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    PREMISE
    What is to the up people? I’ve been a member of FTR for almost 2 years now and I bet heaps of you still don’t know who I am. So formally hello I’m chatzilla or Ricky. Basically I feel like I have a lot of gaps in my general poker knowledge due to not being as big a part of the community as i want/should be, this forum is pretty much all the people i ever talk to about poker IRL I don't know anyone who plays online poker (apart from donks obv) I feel that sharing my thoughts, ideas, practiced concepts, hands, results, getting flamed ect will help a lot. I’m going to post everything poker, how poker relates to my life and interesting life stuff. Hopefully if I post enough here people will eventually want to sweat, talk poker, let me learn from them and BEE my friend lol anyway here's a lolpicture of myself




    HISTORY
    I wrote this about 9 months ago in my old lolblog http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerfo...nl-181952.html

    A bit about me:
    My names Ricky I’m 19 years of age and live in Melbourne, Australia. I finished high school last year. I’m at University studying Film & TV. I’m also sponsored skateboarder.
    I started playing poker ‘seriously’ online over a year ago when I broke my knee. I started at 2nl with a $50 deposit found FTR and began grinding up my roll. After 3 months on crutches / studying and grinding I started to get burnt out especially with being able to walk/skate/live again. I have been a little bit on and off since then just starting University didn’t help also.
    About 3 or so months ago my life settled down and I’ve been able to get back to the grind seriously and plan to keep it that way.
    Since then I have kept it that way lol grinding through 10nl > 25nl > 50nl were I’ve been grinding for the last ~2 months.


    PRESENT

    No doubt my 50nl game is a nitty and leaky as shit, but I’m working on it. At the very least I am +EV and have lots for room to work with.

    Here is stats and graphements










    For the foreseeable future
    I will be grinding about 15-20k+ hands a month
    Add me on Skype if you want : tonnamunz

    GOALS
    My only goal is to keep playing, posting and learning really. I'd like to move to 100nl at some point be but there's lot's to be done here at 50 in the mean time

    Clifs:
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    - 19 year old Aussie skateboarder who plays poker and studies film
    - Playing poker for 2 years from 2nl > 50nl
    - Playing 50nl FR for last ~2 month
    - Want to talk pokerzz on teh intern3t
    - Sweat?
    - Want to diversify my poker skillz
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    Chapter 1
    Since Black Friday the games at 50nl on stars have actually been really good (sorry Americans but its true)
    I'm on pace to make goldstar again this month I know its fairly lol but I only 6 table and 100vpps per day (1-2 hours) suits me well at this point in my life.

    My brother turned 21 and moved out the other day. He left his old netbook at home so I'm poaching it. It takes me like 1.5 hours each way by train to my uni so now instead of it being dead time now I can watch Grinderschool vids, review/stove hands ect EV+ imo cheers bruv.



    Today was my day off and was going to go skating but I woke up feeling really sick so I just chilled at home. Played 1k of hands. Ima play some more now then post a few after my session. Peace
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    I played like 500 hands. I'm on pace for gold star with ~1500vvps for the month and looks like ill clear the rest of my SCCOP bonus as well

    Some hands

    HAND 1:
    villain is 16/8 (over 38 hands)

    Is my line ok? I lead the flop weakish to get peals from mid pp's I doubt he has a lot of FD's in his range. We block the NFD, KcQc, maybe Tc9c 8c9c 8c7c 7c6c. AJ is in his range and I guess its possible to peel with AK AQ

    OTT i elect to c/c to get him to try to bluff us off AK or lower pocket pairs

    I lead river weak to get calls from lower pp's when he ships this has to be slowplayed JJ or QQ villain hasn't done anything really out of line so i have no reason to think hes FOS ez fold?

    PokerStars - $0.50 NL (9 max) - Holdem - 9 players

    BTN: $50.00
    SB: $25.85
    BB: $11.70
    UTG: $23.25
    Hero (UTG+1): $50.00
    MP: $56.65
    MP+1: $53.65
    LP: $38.50
    CO: $40.55

    SB posts SB $0.25, BB posts BB $0.50

    Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero has A A

    fold, Hero raises to $2.00, fold, MP+1 calls $2.00, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold

    Flop: ($4.75, 2 players) J J 4
    Hero bets $2.75, MP+1 calls $2.75

    Turn: ($10.25, 2 players) Q
    Hero checks, MP+1 checks

    River: ($10.25, 2 players) 4
    Hero bets $4.50, MP+1 raises to $48.90 and is all-in




    HAND 2:
    Villain is 9/9 6% 3bet, 65% cbet flop (17/26) and 60% cbet turn (3/5) (over 917 hands)

    What line do you take here raise/fold cbet to 2.5x?

    or Raise/fold turn when checked to and snap fold when he cbets turn?



    PokerStars - $0.50 NL (9 max) - Holdem - 7 players

    UTG: $57.85
    UTG+1: $20.50
    MP: $19.00
    CO: $30.15
    Hero (BTN): $51.50
    SB: $49.70
    BB: $20.00

    SB posts SB $0.25, BB posts BB $0.50

    Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero has A K

    fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to $1.50, SB raises to $4.50, fold, Hero calls $3.00

    Flop: ($9.50, 2 players) 2 4 8
    SB bets $6.00, Hero ?
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    H1 - I like a smallish turn bet ($6) to get value from TT/99 or AQ if he floated. c/c might be ok but I don't think he's bluffing enough without better reads. As played I'd fold the river because by calling flop and checking back the turn he reps showdown value type hands (small pairs, possibly A hi) but he's not raising those hands now.

    I also think he'll bet clubs a decent % on the turn after you check. His sizing is odd for a bluff as well + he seems tight + people love to slow play at micros makes it a fold imo. I'd expect him to have QQ/44 a lot more than Jx.

    H2 - 6% 3bet is semi high for someone with his stats and it might be even higher given it's SB vs BTN. I'd probably 4bet and get it in though wouldn't feel great about it. On the flop I'd probably just fold, he's 9/9 and his cbetting range here doesn't have enough air here to float profitably. Raising is unlikely get any better hands to fold.
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    Chatzilla,

    I must say that of all the people I confuse with Redzill4, you are my favourite.

    Kind regards,

    Penneywize.
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    haha cheers penny. Hoopy in hand 2 i don't think 4beting is optimal, he's defiantly 3 bet bluffing here some percentage of the time we should exploit him when he has his wider range. 4betting we're pretty much getting him to fold his 3bet bluffs wasting the equity of of hand or get it in bad against a nut range that crushes us. Maybe I'm wrong but I feel on the flop he can easily have 3bet bluffs in his range. I guess we shouldn't make a move on this board until we have some reads tho so just c/f flop
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    i like hand one. that Q on the turn kills our action against most of the range we could have gotten value from (and we have the Ac, heavily reducing the FD's he can have). so a check on the turn doesn't seem to rob us of a heap of value, and it might get us a sighing call from middle pairs on the river cuz "lol put him on AK". i probably bet more on river. like $6.5. and yeah fold to shove unless you feel like making a mega-hero call

    who is villain in hand two, and what are his
    - 3b as resteal %'s from both blinds?
    - 4b+ %'s.
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    name and shame haha its "xuhongming"

    4b+ is 14% (5/36) which is insane yeah? I think this must be sample size

    Raise steal total 6% (3/52)

    from sb 0% (0/22)
    from bb 10% (3/30)
    in bb vs sb steal 13% (1/8)
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    I woke up at like 1pm today still feeling pretty sick wagged uni ran some erins and grinded like 800 hands I'll post one now might play a bit more after this because i doubt I'm getting to sleep anytime soon its like 2:00am atm Aus time.

