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What site??

GL man :)

Good luck, I'll be following!

I played 1k hands today and I will grind 2 hours more this evening. I only marked 1 hand which isn’t even that interesting.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?6793714

In game I was not 100% sure if flop is a 100% call and turn 100% check. I used PIOSOLVER to check this. And PIO said we should almost 100% call this combo on the flop and almost 100% check it back on the turn. So yea, I think I played it well.

Mental game
I have read the metal game of poker 1 frequently, and it improved my game a lot, thats why I bought ‘’the mental game of poker 2’’ yersterday.
I read the first chapter what is about playing in the ‘’zone’’. The zone is a state of heightened mental functioning, awareness and concentration. It’s really interesting stuff and I think its really important to understand this concept. I dont understand the zone concept that well yet, so tomorrow I will read this chapter again.

Today I did read TMGP2 chapter 1 againg about playing in ''the zone''. I think Saulo Ribeiro summarizes this pretty good in the above commment. Poker is going really really great this month, unfortunately I can't show a graph yet( I only look at my results 1 a week). I will post it in a few days

I played 1 hand today where I made a good fold I guess.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?6793822

villian is a weaker player (1 tabling) and his 3b size doesnt look great. GTO wise we could never fold the flop, but I just think we are beat pretty often. I think when a weaker player bets pot in this spot. He has way too often JJ-AA compared to AK and maybe sometimes AQ.

So this is a spot where I dont care about GTO or whatever.

Today I made a post where I offer coaching http://www.runitonce.com/chatter/6max-nlhm-coaching-8bb100-in-2016-play/

Mental
I want to work daily on my mental game. The first few weeks I want to create a A/B/C game profile. In this document I will write down the features of my A,B and C game and causes and the solutions. This document I will use during my warm-up and cooldown. I think its important to not want to fix too much problems at once. I think its a good idea to fix 3-5 mental problems each month.
Today I played a session of 2 hours and I definitely didn't play my A-game. I dont know if it was my B or C game.

What happens during this session?

-I felt tired
-I was thinking about non pokerstuff
-I wasn't try to put my villian on ranges at every hand
-Looked like time was going really slow

I will put this stuff into my document to my B/C game. I will analyse this later, bc first I have to gather more information.

Poker

http://www.pokerhand.org/?6794060

33-23 3b 6%
wwsf 44%
f2cb normal pots 62%
700 hands

His stats looks a bit passive.

Turn:
GTO wise we should check a lot I guess (since he has way more 7x in his range than us), still I think as an eploit I like to barrel bc on some run outs we get 3 streets of AQ + it looks like he plays a bit strait forward.
Now he raises, I dont think we get the odds to call.

Mental game
ABC Profile

Today I did some sports before my session, and I think it has some positive effects.

It felt like I played a lot of A-game today.

What happened this session:(and before)
-Did some sports
-Felt a lot of energy
-Didn't feel tired
-Felt pretty calm
-Played 1 table more than average (still I felt calm)
-Took a 5min break after 1,5 houer and played 1 hour after this break

B/C game:
At some moment I moved down to my B/C game, There wasn't a lot of action (tables were breaking) I thought about non pokerstuff ---> Postflop I forgot the preflop action in some spots

This evening I will post some non mental game stuff.

Pokerwise:
Still running pretty good, this was the most interesting hand of the day

http://www.pokerhand.org/?6794199

First I thought easy fold, but if you look at his value range, it is pretty narrow. Only hand I see ppl value raising here is A8(and I am not even sure if they will valueraise it), so I think ppl likely will overbluff this spot.

Gl with your goals mate!

That's fairly low volume on the year; are you mostly playing 4 tables?

Havn’t played much the last 6 days, I was sick and went on vacation. Played a small session yersterday and I marked 1 hand
www.pokerhand.org/?6795125
Flop:
Vs his range we will have 28% to 35% we get 28% po odd, so think xc is oke.

Turn:
I decide to xr bc with his 9x and TT he can check back a lot of rivers, but I dont think he will fold vs a xr on the turn.

Mental game:
Read a lot of TMGP2 and I am almost done. I am still creating my ABC profile. It looks like this now:

A
-Did some sports
-Felt a lot of energy
-Didn't feel tired
-Felt pretty calm
-Played 1 table more than average (still I felt calm)
-Took a 5min break after 1,5 houer and played 1 hour after this break

B
I ddidnt feel tired
Most hands I put my villian on ranges
Sometimes I was feeling a bit anxious ( In big pots which I really dont like to loose)
-There wasn't a lot of action (tables were breaking)
-I thought about non pokerstuff
-Postflop I forgot the preflop action in some spots
C
-I felt tired
-I was thinking about non pokerstuff
-I wasn't try to put my villian on ranges at every hand
-Looked like time was going really slow
-I didnt care if I make a small mistake

Played almost 2k hands today.

