The Well: ama0330

[ama0330]

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[censored] he's gone.

ama favourite posters in uNL?

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Well everyone is good tbh but in terms of revelations about poker, Gumpzilla stands out because he made a post about a JJ hand OOP which changed the whole way I think about playing OOP. I think that is the most insightful response anyone has made to one of my threads.

tbh I think everyone in this forum, regs and noobs, does a really good job and as long as we can keep the peace this is a fantastic forum for beginning players to learn the game.

[ama0330]

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is poker rigged?
why can't i win?
are you sure its not rigged?

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Poker IS rigged, you just have to make sure that its rigged in your favour. I suggest writing to support/admin and offering them some kind of bribe.

[ama0330]

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What amount of hands do you think you need to win at before you can think of yourself as a consistent winner at micro stakes? Im running at 13BB/100 hands over 5.8k hands at 10+25NL how much more do I need to play in your opinion to be able to say without doubt Im a successful micro limit player?

Also a completely non-poker question but something that never understood on this site, how do some people get themselves custom titles?

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Balugawhale, a player who once could not beat 25nl and now beats 10/20nl, said that you should play 25k hands (I think) of a limit and if you are not happy with your winrate, play 25k more and do it over until you attain a winrate you deem to be acceptable. I think this is pretty good advice, I would say 25k hands will give you a very good idea of if you are doing something wrong.

I think that it is almost impossible to play too many hands at a level, I think that in general most people move up too fast and are not willing to move back down again.

[ama0330]

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I've always played FR, just switched to 6 max- played 12k hands won about 12BB/100, so I'm off to 25NL- what's the single biggest difference and where should I focus my efforts now?

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Aggression and table dynamics. 6max is far more aggressive than FR, and you play a lot more hands. You should focus on learning how to be aggressive and how to respond to aggression.

[Nogatsira]

1) Any intention of going pro one day?

2) Coach me? :x

[ama0330]

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Assuming you have no reads on villain, do you always try to get it all-in pf with AK? Are you always 3betting with it? Calling a shove? Shoving as a 4bet?

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I very rarely get it in PF with AK because it performs so poorly against most villain's calling range. You are basically behind 90% of the hands which are going to call your push. I may call a shove with it if I have been hammering someone during a session, or if they are a moran.

I will always 3bet AK for value or to isolate, but may just call a 3bet preflop instead of 4betting.

[ama0330]

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Firstly I'd like to thank you for taking the time to do this I really appreciate it.

I'm trying to grasp the concept of the semi-bluff raise preflop, and I posted a thread on it and I want your take on it:

For instance, say we are playing .25/.50 NL. An aggressive deepstacked opponent raises to $2, it is folded to us and we get 75s on the button. Now usually we would just fold this hand, but we can semi-bluff raise in hope for the opponent to fold his worst of holdings, re-raise if he accually has a monster, or call with anything in between.

So basically we are trying to win his raise, but if he calls, we are in position with a hand that could potentially flop a monster. If we miss, we can give up or c-bet to try to pick up the pot if he checks. If we hit a monster well we can extract. Notice how 75s was used in the example not a hand like KQs which has calling value. The whole point is that usually we would just fold 75, but since it has little calling value, we can semi-bluff raise in hope to win the raise or flop a monster.

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Dude, sounds like a perfect explanation to me, I don't know what I can add to that...

[ama0330]

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ama,

well is looking good so far. there haven't been enough uNL wells. questions:

if you call a 3bet with AK, what, if any, flops are you getting jiggy on when you whiff?

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Depending on the villain, I'll go to war with TPTK here cause I'm killing most of villains range like mid pps and high broadways. Note that this is not an auto-stackoff, it depends on a lot of things. I wouldnt stack off versus a 9/6 for eg, might even fold AK pre there.

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why are you called ama0330?

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My initials + random palindromic number. Unfortunately its no more interesting than that, sorry!

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are you a massive ozzie sports fan or not really?

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Not really. I dont really care about rugby, and though cricket is nice in the summer, I dont follow it religiously. I used to be a big Sydney Kings fan, but that faded.

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did you realise I was levelling in the durrr thread? if so, were you releveling me? (pretending you thought i was being serious??)

cheers.

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Yes, I was re-levelling your level of the level. That whole thread was just a giant level and its probably good that it got deleted. But durr does sound like a teenage girl. A rich teenage girl [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[ama0330]

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1) Any intention of going pro one day?

2) Coach me? :x

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1) Probably not, I dont think I could deal with the swings and I would like to have a more steady and variance free income. Though I will always play as a hobby and if I get decent enough I hope to make some nice pocket money!

2) I dont coach tho I have been thinking about it. I dont have the time right now but watch this space.

ama0330, Happy you are moving to ssnl. I have started 100NL myself. GL

What sites you play on ? I play on Stars and just started at Titan with a free 50$ bonus [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]