Epiphany thought process

micros 4eva

I really liked that series too. I think you should think about what to do with your range on boards, but only against good regs. Most of the time playing an exploitative style will be the most profitable.

Not rly GTO although it helps a ton if you want to play balanced - just think about what strategy you want to take in the spot against the guy and what hands it's good before you take your hand into consideration. You can play purely exploitative just think about more possibilities and your strategy first - they did that series with fish etc, I don't want to play balanced quite the opposite at these limits pretty much always. But it makes you think more before you act and you learn a lot faster than if you just look at the hand and do the most +ev thing then move on. I get influened way too much by bullshit when I do that and tend to snapact and be results oriented, and since I came back it's been pretty much pure autopilot for me.

If nothing else it does force you to think
That series will be outdated but I do remember it was one of the best I've seen

and e.g. when reviewing a hand not thinking about "should I have played the JTo that way" but "was I right to take that strategy in v that guy in that spot (that included JTo)"
I was doing that when I was moving up quickly before I got a job/focused on finishing uni. Afterwards I stopped and I never moved up since.

Where can I find this series? I'm about to look, maybe I can find it. However, I thought picking a range was one of the first steps towards becoming slightly better than a fish? Wouldn't playing looser in position, just that alone, be a range, albeit vague?

guys I think lemon might finally be getting it!
now lets see you analyze some hands

Poker is dead. Lol

On September 26 2013 20:40 Gnarly wrote: Where can I find this series? I'm about to look, maybe I can find it. However, I thought picking a range was one of the first steps towards becoming slightly better than a fish? Wouldn't playing looser in position, just that alone, be a range, albeit vague?

It's on Deucescracked it's OOOLD like 2009-10? So the strategy itself probably a bit outdated like discussing defend range against a 3% 3bet reg , but the concept's great. They basically have covered cards the whole series and just talk bout what they'd do with all their hands in that spot, range v range.

Yeah that's one of the things, e.g. You are on the button you look at the blinds. Combined fold to steal is 50%. You do the math quickly, with minraise you need 57% FE so you decide you raise only hands with some sort of equity, either skewed towards suitedness/conectedness if they fold on flops or highcards if they are stations postflop - base on stats/reads.
Then you look at your hand and it just falls into one of the ranges, e.g you know 53s sucks stations and you fold but would fall into the raising range vs regs that can fold. You thought about the whole spot and just happened to have that hand so even if you lose e.g. on a river spot or AI in 3b pot you made a conscious decision and considered your strategy and range and don't care about the result.

I think over time I picked up the toxic thought process of everyone's retarded I want to play exploitative there's no point thinking much I just have to look at my 2 cards and play them if +ev - playing against micro players, like a micro player. Thing is your play will be the same most of the time, but you control yourself in many spots and think hands through a lot more and just can pure ignore results if you think in both his AND your own range.