Had to make soooooooooooo many tough folds today, meh

Some of them here

H1: good bluff spot for villain, but if he has the balls to bluff with a fish in the pot, then gg,

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

BTN: 90.96 BB
SB: 28.72 BB
BB: 124.32 BB
UTG: 312.43 BB
Hero (MP): 105.29 BB
CO: 98.5 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

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

Flop: (7.46 BB, 3 players) 4 6 2
BB bets 3.55 BB, Hero raises to 10.92 BB, CO calls 10.92 BB, BB calls 7.37 BB

Turn: (40.22 BB, 3 players) A
BB checks, Hero checks, CO checks

River: (40.22 BB, 3 players) 5
BB bets 10 BB, Hero calls 10 BB, CO raises to 58 BB, fold, fold

CO wins 67.72 BB

H2: snap jam OTR, he reps such a narrow range, but I think the guy must be a complete psycho to bluff here(or even find hands that want to bluff lol), He had only 1 combo of A3 there that I could beat imo. Good fold?

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

BTN: 394.8 BB
SB: 117.3 BB
Hero (BB): 107.29 BB
UTG: 81.33 BB
MP: 101.5 BB
CO: 61.69 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

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

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

Flop: (6.5 BB, 2 players) K 3 T
Hero checks, UTG bets 3 BB, Hero raises to 10 BB, UTG calls 7 BB

Turn: (26.5 BB, 2 players) 2
Hero checks, UTG checks

River: (26.5 BB, 2 players) 3
Hero bets 18.89 BB, UTG raises to 68.33 BB and is all-in, fold

UTG wins 61.78 BB


H3: villain was unknown, I was unknown to him, can't call this, since people don't bluff enough vs unknowns to justify this call, thought about folding pre lol.

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

BTN: 99.25 BB
SB: 100.5 BB
BB: 113.95 BB
UTG: 136.68 BB
MP: 67.12 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 Q

UTG raises to 2.5 BB, fold, Hero raises to 8 BB, fold, fold, fold, UTG raises to 25.5 BB, Hero calls 17.5 BB

Flop: (52.5 BB, 2 players) 7 9 7
UTG bets 15.85 BB, Hero calls 15.85 BB

Turn: (84.2 BB, 2 players) T
UTG bets 95.33 BB and is all-in, fold

UTG wins 82.83 BB

H4: vs unknown, so annoying because villain won't fold AQ, also I think he won't bluff enough vs an unknown. That's my approach when shot taking, overfolding a lot, since even good regulars that are capable of bluffing will be super careful vs anyone they don't have stats on. Good?

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

BTN: 170.83 BB
SB: 90.34 BB
BB: 48.93 BB
Hero (UTG): 101 BB
MP: 220.11 BB
CO: 262.46 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

Hero raises to 2.32 BB, MP raises to 8 BB, fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 24 BB, MP calls 16 BB

Flop: (49.5 BB, 2 players) Q 9 7
Hero bets 15.94 BB, MP calls 15.94 BB

Turn: (81.37 BB, 2 players) 2
Hero checks, MP bets 172.74 BB, fold

MP wins 80 BB


H5: more folds lol

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

BTN: 100 BB
SB: 102.61 BB
BB: 354.63 BB
UTG: 151.3 BB
Hero (MP): 100 BB
CO: 105.13 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

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

Flop: (15.42 BB, 2 players) 8 3 9
BB bets 9 BB, Hero calls 9 BB

Turn: (33.42 BB, 2 players) 4
BB bets 16 BB, Hero calls 16 BB

River: (65.42 BB, 2 players) 8
BB bets 42 BB, fold

BB wins 64.05 BB


H6: this is a more straightforward one, don't think he will turn hands into a bluff enough of the time

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

Hero (BTN): 111 BB
SB: 497.51 BB
BB: 100 BB
UTG: 131.3 BB
MP: 89.94 BB
CO: 107.1 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, MP raises to 2 BB, CO raises to 5 BB, Hero calls 5 BB, fold, fold, MP calls 3 BB

Flop: (16.5 BB, 3 players) J T K
MP checks, CO checks, Hero bets 11.76 BB, fold, CO calls 11.76 BB

Turn: (40.02 BB, 2 players) A
CO checks, Hero checks

River: (40.02 BB, 2 players) 7
CO bets 12.55 BB, fold

CO wins 38.02 BB

H7: villain was super trappy, he had all AK in there, maybe too thin?

