You'll find that you are often folding the best hand and losing your 15c. You'll also find that often enough you are way behind and get stacked.

Everytime im near shot taking I always end up going 1 bi early, i'd have been playing 5nl today lol

Srsly though, as its the weekend, take your shot now, dont start a new limit on a monday!

I don't fold to the min-raise, bigger pre though for sure, call the min-raise and play for a small pot imo, but I also call off the shove as played b/c its 2nl and he turns up with worse than KK's enough imo

EDIT: He's also an unknown at 2nl, idiot til proven otherwise imo so just get it in

agreed, plus he limped from the button and had $1 left...prolly a fish. he may do the same with A9 or TT-QQ. I wouldn't fold it either

I'm pretty sure you can just fold the flop and be right most of the time. Otherwise you will get stacked a lot vs sets.Fish are passive, not aggressive.

I think in the end it's going to be pretty neutral EV - some fish are aggro but this one defintiely seemed to more passive after 10 hands. If i played it again now I'd probably call raise and if a T, J, Q, K, A drops and he's still aggressive then I'd lay it down since fish with a 9 would play scared once an overcard falls.

My return didn't go as well as planned, seriously tilting now. I'd been playing pretty nitty tbh all session, laying down quite a lot of good hands. Eventually get top two and get stacked off nut straight - sick of the coolers (only ended down $1.5 because apart from that big hand I played well). Got a couple of hands where I layed down big hands and wondered how you's would play these:



BB is fairly aggro player running at 26/16/8.5AF, CO is huge fish at 93/39/2.4AF. SB is LAG at 60/40/4.0.

I layed this down because figured I could be behind to a lot of hands and if not then I can easily get outdrawn on since it's such a draw heavy board. Probably another neutral ev spot because I can be ahead of so much but behind a lot too.


Next hand:



SB is 15/15/1AF
BB is 55/8/2.5AF
UTG is 58/8/1AF

SB definitely has a hand, do I shove here? His range is JJ,QQ,KK,AA,AK imo so I guess it's a shove especially since if I get both fish along I'm likely to win the side pot. In hindsight this was a bad fold but I never realised how little everyone had behind and I was mroe thinking of flatting - I should of payed more attention to stack sizes. This is a pretty standard shove though yeah?

That would be how I'd play it too. Though, laying it down on a K would be a little nitty, even for BQ.

Hahahaha yeah I wasn't really paying attention there haha, I'd have to agree with you there! :P

Incidentally, a few days ago I went through my DB looking at flop minraises for rainbow and flush draw boards. Here's the breakdown:




So on a rainbow flop I've generally been up against a stronger range than on drawy flops, but there's still a decent amount of weak hands turning up.

Last time I told you I was about to move up to 4nl 6max (from 2nl full ring). Well here are my first 3k hands, not bad so far, still getting used to 6max and new player pool. I don't feel I'm making too much mistakes pre, but I feel I'm still missing value post.. working on it.....

Dear God

This is not the sort of day of backdoor action I was hoping for.

Regards
Z

raikkonen3

1st hand hmm, SB probably has some Ax type hand, BB looks like he wants to get his stack in with that raise it a bit much even for FD so maybe he did flop a straight or set of tens, I dunno I'd probably dump it myself too

2nd hand, I'd definitely at least call, and raise the flop or turn, but really I'd prefer to 4bet preflop and get it all in

mwahaha



Poker Stars $57.67+$2.33 Pot Limit Omaha Hi Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

Hero (BTN/SB): t1280 64 BBs
BB: t1720 86 BBs

Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with A A 8 K
Hero raises to t50, BB calls t30

Flop: (t100) 3 4 3 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets t75, BB calls t75

Turn: (t250) A (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets t187, BB raises to t400, Hero raises to t1155 all in, BB calls t755

River: (t2560) A (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: t2560
Hero shows A A 8 K (four of a kind, Aces)
BB shows 2 5 3 3 (four of a kind, Threes)
Hero wins t2560

Bluffing at NL5...you are not doing it right

^^ Why do you not raise ?

I preferred to control the pot, since my hand was still vulnerable and I could fold to a river shove if he decided to go broke (I'm not calling that). Plus, if I'm raising turn, he would probably fold or go all-in, putting me into a tough spot. Kinda "monsters under the bed" syndrom, I know.

