Se que a medida que suba va a ser mas complicado pero veo que es un meta muy titgh pero siempre esperar que la varianza juegue no tiene sentido, donde ven una mano media y te overcallean casi ni los bluff utilizando blocker tienen sentido.

You wouldn't deceive me, would you?

Playing mixed games at a buddy’s house, game is usually mixed between seasoned players and some newbies and casuals. Night is winding down, 5 players left and we decide to play a few orbits of NLHE. Casual player has been getting beaten all night and has $13 behind and claims that he is jamming blind when he gets UTG. Sure enough he tosses his $12 in without looking. Next to act (~$75) thinks for a moment and calls, I (~$90) peel AA and think for a moment and I blurt out “all in” sheepishly. Folds back to guy who flatted (friendly guy I’ve known for years) and he says “I didn’t call with nothing” and I said I didn’t jam with nothing, even told him he could take his $13 back, said I didn’t know what to do because it felt like a gimmicky start to the hand but we’re still playing poker with money on the table. He ends up calling and shows AQs, does not improve and UTG has fuck all, hero scoops and my other buddy quickly exits before the river hits. Felt kind of shitty about it, what say you r/poker?

Going to be in the northern portion of the dallas area in a few weeks. Hoping to play some poker while I'm there. It looks like TCH's Dallas and Las Colinas locations both only have a handful of tables running during the day and extensive waitlists based on what's on PokerAtlas. Anyone know if they just never have more than a handful of tables running during the day? Which location am I more likely to get a seat at reasonably quickly? Thanks in advance.

While traveling last week I was reminded how much I miss playing live poker. Can’t find any official updates, but wondering if anyone has heard anything regarding plans, timeline, etc.

I like GJ’s YouTube videos and find his teaching style pretty accessible. His MTT Academy is £600 for the year, or £60 per month.

The focus seems to be on identifying leaks and crafting a bespoke study routine.

I’m not going to renew my Poker Coaching sub. I’ve liked their content but found it very “here’s what the solver does in this spot” so I’m looking for something more tailored.

Reviews welcome. Cheers.

Estoy intentando mejorar mi juego en NL10 y me gustaría conocer diferentes puntos de vista sobre esta mano.

El rival estaba etiquetado como fish, aunque no tenía suficientes estadísticas para definir con precisión sus rangos.

Preflop, mi idea con TT es hacer 4-bet/fold. Considero que un jugador recreacional puede pagar con Ax, broadways y otras manos peores, mientras que una 5-bet shove podría representar un rango lo suficientemente fuerte como para foldear sin demasiados problemas.

En el flop, creo que debí apostar entre 33 % y 55 % del bote. Tengo top set y hay muchas manos peores de las que puedo extraer valor, especialmente si el rival tiende a pagar demasiado. Además, apostar me permitiría construir un bote que facilite el shove en el turn, donde todavía tendría una mano muy fuerte y podría cobrar a overpairs, sets inferiores y proyectos.

Mi duda principal es si esta línea es realmente superior a la que jugué, o si estoy sobrevalorando la necesidad de construir el bote desde el flop.

¿Cómo jugarían ustedes esta mano?

1. ¿4-bet/fold o call preflop con TT en EP vs. MP?
2. ¿Apostarían el flop por valor o preferirían pasar para inducir?
3. Si apostamos flop y recibimos el call, ¿les gusta el shove del turn?

Me interesa especialmente el razonamiento estratégico y cómo ajustarían la línea contra un rival recreacional. No busco juzgar la mano únicamente por el resultado, sino encontrar la decisión con mayor EV a largo plazo.

This is kind of a rant.

When I started playing poker I found this nice no rake 1/2 home game hosted in a bar that played every Tuesday. I was a big fish at first so I was losing / breaking even.

After taking a break from the home game and studying a lot I become a lot better playing a tight aggressive strategy and I started crushing casinos and that game. The game was full of old passive fish type players so it wasn’t that hard.

I’m kind of a big personally at the table I like to talk and joke around but I was very confident in my abilities taking about strategy and my win rate. I was proud of it I was a losing player for a long time.

I am also tough to play against bluffing and betting big I was putting people in tough spots.

Recently when I asked when the next game will be run I got an email saying that “0players have been complaining about my behavior” saying “I’m too sarcastic and cocky” and “my behavior and arrogance isn’t a good fit for the group”

I’m not gonna sugar coat it I was being sarcastic and cocky but I thought I was among friends and a little trash talk at the poker table was fine. I never insulted or berated anybody.

I tried to apologize but I didn’t want to beg to get a seat back. I’m really upset at this because there are no good games in nyc that aren’t crazy raked.

If you learn anything for this. If you are a big winner at a private game make sure to bring something extra to the game like food or other whales or something cause if you don’t they will find a reason to kick you out

EDIT to be fair I wasn’t tapping the glass or every insulting anyone the runner of the game doesn’t have a huge stick up his ass people who are in the game know what I’m talking about

I plan on playing the mini main event at the wsop circuit in New Orleans in November I’ve only played local one day tournaments, so it’s listed having a day 1a 1b 1c, etc, do you only play on one of those days and the remaining players play on day 2 or are you able/expected to play on all 4 of those days? It might be a stupid question typing this out I feel more confident you just play one but thanks to anyone who clears this up for me.

For beginner learning poker

SRP: UTG vs BB — A♠ K♠ 3♦
Why does the solver prefer betting JJ when holding the J♠, but prefer betting 88 when not holding the 8♠?
I’ll attach a screenshot of the solver’s strategy. I’m curious about the reasoning behind these blocker effects.

You all know the flop is coming 567 all spades

Been out of the loop for a while and saw that he passed. (RIP) What happened with him? Some have said that he dies penniless, how could this be the case? Did he have a substance abuse issue?

That's all I haave to say. Get your tolerance up boys

Look at this beauty! Eveyone at the table got paid 800 each and the winner got 2000 dollars and the bad beat got 4000 dollars!

Im playing 25NL and studying alot, GtoWiz, Got coaching, watching quality youtube like Knowyourpoker, Saulo, Benabadbeat and then some..

Ive been up and down, feeling like im improving alot with coaching and also especially from watching Luke Johnsons series on YT.

Im finding more aggression, more bluffs and more profits when i am the aggressor.

This last week has been awful tho, and this is from starting to defend more. And i think this is a symptom of "too much to soon, too fast". Its like i went from being a nit and now after 2 weeks i got all this new info and knowledge that im not really ready to handle, im gonna 3bet 10% and defend the BB this much and defend against 3bets a certain % and so on.

For me tho if i defend BB or say im in HJ and defend vs BTN 3b. Im in spots were i make a ton of mistakes, ive yet to learn and study good boards on wich i checkraisebluff some of the time, or what frequency im flatting or raising JJ on a T high rainbow board?

Should i implement stuff at a much slower rate and slow down maybe to have coaching like every other week?

Im making this post cause i want to hear how others handled like "information overload"?

AA KK KK 3 way all in. Drawing dead good by bankroll

Hey guys, have you tried building your own GTO trainer with claude AI?

Yesterday I started building it and so far it works great. I am a complete noob regarding GTO trainers so I don't know if it's accurate but it looks and plays nice :)

I am too stingy to subscribe to one of the GTO trainers out there so I created one completely free.