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adelaar
Joined: 25.10.2013

Finally succeeded in buying PT4.
Now I have the registration code.

I downloaded the newest version and then the final page of the setup:

I click on finish, and then comes the message:

Cannot start Pokertracker
Another version is already running.

Does anyone know this problem and how to solve it?
I uninstalled the old PT before I started to download the newest version.


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adelaar
Joined: 25.10.2013

Solved the problem. Closed the PC complety so that all programms would be closed.
Started the PC this morning and to my big pleasure Pokertracker started!! :f_biggrin:
So now I have registered and can start to set everything as I like.


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adelaar
Joined: 25.10.2013

Pokertracker works a littlebit.
It imports hands and shows the tables where I am playing.

But the HUD does not appear.
I have to set the HUD options well. There is problably something missing.

Furthermore the reports, stats, graphs are not functioning.
I get an error message.
Something as ....Line 1.....

Can some-one give me some advice which settings I have to check and to correct?

And does some-one know why Pokertracker everytime is duplicating hands?
I think that are old hands from last year when I had the trial.


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adelaar
Joined: 25.10.2013

:f_biggrin: I downloaded the newest version of PT and now things are going well.
I get my reports and graphs!
Also the Hud appears now. Only it is not neatly placed next to the players.
Have to find out if I can ameliorate this.

Yesterday we played some live poker with a couple of friends.
I hade a nice FH on the river 5 over T, but I was dominated by a FH Q over 5.
That was a pity, thought I would win a nice pot, but instead lost!


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adelaar
Joined: 25.10.2013

Had a good day.
In the morning watched the first half of W34z3l Range Cam.
The hand played by Kidzoltan and ElPsycho.
The openraise range on the button from Elpsycho is standard about 50%.
The 3betrange on the BB from Kidzoltan is about 11%. He has too many valuehands in his 3betrange and not enough bluffhands. So his range is pretty strong.
The defending range from Elpsycho is capped; he has no premiums in his defending range. Actually to be balanced he must have some premiums in the defending calling range.
On the flop Kidzoltan cbets 70% of the pot. On the flop Kidzoltan is cbetting 70% of the time with a made hand. W34z3l indicates that there must be more bluff-cbetting in his range.
The defending range of Elpsycho has a nice mixture of showdown-value-hands, draws and floats with overcards.

I started playing with Pokertracker. It works now quite well. Only the Hud I have to add some statistics.
And they are not placed exactly right on the screen, but I can live with that.

I played 450 hands today. Mostly on 2NL but the last hour I took a shot on 5NL and had a good result.

My net result today was 9 dollar and Pokertracker calculates that it is 47BB/100.
So a very good result today. I am a bit surprised that I had this good result.:f_biggrin:

What is good about PT is that it shows you how much rake you pay.
When I played about 350 hands on 2NL I noticed that about 35% of everything is going to rake.
That's why I thought better take a shot at 5NL.

Today I paid in total $1,29 rake.
That is 10% of my earnings.


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adelaar
Joined: 25.10.2013

Today I did not have so much time and played only 125 hands.
Won 2 dollar.
66 bb/100. But this does not say very much, because I played so few hands.
But it went well.

In the evening I watched the coaching of Lem0n.


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adelaar
Joined: 25.10.2013

Yesterday was a bad day.
This morning I was insecure and my mindset was not good.
So after 1 hour of play I had to quit, because anger became too big.

Angry because I play the way the coaches play, but it doesn't give me results.

Now I read some pages of Jared Tendler to learn how to deal with anger.
Will go out this afternoon and only playing in the evening.

Of course quitting is not the best solution for tilt, but at this moment it is for me.
Tendler suggests:
"Rather than just expecting yourself to continue playing at a
time when you typically would quit, push yourself harder to play well and avoid big mistakes for just 5 or 10 more minutes."

The next thing can also cause a mental problem:
"In essence, you believe at a deeper level that you are more in
control of the outcome than you actually are."


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SvenBe
Joined: 19.04.2006

Hi adelaar,

how is it going? Maybe some interesting hands from your session would create more interest and replies in the blog?

For the range cam by weasel, who do you think deserved the win in your eyes? Same opinion than weasel?


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adelaar
Joined: 25.10.2013

Hi Sven,

Thanks for your reaction.

Can you instruct me how I can upload a hand?
Pokertracker is functioning well now.

I have to continue with the 2nd half of the range cam to give you my answer.


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adelaar
Joined: 25.10.2013

I recognize that I have the biggest problem when I have good starting hands like JJ+.
As Tendler says: then you think you are entitled to win the pot.
But then the board is unfouvarite and your opponent makes his straight or flush.

Your opponent called against the odds and wins.

That are the situations that I find very difficult to accept and to deal with.


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SDK1987
Joined: 12.11.2008

Originally posted by adelaar
Hi Sven,

Thanks for your reaction.

