I´m prolly a tard myself lol but I guess I play the AQ the same way, especially if bu is wide and 4bettor can think is a good to 3bet squeeze.(Which is prolly is).
The 88 I prolly cc flop and lead this turn and if i c/r i think you need to bet turn again.

REPOSTTT



Have not done anything on my thesis yet

my panic monster is about to wake up I feel

watched tour of flanders first, which was an amazing race and afterwards played a luxury session with basically 55+ buy ins and focus with 6 tables max

busted b109 in 20th 35k 1st
busted party main after kk < aq for 700k bb10k and then aj < 44 for 400k for comeback 35k 1st
and semi deep run milly too

#nevalaki

good runs man, keep that nose to the grind stone with the school work!

I often wonder what it's like to be blessed in this **** game

because you run soooo much worse than everyone else.......

I don't want to get into a huge back-and-forth whether I run so much worse bc I think that's quite silly but will give you my two cents though.

Do I think I have lost an enormous amount of flips more than anyone else? Hell no. To the contrary perhaps, I've been fortunate to have had a lot of deep runs in fact, however I don't think i'm being very subjective when I'm saying I've run really bad when it mattered the most, which is the part that has been bothering me the most ofcourse. I will win AK > KK in the 11r in bb200 but can't win a standard flip or get sucked out on last 2 tables from the b109, swu etc. I mean, I'm only human, and having seen both, I think people underestimate how mentally draining it can be to always go from 1/18 or 3/25 to busto in 11th, 8th or whatever **** place when there is actually good money up top. Losing the crucial showdowns back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back is really demoralizing in a way, which feels as if it's a never-ending story. Not sure how actively you are following this blog, but for example finishing 5 times top 25 in warmup, while not making the ft even once is painful as ****. I sometimes wonder how it's possible that I'm still playing this game, and still find so much joy in it as well. It sometimes makes me sick just thinking about my track record in tournaments with 5 figs+ up top really.

Today was just another day at the office. Had 5x top 15, went from 1/18 in two timbeys to busto in 7th & 8th. Then in the most interesting one (first cleared make up), a 700k+ profit guy obv wins the flip again for heaps and for 2/7 and huge bounty. I already know a very long time there's no justice in poker, but really though. How is it possible those guys always win them? He actually went from 9bb on ft bubble and being 10/10 to winning the timbey ofcourse. As if there was any doubt really.

Also running 6figs+ under ev doesn't help very much either I guess. That is assuming I have 25-30% ROI on abi 30$ which is not that unrealistic imho. Gl staying fully mentally sane when you haven't made money in 3 years from this game, and keep missing out on those big scores over and over again. Please don't get me wrong, I don't think I haven't made any mistakes during that time (esp during the first part of it), but after all, I'm still human and I do think I've improved in every aspect of poker during it. Hell, I'm not even a professional player, and I've pbb crunched more piosolver/icmizer spots and done more strategy/work on my mental game than 98% of the pro's lmao. Also pisses me off that guys who are up 300k+ complain like little babies when they have a small (super standard!) downswing, while they actually have no clue how painful variance can get. Then proceed to get another 5 fig score soon after.

Jesus, this is such a silly rant, and I sound so salty but whatever. Guess comments like yours really get on my nerves.

Will wrap this up with a classic #imageposting hand. Checking river might be ok/better but going all in with not much of a hand is fun. pko though, so pbb jams turn with fd's.

I thought everybody runs equally in large field mtts

Good post! I feel u 150% . Poker is not fair . However i believe it helps us develop so much mentally and we evolve so much as human beings overall that kinda it has to be worth it. And we might even make some ****ing money eventually )

gl bro.

Not much to update timbey-wise. Played a few sessions, lost a bit, won a bit, status quo.

