Nice to see you running good BK. Whenever I step up to 20/16 or 21/18 I always end up having my ass handed back to me but I think at $400NL and above you more or less have to play this kinda game.

WP sir.

Oats was watching me play today, so he can attest to how hilarious these few hands were.

For the record, I've been playing 100NL for the last little while to re-tool my game before I take it back to 200NL and get back to crushing (like I was starting in mid Jan when I first started to move towards 20/16).

So, since I've dropped back down, a LOT of the regulars there may not have ever played with me before, and they're getting QUITE a shock. The 20/16/3.5 and 21/15/3.0 guys, who seem like they're very solid winners, just can't seem to adapt to someone like me who can outplay them postflop (and take advantage of their pf oop calling errors in 3b pots). Add to that the constant flop cb raising and check-raising that I do to them, it's really starting to drive them nuts.

Over the first 5k hands or so, the single player I made the most from was exactly a 20/16/3.5 guy who's been losing medium-to-big pots to me left and right because he can't handle the pressure. Either he's misplaying in 3b pots by being too passive, or he's making poor adjustments by playing back at me too lightly and me recognizing this and leveling him. I'm tilting regulars daily...and I mean MONKEY tilt. Sure I'm still making my normal profit from the random donks and such, but I've realized just how much you can milk from the regulars who can't adjust to better players (ie. better hand readers).

Here are a couple gems just from today.

So I've been doing my normal flop raising and check-raising of cbs, light 3betting and firing at flops, and picking up the occasional 'real' hand...and then 3 regs see that 55 hand that I posted in the NL forum. I love that hand...well, donk had K4s MHIG. I said to oats at the time (who quickly said "whoa, wtf" or some such when I raised) that the blinds didn't have anything (they checked through twice), utg either had a total monster like a set (unlikely given the 2tone 2broadway flop in a 5way pot) or nothing - so his <1/2p bet was really weakness to me, and then the very fast call from the loose fish to my right in the CO was a beautiful timing tell. No one with an A snap calls there: they either have to consider whether their A is any good, OR they have to at least THINK about whether to raise - snap calling is weakness. So, I read all 4 other players as being weak, go with my read, and make my bluff. I make it small enough to let me fold to a shove...and big enough to let them know I mean business. Well, when CO thought for a few secs and called, obviously I was like "shit" because he has something like QJ or whatever...the river blanks and I snap check behind and LAUGH when MHIG!!

So, that's a set up hand.

Well! On a diff table, one of these agro players who's clearly fed up with me is in the BB, and I open Q9s OTB and he calls. Flop is 952r and I say to oats before I even CB: he's going to CR me here. And, sure enough, he makes a smallish CR to 17 of my 6 bet and I call - obv. I'm pretty happy with my hand here. Turn is a blank, he fires out 27...and I call. At this point I'm putting him on a wide range of bluffs, MAYBE TT-JJ but certainly not QQ-AA and 99 would be really hard for him to have. River is an offsuit A...he checks, and I shove as a half valuebet/bluff. Either he's going to HATE life on that river unless he has a monster, or I'm bluffing with the best hand, or I'm valuebetting and he won't believe me. Well, he tanks...and calls. Again, "shit"...but, MHIG: he made a hero call with KQo. Yeah, he went on monkey tilt after this. He was out to get me and it was hilarious.

Here's another hand. Diff table, another regular who was at the Q9s table too. This guy has already made it clear he's fed up with me. We're 150 deep.

I have 88 in BB, a 50/20 donk open mins OTB and villain calls in sb, I pop to 9, only sb calls. Flop K73r, he ch/calls. Turn 8, he ch/calls. River T, he OPEN shoves overpot for 111 and I snap - he has 99 and proceeds to also go on monkey tilt.

Poker=fun