Pokerwise:
I made 1 big mistake

http://www.pokerhand.org/?6795314
villian is playing 60/30 and folds 50% vs 3bets, he is pretty agro he stabs pot with 65% of his range. So our turn call is easy. On the river I think its hard for villian to have that many bluffs

-pre he can folds hands (he folds 50%)
-Hard to find pure bluffs in his range
- And we dont have a note that he barrel his 2nd and 3d pairs on the river as a bluff.

I dont like to fold made hands vs him but this looks like a spot where we should.

Mental game

Think I played a lot of A and B game today, so thats great.

B game note:
-Looks like I try to play ''safe'' and just fold to much in spots, because I dont want take ''risk''

What was the hand you posted 2 days ago? I can't view it.

Succes met alles, ziet er goed uit ook met coaching etc :)

Poker
Played around 1600 hands today. This was $wise one of the worst days ever. I lost around 2k. I am pretty happy that I dont feel angry atm, think this is because I am working a lot on my mental game. This was the most interesting hand of today

www.pokerhand.org/?6795372

Villian is a weak reg/fish he 3bets a lot around 28% (we are playing HU)
He also cbets 80% and likes to barrel, I think raising flop is fine. On river I think we need to call. He still has weaker hands in his range KQo AQo AKo Q9o.....

Results this month so far

Mental:
I played A B and C game today. During my A game I wasn’t scared to make mistakes, and I could make herocalls and thin valuebets. During my C game I made some nitty folds (prob because I was scared to run into top of villian his range).

Those notes I will add to my ABC profile, next week I want to analyse my C-game profile and try to fix 1 or 2 leaks

Decide to do my C-game analyses, its important to first fix leaks in your C game before you can learn new things. That's why I want to focus on my C game first.

Mental leak
I think I found my biggest mental error during my C game.
-Scared to lose more money/ trying to play ‘’safe’’

Tactical leaks
My biggest C game tactical leaks are
-dont valuebet thin
-Make nitty folds

It looks like my mental leak and my tactical leak have a big relation. When I dont want to lose bigger pots it makes a lot of sense that I wont go for the thin valuebets or I just fold vs a 3 barrel because I dont want to lose my stack.

To solve my mental game leak I am going to make a Mental Hand History

1. Describe the problem
I feel scared to lose more money when I am running bad, this results in overfolding and not valuebetting thin
2. Explain why it makes logical sense to think that way
As a pokerplayer you dont want to lose money. If we call a big 3 barrel we take a risk of losing even more money than we already did. It feels good to take no risk and losing more

3. Why this logic is flawed? And How should I think? Overfoling and not valuebetting thin aren’t the solutions to avoid losing. When calling a 3 barrel is +EV, it means we are losing less with calling the big 3barrel than just folding. We take a risk of losing a big pot, but poker is all about taking the most +EV lines. If I review this spot with a pokerfriend we will probably say something like ‘’easy call, yea we will lose the hand more than 50% but the call is +EV’’.

During my warm-up I will read this Mental Hand History and I will say to myself '' in this session I will look for thin valuebets on any river''. The goal is to remove this leak in my C game, so in 2 monhts even if I playing my C game I will be able to still valuebet thin.

Played 1.8k hands today, here are some HH

1.VS a fish HU he opens 85% and cb 86% over 23 hands only. I think I like to overbet to get max value of his Kx (which I expect him to call too much)
http://www.pokerhand.org/?6795745

2.vs the same fish, I think we will also see worse hands in his range bv he only has 60bb
http://www.pokerhand.org/?6795748

3.Vs a reg looks standard to me
http://www.pokerhand.org/?6795746

Think I played those hands fine, sorry for my whining:)

Poker
Only played one short session of 500 hands today. Here are some interesting hands.

1.http://www.pokerhand.org/?6795966

Flop: looks fine
Turn: I did ch/F but I think I would like to xr here. This hand still has good equity, but I dont think we can xc. He bets turn for 1/2 pot, I think we can xr some Kx bc his betsize looks a bit weak. So balance this with this hand looks good.

2.http://www.pokerhand.org/?6795974

He insta pots the flop, and then Insta shove the turn. This looks pretty strong to me, and I guess we dont have 33% equity vs his range. he plays 32/8 over 28 hands.

