getting a foot in the door with cv gaps/poker is the hardest step imo. once you reach an interview stage they will most likely have made their decision on whether that matters to them or not.
Give recruitment firms a try but make sure u find a reputable one. they take more time to understand ur past and will then be able to find the right fit company to send u to.

the only option i dont like on the turn is trying to check/jam.

What do we do with $1200 back in stacks? -- gona start to prefer bluff catching at some point as we get deeper.

What do we do when  we bet, he flats and the river is an ACE? -- hate life. for me its going to be a judgement call on how sick he is. He should think an ace is a good card for you and that you will be snapping off any river bet (unless its ) since everything misses. Essentially a super bad card to bluff and its an easy fold if he bets..... unless he's really sick haha.

What do we do when we bet, he flats and the river is a total brick? im check calling

Bet $222 and he flats, river a 9? still liking the call, its too tempting a card for him to bluff.

I fucking hate online poker.

I get up log on, get slowrolled, hitNrun, grimmed, no-one starts games so most for the first 2 hours I'm 3 tabling £1/£2 $3/$6 and $5/$10 running like god at 1/2 and doing a buying every 15mins at 5/10 then abused in the chat, get really tilted quit for lunch then come back and do all again later. Head to bed wondering why the fuck I bother consoling myself that I'm getting some rakeback soon.

+1.

also people vastly over estimate their win rates on-line (everyone pulls 2bb/100 out of air like its a given) and the number of hands they will play (what online player really puts in 100k hands a month or even 50k? im sure many budget for it).

also most people have never seen true extremes of variance that happens with low (2bb/100) winrates and aggro enviroments online. Live downswings may be annoying but you're never going to get multiple 100 buy in downswings in a row or run 50buy in below ev in a month either (p.s. anyone thinking they are too good for these swings... GFY!).

the beauty of online poker used to be how pure it was. I could play just poker and be immersed in the game. Now if I want to compete with the majority I will need to have money across 5 different sites, spend hours each month  breaking down confusing bonus schemes, spend half my playing time checking for better tables, jumping from any game that looks like it will become bad, bumhunting people, grimming etc etc. I get to play more pure poker on a visit to a casino now.

Had some mixed opinions on the turn play so looking for some advice please.

Game is one if the best 2/5 games I've seen. Lots of calling and most people in the game don't seem overly concerned with the monetary value of pots.

Villain1 (seat has been sat for 3-4 rounds and bought in for £400-500.  He has run pretty good so far and played a lot if pots including limp calling with k7o etc so safe to say he has a wide starting hand range.
Villain2  (seat 1) thinks he's good and takes life way to seriously. He has a big ego.  He has yet to fold to any raise or 3bet pre and cold calls 3bets regularly, then stacking off when he hits any pair.

The game is 7 handed (seats 2 and 5 missing)

I straddle  to £10. Folds to villain 1 (playing £1400) on the button who attempts to raise but chucks in £15. This is take as a min raise to £20. villain 2 (playing £800) in the Bb calls. I cover both and find QQcd in the straddle and make it £100 to go. Villain 1 thinks for 10 seconds and calls, vill2 had already counted out his call befor I moved my 3 bet over the line and he insta calls.

Flop is 6s2s6d. Check, I bet £200 into £305 (hoping to valuetown pocket pairs befor scare cards come). Vill1 thinks for 20 seconds and calls. Vill2 sigh folds as usual.

Turn is . There is £700 in the pot. Effective stacks are £1100.

What's the best play? And if we bet what's the best sizing?

Cheers for any replies :-D

wow. seems hard to believe there hasn't been rumours of it leaked during negotiations.

If pokerstars pay back all players I would assume it buys a lot of favour with the DOJ. Come-on Stars!

In position I always 4bet even when so deep. Will be easy to pot control and so it is hard for an opponent to apply enough pressure such that you will be making huge mistakes by incorrectly folding post flop lots.
Overall we win lots of uncontested money once 4bet as most opponents will be on a fit or fold mission and not creative enough to just donk lead 3 streets or w.e. Just dont go crazy on bad boards and commit decent chunks in spots where your folding to raises lots. You wont win the hand all the time.

Also i like people not 3betting me so I'll 4bet any chance i get = D


If we knew someone who would pretty much only ever 5bet when holding the other aces, then by giving them the chance to 5bet we can exploit their unbalance(?) by peeling a flop and bluffing them off chops this deep.

Right well im no expert but ICM calculations can only be done when you are actually in the money so assume they are only relevent when you are in the money/on the bubble.  They are designed for sit and go's and later stages of MTTs.  A decision you make not to stick it in on a 50/50 in say level one of a tournament is not an ICM decision its about preserving your tournament life because you think better spots will arise later in the tournament (this is not what ICM is - ICM is making decisions based on the fact that chip equity does not directly correlate to $ equity).

To me they are sort of the same thing though - maybe I'm being thick, but we're folding 22 for our tournament life in level one because we our chip equity doesn't directly correlate to the $ equity. I.e. It costs £100 to enter, our cEV doesn't double to £200 when we double up, however it does = 0 when we bust.

