it stands really bad vs villains calling range ( AQ+ 88/99+ ). Better hand to 4b shove is JTs for example. As I dont own crev or pio I guess we gotta call it? Folding looks very weak. I would like some to hear some insights on this spot, how to approach it etc since I think I'm struggling a little bit with 30 35bb 3b spots oop. I mean I know what are good 4b shoves vs what position etc but I'm uncertain about proper calling frequencies.

I've also noted couple of looser opens and looser BB defends. I dont mind defending looser vs weak players but I think I'm calling way too wide with 15 20 bbs from BB so I ll focus more on those spots and find some new 3b shoves there. Im defending way too much vs early opens for sure.

Also, while I was thinking about what changed when my results became worse, it's approach to the spot in terms of I that I was very exploatative biased back then and when I worked my ass off on getting better overall game as I was striving to the midstakes my numbers on my regular games dropped - most likely because of it. I need to put up more fighting for pots. More bluffing, less equity realisation in deepruns. Just put the fire on em and watch em burn. I am not gonna accept failure here really, I had tools for making money and somewhere down the road I lost em but I wont accept that. Problem with this format is that there isn't a coach that can tell me YOU NEED TO DO THAT THERE, it's just too many little things and little spots that can do dramatic sheit to our winrate.

I'll keep reviewing my game after sessions and will do deeprun reviews 1-2 times a week. Back in the day I was also handling few microstakes MTT newcommers and did coachings with em and that's what kept my game sharp. Today I dont do any of that and I'll try to put up some crew to do these reviews somewhat regulary. Way I was working on my game in the last couple of months was very ineffective. Screeeew running bad, that's no excuse. I know way too many people that also made solid money for some time and got into this sheit that I'm in atm.

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Also, last couple of days I'm thinking really hard about going to college. I was studying programming after I finished highschool and was pretty solid but after less than a year I figuered that I dont wanna be doing programming ( sitting 10h in front of the PC, OH IRONY ) for living my whole life and dropped. I was pretty close to signing in agriculture 2y ago but then came biggest downswing of my life ( eeeeh, it was just 3 or 4k back then ) and after that I completly lost that out of my mind. Point is that altough I'll turn 27 in June I feel that right now I'm mature enough to do it, and I like plants (not only weed) and agriculture at all. We have solid education here in Serbia and it's really not so expensive, like I spent 5y study cost last year on going out So I guess I might be taking shot this summer/autumn, but gotta handle this poker sheit (make some money) first. I wanted to type this here so it becomes real.

Have this education tho:


ty belthazor, i finally managed to share youtube link

Isn't AJo a better 4bet bluff shove than JTs? With AJo you block 14 combinations of his 4bet calling range (AK, AQ, AA and JJ) and you block 4 combinations of his 3bet bluffing range (A5s-A2s). In comparison with JTs you block only 6 combinations of his 4bet calling range (JJ,TT) and you block maybe some of his 3 bet bluffs like (J8s-J7s, T7s-T6s at 50 % frequency or something). Seems like AJo is a better 4 bet bluff and it benefits from having a higher 4 bet all-in equity vs hands like KK, QQ and JJ in comparison to JTs.

Or is my reasoning wrong somewhere?

Raw equity vs calling range/fold equity > blockers a lot. Blockers are not so important in this particular spot imo

So I've put it in the HRC just to check myself. I think this is pretty much reasonable 3bet range from villain where he 3b calls off 99+ AQo, i have weighted some of the A2-A5s and ATo KQo etc, added few suited 2gappers for bluffs... it looks reasonable 3b range to me and you can see how AJo/ATo works as 4b shove:



So i'm thinking that when I flat I still keep those bluffy hands that I dominate in like KJo/(QJo mb) etc so I guess flatting is the way to go.

I didn't made 1000, but that's because Stars is out of the schedule as I really don't see much benefits in playing biggest fields on world while I have possibility to play on softer networks and Stars was about 40% of my volume. Also my table count never goes more than 12 now, and I'm feeling most comfortable with 10 so I'll keep on like this in March.

