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MajaIvarsson99

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I really like your videos. Keep doing them. They're easy to watch and just the volume of hands in them makes it possible to learn a bit in a lot of different spots.

March 24, 2013 | 3:14 p.m.

Hey man, how many days per weeks do you put in sessions and how long are they? I'm thinking of playing this instead of cash maybe sundays and mondays or something, but it seems like it'd be hard to balance with stuff like sleep and such.

Feb. 19, 2013 | 12:04 p.m.

Yea I like your videos despite not being much of a MTT-player.

Feb. 14, 2013 | 3:35 p.m.

Nice video. A bunch of good points. Solid work.

Jan. 21, 2013 | 11:53 p.m.

Yea it'd be really cool with some 8 game. As this site seem to have the best PLO content anyway it's kind of natural that more cool games would be added. Everyone can play some NL and if you're good at PLO you don't need to learn THAT many more games before you can be decent in mixed games. Seems like great value.

Jan. 3, 2013 | 9:40 p.m.

Yea I just decided that my gut had shit for brains so unless I can figure out a logic reason for whatever my gut is screaming about I don't pay attention to it.

Jan. 3, 2013 | 9:35 p.m.

Yea I started playing the same month as I moved away from home and started University something like 6 years ago. I now play full time, got a fair bit of money in the bank and even more in stocks and if I'd ever needed a job I have a law degree. I'm happy that I finished university and even took some extra classes despite having played 2/4 - 10/20 NL and mid stakes PLO most of the time. I've even travelled to maybe 10 biggish poker tournaments and it's still worth it to have a degree. Also despite me kind of not liking lawyers in general it's nice to be friends with a few people from school instead of only hanging out with poker players.

Jan. 3, 2013 | 9:26 p.m.

Hmm, maybe. Good point.

Jan. 3, 2013 | 9:20 p.m.

Yea really good video, I liked it.

Jan. 3, 2013 | 12:48 p.m.

Yea good video but your cash game videos are better. I'd like to see the rest of this since MTT content is fairly rare for PLO but just keep making like 80% PLO cash and I'll be happy :)

Jan. 1, 2013 | 3:50 p.m.

Yea just wanted to say that I really liked the discussion in this hand.

Jan. 1, 2013 | 11:24 a.m.

If we open 3bb and they both fold like 40% of the time and 3bet us 5% of the time we're picking up 1.5bb 40% of the time, losing 3bb 5% of the time and we have to play 55% of the time. Given that the EV of the first to spots should be:

(1.5bb*0.4=0.6bb) - (3bb*0.05=0.15bb) we'd make 0.45bb per hand the time they don't call which is 45% of the time so as long as 0.45bb*0.45 (=0.202 or 0.2bb) is higher then ([whatever we lose per hand when they call]*0.55) we profit with our crap range.

So the question is do we lose more then X where X is = X*0.55=0.2 X should then be about 0.36. Then ad rake and crap and the cut off is probably close to 0.3.

So do we lose 0.3bb on avarage raising Q552r vs these guys when they call?

Disclaimer: Still hung over and even at the best of times my math is questionable. To tired to figure out if I did it right. Feel free to correct it.

Jan. 1, 2013 | 11:22 a.m.

Yea called, he had some AKxxsss weirdoness that wasn't even close to hitting anything. Kind of wanted a 2nd opinion even thought it worked out since it looked so damn weird. Thanks.

Jan. 1, 2013 | 10:12 a.m.


***** Hand History for Game 1111111111 ***** (Prima)
€600.00 EUR PL Omaha - Sunday, December 30, 09:48:08 ET 2012
Table CBet PLO 2 600 Max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: Player1 ( €716.00 EUR ) - VPIP: 36, PFR: 23, 3B: 7, AF: 2.7, Hands: 2630
Seat 2: Player2 ( €205.00 EUR ) - VPIP: 28, PFR: 5, 3B: 0, AF: 1.8, Hands: 83
Seat 4: Player4 ( €1536.02 EUR ) - VPIP: 31, PFR: 24, 3B: 13, AF: 3.8, Hands: 6085
Seat 5: Hero ( €3496.45 EUR ) - VPIP: 35, PFR: 27, 3B: 11, AF: 3.7, Hands: 204850
Seat 6: Player6 ( €2185.42 EUR ) - VPIP: 42, PFR: 16, 3B: 1, AF: 1.3, Hands: 784
Player2 posts small blind [€3.00 EUR].
Player4 posts big blind [€6.00 EUR].
Dealt to Hero [ Qc 5c 5d Qs ]
Hero raises [€21.00 EUR]
Player6 raises [€54.00 EUR]
Player1 folds
Player2 folds
Player4 folds
Hero calls [€33.00 EUR]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 2c, 9s, 6h ]
Hero checks
Player6 bets [€84.00 EUR]
Hero calls [€84.00 EUR]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Jc ]
Hero checks
Player6 checks
** Dealing River ** [ 9d ]
Hero checks
Player6 bets [€246.00 EUR]
Hero ???

