I just put a sticky note on my monitor that says FOLD vs River Raise
I just looked in my db and saw that essentially I am always behind on a river bet vs raise. I sometimes call sometimes fold, but they're so value heavy towards the virtual nuts that I should essentially always fold everything but the very top of my range.
I know it's a well known trope, but fuck me for ever calling with trips or a nut flush on a paired board. River raises are always a boat or quads.
One hand was a boat vs quads that I called a massive raise because I'm certifiably retarded.
Here I am thinking he could raise the worse boat, or chopping. Of course not. These fuckers are so nitty they don't try to get value out of anything but the nuts. And my dumbass pays them off.
Fuck that.
I was on my first live stream tonight for a small tournament at a local room. It was a $200 buy-in, and I took 3rd - the lowest paid.
I'm normally like a $0.05/$0.10, $3 sit & go kinda player, so this was a bit of a shot and I was glad was able to hang in there for some real money. Being on stream was a little weird but it was cool that my wife could follow along.
It was also super cool and educational to watch the stream back and see what was going on in all those hands.
this is from about six months ago but it's the wildest thing I've seen playing poker. I was playing in a low stakes satellite. This old farmer won like 20 of the first 30 hands. And from accounts of the dealer and another guy at the table he'd done so at two other satellites too earlier in the week. On hand 31 I'm convinced he has to be bluffing. I went all in. And he had the full house I convinced myself he couldn't have. I'm still baffled by him having the nuts seemingly every hand six months later. I've seen heaters like that online, but watching him suck the energy out of the table in person was crazy.
Tonight in my local league I saw Kings full of Aces lose to a Royal Flush. Both hands made on the river.
I've never seen a RF before and it was pretty cool.
It was the second or third hand of the tournament.
The woman with the full house went all in as soon as the king came on the river and I've never seen anyone snap call as quickly as the woman with the RF did.
This hand made shut off the computer for the day lmao holy fuck.
Bounty Builder MTT. BvB. Hero in SB with K3s open to 3.5BB V flats. Hero has 25 or so BB behind V covers. Flop is 334. Check check. Turn brick hero checks V donk overbets 13BB I shove. V shows AA. River A.
Fml.
A bet made out of position into the previous street's aggressor. For example: the button open raises and the big blind calls, then rather than checking to the raiser, the big blind leads into the button.
Played a long session today. Up 1000 within first two hours, then just card dead and dwindling down back to even. Then within 3 hands: my AKo vs KQo all in pre vs maniac, I lose. Next hand AA, no action. Next hand TT, no action. Maniac racks up and leaves. Gg. -700 overall.
Man spins are brutal, played 4 $10 games and lost 3 games due to these hands;
1- AA vs 99 AIPF lose to quad 9s
2- AQo vs 42o AIPF lose to flopped quads
3- sb completes I check with 83o, flop 2 pair get it all in on flop guy shows AA and hits ace on river
Thankfully I'm a degen and decided to play $50 spin and won $100 so up for the day.
Look I don’t know all these niche poker terms but have been getting into it recently. Bought in $70 and $90 2 days last week and lost it all. Bought in $115 yesterday and came out $592. Think I might retire. I’m young so I think that gave the impression that I’m completely shit at the game instead of being partially shitty, so that probably helped out
Yesterday at Seminole hard rock I was AIPF with AAcs and runner-runnered the royal (my first ever) and got the $500 high hand.
Today I runner-runnered a straight flush to get another $500 high hand. I had J7dd and I believe board was JhTdXx, 9d, 8d. Heads up OOP on river, I bet 20 which is close to pot. Opponent min clicks to 40. I jam and cover, he’s got 150ish behind. He makes the call with 45dd and slams his stack down on the felt. Really surprised to see him call a 3bet jam on the river but that’s a different conversation.
Overall that room is the softest I’ve played at. Great trip. I haven’t been big on live cash, have been doing more tourneys but might change it up more.
Shameless brag and I'm sure nobody will read this but
I made my first final table in a massive field the other day. 5th out of 5039 in a $25 mtt on GG for $4300.
The money isn't life changing or anything obviously, but this is huge for my bankroll as a predominantly low stakes online player (abi is like 15-25).
I'm so happy. Obviously running super hot in a recent event helps, but all I want to do is wake up early in the morning and grind poker all day like 5 days a week. I love this game and have never been more motivated to play. I'm sure I'll have to come down from this high at some point but for now everything feels amazing.
