Well, this is a first.

Octobers results. It's jaggy because it is 50 nlz and 10 nlz. Not included is about $150 of 5nlz (all on the phone in the gym) cardmatch and stars rakeback.

All told i'm a little over $500 up for the month.

Well that should fkn jinx it

...it did. If you gonna post the goodies, you gotta post the baddies. 2.5 buyins 50nlz gone in an eyeblink.

first hand QQ versus AK preflop all in flip, mhi busted.

second hand...how sick is this

Hero btn 3 bets unknown MP with KQo, MP calls.

flop 44A rainbow, villain checks, hero bets 1/3 pot villain calls.

turn J rainbow board, villain donks very small hero calls

River is the magic ten. Villain leads small, hero jams....

Villain calls with T4 sooted.

Later

Jeeeezus

Good bounce back this morning (playing around 5am has slways worked for me ??)

Good start...little bit of dynamic this was anout the tenth hand in and just previously I had (btn) 3bet this villain off his co raise. He snaps every action.

This is so not the thing to do with AQ here

PS 4bet size was a little bit of XPLO but even so I overdid it.

some interesting spots...with my thinking (or lack of it!)

H1

versus unknown 200bb+ effecive stack

Flop stone nuts. Where do you go with this...line and bet sizing. Does the turn change your plan. How much value do you go for on river?

My thoughts, honestly...not a clue prod bet button, clearly not big enough...or is it, villain is capped from flop onwards as river shows.



fun hand versus unknown

H2

Preflop...that's my thing, if you don't want to see my brag stats leave it alone

My thoughts...meh, should have put villain on an ace and gone bigger on river.



note to villain, this is why I would never ever BB flat with Ax anything versus a SB raise, whatever the raise size, and an example of why I 3bet SB raises like a monkey on speed.

H3

Bluffing fish is not part of my game period...but it plays itself imo??

more importantly, a good example of fast poker Bayes Theorem fish detection (no HUD stats, based on bet sizing alone) and a instant in-hand switch to XPLO mode.




H4

versus fish 175bb effective stack

lol..wtf do i do? Slow play or go for it? Toss a coin?


[converted_hand][hand_history]Poker Stars, $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Cash, 6 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite. View Hand #37862847

BTN: $68.05 (136.1 bb)
SB: $63.75 (127.5 bb)
BB: $87.47 (174.9 bb)
UTG: $10.07 (20.1 bb)
MP: $69.68 (139.4 bb)
Hero (CO): $129.80 (259.6 bb)

Preflop: Hero is CO with A 5
2 folds, Hero raises to $1.19, 2 folds, BB calls $0.69

Flop: ($2.63) 3 2 4 (2 players)
BB bets $2, [color="red"]Hero ???

In general another real 50 nlz fishfest, and the old expression...

"no foldem holdem"

...springs to mind. Need to bet bigger in XPLO spots and consider 3 streets with TP hands again (2007 called, they want their game back).

Have a great weekend sportsfans.

Quote Courtesy of "Dream Crusher"

Re: Who is Old Man Coffee?





Later

OP confirmed

^^

So it seem there is some sort of cachet in bluffing T2o.

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/s...4&postcount=23

I had no idea (haven't watched/followed TV poker of any sort for years)

Where do I send my CV to PokerStars?

A little Sunday update.

By my pathetic volume standards I've played more zoom recently than I have for while - inspired by the October Heater no doubt. All b/e so far for November, although I did have one surreal 50nlz, where I dropped two buyins in like 20 hands. Got dealt KK 5 or 6 times in first 20-30 hands, top set three times, lost two to broadway and split the third after running it twice, lost first run to a made flush (which was flopped) and won second run with the case King on the river. NLHE online = weird **** sometimes.

I quit then...monkey tilt brain was well in control.

Offer in on the London flat...zero celebration until the money is in my bank. UK house buying/selling process sucks the big hairy meatball!!

Some big possibilities in the offing, so I'm gonna take a break form 2+2 and come back in 2018, when i've more interesting stuf to blog about.

GL y'all

All the best mate, gl for 2018~??!!?!?

Happy New Year!!

Poker has not been top of my priorities during December....in fact it would not make the top 10.

The London property sale is turning into a complete goat...snafu.

I've taken a very short term (deliverables on 5th Jan) job, for the wonga which is vg. That and the usual Christmas commitments of a very large and disperse family, have kept me off the felt most of the time.

That will all thin out by mid January, so I'll start thinking about my poker goals for 2018 in a couple of weeks time.

Meanwhile...

I've been thinking (quite deeply) about the whole 2+2 thing. On the one hand I've learnt nearly everything I know about nlhe right here (BQ and PGCs predominantly). And there are some pgc's I really enjoy following and learning from.

