Cheers Ben! Same for you mate, here's to big 2018s all round!

What BBB said, GL in 2018!

Cheers mate, and thanks to you for being so vocal ITT over the past few months! Much appreciated. =]

+1 always an interesting read bro keep it up and gl next year!

Much appreciated bro, cheers for getting around it!

+1 Almost the only thread I enjoy reading lately. Glgl 2018. Gtfo of Brisbane

Means a lot mang. +1 to the last part too. Hard to wanna leave when these damn games are so juicy... Even if I butcher the fk outta this one...

5/5
Hero has extremely tight image
UTG opens $35, call, call, call, hero squeezes AKo in SB $165, call call call.
Flop $660: AQ9r
Hero has $335 behind, do we A) rip it or B) X with the intention of getting it in vs any bet (except for maybe bet/raise)?

Answer is OBVIOUSLY A because we're never folding whether we're behind or not and it also protects our equity which is important 4 way.

Hero, making a very obvious mistake checks thinking surely someone is going to stick it in here. Flop checks through. Turn is Jcc, and we decide NOW that we need to rip it in, short stack calls luckily with only $130 but he has turned the nuts. Basically if we jam flop we more than likely take it down. Woof.

Hilarious though how juicy this game is. Zero fold equity pre regardless of your rfi size or 3b size. :')

Always KISS.

@ohsnapz, Yup!

Daily Update - Wed 27/12

Hours Played: 7.1
Profit: $915

Overall, I feel kind of unhappy with my performance tonight. The aforementioned AK hand cost me a bit. Like it's sort of results oriented to say that maaaaybe, but I still think it's bad. When I shove that flop 4 handed, even if SPR is 0.5, I feel like we only get called by better hands - even though I know at the time, for the same reason that spr is .5 that we'll get called by worse (i.e. AJ).

There was also a couple other hands where being card dead kind of got to me and I made loose calls pre/on the flop. Generally I'm really good about staying disciplined while card dead but occasionally I'll have a session where I slip a few times throughout the night. Need to get better at staying sickeningly disciplined even though I'm so obviously being exploited in so many spots - but just need to stick to the strategy.

Tonight was the juiciest game I think I've ever played in in my life. It was a 5/5 with probably 90% of hands being opened to $30 pre, and going 4-5 way to a flop. I was like fk it, I'm opening to $40 because these guys are just going to call with close to ATC anyway. Two HUUUUGE whales absolutely felting regs for $3.5k pots etc, it was madness. It was in every way a 5/10 game effectively. This one girl would open to 30 every hand and cbet 100% and barrel 100% and amassed a $4.5k stack at one stage. I would 3bet a bunch of hands like 76s to isolate her, like she opens 30, I 3! ip to $100, she calls, and then she'll just donk $200 on the flop. Did this like 3 hands in a row and I had to fold like bottom/middle pair every time. :") Really unfortunate that I couldn't run pure tonight - could verrrrry easily have ran up a $4-5k stack with that lineup.

Here's a hand...

Folds to hero in HJ, $30 w/ AJdd, CO, BTN, SB, & BB call.
Flop $125: 227r
Hero cbets $45, only BTN (spastic whale chick) calls.
Turn $215: Ko
Hero cbets $130, call
River $475: Ao
Hero jams $200, call, MHIG.

Was praying for an ace after the turn. She said she had a "worse 2 pair" and just "had to see it". So I guess barelling the turn which is an amazingly good card for my range is just spewy af vs her? Fk knows. Anyway, that was a huge bailout, ty river of dreams.

And the hand of the day (excluding the AK I botched)...

Vs same spastic
Spazz limps UTG, hero $45 w/ KQo, call, call, spazz calls
Flop $180: K97cc
Spazz leads $90, hero calls, fold, fold
Turn $360: 2d
Spazz checks, hero bets $200, spazz calls
River $760: 7ddd
Spazz leads $400...

The A was exposed pre-flop and we hold Qd, so pretty easy call vs this chick at this stage. I definitely think we should be betting bigger on the turn, like $275 minimum vs this garl.

Anyway, we call and she shoes 89o... lol ty?

Anywhooo, that takes us to the 9-session win streak. We have a homegame tomorrow evening and then Friday night is rave night - the big one we've been looking forward to for ages. Then NYE shenanigans etc - I imagine volume will be fairly slack til 1st of Jan.

At that point I'll begin setting some more goals and doing weekly and monthly reviews again.

BTW I just saw this while looking at stats, so far December we've won $11,845 for an hourly of $96.68 over 122 hours. First official $10k month and (unless I punt it all back tomorrow...) we smashed it out easily! Over my past 9 sessions my smallest win has been $389 so I guess that definitely helps. Cool to get some end-of-year heat and it's pretty perfect timing with Melbourne trip coming up in less than a month!

Also I was just sitting there tonight feeling grateful for how ridiculously good the games are where I live currently. Like the casino itself is the absolute nut low but jesus christ man the quality of play is absurdly low. I doubt the Melbourne games will be anywhere near as good but we can only hope! It's definitely good to know if Melbourne doesn't work out there will always be a goldmine in Brisbane (along with all my friends) not going anywhere! If the rake cap was lower, I think a $50 hourly would be def attainable. I also want to get more involved in juicy 5/5 games when they run. Everything just plays quite a bit bigger which, although on average way less fish, if I can find lineups anywhere near tonight, my hourly should be a bit higher than on 2/5.

congrats on the great year meale! i have been enjoying following the thread a lot & your games sound fantastic.

AJdd flop/turn seem pretty spewy vs that lineup/villain; nice to smash the river & good river value bet once you got there
KQ hand is wp - gotta love button clickers

gl in 2018 - keep crushing m8

Thanks mate, always good to have guys like yourself ITT who I can learn from!