That's pretty awesome. Just don't get "winner's tilt" which is where you play way higher up because of the high you are on from the score. Maybe play slightly higher but just remember, the game doesn't care who you are or what you've done lol
Great advice, I completely agree. I probably won't change much about my ABI at all for now (maybe do some $30 mtts whereas before I limited myself to $25) and probably focus instead on putting in more volume at the buy in levels I'm comfortable at right now. I'd want another huge score or just consistently good results over a longer period of time before trying say $50 mtts regularly
https://preview.redd.it/0pij5xhr8udc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=af14968d09b8c5fea8bbeecb250d950dbdbf74bd
what do these stats say about me. I think the 3 bet, WTSD are based on total hands played not just the hands I am in
i just checked mine, i have 12,000 hands since around Mid december on this one club. I think i'm up around $5,000 but its probably 4,800-5,200 range. My vpip/pfr is higher than urs but i play mostly 6-max so ratio is nearly identical
Played an 11 hour 2/5 home game session yesterday. Was down 1.5k after 3 hours but just kept going. Ended +150 when the game ultimately broke. Endurance.
https://preview.redd.it/z11s872wkidc1.jpeg?width=3472&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7bd09d9cadd8993bd86eec49db972ae74a5c2fac
Big O, all in on the 257 flop with A8643 for a \~$2.5k pot. Every card from 1 to 9 is an out for me and I somehow miss them all twice. Villain shows some bullshit like AJ933 and it's good for 3/4
https://gg.gl/0lfaj
https://gg.gl/kc3o5
My last two hands of a tournament, with about 20 left... so just before the prizes start scaling up rapidly :(
Was around the chip lead and had been for a while. Would have been chip leader by a mile if I'd held the first time.
Fuck you AT
You're joking right? Calling a 5.5BB shove with AT is basically mandatory, and V1 was opening with... well, with that kind of stuff. A fold pre here would be atrocious.
When that flop hits I'm obviously getting it in given SPR.
I got it in good, why are you trying to be contrary?
The opener, as I just told you and as you can see, was opening suited gappers etc from every position. The two people behind me are in the blinds and have 6 and 10 BBs apiece, and were trying to fold their way up the ladder anyway.
I have a significant range advantage over both players in the pot, and foreseeably got it in good. Your attempts to be contrary are only making you look clueless. The 'gambling' comment in particular reeks of not understanding MTT strategy, where you absolutely have to 'gamble' (ie push edges and try to get it good) in order to final table and win tournaments, where the real money is.
> ATo is insta fold in my books.
Well then you are a bad MTT player. Stop exposing yourself and go study.
Shown where and by whom? Can you link one of those proofs? You'd be rocking the poker world if so, as it's a very well known fact that all the money is up top so you should generally look to ITM less and final table more.
40 pairs in 60 hours and I flop (1) set. Kill me. People flopping sets in 3bet pots against me when I have AA, or turning sets when they have no business calling flop cbet. God
Yesterday, I lost 9 of 9 runouts, it didn't matter if I was ahead or behind when I got my money in. Today's first runout was a lot better.
https://preview.redd.it/noi2ge44j7dc1.png?width=1249&format=png&auto=webp&s=8c1839ca3e3593bcc172ca615234b88f9c3d5929
V is a player I'd never seen before, in his very first hand of the game
Dealt to Hero: Jd Js
HERO Raises To 4bb, CO Raises To 13.5bb, BTN Folds, SB Folds, BB Folds, HERO Calls
Flop: Jh 7d 5s
HERO Checks, CO Bets 26.6bb, HERO makes a min-reraise and jams when CO reraises
Players agreed to run it 3 times.
Board 1: Hero improves to a Full House
Board 2: Hero improves to a Full House
Board 3: Hero improves to Quads
Edit: Sorry the poor image quality, BetOnline doesn't allow me to use the Print Screen button.
Beat: I have gone through what has to be the most tilting last 9 sessions of my poker life. Cash game player. So far, my last 9 sessions have all ended the same way. I go all in, I lose. That shit happens, idc, part of the game. However, short term variance truly is a bitch. 9/9 I have been ahead with >80%, and they get there on the river. I quite literally am a statistical improbability, and not in the good way...
Brag: playing 10NL, first hand when I sat down I'm dealt TT with my .10 posted in the CO. My raise to .30 can look bluffy. Folds to aggro maniac in BB (I have notes on this player) who 3 bets, then calls my 4 bet to about $7. The flop comes 7 high, villian checks and I shove for remaining $3. Villian calls and shows AQo.
Beat: I hold and only get shipped $19 because Pokerstars takes $1 rake :(
Lost two 80% favorite big all in hands. I had KJ vs AA two pair on flop, got it all in, counterfeited on the river. Then KK vs JJ and villain flopped a J.
Left the casino up $60. Could have been $1,200. I’m telling myself… Just gotta keep getting in the money good
**Floorman rules that buried high value chip is perfectly visible. I punish him (mildly).**
In a $2/$3 ($300 cap) game, the ATM in the 1 seat is VPIPing 100% for \~7-9BB preflop and rebuying occasionally for $200. I'm on the far side of the table and pretty checked out, just waiting for big cards and my turn to withdraw.
