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What does it take to beat .25/.50 ?
This is the last 3 days. About 10 hours, 1100 hands

How did u guys that are past .25/.50 finally break through?
You've all seen my play, and some have asked why I don't just move up. This is why.

frustrated

Are you up over all or does this put you in the red? I don't think 1000 hands is a true testament to how you play, because overall you're still winning, right?

I think I noticed a thread you started in the Micro Section where some of this was because you were trying out some Game Creation? Like BBB said, the rake is almost impossible to overcome, and you'll see some HUGE swings playing that short. Stick to what you're good at right now. You play a good game, Adri.

kk... I think I will go back to joining games. Ty for pep talk ^.^

Is that the major reason for your swong?

I think so...

On the bright side, I just got tiltblocker and I freaking love it already ^.^

What does it take to beat .25/.50 ?
This is the last 3 days. About 10 hours, 1100 hands

How did u guys that are past .25/.50 finally break through?
You've all seen my play, and some have asked why I don't just move up. This is why.

frustrated

rb2K is right. HU the rake is extreme and just to beat the rake takes a lot.

Also you seems to play a very solid (tight) game, you know what you are doing and why.
Also 1K hands are nothing, try to ask Boomer about his November/December. It's extreme and for us Lubbers I surely believe that it's only bad-varianze. So don't let the varianze get you on tilt, or to not joy the game.

A little swong can be because of 5 12+ draws in a session that you played aggresively and then didn't go your way.

Don't worry.

If this is all hu then, I would no recommend. You are basiclly dumping money to the site. Its no until you move up that the rake doesn't matter much.

Try to ask Boomer about his November/December.

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FWIW it was about 310BB downswing over the course of just over 5k hands.

Just a combination of every draw in the universe missing, opponents hitting any live cards they had and me turning into a showdown monkey because "he can't have it again can he?"...last one being the only thing I had control over.

But when you consider before that I had almost a 850BB straight line upwards graph w/o taking into account R/B it's still not THAT severe in the long term although it goddamn felt like it at the time.

I've talked to Isac very briefly and will try to record and put up a session of mine soon.

I was wondering, the last meeting was recorded right? I thought someone would put it online?

Also, I've got a few things we maybe could discuss in the group, it's all full ring limit hold'em though. I found our conference call especially geared towards 6max so I hope there is place for full ring also.

My points that I want to improve asap and I hope some of us also:

1. Iso raising a limper. I think I got this pretty much covered but would like to hear your ranges. What are you isolating with when the limper is early position and what when he is middle or late position? What if the limper is loose and what it he is tight? Etc.

2. Iso raising a raiser. There is the 'standard' iso raise the late position raiser with 77 thing but what when we trow in some more variables, like opponent type (tight, passive, loose, etc) and the position the initial raise comes from? E.g. in LAGs on a leash a middle to late position guy raises and there is a brief statement that if danza was OTB w A2s he would iso raise.

3. Blind defence. I had to leave earlier than most of you in the conference call and you might already covered it, but would like to talk about blind battles and blind defence especially. I think I'm stealing a pretty wide range but my defence sucks very bad, especially in the SB. What ranges do you guys have in full ring? What to call, what to raise?

See ya!

Hi All yah Lubbers

Yep, Speirs, Boomer recorded it and I know he will publish it when he finished editing it. But pretty big workload for a +2 hour chat, I believe.

I don't know if the whole group is interested in FR play, don't think that Boomer and Aldine has any intention playin FR, rb2K?. But Adri, you and me are playin FR so we can definitely get together for something. (if the others don't wanna participate?)

But in general, talking about blind defense, there's really not a big different. You might assume that a standard FR playing won't steal as much as a standard 6m player, but that depends on the read you have obviously. As goes for the postflop part of blind defense (or stealing) I think the strategy heavely depends on the opponents range. E.g. whether he is raising 60% or 25%, has a huge impact on your (mine) postflop strategy.

For Isoraising, from the BTN I'm gladly raising a lot, also because in FR a lot of fit/fold play is going on on the flop. But again, reads and ranges are what you should think about.

Isoraising a raiser, well is he just random TAGish, it's easy to estimate a range and we can play around with Stove and see how different flops hit's him vs. us holding different ranges. EG a hand like TJs vs a TAG from EP, do you consider 3betting, coldcalling or folding? I know what I doo, and partly why, but lets dig into this.

Really looking forward to your video, as you and Aldine are the only ones we haven't seen yet. Boomer haven't suåmitted a vid aswell, but he has done so before.

Also thought about if anyone/everyone is ready to continue our chat?

How's about videos, Boomer and Aldine, are you posting?

Hey guys, sorry i haven't been around the last few days, it's been absolutely hectic, I thought I was going to be free all weekend but it actually turned out that I would be pretty much afk from Friday night until now. (Just got back from golf course and I'm p*ss wet through )

So apologies the vid isn't up yet I will try and get that up for tonight and if last time's timing was ok with everyone we can continue smae-ish thime this week imo looking deeper into Blind Defense and Isolating ranges as I think that's where we stand atm if i recall, we only really started SB defense last week.

As far as a 6-max vid of mine or something there are aleady a couple up in the Members section and the RLMG vid I was in if those want to be taken at face value. I will try and do something this week. Apologies but didn't expect to be buying a new car this weekend

OMG you bought the Mito?

Well it's all voluntary so no rush to you IMO.

Yeah, as I remember it was blind and ISO play we got to. But often I get such things messed pretty much around. so...

I'm fine with Thursday, and time was also OK. But have no problem with meeting an hour or two later.

OMG you bought the Mito?

Oh yes . In Alfa Red. Ship it imo.

I did say i'd get the vid up this week so I'll get on it shortly. Will be a good refresher before we begin again.

You're right about where we're up to so I'm happy with what everyone else is happy with

Isoraising a raiser, well is he just random TAGish, it's easy to estimate a range and we can play around with Stove and see how different flops hit's him vs. us holding different ranges. EG a hand like TJs vs a TAG from EP, do you consider 3betting, coldcalling or folding? I know what I doo, and partly why, but lets dig into this.

Fold I guess. When I would cold call I want a couple of coldcallers before me already. I will 3bet it I think never, but if I must I will prefer it to 3betting hands like KQ or AT (because that cards are more likely in the tags EP open range). Also, you must hit the flop hard. Let's chat, I'm curious if we think different on this one.