1) Tell myself to play A – Game, at START and END
2) To correctly identify villian’s range and attack it, making the right action on every street.
3) Take MORE time to think about the action on every street, make it a standard for AT LEAST 3 second or so. Don’t ever snap check or snap bet.
Live GREAT. If not, don’t. Give it my all in everything I do, do it good, if not don’t. Be a Strong man.
I give myself till 1st June for these things to work out. If I don’t succeed by then, I will quit all these.
Thank you Lord.
I need to tell myself before I start every session that my GOAL is to play A game. Keep my focus going and pursue it.
This Grinder Life is extremely lonely and painstaking, I must be strong for myself.
Another Session with Pokey.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4105267
C/C flop for PC and induce bluffs,
C/F scary turn.
Flop texture is key. Weak Tight seems right imo.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4098077
c/f is fine, lead with hands like Axs, 2pairs, Kxs.
these hands have more equity vs their PF limping RANGE. Leading with OESD does not have clean outs as well.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4098115
8% 3bet over 4K hands
1st time 3bet me, sat down 2 orbits
CO vs BTN, range is a lot different.
Can take calling station line, c/c low flops, give turn some turns is ok. lose prolly 20bbs pot is fine.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4105083
Just lead out, our hand wants to build a big pot.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4105248
When villian C/C 2 streets and PSB river – He HAVE IT.
As played, bad turn, checking for PC here is good, also we have position and if a river flush hits, I can fold to his bet as he is never bluffing there.
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Isolating on blinds
loose passive limp yet doesnt fold to cbet
use big hands
hands that have more pair value
like K7o A8o
rather than 65o
loose passive limp yet fold to cbet it doesn matter
Some things about blind’s winrate :
1. isolating/squeezing
2. 3betting vs 30% att to steal
3. 3betting vs one tag raise/1 caller/2callers
4. flat calling with certain dominated ranges like AQ, AK when deeper instead of 3betting, occasionally mixing in premiums AA, KK vs super aggressive tags, c/c c/r turn playing for stacks
5, dont squeeze pple who cant fold.
u need to pay attention
dun squeeze ppl who cant fold
dun squeeze shorties with like 30bb
and flip
dun squeeze lags OOP
Things to work on :
BLINDS DEFENSE
1)1. isolating/squeezing
2) 3betting vs 30% att to steal
3) 3betting vs one tag raise/1 caller/2callers
To Learn Fully :
1. flop texture vs value betting
2. knowing what is distribution
3. thinking about each and every hand as though it’s the last hand u make money from
PokerStars Game #26684879789: Hold’em No Limit ($0.25/$0.50) – 2009/04/03 15:42:20 ET
Table ‘Scythia V’ 6-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: UgliCasanova ($60.95 in chips)
Seat 2: apocrazor ($54.85 in chips)
Seat 3: Pcheline ($58.25 in chips)
Seat 4: HangnBang ($59.85 in chips)
Seat 5: dsaxton ($80.15 in chips)
Seat 6: bartman499 ($54.75 in chips)
dsaxton: posts small blind $0.25
bartman499: posts big blind $0.50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to UgliCasanova [Ad Qd]
UgliCasanova: raises $1.50 to $2
apocrazor: calls $2
Pcheline: folds
HangnBang: folds
dsaxton: folds
bartman499: folds
*** FLOP *** [Jd Kd 2c]
UgliCasanova: bets $3
apocrazor: calls $3
*** TURN *** [Jd Kd 2c] [Kc]
UgliCasanova: bets $7
apocrazor: calls $7
*** RIVER *** [Jd Kd 2c Kc] [7c]
UgliCasanova: bets $13.50
I think I need to learn 3 barreling a lot more.
“Meeting Tom (durrrr) was a huge part of my move to high stakes play. He opened my mind to thinking about situations completely differently. I remember one time when he was discussing a hand with h@ll in front of me, where he had something like weak top pair and was facing a big river bet. He was like, ‘I think a call is better than a fold’ and I thought to myself, ‘yeah I agree’ and then he said ‘but I would shove’ and I exploded. I realized that you should think of every possible option you have in nlhe. You usually have a ton of them.”
“That summer completely changed my future in poker. I had all the skills naturally, but it took meeting the right people to bring them out IMO. All of the guys in the house helped me a ton.”