Why can you not make ICM calculations when you're not in the money? You're chips always have a monetary value regardless of how many people left.

You're completely right imo. Even if you aren't in the money or near the money, if you have an edge then there can be a huge amount of value in just preserving your tournament life in super marginally +cEV spots and even spots that are +ICMEV can become folds if you have an edge and can likely find better spots

Yeh but maybe Keith's saying that's not strictly the same as ICM

icm is a fairly strict mathematical model based around payouts and chips in play. Guessing an edge and hypothesising that there will be a future, more +ev spot to exercise said edge is not scientific.

Purely ICM based answers are often wrong because of the 'preserve tourny life' stuff so they are not really the same. ICM doesnt care who any of the players are or if anyone has a skill edge.

on sabbatical from ipoker mate lol. will prob fire up again soon but i'm in love with the deep games on stars atm .... was waiting for you and cos to move up and give some liquidity back to the games anyway!! :-P

surely check jamming has more of a chance of getting people off a T and will pick off random stabs. dont think it matter that you wouldn't be able to balance much

Calling 4bets is usually fine with non Axxx hands that you decided to 3b with. It depends on your opponents 4b frequencies and stack sizes as there will be a cut off when SPR is too small to justify the implied odds of the times you will flop big. What you said about how to play them postflop is correct, donking out is best usually and in particular when you know you opponents range is quite small (i.e. they ARN'T also 4-betting AJQ10/rundowns and jamming flops that miss them when checked to).
Taking the initiative post-flop in these pots is most important in allowing you to protect your equity, e.g. when you flop bottom pair + FD - having the flop checked and the turn pairing the board means you go from flipping vs. Aces on the flop, to being a big underdog and probably priced out on the turn.

Yer. check jamming 1 pair with some sort of gutshot or a couple of backdoors can be fine in 3bet pots if you think there is fold equity but your not doin well against their range if they are calling 100% (altho this situation can't happen hu). Again depends on the opponents frequencies though so it's hard to say its fine or not in any circumstances. Its not fine if your opponents hand is likely to contain a lot of blockers or redraws though.... (c/jamming 5689dd on 5JQd is obv a disaster as your draw can be dead and also some of your 2pair draws can be dead; c/jamming on flush drawing boards would also be bad as if they have that FD then your buggered-> 5689dd on 25Khhd)

Unless stacks are ridiculously deep then you're usually priced in post flop with 1 pair and no draws in 4bet pots. Backdoors would just be a bonus. Axx flops are the exception, also when holding pairs in your own hand it will hurt equity. Going through loads of HH's and check out the odds with different board textures is the only way to master this stuff.

Playing 50plo hu i would recommend min opening 95% hands to start a match. Most people fold way too much and you can just win a lot of BB's without showdown. It also mean you are priced into loads of 3b pots which is good as people will play postflop oop v bad.
Being able to execute a stratergy of stealing loads pre flop is pretty sweet as 50plo the rake is huge (only rake pots with flops on most sites).  Obv if someone is a huge station and never 3bets then adjust etc.


IDK much about holdem stuff but inducing someone to flip with you seems bad (maybe sometimes they ship A2 or 33 but also sometimes they have 88-AA). I think i would rather just ship than do this. Having said that calling and folding vs different loose player types (aggro + not) also seems like not too big of a mistake.

isn't London the obvious answer as lots of good players move there

19biggs seems like a lot to be open shipping unless people play super exploitable (have bad calling ranges yet having very good re stealing strategies). I could be way off though.

Im guessing your min opening AA/KK/QQ to get action from people who have not noticed that you are shoving most of the time in this spot. I don't get why you want to min open AK though as it doesn't really play well on most flops. Or is the idea again based on peoples re-stealing vs calling shove tendencies being really skewed?

given its utg vs utg+1 and you dindn't say that hes a maniac (or he views you as one), I think the river is a call. Except for the odd stubborn AK, i'm not sure what he'd call the raise with and you're pretty much at/just below the bottom of you range to raise given the action.

once he re-raised i'd be far too tilted to fold :-D

in my experience when these un orthodox players bet this big on the river in polarising spot they usually want a call.bet smaller with like 5 secs thinking time and sometimes i'll call, fast or tanking then big bets and they ususally roll over something nutty

Barrelling is more fun than folding! But yeah do you play overpairs the same and shove the river or slow it down on the turn? I don't see there being many legitimate value combos we're really repping here otherwise tbh, basically all of our T hands are flats pre most of the time.

imo it would be a mistake not to value town people with an overpair on the turn.

having said that i think its a really bad turn and river combo to barrel with air and being super un balanced is fine. Unfortunately the 1/2pot, 1/2pot, 1/2 pot line needed in 3B pots (100bb deep) tends to keep people feeling like they are priced in way too much. If you have been restealing a lot form him there is a reasonable chance he may take a stand here with any pair by the time this river is flipped or have backed in to a strange float (if he wasn't trapping from the start). Lot of scenarios to dodge.

what skol said makes a lot of sense