nat2r

Hi All,

Over the past 5 years I lived in an area with legal online poker. I didn't play TOO much online, as I was minutes away from a card room where I played mostly live.

Now I live in an area with no legal online poker, and all of our card rooms are closed.

I play on an unregulated site with no HUD/DB support. It is very soft and I do quite well, but I find myself at a loss when I think about how I want to study.

I do have the ability to save individual hand histories a short period after they happen, but other than that it's hard to gather data.

Anyone have any recommendations on good ways to study the game when we don't have access to large data sets?

Whale at my table was jamming any two and hitting dumb shit and amassed like $300 doing this. I open, he jammed $100 without glancing at his cards, I snap with AK. He shows J7o and hits a J on the river to take it down.

Seat to his left opens. Hello! I move.

OTTH.

$1/2, I have $400 behind.

V1 is aforementioned whale.

V2 is your standard player in his late 20's-30s. He had commented that he had to claw back to get his stack to where it was after getting wrecked. I bluffed him off middle pair at one point, but in general, he's been observing me crushing. Every hand I've tabled except for the T7dd with him as been great. Trips with T9hh, AK multiple times, big pairs, AQ, TJs, etc. V2 is highly aware that our whale is being dumb. He is also trying to get into pots with him. He is to my left.

Whale is UTG. I keep my eye on his cards. He doesn't look at them. He opens to $25.

I flat JTdd.

V2 flats.

I think Seat 2 flats but he's irrelevant.

Upon my calling, and while V2 calls, our whale decides to take a looksie. When myself or V2 are in pots with him he gets nervous and announces "gotta look at my cards I don't like this guy" as a "joke"

Flop is KcQc6x.

SB checks. Whale bets $25. I flat. V2 decides to punch it up to $150.

Upon seeing this, I immediately thought to myself that
if the whale folds, I'm going to jam the rest of my stack in.

1) I'm perceived to be the strongest player at the table by villain

2) I know that he's raising to iso the whale, and believes that I'm just gonna ditch my QX, KX, 22-JJ. I believe he has AK because he's fairly passive and flatting that against the whale and hitting would be pretty clutch. He also could have other KX or even aces, but I think of he had JJ+ he would have iso'd pre instead of letting me in. He could have top two (p rare) or bottom set (also rare) but given how all the action went, I think he's sitting on a one pair hand.

3) This bet will put a MASSIVE amount of pressure on him, knowing that against a whale there's a number of things I could flat. He is quite tight, and believes me to be tight as well.

So everyone else folds and it's on to me and I decide to rip it in pretty quickly.

Q: Do tag players fold AK often enough for this to be break even?

RESULTS:

He's pretty flabbergasted and realises that his plan didn't work and now he's facing a monster bet and starts to talk a lot. He tells the table that it's going to be a minute and starts asking me what I want him to do. "You can do whatever you'd like" I say, and he doesn't like that answer, it makes him more nervous. He starts to believe that I'm super value oriented here and is convinced I have KQ. He apologizes to the table and continues to tank before showing AK and announcing that he folds. I show him the TJdd and the 2 other good players at the table along with him spend the next orbit talking about that hand. All of them believed I had KQ, and were pained by that bet size and they all said they would have folded as well.

He lets me know what I suspected. He was trying to iso the whale and thought I'd just fold, without any particular thoughts of what I might have, because I could be floating the whale with A hi.

https://play.globalpoker.com/gp/10/hand/5ca90627aa4b0539339a295c

There's a gap here in filters, only cash and MTT's, but nothing for ST Hypers and Spins. Is there any content kicking around on these?

Are there any videos on 6max preflop calling range construction? Would be very interested in this.

The hand:
https://play.globalpoker.com/poker-client/poker/10/hand/5b935470aa4b05166a116c93

The best part about globals native player is that it retains timing in the hand.