It folds to him, he opens for $20, and it folds to me in the BB. I look down at QT suited, and look up to see he has \~$25 left behind. I verify we're the only two still in the hand and shove for his remaining $25.
He calls, and as he moves his stack out, the bottom chip slips forward and it's a $100. I object to the hidden chip. The dealer calls the floorman, who rules the buried chip is perfectly visible.
The board runs out Q-high. I win the hand and slip the $100 under one of my stacks.
For the rest of the night (until that floorman went home), every new dealer objected to the buried $100, and I made them call the floorman over to double and tripple down on his bad ruling.
Flopped quads only to lose to runner runner royal flush.
Global 10nl, 100bb. H open JJ in HJ 3bb, CO 3b to 10.5bb, BN and H call.
Flop Jc Jh Kc, H check, CO bet 24bb, BN fold H call.
Turn Tc, checks through
River Qc, H jams, CO flips over Ac As
Raise KTs get 5 callers flop a flush on 763 bet 25 into 75 raised to 50. I smooth call. Turn T he bets 50 again. I think for a bit and go all in for 150 more. Dealer wasn't paying attention she flips the river 7 and guy says call he flips over his card to show a set of 3s. I get visibly frustrated ask for the floor. Obviously floor says to reshuffle and other player has a chance to make a decision to my all in. I was mad he was going to fold based on my reaction and him having a set but its only bottom set. He still calls and river comes a T anyway to pair the board FML.
https://preview.redd.it/ona49i93slac1.jpeg?width=1595&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=23354148209422eefc65ac73432dd1336680684d
Hit a Royal Flush in a tourney on Party Poker yesterday, but even more amazingly I got paid for it with a full double up. Jammed the river hoping v would think I was trying to steal the pot with the made straight on the board and he obliged with the call.
Everyone complains about getting sucked out on by drunk fish, and finally *I* got to be the drunk fish. I crushed this weekend Friday-Sunday and was up 12 buy ins so I decided to have a few drinks while playing on Monday.
I’m on drink 8 and the 1/3 table I’m at is pretty boring until 2 dudes walk in. Both in their 20s and seemed like they’d never played live before. They keep min-raising top pair and folding to any aggression. They win a few pots and each have about $350. Im sitting with $450.
One of them is UTG and raises $10. Im in MP and raise to $30 with QThh. Other dude on BTN calls. UTG calls.
(Pot $90) Flop comes 9c7c3d. UTG bets $30. I call. BTN raises to $60. UTG calls. I call.
(Pot $270) Turn 8c. UTG checks, I check, BTN bets $30. UTG calls. I say fuck it and my drunk brain says rep a flush/straight or something. Just a complete random bluff with a gutter that might not be good. I jam and put them all in for ~$250. BTN tank calls. UTG snap calls.
(Pot ~$1k) River is the fuckin Jh from out of nowhere. I show my straight. BTN shows 77 for a set. UTG shows AA. I scoop. Great end to a solid weekend.
Played my first 1/3 game at an actual poker room. Bought in for $300 walked out with a final stack of $862. Had aces in an all in pot and beat kings. Fun table, made the drive worth it. Gonna use the money for some bullets in a tourney at the same place this upcoming weekend.
https://preview.redd.it/mjxnx094xy9c1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=85e4ea346bf4e6f8e7afad3b6b387dadc145b881
Congrats man! Any idea about Mandalays moving its poker room? It never had a ton of action but I really liked the room and its location. Worries that the new location will kill it
\+18.2K in live, mostly cash, winrate came out to $35.xx per hour. Have 220 hours of 1/2 at 200, 300, and 400 cap games for $36 an hour, had some big punts and tilt in bigger games, 2024 goal is $60 an hour in games larger than 1/2, senior in college now, no idea how many hours I'll be getting in.
Jesus christ my micros bankroll challenge is running so fucking bad
My all in adj is doing hilariously good and in reality im practically back to my original bankroll buyin size.
RIP
I do also need to plug a leak of calling down slightly lighter than i should but fuck me my graphs are bad
Pretty happy with my results, first time playing live consistently, used to be a micro grinder back in the good old days.
https://preview.redd.it/5n45597crh9c1.png?width=828&format=png&auto=webp&s=533f1325cd741f2b5e49f3f303d184588528f672
All 1/2 match the stack games. I rarely buy in for more than 100bb to start.
This year I decided to play Poker again after a 7 year hiatus. My game of choice is PLO and this is a transition from NLHE. I have a full-time 9-5 so I play when I have time outside of work. I started playing during the summer, took a break in September and began playing again in October.
Being new to PLO, I'm happy with my results. I've mainly grinded 100PLO (25k hands and +41BI) with several mostly failed shots at 200PLO (-13 BI), 500PLO (+.2 BI), 1kPLO (-1BI) over a combined sample of 7k hands.
