Winning Poker, Hold'em No Limit - $1/$2 - 6 players


UTG: $314.63 (157 bb)
MP: $157.00 (79 bb)
CO: $229.00 (115 bb)
BU: $353.72 (177 bb)
SB (Hero): $212.81 (106 bb)
BB: $263.02 (132 bb)

Pre-Flop: ($3) Hero is SB with 7♣ 7♠
2 players fold, CO raises to $5, 1 fold, Hero 3-bets to $22, 1 fold, CO calls $17

Flop: ($46) 3♣ 2♣ 7♥ (2 players)


man that's a good feeling

ACR graph, also 15k hands or so on untracked sites.

go broke fish

Good work. I didn't catch up on the whole thread, but if you've ever read mine, you know I'm a big fan of being aggressive with your bankroll. It's significantly more important to be conservative if you're playing for a living. If it's a side hustle like it is for most of us, there's nothing wrong with taking some shots. If you run good, awesome, you've moved up way quicker. If you run bad just move back down and keep grinding. The idea of grinding the microstakes for 100K+ hands just to hit some arbitrary dollar amount before moving up seems nitty.

And yeah, flopping a set in that 3-bet pot is a great feeling until the guy called with 45s and gets there. Happened to me a few days ago. I shoved the river and the dude hit me with the tissue throwable on stars before slow rolling me on the call.

For sure, I think aggressive BRM is a great skill to have for a lot of poker players. Most people want to just play a stake and move up slowly, but the ability to move down is super important. (I recently took a shot at 400nl and lost 2.5 BI, moved back down to 200)

Once you stop giving yourself labels poker is a lot more fun.

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Subbed! glglglgl

Thanks

Do you (or anyone else) have any thoughts on this hand?

Winning Poker, Hold'em No Limit - $2/$4 - 6 players


UTG: $400.00 (100 bb)
MP: $414.80 (104 bb)
CO: $403.82 (101 bb)
BU: $438.28 (110 bb)
SB: $406.32 (102 bb)
BB (Hero): $652.98 (163 bb)

Pre-Flop: ($6) Hero is BB with Q♣ Q♦
2 players fold, CO raises to $10, 2 players fold, Hero 3-bets to $44, CO calls $34

Flop: ($90) K♠ 3♦ 2♠ (2 players)
Hero bets $28.71, CO calls $28.71

Turn: ($147.42) 5♥ (2 players)
Hero bets $47.65, CO calls $47.65

River: ($242.72) 6♣ (2 players)
Hero checks, CO checks

I was mulling over my options on this turn, and was wondering if we are really "allowed" to block this specific combo or is it better to play as a bet check bet (need les protection than hands like JJ/TT). I think it's definitely strong enough to block, but also a debatable sizing.

On the river, do we triple block? Seems like an explo line, but definitely can be looked up by worse and I will have bluffs... also prevents me from tilt calling the river (not that that's a good reason...).l

There's nothing wrong with a range bet on the flop but this can also be a flop check. Generally I think betting more than 2 streets with hands weaker than top pair can be problematic. Although he shouldn't have too many K's here, just KQ and some KJs/KTs. AK is usually going to play as a 4-bet. What few draws there are should probably be raising this flop.

Seems ok to me

Thoughts on this hero call vs. a SB range?
The guy is a reg, so I assume he has a pretty standard range, although the big blind was a fish so he could have some slight looser hands.
Flop is a standard b/c I assume, turn the As is not great, but his combos of 22 are reduced, we block 55, 77 possible.
On the river he bets 75p, the As is fine I think as he won't bluff his missed flush draws. A4s does get there, but I think he should have a lot of suited broadway bluffs as check raises

I'd likely check this hand pure otf. much sooner bet some 88-JJ + strong 7x. don't see much merit in betting A5 (bar your blocking of 55 which is only a small portion of their range).

AP i can get behind a call for sure. Blocking 55 and the As unblocker is very nice.

Thanks for the insight, the way I've looked at SB ranges is that it will have a decent amount of some small PP and a lot of suited broadways (although less than I thought), so I wanted to try and deny some equity from those hands, although that's not really a huge reason to bet.

