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matusko
Joined: 05.09.2010

Cassava Poker $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players - View hand 1332659
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CO: $48.09
BTN: $142.00
SB: $103.10
BB: $100.00
UTG: $32.15
Hero (MP): $121.59

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is MP with 8 :club: A :club:
1 fold, Hero raises to $3, CO calls $3, 3 folds

Flop: ($7.50) Q :club: 3 :club: K :spade: (2 players)
Hero bets $4.50, CO calls $4.50

Turn: ($16.50) 9 :heart: (2 players)
Hero bets $10, CO calls $10

River: ($36.50) A :heart: (2 players)
Hero bets $31, CO folds

Villain is a fishy guy, very high wtsd. Not sure about the value shove on the river if its not too thin. I felt like he never has Ax here(AK,AQ he 3bets pre) and he might raise 2pair on the flop or turn, so I am hoping for a call from a random Kx or Qx. But it should be a logical way to exploit his high WTSD by vbeting more thinly against him.

Cassava Poker $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold'em - 2 players - View hand 1332663
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BB: $100.50
Hero (BTN/SB): $130.10

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is BTN/SB with A :heart: 8 :heart:
Hero raises to $3, BB raises to $9, Hero calls $6

Flop: ($18.00) J :club: T :spade: K :heart: (2 players)
BB bets $9, Hero raises to $20, BB folds

Villain is a regular, that flop hits my calling range pretty damn well so I go for a little over minraise-I can rep a lot of stuff-the str8 and any 2 pair, maybe KQ. He cant really do much about it even if he has AK-he cant just shove it in here. So incase I do get called I still have backdoor hearts and the gutshot.
This is a move I started using lately-minraising cbets in 3bet pots on textures that hit my percieved range well as a bluff.
And minraising for value against regulars on boards like 552 where I am trying to induce because they will think im not reping anything.
So far totally unbalanced in these situations-e.g. I would never raise 552 with air against most villains. But I dont think its a huge concern until some1 starts exploiting me.

Cassava Poker $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold'em - 5 players - View hand 1332676
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Hero (BTN): $100.00
SB: $176.26
BB: $101.50
UTG: $199.03
CO: $101.50

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is BTN with 3 :heart: 3 :diamond:
2 folds, Hero raises to $3, 1 fold, BB raises to $9.50, Hero raises to $100, 1 fold

This is also 1 thing I started using. I hate folding my pairs to a guy who is 3beting a ton from the blinds-one option is to call and play postflop but most of the time I will have total air so it might be bad in terms of like no semibluff oportunities, but I can rep quite some flop textures so it also might be ok(4bet/folding pp is bad imo).
The problem I see with this play is that I am completely unbalanced-I always have a small pocket pair when I do this-so villain can play perfectly against it. Ofc I could balance my range by throwing in some 4bet shoves with high PP, or just not having a 4bet shoving range at all. Not sure which one is better. I have seen this move a lot in NL100 and NL200 videos but never on the higher stakes, so there probably is some reason for this(maybe its just not worth it trying to create a balanced range here).

Cassava Poker $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players - View hand 1332680
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UTG: $168.37
MP: $115.41
CO: $167.18
BTN: $205.03
Hero (SB): $100.00
BB: $36.00

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is SB with A :diamond: A :spade:
1 fold, MP raises to $3.50, 2 folds, Hero raises to $12, 1 fold, MP calls $8.50

Flop: ($25.00) 4 :spade: 5 :spade: T :heart: (2 players)
Hero bets $14, MP calls $14

Turn: ($53.00) 3 :heart: (2 players)
Hero bets $20, MP raises to $89.41, Hero calls $54 all in

River: ($201.00) 2 :club: (2 players - 1 is all in)

Villain is TAGish-after he calls this flop I think he has an overpair almost 100% of the time, so we just get it in and he shows 99, ship it.
A thing is my turn betsizing-should I start using better stack leverage and cbeting a lot smaller in 3bet pots? But then again I dont want to get outdrawn cheaply-when I bet flop&turn in a way that leaves me a pot bet on the river I give him extremely good odds to draw and when im bluffing just 2 streets I loose a lot of FE if I want to be balanced with my betsizing.
Depends on the board texture-I guess I could bet this turn even less to set up that pot sized river shove?
Also if I am in position against a good thinking villain, maybe I could bluff like this-what I mean is I would make a standart cbet and then make a rly small turn bet to set up stacks for a river PSB, I would fake that im shoving the river(which I wouldnt be), so if I knew he would recognize the situation I would have a ton of fold equity and also an extremely +EV bluff spot due to how much im risking. Ofc this is probably just in theory, on NL100 people might just think its weak or just look at their hand and call. It should probably be a very bad idea on drawy boards bc i would be just giving people good odds to draw.

