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    Default Operation Prague

    So here's the deal, I'm wanting to move out of my parents place around September time. Plan A, involves moving to Prague, Czech Repulblic. Plan B is moving to Manchester only about 45mins for where I live now, but much better night life. Just want to get out of here tbh.

    Anyway, I've been playing poker seriously for about a year, just less. I've been up and down between 25nl and 100nl a lot - depending on how much I've made/how much real life moneis I need. I have the ability to play pretty well, but don't always follow through with my focus and really don't put much time into improving my play.

    So my current BR is around 1k and I need to make it into around 10k by september for plan B, 15-20k for Plan A. I have plenty of time to play like 100k hands a month, so it's easily achievable. First goal is to get out of 25nl - should be fairly easy. I play FR NLHE btw, if you didnt already know!

    I'm also in the process of loosening up a little, I've been playing 10/8 for pretty much the whole of last year. Trying to loosen up more like 13/11 or 15/12 something around that region.

    Stealing is obv somewhere where I can really loosen up in LP, I'm thinking somehting like this vs looser players/unknowns and much wider vs nits/tight regs in the blinds.

    HJ: A9s-A8s,ATo,KJo-KTo,QTo+,JTo
    CO: A7s-A2s,T9s,98s,87s,76s,65s,54s
    BU: K9s-K2s,J9s,T8s,97s,86s,75s,64s, A9o-A2o

    Going to work on ranges something like this

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    Set my target high for 20k, but I can always revert to Plan B if I dont make at least 15k
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    Semi-interesting hand from today. I don't bet turn as it's obv a scare card for most his range if he doesn't already have me crushed. Bet river for value, ldo. I can't see many players c/r this river with air or less as a bluff or value at these steaks. Also, I doubt many Ax hands arte in his range too. AJ/22/66 are the only hands that make sense for villain here 9/4's luhlz.

    $0.1/$0.25 No Limit Holdem
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    Profiles and Stacks:
    UTG ($27.30) 57.1/28.6/1.0 (7)
    UTG+1 ($14.25) 14.3/0.0/1.0 (7)
    MP1 ($32.00) 8.8/3.9/4.0 (102)
    MP2 ($25.00) 14.3/0.0/0.0 (7)
    CO ($21.95) 14.3/0.0/2.0 (7)
    Hero (BTN) ($25.00) 12.6/9.4/2.0 (2556)
    SB ($25.70) 10.0/5.7/3.2 (140)
    BB ($26.35) 13.5/5.8/1.4 (156)

    Pre-flop: ($0.35, 8 players) Hero is BTN
    UTG calls $0.25, 1 fold, MP1 calls $0.25, 2 folds, Hero raises to $1.50, 2 folds, UTG folds, MP1 calls $1.25

    Flop: ($3.60, 2 players)
    MP1 checks, Hero bets $2.50, MP1 calls $2.50

    Turn: ($8.60, 2 players)
    MP1 checks, Hero checks

    River: ($8.60, 2 players)
    MP1 checks, Hero bets $5.40, MP1 goes all-in $28, Hero folds

    Final Pot: $19.40

    MP1 wins $41.05 ( won +$9.05 )
    Hero lost -$9.40
    UTG lost -$0.25
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    gogogogogogogogogo
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    this is gonna be insanely cool.

    GL not that you need it
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    gl man, and I vote manchester personally, come join myself and badgers up here!
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    GL dude!

    I haven´t been to Manchester yet, but Prague is pretty much the nuts. Beautiful city, great nightlife, cheap food and beer. Not to mention czech wimmenz ldo
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    title looks like you already made up your mind

    GL sir, hope it all goes well and you run goot! I've said it many times I think you are def good enough to beat 100nl+, get that BR up asap! In the hand you posted I think you can bet the river a little smaller, there's really only nut and mediocre hands in his range.I think he almost always folds his weak hands with this bet size, and obv you lose more when he goes for the c/r, which admittedly I wouldn't think is too frequently. Definitely worth taking a note on him here after he takes this line.
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    Had a good session today, ran pretty sick. BR still 1/2 below 1000 so the op hasn't really started yet.

    I gayed up the conversion of hands, so will post it again
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    Quote Originally Posted by XTR1000
    but Prague is pretty much the nuts. Beautiful city, great nightlife, cheap food and beer. Not to mention czech wimmenz ldo
    +1
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    I want the stats to be in the HH like at weaktight, but the FTR conversion uses the big cards which I really hate, so I'll just post WT links.

