braintempest
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Hi all. I've been playing poker a long time, but have only started to dedicate myself to it with intention over the last two months or so. Given other commitments, I'm either playing or studying around 15-20 hours each week
I bought a solver, I've been pestering my friend who crushes 50nl (way too much), and I've been doing pretty well myself! I've won about 20 50nl buyins on RIO (including probably 7 or 8 buyins in like 3rd place leaderboard money) over something like 35k hands. Definitely running hot over a small sample, but I'm still pretty confident I have an edge.
Anyways, my more experienced grinder friend is literally the only person I have to talk to about spots and software and shots and the whole shebang. I really would kill for the chance to meet one, two or three people who I get along with and I could discuss poker with at a decent level.
Also, I am definitely a better cash game player than MTT (by a lot), but I'm actually interested in getting into MTTs, so if those are your specialty, we can definitely swap some tips.
If you're in a similar spot, beating the 50nl type games at a decent clip, maybe a bit above that, I'd love to hear from you. We can swap discord info or something? I'm not sure what people usually do.
I know it's never clear how much equity you have when you're thinking of introducing yourself to someone on the internet, but who knows... it could be a draw to the nuts. :P
March 20, 2021 | 3:35 a.m.
Hi all. I've been playing poker a long time, but have only started to dedicate myself to it with intention over the last two months or so. Given other commitments, I'm either playing or studying around 15-20 hours each week
I bought a solver, I've been pestering my friend who crushes 50nl (way too much), and I've been doing pretty well myself! I've won about 20 50nl buyins on RIO (including probably 7 or 8 buyins in like 3rd place leaderboard money) over something like 35k hands. Definitely running hot over a small sample, but I'm still pretty confident I have an edge.
Anyways, my more experienced grinder friend is literally the only person I have to talk to about spots and software and shots and the whole shebang. I really would kill for the chance to meet one, two or three people who I get along with and I could discuss poker with at a decent level.
Also, I am definitely a better cash game player than MTT (by a lot), but I'm actually interested in getting into MTTs, so if those are your specialty, we can definitely swap some tips.
If you're in a similar spot, beating the 50nl type games at a decent clip, maybe a bit above that, I'd love to hear from you. We can swap discord info or something? I'm not sure what people usually do.
I know it's never clear how much equity you have when you're thinking of introducing yourself to someone on the internet, but who knows... it could be a draw to the nuts. :P
March 20, 2021 | 1:06 a.m.
Hi all. I've been playing poker a long time, but have only started to dedicate myself to it with intention over the last two months or so. Given other commitments, I'm either playing or studying around 15-20 hours each week
I bought a solver, I've been pestering my friend who crushes 50nl (way too much), and I've been doing pretty well myself! I've won about 20 50nl buyins on RIO (including probably 7 or 8 buyins in like 3rd place leaderboard money) over something like 35k hands. Definitely running hot over a small sample, but I'm still pretty confident I have an edge.
Anyways, my more experienced grinder friend is literally the only person I have to talk to about spots and software and shots and the whole shebang. I really would kill for the chance to meet one, two or three people who I get along with and I could discuss poker with at a decent level.
Also, I am definitely a better cash game player than MTT (by a lot), but I'm actually interested in getting into MTTs, so if those are your specialty, we can definitely swap some tips.
If you're in a similar spot, beating the 50nl type games at a decent clip, maybe a bit above that, I'd love to hear from you. We can swap discord info or something? I'm not sure what people usually do.
I know it's never clear how much equity you have when you're thinking of introducing yourself to someone on the internet, but who knows... it could be a draw to the nuts. :P
March 20, 2021 | 12:56 a.m.
also spots this close, you can always try to talk to the rec? I'm not much of a live player tho, so who knows
March 18, 2021 | 9:05 p.m.
Shouldn't she have $175 behind if she started with $300?
I'll assume she started with more, based on your conclusion about her stack. If she did have $175, I don't hate a shove on the turn. However, there is no denying that the spot absolutely sucks. If she is a bad player, this is much more likely to be a bet for protection because she's going to be sad if you bink a diamond. I don't think she is likely to take this line with the NFD. Whoever posted early was right to suggest you don't have a strong read on her, either. If she's decent, then she has disproportionately suited cards and those are disproportionately a flush. You are drawing dead against all of her value.
I think the spot is so close that if BR is a factor at all, it's definitely a fold. You're going to hate your life on the river a lot of the time. You're basically flipping a coin for $150-$300 (depending on how you play the river when you hit an offsuit ace and she shoves or whatever). If your bankroll is less than like $15k, I'm folding all day.
March 18, 2021 | 9:04 p.m.
I think many players myself included will always struggle with mindset issues from time to time. I just took a big shot at 100nl on stars and got absolutely slapped. At 50nl I feel super comfortable and often people are so clearly making bad plays that even if I have a bad session I leave feeling fine. At 100, I was seeing less mistakes, was in tougher spots, AND I ran absolutely awful. Two of my boats got cracked, as did the nut straight twice. I definitely was not playing at my best after the beats, because the money mattered more to me. Yadayada. We've all been there.
I think ideally, we go into a session without expectations, but because our subconscious often wants very badly to win (particularly for me just now taking a 100nl shot that went too deep), "no expectations," subtly gets warped into "okay, but I'm a small favorite to win though, so that's kind of like a big favorite, so I'm basically guaranteed to win..." Honestly, what works for me is visualizing before a session the scenario where I lose 5 buyins in two hours, where I could have avoided one of those buyin losses, where things go wrong. I prepare for how I'll react to that outcome. I prepare for how I'll play when things are going wrong, because playing well when things are neutral or good is fairly easy for me.
Now, thinking about the worst-case-scenarios might psych some players out, so your mileage may vary, but consciously visualizing how I'll react to the bottom 10% of runs before a session is what helps me prepare for them.
That's my long two-cents for you.
March 18, 2021 | 8:53 p.m.
Solid advice. Thanks. I think part of my discomfort in 4bet call spots is really just because my edge goes way down when ranges are narrow and obviously I'm supposed to have very low equity anyways, hence the good price on most calls. I do feel overall though like it should generally be slightly easier to play close to GTO in these smaller SPR hands and obviously mistakes matter more in them, so I would like to feel like an absolute wizard in them.
March 18, 2021 | 8:41 p.m.
Hi folks
Just looking to talk some strategy about 4bet calls from various positions. I bought GTO+ a month ago and have been messing around with it since then, but only recently took a look at GTO-Wizard. Plugged in some 4bet spots, noticed that it is calling more often with 99 than with TT in some spots and already I am very confused. Can someone explain why this is?
Also, in terms of more exploitatively, how do you construct your 4bet calling range? Particularly on RIO I tend to play exploitatively, because I know they can't collect stats. I 4bet bluff disproportionately with A5s, for example. In the RIO context, are you happy always folding hands like ATs to a 4bet? Do you mix in some flats with KK in position? Curious to hear your thoughts. Thanks.
March 15, 2021 | 6:11 a.m.
Wow I came to the forums for the first time looking for help with a specific question and this conversation is about exactly that. I play .25/.50 and some .50/1 online and I have access to GTO+, but no preflop solutions for 4bet calls. I won't ask people to post a bunch of graphs or anything, but I have a few burning questions about 4bet call ranges.
The only hands I feel certain I'm calling correctly with are AQs, TT and JJ. I'm wondering if vs weaker fields, are people letting go of 99 a lot from positions tighter than sb vs bb? AJs? Are you mixing some folds with TT vs some weaker, tighter players? Let me know if you have any guidance on that.
Thanks.
Same.
March 20, 2021 | 2:59 a.m.