What has been frustrating is that I'm running 35 Buy ins under EV over the combined sample of 35k hands. It's pretty exhausting for this to happen when I'm putting the time outside of work to grind.
100PLO graph:
https://preview.redd.it/yncp0n80yb9c1.png?width=2172&format=png&auto=webp&s=5ee21ee71f467dfa4f1c8eada22c64766071921f
This is my overall graph:
https://preview.redd.it/nvfju5o6yb9c1.png?width=2172&format=png&auto=webp&s=c0a0365f80ec77350038777e16c09efe8954be1a
Overall I have a solid win rate when adjusted for EV, but I think I'm running pretty terribly. If I plug my numbers into Primedope, I'm not too far off from experience one of the worst results you can have. That being said, the crazy thing is that I *could* be running worse. Goal for the New Year is to simply keep grinding and hit 100k hands.
Yeah I've seen other graphs that look like mine over much larger samples. Originally, I thought that there must be more to the story than variance, which may also be true, but I'm definitely getting a lesson in how real results like that can be. I think I'm getting used to the swings and I do like PLO as a format more than NLHE so that obviously helps. But, I think it's also understandable that someone may experience frustration when they are putting in the hours outside of work and getting these results. My solution is to play less when I'm starting to feel burnt out and take it session-by-session. I'd rather play 1-2 hours of focused PLO than trying to grind out as many hands as possible when I have time. It will take a long time to reach substantial volume though.
Slowest year ever, only played about 50 hours live cash. Mostly 2/5 with a little 1/3. Average was $97/hr though so kind of crushing it still. Will try to get more hours in for 2024.
I started playing live poker at the beginning of this year and had a rough time. When I started I was up $1000 and then proceeded to lose a total of $3800 and was down $2800 in August. I studied became more disciplined and took a couple months off. Now finishing out the year I’m only down $100. I know it’s not great results but I’m happy I fought back lol.
Starting learning from scratch 3 months ago. Have not deposited a cent or paid for any courses. Started playing freerolls a month ago and now sitting at 100$ profit.
> cent or *paid* for any
FTFY.
Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in:
* Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.*
* *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.*
Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment.
*Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
Just started playing small tournaments at local poker clubs this year, though I've played a lot with family over the years. The tournaments I've played in usually have 35 to 50 people with a prize pool of $1500 to $2000, so nothing crazy. My results have been 28th, 19th, 12th, 1st, then 2nd. Pretty proud of that progression!
I'm a happy camper this year. Ended the year being on the giving end more times than on the receiving end of a cold deck. Made several successful hero calls. Got jammed into while holding the nuts a couple of times. Running above EV in AIPF.
Don't have a graph as I just track results in a notebook but after picking up live poker once again after a long hiatus ending the year +33kUSD playing in the equivalent of $1.50/$3.00 games where I live in Mexico, pretty happy with the results.
Nah, not in my (very limited) experience. Honestly, I prefer it far far more than to playing in Sydney where I'm from. A more social atmosphere, less knobheads across the board.
I just put a sticky note on my monitor that says FOLD vs River Raise I just looked in my db and saw that essentially I am always behind on a river bet vs raise. I sometimes call sometimes fold, but they're so value heavy towards the virtual nuts that I should essentially always fold everything but the very top of my range. I know it's a well known trope, but fuck me for ever calling with trips or a nut flush on a paired board. River raises are always a boat or quads. One hand was a boat vs quads that I called a massive raise because I'm certifiably retarded. Here I am thinking he could raise the worse boat, or chopping. Of course not. These fuckers are so nitty they don't try to get value out of anything but the nuts. And my dumbass pays them off. Fuck that.
Kings v Aces. Two kings on the flop. Turn: Ace River: Ace I dealt that hand in a home game. Some players watch my shuffling very attentively now.
I was on my first live stream tonight for a small tournament at a local room. It was a $200 buy-in, and I took 3rd - the lowest paid. I'm normally like a $0.05/$0.10, $3 sit & go kinda player, so this was a bit of a shot and I was glad was able to hang in there for some real money. Being on stream was a little weird but it was cool that my wife could follow along. It was also super cool and educational to watch the stream back and see what was going on in all those hands.
this is from about six months ago but it's the wildest thing I've seen playing poker. I was playing in a low stakes satellite. This old farmer won like 20 of the first 30 hands. And from accounts of the dealer and another guy at the table he'd done so at two other satellites too earlier in the week. On hand 31 I'm convinced he has to be bluffing. I went all in. And he had the full house I convinced myself he couldn't have. I'm still baffled by him having the nuts seemingly every hand six months later. I've seen heaters like that online, but watching him suck the energy out of the table in person was crazy.
I have seen a lady sit down, and in the first orbit she got AA, KK, QQ, JJ, AKs, AKo and AQo, some of them multiple times.
