Hi I’m Liam ‘Fitzyferret’ and I thought I’d make a poker goals and challenges thread as I need somewhere to vent how awful the regs I’m playing with are and to document how I’m going to crush souls.

I’m 23, living in Bristol, UK. I’ve been playing ‘professionally’ for 16 months now. I moved from $.5/1 in June 2015 to $1/2 in January 2016 and am now currently shot taking $5/10. I play only cash, full stacked and mainly sit and table start full ring tables as my win rate there is significantly higher than six max ones. I only play on PokerStars; I gave up on other sites as they tilt me too much.

The start of 2016 was OK for me, the first three months was me primarily playing a mixture of HU, 6M, Cap games and learning. One day near the start of April I decided to incorporate a rigid, strict poker regime where I only stick to my “games” i.e. playing only full ring and restricting the amount of tables I played so I can focus. I ended up making a desktop background which include my ‘rules’ which can be seen here:



Within the first day of enforcing these rules onto my play, my results basically skyrocketed and I’ve just been printing money since. I'm very focused and have a lot of discipline in how I play now. Here’s my results from April: I’m missing some rakeback input from the first 200k hands so I think there’s an extra $5-10k there, and I also came 2nd in a Nightly $162 for like $5k.



Here’s it in BB.



Nowadays when I play I sit every single table from 200 up to 1k, and try and get the best 6 tables prioritising higher stakes and juiciness. I like to think in depth a lot when I play so I typically cannot play any more than 6 or I time out. My biggest weakness is zoom, for some reason I just can’t beat those darn games over any sample so I’ve given up on them. I don’t use a script in my games either. I’m a perfectionist and I want to be beating my games for at least 5bbev/100 or I’m not happy. So far I’m doing a good job on my main games:

. My most recent 100k is 6ev bb/100.

So yeah, last year I said I wanted to be playing 1knl about this time, so my goal is to be playing 2knl next year and at a far stretch, maybe 1,000 hands at 5k? Who knows.

I usually keep to myself on the tables and stay quiet, usually trolling people with emoticons. I’m going to some shout outs though to some regs which deserve to be known as trash though, I will happily vent out anyone that annoys me.
1) Erfk1958 – fish reg from Canada who I will punch in real life, hopefully you’re actually 60 years old so there’s a chance you won’t get back up when I uppercut you from grimming me the millionth time
2) NutsRandom – LOL HOW ARE YOU NOT BROKE
3) KT90 and KovlFish89 – Both of you, seriously do you let a hamster roll across your keyboard when you play?


Feel free to ask questions, I will try and post here whenever I can, with some lol hands, more reg outing and updates on how I am doing.

What stats do you play at nitring? Nice winrate btw.

Subbed, gl

I will follow I'm a fullring player too. **** zoom cant beat it either .

6 tables of full ring max? Man, i thought i played slow! How many hours does it take you to hit 50k hands with that cap? GL bra, i guess we'll be seeing a lot of each other.

When I say 6 tables, I mean full ones and I exclude the ones where I'm fighting for lobbies / playing HU with a fish etc. so it's more like 7-8ish. Urrr, if I average 400h/hour then that works out to be about 32 hours a week?

I spend about 8 hours studying / reviewing a week to so I've got someting like a 40hour week overall

my man, I one day aspire to enter you're wall of trash.

Full Ring thread

Subbed gl!

Here I meant TheNutsPT - I get these regs mixed up.

Thanks to all those who have subscribed, I plan on posting updates about twice a week.

I don't know what you mean by this, is this supposed to be an insult? if so 2/10 for effort.

Anyway, I decided to go full degen this Sunday and play the moment I woke up to when I started falling asleep at my desk just so I can get my quota of volume for the month.


Overall was 1 bi of EV / 1bi of net gained today. Pretty meh. I had a load of hands where I got it in pre a lot with top 2.5% hands and was often behind

Here's some interesting hands:

I wouldn't often call this hand here but opener seems like weak reg/fish and the bb was whale so ok imo





Tad on the thin side... maybe way to thin, mmm yeah actually this was most likely bad, oh well. (Vs. Reg)





Pretty pleased with how I played this one (Vs. Reg)




I'm taking tomorrow off to review a load of hands and improve my HUD. I will also run some sims and take some notes. Maybe even take two days off since I feel like I haven't studied for a while.

