The Well: ama0330
 

A stranger is being shown around a village that he has just become part of. He is shown a well and his guide says "On any day except Tuesday, you can shout any question down that well and you'll be told the answer".

The man seems pretty impressed, and so he shouts down: Why not on Tuesday? and the voice from in the well shouts back:

"Because on Tuesday, it’s your day in the well"

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Hey guys, thought I'd take some "give back" time and answer any and all questions you might have about the great game of POKAH.

FWIW, I am currently destroying 50nl and am now taking very successful (fingers crossed) shots at 100nl. I could have waited till I was 200nl or something, but by then my opinions and game style will have changed. Given that most/a lot of you are playing 25nl or below, I think that doing this now, before I get any higher, will give you a good insight into a winning uNL'ers mentality.

Im gonna take a shower and make me some dinner, then I'll be around all night. Also, I have nothing to do at work at the moment so I'm good for a couple days, if you have any burning questions.

Fire away...

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

Thanks for doing this! What kind of thought process do you go through when putting a player on a hand? I play too loosely postflop because I tend to put people on too wide a range of hands - how do you combat that kind of thing?

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

Great to see you do this Ama, very much appreciated!!!
In recent topics I posted you alwasys took the time to explain me some things I dont understand yet, thanks for that.

Now to shoot of the first question: What is crushing 50NL winrate wise? Why do you think you crush 50NL? Or better what is the most important quality a player should have to crush 50NL?
How did you become as good as you are that you are crushing it?
In general GIVE US SOME ADVICE?

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

Low suited connectors in position?
Approx % of call/raise/fold?

Do you ever just preflop call with AA in micro stakes?

What do you do against the minbet with a draw? with TP? with a big hand but air?

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

Thanks for doing this! I have a few questions. Let's assume no reads for any situation.

1) How do you play mid-range pairs (8's - Jacks) OOP pf to a raise?

2) What about calling in position with a low pocket pair (i.e. villain raises 4xbb and you call with 66) and the flop pairs. For example:

I hold 66 and call a 4xbb raise in position. Flop comes 10 10 4 and villain bets.

3) How the hell do I play combo draws? Let's say middle pair with the 2nd nut flush draw. Or 4 to the straight with a pair. In position and OOP? Do you donk OOP? What to do if you get a call and the turn bricks?

I'm a limit convert, so any and all help would be appreciated! Thanks again.

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

Yo .... Poker story so far ?


And what are your thoughts on The Ama Theorem these days (sorry, couldn't help myself [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] )

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

I'm glad to see you do this ama. I respect your opinion and contribution in uNL (one of the few). And I wish you luck at SSNL. I'll see you there shortly.

1) what do you think of my advice to posted hands in uNL?
2) How many BB/100 did you have at 25/50 NL? over how many hands each?
3) Will you consider doing a video of 50 NL and posting it in uNL?
4) How often do you push big combo draws in 50 NL with little FE (basically do you like to gamb00l)?
5) What's the range and most obvious hand this villain has at 50 NL: effective stacks $50, no reads:
Preflop:(0.75)
Villain (UTG) calls 0.5, all fold to us in BB with AA raise to 2.50, Villain calls 2.00

Flop:(5.25): T62 rainbow

Villain leads for 3, Hero raises to 9, Villain pushes all-in

6) same flop except we're btn and villain calls.

Flop: (5.25) T62 rainbow
villain check, Hero bets 3, Villain pushes all-in.

7)Show us one of your latest hands at 50 NL that confused the hell out of us. Give us your thinking all along the way. It would be good if you had meaningful stats/notes on villain.

8) What do you do IRL (work)?
9) What are your other hobbies?

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

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Thanks for doing this! What kind of thought process do you go through when putting a player on a hand? I play too loosely postflop because I tend to put people on too wide a range of hands - how do you combat that kind of thing?

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This is an interesting question. I think that over time I have developed a sort of "feel", where I dont really put someone on a hand, but rather I decide where I stand in the hand. This is basically what it is like to put someone on a range - you dont really say "well he has TT here" you say "well I'm in decent shape, or in really poor shape". If I feel like I'm in excellent shape and my opponent wants to play, I raise, or I'll just call if I feel a bit iffy, or I'll fold if I feel like I could never be ahead.

The process of actually putting someone on a hand for me is dependant on:

a) what I know of villain (pt stats, notes, general observations)
b) what villain knows of me (have I been bullying him? have we been tangling? what reason does he have to think he is ahead of me?

and therefore

c) what is villain most logically able to have here?

