Played a small session today, playing a bit wild and not as consistent, it's weird to play after a 10-15 day break. Found out my friend avizura at the 50z streets today, good to see he is back!

Some hands

H1: vs 11/8 nitfish over 1.3k hands, amazing lol

PokerStars - $0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 68.3 BB
SB: 183.7 BB
BB: 78.7 BB
UTG: 66.22 BB
MP: 100 BB
Hero (CO): 140.1 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 8 9

fold, MP calls 1 BB, Hero raises to 4 BB, fold, fold, BB calls 3 BB, MP raises to 10 BB, Hero calls 6 BB, BB calls 6 BB

Flop: (30.5 BB, 3 players) 3 7 9
BB checks, MP checks, Hero checks

Turn: (30.5 BB, 3 players) 3
BB checks, MP bets 10 BB, Hero calls 10 BB, fold

River: (50.5 BB, 2 players) Q
MP checks, Hero checks




H2: vs unknown shaping to be a whale, wp or should I fold? I think he would bluff always with his busted Ax OTT/OTR

PokerStars - $0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 74.58 BB
SB: 100 BB
BB: 174.12 BB
UTG: 118.72 BB
Hero (MP): 108.14 BB
CO: 81.06 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

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

Flop: (6.14 BB, 2 players) 5 3 4
Hero checks, BTN bets 2.92 BB, Hero raises to 8 BB, BTN calls 5.08 BB

Turn: (22.14 BB, 2 players) 9
Hero checks, BTN bets 10.52 BB, Hero calls 10.52 BB

River: (43.18 BB, 2 players) 4
Hero checks, BTN bets 20.52 BB, Hero calls 20.52 BB


H3: vs unknown, bad fold by me imo, I don't know why I folded in there, meh, these turn raises are very value heavy, but he could have a ton of bdfds that caught some equity OTT, right?

PokerStars - $0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 129.04 BB
SB: 243.32 BB
BB: 105.58 BB
UTG: 92.12 BB
Hero (MP): 127.66 BB
CO: 99 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, SB calls 1.82 BB, fold

Flop: (5.64 BB, 2 players) 2 5 A
SB checks, Hero bets 1.4 BB, SB calls 1.4 BB

Turn: (8.44 BB, 2 players) T
SB checks, Hero bets 6.02 BB, SB raises to 16 BB, fold

SB wins 19.46 BB


H4: vs unknown, terrible call by me, everything got there and I block his bluffs with Qd, also he would need to be turning hands into a bluff here for this to be a good call and he snap bet OTR, which make it less likely. I know that villains won't valuebet any Ax in there for that sizing that often, but his only bluffs are busted FDs.
Qd isn't as bad of a bluffcatcher because I block AQdd, but meh, with that J bringing 9T a straight I think it's a bad call. What do you guys think?

PokerStars - $0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 76.46 BB
SB: 137.96 BB
BB: 264.74 BB
Hero (UTG): 109.16 BB
MP: 179.42 BB
CO: 251.6 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

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

Flop: (5.64 BB, 2 players) 8 7 4
SB checks, Hero bets 4.02 BB, SB calls 4.02 BB

Turn: (13.68 BB, 2 players) A
SB checks, Hero checks

River: (13.68 BB, 2 players) J
SB bets 8.66 BB, Hero calls 8.66 BB




H5: vs nitfish with 46% re-steal (6/13) lol. Not today, bro!

PokerStars - $0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): 101 BB
SB: 42.64 BB
BB: 94.66 BB
UTG: 217.18 BB
MP: 106.6 BB
CO: 197.6 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 2.32 BB, fold, BB raises to 7.46 BB, Hero calls 5.14 BB

Flop: (15.42 BB, 2 players) 9 J K
BB bets 7 BB, Hero calls 7 BB

Turn: (29.42 BB, 2 players) 3
BB bets 14 BB, Hero calls 14 BB

River: (57.42 BB, 2 players) 2
BB bets 26 BB, Hero calls 26 BB




H6: vs passive fish, he looks so strong OTF, I'm not sure if I should just fold after he raises with 1 player in there on such a dry board. OTT it was clearly a fold imo, even if he had bluffs they got in there. Do you guys fold on a blank turn or call?