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

BTN: 40.32 BB
Hero (SB): 107.47 BB
BB: 161.03 BB
UTG: 105.26 BB
MP: 166.63 BB
CO: 140.37 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, MP raises to 3 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 2.5 BB, BB calls 2 BB

Flop: (9 BB, 3 players) 3 J K
Hero checks, BB checks, MP checks

Turn: (9 BB, 3 players) A
Hero checks, BB bets 3 BB, MP raises to 15 BB, Hero calls 15 BB, fold

River: (42 BB, 2 players) 4
Hero checks, MP bets 25 BB, Hero raises to 89.47 BB and is all-in, MP calls 64.47 BB




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That A3 fold just has to be bad.

I admire your hand posting stamina

It's the most questionable one imo, but my range is filled with so many bluffs, villain has so much incentive to bluff turn and at this point he should be turning SDV into bluffs, so when he checks back, it's likely that it was a poorly played set that wanted to trap in such a super wet board lol.

Fish are capable of trapping there a ton, and he snap raise jammed river, so meh, easy fold

Lel that folded straight c'mon rapid you were making progress

you play 200nl now?

Aka micro nosebleeds

think A3 fold is really bad. villain has 80bb which suggest hes a rec and he could very easily be spazzing given ur FOS line + he could value jam a worse hand (AA/AK/KT)

The gods of poker are testing me today lol

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

Hero (BTN): 100 BB
SB: 76.58 BB
BB: 193.57 BB
UTG: 420.34 BB
MP: 152.54 BB
CO: 102.68 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, MP raises to 2.5 BB, fold, Hero raises to 8 BB, SB calls 7.5 BB, fold, fold

Flop: (19.5 BB, 2 players) 3 8 T
SB bets 13.58 BB, fold

SB wins 18.52 BB


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

BTN: 131.5 BB
SB: 100 BB
BB: 105.06 BB
Hero (UTG): 113.92 BB
MP: 589.23 BB
CO: 396.35 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

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) 7 2 4
SB checks, Hero bets 2.5 BB, CO calls 2.5 BB, SB raises to 13.5 BB, Hero calls 11 BB, CO calls 11 BB

Turn: (48.46 BB, 3 players) 7
SB bets 20.26 BB, fold, fold

SB wins 46.04 BB


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I jump in 200z when the pool has more fun players than 100z/50z, moving up little by little, since my bankroll isn't that big for 200z. Also I'm pretty sure I can't survive reg battles in there.

Lel it's back to the old days

What do you mean by that? Ive always made explo folds, I wasnt posting any because I wasnt facing nutted ranges, was sunrunning like crazy.

Gotta explo fold, at 200z it seems ill have to call more often, but until people start having some hands on me, i will have to keep folding pretty hard

My biggest strengh and the only reason im winning at a decent winrate is because I explo fold the crap out of these nits. I think in the last 300k hands i havent paid off a nit for 3 streets in a srp with top pair even once

lolz at thinking he is checking sets on turn, and check raising that flop with that hand when it smashes his range, and folding on river, when villain is jamming a crap load worse hands or bluffing vs ur stupid line. Why would he need to be a psycho to bluff there when you rep nothing? He wouldn't be ******ed enough to consider you raised flop with just 3x.

H3.. lolz

Rest are no better. Just scared money.

Mind blowing you somehow donked your way to taking shots at 200z.

Regs probably know about this thread and pile it in against you with napkins

Dont know how I have 52 wwsf then lol

These folds are fine, every winning reg makes them, if you keep leveling yourself into making those calls, even though some are gto calls, you will be breakeven/small winning at best, since population dont bluff enough

Ive made a ton of hero calls too, its not like I fold because Im afraid. You know that a lot of people make calls because theyre afraid, right? Theyre afraid of folding the best hand.

You seem totally unaware of the concept of perceived range even though its pretty basic. The A3 wasn't a hero fold, you had the effective nuts on that board and the way the hand was played. The fact you think villain wouldn't bet sets on that turn or couldn't value bet river with worse, shows how clueless you are. His line looked fos as well to me, I'd say he bluffed off some scared money there.

QQ hand you shouldn't 3bet if your going to fold on those boards.

Is that why you 4bet kqo from utg vs MP?

H7, villain checking back KK there was so horrible I don't understand how some people play. His turn raise should have been alarm bells ringing, Id flat river.

Just keep recalibrating and you'll get there Rapidesh. Reverse bluff stacking is one of the most important things to consider in a nitty pool but it's a slippery slope once the folds hinge on more narrow assumptions. More so when you make them public.

Whats reverse bluff stacking?

Kq 4bet is std, when I said I go nittier, i meant I would make more folds, but bluffing is super profitable when youre an unknown to the other player, ill valuebet less thin when shot taking too, those are the adjustments I think are good when moving up

In the a3 hand he snap jammed, what do you think its more likely: that this random fish is the next isildur or that he had a FH and had a boner OTR?

