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Sure, please do! I'm still very undecided and will know more by the end of November after I will have done some serious grinding :) Hit me up on skype: michal-gaw (I have a paiting of Jules and Vincent from Pulp Fiction as my avatar)
Mike
Oct. 9, 2016 | 6:29 p.m.
Hi. I'm planning on spending 4-5 months somewhere abroad grinding (mostly online) cash games, partying and travelling between January/February and June/July 2017. I'm a 25yo guy from Poland and would love to meet some cool people from around the world, discuss poker, chill and travel together. Let me know here if you'd be interested!
Mike
Aug. 25, 2016 | 10:28 p.m.
Dear fellow poker players! I’m writing this post to ask for your help. My brother’s unborn daughter Zosia (Sophie) was diagnosed with a serious heart defect called Ebstein’s anomaly. The girl’s little heart will have to be operated on shortly after birth. Unfortunately, the operation is really expensive and my family can’t afford to cover all of the costs – roughly €52,000 (~$58,000). It will be performed in Münster, Germany.
Many people have already helped spreading the word and raising the funds, and also a lot of sportsmen, artists and even poker players put up their items up for auction for Zosia’s cause. Famous Polish football player Robert Lewandowski, who currently plays for Bayern München, donated his signed shirt that you can bid on here. Polish poker player Piotr Franczak donated his EPT trophy that he had won at last year’s EPT Malta, so if you have ever wanted one but never got a chance to win it, you can bid on it here. All of the funds will be spent on the aforementioned operation.
If you’d like to help without purchasing any of these items you can make a donation through this website - https://www.siepomaga.pl/sercezosi (you can switch to English there).
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I’m sorry if this post is inappropriate, I’m not sure if this is a kind of thing you can ask for on a poker forum. I hope you will understand.
I wish you guys all the best - may your life variance always be on the better side :)
Thank you!
Oct. 24, 2015 | 10:57 p.m.
Thanks guys! I've already started taking baby steps in training myself maintain a better mental game while playing (and before, so that I feel like putting in volume at all) but like you said it's quite difficult to do it all by yourself. As for analyzing the players that moved up - that's a good idea and I'll definitely look into their games and compare theirs to mine.
June 15, 2015 | 11:03 a.m.
Yea I have it on my shelf and I've been trying to finish it for a couple of years now...I gotta get my hands on it for real now.
May 23, 2015 | 2:22 p.m.
Hey. I've been struggling to move up from 100nl zoom for a couple of years now and I'm really frustrated by it. I'm currently playing nl50 since my BR dropped a bit during the last few months. I'm looking for either a coach or simple guidelines (including videos to watch/articles to read) as what to do to get out of this 50nl shithole. I think one issue that's holding me back is my poor mental game. I've got so fed up with all this that it's really easy for me to get frustrated when losing and therefore discouraged to play more (I've had this mental issue for a while...). Any ideas how to deal with it? Additionally, I also think that I lose a lot while being OOP postflop, especially in SB v BB and BB v BTN.
Thanks for any help guys!
Good luck
May 22, 2015 | 6:16 p.m.
What about AcKx as a check/call here? On the other hand, it'd be nice to have it in our CB and turn club XC range. I'm just guessing though
Nov. 6, 2014 | 5:10 p.m.
SB: $191.07
BB: $101.50
UTG: $134.10
MP: $231.67
CO: $100.00
Oct. 25, 2014 | 1:17 p.m.
SB: $375.40
BB: $103.50
UTG: $155.64
MP: $99.00
CO: $180.15
Oct. 25, 2014 | 12:45 p.m.
We need roughly 26% equity to break even here. So since he shoves AJs, 22 and JJ here which add up to 8 combos he needs to be shoving here at least 3 combos of draws (and that's assuming he doesn't hit any of the rivers). I wouldn't put AQ in his range, maybe just the AQdd combo but I doubt he'd shove it. So we're left with KJdd, QJdd, QThh, KQhh and it's not certain he would always play them this way. Being that close of a spot I think it's just a fold, especially against a nit.
Oct. 8, 2014 | 10:41 a.m.
That's what I thought, he seemed pretty aggressive and I assumed he'd bet with his FDs on the flop. What I was most concerned about was that 5X hands but he shouldn't have that many of them in his preflop calling range - maybe A5s and 55 and that's just 2 combos (I block one A5s combo)
Oct. 8, 2014 | 10:27 a.m.
SB: $379.99
BB: $103.14 (Hero)
UTG: $191.91
HJ: $102.66
CO: $256.83
UTG folds, HJ folds, CO raises to $3, BN calls $3, SB folds, Hero raises to $13, CO calls $10, BN calls $10
Oct. 8, 2014 | 12:07 a.m.
SB: $101.39
BB: $101.63
UTG: $274.86
HJ: $207.89 (Hero)
CO: $97
UTG folds, Hero raises to $3, CO folds, BN folds, SB raises to $10, BB folds, Hero calls $7
Oct. 7, 2014 | 10:39 p.m.