PokerStars - $0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 17.72 BB
SB: 89.92 BB
BB: 73.44 BB
UTG: 100 BB
MP: 114.7 BB
Hero (CO): 101.5 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 3 BB, fold, Hero raises to 9 BB, fold, fold, BB calls 8 BB, UTG calls 6 BB

Flop: (27.5 BB, 3 players) T K 8
BB checks, UTG checks, Hero bets 6.8 BB, BB raises to 19.6 BB, fold, Hero calls 12.8 BB

Turn: (66.7 BB, 2 players) J
BB bets 44.84 BB and is all-in, fold

BB wins 63.36 BB


vaaaamoo!

You keep calling everyone nitfish and then watch them 3betting you with 74o/J4s...
Maybe that's why people have been telling you to stop using hud ;)

I'm starting to think that you're folding 70% to 3bet or something.

how can you call someone with 45% bb vs btn 3b a nitfish (Small sample, but still)? I mean, I know your perception of who is a nit or not is totally skewed (like sowietwings lol), but how can you logically justify it?

not sure what you're doing on the flop in hand 2, but when he calls, he mostly has higher club draws. call on the river is awful, you think he value bets the ten of clubs there?

H2, why the hell are you xr that hand on that board? lulz. Deservedly owned.

It was a joke, guy had all stats from a nitfish but sick re-steal. And I said sowiet wings was a nitty reg, not a nitfish. I usually consider someone a nitfish when I fold AKo OOP vs 3-bets on utg dynamics.

Sowiet wings actually overbluffs in a lot of spots from what I studied about his game, but the reason for him to do that isn't because of a loose range pre(he is tight in a lot of spots), but because of how he plays postflop.

H2 i dont think he even has many bluffs otf esp that are bet calling, then he has infinite value and as a bonus he might give up at some point, no need to defend this here

That guy was a legit nitfish, caught him making his random tilt of the week. And folding 70% to 3-bets isn't that bad vs population given how tight most people 3-bet. Vs some guys gotta be loose preflop, but vs most people gotta overfold imo (at least on 50z/100z). If I had to choose the leak I wanna have (overfolding or overcalling) in the stakes I play, I think overfolding would be the best option.

It's even worse to overcall because of how high the rake is and how big the pot gets in 3bet pots, making it even harder for us to recover our initial investment, villain must be butchering hands like crazy.

I thought he wasn't valuebetting as thin as Qx flush in there and that he would bluff with pairs/Ax. I used to overfold, so I have 0 clue in those spots, but vs whales I'm doing my best to call them down. If he is a semifish the call is bad, but vs a massive whale the call is printing like crazy. Since I had 0 hands on him, I gave him less credit for not being a full stack. I think he isn't valuebetting Tc though. But yeah, vs most people I'm folding this, just not vs someone who can be potentially overbluffing

Whales love to stab when checked to in those boards, so I will have to x/r very aggressively both for thin value and bluff to punish him for being that wide in there. If one player overbluffs in a certain spot, you gotta play your range more aggressively and punish him for putting money very often with a weak range.

Do it with nutted combos then. Your building a pot oop drawing to the 4th nuts, its ******ed, how often does PIO XR that hand there?

Yea, went from 65% RB in 2015 to 8ish% in 2018, ridiculous stuff . I'll have my actual end of year RB % when I do that huge update..just now finished up getting all hands into 1 DB for the 2018 300k game challenge

Also on the topic of VPPs, I actually was eating dinner a few weeks back and saw Poker_in_pb walk into the restaurant I was at with his wife. He retired from poker like 3-4 years ago now but still is in the Rosarito area quite a lot. He's still holding his #2 spot on the all time VPP list. It should be
1. Jorj95
2. Poker_in_pb
3. Scossett
4. Shabalinvlad
5. Me
And I've potentially passed Shaba but don't think so. Haven't emailed in any time recently to have them tell me


And /off topic over!

