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I accidentally woke up at 4.30 am this morning. I cant recommend it unless having a stable 7-8 hour sleep. I would rather wake up at 5.30 or 6.30 with a more rested mind and body.

I rememember two weddings that I visited and enjoyed. There are moments that happend by random during the wedding day that I just remember because my heart was at peace and I want to cry when I think of them now.
What I cant remember is what I have done on the job last week or on the poker sessions I have played. Those memories are just blank right now. I suppose it is because I am not connecting emotionally.

Hi Indifference, I am on board of your journey and I am happy that you and your wife can get more sleep due to more sleep hours of your second child.

Welcome :)

I can relate to the part with dishwashing :)

Hi, it’s the same here. I can verify that since a week there are shown super close spots in utg rfi and it seems that the obvious ones are excluded. it so much harder to streak now.

Edit: I just found out that if you set your settings in “practice” to normal, streaks is also affected and much much easier. Hope it helps you

Edit2: ok not correct what I said. I am really not sure what the mechanism behind vision are.

Hi Nuno, I am a silent reader of your blog (well not silent anymore :D ). I find the way you approach the game very inspiring. If I should ever be successful in poker, your blog definitely helped me. I enjoyed reading your journey very much and I am glad that i could be a part of it. Thank you.

Since you liked “Maus”, I thought you may be interested in reading “Mans search for meaning”.

I like your taking off / cruising speed comparison.

hi,
everyone who wants to try out spelling the screenname, try this funny combination:

spill (like spill over)
excite

now drop the first "e" in "excite" and you got "spill+xcite". thats basically his screenname.

for the very advanced: use "sh" for "s" and "c" in "spill+xcite".

Well, In my opinion jj44 can also be folded preflop. Your hand needs to hit a set, and when you hit, you options out of position are really narrowed. And it just gets you into tricky spots - especially in deep stack situation

As far as I understood, you should often check/call flop since you won't hit that flop very often.

Yeah, as you said, deception is about having something the opponent would not expect.
I am not good in theory, but I give it a shot: Maybe one can call deception also "semibluffing" when betting a gutshot and hit on river - then our hand is somehow deceptive if we bet river. Or deception can be "slowplay" when checking a monster on flop

Would you fold on a different turn like K, Q, T, 7?

As plolearnerguy has said it, it depends on which position you are.
On small blind, Bigblind, UTG this hand does not stand much heat postflop.

Strong hands are hands, that hit the board postflop in multiple ways. With AA76 double suited or AQJT double suited are good examples where you can hit, set, flushdraws, straightdraws or all those combined.

Marginal hands are hands that only flop in a single way like KK73 without a suit. It can only flop a set to be strong.

Pls dont get it in on flop - 2nd nut with deep stack on that board without much redraw and oop can be very bad for you.
Even if you had the fd, your fd is not strong enough to justify an allin.

I would bet/call and reconsider on turn. I could even find a fold on certain cards on turn.
But on that particular turn, 2h gives you an additional double gutter and fd - I don't think you can fold on turn when called flop.

But I am glad to know that c/c flop is a better way to play this hand. ty

duh, I am not a HU expert.

I guess you can start donking with depolarized made hands and see how he reacts.

Well played and very difficult spots, I am also interested in other opinions.

I would be more cautious making plays on unknown players who are nearly 200bb on a 100bb table.

Turn could be a potential jam spot. I guess, you can only bet/f, but not bet/c.

Yes, it would be different if stacks were shallow. He can jam on flop and commit, whereas if it is deep, he cannot commit and would rather call with sets or straights without redraw.
If he jams flop with 100bb, I dont think you can call that.

I would say: nice bluff! I especially like the blocker play on the river.

It is difficult, but if I would be the opponent, I would call if I had a straight (ofc) and sets. Your turn play is kind of strange, so when you had like a wrap or two twopair or sets, I assume, you would bet here often and even c/r. Therefore I could also call with twopair on the river against missed fd and your actual hand, .

So if you bluff, a part of my twopair ranges would fold (f.e. 27, 38) and a part would eventually call.

In my opinion, a raise on the flop would be better, because you are both deepstacked. And since you are in position deep, there are more possible hands to raise than just topset.

Turn and river are fine. Sizing is also ok.

I guess it would be less horror for you if you c/c turn. Sometimes I am in the same situation as you, when I have the 2nd nut with topset and I think that "opponent" wont have THIS low straight. And then I lose deepstacked.

I like your flop play, even though you didnt bet pot.

When the river pairs, I bet pot. When its a non-club A, Q, J, 2, I would call. Anything else would be harder to call.

Hi Leszek, thank you for the lecture. I want to try the exercise to write down the thoughts in swings.

I totally agree with folding the 99xx set in 13:30. I also think, that

• raising pot and committing instead of minraise or 3x from the opponent is a sign of not wanting to see a turn card.

• even if 50% of the time he has, lets say a FD+wrap combo, we still flip and the other 50% of the time KKxx is just winning. So its to our disadvantage to call against this range.

• we also block small wraps like 78TJ, which makes it more likely that he does not have a wrap.

I think its still worth a shove. Against QQ45 you have 38% eq, against 8845 you have 34% and against AK45 you have about 28%. plus the time he has a wrap or toppair, i would go for a shove.

He slightly needs a little bit more than half pot to call you on the river. I would call with low pockets.

I guess your bluff is reasonable to get him fold straights, but its marginal, since you block a straight yourself and he is more likely to shove a straight on flop without a redraw.

I can't give you the solution of the optimal play, but in my opinion, your play is fine. On the river, it is close. I would tend to a call. More as a bluffcatcher and a call against trips.

In terms of SPR, you should get it allin with SPR around 2 on the flop.

Given the way you played flop, i would also call turn with a pair and medium wrap, since you still have good equity against AAxx.

Hi Leszek, i was wondering if you still comment on questions, even though the video is one year old? :)

If yes, these are my following questions (about sizing):

06:03 min. Table 2 - Would a smaller raise to the donkbet (less than potsize) be a better/worse play? The thought behind it is to choose a sizing that I would make, if there is no donkbetting.

13:00 min. Table 2 - Would a small bet (1/4 to 1/3 of the pot) be a better/worse play? The thought behind it is to use our position and sort out the weak hands, that would still have equity against us (even if there are four players in the pot).

I like this format, Leszek. Thank you! It shows me the most interesting spots and gives me time to analyze them

Hi Jack,
I have a question to min 7:45 when you c-bet with QcJcAsTs. I am ok with cbetting, but what's the next step if you get raised pot here? Would you get it allin?

I would rather avoid that difficult decision and check back here, even with oesd+bd nfd+top pair, with the intention to call/bet turn. When the straight completes at turn, I could bet/raise there.

What do you think? Thanks for your answer!