Yeah that was annoying as hell but I would indeed unreg for every lobby once I got a game. A lot of days I would sit like a reg in the lobby to get the lobby, only to see a new reg in the lobby after that game every time which was pretty annoying. Nowadays there's not much action at 1-5k anyways and I'm comfortable multitabling different opponents so I don't unreg when I get a game. But yeah definetly with how hard it is to get the 500 lobby on stars you wanna not have to unreg that one, so get comfortable with multitabling. Its also an idea to just sit every reg even if you don't crush them just to chase them out of the lobby.

0-25bb learn all the math, think how a robot would play this
50bb minraise, don't bluff that much because you can't apply a lot of pressure with only 50bbs
100bbs start 3xing (you want to create big pots in position) and realise you can apply more pressure. 3bet a good amt especially against players who play weak in 3b pots you can 3b very wide. I've made a ton of money playing the weaker regs at 25/50 with a 3b % of over 30.
200-250bb applying pressure is the key here, I would be somewhat more tight in 3betting (I have no idea if this is right but it makes sense to me) because they have more room to 4bet and stacks are too deep to 5b shove. Also you want to keep pots small out of position with deepstacks because a good opponent can put a ton of pressure on you.

I didn't know AArookie was belgian, but I think he's very very good indeed.

H2Olga is indeed from the cartoon fairly odd parents, I used to love that and crimsonchin is also from it. I was gonna pick crimsonchin but it was taken, then anti-chin btu that was taken to and ****ing 'bronzekneecap' was also taken, so that left me with H2Olga.

Ik ben nu toevallig op reis en kwam dus eens buiten en het stikt hier idd van de scholieren voor de introductieweek. Op het station zeiden 2 groningers tegen me 'studentje zeker? nou wij zijn boeren'

lolled @ "studentje zeker? nou wij zijn boeren"

What was your goal when you started with poker and what are your goals now?

Would you accept 5k even money on you finishing the first year? if not, how big of an amount is needed to make it +ev because of the added financial motivation

When I started I hated college so I read about internet poker and really just wanted to make a few k per month. Right now make as much as possible within the hours I play per week.

I wouldn't ever take this bet because I'm down on stars for the year, so I couldn't make it there. I could possibly make it on ftp if they were back but I would get my chances from being able to grind more hours then you or livb and I have no interest in this for this year anymore.

hi crimson nice thread !! deff hav a few questions but hav to think about first, hope this threads stays 4 a while

first hand of a hyper turbo on stars, ur bb vs a total unknown who shoves, whats the worst hand u call with ?

Dont think he meant poker, I think he meant you studying?

hahaha ow damn, of course. Why hundrye, you wanna bet on that? You could start it to and we'll do a last longer bet.

I really do that spot on intuition, im really scared hundrye is gonna read this and I'm wrong and hes gonna laugh to himself about it, but A7o, A6s, QK, 44 I think.

This seems kinda tight actually, I haven't played supers for like a month I think I've called lighter but idk...

lol no and i really hope for you you'd be at least a 10-1 favorite against me or you'd better not start in the first place.

I was just gauging how motivated you think you are gonna be, if you wanna accept 5k even money i'd happily accept even if you think you're a fav

How many BB/100 hands do u lose in a superturbo/hyperturbo in the bigblind (all blindlevels unfiltered)

How many BB/100 do u win in a superturbo/hyperturbo on the button (all blindlevels unfiltered)

Thats a really cool bet then, lets make it?

U guys going for the same study?

I'm away for a bit so I can't get to those stats, I'm pretty sure I won from both positions, with like a 1-2 or 1-3 ratio. Positional advantage is like in direct correlation to stack depth.

i'm not starting a study, at least as far as i know right now

Misunderstood then

I'm not sure if you are able to speculate on this- but imo at least you are in a good position to:

How close to optimal do you think you (or maybe other regs like R-Q, livb, primo etc) play compared to game theory optimal in under 25bb poker?

This may be hard to quantify- but you can answer this instead- if you played vs a theoretically optimal opponent, do you think that he/it is able to beat rake at the 1k sts?

What his edge likely to be vs you or other highstakes regs, and at what stackdepth would this no longer beat rake?

I'm just very curious as the answers for the above... Since I find even sts much more complex to "solve" than a game like chess but you make it sound like it isn't (maybe I'm just a fish in poker ).

thoughts on PLO husng's?

Me, and I think you'd have a decent chance of getting livb to coach you if you offered him enough money.

As for the folds, there are cases where you have trips but know for sure you are beat. Its pretty rare and most people will mess up when ever folding in those spots, as in getting too paranoid rather then considering it an odds situation. When you're facing a bet most people tend to (myself included) only consider "is he bluffing or not" rather then "is there a 1 in 4 chance he's bluffing?". Don't use this as an excuse to be a station but its something to consider.

As for an example, I've seen liv fold 22 on a 96472 board or smth after the flop got check through which I wouldnt've done but thought it was a fine play.

- I think I play good but not optimal, livb a little more from optimal since he hasn't played as many supers and relied a lot on gameflow and feel in his normal games. R-Q plays like really close to optimal, also in terms of emotional control, being able to play a ton of tables etc. Primo idk.

- Yes I think he would beat rake against me.

- Pretty tough to come up with a percentage, I guess it would only just beat rake against me, same for livb, prolly not against rq, probably a single digit roi on a lot of other regs. At like 15-17bb and under, especially if I did a little more study it wouldn't be able to beat rake. Now that I think of it, I probably would end up doing pretty well against a computer with my thought process... on the other hand a super computer would instantly analyse my weaknesses... it would be fun though.

- I think its easier, seems like a much more simple game. Funny thing though, I remember one weekend I was bored and played some online chess on my dad's computer and he had rybka on it (for those who don't know thats a chess computer thats like 100x better then any player in the world) and would just put every move into that and crush everyone and they'd be like oh damn youre sick thanks for playing against me I'm learning tons from this.

Really soft but not a lot of action at higher stakes, and stakes don't go high. Plo cash is soft to and there's always action at any stake.

which ben and jerry ice cream is your favourite?

the marlboro flavour one

^think you missed this one since i edited in later

and yes, AA is belgian

I smoke like a chimney when I play. I don't smoke at all when I don't play.

Do you enter a game with a set range for every decision and adjust those ranges after every hand or do you just make them up as you go along?

What's a more important skill: putting your opponent on a range or knowing the best play against a given range?

How would you exploit your average $50 reg in a way that would give you the most +Ev over a long sample?

What do you think about skates? He seemed to approach poker in a similar way as you did.

ah you actually leave the computer to go smoke?