Thanks, I don't know who you are though.

I can't really answer that question though because it's too vague. There's a bunch of variables that go into that type of decision. I guess one thing I could say I do often is I stray away from too much 4betting because I think a lot of people 3b/5b too much. I mostly do a lot of flatting to 3bets because it works a lot better with my overall range and allows me to get away with a few more bluffs postflop given my flatting range contains a lot of strong hands.

Marshall you're the man, your vids are my favorite on CR.

Nah I'm fine if you don't answer any. That's kind of my base questions catalogue I always use to evaluate if I want to get coaching from someone

I guess the only thing I'd be interested in is "how you check stats" before making decisions i.e. just walk us through what you look at and roughly think/look for in these two spots
1) You're OTB, CO (or any other position, doesn't matter) opened
2) You're OTB, folded to you

You're OTB, SB and BB are regs w 70-75% fold BB vs steal and 7% 3b, 9-10% 3b in the blinds vs steal. How much do you open? Thanks for doing this!

how long should it take for someone playing ~50k hands/month to move up from 2NL to 100NL, and then from 100NL to 400NL? 1000NL?

at which point should someone consider quitting if not being able to move up?


thanks

Assuming you have the initiative postflop, and assuming it's headsup, when do you not cbet?

Hey, you mentioned how shady there wire transfer practice is? Can you elaborate on this? Are they just not wiring it to you? I was kind of hoping that wire transfer is the only way you can actually get money off

BVB first hand against a reg
You 3x AQ, he 3bets, you call.

Flop q93s, you c/c. Turn 7 and he bets 24bb into 38bb pot. You?

If you only answer one of Clowntable's questions, answer this one:


Say a guy raises first in 20% from UTG, he opens and it folds to you on the button with unknowns in the blinds. UTGs fold to 3bet from UTG is 50% (100bb eff)...

What's your 3betting strategy in general i.e. how do you construct your range, what types of hands would you rather flat vs this villain?
How do your ranges change if one/both of the blinds are squeeze happy?
How does it change if you are BB and it folds to you (i.e. you're OOP)?

Super sweet thread. I love the answers you have given so far. Thanks for doing this.
If you have time to answer more questions, below questions are ranked in order of importance to me:

Q1. If all you have is stats on a reg, how do you know if you can profitably flat hands like 56s QTs T9s KTs KJo(marginal hands)? If you go by raise 1st %, how do you know what % is loose enough for you to profit? I realise this is kind of difficult to answer because it depends on squeezy/recreational players behind, but iv been flatting stuff all over the place, like QTs OTB vs an 11% UTG opener which iv been told is wrong but i still don't have too much of a clue. Is it a difficult decission for everyone? or are there ways of figuring these problems out away from the table? Any advice you could give would help

Great questions clown table I would rly love to hear the answer for his final question, if you have time(Q2 below)

Q2. "What's your general thought process like in spots where you 3bet for value but don't flop a pair i.e. you 3bet AK (or AQ) both IP and more importantly OOP. Mine tends to be "**** now what" which can't be optimal :P I feel like if I 3bet AQ for value there have to be a bunch of worse unpaired combos in villains range so I should be thinking "bluffcatch" but somehow I can't quite pull the trigger often. "

Q3. Your answer to this hand kind of confused me. You talked about being able to bluff in all spots you value bet. To be gto here, if we vbet AK+ my math says we could bluff 14 combos and be gto. Are you saying hero's play is bad because TJo would not fit into your bluffing range(say you would rather bluff missed hearts to give a better bluffing frequency and betting 14 combos of air here is fine till you find out if he calls too wide), or do u not bluff in this spot at all, because of an exploitative general read you have for this spot. Would you vbet KQ here?

What would you say the top 2-3 things you do to exploit other regs, and or which type of exploiting do you feel you do well, or that people should do more of in general?

what % of the time can i fold to a 3b when i raise first otb v blinds?

How better is Merge field if compared with Stars?
Did you used to play at Stars? I think we played a lot of hands.
How many tables you are able to play in the peak time? What´s the peak time?

Sorry to steal the thread, but this completely depends on villains 3bet frequency (and your hand lol).

Sorry everybody but apparently my presence is not welcome here as I have received 35 infraction points from an over-zealous mod named Terp for making one post about my coaching services a midst the 5 or 6 hours I spent answering your guys questions.

I would have continued to answer some of the questions but I don't see much point in it now. If the infractions are removed I might consider coming back, so I guess you should probably PM him if you'd like me to hang around a bit longer.

Teeeeeeerp

marshall i'm going to leave your above post but i'd ask you to post similar issues in the ATF forum (about the forums) in the future.

feel free to bring this matter up there and i will respond. if you do, please PM me a link as i don't check that forum.

Terps gonna Terp

indeed

wow I love this community when threads like this pop up - much better than the one upmanship and ego posturing.............good man.

Above quote: Can you expand on when and why you consider leaving a table or stopping a session and what you mean by a bad image. Isn't this a great time to change gears?

I struggle every few months or so when I get on a downswing run of continual coolers and suck outs and then my play deteriorates to a degree and I can blow through multiple buyins. I assume these swings will always happen even when I'm good and I just need to accept them as a fact of life and just remove the poor play part induced by the variance!!! Any advice here on dealing with downswings and bad runs. I feel I'm getting better handle on them mentally and figure experience is key. Also breaking this down further to individual sessions on why or when you will normally leave a table/session during a downswing or in normal circumstances if different.

wtf. What is the point in this moderator. This is one of the very best threads I have seen on this site in a long time. I can't be arsed to go back and see where coaching was mentioned but please......................

what a bunch of nits!

Thanks for the thread, very good stuff!

since OP is going to stop , i'm just going to lock the thread. OP, you can msg me if you want it reopened.

Terp, I just wanted to settle it between you and I, I don't see any need to bring it up to some board.

awesome thread thanks a lot marshall, pretty lame how it ended