No, I don't have the roll and I don't think I am +EV in mtts, if I were beating 200z and had a solid roll I would play just for fun though. I like the way mtts are despite hating to gamble haha

Wait, didn't I see you posting in some thread a few days ago, about how smart players always use a 100bi BRM and never take shots with 30bi even if the games are super soft?

I said "less than 30 bi" and I have it. I avoid playing with less than that in any stake I play, just look at 100z: I took shots in there with 40-50bi only.

200z was insane in that day too, 28 people in the pool, 3 major whales and I marked more 2 after the session, the pool was so small that I was playing 3-4 handed. I've played 200z with 25bi this year though, but it's hard to always follow your plan, specially when you are overconfident or tilted.

But at least I snap quit the session after my spew hand and the game was still insane. Also it's not like I will end up playing 200z in bad lineups all day like I did last year, I know it's not my place yet.

Had a very sick pio session today, ran a sim I think few people got an idea on how to make and what to look for! Learning a lot!

Some hands

H1: force of will

PokerStars - $1 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 104.47 BB
SB: 151.08 BB
Hero (BB): 104.21 BB
UTG: 596.37 BB
MP: 103.28 BB
CO: 101 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has J K

fold, fold, CO raises to 2.5 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 1.5 BB

Flop: (5.5 BB, 2 players) 3 7 Q
Hero checks, CO bets 1.57 BB, Hero calls 1.57 BB

Turn: (8.64 BB, 2 players) T
Hero checks, CO checks

River: (8.64 BB, 2 players) T
Hero bets 6.16 BB, CO raises to 13.55 BB, Hero raises to 38 BB, fold

Hero wins 33.95 BB

H2: love my call OTR, I think it's printing massively vs those guys

PokerStars - $1 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 98.38 BB
SB: 143.23 BB
BB: 100 BB
UTG: 125.29 BB
MP: 163.38 BB
Hero (CO): 122.4 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Q A

fold, fold, Hero raises to 2.32 BB, BTN calls 2.32 BB, fold, fold

Flop: (6.14 BB, 2 players) 4 K 2
Hero bets 1.46 BB, BTN calls 1.46 BB

Turn: (9.06 BB, 2 players) T
Hero bets 6.46 BB, BTN calls 6.46 BB

River: (21.98 BB, 2 players) T
Hero checks, BTN bets 15.66 BB, Hero calls 15.66 BB




H3: vs unknown, is this a call? Meh, I think unknowns have 0 bluffs for that line, but I thought he was valuebetting AQ too. Should I fold? What pisses me off the most was that I snapped this, this isn't the spot to snap call.

PokerStars - $1 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 103.01 BB
SB: 222.26 BB
Hero (BB): 103.5 BB
UTG: 102.18 BB
MP: 120.1 BB
CO: 98.5 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 5 5

UTG raises to 2.98 BB, fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero calls 1.98 BB

Flop: (6.46 BB, 2 players) 9 6 Q
Hero checks, UTG bets 2.03 BB, Hero calls 2.03 BB

Turn: (10.52 BB, 2 players) 5
Hero checks, UTG bets 10 BB, Hero calls 10 BB

River: (30.52 BB, 2 players) Q
Hero checks, UTG bets 87.17 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 87.17 BB



H4: Every time I try to make a more creative play they call me. The gods of poker are punishing me soooo much haha. I like my play btw, OTT it's hard to find bluffs unless I'm turning KT/JT/KQ/JQ into a bluff, but I prefer just x back with those, so gotta use my small pairs in there. I think despite this looking insanely spewy, I'm not overbluffing in this spot.

PokerStars - $1 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): 101 BB
SB: 105.67 BB
BB: 103.01 BB
UTG: 159.9 BB
MP: 141.92 BB
CO: 38.5 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 2 2

fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 2.32 BB, SB raises to 9.49 BB, fold, Hero calls 7.17 BB

Flop: (19.98 BB, 2 players) J A 3
SB bets 4.7 BB, Hero calls 4.7 BB

Turn: (29.38 BB, 2 players) K
SB checks, Hero bets 13.96 BB, SB calls 13.96 BB

River: (57.3 BB, 2 players) 4
SB checks, Hero bets 72.85 BB and is all-in, SB calls 72.85 BB



H5: spewy play vs whale, I'm testing those plays vs them, I think they spazz out so much on these boards, so if I had some equity I'm just shipping. He was folding almost 0 hands vs the small sizing on every scenario and very few folds OTT too, so my guess would be that he overprotected his calling range with pairs and raise bluffed air, the reason why he could be overdefending that much.

Or it could be variance lol.

Deservedly stacked on this one haha, but still will keep testing plays vs whales, vs this one (and this sizing) it was the wrong play.

