I really fail to see how this will help strengthen his c-betting range. I tend to do this at times when I've already started checking back a lot of flops for some reason and they've tried to take advantage of it on the turn/river.

orlov, to really generalize this I'm going to divide the opponents that aren't giving your c-bets credit into two types and call them 1 and 2. 1 is going to react to you continuing past a c-bet as you finally picking up a hand, while 2 is going to interpret it as you finally getting fed up and playing back.

Against 1, lower your c-bet frequencies a bit and increase the frequencies with which you play back on favorable boards a lot. Float them/ 3-bet them more depending on the board texture. With decent hands, just pretend like you're giving up again and let them bluff off some of their monies.

Against 2, lower your c-betting frequencies and your floating/3-betting frequencies with air a lot. When you do pick up a hand, just play it fast and they'll be apt to get a lot of money in thinking you're just getting fed up with them.

If you're not sure what type your opponent is, I think lowering your standards for semibluffing a bit, lowering your c-bet frequencies with air and also checking a few more good/decent hands will generally make it harder for them to exploit you.

Edit: What gelford said about either tightening up or going to SD more is pretty crucial and maybe that didn't come through clearly enough in my post. I think that especially the tightening up part really depends on how loose/tight you are at the moment though. If you're already pretty tight, getting even tighter is probably going to be a bad idea imo.

LOL_Windows Vista

Bashing Vista is so 2007.

lol, i imported my hands to HM and it says i am up less than PT tells me

they need to come up with a better name than 'windows 7'

meh HM seems to find hands that PT doesnt find

nvm, i imported more hands

You exported all hands from PT2? Then imported those? Is the hand count close? Were some hands missed or could it be a filtering issue?

FWIW - I used PT3, PT2, and HM side by side - to compare while playing, a couple months back. The most it ever deviated was $0.05 (split pot on nl10). Definitely possible to miss some hands or have import errors when first getting your old PT2 hands into HM. As far as accuracy of current HH imports, no chance that HM is wrong, imo.

windows slug™ imo

morning brew.

yo Fozzy., hows the poker going ?

i somehow imported more than all the march hands, so my PT showed different numbers than HM, now i made a filter at HM and how evthing is fine :P

Good so far this month, thx. Havent played yet today, so that is subject to change as soon as I begin my sessions. A little behind my daily hands goal, but way ahead of pace for the first 2 weeks profit goal.

cool, was gonna ask if ya wanna swap some poker help for some help on pokermods,
I.M. me when your next free on msn

PJO you gotta be online, otherwise i cant write you on aim...

ICM, how do you watch an advanced vid and separate that style of play from your micro game?

I tend to stay away from his vids cause he incorporates a lot of FPS into his game, which is -EV for me atm.

Well as with all poker material, the real quiz is finding out what conditions need to hold true for an example to work


Not just, so the board was xxxx and I decided to check raise him all in.

Sklansky's NLTAP is a prime example of this .. excellent workbook .. meh primer.

i dont think the 3betting style of most of the pros vids ive seen on cardrunners works on 0.25/.5 and below

wow wow. i just finished my sessions for today and ran the numbers for this last week.
after a terrible march, i was able to more than double my bankroll (+148% to be precise) - and rakeback for last month isn't included yet...
running hot is fun, yo. although, in my case, it's obviously pure skill. ldo.

updated my blog, too. feels good to be able to report some winnings instead of whinings for a change.

well, you gotta rely on FE for moves like that, and quite frankly, FE is tiiiiiny at the micros.

hey ftp...where the **** are my ironman points for that **** you pulled yesterday. I also find the lack of bonus offer in my account quite displeasing

god i hate beautiful days like this. i want to go outside and enjoy the weather but i need my laptop to do work and the battery doesnt last that long. someone needs to invent a wireless ac adapter imo.

long wire =/= wireless

BUT...this could work...hmm....

ill also have to see if the wireless from the library nearby reaches outside