Part of my grinding routine is marking intresting hands while playing, So I'm gunna go over my marked hands and pull some stuff out of there. Here's a hand I played June, looking back at it I'm rly not sure what's our best line here. It's the first hand vs an unknown villian. turn card is just awesome for his range I think, but we're still ahead of some stuff and have the T of hearts. No Limit Holdem Tournament • 2 Players$96.32+$3.68 Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter BBHero1490  SBj@y retard1510  Effective Stacks: 75bb Blinds 10/20 Pre-Flop (30, 2 players) Hero is BB j@y retard raises to 60, Hero raises to 200, j@y retard calls 140 Flop (400, 2 players) Hero bets 180, j@y retard calls 180 Turn (760, 2 players)

A spot from today, 3rd hand in vs unknown villian, do you like betting turn here? and what's our river play? Some stuff that turned equity bricked river, I think if the turn was a T of club it would make for a pretty easy river c/c bcz it would add a bunch of one club hands to his river bluffing range.  $192.75+$7.25 Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter SBAmar13131600  BBHero1400  Effective Stacks: 70bb Blinds 10/20 Pre-Flop (30, 2 players) Hero is BB Amar1313 raises to 60, Hero calls 40 Flop (120, 2 players) Hero checks, Amar1313 checks Turn (120, 2 players) Hero bets 60, Amar1313 calls 60River (240, 2 players) Hero checks  

Another spot from today, what do you think about my line here? Villian was flatting around 60% vs my minraises and playing pretty passively for the most part, a bit on the stationy side but not anything ridic$193.85+$6.15 Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter BBCrews69832  SBHero2168  Effective Stacks: 28bb Blinds 15/30 Pre-Flop (45, 2 players) Hero is SB Hero raises to 60, Crews69 calls 30 Flop (120, 2 players) Crews69 checks, Hero checks Turn (120, 2 players) Crews69 checks, Hero checksRiver (120, 2 players) Crews69 checks, Hero bets 42 

So I just finished my saturday session, went good, I played 24 HT and 22 Turbos, ended the day up 1800$Yesterday was my first session of the month and it was even better than todaySo far in November I've played 64 HT and 48 Turbos, so far I'm up around 4500$, hopefully I'm gonna keep running like heaven, will update again tomorrow with more hands and results

Yeah the 66 hand was more about weather we value bet the turn, and what size. I think river is a c/f, but would you also c/f river if the turn is Tc, given all the one club hands that peel a turn bet? Maybe I'm bluffcatching too frequently with this line I rly rly liked your analysis on the TT hand, some rly good insights, underbetting is rly cool, I've been trying to implement it in my game lately as you can see in the 65 hand but it didn't occur to me how this turn spot could actually be a good underbetting spot bcz the way it manipulates his range to play poorly vs us. btw how do we play a heart river if he flats our turn underbet?

Villian is raising 100% over a 250 hands sample. I know I have a great expectation flatting here, but can it ever beat shoving, given we have sooo much FE? vs a 100% range, should we have a flatting range in this spot at all (except KK-AA)? Seems to me like everything is going to have a better expecation shoving. In general, at 20bb, against what open frequency do we start shipping prime flatting hands like J9s T8s Q9o etc $289.85+$10.15 Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter SBTheBramane735  BBHero2265  Effective Stacks: 25bb Blinds 15/30 Pre-Flop (45, 2 players) Hero is BB TheBramane raises to 60, Hero goes all-in 2265   

