Yeah looking that way hopefully (Y)

Yeah tbh not most pressing issue but there are better places to go for sure haha!

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Had a good lol about people thinking it was legit modafinil I snuck in haha

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Are you back playing or what?????????????

Hahaha, imagine their disappointment when they're back selling them at the afterparty

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Yeah not modafinil bud - wouldnt be concerned if not that haha

Thanks man, think its going to be ok (Y)

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Cheers for the posts guys had a good laugh reading all these!

Haven't heard anything yet but we'll see - being cautiously optimistic. No it wasn't modafinil . I got caught with about 1g of MD on the door. He found it, decided to search the rest anyway, said zero tolerance blah blah then I was basically thrown out.

95% of clubs I wouldn't really care but Fabrics been in the news loads recently, and its an absolute disaster given the fact I'm an Engineer, a profession that isn't exactly the BBC or Goldman Sacks with respect to being laissez faire about drugs. That being said I have been overly paranoid, but wanted to say ty for the good lols throughout.

Will probably be doing brains somewhere in LSQ Thursday-Saturday if I haven't switched game-type to "who dropped the soap", if anybodys around lmk!

Tbh if security just booted you out, or basically just denied you entry, then you should be all G. A security guard can't present evidence against you I don't think. Esp if it wasn't tested.

And wtf do seccies actually search your body there or some ****? Dack that **** m8.

I really need to get myself together and actually play, I literally work on Haymarket so it's all of a 2 minute walk to any of the Hippo, G or Empire. Next time there's a few people I'll make the effort.

I still think you'll be alright getting back into Fabric in a few months, just send off for a new driving licence and claim that yours was stolen. I highly doubt security are going to go and check through CCTV from previous months.

I'm sure it will be fine mate, it's hardly a 'with intent to supply' amount.

I can see "I'm all in" being used in a very different context in the near future.

Sweet, just PM me (Thursdays and Fridays usually my days). Theres a few other posters here which I mess about with at the mighty G - meet-up sounds good!

I lol'd come back and play £1/£2 again! No more limping Axs utg tho ; )


Yea, hope you smashed out that report instead of grinding £1/£2 ya big poof


Had to add paragraphs ; ) aorry for the late reply!

gl with the journey bud. I cant really stress enough

Wrt feeling lonely yes poker in itself is a rather lonely game that can eat away at your mind particularly live.

My advice is to network a bunch, whether its a rec, pro, dealer or whatever at the table. You'll not only enjoy yourself more, but you'll also play better too IMO because you'll be feeling happier and more comfortable.

With that being said, in terms of your own game and development I cant really stress enough just focusing on yourself and not requiring the motivation of others. HHs are another thing, of course its always helpful to go through them with friends etc, but your own direction is entirely down to you.

gl!

Session Review 01/04/17

Ended up having a super bad session in LSQ. I spent about half of it stuck in a -1.5k hole, which any live grinder will attest to as "pretty gay", until I reduced it to about -£500.

The £2/£5 looked awful so gave that a miss. In general, the £1/£2 games played really deep which was nice; unfortunately I was pretty tired having had a rough nights sleep on Thursday. Playing tired + sitting pretty deep is a recipe for disaster - not good.

Positives:

-Didnt blow all my money
-Had a really good mental game going into the session.
-Was really disciplined for about 2 hours prior to losing a big pot. I didn't showdown my hands out of turn, I switched off my phone, didn't respond to hand post-mortem sound-bites from my opponent, took my game really seriously - really pleased with myself in this aspect.
-Was super, super alert during this time-frame, paid attention to the whole table, looked what hands people limped in with etc, and raised my preflop aggression ranges appropriately.
Basically the way I want, and should expect, myself to play every session.
-Alack of fearfulness that I sometimes get when playing live i.e. 8 other people all watching you etc.

Negatives:

-Playing tired
-Not going home / leaving the session early enough i.e. refusal to quit.
-Losing that insanely good vibe I had, all for losing one £400 pot or so.
-In a select hand or two, just a tragic lack of any basic hand-reading and going down the lazy blockers route without any critical thinking based on their position, preflop action etc.

Some hand histories........

H1 - Vs your standard LSQ regular who's played poker for years but not very good etc. (Bit like OP : D )

Pre 4 limps EP, 4 calls, I complete 66 SB, BB checks

Flop AT6:heart Pot £12 I bet £10, V calls, other guy calls
Turn 9 Pot £40 I bet £40 only V calls
River 4 Pot £120, hero?



