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Message: [QUOTE="Matt Vaughan, post: 2022749, member: 34747"] Well as you might know, I turned 21 very recently - late September. So for a lot of the semester I was doing on average 1 night per week, but at the end of last semester when I was hitting finals (ie lots of free time cause no classes), I was going 2+ nights a week, but defining "nights" is tricky because I also was degenning it up pretty hard. My goal for this semester is 10+ hours/week as an absolute minimum, which will translate into 1 night/week minimum, hoping to average close to 2 nights/week or more. My whole schedule isn't quite nailed down yet, so right now I know that I can do Friday and Saturday nights (missing the occasional for social reasons), but there may also be times when I can do a night during the week too. Speaking as someone who went on a 30-BI downswing at online cash games at one point, yes, I would say live is harder. But it's not just that it's more money. It's also that the overwhelming statement about live is about how bad everyone is, so it's tough to remember that no matter how bad they are, I can still lose over a small sample (and obv if I play bad). Okay here's one hand from last night. Blinds are $1/$2. There were two players at my table who were regularly straddling when they were UTG. I am in the SB with TT. UTG+1, MP, and CO all call the $5 straddle. I raise to $25 with my TT. Everyone folds except for MP, who flats. MP was a little weird to get a read on. He seemed to be a pretty solid player, making raises into weak ranges to get people off marginal hands, and just overall not tossing his money away too easily. I had about $300 behind and he had me covered. (Pot: $67) Flop: 532r Obviously I'm feeling pretty good about this flop. MP was playing a pretty wide range against raises, and wasn't very aggressive preflop, so the limp-straddle/flat told me almost nothing about his cards. I bet $40, thinking he would float me decently wide, or I would take down the $67 pot a fair amount of the time. I figured when he called he would have either a pair, a decent A, or double broadway. He quickly flatted my $40 bet and we went to the turn. (Pot: $147) Turn: Ar Well, obviously this is the worst card in the deck for me, and smashes his range imo. I guess there could be a case made for turning tens into a bluff here and just hoping he has no A and going for a bet/fold, but I elect to check. He checks behind. (Pot: $147) River: 6r At this point I don't think there's any reason for me to bet, as I don't think he can really call me with worse unless he ends up levelling himself big time. I go for a check, and he bets a quick $30. I called. In retrospect I think calling the river bet is an absolutely awful play. First of all, he never bluffs with that sizing into this pot, EVER. So he has no bluffs. Second, is there any chance at all that he value bets as weak as 99 here? Maybe... but 88? 77? A pair of 6s? Kind of hard to know, but I sort of doubt it. My line looks somewhat bluff-y, but it's probably more consistent with exactly the type of hand I have, a medium-strength PP. I think this is also a really good example hand of why it sucks to play OOP. Thoughts? [/QUOTE]

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