Speedcake's BLoG: Slave to the grinD

Hey guys and girls, I've started one or two of these over the years and this time I intend to stick with it. With your support of course.

I don't intend it to be an operation, just more of a place to post my progress and some hand histories along with any thoughts I may be having. Obviously my goal is to finally move up in stakes and be playing for meaningful results.

A little about me; I've been playing poker on and off for about 4 years and only in the past year have I gotten really serious about it. In the beginning I was very into it of course, watched it all on tv and started playing online with a bit of cash a buddy loaned me. I was awful. I remember playing 25NL with $90 in my stars account long before I knew what bankroll management was and If I only had those hand histories, now long lost, I'm sure it'd be ugly.

At some point I started looking around for help online, I figured out I was terrible and something sparked inside me. I wanted to improve and actually learn the game rather than just donk around online for funsies; clueless and very fishy.

I don't really remember how I found FTR, but I did and I got some books and I started studying. I like to think I've improved some, but by no means am I ready. Towards the end of 2008 I was finally playing well enough and rolled enough to start mixing in 50NL tables with my regular 25NL stakes. I was feeling really good about my game and honestly I could see some light at the end of the micro stakes tunnel. Maybe premature, I dunno. I do know I was playing the best poker yet.

Anyway, then some crap happened. We had to move unexpectedly, I had to withdraw my entire roll off stars and on top of all that my damn entire HH from the past 2 years is gone from my pc due to an accidental delete on my part when I was cleaning junk to improve computer performance. Yes, I'm a pc noob I guess.

So here we are, I was finally able to upload a tiny sliver of my roll onto stars to start playing again and this time I'm not going to be touching my poker roll. Period. For no one. Ever. Except for me and my wife when I'm successful enough to win some spending money.

This past Monday was my first day back, I uploaded $150 and started on the 5nl tables , four tables of 6max. Until I get the rest of my roll back online I'm just going to play whatever stakes I currently have the money online for.

ran like this:




1.5 BI is missing from that pic, I didn't have my Stars HHs saving properly for the first 50 or so hands. So I moved up pretty quickly to 10NL with 22.5 BI and so far am running:





so far so good. I've beaten these levels and am not interested in playing a ton of hands here, just going to move up as quickly as the roll can stand it. I won't be moving up to 25NL until I have at least 30 BI though. Hopefully between playing well and getting more of the old roll replaced I'll be back sooner than later. I'll be playing primarly 6max NL, but plan to start learning full ring and some other games that interest me as well. I also plan to move to a site with rackeback as soon as I'm rolled for 25 again as well as target some bonuses. That may involve opening a new account on sites that will remain unnamed, but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.

I was hoping to start posting HHs this afternoon, but I've gone and posted a long winded post that no one is going to read anyway. :P So when I get home from work tonight I'll post up some of the spots I have questions about. I still do plenty of dumb crap that costs me money and that will be evident when I start posting some of my sillier hands.

well thanks for reading if you made it this far, hopefully I'll get some feedback from everyone but if not meh. At least it'll help me stay focused on thinking about my game and how to improve. Just sitting down and playing every night with no reflection won't help anyone improve and I fall into that trap often.

oh ya, I'm also looking for peeps playing 10NL to 50NL regularly who would be interested in hooking up via msn, ventrilo, aol, etc to talk poker, do sweats and discuss anything else poker related. Pm me if interested

Hey just wanted to say good luck!

Wouldn't it be great to have hand histories from years ago?!? I remember playing a tournament (a fairly decent size, as I won $100 with maybe a $5 or so buyin), and getting down to heads up. The guy had me probably 2-1 in chips when 3rd place was eliminated, and eventually had me down to 2 or 3 BBs. And I remember he raised me and I folded, losing 33-50% of my stack to the blinds. The only reason I remember is because I was almost sure after I did it it was the wrong move, but I didn't even think twice about it as it was happening.

Also, I would definitely be down with some sweat sessions/chats about poker. I'm at 5NL right now but hope to be moving up pretty soon. I'll PM you in a few days and we can exchange info/etc.

GL sir.

I'm grinding 10NL as of now regularly for roughly 1K hands/day, playing both full ring and 6-max, with an emphasis on full ring. I'm always looking to expand my contact list for poker discussion/hand history reviews/etc to learn and discover more. If you'd like I can PM you my MSN or you can PM me yours, whichever is good let me know.

Once again, GL on the grind.

thanks guys, and ya just pm me with infoz. and be looking for hands posted in the forums, I'll just post links to threads here. Maybe i'll post hands in both now and again. who knows :P

ran a little less like god tonight, more like jesus :P . But that's OK. I probably did something I shouldn't have; played 6 tables, but once I adjusted I don't think it had a huge affect on my game. I'm going to try 6 tabling for another night or two and if my win rate doesn't improve I'm moving back to 4 tables.