GL on the grind in 2019 Rapidesh, always come peek into here for some entertainment . I'll just say that 'keeping it simple' has been (I think) one of the biggest factors of my success over the course of my career. It gets said in here a lot and I think it's solid advice. Can still absolutely smash the tables without doing really much of anything special...people are still trying to give it away in 2019! Glgl

Nutted combos+ nutted draws are 10-20% of my range in there, if he is betting any2, then I will need to have a very high x/r frequency, like 50%+. If villain is betting 88/57, I don't need a set to go for the x/r, basically 99 has a similar hand strength as a set in there if villain is very wide.

Thanks, boss! Gonna do my best to KISS, haha! All within my limitations ofc, because I'm an overthinker by nature, but made some changes recently into my game that will help me in that area

Vaaamoooo

In hh2 if you believe his betting a high % when you check to then you should just xr air there bc the hand you use will get you into bad spots and it a pretty good calling hand sdv/equity.

You're not getting overbluffed. They're checking down pairs. They know they're not getting you off a flush. But fair enough.

Hate to be negative, but haven't you said you made changes to your game at least 100 times already in this thread, and you're still a breakeven 50 zoom reg. What makes you think these particular changes will make any difference?

Anyway good luck in poker this year!

IF villain is betting any two, which he isnt. You are still using silly assumptions to justify lol plays. Why do you need to xr when you have a good hand to just call?

Just wanna say that this is worth more asiangirllaughing.gifs than exist on the interwebs. 99.5% of your posts are nothing but trashing someone/something.

he can and should stab his whole range in h2, your x/r is not good with that hand as it doesn't want to continue to turn in a bigger pot... any turn card is not great for you and river call is indeed bad because something like 66 no club 77 no club are probably supposed to be bluffs and very unlikely they are

Yeah, it makes more sense to x/c with that and x/r with the Ac, didn't think river call would be that bad, but vs a confirmed aggro whale, should I call? And fold vs everyone else?

Btw, villain shouldn't stab range if I'm checking range even if he had a tight cc pf range, with a loose cc range it's even worse imo.

Maybe not in GTO land, but you can't defend vs a bet here at any reasonable frequency so he has a profitable bet with every hand. You spewing off with stuff just makes it better.

WE OUT HERE BOYS

Which is what I originally said. lol..

It was exactly my point. He plays an absolutely standard preflop game, isnt tight postflop at all and you still managed to call him a nit.

You were right in this one, miracles can happen sometimes! loool! vaaamooo

Maybe in my sample he was tighter than usual then.

Played today, roll is at $2.5k still. Volume was great, almost 3k hands!

Some hands

H1: vs 14/8, meh, hate to see that bet OTR, but I put him on mostly pairs without many AQ pre-flop, maybe I could be wrong. I thought AQ+ would have bigger sizings too. I called also because I thought he could be block betting TT too. Good or bad?

PokerStars - $0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 128.26 BB
SB: 220.94 BB
BB: 330.68 BB
Hero (UTG): 136.58 BB
MP: 109.98 BB
CO: 100 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

Hero raises to 2.32 BB, MP raises to 8 BB, fold, fold, SB calls 7.5 BB, fold, Hero calls 5.68 BB

Flop: (25 BB, 3 players) 3 5 Q
SB checks, Hero checks, MP checks

Turn: (25 BB, 3 players) 7
SB bets 7.6 BB, Hero calls 7.6 BB, fold

River: (40.2 BB, 2 players) 9
SB bets 12.22 BB, Hero calls 12.22 BB



H2: those 2 were tight, I know it's nitty, but when a nit 3-bets a nit, I don't like AK/QQ that much lol

PokerStars - $0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): 105.86 BB
SB: 139.68 BB
BB: 93.84 BB
UTG: 63.06 BB
MP: 109.74 BB
CO: 75.94 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 BB, fold, CO raises to 7 BB, fold, SB calls 6.5 BB, BB calls 6 BB, UTG raises to 63.06 BB and is all-in, fold, fold, BB calls 56.06 BB

Flop: (140.12 BB, 2 players) T 3 A

Turn: (140.12 BB, 2 players) K

River: (140.12 BB, 2 players) T



H3: vaaaamo!

