Deco's Thai Cash Thread

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I'm 24 from Liverpool in the UK. I've been playing poker fulltime since leaving university 1year ago. I've been playing 100NL since the dawn of time as I get crushed every-time I try my hand at 200NL. I guess the aim of this thread is to move up and stay up.

I'm moving to Thailand in a weeks time so this will be a trip report thread as well as contain my cash game results, what I'm doing to improve and probably a bit of me geeking out talking about video games.

I'm trying my hand at zoom this month as I lack the screen space on a laptop to put lots of tables, table selection software and so on. This is my first week, very low volume, lots of sun-running.

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I'm normally fairly high volume, I don't grind many tables but put in a lot of hours. Preparing for Thailand, and setting up a new laptop have slowed me down somewhat.
 
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Here are some interesting hands from yesterday:

One is me accidentally value towning jack high. This would belong in the thread of shame had I not somehow won. I think the river is solid as villain is unlikely to have ace high whilst I can have it, the turn is me just getting pissed with this guy floating me so wide and telling myself I'd do the same with AA.
poker stars $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players
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BTN: $335.35
SB: $108.39
BB: $78.50
UTG: $250.93
MP: $102.73
Hero (CO): $129.05

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is CO with J:spade: T:club:
2 folds, Hero raises to $2.50, BTN calls $2.50, 2 folds

Flop: ($6.50) 7:spade: 8:heart: 7:diamond: (2 players)
Hero bets $4.10, BTN calls $4.10

Turn: ($14.70) 7:club: (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $11, Hero raises to $33, BTN calls $22

River: ($80.70) 7:heart: (2 players)
Hero bets $51.41, BTN calls $51.41

Final Pot: $183.52
BTN mucks 8:diamond: 9:club:
Hero shows J:spade: T:club: (four of a kind, Sevens)
Hero wins $180.72
(Rake: $2.80)


The other is me accidentally 4betting KJ (was a bluff) for value 150bb deep. Didn't notice I was deep at the time, not sure I like the 4bet anymore, postflop was pretty standard.

Poker Stars $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players
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BTN: $48.30
Hero (SB): $145.99
BB: $350.56
UTG: $60.50
MP: $135.67
CO: $913.39

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is SB with J:heart: K:club:
4 folds, Hero raises to $3, BB raises to $9, Hero raises to $20, BB calls $11

Flop: ($40.00) 4:spade: J:diamond: 5:club: (2 players)
Hero bets $12, BB calls $12

Turn: ($64.00) 9:diamond: (2 players)
Hero checks, BB bets $28, Hero calls $28

River: ($120.00) 2:club: (2 players)
Hero checks, BB bets $290.56 all in, Hero calls $85.99 all in

Final Pot: $291.98
Hero shows J:heart: K:club: (a pair of Jacks)
BB shows T:diamond: K:spade: (high card King)
Hero wins $289.18
(Rake: $2.80)
 
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The more I look at it the more I hate my play with the JT, the bizarre thing is it's probably a check/call and I've turned my hand in to a bluff.
 
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In and GL. I have a friend in Krabi, so if you are that way........
 
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Have you read about Thailand WVH? It's supposedly paradise with easy women. Can't wait to go there myself. GL Deco. Post pictures when you arrive please.
 
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In and GL. I have a friend in Krabi, so if you are that way........

I'm starting off at Bangkok for a week then getting a house in Chiang mai. Might do some travelling though.

Why Thailand?

It's packed full of poker players I've arranged to stay in a house with other grinders on 2+2, good weather and everything is dirt cheap. I want to get some travelling done whilst I'm single, without a career and able to make a decent living off poker. I originally had canada lined up but I'd heard bad things about the winters and weren't sure I could get insured.

Have you read about Thailand WVH? It's supposedly paradise with easy women. Can't wait to go there myself. GL Deco. Post pictures when you arrive please.

Will do I'm quite big on photography.
 
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First of all, IN!!!!

second of all,good luck. (graph looks alright)


3rd of all, THAILAND IS AMAZING!!! your so lucky man. where you gonna be? in bkk or some island?