    Hand 3:

    This is another creative bet sizing i guess probz a mistake

    villian is 13/8, 27% ATS (4/15), 80% fold 3bet (4/5), 75% cbet flop (3/4), 67% Cbet Turn (2/3) (over 158 hands)

    PokerStars - $0.50 NL (9 max) - Holdem - 8 players

    MP+1: $46.25
    CO: $50.00
    BTN: $90.50
    SB: $77.10
    Hero (BB): $50.00
    UTG: $15.55
    UTG+1: $66.30
    MP: $55.75

    SB posts SB $0.25, Hero posts BB $0.50

    Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero has Q Q

    fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, SB raises to $1.50, Hero calls $1.00

    I feel flatting here is pretty standard keep him on his wide stealing range that we crush

    Flop: ($3.00, 2 players) J 7 3
    SB bets $2.00, Hero calls $2.00

    could be doing this with almost all his range, there's no point in raising i feel flatting is fine

    Turn: ($7.00, 2 players) 9
    SB bets $4.50, Hero calls $4.50

    When he barrels his range can be narrowed to something like
    77+,AsKs,AJs,AsTs,As8s,As7s,As6s,As5s,As4s,As2s,KJ s,KsTs,QJs,QsTs,JsTs,J9s,8s7s,7s6s,AJo,KJo,QJo
    I think KJ QJ maybe check because of sd value but ill leave them in anyway

    we are 60.50% vs him calling is fine imo

    River: ($16.00, 2 players) 8
    SB checks, Hero bets $5.00
    when he checks i can range him busted draws and tp hands, he could be check raising TT-88 as well i suppose, something like
    88,AsKs,AJs,AsTs,As8s,As7s,As6s,As5s,As4s,As2s,KJs ,KsTs,QJs,QsTs,JsTs,8s7s,7s6s,AJo,KJo,QJo

    I bet small to get calls from Jx hands I kinda hate my sizing i think betting 8-10 would be better

    betting 5 gives him a chance to repop with a busted draw and i would fold and give him credit for having TT-88 if he sized it 2.5x plus

    If we make it like 9 I think it makes it a lot harder for him to raise us
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    Played another ~550 hands. Got coolerd a bit but happy with how i played. I get so hyped when i see shit like this

    Hand 4:

    Villian was 58/8 over 12 hands and proving to be fishy but i dont think we can ever expect this lol

    PokerStars - $0.50 NL (9 max) - Holdem - 8 players

    UTG+1: $50.75
    MP: $15.70
    MP+1: $25.00
    CO: $92.35
    Hero (BTN): $50.00
    SB: $51.70
    BB: $32.25
    UTG: $51.25

    SB posts SB $0.25, BB posts BB $0.50

    Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero has J J

    fold, fold, fold, fold, CO raises to $1.00, Hero raises to $4.00, fold, fold, CO calls $3.00

    Flop: ($8.75, 2 players) K 4 9
    CO checks, Hero checks

    Turn: ($8.75, 2 players) 8
    CO checks, Hero checks

    River: ($8.75, 2 players) T
    CO bets $4.00, Hero calls $4.00

    CO shows 2 T (One Pair, Tens) (PreFlop 16%, Flop 7%, Turn 0%)
    Hero lols
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    Played ~900 hands so far today went over my stop loss of 3BI's which kinda sucks because I wanted to put in a lot of volume today because I'm gonna be pretty busy with school stuff from tomorrow onwards.


    Hand 5:
    Seems like pretty standard runbad to me but ldo

    Fish is playing one table running 67/22 (18 hands)

    PokerStars - $0.50 NL (9 max) - Holdem - 9 players

    BTN: $20.00
    SB: $53.30
    BB: $39.45
    UTG: $20.50
    UTG+1: $51.05
    Hero (MP): $50.00
    MP+1: $42.10
    LP: $49.00
    CO: $68.55

    SB posts SB $0.25, BB posts BB $0.50

    Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero has 2 2

    fold, fold, Hero raises to $1.50, fold, fold, CO calls $1.50, fold, fold, fold

    Open pre is kinda marginal but there was this guy and another fish in the blinds so i think it's fine

    Flop: ($3.75, 2 players) 5 A 2
    Hero bets $2.50, CO calls $2.50

    std he's calling super here

    Turn: ($8.75, 2 players) T
    Hero bets $5.50, CO raises to $11.00, Hero raises to $25.00, CO raises to $39.00, Hero raises to $46.00 and is all-in, CO calls $7.00

    How's me 3bet sizing?
    probably range him like

    TT,55,AQs+,AsJs,ATs,As9s,As8s,As7s,As6s,As5s,As4s, As3s,KsQs,43s,AQo+,ATo,A5o,A2o
    is AQ and AK too optimistic? I'd say his range is most weighted to TP + FD (AsXs) or A5, AT


    River: ($100.75, 2 players) 4

    Hero shows 2 2 (Three of a Kind, Twos) (PreFlop 50%, Flop 35%, Turn 23%)
    CO shows a shiny luckbox


    HAND 6:

    PokerStars - $0.50 NL (9 max) - Holdem - 8 players

    SB: $49.05
    34/12 1 AG factor, 42% Agf raise, c/r flop 0% (0/6) (67 hands)
    BB: $18.40 16/10 (31 hands)
    UTG: $20.35
    UTG+1: $35.10
    MP: $36.65 57/14 (14 hands)
    MP+1: $20.00
    CO: $35.25
    Hero (BTN): $50.00

    SB posts SB $0.25, BB posts BB $0.50

    Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero has A Q

    fold, fold, MP calls $0.50, fold, fold, Hero raises to $2.00, SB calls $1.75, BB calls $1.50, MP calls $1.50

    Flop: ($8.00, 4 players) Q A 8
    SB checks, BB checks, MP checks, Hero bets $5.50, SB raises to $17.00,
    Putting the villain on one hands seem pretty crazy but I doubt he has AA here and QQ is only 1 combo I guess he could have FD's and A8s but his c/r in a multiway pot and sizing are pretty intense. I think folding is fine but maybe its coz im a nit
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    it's kinda close. though i'm never folding. against his most nutted range we have ~48%


    Board: Qc As 8c
    Dead:
    equity win tie pots won pots tied
    Hand 0: 48.145% 30.23% 17.92% 3292 1951.00 { AhQh }
    Hand 1: 51.855% 33.94% 17.92% 3696 1951.00 { 88, AQs, AcJc, AcTc, Ac9c, A8s, AQo }

    what's his preflop 3bet? if there's a non-zero chance he does with AK then we got ourselves a pretty high variance, but profitable, shove:

    edit: the above statement assumes he calls a shove with all of that range, which is pretty reasonable imo

    (adding in one combo of AK to the above range)


    Board: Qc As 8c

    Dead:
    equity win tie pots won pots tied
    Hand 0: 51.275% 34.83% 16.44% 4138 1953.50 { AhQh }
    Hand 1: 48.725% 32.28% 16.44% 3835 1953.50 { 88, AdKd, AQs, AcJc, AcTc, Ac9c, A8s, AQo }
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    pf 3bet 3% (1/33)

    never folding as in jamming? I wouldn't know what do do if we flatted. I know we should always go for a higher winrate over lowering variance but this is just to gnarly for me haha
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    also QdQs should still be in there :P
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    Quote Originally Posted by chatzilla View Post
    pf 3bet 3% (1/33)

    never folding as in jamming? I wouldn't know what do do if we flatted. I know we should always go for a higher winrate over lowering variance but this is just to gnarly for me haha
    bear in mind that i'm a completely degenerate spewtard. and you can probably figure out the best play from there (typically the opposite of what i advocate)

    on a more serious note,

    good point about QQ and yeah, it is really, really close. i'm not sure how bad it would be, but maybe we could flat, and call him down on any non-club runouts? (obv ship for value if the turn or river is a Q or A) does that sound ridiculous? i mean if a club comes on the turn we are in trouble against any range really. and can just fold.


