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Wow congrats! Let’s go!! So a few recommendations for you, from the free to the spendy.
On the free side of things, I’d recommend some of the YouTube offerings. There are quite a few playing your first main event type videos. Our own Jim Reid had a nice series in poker.org about playing at the WSOP.
I don’t know your experience level, but if you are less experienced and not wanting to spend a ton, I’d recommend Matt Matros’ book The Game Plan. I’d also recommend getting a PokerGo subscription for a month or two and carefully watching some of the action from the Main Event last year, especially the early days.
On the spendier side of things, I recommend a few courses/subscriptions. Many of our learning with partners have prep courses: Faraz Jaka Coaching, Poker Coaching, and Learn Pro Poker to name a few. There’s also, of course, GTOWizard if you want to explore theory concepts and run yourself through drills.
And finally, it couldn’t hurt to seek out a few hours of coaching if you really want to invest in yourself to take your best shot. Some of the Recing Crew provide coaching, as do some of our key partners that we’ve recently interviewed on the podcast including Ryan Laplante, Lexi Gavin, Matt Affleck, and others.
Good luck and most of all enjoy the experience!!
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The rec’s guide to the WSOP with Jim Reid: Part One
RecPoker's Jim Reid explains how budgeting and scheduling can help recreational players can get the most out of a trip to the WSOP.
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Table is ready. There will be two plants in the audience (Jim and Taylor). You have to figure them out and adjust to them. https://www.pokernow.club/games/pgl4dKMqy_thMUgOh3C2aQuyz
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Love this hand Keith! I’ve recently done some coaching with Ryan Laplante and he was talking to me about hands just like this. My line looks just like yours and I’m not capturing enough value in these spots either.
Once we get called twice here in this spot, what is still hanging on? Well anything besides a K or 6 is going to fold when we triple the river. But Kx isn’t folding for any price and 6x may even find a crying call. So I think when we have KQ or 66 here, we just want to overbet this river all-in.
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Very interesting spots. AJo gets gross in these late spots, and I’m curious what others think because I could be way off. So the first hand, I think I’m always 3betting small in this dynamic (to like 6bb). We’d like to isolate the fish and they’ll often call with worse. But this definitely discourages BB from coming into the hand with nonsense. We never want to flat and give the shark a good chance to squeeze. If we were to flip the two players with the shark opening and the fish behind us, I’d mostly prefer to rip this. I don’t want to play a pot with the shark player OOP this late and deep and AJ is a good candidate for this action. (But I also might find a couple of folds and just never tell anyone.)
Hand 2: I need to know how aggro SB is. But based on your description, they’re very 3bet happy and fish is dead money. I’m fist pump jamming this hand. If these players are reversed and the fish has taken this action, I’m running for the hills and folding.
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Ready for you! Give yourselves 20000 chips. Pick any seat.
https://www.pokernow.club/games/pglL7r9sM7bacX6KPYhA3xeZY
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My picks (not betting on myself this year!):
https://bracket.rec.poker/?bracket=2024&id=442935721
Bracket ID = 442935721
Round 1 Winners:
elvida11 (Joe Kulas)
combinkley (Eric Gin)
eastcoastbidder (Ben Enslow)
rabman50 (Rob Washam)
PetVet33 (Kim Kilroy)
GopherBoyTJM (Taylor)
Chicago Joey (Joe Ingram)
PokerGeekMN (John Somsky)
Round 2 Winners:
combinkley (Eric Gin)
eastcoastbidder (Ben Enslow)
GopherBoyTJM (Taylor)
Chicago Joey (Joe Ingram)
Round 3 Winners:
eastcoastbidder (Ben Enslow)
Chicago Joey (Joe Ingram)
Round 4 Winners:
eastcoastbidder (Ben Enslow)
Tournament Champion:
eastcoastbidder (Ben Enslow)
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We’re ready for you. Sit anywhere give yourself 1500 in chips. We’ll be playing 150bb deep.
https://www.pokernow.club/games/pgl2DxPZ8OMnTk2IDZoEdPWfG
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Ooops, I thought I’d posted this. Been really busy at work. Look for the post in a second, but YES, there will be a playing session, but it is on Dec 18 instead of Dec 25. We’re going to play a simulated cash game.
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So this is a gross spot preflop. The GTO model would have you mostly folding JJ here, but I don’t think our opponents are playing GTO. The BTN is likely way too wide here and the question for me is UTG aware enough to squeeze more once BTN makes this play? Do we see AQ or TT in their 4b range even though we think they’re incredibly tight at these stakes with 4bets? I’m tempted to fold this pre with the action still left behind me. But if I get to a flop, I’m playing this exactly like you do.
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Curious what others have to say here. My strongest international interests include Irish Poker Open & EPT Barcelona. If you want a little smaller, the GUKPT is supposedly run pretty well, but I don’t see a 2024 calendar for them yet. I wish WPT would go back to Playground in Montreal cause I’d love to go there too.
