Chow is getting back into the Poker saddle again.

Good luck bud , hope you make it! Been researching a lot my self and looking to improve my game majorly.
Hopefully see you on the felts one day,
David.

This is gonna be good!

Following 100%, good luck...

Hello Josh,

Welcome back to the forums

Looking forward to reading future posts and subbed
Have you seen the https://forums.pokerstrategy.com/forum/thread.php?threadid=325001

Good Luck at the tables.

Regards

Matt

Hey, nice first 2k hands! Let's hope it will continue and with the plans you gave for studying I am sure it will!

I am looking forward to your ranges on the flop, maybe you can give the flop you are gonna study in advance so that people following this blog can think about it themselves first. I would definitely like to compare my thoughts with a fellow microstakes grinder

Originally posted by Tim128
Hey, nice first 2k hands! Let's hope it will continue and with the plans you gave for studying I am sure it will!

I am looking forward to your ranges on the flop, maybe you can give the flop you are gonna study in advance so that people following this blog can think about it themselves first. I would definitely like to compare my thoughts with a fellow microstakes grinder

That is actually a really good idea! I will post the flop now, write my solutions on paper and then post my solutions the next day. For those who want to post what they would do feel free to as well!

Here is my first homework:
Hero Position: BB
Villian Position: BU
Pre-Flop action : Villian bets 3x
Pre-Flop alternative action: Villian bets 2x
Flop: Kh7d8d

Since I am working on default lines for now I will assume we have no info, but if someone else wanted to add more ranges based on reads I think it would be super interesting.

Pre-flop
Cold Calling range:
3bet Range:

Flop Action (Cold Call)
Check/Call:
Check/Raise:
Donk?:

Flop Action (3 Bet)
Cbet:
Check/Raise:

Turn Cards I would Barrel (Cold Call):
Turn Cards I would Barrel (3bet):
(Will probably need to be general here)

Unfortunately I have been at school and working on homework since 7am (currently 9pm), so I think I am going to grind a bit in the morning. Will work on the homework tonight though.

Hero Position: BB
Villian Position: BU
Pre-Flop action : Villian bets 3x
Flop: K♥:7♦:8♦:

Since I am working on default lines for now I will assume we have no info, but if someone else wanted to add more ranges based on reads I think it would be super interesting.

Pre-flop
Cold Calling range: 22+, 87s+, T8s+, J7s+, Q7s+ K5s+, A2s - ATs, T9o, J9o+, Q9o+, K9o+, A2o - AJo (31%)
3bet Range: Value: JJ+, AJs+, AQo+ (4.5%) Bluff: K2s - K4, Q2s - Q6s, J6s, 43s - 76s, 53s - 97s, 85s - T7s (5.5%)

The way it changes depending on the villain: If he's too nitty, some of my bluff 3bets get left out. If he opens too many buttons (and gives up to 3bets) some low suited aces and some extra suited connectors will go towards my 3bet range.

Flop Action (Cold Call)
Check/Call:
99 - TT, KQo - K9o, KQs - K9s, K6s - K5s, JTo - J9o, JTs - J7s, T9s - T8s, 98s, A8 - A7, Q8s - Q7s.
Any suited diamond hand.
AJo - A9o with A♦:
Total: 175 hands

Check/Raise: Value: KK, 77, 88, K7s, K8s, 78s (16 hands) Bluff: Ax of hearts, A2 - A8 with A♦: (24 hands)

Which means I get to the flop with 371 hands, I c/c with 175 and I c/r with 40 so c/f would be about 43%

Flop Action (3 Bet)
Cbet: JJ+ AK (not AK of diamonds), K2s - K4s not diamonds, A♦:Q
All suited diamonds
96s, 65s, 54s, 64s all not diamonds

76 hands

Check/Raise:9♦:6♦:, 6♦:5♦:, 6♦:4♦:, 5♦:4♦:, A♦:Q♦:, A♦:J♦:, K2 - K4 of diamonds, AK of diamonds

10 hands

Not really the best strategy as I don't protect much of my checking range this way, would have to think about this further... Also I don't have any strong value hands here except KK which I will not c/r because the board is too wet.

Here is what I worked out. I didn't really calculate the combos I defend with here, like Tim did, but it raised a lot of questions and I had to work out a lot of things. I am on a Mac so I do all my equity calculations in PT4 and I haven't figured out how to pick suits yet. I probably missed a few hands here and there but I think this is the general idea I have. I kept my full bluff range in, but I don't bluff 3b someone unless I have a few stats that say they can fold.

