EV 5.68 very nice start to the year

Thaaanks for all the guys, much appreciated!

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Had a good start to the month today



vs reg, i should shove turn here i think:

$3/$6 No Limit Holdem
Stacks:
UTG Hero ($863.60) 144bb
CO ($612.20) 102bb
BTN ($757) 126bb
SB ($864.55) 144bb
BB ($600) 100bb
Pre-Flop: (9, 5 players) Hero is UTG 8 8

Hero raises to $15, CO calls $15, 1 fold, SB raises to $66, 1 fold, Hero calls $51, CO folds

Flop: 3 8 6 ($150, 2 players)
SB bets $90, Hero calls $90

Turn: 5 ($330, 2)
SB bets $246, Hero calls $246

River: Q ($822, 2)
SB bets $462.55, Hero goes all-in $461.60

Final Pot: $1,746.15
SB shows
10 K
Hero shows
8 8
SB wins $1,745.15 (net +$880.60)
CO lost $15
Hero lost $863.60

At placement tomorrow then grinding again. JVL_STARRR69 is back in the country and smb back from australia tomorrow too so football will be back on this week too!

glgl

Doesn't calling protect your range there ott? Do you ever worry about that stuff can unknown regs ? Curious cos I don t have a raise turn but was thinking about that today - sorry if too much stat congrats on Jan btw

def jamming

Protecting our calling range is much less important when our calling range sees a river with an SPR <1.

yeah, especially given there are 2 flush draw, calling could be done more often with just the diamond draw given we at least have a diamond

Beast. Nice start to the year Ben.

Calling turn has to be lower EV than shoving turn so i definitely made a mistake. You're right vs players you don't know or very little history, there's no need to worry about being exploited at a later stage - unless you intend on playing in that pool for a long time! not too much strat, dw

cheers man! Let's hope it can continue. Hope things have started well for you.

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Pretty frustrating day. Got some horrific coolers at 1k £ and € but then gave a bad beat for half stack at £1k too. Got some software malfunctions too but should be able to sort that soon.



vs fish:

$5/$10 No Limit Holdem
Stacks:
UTG ($530) 53bb
UTG+1 ($1,250.75) 125bb
CO ($4,275.43) 428bb
BTN ($1,285.22) 129bb
SB ($1,207.25) 121bb
BB Hero ($1,107) 111bb
Pre-Flop: (15, 6 players) Hero is BB 5 8

3 folds, BTN raises to $25, 1 fold, Hero calls $15

Flop: 6 9 J ($55, 2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $32, Hero raises to $128, BTN calls $96

Turn: 7 ($311, 2)
Hero bets $265.70, BTN goes all-in $1,132.22, Hero goes all-in $688.30

River: 10 ($2,397.22, 2), 2 all-in
Final Pot: $2,397.22
BTN shows
6 10
Hero shows
5 8
BTN wins $2,393.22 (net +$1,108.00)
Hero lost $1,117

vs fish:

&pound;5/&pound;10 No Limit Holdem
Stacks:
UTG (&pound;1,000) 100bb
CO (&pound;405) 41bb
BTN (&pound;862.80) 86bb
SB (&pound;1,005) 101bb
BB Hero (&pound;1,000) 100bb
Pre-Flop: (15, 5 players) Hero is BB 6 7

2 folds, BTN raises to £30, 1 fold, Hero calls £20

Flop: 6 A 7 (£65, 2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets £35, Hero calls £35

Turn: 9 (£135, 2)
Hero checks, BTN bets £105, Hero calls £105

River: 2 (£345, 2)
Hero checks, BTN bets £692.80, Hero calls £692.80
Final Pot: £1,730.60
BTN shows
8 10
Hero shows
6 7
BTN wins £1,726.60 (net +£863.80)
Hero lost £872.80

vs passive reg/fish thing. Such an awful awful spot:

$2/$4 No Limit Holdem
Stacks:
UTG ($87.37) 22bb
UTG+1 ($523.80) 131bb
CO Hero ($1,114.30) 279bb
BTN ($398) 100bb
SB ($495.60) 124bb
BB ($245.10) 61bb
Pre-Flop: (6, 6 players) Hero is CO K A

2 folds, Hero raises to $10, 1 fold, SB raises to $36, 1 fold, Hero calls $26

Flop: 10 6 6 ($74, 2 players)
SB bets $38, Hero calls $38

Turn: K ($150, 2)
SB checks, Hero bets $100, SB raises to $200, Hero calls $100

River: 8 ($550, 2)
SB bets $221.60, Hero calls $221.60
Final Pot: $993.20
Hero shows
K A
SB shows
A A
SB wins $991.20 (net +$495.60)
Hero lost $495.60

vs reg:



Got a house viewing tomorrow and then a snooker session. Will grind the late afternoon evening games.

glgl

The games were like the worst i've seen in absolutely ages. Not sure what's happened but the traffic seems to have basically fallen off a cliff. I think it may be time to sign up to a third site :s It definitely didn't help that i had to head out a couple times to view properties but still when it did come to playing the action was scarce. I ended up playing some hu vs various opponents and also played a bit at 500z. Don't ask about the volume...



vs reg and fish (fish was co)

$3/$6 No Limit Holdem
Stacks:
UTG ($1,043.30) 174bb
UTG+1 ($833) 139bb
CO ($873.81) 146bb
BTN ($1,281.58) 214bb
SB ($594) 99bb
BB Hero ($600) 100bb
Pre-Flop: (9, 6 players) Hero is BB 7 7

UTG raises to $12, UTG+1 calls $12, CO calls $12, 2 folds, Hero calls $6

Flop: A 8 7 ($51, 4 players Hero checks, UTG checks, UTG+1 checks, CO checks

Turn: Q ($51, 4)
Hero bets $42, UTG calls $42, 1 fold, CO calls $42

River: K ($177, 3)
Hero bets $144, UTG calls $144, CO calls $144

Final Pot: $609
Hero shows
7 7
UTG shows
A Q
CO shows
Q K
Hero wins $605 (net +$401)
UTG lost $198
UTG+1 lost $12
CO lost $198

gl

hehe nice hand there Ben with 77

at first I thought you donked flop and I almost had a heart attack. but dw, im still alive

love how you just rape everything

Don't do 3rd site... Too much hassle, unless you wanna do 600+ exclusively.
Maybe it was just a bad day traffic wise.

In, been watching your CR videos, really good stuff, you talk quite quickly but it's all gold dust so whatevs Good luck for the rest of 2016

haha, it's easy to do well when you're running good mate! Wait for the ds and see how i deal with things then

yeah i've heard exactly this... Have to give it some serious thought

hey! thanks mate, that's cool of you to say. Yeah i do speak fast and will make the effort in future to speak slower (although i just sent one off and i'm speaking fast again...) but the next next time i will! gl to you too

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Extreme low volume day again due to a mixture of millions of people visiting/playing snooker all the time so how the hell am i supposed to not play?? I viewed another property that was slightly out our price range but it was HUGE. It's insane how much an extra £100 a month goes in london.



main notable hand of the day vs passive fish:

$5/$10 No Limit Holdem
Stacks:
UTG ($1,988.50) 199bb
UTG+1 ($1,571.75) 157bb
CO Hero ($1,000) 100bb
BTN ($467.70) 47bb
SB ($1,000) 100bb
BB ($1,542.75) 154bb
Pre-Flop: (15, 6 players) Hero is CO 9 9

2 folds, Hero raises to $25, BTN calls $25, 2 folds

Flop: 6 3 4 ($65, 2 players)
Hero bets $45.50, BTN calls $45.50

Turn: K ($156, 2)
Hero bets $85, BTN calls $85

River: 7 ($326, 2)
Hero checks, BTN goes all-in $312.20 , Hero calls $312.20

Final Pot: $950.40
BTN shows
A J
Hero shows
9 9
Hero wins $946.40 (net +$478.70)
BTN lost $467.70

At placement tomorrow so will put in later afternoon/evening session before a busy saturday + american themed evening in the house for the superbowl, although i'm only in it for the burgers and chilli dogs.

glgl

^^ passive aggressive ftw

Hey, long time lurker. Just wanted to say thanks for doing your blog here. It is inspiring to see the variance you push thru eventually coming out the other side profitable. The hands you post are a good mix of educational and entertaining, too.

