Ready to wager that rapi crushes 200z by the end of this year.

Not many people publicly discuss strat at the stakes you're playing at. You're better off finding a study group for that.

This

But also this

Also there's a lot of times when you ask if river is a GTO call or whatnot. How come you don't just load up the PIO and run it?

I have both, but discussing strat in public is something that people stopped doing because they were afraid of:

A) giving info about their game
B) teaching strangers how to play

I'm not afraid of neither of those, in fact, I like that some opponents have some info on how I play because it forces me to play a tougher game vs them and get better.

I think that it's very good to discuss strat in public, even if a NL2 player come here to give his insight on how to beat donks by a higher winrate, I will love it and it will impact my game a lot.

Btw, first 2 minutes of play and play money strats are already paying off haha

PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

MBR402 (BTN): 326.51 BB
NotACatOK? (SB): 125.11 BB
Rapidesh123 (BB): 100 BB
Finland22 (UTG): 1457.01 BB
ilexys (MP): 104.98 BB
Kempii-7 (CO): 103.66 BB

NotACatOK? posts SB 0.5 BB, Rapidesh123 posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Rapidesh123 has A J

fold, fold, fold, fold, NotACatOK? raises to 3 BB, Rapidesh123 raises to 9 BB, NotACatOK? raises to 125.11 BB and is all-in, Rapidesh123 calls 91 BB and is all-in

Flop: (200 BB, 2 players) 9 A 8

Turn: (200 BB, 2 players) Q

River: (200 BB, 2 players) T
Players agreed to run it twice.

Flop #2: (200 BB, 2 players) 3 7 A

Turn #2: (200 BB, 2 players) 5

River #2: (200 BB, 2 players) 9

I don't have PIO, I play part time poker, so whenever I'm done with my real life stuff, I just want to jump in zoom and smash some buttons lol.

<3

**** the haters rapi

Good to see we are back to the normal level of stupidity in this thread. Pretty sure that AJo call is bad.

I used to fold stuff like this vs the overbet OTF, after what I've seen at little rapidesh's game, no more! So many overplays in that range!

Already + $25 in EV just from the knowledge from .25 sngs and play money tables of 2012 haha


PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 240.14 BB
SB: 108.3 BB
Hero (BB): 102.57 BB
UTG: 158.25 BB
MP: 98 BB
CO: 110.73 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has T 4

UTG calls 1 BB, fold, fold, fold, SB calls 0.5 BB, Hero checks

Flop: (3 BB, 3 players) 5 9 T
SB checks, Hero checks, UTG bets 4 BB, fold, Hero calls 4 BB

Turn: (11 BB, 2 players) 3
Hero checks, UTG bets 5 BB, Hero calls 5 BB

River: (21 BB, 2 players) 5
Hero checks, UTG checks

I'm glad you have finally learned not to fold tp's for 4bb. Definitely progress.

I guess if you hate money and are only playing for the challenge, then fair enough.

If you want to win long term at 200z, solvers like PIO are pretty much mandatory.

Played some in the last days, jesus, my new tactics for sure made my game look very spewy lol. I truly believe I'm playing waaaaay better and I'll make my opponent's lifes pretty hard from now on. I'm finally getting better at calling some bluffs, which changes the entire metagame vs me by a lot. Also I'm way more confident at playing fish since my play money HH reviews lol. But fish from 2012 in 0.25 sng have different ranges than 200z fish, but not that much.

The biggest reason why I was winning imo was because of my insane folds and insane valueowning vs stations. On 200z people learned how to fold, so my valueowning skills diminished a lot, also they are capable of bluffing, which also diminishes my ability to hero fold. So I needed to put some effort in other areas of my game, like hero calling and playing my ranges more passively.

