The Pursuit of Happyness

Hi all,
last week I was not able to play much. I'll provide my game report tomorrow.
What is good, that I have spent all my free time reading the articles and hand reviews on the forum.
I went through all the planned articles, but still, I believe I need to review the following: "Ranges & Equity (4): Equity: Final Calls" and "Ranges & Equity (2): Combos & Card Removal" at least a couple more times to really understand them to be able to use it in practice.

So my plan for next week is:
Ranges & Equity (2): Combos & Card Removal
Ranges & Equity (4): Equity: Final Calls
The perfect introduction to multi-tabling
How to Calculate a \'Pot Size\' Raise

Happy fishing!

The study is paying of very nicely for you! On what poker site are you playing?

Originally posted by deuverman
The study is paying of very nicely for you! On what poker site are you playing?

Pokerstars as I have it linked to PokerStrategy and the traffic is great.

Hi All,
a new week is starting, so here is my report:

Week: 7
Format: NL5 SH
Hands played: 1899
Profit: +$21.07

Overall statistics:
Hands played: 28169
Profit: $121.68
BR: $161.29

This week I played even fewer hands than the last one, but with similar profit
As I already wrote my goal was to finish the processing of the basic articles. As I am enjoying reading articles and watching videos about poker, I will add another activity to the list. Several years back I have bought two books about poker which I will slowly read every time I will take public transport (instead of playing games or social media).

Let's see what is the professional way to deal with tilt
Have a great week and good luck fishing!

Your Graphs looking sweet like mate all the hard work and studying starting to pay off

Originally posted by Pokrovec

Originally posted by deuverman
The study is paying of very nicely for you! On what poker site are you playing?

Pokerstars as I have it linked to PokerStrategy and the traffic is great.

I wish i had done that.. To bad you cannot link them afterwards

Another good week for you, cheers!

Originally posted by cms81
Your Graphs looking sweet like mate all the hard work and studying starting to pay off

Thank you!

Originally posted by deuverman

Originally posted by Pokrovec

Originally posted by deuverman
The study is paying of very nicely for you! On what poker site are you playing?

Pokerstars as I have it linked to PokerStrategy and the traffic is great.

I wish i had done that.. To bad you cannot link them afterwards

Another good week for you, cheers!

Thank you! When I started playing several years ago I selected Fulltilt without any knowledge. Later on, I found about pokerstrategy and registered to the PokerStars. So now when I returned to poker it was a clear choice, as I really need access to the articles and videos... I hope the silver articles and videos will be enough to reach NL10. Otherwise, it will be very hard for me to reach gold status.

Anyway, good luck on the tables!

Even if it is an older series have a look at weasels walkthrough series.
It is available for Silver...

GL
Talisker

Originally posted by Talisker74
Even if it is an older series have a look at weasels walkthrough series.
It is available for Silver...

GL
Talisker

Thx, I will take a look

Edit:
Found following videos from w34z4l that are available for Silver and lower status. That should make me occupied before I'll be able to reach Gold I will add them to my list of study materials...

• NL25 fastforward on partypoker
• Allen86 Hand History Review
• Snap Goes The w34z3l - NL10 - Using a HUD (2)
• Snap Goes The w34z3l - NL10 - Preflop Decisions (1)
• NL25 Zoom Live with w34z3l
• NL25 Regular Tables Live with w34z3l
• w34z3l reviews mattyvx on NL25 Zoom
• Moving up with w34z3l - NL10
• W34z3l's Walkthrough Graduation - Live Zoom Session
• W34z3l's Walkthrough - Defending from the Blinds
• W34z3l's Walkthrough - 3-bet pots out of position
• W34z3l's Walkthrough - Population reads
• W34z3l's Walkthrough - Can you Feel the Maths Tonight?
• W34z3l's Walkthrough - Defending vs 3betters

Thx a lot Talisker74 for pointing this out for me!

Hi All,

yesterday I had the quickest session of my "career". In less than 70 hands I lost almost 3 BI. At least I was able to turn it off

The better news is that I was able to find all the videos from the W34z3l's walkthrough tutorial, which I found very useful!
Already I saw the first two
W34z3l's 6-max Walkthrough - Preparing For Takeoff
W34z3l's 6-max Walkthrough - You Raise, I 3-bet

Here is the complete list if you are interested (you can search for them in the video section, all are available for silver members):
W34z3l's 6-max Walkthrough - Preparing For Takeoff
W34z3l's 6-max Walkthrough - You Raise, I 3-bet
W34z3l's Walkthrough - Like a HUDless Chicken
W34z3l's Walkthrough - C-Betting and Planning
W34z3l's Walkthrough - Defending vs 3betters
W34z3l's Walkthrough - Can you Feel the Maths Tonight?
W34z3l's Walkthrough - Population reads
W34z3l's Walkthrough - 3-bet pots out of position
W34z3l's Walkthrough - Defending from the Blinds
W34z3l's Walkthrough Graduation - Live Zoom Session

Have a great day!