I think it will though, I just have to do better at not trying to read forums or do anything else that distracts while I'm playing. Was pretty good about that all week and slacked a bit tonight, not a good idea when 6 tabling IMO. At least not for me.

Here's how I ran tonight, I think my PF raise stat is far too low and definitely is a result of the extra tables. Still can't complain about the over all results and getting the extra hands in isn't bad.




and overall for 10NL so far:




I'd like to set some goals I guess, just not sure what kind yet. I've played 7k hands since Monday this week, so I'm going to shoot for 30k by the end of the month. I want to get my PFR # closer to my Vpip, I think I'm going to need help with that as no matter how many vids I watch nor hands I get in I still have a small gap in the two stats. I'm not thinking about hand ranges nor equity as well as I know I can be, nor working on them in pokerstove as much as I need to be. We'll start there.

-Hands for March: 30k ( 22992 hand to go)

-Bring PFR stat in line with Vpip

-Work on Pokerstove daily to improve my hand reading and understanding of equity

-Get bankroll to $750 and move up ($406 to go)

I'm going to count whatever dough I can upload between now and goal for the last one. beating 10NL again isn't fun and I don't want to be here for 40 more BI. :P

I'll post some hands this weekend I guess.

Originally Posted by speedcake

if my win rate doesn't improve I'm moving back to 4 tables.

it is unlikely that your winrate will increase as a result of multitabling. it is actually standard for your winrate in bb/100 to decrease.

the point behind multitabling is to increase $/hour - because you play more hands per hour.

nice session last night! keep it up.

good point. ya i'll stick with 6 tables for now. Still think I can do a bit better by staying focused and I'm definitely going back to 4 tables for a while after moving up to 25NL.

posted a few hands for review here:

http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...ew-t83157.html

any and all thoughts welcome and appreciated

I've played like a moron over the last couple thousand hands and between my bad play plus coolers/getting rivered I'm down about 10 Buy ins.

I'm dropping back to 4 tables. pretty sure I got ahead of myself and lost my fold button somewhere along the way. will post some hands tomorrow afternoon for some opinions, hopefully I'll have something positive to post then as well.

Just testing something...

NM, got it. woot

ooook, firefox crash. lost my update post. grrrr

anyway, long story short: ran like shit over two sessions. played tired, tilty, on edge mentally over personal crap and dropped 12 BI. I took a day off from poker and came back strong monday. Recovered all but about 3.5 BI and today finished up about 1.5 so I'm only down about 2 BI after all the idiocy.

I'm feeling so so regarding my progress so far at 10NL



I want to be running at 10BB/100 but I know that with such a small sample so far even a couple BI can drastically alter the win rate. So I can live with this for now. I'm just anxious to get to 25NL again.

I have a ton of hands to post from the terribad sessions, I'll get around to that in the afternoon when I wake up. Some are just bad beats, coolers, terrible rivers. But too many were me just spewing/tilting. No excuse really. I'm just glad I've been able to get my head back on straight and get the roll going again.

Ive also been playing 6 tables this whole time and really think Im going to 4 again for a few days. See how that goes. I'll only be playing 4 when I move up anyway, may as well get in the habit now. Maybe when Im a bit better rolled and feeling better about my game I'll add in a couple more tables again. we'll see.


Hands for March : 15.500 (14.5 to go for goal)

BR: 421 ( 329 to go)

Hand 1: KK vs a 46/7/.75 (132 hands) How is my bet sizing here and wtf do I do on this river vs this station?


PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (6 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Hero (MP) ($13.25)
CO ($9.80)
Button ($9.75)
SB ($9.60)
BB ($5.55)
UTG ($17.80)

Preflop: Hero is MP with K, K
1 fold, Hero bets $0.40, 1 fold, Button calls $0.40, 2 folds

Flop: ($0.95) 4, 8, 9 (2 players)
Hero bets $0.90, Button calls $0.90

Turn: ($2.75) 2 (2 players)
Hero bets $2.35, Button calls $2.35

River: ($7.45) 7
Hero...?




Hand 2: QQ vs another 42/6/.5 (150 hands)

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (6 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Hero (SB) ($20.40)
BB ($6.30)
UTG ($10.15)
MP ($13.85)
CO ($12.55)
Button ($18.95)

Preflop: Hero is SB with Q, Q
4 folds, Hero bets $0.50, BB calls $0.40

Flop: ($1) 8, K, 4 (2 players)
Hero bets $0.80, BB raises to $2, Hero...?


hand 3: Villain is 52/2.5/.33 (196 hands) I know what I usually think about a play like this, no matter who just pulled it.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (6 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

UTG ($18.25)
MP ($23.05)
CO ($26.70)
Button ($6.85)
SB ($10.25)
Hero (BB) ($12.30)

Preflop: Hero is BB with J, J
UTG bets $0.20, 1 fold, CO calls $0.20, Button calls $0.20, SB calls $0.15, Hero raises to $1.80, UTG calls $1.60, 3 folds

Flop: ($4.20) 2, 9, Q (2 players)
Hero bets $3, UTG raises to $16.45 (All-In), Hero...?

