Fish on a Heater -> Crushing 200z

Went busto on Global since I withdrew and had only ~$1k balance

Had some trouble depositing since there's no crypto option so I've been playing on ACR the past week

Overall definitely not as bad as I thought it would be at 100/200nl. The regs aren't making big EV mistakes and would be tough on Global but their frequencies are really bad, like 70-75% river fold isn't rare at all

I've only played 2 bots so far, mostly against one which is a freak even amongst bots (20% flop donk and playing EP-BTN limps)

I'm playing pretty bad in the bomb pots so I ran some sims in RocketSolver today. Lots of 10% pot like I thought but there's much more betting and XRing than I've been doing

I take this back, they're smarter than they seem at a surface level. I think there's a big survival of the fittest factor where only the creme de la creme of nits don't go busto

I take this back too, there were several other weird bots (one with 15% probe) I hadn't noticed. They must be testing new strats because there's way easier stuff they could change to not be so obvious. This one really had me confused because their location was India

lil blitz action because that's at least better than battling on full tables

vs avg 400nl reg, I thought they'd overfold underpairs OTF. They probably have some KJ/KT but it still felt like a fold

Nice hand. My intuition would make me block river ,probably 20-33%(btw ,did you consider blocking ?). I do not know how 400nl regs play there, but I doubt that they will have enough bluffs to justify the theoretical XC?
I would also worry about how thin they will reopen the action if I X (maybe not enough ?)

Around +$500 for November

Ty, yeah block seemed GTO but I thought they wouldn't reopen enough which benefits our middling hands a ton. And it's fairly likely they're overfolding all 3 streets here which would make b25 super thin

Some fun hands on coinpoker, I've played a bit vs Brownballa and AbsoluteTopup on Global. Hopefully mr Topup can win enough that he doesn't have to brutalize me when I shot 1k anymore

Ah you have a blog TBJ. Subs. GL²

TY², your posts are the only reason I look at the online NL section

+42k, played a ton this weekend and friday, maybe 8h/day on top of reviewing a ton of hands

Started flatting BTN today and I'll probably flat SB vs 2bb opens as well. I used to avoid multiway but after studying 6m bomb pots it's not so bad relatively. Often you can run some crazy bluffs or hero fold because everyone is playing them so poorly

Coinpoker games/streams have been fun to watch. It feels like Linus goes for every multiway/3-bet bluff, Topup goes for every pocket pair bluff, and Barak goes for every -10bb bluff

This is good imo. I've never really understood people who play strictly 3bet or fold.
If you have an edge over your opponents, it makes no sense to handcuff yourself by removing strategic options.

Limping SB is something I think a lot of people are unnecessarily excluding from their strategies as well.
Linus does quite a lot of limping, for example.

The goal of poker is not "simplification", nor "balance", but maximizing EV.

December +$20.4k, up $52k for the year

Average stake was probably around 300nl, 218k hands on global so like 7bb/100 there and higher on apps/iggy

Long gap where I didn't play much was mostly trying a weird format that I didn't end up enjoying

Hero IP with Q♠T♠

Cool line by them since I'm so polar OTT, it just really didn't feel like they would use this size with the nuts OTR or have some really weird lower flush often. Was actually 125bb deep and I think I should just use their same logic OTT by raising small myself as thin as Qc to make air indifferent

Damn this is some serious destruction TBJ. Granted …not 88.17/100, but still. Not bad.