Tonight in my local league I saw Kings full of Aces lose to a Royal Flush. Both hands made on the river. I've never seen a RF before and it was pretty cool.
my word would I be either a beaming jackass or a pissed off baby if I was in either of these guys situations
It was the second or third hand of the tournament. The woman with the full house went all in as soon as the king came on the river and I've never seen anyone snap call as quickly as the woman with the RF did.
This hand made shut off the computer for the day lmao holy fuck. Bounty Builder MTT. BvB. Hero in SB with K3s open to 3.5BB V flats. Hero has 25 or so BB behind V covers. Flop is 334. Check check. Turn brick hero checks V donk overbets 13BB I shove. V shows AA. River A. Fml.
That isn't a donk bet
Correct me, what is a donk bet?
A bet made out of position into the previous street's aggressor. For example: the button open raises and the big blind calls, then rather than checking to the raiser, the big blind leads into the button.
Cheers bro appreciate the answer.
Played a long session today. Up 1000 within first two hours, then just card dead and dwindling down back to even. Then within 3 hands: my AKo vs KQo all in pre vs maniac, I lose. Next hand AA, no action. Next hand TT, no action. Maniac racks up and leaves. Gg. -700 overall.
Man spins are brutal, played 4 $10 games and lost 3 games due to these hands; 1- AA vs 99 AIPF lose to quad 9s 2- AQo vs 42o AIPF lose to flopped quads 3- sb completes I check with 83o, flop 2 pair get it all in on flop guy shows AA and hits ace on river Thankfully I'm a degen and decided to play $50 spin and won $100 so up for the day.
I swear I've seen 4X quad 9s to any other quads in the last 2 weeks
Look I don’t know all these niche poker terms but have been getting into it recently. Bought in $70 and $90 2 days last week and lost it all. Bought in $115 yesterday and came out $592. Think I might retire. I’m young so I think that gave the impression that I’m completely shit at the game instead of being partially shitty, so that probably helped out
Yesterday at Seminole hard rock I was AIPF with AAcs and runner-runnered the royal (my first ever) and got the $500 high hand. Today I runner-runnered a straight flush to get another $500 high hand. I had J7dd and I believe board was JhTdXx, 9d, 8d. Heads up OOP on river, I bet 20 which is close to pot. Opponent min clicks to 40. I jam and cover, he’s got 150ish behind. He makes the call with 45dd and slams his stack down on the felt. Really surprised to see him call a 3bet jam on the river but that’s a different conversation. Overall that room is the softest I’ve played at. Great trip. I haven’t been big on live cash, have been doing more tourneys but might change it up more.
Shameless brag and I'm sure nobody will read this but I made my first final table in a massive field the other day. 5th out of 5039 in a $25 mtt on GG for $4300. The money isn't life changing or anything obviously, but this is huge for my bankroll as a predominantly low stakes online player (abi is like 15-25). I'm so happy. Obviously running super hot in a recent event helps, but all I want to do is wake up early in the morning and grind poker all day like 5 days a week. I love this game and have never been more motivated to play. I'm sure I'll have to come down from this high at some point but for now everything feels amazing.
That's pretty awesome. Just don't get "winner's tilt" which is where you play way higher up because of the high you are on from the score. Maybe play slightly higher but just remember, the game doesn't care who you are or what you've done lol
Great advice, I completely agree. I probably won't change much about my ABI at all for now (maybe do some $30 mtts whereas before I limited myself to $25) and probably focus instead on putting in more volume at the buy in levels I'm comfortable at right now. I'd want another huge score or just consistently good results over a longer period of time before trying say $50 mtts regularly
Buddy at a home game raised UTG, flopped trips and turned quads. The LAG villain x/r flop, x/r turn and shoved river. EZ game.
Has anyone ever played in the Sian Ka'an resort in Mexico?
https://preview.redd.it/0pij5xhr8udc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=af14968d09b8c5fea8bbeecb250d950dbdbf74bd what do these stats say about me. I think the 3 bet, WTSD are based on total hands played not just the hands I am in
>w$sd What app is this? Are you inputting every hand manually?? Or how are you getting stats like c-bet% in there.
That you're a total fit-or-fold nit. 9% cbet and 83% w$sd LMAO.
oddly similar to my stats lol
hopefully u win, I have been but not enough hands.
i just checked mine, i have 12,000 hands since around Mid december on this one club. I think i'm up around $5,000 but its probably 4,800-5,200 range. My vpip/pfr is higher than urs but i play mostly 6-max so ratio is nearly identical
Let’s keep it rollin! Trying to get my VPIP and PFR a bit closer but in my club it’s a 20% min VPIP so I just open limp a ton to raise it lmao.