Mental

Played today my A game, I will add some notes to my ABC profile

A game:
-Made some creative lines, like overbet river in good spots.
-Did some sports before my session(Probb it has a good effect).

I wasn't able to play more hands because I was too tired. I didn't sleep well yersterday, I was doing poker stuff till 30 minutes before I went to bed.

Mental leak:
Not enough time to relax-->Mind full of poker thoughts-->less hours sleep--->next day tired---> not able to play much poker next day

I think its important to relax ( maybe 2 hours before sleeping).

New rule: 0 poker 2 hours before I go to sleep.

Hand1:
My jaw dropped at the turn check-fold. As you said, this hand is a checkraise if checked. But I think it works well as a bet also; blockers to KJ,KQ + good equity + more nuts in our range vs his range. Would you mind going through your ingame thought process?

Played 2.3k hands today:)

Mental:
Played close to A game

Poker:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?6796087
GTO wise we are pbb to high in our range, but I think we could overfold our range in this spot.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?6796088
This hands is cool

River: I think its important to bet small on the river. Biggest part of his pair+ range is 6x 5x. So I want to bet small. Betting small is also good bc he could raise with his missed draws.

Played 2.6k hands yesterday (new record)

Poker:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?6796200
This river call is very stupid. I assume he has around 15 flushes in his range. I have a read that he almost never bluffs rivers.(so he he not someone who turns JT into a bluff). So basically we are calling for a split pot. He must have 15*2= 30 Ax combmos in his bet range for us to make a BE call. And betting Ax in his spot doesnt make much sense.

Mental:
At some point in my session I was thinking about winning money and playing as many hands/tables instead of focus on playing the highest ev lines. I auto folded some hands (on zoom tables) without thinking if another option might be better.

Mental:
I think I found a new mental leak. In game I wasn’t sure if I played a hand well. I closed the tables and analysed the hand with software. I did this a few times during the session and I realized this is probably a mental leak. I will add this to my ABC profile and will analyze this situation after I fixed my other mental problems, because I can’t fix all the problems in just one month.
During my C-game I wasn’t able to find out how much equity a hand like T8o has against a pretty tight range( JJ+AK). In the past I knew those numbers, but probably I dont know this numbers at a level of unconscious competence. So I have to work in this. This also applies to post flop equity calculations. I have to estimate my equity vs a range better pre and postflop.

Month update:
Not happy about the results of last month, played around BE(before rakeback).
Results:

Goals next month:
Tactical Skill
-preflop equity training, how much equity has T8o/T2s.. vs JJ+AK
-Postflop equity training.

Mental
Same as last month ‘’ -Scared to lose more money/ trying to play ‘’safe’’

Did some study today about tactical parts I want to work on.

-preflop equity training, how much equity has T8o/T2s.. vs JJ+AK
-Postflop equity training

I will study those numbers before every session this month, goal is to make a rough calc ingame to decide how much equity we have against certain hands.

Training
Played 1 hour 100NL zoom today because I want estimate my postflop equity better. So my plan is to play every morning for 1 hour 2 tables zoom and try to estimate in every hand how much equity my hand has against the range of our villian.
I think this is a pretty good exercise.
Played some 200 and 500 too.

Hands:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?6796605
villian is a fish, but we dont have many stats.
I gave villian this range of minr/stack on turn.
For example ( he plays Axxdd 20% of the time this way and other flushes 10%)

I think we should give villian also some other random hands(since he is a fish) like KTo AA for a very small % like 5% of the time. So I think we should have around 50% vs his stack off range on the turn. Are you agree with stacking of on the turn?

Played 1,5k hands today. The equity training goes very well. Everyday I train for 1 hour on 100zoom and then 2 sessions on 200NL-600NL

Mental game:
Played a lot of A and B game today, didn’t play many tables because I wanted to focus on my game. It feels very good to play a few tables with 100% focus. I will add this feature to my ABC analyses.

Poker
Always nice to get it in with good equity
http://www.pokerhand.org/?6796841

http://www.pokerhand.org/?6797064
Turn: flop we bet small, so he has more potential bluffs on the turn.(he could also raise worse valuehands for this size), since we only need 25% equity I think we have a clear call on the turn.

River: Without reads we can never call here I think.

Didn’t play many hands this month, I was too busy with giving coaching. I dont think its very good for my own game to give much coaching. Because I just have less time left to work on my game. So I think its a good plan to give less coaching in the future.

