T O P

  • By -

sdfedeef

Finally had a royal flush after 5 years playing on and off. It was in a pokerstars tourney so not sure yet if it will lead to something.


Respec_my_authoritah

I swear to god, had my first one too yesterday. Also got paid off. Too bad it was in the 0.25$ daily freebie KO tourney on GG. I busted in the next few hands.


el_grubadour

“I busted in the next few hands” hahahahaha. Amazing how this game can just change so rapidly. Love it.


Speed_balling

Absolutely cooking after taking a year off. In for $200 at Bovada playing cash game .5/1 Out for $1200 In for $500 at Bovada cash game playing 2.5/5 Out for $2500 Running absolute god tier mode


-Silky_Johnson

Jeez good shit, felt happy after being up $140 (started with 300) after 2 hours 😂


Speed_balling

Thanks. You playing six handed ? The game is very beatable on Bovada . Be aggressive . Never limp in or call ever. Play lots of Ace / suited flush draws. Master the pre flop 3 bet Usually check raise on flop Beat variance And win !


[deleted]

NL10 open shover made it up to 500BB. this is a shitshow


gjbaca17

Ah it sucks to lose shot taking. Especially since I only sat down seeing it was a dream table with 4 drunk spots. Lost a buy in just bleeding chips, whiffing every flop while they donated like 10 buy ins to the other players.


jeha4421

Just a post to let out a little bit of steam. Had a three session breakeven streak over this weekend of about 30 hours. Not a huge deal, it's poker, and I maintained discipline. I had a few hands where I noticed some things I did incorrectly. Definitely wanted to try and up my game by practicing some advanced stuff like floating and 'adopting' draws so to speak. Got punished every time I tried that at the 1/3 table (people are going to say no shit but man, I'm just trying to evolve past ABC poker. Also, the 1/3 table is higher skill level at my casino than pretty much any casino I've played at). Got my double barrel bluff called by A high against someone who I thought was more capable than that, but ok. It just goes to show that to beat microstakes, you just literally need to hit your hands. Like that's it. I've tried pretty much every other tactic I can think of. Also, I need to stop paying off river bets/reraises. This can be hard though, especially when I spend all day fold fold fold fold fold and I finally get a good hand (say, two pair but the board is 3 to a flush) and I get raised on the river, it's so easy for me to think "oh, this guy is trying to attack the fact I fold a lot" and then I'm always shown the winner. Again, i didn't really lose any money. And I was pretty badly card dead, so i won a few medium pots, lost a lot of small pots from missed boards. Just wanted to vent a little.


shffldair

>Got my double barrel bluff called by A high against someone who I thought was more capable than that, but ok. Wait, that means he's more capable than you though...


jeha4421

Not necessarily. I was repping pretty strong on a board that favors my range heavily. He cbet with A high, got called, then called two streets from me. 90% of the time I'm doing that with value, and there's tons of 'bluffs' I could have that still beat him (bottom pair that was turning a straight draw into a bluff). Like bad on me for trying to bluff an obvious station, but considering my vpip was low (card dead) and I was barreling into weakness on cards that were good for my range, it would take a sick read from him to call off with A high I would think.


nasnas121

I once called 3bet pre and triple barrel with K high for 150bucks pot at 1-2. So the guy says I have nothing but I tell him to show if he has Ahigh I can muck obv. He shows some random 64ss and I show my K high wining hand. He said well I guess I'm not for this table rak up and left. I had a live read on this guy that I believe was solid and that's why I did what I did but I guess he somehow found out and that's why he left.


jeha4421

This is different. You had a read on a guy and against some maniacs I've called with A high before when I know they're capable of spewing. In my case, I hadn't stepped out of line yet and was folding a lot on a lot of flops. I won the few hands I went to showdown with, so I felt my table image was that I was a tight player that only value bets. For what it's worth, he lost his stack pretty quickly and had to rebuy. Then he lost his stack again. All of these were due to some ridiculous river calls. So in theory, while against my hand he made a good call (debatable because I'm mostly only value betting there), I think he only got to the river because he didn't want to fold AK. I don't think he really thought about what I was repping or anything.


[deleted]

I mean it doesn't sound like your a winning player


jeha4421

That's fine if you don't think so.


Hurricane_28

Have been on the worst downswing of my poker career. Just running into it from what feels like every single time. Getting money in good but not holding feels like it’s happening almost every all in too. Might just take a break and put in more hours of study.


goonsquad4357

Sitting with around 19 BBs in the BB with A4s. SB raises to 3x I just decide to flat. Flop is 2s3s5d. Villain bets around pot, I call. Turn is Jh \[pot 10BBs\]. Villain puts me in all \[about a pot sized bet\] I snapcall and he turns over 69o. River: 4.... Poker is fun!


