Agree. Besides there some stuff way advanced for me :) I should review this again in some time.

I played this at the second quarter of 2014. As of recent changes on pokerstars policy, I'm moving to other sites and not going to play zoom anymore. Hard to say about now, but I'm pretty sure that biggest differences are as always: better bet sizings with their range, more appropriately constructed ranges which are ready to defend vs different strategies, people are less predictable, regulars defend their blinds more often and play better OOP overall, tons of tiny technical stuff which they are sharper at and overall more solid mental game. I've played nl100 zoom mostly this year with some nl200 zoom and mtts. Also, I'm quite sure that the best nl100 regulars would be able to breakeven at nl500 zoom and the only reason why they don't play there is because their hourly is just higher playing nl100 with reduced stress and variance.

I'm not sure yet, gonna speak to some other regulars and ask for ideas.

Hi, thanks for the question

When our opponent checks this flop, his range is generally very capped to Ax . I do not expect average nl100 opponent to have any slowplays like AA or QQ on this board. I would check raise any twopair+ for value and plenty of draws, even as weak as KJo (has good blockers to his AK, AJ which he could use to b/c c river with). I would overbet on blanks and bet a sizing close to pot on cards which can complete reasonable draws. Only card on which I would be careful on is an A, because it reduces our 2p combos and gets some of them counterfeit. I would still use huge sizing on this card with my full houses and some broadway type missed gutshots.

Hi there,
4.09: when we make it 2->6 we are giving him very good pot odds, my standard is to 3x vs 3x open preflop.
4.56: overbetting in a spot where we don't have that many value hands is usually quite bad, we only rep KQ+ for value and if we overbet, we can't have that many bluffs in our range also, if our opponent has Kx he has a very easy decision. Keep in mind that he has many flop floats with bdfds, mid pairs and such and if we bet huge he is just going to make a right decision folding e.g 60% of his range vs small overbet. I also mentioned that I bet small like that vs fun players, not vs regulars. Some of them don't even look at the betsize and click call instantly.
7.24: The flop was multiway and we were getting excellent pot odds, if it was HU, we could construct x/r range with hand like this vs co or bu opens. I would probably x/r stronger draws here multiway as a bluff when we have 2 or more players in the pot, our bluffs have to work more often so we want to have stronger range in general.
For the JTo, I think you are talking about a spot where a got limp raised bvb. First of all, I don't have any good hands in that spot besides A3s and 33, my range is weaker than my opponents and none of my hands need protection so if i start raising JTo, QJo hands I will be very unbalanced and bluff heavy. On a board like T77r, we have to look at who has more 7x in their range, if we have more, we can start raising gutters more often. Also, good thing about J8o is that it dominates all of my oppoents gutter except for J9o and it can also hit an overcard to the T, so I would lean towards x/r more 86, 96 type hands.
12.45: My preflop defend is very marginal, I sometimes 4b, sometimes call. On the flop I think my opponents is rarely calling worse, maybe some Kx and he still has plenty of stronger Ax in his range so by betting we usually end up value cutting ourselves. If I wanted to start barreling this flop, I would go with AQ+ for value and some flushdraws, gutters and backdoor flushdraws as a bluff. If I had AJhh for instance, I could start betting the flop too. You seem to be looking in the spots with your current holdings, not overall range, try to think on what effect does it have on your range if you start betting every good hand on the flop. I don't say that this kind of thinking is bad, but it should be only used against weaker players.

It's based on few different factors, including how much bb folds, table cold calling frequencies, overall table 3b frequency and rake. At nl16/25 I would definitely open 3x preflop from all positions, unless you have 3 betting maniacs behind, then I would tighten up my range, to a point that I almost don't fold to any of their 3b.

Well, this hand can be played either way. Best hands to raise as a bluff would be small fds, bdfd and gutter or hand like this one. I think today, I would raise this hand with ~75% freq and call the other times.