Wow, actual strategy talk in one of these blogs, I like ♦
I should start posting interesting hands, but not many happen at the micros 
Also, are we going to get a graph? We like graphs in the English community ♦
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You get interesting hands on every level, right? Even against the biggest donks I get interesting spots.
Blog is mostly meant for strategy and as I said in my first post, don't want to be too result-oriented so not that many graphs. Try to check my graph only at the end of each day, so maybe I will post it as well then, but have to think about it 
Ty.
I see now this kind of play is kinda different from e.g. HT SnG's. First I thought in such a line he couldn't fold any hand, because he invested already like half his stack. But ok, in fact he has more than 10bb left there, so maybe it's possible indeed. Still strange to me to bet 120 there with the intention to fold after a shove. Especially with limits going up that quickly. My feelings just says that with this kind of blind structure there's no time to make such plays like villain does.
I also had that feeling with respect to cbets. But it's true you start with 25bb and that during the first blind level you have got enough chips to make such plays. I assume this only counts for the first blind level right, and from level 2 onwards it's a matter of push/fold? (or maybe it's better to ask first what the blinds are in level 2 in these HU HTs? ^^)
What kind of percentage folds to your cbets you get on average?
You can basically play raise/fold down to 8bb, below that you don't really have room for raise/folding. But some hands you'll start shoving at 13bb, others just at 9bb, just depends on your hand and on Villain.
Level 2 is 15/30, then 20/40, 25/50, 30/60, 40/80, 50/100 and never seen a hand being played past that level 
Every level takes 2 minutes.
So you do have quite some room to play hands and up to the 20/40 level you can still be raise/folding alot of hands if you want to. But again, it depends alot on Villain and his tendencies.
My flop cbet success percentage is 43,8% over 30k hands. So not massive, but still good enough imo. But I think it's important in these HU Hypers to try to figure out Villains tendencies asap. So therefor I like to be a bit more aggro with cbetting and then adjust later on if necessary.
Ah, that blindstructure is quite different from the most HT sats and HT SnG's then, that explains a lot of my questions. This type of game is more like real poker 
I'm more used to the gamble HT's where the only thing you need to know is how to push/fold ^^ Interesting to learn a bit about real poker with this.
Didn't really manage to play alot today, but what I played didn't go too well. Managed to keep my ev-line break-even though, which feels good. Now I just need to get this little annoying red line to go up up up!
Tomorrow I'll watch a vid and start playing, got a free day so enough time to play.
One funny hand:
Grabbed by Holdem Manager
NL Holdem $40(BB) Replayer
($400)
Hero ($600)
Dealt to Hero T♥ 5♥
Hero calls $20, checks
FLOP ($80) 2♦ Q♠ J♣
checks, Hero checks
TURN ($80) 2♦ Q♠ J♣ A♦
bets $40, Hero calls $40
RIVER ($160) 2♦ Q♠ J♣ A♦ 4♠
bets $160, Hero calls $160
Hero shows T♥ 5♥
(Pre 53%, Flop 50.0%, Turn 50.0%)
shows 5♦ T♠
(Pre 47%, Flop 50.0%, Turn 50.0%)
Hero wins $240
wins $240
Hey DeKuip!
Welcome to the English community :). I have obviously known you for quite a while, we have worked together for almost 2 years and I have great respect for you as a pokerplayer. During the time we worked together, we also became real life friends and we've met several times in both Gibraltar and The Netherlands.
Good to see that you have found something that really motivates you again and something that both challenges as amuses you to play again. I know you've had your ups and downs and you haven't always been 100% about playing, even including a few (short) breaks from poker entirely!
I wish you all the best with this new challenge and on top of that, of course all support as well! Hope to see you again soon, either in Gibraltar or when I come to The Netherlands for a while!
GL!
Melvin
Originally posted by bjela
Why not stab flop in this hand? Reads or what? And what a wow calldown ♦
Can't access my HH right now, so can't look up the stats. But I knew I played several players who didn't fold preflop, nor on the flop. So I started limping some hands that might flop a bit reasonable and only continue on boards I hit. Probably not really playing my A-game because some of these guys just had it every hand over and over again.
Rivercall just felt good, don't see him playing alot of valuehands here because I'd expect more preflop action from those hands. Can't really imagine it's long term +ev, but the outcome was funny anyway ♦
Originally posted by Melvin
Hey DeKuip!Welcome to the English community :). I have obviously known you for quite a while, we have worked together for almost 2 years and I have great respect for you as a pokerplayer. During the time we worked together, we also became real life friends and we've met several times in both Gibraltar and The Netherlands.
Good to see that you have found something that really motivates you again and something that both challenges as amuses you to play again. I know you've had your ups and downs and you haven't always been 100% about playing, even including a few (short) breaks from poker entirely!
I wish you all the best with this new challenge and on top of that, of course all support as well! Hope to see you again soon, either in Gibraltar or when I come to The Netherlands for a while!
GL!
Melvin
Thanks for the warm welcome ♦
Let's see how long I can keep myself motivated this time, hehe. You will definitely see me next January again in Gib, had a good time. And I'll try to make diamond for the Amsterdam Diamond Event, you can't really skip that one, can you
Didn't watch any, just played a session on tilt and think I'm gonna play tonight again, after watching a video. Not sure which one, think one of chadders.
Originally posted by DonBartos
I play them from time to time, I'll follow the blog 24/7.
fyp
Haven't been able to watch a vid cause I couldn't access my lap-top. But will need it because after playing almost 2k games I'm still a losing player. Can't get my red line above break-even, so that's kinda frustrating.
What frustrates more is playing some complete idiots who just outplay you and get it in with the best hand every single time. Not gonna help my red line improve really. So apparently need to start adjusting much more and much better and implement some new "tricks" in my game.
As a matter of fact, my ev-line dropped 9bi in 50 games, will take me ages again to recover that one. Pretty much tilted right now as well, looks like I'm just wasting my time on the HTs. Luckily I can't play tomorrow, so a little break might do me good. Also wanna play some MTTs again soon, just for fun. And maybe some HU cash to get the variance out and make some profits to save the month.