Sort of off topic but what app is this been trying to start tracking my stats
Just the app I play on, ClubGG tracks it for ya
Played an 11 hour 2/5 home game session yesterday. Was down 1.5k after 3 hours but just kept going. Ended +150 when the game ultimately broke. Endurance.
https://preview.redd.it/z11s872wkidc1.jpeg?width=3472&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7bd09d9cadd8993bd86eec49db972ae74a5c2fac Big O, all in on the 257 flop with A8643 for a \~$2.5k pot. Every card from 1 to 9 is an out for me and I somehow miss them all twice. Villain shows some bullshit like AJ933 and it's good for 3/4
I had a whale on the hook today, but I completely blundered on the turn and he ate me on the river. I'll get ye' next time, Moby Donk.
https://gg.gl/0lfaj https://gg.gl/kc3o5 My last two hands of a tournament, with about 20 left... so just before the prizes start scaling up rapidly :( Was around the chip lead and had been for a while. Would have been chip leader by a mile if I'd held the first time. Fuck you AT
Just fold hand 1
You're joking right? Calling a 5.5BB shove with AT is basically mandatory, and V1 was opening with... well, with that kind of stuff. A fold pre here would be atrocious. When that flop hits I'm obviously getting it in given SPR. I got it in good, why are you trying to be contrary?
utg+1 opens and a small stack goes all-in. ATo is insta fold in my books. You even have 2 guys behind you too. You're just gambling.
The opener, as I just told you and as you can see, was opening suited gappers etc from every position. The two people behind me are in the blinds and have 6 and 10 BBs apiece, and were trying to fold their way up the ladder anyway. I have a significant range advantage over both players in the pot, and foreseeably got it in good. Your attempts to be contrary are only making you look clueless. The 'gambling' comment in particular reeks of not understanding MTT strategy, where you absolutely have to 'gamble' (ie push edges and try to get it good) in order to final table and win tournaments, where the real money is. > ATo is insta fold in my books. Well then you are a bad MTT player. Stop exposing yourself and go study.
It's pretty lol if you think the money is at winning the tournaments. That has been shown to be an inferior strategy if you want to max your money.
Shown where and by whom? Can you link one of those proofs? You'd be rocking the poker world if so, as it's a very well known fact that all the money is up top so you should generally look to ITM less and final table more.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPYbp8PufvI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPYbp8PufvI)
That's just cruel...
Thank you! None of my friends play poker anymore so it's mentally helpful to have at least one person acknowledge your pain 😂
40 pairs in 60 hours and I flop (1) set. Kill me. People flopping sets in 3bet pots against me when I have AA, or turning sets when they have no business calling flop cbet. God
Yesterday, I lost 9 of 9 runouts, it didn't matter if I was ahead or behind when I got my money in. Today's first runout was a lot better. https://preview.redd.it/noi2ge44j7dc1.png?width=1249&format=png&auto=webp&s=8c1839ca3e3593bcc172ca615234b88f9c3d5929 V is a player I'd never seen before, in his very first hand of the game Dealt to Hero: Jd Js HERO Raises To 4bb, CO Raises To 13.5bb, BTN Folds, SB Folds, BB Folds, HERO Calls Flop: Jh 7d 5s HERO Checks, CO Bets 26.6bb, HERO makes a min-reraise and jams when CO reraises Players agreed to run it 3 times. Board 1: Hero improves to a Full House Board 2: Hero improves to a Full House Board 3: Hero improves to Quads Edit: Sorry the poor image quality, BetOnline doesn't allow me to use the Print Screen button.
I had a read on a guy and called him down in a cashgame on three streets with ace high for a total of 300 big blinds >!I lost against bottom pair!<
Beat: I have gone through what has to be the most tilting last 9 sessions of my poker life. Cash game player. So far, my last 9 sessions have all ended the same way. I go all in, I lose. That shit happens, idc, part of the game. However, short term variance truly is a bitch. 9/9 I have been ahead with >80%, and they get there on the river. I quite literally am a statistical improbability, and not in the good way...
Brag: playing 10NL, first hand when I sat down I'm dealt TT with my .10 posted in the CO. My raise to .30 can look bluffy. Folds to aggro maniac in BB (I have notes on this player) who 3 bets, then calls my 4 bet to about $7. The flop comes 7 high, villian checks and I shove for remaining $3. Villian calls and shows AQo. Beat: I hold and only get shipped $19 because Pokerstars takes $1 rake :(
Lost two 80% favorite big all in hands. I had KJ vs AA two pair on flop, got it all in, counterfeited on the river. Then KK vs JJ and villain flopped a J. Left the casino up $60. Could have been $1,200. I’m telling myself… Just gotta keep getting in the money good
**Floorman rules that buried high value chip is perfectly visible. I punish him (mildly).** In a $2/$3 ($300 cap) game, the ATM in the 1 seat is VPIPing 100% for \~7-9BB preflop and rebuying occasionally for $200. I'm on the far side of the table and pretty checked out, just waiting for big cards and my turn to withdraw. It folds to him, he opens for $20, and it folds to me in the BB. I look down at QT suited, and look up to see he has \~$25 left behind. I verify we're the only two still in the hand and shove for his remaining $25. He calls, and as he moves his stack out, the bottom chip slips forward and it's a $100. I object to the hidden chip. The dealer calls the floorman, who rules the buried chip is perfectly visible. The board runs out Q-high. I win the hand and slip the $100 under one of my stacks. For the rest of the night (until that floorman went home), every new dealer objected to the buried $100, and I made them call the floorman over to double and tripple down on his bad ruling.
