April is my crack at 5/5 live so shall be fun. Also starting a personal challenge online, starting from 2NL Zoom want to see how high I can get by the end of the year achieving a min 95% confidence I am a winner at each level before moving up.

Just gonna c/p from last months.

First 1k month if I include an MTT ticket worth $215.

Battle of the spew monkies...



#hating poker today despite this

In.

[ ] Crush NL10 to regain confidence and fine tune
[ ] Study a ****load

[ ] Continue to enjoy studying and playing with my new toy.
[ ] No more hero calls vs fish that you know have you beat, I mean no more, not even one more.

Taking another 50NL shot today, dropped 225 in the last one but made that back in 2 days at 25NL haha.

1 time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMjaU14MqRY

Phil Laak is so bad

You've turned this into more than it needs to be in your head, I think if you realize this you'd have less trouble. Just play the same.

I try to haha. Fortunately today's went a little better.

See just when I think I'm starting to get the hang of this poker thing a hand like this pops up that makes me think I know nothing.

How the heck do you put him on a worse hand than AK and make that river call?

I can see why you'd call flop against a minraise because of pot odds, and the turn too I guess. But the river I'd be folding for sure. I mean the only draw OTF (the FD) got there and tbh even if it didn't I'd fold ace high here...

Sick call anyway.

I wouldn't worry about it because it's awful. If your aim in poker is to make calls like that then you're going to lose a lot of money.

Think it's okay, we beat his bluffs and villain shouldn't have value here. Would fold this in-game but call with the As.

Why shouldn't villain have value there? QQ, JJ, maybe even TT are all in his range. AKss is in his range, maybe AQss if he calls squeezes with that.

Because raising the flop with any of those hands is terribad.

I know we're arguing on he same theme as the pay is bad, but the above statement (or at least the sentiment of it) is also untrue. We all know how bad villains are and will minraise the flop with a flopped boat, or an overpair, or the NFD as it happens all the time, which is why the call down is bad without reads imo.

So is 67s tbf. You're making some pretty huge assumptions to assume he doesn't have value there. You're also assuming his bluffs all lose to A high which they don't.

All in all though it's terrible by both.

Think we'll see FDs here more often than made hands. Bad regs tend to hear that they 'should' be bluffing with some hands but don't care whether they have made hands in their range.

Also people spazz on paired board. A lot. So while I think calling down here is a bit too thin given the spade, I think we can defend pretty wide in principle.

You're a far better player than me so I'm not saying you're wrong but why is raising flop with a FD and QQ-JJ terribad?

We've got bluffs (FD) and value (overpairs and the FH) in our range so we should be balanced here yes?

Whenever I try and make a call like this anyway, 9/10 I get shown a jack at least.

I don't disagree, and would expect us to call down with most of our value 3bet range, and any Asx obviously. I see this a lot with 88-QQ (not so often JJ) as villain has position and wants to a. semi-bluff to see if we have a hand that will continue, and b. pot control when called

Point b is bad as we'll be getting better odds to draw if we are, but villain does give himself the opportunity to play perfectly OTR by checking back any non-nutted hand

Point a when you think about it maybe isn't so bad if we'll call down with A high as per hero in this hand, but likely get more frisky with JJ+

TT and QQ can't raise for value because they're behind a c-range.
In theory raising JJ could be okay against some but it's a really narrow raising range and it allows villain to play a lot of his range really effectively when we call.
NFDs have SDV against our cbetting range and it's a waste to use them as bluffs, plus it's nice to have some hands which make nutty hands on flushing turns and rivers in our flatting range.
Non-nut FDs are too numerous to raise all of them (we'd want about 6 combos max if we're only raising JJ for value) and we have the problem that it can be tough for our flatting range if we raise JJ.

Turn was a complete 'wtf r u doin m8' moment:

PokerStars - $0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 53.54 BB (VPIP: 20.69, PFR: 16.38, 3Bet Preflop: 6.12, Hands: 116)
SB: 100 BB (VPIP: 20.25, PFR: 16.90, 3Bet Preflop: 10.49, Hands: 732)
BB: 373.46 BB (VPIP: 18.54, PFR: 16.56, 3Bet Preflop: 4.92, Hands: 154)
UTG: 354.84 BB (VPIP: 23.41, PFR: 15.63, 3Bet Preflop: 5.32, Hands: 647)
MP: 107.22 BB (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 7)
Hero (CO): 107.5 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 8 9

fold, fold, Hero raises to 3 BB, fold, SB raises to 10 BB, fold, Hero calls 7 BB

Flop: (21 BB, 2 players) 3 6 3
SB checks, Hero checks

Turn: (21 BB, 2 players) 9
SB bets 13 BB, Hero calls 13 BB

River: (47 BB, 2 players) K
SB bets 24 BB, Hero calls 24 BB




edit: while we're talking about bad regs on paired boards (yeah this isn't the best hand to do this with)...

PokerStars - $0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 190.74 BB (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 3)
SB: 73.84 BB (VPIP: 8.33, PFR: 8.33, 3Bet Preflop: 20.00, Hands: 13)
Hero (BB): 135.06 BB
UTG: 123.52 BB (VPIP: 21.70, PFR: 13.68, 3Bet Preflop: 6.58, Hands: 217)
MP: 252.02 BB (VPIP: 23.08, PFR: 15.38, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 15)
CO: 82 BB (VPIP: 100.00, PFR: 100.00, 3Bet Preflop: -, Hands: 1)

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 9 8

fold, MP raises to 3 BB, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 10 BB, MP calls 7 BB

Flop: (20.5 BB, 2 players) 4 J J
Hero bets 10.76 BB, MP raises to 26 BB, Hero calls 15.24 BB

Turn: (72.5 BB, 2 players) K
Hero checks, MP checks

River: (72.5 BB, 2 players) 3
Hero bets 29.84 BB, fold



edit 2: got owned here

PokerStars - $0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): 123.96 BB
SB: 78.64 BB (VPIP: 33.33, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 6)
BB: 178.12 BB (VPIP: 26.75, PFR: 21.00, 3Bet Preflop: 7.01, Hands: 411)
UTG: 261.94 BB (VPIP: 42.11, PFR: 17.54, 3Bet Preflop: 13.64, Hands: 60)
MP: 115.48 BB (VPIP: 39.29, PFR: 27.68, 3Bet Preflop: 15.22, Hands: 115)
CO: 101 BB (VPIP: 22.83, PFR: 19.02, 3Bet Preflop: 12.50, Hands: 189)

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has T 8

fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 2.4 BB, fold, BB calls 1.4 BB

Flop: (5.3 BB, 2 players) 7 5 5
BB checks, Hero bets 3.44 BB, BB calls 3.44 BB

Turn: (12.18 BB, 2 players) 9
BB checks, Hero bets 7.9 BB, BB calls 7.9 BB

River: (27.98 BB, 2 players) 4
BB checks, Hero bets 16.5 BB, BB calls 16.5 BB

@ 2014 SN

lol. That hand is the nut spew. I like the river call though

Lol, nh.

At the moment if that'd been me, he'd have shown AK!

Hey I haven't posted in a while. I tried taking some shots at 100nl and ran hotter than I ever have before. Poker is fun!