If someone with .85 AF shoves on you on the river, theres almost no chance he's bluffing. Putting someone on a hand is basically an educated guess, encompassing all the things I've listed above.

There's no real "formula" if thats what you mean, but sometimes you can say "he simply cannot be bluffing here" or somesuch, just because of what you know about how he plays. Of course there are lots of typical lines, like someone who checks two streets probably has nothing and you can take it on the river, someone who checks the turn through is marginal etc etc

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

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Great to see you do this Ama, very much appreciated!!!
In recent topics I posted you alwasys took the time to explain me some things I dont understand yet, thanks for that.

Now to shoot of the first question: What is crushing 50NL winrate wise? Why do you think you crush 50NL? Or better what is the most important quality a player should have to crush 50NL?
How did you become as good as you are that you are crushing it?
In general GIVE US SOME ADVICE?

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I'm beating 50nl for 9ptbb/100 atm, over 15k hands. It's not much of a sample, I know, and I am running very hot. But honestly, I am very rarely challenged at 50nl. To answer your question, I think that I crush 50nl because I find that I am rarely put in a situation that I can't handle. Also, I find that I am able to pick holes in my opponents games, get max value, run credible bluffs, and confuse and pressure my opponents and manipulate them into doing what I want. I have developed my game in such a way that I can handle almost anything that a typical 50nl player can throw at me. Of course sometimes I am unpleasantly surprised [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Generally when I play 50nl I feel that I am +EV at any table I choose to sit at. That kind of confidence is new to me and I find it to be (mostly) justified.

I'll address the second part of your post a little later.

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

How come I dont see you at 200NL yet [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]?

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

1. Is there a big difference between 25 and 50NL? 50NL and 100NL? 50NL and 25NL seem about the same to me. Haven't tried 100NL yet.
2. Any aha moments where things just clicked?
3. How often do you stone cold bluff the river with a missed draw?
4. You kind of answered this above but do you do any sort of range / combo math analysis while playing? There was a span where I played 2 tables, focused on putting villains on ranges and trying to calculate on the fly combos and combos I was ahead of and just gave up. I think I've got a good intuition now and just go with it.
5. How do you play against a very aggro villain who keeps 3betting your raises? Usually I try to figure out if my hand is ahead of their range and shove or play back hard on the flop.

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

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Low suited connectors in position?
Approx % of call/raise/fold?

Do you ever just preflop call with AA in micro stakes?

What do you do against the minbet with a draw? with TP? with a big hand but air?

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Depends on what I am trying to achieve. If I am trying to stir things up and get a really loose image going, I'll 3bet anything down to 56s. If my image is already really bluffy, then I'll just call and hit a flop, because 3betting would be -EV as my villains have probably tightened up, and are willing to play with me more. I would very very rarely fold suited connectors to an opening raise, almost never.

I can say with absolute confidence that I have never, EVER smooth called AA in my poker career to date. I think once heads up in a tournament, but never at a cash table.

Minbet with a weak draw I will call with odds because there is a good chance your villain will just overcall and you are screwed on a blank turn. Just play straight pot odds here, I see SO often the minbet-overcall on co-ordinated boards.

With TP or a good draw I will raise, but sometimes with TP against a really bad villain I will call and then bomb a brick turn, just because you dont know how many outs he might have and being minbet re-raised sure would suck on a t[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]9[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] board with AT.

Obviously with a big hand I will raise for value. I would rarely just call because if he folds to the raise he wasn't calling anyway and you are gipping yourself out of monies by not pot-building.

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

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Thanks for doing this! I have a few questions. Let's assume no reads for any situation.

1) How do you play mid-range pairs (8's - Jacks) OOP pf to a raise?

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OK so here, you mean from the blinds, because I raise all PP's from all positions preflop. I generally just call these hands in the blinds and setmine. Once you miss your set you have no hand, so it becomes "can I bluff this guy". If you can, then go for it (float, cr the cbet, whatever) but if you cant, there is no shame in check folding.

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2) What about calling in position with a low pocket pair (i.e. villain raises 4xbb and you call with 66) and the flop pairs. For example:

I hold 66 and call a 4xbb raise in position. Flop comes 10 10 4 and villain bets.

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Here I will often float, and sometimes just fold. If I float, I will see if my villain checks the turn. If he does, I might bomb it for 3/4 and see what he does. If I check it through, and he bets the river, I'll take a look at his PFR and his AF and decide whether he'll bet this river with a worse hand like AK and look him up.

