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Originally Posted by Whatalife333
let me know if and when you have a live london session dude
Will do man, the session before I fly out is just with a close uni friend but when I'm back in London in August I'd love to do some 2+2 1/1 session where we mess about.
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Originally Posted by Xptboy
what type of books are you interested in? Maybe we could give you some recommendations if you want to start reading more?
I'm up for all kinds of books tbh, I guess any book which made you evaluate things on a large scale and lead you to make changes within your own life.
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So I should have done this earlier but let's look at a few hands I played against OBORRA (20kNL reg).
Even though I'm terrible at cash and have no plans of playing it at a high level in the near future I fan girl super hard over anyone who has made it to HSNL.
I wrote in the chat a couple times that I respected his game a bunch and got some nice replies. Anyway let's get to one of the first hands in the
tournament.
Pre seems super std this deep but I feel as a standard play the flop should be a raise from me.
As played I feel a call on the turn makes the most sense in this spot, I guess you could argue a raise as played too but I do have a bunch of better hands in this spot to raise and I think T8 plays nicely as a call.
The river is somewhat sigh as hands like AA do get there, on the other hand it reduces potential AT combos. What do you guys do in this spot vs a top reg.
PokerStars - $200+$15|50/100 NL (2 max) - Holdem - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
BB: 199.5 BB (VPIP: 80.00, PFR: 40.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 5)
Hero (SB): 200.5 BB
Hero posts SB 0.5 BB,
BB posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 8
T
Hero raises to 2 BB,
BB raises to 10 BB,
Hero calls 8 BB
Flop: (20 BB, 2 players) T
T
Q
BB bets 6 BB,
Hero calls 6 BB
Turn: (32 BB, 2 players) 9
BB bets 24 BB,
Hero calls 24 BB
River: (80 BB, 2 players) A
BB bets 80 BB
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This was a bit later on in the game and I adopted a limping strategy at this stack depth which I think is very reasonable.
I think pre and a stab on the flop are super standard, the turn is an interesting spot but a barrel still seems like a decent play. The isn't the most amazing board to 2-3 barrel especially when a regs xb range has a lot of 234 but I think it's reasonable and does get some of his Jx and Qx combos to fold, fwiw I think his ax xb combos are never folding for obv reasons.
We get raised and I still think a flat given the fact we are open ended in this spot seems reasonable. A Th lands on the river and we have one of the best bluff combos we have in this spot and vs a slightly small sizing I think with how I had played in the game so far (generally stationy) his smaller sizing weights him a bit more towards thing value which can fold to a shove. It's also hard for me to have a bunch of bluffs in this spot. However I guess the Jh blocker becomes less good in this spot with my justification that his range is more thin and he would jam a lot of his flushes/straights but that being said I still think we have to have some bluffs here vs a good player and that this is one of the best ones.
PokerStars - $200+$15|250/500 NL (2 max) - Holdem - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
BB: 53.28 BB (VPIP: 81.90, PFR: 52.43, 3Bet Preflop: 18.92, Hands: 123)
Hero (SB): 26.72 BB
Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 5
J
Hero calls 0.5 BB, BB checks
Flop: (2 BB, 2 players) 2
3
4
BB checks,
Hero bets 1 BB, BB calls 1 BB
Turn: (4 BB, 2 players) K
BB checks,
Hero bets 3 BB,
BB raises to 7.5 BB,
Hero calls 4.5 BB
River: (19 BB, 2 players) T
BB bets 5.7 BB,
Hero raises to 17.22 BB and is all-in
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PokerStars - $200+$15|400/800 NL (2 max) - Holdem - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
pre and flop seems std, turn seems a bit closer but with a diamond still seems reasonable.
Ofc we get put in the worst spot of all time on the river. Personally I think this is one of the best call down combos since we don't block his broadway bluffs in this spot (I mean some have said he could xb his KQ stuff on river but im not so sure). Whilst we do have some Ax which we can snap him off with I feel that he knows I would rejam a lot of Ax vs a player like him at this stack depth and I felt (perhaps leveled) that he would try and take advantage of the fact my range is relatively capped in this spot based on the fact I had jammed fairly deep on him in previous hands.
What do you guys think.
SB: 23.84 BB (VPIP: 79.39, PFR: 50.39, 3Bet Preflop: 15.91, Hands: 150)
Hero (BB): 26.16 BB
SB posts SB 0.5 BB,
Hero posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has T
6
SB raises to 2 BB,
Hero calls 1 BB
Flop: (4 BB, 2 players) T
A
A
Hero checks,
SB bets 2 BB,
Hero calls 2 BB
Turn: (8 BB, 2 players) 2
Hero checks,
SB bets 4 BB,
Hero calls 4 BB
River: (16 BB, 2 players) 5
Hero checks,
SB bets 15.84 BB and is all-in
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I don't want to overload the HH's so I will leave it with these three for now.
Lmk what you think!