My hands look more spewy for sure, but poker is supposed to be played like that, specially in those stakes. I know sometimes I will lose some hands that look like huge spews, but it's easy to forget the times those bluffs get through.

As I said, I'm taking a more explo approach but without losing the theory fundamentals, every time I make a sick deviation I will think what I would do vs a strong opponent and why I'm deviating from it.

As an example, in that KQ hand I'm always calling turn vs a good player, but when the guy telegraphs the strength of his hand I will just go nuts.

On h3 you have already mentioned to go for a 25% range bet which would have made him fold his 77-QQ region.

Bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla.

How to write a bunch of words and say nothing by Rapidesh123.

FWIW there are many hands that I, and every poker player, know they butchered and are just indefensible. I'll have reasons I made a play but afterwards and even sometimes during I know I'm making a mistake. Maybe try learning some humility and post some hands where you acknowledge you spewed.
If it were supposed to be played like that you would be winning more. Do you really believe you've maximized your EV?

I play higher than nl50 but I've played a bit at those stakes (and just soft pools in general) and I don't think your approach would work at any stake).
This is just rationalizing dumping stacks and will prevent you from moving up.
You can justify literally any action by saying this. The reality is you played the hand this way and it's close to impossible to have such strong confidence on villains.

I consider myself a really good hand reader and I don't think villain really told us anything about his hand strength in the KQ hand on the turn...I was pretty surprised by what he had especially after opening UTG. He's just a fish and you cover your eyes and call river w/e there is no magic here.

Triggers me so hard when people say things like this. "I don't usually smoke it's just when I'm drinking" OK you ****ing smoke..."I don't miss workouts; it was just today" No you missed a workout...."I never spew in these spots" Yes you do look at these hands.

You should watch Nick Howard's mental game series or his RIO videos where he talks about forced aggression would be so massively +EV for you to learn about some of these concepts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYnPM-vvIrc watch this video and just imagine he's talking about poker instead of videogames.

Roll is at $4.3k, coolered soooo many people today, so good to run good! Played really well!

H1: nice

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

BTN: 163.8 BB
SB: 101.6 BB
BB: 139.76 BB
Hero (UTG): 100 BB
MP: 110.84 BB
CO: 56.84 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

Hero raises to 2.32 BB, fold, CO raises to 3.64 BB, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 14 BB, CO calls 10.36 BB

Flop: (29.5 BB, 2 players) T 8 6
Hero bets 7.28 BB, CO calls 7.28 BB

Turn: (44.06 BB, 2 players) 4
Hero bets 78.72 BB and is all-in, CO calls 35.56 BB and is all-in

River: (115.18 BB, 2 players) 3




H2: all draws missed but 98, not sure if he pots vs 2 people as a bluff that often, but he was shaping to be a whale, call or fold? I think he wouldn't bet that big with 7x, maybe 98. But I believe fold could be the best play here, it's just very hard for me to fold when I'm snapping people off so much and finding bluffs lol

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

BTN: 132.9 BB
SB: 163.7 BB
Hero (BB): 115.64 BB
UTG: 131.36 BB
MP: 112.52 BB
CO: 48.5 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, fold, CO calls 1 BB, BTN calls 1 BB, SB calls 0.5 BB, Hero checks

Flop: (4 BB, 4 players) 5 7 7
SB checks, Hero checks, CO checks, BTN checks

Turn: (4 BB, 4 players) J
SB bets 1.78 BB, Hero calls 1.78 BB, CO calls 1.78 BB, fold

River: (9.34 BB, 3 players) T
SB bets 9 BB, Hero calls 9 BB, fold



H3: insane to see that kind of **** going on at 50z, I think his play is very very good. But finland taught me that some people bluff in that spot and those who bluff are very likely to overbluff. I think if he wanted to give me a breakeven call, he should do it with Jh only as a bluff, that's also my best bluffcatcher too

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

BTN: 101.24 BB
SB: 115.44 BB
BB: 581.88 BB
UTG: 290.88 BB
Hero (MP): 110.16 BB
CO: 258 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

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

Flop: (5.14 BB, 2 players) J 3 5
BB checks, Hero bets 1.26 BB, BB calls 1.26 BB

Turn: (7.66 BB, 2 players) 6
BB checks, Hero bets 10.04 BB, BB calls 10.04 BB

River: (27.74 BB, 2 players) A
BB checks, Hero bets 19.78 BB, BB raises to 568.26 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 76.76 BB and is all-in



H4: snap call vs this bingo player haha, some months ago I would be hating life lol

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

BTN: 281.9 BB
SB: 172.5 BB
BB: 100 BB
UTG: 317.36 BB
Hero (MP): 145.46 BB
CO: 97.02 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

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

Flop: (19.5 BB, 2 players) 7 K 6
UTG checks, Hero checks

Turn: (19.5 BB, 2 players) J
UTG checks, Hero checks

River: (19.5 BB, 2 players) 3
UTG checks, Hero bets 4.82 BB, UTG raises to 19 BB, Hero calls 14.18 BB



H5: not sure how I should play this, I think I need to check a lot with my range vs those ccs, didn't have any plan OTT vs a normal sized bet, just call, right?