    This hand was pretty sick, I just couldn' think of a hand he calls flop/turn with that got there. I suppose I coudl raise river smaller too. Once I raised that big I can't really fold.

    http://weaktight.com/855437

    here I overshove the second nuts on the flop as the flop raiser has a set here about 99% of the time and I dont want action killers on the turn. Also the pfxer is a little fishy and woudl probably find it hard to fold AA/KK here. I guess if I just std raise, the money probably goes all-in alyway if he has the set.

    http://weaktight.com/856149

    Pretty sure this is std? I have called his UTG raise on 4 diff tables in about 4mins in LP. I've floated two flops and taken them down on the turn and I've just folded one flop. I'm pretty sure he's noticed this and may spazz out on this flop. I have good fold equity vs the bottom of his EP opening rr\aneg. The top of his range smashed this flop, but I have good equity anyway.

    http://weaktight.com/855458
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    How old are you now? Are you in school/Did you go to school? How long are you expecting to be gone for? What are your plans after that?
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    Quote Originally Posted by andy-akb
    How old are you now? Are you in school/Did you go to school? How long are you expecting to be gone for? What are your plans after that?
    I'm 23, not in school currently. I went to uni and did a law degree. I don't think law is really my thing. I'm working a few days a week at the mo, but not full time. If I go to Prague, just 1 year. If I go Manc, probably for a few years, see where it takes me.
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    Manc if full of Mancs.. nuff said! Pragues probabally nice though =)
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    all hands look good
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    Quote Originally Posted by Muzzard
    Semi-interesting hand from today. I don't bet turn as it's obv a scare card for most his range if he doesn't already have me crushed. Bet river for value, ldo. I can't see many players c/r this river with air or less as a bluff or value at these steaks. Also, I doubt many Ax hands arte in his range too. AJ/22/66 are the only hands that make sense for villain here 9/4's luhlz.

    $0.1/$0.25 No Limit Holdem
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    Profiles and Stacks:
    UTG ($27.30) 57.1/28.6/1.0 (7)
    UTG+1 ($14.25) 14.3/0.0/1.0 (7)
    MP1 ($32.00) 8.8/3.9/4.0 (102)
    MP2 ($25.00) 14.3/0.0/0.0 (7)
    CO ($21.95) 14.3/0.0/2.0 (7)
    Hero (BTN) ($25.00) 12.6/9.4/2.0 (2556)
    SB ($25.70) 10.0/5.7/3.2 (140)
    BB ($26.35) 13.5/5.8/1.4 (156)

    Pre-flop: ($0.35, 8 players) Hero is BTN
    UTG calls $0.25, 1 fold, MP1 calls $0.25, 2 folds, Hero raises to $1.50, 2 folds, UTG folds, MP1 calls $1.25

    Flop: ($3.60, 2 players)
    MP1 checks, Hero bets $2.50, MP1 calls $2.50

    Turn: ($8.60, 2 players)
    MP1 checks, Hero checks

    River: ($8.60, 2 players)
    MP1 checks, Hero bets $5.40, MP1 goes all-in $28, Hero folds

    Final Pot: $19.40

    MP1 wins $41.05 ( won +$9.05 )
    Hero lost -$9.40
    UTG lost -$0.25

    that's a helluva fold man, not sure if I could have done it. but I think you folded correctly.. Definetly AJ, 22 or 66, those are the only hands that make sense for him to call your bet after flop... what i'm really surprised about though is if he actually had one of those 3 hands, why check raise on river, after you've already checked previously??... was a nice bet on his part, either way..
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    Played a few thousand today, got the roll over 1k - so this op can officially start



    Wasnt playing as loose as I wanted, but its difficult when you 24 table. I usually only 20 table, but bumped it up this afternoon. Played a few 50nl tables at one stage, even though I'm not really rolled. +1.35 wheeeee lol.

    Some reason HEM won't show all my hands I played today, so I'll post some hands later on.
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    nice one mate. gogogogogogo.
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    Didn't play as many hands as would have liked this week. Wasn't really up for it that much + went out got drunk fri/sat this week. Just fired up a session this morning, played 890 hands for +$53. Roll is $1,142. Some of this money is HU n00b tourney, not sure how much though.

    I'm still not playing as loose as I'd like and definitely not stealing enough. needs to be around 30% imo, still in low 20's on autopilot.

    Have some lunch now and return in a bit.
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    I'm kind of curious. How many hours does it take you to play 5k hands in a day 24 tabling? Once I get to 25nl+ I'll be considering switching to FR.

    Good luck!
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    Quote Originally Posted by dranger7070
    I'm kind of curious. How many hours does it take you to play 5k hands in a day 24 tabling? Once I get to 25nl+ I'll be considering switching to FR.

    Good luck!
    @50h/hr per table, you can do 1k in 0.83hours. So probably like 4h30-5h if you include the time it takes to get everything up and running/switching tables etc
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    Wow, thats not bad at all then. I'll definitely be considering switching to FR then. I just 2-4 table 6-max, and thats fine and all for now, but I HATE multitabling more than playing 6-max, but I've comfortably 10-tabled FR before.

    Hmmm... methinks I got a decision to make. If I start playing FR I'll probably start at 10nl... Anyways, I'll stop hi-jackin the blog .
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    +112 ish today, took another shot at 50nl. I know I can beat it already, as I've probably logged like 500k+ at 50nl, but at the mo I'm not really that comfortably rolled - I can't 20-24 tabble anyway. Got 24BI, so 16 tabling until I'm upto about 1400. I'm also like 10k fpps away from a bonus and I'm supernova already, so shouldn't take long.

