Total unknown, never seen the screenname, probably actually not much different than my normal 3bet jamming range. Better result on folds, but stronger range. I'd probably still 3bet KQ/KJs, flat KJo.

Answer will vary based on your poker experience too much, I think it may be better for your broader poker acumen to learn reg speeds/turbos but that too depends on what you're looking for out of the game.

Never skied or snowboarded.

The best play vs R-Q is sit out pre, but against a generic very frequent t45 raiser, I'm non all-in 3betting with AKs which I'm of the opinion should not be your standard. The weak aces are jams. TT-AA non all-in 3bets. 68o, J3s both good 3-bet choices (wouldn't flat vs t45), 84s can 3bet or flat, pretty close between all 3 options for K4o/Q5o. Be aware that you're playing against a moving target and these answers will change in any given "first hand".

Look, you've seen what I do to people who troll me, and you come and do this in my well? If I remember I'll ban you after replying to this post.

Well done on the results! And good job recognizing that your bankroll has to be a function of your real life needs and not going overboard, you have to play within what you can afford. With your winning % I think it's totally fine to start straight at the 30s when you obtain the bankroll from it - just be willing to move fluidly up or down depending on results and your bankroll. If you do have to move down to the 15s don't let yourself get caught up in ego, make your ego be about being a smart, appropriately aggressive player. It's hard to say the % chance you'll do well immediately at the 30s, but only one way to find out

Mathematical background isn't that important, being a good probabilistic thinker as you work through the things that are happening in a match and what you've seen in your total history of hands, is. Also really important is being able to assess "does this poker thought I'm having actually matter? does it actually help me? or am I just making myself feel better about how I study the game?".

By the way, a clarification, on balls. You don't have to be the most naturally courageous person in the world or a tough mother****er or anything like that. You can be like me, shaking nervously on my parent's computer playing 5ks with a fruity drink and fistpumping like a massive dork the whole time. What matters is an approach to your career that puts that expectation of that career over the fear on some level, even if it's just enough to click the register button, and click it again when you lose, and log onto the client with a determined mind the next day. As the philosopher Bubba Sparxxx once said, "Legends are made out of vulnerable men". You don't have to be a hardass to succeed in poker, which is part of why I kind of poke fun at it a lot. You just have to be willing to the bull**** aside somewhere in your mind and make the right decisions.

Talk to people. Find a community. Contribute to it. Take from it. When you study, constantly ask yourself at the end of the day, "what did I learn today that's going to change the way I play in certain situations? What didn't I understand before?"

You talked about waiting for your opponents when they disconnect. What are the reasons?

For calculating 3betshoves you've mentioned card removal often, what size-order of effect does it have? like if a hand is 0.2-0.3bb better for shoving than folding would card removal affect it around 0.1bb, or is it way less? Might be dumb question.

I'm not exactly sure what I've said about this.

Definitely not a dumb question. It affects some hands more than others, biggest effect that people want to know about are Ax hands (more likely to get folds) or two low card type hands (more likely to get called). If you do the calculation by just saying you get called calling range divided by opening range percent of the time, you'll be off by a small but not insignificant amount. That amount will differ based on how deep we are, etc. But it makes a 5-10% difference sometimes in terms of the amount our opponent needs to be opening for a jam to be +EV, especially once you get to around 25bb.

I recently watched most of your videos, and in one of them you get Arag hand on the BTN when we're about 20-25bb deep, and you say "We don't EVER want to limp this hand, I'll explain this later". But I don't think you ever explained it later. My first thought was "Do we really want to raisefold A2-A6 vs a LAG opponent?". But I'm guessing when our opponent is 3bet shoving on us, we get away from hands where we're almost always dominated by bigger aces and pairs. Also we don't want to limp because a hand like A2o plays pretty bad postflop as well as hitting top pair many times will cost us big if we limp-flatted and our opponent wants to get it in.

Am I on the right track?

Hi mersenneary. I really like what you write in this forum and the way you write it even if i'm italian and can understand english almost well. So, i have just two simple questions.

1. I friend of mine which is quite good at reg speed HU sng says that if you're playing waiting for an hand with aggressive and calling station players, you're going to be break even with these kind of players. Do you agree?

2. Have you ever had a look to italian HU sng poker scenario? If yes, do you think it is so much different from the american one? And do you think posting, reading and partecipate to this forum could lead me to a disoriented approach?

So do you open jam 22 preflop 30 bbs deep sometimes?

I'm folding to steals 60%. Am I doing it wrong?

Is there any way to make the hud popup automaticaly?

This topic has gotten long. What was your favourite question? And what was your answer?

are you playing on merge right now

smart way to lazy up and dont read anything

wp wp

Yes but mostly because I flip really well not because of "mathematical expectation".

Yes.

Mine does and I didn't do anything to it, so yes.

Yeah, the biggest problem is that limping A2 let's a ton of junk into the pot with very good equity that will play well against our holding.

1, no, I do not agree. If that were true, his strategies would be optimal! The way you take advantage of a station is decrease bluff frequencies in many situations and increase value frequencies.

2, I don't know much unfortunately, except to be very careful about rake.

Nope

what do you think of chadder's super turbo video pack that was just released on husng? any in put is great, considering that u taught in a lot about STs in the fasttrack program

I'm a big big fan of chadders, haven't watched any of his videos but he took to fasttrack really well and has had a lot of success. Whether to buy will depend on specifics of your situation as always but I definitely recommend him as a good poker mind for STs.

Hi Mers,

I also want to ask some questions:
- Do you like your new job and how has your life changed compared to your time as a poker pro?
- If internet poker becomes legal in US, would you play again for a living?

If you were to do a HU4rollz(against a tough opponent), what would be your conditions?

Yes, definitely like the new job. It's a better opportunity than poker so I wouldn't go back for that reason unless I ended up sucking or something. My life is different in more obvious things like schedules, etc. I also have much less free time and am at the point where I am working overtime to get up to speed, so that's different than where I was at in poker.

I still show up to work in a ratty sweatshirt and listen to Pandora most of the day.

You get two red aces. I get two black aces. We run out boards until one person makes a flush. Loser gives entire bankroll to winner. Winner shoots loser in the face.


I'm going to close this thread for at least a few months, too many me threads, may re-open in the future.