Then there aren't loads of whales and spazz fish. I'm not sure you understand what a whale really is.

lol trying to get regs into soft games with no financial interest.

If people haven't stopped playing on stars after all these years of ****ing over regs, tough games, reduced rewards, etc. they never will even if they know games are much softer on other sites or live and they'd have a better hourly + less variance. I've heard numerous euro regs tell me they play zoom, despite meh winrates, because they love the software. To me that is a ****ing joke and you should be willing to play on PKR or some 1993 looking client for good games if you are a pro. It doesn't matter though and many people will never stop playing on stars until Amaya literally ****s them to death.

A long time ago David Sklansky wrote an article wondering why the games in LA were so much better than Vegas. A reason he concluded was pros move to Vegas to pay lower rake, be in a nicer casino, etc. Why would Sklansky tell people LA games are softer than Vegas? Cause it doesn't matter pros won't come back you need more fortitude to play in a crappier environment (e.g. Commerce) and they'd rather drink the nice mango juice at Bellagio.

I was 12-tabling a site today with no hud support (can't even dl hands or check HHs easily), barely any timebank, and no hotkey or stack and tile support. No stars helper. Nothing. It's worth it. Rapidesh has said he will always play on stars and considered quitting when they reduced timebank???

Calvin Ayre's "recreational player model" works.

implying that rapidesh should play on a softer site instead of actually improving from a permanent 0bb player

if he was new to poker then maybe

I don't expect rapidesh to listen to me I was just ranting.

Hey everyone play on softer sites! No one will change their sites. Phil Galfond said in his last blog post that RIO games have been really good since regs don't want to leave the sites they are used to playing on.

Roll is ar $5.3k, played very poorly yesterday and made some very bad plays, so annoying

Some hands

H1: vs passive fish that overcalled, is this good? I thought that vs a good player it's better to bet-call this combo or check back, but vs the fish I just wanted to get value vs his pairs that wouldn't fold

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

BTN: 100 BB
SB: 119.82 BB
BB: 99.5 BB
UTG: 109.32 BB
Hero (MP): 114.19 BB
CO: 79.3 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

UTG raises to 2.28 BB, Hero raises to 7 BB, fold, fold, fold, fold, UTG calls 4.72 BB

Flop: (15.5 BB, 2 players) 5 3 6
UTG checks, Hero bets 7.36 BB, UTG calls 7.36 BB

Turn: (30.22 BB, 2 players) 9
UTG checks, Hero bets 21.53 BB, UTG raises to 94.96 BB and is all-in, fold

UTG wins 70.78 BB


H2: vs guy that was shaping to be a reg, I don't know why I do **** like that, he snap called. Tbh I like my play, sure that I'm overdoing it, but I expect villain to have so many straights that are just folding and even flushes too. But vs someone snap calling that it's terrible. I have such a hard time estimating how good people at 100z are, if he is snap calling this it's very likely that he doesn't understand what I'm repping and is just thinking "oh, good, I have a flush, it's a good hand, I'll call", making the bluff terrible vs him

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

BTN: 103.76 BB
SB: 107.07 BB
BB: 136.19 BB
Hero (UTG): 130.98 BB
MP: 127.87 BB
CO: 184.92 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

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

Flop: (5.64 BB, 2 players) 7 J 9
SB checks, Hero bets 4.02 BB, SB raises to 10.99 BB, Hero calls 6.97 BB

Turn: (27.62 BB, 2 players) K
SB checks, Hero checks

River: (27.62 BB, 2 players) 7
SB bets 18.37 BB, Hero raises to 117.67 BB and is all-in, SB calls 75.39 BB and is all-in



H3: very bad triple by me, too thin. I was pretty sure at the time that I should check a lot OTT, and if not, checking OTR, still made the bad play -.-
Ran a sim here after it and it IP is folding a lot of K9 OTR, so insanely bad play by me, also we're x/c turn a lot with it to fold the river, and pio is bluffing insane amounts with the strangest hands that people would never bluff with(or get to the turn with), so x/c turn and x/f river, but if I bet the turn I have to check-call river because pio's bluffs match people's bluffing hands

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

BTN: 115.56 BB
Hero (SB): 126.08 BB
BB: 137.77 BB
UTG: 112.33 BB
MP: 103.97 BB
CO: 108.51 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, fold, fold, BTN raises to 2.1 BB, Hero raises to 9 BB, fold, BTN calls 6.9 BB

Flop: (19 BB, 2 players) Q A K
Hero bets 4.51 BB, BTN calls 4.51 BB

Turn: (28.02 BB, 2 players) 9
Hero bets 19.97 BB, BTN calls 19.97 BB

River: (67.96 BB, 2 players) 6
Hero bets 92.6 BB and is all-in, BTN calls 82.08 BB and is all-in



H4: good call? His sizing looks so value heavy, meh, but he could have so many FDs, he was somewhat tight and I don't think he would have that many bdfd lower hands that complete with the spades.