P.S: ive been to thailand like 6 times. Great islands. Paradise on earth. Best place i've ever been to.
 
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In I guess. Bout time to realize how much further I can go in poker, and staying on this thread seems a good way to do that :) Post moar hands imo.
 
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Cool I myself would prefer Canada or somewhere nice, I wouldn't mind the cold I like it, I would go probably for mexico if I was looking for a cheap place that I like but Thailand ain't bad either, Good Luck gonna keep track of your progress and I would love to learn more about higher stakes cash games than I am used to playing
 
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You ever try 200 NL ZOOM ?

Good luck and have fun in thailand I have heard a lot of great things about thailand very fun and inexpensive.
 
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Should be a good follow, always nice to see how the higher stakes grinding goes for fellow cc members. GL with it all
 
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Can I come visit near the end of the year?
 
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outstanding life plan! good luck to you! will check the thread out on the reg! how tough are you finding 100nl zoom? def an option for me.
 
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Cool I myself would prefer Canada or somewhere nice, I wouldn't mind the cold I like it, I would go probably for Mexico if I was looking for a cheap place that I like but Thailand ain't bad either, Good Luck gonna keep track of your progress and I would love to learn more about higher stakes cash games than I am used to playing

Ye I was going to go to Alberta but heard I'd be best going during the summer as the Rockies would be inaccessible and the town would be dead.

Mexico's defo on my agenda, both there and Canada have really appealing time zones for playing poker. Peak times are 9 to 5 pretty much. Thailand's meant to be awful time zone wise, but meh the cheapness should make up for it.

First of all, IN!!!!

second of all,good luck. (graph looks alright)


3rd of all, THAILAND IS AMAZING!!! your so lucky man. where you gonna be? in bkk or some island?

P.S: ive been to thailand like 6 times. Great islands. Paradise on earth. Best place i've ever been to.

Staying a week at bkk then getting a house down in Chiang Mai for at least a month, will probably finish with a bit of travelling towards the end then come back home for Christmas. Take it from there whether to go back to Thailand, travel somewhere else or stay in Liverpool if the poker gods have been cruel to me.

You ever try 200 NL ZOOM ?

Good luck and have fun in thailand I have heard a lot of great things about thailand very fun and inexpensive.

Nah, will hopefully be trying it soon.
Would much rather bumhunt regular games when I take my next shot at 200NL but using a laptops limiting me to zoom.

Can I come visit near the end of the year?

Defo. Just let me know on skype when's good once I'm moved in.

outstanding life plan! good luck to you! will check the thread out on the reg! how tough are you finding 100nl zoom? def an option for me.

I think the games are tougher in the sense I can't table select. The vast majority of hands I play appear to have no fish at the table. However the quality of reg is worse imo. The laggy regs are very spewy, most regs are super nitty (I can talk), and most fishy regs are incredibly bad postflop, I think alot of the 25/12 sorta players I wouldn't normally bother sitting with would be fish at regular tables but the quick fold button has tightened them up.

This is me just rambling though, I've only spent 10K hands here as of today.
 
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Speaking of spew this hand blew my mind. I really had to tank before calling this so maybe it weren't so bad on his part as I think I played my hand face up by not c-betting the flop.

Poker Stars $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players -

Hero (BTN): $128.28
SB: $100.50
BB: $106.89
UTG: $78.89
MP: $192.90
CO: $199.70

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is BTN with A :spade: K :spade:
2 folds, CO raises to $3, Hero raises to $9, 2 folds, CO calls $6

Flop: ($19.50) J :spade: 2 :diamond: 8 :club: (2 players)
CO checks, Hero checks

Turn: ($19.50) K :heart: (2 players)
CO checks, Hero bets $10, CO calls $10

River: ($39.50) 8 :diamond: (2 players)
CO checks, Hero bets $24.90, CO raises to $180.70 all in, Hero calls $84.38 all in

Final Pot: $258.06
Hero shows A :spade: K :spade: (two pair, Kings and Eights - Ace kicker)
CO shows K :club: Q :diamond: (two pair, Kings and Eights)
Hero wins $255.26
(Rake: $2.80)



I figured my hand looked very much like AK but would anyone really risk bluffing me off it? Was very hard pushed to find any bluffs or value hands villain could do this with. I'd expect 22/88 to checkraise or bet turn, 8x there's only A8s/89s for a total of 3combos. For air I think his QTs/T9s bets the turn.