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

BTN: 85.36 BB
SB: 174.66 BB
BB: 76.74 BB
UTG: 219.78 BB
Hero (MP): 102.86 BB
CO: 100 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

UTG raises to 2 BB, Hero raises to 7 BB, fold, fold, SB calls 6.5 BB, fold, fold

Flop: (17 BB, 2 players) 7 9 3
SB checks, Hero checks

Turn: (17 BB, 2 players) 3
SB bets 7.2 BB, Hero raises to 26 BB, SB calls 18.8 BB

River: (69 BB, 2 players) 9
SB checks, Hero bets 69.86 BB and is all-in, SB calls 69.86 BB

I post hands I think I misplayed all the time, just see that KThh hand. And in the last 3 months I changed my game a lot, to the point that I overfolded everything and was afraid of making bad plays, but losing opportunities of making very good ones, sure that my 2x pot with AQ was unecessary, but if I were right that the guy wouldn't defend KT (and from my experience people just hate calling big overbets with marginal holdings), it's printing a lot of bbs.

And I'm not saying I don't spew, I make a lot of mistakes all the time, but atm I don't care if I lose or look bad, if I think that a play is +EV I will make it, it's way better to be like that than to be afraid all the time like when I was in all my last year.

His play is def not very good , AA is kind of a very easy call otr unblocking all the bluffs, but yeah , agree that can usually overcall these spots vs more aggressive regs as JxTh is def just a call on the river and never a shove

he has so very few flush combos on the Ah that bluffing this wide is kind of insane, also possible that he doesn't even need to continue turn all that often with this combo vs that size against MP, so his frequencies are completely ****ed up

I know what forced aggression is and watched some of his videos, I don't go aggro just for the sake of it, I often have a plan when doing it and I give up ott/otr with bad combos/don't bluff whales/give up more in spots my value combos are few and stick only to the best bluffing combos ever.

Obv the hands you will see here will be the ones I'm spazzing or stacking someone or making a big fold, hands that I gave up and aren't that fun.

By good play I mean vs population, most people fold all sets and low flushes, I think some guys call only with the nut flush/second nut flush lol.

From a theory perspective I will have a lot of flushes in this spot, which just won't fold, so that's a spot that he should be very careful with his bluffs vs someone who know how easy it is to overbluff there if he has a bluffing range at all. If I defend all sets and Jh it's very hard for his bluff to be +EV. A lot of people won't bluff here but those who bluff will overbluff.

very unlikely that any of his bluffs will be +EV here , but have to be done from a theory POV, and you don't even have to defend that many Jh that are not flushes, given that actually blocking the Jh its probably not that great for IP, but if he starts overbluffing its just a disaster and i would assume even so vs population vs this specific line

The JTo play is really bad no one is folding a flush there. That is a good example of a villain forcing aggression...it's over-application of theory if he was looking at his blockers and far too assumptive to think people will fold sets and flushes there. He just finds himself in a big pot on the river and piles it in.

I don't consider donking off 100+bb (e.g. KT hand, AQ allin pre vs the backraise even if you actually had 100bb, AQ on QJ2r7K wtf was going on there why did you jam the river) to be fun. It's something we wanna avoid.

Huge wtf moment when I saw the hand after you said his play was 'very very good'. Pretty sure the guy is a rec based on that hand. Ah just took away all his flushes.

3 months ago I was folding all sets and low flushes vs everyone, now I call wide vs people I think that will have bluffs, but vs the majority of the population I just fold almost everything in my range vs that. 50z is just a nifest and almost nobody turn hands into bluffs.

In his shoes vs a very good reg I like just not having a bluffing range at all because of how hard it is to be balanced there, just have 0 bluffs and let the regs call a gto frequency and make the same EV with my range vs pio. It's funny that in the end the next level of play is the same of 2 steps back, which is using the bad reg strats that never bluff lol.

He probably thought the same before bluffing, not that he needed bluffs to deny me the option of explo folding and "went with his blockers".

I already explained why I 2x potted AQ in there

Why are you even checking river with the KQ hand, he will check back so much. Awful line.


Players bluff like crazy on 50 zone, yet they don't on 50 zoom? Are the games really that soft now?

i mean games are a lot softer when people bluff like crazy, ldo

So super aggro anon games are easier than a passive zoom pool where villains play straight forward? U really are special. Rapid would get run over on zone.

certainly feels easier to me when people overbluff as I dont like to fold

you're talking to mirage, the guy who like to fold more than he likes to ****. of course he hates aggro players lmao

Aggro players are superusers ldo

Does it? There's other flush combos. KJhh, QJhh, JThh etc.

assuming we're playing a pretty bad preflop strat yeh, we can find a handful of combos
can also find the 92hh , why not

I wasn't being literal.

borntorun you still haven't told me what stakes and site u play. Are you ashamed?

You need to learn to use the quote function, when did you ask this?

I'm a hobby player these days, gave up full time poker a long time ago now. Never hidden that, in fact I've spoken on here about having gone corporate. But as I have asked multiple times (using the quote function) with no response from you, will you play me HU? I'd actually love it.

Even if I stopped playing today, I'm 100 times the player you'll ever be even if you subjected your limited riggie brain to 10 hours a day study for the rest of your life. It's actually pathetic that you continue to post as if you have any credibility. You've provided me entertainment on this forum through your stupidity for years.