CuteRaven

@ProMode93I see what you mean. If that is the best way to play the hand after a checkraise though, I think being happy of a fold with a hand that is normally strong value would mean that a check raise with this hand is not that good. And I don't think we can necessarily take many overpairs out of villains range, but maybe some villains would 3bet jam some overpairs on the flop. Some opponents would call the raise in position with all their overpairs I think. Anyway, maybe you are right, I don't really play tournaments :D

Todays session was a bit of a disaster. My bankroll is now 2035.01€. I was playing against some pretty good regs mostly and at some point I lost the ability to win any pots or all ins. I was tilting so hard that I had to take a break because I started playing pretty badly and making stupid bluffs. After the break I couldn't make back any of the money but at least I felt like I was playing well enough (not perfectly though) and I broke even. I was still feeling like I couldn't make any hands but oh well.

Pretty weird spot 🤣. I would guess that neither of you should have many eights or fours as played. I doubt villain would value bet much worse than a four here but I could be wrong. Seems very suspicious, you unblock missed flush draws and straight draws and you block KK if villain decided to go crazy with overpairs. I guess there is some chance that villain bet the turn small with 8x to protect from draws/bluffs and decided to go all in when they boated up on the river. Anyway, I might call like a calling station here given the amount of missed draws and the fact that you are mostly repping a 9 here so it makes sense for villain to put a lot of pressure :P. Depends what I think of villain of course. I think checkraise flop, check turn or checkraise flop, bet turn small or check call flop and turn are all ok options at least. Check raise flop, jam turn seems slightly thin though because you are mostly only getting called by worse if villain has a worse 9x (there are 21 combos of overpairs, maybe about 10 combos of 4x and I guess about 40 combos of worse 9x in villains range). But maybe it is still ok. Anyway I don't play tournaments so don't listen to me.

You must have a pretty insane amount of tables open at once then :wow:

Wow. Thats really impressive volume and profit! Yeah I understand that losing a big HU like that can be really frustrating.

Thanks @Dennis_ . Yeah, I don't think we played, I was playing with the same alias at first and then I changed it later. I played some more 25€ HU because I got less tired somehow as the evening progressed. It was a lot of fun because at this time of the day (or night) the player pool tends to be small and you get to play a lot against the same players. Bankroll is now 2280.01€

Well done @ProMode93 ! I don't think a 1619€ tournament cash is too dissapointing :D. How many tournaments do you usually play in a day?

Well done! Seems like the bored whales are making their way to all different stakes. These are probably pretty profitable times in general for players (the ones who are not the whales).

Congrats! I believe that 2000€ should be easy for you after what you have done so far. At what point will you move up to 50 NL?

@LeVsKaRaThank you :) My bankroll is now at 2100.01€. I played some HU 25€ SnG and HU 50€ SnG. I made my profits at the 25€ SnG games and broke even at the 50€. Some of the action at these games today was ridiculous 🤣. I was a quite tired today and felt like I wasn't on my A game so I had a short session of about 2 hours and was mostly two tabling. But the general level of play from my opponents gave me flashbacks from the 4€ Hu SnG streets so it wasn't too hard to win, especially when I was running quite well. I took the weekend off because I was splitting my time between seeing a few friends and being mildly hungover.I think some day this week when I am feeling focused I will try and start putting in more volume and play a long session. Thanks to my losses earlier in Banzai I qualified for the Super Double Trouble freeroll!

Good point @DaVitsche, I didn't account for rounding. I can't find any information about how it is rounded (I assume it is rounded up or down to the accuracy of a cent or rounded to the nearest cent), but I still think that there must be some significant difference anyway, because rounding won't negate for the difference in rake % in all cases. For example if rounding is to the nearest cent then pots between 0.25€ and 0.50€ in size will be raked differently already. Is there any updated page for cash game rake info? The website does not seem to display it.

@FeelsBadManThis is genious, I used it the other day with my cash game ticket! Better it goes to someone rather than no one and it's pretty entertaining to go all in every hand and watch the confused tanking from the people sitting on the table.

Ah thanks I didn't even realize that was an option :D

Yeah, I was wondering if I would make it into a rant but not this time :laugh: @Dennis_ I didn't feel too bad about it though since it was a standard all in from both for ten bigs. Thanks for the opinions!

Nice that you are on a proper upswing now :popeye: ! I'm also enjoying the lockdown in many ways :P. Somehow it increases the freedom of everyday life and I also don't get too stressed with being alone and have enough to do. As for the raise with T8, it could be good if your opponent is the type to cbet a pair of sevens or twos every time or cbet too much in general or if they are a huge calling station and call with all ace highs. Usually I don't really raising in position with much of my range since you often want to keep bluffs in his range and even though T8 is vulnerable by default to overcards on a ten high board, this board is a pretty dry one. In position you can always make sure a bet goes in if villain checks a later street. Also the jam is a huge overbet and maybe something like KT or QT could work better as all ins. But I guess it can't be too bad.

Seems like you are doing well, congrats on the results! :D I didn't know it's possible to not see the bankroll amount?

