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  1. #1
    Sup Sasquach. I'd like to hear what Daven says if/when he drops in.

    IMO You're a little weak-tight it appears. Steal about 10% more, cbet about 10% more. 3bet could be a bit higher too, but w/e. Overall, be a tad more aggressive. Raise more, fold more and call less, so to speak. As for the hands, my opinions may not be the best, but I'll chime in nonetheless.

    H1 - NH
    H2 - raise flop
    H3 - bet flop harder
    H4 - bet more on flop, bet/fold turn
    H5 - bet turn, plan SPR, get the monies in
    H6 - 4bet shoves are the nuts @ 25NL FR unless he's a maniac/short/retarded
    H7 - bet/fold turn
    H8 - um, shove?! 3 combos of 88 and AK chop, everything else you crush
    H9 - call or put him in on flop, he's doing this with 9x, gutter balls, smaller pairs as opposed to 99, 55, 66, and 65 (where he'd C/R or lead turn - but he's a fish so who knows); this hand kinda tilts me
    H10 - zomg you have a ton of outs
    H11 - 3bet or fold flop, calling puts us in a weird turn spot when we know he's going to bet

    I get the feeling you're going through a phase of "he's got the nuts-itis". If you're feeling frustrated, dropping down for a week can do a poker mind good.
    Last edited by StarGrinder; 07-19-2010 at 11:15 PM.
  2. #2
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    preflop your stats look mostly fine. A few comments though, as always. Also, for future ref, you can click the header box of the position report and it will order the report top to bottom per position which makes it easier reading.

    1) I think that you can/should c-bet more often given the huge strength of your preflop ranges.
    2) You can steal more too, 19% is way low. You should be opening wider from cutoff and button particularly.
    3) Your play vs 3-bets is interesting, i'm not sure how much of that 40% non-folding is calling and how much is 4-bets, but I hope you aren't calling AK and 99-QQ for set/confused value...

    ok, comments on hands:

    hand 1 - AhKh.
    preflop is nice. Plop is nice and turn is fine as well. Villain is repping a very narrow range, and sure he has TJ occasionally, but also AQ/KQ/Asxs even raw AJ/AT/A3 sometimes. You basically have no option but to stack top two vs a likely fish, especially when you're only 40bb deep.

    hand 2 - QhQc
    call or 3b are both fine preflop. 3b is probably better with your nit image vs an MP open, just because villain's range isn't that strong and you'll auto-fold when he c-bets any A/K high flop, and not raise other flops for value/protection when you should. Flop is a raise most of the time, and river is a fold or raise as played. Villain typically has KK/Ax and checked the turn cos he's scared of flushes after your call on the flop and now is trying to play river value catch-up. You should consider raising this river as bluff
    (flushes and JQ both heavily in your range, villain has very few flushes in his range and you block JQ pretty hard), but villain is unlikely to be good enough for this bluff to be decent. Know your villain and probably fold this time.

    hand 3 - AhAd
    cbet bigger cos it doesn't influence his calling range much. As played it's interesting cos effective stackes are messy, villain has less than pot behind and you have an overpair. This is one of those spots where bet-fold is not an option and you have to bet cos there is value to be had. I mean, if you shove i think you're ahead > 33% of the time when he calls, so shoving is +EV. Is this optimal? difficult to say. In this spot i'd wonder what his fold to c-bet stat was (it's on my hud) before i played turn, as played and i guess i'd just shove and hate seeing 55/QQ but, meh, what can you do.

    hand 4 - AsKh
    you have to put villain on a range on the flop before you call. There are no draws out there, so i doubt he is raising with worse than AQ -> folding is ok.... turn is interesting cos you now beat A6 and AJ so you can pretty much just bet-fold the turn cos he's gonna station the stuff you beat and raise his JJ/66 sub-range.

    hand 5 - 9c9h
    preflop great
    flop and i think your c-bet is a little too big, but it works out great
    turn and it's interesting, note that whatever size you choose will leave you feeling pot committed vs a river diamond, so bet-size to deny villain implied odds on the flush draw and note that you are not folding on any river. Shoving is ok. So is potting cos flush draws only have 7 outs (not 9 cos 4d/8d boats etc). Pot is better cos you can still get calls from his KQ sub-range that will snap-fold vs a shove.

    hand 6 - AhKd
    hero doesn't 4b without a plan. I mean, stats show that villain is a playmaster, but you don't really want him 5b shoving JJ here cos you get lost and are behind his range. Calling the 3b pre is best unless you are confident that villain will continue with AQ vs a 4b. As played it's gross cos you just know that villain has you crushed most of the time, but it's bu vs blind and you got da AK. I fold vs a bunch of villains here and don't tell yaawn/the irc about it. Given your nit image i think this is even more of a fold cos villain is probably aware/has a hud up.

    hand 7 - AdAs
    3b bigger out of position. 4x is good. Bet-fold turn $8 as played, or check-fold if you can read souls. Just don't check-call cos it's gross.