8th hand vs a fish. first hand of the match he c/c J97, lead 5 turm half pot and barreled Q river 120 into 320, I folded cuz I had a missed draw but wasn't sure what to make of his line. in the next 6 hands he folded 3 out of 3 buttons, called 1 out of 2 minraises and c/f 654r. That's the info we're going with into this hand. I think it makes this spot closer bcz I in a vaccum I think my calldown is correct.I made the calldown here bcz he rly doesn't tell a coherent story with his line. Flop is obv an easy call, on the turn his sizing doesnt make that much sense for a strong made hand unless he flopped a str8 or has a J+draw type hand and he's just not afarid of many rivers, I think the board is wet enough that fish mostly get over-protective on this type of board with their made hands rather than under-protective. Also he could be vbetting a worse hand bcz fish sometimes show up with middle pair when they barrel the turn less than 1/2 pot in position esp if they have a draw to go with it. On the river all the draws bricked, when he bets 320 I feel like I'm going to see mainly flopped str8's and missed draws, just based on the fact that I think a strong made hand will very rarely bet the turn so small unless it's rly nutted. vs that kind of polarized range I think we have to call all of our bluffcatchers. what do you think?$193.85+$6.15 Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter BBHero1420  SBgamakk271580  Effective Stacks: 71bb Blinds 10/20 Pre-Flop (30, 2 players) Hero is BB gamakk27 raises to 60, Hero calls 40 Flop (120, 2 players) Hero checks, gamakk27 bets 80, Hero calls 80 Turn (280, 2 players) Hero checks, gamakk27 bets 120, Hero calls 120 River (520, 2 players) Hero checks, gamakk27 bets 320, Hero calls 320

This spot is a pretty std double barrel spot for me readless vs a random player at a 200$ game. On this flop I think the average c/c range is pretty wide, and it sucks for this range to get barreled on a Q turn , and I have a gutshot and an overcard to 2nd pair. I think I mostly give up on the river if called. $291.25+$8.75 Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter BBcadetspb1140  SBHero1860  Effective Stacks: 57bb Blinds 10/20 Pre-Flop (30, 2 players) Hero is SB Hero raises to 40, cadetspb calls 20 Flop (80, 2 players) cadetspb checks, Hero bets 40, cadetspb calls 40 Turn (160, 2 players) cadetspb checks, Hero bets 120

Intending to ship most flops: $98.12+$1.88 Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter BBHero650  SBmohajar488350  Effective Stacks: 9bb Blinds 20/40 Pre-Flop (60, 2 players) Hero is BB mohajar488 calls 20, Hero raises to 120 

Played a short session today which is std for me on Sunday. My big sessions are on friday-saturday and I put in smaller sessions during the rest of the week unless I take a day off from work. I played 9 turbos and 6 hypers, ended up around 200$. I rly want to focus this month on improving my HT skills and my 2tabling skills, so I'm gonna try to put in some sessions of 2 tabling hypers. If you have some tips for getting started with 2-tabling I'd be happy to hear.

First hand of the match. If you had to guess, how often in does he have 75 here, and how often in general does he have a better hand (imo those two numbers have to be rly close to each other) .$98.12+$1.88 Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter SBPaolo2402500  BBHero500  Effective Stacks: 25bb Blinds 10/20 Pre-Flop (30, 2 players) Hero is BB Paolo2402 raises to 40, Hero calls 20 Flop (80, 2 players) Hero checks, Paolo2402 bets 40, Hero calls 40 Turn (160, 2 players) Hero checks, Paolo2402 checks River (160, 2 players) Hero bets 120, Paolo2402 goes all-in 420  

Readless in a ST, thoughts about overbet leading this flop, like t55? what about more std sizings?$98.12+$1.88 Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter BBHero520  SBBOOMF480  Effective Stacks: 24bb Blinds 10/20 Pre-Flop (30, 2 players) Hero is BB BOOMF raises to 40, Hero calls 20 Flop (80, 2 players) Hero ?

