God bless this thread. This might be the most entertainment I've had this year.

This is either the most elaborate troll of 2018 or the best cautionary tale for would-be young pros.

The minimum wage in AU is 6BB/hr. Has OP posted a 6BB/hr+ profit so far for this year? If not, it's probably time to sit down and re-evaluate your life.

6,

It’s not bad that you’re using pio. But your time would be way, way better spent working on getting better at basic fundamentals of poker.

Some next lvl spew lol. Imagine 4betting A2 and shoving that flop and getting called by AQ high that blocks the fd

Dear goodness.

Oh really, it's almost as if bluffing too much or even bluffing at normal frequencies is not optimal against most players.

By the way what did you have? Can't have been pretty.

6,

Serious poker questions here.

Hand 1: what range did you put him on when he called the re-raise preflop?

Hand 2: what range did you put him on after his flop 3-bet?

Hand 3: what did you think was interesting/notable about that hand?

Dude.... come on... first of all a2s is a fold utg in zone.. you open utg.... and get 3bet by a player that can easily complete and see a flop for cheap when hes oop. This screams an extremely strong range. Villian is saying, my hand is better than your UTG range. You should only continue after his 3 bet with AK ,JJ + (the hands you should actually be opening utg). The 4 bet is complete spew (although it is better than flatting.....BUT JUST FOLD PRE). Once your 4 bet gets called he is extremely big pair heavy so the jam is just retarted, hes never folding after he calls your 4 bet.
Hand 2. If you would have played this straight forward and bet the flop you would have lost a lot less.
These 2 hands, especially 1, show HUGE leaks. I've been following this thread a long time and I actually want you to succeed, but dude you gottttta stop spewing

In hand 2 when villian 3 bets the flop what range are you putting him on?? Did you think you were ahead on the turn ??? I am so confused by the way you played this hand. It's almost like your giving zero thought you what villian might have


I play ALOT of zone. Started at 5nl > 25nl > 50nl with a 40 bi BR. His flop 3 bet is so nutted. Tbh I expected to see a set there, results aside if I did decide to check-raise flop, I am SNAP folding his 3 bet, even with an overpair. Population is not 3 betting single pair hands with enough frequency to make this a profitable call.

- see OP says he has 15bb/100 live

- see OP post hand histories from 25 zone

- BOOKS FLIGHT TO LA FAST

Those are not caricatures. That's how people play there.

I wouldn't say the midwest games necessarily play the same as LATB. I'd argue the games are even better than LATB because many of the opponents are weak passives that only take aggressive lines when they have it. There are soft games throughout the midwest although they've potentially gotten a lil tougher in recent years.

Cool. As long as pio tells him he can bet 3 times pot with top pair and get value from worse then it should work great.

How it OP going to know villains' ranges? He needs to put in volume before he can figure out players' actual ranges.

******ed *

Thanks dude. I didnt know how I was going to make it through the day without someone grammar checking me.

it's just ironic coz u spelt ******ed wrong XD

Yeah if you're going to call something ******ed you should really make sure you spell it correctly.

Morans

Agreed the spelling error wasn't my brightest moment. Smaller error than the ones made in the ops hands though.

I'm cheering for you my man, don't listen to those saying you can't make it. Most people know what is poker and consider it as gambling and peoples thinks they're right but it's a game where even tho you get downswings you will make it eventually, always think that Daniel Negreanu had to travel 3 times to last vegas each time losing his whole 3K bankroll. Look where he's at now!

Just wait until you read past page 2.

Playing from 11 and leaving at 12 isn’t being disciplined. Being disciplined would be realizing that playing a one hour session is a bad idea as it’s likely to cause you to play bad.

The whole point of you not playing past midnight is so that you structure your day so you’re playing from like 4-12am. It just seemed like you wanted to get some gamble on. You’re not treating this like a job at all, you should set up a weekly roster and at least try to loosely stick to it to make sure you’re getting the volume in that you need to succeed. IMO that’s 40 hours every single week.

Again, I suggest you should take on the prop bet with someone if you want to have any chance of having long term consistent volume in the next few months. If not, there’s a 0 chance you’re going to put the volume in.

Yeah, games in LA don't play like that show.

It was a spelling error not a grammatical error.

They play that way when you aren't sitting with 7 british nits and one annoyed rec looking for a table change (which is like half the 5/10 at commerce)

There's a new crop of Russian players starting to infest the games now. Es no bueno.

OP, you have pio, now go get upswing. Expose more of your loan. Specifically, get the HU course to learn to more effectively punt in HU pots, as you seem to like those / doing that.

Then get some bencb coaching to beat 2/5

OP confirmed GOAT

meh, as long they aren't nits I'm cool with them. It's the guys who vpip <10% that kill the games