    Board: Qc As 8c 4c
    Dead:
    equity win tie pots won pots tied
    Hand 0: 34.659% 19.70% 14.96% 104 79.00 { AhQh }
    Hand 1: 65.341% 50.38% 14.96% 266 79.00 { 88, AdKd, AQs, AcJc, AcTc, Ac9c, A8s, AQo }

    but if a non-club falls:

    Board: Qc As 8c 4h
    Dead:
    equity win tie pots won pots tied
    Hand 0: 54.545% 37.88% 16.67% 200 88.00 { AhQh }
    Hand 1: 45.455% 28.79% 16.67% 152 88.00 { 88, AdKd, AQs, AcJc, AcTc, Ac9c, A8s, AQo }

    i wouldn't take that as advice though. just an alternative to consider. i'm not sure how spewy it is to put 1/3 of our stack in with intentions of folding at any later point in the hand. probably very. every option is worth considering though imo.
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    Yeah I'd probably rather the call line then jam, pretty interesting spot tho I'd like to see what other people would do to
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    Also this this is my 200th post woohoo probably should have happend like 23 months ago but whatever!!



    After dropping some $$ at fiddty today i practiced my multi tabling skills stacking 15 5nl tables and this happended

    PokerStars - $0.05 NL (9 max) - Holdem - 8 players

    UTG: $3.27
    UTG+1: $5.85
    MP: $2.47
    MP+1: $2.16
    Hero (CO): $5.57
    BTN: $6.04
    SB: $4.95
    BB: $4.00

    SB posts SB $0.02, BB posts BB $0.05

    Pre Flop: ($0.07) Hero has 4 3

    UTG calls $0.05, UTG+1 calls $0.05, fold, MP+1 calls $0.05, Hero calls $0.05, fold, SB calls $0.03, BB checks

    Flop: ($0.30, 6 players) 2 A J
    SB checks, BB checks, UTG bets $0.20, UTG+1 calls $0.20, MP+1 calls $0.20, Hero calls $0.20, fold, fold

    Turn: ($1.10, 4 players) 5
    UTG bets $0.50, fold, fold, Hero calls $0.50

    River: ($2.10, 2 players) 4
    UTG bets $0.75, Hero raises to $2.00, UTG raises to $2.52 and is all-in, Hero calls $0.52

    lol at my sizing but I wanted to showdown. This is my 1st!

    UTG shows 7 J (Flush, Ace High) (PreFlop 65%, Flop 83%, Turn 0%)
    Hero shows 4 3 (Straight Flush, Five High) (PreFlop 35%, Flop 17%, Turn 100%)
    Hero brags
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    Quote Originally Posted by chatzilla View Post
    I played like 500 hands. I'm on pace for gold star with ~1500vvps for the month and looks like ill clear the rest of my SCCOP bonus as well

    Some hands

    HAND 1:
    villain is 16/8 (over 38 hands)

    Is my line ok? I lead the flop weakish to get peals from mid pp's I doubt he has a lot of FD's in his range. We block the NFD, KcQc, maybe Tc9c 8c9c 8c7c 7c6c. AJ is in his range and I guess its possible to peel with AK AQ

    OTT i elect to c/c to get him to try to bluff us off AK or lower pocket pairs

    I lead river weak to get calls from lower pp's when he ships this has to be slowplayed JJ or QQ villain hasn't done anything really out of line so i have no reason to think hes FOS ez fold?

    PokerStars - $0.50 NL (9 max) - Holdem - 9 players

    BTN: $50.00
    SB: $25.85
    BB: $11.70
    UTG: $23.25
    Hero (UTG+1): $50.00
    MP: $56.65
    MP+1: $53.65
    LP: $38.50
    CO: $40.55

    SB posts SB $0.25, BB posts BB $0.50

    Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero has A A

    fold, Hero raises to $2.00, fold, MP+1 calls $2.00, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold

    Flop: ($4.75, 2 players) J J 4
    Hero bets $2.75, MP+1 calls $2.75

    Turn: ($10.25, 2 players) Q
    Hero checks, MP+1 checks

    River: ($10.25, 2 players) 4
    Hero bets $4.50, MP+1 raises to $48.90 and is all-in




    HAND 2:
    Villain is 9/9 6% 3bet, 65% cbet flop (17/26) and 60% cbet turn (3/5) (over 917 hands)

    What line do you take here raise/fold cbet to 2.5x?

    or Raise/fold turn when checked to and snap fold when he cbets turn?



    PokerStars - $0.50 NL (9 max) - Holdem - 7 players

    UTG: $57.85
    UTG+1: $20.50
    MP: $19.00
    CO: $30.15
    Hero (BTN): $51.50
    SB: $49.70
    BB: $20.00

    SB posts SB $0.25, BB posts BB $0.50

    Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero has A K

    fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to $1.50, SB raises to $4.50, fold, Hero calls $3.00

    Flop: ($9.50, 2 players) 2 4 8
    SB bets $6.00, Hero ?
    Only as its a repetitive spot - H2 - id flat and fold flop like you did. Only if i saw a very high 3bet would i 4bet/call. Against this player might call it off and be meh - is it me or are there so many of these abd players at 50nl since BF?
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    Got home today urber tired from a short film shoot skulled some of the shittest cheapest engery drink played another 1k hands or so. Ran kinda bad again std shit set over AA in a 3bet, sucked out after getting the better in pre a coupple times. Just gotta put in the MOAR volume.

    Also I got extremely hyped when i saw this video The Future of Online Poker?

    To get webcam on new my netbook going to donk around. I have like a $12 roll on there messing around with the no deposit bonus when i was waiting to cash out after black friday. Gonna be fun!!! I'll have cam studio ready to snap record when i tilt some Germans
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    ah k miffed. What would you rate a high 3bet? maybe like 10%+ over a decentish sample?

