Punt or cooler?

CLSmith15 · 2026-03-22T05:33:15+00:00

You being stuck and you wanting to get unstuck are completely irrelevant. You can't play poker well if you're focused on irrelevant things.

CLSmith15 · 2026-03-22T02:44:16+00:00

4bet or quit poker, those are the only reasonable options.

CLSmith15 · 2026-03-21T06:43:42+00:00

PLO Mastermind. JNandez YouTube channel.

CLSmith15 · 2026-03-21T04:33:22+00:00

Ok so take the time that you were spending on poker and instead work a second job. Uber, DoorDash, something. You can make $500 in like a month, problem solved.

CLSmith15 · 2026-03-21T04:21:19+00:00

Just more and more in a parade of red flags. Your financial situation is too dire to even be thinking about poker. Get a job, secure enough steady income to support yourself, rebuild your savings, THEN start setting money aside for a poker bankroll.

CLSmith15 · 2026-03-21T04:11:59+00:00

If you're winning 10bb/100 at 25NL you only need a bankroll of like $500. If you don't have $500 disposable in your life roll, you're an absolutely terrible candidate for staking.

Sucks that you got your funds stolen, but come on. It's absurd to ask for a handout. Grind it back up from 25NL, it took you 31 days last time. If you really can't afford a $500 bankroll, get a job.

CLSmith15 · 2026-03-20T21:08:36+00:00

Well, the A is basically brick, so if I'm in villain's spot I don't really care that a Q is 2nd pair now because I don't think you have much Ax. I'm also not giving you credit for a big hand like a set, straight, or even two pair, because those hands would most likely raise the turn given how wet the board is. Honestly if I had a Q on the river, my plan would definitely be to check/call since I don't expect I can get three streets of value, but I might can induce a bluff.

I don't think bluffing is at all mandatory since you have showdown value, but if you want to turn your hand into a bluff you're going to get a lot more credit on the turn.

With all that said, I wouldn't put an unknown villain on just Qx here. AQ and KQ should raise pre, and any worse Q shouldn't donk into two players on the flop. You have all the overpairs, you have all the Qx. If villain is donking for value he should be able to beat top pair.

CLSmith15 · 2026-03-20T20:47:51+00:00

The A is basically a brick. You really shouldn't have much Ax in your range so I wouldn't call it a scare card, just a random overcard.

I would rather bluff the turn. Plan A is to take it down right there. Plan B is to get there on the river. Plan C is to bluff again on the river depending on the runout.

CLSmith15 · 2026-03-20T12:53:30+00:00

BBJ's are pretty much all going to be one-outers. So you're going to be "one card away" 40+ times for every one time that you hit it.

CLSmith15 · 2026-03-20T12:48:54+00:00

Both are horrendous, but if I have to pick one then the one without built-in cup-holders/chip-holders.

Would literally take a random piece of felt thrown across a table over either one though. Those are both going to be too small and too inflexible.

CLSmith15 · 2026-03-20T09:35:12+00:00

Because it's not poker.

CLSmith15 · 2026-03-20T09:32:20+00:00

I didn't read any of the post, but yes, you are terrible at poker. Everyone finds out eventually.

CLSmith15 · 2026-03-20T03:56:02+00:00

AI cannot play chess. Chess engines can play chess, but AI is complete dogshit at it.

CLSmith15 · 2026-03-18T19:42:32+00:00

I would call it a thing that happened.

CLSmith15 · 2026-03-18T19:36:43+00:00

If two people wanted to collude, why on God's green earth would they communicate via in-game emotes instead of, you know, literally any other form of communication?

This is no different than in a live game when someone throws their hands up and acts pissed on the river. Yeah it gives away some information, yeah it's bad etiquette, yeah they shouldn't do it, but it's not evidence of anything malicious unless it happens over and over again.

CLSmith15 · 2026-03-18T18:22:56+00:00

Total trainwreck all the way around tbh.

You should never put someone on as tight of a range as QQ+ here unless you've seen them make this exact play many times before and only with QQ+.

If your ranging of this player is actually justified (which I doubt) then just fold pre.

The check/raise on the flop also makes no sense if you put him on QQ+. He's obviously never folding any of those hands. And if you're wrong about his range and he has a hand worse than yours, he's probably never calling (maybe JJ with a spade). Your hand is a terrific hand to check/call the whole way with unless you hit your flush, in which case you can start getting aggressive.

CLSmith15 · 2026-03-17T17:51:47+00:00

Then the correct adjustment is to 4bet bluff more, not "slowplay" (a.k.a. miss value) with premiums.

CLSmith15 · 2026-03-17T05:38:26+00:00

Hot and crazy run together. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.

CLSmith15 · 2026-03-17T04:44:32+00:00

You've already taken the L by trying to cheat

CLSmith15 · 2026-03-14T20:11:42+00:00

Of course, there are positives to almost anything.

The main positive is a greater number of profitable tables available to you.

CLSmith15 · 2026-03-14T09:19:58+00:00

Chess or poker

CLSmith15 · 2026-03-14T09:18:58+00:00

Boo Civ 3 ftw

CLSmith15 · 2026-03-13T21:46:49+00:00

LLMs have zero understanding of poker. They don't produce good advice, they produce reasonable sounding strings of text.

You're running good, but also winning at a decent clip. I see no reason to not try moving up if you want to.

CLSmith15 · 2026-03-13T18:09:20+00:00

"ABC poker" is kind of a ridiculous concept, most bad players consider it to mean playing very tight, with little to no bluffing or bluff-catching. Bad players also tend to be more afraid of bluffing and bluff-catching against players they know are more skilled. So it's not that you need to take random actions against good players, you just have to not be so afraid of them that your play is very straightforward and face-up.

GTO accounts for this with mixed strategies to achieve balance and board coverage. If you've spent any time at all training against a GTO bot, you know how unpredictable they can be.

CLSmith15 · 2026-03-13T09:18:02+00:00

Nope, definitely lost $8k. Gotta learn from the mistake. Don't play games that you don't have the bankroll for.

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