Hand 1 I'm not too sure on, so I'll let someone else answer it.

Hand 2: Is an easy fold. The guy's AF is .5 over a decent sample and pretty much shows that this guy only bets/raises when he has the nuts, and as you have 2nd pair at best, you fold easily.

Hand 3: Same as hand 2. The guys AF is .33 over 100+ hands and you have 2nd pair at best, and he just ships on you. Easy fold imo. Also, you have to take into account that he raised UTG and his PFR% is only 2.5, so 3 betting here = BAD IDEA. Just see a the flop for pretty much set value and fold to any aggression if you don't hit.

I should post some hands where I play well (IMO anyway) or you guys are gonna think Im really terribad Ive been posting these hands to keep me grounded because I played them all mostly like a tard.

thx for the comments dranger. In hindsight I agree completely.

I had villain squarely on a bluff when he raised the turn. I couldn't give him credit for a Q. It also helps that his shove did not cost me a ton to call . thoughts?

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (6 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

BB ($4.15)
UTG ($4)
MP ($13.05)
CO ($11.25)
Button ($10)
Hero (SB) ($10.20)

Preflop: Hero is SB with J, J
UTG calls $0.10, 3 folds, Hero bets $0.50, 1 fold, UTG calls $0.40

Flop: ($1.10) 10, 5, Q (2 players)
Hero bets $0.80, UTG calls $0.80

Turn: ($2.70) Q (2 players)
Hero bets $1.20, UTG raises to $2.70 (All-In), Hero calls $1.50

River: ($8.10) 5 (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: $8.10 | Rake: $0.40




Here I think was getting decent odds after Button flatted the small 3bet. I don't open QJs UTG every time, but I do mix it in pretty often at these stakes. I didn't like getting 3bet and I definitely was folding if it was just up to me, being out of position and all.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (6 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

MP ($40.80)
CO ($18.15)
Button ($12.25)
SB ($4.25)
BB ($10)
Hero (UTG) ($10)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with J, Q
Hero bets $0.40, MP raises to $1.10, 1 fold, Button calls $1.10, 2 folds, Hero calls $0.70

Flop: ($3.45) Q, Q, 10 (3 players)
Hero checks, MP bets $2.80, Button raises to $11.15 (All-In), Hero calls $8.90 (All-In), MP calls $8.35

Turn: ($34.65) 4 (3 players, 2 all-in)

River: ($34.65) 3 (3 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: $34.65 | Rake: $1.70



Bet sizing help/line check please

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (6 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

SB ($5.65)
BB ($16.60)
UTG ($11.15)
MP ($4.90)
CO ($1.95)
Hero (Button) ($13.60)

Preflop: Hero is Button with 7, 7
2 folds, CO calls $0.10, Hero calls $0.10, SB calls $0.05, BB checks

Flop: ($0.40) 9, 9, 7 (4 players)
SB checks, BB checks, CO bets $0.50, Hero calls $0.50, 1 fold, BB calls $0.50

Turn: ($1.90) J (3 players)
BB checks, CO checks, Hero bets $1.10, BB raises to $2.20, 1 fold, Hero raises to $4.50, BB calls $2.30

River: ($10.90) 4 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $3, BB calls $3

Total pot: $16.90 | Rake: $0.80

Finishing up an 1,832 hand session, still running 6 tables. I can't help it. I WILL play a couple thousand hands on 4 tables once or twice this week. I know I should be doing this, wtf is wrong with meh?!


Anyway, ran goot. Was a bit swingy for the first 1k hands and was about even. The action picked up in the last hour and managed to finish up 2.3 BI, can't argue with that. 2o bucks woohoo! roflmao

Stats for the night:



and Stats at 10NL so far:



I'll take it.


LOL

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (6 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

SB ($8)
BB ($13.90)
UTG ($15.90)
MP ($23.60)
CO ($4.15)
Hero (Button) ($10)

Preflop: Hero is Button with 4, 4
UTG calls $0.10, 1 fold, CO calls $0.10, Hero calls $0.10, 1 fold, BB checks

Flop: ($0.45) 2, 4, 8 (4 players)
BB bets $0.40, UTG calls $0.40, 1 fold, Hero raises to $2.80, BB raises to $13.80 (All-In), 1 fold, Hero calls $7.10 (All-In)

Turn: ($20.65) 8 (2 players, 2 all-in)

River: ($20.65) K (2 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: $20.65 | Rake: $1

Results in white below:
Hero mucked 4, 4 (full house, fours over eights).
BB had 2, 8 (full house, eights over twos).
Outcome: BB won $19.65


sigh I'm a moron. Don't slow play big hands kids. villain was ultra loose and spewy.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (6 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

CO ($36.25)
Button ($6.30)
SB ($7.40)
BB ($23.95)
Hero (UTG) ($12.80)
MP ($10)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with Q, Q
Hero bets $0.40, MP calls $0.40, CO calls $0.40, 3 folds