I just don't see that many bluffs he could have and we also block AQ which he could bluff shove vs our 4bet. AK is the only weaker hand he's stacking off vs us. Maybe JJ but I haven't seen many regs do it nowadays. Most of his 5b shoving range will contain just KK+ and some AK
Oct. 7, 2014 | 7:24 p.m.
SB: $27.34
BB: $104.50 (Hero)
UTG: $137.02
HJ: $104
CO: $122.73
UTG folds, HJ folds, CO folds, BN raises to $2, SB folds, Hero calls $1
Oct. 7, 2014 | 7:17 p.m.
SB: $159.46
BB: $115
UTG: $41.35
HJ: $123.29 (Hero)
CO: $241.23
UTG folds, Hero raises to $3, CO calls $3, BN folds, SB folds, BB folds
I'm not sure whether we want to CB this or just XC.
1) What's your default here without any spades?
2) Would you rather CB and XC spade turns with AxJs or XC flop/turn with it?
3) However, I'm not sure whether we actually should barrel this turn or XC and reevaluate river.
4) Would you always 3-barrel your AQ/A9s/AK (I guess AK without a spade is more of a XC)?
5) Considering our range here shouldn't we be folding this? We block JTs but we don't have any blockers to his potential spade draws that called us twice. His river bet vs missed CB is only 30%....
After writing down all of this I realize this is a clear fold but what interests me the most is (6) how would you play it on previous streets since this is a pretty common spot and (7) what do you XC this river with?
Thanks!
Oct. 7, 2014 | 6:57 p.m.
and expect to get value from what?
I really think it's just a spew to either 4bet pre with a fish behind and being almost 130bb deep or XR flop to achieve nothing but folds from worse hands and calls from better ones or one QQ combo to split the pot.
Oct. 7, 2014 | 6:56 p.m.
4bet/call shove or call 5b and hope to flop a set? doesn't seem that profitable vs a nit
or 4b/fold?
Oct. 6, 2014 | 10:03 p.m.
I got too distracted by how pretty this hand is :) Most of the time I 3bet this and I agree it should've been a 3bet here as well. We also don't have to make it big - 6 or 7bb would be enough - plus this hand doesn't flop that well in multiway pots.
Oct. 5, 2014 | 10:27 a.m.
We're almost 130bb deep and I'm pretty sure getting it in here would be slightly -EV. I'll check it later in CREV.
Oct. 5, 2014 | 10:18 a.m.
He doesn't have that many AK-AJcc (just 3 combos vs 13 combos of AA-QQ). I don't think he'd bet 88-JJ here given the flop texture (he could easily check them back) and his 50% turn CB (followed by 76% of river bets which suggests he 3barrels mostly premium hands, especially after our preflop line). Damn I mean it's still the top of our range but it feels as if he's always ahead here - I don't see that many bluffs in his range.
Oct. 5, 2014 | 10:17 a.m.
Well yes we do have a nice price to call but his small sizing makes it look more like a valuebet. I'd guess he chooses a bigger sizing with his bluffs. I don't think he's vbetting JJ or Tx here (ok, maybe JJ some small % of the time). Remember we're UTG and we cbet the flop 3 ways
Oct. 5, 2014 | 10:13 a.m.
Do you fold any one pair Qx that you're betting here (AQ-QJ, most QXhh probably, would you also bet QT/Q8?)? His turn raise % is not very high (and a lot of it is value as shown on the scatter graph - the higher the point the stronger the hand when he raises) and I'm not sure if we can profitably defend all Queens
Oct. 5, 2014 | 10:06 a.m.
That makes sense. I folded on the river, but I still think he also might have 22 here some % of the time
Oct. 5, 2014 | 9:54 a.m.
If you call the turn, are you calling any river besides 3/6/8 or a club?
Oct. 5, 2014 | 9:51 a.m.
SB: $100
BB: $113.77
UTG: $22.20
HJ: $56.46
CO: $102.81 (Hero)
UTG folds, HJ raises to $2, Hero calls $2, BN folds, SB folds, BB calls $1
I assumed BB was a somewhat competent player, likely a reg.
What do you guys think?
Oct. 5, 2014 | 12:31 a.m.
SB: $74.26
BB: $127.85 (Hero)
UTG: $84.87
HJ: $574.32
CO: $131.11
UTG raises to $3, HJ folds, CO folds, BN raises to $10, SB folds, Hero calls $9, UTG folds
How do you guys play this?
Oct. 5, 2014 | 12:21 a.m.
SB: $60.09
BB: $49.75
UTG: $50.75 (Hero)
HJ: $160.39
CO: $200.69
Hero raises to $1.50, HJ calls $1.50, CO calls $1.50, BN folds, SB folds, BB folds
Oct. 3, 2014 | 6:39 p.m.
SB: $215.91 (Hero)
BB: $334.29
UTG: $122.60
HJ: $363.96
CO: $107.84
UTG raises to $3, HJ folds, CO folds, BN folds, Hero raises to $10, BB folds, UTG calls $7
montana - even vs 2.5x it's too tight. I've seen a ~50% fold vs a 2x BTN steal across different environments.
April 4, 2017 | 8:34 p.m.