Hey guys does my stars layout look ok to you? I got rid of that pesky fold and check/call button and painted a nicer background.

Lookin' good, Bob!

I play on pacific and love it.

Tried boss but wanted to shot myself after a few days, i really hated it.

Played there some while ago. I don't like the strukture so moved.
The trafic is a little better than iPoker IMO.

after thousands of cash 6max hands @ micros I did my first 45 days of hu sng, monotabling 5$ and 10$ on ftp (some deepstack, now regular) about 225 games. How much I have to play for a significant sample size? I'm feeling very confident and prob I'm running hot

Hi, I'm just really pissed off atm with my graph. As you can see my ev line is showing almost double profit than actual earnings... Is bad luck doing me up the backside or is this standard..?



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Villian has been spewy post and rather passive pre up until this point. PFR was maybe 15 (should probably get positional raising stats in HUD). , 0 3bet Mostly minraising pre, although 3xed a few times. I had raised from SB 4-5 times after he limped and he folded each time. Safe to assume I'm doing pretty terrible against his range here?

Poker Stars $6.00+$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players
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BTN/SB: t1507 30.14 BBs
Hero (BB): t1493 29.86 BBs

Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with T T
BTN/SB calls t25, Hero raises to t175, BTN/SB raises to t1507 all in

What buy-ins are you playing? It's a standard below average run if you're playing $10s or higher, and starting to get ugly if you're playing $5s or $6s.

It's all 5s, except last 90 is 10s.

Anybody spewy post in the low stakes has enough of a chance to spew in this spot for you to call with TT (that also factors in hand strength and stack/pot size here).

I think you played it fine, you'll be surprised how often a little aggression can make them limp shove K4 or A5 here. I see it all the time, not to mention small PPs which you're absolutely crushing. AA-QQ type hands also get played strangely a certain % of the time and there's nothing strange about his limp shove (not that he can't show up with those hands, it's just a little less likely which is positive for your holding here).

how valuable is HEM for HU sngs? I know pretty broad question, but it always seemed like a more valuable HU cash tool

I think it's pretty good if you know how to use it right and have a decent sample to analyze stuff. What I use it for mostly now is by reviewing games that that I have the least $EV WON..meaning my money is going in bad. Then I can see if it's coolers, bad shoves, or bad calls by me. Mersenneary released a vid on using HEM or PokerTracker for HUSNG a few days ago but I haven't watched it yet.

You can also look at hands where it's only 3bet pots and stuff too.

Yeah, I doubt I'd use the HUD a ton, but I'm sure its of value. I'm most interested in finding something besides sharkscope to track results. I've glanced at PT3, HEM, and am browsing some information on tourney manager, but I dont know what would be best moving forward as I wanna be really organized come 2011.

Hey everyone.

My ****** friend who is very slowly learning fundamental poker skills has now armed himself with the cbet and it has strucken some questions into my head.

Since I primarily play the highly skilled $2 and $5 levels of husng's, I don't run into many opponents who cbet knowingly, and when I do it's easy to spot because they tend to do it every flop regardless. Any dry board I just typically check raise them and see a fold. (helps if I write "loser" in the chatline too.)

Well now when I end up playing my friend we end up getting into these leveling battles where we just check raise/3bet/4bet/shove each others cbets.

I'm wondering if this kind of stuff happens in higher stakes games where cbets are more common? Do people tend to be more careful cbetting and find a nice balance to it? If say a K92r flop materializes, do you sometimes check it just because the ****** across the screen is going to know you didn't hit it?

Start with looking at his preflop range. Eliminate any hands you know he doesn't raise. Then compare his range to the flop texture. You may consider your OOP calling range and the likelihood (in his mind) that you hit a flop as well, depending on if he pays attention to something like that.

Also pay attention to cbet sizing and reraise sizing. It's not always the case, but common enough that players can really give off huge tells as to the type of hand they have based on cbet or reraise sizing (example might be that he cbets very large on scary boards with strong hands... so if he bets smaller his range is weaker and you can attack it... if he bets big you already know his range is much stronger on average.. things like that can come up and they are very valuable).

Hi Bob,
Word in the windows business is that your friend is a better play then you. So how much did you lose? and did your friend own you 5 bet shoving 77-22 AI, just like Phil Gordon?

@ChicagoRy Solidresponse, thanks. I was also wondering though if it happens at higher levels/stakes with thinking players. Like say two regs are playing each other and a really dry flop hits where it's obviously ripe for a cbet. In higher levels, does that sometimes cause the pfr to check because it's so obvious that a cbet would be good there.

@Firegoat:

He won't play me online much because he never folds much preflop and I take all his monies. He always wants to play live but we hate shuffling the cards so it's a pain to fold anything pre. Plus we end up yelling at eachother in the end. God forbid I play AQ when Mike Caro said not to in 1996. And it's still definitely OK to anytime shove 77 regardless as per Phil Gordon.

He's jealous of my pokerstars layout too, (did you see it?) so that contributes to his losing online against me.

What's a good sample size for ROI?

way too much for you to care since you ll improve alot andor change limit before reaching a decent sample size

I have some random small questions, which in my opinion aren't worth opening new thread. Is here any kind of quick check up thread?

I found a huge leak of mine - I tilt whenever I play against someone who takes 10+ seconds act. What would normally be a 10 minute game can drag on to be a 30 minute game because of this, and a lot of times this makes me very spewy. How should I solve this problem, just open up more tables?

I think there's not much you can do. If you think you can beat the guy multitabling then go for it. Ofc you can ask him to speed it up. Other solution is to switch to turbos that will almost solve the problem. Yeah there's my 2 cents.

Imo you play quick / auto-pilot style and consequently alot of feelings/thoughts subconsiously present in your mind cannot find their way to your concicious mind. By keep playing quick you keep them surpressed.
The moment you see an opponent taking their time; your clasic thought routine is passed and now their is time/room to let them enter.
Imo, when the tilting is there; you have to ask yourself why you tilt, write it down. Go further and after match analyse if the why is rooted in reality. If yes, work on it. If no, next time when it happens you can say to yourself you are just experiencing irrational induced thought/feeling that do not deserve time and you can use wathever anti-tilt tricks you know.

Opening more tables is just a methodology to actively keep surpressing things. Confrontation in imo a permanent solution. Actively surpressing is imo a permanent never ending struggle that keeps consuming energy and gives the consequences you observed as stated in your post.

This pathway I use often for tilt; rather basic stuff imo.

When someone's 3betting me a ton (say 25-35% of my 80-100% button raises) and I decide to tighten up my button raising range, what's the best range of hands in your opinion.

I started raising every Ax, Kx, all suited queens, TJ+, and suited connectors. I'm usually folding the rest unless he lets me limp. is this too tight? too loose? should i take out the small suited connectors so I can raise call more often?

you should lower your raise ammount or limp instead of doing it of playing much less hands , if he play like a ****** you can try to limp most and raise good hands since it s unlikely someone 3betting you that much is a good player and will adjust