Hi Mate,
Popped it for an update and as usual you are a whirlwind always something going on 
TLDR all of it But you still giving the guitar some of your precious time?
(Will read back fully when I get chance)
Regards
Steve
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Ok quickly read your HU thread, you deserve all your success. Looking forward to see what May brings.
Originally posted by 177272
Hi Mate,Popped it for an update and as usual you are a whirlwind always something going on
(Will read back fully when I get chance)
Regards
Steve
Hi Steve,
Always happy to see you here
I am still doing guitar yes, actually have webcam lesson today at 7pm!
June I will be pushing a lot more guitar and practicing for tour , way less poker grinding, which is why May I will probably go for 4k + games
Originally posted by 177272
Ok quickly read your HU thread, you deserve all your success. Looking forward to see what May brings.
Thank you my friend!
Most likely 4k up to 5k games of 17 tabling 6 max SNGs as in June I doubt that I will play enough games cause of guitar practice. Might clock in 50 hours of grinding tops but rather plan to like do 100 + hours of guitar which should be awesome switch !
Originally posted by IvicaIliev77
Ok got the link finally
So 1st thing he says :
"I think that 35% hands to open shove is too much consider how short is UTG. "UTG has less than 4bb effective there , therefore you are playing ICM and stacks where you are fighting for him to bust out, not you to go "crazy" vs CL. Also you risk more then you would earn in that spot (you could bust with 2nd stack when there are 2 shorter stacks which really tightens up your range by ICM). If opponent is calling wider than nash then you should shove super tight there (not more than 88+ AJ+ I would assume - you can do the calculations in holdem resources calculator or icmizer , play around with opponents range and you will see how it drastically affects your shoving range as 2nd stack.
So then he says this: "With KQ I would just open shove, since he should fold marginal Ax hands to your shove, also I would likely just open shove 22-TT and AT-AK, since I don´t really want to play against him oop. "
KQ is better to open shove then to raise call however we don't have any reads what CL will 3 bet us with here. How does he sees us as 2nd stack? Does he expect us to min raise just nuts vs him (hands that we plan to raise call only?). Does he feel we have some sort of balanced value and bluff range in our min raising range there vs him? How wide do we think he will 3 bet? Is it ATC, 50%, 35% , 25%, 15%, 10% etc? What kind of range will he flat to our min raise here?
Overall I prefer min raising KQ here any day of the week rather then open shoving because if he calls wider than nash, say he never folds Ax , you are screwed
2nd part of comment about open shoving is not that great to be honest. Why would you open shove 1010 bvb? Or 99? It all comes down to what opponent will 3 bet us with and for this again you can use softwares such as HRC or ICMizer to calculate profitable r/calling ranges.
I don't play your game format but in 6 max when I am 2nd stack and I know CL is very aggressive with 3 bets BVB I would raise call him as 2nd stack something like 66+ A10o+A9s+KQs (9.5% of range) but that is different format and different bubble factors etc
Overall to get the exact r/calling ranges you need to do the calculations in programs. Just because some teacher says do this do that, it doesn't make it right. I have seen many bad guidance this way and until you figure out math behind the play this is just useless info and very misleading. So do the work in the programs and you will get exact ranges if opponent 3 bets such and such % etcFinally he says this: "If UTG busts or doubles then you have more rooms for raise/folding or raise/calling"Again not entirely true!
Our min raising range depends only on tendencies from CL on the BB. If he is passive, not 3 betting nash but rather much tighter, if he is not ready to flat wide for such stack sizes, we can profitably min raise ATC vs him. So saying stuff like don't do it cause of UTG really makes no sense to me. Everybody folded to us, we play BVB therefore all it maters is knowing the tendency of our BB opponent and exploiting him.
Hope all this writting helped you man in any way. Feel free to post more hands here like that, I am no expert for 45 mans but can tell you a lot about ranges and dynamics that happen in SNGs various stack setups regardless of format. Also if you don't have ICMizer or HRC I can help take those hands cause I use both software on daily basis.
I also hope my community tool privelages will be restore so if you don't want to post here hands you can send them to me via PM like you said you tried.
I Have done some work and now reading this it makes a lot more sense.
Cheers
Steve
Originally posted by IvicaIliev77
Will also see one girl that I was seeing on occasions while she was in Nis
I was actually gonna ask you about this... how big of a turn-off (or maybe a turn-on) is it for BG girls that you're living not in BG? (Or is she there just due to studying at the university?)
Glad to hear it makes more sense now Steve!
Tony , this particular girl was living and working in Nis and we just fooled around from time to time. Now she moved to Belgrade (wrote about her leaving Nis in some previous update) for job so we will fool around in Belgrade 1 day or so ♦
I never have problem with what girls will think cause I am very open and honest with my intentions - in other words I never bullshit them by saying we will be in a relationship when if I feel just like I want to have good time that's all I tell them I am looking for.
Of course many girls will not accept this cause they don't want to be treated like toys that you can play whenever you please, but you would be surprised how many girls like my honest approach and accept to have hookups whenever I feel like it.
Win - Win! ♦
Hi guys and girls
I am back from Belgrade!
Had really awesome time, saw 99% of people I wanted to see, games were amazing etc
Really needed those 3-4 days off poker
On the way back with bus I actually set a new HUD in PT4 for SNGs!
