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viner
Joined: 04.04.2008

58 min 76hh , you mention that you would bet AQ like that also,if you had AQ and he shoved would you call?
the odds would be great but i dont know are we good enough times

Great end of the video :D:D:D

Is new livestream still friday 8pm as planned?


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MartaiMrko
Joined: 02.02.2011

Hey viner, yes I would always call AQ in this line, on the other hand I would also bet A10s there with that size (or 25%), and I would fold that on shove vs unknown, because blocking 1010 as potential bluff shove is a problem.

Yup, classic end of the video, you just have to love it :P

Live stream is friday 8pm, I'm asking all of you to be there, I'll talk and explain everything about "exploits" based on the spots we encounter. I will explain how to make exploits, and how far you can go into adjustments, also I will give you the max exploit strategy, and give examples when you can use it. That is something you won't find anywhere, and is one of the reasons my redline is so high. So join in, more of you means more motivation for me, be active and let's crush together!


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viner
Joined: 04.04.2008

Overbet video

58 min-- why is that a ch/r with QJ there can you explain?
Nit should have range advantage there or am i wrong?
I would have liked it more if there was a BDFD

looking forward to your stream tonight, gl

edit: how do you have 10% rb on stars, chests are around 20% and monthly challenge is 10%


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MartaiMrko
Joined: 02.02.2011

Hey viner I will answer you question later(I'm currently in my car travelling).

Livestream is in 20:00 h today, also I'm giving 100% of my winnings from the session to the best question/comment. Looking forward seeing you. The theme is "all about Overbetting". I will explain you in details every situation or spot we encounter. So it will be fun. See you in 2 hours.


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MartaiMrko
Joined: 02.02.2011

Hey Viner, just to answer your question now, he has range advantage(even we have 99 i JJ in the range), we have slight nuts advantage, we use this hand as a c/r bluff because we overfold a lot on a flop(we fold all PP on the flop) and we need to c/r a lot to compensate that, our hand is also very nice, blocking the JJ and the nuts, unblocking clubs, pretty nice bet, jam on 2 bricks.

I was thinking about 10% monthly challenge as a rb.


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viner
Joined: 04.04.2008

Couldnt watch live yesterday, could have won some $$ with good questions :)

37 min AK2ssh BBvs BTN 3b pot first i was surprised that it is just 30 % cbet, and second the overbet never crossed my mind and it is the only size to bet.
I was cbeting 1/3 just like you said :(
What do we check and what is an overbet? How do we protect our checking range?

99vs 44 hand was hilarious when you tryed to put him on a range and he calls with 44


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MartaiMrko
Joined: 02.02.2011

viner you basically protect your check range by always checking AA and KK, little less then half of the AJ and mostly checking all the lower Ax.

You mostly want to bet 82% (I like to overbet because people will generally have trouble to know how to defend properly). You always bet AQ+(less then half AJ) mixed with bluffs.

I learn one thing in this series, some players is better not to range :f_biggrin:


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MartaiMrko
Joined: 02.02.2011

Hey Guys, there has been change of plans, Limit Summary as a special video of conlusion the limit will be here on monday (where I will give you 10 concrete tips that WORKS, and explain it in details).

So today from 20:00 I'm gonna stream my usual limits, 4 tabling, so it will be a lot of action. I'm looking forward playing with my familiar opponents and actually having sample on players. We can also talk about comparation of players, or stlye of play, and see what kind of exploits we can do here.

Looking forward to seeing you, and let's make one good session!


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viner
Joined: 04.04.2008

Just watched 10 tips, ty for that.

Are we going next week on the next limit or there is going to be a break between limits?


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MartaiMrko
Joined: 02.02.2011

Hey Guys, I'm back with the review of the past month, sry for being late, I just couldn't find the time.

My only goal from past month was: to make first part of new video series, and it has been done.
I hope you liked it, I put a lot of time and effort into it, wanna to give you the real stuff, concrete things that ACTUALLY WORK!
You can leave your comments and feedback also here, if you have critics, or things you would like to see more, or ideas of any kind please be free to write.
This was my first time creating something like this, and I know it's not perfect, but I would say it's a decent start, at least based on my effort and will.

I had also a vacation because we had "october summer" here in Croatia, so I didn't play that much.

Here is the recap:

Pokerstars-October:

SuperSport-October:

On SuperSport I played most of the time with 4, or even 5 big whales at the tables, so I just can't explained what happened, most of them have stats like(50 20, fold to 3b 10%, fold to cbet 10%,turn:20% river:20-30%). Also this is the September from SuperSport:

Now I have lower winrate(and a lot lower) on SuperSport(this year) where I had been playing with 4+ big whales then on PokerStars.
Only time I actually crush is when there are just regs at the tables.

