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Originally Posted by bra_val_fool
subbed. nice mix of live/online/girls/partys
GL
Travel:
Thank you, the kind words are much appreciated. Today is my last day in Colombia. I played a quick session and managed to bink my last 180 which is nice but I may get in a 2nd session as my flight leaves at 3am so I can't really be drinking so might as well pull an all night grind session. I am in Bogotá and it is a bit chilly here. I don't know the capital like I know Medellín but there are tons of things to see.
Poker:
Unfortunately, I did not play as much as I wanted to. I did not even perform remotely close as to what I wanted to. In fact, I ended up being a loser overall. Spending money + losing in poker just didn't lead to a happy financial outlook but fortunately, my liferoll is doing fine.
I was talking to a poker pro friend of mine and I was talking about the things of shoving BvB with 32o and how mathematically on paper 10bb deep but the thing he noted to me is that, it's about adjusting the ranges. People are adjusting and they aren't being as tight as the math or ICM says. They are adjusting to my ATC shoves and I mentioned that my Ace-rag shoves have been constantly dominated or been called by small PPs which are still bigger than my kicker.
Having a blocker is a good thing but I sometimes forget one of the most important things, position and ranges. When I am UTG with A2s 9bb deep, I can shove here profitably if conditions are right but what are the right conditions is what I need to look into more. What are wrong conditions? If the blinds are quite deep or the people behind me. If there are mid stacks hovering around 6BBs that I cover but still can call me with strong hands.
I re-learned the power of the short stack and min-cashing. In fact, the last few tournaments I was, I kind of decided that min-cashing would be fine as I didn't have much leverage. I min-cashed but a flip later, I saw myself competing at the final table then binking or top 3 a few times. I realized that in turbos, I have stopped playing poker and just shoving ATC when I think it's optimal and letting luck play a major part. You can't always be the bully and run over the table.
Kind of a refresher to myself about theory and application:
If this doesn't make sense to others, it's mainly because it's just to remind myself to not be so aggro. If this is completely wrong, please do correct me.
Someone was talking about Game Theory Optimal (GTO) and someone mentioned Exploitative Strategy. I don't know too much about one or the other but someone was asking about Exploitative Strategy being a strategy to mathematically beat other players such as shoving almost always in certain FT. The response was no, there's a balance to exploitative strategy as you can steal a certain amount of times when it's optimal and just pass on the opportunities that are marginal. Not really sure if I explained or understood it right but for example, if player A had 22 and knew villain shoved AK, calling would give Deuces a 53% favorite, should he call here? ChipEV talks about the bias against confrontation and ICM would require a tighter range but stack sizes can play a huge factor.
So yes it can be +EV in HU but overall for the tourney, probably not.
Bubble, ICM dilemma
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/15...a-icm-1406171/