Goals for next sessions:
-experiment with c/r dry flops for thin value with TP agaisnt certain villains to extract direct value/induce light floats because he wont expect me to c/r TP
-establish a donking range in some spots(a donking range in HU pots doesnt exist at all in my game atm) against agressive opponents/agro fish to induce light raises(I probably dont want to donk vs good regulars bc it is very hard to balance), maybe start donking if I recognize some1 lost a few big pots just to tilt him and make him do something stupid. Also in spots where I have decided to donk/call flop and donk the turn again make my timing extremely fast-nothing used to tilt me more on the micros then when some started insta-pot-donking into me. Use timing as a psychological weapon :)
-think even more in ranges! last few sessions reviewed I wanted to slap myself when I saw some of my calldowns, my mentality was more like-oh he is floating me here again, I call(which is a signal that im playing bad). If I thought more about his range in that spot and not just about the fact that im maybe getting bluffed I would definitely make a better decision.


about betting small on T to have PSB left on R as bluff .... DONT DO IT, tried it (I actually wanted to get called on the T so I would have more dead money on the R to take down w my bluff) I shoved the R and he snapped me w midpair (no busted draw etc.) and my image was cleanish at that point


matusko
Joined: 05.09.2010

Played 2 hours today, got it in twice with a set vs villains flushdraw, lost both. KK into AA preflop 3 times in a row in a spand of 10mins. Quickly ended the session so I dont do any stupid stuff. I just dont have the mindset to play my A game after that. That acctually frustrates me even more then loosing. No more poker today.


Got some interesting hands that we can use
However, I am still not sure if I wanna show off some of my plays on the video. Well, when its not in English I guess it should eb fine, will think about it. (+ w hidden SN and stuff it should be fine, we ll see)

EDIT: I jsut saw ur post
Its good that u have quit for today (and rly u shoudlnt play anymore today IMO) Just restart ur emotionl treshhold and u can pwn tomorow again


matusko
Joined: 05.09.2010

Hey, when skype stars working again you can send me the hands, I also have some cool spots-I think we should pick like 6 hands max though so its not overwhelming long.

Btw-check out Cole South (CTS) on CR, his videos are mostly HU but also some 6max-that guys is rly rly sick.


I agree, 6 hands max (u can easilly have 4+ hands if u want :) )

BTW Skype is working for me right now

K, I will check it out (Also I heard that there is isntructor who created my favourite series on DC -Dogishead/InternetPokerz so I am gonna let u know if I like his other series as well)


matusko
Joined: 05.09.2010

just fck-started a session to find out my hud on pokertracker wasnt working(even after several times I restarted the program). So I restarted my computer and now it cant start up normaly(only in safe mode), according to some windows forum i probably have a hardware problem, great.


EmmaDauwe
Joined: 10.05.2010
matusko
Joined: 05.09.2010

Originally posted by EmmaDauwe
HP pavilion?

Asus K50, im tilted like %#^$&% trying to solve that problem, too bad my bios skills are very poor


Time for Linux


thazar
Joined: 14.09.2009

I feel your pain, my motherboard packed up today as well.


matusko
Joined: 05.09.2010

Tried absolutely everything, looks like a hardware problem :( That means 3weeks+ without playing, sucks bigtime

Basicly I can only start windows in safe mode, when I start in normal the screen freezes after 10s on the Starting Windows animation. When I try booting from dvd it also freezes(even when i tried booting linux this way). Tried restoring the system, scaned for viruses... just fck.


