Agreed.

Nothing good ever comes from limping at this level, imo.

Only provides incentive for overcalls or a 3bet.

Raise or fold.

Hmm that's fair. I was watching From the Ground Up on Run it Once, and was trying to play around with some new strategies against limping.

In hindsight, I should be defending a tighter range against a UTG limper.

Upswings free starting hand chart is a good place to start. Use LoJack for UTG and just take some out to suit : )

Thank you for the advice! I'll check it out

Played a session today, and got paid by fish!



Biggest hands of the night:

Hand 1: GG well played, unlucky.

Hand 2: Lol, who doesn't like free money

Hand 3: Similar points around limping - what is the strategy you're implementing here?

Hand 4: NH

Thanks!

For hand #3, I think it's fine to limp given MP and CO have already limped. Even if I raise to 4 - 5BB, this has a high probability of going multi-way, as the SB and BB are still left to act.

A3s plays pretty well in multi-way pots with the nut flush draw, so happy to call 1 BB here.

Pretty good session this morning! My red line was great, until I got nitty at the end of the session.



Biggest hands of the session:

Got to love these beats





First, love the villains calling the 3b with QTo, or light 3b with 66. Then, hitting the nuts on the river.

I'll be implementing a stop gap when I swing down 5 buy-ins in one session. I can tell that I'm spewing chips in spots that I normally wouldn't be.

Played a very long session today, and frankly it was pretty tilting. I felt decent about my gameplay. Bled in the red line pretty bad, especially as I wasn't hitting my equity with premium hands towards the end of the session.



Losing hands of the session:

Hand 2: Oonce you get check minraised (something that sets off alarm bells for me), what range are you puttiing him on the turn to shove over his bet? I'm guessiing you're semi bluffing and would rather he folded?

Hand 4: What is the ratiionale behind shoving over his donk bet here, did you have a villain specific read?

Hand 2: Definitely a semi bluff. I'm calling down this street, but I wasn't sure if I could get value on the river if I realize my equity. In hindsight, bad spot to checkraise.

Hand 4: I was pretty tilted by this point. Shove didn't make any sense.

Today's session went pretty well. Got paid with my premium hands, and my red line didn't bled so hard.



That said, there were some pretty wonky players in the pool today. Here's some crazy examples:



Decided to fold AK vs 5.3x raise. The sizing felt strange, and I've noticed that villains either 3 bet large or small with AA / KK.



Nitty fold with KK. I've learned that this pool almost never shoves QQ vs a 3 bet. Well, not today.



What the...?




Finally, not sure how I played this hand. Check shoved on the turn. Should I just be calling down to the river here?

Continued into the session, and ran it up.



I've noticed that players on weekdays play worse than those who are on this past weekend. They play wider pre-flop, which leads to more +EV bets/calls on my part. I'm going to try to play more on the weekdays, and less on Saturday/Sunday afternoon - night.

Nice work, pretty giraffes!

Thank you

If you believe the maths... call down. Long run = profit. Short run = possible mad tilt.

Also, villain dependent.

You don't want to get into the habit of folding hands like KK pre. This will absolutely wreck you long term with monster under the bed syndrome. If they have the AA once in a while so be it, you'll still have your 20% equity and these things even out over time. It's part of the game and unavoidable, doing anything else is costing you money.

The only problem... is that we don't know how long is the short run? Hours? Days? Weeks? Months?

Or as my buddy believes, at least for him, its been a lifetime.

Played a relatively long session today. Started the session with some unfortunate beats (KK vs AA, AK vs KK), but was able to run it up towards the end.



Some interesting hands of the session:



I was thinking about shoving on the turn. I'd imagine this population would be pretty tempted calling with trips. Ended up facing a small checkraise on the river. Unfortunately, I think I have to call here since I'm beating any pairs.



Pretty interesting hand where 3 other players called a ~28BB flop checkraise from MP. Got paid by two players fishing for the flush draw.



Villain checkraises me on the flop after I raise 5.5BB pre-flop, with a ~72% cbet. Although this player pool is pretty whack, I'd imagine I'm usually behind against 2 pair or better.



There are some wild fish in the pool. Not sure what the villain thinks what he can get value from on the turn shove.



Another wild fish who calls a turn shove with top pair.

That's fair. I'm definitely not folding KK against regs as they have a much wider 4 betting range. That said, I'm a bit weary against 100BB fish because my observation has been that most of these players are only 4-betting KK/AA.

Hmm that makes sense. I thought villain had TJ, QQ, KK, AA, 76, or 8x. In hindsight, this might have been better as a check because I'm only losing to TJ, QQ, or 98.

Given villain potting the flop/turn, it's quite possible that he would jam the river with worse.

Had a short session today - one of those days where the variance is in the villain's favor.



Biggest hands of the session:

After taking a break, I managed to run it back up.



Some of today's largest hands



Fish love chasing draws



Very weird play by villain. He tried to represent AA/KK with this play. That said, I'm never folding trips as villain could be playing the same way with AK.



I love fish Called shove with the worse straight.



Crazy guy tries to get max value with 8's



Unfortunate suck out, but I don't think I'm folding 2 pair here.



I thought villain could have 2 pair+ here, but there's so many draws that I felt I had to bluff catch.



Couldn't figure out why villain was donking on the river. Managed to suck out with the 2 pair. I still would have played the line the same way in hindsight.