Did play some 10nl zoom yesterday, bc friend of mine had a sidebet where he had to win 50bi's at 10nl zoom in 3 weeks, so wanted to see what the level of play is currently. Have to admit I was pretty surprised, in the sense that it was much better or tough than I expected it to be. I mean, it makes sense I guess, which fish is going to play 10nl still? I think it's infested with a lot of 'wannabe pro's', who regulary check videos from doug polk, watch twitch etc but still have bad fundamentals ofcourse. So that's not really a problem, however when a majority of the pool is full of those players, it actually becomes fairly tough. It's super boring as well, can comfortably 3b/f aq for value etc, bc whenever they four, they have the goodies. Can't peel the 4bets with 98s etc too bc of that, and also postflop is super lame. My red line was freefalling, which I think is acutally a fine strat on 10NL. Ranges are much different, people underbluff, use much bigger sizings in general too, which allows less play on future streets etc

Can't really say I enjoyed it but was an interesting experience at least. Wanted to at least be a winning player on 10nl, so had to play 5k hands in order to robusto fully, and ended up playing far too long in the night lmao.
At least can say I'm a winning player on 10nl now. Won't play this ever again though.



Had quite an insightful conversation with my friend about my experience today though, which perfectly illustrated why he's stuck playing 10nl basically. We compared overall 3b ranges, and his was just a mess, and it just showed how much those guys are lacking solid fundamentals, which is KEY. This is only a super small aspect of your whole game, but this just shows how important it is to actually build a concrete gameplan, and work on those things to achieve and implement it ingame as well. He's basically the prototype of your avg 10nl grinder I guess. Rather plays and have a ****ty winrate, than invest a few hours into studying, which would easily repay itself afterwards. Assume he has a 3bb/100 winrate at 10nl and that building solid 3b ranges gains you half or 1bb/100 extra. Thats an increase ranging from 16% to 33%, and there are so many other things he potentially could do to increase this, and it wouldn't even require that much work. I really tried to implement this idea in his head, and hope it sticks. Thought it was worth sharing, as maybe some of you are in same position as my friend.

Super busy outside of poker, investing a lot of time into my internship which is going really well. Unfortunately ****ed up my ankle two weeks ago, so had to quit running for now. It's too bad, bc I was finally getting into somewhat reasonable shape, having just run 7.5km at almost 5:30/km. Walking still hurts a little bit and I still limp somewhat, but it's getting better every day now. Most likely will play early sunday session. Internship finishes in < 2 weeks now, VAMOOO and gl all during scoop. Gonna try and qualify at least for the 109 phase. That's pbb gonna be about it for scoop for this year though.

so you're gonna pass on the opportunity to lose thousands and thousands of $? Wow

GL today whatever you decide to play, vamööè!

Question...

What keeps you motivated to keep playing? I feel like after 3 years of not making money i would just hang up the towel and get a job. Poker is 100x more enjoyable and imo easier when it is side income.

nono you should raise and steal the blinds

well, sort of

<3

Ha, good question, I sometimes wonder myself. I guess it's a combination of love for the game, the inifite teases on missing out on big scores, and the fact that I think i'm still improving as a player/ am (far) ahead of the fields i'm playing against. I reckon you know this but I don't play full-time either and I don't need to make money from poker to cover my living expenses etc
I don't know, guess I feel like I haven't won quite enough for the level of skill I'm at/time I invested in poker if that makes sense.

lul

Scoop was full of enjoyment, as usual. Had some deep'ish runs that fizzled out, as usual. Today was very boring, got rekt in all the important ones. But hey at least crushed EV this month again



Wrapping up the internship this wednesday, had an awesome time, and I feel like I have a better idea now of what direction I'd like to head after finishing school. master thesis was a massive fail, did not write a single word yet, and delayed it to this summer. Not much of a surprise there.
Wrote a pretty sweet application in VBA for my internship, which most likely will be used over a lot of offices when I leave, so that's nice and useful on my resume as well. Hope you all had great success on the tables. xoxo

edit: category #imageposting from earlier today

congrats on the completion of your internship and progress towards your career goals etc!
always good to work on stuff outside the pokerz

Wrapped up my internship last week and since then played quite a bit of poker. Played WSOPC in brussels where I played main, 1k bounty & 250 plo side. Didn't cash any of them (esp the ako vs ako bust in 1k bounty fairly brutal) but felt like I played well in all of them. Not that many interesting hands, guess this one kinda was

UTG2/Early MP 600 (bb200) btn flats, I 3b AcJo 2800 IR flats (start 35k, he covers I think)
Flop J86ccx I bet 4.5k into 7'ish he raises to 13k

so brutal, was pretty clueless, hated having the Ac in my hands, pbb would have gone with it without it. Anyway was fairly early in a super soft tournament so decided to live and fight another day. Quite possibly a mistake, still don't hate my fold tho, also since it's at the bottom of my vbet range to begin with.