Had some turnarounds in terms of how I approach learning and had a lot of struggles to keep focused and play good. Last couple sessions I think I found myself again but I'm still making some small mistakes due to not being focused enough and this is unacceptable. I had too many semifinals this month and couldn't make them FTs but w/e. Friend that plays sngs watched me one session and told me that I somewhat struggle with <20bb stacks which is mostly mental game leak since I know what should be done but Im not doing it. Like this one:



11 left on big20, we're 10/11. SB is reg from Austria but he gotta push here 65%+ for this to be profitable but I'm not so sure he's shoving that much with some of the limping going on etc. Also I was sure I had 12bbs in which case this might not be such a punt but with ICM and stuff I surely can wait for better spot than this one. Was carddead for 3 orbits and this was my only table so I was like fk it let's see what happens / HE HAS 67s type of thinking which is also totally unnaceptable for someone who is trying to play poker for living. I dont think this is a call on semiFT, it might be kind of call earlier but not on semi.

I also have to stop barreling vs fishes for bluff, punted more than few solid 30-40bbs stacks this way and I really hate when it happens. It's just dumb, pop is just calling down to wide and I should just vbet thinner and that's it. Altough wmx has really ugly structures with bb12k/16/20/25/30 etc and I should try to get most chips nonSD, PUNTING IS HURTING ME

I was doing reviewing stuff in hm2 and found out some things. Last month in which I was happy with my play was October, when I look how higher blind levels look like redline is the key. I was opening btn/sb a lot more and steal successes were huge, like RFI btn 70 steal success 42 etc, even bigger success from sb. Most of the ppl on wmx/.es in deeps are recs and are overfolding and Ive stopped exploiting that from most obvious places to do so. Altough some of this is related to how I run in terms of who are the blinds and what boards are comming out, such big devations in stats from my -good- months versus my -bad- months shouldn't be happening.


As far as health goes, most of the time I did what I said but also failed on a few days, let's say 5-6 days I went on berserk with eating. Excersised about 15 times, some mixture of cardio with abs/pushups/plank and solid streching after, definetly a progress but I'm still not satisfied. I'm 187cm with 106kgs last time I checked and altough I dont look fat because of the height and 'how I look' isn't a thing at all for me I just want to get myself to decent shape healthwise. It is a MUST. Order pizza twice and some other sheit couple of times but mostly because there are days when I forget/dont have time (what a lie) to buy groceries and I gotta eat obv, 2 of them being around 3am I ll really try to not do it even once in March. Oatmeals+x different fruits blendered started being a thing in February, I'm eating(drinking?) this once per day so that's a big improvement. Will try to mix it up more.

Not smoking while playing became kind of the issue since temperatures are -10 celsius but I'm keeping it in normal limits. I've smoked least weed ever this month so that's cool...

Conclusion: I'm still struggling with everything but improvement from January to February is real deal, and as long as I improve even a little bit from previous day/month I think I'm on the right track. Also think that I'll be playing a lot better in March since I found a lot of parts of my game that needs improvement. I won't cry about running bad while in fact I'm playing bad.

I made Platinum status on wmx for the first month ever (I'm playing there for 2+ years).

March goals:

- 600 tournaments. 4 sessions x 35-45 per week on wmx/es only. Table count up to 12 and buyins up to 50.

I will not register any 100s+ since I feel that I can't put the A game in the deepruns in them mostly because I'm unused to the prizes and because I simply dont play em regulary. Last 12 months on around 400 of em I'm down ~13k and altough it could went the other way such big difference between buyins is hurting my bottomline since I would be up 13k from simply not playing them I know that's not the way to look at poker but it's just they ate 10-15% from my ROI on such bizzare small sample.

- Keep up like last month in terms of everything related to the life habbits and find a mating partner for this sexy fella:



VAMOO MARCH!

def letting go that q7s, there's no chance he's shovign correct with 11 left imo at this stack depth I think a lot of people start limping their bottom shoves

I also think it's very wise if you feel insecure to cut back on tables and volume, and first try to get that back on track so imo that's the right approach you are taking. best of luck bud

Solid start of the month, felt some heat on Winamax finally.

