Th334

_Anonymous_ · 2012-12-04T15:24:36Z

Hi coach, My name is German. I'm not actually German, it's just my name :) If it makes sense. I think I had to add the second part every single time I met new people. On the other hand, there's always something to start a conversation from -- my name &diams; Anyway, I'm from Ukraine, which is largely unknown in countries like USA or UK, but PS community should be familiar with Ukraine, since it's mostly European (right?). At the moment, I'm studying at a university in New Zealand, so my English should do for our glorious goals ;) I am 21. I haven't been playing poker much. Well, I played SSS for a while quite a long time ago, and now I kinda rediscovered poker for myself. I began with trying out SNGs. From my humble experience I realized two things: in terms of general strategy, SNG might be considered as BSS stage + SSS stage. One, and two is that it seems like I enjoy the BSS part more. So I decided to give it a go! Not to mention all this nightmares I had about ICM and Nash equilibrium &diams; It was quite funny like after playing a couple thousands of hands and posting like 30 here I took an ICM quiz...and the quiz advised me to "think what you reckon is right and do exactly the opposite!". I mean, that's quite humiliating &diams; Another two reasons that influenced my decision: SNGs (esp. turbo) are gambling to a higher degree, and I also very enjoyed postflop articles by Unam. I think my stats from SNGs will be kinda irrelevant, so I'll just post the first homework! HOMEWORK ONE (if you just started reading, jump in here, that's right) Question 1: What is your motivation for playing poker? I think all of us are playing poker hoping to get some extra money :) I mean, it might be great to play poker casually just for fun...but grinding online sitting on your bum and starring in the monitor for many hours day after day would not be that appealing to me, if not to the money :) Though, if I ever happen to become a decent player, there's quite a good place to play poker live here in Auckland, just to get more joy from your hobby. Question 2: What are your weaknesses when playing poker? sometimes I play too much and get tiredI love stealing, I can steal quite loose and it might sometimes bring me to marginal situations that my postflop skills cannot handle correctly. It should change once I started playing cash though (not SNGs).from time to time I make bad moves. I know that they are bad, often I catch myself on this and say something like: "Holy cow, man, were you just thinking about isolating a fishy limper with A4o having 5 more people behind?" :) Still, sometimes I do make them. It's quite rare though and hopefully is getting even more so.I can have troubles with folding pockets :) Actually, that's another reason I decided to try BSS -- you can play them profitably more often than in SnG.I don't have a printer and my laptop has 12,1'' display &diams; so I make notes on cardboard sheets instead of printing them, and I probably gonna play 1-2 tables until I move up a limit or two and buy something bigger for poker. Question 3: What does it mean to play tight aggressive? I.e. with relatively low VP$IP and high PR+AF. To be short. (why would I want to be short having written a novel already?) (if you just started reading here, that might be a bit too late) All in all, I'm looking forward to our coaching! I might be quite annoying, but at least I'll try not to be boring, and also you can be sure that I'll be very grateful for every effort you make ;)

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21.01.2013, 06:12 0

Originally posted by Th334

I think my light 3-betting against late open raises brings me a solid profit, mostly re-stealing from SB/BB. If I see that a guy opens wide here, I just 3bet all suited connectors, small suited aces, small pockets, suited broadways...basically anything I don't feel like calling, and I rarely feel like calling OOP Even just some random Ax and Kx from time to time, trying not to get a total maniac image though They fold way too often, and when they wake up for a 4bet, I'm pretty sure that I'm behind 90% of the time. What do you think about such a 3B range?

Also, am I missing something about passive blind defense? I call only medium pockets like 88-TT(JJ) given the odds, and high suited broadways that should not be dominated often against the villain's range: ATs/AJs, KQs/KJs. I prefer 3-betting the rest most of the time.

However, I can't really find my 4-bet game. I think overall I had only a couple of successful 4-bet bluffs, the rest is either gets 5-betted, or called, which is even worse. It might be variance, plus the fact that sometimes I might make a conclusion that the guy can 3-bet light with a small sample. Maybe I also shouldn't 4-bet light from early positions...
As a bluff I 4-bet blockers, mostly Ax, still they have a monster quite often.

I also never 5-bet jam light. Can I increase my winrate by including 5-bet bluffs or changing something in 4-bets?

Thanks!

If things stay as good as they are (or even slightly better), we are looking forward a new good-looking graph from the new limit soon ♠_thumbsup:

1) At these lower limits you can 3-bet a wider range because villains are usually much tighter however you want to get in good habits early on (so 3-betting the right hands) because you will move up and have different experiences. So I would stay away from 3-betting random hands just because we can and stick with hands that make the most sense in a specific scenario.

If guys fold a ton to 3-bets and rarely call/4-bet then we want more blockers and hands we can't really call with. If they call to 3-bets a fair amount then we don't want to get caught with A8o or 44 postflop so suited connectors, suited aces, etc are better candidates.

2) The wider the steal ranges for your opponents the more we should defend (both 3-bet and call). If you are facing generally tighter LP stealers than a tighter defense range is fine.

Never/rarely calling is not the greatest plan but for 5nl it's fine because it allows you to focus on more important things.

3) I would recommend staying away from much 4-bet/5-bet bluffing at 5nl and even most of 10nl (depending on the platform).

People do not 3-bet bluff or 4-bet bluff (as you already said) enough at these limits for us to pull these moves profitably. Remember that a 4-bet bluff has to work 65%+ on average and if you do decide to 4-bet bluff blockers are key (A or K).

And I would stay away 100% from 5-bet bluffs here.

Best of luck at the tables.

Bogdan

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_Anonymous_

21.01.2013, 12:52 0

NL5: 1,000 bb in 7k hands :f_wink:

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We are carrying on a good trend from NL2 to NL5, Bogdan

Given additional money from clearing the bonus, I could easily start playing NL10 in like a month Unfortunately, I'll have to make a short break in Feb, but it won't slow us down too much :f_cool:

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_Anonymous_

28.01.2013, 04:42 0

That's just beautiful.

Quite a few guys would be jealous of that graph. Look at that red line too, especially for someone at the micros

Keep up the great work.

PS: how long is your break in February for?

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