This has been the biggest pot I've won since playing zoom poker. Very proud of myself for some reason. Haven't had much success online in the past until now.

Pre is very loose, nh though.

Why are you tilting? You are break even at EV! Neutral luck in all-in spots. Your problem is in your head, not in the rng.

If you go all-in with 80:20 odds you HAVE to lose 1 of every 5 times. If you win every time you go all-in as 80:20 favorite, you are being lucky. People are terrible at spotting good luck.

one of the funniest hands ive seen in a while. they ran it twice bb won both times.





This kind of thing just keeps happening. Just impossible to get any traction ever in zoom from the bad beats and coolers. I knew exactly what he had and was scared to raise because I know the river. 200k hands still not a single session not filled with lol bad beats and coolers.

This deserves an A. Would be A+ but this is BQ.

You probably need to nit up.

I played some micro zoom while messing with hotkeys. I dropped 5 buy ins in 550 hands. It was bedlam. Ran into Aces twice, and a lot of wasted barrelling guys who rivered a back door 6 high flush, runner runner trip 3s etc. It was the first time I'd really tilted in a while.

Yeah, that's the hands I'm talking about. Love this fkers hitting with runner runner

No Limit Hold'em $0.02/$0.05
PokerStars
6 players
Formatted by pokercopilot.com - Mac OS X hand history analysis and tracking

Stacks:
UTG - UTG ($7.08)
MP - MP ($5.20)
CO - CO ($6.64)
BTN - BTN ($5.21)
SB - SB ($5.27)
BB - Hero ($5.32)

Preflop: ($0.07, 6 players) Hero is BB with A A
3 folds, BTN raises to $0.10, 1 fold, Hero raises to $0.47, BTN calls $0.37

Flop: 9 6 9 ($0.96, 2 players)
Hero bets $0.59, BTN calls $0.59

Turn: J ($2.14, 2 players)
Hero bets $1.33, BTN calls $1.33

River: Q ($4.80, 2 players)
Hero bets $2.93 (all-in), BTN calls $2.82 (all-in), Uncalled bet of $0.11 returned to Hero

Total Pot: $10.44
Hero shows A A (two pair, Aces and Nines)
BTN shows T A (a flush, Ace high)

BTN wins $10.01

river a check , fold?

I have a question regarding my HM2 HUD in zoom. Usually i just started HM2 and opened zoom tbls and then the HUD would show. Since yesterday no HUD shows up what can i do?
And it works fine on reg tables.

So, how would you play that hand guys? I was considering the turn xrai, but was afraid of him checking back. Actually i dont care that i lost a buyin. What tilts me that someone is just floating with total air and gets there this way.

its played fine, stop being results orientated, your going to win the pot most of the time when he calls/folds and lose the pot some when he calls with better.

Getting good at dodging the coolers.

maybe if you focused less on avoiding coolers youd move past nl5?

its all about avoiding coolers, otherwise your constantly just swapping them with regs. the small pots dont make up for the big pots you lose.

frequency*potsize = the impact it has on your winrate

You can avoid 90% of coolers at 5NL by doing some basic hand reading instead of using a ouija board to define your opponent's range.

rubbish. You cant get away from most of them unless you only play the nuts.

What would you do here? just check to show down? muppet.

You seem like awful person.



PS. You'll never get good with attitude like yours.

Flop is a very very very clear check, rest is fine.

Thx, for your advice. Yep, you're right, i'm result oriented which fact affects my play.

Can't be bothered to look at your post history but I havent seen you post ONE single post thats not how awful zoom is. Why not post and ask for how you can play a hand better, or do you think that you're playing optimally now? Heres a pro tip... if zoom sucks, dont play it simple as that.

I've got one more hand which is pretty typical. What would you do?

Only info here is his stacksize, didnt have any notes on him. I chose to flat here as he was utg. Would you call that down guys?

No Limit Hold'em $0.02/$0.05
PokerStars
6 players
Formatted by pokercopilot.com - Mac OS X hand history analysis and tracking

Stacks:
UTG - UTG ($4.11)
MP - MP ($20.02)
CO - CO ($5.02)
BTN - Hero ($5.61)
SB - SB ($8.88)
BB - BB ($5.56)

Preflop: ($0.07, 6 players) Hero is BTN with A Q
UTG raises to $0.12, 2 folds, Hero calls $0.12, 1 fold, BB calls $0.07

Flop: A 7 2 ($0.38, 3 players)
BB checks, UTG bets $0.36, Hero calls $0.36, 1 fold

Turn: T ($1.10, 2 players)
UTG bets $1.05, Hero calls $1.05

River: 5 ($3.20, 2 players)
UTG bets $2.58 (all-in), Hero calls $2.58

you are right i hate zoom with a passion but im playing it atm just for a personal challenge. I am not playing optimally but nobody does even close. the above hand is an easy fold , id even consider folding turn when these nits start pumping pot bets.

Top pair is only worth 2 streets, whether betting or calling unless it's against a calling station and theres a likely missed draw. So I'd have folded the river, especially as he almost potted flop and turn and he raised utg.
That's the whole problem with zoom though, playing unknowns. 30 hands in at a reg table, and you would have a lot better idea about villain.

On a blank river, I call at that price (and AQo would be bottom of my calling range). When the flush draw gets there, AQ is much less likely to be good, as a bunch of villain's flop/turn semi-bluffs got there (flushes, I mean). AK with the K-flush blocker would possibly be bottom of my calling range on this runout, but I might only be calling with two pairs or better. In short, AQ is a fold this time, because villain's triple-barrel range is stronger, and you should have a few combos of flushes too, so one pair can be mucked.
Pro-tip: Before contemplating a hero-call on the river, pause to think of some combos that villain would take this line with that you actually beat. Can you see him tripling AJo or 98s on this runout? I think it's highly unlikely, because he should be worried about flushes (and sets) himself.