i.e. he 3-bets like crazy but only 5-bets the goodies =)
in which case:

4-bet bluff more instead of 4/b calling thinner
flat more with stuff like aq 99 which are ahead of his range but will get owned by his actual shipping range

His fold to 4-bet is pretty low though, which suggests he's five-betting light against *someone*. There's a good chance he's just noticed I'm prepared to get it in very light vs him and tightened up against me specifically. I should stop being such a hudbot

bingo

Yes. Also this.

[QUOTE=Marshall28;27807237]I'm not going to respond to any more questions about specific in game adjustments and strategy for a number of obvious reasons. People will pay for the information, so it seems silly to me to keep giving it away for free.


Why don't you fork out for a thread in the commercial marketplace with your 150k?

do you know who i am? do u remember playing me hu a ton on merge while iming you on aim? if so, am i a fish?

should i get my money off carbon?

what are ur thoughts on the 30 bb ratholing ss's that use to flood the mid stakes nlhe games when u were playing there?

Sorry I don't know what you mean ???

I don't know any 54-. What is your ID on Merge?

The ss's are annoying because it's not fun playing 30bb poker but it's not like they ever impeded my ability to earn money, the most irritating part about it is that they can sit on every table since it's so simple to play that stack size.

Good thread. Just wanted to say this was a surprisingly interesting read and probably the one of the only threads that has given valuable advice on this forum in the past 2 or so years. Congrats on your success on Merge. Any SSNLer who hasn't read and thoroughly thought about this thread is doing themselves a great disservice.

I've skimmed through this thread, more interested in what you're up to rather than specific hand advice. It sounds like you dont really play much on merge now? What exactly are you doing? Playing live? High stakes merge? Other sites?

Since BF, I went to play live one day. After about an hour I wanted to leave but forced myself to play for about 5 hours. I just can't stand so many things about the live game. I generally don't like the types of people who frequent these games, the pace of the games is too slow, and my skill set doesn't suit them particularly well. It's very hard for me to do something well that I don't enjoy.

I may decide to play a bit more on Merge than I have been because I'm realizing that even if I can't ever cash out the funds, they are still worth something as people will buy them up at 60-75%. I have been playing a bit on Cake, but it's kind of the same issue with them as it is with Merge. I'm waiting on a bank wire to go through to Bodog. I just downloaded Doyle's Room and am going to try to deposit there soon.

I started sports betting back in April, so I've been spending some time focusing on that, but otherwise, I've been doing a lot of sitting around. I figured with this thread I might get a few people to request coaching, but I'm actually close to receiving a ban because I've been accumulating too many infraction points from advertising it since it's against the rules or whatever. lol.

Why don't you just try a different skin on Merge? I play on Lock Poker and withdrawals are taking ~2-3 weeks. I've heard Carbon is one of the worse skins for cashouts and customer service which is kind of weird because I think they are one of the largest skins on the Merge network.

PM'd you Marshall.

beginner here, few clarifications please.

you said you couldnt describe exactly how you used them, but i'd like you to elaborate on how combinatorics helps you to avoid a lot of mistakes. How so?


Also, you said this:
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sorta like I see that he doesn't know what he's doing---for example if he raises my c-bet on A84r or something like that).

Can you explicitly describe how this example shows that someone doesnt know what they are doing?

Thanks a ton for doing this.

Thanks. I remember playing a lot against you at the 3/6nl deep tables on FTP HU. I always thought you were one of my toughest opponents in those games.

Combinatorics is just a way of understanding and estimating the frequencies with which opponents will show up with different parts of their range.

On A84r if I get raised I know my opponent usually doesn't know what he's doing because combinatorically he's only representing 88, 44, A8 and A4 for value, which is very few combinations. Additionally, there are no semi bluffs that he can represent on this board.

75s/56s/76s - add a backdoor fd to each and bam : semibluffing range

It's considered semibluff when one has atleast 8 outs or so, afaik. With GS, equity is so low that it would almost be same to bluff with like 22 on that board (16% vs 9% equitywise).

Which is why it's so good to "semi" bluff these hands.

Also, consider what you would like to do with other parts of your range and how other part of your range fit on a A84r board texture, and how you expect PFR to respond w/ his range. You rep so few hands you become prime to be rebluffed, and the weaker parts of your range are not protected by a stronger c/c range. I could prob write 2000 words on this, but simply put, having a c/r range on that board texture, esp 100bb effective, is bad most every instance

Marshall, a few questions:


1: When looking back on a session, how many pots can you usually find that you felt you played poorly. Let's say after a ~1500h sess.

2: Do you ever tilt?

3: How successful are you with flatting OOP against regs (ie: being OOP without inititative)? Do you balance this range with your premium hands too?

My own range feels capped when I flat OOP, so I generally 3bet/fold since i CBA to balance that range and am prone to 3barrels since I "can't have" AA/KK etc.

very suprised you put linecrusher and girah in the same bracket as allinsean.

gr8 well btw.

Yes I notice small mistakes constantly. Maybe 5-10 for every 1500 hands. Bigger mistakes though are less rare, I'd say I make those maybe once ever 5k hands.

Anybody who says they never tilt is lying or just runs really good. I think that there is one form of tilt that literally can't be avoided. This type comes from the human brain's inability to understand the extent of variance. What I mean is, there are always runs where your opponents seem to constantly represent very strong hands again and again over the course of a short period of time. In these circumstances, even if my opponent isn't representing any bluffs at all, I end up making far lighter calls than I normally would simply because when my brain estimates the frequencies that my opponent should show up with a strong hand, I always underestimate it. I can't imagine too many people that wouldn't underestimate these things during extremely bad runs of luck, and that most people would also begin to call down lighter and more often.

Well I think girahh is in his own bracket above everybody else, but I was asked who I thought were the toughest 5 opponents.

Giving it a second thought, I forgot to add MacDaddy34 who started playing on Merge lately, so he would clearly be in there.

I haven't played a ton of hands against allinsean, I just thought that over the sample that I did play against him that he was a strong player. Maybe he just ran well against me over a short period of time, that's certainly possible.

The thing is, after girah, crusher, macdaddy and romeo, there are like 10 guys I could slide into the next couple spots because I think they are that similarly skilled.

does withesark run like god versus you too?