    I also got a few hours workign for FTR, so takes the stress off withdrawls a little bit.
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    Default Re: Operation Prague

    Quote Originally Posted by Muzzard
    S Trying to loosen up more like 13/11 or 15/12 something around that region.
    to loosen up I recommend:
    1) stealing more from cutoff and button
    2) 3-betting more = display "fold to 3-bet", "4-bet" and "attempt to steal", then re-steal from the button vs those cutoff lag wannabes, also 3-bet MP raises with some suited aces etc...
    3) 3-bet from the blinds occasionally/squeeze and defence vs steals

    that should move you up to 14-11 pretty quickly.
    Spenda or nutsinho (can't remember who) made a comment about steal bet sizing and varying open-sizing by position. EP=stronger range=raise more, LP=raise less and make 3-betting less financially rewarding for the re-stealers.

    enjoy the op!
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    Was supposed to be working today, but they person I work with cancelled. Still getting paid for it. This can be a grinding day now! lol

    Yeah I probably don't steal enough and sometimes when I'm losing concentration I'm missing ATC steals to really tight blinds etc. I do 3bet a fair amount already, especially to LP raises in LP. I'm more weary in the blinds esp vs semi-decent regs I find it hard to play like AQs out of the blinds in a 3b pot - withough spewing everywhere luhlz.

    To be fair I probably don't squeeze as much as I could/should.
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    +about 250 or so at 50nl so far, roll is about 1.3k now.

    3. I actually have a 17k sample on this guy, but its not showing is WT. He runs 10/20 and is a slight loser over that sample. Fold to cbet 58% and raise cbet 10%

    http://weaktight.com/877628

    2. I actualy misread a stat while I was playing this hand so I didn't 3b flop as I thought his aggression was 0 - so I actually almost folded flop lol. After checking again I decided he was pretty donkish and could easily be doign this w/Jx or FD.

    http://weaktight.com/877630

    3. Won't let me put the stats on for this guy in WT for some reason. Anyway, he's a fairly loose player 17/14. But he knows what he's doing. I'm pretty sure he'd only 3ball my UTG with AA/KK as I'm a bit of a nit and he'll know this. I suppose I could c/r this flop, but I felt I'd probably only do this is this situation with a set anyway. The turn is a bit of a killer coz my range is QQ alot. I figure I'll check turn too as AA/KK never checks behind and he may even bluff with AK

    http://weaktight.com/877632

    4. Villain is pretty unknown, flop raise fine and turn bet sizing ok?

    http://weaktight.com/877637

    5. How do I play this one? BB is a massive feesh. If you're thinking pre is a bit wierd I call a % vs tight UTG opens with SC type hands once in a while. I might even raise/get it in on flap if BB didn't come in as well.

    http://weaktight.com/877639
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    It was great talking through these HH's with u on MSN muzz. Can't wait to do it again, definitely opened my eyes to some stuff lol. I guess I dont know everything about pokers ()
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    Quote Originally Posted by dranger7070
    It was great talking through these HH's with u on MSN muzz. Can't wait to do it again, definitely opened my eyes to some stuff lol. I guess I dont know everything about pokers ()
    No probs, I thought it was fun too. Good to get feedback.

    Played a quick session just now. Was slightly on tilt for a while, when early doors I got QQ vs KK allin on J high vs unknown and the KK vs AA AIPF vs the same guy within about 5minutes. Anyway, I made it baack and +110 in about an hour and a half session. Roll 1400.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Muzzard
    I got QQ vs KK allin on J high vs unknown
    I'm still not convinced about 3betting preflop in this hand. He's an unknown yes, but he at least bought in for a fullstack and if he knows anything he probably knows 1st to act = strong range. Idk though, we both know how weak I am at fiddy so far.

    gl dude.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sil693
    Quote Originally Posted by Muzzard
    I got QQ vs KK allin on J high vs unknown
    I'm still not convinced about 3betting preflop in this hand. He's an unknown yes, but he at least bought in for a fullstack and if he knows anything he probably knows 1st to act = strong range. Idk though, we both know how weak I am at fiddy so far.

    gl dude.
    Yeah your prob right
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    ship the recovery anyway lulz. gg sir.
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    [x] AA Recovery ITT
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    Very nice recovery Muzz. Keep that shit goin up imo.
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    Just had a quick sweat session with sil and dranger, ran aweosmely sick. + 140ish over 500 hands. BR now 1625

    5k hands for the day!

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    [x] jealous
    [x] he ran awesomely sick
    [x] wants to play 15 tables now rofl
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    Quote Originally Posted by Muzzard
    Good day for us both today! Keep it up dude!
    same to you sir. please to be teaching me how to win 3 BI in 500 hands?
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    moving up at 2.5k?
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    Quote Originally Posted by badgers
    moving up at 2.5k?
    4k imma nit ldo
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    Quote Originally Posted by Muzzard
    todays morning session

    Very nice recovery. Out of curiosity, do you have a stop loss in place? I know you don't check your PokerTracker...but I was thinking of getting one going for my BRM and was wondering what a standard stop loss may be...
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    Quote Originally Posted by BooG690
    Very nice recovery. Out of curiosity, do you have a stop loss in place? I know you don't check your PokerTracker...but I was thinking of getting one going for my BRM and was wondering what a standard stop loss may be...
    Nope I don't have a stop loss. I play for as long as i can when I'm playing well. If I'm playing babdly I quit as soon as I realise. If I feel myself go on tilt I just stop.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BooG690
    Very nice recovery. Out of curiosity, do you have a stop loss in place? I know you don't check your PokerTracker...but I was thinking of getting one going for my BRM and was wondering what a standard stop loss may be...
    I´m going with 2 BI stop loss and I´d recommend it to everyone who´s prone to tilt or doesn´t realize when he´s doing poorly.
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    Played some 50nl yesterday, about 1k, +100. Also played teh SN freeroll and came in the top 100 for another 100. +30 from a bet with sil693 on Man U vs Liverpool.