Flop: ($1.35) 8, 9, 8 (3 players)
Hero bets $1.15, 1 fold, CO calls $1.15

Turn: ($3.65) 8 (2 players)
Hero checks, CO checks

River: ($3.65) 5 (2 players)
Hero bets $2.75, CO raises to $7, Hero raises to $11.25 (All-In), CO calls $4.25

Total pot: $26.15 | Rake: $1.30

Results in white below:
Hero had Q, Q (full house, eights over Queens).
CO had J, 8 (four of a kind, eights).
Outcome: CO won $24.85



Very same jerkface

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (6 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Button ($58.50)
SB ($4.95)
BB ($9.40)
UTG ($27.10)
Hero (MP) ($10)
CO ($16.80)

Preflop: Hero is MP with J, J
UTG calls $0.10, Hero bets $0.50, 1 fold, Button calls $0.50, 3 folds

Flop: ($1.25) K, 10, J (2 players)
Hero bets $1, Button raises to $2, Hero raises to $6, Button raises to $28.50, Hero calls $3.50 (All-In)

Turn: ($20.25) 10 (2 players, 1 all-in)

River: ($20.25) 3 (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: $20.25 | Rake: $1

Results in white below:
Button had K, K (full house, Kings over tens).
Hero had J, J (full house, Jacks over tens).
Outcome: Button won $19.25


you guessed it, same villain. I have no excuses for why I played the hand this way nor for why I called the river. How the F did I come out 2 BI ahead roflmao

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (6 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

BB ($15.55)
UTG ($10.55)
MP ($5.90)
CO ($25.80)
Hero (Button) ($12.65)
SB ($12.25)

Preflop: Hero is Button with K, Q
UTG bets $0.40, 1 fold, CO calls $0.40, Hero calls $0.40, 1 fold, BB calls $0.30

Flop: ($1.65) 4, 5, K (4 players)
BB checks, UTG checks, CO bets $0.50, Hero calls $0.50, BB calls $0.50, 1 fold

Turn: ($3.15) 8 (3 players)
BB checks, CO checks, Hero checks

River: ($3.15) Q (3 players)
BB bets $5.40, 1 fold, Hero calls $5.40

Total pot: $13.95 | Rake: $0.65

Results in white below:
Hero mucked K, Q (two pair, Kings and Queens).
BB had 8, 8 (three of a kind, eights).
Outcome: BB won $13.30

It's been a few days since my last update, lot's of changes. Ive moved up. Was able to add a bit of my old roll, so between that and my winnings I've been able to start working on 25NL.

so far so good through 6k hands:




So the roll is something around 880, solid for this level and hopefully things keep going well. I still make a spewy move or two per session, not sure how to explain that. I'll post the hands I played like a donk in, sometime later this afternoon.

I'm also still not reviewing my sessions properly. Been spending way more time playing than reviewing. I watch a video almost daily and have been reading alot of HH threads, but not really looking over my own game. I need to focus on this asap.

So I need a new goal, let's see:

Move up to 50NL with no less than 30 Buy ins, so $1500 minimum. And post more hands for review.


Hand's played so far this month: 24678 (5322 to go)
Bank Roll: $879 (621 to go)

Didn't have much else to do last night and all day today so I've been playing cards. I've reached my first meaningful milestone, at least to me, my BR hit 1k today for the first time. woot! As they say, the first 1k is the hardest :P I'm sure the next few hundred k will be super easy.

Here are my stats at 25NL so far:




Last night I fought variance over about 2 thousand hands. Was down over 4BI and playing like a tard post flop, so I took a break to clear my head, came back and finished strong. got everything back except less than half of a BI before I called it quits.

today Ive just been sitting around grinding it out and feel pretty good about my game at the moment. I have a shit ton to work on and it is going to take willpower not to move up in stakes until my roll and mental state are ready. In the meantime I think I'll spend time watching 50NL vids, that should satisfy the urge.


I'm also going to start planning a better diet and get in shape again. I'm only 29 and feel like shit half the time. Tired, eat like a dog. Just gross. I need to drop about 25 pounds of fat and add some muscle. So ya, I'm joining the fitness craze. It's about time and we should all do a little more to stay in shape.

i promise to post some hands soon lol

I think I've discovered one secret to playing winning poker: Sex.

If you don't have access to it, figure something out because not getting any is killing your game.

HEATER! so sick




I've played 15k hands at 25NL and am running at 17.2bb/100. Before today I was running at around 11, so I'd expect it to trend that way again over the next few thousand hands.

So the roll is now at 1302 and some change, its really going to take some discipline not to move up. I can do it, I swear. If I say it out loud enough I'll manage it. Its only 8 more BI at 25NL, no pain no gain. right? right.

I've made 852$ playing poker this month so far. interesting.

Originally Posted by speedcake

I think I've discovered one secret to playing winning poker: Sex.