Another interesting one in 1k bounty

BTN opens 600 (bb200 again), sb flats (with 7k'ish) I come along with 43ss
Flop 528ddx sb leads almost pot, but with bounty dynamic I felt like I couldn't fold but hand tad too weak to gii as well pbb with btn still behind, btn comes along too.
Turn 8x sb checks, I bet 2200 into 6k btn comes along, sb folds.
River Kd I bet 6100, have one of my very few blufs (along with some 67) and he calls with J high flush. Still like my play, can maybe size down a little on river.

Played online on sunday, and got rekt completely if it wasn't for the 27ds where I saved the day with a 4th place. Was really crushing last 2 tables before I got in this nasty spot:

PokerStars - 9000/18000 Ante 2250 NL - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

UTG: 414,035 (VPIP: 28.92, PFR: 15.35, 3Bet Preflop: 9.78, Hands: 205)
CO: 194,256 (VPIP: 13.33, PFR: 12.50, 3Bet Preflop: 9.38, Hands: 75)
Hero (BTN): 1,179,446
SB: 1,267,413 (VPIP: 27.07, PFR: 21.43, 3Bet Preflop: 6.59, Hands: 231)
BB: 503,350 (VPIP: 22.67, PFR: 16.22, 3Bet Preflop: 3.03, Hands: 75)

5 players post ante of 2,250, SB posts SB 9,000, BB posts BB 18,000

Pre Flop: (pot: 38,250) Hero has A Q

fold, fold, Hero raises to 36,900, SB raises to 108,000, fold, Hero calls 71,100

Flop: (245,250, 2 players) 6 T A
SB bets 100,553, Hero calls 100,553

Turn: (446,356, 2 players) 5
SB bets 232,105, Hero calls 232,105

River: (910,566, 2 players) 7
SB bets 600,974, fold

SB wins 910,566

It would be kind of a suicide bluf given that i'm not really capped and I have all the 66 A6s AT TT A5s etc so decided to start just calling like A5s+ or something, and could let this one go.

PokerStars - 9000/18000 Ante 2250 NL - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: 364,535 (VPIP: 29.23, PFR: 15.03, 3Bet Preflop: 10.34, Hands: 196)
BB: 306,506 (VPIP: 13.64, PFR: 12.70, 3Bet Preflop: 11.54, Hands: 66)
UTG: 448,402 (VPIP: 20.13, PFR: 14.99, 3Bet Preflop: 9.73, Hands: 458)
Hero (MP): 859,116
CO: 1,042,841 (VPIP: 26.82, PFR: 20.93, 3Bet Preflop: 6.82, Hands: 222)
BTN: 537,100 (VPIP: 22.73, PFR: 16.92, 3Bet Preflop: 3.57, Hands: 66)

6 players post ante of 2,250, SB posts SB 9,000, BB posts BB 18,000

Pre Flop: (pot: 40,500) Hero has A Q

UTG raises to 36,000, Hero calls 36,000, fold, fold, fold, fold

Flop: (112,500, 2 players) 4 T J
UTG bets 46,125, Hero calls 46,125

Turn: (204,750, 2 players) 2
UTG bets 114,660, Hero calls 114,660

River: (434,070, 2 players) 8
UTG checks, Hero bets 280,000, fold

Hero wins 434,070

Had some specific reads that he cbets & barrels turns too much as well. #imageposting

PokerStars - 1600/3200 Ante 320 NL - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 109,743 (VPIP: 25.00, PFR: 25.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 4)
SB: 167,436 (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 4)
BB: 251,356 (VPIP: 25.00, PFR: 25.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 4)
UTG: 37,808 (VPIP: 13.39, PFR: 10.91, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 113)
UTG+1: 35,973 (VPIP: 22.06, PFR: 15.52, 3Bet Preflop: 8.06, Hands: 751)
MP: 137,928 (VPIP: 14.93, PFR: 14.29, 3Bet Preflop: 8.70, Hands: 67)
MP+1: 41,120 (VPIP: 22.61, PFR: 18.32, 3Bet Preflop: 7.02, Hands: 430)
MP+2: 327,966 (VPIP: 40.00, PFR: 10.53, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 21)
Hero (CO): 111,334

