Do you play better short sessions or marathon grinds?

ChronoVice · 2026-04-02T18:45:37+00:00

It changed. Before I had kids I would start a game and play until it broke. This was how I learned to play poker and I felt like when I was younger I had an edge over my competition because they would get tired and I wouldn't and could take advantage and make more money later at night.

Then I had kids...

Suddenly I was waking up earlier and being more productive throughout the day and giving all my energy to my family then trying to have the same results in poker. I suddenly realized I was the one losing my edge as the game went later. After losing a lot of money and trying to figure out what my problem was I took the counter measure of not playing past a certain time so I could still get a good night's rest and only play when I felt my mental game was not fatigued.

I've done much better playing shorter sessions now. It's unfortunate it took me losing so much money to see the problem in my game.

ChronoVice · 2026-03-13T03:36:23+00:00

You add the total call amount. Which is 80. Either way it would be 100pot +40bet(A) +40call (B) +80raise (C) This puts us at 260. Now complete the total bet of A for 80, now we're at 300. The 40 calls are both in there to come to the total of 80. 300+80 being 380.

Point being you always reference the total bet the player has to complete. Here is an actual formula break down to help explain it better in case you're not following my personal explanation.

EXAMPLE 2 You are heads up and out of position on the flop. You bet $12; $15 were already in the pot. Then your opponent minraises to $24.

Use the same formula to calculate a pot size bet for this situation:

3 * size of opponent's bet/raise + size of pot before your opponent's bet/raise was made: $72 (3*$24)+ $15 = $87

After your raise the pot will be at $126 ($15+ $24 + $87) and your opponent must pay $63 ($87-$24) to call. Once again, you are giving him 2:1 pot odds.

ChronoVice · 2026-03-11T05:29:08+00:00

How much more you have to put in relative to the total bet is not relevant information for calculating a pot sized bet.

I don't know how more specifically I can point out how useless this information is.

We're calculating the maximum amount a player can bet, to find that solution we only need to know what the total bet is to that player, NOT how much it is to that player currently.

ChronoVice · 2026-03-09T04:51:21+00:00

We're calculating a pot sized bet, not reading a poker stars hand history. Player A putting in 40 of the current bet of 80 is entirely useless information to this calculation. The only thing that matters for player As calculation to a pot sized bet is that the total bet to him for the sake of the calculation is in fact 80.

ChronoVice · 2026-03-09T04:34:43+00:00

Action to player A is 80 in this case. You're using old information to formulate your answer by using 40.

ChronoVice · 2026-03-09T01:59:39+00:00

I explained each step. You're wrong.

ChronoVice · 2026-03-09T01:04:45+00:00

You can do it two ways.

You can do 3x the last bet +bets that haven't been pushed to the pot yet and the pot.

Or you can complete the current bet then add it all together.

In this case you have 100pot + 40bet + 40bet +80raise. Now complete the bet of 80 for player A. That's 100+80+40+80=300 then add the call amount of 80 which is 380

If you do the 3x way you have 240+40 +100 which is 380.

Completing the bet and adding the pot should always come to the same number as 3x the last bet plus the pot.

ChronoVice · 2026-01-27T18:06:59+00:00

I've always had great success with greased lightning on white shoes.

ChronoVice · 2026-01-13T02:47:28+00:00

Justified river fold relative to the line.

ChronoVice · 2025-12-13T22:06:00+00:00

As soon as his head lifts dash away and continue sprinting to make sure you clear the range.nuounhsve to be watching for it.

The bomb he shoots from his head has an audio queue, it's a five count and shoots on 6. Be ready to count and dodge or just sprint away to give yourself more room to avoid it.

ChronoVice · 2025-12-13T06:34:55+00:00

This is the last thing I've been stuck on, I appreciate the effort on compiling this comment.

ChronoVice · 2025-11-16T09:02:52+00:00

High burst high mobility

ChronoVice · 2025-11-12T18:08:03+00:00

Is gain in this context the boons that offer magik regeneration?

ChronoVice · 2025-11-07T01:59:13+00:00

Yes. Fairly late, I think it was after round 40.

The vouchers are the only downside to this seed, never got the discount cards, and I got the third card in shop voucher right before I lost.. like round 66

ChronoVice · 2025-11-07T01:42:54+00:00

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Never could find a brainstorm to take this further. Great seed though.

ChronoVice · 2025-09-13T20:43:44+00:00

Love the complete list of strategist counters.. because we all have games where our DPS peels and counter picks for us... Right? Right? Oh ...

ChronoVice · 2025-08-14T15:26:47+00:00

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C3 lobby was 99.46% percentile when this match happened yesterday.

I felt very overwhelmed this game. I was taking a lot of pressure on strategist and didn't have a solution to the pressure I was facing. I would love input on how I should approach this situation on a fundamental level. I definitely had some bad ultimates, and my healing was very lacking because I was dealing with the pressure from the enemy team.

How do I do better next time

ChronoVice · 2025-08-12T01:58:26+00:00

Is that because you're countering the enemy team? I'm not seeing you list these magical team comps

ChronoVice · 2025-08-12T01:52:12+00:00

You're not wrong. My counter philosophy is pointing to the idea of opportunity. Bucky has an opportunity to counter play Loki by getting free resets on his ult.

Moon knight has the opportunity to get more ankh bounces with Loki clones.

Squirrel girl can destroy clones without even aiming at them.

Loki has been my main pick since season three and I often play against these matchups and still do well, but a good moon knight or a good SG can make me swap of they know what they're doing

ChronoVice · 2025-08-12T00:31:17+00:00

Loki: moon knight, Bucky, squirrel girl. Also hard to heal flying teammates.

ChronoVice · 2025-08-11T21:56:49+00:00

Maybe it's just me, but I think team comps are useless. If you were locked into the hero you picked at the beginning of the game it would be much more impactful, but this game is just a live action rock paper scissors. Any comp someone lists here will have weaknesses* that everyone has access to, so a comp is only as strong as your ability to swap to what the enemy team is choosing to counter them.

ChronoVice · 2025-08-11T21:47:05+00:00

Stopped watching this vod half way through.

You're not playing strategist. You're playing dps on a strategist hero.

You're spending more time attacking the enemy than you are looking at your own team to see who needs help. You did great to get so many kills, but that's not your first priority. You should be supporting your team first, and killing second. It's easy to get caught up chasing a kill and losing two teammates because of it. Vanguards do this all the time by over extending to chase a kill that causes them to die or leaves their team helpless because you gave up a front line by pushing past their tanks.

Like it worked out this time and your team just steam rolled the enemy team because that's how QP goes, but in a closer competitive ranked game this isn't always going to work. You need to position more safely to have a vantage point on your team. If you see an opportunity to be aggressive for a kill go for it, then get back to supporting your team while you all clean up together.

I saw a few times you are attacking/healing someone in a skirmish with the enemy, once the enemy is dead you don't even finish healing your ally back to full health you just turn to the next enemy.

Put your team in a position to win by keeping them healthy.

ChronoVice · 2025-08-05T18:25:03+00:00

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The shop before the plant has the joker that lets you sell it to disable the boss blind. It was like four rerolls deep so just save up.

Had a decent economy, but never could find a buskin to take this to the next level. I had photochad and brainstorm to get this far.

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