That awkward moment you realize you regged into the wrong tourney:


Poker Stars $6.70+$0.30 Pot Limit Omaha Hi Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 9 players - View hand 1644212
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

Hero (BTN): t500 16.67 BBs
SB: t500 16.67 BBs
BB: t500 16.67 BBs
UTG: t500 16.67 BBs
UTG+1: t500 16.67 BBs
UTG+2: t500 16.67 BBs
MP1: t500 16.67 BBs
MP2: t500 16.67 BBs
CO: t500 16.67 BBs

Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN with 6 4 J 8
2 folds, UTG+2 raises to t105, 1 fold, MP2 calls t105, 2 folds, SB raises to t450, BB raises to t500 all in, UTG+2 calls t395 all in, 1 fold, SB calls t50 all in

Flop: (t1605) Q 8 T (3 players - 3 are all in)

Turn: (t1605) 6 (3 players - 3 are all in)

River: (t1605) A (3 players - 3 are all in)

Final Pot: t1605
SB shows 4 A 3 2 (a pair of Aces)
BB shows Q A 9 5 (two pair, Aces and Queens)
UTG+2 shows K K 5 7 (a pair of Kings)
BB wins t1605

So i played 5 micro MTT yesterday and min cashed in all of them had 3STT won 2 came 3rd in the 3rd one. Reviewed my note taking methods and colour coding ranges for muppets and decent players. I slapped myself out of the cards im dealt being anything but 2 cards after the flop unless im decently ahead of the board or connected solidly with outs.

Put some music on loud this morning along with fresh brewed coffee and started up 6 tables with a positive attitude and thinking like a poker player not an aggrotard.

My stats averaged 17/12 for most tables depending on the action and how many green orange or yellow in the mix. Deep stacked russian fish with stats of 70/6 to my right on 2 tables that also had a bluffing range of an uno card and professor plum helped.

This be the result

wow, played this hand so badly I'd say I deserved losing a BI.



BTN was agressive so I preferred not to donk and let him bet...but maybe a raise on the flop would be better than just calling? Also, I don't know what action to take on the turn. Should I lead or let him 2nd barrel? River is an OBVIOUS FOLD but I was 4-tabling and didn't realize only an 8 was missing to complete the straight. I've happily clicked the "call" button only to review the board some microseconds later and seeing that I made a damn horrible mistake...at SD time I knew the 8 was in his hand. meh

Got my kings cracked by queens too btw to add for today's whining...

But overall the session was a win at least

Going well today so far. Relaxed clear headed thinking poker. I think the fact i have a good note and coloring system now is helping. Colour a player up after 100 hands as a provisional and review them every 500 hands or so to see if anything changes on the stats to put them solidly in a colour grouping. Also playing my 2-4k hands in groups of 400-500 hands for an hour or so and then breaking off for MTT STT or a movie and coffee seem to be helping the cause.

[x] Fish maybe on the start of a heater? (101 bb/100 wtf)

Mike, what's your AttempToSteal% and your CBet success percentage?

Cbet succes 58%

Trying to figure out how to filter ATS % on HEM2 but i know that i steal more than my share fairly successfully.

nice work Mike. Keep it up!

Lol Hyperturbos:


Poker Stars $6.70+$0.30 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds + t6 - 9 players - View hand 1644859
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

BTN: t413 M = 2.87
SB: t675 M = 4.69
BB: t719 M = 4.99
Hero (UTG): t443 M = 3.08
UTG+1: t618 M = 4.29
UTG+2: t284 M = 1.97
MP1: t500 M = 3.47
MP2: t363 M = 2.52
CO: t485 M = 3.37

Pre Flop: (t144) Hero is UTG with A A
Hero raises to t120, 1 fold, UTG+2 calls t120, 6 folds

Flop: (t384) T 9 8 (2 players)
Hero bets t317 all in, UTG+2 calls t158 all in

Turn: (t700) 6 (2 players - 2 are all in)

River: (t700) 5 (2 players - 2 are all in)

Final Pot: t700
Hero shows A A (a pair of Aces)
UTG+2 shows 6 6 (three of a kind, Sixes)
UTG+2 wins t700