Brocky

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Log back in after some food, fire up a few Hexas and just get destroyed beyond belief.  It appears that there is nothing I can do at the moment.

First game, back to back hands aipf (3x):

Second game aipf (1.5x):

Third game (3x), all in on the river:

Fourth game aipf, not a massive beat but just another loss (1.5x):

Fifth game, apparently I can never have more than 3 outs (3x):

Sixth game, finally get a 5x.  3b jam out of the BB, get absolutely snapped off by the monsterous QJo:

Final game, what the :Heart::Hearts::Heart: is going on?

11 buy ins down dropped in ridiculous fashion.  Makes you wonder why we even bother at times.  

 

After shoving Ax into AA about 7 times over the past week it's nice to finally get one the other way!

Lost 4 off the bat, 77 < QQ first game, rivered in a flip game 2, OSED bricks vs whale's overpair after he shoved all in pre for about 10 hands because he lost 1 pot.  Those long-term blog readers amongst you will know I've talked about how I seem to strangely log in and lose 10bi without winning a game far more often than seems possible so I'm logging out before that happens.  

Feel like I'm being severely ❤️♥️❤️ tested at the moment.

No is the answer. I’ve asked many times but poker is not high enough priority.

I'm absolutely pumped at the moment.  Just had a horrible, horrible day at the tables and still managed to finish up.  Probably should've ended the session half an hour before I did as I started getting a bit tired/tilted but through the middle part where I was getting absolutely bent over I was playing so good and it's only a matter of time before I stop missing every meaningful flop.  Some of the ❤️♥️❤️ you see at the €10s feels like it's gonna leave you with PTSD.  

Going to shot take the €25s when I get to €1k which is a while away as the bankroll currently sits at €866.27 but a good day tomorrow and hopefully I'll get there.  Was going to originally try at €1250 but man I am so done with the 10s.  

Currently at a 7.27% ROI over 511 games at the 10s which I'll take but I reckon 10% is definitely attainable if I cut the number of tables and ran a bit better.

Haha wasn't sure but he had a similar style to you. GGs.

Pretty sure you used 6 aliases against me tonight?

GL. Did I just play 20+ games vs you?

100/200/25 blinds, Hero has 6k, other 2 stacks have 2k each.  ICMizer has hero shoving 72% profitably which seems fairly consistent to what I would have been shoving, even if I maybe very slightly wider.

Important to note that it says SB can only call 6.2% profitably with BB at 9.6%.  This means that AJo and 77 are a fold for SB.  

Of course you can shove super wide on the bubble into short stacks as they can only profitably fall a very tiny part of their range due to ICM. If you want to improve at poker I wouldn’t take any advice from a guy that is barely beating the games after 4 years of playing them.

An ego war would suggest fight on both sides. Wudu is so scared of playing me heads up he refuses to even acknowledge the challenge 🤣

For someone that’s perfected the theoretical understanding of poker maybe one day he’ll win for more than a paltry 5%* and grow some balls.

* Estimated 5%, of course.

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@Dennis_ wrote:

Just got in two games against you. In the first one I checkraised the flop then stacked of with nothing and you called. In the second one you checkraised the flop then stacked of with nothing and I called...

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Played 112 games today, can't remember these.

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@WuDu wrote:

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@Brocky wrote:

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Maybe I'll seek some coaching from someone that estimates their ROI to be around 5%.  

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Still more than what you made during your recent 5 man adventure....

 

tenor

I'm going to miss those easy double-ups...

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Ahh yes, that session of 6 games where I won 2, ironically for a 5% profit.  Imagine playing 5 mans for 4 years and only having a 5% LOL.  I'm up for a HU challenge any time you want, just let me know when.

Anyway, back to real business.  Clawed back the 15bi loss from yesterday with a 15.6bi win today.  

Hopefully Wudu will accept a HU challenge so I can add some easy money to the bankroll but given he has more estimates than a builder I won't hold my breath that he's not all talk.

 

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@WuDu wrote:

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@Brocky wrote:

 I have a guy shoving 14 times pot on the flop because the psychiatric hospital patients are having computer time. 

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:atisfied: Classical line...

But hey, during your 5 man adventure, your un-opened, pre flop go to move was to go all-in with everything once you had the chip-lead. I don't know whether that's much smarter...

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I can see how it might be easy for you to get confused with the differences of someone shoving 14 times pot heads up with no ICM consideration and shoving wide into the short stacks on the bubble of a 5 man, given your clear flawless theoretical knowledge of poker.  Look, we can't all be perfect.  