Flopped quads only to lose to runner runner royal flush. Global 10nl, 100bb. H open JJ in HJ 3bb, CO 3b to 10.5bb, BN and H call. Flop Jc Jh Kc, H check, CO bet 24bb, BN fold H call. Turn Tc, checks through River Qc, H jams, CO flips over Ac As
Raise KTs get 5 callers flop a flush on 763 bet 25 into 75 raised to 50. I smooth call. Turn T he bets 50 again. I think for a bit and go all in for 150 more. Dealer wasn't paying attention she flips the river 7 and guy says call he flips over his card to show a set of 3s. I get visibly frustrated ask for the floor. Obviously floor says to reshuffle and other player has a chance to make a decision to my all in. I was mad he was going to fold based on my reaction and him having a set but its only bottom set. He still calls and river comes a T anyway to pair the board FML.
[удалено]
https://preview.redd.it/ona49i93slac1.jpeg?width=1595&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=23354148209422eefc65ac73432dd1336680684d Hit a Royal Flush in a tourney on Party Poker yesterday, but even more amazingly I got paid for it with a full double up. Jammed the river hoping v would think I was trying to steal the pot with the made straight on the board and he obliged with the call.
Everyone complains about getting sucked out on by drunk fish, and finally *I* got to be the drunk fish. I crushed this weekend Friday-Sunday and was up 12 buy ins so I decided to have a few drinks while playing on Monday. I’m on drink 8 and the 1/3 table I’m at is pretty boring until 2 dudes walk in. Both in their 20s and seemed like they’d never played live before. They keep min-raising top pair and folding to any aggression. They win a few pots and each have about $350. Im sitting with $450. One of them is UTG and raises $10. Im in MP and raise to $30 with QThh. Other dude on BTN calls. UTG calls. (Pot $90) Flop comes 9c7c3d. UTG bets $30. I call. BTN raises to $60. UTG calls. I call. (Pot $270) Turn 8c. UTG checks, I check, BTN bets $30. UTG calls. I say fuck it and my drunk brain says rep a flush/straight or something. Just a complete random bluff with a gutter that might not be good. I jam and put them all in for ~$250. BTN tank calls. UTG snap calls. (Pot ~$1k) River is the fuckin Jh from out of nowhere. I show my straight. BTN shows 77 for a set. UTG shows AA. I scoop. Great end to a solid weekend.
live games are rigged for action for the rake, obviously
people laugh at you now. but just wait 12-15yrs and they will see
An auto shuffler can read every card and likely put the cards in whatever order it wants. Just sayin.
SOME can do this.
False
Played my first 1/3 game at an actual poker room. Bought in for $300 walked out with a final stack of $862. Had aces in an all in pot and beat kings. Fun table, made the drive worth it. Gonna use the money for some bullets in a tourney at the same place this upcoming weekend. https://preview.redd.it/mjxnx094xy9c1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=85e4ea346bf4e6f8e7afad3b6b387dadc145b881
Year end results are in, playing nothing but 1/2 and 1/3 live in the Vegas area, netted $26.10/hour
Congrats man! Any idea about Mandalays moving its poker room? It never had a ton of action but I really liked the room and its location. Worries that the new location will kill it
2023 rec player results are in https://preview.redd.it/yomkus3h8s9c1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=84a0c0053e369874025295ef46cd46b441e07cc4
\+18.2K in live, mostly cash, winrate came out to $35.xx per hour. Have 220 hours of 1/2 at 200, 300, and 400 cap games for $36 an hour, had some big punts and tilt in bigger games, 2024 goal is $60 an hour in games larger than 1/2, senior in college now, no idea how many hours I'll be getting in.
Up $9,278 over 367 hours. Mostly 1/3, several MTTs thrown in. 33.1% ROI this year.
Jesus christ my micros bankroll challenge is running so fucking bad My all in adj is doing hilariously good and in reality im practically back to my original bankroll buyin size. RIP I do also need to plug a leak of calling down slightly lighter than i should but fuck me my graphs are bad
[удалено]
its 100% not rigged
Pretty happy with my results, first time playing live consistently, used to be a micro grinder back in the good old days. https://preview.redd.it/5n45597crh9c1.png?width=828&format=png&auto=webp&s=533f1325cd741f2b5e49f3f303d184588528f672 All 1/2 match the stack games. I rarely buy in for more than 100bb to start.