If you don't have access to it, figure something out because not getting any is killing your game.

So basically you're saying anyone who can't get laid and is having trouble at the tables should hire an escort and expect their win rate to go up. Cool!

wheee! lol

Originally Posted by Micro2Macro

Originally Posted by speedcake

I think I've discovered one secret to playing winning poker: Sex.

If you don't have access to it, figure something out because not getting any is killing your game.

So basically you're saying anyone who can't get laid and is having trouble at the tables should hire an escort and expect their win rate to go up. Cool!

I find it coincidental that I got laid last weekend and I have been on massive heaterments ever since. Before that I was doing OK, but its definitely gotten better. Coincidence? I THINK NOT

Some pretty sick stats you've got there, keep it up mate and it wont be long before you're up at 50NL. If your BR reaches say 1500ish I dont see why you should wait around, you've been at 25NL and had success before I believe so its not like you'd essentially be skipping a limit if you move up again quite quickly.

gl with whatever you decide to do.

thx man! I have moved up, news at 11.

So i was able to upload another $100 and that plus my $25 winnings pushed me to just about where I wanted to be to move up. So I went ahead and just did it.

Final 25NL stats:

16310 hands played
15.35bb/100
+$625.90

I've been more disciplined since moving up as far as how many tables I'm running. I won't lie, I've had 6 tables open for a few hundred hands. However the majority of the time I'm only opening 4 and my play is better as is my win rate.

Things have been a bit swongy. Had AA and KK cracked multiple times and I'm pretty sure more than one of them was a fold. Otherwise I think I'm adjusting pretty well and other than a bit more 3betting/aggression I don't see a huge difference between 25 and 50NL.

So far:



and since I took the picture I picked up a couple decent pots so its a bit higher win rate than that. but im too lazy to take another screen shot. Up 3 BI as I type. yay :P


March Hands played: 37,677
Moneys added to Roll: +$966 and some pennies

I'm going to type this now: if an otherwise station-esque villain raises me on a dry board when I have an over pair or TP...proceed with caution.

I mean, I fucking know that. so just a little reminder here. And thanks to Spoon's lecture in IRC I now know I neither study the game, my game nor life in general nearly enough to make it as a poker player. I do spend time studying, hours. but it is not nearly as much nor as focused as it should be. I gotta get on that.


Hand 1: spew?

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

Hero (Button) ($50)
SB ($27.25)
BB ($50.70)
UTG ($48.90)
MP ($48.60)
CO ($53)

Preflop: Hero is Button with A, A
3 folds, Hero bets $1.50, 1 fold, BB calls $1

Flop: ($3.25) 6, 10, 5 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $2, BB calls $2

Turn: ($7.25) K (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $4, BB raises to $10, Hero calls $6

River: ($27.25) 7 (2 players)
BB bets $18.50, Hero calls $18.50

Total pot: $64.25 | Rake: $3

Results in white below:
Hero mucked A, A (one pair, Aces).
BB had 5, 5 (three of a kind, fives).
Outcome: BB won $61.25



Hand 2: I am a moron for betting out on the turn , IMO

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

Hero (SB) ($50)
BB ($50)
UTG ($67.85)
MP ($50)
Button ($78.95)

Preflop: Hero is SB with A, A
2 folds, Button calls $0.50, Hero bets $2.50, 1 fold, Button calls $2

Flop: ($5.50) 6, Q, 9 (2 players)
Hero bets $4, Button raises to $8, Hero calls $4

Turn: ($21.50) 9 (2 players)
Hero bets $12, Button raises to $24, Hero raises to $39.50 (All-In), Button calls $15.50

River: ($100.50) 4 (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: $100.50 | Rake: $2

Results in white below:
Button had 6, 6 (full house, sixes over nines).
Hero had A, A (two pair, Aces and nines).
Outcome: Button won $98.50


hand 3: Station raises me on the turn this has to be a fold

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

CO ($215.80)
Hero (Button) ($150.45)
SB ($50)
BB ($20.15)
UTG ($34.90)
MP ($55.55)

Preflop: Hero is Button with K, K
UTG calls $0.50, 2 folds, Hero bets $2.50, 2 folds, UTG calls $2

Flop: ($5.75) 8, 6, 10 (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets $4, UTG calls $4

Turn: ($13.75) Q (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets $8.50, UTG raises to $28.40 (All-In), Hero calls $19.90

River: ($70.55) 9 (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: $70.55 | Rake: $3

Results in white below:
Hero mucked K, K (one pair, Kings).
UTG had 10, Q (two pair, Queens and tens).
Outcome: UTG won $67.55

played a short session tonight, no HUD or any other aid as I'm at my parent's house for the weekend. So I worked on my game sans technology, reads..note taking...etc.

