Nice, on all fronts

That cooler is gross. A few days ago playing 80/160 mix I raise/called 3 ways in badeucey with 432r78 and broke the 8 against two guys and caught #2/#2. 3 ways we go 5 bets and I chop up two wheels with no badugi. Never seen that before.

In Badeucy isn't a wheel a bad hand? Or does the meaning of wheel change in this context to 23457?

#2/#2 means you ripped a rainbow 6, right?

They often call the best possible hand a wheel in any lowball game.

I feel bad about my negative posts. and never really contributing so here some good karma hopefully. I sometime goes through a lot of hands in this forum and 99% of the problem is that people aren't even asking the right kind of questions.

1. Most river spot are very situational where your read is probably the most accurate at the time. No one is going to post there long ass about there "read" which means when people give advice it probably not going to be helpful where your read on population tendency going to matter a lot. For ex. the games that I play in it pretty easy to tell no reg is hard headed enough to 3 barrel bluff on dry board when they open Utg vs your BB flat. It easy to tell when you c/c two street what type of hand you can have. And not counting the time that they cb and give up on bad turn card. Reg play so robotic and think OMG my A high is at the top of my calling range I have to call or else I will be exploited.....which bring to the my second point

2. When I mean people are not asking the right question it the unknown unknown type. For ex We are Co and get 3b by SB. Flop comes 37T rainbow and peel. turn comes 8. Here is where people are probably peel the turn again with too much of there range. And no one is ever going to ask this kind of questions because it quite hard to figure out without playing with some sort of program.

3. There are other situation like this ex. peel flop with blocker+backdoor etc that people just instant fold.

anyway my point is it most likely useless to ask and give advice where your mistake is probably a lot less than the time you play preflop, flop, and turn incorrect.

FWIW, the definition of a "close spot" is one where whatever you decide is unlikely to affect your WR very much.

Like you open MP and reg 3 btn and you call with AQ and xc twice on 993-5 and he fires the 2 river and you don't know what to do. Really it doesn't matter too much: you can be unexploitable and call and never worry about it, or fold if you think he'll never adjust (and there are actually players I'd fold to here because they literally always have AQ beat when they bet river).

This post reminded me of some hand on here once where a dude raised 43s from MP and turned two pair and a dude check raised the turn before he had a chance to act, and he wasn't sure what to do. It's really pointless to try and determine what to do on the turn because you'd never be in a situation where you have bottom two on J84-3 from MP.

Jdr I sorta agree and I sorta disagree. I do think people spend way too much time arguing about close spots but in the games donjuan is talking about a systemic small leak is going to be very costly over 100,000 hands of grinding vs regs.

Just noticed the latest brilliant adjustment by Ignition. They dropped 2/4 and 3/6 lhe and replaced them with a 2.5/5 game. The lobby now goes 1/2, 2.5/5, 8/16. Wouldn't it be way better to just go 1, 2, 4, 8? Why are they even bothering since no one plays any of them anyway. (The 8/16 goes)

Agreed, but I think a lot of people focus on potential systemic small leaks because at the time, those are where our "tough decisions" are. Like one could go months of talking hands with someone in a live setting and discussing what to do after check raising flop and betting turn on a river scare card w/ TPWK before one day the conversation starts with "so I open KTo UTG", which inevitably leads to "why are you opening KTo UTG?".

Of course, part of the reason why poker can potentially be so profitable is because people ignore those kind of huge systemic leaks.

ACR accepting US players, come one come all for some Russian bot action.

Random aside: I will be in Vegas the next few days. If any of you guys run across me at 20/40 at Bellagio, feel free to say hi. I'll be the guy who has played once in the last 4 months, either losing it all quickly or getting beginner's luck again now that he's regrown his hymen.

I'll stay away.

Dammit, no chip castles then?

After some poor decisions, poor life luck and what I suspect was also the worst downswing any human being has suffered in my 10+ years of live poker I decided I should take my basically $0 functioning poker roll (I'm not sure how much I had. Definitely less than $5000) and learn how to play no limit instead of quitting and taking my invested money to further my education and get a job like a real human being like I told myself I would. I had a coach and access to RIO videos. I had played fairly large nlhe before up to 100/200ish uncapped but considered myself a very poor player (by my current standards I'd consider myself then to be a whale). I started at .25/.50 moved up to 200 and eventually 400 to 1k playing roughly 1 million hands of 200+ stakes from 2014-early 2017 before deciding the action was not worth my time and seeing if live poker would welcome me back. I quickly moved up from 5/5 to 10/25 nl (often 25/50 and rarely 50/100) before that game got weak at which point I decided to see if I had any clue how to play mix still. I played some 75 and 80 in Vegas during wsop before it became clear that I should be playing 2/4+ again. Since then I've played 90% 200/400 with occasional 1/2, 3/6 and some 10/20 to 50/100 big bet.

I might have had years of high stakes experience and a smart work ethic (in that I aggressively sought out the best tools to help me become a better player. My actual grinding ethic online was horrendous once I moved up past 200 nl) but that doesn't change the fact that a guy with a few thousand dollars and an "I don't know what I'm doing with my life" attitude moved up from a game where the big blind was two quarters and the max buyin was $50 to game where the ante is $50 and has put himself in a significantly better position in life than he has ever been over the course of a few years despite running grossly under ev for about a third of my online nlhe career and already having some pretty significant pain in larger games.

Anyway, tldr, yes, I think a 4dollar/8dollar player can threaten me if they are intelligent and apply themselves.

In LC news, here's a hand I played yesterday:

100/100 plo with dead 100, 4k cap.

Ian J open 300 otb sb calls, I call bb T964 two clubs, 0 hearts. Pot 900+100

A66hh
Ch to Ian who 600, sb folds I call pot 2100+100

2h
Ch ch

Qd
Ch to Ian who bets 2k, I tank briefly before crai for 3100 total so he's getting like 7 to 1

Did it work?


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It worked great. A very nice guy went home $3100 richer.

And I got the satisfaction of being the one to give it to him.

You’re such a nice guy, Sean!

Of course it worked, this is a guy who runs under ev for only a third of his career

And just to be clear, he called with his flush? How big?

The 6s full of Aces high flush

That’s a big flush.


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Does anyone know if the 300-600 holdem game listed on the foxwoods site now is actually straight holdem? If so, how many handed?

Well that's much less exciting. But it does confirm that your bluff is godawful.

Three year old burner acct?

I saw just H last night, whatever bravo said. Very short, mostly 3h.

He just always has it :/