Played a short session, will play more soon

H1: Meh, hate how I played this hand. I mean, vs a very tough opponent it's super wp, but vs most of the people I play against, I'm losing so much value. OTT it isn't a spot where I should check a lot, but I have to check with some of my range, since villain has a ton of Kx that now beat my Ax, so if whenever I check there I'm capped at AQ, then I'll be so easy to play against when I check. So I have to check strong hands as this one some % of the time, also by doing that, I can valuebet my AQ OTR more safely, because villain will have to think twice about jamming his FHs for value there. But vs someone that isn't capable of making those adjustments, it's so bad. I think this is the kind of spot where I get super paranoid and end up making the worst play in practice in order to prevent myself from getting exploited.

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

BTN: 120.86 BB
SB: 317.6 BB
Hero (BB): 100 BB
UTG: 23.72 BB
MP: 100 BB
CO: 66.42 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

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

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

Flop: (20.5 BB, 2 players) K 9 A
Hero bets 6.45 BB, BTN calls 6.45 BB

Turn: (33.4 BB, 2 players) K
Hero checks, BTN checks

River: (33.4 BB, 2 players) J
Hero bets 16.49 BB, BTN calls 16.49 BB




H2: such a gross spot, good fold? Villain has so many value combos there and most of his bluffs have 30% equity vs me that I decided that it was a fold

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

BTN: 63.87 BB
SB: 99.02 BB
BB: 104.27 BB
UTG: 137.16 BB
Hero (MP): 100 BB
CO: 174.83 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, Hero raises to 2.32 BB, fold, BTN raises to 8.46 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 6.14 BB

Flop: (18.42 BB, 2 players) Q J T
Hero checks, BTN bets 17.5 BB, fold

BTN wins 17.5 BB

You do these incredibly inconsistent things like fold what is almost always a split when you've got a decent amount in the pot already. Then next hand (JJ) you check jam river with something like the 7th nuts against a guy who has your range crushed. Its inconsistencies like these that make your "explo folds" hard to justify. Its like one minute you're an absolute nit, the next youre jamming a relatively weak hand into a nutted range.

So that's the crux of your analysis of that hand? the snap jam?

Snap jams are often bluffs. When do you see fish not value betting sets?

Kqo is also a fine standard fold, Its not 100% 3bet at all especially vs MP. You say your tighter taking shots yet 4bet bluffing oops vs unknowns super strong range. The contradiction continues.

AK Hand, nice value betting... lol. Just think about how unbalanced your river spazzes are when this is how you value bet the nuts...

Update of the month

Best month I've had in poker, so good to see all the hard work to pay off! Ofc, ran crazy good, but in this month I haven't spewed even a single stack by tilting, even though some plays were bad, I had a reasoning at the time of the play. Making a spewy play because you didn't have the knowledge of the game is ok, because it's something I can improve, now spewing because of tilt is unacceptable. So good that I improved in that area!

Will have another coaching session with brokenstars, this time will work on 3-bet pots, an area that I've improved a lot, but I still don't have a "method" to play those spots, I mostly make my plays and hope for the best lol. On may/june I'll work at SRP pots OOP from UTG/MP/CO vs IP, then SB vs BB, which are the weakest areas in my game right now. It's funny that I play really well BTN vs BB, mostly because I've played with a >50% RFI over such a huge sample size lol.

Will take the last 2 days of the month off poker, maybe I'll shoot a sunday session tomorrow

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Some hands

H1: almost timed out OTR lol, I'm such a pussy, but that line is soooooo underbluffed.

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

BTN: 160.53 BB
SB: 105.11 BB
BB: 266.56 BB
UTG: 85.21 BB
MP: 100.5 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 9

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

Flop: (17 BB, 2 players) T Q A
SB bets 6.78 BB, Hero calls 6.78 BB

Turn: (30.56 BB, 2 players) 5
SB checks, Hero checks

River: (30.56 BB, 2 players) 2
SB bets 22.64 BB, Hero calls 22.64 BB




H2: Good fold? I think it was kinda bad, villain could have AsQx there, maybe he checks back his FDs too, since I'm x/r flop a decent amount of the time. Calling with AsAx, right? What about KsKx?