Dont be afraid to just fold here though, there is no shame in just letting 66 go on this flop if you feel uncomfortable about floating/playing multi-streets in the dark.

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3) How the hell do I play combo draws? Let's say middle pair with the 2nd nut flush draw. Or 4 to the straight with a pair. In position and OOP? Do you donk OOP? What to do if you get a call and the turn bricks?

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Any draw with 11 or more outs can be taken to the felt on the flop. This is basically FD + something else (but not a naked FD, only 9 outs there). Get the money in as FAST as possible. Donk OOP absolutely, raise IP, just get that sucker all in at once. OESFD's are just magic, I also love pair+fd. I see that flop and just want to open-push [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

If the turn bricks, I make a quick equity calc versus his range and go from there playing straight pot odds. But usually I'll have no money left by the turn [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

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Yo .... Poker story so far ?


And what are your thoughts on The Ama Theorem these days (sorry, couldn't help myself [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] )

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I'll post my story a little later, and the ama theorem is still valid to an extent but it has less merit than I thought it did when I wrote it [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

poster whose whinnning gets the most on ur nerves?!!? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

Thanks ama! Much appreciated! Especially the advice on combo draws. I think I've been playing them too passively. Thanks again.

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

Give me an example of a hand where you believe it was correct to check/raise the flop HU that isn't a complete bluff. I suck at playing from the blinds.

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

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I'm glad to see you do this ama. I respect your opinion and contribution in uNL (one of the few). And I wish you luck at SSNL. I'll see you there shortly.

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thanks! [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

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1) what do you think of my advice to posted hands in uNL?

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To be honest I don't know, but that is a good thing because I only remember people who post terrible advice or are a-holes. So you're doing fine! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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2) How many BB/100 did you have at 25/50 NL? over how many hands each?

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I will post some lifetime stats a little later, but over too many freaking hands I was 4ptbb/100 at both 25 and 50. Then I went back and re-tooled my game and I'm more than double that now.

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3) Will you consider doing a video of 50 NL and posting it in uNL?

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I may do this soon, I'm quitting my current job shortly.

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4) How often do you push big combo draws in 50 NL with little FE (basically do you like to gamb00l)?

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Any draw with 11 or more outs on the flop is going all the freaking way.

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5) What's the range and most obvious hand this villain has at 50 NL: effective stacks $50, no reads:
Preflop:(0.75)
Villain (UTG) calls 0.5, all fold to us in BB with AA raise to 2.50, Villain calls 2.00

Flop:(5.25): T62 rainbow

Villain leads for 3, Hero raises to 9, Villain pushes all-in

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He either has a set, two pair, or a top pair kind of hand. I would expect him to show up with a set most of the time, but I see ATo here a lot too. FWIW I would probably get it in here, but this is one example of where I feel a bit ill about our situation!

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6) same flop except we're btn and villain calls.

Flop: (5.25) T62 rainbow
villain check, Hero bets 3, Villain pushes all-in.

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Here, I feel like villain is much weaker than he is in the first hand because IMO cr is a much weaker move from most villains than a lead. A lead is usually "wow I like that flop" and a cr is usually "im trying to outplay you". Of course this is 100% read dependant.

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7)Show us one of your latest hands at 50 NL that confused the hell out of us. Give us your thinking all along the way. It would be good if you had meaningful stats/notes on villain.

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How often do you think you'd be ahead here [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Party Poker - No Limit Hold'em Cash Game - $0.25/$0.50 Blinds - 5 Players - (LegoPoker HH Converter)

SB: $53.50
BB: $75.82
UTG: $175.96
CO: $50.00
Hero (BTN): $51.95

Preflop: Hero is dealt 5http://legopoker.com/hh/images/diamond.gif 5http://legopoker.com/hh/images/club.gif (5 Players)
UTG folds, <font color="red">CO raises to $2.00</font>, Hero calls $2.00, 2 folds

Flop: ($4.75) 9http://legopoker.com/hh/images/club.gif 4http://legopoker.com/hh/images/diamond.gif 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (2 Players)
<font color="red">CO bets $3.00</font>, Hero calls $3.00

Turn: ($10.75) 8http://legopoker.com/hh/images/club.gif (2 Players)
<font color="red">CO bets $7.00</font>, Hero calls $7.00

River: ($24.75) 9http://legopoker.com/hh/images/diamond.gif (2 Players)
<font color="red">CO bets $14.00</font>, Hero calls $14.00

