Resilence

Good job! Homework #2 Done!

Totally agree with you about the stealing ranges. They can be very easily be balanced with even wider range. Depending on the opponent you can as well put a wider stealing range. Against some tight opponents who give up their blinds either preflop or postflop, why not to adjust? Against some shorties you can even steal with smaller raise, for example 3xBB. But don't overdo the stealing situations. Sometimes you might just put yourself into too many difficult spots if opening with marginal hands.

Not sure if the Ace-High to Middle Kicker takes into account that if they are suited they are somewhat stronger, but I guess they are played the same preflop?

They are definitely stronger. Especially those Ax high suited hands. They have bigger equity against any range. But according the chart they might be played a bit differently and not put that much effort into it cause it might be difficult to play with them postflop. You may face a lot preflop/postflop trouble with them and especially if you are OOP. SHC just teaches you the basics so you would get to know with preflop/postflop and when you are ready you will find out it yourself when to loosen up.

And nope, you ain't cheating if you using Equilab, that's the idea of the task to download equilab and use it.

About Question #3:

       Equity     Win     Tie
UTG    46.32%  37.92%   8.41% { AKo }
UTG+1  53.68%  45.27%   8.41% { 88+, AJs+, KQs, AKo }

Next time I'll make the question in bold and the answers in normal, hows that?

Both suit for me. Just point out which homework it is and you can even just put Question 1: and answer.

Hopefully you enjoy the Course so far.

Question 1:

Preflop:

       Equity     Win     Tie
MP2    50.78%  50.40%   0.38% { KsQs }
MP3    49.22%  48.84%   0.38% { 3d3c }

Flop:

Board: J♠5♦3♠
       Equity     Win     Tie
MP2    26.46%  26.46%   0.00% { KsQs }
MP3    73.54%  73.54%   0.00% { 3d3c }

Question 2:

First we have to calculate our pot odds versus our odds to make our hand.

(pot is 0,25 + 0,22 (hero bet) + 0,44 (BU Raise) + 0,22 (cost to call) = 1,13 divided with cost to call (1,13 : 0,22) = 5,13
Turn pot odds = 5,1:1

(46 unknown cards - 17 that can help me = 29 that can't help me : 17 that can help me = 1,706)

11 clubs 3 aces 3 jacks = 17 outs = odds 1,7:1 = call

However he could have 3 of a kind so the aces and jacks should properly be discounted?
In which case we only have 11 outs giving us the odds of 3,5:1
Seeing the odds are still lower than the pot odds we should still just call, he is giving us rather good odds to continue.

Question 3:

Comming soon, tired spend all day studying poker
And I need a new hand to post and I can't figure out what to ask right now

Link to an evaluation I did today 02-04-12
NL2 7s7c against loose
NL2 KdTs BB slowplay
NL2 JcTc

I'm guessing my postflop play was ok there?
However I do tend to get into trouble when having three of a kind, I don't know, it feels like I get blinded by the fact that I have a rather good hand, and not willing to put it down when theres a FD possibility etc.
I also think I should fold more pairs then shc tells me, I've gotten into alot of trouble with 55 and lower?

I also tend to play rather loose, when entering a table, is there a method so to speak where you can stop this and just play TAG instantly? doesn't really matter wheater I loose or win but takes about 30-40mins before I play TAG´.

Hope I am right so far, and yes still enjoying the course.

Damn It feels like shit when you've lost 2 buyins in a single day, and every hand just seems to be against you, really felt like titan poker was rigged today

I'll relax a little untill the coaching, maybe you can cheer me up

Just needed to get it off my chest

and once again thx for all the advice, hope they stick soon

Atleast I got my 4th 10$ out of the 50$, because of the points I got today

Litle update just wanted to say that I won some of my buy in back in tournament this evening 1,5 buy ins I fininshed 68 out of 600ish ppl so a bit happy again
But it was properly nothing I guess, was just a freeroll

Good job! Homework #3 Done!

About Question #1:
Preflop Equity:

Equity Win Tie
UTG 50.78% 50.40% 0.38% { KsQs }
UTG+1 49.22% 48.84% 0.38% { 3d3c }

Postflop Equity:

Board: J♠5♦3♠
Equity Win Tie
UTG 26.46% 26.46% 0.00% { KsQs }
UTG+1 73.54% 73.54% 0.00% { 3d3c }

About Question #2:
There are several occasions on turn:
a) If we take just odds for the FD and we take into account that all our odds are clean. Which means:
Total Pot = $0,91 ; We have to Call = $0,22 -> According to that it means we are getting ~4,16:1 odds. For flushdraw we would need 4:1. Which tells us that we are getting perfect odds.
b) If we consider the opponent having sets here:
Which means we have to discount outs, for example 6:c and also 3:c. Which means we have 7 clean outs so that means we need 6:1 odds. That tells us that we need ~$0,41 on river to make it profitable. If we expect the opponent being loose enough and being able to pay us no-matter what then we can do the Call here properly.
c) We might even have overcards as outs or even 4 as a out:
Although this kind of situation ain't that likely. I'd rather discount that one and either pick a) or b). Most likely towards Call.

Yeah, sometimes you have such crappy days where you just lose confidence in your game. But that's just poker, we have to get used to it. Any better now?

You are doing great progress, keep going!

Question 1:
NL2 KcTs
Not terrible proud of this one, but atleast I had the initiative.

Question 2:
KTo 18.04.
Tried to evaluate his hand, but really hard when it's someone you considder really good, and I propperly did bad evaluating it, but atleast I tried (just need to be less shy about it I guess)

Question 3: You are on the flop with K♠Q♦. The board cards are J♠, 9♣, 8♥, and your opponent holds 7♣7♥. What is your equity in this spot?