In a metagame where people overfold on most spots, bluffing becomes strong, but there's a fundamental problem in the way I was constructing my ranges: I was very focused on pushing my equity forward and going aggro on pots by valuebetting super thin and bluffing a lot. But that strategy gets negated if villains aren't making bad calls OTR and are making me valueown myself. Also they stab way more than 50z players, so a more effective strategy imo is to go slightly less aggro and put some focus on defending my equity with some slowplayed stuff so I can win pots more often and take a little of the incentive from villains to make razor thin valuebets vs my capped ranges.

Some hands

H1: tilt hand, flop is ok because he was folding a lot, turn is insanely bad, river is decent but meh, can't expect people to fold that much b vs b. I wasn't tilting in a while, let's see if I can control myself a little more. Whenever games get more spewy I tilt more and my new strats make more likely to tilt

PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 108.13 BB
Hero (SB): 100 BB
BB: 209.69 BB
UTG: 98.5 BB
MP: 199 BB
CO: 181.96 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 3 5

fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 3 BB, BB calls 2 BB

Flop: (6 BB, 2 players) 2 Q J
Hero bets 5.13 BB, BB calls 5.13 BB

Turn: (16.26 BB, 2 players) T
Hero bets 21.32 BB, BB calls 21.32 BB

River: (58.89 BB, 2 players) 3
Hero bets 70.56 BB and is all-in, BB calls 70.56 BB



H2: vs reg, I put him on AK! haha. It's quite easy to overvalue KT there OTT, but that card helped him a lot, so KT is basically the bottom of our value range OTT with very low playability on most rivers, so I think it's good to check this.

PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 100 BB
SB: 228.35 BB
Hero (BB): 101 BB
UTG: 293.72 BB
MP: 107.05 BB
CO: 106.21 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, fold, fold, fold, SB raises to 3 BB, Hero calls 2 BB

Flop: (6 BB, 2 players) K 8 T
SB bets 4.28 BB, Hero raises to 14 BB, SB calls 9.73 BB

Turn: (34 BB, 2 players) A
SB checks, Hero checks

River: (34 BB, 2 players) T
SB checks, Hero bets 32.63 BB, SB calls 32.63 BB




H3: He didn't put me on AK

PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): 100 BB
SB: 87.81 BB
BB: 285.45 BB
UTG: 101.67 BB
MP: 291.01 BB
CO: 100 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 2.32 BB, SB calls 1.82 BB, fold

Flop: (5.64 BB, 2 players) A T K
SB checks, Hero bets 4.82 BB, SB calls 4.82 BB

Turn: (15.28 BB, 2 players) 8
SB checks, Hero bets 20.03 BB, SB calls 20.03 BB

River: (55.34 BB, 2 players) 5
SB checks, Hero bets 72.83 BB and is all-in, SB calls 60.64 BB and is all-in




H4: I'll be honest with you guys, this was the first hero call that I've made in this spot that I wasn't tilted when calling. Also I think it's the first time I've called here with a bluffcatcher and was good lol. It's crazy to see that I've played a lot in the micros and don't have enough experience in bluffcatching spots like this. I don't know if I was unlucky all the time here or if people really don't bluff. But yeah, I think I'm very good at tilting people and this guy was going nuts vs me recently. So good to own him! haha. Very GTO play by him, excellent hand selection lol

PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 138.5 BB
SB: 181.52 BB
Hero (BB): 107.79 BB
UTG: 166.85 BB
MP: 100 BB
CO: 150.61 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 9 A

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

Flop: (5.96 BB, 2 players) 4 6 A
SB checks, Hero bets 2.94 BB, SB raises to 8.71 BB, Hero calls 5.77 BB

Turn: (23.38 BB, 2 players) 3
SB bets 24.65 BB, Hero calls 24.65 BB

River: (72.68 BB, 2 players) T
SB bets 145.18 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 71.45 BB and is all-in



H5: vs reg, I was always wondering why people never give up OTR and check back a 0 SDV hand in there, so went for the x/c rather than the block OTR.

PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 259.93 BB
SB: 100 BB
Hero (BB): 103.68 BB
UTG: 101.85 BB
MP: 103.71 BB
CO: 465.75 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, fold, CO raises to 2.25 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 1.25 BB

Flop: (5 BB, 2 players) 8 K T
Hero checks, CO bets 1.28 BB, Hero raises to 6 BB, CO calls 4.72 BB

Turn: (17 BB, 2 players) K
Hero checks, CO checks

River: (17 BB, 2 players) 5
Hero checks, CO bets 12.11 BB, Hero calls 12.11 BB




H6: Is this a good call OTR? Blocking spades is bad, but 8s is a very good blocker imo, it's so hard for him to have a set+ here. These guys are owning me with these overbets OTT with TP. I like villain's play.

PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 100 BB
SB: 171.7 BB
BB: 107.15 BB
UTG: 142.79 BB
MP: 417.96 BB
Hero (CO): 100 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A 8

fold, fold, Hero raises to 2.32 BB, fold, fold, BB calls 1.32 BB

Flop: (5.14 BB, 2 players) 2 Q 8
BB checks, Hero checks

Turn: (5.14 BB, 2 players) 5
BB bets 8.42 BB, Hero calls 8.42 BB

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




H7: vs nit reg, recently he started doing some spewy stuff vs me, but I think that it's really hard for him to find bluffs OTR, his most frequent hand that is turned into a bluff is QQ that I block. If the board were AKT, it would be easier for him to find bluffs, because he still has JJ. Good fold? Do I have to call AK here and fold all AQ?

PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): 100 BB
SB: 402.55 BB
BB: 120.81 BB
UTG: 192.85 BB
MP: 120.71 BB
CO: 49.51 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

UTG raises to 2.25 BB, fold, fold, Hero raises to 7 BB, fold, fold, UTG calls 4.75 BB

Flop: (15.5 BB, 2 players) J 5 A
UTG checks, Hero bets 4.88 BB, UTG calls 4.88 BB

Turn: (25.25 BB, 2 players) T
UTG checks, Hero checks

River: (25.25 BB, 2 players) 8
UTG checks, Hero bets 12.47 BB, UTG raises to 180.98 BB and is all-in, fold

UTG wins 48.82 BB


H8: another explo tactic I found by looking at the play money hands vs fish. Really good to check to induce, it's a huge victory to get such a big pot from a total spazz 0 equity hand.

PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 109.55 BB
Hero (SB): 100 BB
BB: 187.34 BB
UTG: 320.55 BB
MP: 130.18 BB
CO: 102.25 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A 3

UTG raises to 2.3 BB, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 9 BB, fold, UTG calls 6.7 BB

Flop: (19 BB, 2 players) 2 7 A
Hero checks, UTG checks

Turn: (19 BB, 2 players) 8
Hero checks, UTG bets 9 BB, Hero calls 9 BB

River: (37 BB, 2 players) 7
Hero checks, UTG bets 19 BB, Hero calls 19 BB




H9: UNITED STATES OF SMASH!!!! VAAAAAAAAMOOOO!!

PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 132.68 BB
SB: 204.82 BB
Hero (BB): 102.5 BB
UTG: 91.62 BB
MP: 100 BB
CO: 256.56 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, fold, CO raises to 2.5 BB, fold, fold, Hero raises to 10 BB, CO calls 7.5 BB

Flop: (20.5 BB, 2 players) 8 3 T
Hero checks, CO checks

Turn: (20.5 BB, 2 players) J
Hero bets 12.85 BB, CO calls 12.85 BB

River: (46.2 BB, 2 players) Q
Hero bets 79.65 BB and is all-in, fold

Hero wins 44.83 BB

H10: vaaaaamooo!!

PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): 100 BB
SB: 140.05 BB
BB: 100 BB
UTG: 131.26 BB
MP: 240.31 BB
CO: 117.18 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A 3

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

Flop: (19.5 BB, 2 players) 4 5 T
UTG checks, Hero bets 6.14 BB, UTG calls 6.14 BB

Turn: (31.77 BB, 2 players) 6
UTG checks, Hero bets 22.8 BB, UTG calls 22.8 BB

River: (77.36 BB, 2 players) 4
UTG checks, Hero bets 62.07 BB and is all-in, fold

Hero wins 75.99 BB

Its been a while, so lets see if you have improved and if that lol hh review has paid off.

