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I'm playing 2/4nl depending on the site, primarily 6max. Obviously looking to work my way up the limits but most importantly right now improve and plug some already huge leaks I know I have primarily dicipline in folding when draws get there and tilt.

I recently (past 2 days) reread Crushing the Microstakes again, this time more on doing some study of it regarding ranges and playing a solid game. Just trying to force some fundamentals into the 2nd nature catagory and also have on the list of reading materials The Math of Holdem (the colin moshman book) to study more on the math side of things eventually.

Anyhow trying to follow BRM as strict as possible but some br's arn't exactly rolled for the 25bi, shot take at 20bi of next level, drop back on a 5bi loss I'd like to follow. Playing less tables than ever to help with focus and improving, max of 4 reg, or max of 2 rush/zoom. Currently either 4 reg or 1 rush/zoom.

I plan to post hands where I hope to get some feedback, will copy a post shortly from my goals thread where I had originally been posting them but figured if I'm going to do this the cash section of the forum would be a good spot to get the most traffic.
 
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Tried to copy the hands from my goals thread but hh format got all f'd up so instead I'll link in the post.

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I know what you mean about copying the hands. All suits go black, etc? Gotta get 'em directly off of PT4 again if you want to post them here.

I'll def. try to get to them soon, but hopefully you're not left relying on my input alone (for your sake :p)
 
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Hand 1 (AQ): Looks okay. I would like a flat, even though he's short stacked (it's still half a stack), but this worked out particularly in your favor this time as he couldn't get away from it once the ace hit.

Hand 2 (48): Fold pre. Play these hands with position if you're going to mix them in. As played, represent king OTT and make that your last bullet as opposed to checking and betting the river.

Hand 3 (AK): Raise 5x PF, imo, and I generally bet small. x/c x/c, imo.

Hand 4 (AK): I think it's okay 100%.

Hand 5 (44): Check flop. Evaluate.

Hand 6 (KK): Looks fine, imo.

Hand 7 (KJ): River's a pretty easy fold, but it's a pretty okay hand, imo. I just would've liked to control the size OTR, so I think bet/fold is the line to take there and you can keep your losses to 15bb instead of 24bb.

Hand 8 (77): I'm not going to look at the results and guess BB has KK/AA. I can fold PF to his 3bet if I don't have either of these hands myself pretty much every time. Even if I feel like set mining, it's a fold OTF, imo.

I definitely wanted to get the answers on this thread since it's dedicated to your cash game grind. Sorry if it confuses things.

EDIT: Couldn't help it, had to look at Hand 8. Nailed it. :p 3bet stat on BB is 2%; the size of the 3bet in this case is irrelevant.
 
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No confusion this is where I was hoping people would comment on those hands. Thanks, I'll have a look later as have to run out for an apointment now.
 
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Looked over your hands, all fine I think except:

Hand #2: Fold pre. Open this from BTN only.

Hand #5: Yeah I check that flop.

Hand #7: I probs raise his horrible flop bet to find out where were at and gain a bit of control since were OOP.

Hand #4 is just LOL... Played it fine and love that you rivered him as well.

Lookin' good though!

Good luck!
 
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In!!!! Good luck Dave!!!!

Just saw you at rush btw
 
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Have to agree re hand #2, when i read your comments i thought for some reason I was the btn but nope was sb and this is quite outside the range i should be stealing with from sb and that if I had any shot of taking the hand as played it would have been to continue on the turn and just shutdown if he called again.

welcome robbo and drazan, great to have some company itt.

Yup saw you as well sir on the rush table, hope things are going well although i see your still on the 50bb kick so guess it hasn't turned around for you yet?

Played a few hands last night, started two tabling the rush game as I feel I have been driving home the ranges I'm working with and will continue to do so with grinding the two rush tables as it will get in some volume and hopefully get the br building. Had a couple of hands tagged from the session will review this evening and see if they call for posting.
 
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Gl man, I'll be following
 
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hey buddy, Im in
what all sites you playing on?
you prefer reg ring or rush style?
since my party challenge wasnt going as good as planned,
Ive been zooming titan and 888, def easier
888 is sick easy so far, tripled my roll in only a few days:D
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welcome in mm and mic.

I play some on stars, 888, ftp, carbon, acr/bcp. Mainly excluding the acr/bcp though except when I'm on there for something else.

Always played reg style tables as rush style just swung too much in the wrong direction for me, although its great to get in hands and experience and I feel its somwhere that I could sit for a while on ftp now with being more focused and studying and working on my game. Besides with the intro of 2nl rush on ftp the reg tables were pretty dead last time i looked to play on them.

888 is quite soft, thing about there that sucks is the regular 2nl tables are all short can only buyin 50bb max but i have been cleaning up on them when i play. I hope I can soon cleanup on 2nl anywhere :D
 
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GL man!!

welcome and ty, I'll have to keep an eye out for ya on 888 as I know your grinding there now on 4nl where lately i have been taking a shot just running a single table now and then hoping to get out of the ss 2nl tables there but not exactly rolled for the 4nl one's with <10bi lol.
 