Board: J♠9♣8♥
       Equity     Win     Tie
UTG    41.41%  41.41%   0.00% { KsQd }
UTG+1  58.59%  58.59%   0.00% { 7h7c }

Gimme a tell when you updated your thread.

Updated, with a little more info

Good job! Homework #4 Done!

This weeks homework was a bit easier. But the idea of that is to help you go through last weeks stuff if you didn't go through everything. Or either way maybe even read some more articles, watch some videos and of course attend in the coaching. What will also help for your game is the evaluation part of other members hands and of course posting your own hands.

If you have interests you could try calculating the equity with a formula which you can use even on tables(either playing online or live poker):
(Amount of outs x 4) – (Amount of outs – 8) = Your Equity

About Question #3:

Board: J♠9♣8♥
       Equity     Win     Tie
UTG    41.41%  41.41%   0.00% { KsQd }
UTG+1  58.59%  58.59%   0.00% { 7h7c }

Hopefully this wasn't too easy homework for you.

Question 1: Post a hand for evaluation where you have based your decisions on the stats of your opponents.

NL2 T6s

I'm still really bad at deciding, on stats, I usually still only use VPIP/PFR, and vs. fish's I'm really carefull when the board shows ranges from Qx+ hands or even low straights.
But really needed to get on with my homework, just hope I get better at it all

I havn't given up I'm just very carefull, and think maybe I'm not good enough

Question 2: Evaluate one of the hands submitted by other members.

Hate this part even more, I'm not qualified for this I think
It's really hard to evaluate a hand when it feel like they are all much better then yourself, but found one, where I poste my views on it a hile ago.
And you evaluate with such speed that it's usually hard to find one where you havn't been ad

Nl2 22

Question 3: Consider the following situation:
Ouch not sure I would have checked the flop, this confuses me
But as played, SB bet doesn't really indicate much, he would usually call with PP, suited conectors would be to loose for his range, I think. Him having JJJ is a bit doubtfull, he could have JT, But I think he would have betted the flop for protection.
BB is properly just calling because he wants to hit his draw.
What to do what to do, I think I would raise here! which mostlikely is the wrong move
hero has the flush, only beaten by a higher flush, four of a kind or full house. which is unlikely.
So I guess my answer is r/f and I might raise it a bit bigger than 3x (3.5x?) because of BB looseiness... (they are also not that happy to see the showdown, unless they have a hand they are both under 30%)

Hope I'm not way off maybe it's to hard for me, but gave it a go

Question 4: Consider the following situation:
If this was me I would donk bet, due to the fact I have overcards, but I think this is wrong
Correct way of actions might be to c/c depending on the odds he gives us.
He's sort of aggressive so he will mostlikely cbet the flop.

Jeeze I suck at this, but atleast I tried, give me your evuhl evaluation and lets get it over with, maybe it can help me, become better at analyzing my oponments which I really think I suck at

Hope it all sticks to my brain so I understand it soon hehe

Good Job! Homework #5 Done!

Don't worry if you make mistakes by evaluating other hands or either evaluating homework, from mistakes we learn. How else we should get better?

About Task #3
It's a very close decision: does protection or pot control weigh heavier here? Do you want to protect against hands like 3x or A:dx and K:dx? Or do you want to control the pot size and try to induce a bluff on the river in case there is no T, no J and no additional ♦?

Raise/fold is out of question - with the given pot size and the good made hand you have, it can't even be considered.

In case you decide to go broke, you can't really be blamed either. It's not a sign of weakness that the rather tight small blind decides to bet into two people here, though. I would say a call is to be slightly favored, while the many outs against you are annoying. The big blind who calls rather loosely speaks in favor of a raise/broke again. Both options are finally considered equal, which shows - all things considered - how close and full of variance these spots really are.

About Task #4
You've called pre-flop and then hit a good board. You basically have two choices now: either you assume that your opponent will go broke loosely or puts you on a bluff often and you thus check/raise - or you play check/call in the spirit of way ahead / way behind. The problem with the latter is that there are a lot of cards you don't want to see in the later course of the hand. All in all, it depends on your balancing as both lines make sense under certain circumstances.

A check/fold would be really pointless, of course. It's hard to say whether you should donk-bet here; donk/fold can be discarded as that would turn your hand into a pure bluff and your opponent would interpret this as weakness and start raising you out of flops with hands like AK/AQ/air. So, if you want to donk-bet, it has to be a donk/3-bet.

Good luck on tables and with the Course.

Jeeze it took along time reading for me this time, but guess it's good, I couldn't remember reading the article: "After the Flop: No One Has Initiative".
Unfortuneately I think I have to read it again a few times, it was really loooong, and I don't like reading to much, writing is ok, but can't learn much from writing I guess

Q1:
[FR] NL2 KJo

Took this one as it's a multiway, not much freeplay here, and it's a hand I'm gonna remember the hard way, really made me feel down to post it.
And made me wonder, should I start over have I even learned anything?

Q2:
I'll do that soon, just wanted to get to the hard questions, and getting on with the course.
Decided to let it out on MeAmor22, hope he forgives me

nl2 hero TT

Q3:
It's usually not a good thing when a calling stations starts to become aggressive, but at the same time, they don't need to hit much in order to think they are ahead.
I would considder folding, but two pairs, which are rather strong here, i'm not sure.
He could have AQ or other Ax hands, noone attacked the flop, I'm not sure if he would slowplay if he hit AJ type of hands.
Think I would call and c/c river. I wouldn't raise against him seems unwise with this type of player.
Why did it have to be the calling station
Then again my hand wont improve on the river, so would be calling against a bluff.
Did he complete a straigth KT, and do I belive his raise on turn, to be ahead of my two pair?