H1. Not a good start, fold pre. xf flop, you have so many better hands to bluff with, so naturally you bluff off your stack in a ******ed spot as usual. It seems you should have focused your study on some basic opening ranges which you still don't seem to know.

H2. I thought you said you finally learned to value bet properly? If you put him on AK you should be jamming that river all day. I would jam it regardless.

H4. If someones getting out of line its ok to call down but not as standard obviously.

H7. Why are you checking turn? Deserved to get bluffed there.

H8, fold pre. glad you finally learned to induce with weaker range. Only took you 6 years.

H9. Nice button clicking. Awful play.

Verdict.- Business as usual.

I would love to hear the thinking behind the way yo played h9.

A lot of people here are laughing at OP's way of studying.

What would you say is the most effective way to study?

It's the most interesting hand of all I posted when it comes to strategy imo. United states of smash is way cooler than posting a wall of text saying the strat behind it haha! vaaamo!

OTF it's the most crucial part of the hand imo, I have 3 possible strategies that I can use on that board given my 3-bet range:

That's a board that is very good for the caller, so it's usually a good idea for me to check a lot of my range, because I won't be capable of betting wide with a high frequency. If my 3-bet range was tighter, I could do that, but since it isn't, then I'll have to make some checking

A) cbet polarized for a big sizing and go for 2 streets

With this strat I should check a lot with overpairs, give ups, weak SDV and bet polarized for an overbet with my hands that want to do so, which are:

Sets, JJ, QQ, KK(more checking with KK than betting), combo draws, and some random low equity bluffs like AdJx, KdQx, some strong FDs too

My checking range would have AA, some KK, some weaker FDs, straight draws, my garbage stuff and weak SDV that want to see showdown.

By doing that I don't leave my checking range unprotected, will put pressure on villain's range and will still have some check-raises. So it's quite hard to play vs that and I expect that strat to not give up so much EV or be exploited super easily.

B) bet a mergy range for a 50% sizing, still checking some, but less than on strat A

I think that's the best strat overall in theory, but it's the hardest to execute, we will go for 3 streets of value on a dynamics board and will be valuebetting thin with a good portion of our value. With that strat we should valuebet A8 OTF.

We should still have some slowplayed stuff OTF like AA/TT/KK and some FDs to still be capable of check-raising villain and protecting our checking range. That's the strat that has the least checking going on. But to do it effectively you should have a ton of mixing and balancing your betting and checking range really well, which is very hard.

If you try to do this a lot, you will easily end up with either overbluffing for cbet or with a very weak checking range, which both are terrible and opene yourself way more to get owned by villain, so I avoid using this strat, too hard to apply and usually I'll end up butchering and playing ******ed.

C) range checking OTF

That's the strat I mostly use in that spot, even though it's not a insanely terrible board for our range and it's overkill to just check everything, I think it's the easiest strat to apply in real time and also a lot of villains make a lot of mistakes vs that.

The drawback of that strat is that we leak EV by letting villain check back a lot and realize equity. Even if the board is good for him, we still have EV advantage because of all overpairs and our better A highs.

But a lot of players stab relentlessly on this board, so my strat ends up overealizing vs them. But vs smart people(or very tight ones that check back a lot because they're pussies), it's a bad strat.


Ok, so you know what I'm checking OTF, it goes check check, OTT a flush comes. That's really good for my range, because I have all the flushes and villain has none. In fact, most people will auto-bet all their FDs, sets, 2p OTF and most of their checking back range will be weak SDV + some random give ups. That's a big leak that most regs have(and I do to), so I can valuebet(and bluff) relentlessly in there for my sizing.

I'm betting with a high frequency in there OTT, to abuse that. Villain just split his range in 2 and he won't be able to defend properly vs my bet.