So player 6 seems to be some kind of regfish with to high VPIP, almost 0 3bet% and no aggression in him. He's been passive while I've been shitting all over the table and all big hands between me and this guys has been me two barreling and winning a showdown or me 3barreling and he folding to the third. He's been missing some bluffs.

So here I call his 3bet expecting it to be AA a lot, maybe some really good rundowns and random crap he got annoyed with a bit. I call a cbet since we're really deep and he doesn't seem to put on much pressure, planing to either showdown good boards or get him of AA** on some runouts somehow. Run out is fairly good and then he randomly decides to almost pot river.

I did not get the feeling that he'd do this with AA** partly because I don't think he's that good and partly because the line makes no sense with anything really. Standard call?

Dec. 31, 2012 | 11:37 a.m.

Comment | MajaIvarsson99 commented on 1/2 250bb deep
Looks like a rather easy check to me, then you have to soulread. He has a fair bit of missed straights with just one pair and I don't think he'll bet many 2p considering how Q9 probably raises turn a lot. Try to get an idea by his timing and bet sizes. I think mostly fold vs 1/2-regs except the spazzy ones.

Dec. 29, 2012 | 4:28 p.m.

Yea I'd raise flop too unless I know that he leads very strong. Turn I think is probably opponent dependant but a bet/fold can't be THAT bad. It really turns your hand into a bluff though so you'd have to be prepared to bet a few rivers to get him off sets and such for this to be good I think. I'd prefer a check vs the tricky/trappy kind of player though.

Fwiw I think his line seems really dumb with almost any hand.

Dec. 28, 2012 | 10:17 p.m.

I think pre sucks unless it's 5 handed or less. Your hand doesn't make enough nutty stuff for it to be a EP raise unless everyone is horrible.

I dunno what level they are on, but since they can't rep much (Anything?) good with a bet they shouldn't bluff here much at all. I guess they could potentially valueshove something really weird but that's not much to count on. When in doubt I think it's better to bet and hope that someone will hero you with something weird rather then checking in a spot where everyone should have showdown-value a lot of the time (dry draws would probably fold turn a lot) and can't really rep anything with a bluff.

Dec. 28, 2012 | 10:12 p.m.

Yea I still think a raise is better pf. You'll have to c/f a lot but then again you'll set over set people a fair bit which is most of the value of your hand. Limping UTG and then going nuts on A-high boards shouldn't foul anyone and I think that anyone decent would fold 66 against your line a fair bit, which they wouldn't if you just raised pre and cbet. However, in practice I guess people suck and will missplay a fair bit, so maybe it's good. I'm really not sure.

On the flop a lead is much better then a c/r since it keeps your range slightly wider, I think that with rake you're probably only slightly +ev against his shoving range and probably losing money against his calling range given that he'll play really well with it which is obviously a horrible result with top set in a game like this.

Dec. 28, 2012 | 10:07 p.m.

I think bet sizes here has to be just big enough so that we can shove rivers without it looking stupid. I don't think we need to bet big with any part of our range because we have enough monsters that can stand heat on most rivers so we don't need to really worry about him abusing our river play much unless he's really creative (and in that case we can just check/snap a lot of rivers with a lot of our hands).

Dec. 28, 2012 | 9:42 p.m.

Anything other then getting into cool spots I can do to up my chances?

Dec. 27, 2012 | 4:46 p.m.

bet turn shove all rivers for value? That's what I'd do. It's 80bb and it's a random, no reason to think he's tight or knows how to fold.

Dec. 20, 2012 | 1:05 p.m.

Don't think most people would use the Ac blocker to bluff with here since the nut flush is actually on of the more likely hands we'd want to fold out in villains spot.

Dec. 20, 2012 | 12:40 p.m.