I will test it now on 15s. Feeling kinda nervous (good nervous) cause I didn't play SNGs for a month and new hud and software might be problematic or might prove super easy (created 3-4 pop ups that I really need!).
See you at the tables and expect something special in the upcoming days !
This is what happens when I test new SNG hud
36 games total, running tons below ev
Was 4 - 6 tabling 1st to get used to it, then increased to 17 tables at one point.
Things that I noticed
1) Pop ups I did were wrong because of the order of positions (has to go SB BB UTG etc not UTG MP etc) - fixed that in the middle of the grind while 4-6 tabling
2) Had trouble with font for the hud (fixed that also)
3) Size of pop ups is going to other windows which is not cool but I got used to it already
4) HU Hud that I used for hypers does not work well on 6 max!
Yes that's right, Coffee hud is not working well. I load it and it doesn't remember how to put things around. Even if it did its impossible to have it set perfectly because different HU games have different seating positions.
Any way to fix this like super quick?
Tomorrow would really love to put in 100+ games and without this HU hud I will be loosing (some) edge no doubt
P.S Today played some 30s hu hypers also while in coffee place with my best friend , crushed pretty hard, had 1 or 2 regs from 15s that I owned also post flop. Overall very happy with my HU game plan now.
Any way to fix this like super quick?
1. You need to save layout, every position, when you reach the HU (ingame)- this is very shi*t
2. I think this is maybe working, but I only think, I am not for sure:
observe the HU-s, and run your HU HUD in observer mode, and save the layout every position.
You're right, but that doesn't solve the other and main problem: that CoffeeHUD counts SB and BB hands (PFRs etc.) from the entire tourney, not only the HU phase 
So its stats have to be rewritten anyway to account for 2-max hands only 
Fortunately, Stars store the table size in HHs, so stat boxes will appear near the right seats once saved. On the contrary, iPoker doesn't store the table size, so I'll have to click the 'Treat as 6-max' button every time I use CoffeeHUD (or start a cash table) 
Originally posted by Pl4gue1
Any way to fix this like super quick?
1. You need to save layout, every position, when you reach the HU (ingame)- this is very shi*t
2. I think this is maybe working, but I only think, I am not for sure:
observe the HU-s, and run your HU HUD in observer mode, and save the layout every position.
My student found great solution
Run Coffee hud at the beginning of 6 max with full screen
Set all the stats so that they don't interfere with actual hands and table
Save the layout
And now every HU will be OK cause stats will not interfere!
Originally posted by tonypmm
You're right, but that doesn't solve the other and main problem: that CoffeeHUD counts SB and BB hands (PFRs etc.) from the entire tourney, not only the HU phaseThere is option under Hud/edit hud options , where you basically add filter how many players do you want the hands to appear for
I did 4-6, 3-3 and 2-2 and in HU I get just hands for HU if I am not mistaken
Thanks! 
That showed how little I've actually been using CoffeeHUD and also that I'm suffering from a variant of mechanitis: every time I face a PT4 problem, I'm eager to write a custom stat instead of looking for a simple solution in its basic functionality 
Originally posted by tonypmm
Thanks!
That showed how little I've actually been using CoffeeHUDNo Tony, THANK YOU for helping me with PT4 in the beginning !
I am super excited and thrilled to share this news with you
Tonight at 21:00 CET , I will be joining Collin Moshman in his weekly coaching.
Feeling excited nervous and very grateful to say the least
Hope you can all make it!
Find out more about it HERE
Graph for today before coaching with Collin Moshman !
Lets see how I will do in the session
I would like to thank from all my heart Collin Moshman for making this happen tonight (it was another dream come true and accomplishment for me!) and everybody who attended the session.
Hope you guys really enjoyed it, perhaps even got something useful out of it
Really hope to do this in future more with Collin it was super fun and interesting !
Originally posted by IvicaIliev77
How are you doing my friend? Are you playing something right now? How is life in general?
Doing well thanks mate. Sorting out affairs for a move East, hopefully.
I had a shot at nl50 zoom, but dropped 4 buy ins in 800 hands and ran away like a little girl 
I ran bad. I'm sure I can beat those nits though!
Going to give zoom a run with volume this month, to see if I can beat this game. Nl 25, and NL 10. If I knew a coach with a recent , long term winning rate, I'd hire him.
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Do you know " Stray Cat Strut" , by The Stray Cats? Would be a good song to play an instrumental version. I love the solos. A lot different than the usual blues rock stuff I listen to. Great chords intro to the last solo, and some great unusual runs in the others. And yes, I learned it from Lick Library!
Originally posted by TheLandlordUK
Originally posted by IvicaIliev77
How are you doing my friend? Are you playing something right now? How is life in general?Doing well thanks mate. Sorting out affairs for a move East, hopefully.
I had a shot at nl50 zoom, but dropped 4 buy ins in 800 hands and ran away like a little girlGoing to give zoom a run with volume this month, to see if I can beat this game. Nl 25, and NL 10. If I knew a coach with a recent , long term winning rate, I'd hire him.
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Do you know " Stray Cat Strut" , by The Stray Cats? Would be a good song to play an instrumental version. I love the solos. A lot different than the usual blues rock stuff I listen to. Great chords intro to the last solo, and some great unusual runs in the others. And yes, I learned it from Lick Library!Don't know who to recommend you cause both Pleno and MBML don't offer coaching and staking. Perheps Shevtchenko, Internet or Wizl (spelled very different ♦ ?