So happy you're finally back on track

Soon enough :

Ayyy the elusive winamax heat, gg

Eyyyyy gl broski

Chi chiiiing!!

Vamoleoooooo!!!

MTTs on Sundays - place where this type of sessions can end in minus.

Ah, I was too tired last night to write anything. It was classic sunday session where I sunrun the stacks and then slowly in deepruns lose every hand that matters. I guess -200$ is always good result on Sunday but damn how frustrating is to fire up 40 tournaments, go deep in 1k+ fields on 7 of them and dont see an semiFT while playing best you played in months.

In the other news, I'm really happy with adjustments I made to my game, obv I'm running a lil bit better but when I manage to keep steady redline during whole session I know I am focused as best as I can be. Sessions in Jan/Feb were like steady redline for the first couple of hours and then it goes down together with my concentration. I'm really not believer in MTTSS cEV graphs due to spazziness of pop but nonSD winnings are very important.

I did an small review with a friend of his play and that made me remember how much I like this game and talking concepts and strategy and what not. Havent been doing that in ages and I'll try to reestablish some strat talk, if there is anyone playing ss/ms mtts willing to do so can hmu so we can schedule some deeprun reviews or whatever, nothing bad can come out of that. It's incredbile how sharper I feel on tables whenever I start doing more work in the lab, I won't accept that's due to running better than usual.

Today is day off, I'll be playing 2k18/PES and smoking weed whole day and I'm pretty happy about it ( i know... ) since my social activities almost do not exist at this point. In the last month I've lost more time on thinking about wtf to do with my sleep routines than I was taking time with my friends. And obv 8h+ of poker per day and 3 more that I take unconsciously 'thinking' about it. I mean I got drunk twice in 2018, that's the least times being drunk in that timespan since i was 16 y/o. I've put so much time in poker in last 6 months+ and it didn't turn out great for now, friends are forgetting about me occasionally after 5pm because of ''He plays poker for sure'' and most of the time they are right so I def need to work on social life on days that I don't play.


One of the favourite first tracks in the morning :

funfact:

70% new poker nicknames are crypto related

Hollaaaaa

I've finally won a decent Sunday tournament :



So month is rolling solid for now, I think I've played good for most part, had 1 session in which I played bad and with low focus and I couldnt do much about it but overall it's good.

However I'm eating like a pig and not exercising at all, taking day off today so I ll try to make instant improvements in those areas.

Not sure why but I don't have desire to put out some bigger update at the moment, possibly because not much have changed except running a lil bit better but I wouldn't know what to say about that either. Cheers, will post soon

Mans hot

i ll just drop few pics







Epic month, +17k. For now. I've just cleaned my makeup after very loooong time. I'm still pretty much thrilled about going finally trough such a huge field. Took a deal 4 way with weaker players, maybe I've left some EV on the table, but chip chop lead as CL I can live with.

In the last 6 months or so I was grinding like a maniac 5 days per week 8h+ and I was thinking about poker 70% of the concious time spent and railing people and just living this poker b.u.l.l.s.h.i.t and altough I'm playing very solid imo I feel entitled to getting pocket aces 132 times with serious action in front.

I recognize that I'm euphoric and sheit but it just feels soo g00t. I'll update properly sometime in the future.

Boom chakalaka!!!

Good job man! Glad to see u clearing that MU and some more!

Stay focused and now its a good time to set some goals/guideliness as to what u wanna be doing imo.

Ofc u are euphoric but give urself a break man, a very solid month should make u at least feel good and smile a bit more than usual. Its all about that sweet struggle isnt it?

If you dont overdo it, its all fine imo.

James Obst said and i also read it in Walmart's new thread (credits there), "try NOT to ride the highs and lows VERY hard. Try to remain immune to the emotions" or sth along those lines. I think thats a very solid advice for any poker player and still for anyone with a non-gtd montlhy income (sales etc).

Rest, have fun, reward yourself a bit and come back fresh n ready to crush again!

Cheers amigo!