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Unless villain is a donkey or I have significant history with them, the flop is a call Ainec.

I think you should play 100bb. Or stop overvaluing TPTK / single pair hands so deep.

Tbh from what I've seen of your hands the players are pretty terrible at these tables that I'm going to reconsider the rush & cash games and jump in on these.

Would you cbet 50% oop on that board with QQ at 6.5 spr in an already huge pot?
What do you achieve by folding out the Ax region which you have drawing dead?
What do you achieve raising vs the Kx region?
Why does villain never have AA, KK or AK when you give him a range?
Also if you think he xf turn why wouldn't he just fold to the flop raise?

It is fear playing

350bb deep it will be always fear playing and nothing wrong with it

I will follow your logic, lets exclude underpairs like QQ JJ etc and give villain range of AA KK AK AQs AJs ATs KQs KJs KTs

Counter question, what do you achieve by calling flop instead of raising?

That Ax region you mentioned will check-fold turns or they might pick up backdoor flush or combo draws, Kx region might hit two pairs, AA/KK will keep barreling big and they will jam rivers, this deep you will always be afraid to overplay TPTK so they will release equity easier for sure

What do i achieve by raising?

1. Win pot right away if they fold I’m happy i denied equity, missed hands wouldn’t give any more value later streets anyway, they would only stack us if they hit something like backdoor draws, two pairs etc and we shouldn’t be playing risky games 350bb deep, we’re happy to just win it right away

2. Taking control of betting lead and using our positional advantage to control the pot

Why are you interested in sheep logic? INSIDE OF YOU ARE TWO WOLVES.... and well both of them have some serious sizing and range issues.

You still didnt answer if you'd cbet 50 with those hands.

You are keeping his bluffs in and not bloating the pot and isolating yourself vs good hands for no reason.

If we know that they will only barrel with better hands why don't we just let them tell us their hand strength? Are we really scared of these things? Are we not scared of the Ax hitting an A and getting money from them? The Kx hitting another K and stacking them? Are we not scared of putting in too much money vs the hands that beat us?

I dont think denying 4% eq from bdfd is worth too much, also don't know why you think missed hands wouldn't give you any value later.

Right

Feels like you just clicked flop because you were scared and didnt want to get owned, but you just owned yourself instead.

I did answer, i told you i follow your logic to not cbet 50% with those hands so we can discuss ranges excluding those hands but me personally what i would do that's a different topic

Are you ready to call down his bluffs if he triple barrels 350bb deep? if your answer is no then why do you want to keep bluffs in this deep? if your answer is yes then are you ready to call down triples when they do it with AA? so by your knowledge do you understand pool enough to think they will bluff enough? well you have no clue but i will tell you they won't have bluffs and whenever you decide to stack off they will have it, do you admit you're wrong here?

Again, if they tell us their hand strength are you ready to call down or not? if no then why do you want keep their bluffs in? and if yes then congrats you're losing full 350bb stack because they aren't bluffing

Actually by taking control of pot we're losing less money, we lost 200bb in this hand instead you would've lost 350bb if you let him keep barreling, do you agree you're also wrong here?

You're basically giving him a free card so, if he picks up flush draws or +gutshot or OESD draws whatever then he picks up 20%++ equity OTT and if he doesn't then he won't continue, basically you're risking to lose 350bb stack and get nothing, unless if he keeps barreling with missed hands and unless we're ready to keep calling (and it's not 4% get your facts straight)

Do you believe Kx hands would just fold to that smallish raise? i don't think you believe that so if another A comes or K we'll stack them anyway much easier because pot will be bigger, again you're wrong here too

Definitely i owned myself by losing 200bb, i think you would've lost less in that hand right? (irony)

I would gladly give away strategical infos for people who really want it but dude you aren't here to learn and you're not capable to deliver your ideas in that way that will help me to improve either

So you're here to just blindly argue while you're not even close to knowing anything in this game, it's just annoying nothing else.

Be more specific

youre great man fr. never change

its not THAT badly played, flop raise can be fine, think when you’re this deep though on turn you might want to check back or size larger with the hands you bet with, I think AK can do both here, betting something closer to 50-60% seems better, you can then check back this particular river with AK, odds are he just soul read your turn size thinking you’d bet larger with sets and straight and didn’t want you checking back river so he led a size that kinda forces you to call with exactly what you had and prob KQ as well

so he kind of owned you but only because your turn sizing was face up at this stack depth, this would have been completely fine to size like that if you had only 200bb at start of hand

Based on your reactions to anything that goes against the way you choose to play, that seems like a waste of time. If you want to learn correct sizing/ranges, I would suggest you take some of the 6k you have online and invest in yourself. You appear to have zero bills so it's not like there's a huge opportunity cost.