End of this month summary:

Next month target - play more hands since I've been slacking. Oh yeah, and never ever ever play zoom again

^^^That graph above is frickin hilarious. Reminds me of my recent days.

Keep grinding, nice winrates, wp and gg.

That last hand above made me really feel like it was unneeded to shove all in - Looks like you're basically only repping a rivered runner-runner broadway. 10q or 9qs I suppose - Looks like the only hand that villain is going to play this way on this run out is JK, looking to get value from a bare A - If that's the case, then I think you could have raised more to like $225 instead of all in for $380, though I'm not sure perhaps villain still would have called that with JK.

All in all you're risking $380 to win $120 and that seems a bit excessive because villain could definitely have a straight as well

Your thoughts?

welcome to FR. it kinda sucks

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That last hand was me just polarising to hell - I either have QT or I don't. QT was a gutter on the flop so I have a fair amount of nuts, I flat about 14ish combos out of the 16. I check-raise flop with about two of them. That leaves me with 12ish. Population rarely checks back QT on the turn, so I've got wayyyy more nuts than they do. Another reason why I did this is that in general no-one expects someone bet/betting bluffs here, like ever, which often leads them to overfold.

I think your reasoning is very solid, obvious you have the skills to back up that winrate - It would be impossible basically for villain to put you on a bluff here after they raise your river donk on that board. I agree that villain isn't showing too much strength pre river and IF your read is that villain would most likely barrel their Q10 on the turned A then that basically leaves a weak A pot controlling or JK (JK probably most likely imo because AK probably bets the turn. KK for a rivered set is of course in the combo's as well.)

Nitpicking the betsizing aside, it was a well executed bluff and villain's would have to give you credit here.

If it was their toppest range of KKK, and I was villain, I would probably have to find a fold here too. Even If I knew you were bluffy in spots like these...It's just a huge call to make. Full ring players probably are more nitty than 6 max as well.

I think he almost always has KK here, just gotta close your eyes and hit the all in button and pray

Yeah basically. You just gotta be the dude that punishes that nitty behaviour

I actually didn't have a set here. I think I must have misread the action since I thought I had way more QT on river in my range than you, when actually that's not the case, which is why I thought the bet/jam was weird. As is it's actually a kinda mandatory/standard bet/jam. Although saying that, 90% of regs only have QT in your spot so could realistically fold KK here vs population as an easy exploit. Either way Nh.

Thentspt also has an account on 2+2, the guy is just a variance machine at hu. Loves to do "stuff".

Nice work moving up. Sub

I actually only see UTG +2 and MP +1, I assume this means you are 2nd to act after whoever is first (UTG) because it's 8 handed.

Wouldn't you have to have a pretty wide opening range for full ring for more Q10's to be in your range here? I think 4 combo's of the suited Q10 is the best someone could reliably pin you on unless you're more loose in opening.

Would you ever check Axs on this turn? If not, then villain could infer that you aren't using the A as a bluffcard with Q10 (to infer you have showdown value without an A like precisely KK/QQ/JK because the A is a great card to bluff on since your range is stronger) then on the river, you are repping only JK/KK.

*edited to add* you also have a double gutter holding Q10 on the turned A, so I think OP is right to say that almost always, villain would double barrel here.

This hand just really interests me, these types of bluff spots - I have been working to bluff more effectively in my games as well and I know it's not something you can 'force' into your game, it has to be ripe for the taking imo - obvious spots that you are pretty guaranteed to work. But I'm still always afraid that villain's at 50 and 100NL are going to snap off with a set because they don't think like I do and so I'm out leveling myself.

Nice thread. Subbed. Good luck.

I've had a change of mind and decided to turn this thread more into more of a diary, with a touch more personal writings rather than 100% poker.

Spent yesterday studying for 3 hours, learnt some interesting stuff from PIO and made my HUD even more end boss than it is at the moment.