PokerStars - $1 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 112 BB
SB: 120.76 BB
Hero (BB): 112.1 BB
UTG: 104.18 BB
MP: 166.1 BB
CO: 471.19 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Q T

fold, fold, fold, fold, SB raises to 3 BB, Hero raises to 9 BB, SB calls 6 BB

Flop: (18 BB, 2 players) K 9 5
SB checks, Hero bets 4.28 BB, SB raises to 8.56 BB, Hero raises to 103.1 BB and is all-in, SB calls 94.54 BB

Turn: (224.2 BB, 2 players) 9

River: (224.2 BB, 2 players) 2

H1: v good

H2: fine I think, although I see less bluffs bvsb now bc no one folds anything

H3: yeah this sucks, against a reg I just puke fold but it obviously isn’t that big of a mistake to call

H4: just give up on turn, although these are all obv low freq we can spike a 2, and still can show down against 67/78/89

H5: we want a little more equity than this for this play, can also raise less if you think they are getting OOL

**fwiw I don’t really think whales spazz here that much, and even if they do, we print off their spazz by having value when they do, not by spazzing back at them

H4 is totally fine

H4:
If you're bluffing all pocket pairs there, you're probably overbluffing by like 400%. I hope you realize that.
The play is ok though.

H5:
I already told you to stop doing this ***. It won't ever be profitable.

Seriously, do some math on these spots.

Why hand 1 you called flop instead check raise ? At NL texas I see most players are calling very light on flop to make moves on later streets (and to realize equity) instead going for check/raise bluffs. I noticed this lurking high stakes thread 5k + tables they are playing with ck/call flops too .

In my opinion this KJ it is perfect spot to ck/raise flop and bet every club on turn and every 9, T, K, A. Why c/c is better than c/r ?

Hand 4 wtf thats terrible . Sometimes I spazz like that too but **** thats really bad this remember myself on tilt **** go min raise your mother IM ALL IN!!! As Oladipo said **fwiw I don’t really think whales spazz here that much, and even if they do, we print off their spazz by having value when they do, not by spazzing back at them.

Edit: I do not think doing all in with gut shot is that bad. This hand above A2clubs I like. 7outs against top pair and very dry board with decent fold equity. On K95 flush draw board with naked gut shot it is major spew.

I'm not defending all PP otf, I prefer 22 over 99 in that spot

Yeah, QT was terrible, gotta quit that ****

KJ is a mix, but since I expect people to play back vs my x/r lighter otf I prefer x/c almost always. But it is supposed to be x/c more than x/r

H4 isn't a spew, most people can't find bluffs on that runnout, so villain can't safely fold Ax otr knowing he is never good vs us.

Well you certainly proved that whales spazz out on these boards with that shove so at least you have that to go on

When I wrote hand 4, I meant hand 5. The hand you went all in on flop with QT on K95 .

Hand 4 I agree its good do that once in a while .

In for the bants, in regards to H3 is 55 one of the best hands we have to raise here or do you not have a raising range?

How is this idiot not broke yet lol

I'm making lots of spewy plays that are very strong vs population, specially those whales, from time to time I will make some horrible plays like h5, but overall I think that it's a bigger spew to give credit to those guys who are out of line all day in most spots and never fight back vs them.

Going through extreme pain in the last 4 days, the doctor said it was very likely gallstones. Just took a shot of mprphine in the emergency and it made the pain bearable for 2h only. Going to make the last exam in 3h and I hope they send me to operate right after.

It hurts sooooo much

Sorry to hear Rapi. Get better soon

Hey man, sorry to hear about those gallstones. Also hope you get better soon.

Sorry to hear about your pain Rapi... hope you can get it sorted out

gross man - get well soon.

Get well soon vamoo

U will meet beatiful nurses, get well soon

Get well soon! I had my gallbladder removed cause of stones few years ago, hopefully it's something less serious with you.

Hey man sorry to hear about this, hit me up on Skype when you get out

My gf says if you do get your gallbladder removed, people don’t always get told that changes in diet and supplements are really important, certain types of fats are easier to digest than others, and to hit me up and she can help you w it



Vamooooo

Thanks guys!

Had my surgery yesterday and I'm home now, there were 4 very big stones inside my gallbladder, they removed it, feeling sooooo much better!

It's sad that I won't be able to see my friend's marriage, but it's better that this happened here where I have a lot more support from my family, if it happened in sao carlos I would be really ****ed lol.

Also I was losing some poker sessions this year because of that pain, I thought it was 100% my fault, which it is tbh, but it was a result of bad eating habits over lots of years and not what I ate during the exact day I felt pain.

It's annoying that I can't go to the gym for 1 month too, was really happy with how often I was going, skipped gym very few times this year and was working out 5-6h/week. Will take walks in the park this month.

I think tomorrow or even today will fire some poker sessions, will try to use my extra free time to put more volume.