An Ape and a notebook, how long will it take?

[pleno1]

What? You got c/r ott by a fish..

What was the big rule of beating fish...

[lee h]

JC

follow this diary regularly.

Just reread your  very first post - including your 'aims' for the year.

Its nearly the end of the year - your assessment please?

lee

[TL900]

'pro month'

 

[jgcblack]

What? You got c/r ott by a fish..

What was the big rule of beating fish...

I know, I know.. but this guy isn't a massive fish, he's a regfish.  This was yet again another reminder that even with a decent really solid line a regfish still finds a bet/call with a weak tptk!  Whereas I'm finding a bet/fold with 3rd set.

This game makes my head explode sometimes.

JC
follow this diary regularly.
Just reread your  very first post - including your 'aims' for the year.
Its nearly the end of the year - your assessment please?

lee

Yeah I'm going to do that closer to the 31st purely because I still have some time to dent some of my goals.  I've definitely hit some, and I've missed some.  Gives me things to work on for next year.

'pro month'

 

I know mate, want to make the most of it.

[cambridgealex]

What? You got c/r ott by a fish..

What was the big rule of beating fish...

I know, I know.. but this guy isn't a massive fish, he's a regfish.  This was yet again another reminder that even with a decent really solid line a regfish still finds a bet/call with a weak tptk!  Whereas I'm finding a bet/fold with 3rd set.

This game makes my head explode sometimes.

This is what I don't get about you John.

This is one of the most important concepts in the whole of poker for me. And I'm not saying I got it straight away. It took me a few months and lots of money burnt to really grasp this concept. But now it's 100% second nature to me and has been for a while. It's totally alien in a way playing EPTs and WPTs with good players and being able to think about bluffing people off strong hands. It's just a totally foreign idea to me these days because it's just ingrained in me because of the amount of live poker I've played.

It's seem to take you a year of this thread, plus however many months/years you have been playing poker beforehand and you still haven't got this concept properly. If I've got KT on a T high board in a 3bet pot, there's just no conceivable way I'd ever even consider trying to get somebody to fold a better hand in a £1/1 or £1/2 game whatever it was. I'd be thinking about value betting, bluff catching, folding if necessary, and what the valet would look like naked. The thought of getting them off better wouldn't even cross my mind, so reading that HH kind of makes MY head explode a bit.

I know you'll say "I rarely do this / I almost never do this anymore" but the fact is you DO. Almost every session contains this phrase "there one one mini-blow-up" or "I never do this anymore but I just thought..." when really it should never ever ever ever EVER happen in live cash games or 10NL.

[jgcblack]

What? You got c/r ott by a fish..

What was the big rule of beating fish...

I know, I know.. but this guy isn't a massive fish, he's a regfish.  This was yet again another reminder that even with a decent really solid line a regfish still finds a bet/call with a weak tptk!  Whereas I'm finding a bet/fold with 3rd set.

This game makes my head explode sometimes.

This is what I don't get about you John.

This is one of the most important concepts in the whole of poker for me. And I'm not saying I got it straight away. It took me a few months and lots of money burnt to really grasp this concept. But now it's 100% second nature to me and has been for a while. It's totally alien in a way playing EPTs and WPTs with good players and being able to think about bluffing people off strong hands. It's just a totally foreign idea to me these days because it's just ingrained in me because of the amount of live poker I've played.

It's seem to take you a year of this thread, plus however many months/years you have been playing poker beforehand and you still haven't got this concept properly. If I've got KT on a T high board in a 3bet pot, there's just no conceivable way I'd ever even consider trying to get somebody to fold a better hand in a £1/1 or £1/2 game whatever it was. I'd be thinking about value betting, bluff catching, folding if necessary, and what the valet would look like naked. The thought of getting them off better wouldn't even cross my mind, so reading that HH kind of makes MY head explode a bit.

I know you'll say "I rarely do this / I almost never do this anymore" but the fact is you DO. Almost every session contains this phrase "there one one mini-blow-up" or "I never do this anymore but I just thought..." when really it should never ever ever ever EVER happen in live cash games or 10NL.

agree.

[jgcblack]

I did it again.

[cambridgealex]

I did it again.

<3 JB

[jgcblack]

I did it again.

<3 JB

Details tomorrow, but while the car heats up I'll summarise session.

- Turn up
- Play like an absolute nlhe genius
- Outlevel a blonde hero
- Win ££ and rub on titties
- Keep playing like a boss, value betting vs J high and folding vs big made hands
- Successful range merge with bottom two vs tptk
- Win more ££
- Play nothing for ages and watch degens degen
- Do a little back to the game
- Four handed 4bt pre   , cbet small to setup turn (just over pot) shove vs SAME villain as yesterday with   board.
- He takes 3-4 mins and said I would Cr AA or KK so calls with QQ.
- Fmfmfmfml never prayed for a fubinkmepls more for a long time! (we brick obv)
- Play properly again
- Play great rest of night
- Fold 56 after checking back flop vs maniac cshove and super nit hollywood/ call on   .
- Turns out they have A9 and J7cc and I would hold.
- Then get flush over flushed for another bi.
- Lose K10hh vs 64o aipf for £100 vs maniac who's shoved pre blind.

Sit in car and lolzcry

#lovethegame
#stillgotalittleprofit

[JustinSayne]

I did it again.

<3 JB

Details tomorrow, but while the car heats up I'll summarise session.

TLDR - Stop bluffing live players

Also

- Successful range merge with bottom two vs tptk

Please for the love of god stop trying to make people fold

[LonOhRay]

lots of writing last post

Seems like you're still over complicating a really simple game just play straightforward and win with a low varience style like our good friend the Iranian Weightlifting u18 champion.

No need to get fancy as there are too many players who will "out oi" you in every pot haha.

How deep were you with the 56? Can't imagine folding that to many let alone a maniac putting his stack in first.

[TL900]

- Outlevel a blonde hero

If this is aimed at me i must have missed this hand

- Successful range merge with bottom two vs tptk

[  ] range merge
[X] thin value shove

[Kosh_14]

John I swear you are insane with how you play this cash game. Great to watch the nightly blow up though!!!

[jgcblack]

- Outlevel a blonde hero

If this is aimed at me i must have missed this hand

- Successful range merge with bottom two vs tptk

[  ] range merge
[X] thin value shove

Maybe ive misused the term, but I thought a range merge was when you take a bluff or value hand or medium strength hand and play it like the same thing? no?

I knew he had a one pair hand and on a 678Q9 board I call, call, call, shoved over pot with 67 and won when called.  What is that called?

[Donk23]

- Outlevel a blonde hero

If this is aimed at me i must have missed this hand

- Successful range merge with bottom two vs tptk

[  ] range merge
[X] thin value shove