Thanks @Dennis_ ! Did I just play you in one game of HU SnG (table on the left)? Since the last update I took a shot at 20€ Banzai and things did not go my way :Rofl:. Lost most of my all ins and hardly got to play HU cash in the end like I hoped to. I stopped playing once my bankroll reached 1500€. Since then I have grinded it back up to 1839.01€ mostly in 25€ HU SnG. Today I also had a short breakevenish session two and three tabling HU SnG. I was somewhat dissapointed with the results since there were a bunch of SnG that I almost won but then the all ins just didn't go my way. I stopped early because I was also quite tired today. Anyway, I'm feeling pretty happy with the way I'm playing currently in general. What sort of content would be most interesting to you readers if you have a preference? More hand analysis? More pictures? More bad beat stories? More things about life or random thought that I am willing to share? Something else?

@DaVitsche Agreed except 4 NL (and 4 PL) rake will basically be double (disregarding rakeback) because the rake % will go from 1% to 2%. I think it's fine becauase the rake was so low to begin with, so in absolute terms it is a pretty small increase and the rake is still very low. The new 0.50€ rake cap will only become relevant in pots bigger than 25€ with the new 2% rake, so basically never at these stakes. I found the halving of the rake cap kind of hilarious given it's irrelevance in comparison to it's cosmetic value, but I guess a rake cap decrease is still a rake cap decrease 🤣 Of course if we consider rakeback then the story might be diferent.

You might also be right @GR1ZZL3R :D. I have no idea about tournament ranges and only really have some HU SnG and Hexapro experience to go by.

Ok thanks @Dennis_ :) I reluctantly called and lost to AQ offsuit. I also thought it was a call but seemed somewhat borderline.

Bankroll is now 1913.54€. I played a few 25€ HU SnG mostly one or two tabling them alongside the community poker league. At one point I had a streak of wins going and I managed to reach 10 wins in a row before I lost one. I also passed 150000 challenge points to get 25€ in rakeback. The community poker league was a bit of a disaster. I managed to build a big stack and then I lost it all :P. Anyway it was fun to play it and there were a bunch of interesting hands. I can't get the hands to work in any replayer, but this is maybe the most fun hand. Once again I got owned, this time by @Rushbie Rushbie raises from lojack. I call from the small blind. All others fold. Rushbie bets flop for about 1/3 pot. I call. Turn goes check-check. On the river I bet half pot and Rushbie calls. *** Flop *** [5s Th 3h] CuteRaven checks rushbie bets 1200 CuteRaven calls 1200 *** Turn *** [5s Th 3h] [Qd] CuteRaven checks rushbie checks *** River *** [5s Th 3h] [Qd] [2s] CuteRaven bets 2800 rushbie calls 2800 *** Showdown *** rushbie shows [As Kh], High card, Ace with a King kicker CuteRaven shows [Ac 8h], High card, Ace with a Queen kicker rushbie wins 11200

Yeah usually I try to forget embarassing hands like that but I thought it was funny enough to share :P @Dennis_ I would say plays like this are pretty much a one off, although I do ocasionally punt off for sure. I also don't play tournaments much and I was playing that tournament more for fun than really seriously, and I was initially one tabling the tournament while cooking dinner so I think I played a pit crazyer than normal.

Nice goals. Hopefully you can make an epic comeback like Phil Galfond! The variance of 2% ROI does not sound fun though. And yeah, the impact of physical excersize (or lack of it) should not be underestimated. At least for the good functioning of my brain it seems very important.

I made a minor profit today mostly playing 25€ Hu SnG. Bankroll is at 1732.04€ now. I felt like I was running good against some opponents and badly against other opponents. I was two tabling today while playing HU to focus on some of the better opponents. I feel like I got better the longer I played and also was good at adjusting to my opponents today. I was initially acting almost instantly on both tables while playing only two tables HU (I'm used to playing more tables). I guess it feels like I'm putting more pressure on my opponents that way and sometimes I saw my opponents spew because of my timing. But I noticed that if I play faster I also play a bit more on autopilot and it is less relaxing so it seems that forcing myself to play a bit slower is good. I need to remeber that when going forward. I played the Magnus Open today and lost about 40€ or 50€ constantly rebuying. Mostly I just couldn't make a hand and I didn't hold with the better hands when I was all in. But it was a fun promotion since I also enjoy following chess and occasionally playing some online chess. Here is a fun overly loose bad bluff that I made during the first one or two hands of the tournament. I thought it would be fun to introduce myself at the table with some aggressive action and win a few chips. My opponent made a gangsta hero call and I got owned (turned out later to be a somewhat loose opponent...but anyway) :P I would probably sometimes play QJ the same way at least. I open what is basically the HJ with Q8 offsuit (because some players were sitting out it was equivalent to HJ) and villain calls on the button. My open is way too loose preflop but I felt like making it :D. Having the 8 of spades also is pretty bad. Later in the tournament I was opening much tighter ranges. *** Flop *** [As 2s Kd] Me bets 75 Villain calls 75 *** Turn *** [As 2s Kd] [4c] Me bets 300 Villain calls 300 *** River *** [As 2s Kd] [4c] [Tc] Me bets 2970 Villain calls 2970 *** Showdown *** Villain shows [Qs Kc], A Pair of Kings Me shows [8s Qh], High card Villain wins 6917 Flop bet was 1/2 pot. Turn bet was pot sized. The river bet was a 3x pot overbet and villain tank called 🤣