9 players post ante of 320, SB posts SB 1,600, BB posts BB 3,200

Pre Flop: (pot: 7,680) Hero has Q A

fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 6,560, fold, fold, BB calls 3,360

Flop: (17,600, 2 players) 9 4 2
BB checks, Hero bets 5,287, BB raises to 14,866, Hero calls 9,579

Turn: (47,332, 2 players) 3
BB bets 22,400, Hero calls 22,400

River: (92,132, 2 players) 3
BB bets 207,210 and is all-in, Hero calls 67,188 and is all-in

BB shows 6 Q (One Pair, Threes)
(Pre 29%, Flop 14%, Turn 16%)
Hero shows Q A (One Pair, Threes)
(Pre 71%, Flop 86%, Turn 84%)
Hero wins 226,508

don't try to bluff me hehe

PokerStars - 2500/5000 Ante 500 NL - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): 340,902
SB: 50,756 (VPIP: 17.20, PFR: 13.43, 3Bet Preflop: 5.71, Hands: 658)
BB: 187,516 (VPIP: 20.00, PFR: 11.97, 3Bet Preflop: 5.93, Hands: 266)
UTG: 181,452 (VPIP: 29.15, PFR: 18.85, 3Bet Preflop: 7.50, Hands: 199)
UTG+1: 227,103 (VPIP: 25.81, PFR: 6.98, 3Bet Preflop: 2.70, Hands: 93)
MP: 284,936 (VPIP: 18.18, PFR: 9.09, 3Bet Preflop: 16.67, Hands: 11)
MP+1: 130,782 (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 1)
MP+2: 120,833 (VPIP: 18.52, PFR: 13.11, 3Bet Preflop: 5.26, Hands: 192)
CO: 272,946 (VPIP: 25.02, PFR: 19.77, 3Bet Preflop: 8.84, Hands: 1,162)

9 players post ante of 500, SB posts SB 2,500, BB posts BB 5,000

Pre Flop: (pot: 12,000) Hero has T Q

UTG raises to 11,150, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero calls 11,150, fold, BB calls 6,150

Flop: (40,450, 3 players) 7 T 7
BB checks, UTG checks, Hero bets 16,247, BB calls 16,247, UTG calls 16,247

Turn: (89,191, 3 players) Q
BB checks, UTG checks, Hero bets 41,478, BB raises to 159,619 and is all-in, fold, Hero

Absolute pain on the turn. Checking back vs 2 people seems ****ed, betting isn't super great either, as played so brutal too don't block any of his draws , but ofcourse he's gonna have a bunch of 7x too.

Edit: Actually almost forgot the most interesting one of them all most likely

PokerStars - 22500/45000 Ante 5625 NL - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BB: 629,765 (VPIP: 21.47, PFR: 10.63, 3Bet Preflop: 4.23, Hands: 163)
UTG: 2,295,555 (VPIP: 29.58, PFR: 24.67, 3Bet Preflop: 10.08, Hands: 316)
MP: 1,372,960 (VPIP: 23.75, PFR: 15.19, 3Bet Preflop: 2.78, Hands: 161)
CO: 1,701,644 (VPIP: 23.78, PFR: 19.08, 3Bet Preflop: 7.58, Hands: 164)
BTN: 1,210,447 (VPIP: 21.54, PFR: 15.24, 3Bet Preflop: 5.97, Hands: 768)
Hero (SB): 1,339,629

6 players post ante of 5,625, Hero posts SB 22,500, BB posts BB 45,000

Pre Flop: (pot: 101,250) Hero has 8 8

fold, fold, CO raises to 96,750, fold, Hero calls 74,250, BB calls 51,750

Flop: (324,000, 3 players) J J J
Hero checks, BB checks, CO bets 99,920, Hero calls 99,920, fold

Turn: (523,840, 2 players) 3
Hero checks, CO bets 269,304, Hero calls 269,304

River: (1,062,448, 2 players) T
Hero checks, CO bets 1,230,045 and is all-in, fold

CO wins 1,062,448

This whole hands screams utter pain. Would jam <27bbs or something pre, but maybe shoving is still the best. Postflop is just ****ed up. Think I can fold this river quite quickly since a bunch of his blufs contain a T, however not sure what I'd do on bricks. Call and pray sometimes I guess

What are your plans after finishing your study? I'm currently in a similiar situation.