H2 - Against local celebrity...if theres one person I'm happy giving £600 to its this guy "salutes". Loves to make very large overbets and manaically sized 3bets with 7-2 or 43s.

Pre, reg opens £10 HJ, I flat CO AT, BTN flats, BB rips £600, I more or less snap call (he had already done it 3x this session):

Flop comes 772 (I don't think I need to continue with this hh....)

H3 - Versus Reg guy thing.

Pre, I open HJ £10, CO flats, BB 3! to £50 I flat Hu with AJ

Flop KJ4 £65 I call

Turn 3 £165 xx

River 8 £165 he thinks for a few seconds and bets £120 hero?




tl;dr dont play tired, donked off. have a good sunday!

My comments to the hands:

H1: You have three options: the shove, a more traditional bet of like £90 or a check to induce a bluff from a missed draw. Third option seems poor as he doesn't have many draws (possibly QJ, maybe 89 or 8h7h but all of this is unlikely). A £90 bet will be called at least 70% of the time (almost any A and definitely by two pair).

The shove probably only gets called by 2pair. Problem is that I don't see him have that many 2pair combinations. AT, A9 and T9 are possibilities, but not sure if he just limps in with ATs and not sure either if he calls the flop with 2nd pair in a MW-pot, when there's an A on the board. A4 is also a distant possibility. I think it's a close one between overbetting and a normal sized value bet, but when I see that he folds the top of his range to the overbet, it makes me think that going for £90 is the better option.

H3: How deep were you guys? I had a very similar hand on Friday, when I called a 3bet IP with AQs but I hit TPTK. But I actually still think that my preflop call there was a mistake against an old man. In your case, it just depends on the stack sizes.
As played, it is close but I would also fold the river. There is no merit in reraising against a reg because you don't rep much. With a set or 2 pair (and probably even a good TP), you would have bet the turn on such a board. I imagine that villain recognised this and tried to squeeze some more value with his AK or AA or QQ, AJ.
I actually think that it would have been better to turn your hand into a bluff on the turn and bet it. He will probably give up everything worse than KQ if you bet the turn. But I think you played it okay.

So happy to randomly bump into you always OP! When am I gonna feature in one of your hand histories!? (PROTIP: I'm gonna have a house at showdown)

H1: Are you ever bluffing this multi-way pot? If you answered no to the previous question then I give you my permission to absolutely mash the pot button here and just go for £12, I even like £15. When we are never bluffing we can just bet massive. Pot-sized bet on turn made up for it however and would've been amazing to get called in 2 spots on the flop so we could easily shove river! As played I reckon jamming just isn't going to get called often enough so I reckon a bet of £85 would get called close to 100% of the time by his 2pair whereas the jam will get called around 10-20% of the time based on your image and how tilty the villain is! Sounds like he made a very close fold so your jamming intuition was pretty on point anyway!

H2: Sounds like I had to be there to see this crazy brer! Don't think I have ever done this myself EVER big balls OP fo sho

H3: I don't ever call this 3B as a default unless before I open the hand I've already decided I'm going to be playing this AJ all the way because I know the BB is squeezing aggressively. If we are deep I always call however... Unsure of stack sizes in this one. I would go for £60 on the turn and try and get a cheap showdown. Reverse blocker bet ftw

glglgl

I should be on The Hippo playing the MEGASTACK tomorrow.

Won't be playing the Megastack tomorrow but I'll be roaming around central so will pop in for a quick drink with anyone around.

Skipping Megastack as I cba so will be about for a drink.

Leave the pros to it and grind the wun/wun

You guys around this eve?


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Agree, think limited to either betting like pot or shoving.

I would partially disagree with him not limping in with ATs. Poor players do limp in with all kinds of high card hands like KJo, KQo, A9o etc so its definitely within his range. Interestingly, this is why low card boards like 653t are quite good to attack for 40% pot on the flop after isolating preflop.

100% agree the shove only gets called by 2pair. For the reason I discussed above, and the fact that there is a straight present, and the fact that people do like to slowplay, I do think there are a lot of 2pairs within his range - probably not as many as naked Ax but a bunch. I do expect Ax to actually just fold a lot to a big bet on the river as its just really hard for me to not have anything on this run out. It's also interesting to note that V was first to call before a lot of other players OTF, which does indicate a little more strength than normal.