Can you instruct me how I can upload a hand?
Pokertracker is functioning well now.

I have to continue with the 2nd half of the range cam to give you my answer.

I expect if you read the thread https://forums.pokerstrategy.com/forum/thread.php?postid=1432571#post1432571 good you know enough how you can post a hand. If this isn’t the case I will try to help you better.

Cheers,
SDK1987


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adelaar
Joined: 25.10.2013

Yesterday it was a good day again.
Read some stuff of Tendler and worked on folding when I am the prf agressor but get too much resistance and have to fold. Folding with a good hand, but probably being dominated, is one of the toughest things to do.

I played on Unibet with good results.


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adelaar
Joined: 25.10.2013

This morning I continued with the video of w34z3l Range Cam.
He works now with PowerEquilab. Until now I only work with Equilab.
So I am going to give the free trial a try.

On the turn Elpsycho is defending too much. Because the range of Kidzoltan is almost completely value.

Elpsycho floated on the flop with a balanced range. But then the turn comes A of spades. That removes a lot of hands from his range. So this is a bad situation for Elpsycho. If Elpsycho knows that Kidzoltan is so value-weighted than he should have folded on the turn.
What rests now for him is to bluff on the river.

1) River pairs J. Kidzoltan shoves 69.
So now we calculate how often Elpsycho needs to be good.
Elpsycho needs to invest 69 to win a total pot of 220. This is 31% investment.
So he needs to be good 31% of the time if he calls the river.

This means for Kidzoltan that he needs to bluff 31% of the time.
And that he must valuebet 69% of the time.
But the range of Kidzoltan is only value.
This is very exploitable.
Only if Kidzoltan knows that Elpsycho is a calling station then it is OK to only bet with a valuerange.
In case Elpsycho is an unknown then Kidzoltans play is not optimal.

Elpsycho calls the riverbet 70% of the time. This is not optimal. Because Kidzoltan has a range-advantage. (he barreled 3 times on a drawy texture!)
And Elpsycho has to defend against an automatic profit by Fold Equity by Kidzoltan only 55 % of the time.

The reason why Elpsycho called so much is that in his calling range on the river are a lot of Jacks. And he has difficulty folding trips.
His mistake is that he is calling with AQ-hands.

2) Kidzoltan checks and Elpsycho shoves all in.
The check-calling range of Kidzoltan is AQo and AQs.

The shoverange of Elpsycho has 26% bluff. So that is a good balanced range.

CONCLUSION
In the first case when Kidzoltan shoves on the river, then the call of Elpsycho was not optimal, because he overdefends.
In the 2nd case when Kidzoltan checks, then the shove of Elpsycho was good.

In general Kidzoltan does not have enough bluff in his range.
In general the ranges of Elpsycho are good balanced.


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Trommelboy
Joined: 08.11.2009

Adelaar, I'm from Belgium (Dutch speaking part), if you want we can talk on skype and stuff.

I might be able to help you, give you some tips to beat NL2 to NL25.

Edit: added you to my friends list ;)


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adelaar
Joined: 25.10.2013

Thanks Trommelboy, I added you to my friends.


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adelaar
Joined: 25.10.2013

Yesterday it was so very busy at Unibet because everyone wanted to take a chance of the milestone hand. But then at 6 pm Unibet couldnot handle so many players anymore and fall victim of technical problems.
Unibet was out of the air for 3 hours.

But later in the evening I played well again on Unibet.

Yesterday I read some stuff of Ed Miller and I continued with the book of Tendler.

Today I will focus on floating and keeping a good percentage of staying in a hand.


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adelaar
Joined: 25.10.2013

Yesterday was a very good day on Unibet.
I had some results with floating.
And also some stuff from Ed Miller helped me to make a few good hands.

So today I will study more stuff from Ed Miller.

If things keep going well I think I can rejoin the challenge.
My challenge was "in 1 year", so there is still a possibility that I can reach my challenge.


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metalmonkey80
Joined: 15.08.2013

Hi Adelaar,

Great blog. Sounds like you will reach your challenge.
Regards

Matt


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adelaar
Joined: 25.10.2013

Thanks Matt for your reaction.
How is your play going?

Things are going well. Playing at the NL10 tables. Sometimes I play a bit too loose. But I try to find the good hands to fill in the good frequencies.

My BR is increased to 125 euro! I started last friday with 16 euro on Unibet.

So in the weekend I will give the challenge a new try and will opt in again.

If things keep going well I must be able to reach my goal of 1000 euro.

I tried to put a screen print here, but it doesn't work.
On Unibet I play without a hud, so I can't post the results here.


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SDK1987
Joined: 12.11.2008

You can always drag you’re picture file in to you’re post.
Than you’re picture will be automatic uploaded for you.

Good to see that’s going well on the moment. Keep it up :f_thumbsup:

Cheers,
SDK1987


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