Yeah, these sessions are a part of the game. Tough run.

Sigh folding KK in H1 :/

y betting the flop and turn on the kk hand?

is that a spot where you check in a MW pot OOP on 655tt, what do solvers prefer here monker/snowie lol

4 ways to the flop 1 of those being the bb who came along, betting any overpair here is bad, unlikely im giving anymore then 1 street of action here. maybe check calling flop, possibly check calling river if turn goes check/check.

Yup, 100% agree on this. Actually, most of the hands in the latest post, I did not really like. The 63s UTG should not be considered, but granted, live being so exploitative and all, I will sway away from my normal PR GTO opening range given certain dynamics/metagame/reads and if you are going to do something as exploitative, you definitely want to show it. So that one is fine, I guess...

QQ < AA seems extremely standard, especially with his tendency to 3bet (or was it 4bet?) overshove. Lucky on the JJ < 99 that you did not reload

Anyhow, am enjoying your thread bro, and all the best in your studies/poker grind

I definitely appreciate the input guys. No matter how long I have been playing poker, there will always be tough spots that come up. Naturally, I only post interesting hands and not super standard ones. Considering I came from an online background, it is definitely interesting and still relatively new playing live where people are so unbalanced and the need for balance depends on the table. For the most part, I’m just playing exploitatively and vs particular regs I’ll play more balanced.

As crazy as this sounds, my imagine is loose and very aggressive but the hands I have the toughest time playing are the premiums. Maybe it’s because you do not usually play that many of them throughout a sesh, but it’s strange because me having the goods should be a gold mine with my image. Overall, I am playing well for the most part though.

What a crazy past few days it has been. Essentially ran deep in a PG tournament and played extremely well but also got very lucky (it’s a tournament you have to in order to go deep) ended up final tabling and cashing for a solid profit. After that, I went to casino today to play and it went horribly ended up dropping 2k before deciding to call it quits. I played truly horrible no doubt about it, but also had lots of doomswitch turns. I’d say 70% play bad 30% run bad, 100% lose money. Anyways I left after only a few hours and went home relaxed a little bit. It wasn’t too long that I became restless and decided to drive to PG and play 2/5. I played super tight and straightforward for the entire sesh. Although, eventually I made a move and the original raiser didn’t believe me even though it was super credible and we got it in and I lost. Fwiw it went super loose guy opened to 30 over a limp, decent player calls, fish calls, I make it 160 in BB with KQo ( had not made a move entire night, was playing tight and solid) and I had another 280 behind, original raiser basically shoved on me after a minute of deliberation and I called off he hadn’t AJs and made a flush. I reload and continue to play straightforward and eventually table breaks I move to another one play solid build it up a bit before losing a 1600 pot flush over flush on turn. So it was honestly my worst day in Poker to date - -3.3k. Pretty terrible but that’s the way she goes. Still up on the month, but it definitely hurts. Have a lot of room for improvement and discipline to work on no doubt. Just need to take a little break and regroup before jumping back into things.

you will finish the month strong
why not a come back on online husng, i miss your update about it.
GL anyway

Show me the math's please lol like how do u know if it's actually +EV or not to bet there

Yeah OP is a maniac lmao, lol sorry OP

KQo is def not a squeeze in that spot in a 9-handed full-ring game way too loose, calling is +EV tho closing the action in bb. Id just be more value heavy in that spot in general given stacks anyways having only 280 behind

you could put it in to pio i sure and get your answer but here being someone who isnt even a math nerd can just use simple logic to see why we check here. you are unlikely to get more then 1 street of action from hands that you beat, this isnt a pot building board. by checking you open yourself to get value from tons more bluffs, and also lose the minimum to hands that beat you. the goal in every hand in poker is to lose the min when your beat and win the max when you have the best.

not that long ago cbets were around 70% frquency, then they fell to 60ish% now myself and many other are at 50% or lower. opting to instead play many hands out to the river an going for more value in later streets with more equity.

was playing 7 handed at that point and loose

Even 6-max KQo is still a call in that same spot never a squeeze unless villain's are nitty and folding a lot.

Would rather squeeze T8s/97s if ur gonna do it there as a bluff instead of KQo good play ability postflop and we can bluff them off some KQ-KT/QJ-QTs type hands.