AJdd I agree flop is probably unnecessary - again, likely a biproduct of being so card dead. But I don't think it's a terrible cbet in any case. Turn I think after we bet flop we have a mandatory double barrel but I simply had no idea at this stage quite how wide villain would be. Still expect plenty of fold equity OTT.

You got many poker related plans for 2018 diz?

i think flop cbet/turn barrel (esp if we have a bdfd) is totally fine in certain lineups but at this table and against that villain it just seems like its torching lol.

as far as my 2018 goals: in the past my goals have mostly revolved around moving up stakes, but now that i am comfortable playing pretty much any stake that is regularly spread in my area, i probably won't set any specific goals outside of putting in a healthy amount of volume and playing my a-game as much as possible/spewing as little as possible.

the only big thing is that i will be considering moving to full-time poker in 2018 - but i am not sure yet - so we will see what happens with that lol.

10k month to end the year! What a way to close it out bro. Hold!

Yeah fair call.

Sounds good mate! Well all the best, I'd love to sweat a 10/10 PGC from you if you decide to give it a crack!

Hooooolld! :')

Daily Update - Thurs 28/12

Hours Played: 6.6
Game: 2/3
Profit: $250

Weak sauce tonight. Basically booked it early for no other reason than to preserve my current win-streak (10 sessions). Game was good and I really had no good reason to leave. But the good news is we did win some money and this equals my previous longest win-streak of 10 sessions. If we book the W on Saturday night, then I'll be quite pleased indeed!

Hands:

HJ limps, Hero raises BTN $25 w/ Q8hh, SB cold calls, heads up to flop. SB is the spot at the table, very big fish.
Flop: 836ss
Check, hero cbets $35, SB raises to $100, hero ??? Villain has $130 behind (so $230 ttl on the turn).
For some reason I absolutely could not put him on a made hand - every bone in my body was telling me he was on a draw and I usually ignore this bs intuition stuff, but I ripped it in and MHIG vs 79ss.

Next hand vs same guy:
UTG opens $10, call, hero overcalls ATss, call
Flop: 286ss
Checks to hero who bets $35, fish calls, rest fold
Turn: 2o
Hero checks, fish $80, hero calls
River: Ao
Hero checks, fish $115, hero snapcalls thinking there's no possible way we could lose this hand and we get shown 23o. :/ Definitely like the hand though.

Last hand also vs the fish,

BTN straddles $5, hero $30 w/ JJ in SB, BB calls, MP calls
Flop $95: 894cc
Hero cbets $50, BB calls, MP folds
Turn $195: 3o
Hero cbets $130, BB jams for $700 more after thinking for ~20-25 seconds, hero ???
Again, I can't really put him on a made hand - like a flush draw would surely just call again quickly? But then again my range is so uncapped it would be pretty suicide to shove like 9x or TT or something no? But then again, he is pretty terrible? What do?

Results: https://1drv.ms/x/s!AkK4doh8PHLEgk6pBpFJrgcokPKM
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It's now early Friday morning, I've been fed energy drinks and vodka/redbulls all night at this homegame so I'm probably going to stay awake til like 7am, go smash some brekky somewhere, hit the bank up, smash a nap, smash some arms at the gym, and then get on the drinks for a biiiiiiig party night. Recovery Saturday day and then back on the homegame grind on Sat night before going back at it on Sunday!

Been great to see your progress this year, gl in 2018. Rooting for you.

Thanks bud, very much appreciated. ^_^

I don't usually comment on your hands because I think you're a better live cash player than me (I'm getting better at live cash, mostly 2/5, but better at live tourneys).

For this latest session, however, I think Hand 1 didn't need intuition to read his hand, since it was pretty face up from the betting evidence, so good call.

For the third hand, I think you folded to book a win for the session, but it should be a call. He is a fish, after all, and doesn't think about your uncapped range, just his hand, and will therefore rip TT, 9x all day long in my opinion. Also, consider that he changed his action from flop to turn and why he would do that. What line calls the flop and raises the turn? Largely draws, since any 2 pair / set on the flop should always be raising. I'm especially thinking he could have 56 since it was a bad draw on the flop (hence call), but a much better draw on the turn (hence raise). I'd be amazed if he shows up with 88, 99, 89 or 44 here. He could be bad enough to have 34 or QQ, but otherwise you've got to be good, right?

h3 is one of those spots where i usually have a pretty good feel of what to do when i'm at the table but it is pretty tough to say over a forum.

i'd lean fold though

H3: you'd have to think that his draws and two pairs would check-raise flop due to wet flop, so this seems more weighted to a set given that a strong 9 or 1010 would likely be in check-call mode imo

I'll always welcome comments from anyone regarding hands so thanks for sharing! Fwiw H3 occurred first in the session and so there wasn't the motivation to book the win or anything.

If he'd had less, like 5-600 effective then I think it's a snap but at 700 deep I think calling off with JJ is generally pretty bad here. It's a bizarre line for him to take with any of his hands other than 34 tbh.

Yeah, I felt as though call was right at the time but generally try to look for any excuse not to call off so light vs fish. Weird one indeed.

Definitely don't always expect his draws to raise the flop. Some fish will just call their draws in position. Sets I agree are prob raising but maybe just call since it was 3 handed otf. It's a strange one I agree.

H3 I think this is bottom of my calling range.

Yeah, I could definitely go either way with it

Did you fold?

I did. Didn't want to but would simply feel like it'd be a huge blunder if I was up against a set or two pair. Would rather call off with KK+, I think QQ it's very tough but can lean towards calling QQ no club. Realistically though blockers shouldn't make much difference. I don't really expect many draws here. It's like two pair/set or top pair/TT/JJ/QQ.