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Originally Posted by Shove
What is your jamming range against an unknown who 3xes first hand? And do you still 3bet/call hands like KJ/KQ or do you prefer jamming?
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.
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Hello mers, how are you?
For someone that never grinded HUSNG seriously ( I probably have 1/1.5K HU games lifetime (reg, turbo and hyper) but want to start playing them seriously what do you recomend?
Starting to play turbos and then change to hypers or start at the bottom with hypers?
best regards
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.
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Originally Posted by emotionx
1. First hand of a 1k$ hyper against R-Quaresma OOP, whats your max possible ev move vs his std raise?:
3bshove vs 3b no ai vs flat vs fold, sizing and reasons behind it?
a) AKs
b) A2-A4o , A2s-A4s
c) TT-AA
d) J6s
e) 68o,84s
f) K4o, j3s, Q5o
2. do u like snowboarding/skiing?
good luck with your life and thanks for your videos for husng.com, they were definetely very helpful
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".
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Originally Posted by SoulAndBone
you're one of the people i admire most in this forum , you are really self centered
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.
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and it's clear that you want to help people who want to improve in this game , which speaks tons about you (by the way i wish you best of lucks with your new finance career)
I've been reading this thread, but still have lots to read being just in page 9 (sighhh).
Well i wanted to ask you a couple of things:
1. You mentioned in one of the posts that the biggest problem you have seen in people is the fear of going up in stakes. I think i'm a good player.. at least i have good results in over 3k games with a winning percentage of about 58%, and i'm willing to work everyday to get better (i told you i think i think i'm a good player, but most of the time i just try to think i'm just a regular player so i can motivate myself to improve)
Thing is that for a time i have been thinking that i should go up in stakes but something happens, i have to pay some kind of debt, need to cash out or whatever and there it goes my project, being a bankroll management freak. Now i'm finishing my industrial engineering thesis and in a couple of months i should be (if everything goes as expected), starting to earn money working as an engineer .I used to play a lot of 10 USD HU, now i play the 7's scare as i am.. but i intend to start from the 30's as soon as i start earning money in a regular job (not playing the 15's). Is it a good idea to "jump" over a level in that way? How much of a difference is between the levels.. if you are good at the 7's for example, how far should you expect to perfom at least in a decent way?
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
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2. Which are the key things that define success in this game.. i figure persistence is one of them, having the balls another.. any other? how important is a mathematical background in your opinion.
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.
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3. Other than the typical approach: reviewing hands, posting hands on the forum, watching videos, what would you recommend to do as a way to improve in HU's?
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?"