I disagree because of the blockers that KQo has that 108s/97s does not, and there's only one pot sized bet left if they call essentially.

After coming off a terrible Friday where I played at both Casino and PG and managed to have my worst day ever, dropping 3.3k, I took Saturday off from poker to hang out, take it easy and watch UFC 220 with friends. After some reflection, the bright side is that I went through that terrible sesh, so when it happens again, I'll be better able to deal with it.

Anyways, moving on, I have been playing online a bit again. It has not been going to well as I have mostly been playing vs stubborn break-even regs who have ego issues. I still have to make a separate post about my take on that lol. It is good for getting back into the rhythm and sharpening my skills again. Apart from that, my PT4 has been on the fritz and sometimes when I try to open it, I get the disconnect or lack of connection issue. It's very frustrating and restarting my computer/resetting internet helps sometimes, but other times it does not.

Starting tomorrow (or maybe even today), I will have to be on a serious school grind for the entire semester. Like usual, poker will take a back seat. Gotta finish strong!

Montreal Casino 1/3 350 max

Asian guy limps utg, I overlimp 86ss MP, B calls, BB calls.

Flop (13) Ax8c6c. Asian leads 5, I raise to 25, folds back to him he calls.
Turn (63) 2x. He checks, I bet 50, he calls.
River (163) 10x. He leads 105. Hero?

Are you talking about the hand where he has KK on 655cc? If so, he can get value out of 77-TT (24 combos), 67 suited (3 combos), A6 suited (3 combos), 78 suited (4 combos), plus all of the flush draws. Also, I don't see how he can expect to get people to bluff multi-way.

Played live this weekend and do not have very much to say about it. I have been working on my game and my most recent sesh I am very pleased with for the most part. I have also been playing online again and this evening I was supposed to study and get a lot of school work done, but instead I played a sesh. I was getting good action for the most part, but then some stubborn weak regs sat me as well as some fish. It was literally a doomswtich moment type of grind. All of a sudden started running terribly, mostly playing 60s too. I'm talking making second nut straights and them having absolute nuts in strangest spots etc. Never experienced a stretch like this one before. This was beyond the standard dealings. Anyways, resulted in me having my worst day of hypers ever actually. Not much I can do about it. After the sesh, I ended up having to study and do a quiz, which was fantastic...Have a lot of catching up to do on school work :/.

With that said, in February, I plan on grinding out life in general. Final stretch of university undergrad, new and exciting poker endeavors, along with managing my crypto/investments. Looking into buying a gold bullion coin as an investment/cheeky fun once I hit 10k live profit as well! I know that I said that I would come up with new goals for 2018, but for now I am just rolling with the punches and trying to progress everyday. Gotta enjoy and trust the process!

Best,

Elliott

Nice job on the month, Elliot. Glad to see you're investing your $$$ as well. Love reading about peoples crypto strat these days

Thanks man! Most of my strat is just buy and hold and endure the swings haha

Played a lot of poker recently, live and online. Today I am straight up enjoying the biggest sporting event of the year. Rooting for my patriots to take it down baby!

Had a really great time watching super bowl with friends, got pretty wasted too haha. Terrible result though , didn't even turn my TV on the next day. It is what it is though...

I have been playing a lot of poker lately and feel very comfortable with my game. It has been relatively swingy though. I'll give some examples of the last few seshs.

Friday played 2/5 was in the game for 1300 I believe and was on my last 350 (could have reloaded) but was gonna call it a sesh if I lost it. End up flipping and winning it. Proceed to run that 350 up to 4.2k for rest of the night to book a solid win.

Biggest pot went something like, lag reg opens 20 utg (off 1k stack), gets 3 calls, I make it 160 from BB with QQ (I cover table), only initial raiser calls.

Flop (382) 666. I cbet 220, he calls.
Turn (820) Jx. Pretty terrible card, I decide to check and he checks back.
River (820) Qx. Take 45 seconds and shove he snap calls with JJ gg.

Saturday played 2/5, game was pretty bad and couldn't get anything going so lost maybe 400 before jumping in the 5/5 game, which had auto straddle so was actually 5/5/10 1k max. End up in that game for 2.6k due to some sht situation and a bluff gone wrong vs bottom of villains range lol. Grind it out and end up cashing out for a decent profit in that game and profit on the night as a whole so major rostucko.