    Yeah the players seem to be more super nits or complete degenerates BF got rid of a lot of the inbetween

    Also not sure if you saw the other day but you stacked me for 100bb lol
    you run 14/11 over my 185 hand sample

    PokerStars - $0.50 NL (9 max) - Holdem - 8 players

    CrazyNomiS (MP+1): $61.65
    Miffed22001 (CO): $50.00
    TonnaMunz (BTN): $69.40
    makro1983 (SB): $50.25
    OMGjackingo (BB): $55.30
    SmOLL10 (UTG): $62.55
    SexyTanya69 (UTG+1): $65.75
    Rcx1958 (MP): $49.40

    makro1983 posts SB $0.25, OMGjackingo posts BB $0.50

    Pre Flop: ($0.75) TonnaMunz has Q Q

    fold, fold, fold, CrazyNomiS calls $0.50, Miffed22001 raises to $2.50, TonnaMunz calls $2.50, fold, fold, fold

    Flop: ($6.25, 2 players) 3 2 2
    Miffed22001 bets $3.50, TonnaMunz calls $3.50

    Turn: ($13.25, 2 players) Q
    Miffed22001 bets $7.00, TonnaMunz calls $7.00

    River: ($27.25, 2 players) K
    Miffed22001 bets $37.00 and is all-in, TonnaMunz calls $37.00

    Miffed22001 shows 2 2 (Four of a Kind, Twos) (PreFlop 18%, Flop 100%, Turn 98%)
    TonnaMunz shows Q Q (Full House, Queens full of Twos) (PreFlop 82%, Flop 0%, Turn 2%)
    Miffed22001 wins $98.25
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    such bad turn sizing

    Remember the hand well though. Figured on the river you either had enough to call off your stack or fold so shoving made more sense...

    Why no 3bet preflop?
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    ?wut
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    I generally don't 3bet QQ vs regs as a standard at 50nl. probz a leak? but i figured your isoing the fish widish and if we 3bet it we'll narrow your range a lot. If we flat maybe i could get 1 or 2 streets of value from your weaker tp hands that you would otherwise fold i dunno ldo how wide do u call a 3bet here?
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    Quote Originally Posted by chatzilla View Post
    I generally don't 3bet QQ vs regs as a standard at 50nl. probz a leak? but i figured your isoing the fish widish and if we 3bet it we'll narrow your range a lot. If we flat maybe i could get 1 or 2 streets of value from your weaker tp hands that you would otherwise fold i dunno ldo how wide do u call a 3bet here?
    Wide

    But i'll 4bet you a massive amount as i know im being 3bet light (although until now i wouldnt recognise you as a reg - just an unknown as i have like 50 hands on you)

    Bbickes - no s**t!!! Working on the bad bits in my game at the moment - but theres a LOT to work on!!
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    Also I got extremely hyped when i saw this video The Future of Online Poker?

    To get webcam on new my netbook going to donk around. I have like a $12 roll on there messing around with the no deposit bonus when i was waiting to cash out after black friday. Gonna be fun!!! I'll have cam studio ready to snap record when i tilt some Germans
    that vid was so damn funny man. german dude tilting was hilarious. seems like people can really abuse the webcam / voice interaction though, no? I mean? is that shit monitored

    anyhow, the opportunities for tilt inducing convo are endless
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    Penny there isn't too many tables that have it so it wouldn't be to hard to monitor them all. It had some accpet TOS tickbox when you join, I'm not sure what they would do if you broke it. Anyway it was really really weird to say the least but kinda fun. I'll try get some vids of me tiliting someone eventually haha






    In other news IMA BALLER NOW got this bad boy in the mail today

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    Played ~600 hands yesterday probably the best session I've ever had. Not because I run super hot and made like 3.5 BI's.

    But because of this 73/10 drooler

    At the table he is being real talkative and stuff I stack him in this had

    PokerStars - $0.50 NL (9 max) - Holdem - 9 players


    Jo_Medici (CO): $59.60
    ToNick-SPb (BTN): $20.55
    ctg_444 (SB): $136.30
    PokerRon247 (BB): $50.75
    TonnaMunz (UTG): $50.00
    maks323 (UTG+1): $35.60
    BodoPM1 (MP): $52.00
    Kshyshtof24 (MP+1): $74.45
    krudnev (LP): $18.50

    ctg_444 posts SB $0.25, PokerRon247 posts BB $0.50

    Pre Flop: ($0.75) TonnaMunz has Q K

    TonnaMunz raises to $2.00, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, ToNick-SPb calls $2.00, ctg_444 calls $1.75, fold

    Flop: ($6.50, 3 players) K 3 4
    ctg_444 checks, TonnaMunz bets $5.00, fold, ctg_444 calls $5.00

    Turn: ($16.50, 2 players) Q
    ctg_444 checks, TonnaMunz bets $12.50, ctg_444 raises to $41.50, TonnaMunz raises to $43.00 and is all-in, ctg_444 calls $1.50

    River: ($102.50, 2 players) 7

    ctg_444 shows A K (One Pair, Kings) (PreFlop 70%, Flop 87%, Turn 7%)
    TonnaMunz shows Q K (Two Pair, Kings and Queens) (PreFlop 30%, Flop 13%, Turn 93%)
    TonnaMunz wins $99.50

    I be really nice to him at this point and he says something along the lines "I'm paying you all day there mate just bad luck". THEN i somehow convinced him to play me HU so we could "play more hands and eliminate the luck" Anywho I stack him in a few minutes and laughed all the way to the cashier sik lyf

    PokerStars - $0.50 NL (2 max) - Holdem - 2 players

    ctg_444 (SB): $29.20
    TonnaMunz (BB): $69.55

    ctg_444 posts SB $0.25, TonnaMunz posts BB $0.50

    Pre Flop: ($0.75) TonnaMunz has 6 6

    ctg_444 calls $0.25, TonnaMunz checks

    Flop: ($1.00, 2 players) J 7 6
    TonnaMunz bets $1.00, ctg_444 raises to $2.00, TonnaMunz calls $1.00

    Turn: ($5.00, 2 players) 4
    TonnaMunz bets $4.00, ctg_444 raises to $26.70 and is all-in, TonnaMunz calls $22.70

    River: ($58.40, 2 players) 2

    TonnaMunz shows 6 6 (Three of a Kind, Sixes) (PreFlop 53%, Flop 85%, Turn 82%)
    ctg_444 shows T 8 (High Card, Jack) (PreFlop 47%, Flop 15%, Turn 18%)
    TonnaMunz wins $57.90
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    Been super busy snuck in a tired ~500 hands when i got home today at like 11pm

    Leveled myself hard here, is it avoidable? i feel like his stats mislead me

    Villain is 9/9, inf AG factor, 53% ag faq, 3% 3bet (2/60), 4bet + 0% (0/9) (over 199 hands) no read as of yet

    limper is a fish




    PokerStars - $0.50 NL (9 max) - Holdem - 8 players


    Frisar (UTG): $53.75
    tallonn88 (UTG+1): $50.25
    Didibotas (MP): $50.75
    mark&vera30 (MP+1): $39.10
    TonnaMunz (CO): $50.00
    myuu89 (BTN): $50.00
    funnymalloy (SB): $57.60
    seiscero (BB): $50.75

    funnymalloy posts SB $0.25, seiscero posts BB $0.50

    Pre Flop: ($0.75) TonnaMunz has K K

    fold, fold, fold, mark&vera30 calls $0.50, TonnaMunz raises to $2.50, fold, fold, seiscero raises to $7.50, fold,




    I raise to 5x to iso the fish

    When he 3bets I think he has two ranges

    A. Value
    AA, KK which crush us I doubt he is raising AK or QQ purely given that hes 9/9 3% 3bet and raised our 5x raise to 3x

    B. Semibluff
    He could see that i'm isoing the fish and given history with me see that I could be doing it wide so it's EV+ to 3bet bluff me in a vacuum so he could have std Ax Axs hands Kxs or SC's ect

    I think his range is weighted more towards value purely because it's not the most optimal time to 3bet bluff and he 3x's my 5x pre raise, hes so nitty I feel like its really hard not give him credit. Flawed logic?