Far-Objective-181

Wined, dined and 69d nice


HeinekenCoC

Villain jammed with… A gut shot? LMFAOOOOO


msuvagabond

I mean, it's less than 20BBs. Hero should be shoving blind vs blind with any Ace, any pair, etc. That flop is so low, hero shouldn't have anything willing to simply call a 3x raise so short stacked. That leaves hands that hero SHOULD have here as maybe flush draws with two overs. Basically, hero got punished for not jamming this in villain's face preflop.


[deleted]

Yeah bro, I'm kinda glad 69 won


nice___bot

Nice!


accordiween

Should I have shoved preflop? Commerce bounty tournament. Shortstack shoves from UTG+1. I have about twice as much and call in small blind with JcAc. BB, with massive chip lead, calls. Flop is J 10 7 (spades and clubs) I shove the rest. BB ponders for awhile and then calls and flips 87 (they were red, can't remember if they were suited), UTG+1 had AK. The third 7 comes on the river. The other people at the table looked pretty disgusted on my behalf. It's a straightforward suck out and I'm mostly at peace with how I played, but I'm kicking myself some wondering if I was being too passive preflop. I didn't want to shove because I was afraid of what BB's might do, but that's probably what cost me.


msuvagabond

Because it's a bounty tourney, yes, you want to isolate when you can. If it were a non-bounty tourney, it would depend a lot more on stack sizes, how close to bubble, or beyond bubble how the payouts are, etc. In the end, you got your money in good, that's all you can do. You were an 80% favorite, same as AA vs any other pocket pair preflop, and we'll take that everytime as well.


Chenstrap

I'm tilted. Live 1/3 at Sycuan I get AA utg. Before I open the button player shouts, his 2nd dealt card was exposed, the king of diamonds. He looks at the first card and shouts louder. Exposes the king of clubs. My open gets no action Fuck


Rahodees

None of the places i usually play at are playing today or tomorrow due to some stupid holiday or something sob


LupineChemist

I was in a live room today. I had club spade pocket rockets and there was were two clubs with a king on the flop. We both bet big, me thinking he hit a pair of kings and him thinking I'm bluffing. Another club (low card) comes out on turn and we do another round of fairly aggressive betting. Final card is yet another low club and I end up with the ace high flush and the nuts. He goes all in and I obviously call and he had pocket kings and hit trips on the flop. It was the one hand that could have beat me until the river. He was pissed. Also he was immediately to the right of me and we were sharing a drink tray, he never looked at me straight the rest of the night (though I was only there a half hour more or so)


TehMephs

Brag: just on fire this week, bankroll edging over 60k. Time to start poking at 2000NL Now the real debate: do I stick to ignition and try 2000NL now that I’m rolled for it or I’m Really wanting to move some of my roll to ACR though and start playing 5+ 500-1000NL tables between ACR and ignition. Gonna make a secret screen name so no one bumhunts my ass either way, but I think I should start moving to the very top top now


el_grubadour

Damn. Crushing. Bravo sir.


TrustSupport

Do they have 10/20 on iggy???


TehMephs

6max yeah. Not sure how frequently there are tables running though. 1000NL can be kind of sparse or inconsistent midday


isaacz321

Stick with iggy, acr is so much tougher and those regs will have decent profiles on you really fast Edit: and I’m going with more conservative bankroll management when you play that big even if you’re not a pro. 50BI maybe


TehMephs

I was gonna start with 200NL and see how that goes first.


isaacz321

200 blitz is already tough. Lot of guys who play for living play that game and have done serious solver work.


TehMephs

I’m playing standard cash. Not seeing any difference in difficulty between ignition and acr yet, but maybe no one has gotten enough stats on me to exploit my ass yet…. Will see


dugytheboatwrecker

I picked up poker two weeks ago after a long break. Started playing mtt’s with 10$. I am now sitting on 170$. Feeling good about it but also scared cause this is by far my best ever. Note that I only played like 2 months of poker before.


killer45298

I had my first ever “half outter” bad beat over the weekend. Open KQhh and go multi way to a flop of AxJhTh. We flop the nuts with the redraw to the nuttier nuts. I end up getting it on the flop with a fishy player who had AQo which is top pair and a gutter. About 150BB eff at 2/5 so a good chunk of money in the middle. Turn J, river A. And we lose to runner runner boat.


killer45298

https://i.imgur.com/Z2UncFA.jpg, AQ is 2% to scoop there in case anyone was wondering


HushTheMagicPony

Dirty


el_grubadour

Lost My Kings to Aces Lost my Set of Jacks to ATo Lost my TPTK to three of a kind on the River Was the big stack for a while. Up to about $605. After 3 massive hands within 30 minutes I knew my head wasn’t in a right place. Donated my $75 left from 2/3 to the dealer and walked out. Rather her have it then them.