At the end of the day, I think I just prefer going for the "easy call", although its easy to get results orientated when he does open fold two pair. I think a lot of it boils down to his emotional state, a lot of times fish will make decisions based on this rather than an objective decision making (trust me, I do this as well when I'm on tilt haha).

In retrospect I think I should fold pre as well. Its considered "tight" but on a softish table theres just no point IMO with a hand that doesnt play particularly well vs a fairly tight range from the BB.

Agree, should have bet more OTF.

RE: river I pretty much just discussed it above, although I would slightly disagree RE: jamming isn't going to get called very often (assuming you mean if he has 2p).

Haha I think you can guess who it was against! Just got to see it as a £200 free +EV lottery ticket really. Any more and I probably would have folded because it is somewhat high variance (for me at least). For you I think its an absolute snap call though haha.

I think preflop is a leak as discussed above so nice one for pointing it out as well. Even if he is bluffing who cares its £1/£2 etc.

I'm not really a fan of betting £60 on the turn; if we're ahead we dont get protection from much (i.e. we're putting money in bad) and I think if somehow he does have TT or something we get value more often OTR by checking back turn after draws brick.

Cheer guys sorry for late responses

gl today bud - I'll be playing cash in the late afternoon-evening, PM me if you stop by afterwards! Field v soft I hear from yday so enjoy it : D

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Haha must have been messy last night!

Re :hand 1 I am also of the opinion that the overbet is less EV that a bet of somewhere 3/4 to pot. Against the "not very good LSQ reg" in the player pool I think you just give him too much reason to make a big lay down: he's going to look at your line, which looks really strong, with no obvious front door draw that has missed and fold 1 or 2 pair. I think a pot size bet is >Ev and is getting looked up wider/more often.

Will be down there tonight so perhaps I will see you.


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Doesn't even describe it.

+1

The semi-tipsy-ish grind continues....





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Session Review 13/04/2017

tldr

*Made £107 (a winning session!!!)



*Really enjoyed the table dynamics, generally soft composition with a bunch of spuds.
*Haven't played live in a while so was fun getting back into the swing of things.

+ves

+Played IMO pretty well, identified the main spots and adjusted appropriately.
+Mental game really, really solid throughout the session, paid attention to the table, watched lots of showdowns etc, showmanship on the whole A++++
+Avoided high variance spots eg 4betting over a maybe squeeze with the ole KQoh
+Didnt smoke
+Made last train
+Didnt punt off at macdonalds
+Didnt straddle, went for a *** UTG to save a £ like the cheapskate I aspire to be (You only need to post the BB unlike the Vic and Emps at the Hippo
-Was generally good at not looking at my phone and donking off on Twitter

-ves

-Relatively card dead
-Drank some

In general really good session coming back couldn't be more pleased really despite the meh profit

HHs comimg up....

Can't really be arsed to do write out a bunch of these - most are "standard" if anything. One hand did stick out though which might give you a good lol.

£1/£2. £400 Effective vs Aggressive Rec who had ran a ton of bluffs, had jammed flops with gutshots etc HU (readless I probably would have just bet out here on the flop but thats not the point of the hh)

Open QQ MP, he calls next to act HU.

Flop Q99ssd Pot £23 xc £15
Turn Js Pot £53 xc £40
River 6c Pot £133 x he bets £55, I xr to £175, he goes deep into the tank...

...Sometime later, I feel I'm about to lose him.

So off goes the stoic poker face, and I say "If you lose I'll buy you a drink" - I know that to anyone reading this thread the chance of anyone bluffing when they say something like this is about as slim as OP dating Emma Watson, but thought if I broke the ice a bit he might decide to pay off anyway.

I bought the man a drink.





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Nice line! i outta try it sometime...what did he have or did he not show? i'm guess maybe the last Q or a weak 9

AJs is close i think i'd fold barring no reads as well vs. an avg villain @ these stakes... would like to hear some discussion about villain's river tendencies/range(s)

What does villain do with all his over-bluffed bluff combos or extra bluff combos he gets here with OTR, what combos have you seen villain checking back OTR?

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Also why are you x-calling QQ on Q99 two tone, bet that **** or x-raise and double thru where is the damn pot lol?