    So hes weighted to his value range, which is weighted to AA because we block KK

    With all that in mind I elect to flat I won't fold here because he doesn't have AA 100% of the time. I feel if we raise only AA is continuing/5betting so we either get crushed or turn KK into a 4bet bluff.




    TonnaMunz calls $5.00

    Flop: ($15.75, 2 players) J 6 K
    seiscero bets $9.90,



    He could be cbetting with a with AA or a 3bet bluff I doubt hes Pure bluffing so it would more likely be AcXc or XcXc I still think he's weighted way more to AA here

    We crush both with top set. I guess raising here would be better but I call.





    TonnaMunz
    calls $9.90

    Turn: ($35.55, 2 players) 8
    seiscero bets $33.35 and is all-in,





    His possible draws get there but we only need 32.36% to call { 32.6/(32.60+68.15) } and i still thinks hes weighted to AA

    Here are some equity calc's vs a few possible ranges


    { AA,Ac7c,Ac6c,Ac5c,Ac4c,Ac3c,Ac2c,Tc9c,7c6c,6c5c,5c 4c } 46.17%

    we are still ahead of

    { AA,Ac7c,Ac6c,Ac5c,Ac4c,Ac3c,Ac2c } 54.36%

    or if he somehow has AK

    { AA,AdKd,Ac7c,Ac6c,Ac5c,Ac4c,Ac3c,Ac2c,Tc9c,7c6c,6c 5c,5c4c,AcKd,AhKd,AsKd } 56.02%

    or

    { AA,AdKd,Ac7c,Ac6c,Ac5c,Ac4c,Ac3c,Ac2c,AcKd,AhKd,As Kd } 64.63%

    or

    { AA,AcKc,AcKd,AhKd,AsKd } 88.89%

    { AA } 86.36%

    Given all that i call




    TonnaMunz calls $32.60 and is all-in

    River: ($100.75, 2 players) J

    seiscero shows K Q (Two Pair, Kings and Jacks) (PreFlop 8%, Flop 3%, Turn 0%)
    TonnaMunz
    levels



    WTF just happened tripple range merge??????




    I guess that's what I get for treating 199 hands as a decent sample?
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    Would love to see what people think of my thought process in this hand ^^

    I received my $109 scoop ticket from the FTR video competition, which i was hoping to unregistered from and pick up 2 BI's haha turns out you can't. So i will play. I'm gonna wag the uni i have on Monday unless i bust out early. It stars 3am Monday for me (AEST)

    I'm gonna work on my MTT game until Monday and then I'll get back to grindin cash after the tournie
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    re: last hand... definitely flatting the flop is better than raising. Since you have KK on a KJx flop, your opponent is going to need JJ/AK/AA/draw to call a shove. He is probably jamming the turn anyways with draws that call your flop raise, and he will have more weak draws/semibluffs in his turn shoving range than his flop bet/calling range. Plus by flatting the flop you give him the opportunity to continue bluffing -- albeit bluffs make up a small % of his total turn barrel range.

    as your equity calcs demonstrate, even though the flush came in on the turn you should certainly still call his shove. It's possible he could be shoving with AcQx or similar hands so I think your equity vs his range is even better than 50%.

    I like this blog. Good Luck!!
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    Nice blog!
    Regarding scoop I think it will be well suited to Cash players because of 10k stack & structure. Practicing some push fold and possibly playing sngs should help you out in the later stages though. Man day one is 11 hours Jesus!!! Sure would be nice to cash for 5 or 6 figures

    GL.
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    Quote Originally Posted by chatzilla View Post


    enjoying your blog! lol at bigmellons being an irl girl, more truth needed in the world imo
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    Thanks guys I appreciate it. Vi that makes sense haha, so you don't think I should be discrouraged that he showed up with random cards that are no where near the range i gave him?

    Denu i'd be happy with a 3 figure min cash haha! 4 or 5 figures would be insane!

    lol LuckySlevin she was hectic, she called someones jam pre with JTs and was explaining to us how good soooted connects are... did lol... away from the mic obv

    Anyway to practice for scoop i've been playing some turbo 180man SnGs, random mtt's and watched Fjuanl's grinder school "how to master" MTT's series. Hopefully I can watch Piratos' series today. I havn't really been studying/practicing as much a I would like but Uni has been really annoying I have to write some lame essay later today as well hopefully I can smash it out quick and get back to the grind.
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    anddddddd... busto. I finished 10219th 2.5 hours in didn't get past the late rego period lol. O well i feel i played alright. Swingy as tho AA>KK double up early on, then set over set down to being short stacked then back up with AKo vs 99 AIPF.

    heres the busto hand pretty sure its std as sheeit
    PokerStars - $100+$9|150/300 NL (9 max) - Holdem - 9 players

    MP+1: 16,261.00 14/8 (145 hands)
    LP: 16,050.00
    Hero (CO): 15,429.00
    BTN: 3,380.00
    SB: 15,701.00
    BB: 7,159.00
    UTG: 10,524.00
    UTG+1: 25,731.00
    MP: 6,274.00 relatively fishy 23/13 (128 hands)

    MP+1 posts ante 40.00, LP posts ante 40.00, Hero posts ante 40.00, BTN posts ante 40.00, SB posts ante 40.00, BB posts ante 40.00, UTG posts ante 40.00, UTG+1 posts ante 40.00, MP posts ante 40.00, SB posts SB 150.00, BB posts BB 300.00

    Pre Flop: (810.00) Hero has K A

    fold, fold, MP raises to 1,200.00, MP+1 raises to 3,300.00, fold, Hero raises to 15,389.00 and is all-in, fold, fold, fold, MP calls 5,034.00 and is all-in, MP+1 calls 12,089.00

    Flop: (37822.00, 3 players) 6 T J

    Turn: (37822.00, 3 players) A

    River: (37822.00, 3 players) T

    MP+1 shows A A (Full House, Aces full of Tens) (PreFlop 72%, Flop 73%, Turn 90%)
    Hero shows K A (Two Pair, Aces and Tens) (PreFlop 7%, Flop 18%, Turn 10%)
    MP shows 7 7 (Two Pair, Tens and Sevens) (PreFlop 21%, Flop 10%, Turn 0%)
    MP+1 wins 37,822.00

    That was a fun experience but I'm eager to get back to cash. I will revist my MTT game in the future, I'm sure of it. But 50nl FR I've missed you...
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    O well was kinda a freeroll for us Yea that hand is pretty standard and mp-s call is super horrible. I ran into quads and was kinda spewing but had 55k at one point with 4000 runners left sigh. I tried to say hi at your table in chat at one point, your table looked pretty hard with 2 supernovas on your left and no huge fish, unlike mine
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    haha yeah one of them was playing all 3 main events 10k buyin Ah must of missed it pm me your stars SN if you want.

    Longest day today after busting out, I went to uni (i leave at 720am) and just got home just then it's like (12 midnight) got so much done tho heaps of shit due. Better get some zzZZzZZzzZzZ almost been up for 24 hours gotta smash some Dougie houser before bed tho

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    It's pretty lame but I might as well post this because it is kinda inspired by my poker goals. With my uni being a dick and me taking poker more seriously (moar volume) I've haven't had as much time to go skating and feel my fitness has gone waaaaaay down.

    I'm gonna set a little goal of: jog 15 times in the month >15 minutes.