PokerStars - $0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 137.14 BB
SB: 104.76 BB
BB: 261.84 BB
UTG: 179.36 BB
MP: 92.48 BB
Hero (CO): 150.24 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

UTG raises to 3 BB, fold, Hero raises to 11 BB, fold, fold, BB calls 10 BB, UTG calls 8 BB

Flop: (33.5 BB, 3 players) 6 3 2
BB checks, UTG checks, Hero bets 8.28 BB, BB raises to 32.48 BB, fold, Hero calls 24.2 BB

Turn: (98.46 BB, 2 players) 8
BB bets 75.56 BB, Hero raises to 106.76 BB and is all-in, BB calls 31.2 BB

River: (311.98 BB, 2 players) A



H4: not today!

PokerStars - $0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 256.74 BB
Hero (SB): 105.62 BB
BB: 245.7 BB
UTG: 114.7 BB
MP: 115.7 BB
CO: 91.86 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, fold, fold, BTN raises to 3 BB, Hero raises to 11 BB, fold, BTN calls 8 BB

Flop: (23 BB, 2 players) K 8 6
Hero bets 5.68 BB, BTN raises to 12 BB, Hero calls 6.32 BB

Turn: (47 BB, 2 players) 7
Hero checks, BTN checks

River: (47 BB, 2 players) 4
Hero checks, BTN bets 45 BB, Hero calls 45 BB


H5: Lol, it's so good to be a station haha! Can't go nuts though, last year whenever I made some good calls I started calling everything, it's addictive and bad.

PokerStars - $0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 106.1 BB
SB: 99 BB
Hero (BB): 113.7 BB
UTG: 233.48 BB
MP: 143.96 BB
CO: 100 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, fold, fold, fold, SB raises to 2 BB, Hero calls 1 BB

Flop: (4 BB, 2 players) Q 8 4
SB bets 3 BB, Hero calls 3 BB

Turn: (10 BB, 2 players) T
SB bets 7 BB, Hero calls 7 BB

River: (24 BB, 2 players) 9
SB bets 11.4 BB, Hero calls 11.4 BB



H6: Is this a bluff OTR? Hate blocking the draw, but meh, it's not like I'm raising turn that often to show up OTR with good blockers to bluff

PokerStars - $0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 104.18 BB
SB: 157.22 BB
Hero (BB): 106.02 BB
UTG: 124.38 BB
MP: 99.2 BB
CO: 56.26 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 7 5

fold, fold, fold, BTN raises to 2.5 BB, SB calls 2 BB, Hero calls 1.5 BB

Flop: (7.5 BB, 3 players) K 8 J
SB checks, Hero checks, BTN checks

Turn: (7.5 BB, 3 players) K
SB bets 3.56 BB, Hero raises to 14.24 BB, fold, SB calls 10.68 BB

River: (35.98 BB, 2 players) T
SB checks, Hero bets 47.16 BB, fold

Hero wins 34.18 BB


H7: rapidesh special!

PokerStars - $0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 108.56 BB
SB: 48.7 BB
BB: 136.72 BB
UTG: 111.42 BB
MP: 64.5 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 K

fold, MP raises to 4 BB, Hero raises to 100 BB and is all-in, fold, fold, fold, MP calls 60.5 BB and is all-in

Flop: (130.5 BB, 2 players) J Q 7

Turn: (130.5 BB, 2 players) 9

River: (130.5 BB, 2 players) 6



H8: Bad call by me OTR, meh. Not terrible though, because my blockers are fine imo, unblock close to all bluffs. Should quit making those spewy calls, villain was somewhat passive but didn't like to fold much, but I don't think he will turn that many hands into a bluff.