    Roll 1.8k.
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    Play a little this morning. +50 after 1k.

    Some hands:

    1. No need to slow play? Just get it in? Villain is 29/16 after 60
    http://weaktight.com/890359

    2.STD vill is 34/16 after 500
    http://weaktight.com/890356

    3.MP2 is unknown, main question is size PF obv I have nuts on flap
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    Hand 1:

    I was going to say just call, until I really looked at the texture of the flop. Flush draws, and OESD or pair and FD, etc. Shipping is fine here, probably the best play imo. You really don't want to see the A, Q, or T hit, or any heart. There are just too many turn scare cards for your hand.

    Hand 2:

    I think its a SLIGHT overshove, but seriously if you raised any less its just retarded, so well played imo. Pot is $11.75 after he raises you on turn. His stack is $23.90. After you call his $4 raise, pot is $15.75, plus $23.90 = $39.65. He's getting like 1.5:1, so hes probly gonna call with made straights, most high card (A, K) FD's, pair + FDs, pair + straight draws. I think shipping is fine. Let me know if my maths on the pot is wrong lol.

    Hand 3:

    You could have made it $16-18, but I don't think you can go smaller there obv and I don't think your sizing is that bad, but as we both know I'm a nub so... I guess when you 4-bet, "standard" size is 2.5-3x, but that just seems kinda weak with AA, and raising to $16+ might really seem big being a 4-bet, so I think your sizing is actually pretty good. Basically all you did is act like the first raise wasnt even put in and just made it a standard 3.5x which I think is great. NH sir.
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    1. standard imo
    2. standard imo
    3. I think anywhere from $12 - $17 is fine
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    BTN is mega nit, other villain is a massive feesh whats my line sirs?

    http://weaktight.com/893471
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    With the feesh in between you and the nit kinda blows, but you are obviously going to 3bet here. Sizing is the only problem imo. He's probly not gonna be calling a shove if he has a draw, maybe with an overpair, but even thats doubtful. The fish may or may not come along with the 3bet, probly will if he has FD, probly not if just a one pair hand. I think a range for the BTN is probly 22+, ATo, KTo, QTo, ATs, KTs, QTs, and probly some pairs and FDs, FDs and straight draws, etc.

    He will probly call a large raise with the majority of these hands, so the question is still size. Would raising to $12-15 be too much? Pot is $7.25 after BTN raises, if you raise to $12 it will be $19 and he has to call (if UTG folds) and he has to call $9. So that seems maybe too small? Sorry I'm rambling lol, just trying to spitball and see what would be the best size to raise.

    I think raise to $15-20 and be ready to ship turn if they both call and its a blank. If you only get one caller, bet around 2/3 pot, ship river?
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    vill is a little fishy, sizing ok?

    http://weaktight.com/893501
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    Quote Originally Posted by dranger7070
    With the feesh in between you and the nit kinda blows, but you are obviously going to 3bet here. Sizing is the only problem imo. He's probly not gonna be calling a shove if he has a draw, maybe with an overpair, but even thats doubtful. The fish may or may not come along with the 3bet, probly will if he has FD, probly not if just a one pair hand. I think a range for the BTN is probly 22+, ATo, KTo, QTo, ATs, KTs, QTs, and probly some pairs and FDs, FDs and straight draws, etc.

    He will probly call a large raise with the majority of these hands, so the question is still size. Would raising to $12-15 be too much? Pot is $7.25 after BTN raises, if you raise to $12 it will be $19 and he has to call (if UTG folds) and he has to call $9. So that seems maybe too small? Sorry I'm rambling lol, just trying to spitball and see what would be the best size to raise.

    vs reg I feel he'd bluff raise me here alot and will bet a lot when checked to
    http://weaktight.com/893565
    I think raise to $15-20 and be ready to ship turn if they both call and its a blank. If you only get one caller, bet around 2/3 pot, ship river?
    The question is what does the nit limp pf/raise this flop with? Do you think I'm ahead of his range enough to a) raise/call if he 4bshoves b) 3b and bet/call any blank/pairing card on turn
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    Hand 1 makes me want to fucking kill a penguin. Its like, dfviuoahdfiu;abhu';ofvhja. Seems like BTN either has us crushed with a set, or is on some sort of draw that likely has decent equity against us. Although, his range might be wider in this spot as he likely knows UTG is a feesh, and he has position in the hand - so his range might include some 10x type hands, non-combo FDs etc.

    I think I have to raise a decent size here, I dont dislike dranger's suggestion of $15 - $20 tbh. If btn 4bshoves i more than likely call, but im not thrilled about it. If he has 1010 would he not try and iso this in such a good position to try and get the fish HU???