I also went on vacation to Ibiza for 1 week :), so my volume is very low this month.

On vacation I did some reading in the mental game of poker and I think I found a new leak. Energy is very important to reach ‘’the zone’’ or A-game. When you are not physically fit, you have less energy. I also saw a correlation between doing sports and playing my A game in my ABC analyses. I just played way more often my A game when I did sports before my session.
I am planning to take a personal trainer for 3 times (3 hours) a week. It is expensive, but I am sure its wort it.

This week I will post some hands again.

Played 700 hands today

http://www.pokerhand.org/?6799469

This is vs an unknown regular. His shove doesnt make much sense with hands like TT JJ, thats what I thought at first. On the other side, I cant see bluffs in his range (except 78s). Although TT/JJ doenst make sense, I think bad regs(which he prob is if he shoves this flop) could definitely have JJTT in their range. So I guess we could fold?

I think its too often an Overp. which tries to stack another op.
Although AQ might be a part of his range.

Weird hand, I probably snap it off readless as tptk and #idon'tfold

oh and don't forget the 5 outs we have vs kk-tt.

To assume 90% of his range is that is probably incorrect readless. Alot of players will have two random overs or something here. Thing is you're sometimes crushing him, other times behind with a bit of equity. It's close but it can't be bad to call it off here readless.

Folding is nitty but fine, calling is fine. Neither is a fist pumping spot and readless you can't go wrong with either imo.

Played 1k hands yersterday

Mental: My mental game is very strong the last weeks, feels like I play my A game a lot. The last days I only play 4 or 5 tables max, and it works pretty well for me. If I play 4 tables I can focus a lot on any table-->less mistakes--> less tilt--->Play more frequently my A-game

Poker
http://www.pokerhand.org/?6799914

Flop: All option looks fine for some frequentie (cbetting,c/calling,c/raising)
Turn: Standard
River: I dont think we have a good hand to bluffcatch with. Most of his draws hits and the only few bluffs which he can have we are blocking with our Qs (hands like QTss KQss)

1k hands:

Mental: played B and C game today. I was playing vs a lot of big fishes and I was running bad, it felt like I was trying to win my money back (because it wasn't ''fair'' that the fishes were winning vs me). This is ofcourse a bad thought process. I will add this to my ABC analyses

Poker:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?6800192
Pot river 100 and we have 150 left. I think he has A5 66--99 a lot, and I guess he will fold enough vs this betsize, we could prob even bet smaller.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?6800194

My flop fold is a mistake, we get great pot odds, and we still beat his bluffs.

im not sure if its a mistake, because of the playabilty,what do you do when a K or Q hits OTT and he bets half pot or you dont hit and he bets 1/3 pot. I think it can be ugly. perhaps with reads that he is giving up after flop raise it would be easier

I played around 20k hands last month. My goal of last month was to train to estimate equity's. I think I can estimate equity's way better now. My mental game was very good last month.

Poker:

Mostly played 200NL and won $1500 + $800 of non tracked hands+ rakeback= $3000

I am oke with the restults, but it must be higher if I want to reach this challenge(winning 64k). For next month I will play 200NL as my maingame again and only play 400-600 on good tables. If my winrate of 200NL after july is good enough(>5bb/100), I will play 400NL as my main game in August.

Mental goal this month:

During the day a lose a lot of time with doing non interesting stuff like facebook, watching videos, listening to music. I think I do those things every hour for like 5 to 10 minutes. Together this is around 1.5 hours a day. Also switching from your current task to facebook and back cost some time. So I think I lose a lot of time with those switches.

Why I switch so often to those things?

Prob because its more fun than working on your pokergame, and its pretty easy to switch to those fun things and taking a break of your poker work.

Why its better not to do this?

Switching between task costs a lot of time.

How I want to fix this?

Planning 30-45min a day for doing those fun things, and never doing more than 1 task at once.= Focus on 1 task. I will make every day a schedule. It will look like this:

9:00-10:30 Review hands

10:30-12:00 Going to college

13:00-13:45 facebook,videos..

14:00-16:00 Grinding…

……..

….

Yeah because of the 'breaks' aspect I mostly play zoom. The ability to sit out frequently at no cost is really resourceful. Tougher pool but who cares if your aim is to crush and improve as a poker player.

Lost a few BI today but I think I played all those hands right

http://www.pokerhand.org/?6800738
Vs a reg

http://www.pokerhand.org/?6800739
Pre I mostly flat, and 3b around 10-20%
his fold to 5b is 100% 3/3 which indicates that he likes to 4b bluff, also his 4b range on button is 7%. So thats why I called the 4b.