Later I went to a Halloween party dressed like a ****** wearing this outfit (see below) because I don't have any other costumes in my house and I left it too late to buy a different one

(not me lol)

Party was dead, hardly anyone there and full of the type of people I didn't like except the hosts. Ended up staying most of the evening in a corner, getting quietly drunk, having a joint or two that was being passed around and having some deep thoughts about the efficaciousness of double barreling low suited aces on turns in 3bet pots. All the while everyone around me was talking about whether Americans or the UK has better chocolate (UK obviously ffs, Hershey's taste like dog sh*t).

Woke up still a bit stoned and put in a quick session of 700 hands, made $1k. Had a string of hands where I won every pot while listening to this DENCH song : https://soundcloud.com/mefjus/mefjus-emperor-flashizm which made me buzzed.

Had to quit because my computer is lagging and tilting me. Off to the gym now and will continue crushing/playing later on.

So far done ~5k hands this month:





Slow start zzzzz. Had to take a day out though to reconfigure my playing setup. I bought a new gaming laptop which should allow me to play 7-9 tables at a time now. I could only really play 6 on my old laptop before it started lagging. I'm using my old laptop to run sims when I play poker and then consult it later on.

I really like PIO. I believe that if I keep going through about 2sims/day on average and take notes notes from the results of the sims then eventually I will slowly get a better grasp of avoiding exploitable play. This should help me in the future when I progress throughout higher stakes. I want to be climbing up even higher stakes/be the best so I suppose I need to slowly grind this lab work out... It's a marathon, not a sprint!

Anyway, looking at my most recent 5k hands I've made a couple of 'speculative' plays recently, such as 5bjamming KTs and loads of suited aces based on excessive 4b stats and getting called off. I need to double check if said plays are 'correct', which CREV should help with.

Here's one interesting hand I've had so far, Vs average reg who I've got a lot of history with. Typically one not to slowplay. Going to go over this one more later, but I do feel like this is surprisingly a call more often than not




Also I'm really into my music, I plan on posting some highlight songs/mixes that I've heard which I recommend everyone to listen to, here's one for this week:

https://soundcloud.com/clashmusic/clash-dj-mix-mele

Seems like you have so many better hands you can call river with here. I'll be very surprised if this combo is a call vs your average dog**** fr reg, regardless of whether pio says it is or not. Even some of his bluffs conceivably beat us (and guys just don't bluff enough in general).

Went over the last posted hand. Obviously a loose call, but from adjusting my models it seems like a call nets anywhere between -$30 (never bluffs) to +$15 (rarely slowplays, bluffs liberally) Clearly other hands like JcTc are much better as it blocks any rivered 2p combos. From this particular villian though I'd estimate it to be just about break-even.

My sessions feel more tiresome and laborious nowadays and I don't know why. I think I spend too much time fiddling around with getting tables/sitting lobbies as I'm now playing more tables. I took a friend's advice and just installed PlaceMint to help me out. Spent a few hours setting it up to be perfect then it crashes on me and when it does crash, it quits pokerstars without any warning. I can't fix it and I've lost at least 100bbs because of this shoddy software. And to top it all off, I've lost about 200bbs from HM2 crashing and timing out on hands on Friday which made me slightly tilted and made me make more mistakes. I spent all of Saturday studying and working out why this stuff is crashing on me, I think I've fixed it but I think I've lost about $500 from all this aggravation.

I can admit with honesty I've been playing my C/B game the first few days of the month, I've not been going into these beginning sessions with the right mindset that I will crush today. I reread some of my notes and found this interesting note I took about 6 months ago:

I believe this holds true in poker and that those at the top/best players are most likely to have very little variability in their performance. something I am aspiring to embrace in my game.

Regardless, things turned around for me on Sunday when I had a better frame of mind:




... and then Monday




Here's two interesting ones I pulled out.

#1 Sometimes you just gotta pray



#2 Some regfish who thinks he has a range advantage when I know he isolates every hand when a fish limps. Punished.





Also, here's another AMAZING mix to listen to while you grind, thank me later. https://soundcloud.com/krachtmusic/km014

yo! subbed obv, best of luck bro