Intensity

Since your current struggling to get your intensity up, I suggest writing out some goals for competition and for how pool fits in your life now. Why are acheiving these important to you? What do you want to get out of the game? What's driving you?

Write these answer out, review/revise/reread them regularly, and especially before you compete. Then, when you find your energy level dropping, Inject Goals, like I suggest Injecting Logic in the book. Dig deep, and connect deeply with these goals, and you'll find a boost of energy and focus that will increase your level of intensity.

MOTIVATION 101

* lack of motivation is the result of not having anythin to learn
* bored & feels like a grind

-> find things to learn. develop a process of doin it consistently

"I know alot of this might seem like holy fucking shit why are you thinking about this shit so much but this is basically the strategy I used besides running good to make me 450k lol which I have gone away from. The basic idea to minmize your variance/hands you play/spots you get in vs the really good players (in and oop) and instead focus a majority of your efforts on only the weak player in the lineup and how you can take his money the fastest and most efficient and be on to the next one."

blinds facing open from any position

vs UTG we can use same as vs MP

Minimum ~4% blind defense strategy heads-up against an MP (20%) open-raise
The minimum 4% defense is covered by:

• 3-bet {KK+} for value together with 20% of "OOP 3-bet air list"
• Flat {QQ,AK}
• This gives ~4% total defense

Alternatively

• 3-bet {QQ+,AK} for value together with 50% of "OOP 3-bet air list"
• This gives 6% total defense

Minimum ~7% blind defense strategy heads-up against a CO (25%) open-raise
The minimum 7% blind defense is covered by:

• 3-bet {QQ+,AK} for value together with 50% of "OOP 3-bet air list"
• Flat {JJ-TT,AQ}
• This gives ~8% total defense

Minimum ~16% blind defense strategy heads-up against a button (35%) open-raise
The minimum 16% blind defense is covered by:

• 3-bet {TT+,AQ} for value together with 100% of "OOP 3-bet air list"
• Flat the whole "OOP flat list": {99-77,AJs-ATs,AJo,KTs+,KQo,QJs,JTs} =70 combos
• This gives ~17% total defense

Cliffs: its very hard to exploit blinds from EP, so you shouldnt worry too much about defense.

facing 3bet OOP // facing open IP

optimal strategy pairs for various open-ranges OOP (Alice), together with Bob's lists of 3-bet-bluff hands and flatting hands IP:

Alice opens 15%: Bob plays 15.8% (with 3-bet% =3.6%)
Alice opens 20%: Bob plays 17.0% (with 3-bet% =5.3%)
Alice opens 25%: Bob plays 19.2% (with 3-bet% =8.7%)
Alice opens 30%: Bob plays 19.5% (with 3-bet% =9.4%)
Alice opens 35%: Bob plays 20.3% (with 3-bet% =10.2%)
Alice opens 40%: Bob plays 20.3% (with 3-bet% =10.2%)

BTN open facing 3bet // blinds facing BTN open

optimal strat for opening 35% btn facing a 3bet:

4-bet {QQ+,AK} =34 combos for value
4-bet {ATo,A9s-A7s} =24 combos as a bluff
Flat {JJ-88,AQ-AJ,ATs,KQ-KJ,KTs,QJ,QTs,JTs} =120 combos

optimal strat for a villain facing my open:

- defend about 17% of the time (more when flatting)
- value 62 combos AQ+,TT+ (we 3bet/ 5bet these)
- flat 70 combos 

- bluff 100 combos (see Equilab stored range)

it's mostly button openraising that forces the blinds to defend very aggressively, and that we can play much tighter against raises from earlier positions

vs 2x btn open blinds have to defend 43% combined


vs 3x open its 33% combined (~17% each blind, BB should defend more)


^^ this is true when we defend by 3-betting. if we defend by flatting, we have to use 1.5 call multiplier, because we let btn see flop and realize some equity.

live pokers srs knowledge

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/19/high-stakes-pl-nl/2000-random-shyt-457839/

new table routine:
1. I look around the room and figure out which table I want to be at
2. I sit down and buy in for the amount of the the loosest player at the table
3. If I don’t know anybody I buy in for 70 BB’s
4. I watch very closely and try to come up w/ an individual plan for how im going to break every player at the table. The plan includes a lot of factors but im really keen on whether the player is a “fit or fold” type, what the players weakest holding they’ll go broke with are, what the player is capable of in regards to running bluffs and how many bets the player needs to see before he considers a bet “significant”
5. Now I might add more money…a lot more money.

defending 3bets ip by flatting / theory

great article : http://en.donkr.com/Articles/optimal-3-bet-4-bet-5-bet-strategies-in-nl-holdem-6-max---part-3-351

Wildly aggressive player who was very good at finding the places his opponents were too loose and relentlessly attacking their weak ranges. - Opponents who 3bet far too wide, aren't aware of it,..

equity distribution

polarized KK72r
smooth - JT98ds

• All of the transitions between monster, strong, good, medium, weak and air flops are smooth
• There are many situations where as a function of opp tendencies, SPR or several other factors we would like to be able to subtly adjust our thresholds for a particular action, such as x/raising, stacking off, floating or donking. With KK72r its difficult to do cos the hand is extremely inflexible. Conversely, JT98ds is comfortable in nearly every situation.

hand review

dont stress misplayed/ meh hands which occur w very low frequency

bad regs

can hand read only in context of current street

opponent's tendencies

- how good a hand reader is my opp?

-> if he's weak player and he's cbetting 90% and the board is K42r just raise right away and he's gonna fold cos he has air most of the time.

constructing ranges (repost)

let’s say you’re playing 6m and some guy has 16% 3bet but your note says he showed up with AJo and KQo in SR pots. Then you can infer his 3betting range contains a whole lot of air and SC’s and very few broadway hands, because his value range is only 5.5% of hands(TT+,AJs+,KQs,AQo+) meaning there are 10.5% random other hands in his range.You should construct 3bet calling range to be all suited and offsuit broadways and also 4bet him frequently.

repost

• the feeling of trying my absolute 100% and watching what transpires
• play, and improve, and u will be rewarded. there are no shortcuts in this game
• if u wanna get better u need to challange urself, dont be a bumhunter, crush the souls of every reg, they all suck, no one is good under 5/10 (no offence), some decent 200NL grinders, and alot of solid 400NL grinders out there for sure, but if they really were good they would have played higher already, and the good ones, that plays lower probably 16+ table to maximise their hourly so they are all just solid nits whom are not much to fear

fuck low volume months theyre never good, never

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