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Finally! *creams himself*

Do you have a link to your old one? I'd love to read through it because I'm hoping to follow in your footsteps. I did a search but couldn't find anything. Thanks and I'm looking forward to reading about your progress.

Renton, you are obviously the poster boy for smartly (keeping within the BR) FLYING up in stakes. Making $9k (or more by now) in about 2 1/2 months... phenomenal man, I hope to learn a lot from your continued adventure.

I'm a huge donk, so that's probably the reason for the confusion... but I was rather curious about the 22-hand you posted.. I realize that the board is scary... but a couple of things...

1. This guy has $81 to start the hand.. how did he get there? You didn't mention any reads on this guy that I could see...

2. So are you assuming he's sitting on 98s, or 87s? A8?... I understand the concern of him having that card, but I'm finding it difficult (other than the suited connector hands) to put him on an 8 here.

3. He pushes ~$45 into a pot of ~$85, so you are getting almost 3:1 on your call, right?

4. You mentioned he wouldn't push a flush into a double-paired board, but like you said you're set is nearly invisible... it looks like you are playing a big pair or over cards to most people... (with the c-bet and check behind on the turn, probably just over cards)

I'm guessin he had AQs, or AJs... but I play retard limits so I'd like to hear more about this....

Thanks!

Again, stupid questions, but I'm just trying to learn...

Dudes, I just updated my sweet blog.

Running bad sux Renton. Hang in there. You will prob lose much less than most ppl during this bad run. I don't think anybody worries too much bout you Wink

... it'll turn around.

Oh and I'm no expert but I wouldn't worry too much bout the "flattening" of your br graph. You said it yourself a long time ago about 30-40k sequences of hands not being representative of larger-scale progressions.

If your solid forum input and most of your hh posted are at all representative of your overall play, you are def not a break-even player Smile

. Plus, seems like you are on a 6-max downswing which is typically more brutal than full ring (u know obv...).

Try not to get down. Go chop some wood or something. Putting a bad-beat on an inanimate object can only be a good thing.

Wow I didn't know you ran bad

Very insightful man, thanks for the posts, couple of quick questions...

Hand 1

Villain is pretty tight, and known to make weak laydowns from time to time. I have like 2k hands logged with him.

I call the flop because I figure the chance is reasonable that my hand is good. When he checks/calls the turn I am almost certain that he has an overpair. The river is the perfect bluff card. Even idiots won't call with AA there. He was getting pretty compelling pot odds though, so it wasn't the least dangerous of bluffs.

Hand 2

I am not sure what villain had here. He was a 20/10 and seemed somewhat solid. If this read was accurate then the 4 dollar raise preflop was a pot sweetner bet for a drawing hand like JTs.

JT would fit the action after that. He bet small into a multiway pot for information. I just call. The board is drawy so he immediately puts me on a draw and bets more on the turn because he figures he's ahead and is protecting his hand. I stick in a raise because I have 12, probably 15 outs so I was about 30% to win. I figure fold equity + implied odds make this a good raise.

If he calls this raise and i hit, I win a stack. If he calls this raise and I miss, I fold the turn and preserve the majority of my stack, or maybe bluff all in if he checks one more time (but probably not).

As far as the delay goes I really liked how I did this. The "standard" play with a draw and a weak flop bet is to raise it and take a free card on the turn if necessary. Raise or checkraise flop, lead the turn. I think that if you invert it it looks more like a made hand than a draw. The line I took in this hand is how the majority of players play sets. So if you invert how you play sets and draws, with the way the average player plays sets and draws, you'll maximise EV on your bluffs and on your value raises.

I just wanted everyone to know that I own, and also to thank all of the FTR members that contributed to my rise to power.

thats all

hey renton what limits / sites you been playing on mostly?? by the HH forum it seems you are all over the place.

are you still pretty much playing by your preflop/post I&II or have you learned a few extra tricks?

Good luck man, hope it all works out for you.

Good luck renton.

I think its a good idea for you to build your BR to 10k before trying out NL200 again. Thats actually the same plan I'm playing after. I want to have loads of buyins for NL200 and I want to plug more leaks while I'm still playing NL100. I've had trouble with NL200 every danm time I've tried to move up (3 times now), mostly due to bad beats and me tilting after those beats. Also, NL100 is ridiculously easy to beat

Psychologically, as the stakes go up it takes a while before losing 100+bb to a suckout isn't a big deal anymore, but now I just think of gabe losing $18K in one hand and laughing about it to put my bad beats in perspective.

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