I used to win last 3 years here 25bb/100+. So I just don't have logic explanation how is this possible. They call my bluffs with redicilus hands, and all my value hands are in the top top of their range (and they call 3bets OOP with q8o,K6o,26s etc), they basically don't fold anything preflop, and they flout everything postflop. Insane!

I played both Main Events on Stars yesterday(109$, and 1050$), get both of them deep run in second day, and lost. I lost all together 20 all ins 75%+(in around 14 tournaments that I had played these 2 days).
This is how I lost 1050$ Main event:

There was only 500 people left, and everybody was really short (so If i won these I would be in top20, and had potential for a big night, 1.place was over 700k).
But It just wasn't our time..

All in all, I worked on my game also, I feel I am better then ever. And I will get better for sure.

I'm going to Croatia friday morning, still don't know when I will be back(I'm curentlly in Germany, with my PC and everything), so I will not play until I'm back. After that I plan to stream more, and we can then see where to go from here(and when)- regarding the next video series.

Btw Viner glad that you like it. I answered your question.

See you and good luck.


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VorpalF2F
Joined: 02.09.2010

That is some impressive volume in just a couple of months!


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MartaiMrko
Joined: 02.02.2011

Hey Guys, I'm here, not dead yet :f_biggrin:

I had a lot of private things to sort out, and now I'm back. I also started to play around 1am, run like shit, and for like 2 weeks I wasn't playing my A or B game, so it was pretty rough. The good thing is that I worked after that shitty sessions every time, a lot of times till like 10.am.

POKERSTARS 11.month

What can I say, we were down over 8k in one point, I was losing every value hand mostly on river by some shitty gutters, or they get like 5 times biger set deep on the river(where I had top set on the flop in 3bet pots).
14 times KK on AA(and I won 1), I had 1time AA on KK(I won :appl: ), 15times I run AK,AKs into AA(lost every single one)-most was a steal positions, 2 times I got AA on AKo and I lost once(but also won once too :profit: ).

Every pot deep with my overpairs in 4b pots(KK ,AA) I lost. You get ideal flop, good turn, and if the river is 10 they have 1010, if its J, they have JJ,etc. :spit::spit::spit:

It wasn't easy to work after that type of sessions till morning, but I did, just think after 5 hours of play, you go to pio and run even that 10bb pots after you lost a bunch. :pcuser:
Every session I had a book where I had write all the spots (even the one that would feel insignificant later), where I didn't know or wasn't sure what to do in every part of the hand (with my range or my hand), and later I had gone through all of that spots, wasn't pretty, wasn't enjoying it that much, but yeah, momments like that define you, they make you or break you. Breaking was never an option...

Situation was similar to SuperSport poker:

What smart can I say..Imagine this, you are playing against at least 4, or even 5 worst players in history of a mindkind, that play from 80-99% of range based on positions (yup they tend to be little tighter from EP :P) Their folding freq. for most of them are like 10% flop 15% turn, and around 20% on the river, they fold to a 3b between 0-15%), and everytime you 3barell they have 2pair+(and you have AA or KK, and the board is like 2694Q, freq of 2pair should be basically non-exitence, yup but they would have something like 49s- calling a SQ, just insane.
Also they would call my bluffs with like bottom of the bottom range, I felt like they were Phil fk Ivey. We were again down over 25k in one point.

I just continue fighting, working, and learning, when things go south also new horizons open, you see even the smallest things that can really be huge, that can improve you, you may never notice it before. We get back and even finish winning the month that was disgusting. After all shit that happened, I will take it as a win.

Let's go through some good stuff. Croatia is in quarterfinals of the WC! :happy:
I basically watched all the games, I love football, and I love my country, so it was my duty :)
Also I have a sick feeling that we will play the best game against Brasil, even kick them out, I have really a strong feeling it's gonna happen.

We are continuing the PokerStrategy video series, it's time for nl25! I'm really motivated, feel better then ever before, and ready to give you guys best of me, let's crush this limit together, and help you to do it alone also. I'll try to be better, I have more experience now, again I'm open to your input, give your thoughts, ideas, advices, what you want to improve etc. This is for you, and I want it to be best possible. Also I'll try to make streams at least 1-2 times a week.

Basically that are my goals for this months, and I want to start the new year strong and go and crush the High stakes in a new year!