Pot Size: $52.75 ($2 Rake)

CO had Thttp://legopoker.com/hh/images/club.gif Jhttp://legopoker.com/hh/images/club.gif (three of a kind, Nines) and LOST (-$26.00)
Hero had 5http://legopoker.com/hh/images/diamond.gif 5http://legopoker.com/hh/images/club.gif (a full house, Nines full of Fives) and WON (+$24.75)

Perfect example of working the image, I had just been hounding on this guy the whole session, putting him under constant pressure. Everyone cracks eventually [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]


This one is against Gelford, my basic thought process is "gelford is a fish"

lol jk

Party Poker - No Limit Hold'em Cash Game - $0.25/$0.50 Blinds - 6 Players - (LegoPoker HH Converter)

SB: $49.52
BB: $60.70
UTG: $50.00
MP: $65.35
CO: $43.28
Hero (BTN): $63.75

Preflop: Hero is dealt 5http://legopoker.com/hh/images/club.gif 4http://legopoker.com/hh/images/club.gif (6 Players)
3 folds, <font color="red">Hero raises to $2.00</font>, SB folds, <font color="red">BB raises to $8.00</font>, Hero calls $6.00

Flop: ($16.25) Qhttp://legopoker.com/hh/images/diamond.gif 7http://legopoker.com/hh/images/club.gif 8[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (2 Players)
<font color="red">BB bets $9.00</font>, <font color="red">Hero raises all-in to $55.75</font>, BB folds

Pot Size: $81.00


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8) What do you do IRL (work)?

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Im a graphic designer by trade.

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9) What are your other hobbies?

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Dont have that many but do love to play basketball! I'm getting into investment at the moment too, real estate, stock market etc etc

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

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How come I dont see you at 200NL yet [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]?

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nice brag [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

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This one is against Gelford, my basic thought process is "gelford is a fish"

lol jk

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No you're not, you actually thought I was a fish [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] (Hell, perhaps you're right ??? )

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

how many 5 yr olds?

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

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1. Is there a big difference between 25 and 50NL? 50NL and 100NL? 50NL and 25NL seem about the same to me. Haven't tried 100NL yet.

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The difference as you move up is just a product of mistakes. The higher you go, the less mistakes are being made, and therefore the less you can afford to be making mistakes yourself. In that sense, there is a definite jump between 25 and 50, I find 50nl to play much different to 25nl because the calibre of player is higher.

100nl is different again, but certainly not impossible. Its far more aggressive though.

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2. Any aha moments where things just clicked?

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My a-ha moment was having a 12bi downswing and realising that, although my posts were always really good, I just played like ass all the time. I realised that poker must be taken seriously and it takes a lot of time, effort and pain and concentration to be good at it.

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3. How often do you stone cold bluff the river with a missed draw?

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If I feel I can credibly represent a hand which beats my opponents and also feel that he will lay down then definitely I will do it. I dont bluff too often out of the blue though, I always make sure it is believeable and understandable.

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4. You kind of answered this above but do you do any sort of range / combo math analysis while playing? There was a span where I played 2 tables, focused on putting villains on ranges and trying to calculate on the fly combos and combos I was ahead of and just gave up. I think I've got a good intuition now and just go with it.

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I dont bother with combos or precise equity very often, I leave that for the forums. All my calcs are rough educated guesses. Once you play often enough you will develop an intuition for these things.

FWIW going through EV calcs away from the table and reviewing sessions this way is MANDATORY for improvement.

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5. How do you play against a very aggro villain who keeps 3betting your raises? Usually I try to figure out if my hand is ahead of their range and shove or play back hard on the flop.

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I'll formulate a strategy based over several hundred hands to decide just how aggro he is. I'll narrow my raising range, play back at him in position and see what he does. If he is just ape [censored] then I will call cheaply, wait for the nuts and let him "take me off it". I did this to fiksdal a little while back, I made a loose call in position preflop and let him hang himself with Aces because I knew he was hyeper aggro [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

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poster whose whinnning gets the most on ur nerves?!!? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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Cant say. A few names come to mind. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

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Give me an example of a hand where you believe it was correct to check/raise the flop HU that isn't a complete bluff. I suck at playing from the blinds.

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Any hand where villain has shown himself to be a habitual c-bettor and has a high steal percentage and a high PFR. Say you have 77 in the SB, he raises and you call. Flop is KJ6 rainbow, you can checkraise him here if he has been misbehaving.