This happend, pretty sick:

$0.25/$0.5 No Limit Holdem
5 players
Converted at weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG smatt00000 ($81.90)
CO 808mlee ($64.15)
BTN Hero ($125.80)
SB Mr. LuiCyfer ($62.20)
BB OttoIsHere ($17.65)

Pre-flop: ($0.75, 5 players) Hero is BTN
smatt00000 raises to $1.50, 1 fold, Hero calls $1.50, Mr. LuiCyfer calls $1.25, 1 fold

Flop: ($5, 3 players)
Mr. LuiCyfer checks, smatt00000 bets $4, Hero raises to $10, Mr. LuiCyfer folds, smatt00000 raises to $28, Hero goes all-in $124.30, smatt00000 goes all-in $52.40

Turn: ($209.70, 2 players)

River: ($209.70, 2 players)

Final Pot: $165.80
Hero shows:
smatt00000 shows:

Hero wins $207.70 ( won +$81.90 )
Mr. LuiCyfer lost -$1.50
smatt00000 lost -$81.90



Also cracked AA when my KK spiked a set on the flop after getting it all in Preflop.

So the roll is moving in the right direction and I'm settling into 5oNL decently. Will play a bit more tomorrow night without a HUD and probably some monday night before heading home tuesday morning.

Wish I weren't so tired right now or I'd play until dawn. But 8 hours at work followed by a 6 hour road trip is kind of exhausting.

Good work at moving up to the 50enels. Nice to see you're running good there too. Keep it up!

thx for the support , dranger!

GJ man

you're sure right about sex being +++ev
poker players need to get laid - even barry greenstein says so

thx salsa!

Well, March is over. I played alot of hands, a little more than 42,000. Mostly between 10 and 25NL, but I did rack up about 7400 hands at 5oNL.

Was at the parent's house over the weekend to see my new niece and ran like shit while there. No hud, so decided i'd work on my reads. I think the mistake was playing on more than a couple tables. Don't get me wrong, I played poorly as well and left for home about 4 BI down. Next time I decide to work on my game au natural... I'm only playing 2 tables.

Tonight I ran pretty well, recouped my losses and the roll is back around 1700. Stars had some glitch with one of my uploads though and put some other ones on hold. But then one that was due to clear today went through no problem. So hopefully the others go through without trouble.

So as of right now $1450 is actually online available for play and $250 is somewhere in limbo. Hopefully it gets uploaded with no more worries because Stars says they wont give me credit right away for uploads until a few of them clear with no problems. fuckin hell.


50NL is still going ok, I'm behind where I wanted to be with the bankroll but honestly it's mostly my fault. I've been coolered and rivered a few times, but also been way too spewy in easy spots. Just gotta work on pluggin those leaks and getting more value from my hands I think.



Poker Profits for march: $1171 clams.


woot

bah, salvaged an otherwise break even 1300 hands this afternoon with a nice little pot to put me at about 5bb/100 .

now for work. hooray

I wish I could post pretty graphs like you rich fucks.

When my roll hits 2k I think I'm gonna upgrade from PT2. But which should I get? HEM or PT3?

any thoughts?

mini Op for the next 5k hands:

Every single time we hold worse than top 2 pair and we are raised on any street by villain, we are folding. ldo, right? ya

I have a huge problem at the moment with being able to let hands go and it's killing my win rate. I have no idea why I'm doing it, but hopefully I get it out of my system asap.


Things will obviously be different with big draws and depending on equity. I'm talking more about TP or overpair type hands, one pair vs. villains flop or turn raising range. I'm a dumbass and need to not be a dumbass in order to move up.

just use PT2 and PokerGrapher to make "fancy" graphs.

Congrats on teh goot March, now pwn April imo. gogogogogogogogogogo.

I haven't posted stats or hands in a while, I'll post a bunch of pretty pictures when I get home from work tonight.

Been runnin ok at the 50 En eL , about 9bb/100 over 15k hands played so far. ship itz

Hopefully it keeps going well and I can rethink when I want to move up. Might shoot for 3500 or so and give myself a stop loss. We'll see.

50NL stats and results so far, not quite 9bb/100 at the moment. I feel like if I can get a couple more leaks plugged and improve post flop I can be beating it for 10+bb/100.



I've gotten more aggressive over all, compared to the earlier levels. Not lagging it up by any means, but definitely opening up more


I'm reviewing my hands at 50NL so far and some glaring problems are there. I don't play AK well. Ive been coolered a couple times, but also just play bad with this hand. No excuses.

I don't play suited connectors well. I think I play them way too often, mostly. Must find fold button and look for good situations to play them.

All PPs except 33 are profitable. That's nice to see.

AJs strangely gets me in trouble where AJo is a solid winner so far. need to see how I'm playing and do it better. Again, probably more folding is in order.

And alot of the problems are just spew on my part, which I'm focusing on over the last few thousand hands and I think I'm dealing with it. Next 15k hands should be interesting.

Hopefully by the time I'm done reviewing these hands I'll have plenty of notes on how to please improve and stop being a dumbass in spots where it is obvious to everyone else how not to be a dumbass.