PokerStars - $0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 100.5 BB
Hero (SB): 100 BB
BB: 122.8 BB
UTG: 100.2 BB
MP: 131.32 BB
CO: 101.5 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 6 8

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

Flop: (6 BB, 2 players) 6 6 9
Hero checks, BB checks

Turn: (6 BB, 2 players) K
Hero bets 3.76 BB, BB calls 3.76 BB

River: (13.52 BB, 2 players) A
Hero checks, BB bets 8.34 BB, Hero calls 8.34 BB



H9: good fold? This guy was tight and I couldn't find many bluffs I beat, also I thought he had some FHs/quads in his range and that he would be jamming a lot of pairs, vs pairs I don't have the equity to call. Meh

PokerStars - $0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): 113.3 BB
SB: 194.54 BB
BB: 112.06 BB
UTG: 118.12 BB
MP: 125.64 BB
CO: 111.32 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

UTG raises to 3 BB, fold, CO calls 3 BB, Hero raises to 12 BB, fold, fold, fold, CO calls 9 BB

Flop: (28.5 BB, 2 players) 2 7 2
CO checks, Hero bets 7.04 BB, CO calls 7.04 BB

Turn: (42.58 BB, 2 players) 4
CO checks, Hero bets 21.04 BB, CO raises to 92.28 BB and is all-in, fold

CO wins 80.66 BB


H10: wp? How about my sizing OTR? Vs fish

PokerStars - $0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): 102.5 BB
SB: 105.7 BB
BB: 106.02 BB
UTG: 180.02 BB
MP: 100 BB
CO: 102.64 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K 6

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

Flop: (5.14 BB, 2 players) 5 9 T
BB checks, Hero bets 6.74 BB, BB calls 6.74 BB

Turn: (18.62 BB, 2 players) 7
BB checks, Hero bets 13.26 BB, BB calls 13.26 BB

River: (45.14 BB, 2 players) J
BB checks, Hero bets 22.3 BB, BB calls 22.3 BB




H11: excellent play by villain lol

PokerStars - $0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 100.5 BB
SB: 121.64 BB
BB: 135.84 BB
UTG: 468 BB
MP: 138.64 BB
Hero (CO): 100 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

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

Flop: (5.14 BB, 2 players) Q T 2
BB checks, Hero bets 6.74 BB, BB calls 6.74 BB

Turn: (18.62 BB, 2 players) 4
BB checks, Hero bets 24.4 BB, BB calls 24.4 BB

River: (67.42 BB, 2 players) A
BB checks, Hero checks




H12: so annoying to let go that much equity =(

PokerStars - $0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 111.24 BB
SB: 154.62 BB
BB: 142.22 BB
Hero (UTG): 125.78 BB
MP: 215.86 BB
CO: 102 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

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

Flop: (7.96 BB, 3 players) 4 T 8
SB checks, Hero bets 1.96 BB, CO calls 1.96 BB, SB calls 1.96 BB

Turn: (13.84 BB, 3 players) 5
SB checks, Hero bets 18.14 BB, CO raises to 97.72 BB and is all-in, SB raises to 150.34 BB and is all-in, fold

River: (227.42 BB, 2 players) 6



H13: explo call vs fish, bad? Meh, I thought he wouldn't valuebet that thin, it's so bad to be blocking his bluffs too

PokerStars - $0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 100.22 BB
SB: 100.76 BB
BB: 100 BB
UTG: 985.2 BB
Hero (MP): 101 BB
CO: 100 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

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

Flop: (7.96 BB, 3 players) 5 2 K
SB bets 3.78 BB, Hero calls 3.78 BB, fold

Turn: (15.52 BB, 2 players) 3
SB bets 9.5 BB, Hero calls 9.5 BB

River: (34.52 BB, 2 players) 6
SB bets 23.12 BB, Hero calls 23.12 BB

Played 1k hands today, ended up deciding that I'll play magic with friends today, I like doing it so much, meh. But also there are some friends in town that won't stay for long, after everything stabilizes I'll make more effort into playing more on fridays.

Btw, I've never been so confident in my game, and I'm running pretty meh, I just know everything I want to do and why and am making very good and confident choices, while on 90% of tough spots last year I was always second-guessing myself, atm I'm snapping people off, knowing that I'm just jamming the flop/turn/river(but obv waiting a bit to not have timing tells). Pio solver was a major one here, thanks for the guys who said I should buy it lol. I was so ******ed to not have listened that. Also it's easy to have a good mental game after that much time to rest in the holidays, let's see how it goes after some soul crushing months.

