well, I really need to stay away from alcohol I think. no idea how/why I got so ****ed up last night. first time I drank alcohol in about a week so it hit me pretty hard I guess. Not sure why I thought I played poker though - I've checked all my accounts and I didn't play a hand after going out last night. Not for lack of trying, but I think I couldn't get tables going. and I remember I lost my mouse at one point (how that happens idk)

But somehow I was convinced that I spewed off a bunch of money drunk, to the point that I punched a wall or something and ****ed my finger up. it's not bad though, just bruised and swollen. and no holes in the walls so that's good

stick to weed kids. taking it easy today, but I am in the sunday milly for fun. sitting on 4x starting stack rn

Haha.

This thread just gets better and better hahaha. Gl on the grind bro


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haha I think I'm taking 2 days off. need to chill out and just relax. been playing a loooot of hours lately. at minimum taking today off. probably shouldn't take monday off now that I think about it. the games are too good to pass up. we'll see

re: last night's posts in this and other threads -

I've never been a drunk texter, but I'm glad I spewed my nonsense on 2+2 rather than to my contact list

in gl.

this is bovada right, not ipoker?

ty, and yeah playing on bovada and natural8, stars for mtt's

Alcohol is one hell of a drug!

yeah, it's one of the more destructive drugs for the human body and society. gunna do my best to stay away, but I love beer and I like having a few drinks when I go out. plan is to limit myself to 6 drinks when I go out, max once a week.


was taking a look at my stats and I noticed I've made some big adjustments at 500nl compared to 200nl. my cbet flop at 200 was 50%. at 500 I switched to a smaller sizing/higher frequency strat and it's all the way up to 63%. seems to be working well so far.

figuring out optimal bet sizing is really really difficult imo but I've been focusing most of my energy on that lately. trying to overbet more, pay more attention to spots I don't need to balance sizing, etc.



I think you're overbluffing my friend


iPoker - $5 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BB: 103.6 BB (VPIP: 9.09, PFR: 9.09, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 22)
UTG: 165.11 BB (VPIP: 31.82, PFR: 18.18, 3Bet Preflop: 10.00, Hands: 22)
CO: 180.15 BB (VPIP: 31.82, PFR: 22.73, 3Bet Preflop: 11.11, Hands: 22)
Hero (BTN): 114.1 BB
SB: 29.43 BB (VPIP: 61.54, PFR: 15.38, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 14)

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, fold, Hero raises to 2.5 BB, fold, BB calls 1.5 BB

Flop: (5.5 BB, 2 players) J 7 6
BB checks, Hero bets 2.75 BB, BB raises to 8.87 BB, Hero calls 6.12 BB

Turn: (23.25 BB, 2 players) A
BB checks, Hero checks

River: (23.25 BB, 2 players) J
BB checks, Hero bets 9.62 BB, BB calls 9.62 BB

Hero shows Q J (Three of a Kind, Jacks)

Hero wins 41.9 BB

this dude has a bad case of mubs

iPoker - $5 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

CO: 307.69 BB (VPIP: 64.00, PFR: 24.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 26)
BTN: 223.8 BB (VPIP: 28.00, PFR: 24.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 26)
SB: 247.33 BB (VPIP: 30.77, PFR: 19.23, 3Bet Preflop: 14.29, Hands: 26)
Hero (BB): 99.9 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 6 T

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

Flop: (3 BB, 3 players) 2 T 3
SB checks, Hero bets 1.5 BB, CO calls 1.5 BB, fold

Turn: (6 BB, 2 players) J
Hero checks, CO checks

River: (6 BB, 2 players) J
Hero bets 3 BB, CO calls 3 BB

CO shows A J (Three of a Kind, Jacks)
(Pre 67%, Flop 24%, Turn 89%)
Hero mucks 6 T (Two Pair, Jacks and Tens)
(Pre 33%, Flop 76%, Turn 11%)
CO wins 11.4 BB

played a quick 500 hands, -$400 but +$300 in ev. 32k hands on the month so far. need 13k over the next 10 days which should be pretty easy, but I'm gunna put in a live poker session one of those days so might come down to the wire.

Just in case:

ughhhhh I hate folding. can only have a few better hands here but I've almost never seen a bluff in this spot. Gunna see QQ and A7s a looooot, maybe KK occasionally. looking forward to seeing his hand tomorrow

iPoker - $5 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

MP: 97 BB (VPIP: 20.00, PFR: 12.50, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 26)
CO: 95.4 BB (VPIP: 20.00, PFR: 10.53, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 20)
BTN: 128.28 BB (VPIP: 29.17, PFR: 20.83, 3Bet Preflop: 10.00, Hands: 26)
SB: 96 BB (VPIP: 27.78, PFR: 22.22, 3Bet Preflop: 14.29, Hands: 18)
Hero (BB): 127.93 BB
UTG: 100 BB (VPIP: 20.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 5)

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 7 5

UTG raises to 2.5 BB, fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero calls 1.5 BB

