**Official uNL Microbrew thread: July(LC/NC)**

[ama0330]

Chomp, I like it that you post hands that you know that you messed up, then when we tell you you messed them up, you say "yeah, I know"... that attitude is awesome and I see all too often hands that have been misplayed and the OP tries to pass it off as some radical new play or a killer read. Your humility is refreshing.

[shoxbb6]

[china_hard]

If any of you are ever considering taking a shot at $100nl (esp at FT) then DO IT NOW.

This is my first friday night playing in a loooonnngggg time and its super soft even though I'm quite drunken.

[Supwithbates]

A note to all:
I'm taking a break from poker. While most of my skills are fine, my state of mind is not such that I need to be playing at the moment. Sometimes it's best to just walk away for a week or so and cool off if you've built up a head of steam, and come back when you're ready to re-evaluate.

[pr0crast]

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A note to all:
I'm taking a break from poker. While most of my skills are fine, my state of mind is not such that I need to be playing at the moment. Sometimes it's best to just walk away for a week or so and cool off if you've built up a head of steam, and come back when you're ready to re-evaluate.

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Absolutely.

[Gelford]

Yo pr0crast ... you seem to suddenly have appeared from nowhere ??? (Tho I remember you from STTF)


Nice to have you here ... what stakes you play these days ? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[jerryf1914]

is it possible to go a full day without any coolers or bad beats? no one hitting a 2-3 outter on the river, no kk to aa, no set over set, no flush over flush, no boat over boat...

i don't think i've ever had a day without atleast a couple. is it possible to go 1 day without them?

[WHITEBOYAEHS]

HAHAHAHAHAHA FUNNIEST THING EVER JUST HAPPENED...

this is an aim conversation:

during a full tilt sit and go...

Scotay2: do i have to fold
Scotay2: ?????????
WHITEBOYAEHS: what do u have
Scotay2: kk
WHITEBOYAEHS: no
WHITEBOYAEHS: shove
Scotay2: but the flush!
WHITEBOYAEHS: u have a boat
WHITEBOYAEHS: beats a flush
Scotay2: lol
Scotay2: kjadshdfs;dfs
WHITEBOYAEHS: OMG
Scotay2: i timed out
Scotay2: omg
WHITEBOYAEHS: ARE U KIDDING
Scotay2: im gonna cry

[Matt Flynn]

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Looks good - I like the ideas about planing your hands but think a raise flop with a 2pair hand to facialtate AI by the river or an example of betting the turn and flop correctly to allow AI by the river w/o overbetting would have been more obvious/clearer than a change in preflop raise amount. BTW I'm really looking forward to the book just in case anyone thinks I'm whining [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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hi munkey,

you have summoned me to the dungeon by typing "Flynn" into your post.

awesome that you are looking forward to the book. i'm excited for you to read it. you are going to pick this stuff up quickly.

"two-pair" hands are a different animal from top-pair hands. here's the key: if you wanna win with suited connectors or weaker that rarely make top pair and are always weak top pairs when they do, you need steal equity. the SPR consequences and strategies for playing draw hands are detailed in volume one.

btw the definition we use for stack-to-pot ratio is: between two players, the smaller remaining stack divided by the preflop pot at the flop before any postflop betting.

SPR is just postflop/preflop. Postflop risk (the remaining stacks) divided by preflop reward (the final preflop pot).

one use of SPR is to know immediately what betting lines will get you all-in. we give a cheat-sheet table for that.



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The risk/reward bit- I've been thinking about this recently -nothing earth shattering just a conceptual change of point of view - that lets me fold in alot crappy marginal spots and push my decent 60/40 edges more and get AI more. All the rest tricky/3betting/floaty/bluffy stuff is just noise.

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one thing i love and hate about SPR is how simple it really is. it's a reframing: once you learn how to do it, it can be hard not to think that way.

SPR allows you to manipulate the postflop/preflop risk/reward ratio. way too much to say about that for this post. executive summary is you can usually nudge the SPR in the right direction preflop. and more importantly, you will know BEFORE YOU GET YOUR CARDS how different hands are likely to play out depending on what happens preflop, which tells you a ton about what to play in which position.

screw training wheel hand charts you can do it on the fly.


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1. Hands like small PPs/Scs preflop risk 4bbb to win potentially 100b+ stack, vs shorter stacks what size is the cutoff for SCs IP?

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one issue we cover early is how to estimate the ideal preflop pot size for your hand against a particular opponent.

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2. Hands like AJ Qjx 2tone drawy flop OOP have big risk but small pot reward -RIO yo.

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absolutely.


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3. In a 3bet pot with QQ OOP on Jxxr flop vs std TAG [TT=, AQ]with a PSB left is tricky -kind of an in between example.

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you should never, ever get into that situation and not want to get all-in when you flop an overpair with queens with a PSB behind. either you are too timid postflop, or you put too much money into the pot preflop. most important, make that decision before you call (or make) the 3-bet preflop.

whether you should bet or check once you get there is a different story.


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4. EV calcs implicilty have a risk and a reward term esp simple 2 term ones.

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yes!


thanks for the great post munkey. btw i was "crazy monkey" in Indian Guides, have a crazy monkey tilt coffee mug that CCass had made for me, and have "monkey" in a couple online sigs and AIM. fear the munkey!

[Xanta]

HU SNG's are like crack cocaine. Too bad I'm terrible at them. So much fun to tilt off 2 bucks playing a PLO SNG at full tilt though.