Flop
His cb freq looks high and his cb size is also big, raising looks def +EV

http://www.pokerhand.org/?6800740
Playing vs a good regular, If we want play GTO we def have to call some 5x. This could be an explotive fold since most regulars dont like to bluff here.

Ok, I do not play these limits, but I`d like to comment, ask and learn.
Hand 1, seems like a pretty bad reg if he ovc and Call sqs, do you expect him to show up With speewy hands 88-66 played like this?. Imo across some stakes bad regs have sets or 2p( maybe not 2p on this Board), rarely is AJ raised, there is the odd AA and maybe 56. Think you can fold exploitativly ? But my experience is only 10-50nl.

Hand 2. Seems very readdependent, obv a speewy player showes up With good hands too.

hand 3. This is a very interesting situation to me. What hands check turn to Call a riverbet on this runout, I often Wonder what are the guiding idea for us to check and let villain attempt a bluff/thinvalue bet. or bet to have him bluffcatch. On this Board I think Our hand actually falls through and should be checked With intention to Call a bet. Please elaborate on decission to bet

Some hands of this week

http://www.pokerhand.org/?6801828

Maybe this is too optimistic, but if we look at our ranges we have way more FH in our range. With our raise we try him to fold his 66.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?6801829
Think my big 4b is okay PF?

http://www.pokerhand.org/?6801830
Me valuebetting turn:D

Mental game:

I started doing sports with a private coach. Doing sports definitely has positive effects to my game. I am able to play with more focus and have more energy.

Month update:

Since its almost half of july I did checked my results today. I knew I lost a lot the first week, but fortunately I recovered a bit. Here is the graph

Goal of last month

''Mental goal this month:
During the day a lose a lot of time with doing non interesting stuff like facebook, watching videos, listening to music. I think I do those things every hour for like 5 to 10 minutes. Together this is around 1.5 hours a day. Also switching from your current task to facebook and back cost some time. So I think I lose a lot of time with those switches.
Why I switch so often to those things?
Prob because its more fun than working on your pokergame, and its pretty easy to switch to those fun things and taking a break of your poker work.
Why its better not to do this?
Switching between task costs a lot of time.
How I want to fix this?
Planning 30-45min a day for doing those fun things, and never doing more than 1 task at once.= Focus on 1 task. I will make every day a schedule. It will look like this:
9:00-10:30 Review hands
10:30-12:00 Going to college
13:00-13:45 facebook,videos..
14:00-16:00 Grinding…''

I didn't accomplished this goal 100%, I did make a daily schedule, but I still was doing stuff like facbook and watching video's, during other tasks. My mental goal for next month will be the same as last month.

I do way more sports than lasts months and It has a big impact on my game. It feels like I play way more often my A game. So this month my goal is to do 3 days per week sports.

Poker july:

Winnings:
Poker 2.4k
Non tracked poker 1.5k
Rakeback 800

4700

Still I am not very happy with my 200NL+ winrate, atm my winrate is 2.4bb/100 at 200NL-1K.

Alan made a data analyses of my game this month and he found one big leak which is easy to fix and it probably has a big impact on my winrate.

Volume goal this month
I will have 17 days this month to play poker. Those days I want to play 2 sessions of 2.5 hours.

Some hands of yesterday

http://www.pokerhand.org/?6804341
He 2.2x pre. He is a reg but dont have many stats. We are too high in our range to fold river, but do people use this line enough as a bluff?

http://www.pokerhand.org/?6804276
He is an unkown playing 2 tables zoom, he is from australia so more likely a fish.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?6804277
I guess this is a spot where people dont bluff enough and I dont see that many potential bluffs.

Hand 1- Villain can have enough club draws here that missed, AQcc, AKcc that block the nuts. We also block JJ, TT and I would expect other sets to Cbet the turn a fairly high percentage of the time to get value/protect vs draws. The 9 is not the best river but I think there is still enough stuff that missed to call plus assuming that you gii with all your sets ott then your are basically at the top of your range here.

Hand 2- I think we may be able to make a exploitable fold here vs a fish even with the sick pot odds you are getting. They tend to play fairly straightforward in 3bet pots ott especially ott. I would expect them to just call down with tp/ pair +draw type hands. Your range looks a bunch like overpair a which they are never expecting you to fold.

Hand 3 - I would fold this hand and call with A8 or better also block in straights . We do block the NF which is something but I just can't find any bluffs here.

