Lol yeah, I guess I'm over on the edge of aggressive BRM, but I feel its ok, especially for someone whos really only a casual player, as long as I do follow it strictly and make sure I move down when dictated by my BRM plan. Thanks .

Quote Originally Posted by meeloche
Stick with the aggressive bankroll strategy. Don't sit in a game because you have 20 buy ins for it, sit in the game cause you have an edge. Don't sit at a lower game than your capable of unless you absolutely have to. You'll get used to the money value. Look at it in bb and buy ins and you'll be all good.
Lol, I took this literally today. There were about 2 100nl tables with > 30% vpip and they both had 6+ people on wait list, and all the rest around 20%, so obviously infested with taggy regs. On the other hand I took a peak at 200nl and a spot openned up on a 45% $30 avg pot table so I grabbed it and just single tabled that for a bit. Had perfect position on the main table fish. Went well, got up a bit, then isolated his limp with K7s and hit a KT3r flop, cbet and called, checked blank turn for pot control (probably a mistake but got worried about kicker) and then he donked out at me on a 4 river. Called because he's bad and he had 34s. $50 down. Still thats why I was there to play hands against a guy who limp/calls pf and calls cbets with bottom pair. Ended up winning a few more smaller pots and would guess I finished down about $30 on the table. Was fun though, felt good, getting over the $ thing already it seems.

100nl ran very good today. Dont have HEM working yet but its been a nice last day of the month so far. Three big hands:

Hand 1

3-bet btn raise with 56s and btn minraises so I call (this was a mistake due to flop SPR but ahh well), check K97r flop and btn checks behind. Turn is a 4 giving me OESD so I semibluff 2/3 psb and btn minraises (basically putting me ai). I figured my odds were close (they werent really, I was calling about 1:4 where I need almost 1:5) and spiked a 3 on the river so stuck my last $5 in and btn calls with AA.

Badly played hand PF and turn, but I got lucky and hopefully will learn. Talked it over with kmind a bit, he's been reading that in turn spots like that with some equity we're better off playing passively than aggressivly. My problem is that if btn bets turn we probably need to fold, so being OOP sucks here.


Hand 2

About 4 hrs later but same villain as hand 1. I raise JJ utg 4x and she 3x raises me OTB. I call and spike top set. She bets flop fairly big so I barely more than minraise (assuming she remembers my earlier suckout and is still steamed a bit), she CIBs me so I minraise the rest in and she calls with KK. I hold .


Hand 3

Literally about 8 hands later on same table, decent seeming TAG in CO 3.5x raises and I flat OTB w/ 33. Flop 3QT two tone, he c-bets big, I put in a 3x raise this time (dont want to take the same line as I did with JJ) he 3x's me back so I stick the last $20 or so in and he calls with AA. I hold again.

Poker is fun when you run good .

Sorry for no proper HHs, hopefully I'll get HEM working in the next few days. Getting my laptop reformatted and reinstalling everything from scratch tomorrow.

BR - $2366 giving me a +$500 month over around 11k hands, about $150 of that being bonus. I think I dropped around 8 buyins at one stage earlier in the month, so if I had a graph it would show a nice $900 upswing for the second half of the month.

Hope to get a bunch more hands in during October and work on my game some more. Feels like at least some of my good run atm is plain good luck rather than skill.