I definitely get value from some ace highs, although I block those too. I'm still not convinced either way on the flop bet.

That's what I thought, the only question in my mind is if he goes for thin value with TT-88, which I think is possible. I think he should be polarized on the river but he chooses a smaller sizing that makes me think he can have some of those hands. tbh if he ripped i want to call more

Playing vs a SB flat is a different universe than vs BB. Their range is so tight they should have a lot of donks on weird boards like AQ2 where we think we have a big advantage as the BTN, but we actually don't. If the villain doesn't have a donking range, there are lots of flops where we should be pure checking back our range.

My sim has them donking at something ridiculous like 70%. I would definitely just check my entire range on this flop and play turns and rivers. As played, your hand seems like a solid bluff catcher, maybe the best one, but when they are repping such a thin value range, they usually aren't bluffing, in my experience. I'd just nit fold this spot.

My sims as well.

1 month since I moved most of volume off blitz/ACR

Some results on european club apps and ignition -

April Results -



Did not play as much volume as I wished to but ran quite well. Think I will start experimenting with mindset and meditation stuff pre session to help with my mental game.

Tough hand here -



at first glance it seems like the river is a mandatory shove but I actually think this is a river we want to do a lot of checking on. Not 100% sure but vs. this flop sizing villain will have a decent amount of floats and stuff. Maybe this hand is just a mandatory jam. Not sure about turn barrel as well.

Time to crush May -

Goals -

20k hands playing reg tables

15 minutes meditation/mindfullness every day

15 minutes review after every session

Try to play longer sessions, I normally go for 1-2 hrs but trying to play for 3-5 nowadays

glgl keep it up

Nice! Think jam should be ok otr, you block possible QJhh and JThh floats

I think river jam is fine. Sometimes solver will like smaller size on the A turn to put all his Kx and pocket pairs in a tough spot.
If you bet the turn, the plan should be jam the heart river and Q/T river and low frequency jam the blank.

You know me, I don't like the 3bet on that hand.

J9s is the 3bet. Board matches BU range more than yours, as played, either we go for the full bluff, or give up on turn. JMHO

You love to see it! GL in May my bro!

Solver has it 50/50 3bet/call preflop FWIW. Not sure I like it in practice though

tyty, thanks for dropping by

Yes in a vacuum our hand has pretty good blockers to his calling range, the question was more the frequency of aggression with our range. When the front door flush completes the OOP 3 bettor often checks most if not all of his range. Obviously this is quite different but I'm not sure if we can just go ham with all our decent removal hands.


Yea the bet size on the Ace is probably messed up. Don't really need to polarize that much after betting flop as we still have a lot of random suited wheel aces or whatever that want to bet. Definitely a mistake.

Thanks you too! Let's crush

Ranges are ranges, doesn't matter either way. And I can't really control the what the river will be when betting the turn, I wasn't sure about this one.

Very nice results! Will be following!

Thanks bro

May Update:



Pretty lackluster month. Ran above EV, but looking at preflop all ins definitely got coolered my fair share. Overall not very interesting, mainly 200 reg tables.

I've played like 40k hands or so at reg tables, and while my bb/100 is higher, I enjoy zoom more and will default to playing that from now on. Fast fold games are more swingy, so looking to keep a deeper roll. Right now I've moved to playing 100 R+C on GG Poker and will look to shot take 200z at 50 buy ins for that limit. It will come up soon hopefully.

As for my goals for April -

20k hands playing reg tables [X]

15 minutes meditation/mindfullness every day [X]

15 minutes review after every session [✓]

Try to play longer sessions, I normally go for 1-2 hrs but trying to play for 3-5 nowadays [✓]

New Goals -

40k hands playing zoom

15 minutes meditation/mindfulness

Now for the hand -



Tough spot here. I think having the Jh is definitely better unblocking BFD **** that bets flop. We do block bluffs, namely QJ and JT, but also we block KJhh which is pretty nice. That being said, due to the nature of BvB do we just call this down easily? He's basically polarized to Kx or better here.

Here's to a good June and a new approach