Hand 1- Villain can have enough club draws here that missed, AQcc, AKcc that block the nuts. We also block JJ, TT and I would expect other sets to Cbet the turn a fairly high percentage of the time to get value/protect vs draws. The 9 is not the best river but I think there is still enough stuff that missed to call plus assuming that you gii with all your sets ott then your are basically at the top of your range here.
Hand 2- I think we may be able to make a exploitable fold here vs a fish even with the sick pot odds you are getting. They tend to play fairly straightforward in 3bet pots ott especially ott. I would expect them to just call down with tp/ pair +draw type hands. Your range looks a bunch like overpair a which they are never expecting you to fold.
Hand 3 - I would fold this hand and call with A8 or better also block in straights . We do block the NF which is something but I just can't find any bluffs here.

Actually, what effect does holding Ah blocker hold? would be interested to hear people's opinion on this.

Month update

Poker:

Poker:
I want to share this hand with you

http://www.pokerhand.org/?6805971

Do we want to 3 barrel?
I think if I 3 barrel this hand I will 3 barrel too many hands, I think we have better hands to bluffs with. I think I rather like to bluff a hand which blocks his AJo(I have read that he flats AJ pre). So I will bluff hands like J9o J7s, KJo,QJo, this are a lot of combos already.

Hand 2:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?6805973

We are almost 200bb deep, my preflop 3b should be bigger.

stats: 36/24 3b 16% 170 hands, raise cb 0% , xr 0%.

Flop:
We get great pot odds, but there a lot of bad turns and I think if ppl xr this flop they will barrel turn with a very high frequenty. Thoughts?

Last month

I didn't play many hand, because I was on vacation to Sint Maarten, I will write more about hands and poker stuff next week!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?6809236

We are playing vs a weaker player. We cb the flop and no he raises us. What to do? I dont like calling,if we call and he barrels the diamond turn we are not that happy. So we want to shove or fold.

How much FE do we need to make the shove+ev?

First we need to estimate how much equity we have vs his stackoff range.

How much FE we need?

I made a FE calculator in Excel.

So we need 23% FE. Since we our playing vs a fish with a raise cb of 5% I dont think we have 23% FE. So folding>shoving and probably also better than calling.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?6809528
Nice valuebet vs a fish:D

I am also posting some hands and other interesting stuff on my facebookpage https://www.facebook.com/PokerCourses/

Played 2k hands yesterday. This month I am grinding in Malta. I played 14k hands this month, but my goal is 50k for this month. I can grind 14 full days more this month. This means I have to grand 50-14= 2.5k hands per day.

Hands:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?6809639

This hand we are playing vs a reg, we dont have many stats on him. What do we think about his range?

I agree, for us making the call he should turn some made hands into a bluff(which I dont expect them to do a lot). And I also think he will fold turn sometimes with A4. My turn bet range is sooo polorized, I think I have to check a lot on this turn also with my nuts. Exploitivewise I still like to barrel, I will check PIO how he wants to play the turn later this day.

Month update

Poker
Yesterday I marked this hand, and in game I already felt like this isnt the right play.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?6810408

His preflop range is very wide, and his turn stab range consist a lot of draws (which we beat). So I guess we have decent amount of EQ vs his turn stab range.

vs a range of TP+ and any draw we have 47% equity. We will not realise 100% of our equity, but since we get 29% pot odds I think we have a +EV call.

Piosolver also calls near 100% in this spot. The difference in EV is 0,50$.

I looked into my HM2 and I found another hand where I did fold, but I think the right play is call.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?6810418

In this hand we will have 43% EQ vs a range of draws(any GS/FD) and TP+. And in this hand we have the As so we can make some plays on a river spade.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?6810547

Preflop:
I will give my opponent a 15% 3b range.

Flop:
I think a lot of regs will cb this flop a lot, so lets say he CB 100% of his range here.

Turn:
I will let him barrel with KQ+ and any FD and GS.

River
I guess his value range is KK+. This are 40 combo's. We get around 33% pot odds, this means we he should bet river with 20 combos of worse hands.

Potential bluffs/worse value hands

45s = 1.2 combo
AQ= 12 combmos
AdKo= 3
AxKd=3

Even if our opponent bets with 100% of his potential worse hands its not even a call. Looks like a spot where we can overfold our range.

I grinded in Malta this month and it was going well:)

Also won some money on a non tracked pokerwebsite, so overall I am pretty happy about this month.

grats

I hope its no problem me put this link in this blog.
So, here is my new blog about overfolding:)

http://www.poker-courses.com/why-overfolding-is-so-important/

Month update

I think I have found a new mental leak in my game. I am running good and won a lot of money the last couple of weeks.The last days, I feel some problems.