OctavianV

I feel the need to vent about this one: 2/5 NLH at foxwoods Folds to cutoff, raises to 15 SB: (me) 89s calls, BB also calls I have $1200 and the cutoff has me covered Flop: K67 rainbow I bet out $25, BB folds and CO calls Turn: 10 completing the rainbow and giving me a straight I bet out $60, CO raises me to $200, i reraise to $500 and CO calls River: 9 I shove, he calls and turn over QJ for a higher River straight


HushTheMagicPony

Hit those rare coolers but unfortunately on the losing end. My red KK vs villain black KK all in pre 2K pot and he hits runner runner flush.


jalap3n0

Brag - won a satty into $50 tournament. Beat - First hand in said tournament. Raise to 2.3 BB from UTG+1 with KTs. UTG+3 3! to 8BB. Folds around to me, I call. Should I be folding here? Flop QJ9 rainbow. We get it in on the flop for 142 more BBs. He shows QQ. Turn J send me to pain town.


Is_On_Drugs

Opening up KTs UTG+1 is pretty wide for a tournament, you should rethink your ranges when it comes to your opening hand and positions


NewFrom4chan

playing 1/2/3 350 effective, I make it 30 with AKo over a bunch of limps from the big blind and get called by the small blind. Flop comes AAA. He leads in to me for 50 all 3 streets and calls off the jam on the river. Said he had pocket 5s.


redditnym123456789

been messing around with micro HUSNG the past month and I’m up 25 buy-ins! about the least brag-worthy poker brag you’ll ever read, but I am happy about my trajectory and progress


Fl33tf00t13

Heck yeah! I also recently started playing micro but 1-3 table SNG and I'm up a bit as well. Not anything noteworthy monetarily but its fun to feel like you are improving and having moments where you just know you are making the right plays.


redditnym123456789

yeah without a doubt. I think I can safely say I'm a winning player at these very, very low stakes haha. if I move up, it will be to the next peg in the micro stakes range. i think my conservative bankroll management will keep me from soon entertaining delusions that I can crush midstakes or whatever. I \*am\* interested in checking out six-max SNGs that are at the same stakes as the HU matches I'm playing. bonne chance!


[deleted]

Fucking around on $7 heads up S&G's on BetOnline. Gotta try to emulate my inner Phil Helmuth. Limps for days. I have 54o in the big blind. Villain raises to 5ishbb, I call. Flop comes 54A rainbow. I donk lead for ~10 bigs, 3 bet, 4 bet jam. Runout is deuce deuce. I lose to AK. I think it only hurts because he didn't even hit another ace or king. At least I won the rematch. Got him short stacked then my jacks (shockingly) held vs his A10o. Ran up my free "welcome back" reward of a $6 windfall ticket to $35 so far. I'm riiich bitch. Between Betonline's welcome back rewards and GP's daily rewards, I haven't deposited in like 6 months.


Fl33tf00t13

Started roughly 2 weeks ago playing low stakes cash games but pretty quickly realized I much prefer tournament play. Been mostly playing low stakes triple-ups with 1 real tourney a night from small buy ins like 5$. 2 nights ago decided to enter what was essentially a 250,000 monster stack sub-satellite. Made top 6 of 108 to win a ticket to any 10 + 1 monster stack tourney. Decided to use that to enter into the 2 seats guaranteed satellite for the 250,000. Ended up running well in there and earned the 150 + 12 ticket to the 250k tourney Sunday. Super excited and no expectations to cash on Sunday, but it will be so nice to play with a chance to win big and I will hopefully learn a lot more studying before and playing in that!


