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Flop I like xr not blocking Qx. vs your flop xr, he is going to defend most of his AK, AQ,A8 A3,QQ,88 and middle high pocket pairs. Vs UTG cbet, you don't xr as much as vs BTN so I think he slightly has more Ax than you. Need to check the solver.
Turn A, both of you have some Ax in the range but I feel it's better for his range. You don't have AK and AQ full frequency. You want to be very polarized on this card and the worst hand to value bet would be two pair, so you want to go bigger.
River A, if we bet large on the turn, his range only contains AK, AQ, A8, A3, QQ, 88 and now they all beat our hands. Since this is 4 rainbow card ott there are not too many bluff floats. I will probably check call a normal size bet this hands but hero folds vs all in.

Thanks! I think I haven't focused as much on studying the turn and river strategy and there are so many spots (such as this one) where I have no idea what to do after the flop. What combos should I chose for bluffing, what sizing.. So this is definitely one aspect of the game I should be focusing on..

A few more hands I played

H1 So tilted with my preflop 3bet call, especially after a larger 3-bet from my opponent, that I immediately raged quit after this hand. Not because I lost, but because I've made a blunder preflop that cost me almost 100bb.

As played preflop, getting in OTF is standard?



H2 I just wrote 3 rows complaining how bad I played this spot (I thought his huge bet OTF was a mistake. My understanding of mono boards is that you should bet small)

But I simed it afterwards and turn out we both played the hand correct OTF and OTT. So surprised of this. Can someone please explain why his 70% bet OTF is correct?

H1 may be OK solver wise postflop, but I probably just call the flop. In general, when my opponent has a strong range and is pricing me in on a draw, I try to avoid bluffing because your fold equity is way down. It's against bigger bets that it becomes more of a raise or fold situation. More often than not you just end up getting it in behind on these boards. But of course just fold pre. I typically don't open K9s from the HJ, but it's not that big of a deal. But against a large 3bet OOP I think it's a fold.

H2 I'm not an expert on solver approved sizings, but the general rule I've been told is that dynamic boards where some cards can wildly change range strength call for bigger flop bets. Monotone boards fall into that category because a 4th spade here changes qualifies as a drastic change. I think you played it fine. This one is just a cooler.

I took 5 days off. Since 1st of January I played almost every day and I needed this break from poker. Started to get bored at the tables after 10-15 minutes

H1 - how are you guys playing these type of boards? I feel that I'm too passive here



H2: He snap called
I rolled a check on the flop. I usually cbet. And OTR, do you think I should've used a blocking bet instead?

Not really sure about turn and river sizing. On the river I was considering to shove, but I don't know if he would have called a shove with overpairs. His exact hand might have..

H3


Considering he only bet half pot. Is the river call profitable here? With this line, they often have a weak/medium top pair

H4

This month is not going too well. Volume and results wise. Another 3-5 buy-ins and I have to move down to 10NL for a while. But surprisingly I'm not affected or worried. Probably seeing the Ev line helps a little..

It's standard to move down when we need to. It's nice that you see this naturally.

You're going well! GL!

Thanks!

I don't know how I'll handle a long downswing 70-100k hands, probably not that well.

I hope, since the games are so soft, and my winrate is around 5-8bb, I won't have to face such a downswing at micros.

I have had some 10K hand downswings before, but nothing in the 70 to 100K hand range. That would be brutal.

I'm a big fan of moving up in stakes aggressively, as long as you are willing to eat crow and move down if it goes bad. The worst thing you could do is move up too fast, and then blast off your bankroll feeling married to the new stake. I'm currently moving down a bit now myself due to a recent downswing. Hang in there.

Thanks @Koss

Is this spew against two recreational players?

The CO is playing 24/14 agg 2.7, BB 31/25 Agg 3.3

H1


H2
Don't have enough hands on this opponent. I think I should fold the Ace of hearts? Or just pure fold OTT or OTR at 25NL?

H1 is not bad. We don't need to bet this big on the flop, I'd go around 1/2 pot or so. It's sort of a cooler from a weirdly under-repped range, but given stacks and descriptions I'm probably just going with it. With a smaller flop bet we can consider folding the turn when he donks out the straight completing card, but it's a tough bet to decipher. There's nothing wrong with going broke here. Or maybe he donks smaller into a smaller pot and we can just call and eval river.

H2 is never a fold at any point. It should be a fist pump get it in on the flop or turn. Some people say SPR is an outdated concept, others still swear by it. I'm in the middle, but it is a useful guide for handling 4-bet pots. Basically when you get to the flop, divide the remaining effective stack by the pot. In this pot it's you at $21.83 /$16.06 = 1.36

A good rule of thumb is any SPR less than 2 (or as high as 3 even) and we have no issues getting all the money in if we have Top Pair+. In this spot I'm betting the flop and shoving turn 100% of the time. This is just a cooler.

H1 - I was thinking the same. He definitely under-repped his hand.
H2 -After I simed the hand, what can I say is that the villain played the hand perfectly. Where as I should've played exactly as you said @Koss small cbet OTF and shove the turn.

I thought both players can have such a strong range in a 4bet pot EP vs BTN (we both can have AKo, AKs, KK), a 1/3 or 1/4 with range is not really the best play, hence a big bet/ check is better. But I was way off. I have huge EV advantage OTF, so I can cbet 1/4 with range in this spot and shove the turn..

I leveled myself against an aggro reg. He 3betted me 5-6 times in a row from every position.

I've seen A LOT worse. 3-bet is fine. C-bet with a BDFD and 2 overs is also fine. Turn I'm usually giving up or betting a lot bigger if I pick up a club. River I can see levelling myself into the same call. He played passively for 2 streets then overbet on a river when all the draws bricked out. It looks like a hail mary bluff.

I aggre with you. I think on this low dry board I can cbet larger 66-75% as I have all the overpairs and set of 99s at some frequency. And just give up this turn, as it is a better card for his range.

Against the same opponent Should I fold the turn against an aggressive reg?

Will start to fold some flush ott. Can call some A/K high flush + combo draws.

From the GTO point of view, this combo is a call OTT. I'm not good on exploiting people, but if you're saying this is an "agressive regular", that means (maybe?) he's betting even more than he should with his bluffs. Therefore, you have even more reasons to call.

Standard hand. Don't worry about it.

Small, but tilting session. Won 3 stacks with Aces, but lost almost every other pot I played.

6% 3bet, WWSF ~25%. I was up money, but I felt as if I lost 10 buy ins..

Nice results so far! You'll be crushing 25NL in no time

Hope I can be at your stakes soon!

Last time I was down 4 BI at the first half of the session and then grind it back. You need to get used to this kind of variance.

It was just a small session(small for true grinders, standard for me, as I usually try to play 500 hands or more each time I start a session), so nothing to drastic or relevant.

I just found this session interesting, as I won the 7 biggest pots, but got crushed in small pots (<30bb). I will look over some hands, and post the most interesting ones here.

@Thommehh -thanks! What stakes are you playing and where?

Currently at 2NL zoom on stars, can probably beat 10nl/25nl as I've been an SNG pro in the past but wanted to start from the bottom. You can check my thread for more info

your nickname sounds romanian afk