I like you posting hh's so I'll leave my thoughts here:

@AJo: sizings are kinda off. squeeze bigger pre at this stackdepth and cbet smaller (esp smaller cbet gives you much more room to play this). as played tough and prolly go with live read, either option can be reasonable.

@43s: pre is marginal vs 3x but mostly fine given we're in position of the bounty. flop mostly depends on starting stack and chip value of bounty. if bounty is worth a bunch I'd go with a crying r/c vs sb and r/f vs btn, otherwise I'd prolly fold flop given we have 3 clean outs to the nuts and hard to get stacks in on many runouts (spr makes sb jam most turns and we fold; we mostly have to bluff on later streets so bounty value drastically decreases; if we pair up and river bricks we can get bluffed off the best hand etc).

@AQo: depends on villain, prolly fine vs population. as a note: you should def 4bet TT some % pre but u also have 67ss (1 combo lol) u can start calling with. it's still close and can be a fine call vs some.

@AQo: pre is close between all options but open folding, either is fine. post not a big fan, you rep pretty thin. blocker is kinda irrelevant given you 3b/c AK/AQs pre and/or obv gii with combo draws otf so basically no flushes in ur range. turn should be a fold but once u have a read that he barrels too wide than it's okay-ish I guess (hard to bluffcatch though if he overbluffs rivers too). dunno about river, guess we try to make him fold ak, chops and some catched up pairs (mostly 98 and 8hxh).

@AQo: lol quite some AQo's there. anyway, yeah fold flop unless u know he spazzez THAT hard. u still have a ton of better hands to continue and can rarely realize equity unless u get running red deuces.

@QTs: pre is whatever. post b/call. he can jam all Qx (all his floats AQ/KQ/QJ and Qhxh combos), some combo draws and chops. sure he has some 7x but he also raises a lot of them otf. we are also at the top of our range (would rather b/f AT ott) and get a pretty good price (almost 4-1-ish?).

@88: vs a 24/19 3bet pre. usually 3b/c big but jamming is fine vs some villains too. post is whatever, can do a ton of stuff there but I'd guess he mostly goes for 3 given ur rather defined and weak-ish range (just sayin).

Hope this helps some.

Glgl!

Hey, long time no talk! Hope you are doing well.

Not sure actually what I'm gonna do. Handed in my internship report this week, have one exam this semester next week and then gonna look into the possiblities. Would love to do either an internship abroad or do an extra study in a different city than I'm currently studying. But as I said, haven't looked into all the alternatives yet. Don't really feel like having a 9-5 job already, unless I would get a really nice job offer.

One last tough summer ahead, with writing my master thesis and 2 exams I failed in january, and then hopefully wrapping up this study. How about you? Saw you firing quite some scoops ^^

Thanks for the comments on the hand histories. Agree with the 43s, should pbb just shrug gii on flop vs bounty (I started hand with 20k) and fold vs btn then. AQo just random #imageposting hehe, 88 was at ft so really didn't want to 3bet to a regular size then, bc I think it's a pretty big disaster to call it off and let him shove some kqs etc would he elect to do so.

Played 3 sessions since. A bit up and down, almost breakeven, it's fine. I feel like I've been playing really well lately, have been building tons of stacks (especially early) but just don't have luck on my side in endstages at the moment. Also ended up making a few 'wrong' choices where I felt it was really close, so that's kinda annoying but it is what is. Just got to grind it out and not moan about it too much. ^^

Winrate still going very strong for the year, currently sitting at 8.94 ev bb/100 at an avg stake of 40'ish, so that's nice.

PokerStars - 60/120 Ante 15 NL - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 4,518 (VPIP: 22.05, PFR: 15.84, 3Bet Preflop: 6.38, Hands: 1,055)
SB: 1,116 (VPIP: 21.43, PFR: 14.29, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 14)
BB: 6,168 (VPIP: 23.27, PFR: 15.10, 3Bet Preflop: 6.18, Hands: 789)
Hero (UTG): 7,679
UTG+1: 4,946 (VPIP: 24.16, PFR: 19.46, 3Bet Preflop: 10.71, Hands: 568)
MP: 8,319 (VPIP: 18.04, PFR: 12.53, 3Bet Preflop: 5.29, Hands: 439)
MP+1: 7,408 (VPIP: 21.05, PFR: 16.03, 3Bet Preflop: 13.11, Hands: 133)
MP+2: 5,239 (VPIP: 24.24, PFR: 12.50, 3Bet Preflop: 10.00, Hands: 33)
CO: 2,979 (VPIP: 18.08, PFR: 12.16, 3Bet Preflop: 6.52, Hands: 794)