Some hands

H1: not today, bro! That's the kind of thing I wasn't doing ever, amazing to see that I managed to win while overfolding vs whales that overbluff.

PokerStars - $0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): 102.56 BB
SB: 63.82 BB
BB: 39.6 BB
UTG: 103.14 BB
MP: 138.76 BB
CO: 144.06 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 6 T

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

Flop: (5.14 BB, 2 players) T 4 5
BB checks, Hero bets 1.26 BB, BB raises to 3.52 BB, Hero calls 2.26 BB

Turn: (12.18 BB, 2 players) K
BB bets 12 BB, Hero calls 12 BB

River: (36.18 BB, 2 players) 6
BB bets 21.76 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 21.76 BB



H2: Funny to see that I'm now making both explo calls and explo folds haha. But gotta do it, first of all, I block his bluffs and these guys love to go with the min-raise for value and just jam their draws. Min-raise is scary! He is so strong that he doesn't care about the odds lol.

PokerStars - $0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 78.82 BB
SB: 183.6 BB
Hero (BB): 100 BB
UTG: 101.14 BB
MP: 311.08 BB
CO: 127.6 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, fold, fold, BTN raises to 2 BB, fold, Hero raises to 8 BB, BTN calls 6 BB

Flop: (16.5 BB, 2 players) 5 K 9
Hero bets 4.08 BB, BTN calls 4.08 BB

Turn: (24.66 BB, 2 players) 7
Hero bets 17.56 BB, BTN raises to 39 BB, fold

BTN wins 56.8 BB


H3: Terrible call by villain, I think in that spot he is supposed to fold the Ah and call without it. I don't know why I'm so careful with being consistent, I'm playing my straights/sets/maybe flushes like that always, but I feel like if I just jam the river, the guy will fold his range in there. It's so annoying to play a balanced strategy and don't abuse those population tendencies for the sake of balance.

I know some guys will say: "then just bluff big and valuebet small", but it's dangerous to do that, not because I could get exploited only(which is possible), but because if I start doing that, I'll lose consistency in my game and will easily fall under a monkey-tilt-buttom-clocker category. So I prefer to pass some EV where I'm not certain/not have much experience in exploiting people in that spot rather than risk ruining my game again. I think it's fine to lose some EV for the sake of consistency, if I start getting addicted to those tactics in the future I will have trouble playing vs good players.

Ofc if I were 100% sure of how he would react I would have just jammed the river, I already do it in some spots and will keep looking for them in the future, but will do it only when I'm 100% sure I'm telling to myself "well, I think he will fold, so I'll just go nuts here and bluff 100% for that sizing, vs a competent player I won't do it"

PokerStars - $0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 240.76 BB
SB: 97.5 BB
BB: 222.36 BB
Hero (UTG): 130.36 BB
MP: 105.98 BB
CO: 196.28 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

Hero raises to 2.32 BB, fold, fold, fold, SB raises to 10.5 BB, fold, Hero calls 8.18 BB

Flop: (22 BB, 2 players) 6 4 8
SB bets 8.36 BB, Hero calls 8.36 BB

Turn: (38.72 BB, 2 players) 5
SB checks, Hero bets 9.56 BB, SB calls 9.56 BB

River: (57.84 BB, 2 players) T
SB checks, Hero bets 28.56 BB, SB calls 28.56 BB



H4: vs nit, it's sooooooooo easy sometimes lol. I was x back the river btw haha!

PokerStars - $0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 104.2 BB
SB: 100.5 BB
BB: 117.86 BB
UTG: 136.02 BB
MP: 172.64 BB
Hero (CO): 152.04 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

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

Flop: (5.14 BB, 2 players) 9 8 4
BB checks, Hero bets 3.66 BB, BB raises to 13.3 BB, Hero calls 9.64 BB

Turn: (31.74 BB, 2 players) 7
BB checks, Hero bets 15.68 BB, BB calls 15.68 BB

River: (63.1 BB, 2 players) 7
BB bets 47.36 BB, fold

BB wins 59.94 BB


VAAAAAAAMOOOO!