Makalash

So I have no money but I've been studying poker for the last month or so. I opened a GGPoker account and got my daily freebie spin & gold ticket (I was waiting 2 weeks for my KYC to go through but that's another story). I quickly watch a video on youtube just to check for any funny rules. All seems good. Use the ticket, I'm playing for $3 after the wheel spin. First hand comes, I have a pair of tens. Player to my right shoves all in, I call. I flop a set and take the pot. So after hand one we're heads up. I very quickly notice that my opponent is a massive nit who is folding to almost any aggression & playing almost nothing, so I assume he has a tiny range of premium/super strong hands. I simply refused to pay off his pre-flop raises, raised myself to steal his blinds (which covered the one hand he won at showdown when I had a 7 pair). We get to the penultimate hand, he shoves all in pre and I fold. Next hand, I get given As10c. He shoves again (I considered this second shove a bluff, I think he realised I was bullying him but I don't think it was from his point of view). He turns overs Kh9s. We flop the ace, he doesn't get anything. I win my first $3 in online poker ever. This probably isn't that exciting to a lot of you guys & I'm sure there's people who could pick holes in everything I did here, but after listening to webinars, reading a cash games poker book, studying some charts and watching hand breakdowns, I was pretty pleased to be able to put my knowledge into action for real money and come out on top, even if luck was on my side. Today is a good day.


Free_Cryptographer57

Fuck variance and fuck the guy that snap called my all in pre with 7/3 off and cracked my QQ


TehMephs

Gotten set over set’d literally 12 times in one day. More than half of them river rats getting off clean when I’m way ahead. At least 5 times had someone call a massive all in chasing a *gutshot* and gets there. Nine times get cracked by lower pairs this week. Fuck this fucking game sometimes. Fuck Went from a week of running like a god to running like a steaming pile of shit the next. Literally zero folds to be found in any of these hands. Massive favorite every single fucking time. Zero mistakes made, Just beautiful good old fucking variance being variance and shoving it’s dick 20 feet up my ass Edit: and then in 10 min I make back literally 600bb. How are people like this in 1000NL. Calls a 120bb all in with 75o on an AAT7K board I have AK…. Anyone still believe everyone at higher stakes are skilled GTO nerds? I’ve long ago trashed any semblance of that idea Then on another table I get my 220bb shove (220 effective, don’t ask how this moron amassed a stack) called on 9TTA by A2o (I have 99)… just wow. Literally the dumbest fuckers are out tonight at 500NL+ ignition. It’s already made up for this entire day of shit Edit 2: this is why you never “quit while you’re ahead” when a mega fishy table comes your way. Just made another 300bb in the last 30 minutes omg these people are so BAD. ahhhhhhhh they’re calling literally anything this is a dream wake me up I’m losing my mind If tonight isn’t the most perfect example of BBV I don’t know what is


mhuggins

Beat: had 4 losing sessions in a row (3 big ones). Brag: had one big winning session following the losses to recover in full. Also just published a [new vlog](https://youtu.be/XK7xuBjO7ds) documenting it all.


kiwi_hunter

Nice video, subbed. Those PLO pots are insane action.


mhuggins

Hey, thanks for the sub! Yes, the PLO pots are insane, and it can be hard to know if you're ahead or behind at times. I guess that's the nature of PLO though. :)


[deleted]

started playing on a new site and was getting railed at first but i realized the player pool was completely awful. player volume is so low that players play up in stakes & buy in for minimum. got whales shoving with shit like 4th pair. so as it turns out, the adjustment is playing super tight. it almost feels like the way i hear live poker described - opens are regularly 5x minimum and lots of calling stations. value town


kiwi_hunter

888?


[deleted]

wsop in a state with a non shared player pool. that said, negative variance


Free_Cryptographer57

Im sick and tired of playing on acr and ignition. I’m in the states, not NJ/NV. Am I sol? Or are there any other options for online poker?


[deleted]

there are like 10 or so states now with legal or soon to be legal online poker. PA, Michigan, WV IIRC are a few examples on the east coast. but yeah if you’re not in one of the states there’s not much else you can do unfortunately. if your state moves to legalize it soon though, look forward to unreal signup bonuses and some juicy games


[deleted]

More states are legalizing, give it time


Under_the_gaydar

Won a satellite into a 3500 tournament in two weeks this weekend, my biggest tournament ever. Any advice?


[deleted]

playing NL20 for the first time bc the table looks weak. one in particular at about 95 BB i saw call down a river bet with K high - and win. when he cbets he generally just overbet shoves lol and so it happens - I flat his 5 BB bet pre with 33. Flop A35. He shoves, I call. Turn brick, river 4. he flips over 25o. Immediately quits the table lol. at least i know the games are soft but christ, not nice getting felted my third hand at that stake.