Why so long w/o playing if its a Hardware problem?


matusko
Joined: 05.09.2010

Well I have to send it to a service, was told it takes 3weeks+ usually. Maybe I should just buy a new pc, thats just like 8BI anyway.


matusko
Joined: 05.09.2010

PARTY!!! just fixed the shit I am a fcking genius Tommorow will be such a sick lockdown, will play 8h at least lol.


matusko
Joined: 05.09.2010

Okey, so after some time a poker update! Recently I have been runing very bad(under EV a lot, flush vs flush blabla), but I think I improved a lot in many aspects including !mindset! also made some $ despite the cold run.
Also totally changed my whole game/gameplan. I found out it is EXTREMELY profitable to play a super agressive style abusing the regulars all the time-they get frustrated very early and start to do absolutely crazy things, i sometimes cant even believe what im seeing.
So went from 20/17 3Bet 5% to 26/22 3bet 9%, also it gives me a lot more opportunities to make plays, I can vbet thiner etc.

Some hands from todays session, I was trying out some stuff, abs dont know if its played well.

Cassava Poker $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players - View hand 1338668
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MP: $254.75
CO: $47.33
Hero (BTN): $156.22
SB: $107.63
BB: $114.15
UTG: $100.00

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is BTN with 4 :heart: A :club:
3 folds, Hero raises to $2.50, 1 fold, BB calls $1.50

Flop: ($5.50) A :diamond: Q :diamond: T :diamond: (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $4, BB calls $4

Turn: ($13.50) J :heart: (2 players)
BB checks, Hero checks

River: ($13.50) K :diamond: (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $6, BB calls $6

Cbet probably standard(protection+he can call w worse), turn I dont want to turn my hand into a bluff bc his calling range has a ton of broadway cards in it. River I bet small to make him fold a split, it might be donating $, not sure(villain is a decent tag).

Cassava Poker $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold'em - 5 players - View hand 1338682
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BB: $179.18
UTG: $100.00
Hero (CO): $178.46
BTN: $100.00
SB: $100.00

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is CO with 2 :heart: 2 :diamond:
UTG raises to $3, Hero calls $3, BTN calls $3, 1 fold, BB calls $2

Flop: ($12.50) Q :diamond: K :spade: T :heart: (4 players)
BB checks, UTG checks, Hero checks, BTN checks

Turn: ($12.50) 8 :heart: (4 players)
BB checks, UTG checks, Hero checks, BTN checks

River: ($12.50) A :diamond: (4 players)
BB checks, UTG checks, Hero bets $7, BTN folds, BB folds, UTG folds

Kinda boring hand, the point is the river sizing(i want to fold out better pp basicly), so $7 might be too much?

Cassava Poker $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players - View hand 1338687
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BTN: $248.75
SB: $48.46
Hero (BB): $145.72
UTG: $107.13
MP: $119.38
CO: $109.03

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is BB with 8 :heart: 7 :heart:
3 folds, BTN raises to $2, 1 fold, Hero calls $1

Flop: ($4.50) T :heart: 5 :heart: 6 :spade: (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $3, Hero raises to $10.50, BTN calls $7.50

Turn: ($25.50) 9 :diamond: (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $14.12, Hero raises to $39, BTN folds

Villain- very agressive regular, I go for the double c/r I think its the only way to get stacks in-do you think this line is a good idea? When to use it?


matusko
Joined: 05.09.2010

Last few days on 100NL...finally started running like a pro(still 12BI under EV this month), NL200 seems pretty near.
I have so much confidence in my game atm, really happy about poker. Just have to put in a lot more volume.


Alexd10
Joined: 07.07.2008

Very nice graph and your blog is a nice read.

Keep it up :)


matusko
Joined: 05.09.2010

@Alex Thank you sir :)

I rewatched some episodes of The Big Game yesterday, trying to think about every hand. Really liked how Dani Stern and Jason Mercier played. Especially this hand where Mercier cold 4bet DN, 1 hand after stacking off with AK on 236 and sucking out(nobody would expect him to be light right after he sucked out in a huge pot so he took advantage of that). Phil Hellmuth seemed like dead money at the table to me.

Heading for a live donkament, now. 1 time pls :)


Laggsy
Joined: 04.09.2010

Just reading your post a from a while ago about balancing...

In the micros, I'm not sure if it is necessary to balance, simply due to the player pool size. The play where you talk about 4bet shoving small PP will work against random villains, but against regulars they would pick up on this and be able to make that call a bit lighter. So basically what I'm saying, if your not balancing your range, then you need to play more standard against regs and just exploit the hell out of fish.

I don't know if that made sense... lol. Well hopefully you'll understand what I'm saying.