First i read this text and said to myself "wow finally someone wrote something smart" then i looked who wrote it and it's Xenoblade, a successful high stakes player, basically this is opinion that counts and the others who commented about this hand was just a noise

Yeah i agree, river donk from villain is unpleasant i even thought to bluff jam there but probably he wasn't folding anymore because he committed himself with that bet probably but not excluding exploitatively he was ready to fold, actually i have zero bluffs there if i jam, but indeed his donkbet was unpleasant and mandatory call from me because he could easily have AK or maybe worse Kx but gut feeling was telling me he had exactly AA but i still had to call

Also i agree about turn sizing probably around 50% could do better or check-back i would've lost less probably

The problem with nowadays 2+2 community is that there is too much bad noise, i think successful players from old golden era of poker no longer can beat the game and they became somewhat evil/toxic who wish others to fail too, this is what i feel, this place became very toxic and evil, people give too much bad noise and they have basically no clue about how this game works

my brother in christ, you are the noise

For you I'm the noise probably because i don't follow the delusional path you worship aka the only way is to study solvers, i do things my way and this is my blog

I don't go to other blogs to spread my "noise" if you see my posts in others blogs its mainly wishing them luck or saying something very humbly and respectfully without bold statements or spreading my ideas

Another hand for review, i really hate to play hands passively, my weakness is check-calling lines because someone like this goes for huge turn cbet and then i don't know what to do and i just punt-jam i guess because i hate folding

lol i am anything but a gto solver snob. All i've ever advocated for is to understand the strategies it suggests and then deviate from there with exploits based on tendencies. I'm afraid you wont achieve the growth and goals you seek by being so close minded to peoples suggestions and just live in this fantasy world where you know everything.

Played 666 hands today perfect number to stop i guess, also withdrew like 100$

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Somewhat truthful. All elite players and virtually all good players have left open forums like this for private/semi-private discord chats. A majority of the people making threads and posting daily are bad players who aren't interested in getting better, because in 2026 everyone who advances from rec to reg has transitioned off of legacy sites.

To your other point, I'd say that most successful boom players, that still play professionally, have taken their skills and crush apps or ring fenced sites. Because we understand that the goal is to make the most money with the least stress.

Humbly. Respectfully. Good luck.

Also i understand like, we can't ask an average person who wants to become a winning poker player to be creative and come up with something by himself, it's like impossible thing to ask for an average person, they need a source to study from but as soon as they see someone like me doing things differently (which they think either it's impossible or i have to be special to do it) in both ways they're hating and it's understandable, i understand.

What were you doing for a living before you found such success in poker? Humbly/respectfully

Humbly & respectfully 2 magic words indeed 😃

Back in the day my source of income was online shop kind of thing, i was ordering products, placing ads, posting products, had an employee who was answering customer messages and taking orders while another employee was packing orders and giving them to delivery company so my effort was minimal there, basically i was doing nothing most of the time like a boss, i was playing games like Lineage2 for many years 😃

When i decided to quit that business and make poker as the only source of income ofc it was high risk decision, had savings of around only 5k$ which i planned to use to play live 1/3 since the risk to lose there was non-existent (in my mind) and slowly grind online poker from micros because i knew to start from low-mid stakes was too risky, i was down to earth and knew online competition was too tough so i wouldn't risk to deposit more than 20-30$

Grinded from NL2 and i still have 5k$ untouched outside of online bankroll in case anything goes wrong, i can applaud myself that i have balls to do what others can't and i have balls to do it in my own way so here people are allowed to be hating as much as they want but they won't be able to stop the progress

And that business generated enough income for you to fully pay off your house? If it was that big of a money maker why not keep doing it for another 6-12 months to give yourself a big bankroll?

At the begging it was, i had few hit products but then it was slowly decreasing because i was too lazy to research and add new products, basically i was auto piloting doing the same thing all the time

“Giving yourself a big bankroll” is a mistake because you gonna lose it anyway, better give yourself a big skill and how you do it? Start from the rock bottom (NL2) and grind it without re-depositing a penny, master discipline, master everything, this is from where the real skill is acquired, big bankroll should be earned, i don’t respect big bankrolls that are from the external sources

Would you say you've mastered discipline?