Crokid Poker soldier

Thanks for your advice maritsula.

I will put some changes in my ranges

I am new to NL50(3months) and the games are much more aggro than NL25.
That isn't such a problem by itself but for me to adjust properly.

I will add more hands in later positions. But sometimes I find myself folding some hands in the CO or BU because in the blinds there are 26/22/11 or 28/24/15 types of villains which don't fold to steals.

So in order to adjust properly and to make profit in such situations I try to 4bet light more against those type of opp.

This numbers are from just 15k hands which I played on WH untill now and would like to see what you guys think about it

Which hands are the best for those mind games in your opinion?
I use mostly blockers hands like Axo and sometimes suited connectors and some random hands when I see that BB has a 3b of more than 12-14% from that position.

Hey again!

How has your studying been going? I see that you've been pretty active in this blog. Did you run into any problems? Did anything work really well?

Are there any other things that you would like to optimize about your productivity/learning?

-Primož

Yeh, would way prefer to open the J9s, T8s than A2-A5s, A6-A9s are way too loose.

All pocket pairs + 87s, putting the QT, AT, KT into our range if fishy blinds/passive button.

Whilst this is way too tight, I would suggest opening just the 9x hands with good kickers, all the pocket pairs and the high suited 7x and 8x hands. Once you are more comofrtable playing a wider range you can then increase it even further.

Button, exactly the same, add the 7x, 8x, 9x hands and the suited K and Qx hands once you are more comfortable add the offsuit hands.

Originally posted by Schnitzelfisch
Hey again!

How has your studying been going? I see that you've been pretty active in this blog. Did you run into any problems? Did anything work really well?

Are there any other things that you would like to optimize about your productivity/learning?

-Primož

Hi Primož,

For now I have been managing to do the minimum, reviewing at least 5 hands from the previous session and been opening my ranges as pleno1 and others have suggested. But for the part that you are concerned I need more guidance. I started to write my weekly calendar and what I should do so that seems to help. I have been looking into some other soldiers here in forum and I have same issues like most of the guys. Not playing enough as I should/want is one of them. When I'm playing good and running good I don't want to mess it up and I close the action sooner than I probably should. I lack motivation to play when don't play well and run bad. I am making little steps forward in that department. It is hard for me to release those old habits and replace them with new ones,like warm up routine and cool down. I have looked into your productivity guide and trying to go through it in next few days. All in all I am still a bit lost with the learning part.
What do you recommend for me? Can you be my "boss" in a way so that you command me like in military:) ?Sort out some kind of a playing and learning schedule. I need to do so many things that it overwhelms me in a way and I end up doing less because of that. So many leaks to tackle.. It is hard for me to focus on one particular.

Live coachings have helped me a LOT. Other than that I still don't work hard as I should on my game. And I don't have any poker friends to discuss poker theory and hands. Here on forum I am still new to all this and kind of shy in a way:)

Marin

Originally posted by Crokid
1.Please suggest me some. Cool-down routine also needed:)

I think because I still make so many beginner mistakes that I dont find reason why.It is weird, hard to put it in words. Expectations are too big maybe. Maybe I just put myself under too big of a pressure to perform in a way that is still not manageable.

1. Check out my first video here that will cover a Warm-up routine But doing mindfulness practice and setting specific session goals are both great tools. Prepare to focus on defending 3 bets, mark hands in those spots and use it as your Warm-Up routine before next session. Also evaluate your session of how aware you were and if you focused on the spots you were supposed to look for.

2. I think its a combination of all of those things. when you start to get more structure this will start to subside. Look at it like warm-up/cooldown for example structure and organizes the external. Use mindfulness, which is awareness practice, to structure and organize the internal (emotions and thoughts) Just trust me on this one

You explained it well. Missed the reply. sorry
And about the diagnose. here it is:

“Problems aren’t bad, they are normal. Thinking that we are bad because we have problems, thats bad”

Hey man,

Finally got the time to reply to you but I'm keeping my promise

Coming up with ranges is very hard to do if you don't know what you are looking for but I will try to give you some advice that can help you.

1) positional awareness
2) understanding what cold call ranges roughly look like from other regs and how our hand does vs it.
branching off from that
- game plan vs 3bets
- game plan postflop
3) implied odds
-balanced/vs exploitative approach
4) understanding how equity is spread by each hand and why one hand is better to pick than another

So let's go through the list. I'm sure you have seen the video by pleno for UTG game plan which is quite good so I will use that for an example.
His range for raise 1st utg was something like T8s+, 89s+, 66+, AQo and AKo.

1) we realize that we are OOP and need a tight range. we check to see who is in the blinds and can open wider.
2) people will typically flat a fairly strong range vs utg and you won't to have a range that plays well vs their cold calling range, ie their range doesnt dominate some of our hands, raise hands like a7s in ep as a standard will be quite bad becase people flat Ax that dominate us plus when we flop a pair we are not happy either.
3) so pleno talks about how 22-55 how quite bad implied odds and rather raise T8s/J9s which he thinks is more profitable. His range is not balanced because it's not as strong on a 235 board for example because he never has sets there but we are not super worried about range protection on this board because we have every overpair in our range however we prob lose with 22-44 over a decent sample.
- typically we want to defend at least 1/3 of our range which you obv know so we just do range x .33 and from there we decide how to pick our strat vs 3bets. Pleno covers this pretty well with how he splits his range into 4bet bluff/value + flat and + flatting strong hands to protect his range.
-coming up with pretty good cbetting game and plans for turns and river of course.
4) lastly this is prob the most important. Until you understand how equity is distributed from hand to hand you won't understand how to pick your hands yourself and therefore you need to play around with equilab, do k2o vs 100% range, then do 46s vs 100% range. Then come up with some random boards and some turns and see how equity changes. I will get you started: 46s will typically have more spread out equity from flop to river since it's more connected.

Like I said I'm not here to give you some formula on how to play and you wll benefit the most from doing the work yourself but I think all of those things are pretty important to consider and play around and come up with your own ranges.

I think typically BTN raise 1st should be like 3x utg Raise 1st. Since we are typically going to be raising smaller size and getting a much better price on our bluffs and we have position vs only 2 opponents left to act and thats quite huge.