Ended up just looking at villains really high raise c-bet% and made a somewhat tilted call hoping he'd turned TT or Jx in to a bluff did not expect KQ. I think I should be c-betting the flop or checking back some of my air there as my checkback range is completely unbalanced to {AK,JJ}.
 
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nice to see a real cash thread on CC finally :)
 
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Normally i'd agree with the continuation bet but because you checked the f lop it made him feel he had the best hand on the turn which would've been your goal and so hard to do after c-betting. Although he may have put you on 10's -QQ's but looks like a pretty hand :)
 
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Going to play around with widening my BB vs UTG/HJ Flatting ranges today. I've been trying to adjust my defending ranges based on someones opening% regardless of their position lately. It seems a bit strange how my flatting range vs a nitty 3x 16% CO open would be far wider than a 16% UTG open when the two scenarios are identical.

Up until now I've just been flatting {88-TT,AQo} and 3betting {suited broadways, QQ+,AK}. I'm going to try the range below, hopefully the bottom of that range can bring in a profit and having a wider range should ease my fears of being easy to read in these spots. Every hand in this range has >40% equity and I just need 30% to call a 3x open but realizing that equity is another matter so it's not a very good way to gauge what I should call with. I'm a bit worried this range is a bit too loose?

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I'm not really sure whether we could tell you Deco. The realisation of our equity, along with our postflop playability is going to be highly affected by how our opponent plays. I think having a standard range is probably best but we should be able to deviate from it depending on our understanding of the villain.

Maybe have a range that you are comfortable with as a baseline, then you can widen/tighten according to how well attuned you are to the villain's play. Obviously the more information you have, the more accurate the estimation you can make of your edge in the given scenario with using your baseline range. Then adapt that range accordingly.


I might just be rambling though.
 
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Maybe have a range that you are comfortable with as a baseline, then you can widen/tighten according to how well attuned you are to the villain's play. Obviously the more information you have, the more accurate the estimation you can make of your edge in the given scenario with using your baseline range. Then adapt that range accordingly.

Ye that's pretty much what I do. I've got dozens of these ranges saved in equilab. Makes it handy for any postflop analysis I do as I've all my ranges saved and when it comes to 3betting I do the maths to make sure the range is balanced so until I adjust to play exploitative I can be safe in assuming I'm not being exploited myself.

I'm probably really over the top with this stuff but it helps make my decisions preflop a bit easier. When I used to just wing it when coming up with ranges I found I weren't adjusting my range anywhere near enough in fear of being extremely unbalanced, having a baseline made adjustments a lot easier as I'd have a very solid idea of what the top of my folding range and the bottom of my calling range looked like.

Now I'm rambling :eek:
 
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Ye that's pretty much what I do. I've got dozens of these ranges saved in equilab. Makes it handy for any postflop analysis I do as I've all my ranges saved and when it comes to 3betting I do the maths to make sure the range is balanced so until I adjust to play exploitative I can be safe in assuming I'm not being exploited myself.

I'm probably really over the top with this stuff but it helps make my decisions preflop a bit easier. When I used to just wing it when coming up with ranges I found I weren't adjusting my range anywhere near enough in fear of being extremely unbalanced, having a baseline made adjustments a lot easier as I'd have a very solid idea of what the top of my folding range and the bottom of my calling range looked like.

Now I'm rambling :eek:

I think its probably a good thing to be "over the top" with this type of analysis and is something im trying to work on as well instead of being like meh yeahhh its probably fine to call here or 3bet there.

Would you care to share what scenarios you're looking at? Ive only started looking at steal spots like BTN v SB/BB and SB/BB.


Subbed! GL Deco
 
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Alberta hey...

Tons of great paying work there if ya go busto. . ..

lot of my friends moved up there after high school.
 
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