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

BTN: 153.3 BB
SB: 256.5 BB
Hero (BB): 100 BB
UTG: 142.52 BB
MP: 136.45 BB
CO: 253.53 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, MP raises to 2.5 BB, fold, fold, SB calls 2 BB, Hero raises to 13 BB, MP calls 10.5 BB, SB calls 10.5 BB

Flop: (39 BB, 3 players) 9 6 8
SB checks, Hero checks, MP checks

Turn: (39 BB, 3 players) 4
SB checks, Hero bets 19.26 BB, MP raises to 123.45 BB and is all-in, fold, fold

MP wins 75.02 BB


H3: vs gazzyb while he was streaming, he was so funny in there lol "look at this, he bets $6 in a $40 pot, he wants us to make something stupid" haha. Trying to copy these kind of plays that I see at benabadbeat's thread, don't know if I'm capable of calling a x/jam there though lol.

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

BTN: 146.09 BB
SB: 251.86 BB
BB: 324.2 BB
UTG: 102.5 BB
Hero (MP): 101.5 BB
CO: 79.66 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

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

Flop: (5.14 BB, 2 players) 7 5 J
BB checks, Hero bets 1.61 BB, BB raises to 6.5 BB, Hero calls 4.89 BB

Turn: (18.14 BB, 2 players) K
BB bets 12.5 BB, Hero calls 12.5 BB

River: (43.14 BB, 2 players) 5
BB checks, Hero bets 6.14 BB, fold

Hero wins 40.98 BB


H4: by playing hands like these I fear for my hero folds lol! But I'm x/c with AA there, so it's fine

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

BTN: 100.8 BB
SB: 142.32 BB
BB: 100 BB
Hero (UTG): 103.95 BB
MP: 440.64 BB
CO: 89.09 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

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

Flop: (6.14 BB, 2 players) T 5 T
Hero bets 4.37 BB, CO calls 4.37 BB

Turn: (14.88 BB, 2 players) 7
Hero bets 10.61 BB, CO calls 10.61 BB

River: (36.1 BB, 2 players) 7
Hero bets 25.73 BB, CO raises to 71.79 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 46.06 BB




H5: vs reg that is trying to run me over, so many outs when called by a hand without spades

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

BTN: 102.28 BB
SB: 142.47 BB
BB: 100 BB
UTG: 100 BB
Hero (MP): 100 BB
CO: 151.65 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, Hero raises to 2.32 BB, fold, BTN raises to 8.5 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 6.18 BB

Flop: (18.5 BB, 2 players) T 9 K
Hero checks, BTN bets 9 BB, Hero calls 9 BB

Turn: (36.5 BB, 2 players) 7
Hero checks, BTN bets 23 BB, Hero raises to 82.5 BB and is all-in, fold

Hero wins 80 BB


H6: max value by fish lol.

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

BTN: 196.23 BB
SB: 174.95 BB
BB: 289.71 BB
UTG: 110.91 BB
Hero (MP): 136.23 BB
CO: 148.67 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, Hero raises to 2.32 BB, fold, BTN raises to 3.64 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 1.32 BB

Flop: (8.78 BB, 2 players) 7 Q K
Hero checks, BTN checks

Turn: (8.78 BB, 2 players) K
Hero bets 8.34 BB, BTN calls 8.34 BB

River: (25.46 BB, 2 players) T
Hero bets 18.14 BB, BTN raises to 36.28 BB, Hero calls 18.14 BB




H7: vs semi-fish, he tanked a lot OTT, so thought he was snap folding river

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

BTN: 182.73 BB
SB: 89.6 BB
BB: 152.13 BB
UTG: 101.16 BB
Hero (MP): 103.04 BB
CO: 70.94 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, Hero raises to 2.32 BB, fold, fold, SB calls 1.82 BB, BB calls 1.32 BB

Flop: (6.96 BB, 3 players) 7 T 7
SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets 2.19 BB, SB calls 2.19 BB, fold

Turn: (11.33 BB, 2 players) Q
SB checks, Hero bets 7.1 BB, SB calls 7.1 BB

River: (25.53 BB, 2 players) 6
SB checks, Hero bets 18.19 BB, SB calls 18.19 BB



H8: going for some thin value vs fish, reduced my sizing OTT and OTR to expand his calling range, but didn't expect to get called so light lol. This is one thing that I'm working on: choosing sizings with marginal valuebets that can get called by worse more often vs fish

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

Hero (BTN): 100 BB
SB: 106.7 BB
BB: 100 BB
UTG: 100 BB
MP: 223.62 BB
CO: 70.13 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

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

Flop: (5.64 BB, 2 players) 4 3 8
SB checks, Hero bets 1.77 BB, SB calls 1.77 BB

Turn: (9.18 BB, 2 players) 2
SB checks, Hero bets 4.53 BB, SB calls 4.53 BB

River: (18.24 BB, 2 players) 3
SB checks, Hero bets 9.01 BB, SB calls 9.01 BB

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