” Quote:
| Assume an unknown TAG villain opens from the CO, folded to you in the BB with KhQh – standard 3bet? |
I 3bet this maybe 80% of the time. I change this % A LOT with further reads.”
“Quote:
| - What dictates your decision to quit/go on with any given session? |
The one thing I learned most from Tommy Angelo, is how awesome quitting is.
You should pride yourself in making a good quit. I really mean that. When I’m playing and make the decision to quit, I’m very happy with myself.
The two real reasons to quit are if playing is -EV financially or -EV emotionally. I know the latter isn’t a real thing, but I use it all the time.
Basically, if for whatever reason I think I’m not a favorite (or a very small favorite), I’ll quit (Ideally).
Or if I’m unhappy or stressed out by playing, or would be much happier doing something else, I quit (Ideally).
Reasons you become -$EV should be obvious, and you should realize when you are unhappy.”
“Saying position is important in poker is like saying distance and direction are important in golf.”
“It can never be that wrong to not play”
“Think of what your opponent wants you to do, and then do the opposite”
The style of play, or one of the styles of play, that I was taught, is much more tight-passive than the strategy used by the majority of top NL players. I’m good with table selection, and I don’t tilt much. With all that, my numbers at 5/10 are very good. About as good as the top players at that level on Party Poker. In addition, I think that I play as many tables, or more tables, than most of the top players there. With that, I have a very solid hourly rate. So, as far as my money goals are concerned, I’m doing well there.
However, when I go to play 10/20, I notice a problem. I can still beat the game. But when I play against the top players at 10/20, it is very apparent that they are better than me. I know that I’ve been playing cash games for a few months, and that many of the top players have been at it for years, but that doesn’t help me much. I can’t stand knowing with certainty that I am outclassed by another player. I’m honest with myself, so I can admit that they’re better. I just don’t like it.
When looking at the styles of all of the top winners, I notice that all of them are significantly more aggressive than me. They play a style that puts a lot of their chips at risk all the time, and it scares their opponents into making mistakes. This is true for most of the top players at 5/10 and almost all of the top players at 10/20 and above. So, if I want to beat the bigger games consistently, I probably will have to adopt this playing style, or some variation of it. In order to be the best poker player, I have to be able to beat the top players in these games, right?
“I made a realization today. Being the best poker player in the world and being the best professional poker player in the world are not the same thing.
So, what does it mean then, to be the best professional poker player in the world? Well, take any other job. What factors make a job desirable to you? What are some of the attributes of a great job? Good pay. Good hours. A job you enjoy. Low levels of stress. There are planty. (That was supposed to be ‘plenty’ but I’m gonna keep it, because I like that typo)
I realize now, that whether he knew it or not, Tommy was teaching me to be a professional poker player more than he was teaching me to be a poker player. So many of the things I learned will help me make more money, enjoy playing, not get stressed out, and most of these were things not really related to the game of poker. But even the style of play I was taught, I realize now, is best for making consistent money while reducing swings and stress.
So let’s go back to the question of where I want to be in regards to cash games. If I were to learn to play 10/20nl with the style of many of the top players there, I would have enormous swings. My hourly rate would be better than my current one, but I wouldn’t be able to put in the same number of hours. I would have too many losing days, and I’d get stressed out and have to quit for a day or two. It might affect my life outside poker. I probably wouldn’t find playing as relaxing and fun. I might not even make as much money per year if the swings cause me to take too much time off, or worse, if they cause me to tilt away money.
Do I still want to be able to do this? Yes. I will learn how to crush the 10/20 game, and how to play a super LAG style. If nothing else, I’ll be able to see whether I like it better or not, and I’ll have the style in my arsenal for when a game situation dictates I play that way. I’ll continue learning new styles and find out how to beat the 25/50 game, and the 50/100 game. That’s just the way I am. I wouldn’t stay content forever with just making a great living at 5/10. It took me about one and a half years to be comfortable playing against any player in the world in a single table tourney. Maybe in a little over a year I’ll be able to say the same thing about cash games. Maybe it’ll be longer. Maybe it won’t happen.
But I don’t mind waiting. In the meantime, while I’m achieving my goals of enjoying the game and making good money, when I find myself in a 10/20 game, and notice a top super-aggressive player running over the table, I won’t be discouraged anymore by knowing that he’s a better poker player than me. Hey, I still might be the best professional poker player at that table.”