4th hand of the match, no flops so far. The Q isn't a fun card for 8x and 4x, and it gives me good equity vs those hands with 2 overs and a GS. Is it hard hard enough for BB to have Ax here that it makes this a snap DB? Or is it closer than this?$98.12+$1.88 Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter BBDFRNT490  SBHero510  Effective Stacks: 25bb Blinds 10/20 Pre-Flop (30, 2 players) Hero is SB Hero raises to 40, DFRNT calls 20 Flop (80, 2 players) DFRNT checks, Hero bets 40, DFRNT calls 40 Turn (160, 2 players) DFRNT checks, Hero bets 100

T4 hand: Yea looking back at it I def think we should triple barrel there, you said you'd 3barrel 8-A but not Kx, why aren't we barreling Kx?QT 3bet shove: If I put in the hand in Insane steve's 3bet calculator I get "Total Equity = 42.85". If the big blind is 30, aren't we making +12.85 chips from the start of the hand by shoving? Maybe I'm doing it wrong tho 

so this is a spot where we should be shoving TONS of hands, but it reminds me of your raising limps article, because if we rly start shipping ATC villian is going to adjust his raising frequency and we dont want him to do that bcz of just how exploitable raising 100% is when short. So we want to 3bet shove a frequency that is not going to make him adjust so easily and this way we maintain our edge (I'm using your words here), so even tho T7o is better to shove than flat vs those frequencies in a vaccum, it might be better to just flat it just so our frequencies won't get way too high and we force villian to adjust his very exploitable frequencies and thus make our BB expecatation less favorable than it was. I remember having an argument with Yaqh a month ago where I told him I 3bet shoved 85o bcz villian was raising 100% around 20bb, and he said I shouldn't do that because if I ship that wide even a retard is going to adjust and I don't want that to happen because I'm printing money vs his current frequencies at a much faster rate than I would if he starts opening less. I can def understand his point of view better today.

Readless first hand of a hyper, do you cbet T8cc on JT2hhh?

Say we open to t60 first hand of a turbo and get 3bet to 180, how do you play JJ-AA AQ+ ?

I like my river overbet here, I think our line looks rly bluffy, 7x is never folding and it's most of what we're getting value out of. What do you think? $193.85+$6.15 Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter SBgiovina717  BBHero2283  Effective Stacks: 18bb Blinds 20/40 Pre-Flop (60, 2 players) Hero is BB giovina calls 20, Hero checks Flop (80, 2 players) Hero bets 42, giovina calls 42Turn (164, 2 players) Hero checks, giovina checksRiver (164, 2 players) Hero bets 200 

yea well it's not a readless hand and I should have pointed that out, got a little lazy here =q , my bad,this villian was rly passive/bad and can def have 7x on the river, as well as pocket pairs and A high (he was limping almost his entire playing range), he ended up having 99 here and I wasn't surprised rlyvs that range of bluffcatchers and given our line/board texture, isn't this a terrible spot to bluff and awesome one to go huge with value?

So I had a pretty good day today, I played 21 Hypers and 19 Turbos, I practiced some 2tabling, and overall played/felt pretty good. I ran about 1200$ below EV tho so I ended down ~600$. Here's My graph for today:  I noticed today that I don't tilt in spots I used to tilt in, for example when a rly bad fish keep coolering/sucking out a few games in a row, I kept my compusure during the entire day, I think that's great news for me because this is the type of improvment that make you tons on money in the long run, and it motivates me to keep improving my mental game. I also noticed that in days where I end up in EV i dont feel like I lost any money at all, it's pretty amazing actually...I've started treating the red line as more important than the green line, and it did great for my mental game, because there's a ton less variance in the red line, during all of my downswings the red line was breakeven or better, so I've never exprienced a red line downswing so far in my careerHere's my graph for the month so far, started the month running hot but then ran meh the last couple of days: I'm up 3750 in EV so far this month, anything above 7k in EV for the month I consider as a solid month given my relatively low volume, so right now def on my way to get there, rly looking forward to griding tomorrow and on saturday, gonna play rly well hopefully

First hand of a Hyper:$98.12+$1.88 Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter SBHero450  BBtomminnah550  Effective Stacks: 23bb Blinds 10/20 Pre-Flop (30, 2 players) Hero is SB Hero raises to 40, tomminnah calls 20 Flop (80, 2 players) tomminnah checks, Hero bets 40, tomminnah calls 40 Turn (160, 2 players) tomminnah checks, Hero checks River (160, 2 players) tomminnah bets 80, Hero calls 80