OTR a lot of my bluffs got there(AK), so I have at least now 30 combos of the effective nuts(any 9x is the nuts vs villain's range in there). So my strategy in there was to just overbet jam most of my range that got there.

This is a runnount that is insane for my range and that villain won't be capable of defending a mdf frequency, so gg. Some spots like that happen in poker and you gotta take advantage of that.

Now if you want to ask if I'm overbluffing or not, I don't know. I'm pretty sure villain should call all his 9x in there, now with his QJ, I don't know.
The thing here is that it's such a sick spot for villain and I have so much value that it's close to impossible for him to know if his QJ is a call in there.
He has to be right 40% of the time, but if I somehow am jamming my sets in there, some QJ for the split, it makes his call waaay worse. Also if I'm giving up some random bluffs or checking some SDV, for each one of those combos I give up, his call becomes increasingly worse insanely fast.

So if villain is an insane station(like the guy who called me with Q high), he will call river with JQ thinking like this: "well, I truly believe that this guy is a psychopath and is bluffing with every single combo possible in his range here, and is probably bluffing with a lot of things that he is turning into a bluff that don't beat me, if he is doing that, then this is probably a slightly above breakeven call" - call.

So villain will need to be insane to make this call lol. Or tilted haha


Now the biggest problem of the hand in villain's shoes isn't whether he should call of fold his 2p OTR, but how can he get to the river with some hands that he can call me with and avoid getting owned in there. The solution is simple: check back some FDs OTF, so you have at least some flushes in this runnout.

Vs an aggro opponent that knows which cards he can go nuts on, it's very good to have slowplays, specially in spots where most of the population is capped. I think that's the biggest difference between a normal reg like me and a top reg, they can show up with good hands in those spots. By having a flush in that runnout, he is making insane amounts of bbs with his slowplayed combos because of my read, so he will punish me a lot for making the play I made.

Betting OTF with your FD usually has a higher EV than checking back, for sure, but by doing that all the time, his range will lose a lot on runnouts like this. I like checking back some FDs OTF(and TT) vs some very tough players, doing it vs random fish or regfish is useless, just bet and get your pot. It's not like little timmy 19/18 will pull this off out of nowhere as a bluff lol.

gawd please don't ask him that again.

Played well today, heat is back! Just made one mistake, could have made a hero fold, ended up losing a stack. It's hard to make hero folds after you start calling down some people and winning vs bluffs lol. But will keep trying to make those folds, imo folding is more important than hero calling for the winrate in 200z.

Some hands

H1: sick fold vs king of nits, he was 18/3, had 0/33 opens from the CO lol. If I'm folding AK vs a RFI, it's in the SB, vs that guy and vs a 4x bb sizing. Good fold?

PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 236.98 BB
Hero (SB): 100.5 BB
BB: 363.23 BB
UTG: 378.17 BB
MP: 119.74 BB
CO: 242.47 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, fold, CO raises to 4 BB, fold, fold, fold

CO wins 2.5 BB

H2: Here is the hand I couldn't fold, OTT it's just a fold, card is good for my range and yet he x/r. I called planning on folding all rivers, but when the K doubled, couldn't fold it. In the end the K has an impact of reducing his KQ, but meh, terrible calldown vs a nit player, specially with his raise OTT. Gotta have more discipline

PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 211.25 BB
SB: 162.13 BB
BB: 94.72 BB
UTG: 100 BB
MP: 254.48 BB
Hero (CO): 100.5 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

UTG raises to 2.3 BB, fold, Hero raises to 7 BB, fold, fold, fold, UTG calls 4.7 BB

Flop: (15.5 BB, 2 players) Q 9 7
UTG bets 4.42 BB, Hero calls 4.42 BB

Turn: (24.34 BB, 2 players) K
UTG checks, Hero bets 7.66 BB, UTG raises to 24 BB, Hero calls 16.35 BB

River: (72.34 BB, 2 players) K
UTG bets 64.58 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 64.58 BB