To solve my mental game leak I am going to make a Mental Hand History

1. Describe the problem
My winrate is very good over the last 50k hands(1.5 months), I am scared my winratewill be going down soon. I feel like it is very likely a big downswing will come soon. I try to avoid this by-playing less poker-play tight poker( folding more)

2. Explain why it makes logical sense to think that way

If I play tight its less likely I will lose a lot of money in a short time.If I play less poker its less likely I will lose a lot of money in that time

3. Why this logic is flawed? And How should I think?

You cant avoid downswings by playing less/tighter poker, they will come anyway.For example any 150k hands there will be a downswing of >8bi.

How to think?Just play the same amount of hands if you are running good.That downswing will come anyway, but by playing less poker that downswing will take a long time. I cant plan the downswing.

Poker:
Made around 6.5k (include rakeback and some non tracked hands) last month:)

Mental game
Didn't work on my mental game the last months

Goals of November
*Stream on Twitch
*Make a Mental Hand History
*Increase my VPIP (more BB defending and increasing openranges a bit)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?6815619

This hand I played yesterday on 100zoom. This illustrate why my fold on turn and rivers is still too high. In those spots I am thinking, its not likely that the fish has many bluffs --->fold.

But I am not always thinking about his valuerange. He can play weaker valuehands this way AK,KQ,maybe even KT, add some bluffs to his range and this is an easy call/raise.

Also started my own channel on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/pokercourses

As I wrote last week, I am not very motivated to play poker the last weeks. The reasons?

-Dont work on my game every day( when I work on my game I always are motivated afterwards)
-I don’t do my poker warm up, this leads into less A-gamemore B/C game-> Making mistakesNot motivated to play pokerquit session
-I dont do my pokercooldown often thinking about hands/poker while I do other things than poker
-Less sports-> feeling tired->less poker/less A game

The plan fort this month?
- 4 times a week sports
- Warm up ( mental game point, poker points to improve, decide how long I want to play)
- Cooldown (write down everything what is in my head about poker)
- Work on my game 45 minutes a day (5 days a week)
- Post every 2 days on RIO (This gives me motivation too)
- Making a daily schedule

http://www.pokerhand.org/?6815895

I was not sure if ch/folding here is too tight. Lets give him a stabbing range

We get 28% pod odds and have 33% equity vs this betrange, but its hard to realise 100% of our equity. I think folding is the best play.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?6816144

This was my worst hand of yersterday. My thoughtproces wise like, ''óke he is betting small, its not likely he will use this size as a bluff--->fold''. But I/you should always look at his range, I think its true his betrange wil not consist a lot of bluffs. But I should always look at how many combmos beats me and if he can valuebet worse hands. He could for sure valuebet hands like AJ AT here, and we are only beaen by KK/AK type of hands(and those hands will bet bigger often). So I think we will have a lot of equity vs his betrange.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?6816423

This hand I played yesterday.

We are playing Heads up vs a weak reg.

Flop: His valuerange in this flop is very tight (He prob 3b KQ.QQ,KK preflop) I decide to reraise bc I expect a lot of FE on the flop.

River: I think river should be an easy call vs an weak reg. His valuerange is soooo tight. And his potenial bluffs are a lot (hands like KTo J9s ATs, some random bluffs like A4dd)

Didn't play much last weekend. Started the grind yesterday.

This is how my rating system looks like of this month

http://www.pokerhand.org/?6816826

This hand I played vs a 40/5 fish.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?6816827

I think calling flop vs a weak player is fine, bc we will realise more often our equity vs weaker player.(and AK is big part of his range). Agree? Dont have stats but he is not 100bb en onnly playing 1 zoom table.

Month update

https://www.weaktight.com/h/54e757e8a52511f35991d580

I played this hand yesterday, what do we think?

He plays

22/18
foldcb 90%
wwsf 41%^
500 hands

I agree with ch/folding

I played my best month ever this month.

Winnings: 8.3k
Non tracked: 1k
Live winnings: 1,6k
Rakeback: 1k

11,9k

I didn't reach my goal of posting everyday on RIO. (its hard to find subjects to write about everyday).

Next month goals:

Poker:
I want to play 400NL as my maingame with my own bankroll.

Mental:
I know a lot of good poker players do meditation, I think its interesting stuff. I want to learn and try if meditation works. I will start with studying some videos on RIO about this concept.

