I'm confused at the 4bet with KTs too... I trust that you have a very good reason for it though, so I'm going to attempt to understand what that reason is:

My theory is that you think the CO is 3betting you lighter than he should be. There should be a lot of marginal hands in his 3betting range anyway (like JTs, KJs, ATs, T9s, A5s, etc.), but you suspect, due to a sizing tell, that his 3betting range is even wider than that, and might include hands as light as 76s, A6s, 97s, 44, etc.

So you're actually 4betting for value here; not as a bluff. You know that there are plenty of hands in his range that are worse than KTs, and you feel confident enough that you will have the best hand most of the time on Txx and Kxx flops, despite the fact that it's a 4bet pot.

Is my theory correct?

The 3ber was IP ...

GET SOME THICKER GLASSES MIRAGE.

haha this actually made me laugh

sure, thanks, but Id rather you spent your time elsewhere, helping other regs improve



yeah man lots of them thanks and see you at the tables!

Thats definitely not something I was thinking during the hand, but hey, Im just clicking buttons (I really am)

I think mirage prefer to stick with his 4-bet strat that's super gto for the games he plays

that is only true when you are in position as the 4bettor, if you're oop you are mixing, yes I do know more than doug polk about pre flop 6max, a good bit more actually, if I did not I would be in trouble

I'm learning, but can I have more details on those really REALLY small cbet i saw in your hand histories? PM is fine

GL

So another thing I've noticed that feels counterintuitive to me: when you're on BTN, you open to $5.12 (2.6bbs), but when you're UTG, you open to $4.22 (2.1bbs).

I would've thought that we would raise bigger from EP and smaller from LP.

Again, I'm sure you have a very good reason for what you do. I'm not criticising your play at all. I'm simply just trying to understand it.

can I open one thread in pgc without seeing mirage spreading his nittery like the plague?

Nice 200z graph, gl

1. When you are in position you want pot to be larger because position gives you extra share of ev in the pot.

2. In tough online environments people play 3bet/fold from most positions so opening smaller you lose less because calling 3bets oop is bad. Also Lets say u open 2x 3bettor has to make it 3.5-4x instead of 2.8-3.2x to decrease your implieds. Since he is now risking 8 to win 3.5 his 3bt bluffs are lower ev than when risking 9 to win 4.5. His value 3bets also dont decrease the spr as much tho this is fairly insignificant because he has position

3. New meta online people defend correctly vs minraise 2.2x etc and might overdefend by calling vs 3betting vs larger sizing so u gain more from playing a bigger pot on the button.

this just my opinion could be better reasons as well.

Actually makes a lot of sense. I was looking at pokersnowie preflop advice and it seems to use a similar opening strategy, and I coudn´t understand exactly why. Thank you sir.

Yeah really, really good post thanks.

Can’t we have one thread where Mirage isn’t embarrassing himself/attention seeking?
Genuinely is played out and ban worthy by now no?

Im sure barbaar takes your education to his hart.
You are very worng. Also who you think you are? Br 3300?
U suck and i puke when i see you talking down to someone like barbaar.
He is one of few regs of msnl + for decade!
Stfu u stupid brainless gringo

fingers crossed

thanks boss, hope we will battle in 500z streets one day

this is spot on, thanks!

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Woke up with a hangover, so decided to take a day off. I dont feel theres a need to force volume when Im not at my mental best (or close to at least).

Gonna study quite a bit instead, been reading "Deep work" (doubt you read this topic meale, but thanks for recommending it anyway) since I woke up, next Im gonna work on optimizing studying with PIO. Back to the tables tomorrow.

Subbed. Nice results and gl!

ty

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Annoying session. Thought I played pretty well, was fairly focused. The only issue I had was making few rushed decisions for no reason.

Still getting owned preflop, gotta work on destroying dem AAs with my KKs.


Hands:

1) vs reg


2) vs reg


3) why dont you believe me bro


4) street poker with a whale


5) fml, he looked very nitty, if only I knew...


6)


7) looks like an overbluff?


8) should have just jammed the river vs this reg



Studying going well, cant complain. Planning to do a review with a fellow 200 grinder today, we'll see how it goes.

Thank you for the explanation.

Wow this looks super GTO. I can see why villain did it: it's hard for him to have any better hands to turn into a bluff, so he picks a pair of 9s, which unblock all the non-heart broadways.

Pretty crazy that you made the hero call here and were correct. Nice work!

His bluff is definitely good, my call might not be. I just thought he's gonna be fairly unbalanced when using this sizing.

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Great day at the tables - played well, ran amazing. All coolers were going my way, kept running into bottom of people's ranges with my bluffs/thin vbets.



Not much to say, forced some unnecessary aggression in couple of spots, other than that played okayish I feel.

Hands:

1) totally destroyed by 26wtsd fish


2) vs good reg, who I think leveled himself because of previous hand we played


Other than that mostly coolers, nothing interesting.

Didnt study much yesterday, really disappointed by myself. Gonna go through couple of hands today tho, enough slacking for the week.

Caught some heat today, but not happy with how I played. Made plenty ridiculous mistakes, started talking on Skype/Discord in the end, which is a big ****up.



Hands:

1) two hands vs same guy, 5min into the session and in a span of 1min from eachother


2)


3) cool


4) vs reg


5)


6) theres something about fish destroying me with 44 bluffcatches (guy was 3tabling with 24/17 stats btw)


7) vs reg, optimistic line by him


Wont have much time to study today, which is not optimal, but cant do anything about it.
From tomorrow on I think Im gonna start updating the thread once a week, seems a bit of a stretch to do it every day.

October:



A month to forget. Didnt have much time to play because of real life stuff (and obviously being lazy) - there were probably no more than 15-16 days when I could actually grind. This resulted in not only my volume being poor, but it also took toll on the quality of my game (it seems way tougher to stay focused every day when you cant depend on your daily routine).

Either way, hopefuly everything will go back to normal in November and I can reach both volume and study goals this time.

Lost almost 4bi to this guy in less than 15min. Cool stuff:

Respect for posting such a meh month so early in thread GL man.

Are you JoseMourinho on iPoker?

Thanks
Nope, I play on stars exclusively.

In! glgl

gl in nov

Thanks a lot guys, gl and keep crushing!


Quick update on the month so far:



Impressive volume huh? Today was the first day in over a week when I was actually able to put in a proper session. As usual, after Im back from a break, I play rather poorly and have problems staying focused. As such I decided not to push volume at all (even tho its sunday) and simply quit when the quality of my game slips. Will try to gradually increase the volume on a daily basis.

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2) hmm ok sir




Today's study plan:
• review 3 hands with PIO
• read notes I took last week
• watch 1 vid