Sliphex
5 points
I've spent lots of nerves and brain power (and money) to try and figure out these fish's minclick-it-back-raises ... and they seem to always have the goods there :D and they won't slow down on any imaginable "scare card" (not that they would be scared at all)...so I just don't want to call the raise on the flop and fold any turn that doesnt fill me up so I just fold after his raise IF (thats important) I know he's a fish
Dec. 23, 2015 | 12:10 a.m.
mason barrell, could u please explain why u think this is rather a 4b or fold spot pre? I think there are better hands to 4b bluff IP (suited connectors and/or offsuit wheel aced) and I think playing a suited Ace 200bb deep IP can be very nice (allows you to float more textures/pot controll on A high boards or overflush him vs his 3bet bluffs that contain clubs...) but these are only my thoughts. looking forward to your view of it :)
Dec. 22, 2015 | 11:48 p.m.
My approach to a player I don't have a huge sample (and therefor not many reads) on is to assume that as he uses a weird line he's probably capable of weird bluffs in general, so he will probably have some bluffs in his river range here. Vs a 2/3 river bet we neee to defend with 60% of our range and I think AK is well in our top 60% range in this spot, so I call
Dec. 13, 2015 | 9:09 p.m.
IF the average player at NL5 calls off here with 77,88,98s,T9s,A9s,TT (and ofc 44,66 and 99) than yes, you have 73% Eq vs this range.
Dec. 10, 2015 | 12:03 a.m.
I don't think villain is calling with a lot of worse hands although it's hard to say given that it 's NL5 ^^
...maybe the following isn't completely right because I'm very new to this theory stuff but my thoughts on this:
If your Value Range here is 99-AA, u have 33 Value-Combos (3x99 and 6x TT+)
and by shoving u are giving your opponents 3,46 : 12,56 odds (27,64%), so if you (GTO wise) want to make him indifferent in calling u need to have 33 value hands and 12 bluffs and I don't know where these 12 Combos should come from (other than maybe AhKx or AQhh / KQhh which would be only 6 combos) so i think if u jam here, your range is too value-heavy....
thoughts on this?
Dec. 9, 2015 | 2:31 a.m.
same here
Dec. 8, 2015 | 8:33 p.m.
cool gonna add u tomorrow :)
Nov. 27, 2015 | 6:33 p.m.
Hey guys!
I'm currently preparing myself for a transition from NL and PLO live games to online PLO 6max only!
Reasons for this are that
a) my bankroll got really hurt in the last 6 months due to a brutal downswing and several other costly happenings and there aren't many (if any) small live games in my region and
b) those live games are unbelievably tilting to me and have become incredibly annoying
My online poker background: won some tourneys in 2010-2013 for cashes in the region of ~2k-6k, cashed out most of these winnings and went broke trying to grind NL 6max cash games w/out proper BRM (moved up in stakes to chase losses) and probably w/out proper skill also :D
read some books like harrington on holdem/ theory of poker, but basicly never developed any further, basicly assumed that 95% of online players are either overaggessive spewy maniacs or total nits (and therefor I became either a POW or an overaggessive spewy maniac myself)
didnt get anything huge going in tourneys for 2 years now and figured that I'm probably just too bad to compete with online players nowadays, since everybody seems to have improved drastically over the last years.
So I have to either quit or improve myself!
And I dont like to quit :)
My plan is to play PLO 6max online and get really really REALLY good at it, no matter how much time and effort it will take!
Luckily I'm having the opportunity to deal in a private PLO500 game two times a week to come up for my expenses and spend the rest of the week on studying at University, so there's plenty of time for me to play poker / study the game and I dont have to cash out any money.
Now my questions are:
How, where and what should I start to learn and to play?
I figured it's probably best to start playing PLO2, because if I go broke there, it's easier to rebuilt and I'm not even sure I can beat the PLO5 field atm.
Also: Play reg tables or zoom??
Which BRM should I use?
I am very sensitive for going on tilt / fearing to go broke / thinking I cant beat my opponents when losing over 2-3 days straight and get really mad when running several buy-ins under EV with aggressive BRM and therefor I should use a very conservative BRM.
My plan was to play PLO2,5 and 10 w/ 100 BI and all stakes above w/ 150 BI.
Is it too conservative and am I wasting time/money playing overrolled? I obv want to move up quickly but I always fear that when I'm up 20 or 30 buy-ins that it probably only came due to a good run of cards and that I might lose back all my winnings if luck turns around.
I want to be able to not give a sh*t about how much I just lost if I'm confident that I lost it while playing well and having made the right decisions.
Where/what to study? Which Software to use?
A friend of mine gave me access to the video series PLO Quick Pro. I watched it and found it very helpfull to get an idea of what PLO is all about and how it should be approached.
Now I've created an RIO account with Essential membership and don't really know where to start learning and which videos to watch? How should I analyse sessions / hands and which? Should I take coaching?
Do u guys have any piece of advise?
Is an Essential membership enough?
And at which stakes should I upgrade to Elite?
Same questions for PokerJuice! Is it mandatory to use in order to gain an edge over, say, PLO2-PLO10?
I have a licence for HM2 (not for Omaha Pro). Do u recommend upgrading it or will I do just fine with standard HM2 in the micros?
Last: Do you recommend playing reg tables or zoom??
zoom is good because I can put in a ton of volume so I can review a ton of hands (4tabling zoom is no problem for me)
but I will have to develope more of a generall non-read-based strategy whereas at reg tables I can exploit better because I have way more reads but cant put the same volume in because i feel uncomfortable playing more than 6 reg tables at once AND observe them, which may impact on my hourly...or not?!
I know, these are lots of questions, but I really wanna get things going right now and I appriciate your answers!!
Thx in advance!!
Nov. 25, 2015 | 2:58 a.m.
Sitting in a very soft 10-handed €2/€4 game.
Stacks:
BB: 400€
UTG: 400€ (Hero)
UTG+1: 190€ (Villain)
Preflop (€6):
Hero raises to €14 with JdJs
Villain calls €14
7 folds
BB calls 10€
Reads: BB is really loose fish (limps alomst every hand, calls raises with every Ace / unsuited or suited connectors etc.
UTG+1 seems to be a typical straightforward live player, no real "moves" in his arsenal, seems to play pretty "honest" (mostly has what he is repping). Only played one hand with him where he calls a MP first in raise from me to €14, BB calls as well, Flop comes J55 rainbow, BB checks, I cbet 20, he raises to 50, BB and I both fold and he showed me AJo.
Flop (€42):
8h5h2h
BB: checks
Hero: bets €30
Villain: calls €30
BB: folds
At this point I think he has a lot of suited 8-x hands (A8s-78s), some Ah-x hands (AQo-ATo), maybe 66,77 with hearts, 99-TT with or w/ a heart, maybe some flopped flushes (all suited connectors from 67s+ and Ah-xh) although I believe that he might raise all of his non-nutflushes because he is scared to be drawn out on, but I cant say that with certainty and I believe he would raise all his sets too.
Turn (€102):
8h5h2h5c
Hero: ?
The awkward thing here is the SPR (he has about €146 left, so SPR is about 1.4) and that I believe he would check back (or just call with) all of his bare Ah-x hands instead of semi-bluffing, and still probably folding all his 8-x hands (which I thought didnt contain any heart) and maybe folding any pocket pocket pair that doesnt contain hearts.... Which line should I take???
which is supposed to mean what...??
March 13, 2016 | 3:27 a.m.