9 players post ante of 15, SB posts SB 60, BB posts BB 120

Pre Flop: (pot: 315) Hero has K A

Hero raises to 246, fold, fold, fold, fold, CO calls 246, fold, fold, fold

Flop: (807, 2 players) 8 3 T
Hero checks, CO bets 331, Hero calls 331

Turn: (1,469, 2 players) 4
Hero checks, CO bets 572, Hero calls 572

River: (2,613, 2 players) 4
Hero checks, CO bets 1,815 and is all-in, Hero calls 1,815

CO shows J Q (One Pair, Fours)
(Pre 40%, Flop 40%, Turn 23%)
Hero shows K A (One Pair, Fours)
(Pre 60%, Flop 60%, Turn 77%)
Hero wins 6,243

classic herocall

PokerStars - 350/700 Ante 85 NL - Holdem - 8 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BB: 43,222 (VPIP: 25.21, PFR: 21.29, 3Bet Preflop: 12.37, Hands: 1,409)
UTG: 14,334 (VPIP: 40.00, PFR: 28.57, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 15)
UTG+1: 9,760 (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 3)
MP: 24,446 (VPIP: 28.57, PFR: 14.29, 3Bet Preflop: 20.00, Hands: 7)
MP+1: 15,241 (VPIP: 10.00, PFR: 6.00, 3Bet Preflop: 9.09, Hands: 50)
CO: 14,048 (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 7)
Hero (BTN): 13,746
SB: 7,754 (VPIP: 8.33, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 12)

8 players post ante of 85, SB posts SB 350, BB posts BB 700

Pre Flop: (pot: 1,730) Hero has J A

fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 1,435, fold, BB calls 735

Flop: (3,900, 2 players) 2 3 9
BB checks, Hero checks

Turn: (3,900, 2 players) 3
BB bets 1,755, Hero calls 1,755

River: (7,410, 2 players) 7
BB bets 39,947 and is all-in, Hero calls 10,471 and is all-in

BB shows J Q (One Pair, Threes)
(Pre 28%, Flop 14%, Turn 7%)
Hero shows J A (One Pair, Threes)
(Pre 72%, Flop 86%, Turn 93%)
Hero wins 28,352

another, quite the overbluff from crazy samirua there.

partypoker - 500/1000 NL (8 max) - Holdem - 7 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

CO: 31,957 (VPIP: 26.67, PFR: 19.35, 3Bet Preflop: 6.72, Hands: 847)
BTN: 22,398 (VPIP: 22.73, PFR: 13.64, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 44)
Hero (SB): 47,327
BB: 87,577 (VPIP: 24.90, PFR: 15.33, 3Bet Preflop: 6.36, Hands: 1,749)
UTG: 73,216 (VPIP: 19.21, PFR: 13.97, 3Bet Preflop: 8.06, Hands: 868)
UTG+1: 42,275 (VPIP: 11.76, PFR: 11.76, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 17)
MP: 43,818 (VPIP: 17.00, PFR: 13.13, 3Bet Preflop: 4.17, Hands: 100)

7 players post ante of 100, Hero posts SB 500, BB posts BB 1,000

Pre Flop: (pot: 2,200) Hero has 5 A

fold, fold, MP raises to 2,200, fold, fold, Hero raises to 7,825, fold, MP calls 5,625

Flop: (17,350, 2 players) 7 8 A
Hero checks, MP bets 6,494, Hero calls 6,494

Turn: (30,338, 2 players) 6
Hero checks, MP checks

River: (30,338, 2 players) T
Hero checks, MP bets 29,399 and is all-in, Hero calls 29,399

Hero shows 5 A (One Pair, Aces)
(Pre 57%, Flop 93%, Turn 100%)
MP shows K Q (High Card, Ace)
(Pre 43%, Flop 7%, Turn 0%)
Hero wins 89,136

oops, and another.

Not many crazy bluffs unfortunately this time.