Gross

$0.25/$0.5 No Limit Holdem
4 players
Converted at weaktight.com

Stacks:
CO Hero ($86.15)
BTN EG70 ($72.35)
SB Fierytycoon ($53.55)
BB kosta greco ($76.80)

Pre-flop: ($0.75, 4 players) Hero is CO
Hero raises to $2, 1 fold, Fierytycoon calls $1.75, 1 fold

Flop: ($4.50, 2 players)
Fierytycoon checks, Hero bets $4, Fierytycoon calls $4

Turn: ($12.50, 2 players)
Fierytycoon checks, Hero bets $6, Fierytycoon calls $6

River: ($24.50, 2 players)
Fierytycoon checks, Hero bets $18, Fierytycoon goes all-in $41.55, Hero calls $23.55

Final Pot: $107.60
Fierytycoon shows:
Hero shows:

Fierytycoon wins $105.60 ( won +$52.05 )
Hero lost -$53.55



yay!

$0.25/$0.5 No Limit Holdem
5 players
Converted at weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG 89798798 ($133.20)
CO Hero ($68.60)
BTN Brinks16 ($31.50)
SB remco145 ($29.70)
BB klblue ($43.05)

Pre-flop: ($0.75, 5 players) Hero is CO
89798798 calls $0.50, Hero raises to $2, 3 folds, 89798798 calls $1.50

Flop: ($4.75, 2 players)
89798798 checks, Hero bets $3, 89798798 raises to $7.50, Hero goes all-in $66.60, 89798798 calls $59.10

Turn: ($137.95, 2 players)

River: ($137.95, 2 players)

Final Pot: $137.95
89798798 shows:
Hero shows:

Hero wins $135.95 ( won +$67.35 )
89798798 lost -$68.60

Tested the waters:





Soft

Update!

So I moved up to 100NL briefly with about 22 BI online and another 4 BI available to upload, things went ok the first two sessions. I had built my roll to about 30BI for the level and then I had one 2k hand stretch that was REALLY bad. Lost all winnings I had up to that point at 100NL, about 6 BI, and dropped back to 50NL pronto.

It was a mix of coolers and me just being spewy, but either way it was way too soon to try to move up IMO. My bankroll can't take much of a downswing at that stake and I do not play well under rolled. I had given myself a 3 BI stop loss and by the time I moved back down was actually still a bit ahead of where I would have been had I lost 3 BI right away.

Lesson learned. Be patient.

The good news is that I know I can beat that level, it just wasn't nearly as scary as I had imagined it would be. Primarily I got in my own way of staying up through my own bad play. So I've recovered my roll and start over from this point on, could have been worse I reckon.

Soooo, I got HEM finally and it's freakin way nice so far. Really happy with the purchase. Been grinding it at 50NL and working on my leaks. Things were wishy washy after moving back down and I had to get a grip on the poor play that continued, ran break even for a few nights. Graph so far, pretty freakin ugly:



I need to figure out why the line is so squiggly, would be great if I'd stop playing such swing-y poker. Another reason to stay at 50NL for a while.

Oh and I reached Platinum on stars, woot! Gonna shoot for the big bonus, that would be a really nice BR boost.

BRAG! Had my biggest poker day yet, +$470 in 4400 hands. I feel I'm playing pretty well, but at the same time I know I still don't play correctly alot of the time and will be getting coaching here pretty soon to start plugging leaks.

But still, all in all can't complain with the progress




After 35k hands at 50NL I'm running at 7.3bb/100 wheee!

So, Bankroll is now north of 2550 and the fpps are coming pretty quickly. I think I might alter my goal and play 50NL until I have the fpps to get the platinum bonus. Then once that is cleared and added to whatever my roll is at that point, I'll move up.

Either that or I move up at 3500 with a stop loss. Just gonna wait to see how I feel about my game when the time comes tbh.



A couple of hands I don't feel I played very well:



Hand 1:

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

Button ($50)
SB ($50)
BB ($65.45)
UTG ($135.30)
MP ($51.70)
Hero (CO) ($103.60)

Preflop: Hero is CO with 8, 8
2 folds, Hero bets $1.50, 2 folds, BB calls $1

Flop: ($3.25) 8, 10, J (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $2.50, BB raises $7.50, Hero raises $13.50, BB calls $8.50

Turn: ($35.25) 6 (2 players)
BB bets $8, Hero calls $8

River: ($51.25) 6 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $78.10 (All-In), BB calls $39.95 (All-In)

Total pot: $131.15



Hand 2: Opponent is 18/17/3.6 over 225 hands. pretty straight forward. I underrepresented my hand with the plan to ship on him with a good flop. given his range in the SB I thought the flop was fine and he might spazz out with JJ, QQ, AK, AQ, or a flush draw. Which he did, much to my chagrin.