    It's pretty ez goal but I just did the 1st one then and i feel pretty wrecked lol my route is about 2km's. Hopefully I can do this fairly cruisy and next month up then ante a bit.

    Also with all this blue monday shit happening as well I'm not sure how much longer online poker will last in Australia so I'm defiantly going to keep this in mind and try to grind MOAR MOAR MOAR
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    Nice session played like 800 hands or so, almost fully cleared my SCOOP 200 reload bonus.

    Is folding here what makes my W$SD so high? its 59.39 over my 30k 50nl hands sample

    (Also I don't think I've ever pure bluffed the river either I assume this contributes to this)


    I doubt he is raising the river here with his two pair or sets part of his range, were getting a really good price but it seems so face up

    PokerStars - $0.50 NL (9 max) - Holdem - 8 players

    UTG: $52.60
    UTG+1: $53.80
    MP: $50.00
    MP+1: $50.00
    CO: $50.00
    BTN: $29.00 53/13 (15 hands)
    SB: $55.40
    Hero (BB): $67.75

    SB posts SB $0.25, Hero posts BB $0.50

    Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero has T J

    fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, BTN calls $0.50, SB calls $0.25, Hero checks

    Flop: ($1.50, 3 players) 7 8 9
    SB checks, Hero bets $1.50, BTN calls $1.50, fold

    Turn: ($4.50, 2 players) 2
    Hero bets $3.75, BTN calls $3.75

    River: ($12.00, 2 players) 4
    Hero bets $6.50, BTN raises to $15.50, fold

    BTN wins $23.80

    Also how's my sizing? I assume b/f ing the river is the most EV+ here
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    all streets look fine to me. i imagine he raises anything two pair or stronger on the flop or turn. so that seems to narrows his river range down to basically flushes.
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    haha yeah my thoughts exactly. What's your W$SD at 50nl rpm?
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    I'd b/f like $8 on the river, don't think you'll change his calling range that much since he's likely a weaker player.
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    Yeah that makes sense carroters

    Played a nice long ~1300 hands session today here's some hands.

    Hand 1:

    Fishy player is running 53/2 (47 hands) 7% raise flop (1/15)

    PokerStars - $0.50 NL (9 max) - Holdem - 8 players

    Hero (CO): $59.05
    BTN: $50.00
    SB: $32.65
    BB: $28.25
    UTG: $50.75
    UTG+1: $58.50
    MP: $19.25
    MP+1: $50.00

    SB posts SB $0.25, BB posts BB $0.50

    Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero has K A

    fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to $1.50, fold, SB calls $1.25, BB calls $1.00

    Flop: ($4.50, 3 players) Q 2 K
    SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets $4.00, SB raises to $8.00, fold, Hero calls $4.00

    When he min raises I highly doubt his range is ever KQ, 22 I feel like he has somewhere heard play draws aggressively, FD's and JT are def in his range some of the time.

    Turn: ($20.50, 2 players) 7
    SB bets $5.00,

    When he bets so weak he strengthens my thoughts on his range, he wants to see a cheap river card with his draw. I guess he could be betting weak here for value (ldo) coz he's scared I'll fold or something.

    I don't think flatting would be the best (probz flawed) Because the we are giving him a cheap card so obv this is good for his draw. We can't really raise without putting him all in.

    Alternatively we could flat and call the river on any non diamond, A or J but this seems pointless because we might as well get him in on the turn while where ahead.

    Hero raises to $26.00,

    I imagine his calling range would still contain his draws I doubt hes folding them now

    something like {22,AdJd,AdTd,Ad9d,Ad8d,Ad7d,Ad6d,Ad5d,Ad4d,Ad3d,K Qs,JTs,KQo,JTo}

    which we have 61.5% against

    SB calls $18.15 and is all-in

    standard? How is my thoughts on his calling range? Too optimistic?




    Hand 2:

    PokerStars - $0.50 NL (9 max) - Holdem - 9 players


    MP: $51.75 - 24/13, 3% 3bet (2/63), 0% 4 bet + (0/11), (208 hands)

    MP+1: $22.05 - 29/23 (120 hands)
    LP: $19.25
    Hero (CO): $50.00
    BTN: $54.30
    SB: $15.80
    BB: $20.00
    UTG: $42.65
    UTG+1: $52.55

    SB posts SB $0.25, BB posts BB $0.50

    Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero has K K

    fold, fold, MP raises to $1.50, MP+1 raises to $4.00, fold, Hero raises to $10.50,

    I'm not questioning my squeeze here we crush MP+1's range and are happy to stack off with him. My question is can we 4bet fold here with kings, if MP 5bet jams and MP+1 folds?

    I highly doubt he would 5bet QQ or AK into us here. Pretty much just KK+ which we have 22.62% against.

    If he jams we need 41.25 % to call

    (current pot is 16.75 + his jam which can only cover our effective stack 39.50. So pot = 16.75 + 39.50 = 56.25 )

    39.50/(39.50+56.25) = 0.41253 = 41.25%


    so it's not EV+ to call

    If he has {QQ+} it's a flip

    vs {KK+,AKs,AKo} we have 47.30%

    vs {QQ+,AKs,AKo}we have 57.19%

    ez fold?
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    Fully cleared my SCOOP reload bonus and made gold star for the month I haven't Grinded much in the past 2 days been pretty busy with school/life. I've been watching a few more grinder school vids and am contemplating hiring a coach during my holidays (in like 2 weeks) maybe UCDlacrosse or nitreg. I would hire you Carrorters but you only coach 6 max from what I believe. Anyway heres another hand.

    PokerStars - $0.50 NL (9 max) - Holdem - 8 players

    BB: $49.75
    UTG: $72.60
    UTG+1: $12.90 - 31/15 (13 hands)
    MP: $50.00
    Hero (MP+1): $53.45
    CO: $56.90 - 17/12, 5%3bet (15/313), 4%4bet+ (1/24) 70% cbet flop (16/23) over (903 hands)
    BTN: $61.65
    SB: $50.25

    SB posts SB $0.25, BB posts BB $0.50

    Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero has Q Q

    fold, UTG+1 raises to $1.50, fold, Hero raises to $5.00, CO raises to $12.50, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold

    I feel like if we jam hes only going to call with better maaaaybe AK but I doubt. If we flat here were oop and just going to have to c/c and its going to suck and we will have no idea where we are. Is this a standard fold?
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    Holy fark euros are such degenerates! I really need to make more off an effort to grind in the early hours of the morning (AEST time / my time ) which is evenings Central European Time.

    Grinded a lot today probz close to 2k hands. Ran pretty good which is a nice change haha.

    I've been trying to up my aggression and bluffs a little bit more. I've been 4bet bluffing, raising cbets and double barreling a tad more then my normal comfort zone.

    How spewy is this line vs a thinking 50nl reg ?


    I assume he's bluffing with FD's or possibly overcards some % of the time.

    And I'm think hes capable of folding jj+ some % of the time as well

    EV+?

