Rofl I bet you have man. Pio Brazil?

lul

Less Pio, more aggressive calls

There's a reason why I'm not checking range the flop and why I'm range checking the turn vs that guy, maybe when you learn how to node lock you will understand why.

lol @ node locking vs whales.

It makes a lot of sense, but I record my findings with pio and save a list of the spots/theory stuff I think are the most important ones to study, so I just follow that list while studying.

Obv I will get lost sometimes in some stupid stuff, but everyone does that. Also I almost never run a sim to see if "I played well" because there isn't a point in having one hand played like pio in a spot where I'm not playing the rest of my range like that. Also even if I managed to play exactly like pio in a spot it could still be bad.

I just pick a spot, try to understand it, then lock some strats I think opponent could be doing and go from there. Also I love testing my explo strats to see how villains should counter that and compare to what they are probably doing to see if my exploit is decent. If villain's response isn't very easy to get to and the EV gained is high, I will stick to it blindly. Now if it's trivial for villain to counter that and the Ev gained is low I will stop doing it

Actually it's exactly vs bad players that you should be node locking the most

how do u node lock vs such a super wide random range? it defeats the point.

Keep trying. Told you a while ago to stay away from contaminated water in Brazil but you just dont like to listen.

Fwiw, the hand is w/e. It's your incompetence.

Why are you using GTO and PIO vs whales... It's a waste of your time.

You beat whales with fundamentals not strategy..

Your winrate would probably go up a lot if you uninstalled pio.

Pio is great and I don't follow it blindly, specially vs most of my opponents, which are either bingo players or bad regs. Most of the time I'm just not using pio plays, a lot of the time before making a play I think: "I think pio does that, but I will do this because of this, this and this". But it's good to know what pio does because in the future I might play with tougher opponents, so it's good to be prepared.

There isn't such a thing as "too much knowledge", only knowledge that is poorly applied.

Let's get down to business to defeat the russians,
Did they send me punters, when I asked for crushers?
You're the saddest grinders I ever met
But you can bet before we're through
Mister, I'll make a crusher out of you!

Tranquil as a forest but on fire within
Once you find your exploit, you are sure to win!
You're a spineless, fishy, pathetic lot
And you haven't got a clue
Somehow I'll make a crusher out of you

Be a crusher
We must be swift as the coursing river
Be crusher
With all the force of a great typhoon
Be a crusher
With all the strength of a raging fire
Mysterious as the dark side of the moon

Vaaaamoooo haha

Why the giant overbet? Risking ~80bb to win ~20bb. What was the thinking behind this?

Most likely true. However, he seems to like discussing theory and strategies which don't help his game.

It's good actually.

Pretty much the only thing that calls him there is AT/A9/TT/99 and he blocks all of it. Most opponent will fold 90%+ there and he has no SDV.

Simple answer:
Because he is a pussy

Explo-vamo answer:



And yeah,I love poker strat, to the point of derailing other people's threads, will try to go lighter on that, I just can't control myself because of how interesting poker is, how complex it is and how funny it is to study this game.

Nothing wrong with that mate, you do what makes you happy. The hate in this thread from the same 3 posters is pathetic.

blablabla i love poker blablabla Zkesic is my only supporter blablabla

Yeah, the biggest problem is that I sound arrogant in my strat posts and I'm just a nobody in the poker world playing micro stakes. But I sound like that because that's how I learned to formulate arguments in school: show the points and say the pros and cons of everything, then the other person gives his argument and both go from there.

I'm genuinely just looking to discuss strat, learn from other people's point of views and also externalize some concepts I learned (think I've learned). I can see how some guys like mzbourg and isolated could get tilted, they don't like getting into discussions because they "know their place"(that they're micro players and shouldn't discuss with the big boys). So they get tilted by seeing me do it.

But yeah, it's a good thing to do that, the more strat discussion the better. Even if I give free info/xenoblade and others give it too, it's so small in the poker environment today that the benefits of what I learn with that way outweight the people who learn new concepts/reads by reading the threads.

Please don't lump me in with Mz. I don't just **** on you. I troll sometimes and give other thoughts at times.

Yes I know my place in the micros.



Doesn't even count my Ignition winnings.
Confirmed tilted seeing you do it.

Good luck in those streets, Rapid .

This post shows your insecurity about that, bro.
Very good results btw! Wp!

Btw, had an amazing session



Roll is at $4.8k
Played very well today, aside from 1 bad bluff and one very bad call.

Some hands

H1: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge bullets? No, Neo. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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

BTN: 114.48 BB
SB: 101.88 BB
BB: 213.36 BB
UTG: 441.8 BB
MP: 54.86 BB
Hero (CO): 107.18 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

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

Flop: (7.96 BB, 3 players) J 6 Q
SB checks, Hero bets 1.96 BB, BTN calls 1.96 BB, SB raises to 9.08 BB, fold, BTN calls 7.12 BB

Turn: (28.08 BB, 2 players) 4
SB bets 19.2 BB, BTN raises to 103.08 BB and is all-in, SB calls 71.28 BB and is all-in

River: (209.04 BB, 2 players) 9




H2: excellent call by villain lol

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

BTN: 138.22 BB
SB: 395.66 BB
Hero (BB): 100 BB
UTG: 89.34 BB
MP: 62.38 BB
CO: 179.4 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, fold, fold, fold, SB raises to 2 BB, Hero raises to 6 BB, SB calls 4 BB