PokerStars - 150/300 Ante 30 NL - Holdem - 8 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

UTG: 13,747 (VPIP: 25.24, PFR: 15.36, 3Bet Preflop: 10.14, Hands: 743)
UTG+1: 14,519 (VPIP: 13.04, PFR: 4.35, 3Bet Preflop: 7.69, Hands: 23)
MP: 12,162 (VPIP: 23.23, PFR: 14.19, 3Bet Preflop: 10.48, Hands: 297)
MP+1: 15,356 (VPIP: 18.23, PFR: 12.36, 3Bet Preflop: 6.25, Hands: 183)
CO: 8,258 (VPIP: 18.06, PFR: 8.70, 3Bet Preflop: 3.33, Hands: 146)
Hero (BTN): 19,359
SB: 24,190 (VPIP: 18.67, PFR: 9.86, 3Bet Preflop: 6.25, Hands: 75)
BB: 9,581 (VPIP: 22.73, PFR: 18.18, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 22)

8 players post ante of 30, SB posts SB 150, BB posts BB 300

Pre Flop: (pot: 690) Hero has 9 T

fold, fold, fold, MP+1 raises to 900, fold, Hero calls 900, fold, fold

Flop: (2,490, 2 players) 7 8 5
MP+1 bets 900, Hero calls 900

Turn: (4,290, 2 players) 8
MP+1 bets 1,800, Hero calls 1,800

River: (7,890, 2 players) T
MP+1 bets 3,300, Hero raises to 15,729 and is all-in

Alright, one for the fans

turns out I can still close #runwellintheimportantones

slowly bleeding money aside from this one unfortunately. trying to limit the losses, which has not been easy.

small wins are very important for confidence building and minimizing downswings gg and the rungood will come in the big ones eventually...keep plugging away!

GG man ! Nice Winrate for 40 ish abi !

H1) Do you have the payouts for the first AQo hand?
I think I'd lean much more for a call simply because of icm.
Been thinking a lot about these kind of spots and would love to explain myself better if u have dem numbers.

H2) I'd rather 3bet pre and flat AQs, especially in mp with CL behind & another decent stack on the btn.
And while it can certainly induce some shoves by the blind, I would not really be too thrilled about flipping (as I think them to be 3bet shoving 55+ and not that many Ax that we dominate, both because we block a bunch of those and because AT and lower they probably either flat if suited or fold if off) given our healty stack.
As played flat flop is fine and I'd fold turn

H3) really curious about the flop call. I assume this was read based too, but I just can't see it being that profitable.
Would you elaborate a bit? I just got back to the online grind after a 8month break or so and would love to get updates on new population tendencies.
Is this something people started doing randomly with not even a bdfd to go with it?

H4) as bad as checking back might look I'd go for it simply because on that board QT can not get value on both turn and river and most of the draws they could have they're more likely to play as x/raises rather than x/calls simply because if somebody misses he basically has no way to win it on river.
Check back and expect at least 1 of them to bet some missed draws, smile and call a 40-65k bet & lose a bunch to some 7x, win a bunch vs some AQ/KQ, if both check bet same sizing you picked for turn and then happily fold if anybody shoves river.
As played I'd bet call expecting a fair amout of draws and sigh when I see the obvious 7x

H5) Fold river is fine

yeah, I agree. playing early schedule helps boosting your confidence a lot since you make much more deep runs bc of avg fields.

thx bud, hope you enjoy your break from poker

Played quite a bit since my last update. Have been going up and down, almost breakeven. Mostly playing the early schedule, which is super super soft, and as I mentioned, great to boost confidence as you actually don't have to wade through minefields of 2k players+. Really damn pleased with my play lately, esp in endstages I've just been crushing it I feel like. No further closes though, since apparently winning all-in situations is quite an important aspect of tournament poker. Who would have guessed eh?

I found some renewed appetite for stuyding the game though (wish I found a bit more for school lol). Actually upgraded piosolver last week to the pro version, which enabled me to run scripts. Have been doing that for a few particular spots, and it has been really interesting/valueable to me and a great way of studying too since you recognize patterns etc much quicker.

Gonna play some live timbeys as of tmrw. Staying in a hotel with a few friends, which should be fun. Pbb will play anything, let's not brick anything, will we?