3Bet Range: JJ+,AJs+,A2s-A4s,K7s-K8s,Q7s-Q8s,J7s-J8s,T7s-T8s,97s,76s,65s,54s,43s,AQo+
CC Range: 33-TT,A7s-ATs,K9s+,Q9s+,J9s+,T9s,98s,87s, ATo-AJo, KTo+, QTo+, JTo, T9o

Flop Action (Cold Call)
Check/Call: T9s, 9h8h, Ah8h, Ah7h, T9s, Jc9c, Js9s, QhJh, Ah9h, T9o, JT, TT 99, 66, 55, any diamond draw, Gutshot, BDFD with gutshot, Kd9d, any top pair,
Check/Raise: 87s, Td9d, Th9h, Ad9d, Jh9h, Jd9d, JdTd, Qh9h, 88, 77, A high flush draw + BD straight or gunshot. Decent backdoor, but low cards, 6h5h
Donk:??

Flop Action (3 Bet)
Cbet/Call: AdKo, AdQd, AdJd, AKo, AA
Cbet/3bet: KK, K8s, K7s (2 Pair and sets I think just get it in?)
Cbet/Fold: 97s, T8s, QQ, JJ, J8s, Q8s, 7h6h, 6h5h, Qh7h, Qh8h, Jh8h, Th8h, Ah4h,Ah3h, Ah2h
Check/Raise:Ad3d, Ad2d(?), AdKh(?), 7h9h
Check/Fold: The rest.
Check/Call: QdQx, JdJx (Even these seem vulnerable here.)
(Mid strength hands that have draws covered)

Turn Cards I would Barrel (Cold Call): Cards that improve our equity, or miss Villans range, he will be betting with a lot of draws here. With value something like 9d, Jd would really kill out action. We will be barreling a lot of hearts, or cards where we pick up a draw from backdoors.

Turn Cards I would Barrel (3bet): Turn cards that improve my equity, or a turn card that misses his range. 2c, for example. It’s hard because this board is pretty draw. We want to lean towards double barreling in 3bet pots from population reads (From Microstakes walkthrough). I bet a lot of hands with backdoor hearts and straight draws, so I would be able to barrel a lot of heart turns.

Adjustments depending on the villain would be if he is passive I would probably throw away AK, AA to a flop raise

This board just happens to hit a lot of my bluff 3b range :X

(?) means sometimes or unsure

Some of these value hands have me a little confused about what I should be doing facing a raise in 3bet pots. I know it is really villain dependent. The SPR is kind of tough. On this board they aren’t so many face cards, so there aren’t as many 2 pari combos, so you’re facing 88, 77 (if they call with 77?), Draws with a gunshot and AK hands. Will have to do some equity calculations.

Going to fire up the tables and get some hands in. Again any feedback is much appreciated!

The next board I will analyze is: 3d4d5d
BB (Hero) vs SB( Villian)

Well, Poker is a strange game. Some days it seems impossible, and others it seems gg ezy game.

I have been mostly studying to try and get a better general idea of what to do from certain spots, instead of studying really specific areas. As I advance I will get more specific. I have really been focusing on making the right default plays and adjusting as needed, but I only have a few tens of hands on someone at NL2 zoom haha.

I went through a bit of a rough patch where I was calling like a fish + run bad, but I am only at 2500 hands so I am not expecting to make any money for the first 10k hands until I get into a better rhythm. The past week and this week is going to be kind of busy, so I wish I could get more hands in but oh well. Better to learn at this point imo.

After this week I think I should have a better idea of certain spots, and will add a second zoom table.

I also have been running into this problem where I want to quit after I win, does anyone else get this? It's definitely -EV, so something I will have to work on mindset wise.

I am curious how you guys do BRM. When you have X number of buy ins for the next limit do you grind out 5 more then take a shot, or once you have 5 BI for the next minute take a shot? I watched a video on this and I am not sure how it was suppose to do it.

Let me know what you guys think. I just want to get a few k at nl2 first even though I could probably start looking to take nl5 shots in a bit my roll is around $100

Well it has been a crazy week. Three job interviews, a midterm, and a project all due. I have still managed to study a decent amount from videos and articles, but I have only played maybe 1k hands. I am feeling a lot more comfortable with the general tendencies for what to do in certain spots. I however still feel pretty lost a lot of the time, but having a default game plan really helps.

The next thing I really have been focusing on is value betting. I have found a leak where I am not really betting big enough with big hands, but i still worry about villain not calling. I still am not getting a lot of volume in, so I have been looking at videos, pausing and writing down my bet size and comparing it to the video, and seeing if the comment on their bet size.

I got flopzilla to run on my Mac, which makes self studying a lot better. I am really beginning to see how important it is to get an idea about what hands need to go into certain ranges based on a texture. I will be posting my homework in here again since it is much easier to do in flopzilla.

It's really hard to get an idea of opponents ranges on NL2, and my hand reading is kind of meh, so looking at the equity distribution from studying will hopefully help me get more on an intuition of what boards are good for me and what ones aren't.

Here is the graph even tho I don't think it is saying too much right now. I feel a lot more confident in my choices so that is a victory, this green line not doing anything isn't really upsetting me at 3.8k hands

So after this post I am going to start posting some homework of ranges for differant boards.
I am also going to start two tabling soon.