Poker_Cam

Like with the A8s just fold pre in these marginal spots, you’ll save yourself a lot of hassle whilst learning postflop and also save a lot of money at the same time. You just get into too many tricky situations post that are unnecessary.

On a side note - if you’re exhausted from studying and playing just take a break. You’re not doing yourself any favours watching video after video and then going back playing. Chose one topic to focus on (Start from preflop basics, calling ranges, 3betting ranges etc as you still have numerous leaks here) and just take a good couple of weeks to perfect it. By rushing though loads of content you’re not going to be helping yourself in the long run

AQs can be getting value from 3 streets, agree you’ve missed a lot of value there.

A4o just call, 3betting is fine once your post flop game improves, but stay away from marginal spots pre when you’ve still got huge leaks in your post flop game - just asking for tricky situations in inflated pots.

A8s agree should just be a fold. Same principle applies as above, fold marginal hands, move on and avoid tricky spots post.

I’d probably just stick to 2.5x from all positions other than SB where you can mix in some 3x.
I think from early or mid positions the extra fold equity you generate from opening bigger is marginal anyway so just stick to one size and then you have less thinking to do in game

I'd avoid sitting down at the table with a specific session length or profit in mind as you'll just end up getting frustrated when you don't hit these sorts of targets.

I aim to take a break roughly once an hour and just do a quick mental check; am I still making good decisions, not tilted, not tired etc. Some days I'll get half an hour in and I'm just not feeling it or playing bad and starting playing looser, in which case I'll just cut the session there. So my session lengths are all based around my mindset that day and how well I'm playing - if you're playing well and up 10 BI's why stop?

Swings are inevitable and yes 5-7 BI swings will happen fairly often, I'd prepare yourself for much bigger ones if you're really putting in volume.

I've read your previous post which I think you're referring to and I think you may be causing a problem for yourself without realising...

Can't speak for everyone, but personally against 3.5x opens I play 3B/fold only (I do adjust for some players, but without reads I don't bother with a flatting range). There isn't any need to be opening so big, you can easily get away with 2.5x or less from EP's and you might find people are flatting a bit more and not 3betting as much.

You're also hitting flops with 1bb less invested each hand, which over your large sample of bad flops is a decent amount of money to be saving yourself.

I agree iso is standard vs limping range.
Majority of time players who limp from early position are underfolding and continuing with a much weaker range (a lot of which we dominate w/ KQ).
As maco said he showed up w/ Q6s OOP in a 3B pot so can expect villain to be continuing with any suited Kx, Qx - all of which we dominate.

I like the line, but as you said I think definitely go bigger with the turn raise and then I think pot/overbet the river - just put as much pressure as possible on his weaker pp’s.

You have a stronger range on this sort of board and are repping strong as well so villain shouldn’t be calling down wide

We’re gonna have to agree to disagree here. You’ve had plenty of advice from some very good players but are refusing to listen to any of it or review any of the leaks in your own game. If it upsets you that much playing or if you think you can make more money else where, you’d be way better off doing just that. Leave everyone else be and let us get on with playing a game which we enjoy playing.

At the end of the day if you’ve come here to make some quick money you’ve picked the wrong incentive to start with

But that’s exactly the point, you shouldn’t be sitting around waiting for AA...

You wonder why people are only ever showing up with the nuts against you, but you’ve answered your own question right there

I mean you’re wrong on multiple parts there, the game definitely does not remain unpopular.

If you think this is a game of pure skill you’re definitely in the wrong game. Look at it as a business model rather than on a session basis, do you think casino’s make money every night? If they did no one would go back there. You need to put in the volume and understand variance, which I think may be above your intellectual level to understand.

Personally I wouldn’t bluff here. From my experience I’ve found people who limp/limp behind in pots call down way too light when they hit any part of the board - obviously good when we want value, but bad for bluffing

Not to be the person to doubt your claims, but if you “earned over $175,00 in three months” why are you letting a 2 buy in ($20 loss) have any impact on you? I wouldn’t class 2 buy-one as a downswing tbf, if you play a high enough volume you’ll experience 2 buy in losses near enough daily during your sessions.

I think you just need to accept poker isn’t for you and move on seriously

Not very aggressive - over 196 hands VPIP 16, PFR 8, but like maco said the donk sizing otf just shouldn't be a thing which was why I called twice.

Dude I think you need to attend some anger management classes or something - getting this het up constantly when you loose a pot won't be helping you poker game nor your health.

20bb/100 isn't really a sustainable win rate anyway over a large sample size. Need to learn to take the losses and just keep playing. There'll be multiple times you've hit a set against an over pair and GII - we never see these pots posted on here, just the ones you like to moan about where 'the site is rigged'. If its rigged, stop playing on it and stop coming here to moan.

Probably a leak, but I tend to just bet high card heavy boards when in EP vs BB's range.

How would you size? Midway like $1.70 ish, or closer to $2?
Couldn't really go much bigger with SPR could we?

Thanks both. Seems my thought process in these situations was completely flawed, so glad I asked the question.

Interesting to know how how tight we should be calling in these situations also, definitely not something I've been doing as I'd likely play weak pairs in these spots and look to set mine - so will definitely be re-thinking that strategy when these situations occur.
Think I've being viewing multi-way pots incorrectly as I've just seen it as better odds to call into and thus widened my range. But like you've mentioned definitely not the case as villains ranges will be way stronger when flatting.

Definitely going to have helped with my thought process in the future so thanks for your help.

With regards to the hands I mentioned, I called both the JTs and KQo and played post. Squeezed the KTs and ended up seeing a flop 4-way... not ideal at all.

Jamming turn in this spot isn't something I've played around with too much, but I do like the thought behind it. Think it's something I'll look into.

Depends on sizing as to whether we're calling anyway and can put us in a worse situation loosing $20/$30/$40. At the time I led towards blocker betting, but not sure if it was just too weak of a bet.