Post | MajaIvarsson99 posted in PLO: 2/4 PLO Easy call?
***** Hand History for Game 1111111111 ***** (Prima)
€400.00 EUR PL Omaha - Tuesday, December 18, 11:58:07 ET 2012
Table Flop PLO 251 (Deep) 200 Min (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Seat 1: Player1 ( €142.00 EUR ) - VPIP: 22, PFR: 14, 3B: 5, AF: 3.8, Hands: 334
Seat 2: Hero ( €1925.92 EUR ) - VPIP: 34, PFR: 26, 3B: 11, AF: 3.9, Hands: 187911
Seat 3: Player3 ( €688.10 EUR ) - VPIP: 48, PFR: 1, 3B: 3, AF: 1.1, Hands: 202
Seat 4: Player4 ( €340.20 EUR ) - VPIP: 29, PFR: 19, 3B: 5, AF: 2.7, Hands: 414
Seat 5: Player5 ( €400.00 EUR ) - VPIP: 29, PFR: 19, 3B: 7, AF: 2.4, Hands: 803
Seat 6: Player6 ( €844.50 EUR ) - VPIP: 27, PFR: 19, 3B: 9, AF: 3.5, Hands: 1347
Player4 posts small blind [€2.00 EUR].
Player5 posts big blind [€4.00 EUR].
Dealt to Hero [ 4d 7s 3s Kd ]
Player6 folds
Hero raises [€12.00 EUR]
Player3 folds
Player4 folds
Player5 raises [€34.00 EUR]
Hero calls [€26.00 EUR]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8s, Jh, Ks ]
Player5 bets [€45.00 EUR]
Hero calls [€45.00 EUR]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3d ]
Player5 checks
Hero bets [€104.00 EUR]
Player5 calls [€104.00 EUR]
** Dealing River ** [ Jc ]
Player5 bets [€213.00 EUR]
Hero ???

Ok, so I'm mostly posting this got get into the habit of posting stuff here. This hand seems fairly easy to me afterwards when I studied it but it might just be bias due to results.

Villain is a tightish reg who seems a bit weird. I think he might just be new to the game or maybe just not very smart. Or it's just too small of a sample and he's just been doing weird stuff in the few hands I've seen. I think the raise pre and the call of the 3bet should be 100% standard vs a fish button and blinds that's not 3betting that much. On the flop I'm not sure if call or raise is standard but it'd seem to me that a call is much better since I almost never get it in as any kind of substantial favourite on this flop. Turn is a great card for me so I bet what I'd consider a fairly normal amount but I think the sizing is debatable. It's my standard though.

The river fuck's up my hand strength compared to his 3bet range which includes a ton of AA, Rundowns with kings that now beats me and a fair few rundowns that includes a Jack. Some of those might want to c/c turn since they feel they have enough equity to do that but not enough to bet/call. Dunno if that logic is sound, but I think a few people would do that some % of the time.

Ranges: My range would is probably not super strong here. I'd probably ship any NFD+pair, most two pairs (it's hard to flop without a draw to go with them on this board), any set and good combodraws on the flop. My range on turn is therefore anything strong enough to call a bet but not to raise and some very rare slowplay. Basically bad pair + draws, some two pairs that wanted to see a safe turn and weakish draws. He can probably figure that out. When he checks I don't know what he think I bet, which is unfortunate but I might be weighted to 2p+ and "airy" weak draws and that I'm weighted to weak hands since the 3 is unlikely to hit me. However, in that case he'd probably try to move me of it with a c/shove so he obviously gives me at least some kind of credit for a hand or he's slowplaying on the weirdest board ever. I don't think he'd ever c/c with two pair or better and he should be aware of that.

The river shove is a little bit more then 1/2 pot.

Stuff in favour of folding:

1. In his mind his shove might be to small to move me of a hand.
2. It looks so dumb and he has to be aware of that.
3. Most of his strong draws would probably bet/call turn which leaves fairly few combos of hands that is a, in his 3bet range, b, betting flop and c/c-ing turn and c, weak enough to turn into a bluff.

Stuff in favour of calling:

1. His value range should be very narrow and a big chunk of it would probably c/c some % of the time if he considers me bluffly (which he probably does to some degree).
2. It looks so dumb it has to be a bluff.
3. I think I might actually be towards the topish part of my range except for like J8 and some random Jacks considering how I can't have KJ or a set and I would probably check back a lot of jacks on the turn given that I really don't want to be c/shoved on with a weak pair and a draw or something like that.
4. Great pot odds.

Thoughts?

Dec. 19, 2012 | 2:28 p.m.