Flop: (12 BB, 2 players) 5 6 8
SB checks, Hero checks

Turn: (12 BB, 2 players) 9
SB bets 9 BB, Hero calls 9 BB

River: (30 BB, 2 players) 8
SB checks, Hero bets 14.82 BB, SB calls 14.82 BB


H3: good fold? I get so strong to that river, can't see many villains trying to bluff Kx

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

Hero (BTN): 105.1 BB
SB: 94.56 BB
BB: 33.98 BB
UTG: 266.96 BB
MP: 129.52 BB
CO: 101.5 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, fold, Hero raises to 9 BB, fold, fold, UTG calls 6 BB

Flop: (19.5 BB, 2 players) Q 8 6
UTG checks, Hero checks

Turn: (19.5 BB, 2 players) K
UTG bets 6.12 BB, Hero calls 6.12 BB

River: (31.74 BB, 2 players) J
UTG bets 24.42 BB, fold

UTG wins 30.16 BB


H4: very bad bluff by me OTT, vs unknown fish, but I think these guys overfold quite a bit in that spot, also they call too much garbage vs the x/r because they hate folding there. OTR it's just too sick for me to not bluff haha, have 0 clue if it's good or not

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

BTN: 100 BB
Hero (SB): 123.94 BB
BB: 87.62 BB
UTG: 106.36 BB
MP: 100.62 BB
CO: 40.5 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

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

Flop: (6 BB, 2 players) 8 2 7
Hero checks, BB bets 2 BB, Hero raises to 6 BB, BB calls 4 BB

Turn: (18 BB, 2 players) 3
Hero bets 17.1 BB, BB calls 17.1 BB

River: (52.2 BB, 2 players) J
Hero bets 97.84 BB and is all-in, fold

Hero wins 49.6 BB


H5: This guy is a reg lol, so ******ed, it's probably the type of guy that came right from 25z, his play makes me remember of that stake a lot lol

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

BTN: 114.46 BB
SB: 195.8 BB
Hero (BB): 100 BB
UTG: 108.66 BB
MP: 217.5 BB
CO: 159.66 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, fold, fold, BTN raises to 5 BB, fold, Hero raises to 15 BB, BTN calls 10 BB

Flop: (30.5 BB, 2 players) 2 7 8
Hero checks, BTN bets 99.46 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 85 BB and is all-in

Turn: (200.5 BB, 2 players) A

River: (200.5 BB, 2 players) 8



H6: vs guy with 14 WTSD over a good sample, insane to see him call this light, couldn't believe his hand, I actually thought he had a FH when I saw the 9x lol

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

Hero (BTN): 100 BB
SB: 100 BB
BB: 100 BB
UTG: 100 BB
MP: 187.1 BB
CO: 143.32 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, MP raises to 3 BB, fold, Hero calls 3 BB, SB calls 2.5 BB, fold

Flop: (10 BB, 3 players) 7 T 2
SB checks, MP checks, Hero bets 4.94 BB, fold, MP calls 4.94 BB

Turn: (19.88 BB, 2 players) T
MP checks, Hero bets 14.16 BB, MP calls 14.16 BB

River: (48.2 BB, 2 players) 9
MP checks, Hero bets 77.9 BB and is all-in, MP calls 77.9 BB




H7: bad bluff vs fish that overfolded flop and turn, he probably has an insane amount of flushes and close to 0 random clubs in there, very bad play by me

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

Hero (BTN): 100 BB
SB: 162.44 BB
BB: 39.1 BB
UTG: 240.32 BB
MP: 197.4 BB
CO: 100 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

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

Flop: (5.14 BB, 2 players) 7 A 9
BB checks, Hero bets 1.26 BB, BB calls 1.26 BB

Turn: (7.66 BB, 2 players) 6
BB checks, Hero bets 5.46 BB, BB calls 5.46 BB

River: (18.58 BB, 2 players) 9
BB bets 1 BB, Hero raises to 90.96 BB and is all-in, BB calls 29.06 BB and is all-in



H8: vs whale, that feeling when you can't fold even the next hand that is stronger than you haha. Deservedly stacked(not stacked though, but I like using that expression created by mirage haha)!

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

BTN: 96.92 BB
SB: 101.38 BB
Hero (BB): 116.06 BB
UTG: 71.56 BB
MP: 88.28 BB
CO: 103 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, fold, fold, BTN raises to 3.5 BB, fold, Hero calls 2.5 BB

Flop: (7.5 BB, 2 players) 9 4 8
Hero checks, BTN bets 4 BB, Hero calls 4 BB

Turn: (15.5 BB, 2 players) Q
Hero checks, BTN checks

River: (15.5 BB, 2 players) A
Hero checks, BTN bets 17 BB, Hero calls 17 BB



H9: vs aggro reg, good blockers, went for it, I like it despite losing

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

BTN: 129.68 BB
SB: 101.64 BB
Hero (BB): 161.6 BB
UTG: 274.34 BB
MP: 149.2 BB
CO: 100 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, fold, CO raises to 2.22 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 1.22 BB

Flop: (4.94 BB, 2 players) K Q 7
Hero checks, CO bets 1.56 BB, Hero calls 1.56 BB

Turn: (8.06 BB, 2 players) 8
Hero checks, CO bets 6 BB, Hero calls 6 BB

River: (20.06 BB, 2 players) 6
Hero checks, CO bets 29 BB, Hero calls 29 BB

Does it? You wanna call me jealous of you I'm gonna show you why I'm not. If I wanted to show my insecurity, I would've left my wr of something > 2bb/100 on there,

Chill a bit, man, I've never said you were jealous, just tilted by my posts.