Btw.who didn't see it- join by discord: https://discord.com/invite/6ybPhejzhw
I'm available 24h/7 ,there are a lot of good players there, we talk about hands and strategy, and everybody is welcome, also I will be making giveaways through it.

I'm also thinking about ocasional "Zoom live stream", it seems a lot of guys are interesting in that, so we can do it sometimes.
Because I was starting to play late last month I had to put in some zoom 200 tables.
I felt really good, the pool was small(30-40players) cos it was like 4am mostly. And I knew most of them from regular tables. So it felt like normal tables.

See ya soon!


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ghaleon
Joined: 17.10.2007

Very familiar opponent type on omaha side with vpip 80+. Difference though is that as preflop equities run closer hot running maniacs are more common. More often than not it's players like this if they are sitting with 500bb+ stack when you sit on table. Of course sometimes they will then also lose massive stack in matter of few hands. Make life swingy if nothing else :)


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MartaiMrko
Joined: 02.02.2011

They also make life really good for everybody else :)


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Fredjen
Joined: 28.05.2008

Originally posted by ghaleon
Very familiar opponent type on omaha side with vpip 80+. Difference though is that as preflop equities run closer hot running maniacs are more common. More often than not it's players like this if they are sitting with 500bb+ stack when you sit on table. Of course sometimes they will then also lose massive stack in matter of few hands. Make life swingy if nothing else :)

it's the same in short deck, makes me feel like Phil helmuth on the HCL mr beast stream :f_biggrin:


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Hey MartaiMrko. Can you explain why you always check your entire range in multiway pots?

Thanks!


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jiffybag
Joined: 21.12.2010

What smart can I say..Imagine this, you are playing against at least 4, or even 5 worst players in history of a mindkind, that play from 80-99% of range based on positions (yup they tend to be little tighter from EP :P ) Their folding freq. for most of them are like 10% flop 15% turn, and around 20% on the river, they fold to a 3b between 0-15%), and everytime you 3barell they have 2pair+(and you have AA or KK, and the board is like 2694Q, freq of 2pair should be basically non-exitence, yup but they would have something like 49s- calling a SQ, just insane.
Also they would call my bluffs with like bottom of the bottom range, I felt like they were Phil fk Ivey. We were again down over 25k in one point.

I go through the same thing on our local site, there are some players, let's call them "regs" because they are there regularly, they refuse to fold anything to me (its not just to me, but it feels like that sometimes), 92o, yep, I will call a 3bet with that and stack off with bottom pair and river 2 pair, easy game :appl: :profit:
In September I was playing the 100nl games and now I am back at 20nl (because of raging tilt :rage::rage::rage: ) and won't go back until I learn to deal with my tilt issues, or my opponents stop getting lucky, so I am most likely never going back to 100nl :facepalm:
I'm working on my game so hard right now and also my anger issues, because I really wanna bring the pain to these donks :coolface:
Anyways, keep up the grind :f_drink:

After running into those never fold em hold em players


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BradNitt
Joined: 22.07.2011

Originally posted by MartaiMrko
Let's go through some good stuff. Croatia is in quarterfinals of the WC! :happy:
I basically watched all the games, I love football, and I love my country, so it was my duty :)
Also I have a sick feeling that we will play the best game against Brasil, even kick them out, I have really a strong feeling it's gonna happen.

good luck! :)
brazils defense seems to be stronger than i was expecting but its not impossible.
im also fan of perisic. think he was the most underrated player at bayerns champions league success. sad had to let him go again.
so i will cheer for your team :heart:


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MartaiMrko
Joined: 02.02.2011

I check most of my range only when I have at least one player IP(to me) and it's multiway, and they are all regs. The reason is because we don't have range advantage on almost any board, so basically we can't cbet much,and its much easier and better to check range in that spots then to cbet 10-15%, this way you will also be always uncapped when flop goes ch/ch/ch, against at least one range that's sort of capped (thats IP range that will usually want to stab the flop with his strong hands).

Situation changes when you are IP multiway, and when fish or weak players are in multiway, then you can cbet because you will not be punished (and ranges of fish and weaker players are a lot wider), and you will not loose any value from fish or weaker player.


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MartaiMrko
Joined: 02.02.2011

You should direct your anger into your strenght not your weakness. By tilting you are doing them a favor, and big one. Always clear your head before starting a session, and don't be emotional, emotions confuse your head, be emotinal after the session, work 3 times harder to get over variance and give them a lesson they will not forget. Poker is not just game of knowledge and skill, it's also a duel(a battle), preparation and mental precision(and toughness) highly increase your chances to realize your knowledge and skill.


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