    hand 8 - AcKh
    call pre is ok vs a nit sometimes, but wtf vs a 70-30? vs a 70-30 and holding AK this is 3b/5b/get it in however you can preflop. As an aside, vs a nit open from ep i prefer 3-betting AK/AQ and flatting AA/KK. There is an interesting recent post touching on this in the FR forum i think. Anyway, you got da dreaded check-raise from a maniac when you hold top trips top kicker. You're only behind A8/88 and he can take this line for value with AT... I just cib in this spot, he's never folding and nor are you.

    hand 9 - JsJd
    hero considers a fold vs the c-raise, or calling and trying to get to showdown cheap.

    hand 10 - AhKh
    3b pre vs the obvious TAG iso. Flop is ok i guess, but think about what you are maybe doing. Calling for value vs AQ? Drawing to 6 outs vs QQ? Lost? as played this turn is an interesting spot where you can shove or call. Shoving as semi-bluff is interesting cos your line is consistent with 88/33/22 which are all in your range, and you have between 7 and 15 outs when called. You also have ok implied odds to the far from obvious flush, so calling isn't terrible.

    hand 11 - KdKs
    pre-flop is fine, so is 3-b to $2.75.
    Without reads you can just fold to the flop c-raise, his range here is like TJ/TT-AA/QdKd/AdKd/AdQd. He doesn't really have QJ here often enough for your call to be good. Remember that any villains that have a HUD will think you're ubernit, so he's expecting you to have KK+ here always.
    Last edited by daven; 07-19-2010 at 10:19 PM.
  3. #3
    Thanks for the feedback daven and SG. I went to IRC and got some feedback on several hands that were in the top 25 winners and losers for June and July. If you haven't done this in awhile you need to do it. I have a few more hands from the last couple days I want to get some feedback on.

    IRC seems to have changed a bit since the last time I was there (about a year ago). There's still nonsense chat but when a hand is posted it drops off alot and you get some good analysis, even from the nonsense chatters although they may be drunk/high/retarded/allthree.

    Thanks also to Daven for the extended private chat in IRC. Really opened my eyes to perspective. I've been at FTR for nearly 2 years and I'm still in the micros and I've also made $500 in withdrawals. So what. I'm still a winning player and have not made a deposit since 10/08 and I'm playing 25NL which I thought I would never be doing.

    I'm going to post some hands later today here and in IRC and also try to participate in hand analyses in the forums more.
    "Just cause I'm from the South don't mean I ain't got no book learnin'"

    Quote Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla View Post
    ...we've all learned long ago how to share the truth without actually having the truth.
  4. #4
    Villian was 12/5/0.9
    Notes said he would call down with any pair. Calls with overs
    Plan was to value bet every street. I think I coulda made the bets bigger but I didn't want him to fold.
    River bet was weak as 55 is def in his range.

    PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.25 BB (9 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
    MP1 ($25)
    MP2 ($19.97)
    MP3 ($47.56)
    CO ($10)
    Button ($26.75)
    SB ($20.85)
    BB ($16.11)
    Hero (UTG) ($35.32)
    UTG+1 ($25.85)
    Preflop: Hero is UTG with Q, Q
    Hero bets $1, UTG+1 calls $1, 4 folds, Button calls $1, 2 folds
    Flop: ($3.35) 8, 2, 6 (3 players)
    Hero bets $2, UTG+1 calls $2, Button calls $2
    Turn: ($9.35) 4 (3 players)
    Hero bets $4, 1 fold, Button calls $4
    River: ($17.35) 7 (2 players)
    Hero bets $5, Button calls $5
    Total pot: $27.35 | Rake: $1.32
    Last edited by Sasquach991; 07-23-2010 at 12:12 PM.
    "Just cause I'm from the South don't mean I ain't got no book learnin'"

    Quote Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla View Post
    ...we've all learned long ago how to share the truth without actually having the truth.
  5. #5
    2.35 on the flop, 7.50 on the turn. River is meh... That card sucks for us quite a bit. But at this point you basically have to put it in. Could easily be calling with 99-JJ. his stats make this spot really suck but whatever, sometimes the board just runs out horrible.
    [00:29] <daven> dc, why not check turn behind
    [00:30] <DC> daven
    [00:30] <DC> on my hand?
    [00:30] <daven> yep
    [00:30] <DC> because I am drunk
    [00:30] <daven> nice reason
    [00:30] <daven> no further questions
    [00:30] <yaawn> ^^Lol

    Problem officer...?
  6. #6
    Quote Originally Posted by Donachello View Post
    2...Could easily be calling with 99-JJ. .
    This... which is what I figured.

    I've been getting reamed alot for my bet sizing in the BC. Seems I making too small of bets in pots where I think I'm ahead but I'm giving villian odds to call. Lately I've been bloating pots with TP type hands and getting drawn out on and losing alot. I guess I was betting less so I would lose less if their hands hit. Gotta work on the bet sizing...
    "Just cause I'm from the South don't mean I ain't got no book learnin'"

    Quote Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla View Post
    ...we've all learned long ago how to share the truth without actually having the truth.
  7. #7
    On a brighter note, I finally broke 90 in golf.



    Last edited by Sasquach991; 08-02-2010 at 09:45 PM.
    "Just cause I'm from the South don't mean I ain't got no book learnin'"

    Quote Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla View Post
    ...we've all learned long ago how to share the truth without actually having the truth.

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