    Im shipping any blank turn, if he does have a set, its likely he wants to get it all in on this drawy flop.


    Hand 2 - i dont mind bet sizing at all, i probably bet turn a bit bigger though, but I think keeping it smallish encourages a few worse hands to stay in, so w/e. nh sir.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Muzzard
    Quote Originally Posted by dranger7070
    With the feesh in between you and the nit kinda blows, but you are obviously going to 3bet here. Sizing is the only problem imo. He's probly not gonna be calling a shove if he has a draw, maybe with an overpair, but even thats doubtful. The fish may or may not come along with the 3bet, probly will if he has FD, probly not if just a one pair hand. I think a range for the BTN is probly 22+, ATo, KTo, QTo, ATs, KTs, QTs, and probly some pairs and FDs, FDs and straight draws, etc.

    He will probly call a large raise with the majority of these hands, so the question is still size. Would raising to $12-15 be too much? Pot is $7.25 after BTN raises, if you raise to $12 it will be $19 and he has to call (if UTG folds) and he has to call $9. So that seems maybe too small? Sorry I'm rambling lol, just trying to spitball and see what would be the best size to raise.

    vs reg I feel he'd bluff raise me here alot and will bet a lot when checked to
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    I think raise to $15-20 and be ready to ship turn if they both call and its a blank. If you only get one caller, bet around 2/3 pot, ship river?
    The question is what does the nit limp pf/raise this flop with? Do you think I'm ahead of his range enough to a) raise/call if he 4bshoves b) 3b and bet/call any blank/pairing card on turn
    I started thinking about bet sizes to price out draws etc because I'd decided I wanted to design a way to make those calculations easily in my head at the table and this seemed like as good an exercise as any, but then I re-read the reads.

    Mega-nit making that play is just so odd. He's kind of building a pot, but not effectively enough that he can expect to get all-in by the river (with one caller pot is around $7 with $50+ behind - even with two callers PSB on both turn and river is not going to get all the money in the middle). So as a pot building exercise it fails - and as a pot building exercise there's really no reason why he shouldn't be betting at least a little bigger and that would set up some better ratios. Also he's making such a small raise that all draws are priced in and must call. What kind of hand would want all draws to call? I was briefly contemplating if the 7d6d combo draw should be considered but I'm not feeling very strongly about it. Higher sets are of course possible as a raise, but for them the raise size seems most odd. Surely those hands would be most keen to both 1) build the pot and 2) price out draws. Unlikely though it seems this pansy raise is consistent with Adxd where he hopes someone is drawing to the lesser flush and will stack off. But that's such a long shot for him to even contemplate.

    I don't think he realistically has fold equity on that raise, but maybe he hopes that we'll make a confused call and check turn through for a cheap river card for him.

    I'm tempted by the confused call, but the drawback to the confused call is that it leaves me none the wiser. If I felt sets were likely I'd probably call and show strength on any diamond turn. If I think Adxd is likely I'll raise to price out the draw and shove any non-diamond turn.

    Ok, I guess I managed to talk my way around to discussing raise sizes on the premise that I'm looking to price out an Adxd hand. I'll use Ad2d as my example. For this exercise I won't just consider pricing out draws in the simple sense, but rather picking a bet size that denies my opponent implied odds. I'll assume UTG folds just to simplify my calculations. I'll assume 2 diamonds are accounted for, so there are 9 diamonds out of 45 cards that make me shut down (not sure yet if I want to fold) and 36 cards that make me shove where I assume he folds and I win. Pretty gross assumptions, but I want to keep it on a level that I could work out in my head at the table to design a calculation that works on that level.

    With the call portion of the raise the intermediary pot is $9 and effective stacks behind are $54.80. So from villain's perspective he stands to win $63.80 when he hits his flush (1 in 5) which means he's breakeven if he calls $63.80/4 = $15.95 as the bet portion of the raise. Ok, so to price out the flush draw in terms of implied odds we would need to raise raise to $19 - quite the overbet. So in this case that's probably not a sensible size to bet. But interesting to consider regardless. Amusingly dranger's suggested raise size is to $15-20.

    I think we're just in a shitty spot and pot controlling comes to mind. I have a very hard time pinpointing a right move here.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Muzzard
    vill is a little fishy, sizing ok?

    http://weaktight.com/893501
    Ok, time to really show my incompetence - isn't our line looking a lot like the flush draw that made a flush? Would we bet a flush bigger on the turn? I'm not denying that he might stay in with some KQ/AK type hands thinking that we can't have a flush every time so I guess I'm ok with the whole thing. Ah, I see now why this is good. It's good because he basically cannot have a flush because the Kh and Qh blocks the majority of the suited hands in his UTG opening range.

    So a semi-solid range for villain (to call a flop raise and turn bet) is around AK (12 combos), KQ (9 combos), AhJh (1), JhTh (1), Th9h/9h8h (1 combo between them). We're not strongly advertising that we made a flush so I guess we're priced in to call a shove. He only has to shove 5% of the time with AK or KQ (21/20 = 1.05 combos with 3 combos flushes means we have to call 1/2 PSB and this would be less - $19 to win $90ish). Even if we discount AK/KQ because of the play earlier in the hand they don't have to be turned into bluffs (or value shoves) very often for us to have to call the river.