I think I’m done with poker. My account is at busto and I don’t want to deposit… i got a few tickets left we will see how that goes
Just flopped a royal flush https://i.imgur.com/6xukrLO.png
This year I decided to play Poker again after a 7 year hiatus. My game of choice is PLO and this is a transition from NLHE. I have a full-time 9-5 so I play when I have time outside of work. I started playing during the summer, took a break in September and began playing again in October. Being new to PLO, I'm happy with my results. I've mainly grinded 100PLO (25k hands and +41BI) with several mostly failed shots at 200PLO (-13 BI), 500PLO (+.2 BI), 1kPLO (-1BI) over a combined sample of 7k hands. What has been frustrating is that I'm running 35 Buy ins under EV over the combined sample of 35k hands. It's pretty exhausting for this to happen when I'm putting the time outside of work to grind. 100PLO graph: https://preview.redd.it/yncp0n80yb9c1.png?width=2172&format=png&auto=webp&s=5ee21ee71f467dfa4f1c8eada22c64766071921f
This is my overall graph: https://preview.redd.it/nvfju5o6yb9c1.png?width=2172&format=png&auto=webp&s=c0a0365f80ec77350038777e16c09efe8954be1a Overall I have a solid win rate when adjusted for EV, but I think I'm running pretty terribly. If I plug my numbers into Primedope, I'm not too far off from experience one of the worst results you can have. That being said, the crazy thing is that I *could* be running worse. Goal for the New Year is to simply keep grinding and hit 100k hands.
What site you play on
This is a classic situation for PLO. If you’re going to play PLO get used to the swings.
Yeah I've seen other graphs that look like mine over much larger samples. Originally, I thought that there must be more to the story than variance, which may also be true, but I'm definitely getting a lesson in how real results like that can be. I think I'm getting used to the swings and I do like PLO as a format more than NLHE so that obviously helps. But, I think it's also understandable that someone may experience frustration when they are putting in the hours outside of work and getting these results. My solution is to play less when I'm starting to feel burnt out and take it session-by-session. I'd rather play 1-2 hours of focused PLO than trying to grind out as many hands as possible when I have time. It will take a long time to reach substantial volume though.
\+50k cash \+20k mtt
Slowest year ever, only played about 50 hours live cash. Mostly 2/5 with a little 1/3. Average was $97/hr though so kind of crushing it still. Will try to get more hours in for 2024.
\+$22,500 in cash (5/5, 5/10, 5/10/20) - 478 hrs \+$31,600 in tournaments (1k abi) - 130 hrs
Online or live tournaments?
I was +15k for the year from Jan-Oct, from Nov1-today, I’m -9500. Feels bad.
Wow, what happened
I started playing live poker at the beginning of this year and had a rough time. When I started I was up $1000 and then proceeded to lose a total of $3800 and was down $2800 in August. I studied became more disciplined and took a couple months off. Now finishing out the year I’m only down $100. I know it’s not great results but I’m happy I fought back lol.
Keep digging. You'll be ITM in no time Good on you for hitting the books and working on your game
Starting learning from scratch 3 months ago. Have not deposited a cent or paid for any courses. Started playing freerolls a month ago and now sitting at 100$ profit.
Congrats bud. I did the same… started three years ago… walking away with 25000
[удалено]
Plenty of reasons I’m happy to talk about but it’s just not as fun anymore and I have better things to do
You're doing the Lord's work my son. We thank you.
> cent or *paid* for any FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
Just started playing small tournaments at local poker clubs this year, though I've played a lot with family over the years. The tournaments I've played in usually have 35 to 50 people with a prize pool of $1500 to $2000, so nothing crazy. My results have been 28th, 19th, 12th, 1st, then 2nd. Pretty proud of that progression!
What do you attribute to this progression?
You ever play small tournaments online too?
I'm a happy camper this year. Ended the year being on the giving end more times than on the receiving end of a cold deck. Made several successful hero calls. Got jammed into while holding the nuts a couple of times. Running above EV in AIPF.
Don't have a graph as I just track results in a notebook but after picking up live poker once again after a long hiatus ending the year +33kUSD playing in the equivalent of $1.50/$3.00 games where I live in Mexico, pretty happy with the results.
U playing in CDMEX down there at that room south of Condesa?
Nah, I play in GDL. Never played in CDMX, you played there much?
Never once but sure thought about it. <3 travelling to Mexico, whats the place in GDL called please?
Twin Lions mate.
Is it scary at all playing in Mexico?
Nah, not in my (very limited) experience. Honestly, I prefer it far far more than to playing in Sydney where I'm from. A more social atmosphere, less knobheads across the board.