But hey, with a 7.4% ROI at €10/25 5 mans and a 6.9% ROI over 9000 €25 HUSNGs, what do I know?  

Maybe I'll seek some coaching from someone that estimates their ROI to be around 5%.  

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@Petit_pertotal wrote:

Must be crazy to see the difference in skill while multitabling it.

Cant wait to see a blog post when the luck is on your side, now it's already nice profit but then it would explode on that graph I think..

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It's relentless mate.  I've got people trying to gift me money but Unibet doesn't seem to want to allow it.  Just had this as we speak:

I'm losing my mind at the 10s, it's the biggest ❤️♥️❤️show of players I've ever seen.  It's a mix between ok regs (very few), bad regs (more), bad recs (lots) and players that make the bad recs look like Phil Ivey.  It's a really weird experience because I'm 3-4 tabling, I've got one guy check raising me because the board texture favours the OOP pre-flop caller while simultaneously I have a guy shoving 14 times pot on the flop because the psychiatric hospital patients are having computer time.  To add to it all, I'm getting coolered beyond belief but I've stuck to the BRM and managed to survive the variance even with yesterday's best efforts.  Had another 10x (3rd of the challenge), lost all 3.  Today I had TP with nut flush draw on A98Tss and of course I'm up against 76.  Get back to 250 chips, lose A3 vs T9 where he flops the straight all in pre.  Lovely.  This challenge should be going soooooo much better than it is but I'm still plugging away.  I'm not going to lie, I've questioned why I'm even bothering at these stakes many times but you create your own luck, right?

I'm not done for the day, just taking a small break.  Here's a graph:

Wins 35% of 3 player game, loses 12 buy ins. Stupid format!

You had a smaller stack in hand for hand, therefore you finish 8th.

Played a few on the phone in bed, lost some more bi. Get a 10x hexa and I've got a guy folding everything but randomly calling it off with crap when he gets short.

These all went in pre:

 

 

 

 

Bottom 2 pics are the wrong way around but when you're downswinging it feels impossible to win games at times.  He wins 3 all ins and the very next hand wakes up with aces.  Cool.  ❤️♥️❤️ today, seriously.

Getting crushed beyond belief today. 0 lucky would be an understatement but I’m not going to bore you with pictures of all of the hands, instead we’re going to go live and grind it back.

 

Will be on in 10-15 mins!

 

Www.twitch.tv/brockypoker

Thanks @SCOBY

 

Dennis I've replied to your PM, all details will be public soon hopefully :)

Decent afternoon session today, unsure as to whether I'll play tonight but playing the €10 HUs is really putting the confidence back into my game after recent struggles.

Overall bankroll is now €839.27

 

Don't want to stream too much HU as I'm looking to potentially do a HU study group and would want to keep all HU content there.  Therefore, I'll probably be streaming when playing other games so will post as and when.

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@Dennis_ wrote:

I played you as well today. Can´t wait to catch up on that stream to see the play from the other direction

@WuDu Do you play under the same alias or make use of the 3 avatar changes per day? 

 

 

Oh and you criticized my Q4o call, it was a really close Nash Call though :)

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Nash is a good guideline but it only works on the assumption that I am shoving nash ranges in that spot and there's some other factors it doesn't consider such as I am not going to be open jamming my whole VPIP range, I will be limping some of it.  Anyway, the stream is supposed to be just for entertainment and a bit of strat talk, I'm not looking to have everything I say or do over a 3 hour period scrutinised.  Similarly, if I make a throwaway comment about someones play it doesn't mean I think you're terrible or vice versa, could just be one play in a vacuum.  I make loads of terrible plays during a session but we're defined by the long-term.

Quick update from yesterday - Should have been a lot better, very swingy at the end and not very enjoyable.  Cut the stream short as I had a headache and shouldn't really have been playing at all but looking forward to getting back on it today.  Got 2 outered for fun and seemed to jam AK into AA more times than I can remember but still achieved a 6.6% ROI for the day.

 

@WuDu wrote:

It's fun playing against you at the SNG10s, but honestly, you have no clue what you're doing at the 5 Man SNGs, Mr Min-Raise Bandit! 🤣

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Yeh 5 mans are definitely not my strongest game, been playing hypers for the past 6-7 years or so and I'm definitely rusty at certain stack depths from the button/CO but to be expected I guess.

You talk a big game for a secretive man though, what's your ROI at the 10s/25s 5 mans?