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Re: John Major plays poker
« Reply #30 on: September 05, 2013, 21:03:55 PM »


Obviously we don"t worry about losing sessions

If you get somebody who your HUD is showing you is opening a lot of pots opens from the Button or the Cut Off then it is profitable to 3-bet them wide from the SB or BB. If you get called c-betting the flop is profitable a lot of the time,
So I would suggest a small (maybe 500 hand) session where you try to do the following.

For that session try to steal every tie it is unopened (everybody to act before you folds) to you in any of those positions.

Try to steal pots on the flop in good spots. For example if you have called a raise pre, the flop comes ace high and the raiser checks to you bet it. It will work a lot.


Again, if you want to do a Team Viewer session


Cheers Steve. I can see you have gone to a lot of time effort here. It is much appreciated.

I do appreciate the advice - please keep it coming. I probably won"t take all of it as you would expect but some of your comments will be very helpful to my game. It is very  useful to discuss issues with players who appear to have gone through the same issues as I have gone through.

I know you"re are right when you say I need to be stealing more in LP. However my game has been in the past all about having the best hand in most cases and getting value in showdowns. It is a big change to be playing pots more regularly without real hands. I now I need to do this but I think it has to be a steady change to develop my post flop skills . I certainly don"t want to be cont betting and giving up on the turn too many times, or going to showdown with inferior holdings too many times. 

Currently when in late psoition I tend to be more selective with my stealing and try and identify and target the less able players in the BB, by looking at stack size and HUG stats, and even then not with total garbage. By indiscriminately increasing my stealing in late position I think think its the regs who will notice and when I am 3 bet it is these I will tend to be in more hands with - which is clearly not ideal. Also by making a such and immediate and very significant change I won"t know what hand histories oppos have against me, and what image they ahve of me.

Also I am already 3 bet folding too many hands and I think I probably want to resolve this issue before increasing my steal percentage too significantly.

I am currently c- betting about 78%, which seems about right what do you think ?

Thanks again Steve. I hope you dont feel rebuffed at all. I very much respect your play and I think you have a lot to knowledge which can learn from. There were many good ideas which I helped and I and certainly got me thinking a lot.

I will be postings some of my hands later which I would appreciate our views on. I will be in touch re this team viewer session which I think would be very helpful.
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Re: John Major plays poker
« Reply #31 on: September 05, 2013, 22:42:00 PM »
Very good reply, don"t worry about me feeling rebuffed. I been posting on various Internet forums too long for that *lol*. I reckon you got it right, it"s you game and if you are not comfortable with the suggestions I or anybody else makes you are under no obligation to take the advice. You are totally right that not all of it will suit you which is fine. I"ll keep posting it (as hopefully will Brendan who is great that this kind of thing) and hope that some of it comes in useful but don"t try and work into your game anything you are not happy with.

Would look forward to a Teamviewer session for sure.
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Re: John Major plays poker
« Reply #32 on: September 06, 2013, 15:46:44 PM »
Loving the feedback on the hands posted on the strategy pages. I am definitely learning a lot. Please keep them coming. Hope you don"t mind that I am not replying to every response - I tend to respond only when something requires further clarification or has generated further issues. I assure that the responses are very much appreicated and am digesting them all.

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Re: John Major plays poker
« Reply #33 on: September 06, 2013, 17:16:00 PM »
Lol just noticed your sig.......hope it helps!!
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Re: John Major plays poker
« Reply #34 on: September 06, 2013, 17:30:24 PM »

Lol just noticed your sig.......hope it helps!!


Certainly does - please keep the advice coming.

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Re: John Major plays poker
« Reply #35 on: September 06, 2013, 17:57:56 PM »
tell you what Mike. You have really re engergised the blogs and PHA boards. Top work, keep going, you will get what your hard work deserves :)
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Re: John Major plays poker
« Reply #36 on: September 06, 2013, 18:15:19 PM »

tell you what Mike. You have really re engergised the blogs and PHA boards. Top work, keep going, you will get what your hard work deserves :)


Thanks Stu - much appreciated.