    PokerStars - $0.50 NL (9 max) - Holdem - 7 players

    UTG: $20.00
    UTG+1: $56.85
    MP: $27.10
    CO: $20.00
    BTN: $75.20
    Hero (SB): $50.00
    BB: $50.80

    Hero posts SB $0.25, BB posts BB $0.50

    Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero has X X

    fold, fold, fold, fold, BTN raises to $1.50, Hero calls $1.25, fold

    Flop: ($3.50, 2 players) 2 8 6
    Hero bets $2.50, BTN raises to $6.00, Hero raises to $15.50
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    i think this is ok as you don't have something with absolutely fuck all equity, like 33,44,55,77 etc. his raise size seems to suggest he's just playing back at you. obviously take a note of how he reacts to your 3b for future reference. on that note (no pun intended), taking notes of what regs do vs donk bets is actually a pretty decent source of profit imo. since next to no regs really have a donk-betting range, and most of them don't know what the fuck to do vs a donk bet, and tend to either play very straightforward vs them (so obviously folding a heap because their stealing ranges so rarely connect), or raise them close to 100%. if they do the former, we can donk all our missed broadways on this board for a profit (because so little of his opening ranges connects here) until he adjusts. if they do the latter, then we can make all the standard adjustments we would make to a weak range being played with aggression.

    QQ hand just sucks. i guess we have to fold now. we probably have like 35% at most vs his 4b range. and even that may be being generous.
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    Yeah easy fold with QQ.
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    Yeah rpm i've been experimenting with donking into regs and have been noting heaps. Yeah I though QQ was pretty straight forward




    So its' June I've only been blogging for like 20 days haha feels like a lot longer. Anyway I have a few goals for June and here are my may Results:



    Almost all 50nl maybe like ~3k 24 tabling 5nl for lolz and ~1k at 10+25nl

    I played ~55 hours which I am very happy with, especially considering I am a full time student, part time employee and skateboarding enthusiasts. I feel like my time management and poker life balance is one thing I am doing right.

    + $192.53 at pokerstars
    - ~$100 at FT
    + $230 is bonus's and milestones

    + $114 in presumed earnings (FPP and milestones)

    Total: $322.52
    Total presumed: $436.52


    I feel like I could have played a lot more attention at certain times at the tables. I tell people that I take poker seriously but I still do stupid shit whist grinding and I think that's really not on. I think I've been subtlety tilting / being results orientated at times as well and am going to make an effort not to check cashier as much.

    For June my goals will be:
    [ ] play more then 20k hands at 50nl
    [ ] Maintain goldstar
    [ ] Firefox can never be open during a session
    [ ] No eating during a session (chips ect)
    [ ] The only things you can look at mid session are pokerstars lobby and PT3 amount of hands played no session winnings or time or graph lol

    I would love to book a soild month this June. All my uni work is due on the 10th so after that the grind can go full scale! I would really like to see and improvement in the quality of my attention in sessions and note-taking. If I keep this up I should be rolled for 100nl in ~2 months If I can increase my WR it would be sooner, there's no hurry tho. My ultimate goal is to be winning at 100nl by the end of 2011 which I think is very attainable.

    Also I've been getting a bit carry away with being aggressive and have been spewing a tad. I need to be a bit more patient. I'll post some hands in a sec
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    lol review my hands from yesterday i was spewing so much I know where i went wrong so I'm not even gonna post em

    Villain is 10/10, 4% 3bet (7/168), 14% rasie steal (3/22) (over 464 hands)

    PokerStars - $0.50 NL (9 max) - Holdem - 5 players

    Hero (BTN): $52.75
    SB: $48.00
    BB: $17.00
    UTG: $20.00
    CO: $17.05

    SB posts SB $0.25, BB posts BB $0.50

    Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero has J A

    fold, fold, Hero raises to $1.50, fold, BB raises to $4.00, Hero ???

    We haven't confirmed the villain 3bet bluffs or stacks of light but It very much looks this way.

    Should we just jam over him here? fold? 4bet 2.5x and let him jam over with presumed fold equity? we can't ever flat with his shallow stack. What is your jaming range vs this villain here?
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    motivational volume prop for june? i finish exams on ~20th so i'll have plenty of time to grind for the last 1/3 of the month. shooting for platinum (lololololololol) again. let me know if you're keen.
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    i prob just jam that AJs hand. but that could well be spewy. i could do some maths and figure out near-exactly what range we want to be shipping here. but cbf. suited ace, short stack, probably have FE, ship it.
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    haha yeah I'd be down for that but it would have to be some kind of hours played format tho because i only play 6-7 tables. I saw u playing 12 today haha. I would probz only wanna risk like half a buyin as well coz ima nit
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    well my goal will be 7.5k vpp's. you make your own up. amount of hands/hours/vpp's, whatever. just make it something that you will actually have to work a bit more than average to attain. $25 sounds fine. bit of potential extra rakeback on the month for the winner.
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    haha alright how about 70 hours of 50nl for me? minimum of 6 tables. What happens if we both pass our goals?
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    also i've been watching this before sessions heaps to get hyped for the grind
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    Day 2 of June goals and I already broke one! lol well sort of, it wasn't really my fault. Basically I was grindin and my best mates girlfriend calls me to vent or w/e and made me read some comments on this photo on facebook it was pretty lol situation i was trying to read it talk to her and got to the flop with QQ and KK on 2 tables, looking back my rushed decisions were ok. I managed to sit out after that so it's all good.

    I have a new goal now of

    [ ] play 70 hours this month

    if rpm accepts. I think I'll add this as well

    [ ] not check cashier or graph until 30th June & try to avoid seeing sessional results
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    if we both make it, no money changes hands and we've hopefully both added 1ptbb to our winrates by putting in a solid month of grinding/study as a result of this bet.
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    been grindin it out sticking to my goals not much to report really. Here's a hand from yesterday.

    Villain is 14/10, 71% cbet flop (5/7) (173 hands) he is repping supernova and playing 20+ tables

    PokerStars - $0.50 NL (9 max) - Holdem - 6 players

    SB: $55.95
    BB: $38.90
    UTG: $53.60
    MP: $52.50
    CO: $50.00
    Hero (BTN): $74.30

    SB posts SB $0.25, BB posts BB $0.50

    Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero has 2 2

    fold, MP raises to $1.50, fold, Hero calls $1.50, fold, fold

    Flop: ($3.75, 2 players) 6 A 5
    MP bets $2.50, Hero raises to $7.50, MP calls $5.00

    I think he's cbetting almost all his range almost all the time here. I think he folds everything to a raise but AA, 55,66 65s and AQ AK might float 1 street.

    Turn: ($18.75, 2 players) 9
    MP checks, Hero bets $13.00,


    def should be able to let go of AK AQo here, How spewy is this line?
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    prefer it with 87,79,89 or a backdoor flush draw.
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    hate this line...whats your flop cbet raise % and do you have a significant amount of hands with him? what are you repping here? 55/66 almost soley...are you calling pre with 65s (only 2 combos) here?, surely you arent raising AK/AQ for value. You can develop some sick meta where you are able to...but im not sure thats the case here....also like RPM said this play is going to be a shitload more profitable if you actually have some equity.
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    I'm new to making moves like this so don't hold back on flaming if i say retarded things, tough love is much appreciated.

    I have 173 hands on him. My raise flop cbet is 12.85% that seems kinda high i guess i don't know anything about interrupting this stat tho. I wouldn't flat 65s here vs this villain. I am solely trying to rep a set. I feel like because hes playing so many tables he is slightly less likely to think i'm making a move he probably views me as my stats are a 13/11 nit and has no reason to think I don't have it here.
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    Quote Originally Posted by chatzilla View Post
    I'm new to making moves like this so don't hold back on flaming if i say retarded things, tough love is much appreciated.