On the other, when you do a little digging, you find so many of the posters offering their opinions (and often not in a nice way) are:

[x] Cr@p at the game (ie worse than me cr@p)
[x] Poker wannabees, fantasists and walts.
[x] Outright fraudsters.
[x] All of the above.

So in 2018, I have decided to put some work into identifying the best pgcs to follow for online 50 nlz to 200 nlz and make it my business to stay out of all the other "shonky" threads.

So a question...who has pgc recommendations for the above. To repeat:

6 max 50nl zoom, 100nl zoom & 200nl zoom. Looking for regs with a track record of writing credible pgc over decent volumes.

Was wondering where you'd got to lately!

You're absolutely right about a lot of the comments particularly on hands in many different forums. It's very difficult to know who to listen to and who not to.

I'd go back and read ishter's PGC, otb's, xpastorcitox, can't think of who else off the top of my head tbh - definitely check to see end of year results that get posted by all the other 200/500z guys and figure out the winners are and who you can study.

Any finite 2018 goals poker wise for you? GL bruv

It's been a while.

Haven't ever really gone away...just that for a myriad of (boring) reasons poker has been way down my to do list for the past 7 months.

Anyways. made a tidy score on my London flat, it's in the spoiler, so if you read it, it's officially not a brag.



Currently doing a consultancy gig until the end of May - advising GDPR, if you've heard of it, so plan to get moving towards 100 nlz in a 6 weeks or so.

Meanwhile, doing some 25nlz (which is reaaallllyyyy fishy all the time) for training and to get back into the swing of it.

I plan focus my HH towards tough folds, but have not had any in the last two sessions, so just a welcome back hand to lol at.

PS OMC plans to be an aggressive redline warrior and I'm over-rolled, so hit it baby

Gratuitous Bump

On a wee heater so not getting the hands I want to post at the moment

w/e

reg bot villain f**ks up the flop completely imo

His flop play is fine

Yeah not sure what's wrong with having a xr range here

Well if the fish in the thread is flatting 86s from the CU i prefer a bet with QQ maybe xraise 99 and 66, jk fatboy also gz on the housing sell

I think I also prefer betting with this one because xr makes spade runouts very awkward with our removal.

Nothing...and nothing wrong with his bet sizing either, assuming he is playing other regbots.

But I'm the king of XPLO

...as demoed, by calling 86s here, which would be an ezy fold..except for the table make up.

I live for XPLO and only for XPLO. Hell, just bought me a new Dell (it arrives tomorrow) and it won't even run PIO

I'm confused. Whether you're striving to play GTO or max exploit, I think 86s should be a fold pre no matter what the make-up of the table.
QQ is also an obvious check on the flop. It would prob be fine for UTG to check entire range in that spot. There's nothing in his range that desperately needs "protection" that doesn't also work as a check-call and bluffcatch, and he should expect CO to stab at a high freq, as that board connects with just about everything in CO's range (only JJ/TT check back).
Villain's line seems perfect to me. I'm not sure if you should be shoving turn tbh. You have no bluffs there and you're often crushed.

this +1000

To be fair in live poker when rake is not a factor and everyone at the table is a loose passive fish with a 3! of like 4% i call 86s and the lot all day long in LP even 100bb deep

Also arty, i'm assuming ur going to be betting with other set combos if ur xing QQ here don't think many ppl will 3-barrel down or work in some overbet strat with much pure bluffs or deviate by betting more hands etc.

When is rake ever not a factor in live lol

get some...



Plan...

tick over with a few thousand hands of 25nlz until the end of my GDPR gig (which is a total moneyfest btw) 25th May.

Get a (teeny weeny) bit more serious Jun and kick in 50nlz.

#rec#omc#gtoregbotslayer#poker

and on a serious note...

I play zoom exactly like a live player plays live so this type of statement...

...is conceptually dead to me as I have no "gto" type balance. I play every single hand exploitatively and of course that makes me super exploitable, but then who gives a toss, because zoom up to 50 nlz is a fishfest and the regs are easily

a spotted
b.avoided.

Will this work at 100 nlz...don't know, don't care.

PS and given many GTOregbots suck multiway with fish in the pot and especially oop deep-stacked, its not like there's a shortage of fun spots to get into against the regbots (who are mostly auto-piloting multi-tabling anyway).

When you don't give a toss about volume, and its all about the fun, the possibilities are endless

It will take about 5 years to put a 100K hand graph up, but maybe I'll manage it one day.

Now, as the man said...

Never complain; never explain.

Set banter to stun...onwards.