"I 24 table play money to build up my bankroll"
"I'm just gonna time out to make it look like I have kings"
Funniest poker take i've seen anywhere you should all watch these vids search for gder01 on youtube .

And yeah he's the guy who advocates warming up on freerolls lol.

Just watch gder01's videos on youtube. Particularly his latest one on how to slowroll. Really is priceless advice.

Imo

Pot flop on bubble they raise with higher set 100% so then it's foldaments time. Pot blank turn if u get flat called. Be prepared to leave if u get flatted and a club shows up. Anyone liable to donk it with K7?

Pot pre pot flop pot turn pot river

Ignore this rubbish. Posting made it so clear. How this isn't in on flop I'll never know and there just isnt any other excuse. Post a good hand soon to compensate .

Donk

Donk

Great thread Totalise, utter respect for doing a cash game well.

When you were moving up what was the hardest level you found to beat and how did you adjust to this? I.E skip levels, shortstack, open up.

hi Alex, thanks a lot. Funny how its only been less then 2 years since this thread and yet the game has evolved a lot since. Most of the stuff in here still applies, but its clear how much more advanced the game has got.

initially i had problems with 2/4,  it was the first step (back then) with an even numbered whole figure small blind, 0.25/50...0.50/1.. 1/2.. and it really made it hard to figure out the best way to size the bets for some reason. 3/6 was probably a level i dint even beat, it seemed so big, $24 pre, called, pot $48, cbet, and a call, had the pot at $100 even before you saw the turn.... and because the pots were 3 figures so often, it was a difficult level to beat pshychologically.

The psychology of poker is something that isn't really studied enough imo, not the mind games, or the reading, or the different levels of thinking, just the emotional control of handing the winnings and most importtantly,  the losses. I actually mentioned this earlier, about the happiness of winning vs losing, ie losing $1k making you more sad then winning $1k makes you happy means you need a deeper roll,  and also a lot of people move up far too quick, basing it on their roll size rather then their mental ability to handle it. Winning 30 buyins in a month at 2/4 and they go to 3/6 and hope to maintain it, and they are probably winning players theoretically at 3/6, but losing 4 buyins there is almost $2.5k, and this is a loss that you dont often get at 2/4, so its important to ensure that you dont only move up in accordance with your bankroll, but with your mental ability to handle losing if you do move up. Most people convince themselves they can do it, but they dont spend enough time thinking about that aspect of it before deciding to move up I dont think.

That is so true and very well put. No matter what my bankroll, at the moment the swings of anything above 2/4 are just too much for me to a cope with. A 2 BI downswing at 2/5 affects me a million times more than 10+ at 50$NL. Ridiculous but I'm not going back till I've found a way to deal with it. Which may mean waiting until massively over-rolled.

I prefer check/raise or check/call to bet/fold here. You have a bad stack size considering 3opponents and ur strongish but possibly totally screwed holding, by potting it ur pretty much hoping all 3 fold or someone raises so you can have a really tough decision, so it isn't worth it. By c/ring u can probably get money in from hands like Q and other such rubbish. Bet/decisionaments ur more likely to win less from bad hands and be owned if you do get raised and decide to get it in, be opened up to bluffs and generally make mistakes. Am i making any sense?

[but i was in fear of losing my chips to the blinds as i was card dead...]

Admittedly the pre flop limp was lame, but i was in fear of losing my chips to the blinds as i was card dead...and i wanted to take a stab at a cheap pot with any half decent cards in the hope of making the flop....once the flop has come down.....my question pertains to the fact "Do you think i will get a better opportunity to treble up than this"....reasoning on the assumption that the range of hands they must have is gonna be low, i know if i hit im well ahead...it was a gamble i know......i was told i shud have waited for ace/king scenario and waited for push...however i feel sometimes spesh as this a low grade tourney its worth taking a risk or should u play ur game the same and regardless of what tourny ur in?...i am thank full for all feedback as i feel that it all helps...

With this hand more often than not you'll miss completely and you will lose your chips even faster than to the blinds, here you are happy to commit on a "good flop" for ur hand which has left u 8 high. Doesn't matter if you are card dead if you are pushing at least you have fold equity, no excuse to limp with 10bbs whatsoever imo. Mind you you're in great shape against 75.

Bet to fold to a raise? So ur bluffing with KK? Check, try and get some sort of read, if he checks we can keep pot small and maybe valuetown him on river/bluffcatch turn and reassess river. If we are getting value from pairs we should wait until later and keep pot smaller he has like 2 outs anyway and we don't want to open ourselves up to too many bluffs. However I never convince even myself when I'm posting anymore so that's probably a load of rubbish.

I really feel the majority of his range in this hand is gonna be made up of sets and 2 pair, making the push more questionable.

First one i've missed this week thank god for poker tube. Enjoy them usually one of the better shows out there. Bit annoying the majority of the show being standard pushbot sit n go poker; the interesting hands are towards the beginning! I guess for mainstream TV the big all in coups work better though. Would definitely have helped to be over 2 hours!

Surely his range is kinda super polairsed to two pairs or sets on the flop? Unless he sucks at playing flush draws or has 7c5c? If he plays them in this way on the flop isnt he calling to commit with a non scare card turn? I don't think AK AQ showup enough here to make bluffing him off them profitable. Will he give up A4 46 given the aggression you have now shown? If not what does pushing achieve? At the same time I like the line lol . Questioning myself too!