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Come play here. Pick your seat wisely: https://www.pokernow.club/games/pgl0oyRHwkzpx4aSfOcFlDqmx
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Looking forward to this table tonight. Table link will be in this thread around 7:50 pm. Here are the details:
PRIZES (if we have up to 10 players, likely less)
1st $42,000
2nd $31,500
3rd $23,000
4th $17,000
5th $12,000
6th $8,000
7th $5,500
8th $4,000
9th $2,500
10th $1,700
LEVELS
20000/40000 (4000 ante) 15 mins
25000/50000 (5000 ante) 15 mins
30000/60000 (6000 ante) 15 mins
35000/70000 (7000 ante) 15 mins
40000/80000 (8000 ante) 15 mins
50000/100000 (10000 ante) 15 mins
60000/120000 (12000 ante) 15 mins
STACKS (randomly assigned to seats, pick your poison and you’ll find out where you land)
3,160,000
1,640,000
1,520,000
1,160,000
1,040,000
960,000
920,000
840,000
480,000
360,000
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This is a classic sandwich multiway spot. Love this as an example. This is the type of hand we find ourselves in a lot as rec players at lower buy-in tournaments, so it is so crucial to understand this dynamic. As I’ve studied these spots more and more, the first takeaway is that we check a lot on flops in this sandwich spot. Unlike our traditional bread and butter cbet spots, or even multiway hands where say we were the original opener and both blinds called, our flop bets when we are sandwiched need to be polarized from the get go. This is because both of our opponents should be mostly uncapped here (the blind should almost never lead in this dynamic). We are also even more incentivized to check because there is also a pressure on us to have strength in our checking range. This means that even though we’re polarized, our polarized bets need to divide some between cbets and some to check raises. So all that said, I love your flop check here. This is not a polar hand, it is a perfect hand to check. Far too many players bet in this spot and get into trouble.
The other thing checking does is allow us to see the true reactions of the in-position and out of position player. We have to remember that they are also caught in this multiway dynamic. On a fairly blank turn like the 2h, when IP already chose to check back flop and then OOP cks the turn, we get to bet a lot more. They have both capped themselves. You say we don’t have much fold equity, but I don’t think that is exactly true. With a larger turn bet, we can get small pocket pairs to fold, certainly any 4x and probably some 7x, along with Kx and Qx, and some gutters. When we are called, we are very likely behind, but we’re still way ahead of some of the other better draws and we’ve picked up a high equity draw ourselves. By betting the turn big, it means that we can comfortably bluff any river overcard to the T.
So while I loved your flop check, I think we need to bet this turn. We’re first hoping to just take it down on the turn. But the very nice thing about this type of holding is that we likely have outs to our A and J as well when called (AT/JT are the two nightmare hands, but we block them). I’m betting a fairly healthy amount and when called, I’m barreling the river BIG on any heart and any A-J. I’m giving up on other rivers after they call the healthy turn bet. Their range is so strong at that point and we block the draws we’d like them to have.
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It was a capacity issue for John who manages 10+ games a week. They were the nights that people played the least when we looked back at the data. This wasn’t an easy call and we knew it would be disappointing, but we’re still mostly a volunteer org and need to be sure we can sustain everything we do. That said, we’re still looking at this and evaluating options to bring these games back in the future.
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We’re simulating the post-bubble approach to the final table tonight. Pick your seats wisely, they will have chips associated with them. Here’s the game link:
https://www.pokernow.club/games/pglQC7nUmvuDRME_2R4o7Socq
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Table is set up. We’ll determine your chip stack based on which seat you take. We’ll play pre-bubble and post-bubble.
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I’d be much more likely to participate in the earlier time slot.
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This is an interesting question. The shorter the stacks get, the more we can find flats with hands like KK in spots like this. So I like that you are mixing some flats here. To answer your questions:
1) We have 3 players behind us. The question you asked what is the worst hand they *should* jam is different from what is the worst hand they *will* jam. With the opponents you describe, I don’t think many will find some of the bluff hands like KTs or A5s that can very much consider a squeeze here. So they *should* consider those, but likely show up with a much more linear range. From a linear range, I think you could see something like 77 or AJo/KQo show up as the worst hands.
2) So around 8-9% of hands. 88+ ATs+ AJo KQs, and some KQo and 77. There’s a pretty significant chance that with three opponents behind, one of them will have a hand like this. So that’s why the flat can be profitable and we’re happy to get it in versus this range. Even when we go multiway, it isn’t that bad with a hand like this.
3) If I want to randomize live, I spin a chip and use a marker like a clock. Online just a RNG.
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Definitely nature for me. There’s scientific evidence that just 15 minutes in nature can have a massive impact on our mindsets.
There’s a Japanese concept that roughly translates to the kinda laughable term in English of “forest bathing.” Terminology aside, this is well studied with a ton of evidence pointing to how even short periods amongst trees can lower blood pressure, relieve stress, stymy anger and depression, strengthen the immune system, and improve cardiovascular and metabolic health.
It takes some effort in our modern world to put yourself in those spaces, but I always find it worth it if I need to clear my head.
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Forest Bathing Spotlight - Global Wellness Institute
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