H3: vs whale, saw that he was 3-betting J9o and 44, so went for the calldown, usually I used to fold OTT, not anymore! vaaaaamoo

PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 115.23 BB
SB: 61.12 BB
BB: 106.01 BB
UTG: 362.65 BB
Hero (MP): 100.5 BB
CO: 179.94 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 4 A

fold, Hero raises to 2.32 BB, fold, fold, SB raises to 5 BB, BB calls 4 BB, Hero calls 2.68 BB

Flop: (15 BB, 3 players) 2 6 A
SB bets 7.13 BB, fold, Hero calls 7.13 BB

Turn: (29.25 BB, 2 players) 8
SB bets 13.94 BB, Hero calls 13.94 BB

River: (57.13 BB, 2 players) 5
SB bets 35.05 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 35.05 BB




H4: more calls! haha, play money taught me well!

PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 96.5 BB
Hero (SB): 100 BB
BB: 40.68 BB
UTG: 87.78 BB
MP: 278.68 BB
CO: 69.5 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 3 BB, BB calls 2 BB

Flop: (6 BB, 2 players) 2 J T
Hero bets 5.13 BB, BB calls 5.13 BB

Turn: (16.26 BB, 2 players) T
Hero checks, BB bets 7.73 BB, Hero calls 7.73 BB

River: (31.71 BB, 2 players) 3
Hero checks, BB bets 24.83 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 24.83 BB




H5: vs passive guy, he was a slowplayer too, when he overbets there it's gg lol

PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 46.4 BB
SB: 140.75 BB
BB: 254.57 BB
UTG: 146.84 BB
Hero (MP): 110.24 BB
CO: 149.71 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, Hero raises to 2.32 BB, fold, fold, fold, BB calls 1.32 BB

Flop: (5.14 BB, 2 players) 5 3 8
BB checks, Hero bets 1.62 BB, BB calls 1.62 BB

Turn: (8.37 BB, 2 players) 6
BB checks, Hero checks

River: (8.37 BB, 2 players) K
BB bets 11 BB, fold

BB wins 7.95 BB


H6: bonus! Sick ownage vs whale haha. I hate playing short stacked, so I'm testing stupid plays like those vs whales

PokerStars - $2 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): 100 BB
SB: 235.42 BB
BB: 74.8 BB
UTG: 58.2 BB
MP: 373.77 BB
CO: 223.94 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

UTG raises to 3.5 BB, fold, fold, Hero raises to 100 BB and is all-in, fold, fold, UTG calls 54.7 BB and is all-in

H1: Is this a joke?

Yep. You definitely needed to study play money to call a 25bb bet w/tptk in a blind battle. Not like this stuff should come intuitively by now or anything.

Hand 1 is lol but w/e, I'm a nit and can get behind it.

Hand 2 is way way worse than hand 1.

What a call in H4. The hours of play money are finally coming to fruition.

Hand 4 wooooow!Wow watching playmoney hands. And learn how to make sick calls.

Just because its 25bb it doesnt make it more of a call than if he would be jamming 75bb for the same % of the pot. its a tough call to make for me, specially without a blocker, also villain has a lot of Tx. if you think its an easy call, its closer than you think. This texture is quite bad for us and if villain is giving up some busted draws, this call becomes -ev very quickly. obv the guy is overbluffing, so good for me.

btw, I expect that my graph will be one of the most interesting ones in this month after my play money studies. still havent looked at it, but I feel it will have a very unique blue line/red line composition. wont look until the end of the month, lets see how it goes!

vaaaaamoooo

I'm well aware of this. My point was that he wasn't overbetting so it's an easy call.

The reason I say it's easy is because folding is ****ing dumb and calling should be your intuition here, not because it isn't close. You're playing $200nl. x/f'ing tptk in a blind battle's lol. Before we battle semantics, ofc there are times to fold tptk.

H1. lol just flat pre.

H2. You should check turn pretty often vs regs, if u always bet it your so face up, which is what I assume you do. That 1/3 turn sizing is garbage. Fold turn vs nits.