FWIW I dont play back at cbets TOO much. You dont want to make it look like you are playing back at him every time because you dont want him to retreat, you want him to keep putting money in the pot versus you.

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

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how many 5 yr olds?

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People are so bad at this question. They are like LA LA LA 200 5 YEAR OLDS NO PROB! 5 year olds are [censored] DANGEROUS. Trust me, if you have ONE 5 year old pop a decent headbutt to your balls, you are going DOWN. Then they'll start jumping on your head and you are KO'ed.

I would say that a classroom of 5 year olds would take you down EASY. Thats like 30 5 year olds. If they co-ordinated a rush against you, they would take you down by sheer force of weight and numbers. If they knew where to strike, you would not last long at all.

For that reason I would say that 15-20 5 year olds would be the absolute max, you are gonna be in serious pain with much more than that. Remember that in the original thread that the 5 year olds have had training and [censored]. These are badass 5 year olds.

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

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This one is against Gelford, my basic thought process is "gelford is a fish"

lol jk

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No you're not, you actually thought I was a fish [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] (Hell, perhaps you're right ??? )

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I didn't actually know you were you at that point. I just figured "he is FOS" [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

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how many 5 yr olds?

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People are so bad at this question. They are like LA LA LA 200 5 YEAR OLDS NO PROB! 5 year olds are [censored] DANGEROUS. Trust me, if you have ONE 5 year old pop a decent headbutt to your balls, you are going DOWN. Then they'll start jumping on your head and you are KO'ed.

I would say that a classroom of 5 year olds would take you down EASY. Thats like 30 5 year olds. If they co-ordinated a rush against you, they would take you down by sheer force of weight and numbers. If they knew where to strike, you would not last long at all.

For that reason I would say that 15-20 5 year olds would be the absolute max, you are gonna be in serious pain with much more than that. Remember that in the original thread that the 5 year olds have had training and [censored]. These are badass 5 year olds.

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*golf clap*

very good answer.

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

graph and PT shot plzzz also where do you play.. I'd like to see a screenshot of ur games, too see what quality they are, tough/soft

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

hi ama i am new here and i want to ask something.how many hands a sample size must be so we can have an accurate picture of our play? i believe is 100,000 hands but i am not sure.
thanks

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

Cheers ama for doing this.

You made a post recently that said you took some time to completely look over your game, and came back playing much better.
I was wondering what were your stats pre and post the change, and what things in your game that your started doing differently?

Thanks again [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

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How often do you think you'd be ahead here [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Party Poker - No Limit Hold'em Cash Game - $0.25/$0.50 Blinds - 5 Players - (LegoPoker HH Converter)

SB: $53.50
BB: $75.82
UTG: $175.96
CO: $50.00
Hero (BTN): $51.95

Preflop: Hero is dealt 5http://legopoker.com/hh/images/diamond.gif 5http://legopoker.com/hh/images/club.gif (5 Players)
UTG folds, <font color="red">CO raises to $2.00</font>, Hero calls $2.00, 2 folds

Flop: ($4.75) 9http://legopoker.com/hh/images/club.gif 4http://legopoker.com/hh/images/diamond.gif 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (2 Players)
<font color="red">CO bets $3.00</font>, Hero calls $3.00

Turn: ($10.75) 8http://legopoker.com/hh/images/club.gif (2 Players)
<font color="red">CO bets $7.00</font>, Hero calls $7.00

River: ($24.75) 9http://legopoker.com/hh/images/diamond.gif (2 Players)
<font color="red">CO bets $14.00</font>, Hero calls $14.00

Pot Size: $52.75 ($2 Rake)

CO had Thttp://legopoker.com/hh/images/club.gif Jhttp://legopoker.com/hh/images/club.gif (three of a kind, Nines) and LOST (-$26.00)
Hero had 5http://legopoker.com/hh/images/diamond.gif 5http://legopoker.com/hh/images/club.gif (a full house, Nines full of Fives) and WON (+$24.75)

Perfect example of working the image, I had just been hounding on this guy the whole session, putting him under constant pressure. Everyone cracks eventually [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]


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Are you trying to say this is somehow a stupid bluff/play from opponent because of previous actions by you?

I see CB on flop, huge draw on turn, and an attempt to take the pot down on the river. How did he "crack"? By not pushing the river?