VS a more aggro than average opponent, is cbet/calling the best line here?$98.12+$1.88 Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter SBHero290  BBErik SRV710  Effective Stacks: 10bb Blinds 15/30 Pre-Flop (45, 2 players) Hero is SB Hero raises to 60, Erik SRV calls 30   Flop (120, 2 players) Erik SRV checks, Hero bets 90 

Villian is a fish but a fish who has a clue, he's def not a donk. The hand converter doesn't let me convert this one, so I have only the raw HH. Seat 1: JacknJill68 (973 in chips) Seat 2: Ph33roX (2027 in chips) Dealt to Ph33roX [Kh 7s]JacknJill68: raises 40 to 80Ph33roX: calls 40*** FLOP *** [7d Ah 9s]Ph33roX: checks JacknJill68: bets 80Ph33roX: calls 80*** TURN *** [7d Ah 9s] [6h]Ph33roX: checks JacknJill68: checks *** RIVER *** [7d Ah 9s 6h] [Ad]Hero?  

Villian is siervos, a 200-500 reg. He's flatting 3bets too light (he showed down A5o once), he's pretty aggro but nothing crazy. He's def capable of some pretty thin value bets.$291.25+$8.75 Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter BBHero1310  SBSiervos1690  Effective Stacks: 66bb Blinds 10/20 Pre-Flop (30, 2 players) Hero is BB Siervos raises to 40, Hero raises to 120, Siervos calls 80 Flop (240, 2 players) Hero bets 120, Siervos raises to 240, Hero calls 120 Turn (720, 2 players) Hero checks, Siervos checks River (720, 2 players) Hero checks 

Villian is a reg I sit for life because he's nitty and easy to run over. I have around 1.3k hands vs him, he 3bets 19% with a polarized range, he's cbetting a lot in 3bet pots but way tighter on the turn, he def has a fold button and he made some tank folds vs me in the past (some of them were good folds), I def think he's almost never bluffing on the river so calling there is going to be bad I think, on the other hand I expect him to basically never have Qx after checking the turn, and when the flush gets there I think my shove looks pretty strong bcz I don't have much air in my range (and as a matter of fact I only got to this river bcz I have a pair).$193.85+$6.15 Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter SBHero1400  BBnitram991600  Effective Stacks: 70bb Blinds 10/20 Pre-Flop (30, 2 players) Hero is SB Hero raises to 40, nitram99 raises to 120, Hero calls 80 Flop (240, 2 players) nitram99 bets 120, Hero calls 120 Turn (480, 2 players) nitram99 checks, Hero checks River (480, 2 players) nitram99 bets 280, Hero goes all-in 1160

First hand in a Hyper, I feel like with this river minraise widens his value raise compared to a bigger raise, so I can see him having worse 2pair here a lot, esp given he limped pre, And I don't think a random at a 100$ Hyper is raise/folding rivers for value. Is there enough value in shoving? if not, what's your cotoff for 3betting river?$98.12+$1.88 Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter SBBIG POPA 420500  BBHero500  Effective Stacks: 25bb Blinds 10/20 Pre-Flop (30, 2 players)BIG POPA 420 wins 1000 ( won +500 ) Hero is BB BIG POPA 420 calls 10, Hero checks Flop (40, 2 players) Hero checks, BIG POPA 420 checks Turn (40, 2 players) Hero bets 30, BIG POPA 420 calls 30 River (100, 2 players) Hero bets 75, BIG POPA 420 raises to 150, Hero ?