    I guess I should really count in the 6 combos of KK and QQ also though along with the flush combos. Quick number jumping in my head suggests he'll need to turn AK/KQ into bluffs 10% or more of the time he has them but it's all getting rather speculative. I think at this point some of those hand combos need to be discounted. Would he re-raise KK/QQ or raise them on turn? If he doesn't raise them on flop or turn, would he ever raise them on river? All told he's probably most likely to shove on the occassional AK along with the nut flushes and call KK/QQ/KQ which means we probably have to call the shove.
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    Thanks for the post Erpel, I'll read it an respond later on tonight.

    Had a sick night session yesterday ran really cold, ran into 3 terrible beats in quick succession, then tilt shoved JJ pre vs a reg. In a Co vs BU situation. Didn't get off to the greatest start this morning either down another 3bi or so. Thankfully though I started to run ok lul. Made most of that back. Roll about 1750 now, got some bonus due in the next few days too, shoudl take me over 2k.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Muzzard
    Thanks for the post Erpel, I'll read it an respond later on tonight.
    lol, I get this all the time - I should stop replying

    Just because it's long doesn't mean it's insightful. I'm pretty confident you're a better player than I am so if you can bear carrying on with my simplistic thought process maybe you can offer some basic corrections where I veer off the beaten path. I am trying to help of course.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Erpel
    Quote Originally Posted by Muzzard
    vill is a little fishy, sizing ok?

    http://weaktight.com/893501
    Ok, time to really show my incompetence - isn't our line looking a lot like the flush draw that made a flush? Would we bet a flush bigger on the turn? I'm not denying that he might stay in with some KQ/AK type hands thinking that we can't have a flush every time so I guess I'm ok with the whole thing. Ah, I see now why this is good. It's good because he basically cannot have a flush because the Kh and Qh blocks the majority of the suited hands in his UTG opening range.

    So a semi-solid range for villain (to call a flop raise and turn bet) is around AK (12 combos), KQ (9 combos), AhJh (1), JhTh (1), Th9h/9h8h (1 combo between them). We're not strongly advertising that we made a flush so I guess we're priced in to call a shove. He only has to shove 5% of the time with AK or KQ (21/20 = 1.05 combos with 3 combos flushes means we have to call 1/2 PSB and this would be less - $19 to win $90ish). Even if we discount AK/KQ because of the play earlier in the hand they don't have to be turned into bluffs (or value shoves) very often for us to have to call the river.

    I guess I should really count in the 6 combos of KK and QQ also though along with the flush combos. Quick number jumping in my head suggests he'll need to turn AK/KQ into bluffs 10% or more of the time he has them but it's all getting rather speculative. I think at this point some of those hand combos need to be discounted. Would he re-raise KK/QQ or raise them on turn? If he doesn't raise them on flop or turn, would he ever raise them on river? All told he's probably most likely to shove on the occassional AK along with the nut flushes and call KK/QQ/KQ which means we probably have to call the shove.
    I'm pretty sure he'd 3ball QQ/KK and KQ on the flop for sure. I'd say he *may* 3ball AK/AA on this flop. Hands he woudl bet/call include AA/AK and fd/straight draws. I'm pretty sure he'd dump JJ etc on this flop.

    Given the fact the KhQh are on the flop it bascially blocks a large portion of his FD's so, he's not going to have a FD that often. Turn brings the FD, given the fact he didnt 3 ball the flop I'm pretty sure if he had KK/QQ/KQ, he woudn't raise me here on the turn. He'd only be raising me here with a FD imo. So I bet fairly small to induce the weaker hands in his range to come along and I'm probably folding to a raise here. Given the fact he checks rier again I have the best hand alot barring KK/QQ. I think he'll call with AA/AK a fair amount.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Erpel
    Quote Originally Posted by Muzzard
    Quote Originally Posted by dranger7070
    With the feesh in between you and the nit kinda blows, but you are obviously going to 3bet here. Sizing is the only problem imo. He's probly not gonna be calling a shove if he has a draw, maybe with an overpair, but even thats doubtful. The fish may or may not come along with the 3bet, probly will if he has FD, probly not if just a one pair hand. I think a range for the BTN is probly 22+, ATo, KTo, QTo, ATs, KTs, QTs, and probly some pairs and FDs, FDs and straight draws, etc.

    He will probly call a large raise with the majority of these hands, so the question is still size. Would raising to $12-15 be too much? Pot is $7.25 after BTN raises, if you raise to $12 it will be $19 and he has to call (if UTG folds) and he has to call $9. So that seems maybe too small? Sorry I'm rambling lol, just trying to spitball and see what would be the best size to raise.

    vs reg I feel he'd bluff raise me here alot and will bet a lot when checked to
    http://weaktight.com/893565
    I think raise to $15-20 and be ready to ship turn if they both call and its a blank. If you only get one caller, bet around 2/3 pot, ship river?
    The question is what does the nit limp pf/raise this flop with? Do you think I'm ahead of his range enough to a) raise/call if he 4bshoves b) 3b and bet/call any blank/pairing card on turn
    I started thinking about bet sizes to price out draws etc because I'd decided I wanted to design a way to make those calculations easily in my head at the table and this seemed like as good an exercise as any, but then I re-read the reads.

