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crimsonchinOP
1yr ago

Old time nlhe pro here, did very well in the early years up till 2016. Got wiped out by serious illness for 6 years. Just getting back on my feet now and started learning plo (mainly 5c) this year.

Let’s see if the dream is still alive in 2023.

The approach is simple, study effectively 3-5hrs every morning, play 1k hands at night. Going full monk mode. The goal is to make 30k+/month.

Will update weekly with my progress.

Also happy to talk in depth strategy in this topic. Feel free to drop any hh’s.

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5mo ago

Update: rage tilt

Have mostly been playing very good poker albeit some learning errors. The 10/20 6c game has been quite soft but I’m down 50BIs or so at it and last session it starting getting to me. “Downswings are a fictional concept. I don’t tilt. I’m a seasoned pro” I tell myself. Suddenly I make a terrible punt call, failing the discipline to lay down my obviously beat hand.

This suffocating feeling surges right to my head, ive been holding the lid for too long. This is not tilt, not anger, it’s something else all together. Primal murderous rage. “MOTHER****ER!!!!” I scream on top of my lungs. I resist the urge to smash my laptop through my car window and instead project my anger to the sweater I’m wearing literally ripping myself out of it. Sitting bare chested in the driver seat I start my car, chug three cans or red bull and start blasting Slipknot, adding fuel to the fire.

I head for the gym and run everyone off the road that’s in my path in my Ford F150 while repeatedly screaming “MOTHER****ER!!!”
Slipknot blasting in my ears
WALLS LET ME FALL **** YOU ALL
GET A GRIP DONT LET ME SLIP TILL I DROP THE BALL
I arrive at the gym wrap up my hands amd start hitting the heavy bag no warm up with everything I got spitting and foaming like a stray dog with rabies.
PRESS YOUR FACE AGAINST THE GLASS SUFFER
**** THIS **** IM SICK OF IT YOURE GOING DOWN
THIS IS A WAAAAAAARRRRRR

After 6x 4 min rounds I decide it’s a good workout. Could press for 10 rounds but that would leave me all exhausted for the rest of the day. We’re older and wiser now. Knock out 100 pull ups and weighted lunges and finally I can breathe again.

So let’s try not get there again. The frustration exclusively comes in 3rd-4th hour into a session. So force myself to break every 2hours for a few minutes.

Avatarcrimsonchin
2mo ago

The jump from midstakes to high stakes

The key is to really start understanding the specific nuance to each spot. There are no short cuts here and it just takes study and repetition. Every spot is different. Let me give you an example.

HU

BTN open, we call AQ887 Ahhh

T63hhs, check check

turn Js. T63Jhhss

We have a decision here. Since there are many combodraws available our hand is not particuarly premium, especially with a 3 card fd. The backdoor FD is more valuable here and can be played more aggresive as a probe than frontdoor FD. Still the hand will be indifferent. Since we generally don't make a good follow up bluff with his hand because of poor blockers, the ev will largely come down to how light our opponent will raise our probe here. Some players are more straightforward and a probe is fine. Some more aggro players could raise this turn quite light as there are many possible combos to do so with.

We decide to c/c. River 2h. We lead pot.

Not a bad play, however, do we really understand how this river should be played? When we dive into the solver it becomes clear potbetting is not much of a strategy, even with A high hearts. The reason is that ranges are still very wide and mergy here. Our opponent can have K high hearts, vs which we want to check raise. We also for example have 2ps/sets/straight with the Ah blocker that want to c/r as a bluff. We don't have as many bluffs that make sense to psb lead.

Our main lines here are small and check raise. What bluffs do we have small? what do calling ranges look like? How does our opponent interaction deviate based on his flop and turn betting strategies? What exploits can we make if we assume population understands this spot roughly at the level we did pre studying it?

Particularly the last questions I find difficult to answer in this case. I try to soak it up as much as possible and over time these things become more apparent.

Avatarcrimsonchin
3mo ago

Mix of max exploit and thurough understanding of GTO is def the way.

What seperates the best players is intensity.

An inherent intuition for aggression

Incredible nuance and thoughtfulness to details. The best player I know personally plays very intuitive/feel but with incredible attention to detail of the exact spot.

Hand reading skills and an understanding of human player dynamics

Extremely critical of their own plays. This is very important. Good players will wonder why their bluff didnt get through. Bad players will justify their punt.

Also more nuanced understanding of GTO

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