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

BTN: 108.81 BB
Hero (SB): 106.27 BB
BB: 130.58 BB
UTG: 111.23 BB
MP: 137.15 BB
CO: 100 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

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

Flop: (21 BB, 2 players) K 8 5
Hero bets 4.99 BB, BTN calls 4.99 BB

Turn: (30.98 BB, 2 players) 8
Hero checks, BTN bets 16 BB, Hero calls 16 BB

River: (62.98 BB, 2 players) 6
Hero checks, BTN bets 38 BB, Hero calls 38 BB

not sure what on earth you are doing on the river in hand 2.

I'm pretty sure about that.

va.

mooo.

Vaaaaamooooo!

SpinMe, #blockers and now only one combo of 7's.

I didn't say it was good (or bad). Though, I agree with Rapid saying, "shaping up to be a reg" isn't calling with T8 or QT here.

edit: this is obviously targeted at a deleted post. That is below mine now.

The average villain snap calls here with a FH or flush. They think a bit with a straight, before calling. The blockers work against hero as much as they work against villain.

J9s is prob a better hand to do this with than KJ

I feel like I learned something today.

Do you think Rapid's shove was good/fine?

Villain has 6-9 FH+ combos in there and a lot of straights(up to 8). His straights are pretty much auto-folds, population rarely bluff here. I prefer bluffing with J9s but I don't open that from utg. I have 10 FH+ combos and pretty much only JK I could bluff with(maybe AcJx but I expect villain to fold flushes too, so wouldn't bluff with Ac).

Since I will never bluff blocking straight combos, then the max amount of bluff combos I would be bluffing with is 6 combos, so 37% bluffs, villain needs 35% to be good. But that's a very opmistic scenario, I will always valuebet my FHs and I could just nit give up bluffs(it's not as easy to figure out those spots to bluff with in.

If I always bluff in there his call is breakeven unblocking the Ac, if he has Ac ( and I'm bluffing AcJx), then it's losing insane amounts. If I'm never bluffing AcJx, then it's insanely bad. And the sickest thing is that I'm probably one of the few in the pool that has bluffs in that spot, so can't sew how villain could just call a straight there and feel good about it.

After doing the math on this one I actually like the play. Sad to lose vs this guy. Nit poker is so rewarded in these days because people keep paying these nits off in spots like that.

I thought that during the hand, but I don't open J9s from utg and my A9 x back flop a lot. I thought the 9x blocker was very strong but couldn't find many but A9ss/K9ss which I'm not sure if I x or cbet with

Looked at the board a bit and he has a straight flush combo that makes the math worse for us by removing one of his auto-folds and adding one auto-call. I need 67% folds to breakeven, so if he has 6 auto-folds (T8cc bets turn) and 5-8 FH combos(5-6 after blockers) he will have to fold a lot of flushes for my play to be +EV.

Yeah, gotta just never bluff in these spots and be fine with it. If the guy folds, good for him. At least on 100z it seems to be the case. I lose so much money by expecting people to play better than they do.

think you wanna block 99 and unblock KQ when doing this, KJ prob a better candidate to call rather than raise, that said it isnt too bad if villain is overfolding flushes, he shouldnt even think about folding nuflush though

You know calling is torching a lot of money vs almost everyone at these stakes, right?

h1: in these spots I just check to the fish and hope they screw it up. The nice thing is fish usually extract minimal value anyways so we can check call and reevaluate a lot on the river

h2: Just 3bet the flop. As played not rly repping anything as he prob thinks sets 3bet flop. He has to call NF. I think in these spots it’s important to remember what pool tendencies are and how to exploit them. If he is calling too often (esp with your image) just wait for value and print. If he is adjusting to your strategy by calling wider because you are inclined to bluff here, than he is outplaying you and you just need to readjust strat; then you will be outplaying him.

H3: profitable to check/call either turn, turn & river, or river, but definitely not good AP

H4: I fold river. Ppl just aren’t bluffing missed draws enough t call here anymore. Once you call turn he has to know you have a K a lot of the time (that doesn’t like turn, but isn’t folding) and I think he is then less likely to bluff river

H1 is fine. Raising H2 is also fine imo, pretty close between that and calling. H3 you're better off betting smaller, or just checking. H4 is usually a fold otr.

Big misread of your blockers imo, given he never has JJ or KK and Kx is the most likely hand to bet/fold. Much better having Ac here.

Fwiw i would just call river all day, though i dont expect to be winning a lot.

I think at any stake even really good opponents will do stuff like call nut flushes/nut straights/boats. It's not very profitable to try and get people to fold them. It doesn't mean our opponents are bad.

I would've been really shocked if the bluff in hand 3 worked against his exact hand. Also people probably have notes on you if they've seen you before.

I would just call the river...


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