    Mega-nit making that play is just so odd. He's kind of building a pot, but not effectively enough that he can expect to get all-in by the river (with one caller pot is around $7 with $50+ behind - even with two callers PSB on both turn and river is not going to get all the money in the middle). So as a pot building exercise it fails - and as a pot building exercise there's really no reason why he shouldn't be betting at least a little bigger and that would set up some better ratios. Also he's making such a small raise that all draws are priced in and must call. What kind of hand would want all draws to call? I was briefly contemplating if the 7d6d combo draw should be considered but I'm not feeling very strongly about it. Higher sets are of course possible as a raise, but for them the raise size seems most odd. Surely those hands would be most keen to both 1) build the pot and 2) price out draws. Unlikely though it seems this pansy raise is consistent with Adxd where he hopes someone is drawing to the lesser flush and will stack off. But that's such a long shot for him to even contemplate.

    I don't think he realistically has fold equity on that raise, but maybe he hopes that we'll make a confused call and check turn through for a cheap river card for him.

    I'm tempted by the confused call, but the drawback to the confused call is that it leaves me none the wiser. If I felt sets were likely I'd probably call and show strength on any diamond turn. If I think Adxd is likely I'll raise to price out the draw and shove any non-diamond turn.

    Ok, I guess I managed to talk my way around to discussing raise sizes on the premise that I'm looking to price out an Adxd hand. I'll use Ad2d as my example. For this exercise I won't just consider pricing out draws in the simple sense, but rather picking a bet size that denies my opponent implied odds. I'll assume UTG folds just to simplify my calculations. I'll assume 2 diamonds are accounted for, so there are 9 diamonds out of 45 cards that make me shut down (not sure yet if I want to fold) and 36 cards that make me shove where I assume he folds and I win. Pretty gross assumptions, but I want to keep it on a level that I could work out in my head at the table to design a calculation that works on that level.

    With the call portion of the raise the intermediary pot is $9 and effective stacks behind are $54.80. So from villain's perspective he stands to win $63.80 when he hits his flush (1 in 5) which means he's breakeven if he calls $63.80/4 = $15.95 as the bet portion of the raise. Ok, so to price out the flush draw in terms of implied odds we would need to raise raise to $19 - quite the overbet. So in this case that's probably not a sensible size to bet. But interesting to consider regardless. Amusingly dranger's suggested raise size is to $15-20.

    I think we're just in a shitty spot and pot controlling comes to mind. I have a very hard time pinpointing a right move here.
    You sure do like to post long replies!

    Lets give villain, BU some kind of range and work from there. He passive/nit and rases this flop, but only min raises - gives us a fair bit of info imo. I think he could lol limp and raise this flop with JJ-AA, TT and 88 and Txdd hands, maybe 67dd - but I dont think that is in his range too often.

    Gien the fact he only min raises flop, I think we can with draw TT and 88 out a fair bit, as why woudl he raise so small here with those hands? Pricing us both in? I don't love it, but my line here is to raise to about $12 and fold to a ship coz I dont think he's aggro enough to ship ATdd or somehting similar.

    So, I raise and I hae to raise imo, fish folds *sigh*and BU calls. Now I really think he has broadway Txdd or JJ-AA. Turn brings another T, which makes it unlikely that he has one, but if he doesn't have one I think shippign the turn is best as a) he may make a hero call with JJ-AA b) he may hae the T so cant fold c) he may have 67dd so may call but fold if he see river blank d) he may call with some other FD that he may fold to rier blank.
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    Isn't shipping turn something like $48 into a pot of like $24? (Effective, after rake.) I'm not sure we'll really get many crying calls there. I agree that a T can't fold, but he's stacking off regardless. I don't think any flush draws call that massive an overbet. Think Ryan Fee mentioned that loose players look for excuses to call and tight players look for excuses to fold. Maybe you're talking about leveling here, but encouraging a tight player to fold by overbetting seems kind of counterintuitive when we want him to call.

    With a T on the turn I'd be fully committed regardless of there being some money behind. The question is if we can rely on the opponent to help us build a pot. I suspect not because he's been characterised as a nit, so checking to him to let him bet wouldn't work on either turn or river. We do have to get crying calls, but double pot sized overbets I'm not sure will see many of them.

    In the hypothetical case where we are guaranteed 100% to stack off, a flush is good and he has 9 outs he'd be correct to call up to $17 for implied odds. If we bet $14 or $12 maybe he'll man up and shove his flush draws on us in the hope that he has some fold equity and outs if we call.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Erpel
    Isn't shipping turn something like $48 into a pot of like $24? (Effective, after rake.) I'm not sure we'll really get many crying calls there. I agree that a T can't fold, but he's stacking off regardless. I don't think any flush draws call that massive an overbet. Think Ryan Fee mentioned that loose players look for excuses to call and tight players look for excuses to fold. Maybe you're talking about leveling here, but encouraging a tight player to fold by overbetting seems kind of counterintuitive when we want him to call.

