Just a quick update. So far so good with moving up to 10NL. I cleared my $50 bonus and had a good session running 6 tables of 6 max on Stars. I think I'm playing fairly well and it feels like some of the fundamentals have finally sunk in.

I actually watched one of the sample vidz on Stoxpoker regarding c-betting, when and when not to. Might seem like "duh" to some, but it immediately upped my game. The knowledge was always there I think, but seeing it from another angle helped solidify the idea in my own head.

So what I'm really trying to work on now is reads on villains. I honestly haven't paid much attention to my HUD stats so far and often don't even play with it running. However it is very nice to have the basic stats up and formulating reads based in part on that info is the part of my game I want to work on the most as I move towards 25NL


No real tough spots to post so I'll just put up some hands that went down:


No reads on this villain at the time this happened, after 12 hands I have on him in tracker it looks like this should have been an easy laydown as he showed up with AK in the only other hand in which I saw his cards. But hindsight is always 20/20, as they say:

$0.05/$0.1 No Limit Holdem
5 players
Converted at weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG Dendaman16 ($11.20)
CO moogalcat ($22.15)
BTN PokerPatton ($7.90)
SB Hero ($12.80)
BB lilswan ($17.85)

Pre-flop: ($0.15, 5 players) Hero is SB
Dendaman16 raises to $0.40, 2 folds, Hero raises to $2, 1 fold, Dendaman16 goes all-in $11.20, Hero calls $9.20

Flop: ($22.50, 2 players)

Turn: ($22.50, 2 players)

River: ($22.50, 2 players)

Final Pot: $22.50
Dendaman16 shows:
Hero shows:

Dendaman16 wins $21.40 ( won +$10.20 )
Hero lost -$11.20



These next two were either back to back or there might have been one hand in-between at the same table. The first really set up the second nicely even though I would have preferred a better result for both, lol.

hand 1:

$0.05/$0.1 No Limit Holdem
6 players
Converted at weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG Ronhel1 ($10.00)
UTG+1 krille61 ($52.85)
CO Senelis ($5.20)
BTN patriciorey ($12.40)
SB Hero ($9.75)
BB dienastee ($25.50)

Pre-flop: ($0.15, 6 players) Hero is SB
1 fold, krille61 calls $0.10, 2 folds, Hero raises to $0.50, dienastee calls $0.40, krille61 calls $0.40

Flop: ($1.50, 3 players)
Hero checks, dienastee checks, krille61 checks

Turn: ($1.50, 3 players)
Hero bets $1.30, 1 fold, krille61 calls $1.30

River: ($4.10, 2 players)
Hero bets $3, 1 fold

Final Pot: $4.10

Hero wins $6.90 ( won +$2.10 )
krille61 lost -$1.80
dienastee lost -$0.50


hand 2:

$0.05/$0.1 No Limit Holdem
6 players
Converted at weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG krille61 ($51.05)
UTG+1 Senelis ($5.20)
CO patriciorey ($12.40)
BTN Hero ($11.85)
SB dienastee ($25.00)
BB Ronhel1 ($10.00)

Pre-flop: ($0.15, 6 players) Hero is BTN
krille61 calls $0.10, 2 folds, Hero raises to $0.50, dienastee calls $0.45, 1 fold, krille61 calls $0.40

Flop: ($1.60, 3 players)
dienastee checks, krille61 bets $0.50, Hero calls $0.50, dienastee folds

Turn: ($2.60, 2 players)
krille61 bets $1.80, Hero raises to $5.10, krille61 calls $3.30

River: ($12.80, 2 players)
krille61 bets $0.80, Hero goes all-in $5.75, krille61 calls $4.95

Final Pot: $24.30
krille61 shows:
Hero shows:

Hero wins $23.15 ( won +$11.30 )
krille61 lost -$11.85
dienastee lost -$0.50



I posted this screeny in another thread. It's my stats during my stay at 5NL. I feel like I could/should have extracted more value out of my winning hands, but I'm still learning so...




So after clearing the bonus and ruining the lives of 10NL villains last night my BR is up to $360. I'm just trying to keep my nose clean, stay out of tough spots and work on making better reads/putting villains on ranges. I'm going to stay at 10NL until at least $500 in my online roll, even though I have a few hundred socked away to load if I need/want. I want to play about 15k hands at this level regardless of results just to practice. Hopefully things keep going relatively well.

thanks for listening!

BR: $360