Hello, I am da Carrot Man imo.

Well, it's now time for a new operation. I sort of gave up on the last one a few months ago because 1. I'd stopped playing for a little while and 2. It was too results orientated and seemed to make me play worse.

So this operation will have 4 main purposes:

1. To post more long term progess reports - (results wise) every 20k hands or so at least. This way I'm not fucking posting a graph every time I play a session and staring at short term BR fulxuation which will undoubtedly cause me to play badly and less objectively.

2. To track my personal progress as a poker player. In other words to log the things I've learned from either watching videos, HH reviews, sweats, and my own sessions and to document how I can apply these to improve my game.

3. To post HH's in a more contained space for people to review and help me with so that I'm not spewing millions of them all over the SHNL forum.

4. To keep track of my volume and try to stop slacking/laziness from hindering progress.

These are far better aims for an OPP than setting tilting short term goals and asploding because I've ran BI's under All in EV and posted like 7 garphs of it in 2 weeks.

Okay, so let's have a quick recap of my progess thus far for those of you who don't know where I've been. I grinded 25NL for a month or so and made enough to quickly move up in around mid september to 50NL. I ran terribly upon moving up and started to play bad as a result. Every time I'd get somewhere I'd fall into a 10BI downswing the next week and the general frustration and stress of this just made me stop enjoying poker. Consequently, I stoppedm playing from about a month and a half as I also had to withdraw funds to survive IRL.

I forced myself to get back to gridning 25NL with my much decreased new roll of $1200 at the end of last month. Since then I have hit a pretty nice streak of run good, played well and built back up to over 2K and to regulating 50NL once again.

This time my aims are to just tilt control to the maximum, not focus at all on short term results (always been my problem in poker) and to just steadily improve my game. I know I can bet 50NL because it's fucking soft to be honest and even the regs are lol bad most of the time. I suck too obviously, but less than most of them imo.

The plans is to move up to 100NL at some nitty figure like 4k, because I really want to have a much improved game by then and have enough cushion to prevent a melt down. Tlit control is a major prioirty and although I have improved shitloads in this respect, it's still a problem for me.

Today I plan to put in aroun 1500 hands at least which is probably around 4.5 hours for me 5 tabling 50NL. I wont be ever playing more than 5 tables, because this is the amount I feel comfortable with.

If I learn any important concepts or there are any interesting hands I'll post here later. For now I'll leave you with some hands from yesterday that have been troubling me. Thanks for reading all, tis good to be blogging again.

1. Villain is new to the table and is 0/0 over 6 hands. I think his range should be relatviely weak on this turn and beside TT JJ, there can't be a whole lot he can call a jam with. Do people like jamming? We obv can't b/f.

No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (5 handed) - Hold'em Manager Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Button ($49.50)
Hero (SB) ($57.30)
BB ($50)
UTG ($50)
MP ($52)

Preflop: Hero is SB with Q, A
2 folds, Button bets $2, Hero raises $6.75, 1 fold, Button calls $5

Flop: ($14.50) 7, 4, 10 (2 players)
Hero bets $8.25, Button calls $8.25

Turn: ($31) J (2 players) Hero?

2. Villain is a reg, 20/20/40ATS over 40 hands. He seems fairly aggro and possibly the barelling type. I didn't want to stack of here this deep with my draw, even though it's probably alright to raise and get it in on the flop. How's my line as played? Can we call river since he's repping a pretty narrow range here?

No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (5 handed) - Hold'em Manager Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Hero (SB) ($126.70)
BB ($46)
UTG ($53.70)
MP ($96.70)
Button ($62.25)

Preflop: Hero is SB with 10, J
1 fold, MP bets $1.75, 1 fold, Hero calls $1.50, 1 fold

Flop: ($4) 5, K, 9 (2 players)
Hero checks, MP bets $3, Hero calls $3

Turn: ($10) K (2 players)
Hero checks, MP bets $6.75, Hero calls $6.75

River: ($23.50) 10 (2 players)
Hero checks, MP bets $14, Hero folds

Total pot: $23.50

3. Villain is "the cleaner" 50NL reg I've seen around a bunch. I'm not sure how often he c/fs flop but figured firing multiple barrels couldbe pretty unpleasant for him on a lot of boards and with our turn equity I defo wanted to barrel here. I'd also just 3 bet him b vs b the last orbit so elected to flat here pre. How's this line?

No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (6 handed) - Hold'em Manager Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Hero (BB) ($107.70)
UTG ($50.75)
MP ($49.40)
CO ($53.95)
Button ($113.60)
SB ($58.50)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 9, 7
4 folds, SB bets $1.25, Hero calls $1

Flop: ($3) 4, 10, 10 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $1.85, SB calls $1.85

Turn: ($6.70) 8 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $5.10, SB calls $5.10

River: ($16.90) 5 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero checks

Total pot: $16.90