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Hi Dave
Hopefully I can give you some input. Im not following many threads at the mo.
Are you aware of John A's free material through the polished poker thread?
 
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Hi Dave
Hopefully I can give you some input. Im not following many threads at the mo.
Are you aware of John A's free material through the polished poker thread?

Hi Bruce, thanks for droppin in. Yeah I have probably read through most of his book at some points browsing sections of it and recently starting look at it in parts again and have perused many posts in the thread off and on as well.
 
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Hand 1
Generally I like some evidence that i'm in front before shoving in 50bb. Any pair in the BB and you are slightly behind for half a buy in and with no real idea if you are in front.
Absolutely no problem with flatting in position here with a strong hand like AQ, You could also 4bet 50bb is a fishy stack size at the micros. You won't win as much but it is lower variance.

Hand 3
Typical micros fish willing to call it down with 2nd pair
Mark him as a calling station for future reference and obviously no bluff barreling him.

hand 4
Looking at his stats he is an obvious fish, once he decides he is going to play he will call any preflop raise so make it bigger to isolate him properly and avoid the blinds coming along. You want this guy heads up in position.
Make it 10bb min if you have a powerhouse like AK.
Lucky in the end to hit the river he is never going away with the overpair.
The 1bb turn bet is a sign he doesn't know what to do and/or is still trying to draw cheaply. I like the turn call against him here he clearly has something and you still only have ace high at this point. He is giving you perfect odds to hang around so take them (small hand small pot). Trying to bluff these guys just doesn't work, you exploit their calling tendencies with punishing value bets like the previous hand.

Hand5
Spot on, check fold or one barrel check fold. Not many hands but his stats are 'reg status' already.

Hand 6
lmao 71bb shove to win the blinds with A4...only at the micros.
SB is a nit, they dont like getting it in without the nuts. Always calling with KK here but expect to lose occasionally when an ace comes.

Hand7
Against regs this is a 3 bet or fold spot, against fish I dont mind the call.
You played it passive and eventually hit a card.....difficult to put him on the straight but 2 pair is certainly likely.
Because fish are unpredictable you have to call down with top pair and sometimes you are going to lose one of these. ....KJ is the classic trouble hand even against fish....

Hand 8
I'm calling his silly little min raise only as its so small....., he only raises a good hand here, you are almost certainly behind. Hope for a flop and dont put in any more without a decent improvement.
 
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thank you very much for the insightful feedback bruce, much appreciated with the expansion you put on it...i know you mentioned a couple of times re stats on them but i was playing a little blind as my hud wasn't working during this session but have it up and running correctly with the rush tables now.

I have certainly been getting into tagging the players and even making some quick notes on them in odd hands like the guy with the QQ.

I know I have lots of work to do in regards to my cash game play but I feel like I'm at least getting a better grasp on some of my issues this time around and I'm sure I'll have lots of input from all you guys along the way as I post hands and such. Well time to do some grinding, bring on some weekend fishes :D
 
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welcome and ty, I'll have to keep an eye out for ya on 888 as I know your grinding there now on 4nl where lately i have been taking a shot just running a single table now and then hoping to get out of the ss 2nl tables there but not exactly rolled for the 4nl one's with <10bi lol.
I move up to 6nl now, so no worries to bump me on 4
 
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Will join in on the fun :) GL grinding cash sir!
 
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Good luck Dave I'll be following but not giving any advice as I stink at cash games.

I'm sure Stars has it out for me.




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I move up to 6nl now, so no worries to bump me on 4

+1, took a 1table shot at 6nl myself the other night just seeing what it was all about and think you may have sat for a bit and then left. I ended up stacking two fish in the same hand after and table died so I tucked that profit in my br and went back to mixing some 2/4nl lol.

I'm almost actually rolled @ 20bi for 4nl on there now after some decent 2/4nl sessions this weekend. Probably going to focus on 4nl completely as only being able to buyin for 50bb at the 2nl tables is driving me a little nuts.

Will join in on the fun :) GL grinding cash sir!

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Good luck Dave I'll be following but not giving any advice as I stink at cash games.

I'm sure Stars has it out for me.

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thanks nick, sounds like lots of room for improvement then with cash games as do I.........re stars yeah not fond of me either and think I'm going to focus my cash grind outside of stars probably 888 which is going well and is now a much bigger roll than my stars (where I'm -48$ but only -2$EV over like 8k hands, small sample and took some harsh beats at deep tables but gotta rebuild the roll before I can take on that cash game variance again blah)

In, GL Dave!

thanks rif.


Going to try and post up some hands I flagged over the weekend come this evening before I get into any grinding, gotta have a 2nd look at them and see which ones i flagged to want to post :D

Hope the feltz are treating you all well.
 
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Well, what can I say...Good luck, Dave!
 
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