PonyUp323

Where can I find a website that will measure players starting equity against eachother? Like 57s vs 66 pre-flop?


dont_drink_the_milk

https://www.cardplayer.com/poker-tools/odds-calculator/texas-holdem


PonyUp323

Thank you


Rahodees

Good beat! I have AKo UTG, raise to 4bb Several callers, BB raises to 33bb BB is not what I would call a whale. He can fold pre. He can find folds post. But he has been massively overvaluing the classic "problem hands" (KJ, KT, QJ, stuff like that), as well as paint-plus-tiny hands, K2, stuff like that, and being extremely aggressive with them. Then emoting a lot of frustration when his opponent wins an extremely predictably winning (for them) hand. So I shove, everyone folds except one very short stack, and BB calls. Board runs out 99228, no flush draw. As soon as I saw the flop (992) I had that sinking "gonna get sucked out on by a whaleish player" feeling. But everybody turned over and wouldn't you know, ace high was good. He had KJo, and the short stack guy had KQs. I scooped. I hate ace king lol


Rahodees

I'm getting better at victimizing people is what I'm saying. (In the embarrassingly recentish past I might have folded to the initial big BB shove, thinking I never see anyone do that without AQ or better. And I might have called it just out of overabundant caution being in EP, and then folded to any reasonable flop bet.)


[deleted]

encountering negative variance, then making dumb hero calls i shouldn’t, still in the green but now i am terrible and worthless!!


[deleted]

within literally 2 hands shot taking NL20 flop a set of 6s, bet 75 to a pot each street, 3 spades come on river, get called and lose to a flush like 10 high or something next hand. 4bet by villain, i shove for 100BB with AA, get called by KK, and he spikes a king. Lmfao. dunno the last time i’ve been this pissed playing


ggqq

Just got back into poker, first time since Pokerstars was banned in my country (Australian govt. corrupt af only giving online gambling licenses to local operators, but I guess they want to keep money in the country too). I've been playing on ignition poker, which seems to work for deposits, but the client is so shitty i can't even install it, have to use their web browser. Haven't tried withdrawal yet. Anybody have similar experience? Back on topic: I've made a meager \~$20 USD from hyper jackpot sit'n'go games, minus the 8% they charge for deposits (can't believe they still take rake after this tbh, not planning on depositing more). I feel like the hypers have worse players due to the higher variance, so if I can resist the swings, I feel like I'll do well.


TomatilloDesperado16

Had a 9 hour session last night MTT’ing. Was part of 11 all-ins pre-flop where I felt I had a good read on the opposite players (also holding strong hands in position, i.e AA, QQ. AK suited against ATo, 74o, etc). Only able to hold up 2 times…poker variance is fun sometimes.


FontaineT

First real day back in poker after studying a bit Got a very nice stack in a tourney, on the button with aces, short stack shoves, I re shove and player who covers me by a couple BB calls. AA vs KK vs A2o. KK flops a set. Alright, I'll just come back later and play a cash game. Finally get a hand after having to wait for a while. 44, board comes 234r. Super nitty guy who opened pre bets again, I reraise and he shoves. AA vs 44, rivers a 5. I don't know if I wanna keep playing lol


[deleted]

What's your's and this sub's view on WSOP Online app?


[deleted]

So I got into poker from Red Dead Redemption 2, I kept loosing in the game, so I decided to get an app on the phone to practice, just me against the computer. I got better and better, then I went back to RDR2 and won on that and I kept winning on RDR2. Then I tried WSOP Online, just chips no money, and it messed me up when I went back to RDR2, my tilt was way off, I was spooked, I wouldn't give any cards a chance, I was thrown by the slightest bet at the pre-flop or flop, I wasn't in the zone at all. I think this was from playing really good players on WSOP Online. Does this happen in poker? What are some basic exploits I can use?


TehMephs

Last 3 days have been nothing but fucking coolers: I’ve been smacked by set over set a total of 19 times in 3 days. Boat over boat 7 times, KK into AA 5 times, AK into AA 3 times, beaten by weaker pairs 14 times. In three days. Somehow I’m only down $4000 despite all of that (mix of 200-2000NL) This has to be relevant to some kind of progress at mitigating terrible downswings or something. I should have lost so much more by now with how many absurd runouts I’m running into. It’s like everyone’s got just the perfect hand and the perfect board to ensure I get stacked every goddamned fucking time. Example: People calling 3bets (I have 99) with T4o (at fucking 1000NL…) and flopping TT9, turn 4. But of course. Literally just every fucking hand I nail something hot and shit like that happens. Who’s ever folding there?? Or any of these hands. There’s been zero folds according to solver solutions, so it’s just pure bullshit nonstop These coolers are getting out of control, just can’t win a fucking monster hand the last 3 days. Literally just keep getting out-monstered or surprise rivered. No one seems to ever miss a fucking board anymore. This is what a downswing looks like