Have you or anyone you know tried playing on the public channels?

I miss life in Asia so many things that doesn't make sense here in U.S. ex. I got to shop for health insurance in marketplace and all middleman company does is sign you up for a major health plan you give accidentally your numbers online and you get 100 calls constantly. All the health plan are ridiculous confusing you pay for premium and then split cost in different level for health care lol. Then the lady that got me health insurance invite me to this https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Wo...,36.htmmeeting. seriously all this middle age asian was touting their finance wealth planner for the middleclass. the main company is quite smart instead of hiring people to tout out all type of insurance they do a MLM system where you actually pay money to join to tout out insurance it a good thing the poker industry isn't at that point yet. At least poker guys are not as cut throat scam artist that think they playing exploitative poker. Can't see anyone hiring low stake players turn them into slave simming 15 hour a day for there coaching and then turn around and sell for 100 per month.

My wife and I both have master's degrees and neither of us ever know what is going on with our medical insurance. Biggest scam in the US.

FWIW some of those phone calls are worth answering. I lost my obama care for some ridiculous reason where they didn't process one of my payments or something, I was paying like 1500 month for a plan with 13,5000 yearly deductible, no dental/no vision and 0% tax rebates.

I answered one of those texts that kept texting my phone and got enrolled in a private health plan thats now like, 1300 a month with 5500 yearly deductible + vision and dental (pays 70% for braces, max 1k out of pocket). I'm pretty happy with it (whole family had to pass basic health screening btw)

I haven't.

No desire to turn this into a political debate, but imo the insurance companies aren’t a scam unto themselves - they are just a symptom of a fundamentally broken system.

It's deeply broken but not fundamentally broken.

Contemplating starting to play 20/40 half kill games again at least like once or twice a week live.

Player pool involves about all Loos Passives, Tight Passives, very tilty TAG fishes, and maybe 1-2 solid players.

I haven't ever ran SIMs like Monkersolver since I've been too stingy and too busy with work/market situation.

In that player pool, should I at least consider purchasing Monkersolver and playing around with it or is relying on things like Equilab fine based on how bad the villains in the player pool I'll be playing in?

Playing around with it = $599 + $150/month for server (need 256 gigs of ram+)+ 10-50/hours setup. I wouldn't spend 600 and not rent a server. I'm using my desktop for smaller sims but you're going to need that ram.

I think it's worth it for most serious poker players. I can't say for everyone as it's both expensive and not particularly easy. Personally, I find it quite interesting and fun to explore.

Be warned though, the software is kinda dumpy and the documentation out there is almost non existent and you'll probably waste a lot of time early just figuring out wtf is going on.

no you don't need any fancy software to beat 20/40 live

fine but most of the guys beating 20/40 live are playing semi poorly and could up their winrate quite substantially.

agreed

Thanks bicyclekick and BigBadBabar for the prompt reply.

bicyclekick , I really am interested in it so will look forward to purchasing monkersolver an exploring it. In the same boat that I imagine I will greatly enjoy exploring it more than playing live poker again.

BigBadBabar, not studying enough outside of playing is one of my biggest leaks so I will most likely end up playing 20/40 again in the near future prior to fully utilizing monkersolver.

when you are the top dog everyone just resort to angling. so sad that poker has comes to this. Regs are serious just waiting for me to accident post out so they can get btn and play 3 hands.

Please let me know where do I go to report scam regs like you

FYI this month vs year
Obviously my mistake is posting result otherwise this so call "Pro" wouldn't resort to this small angles

Story of my life...

I was set to play you heads up and your response was “do you realize who I am? No more ?” That’s prob not the beat way to go about getting action.

I’m sure your better than me (at holdem) but I don’t mind gambling while waiting for other action (pretty sure last time we played I even gave you button when I quit.

I think you’ll find that if you branch out and play other games you’ll be able to get infinite action at similar to higher stakes.

If you ever want to try and game stat let’s me know ( but has to be at least 1 table of non limit holdem also). Good luck at the tables

LETS GO THEN

I wasn't talking to you it was a reg that sat out(mostly like was the one that just button me on bodog). That where the you realize who I am is from not to sound condensing. More to the point I am pissed off because since bodog is anon. these same regs wouldnt' feel shame in buttoning constantly. Doing all sort of trick like click play button to see if I am away so they can get button play 3 handed and quit try to do the same thing over and over. All sudden this same regs has some sort of pride to continue to play me on other site because their name is now attach to public. I know they read this forum since every time I complain all sudden they sit in and give me btn ReaLLy all sudden you feel ashamed of what you doing come on first you are a dick and now you a half a dick.

Or more likely they are different regs on these sites. Personally I haven’t played limit holdem on bovada in well over a year

Honestly, if you're going to spend the time learning how to use solvers --- consider using them to learn NL instead of study LHE! You'll have much more utility + WAY higher EV result! (with lower variance)

^^^

Also, what solver would you recommend? I know PIOsolver allows you to create strategies against exploitable opposition (which is what live players really should be caring about).

I want to get into solvers but I’ve already found it to be quite a bit overwhelming. Also, how practical are the solvers for NL cash games topping out at 5/10?

I’ve messed around with PokerSnowie but it hasn’t made me want to buy it. Drives me nuts how I have to redo an entire hand if I want to change an action.

I'm eager to see what informed replies to this question come in. I have no experience at 5/10 but I have my guesses about the general level of play and exploitability at those stakes.