Monday played 2/5, did not think the action would be too great but ended up being good but ran badly before calling it quits. My image is very loose and people basically never think I have it.

First hand of note, girl opens 20 utg, I'm next to act make it 65 with QQ, tilted young player who just lost a big pot vs the girl makes it 175 from CO, I shove 515 he ends up calling with A4s and wants to run it once binks 2 aces on the board.

Next orbit, straddled pot, gets 3 calls I make it 75 with AQo from B, folds back to last caller who is the girl and she calls.
Flop (197) A92dd. She checks, I bet 65, she check-raises to 210, we get it in she has KJdd, we run it three times she literally drills the diamond every run out.

Not much else happened, just bled off chips raising and completely bricking boards and having to give up. Lost 1200 I believe.

Need to buckle down and get on top of my school grind! Also been watching Peaky Blinders on Netflix, solid series!

Like usual I’ve basically been grinding school and playing some poker when I can. I’ll post some hands from my latest live seshs.

These first ones were from 2/5 on Thursday I believe.

First hand utg limps, I overlimp A4hh from CO, SB limps, BB nitty reg makes it 35, utg calls, I call, SB folds.

Flop (102) A64sss. BB bets 50, utg folds, action folds to me. Hero? We are 500 effective.

Table change

Get AA in BB, utg opens 25, Asian woman punter flats next to act, folds to me I make it 95 from BB, they both call.
Flop (292) 1032r. I check, utg opener bets 125, Asian fish calls, I check jam and get called and scoop.

These next hands were from 2/5 last night (Friday).

First hand folds to me in MP open 20 KJo get one caller then maniac Asian makes it 65, BB flats, I let it go, other caller calls they go three ways.
Flop J76cc checks to Asian he bets 150, others fold

Very next hand open AJhh utg+2, get three callers.
Flop (82) A92ss. One check to me I bet 45, next to act folds, older man on B flats. We go to turn heads up.
Turn (172) Qs. I check, he snap bets 100 of his 220 stack. I just fold.

Utg limps, MP old guy from AJhh hand limps, I make it 25 from BB with KQo, they both call. Three ways to flop.
Flop (77) 875r. I check, it checks through.
Turn (77) Kx. I lead 40. First limper folds, old man calls.
River (152) 2x. I bet 90, he snaps off with 72cc.

Few hands later it limps around 3 ways I overlimp A5o on B we go to flop 5 ways.
Flop (25) 554dd. Checks to aggro Asian fish who bets 20, I flat, SB flats also.
Turn (85) 6x. SB checks, Asian bets 25 I raise to 75, SB flats, Asian flats (very draw heavy range).
River (310) Ax. SB leads 125, Asian folds, I shove for SB last 200-250 and he tank calls with K5s I scoop.

Folds to me I open[__] from CO, B abc calls, SB semi thinking serious guy who is capable of bluffing makes it 45. Were 1.2k effective and I think about 4betting to 155 but I flat, B flats too. Three ways to flop.
Flop (140) J84hh. He bets 50, I call in position, B folds.
Turn (240) Kh. He bets 75, I raise to 180, he basically snap calls.
River (600) 3x. He checks, I take 30 seconds and bet 500. He tanks for 4 minutes and then he...folds. I show...


Lastly a lolz hand from 5/5/10 I jumped into after 2/5.
Game was playing passively for a while so lot of limped pots and check downs, no one rly getting out of line and I’m new to the table.

Limps 4 ways for 10 to me in BB with 32o I complete, and straddle checks. See the flop 6 ways.
Flop (60) 10s2s2d. I check, checks to first limper of 10 who bets 25, I flat, and another guy flats.
Turn (135) 7x. I check, other player checks, first limper now bets 25 again and I make it 75, folds to limper who calls.
River (285) Ax. I bet 125. He tanks for literally two and a half minutes then flips over 10d and thinks a little longer. He then says do you have a boat? And makes it 300. Super bizarre but I basically eliminate 1010 from his range given he limped utg, I then consider 102s but he has 10d and 2d on the board so I obvs just call and he mucks lmao

That never happens to me with 32o...

A4 - call,

AA I’d go slightly bigger pre, 110. But still fine imo.

A5 hand raise or fold pre.

you show Ah if bluffing, flush if for value.

32 - lol

Anything not mentioned = standard, wp