Andrew232f

This is a waste of time.

Why do you call a 3bet with a bluff raise? Also would rather go all in when bluffing as 33 would do so.

Just google it. The site you find will show what it is. Essentially just a great version of Pio.

Equity and range analysis is still a thing worth doing. Flopzilla is good but not fantastic.

I'd just get the free Pio and use the range explorer for equity and range analysis. Down the road I'd recommend getting Jesolver which you can use with the Pio interphase.

How much do you focus on having a more balanced strategy for when you don't know what's going on? When playing HU I always liked to have a more safe balanced game plan to fall back on when I wasn't sure if the other guy would adjust or what he was doing, so I could just try to play balanced until I picked up more information and not try to force any exploits without a good reason. Is this also relevant for 6max games?

It's probably going to be very useful for you to focus less on your thoughts and more on your feelings and sensations. The narratives or story you tell yourself about what happens helps to keep the strong emotions active. You can try these but most forms of meditation will get to it.
Meditation on youtube

Nr. 3 everyone has a past and it will influence you in the present. The things your parents told you, maybe had a bad breakup with a GF, someone close to you died, was good at something and linked your self esteem to it...

You are actually not running bad compared to likely outcomes. This run is just completely standard for any win rate below 10bb/100 or something.

Nr. 1 you likely lack a good subconscious understanding of variance and can likely make progress by just learning more about it.

Nr. 2 find a way to deal with the feelings and stop creating narratives about what happened. Stop telling yourself these things: "I'm almost 9 BI below EV just for this month and this without counting the amount of set over set and flush over flush I've been getting." it's half the problem. Instead: "Ok, that happened" or "Ok, that's supposed to happen some of the time". Meditation is very useful.

Nr. 3 do you experience something similar outside poker? If yes, then poker is likely to trigger something from your past.

Nr. 4 have fun!

Do you want to stay at low stakes? Do what it takes to beat low stakes and nothing more, and you will stay there. The microstakes mentality.

Is it necessary to beat 100NL and 200NL? No, not really but it makes it easier and some form of range analysis is essential be it with solvers or another tool.

Nice one!

Rake isn't too high to limp but it's too high to make it significantly better than raise. Preflop sims with high rake split like 50/50 of the VPIP between raise and limp, and the cap often won't be in play even with 0,5bb cap as you need a 10bb pot.

The GTO EV is too small to care about but it can be a strong exploitative play against loose players that don't raise the limps often enough. It's easy to get a ton of folds postflop.

PokerStars is a pretty good option if your main focus is to improve. You get HHs and can join games instantly.

CrappyTimeSlot Players with a strong mental game and lots of experience will be less affected. Things get way easier if you stop trying to make money but start to focus on just playing good poker instead, and use metrics other than money won/loss to evaluate your game. The game is a lot more fun when you don't "grind", "put in hands", etc andinstead "play". You accept you will make mistakes and that it's part of your current win rate, but also continuously strive to improve.

"Each of you is perfect the way you are ... and you can use a little improvement."
- Shunryu Suzuki

I've always thought not checking results is a bit of a bandaid to being able to detach and use other methods, but it's very difficult not to use money won/loss to evaluate it if you look at it frequently. So I've joined the stop checking results crew as well under and after sessions, but I feel no need to not check results after I've wrapped up the day and have all the hands of the day out of my head.

These stories people create about their hands, sessions and graphs are very damaging. Drop the story, whatever happened happened. Don't try to make a better one. It won't help you.

Playing postflop against a bot or your own solutions to get in many repetitions quickly. Randomizing flops in flopzilla to get back to thinking about ranges.

For just 2-3 weeks break it's likely more of a mental than a technical problem.

Just got off two brutal sessions so I'm sure I'm not playing my best.

Results over a session or two and quality of play doesn't correlate a lot in poker. Never look much a results over less than 10k samples and even that is low. Instead ask your self if you rushed decisions, tilted, played unfocused, warmed up, are studying weak areas of your game, are taking breaks, etc. If you aren't doing most of those well, you have a lot of room to improve.

people are still playing like nits and not bluffing at 100nl.

tru dat

K-high and lower would likely be your bluffs because you don't have enough bluffs 9 or lower. A-high is probably a pure check. I'd use a medium size you can bet with weaker Qx and Jx. Half pot to 3/4 pot or something.

After looking closer at the spot for river cbet, you have so few unpaired hands on J river that you need to fire anything weak that gets there regardless of blocker effects. For check down to river, you actually don't have many Kx hands so even bluffing some Ax is fine.

A very large proportion of non FD bluffs pair and some become straights on the river so using some hands like this looks good. Single FD blocker looks better than double but maybe some low missed FDs are better to bet. The mandatory bluffs would be missed straight draws.

Turn is probably just a check given the huge amount of possible draws and I don't think you should expect overfolding there either. Equilibrium typically folds an amount that makes low equity hands -EV to bet in these spots. A hand like this would be fine to bet on a turn with fewer draws.

The call frequency is only around 26% in raked games when you use 5x size so postflop playability is less important.

Solver is 3betting these hands around 1/4th of the time when you use 5x 3bet, but of course it requires 60%+ fold frequency to be good and don't make it if BTN folds 55%.

Like half your range is Jx OTR so folding some and calling some seems fine. It's not difficult for him to show up with bluffs after you quarter pot bet the flop so overfolding should be out of the question readless.

Some weaker regs and most fish don't think about EV and wants to get called this time rather than maximize long term EV, and makes smaller bets to "guarantee" a call. That might be happening here. I think all the bet sizes used in every postflop node makes it easy for the other player to play well. Your flop simplification can maybe get a few too many folds if he folds all Ax and some low PPs and you have a decent range advantage. Sauce tends to use a half pot "catch all" bet on these flops in HU and vs BTN in 6max. Almost everything in BTN's range connects.

The adjustment is more patience :D

You expand ranges from all positions and the corresponding 3bet ranges, but with less than 1bb total antes the differences aren't huge. It should definitely be less than one position looser than without ante.

8bb/100 is a lot of rake to begin with. You should at least be able to get it closer to 5-6bb/100 by playing a more rake aware strategy. In loose reg table games, you will probably not be able to reduce as much. I saw some people on 2+2 compare new ante structure to short deck but it isn't even remotely close to as loose as what you see in short deck. It's not like we have 2bb total antes or something radically different. The only situation that changes a lot is SB vs BB because now limping should be more important and VPIP should increase a lot. Other positions will be around 20% looser and then pot size will be around 30% bigger as well which should make the rake around 1.7x higher, but the game will play with bigger pots and more spots to get an edge so possible win rates will increase close proportionally to the rake increase. My guess is that weaker regs and more nitty regs will get reduced win rate after rake while the more active and stronger regs will significantly increase their win rate after rake. I'd guess that the best regs will close to double their win rate after rake.

The potential edge increases a lot so you can't compare rake side by side. The games play around 1.5x larger and there are more spots you can get an edge, so even a doubling of rake won't make the game less beatable.