Flop: First thought was to just fold, but I know that im playing higher than I have in the past and that players are capable of making big moves with less. The main reason I called though is because I often have the best hand here and cant just fold that quickly.

Turn: Changes nothing. Call.

River. A couple straights get there but I think the folding player was more likely holding these types of hands. I am pretty much putting him on 55. Not many combos of this and so many more draws so I just called.

The problem is the hand that he showed me. If he hit two pair, or made trips, he would always get my money because his bluff here is so obscure that I never in a million years would assume he has it. V unorthodox.

I find it pretty hard to get some hand reviews online due to some strategies I have that some may not agree with.

Primarily calling wide against deep-stacked fish.

I was at a 50nl 6-max table when the player to my right opened to 12x vs a limp. This was absurd so I immediately tagged him as a VIP since he was not afraid to get large portions of his stack in.

Next hand he opens to 3x UTG and I called with 65o next to act. I am sitting on $97 and he has around $76.

Immediately the pre-flop police start attacking me for this. I am definitely stronger than this player post-flop and have no problem making thin call downs when he starts to go nuts. Is it wrong to be trying to get into as many spots as possible with this guy? Or is the internet hivemind correct that I should be playing tighter against him.

Results:
Flop is 578r, he checks to me, I bet 2/3s, he raises to 4x my bet, I call. Turn a 4 making me straight. He checks to be again. I make a small 1/3 bet knowing he will perceive this as weakness. River as a 9 and he bombs it for like 2x pot repping TJ basically. I snap call and he shows ace high (A2s)

These are spots I constantly find myself in because I put myself in them. I think my fellow players are leaving a lot on the table playing far too ABC around these guys.

I forget the preflop specifics, but I'll do my best to fill them in

1/2 $200 effective

There was a straddle, and a lot of limpers. I was in the CO with 8Ts and this is my first hand. I figure this is a good hand to make a play with, considering dead money. There is a maniac on the straddle who I've only seen in one hand, but judging by his brash demeanor and the things he said when he made a high hand, he was here to play a lot of hands fast and leave soon. I wouldn't say the guy was a fish, but he was a bit too emotional for his own good.

He calls the 30 and we see a flop which is a relatively good one.

986hhx ($85ish)

He stares at the flop for a bit and decides to lead for $20. I turn my hand into a semi-bluff and jam to put him in a gross spot. I think, being PFR, I can get him to fold a lot of his 9's but still call with a lot of his flush draws and open enders. He has a lot more combos of the aforementioned hands than he does 9's and I think when he calls the extra $26 pre he's going to have more overcards in his range.

So he asks for a count, and starts complaining, shows the guy next to him his hand and says "can you believe this shit" and is just eyeing me down and adjusting his position in his chair a lot, clearly feeling he weight of this bet.

The intercom goes off and he just learns that his high hand is beat, so he starts to tilt mid-hand since he thought he actually had WON the high hand. He goes off the rails and calls. Cards run out, and he says "i missed" and then starts to berate me after I show him my hand. He had KJhh for a flip in my favor.

I think a jam is fine here given stack depths, knowing that im putting a ton of pressure on him with a vulnerable hand, and having an opportunity to hit a gutshot and blocking his GS/OE outs if he has something like JQ or 7X.

Thoughts?

This spot comes up an obscene amount for me, I think IP its slightly easier because you can raise flop and possibly see a free river, but OOP this would generally not work. Also considering that villain might not barrel the turn it can be a decent float spot (if he opens utg and you call with 78s and the flop is 567 with a spade or something)

Yesterday I had A2ss on 45K with a spade and peeled the turn and hit my gutshot and got a lot of value.

I guess the real spot I'm wondering about is like AThh in the SB to a UTG open and the board is KJ9 with a heart. When faced with a 1/2-3/4 cbet, and an opponent who is going to barrel all three streets, how can we determine if this is a profitable call. Should we only be doing this with the assumption that we have to bluff of we brick? Or is it cool to just fold the turn when the BDFD doesn't come in?