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

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graph and PT shot plzzz also where do you play.. I'd like to see a screenshot of ur games, too see what quality they are, tough/soft

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Here's my current database, not many hands here yet and I'm running hot. As you can see my stats aren't optimal (VPIP/PFR ratios are out) cause I'm still messing around with my game.

http://img469.imageshack.us/img469/1387/fsdfzn1.jpg


FWIW my stats usually converge to about 19/16. I am looking to open that up to 22/18 for 100nl. Work in progress [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Oh and for those who think I had it easy at 25nl, I had a 6 buyin downswing in those 8k hands, it was murdah

I'm gonna go grab my stats from my previous DB too

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

i'm considering jumping from short handed limit holdem to another game, as the limit he games are pretty dry these days.

what direction do you see the nl games going? Is this a good time to get in, or are these games on a deteriorating track as well?

I prefer limit style poker thinking, but it could just be that that's the only kind i've done. With that said, I feel like I could make a move to a game like omaha or stud (or TD [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]) though I'd be remiss if I didnt consider the biggest game going these days.

advice?

thx!!

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

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How often do you think you'd be ahead here [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Party Poker - No Limit Hold'em Cash Game - $0.25/$0.50 Blinds - 5 Players - (LegoPoker HH Converter)

SB: $53.50
BB: $75.82
UTG: $175.96
CO: $50.00
Hero (BTN): $51.95

Preflop: Hero is dealt 5http://legopoker.com/hh/images/diamond.gif 5http://legopoker.com/hh/images/club.gif (5 Players)
UTG folds, <font color="red">CO raises to $2.00</font>, Hero calls $2.00, 2 folds

Flop: ($4.75) 9http://legopoker.com/hh/images/club.gif 4http://legopoker.com/hh/images/diamond.gif 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (2 Players)
<font color="red">CO bets $3.00</font>, Hero calls $3.00

Turn: ($10.75) 8http://legopoker.com/hh/images/club.gif (2 Players)
<font color="red">CO bets $7.00</font>, Hero calls $7.00

River: ($24.75) 9http://legopoker.com/hh/images/diamond.gif (2 Players)
<font color="red">CO bets $14.00</font>, Hero calls $14.00

Pot Size: $52.75 ($2 Rake)

CO had Thttp://legopoker.com/hh/images/club.gif Jhttp://legopoker.com/hh/images/club.gif (three of a kind, Nines) and LOST (-$26.00)
Hero had 5http://legopoker.com/hh/images/diamond.gif 5http://legopoker.com/hh/images/club.gif (a full house, Nines full of Fives) and WON (+$24.75)

Perfect example of working the image, I had just been hounding on this guy the whole session, putting him under constant pressure. Everyone cracks eventually [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]


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Are you trying to say this is somehow a stupid bluff/play from opponent because of previous actions by you?

I see CB on flop, huge draw on turn, and an attempt to take the pot down on the river. How did he "crack"? By not pushing the river?

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What hand do I fold on the river

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

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What hand do I fold on the river

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Wow, missed the other 9 on the flop. I guess he does'nt know Zeebo.

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

Thanks for doing this ama. I'll be up with you at 100NL by the end of August, I hope.

That said, a couple of ???'s:

What do you feel is your biggest weakness?

When you 3-bet, esp when OOP, and are called, when are you checking the flop?

And do you play on FT at all?

eta 2 more:

How many tables do you play at one time and how did you get to said number?

Lastly, thoughts on the advice I give as well (why not, eh)?
I figure I have lots of room to improve, so I'm open to corrective cricism from those I respect.

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

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I only remember people who post terrible advice or are a-holes

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please tell me you don't remember me.

I'd like to hear about the "microjump" between 50NL and 100NL in your shot taking, please. I'm doing it soon as playing 50NL with a 3k br seems a little silly and I'm way comfy at 50NL.

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

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Cheers ama for doing this.

You made a post recently that said you took some time to completely look over your game, and came back playing much better.
I was wondering what were your stats pre and post the change, and what things in your game that your started doing differently?

Thanks again [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Here is my first database

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/2105/zvcvc44qq2.jpg

As you can see there are just some wierd numbers there. My won at SD is great, but my winrate sucks. My PFR and VPIP ratios are all out of whack, and I think the biggest thing is that I am WAY too passive. But I think that probably what messed me up the most is just playing poorly postflop and spewing. The numbers won't show that.

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

Heres a graph of my first DB. This is from the very first ever hand I played of NL. As you can see, I'm winning, just not very much.

http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/3038/grzy8.jpg

Re: The Well: ama0330
 

Heres the graph of my current database since I stopped playing like ass. Notice the difference? [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Note: check the downswing at the beginning! zomg

http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/2954/zdsxfdsbx1.jpg