    I have 173 hands on him. My raise flop cbet is 12.85% that seems kinda high i guess i don't know anything about interrupting this stat tho. I wouldn't flat 65s here vs this villain. I am solely trying to rep a set. I feel like because hes playing so many tables he is slightly less likely to think i'm making a move he probably views me as my stats are a 13/11 nit and has no reason to think I don't have it here.
    I like the line, just not a huge fan of bluffing with zero equity where we rep like one combo

    Yes you do look like you have a set, flatting pre, raising flop etc, but you are literally repping 6/12 combos and some villains will have a hard time letting go of AJ+ here. Your raise otf looks quite a bit like a bluff raise against a standard cbet.

    Are you barreling river if you get called on turn?
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    Quote Originally Posted by chatzilla View Post
    I'm new to making moves like this so don't hold back on flaming if i say retarded things, tough love is much appreciated.

    I have 173 hands on him. My raise flop cbet is 12.85% that seems kinda high i guess i don't know anything about interrupting this stat tho. I wouldn't flat 65s here vs this villain. I am solely trying to rep a set. I feel like because hes playing so many tables he is slightly less likely to think i'm making a move he probably views me as my stats are a 13/11 nit and has no reason to think I don't have it here.
    i meant is it in your range preflop when you cold call his open....also, he is going to have so few draws that can suck out on you that i would be flatting most of my sets here and plan on raising the turn, when i get raised on this board by someone with a decent flop raise cbet over a significant sample i wuold not buy it.
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    @ penney= how 12? he reps like 6 combos of sets and 2 combos of 65, i doubt he raises AK here but i guess ill let him tell us if he does or not. And most of those hands would try and slow play at least 1 street because its such a harmless board.
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    I have been playing lots of omaha lately and sort of forgot how to count combos. yeah I meant 6 not 6-12

    and yeah, the dry board does make it less likely we would raise with a set v a standard cbet. prolly just call and hope he barrels
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    sorry i forgot to say in my first response no i wouldn't do this with AK, AQ here. If he calls my turn barrel I would give up thinking he's not letting go of AK AQ AJ, Penny if we call and he barrels are you raising turn or trying to get to sd thinking he will check the river?
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    Alrighty so basically the last 3 days have been hectic, finishing up my course for the semester, celebrating and run a fuckload of erins so I haven't played any poker. BUT now I have 2 months pure holidays to GRIND GRIND GRINDzz

    All my goals are still on track I've played 18 hours of 50nl so far this month so a bit behind but I anticipated that with finishing up at uni. I haven't checked cashier or any sessions as well so no idea how I'm running lol I assume I'm winning but its been kinda swingy. Also my jogging goals are ok as well I have jogged 8 times so far and it seems to be getting easier each time. I'm gonna grind up a storm today. I might post a couple hands in a sec.

    Also here's the music video I made from uni if anyone is interested
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    Villain is a break even nit at 50nl 11/10 (over 4k hands)

    PokerStars - $0.50 NL (9 max) - Holdem - 9 players


    MP+1: $21.65
    LP: $66.95
    CO: $76.95
    BTN: $94.50
    Hero (SB): $50.00
    BB: $20.75
    UTG: $50.75
    UTG+1: $73.35
    MP: $52.35

    Hero posts SB $0.25, BB posts BB $0.50

    Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero has A A

    fold, fold, fold, fold, LP raises to $1.50, fold, fold, Hero raises to $4.00, fold, LP calls $2.50

    Flop: ($8.50, 2 players) 4 9 Q
    Hero bets $5.50, LP calls $5.50

    Turn: ($19.50, 2 players) 6
    Hero bets $11.50, LP raises to $52.00

    When he just goes out and jam's like this I think he is telling us he doesn't have the flush because I doubt he would play AcKc like this OTT but could be leveling myself we need
    28.9% to call { 29/(29+71.5) }

    {KcKd,KcKh,KcKs,QQ,99,AcKc,AcJc,AcQd,AcQh,AcQs} 34.1%

    {KcKd,KcKh,KcKs,QQ,99,AcQd,AcQh,AcQs} 39.8%

    seemed really marginal at the time do you think my range is reasonable I can't see how KcKx and AcQx wouldn't do this
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    what's his fold to 3bet? there's a good chance he doesn't get to the flop with AQo (note: resultant exploitability to 3b bluffs in this spot)
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    80% (94/118) pretty wide thats why i included 99 as well
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    also his 4bet + is 7% (9/128)
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    ahh, old mate longy. yeah i think we do have to call here. but it's one of those really nit-picky spots where if you remove one or two combos from his range it changes from a close call to an easy fold. so i could be off.
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    yeah usually these spots don't come up super often but lately I've been getting heaps of them I'm scared I'm misplaying AA a little

    villain is 14/8 3% 3bet (1/32), 100% fold to 3bet (6/6), (over 106 hands)

    PokerStars - $0.50 NL (9 max) - Holdem - 9 players

    MP: $59.35
    MP+1: $25.00
    LP: $20.00
    CO: $20.00
    Hero (BTN): $61.45
    SB: $50.00
    BB: $50.00
    UTG: $19.25
    UTG+1: $51.00

    SB posts SB $0.25, BB posts BB $0.50

    Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero has A A

    fold, UTG+1 calls $0.50, MP raises to $2.25, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to $6.50, fold, fold, fold, MP calls $4.25

    dont know much about this dude so his range could be JJ-KK maaaybe AK AQs but probz a lot less likely

    Flop: ($14.25, 2 players) 8 5 3
    MP checks, Hero bets $8.00, MP calls $8.00


    Turn: ($30.25, 2 players) Q
    MP checks, Hero bets $17.50, MP raises to $42.50

    His range is super duper weighted to QQ now but I guess it is possible for him to take this line with KK thinking I have AQ and now he can safely get paid or thinking I have AdKd and am commited.So I can't see how I can ever fold now only needing 21.7% { 25/(25+90.25) }

    if he only has QQ-KK we crush him with 65.1% equity
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    heres another lameish spot

    don't know much about villain, he runs 14/8 over (83 hands) haven't seen him 3bet yet 0/26.

    PokerStars - $0.50 NL (9 max) - Holdem - 6 players

    UTG: $92.25
    MP: $18.40
    Hero (CO): $50.75
    BTN: $28.05
    SB: $50.00
    BB: $20.00

    SB posts SB $0.25, BB posts BB $0.50

    Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero has K K

    fold, fold, Hero raises to $1.50, fold, SB raises to $4.75, fold, Hero calls $3.25

    obv not folding. We haven't seem him 3bet bluff but defz is still capable if we 4bet he is probz shipping AA KK and maybe flatting QQ or AKs but thats about it i think. We can keep his range way wider by flatting.

    Flop: ($10.00, 2 players) 5 4 Q
    SB bets $7.60, Hero calls $7.60

    pretty valuey looking bet but still can be cbetting with his 3bet bluff so we can't really ever fold still i think

    Turn: ($25.20, 2 players) 5
    SB bets $16.80,
    we don't know anything about his barreling tendencies so I think we have to get him credit for AA-QQ? I guess he could have A5s or AdXd sometimes but i think we can justify folding by lack of info on villain?
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    Played like 3.5 hours today pretty happy with how I played. I've never been more tempted to check cashier or PT3 beacuse I've been RUNNING LIKE GOD but I feel like not checking if defz helping me not winners tilt

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