Today I studied things about meditation, because I know nothing about this concept and I want to learn it.This is my summary

What is meditation?
Whatever you do with awareness is meditation. "Watching your breath" is meditation; listening to the birds is meditation. As long as these activities are free from any other distraction to the mind, it is effective meditation.
Meditation is not a technique but a way of life. Meditation means 'a cessation of the thought process' . It describes a state of consciousness, when the mind is free of scattered thoughts and various patterns . The observer (one who is doing meditation) realizes that all the activity of the mind is reduced to one.

What Happens in Your Brain When You Meditate
This is where things get really interesting. Using modern technology like fMRI scans, scientists have developed a more thorough understanding of what’s taking place in our brains when we meditate. The overall difference is that our brains stop processing information as actively as they normally would. We start to show a decrease in beta waves, which indicate that our brains are processing information, even after a single 20-minute meditation session if we’ve never tried it before.
In the image below you can see how the beta waves (shown in bright colors on the left) are dramatically reduced during meditation (on the right).

How Meditation Affects You
Better Focus
Less Anxiety
More Creativity
Better Memory
Less Stress

How to practise?
Rio coach Tommy Angelo advide to download 1 on these 2 apps:
-Headspace
-Calm

Next steps:
-Read book of Wim Hof
-Download app Headspace
-Tomorrow I will watch RIO video ‘’how-to-grow-your-own-meditation-practice’’

Did you read Wim Hofs book? He is such an interesting guy. Seen his joe rogan appearances, ted talk, vice documentary etc but guess I should read this book too!

Will it mean spending time in the cold before grinding :)

Month update

Year update

(ex live play and non tracked hands)

Will make a post this week, about my plans for 2017

I am back again and will be posting a few times per month. I am playing 200z and 400-600 mainly, this month I will be playing some more 500z. This year I am working really hard and I changed a lot of things. I have big goals for the next 3 years, I will tell you soon more about my goals.

This is my graph of this year.

Look forward to following your progress Stekkie. May I wish you the very best.

GLGL following

Oke I will try to write more often now, main reason to keep this blog up to date for me is because it gives me motivation. I dont set monthly goals because it just doenst work for me. Instead I make every day a schedule for that day. I do this in the morning after my daily meditation.

Since I am back from Las Vegas I have a good daily routine. I am playing 200-400NL mainly(with some 500z en 600NL), if I continue with this daily routine I think/hope I can reach highstakes this year.(1k and 2k tables).

-6 hours grinding(3x 2 hours)
-30 minutes sports(freelatics)
-Eating an healthy breakfast
-8 hours sleep
-20 minutes meditation

My goal is to do those things everyday

The last months I also invested time in reading. At the moment I am reading
the art of learning, which is a really good book.

Hahah:D

Happy about my volume yesterday, played 6 hours
http://www.pokerhand.org/?6833041

Today I had a session with my mental coach, it was really good.
I always get a lot of energy after those sessions.

We created some tools so I will come more often in the zone while I am playing.
He also learnt me some things about the importance of visualisation. My goal for the next month will be to do every day some visualisation exercises related to poker.

Graph of this month

So it's been awhile since my last update. Since my last update I became a coach for RIO which was a big goal for me last year. The last months I played on some non tracked sites but now I am back again on the normal Stars tables.

I feel that my motivation is lagging and I am def not playing my A-game. In the past writing about my game helped my mental game a lot. For me my mental game is really imporant and it has huge impact on my winrates. So thats why I start writing again.

I want to analyse my thoughts more and will use this tool (from the book mental game of poker)

Goals this week:
-Making daily schedule
-Work every day 10 minutes on my mental game
-Work daily 30-60 min on poker game.
-Make a poker goal for 2018

Perfect Start today:D

Mental game:

Seems like the small breaks after 30 min helps me getting back focused on my game. What I want to try out now is taking notes of players if there is not happening much, this way I keep staying focused.

Results yersterday

Gl man,
For mindset, look out book "Flow" by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, you may like it a lot

Last month was going well. Seems like working daily on my game has big positive impact on my results. I only can show you results from my zoom games.

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bo more updates!? :(((

I'd like to know what kind of studying techniques you are currently using? :)

New Years update? :)

update plz? ;)

Do you not make videos for RIO anymore?

Since I am doing coaching again and making videos's, I think its fair to share my results. Played a lot on App games last years. But here are the restuls of Pokerstars.eu since last year now.

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Started playing on GG poker in 2022, since I am making video's again I will share my results here. I am playing 200NL and want to move up soon to 500NL on GG.