Wrapping this up with a few hands:

PokerStars - 350/700 Ante 85 NL - Holdem - 8 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

UTG: 26,684 (VPIP: 100.00, PFR: 100.00, 3Bet Preflop: -, Hands: 1)
UTG+1: 21,102 (VPIP: 21.12, PFR: 17.65, 3Bet Preflop: 10.51, Hands: 701)
MP: 22,075 (VPIP: 15.79, PFR: 11.11, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 19)
MP+1: 22,419 (VPIP: 19.11, PFR: 13.16, 3Bet Preflop: 8.62, Hands: 157)
CO: 17,061 (VPIP: 23.08, PFR: 15.38, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 13)
BTN: 38,441 (VPIP: 13.66, PFR: 10.47, 3Bet Preflop: 7.75, Hands: 368)
SB: 11,583 (VPIP: 25.00, PFR: 26.67, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 16)
Hero (BB): 17,697

8 players post ante of 85, SB posts SB 350, Hero posts BB 700

Pre Flop: (pot: 1,730) Hero has 6 3

fold, UTG+1 raises to 1,400, fold, fold, fold, fold, SB calls 1,050, Hero calls 700

Flop: (4,880, 3 players) 9 8 4
SB checks, Hero checks, UTG+1 checks

Turn: (4,880, 3 players) 7
SB checks, Hero bets 2,724, UTG+1 calls 2,724, fold

River: (10,328, 2 players) 9
Hero bets 13,488 and is all-in, fold

Hero wins 10,328

fairly std i guess, could pick different sizings maybe

PokerStars - 6000/12000 Ante 1500 NL - Holdem - 3 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): 523,238
SB: 195,682 (VPIP: 26.41, PFR: 20.36, 3Bet Preflop: 13.39, Hands: 285)
BB: 580,080 (VPIP: 25.66, PFR: 17.20, 3Bet Preflop: 8.00, Hands: 1,481)

3 players post ante of 1,500, SB posts SB 6,000, BB posts BB 12,000

Pre Flop: (pot: 22,500) Hero has 9 6

Hero raises to 24,600, fold, BB calls 12,600

Flop: (59,700, 2 players) Q K 2
BB checks, Hero bets 19,200, BB calls 19,200

Turn: (98,100, 2 players) T
BB checks, Hero bets 78,750, BB calls 78,750

River: (255,600, 2 players) 8
BB checks, Hero bets 204,500, BB calls 204,500

Hero shows 9 6 (High Card, King)
(Pre 36%, Flop 7%, Turn 9%)
BB shows K T (Two Pair, Kings and Tens)
(Pre 64%, Flop 93%, Turn 91%)
BB wins 664,600

perhaps all in was better here at ft, but not sure how many 2 pairs a brazilian vamo is folding and having some chips left is quite valueable too.

partypoker - 10000/20000 NL (8 max) - Holdem - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: 1,171,809 (VPIP: 17.75, PFR: 14.11, 3Bet Preflop: 7.47, Hands: 952)
Hero (BB): 1,948,191

2 players post ante of 2,000, SB posts SB 10,000, Hero posts BB 20,000

Pre Flop: (pot: 34,000) Hero has 6 4

SB raises to 40,000, Hero calls 20,000

Flop: (84,000, 2 players) Q 9 6
Hero checks, SB checks

Turn: (84,000, 2 players) 7
Hero checks, SB bets 84,000, Hero calls 84,000

River: (252,000, 2 players) A
Hero checks, SB bets 98,565, Hero calls 98,565

SB shows 5 4 (High Card, Ace)
(Pre 38%, Flop 10%, Turn 18%)
Hero shows 6 4 (One Pair, Sixes)
(Pre 62%, Flop 90%, Turn 82%)
Hero wins 449,130

songtaing hero

partypoker - 10000/20000 NL (8 max) - Holdem - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: 2,482,572 (VPIP: 27.96, PFR: 19.35, 3Bet Preflop: 10.28, Hands: 539)
Hero (BB): 847,428

2 players post ante of 2,000, SB posts SB 10,000, Hero posts BB 20,000

Pre Flop: (pot: 34,000) Hero has K 7

SB raises to 40,000, Hero calls 20,000

Flop: (84,000, 2 players) 4 3 Q
Hero checks, SB bets 32,000, Hero calls 32,000

Turn: (148,000, 2 players) J
Hero checks, SB checks

River: (148,000, 2 players) A
Hero bets 185,000, fold

Hero wins 333,000