I am a big W34z3l fanboy, too. Also, the masterclass series is great.
Regarding mental game, I can really recommend Pete Clarke's podcast (while he is also a master in the technical part of the game).
Here is an awesome episode: https://carroters.podbean.com/e/98-henry-lister-on-gto-vs-exploitative/ (The mental game stuff starts at ~30 min in)

Originally posted by Pokrovec
Hi All,

yesterday I had the quickest session of my "career". In less than 70 hands I lost almost 3 BI. At least I was able to turn it off

The better news is that I was able to find all the videos from the W34z3l's walkthrough tutorial, which I found very useful!
Already I saw the first two
W34z3l's 6-max Walkthrough - Preparing For Takeoff
W34z3l's 6-max Walkthrough - You Raise, I 3-bet

Here is the complete list if you are interested (you can search for them in the video section, all are available for silver members):
W34z3l's 6-max Walkthrough - Preparing For Takeoff
W34z3l's 6-max Walkthrough - You Raise, I 3-bet
W34z3l's Walkthrough - Like a HUDless Chicken
W34z3l's Walkthrough - C-Betting and Planning
W34z3l's Walkthrough - Defending vs 3betters
W34z3l's Walkthrough - Can you Feel the Maths Tonight?
W34z3l's Walkthrough - Population reads
W34z3l's Walkthrough - 3-bet pots out of position
W34z3l's Walkthrough - Defending from the Blinds
W34z3l's Walkthrough Graduation - Live Zoom Session

Have a great day!

Yes yes,,, since I have silver status too now I am going to wach w34z3l too. On advice of Monte carlo and now you too!

Hey guys,

watched another two and I must say they are great!

W34z3l's Walkthrough - Like a HUDless Chicken
W34z3l's Walkthrough - C-Betting and Planning

When I will look at it for the second time I will also fulfill the homeworks. It looks like I can learn a lot also from that.

Have a great weekend ride!

"Hudless chicken" 🐔🐔🐔
Love it!

Terrible session yesterday. I was able to play y A-game, but only until river
I am not sure why, but I always turned off my head on the river and just pushed in the rest of my stack. At least I turned it off after I lost 2 BI due to bad decisions.

I was thinking about those decisions before I went to sleep and came up with a possible solution (at least I hope it will work).
I will set for my self a session goal that I should focus on for the entire session. And of course at the end I will evaluate my performance.
Some examples would be:
focus on river decisions
focus on c-bet play
focus on 3bet play
...

That should keep me focused and hopefully prevent my big mistakes...
I am wondering, do you guys use any kind of session goal mindset strategy?

Today I will start my session with a goal in my mind: river play decision ...
Good luck at the tables!

Oh I am such a newbie. I did not know PokerStars allows players to run the all ins twice... I am going to turn it on asap. This will lower the variance, thus help me to till less!

What about you guys, what is your experience with it?

Originally posted by Pokrovec
Oh I am such a newbie. I did not know PokerStars allows players to run the all ins twice... I am going to turn it on asap. This will lower the variance, thus help me to till less!

What about you guys, what is your experience with it?

I don't use it myself except on GGPoker and then only when asked. I don't like it much myself, but the alternative there is "insurance", which is worse. Or just take your chances.

A lot depends on your equity, if you're way ahead, why bother?
Also if you're running it twice from the flop, you have to avoid opponents out s on both turn and river.

Have you checked out PokerStars' cash-out feature?

Cheers,
VS

Originally posted by Pokrovec
Oh I am such a newbie. I did not know PokerStars allows players to run the all ins twice... I am going to turn it on asap. This will lower the variance, thus help me to till less!

What about you guys, what is your experience with it?

It's always a pleasure when you are the underdog and you hit your outs not only once, but twice

Originally posted by VorpalF2F

Originally posted by Pokrovec
Oh I am such a newbie. I did not know PokerStars allows players to run the all ins twice... I am going to turn it on asap. This will lower the variance, thus help me to till less!

What about you guys, what is your experience with it?

I don't use it myself except on GGPoker and then only when asked. I don't like it much myself, but the alternative there is "insurance", which is worse. Or just take your chances.

A lot depends on your equity, if you're way ahead, why bother?
Also if you're running it twice from the flop, you have to avoid opponents out s on both turn and river.

Have you checked out PokerStars' cash-out feature?

Cheers,
VS

Hmm, that cash-out feature is even better for lowering the variance. But I assume it will also kill all the fun... I am going to try that, if I understand it correctly, it will be useful to not get a heart attack when too deep getting AI pre flop

Right now I can really use all the help I can get. I am getting buried alive

So cash-out is not available for the client in my country. Anyway, I was able to play 3 sessions today which sounds great, but the results are not

What's even worse, that I can't really blame it on bad luck.
It looks like the biggest issue is right now my river play where I am insta-calling obviously lost hands probably from frustration...
Hands like this one (this is a special one as the Turn play is already very questionable):

PokerStars - $0.05 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by Holdem Manager 3

MP: $6.52 (130.4 bb)
CO: $3.16 (63.2 bb)
BTN: $9.25 (185 bb)
SB: $5.00 (100 bb)
BB: $6.87 (137.4 bb)
Hero (UTG): $6.59 (131.8 bb)

SB posts $0.02, BB posts $0.05

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.07) Hero has K♠: K♥:
Hero raises to $0.15, MP calls $0.15, 4 folds

Flop: ($0.37, 2 players) 6♣: 3♠: 2♣:
Hero bets $0.23, MP calls $0.23

Turn: ($0.83, 2 players) 5♣:
Hero bets $0.60, MP calls $0.60

River: ($2.03, 2 players) J♠:
Hero bets $1.46, MP raises to $5.54 and is all-in, Hero calls $4.08

Results: $13.11 pot ($0.54 rake)
Final Board: 6♣: 3♠: 2♣: 5♣: J♠:

MP shows 4♦: 4♥:: (Straight, Six High)
(Pre 19%, Flop 24%, Turn 98%)

Hero shows K♠: K♥:: (One Pair, Kings)
(Pre 81%, Flop 76%, Turn 2%)

MP wins $12.57

There's not much else to write about it. I need to figure out a way out.
Good luck at the tables and have a great Sunday!