Yea I love that. I actually quoted some of that stuff in my thesis about Game Theory in Negotiations. Probably the first thesis that only good great marks because no one in the law department understood it at all, lol.

Dec. 18, 2012 | 7:27 p.m.

Forgot one fairly obvious thing. He could turn his Q*** hands into bluffs and in that case he doesn't actually have a bluff range in this case. That'd be cool, and spot where quads is a fold but top boat is a call.

Dec. 18, 2012 | 12:14 p.m.

Yea I don't get this hand at all, does he have like the low wrap or something? I know Phil tried to do something like this with a low overpair in a video recently but I don't think I've seen it from random much. Cool hand.

Dec. 18, 2012 | 10:03 a.m.

First of all I would say it's a clear call vs dumb people at lower stakes, a clear fold vs uncreative nits on mid stakes and probably a fold vs uncreative people overall. Obviously your opponent are not uncreative.

I think that he valueraises worse almost never because it's too easy for both hero and villain (or villain thinks so since he doesn't know you block both queens) and he reps the straight flush fairly well. Thus it comes down to if he has a bluffraising range here and even though I would assume most would say he has based on him being really good (I've played a little with him when he played much, much lower but not enough to tell really, I'll assume so for this post though.)

I'm not sold on anyone bluffing enough in all spots though so I'd just take your guesstimation of his bluff raising frequencies here and put it against his range of 1 hand and make a decision on that. I assume that on of the following 3 alternatives are true:

1. He's, in your opinion, very rarely bluffs in this kind of situation.
2. You're kind of running bad and letting it effect you.
3. For some reason or other you got either a timing tell or a msg from GOD that said he was strong.

I don't really think 2 is true but I assume it happens even to great players so I included it.

I played something like this on 2/4 on a Euro site a few days ago where Board was KdKxTd Ax Ad or and I 3barreled and got shipped on on the river by some nit when I had AA and I actually thought for a good 10 sec before I decided that he could be dumb with KK** (he was!) but in this case it's much harder since there's no real obvious valuecutting hand.

All in all I'd end up calling if I thought he had any kind of half way reasonable frequency of raising blockers here (I dunno, like JcXcT9 or something). What kind of makes it more of a call, at least against a mid stakes mind, would be that your range is fairly wide and includes both a lot of bluffs and some thin value, which, in that regard, makes it a fairly decent spot to blow you off stuff.

Dec. 18, 2012 | 9:55 a.m.

Always been a fan of your videos, together with AJones back when I played NL I think you're my favorite. I've had a year where I moved down from mid stakes and then ran like 40k under ev on 1/2 and 2/4 on stars and overall was up less then 25k US or so after having had a 5 or 6 year run where I won more then 100k every year except for one. I called it quits for the year but someone linked me this site, I signed up, got inspired and put 1.2k€ on a euro-site playing everyone HU and using a "if I have the money online I'll play whatever they run"-BR-managment-style. In 8k hands I've made almost 30k€ so thanks for that. I'll give 1k to charity (http://www.nationscry.com/) when I reach 30k. Just wanted to say thanks for, by chance, making sure my year turned out decently as far as profits went. I really, really loved this video series and got into a groove of turning crap into bluffs, making hero folds, hero calls and overall trying to make the most out of every hand.

I'd love to see you play something like 10/20 on stars or so. The higher the better to get your thought processes against good players, and I assume you don't grind a lot against the 10/20 crowed except for possibly a few people which would make it easier for you not to give too much away.

Dec. 17, 2012 | 8:07 p.m.

I liked the video. When Swedish players talk poker the word "like" turns into the most common one in the English language. It's cool but something to keep in mind.

The barrel-hand on KJ9ss something with ATxx was cool, good explanation.

Thought KJ87ds on the J53 rainbow board was interesting. How do you balance that though? Do you just bluff almost full pot or do you consider balance unimportant against some bumhunting weirdo?

It's nice when you mention some general reads on people at the table just to get an idea of the general gameplan. Obviously you'd pick more on Berry then Love2playU and while that can be figured out by watching a couple of hours of video anyway but it's much easier to watch the video and concentrate on what's important when you've already told us that. .

Dec. 13, 2012 | 5:25 p.m.

I'd probably cbet this a lot to get some value but considering that you have the blocker to the Q-high flush I guess I can buy your check. I'd just keep calling, if I check this I need to have a c/c all the way range and against someone aggro I don't get why this hand wouldn't be perfect for that. I'd snap that thing. But then again, I'm from Sweden.

Dec. 13, 2012 | 11:24 a.m.

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