Once again, thks for this!

haha yeaaahhh

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Super swingy day today and got stacked at 1k as i got to even and just couldn't be bothered to play any longer - there was too much going on in the house that i wanted to get involved in.



sigh vs reg:



weeee vs fish:



urgh vs fish:



Got a couple of promising house viewing tomorrow so hopefully something comes of them!

glgl

Had a totally awful day at the tables today. Played well for the most part and blew up a few times at the end. 5k downer the past 2 days, boooo



vs reg:

$2/$4 No Limit Holdem
Stacks:
UTG ($400) 100bb
UTG+1 ($778) 195bb
CO ($528) 132bb
BTN Hero ($414) 104bb
SB ($444.48) 111bb
BB ($832.84) 208bb
Pre-Flop: (6, 6 players) Hero is BTN A 10

3 folds, Hero raises to $10, SB calls $8, 1 fold

Flop: A 9 10 ($24, 2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $16, SB raises to $48, Hero calls $32

Turn: 7 ($120, 2)
SB bets $80.40, Hero calls $80.40

River: 5 ($280.80, 2)
SB bets $306.08, Hero goes all-in $275.60

Final Pot: $862.48
Hero shows
A 10
SB shows
8 K
SB wins $858.48 (net +$412)
Hero lost $414

vs reg:



vs botreg, he hit a diamond on the 2nd runout too :s



On a better note my gf and i found an awesome place and our offer has been accepted! Very very happy with the space.

Time for superbowl and american food.

Hopefully i can steady the ship at the tables tomorrow

gl

Do you not think jamming turn on ATdd hand is best?

Vs belarus 55 w$sf 11.7bb/100 monkey its prolly max EV to flat but than again they havent missed a draw since blackfriday so i'd jam and at least take teh EV if i cant take teh money...

First read in a while, sick Jan and I'm sure you'll turn it around for Feb!

A+

I don't really wanna fold out his bluffs, however all his bluffs do have very high equity so maybe i should be jamming. Will take a look at it in detail and post results here when i know

pretty much this

cheers gaz! keep crushing mate

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Put in a small session today but booked a small win



No hands of interest. Just euro site reg doing euro site reg sizing

$3/$6 No Limit Holdem
Stacks:
UTG ($693) 116bb
UTG+1 ($923.10) 154bb
CO ($845.19) 141bb
BTN ($740.12) 123bb
SB ($594) 99bb
BB Hero ($625.35) 104bb
Pre-Flop: (9, 6 players) Hero is BB A J

UTG raises to $18, 4 folds, Hero calls $12

Flop: 4 K 9 ($39, 2 players)
Hero checks, UTG bets $15.60, Hero calls $15.60

Turn: 2 ($70.20, 2)
Hero checks, UTG bets $72, Hero calls $72

River: 6 ($214.20, 2)
Hero checks, UTG bets $216, Hero goes all-in $519.75, UTG calls $303.75

Final Pot: $1,253.70
Hero shows
A J
UTG shows
9 9
Hero wins $1,249.70 (net +$618.35)
UTG lost $625.35

Placement tomorrow and it's Smb's birthday tomorrow so probably gunna do something in the evening.

glgl

I don't think that sizing scheme is completely insane FWIW

also like to see a jam of the turn for the ATs hand, given how much people 3b these days SB vs btn, his range is pretty narrow and his only value range ott is something like ATo,A9o,
think he is unlikely gonna bluff blank river and will be meh/bet calling a lot of his draws ott so probably better to gii ott to realize our equity.

as played folding river wouldn't be too bad, given SB flatting range