J.J. Arroyo

Thats why there is a relation between high rake on micros and have a more aggresive BRM ?

Hey GameTheory can you explain me the rake stuff on microlimits?

200 to 3500 in 2 months? How?

I think he is protecting Tx OTT, but Ax and FD check hoping to get to showdown, the problem is that you are facing rarely trips there. So I prefer to call, and not get it in against a cooler.

The problem is that top range but now nutted hands are considered strong, but not relative to villian s range, I think applying playing with the intention of put the most money there work best against weak players or a previous read range, not unknown an likely zoom tight players like in this case, so playing tighter until we wait for more reads I think is a good strategy.

Hi man, had a very similar situation like you recently , same downswing in the same stakes, also some problems in college due to lack of orientation and reinforced by that failure , but I kept moving forward, and started thinking about the situation.

Now Im still in progress of prioritizing interests, and even realized that you should not let emotions drive decisions with direct consequences in the long run.

I realized how difficult can be to become that HS player that everyone dream being, in my case I want to become also that HS player, but when I started working on my game ( even I dont know if I am doing it right) I realize how fish I am and the fact that the players ahead of you keep working frustrated me ,because it would be wonderful to earn 10K a month after starting to play, but this doesnt work that way...

Even I dont know if I could find this motivation in the future, a huge downswing, a health or personal problem or even a regulation in my country, given that ,I try most to focus on working on my game and playing, and to think less on results ,consequences or dreams because in my opinion that only drain you energy to focus on the things that you really need to do to become what you want ...but I dont know even if my capacities and amount of work end up in becoming a low stakes reg, a rb pro, maybe a HS reg or nothing (maybe poker online dies in 2016 , by saying an example)

So my advice is focus, in what you really like to become, but also enjoy the process , dont drop your professional formation and base your whole future in something as dinamic as poker BY NOW, work hard and expect that this works give you the happiness and benefits, that improve your live in case of achieve it but not letting it getting worse when you fail. Im sure you will get to that pool party (and even invite all of us hehe), Im glad you read the advices of all of this great players and me,I hope you take the best decision, IMO the one that makes your happier.

English. Sorry for my bad Good bye.

Welcome!!

I think ftating against a std solid reg A7 is marginal, but if you are confident you can handle low coordinated flops and suited ones ,may work for non showdown spots I guess. (I suppose you had some reads =) )
I think OTT the overbet will be better for making fold pp, broadways and maybe strong overpairs, so OTR I dont you are pretty drawy and with no many strong hands to represent.

I dont like calling , even more after BB reraises. We may be blocking FD, but we will have a difficult decision even in Turn with a heart due to prrevious aggression, also being OOP and only capable of get it in with 2 outs. OTF if we call , there is BTN left which may reraise.

Yeah, but what's the principle of betting bigger each street? Giving him less odds and less percentage of hands to call? Am I right? And about showdown stats how do you interpret them? Thanks 

Agree with betting more Ott,  I like the idea of flat calling for not isolate me against better,  but my option of jamming didn't get discard at all. 

Maybe because of the GS and Oesd that may get open on the turn.

Why betting low?

I haven't read that one, only MGOP 1 & 2, but the important thing is to start working on those concepts, where I only have worked on grinding and now on focusing, despite of that I still have problems with injustice tilt,  I recommend you those ones because have some excercises that help you taking action 

Oh I didnt hide the results, sorry!! , but dont take it into account in your analysis.

Awesome Mr Sneeze thats my biggest leak, I ll try to use that method of focus when the situation comes, along with math work outside, but for this last one what do you recommend doing or how your work on leaks is?

Raphael what about Sao Paulo and Porto Alegre I want to move one day there to study a grade. How expensive is to live on those cities? I ve heard Sao Paulo is so expensive, so im more interested in Porto Alegre.

Im from Mexico, and there are many safe places I would like also to move to play when I earn more on poker, like the zones of Riviera Maya, Riviera Nayarit, some towns in Queretaro and Guanajuato, and Baja California Sur.

If you want to live in big cities like DF (where Im studying), Guadalajara, Morelia and Cuernavaca you have to be cautious about not going out at night on some places, but in DF (AKA Mexico City, the capital) you can find everything and some safe places in Coyoacan and Condesa Zone.

Feel free to PM if you want to know anything else :)

Nice job oblioo, I think that Zoom 500 its like the grinding pool of many HS regular in order to get volume of hands and bank for higher stakes. Zoom 100 and 200 are similar?

Which stakes you play man? Dont you get game dynamics and specific reads by being a short pool?

Nobody plays regular tables in "tile" mode?

Thanks again for posting !!! I started 3betting more, maybe I did this because I expect villian to fold a lot of their range and only keep hands that have me dominated, but their wide OR range remain wide for calling 3bets, maybe for nits dont apply always :(.

Totally agree on x/c high card flops, they are leading a huge % of the time, and checking turn if they didnt hit anything, and its a profitable float there with backdoors with Ax, and middle pocket pairs to bluff OTT, what do you think?

I think I should have planned by bet sizings the way I play it in a 3bet pot when I hit the TPTK in a drawy board, to get AI OTR, but now I look at my play like calling down a wide range that have hands that crush me so bad.

Thanks guys, in fact I am trying to play balanced against regular players, that dont have huge F3Bet, chose better spots to Cbet, and float or raise me lot OTF because maybe they have notice my high Flop Cbet, and low turn barreling when I call their FlopCbets, and waiting for me to barrel on bad chosen spots by myself and bluffcatch me.

That lead me to a game of a lot of player identification and if I have less than 100 hands, I only care about what type of player is, give him credit for 3betting and put attention if they are 3betting a lot, Cbet high card flops, kepp barreliing for value and when called I only continue barrelling with value hands and sometimes bluff catching I am very strong.

The thing I find difficult is when I Cbet OTF,against regs and get called, the villian check OTT and I miss, I feel weak to fold when I have no equity a lot, so I have to chose better my Cbet spots OTF; but sometimes I Cbet AJ+ JJ-QQ, which I have 3betted and on the flop missed or face a higher card and turn I dont have equity at all, how youconstruct a Cbetting range and check folding range?