Is this std readless?$98.12+$1.88 Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter SBHero520  BBWombi1980480  Effective Stacks: 24bb Blinds 10/20 Pre-Flop (30, 2 players) Hero is SB Hero raises to 40, Wombi1980 calls 20 Flop (80, 2 players) Wombi1980 bets 20, Hero calls 20 Turn (120, 2 players) Wombi1980 bets 20, Hero raises to 80

about 12 hands in, villian took some fishy lines so far, like minbet-donk flop+turn then 1/2 pot river, limping K8o and checking down K high, donking 1/2 pot on QT4r, there was only one or two showdowns so not a ton of reads, except that he's fishier than average for a 200$ game. $193.85+$6.15 Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter BBsanyadoroxin1422  SBHero1578  Effective Stacks: 47bb Blinds 15/30 Pre-Flop (45, 2 players) Hero is SB Hero raises to 75, sanyadoroxin calls 45 Flop (150, 2 players) sanyadoroxin checks, Hero bets 75, sanyadoroxin calls 75 Turn (300, 2 players) sanyadoroxin checks, Hero checks River (300, 2 players) sanyadoroxin bets 150, Hero calls 150  

What's your approach for button raise size? How do you start off and how quickly do you adjust to bigger/smaller? I'm minraising since I played the 2$ games as standard 75bb readless and adjust from there, I mostly adjust it to 2.5x if he's calling a lot OOP (I also tighten my range obv)  or if he's playing fit or fold post (in which case I raise 100%). sometimes I'd 3x if he's rly fishy. I think that I only adjust to 3x once in every 20 games or so, I mostly adjust to 2.5x. I'm pretty sure I should 3x more, so some input on this plz

Hokie, I was thinking more about your argument that we should always think about our entire ranges and rly know what hands are in there and what hands are not. It very common that during a turbo match, I start off at raising like 95% and then I decide to go down to 85/75/65 based on my opponent's BB frequencies preflop and postflop, the thing is I don't know how exactly those ranges look like down to the specific hand and I think that's not optimal, I think I should master this to the level of unconcious competenceWhat do you think about the following ranges, let's assume stack depth is >35 BB, Hands in yellow are the openfolding hands.85% range:  75% range  65% range: 

Grinded a bit more over the last 3 days, played 40 Turbos and 95 Hypers:  As you can see I keep running not so great. I took a look at my graph for the last 30 days and was pretty surprised to find out I'm running  43BI below ev over about 600 games (a mix of hypers and turbos) : I'm rly happy that I didn't get upset by this so far, I'm still motivated to keep crushing  the games and grind out that pretty red line because if I stick to playing well the next heater is just around the corner. This month I'm up 5.8K in EV at this point, hopefully I can set a new monthly EV record for myself. Gonna keep updating here

Thanks for your input, rly good stuff!regarding the A4o hand, do you lead middle pair as std on dry flops? I'm def leading as a bluff a ton in limped pots, esp on dry flops, but when I have a pair I mostly check to get value from a cbet. I mean I def don't lead A4 on T42 readless as std, I always just c/c if I don't have any read. I'm def not checking 65 on this flop but with middle pair I see more value in letting villian bet the flop. Is folding out his equity more important in your opinion than bluffcathing/pot controlling our middle pair? 

readless in a Hyper, giving up on the river if called.$98.12+$1.88 Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter BBHero520  SBAJFC6819480  Effective Stacks: 24bb Blinds 10/20 Pre-Flop (30, 2 players) Hero is BB AJFC6819 raises to 40, Hero calls 20 Flop (80, 2 players) Hero checks, AJFC6819 checks Turn (80, 2 players) Hero bets 35

Pretty passive Villian, flatting around 50% OOP and folds vs cbet ~50%. I'm giving up if called.$193.85+$6.15 Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter BBXMichiXD1570  SBHero1430  Effective Stacks: 18bb Blinds 40/80 Pre-Flop (120, 2 players) Hero is SB Hero calls 40, XMichiXD checks Flop (160, 2 players) XMichiXD checks, Hero bets 80, XMichiXD calls 80 Turn (320, 2 players) XMichiXD checks, Hero bets 160,

This is my std with this type of holding on this type of board:$98.12+$1.88 Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter SBesme3206500  BBHero500  Effective Stacks: 25bb Blinds 10/20 Pre-Flop (30, 2 players) Hero is BB esme3206 raises to 40, Hero calls 20   Flop (80, 2 players) Hero checks, esme3206 bets 40, Hero goes all-in 460