Flop: (5.5 BB, 2 players) Q 3 7
Hero checks, UTG checks

Turn: (5.5 BB, 2 players) 7
Hero bets 3.75 BB, UTG calls 3.75 BB

River: (13 BB, 2 players) K
Hero bets 9.5 BB, UTG raises to 42.5 BB, fold

UTG wins 64.2 BB

that's weird, QQ supposed to bet flop like.. always?

idk tbh, I would sometimes check QQ with a spade otf. never checking KK but I see it happen. I defend Q7s/K7s though and obv have A7s/33 +people way underbluff this spot imo, so I'm happy with the fold. tho honestly I would usually hero it, not sure how I found the muck there

it does indeed feel like this line is massively underbluffed in general and I also tend to overfold there, was just saying I don't think we should see QQ much at all though, feels like we see better 7x and KK more than QQ

Yeah, but fish love to x back to trap that. It's a spot where you need to be creative to find bluffs and it's likely that the majority of players won't bluff there much. The funny thing is that's it's a spot where it's hard to find value too, few hands want to play like that, but imo it's way more likely that the guy had a FH/7x than a random midpair he decided to turn into a bluff.

Same goes for when a 14/10/3 3-bet you mp vs utg and x back A72r and raises you ott, it's AA very often imo.

that's confusing to me because I feel like checking back QQ makes way more sense than KK. with QQ we block top pair so heavily it's tough to get value

def very hard to find bluffs in this spot. I'd use all my A3s

timebanked almost all the way down on this one. I think I gotta fold it though. literally everything gets there otr

iPoker - $5 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

CO: 105.15 BB (VPIP: 19.35, PFR: 13.11, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 65)
BTN: 155.3 BB (VPIP: 31.15, PFR: 18.03, 3Bet Preflop: 3.45, Hands: 65)
SB: 110.5 BB (VPIP: 28.07, PFR: 24.56, 3Bet Preflop: 7.41, Hands: 57)
Hero (BB): 100 BB
UTG: 112.2 BB (VPIP: 25.00, PFR: 15.91, 3Bet Preflop: 4.35, Hands: 44)

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

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

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

Flop: (6 BB, 2 players) T 3 K
SB checks, Hero bets 3 BB, SB raises to 12 BB, Hero calls 9 BB

Turn: (30 BB, 2 players) 6
SB bets 23 BB, Hero calls 23 BB

River: (76 BB, 2 players) Q
SB bets 72.5 BB, Hero calls 62 BB

think you should repop flop some of the time and raise turn too most of the time vs this sizing, as played river is pretty nasty but I guess we have a crying call

Don't need to have a bluffing range in that spot since so few hands will get to that river that will want to raise, unless you're using RNG it's very hard to bluff exactly the right amount and even with RNG it's hard to do that. As an exploit I like raise bluffing a lot in there, but in an anonymous site it looks like suicide.

Why not range cbet on a board you can and focus more on other types of spots? By range cbetting otf it would simplify your strat by a lot, making it way easier to play + will be very good for your mental game/your sessions will be way more relaxing. If you do that there will be a very low amount of theoretical EV loss, but you could lose some EV by villains probing more than they should/misplaying vs a raise/misplaying rivers, since you won't be checking back.

I disagree, most people would get very imbalanced to that river. Some part of his bluffing range should be AQ which a lot of people just x because they think it has SDV. Everything got there, even vs massive spewtards it's not easy to be good here 33% of the time.

agreed, I would 3bet flop sometimes but vs this sizing and villian I preferred the call. turn would just be an equity denial raise? never getting called by worse except maybe occasionally AA I guess


I basically range cbet the Q73 in those positions, but it depends on the player tbh. it's also anonymous so I can be pretty unbalanced by cbetting almost whole range but checking some hands that would rather check, like A3

I see people check Q9/QJ otr all the time in this spot so I agree, I think ppl are way underbluffing otr



ship river? vs fish, expected a lot of Jx so went smaller

iPoker - $5 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

MP: 73.87 BB (VPIP: 28.57, PFR: 11.43, 3Bet Preflop: 3.13, Hands: 71)
CO: 67 BB (VPIP: 28.95, PFR: 23.68, 3Bet Preflop: 18.75, Hands: 38)
BTN: 187.33 BB (VPIP: 22.22, PFR: 17.78, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 51)
Hero (SB): 167.97 BB
BB: 51.43 BB (VPIP: 22.22, PFR: 11.11, 3Bet Preflop: 11.11, Hands: 18)
UTG: 125.35 BB (VPIP: 39.13, PFR: 39.13, 3Bet Preflop: 25.00, Hands: 23)

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

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

Flop: (6 BB, 2 players) 4 J 4
Hero bets 2 BB, BB calls 2 BB

Turn: (10 BB, 2 players) Q
Hero bets 6 BB, BB calls 6 BB

River: (22 BB, 2 players) Q
Hero bets 15 BB, BB calls 15 BB

Hero shows Q A (Full House, Queens full of Fours)

Hero wins 51.2 BB

KTo jam turn. Pretty sure thats a nitty fold also.