Haven’t pulled this out in long time

AxTx hand - fold-pre.


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So? Let them. Then tighten/polarize your range on those spots counter exploit and bomb those light 3-bets with 4-bets. Or call them off and get to check raise bombing all wet flops that miss the top of their range


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just fold to the mouth breather's limp rr minclick and punish the regs limp rr minclick?

Thank you, gentlemen. Your advice is noted.

And probably correct, but I can't bring myself to fold to a minclick pre.

Crazy right? Do one thing now, to set up doing something different later.


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Any limp rr, esp a limp min rr should def set off all alarm bells, but without knowing more about the player I prolly call here too. Def not shoving though, that's terrible, sorry.

It was pure spew, the worst play I've made in years. I knew it a split second after I verbalized it. I picked a bad time for it, as I can ill-afford this sort of thing.

I'm still losing. Going back again today. I'll crunch the numbers here at some point soon.

I would definitely not generalize what the range of a limp-raise is without knowing the player beforehand, as the OMC who have survived this long in the player pool (or who have maintained being marginal losers), have widened what was once strictly a KK-AA limp-raise range to blocker heavy broadway hands like KQ, KJ, AQ etc. At least from my experience of globe trotting the international tables/playing with the different OMCs of the world

V was a kid in his 20's but not good, the kind who limps and farts around with $100-$150 stack and drinks a couple of Coronas, but no more than that.

It's possible that he could make a fun spite minclick over my largish blind raise, but not likely enough for me to spaz 4bet.

That's why I was saying without knowing player type I would call. If you know their range is AA, KK or even JJ+,AJ+ then you have to fold here ofc because your equity is terrible against that range. IME there are three main types
1) As described they would only do this with AA, KK or even just AA. There may be types who would include QQ, AK or something but this doesn't make too much of a difference, you're looking terrible against all of these. Stack depth is also important here, if they have barely more than the pot left they will usually not fold their unimproved AK, whereas if you are deeper it's a different story.
2) The type you described that has some hands where you're actually looking decent against, or can take it away
3) The type who is capable of doing this with just about any hand he wants to play.
Fortunately you can usually have a pretty good guess who you're up against. But ofc you can be wrong, or you can be up against type 3 but s/he just happens to have AA. The usual.
I also don't agree that peeps would disappear from the player pool if they still limp/RR only with AA/KK. Others also play terrible and there are enough players where this play still kind of works. Also nits are usually not big losers, they are usually small losers, but peeps play too many hands for them to be big losers. Usually, as always it depends.

Yup, agree, sound analysis and as a rule of thumb/without knowing the player type, I would just call/take it from there...

Am not saying they would of been wiped clean from the player pool Darwin style, but am stating that even players that evolve slowly, do evolve and adjust somewhat their ranges/even their limp-raise ranges. That being said, I rarely play small stakes, so my observation comes more so from live mid/highstakes.

Agree 100%. But the game has evolved significantly in the past 2 decades and the OMCs from yesteryears/the Golden poker era, have necessarily adapted somewhat in order to remain small losers/survive the long haul... My 2 cents

loving the recent strat talk around here

gold strat talk right here

I have to write a bit of non-poker content to justify being in this forum and not in PG&C, so I'll post a life hack.

The Gillette disposable plastic 3-blade razor in my bathroom has now been with me and in use for one solid year. It's the only razor I've used during this time.

Now, I have a beard that I sort of grow out and then shave off regularly, as if my face was a Play-Doh Fun Factory, so I don't shave my entire face, but I do shave my neck and upper cheeks every other day, lest I look like either a werewolf or like famous 19th century newspaperman Horace Greeley.



My disposable razor is nearly as sharp as the day I bought it back in Dec of 2023, thanks to an old pair of jeans. Twice a month or so I use the jeans as a strop to sharpen my razor. It's that simple. Some strops are made of denim, and so are jeans.

Fifteen swipes in one direction, then fifteen more in the opposite. Rinse the jean fuzz off the razor, and it's good to go for another two weeks. And it barely marks up my jeans; not that I care, but they're still perfectly wearable.

struggling to remember the last time i aspired to achieve the same degree of facial folication as Horace Greeley.

buy this for $10 and replacement blades for 3 cents, if you buy and don't love live i'll refund everything

I use a battery razor/clipper to trim off the beard at "1" to start off and then use a gillette hand razor to cleanly shave the bottom of my neck and top of the cheeks. Now here is the thing though : I do not understand how for the fracking life I used scissors for the longest time (as opposed to the said battery razor) to trim my beard, thus cutting myself (and bleeding) more times I like to admit and effing making my life difficult for decades

Here is another good poast from Mr. Roll about razor blades, Suited. I'm quite happy with my safety razor as well.

I could grow a wicked neckbeard, but I won't. Some day a good-looking celebrity might do it and make it into a trend, and that would be funny.

I had a coked-up idea for a movie about that once: celebrity loses a bet, has to grow a neckbeard, it becomes popular, and every young male who falls for it looks like a moron. I know that there was more to the plot, because I pitched it to my friends for like 15 minutes. But I can't remember what else there was. That's coke for you. You can have good ideas on it, but you'd better write them down.

I'm clumsy with the trimmer to the point where I don't bother any more. I just shave the beard and start again; the laziest possible solution. I do the same with my hair. Right now I have a fresh buzz cut, and I'm enjoying washing my hair with plain soap and "combing" it with a towel.


I will buy the safety, as soon as I get through my 4 remaining disposables, which ought to last me another 3+ years at this rate, if they don't rust out first.

Here it is, the promised update. As per usual, the machines are keeping me afloat. I would spend more time on them if I could, but there are only so many hours a day that I can check them. Once I finish a round of checking, I then have to wait a few hours for them to be played by normies, and so to "grow" back into +EV states, and all the while the other grinders and the Asian Syndicate are sniping them as well.

December 2024 ****'s Creek Navigation Update

MGM Springfield $1/$2 poker: 19 hours
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Running Poker Total December: 34 hours, (-$29.00)
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Total December: 55 hours, +$1483.64

been seven years and still haven't figured out if kevin smith lost 50 pounds or 20 tequilas
guess that can happen from listening to podcasts

I thought it was Ozempic, because he has that kind of gaunt face that Ozempic people get, but when interviewed Smith said that after a major heart attack he'd converted to a vegan diet and an hour's walk every day, and he didn't say anything about weight loss drugs other than Lipitor for cholesterol.

Kevin got skinny way before Ozempic. Yeah I read about his change it was pretty inspiring.