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Re: John Major plays poker
« Reply #37 on: September 06, 2013, 20:00:01 PM »

tell you what Mike. You have really re engergised the blogs and PHA boards. Top work, keep going, you will get what your hard work deserves :)


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Re: John Major plays poker
« Reply #38 on: September 06, 2013, 23:15:28 PM »

tell you what Mike. You have really re engergised the blogs and PHA boards. Top work, keep going, you will get what your hard work deserves :)

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And this is only a good thing, keep it up mate. I can see prop bets in the near future :)
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Re: John Major plays poker
« Reply #39 on: September 07, 2013, 10:13:29 AM »
Thanks again for all the encouragement and advice. - much appreciated.

Went to local casino last night. Played $15 tourney. Out in 14th. Thought I played well - starting to play more in good spots rather than waiting for good cards. Won"t bore you with bad beat but suffice to say went out trying to get value from AA with about 10BBs (average about 18Bbs) . 

Also played a bit of cash for a couple of hours, which I enjoyed and hadn"t played for a while. It was Omaha £1/£1. Lost 3BBs over 2 hours. Played tight as normal - just won one hand which basically paid for the blinds for the night. Find that many players overrate their holdings, play very weak hands pre and therfore rarely have the nuts or drawing to the nuts. It is a strange fact that the general standard here is probably not as good as $10NL online.

I have had chance to develop my thoughts and at the moment my long term goal is :

$25NL ZOOM, 2 tables, 100 hrs per month, 6BB/100. If I can achieve this together with the rakeback this would supply me within enough income to supplement my pension. I am hoping to achieve this from the new year. I appreciate that there will be variance but as long as I achieve this on average that"s fine.

I have identified that my Poker Tracker PT3 is out of date and needs to upgrading. I have also considered  changing to Holdem Manager. I would be grateful you hear from you about the merits of both packages (especially anybody who has used both.). The characteristics I think I need from a package are - Easy to use , useful, accurate and clear information.
I think also HEM2 would need to be significantly better to justify the time and effort to learn to use it.

What would you do in my position HEM2 or PT4 ?. 

More on-line this afternoon followed by casino tonight for £20 tourney. How does the wife put up with me ?  
 











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Re: John Major plays poker
« Reply #40 on: September 07, 2013, 10:24:50 AM »
I"m on PT4 at the min and it is easy enough to use, but then all I am using it for is the HUD lol.
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Re: John Major plays poker
« Reply #41 on: September 07, 2013, 20:33:03 PM »
Generally heard better things about PT4 over HEM2, though I"ve only used the latter (it"s pretty buggy imo, not impressed - don"t use it heavily though and they"ll work through the bug list over time).
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Re: John Major plays poker
« Reply #42 on: September 07, 2013, 20:42:35 PM »
PT4 is a lot like PT3, so if you"re familiar and comfortable with PT3, when PT4 would be the logical move.

That said, I suggest that before you buy, you download and take the 30 day trial with HEM2. Unlike PT trial, you aren"t restricted to 1000 hands.... so you can load up all your old HHs and have a play.



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Re: John Major plays poker
« Reply #43 on: September 08, 2013, 16:07:21 PM »
I"m on PT4 at the min and it is easy enough to use

Generally heard better things about PT4 over HEM2,

PT4 is a lot like PT3, so if you"re familiar and comfortable with PT3, when PT4 would be the logical move.

Thanks for the advice. PT4 it is then.

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Re: John Major plays poker
« Reply #44 on: September 08, 2013, 23:56:20 PM »
2 sessions since last reported

Saturday - 740 hands $13.04 profit
Sunday -   1293 hands $17.73 loss

Overall for month  - 7,026 hands, Profit $16.90, 2.40 BB/100.

Disappointed with result today.  :"( Initial analysis - A big chunk of the loss coming from AA being beaten by quad Queens , Should I have got away from bet on river ?   Also some big laydowns when I had top pair. was I right to fold them ? And my red line loss $12 is there a problem there ? These questions and more will be investigated tomorrow !!. :-\
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