    With a T on the turn I'd be fully committed regardless of there being some money behind. The question is if we can rely on the opponent to help us build a pot. I suspect not because he's been characterised as a nit, so checking to him to let him bet wouldn't work on either turn or river. We do have to get crying calls, but double pot sized overbets I'm not sure will see many of them.

    In the hypothetical case where we are guaranteed 100% to stack off, a flush is good and he has 9 outs he'd be correct to call up to $17 for implied odds. If we bet $14 or $12 maybe he'll man up and shove his flush draws on us in the hope that he has some fold equity and outs if we call.
    Sorry yeah your right, I bet 17 on the turn and shipped the river. Turn was a T and river was 2h or something. For some reason a thought I just shoved turn.
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    Played another few K tonight. Roll down to 1650, btu I player alright, just got a few coolers etc. Also got a $500 bonus for the roll via concierge. So roll is about 2150 now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Muzzard
    So roll is about 2150 now.
    *sigh*

    gg sir!!
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    got a little hacked off with FR today. Stars rejected the bonus as it was shy of 500$ so my roll was about 1650 still this morning.

    Played a fair few hands, but ran like shit + didn't play my best so roll went down to 1500 or so. Played 6max to change it up, ran like god ldo and in a few thousand hands back up to 2k! luhlz.

    Helps when the guy hits his inside draw uber deep!

    http://weaktight.com/899782

    Dont ask me why I overshovelled, I just thought i'd put him to a tough decision when he's capable of havin AAA/JJJ/TTT in range coz uberfish is UTG+1 and has given us both these stacks.

    + I still got over 500 in fpp bonus sitting in the account, roll effectively 2.5+ coz I have more reciepts I can send stars.
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    gl gettin starz to hand over the moneyz. that'll be a nice little boost for sure. I need to find myself 5 bills... hmm. maybe I'll call mom


    rofl "ops" I wonder how he felt after his call and the moneys got shipped.
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    I decided not to cahs the FPPs in the end.

    Haven't played that much poker from Thurs till now. Bit of a downswing at 50nl FR, switched to 6max for a bit and won some there as previously mentioned. Then lost like 150.

    Played a few donkaments yesterday and cashed in most of them, but only small cashes.

    Played two 2250 FFP turbo sats to the sunday warm-up this morning, won 2/2. Roll 2.1k, still got 30k+ of FPPs.
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    I used all my FFP's up this morning play 12/13 of the warmup satties. Won 5. So +1k for the day wheeeeeeeeeee. I might even take a shot at 100nl sometime today.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Muzzard
    I used all my FFP's up this morning play 12/13 of the warmup satties. Won 5. So +1k for the day wheeeeeeeeeee. I might even take a shot at 100nl sometime today.
    lol, sicko. gg sir, 100NLaments imo. gogogogogogogogo!!!!!
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    lul upswing imo! Haven't played sngs for a few years.

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    First 100nl session for a while. Pretty much breakeven, played liek a nitbox

    vs a 10/5, lead? c/r? c/c?
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    10-5 has a pretty narrow range here.
    that's such a drawy board that check-call will kill your action if any club, 3, 5, or 8 comes. I like check-raise to $24 as played. Leading is the only other option, about $15.
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    I think c/r would be a pretty decent line here. Like daven said there are quite a few cards you don't want to see hit the turn, so get as much money in while you are likely ahead as possible, and with 5 ppl in the pot someone is likely to throw out a bullet for you to c/r.
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    I have no issue with c/r here other than it looks so incredibly strong. I know we talked about this hand and you said you only c/r a set here, but you also on lead with a set here.

    Thing is I think an unknown villain will probably see the c/r as much stronger than a lead here. I'm presuming you were unknown to each other as it was 100NL ldo.
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    Fucking fantastic operation idea Muzz.. What's Prague like? I'm looking for cool places to scope..

    Manc on the other hand, is moving to that messy sprawl some kind of punishment for not completing your op? :P
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ash256
    Fucking fantastic operation idea Muzz.. What's Prague like? I'm looking for cool places to scope..

    Manc on the other hand, is moving to that messy sprawl some kind of punishment for not completing your op? :P
    lol, I just want the city life. Prague is a pretty beatiful place, good architecture etc. But has cheap cost of living, food+beers+wimmenz ldo. I haven't spoken to the few who are going in a while. Hope it hasn't fallen through.

    What u upto these day? Roll/steaks? Wanna come to Prague too? lol
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    Just started grinding again having been made redundant, $100nl with $2.5k bankroll.. I'm gonna go to a rural college this Sept to get my qualifications up to scratch (and to grind out a good br) then I'll be shipping out to uni most likely, unless I make a ton of money at pokers..

    Have you done uni yet?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ash256
    Just started grinding again having been made redundant, $100nl with $2.5k bankroll.. I'm gonna go to a rural college this Sept to get my qualifications up to scratch (and to grind out a good br) then I'll be shipping out to uni most likely, unless I make a ton of money at pokers..

    Have you done uni yet?
    Yeah I went uni, finished in 2007. Got a degree in law, but I don't think it's really my thing. Work for a while after uni, then decided to work part-time + play poker.

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