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

Button ($49.70)
SB ($66.70)
BB ($57.15)
UTG ($50.75)
Hero (MP) ($119.55)
CO ($54.35)

Preflop: Hero is MP with K, K
1 fold, Hero bets $2, 2 folds, SB raises $6.75, 1 fold, Hero calls $5

Flop: ($14.50) 10, 10, 5 (2 players)
SB bets $9.50, Hero raises $112.55 (All-In), SB calls $50.20 (All-In)

Turn: ($133.90) J (2 players, 2 all-in)

River: ($133.90) 9 (2 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: $133.90

WTH, I just realized I didn't post results in the above hand. Opponent had JJ, turned a set.


Anyway, April is over for me. When I play tonight it will be May and I'll still be playing 50NL, which isn't a bad thing. I could be playing 25NL :P

I went through about a 30k hand stretch where I was just not winning and I dropped approx. 12 or so BI. Just a ton of coolers, with a bit of my own spew/misplays thrown in, and I thought that shit was gonna last forever. Instead, and luckily it only lasted about 2 weeks.

Last two days, in about 2500 hands I've made up for that entire downswing and the BR is at a new high. Sometimes poker is just silly like that I guess.

April:




I also played about 6800 hands at 100NL and am down a little over 2 BI overall at that stake. But I did clear a Gold bonus on Stars, so it evened out I guess. I really do think my 5k BR goal for moving up is a bit conservative, and I might reconsider once I get over 3k and start getting close to 4k. By then I should have cleared at least one more bonus (hopefully a Platinum) and maybe put together some more cash to add to the roll. We'll see I guess.

Final April stats:

Hands played - 63,587
Profit - $1272



Goals for march:

Hands played - 75000
Move up to 100NL with minimum of 35-40 buy ins
Get FPPs for and clear Platinum bonus - need 40k fpps

Good luck in the new month, new months are always good.

Ive hit some sort of wall I guess. for the past month any progress I make one day is quickly snuffed out the next. Up and down like that constantly.

I'm sure alot is me, but I'm also seeing just a ton of coolers and suck outs of the 2-5 outs variety. I'm working on the leaks and hopefully the negative variance will go away as well.

I still have 48BI for my level, so thats not a worry and I'm not moving down. But I'm also not moving up and its frustrating the hell out of me.

Im trying out some full ring, last couple of sessions. Even that isn't going all that great. part of that is learning the ropes though, so I can't pass judgment yet.

6max is still my game, Im just looking around for some other ways to get the BR going in the right direction again. I guess I have to just keep playing, hope it works out.

Play some DONS imo

oh and don't forget that bankroll building is a slow process to help keep things in perspective. you still need to almost double your roll to get to 100nl/$5k goal so I wouldn't worry about making it happen too quickly.

I may try some DONs. Ive been messing around with other forms of poker, and it helps break up the grind. But even so the results have been mostly the same. I just need to fix my damn leaks as well.

Originally Posted by speedcake

Ive hit some sort of wall I guess.

I'm working on the leaks

how many hours of study have you done this month, vs hours of play.
Post what you think your major 6-max leaks are, and get some advice. I'm learning 6-max at micros at the moment, so am interested in working on this.

This may be useful too? then again, Robb is nailing 100nl playing uber-nit 16-14 or something...
http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...73.html#881639

I have to be completely honest and say that my study time has gone down this past month. I realized this yesterday and am making some changes. Before I was watching way more vidz, looking at HHs and various other forms of study. Now, all too often, I just play. pretty obvious it has a negative affect.

I need to think about my leaks and will post a list. And thanks for the link!

Originally Posted by speedcake

Now, all too often, I just play. pretty obvious it has a negative affect.

we all do it sometimes - I'm finally playing less hands and working on win-rate. Took me too long to figure out that high win-rate >>> bonus/fpp/etc breakeven grinding

post your position stats for all hands at 50nl.

if you want to see any other stats, lemme know and I'll re-post

http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...it-t85155.html


any thoughts?

shew! finally had the kind of session I had gotten used to. +300 and the BR finally hit a new high of +2850

Hopefully its a sign of things to come because I feel like for the most part my poker has been steadily improving, but the results the last few weeks haven't really reflected that.

I apparently don't have enough poker buddies, cause I just now learned about the May bonuses on Stars.

3k BR whee!

Originally Posted by speedcake

I apparently don't have enough poker buddies, cause I just now learned about the May bonuses on Stars.

3k BR whee!

fail.

lol keep it going man, ride the momentum and make them monies

Originally Posted by speedcake

if you want to see any other stats, lemme know and I'll re-post

i recommend posting position stats and standard stats = vpip/pfr/3-bet/AF/A frequency by street/fold to 3-bet/4-bet/c-bet/fold to cbet/W$WSF/W$SD/etc in the short-handed forum

i'll give feedback in that thread

for now, and from a short-handed noob, you seem to 3-bet too oftne from mp, and not enough from button. I'd also re-examine sb play. Include your steal stats. Looks pretty good though

Why do I do really annoying things to my bankroll? Last night I ran well at 50NL 6max, finished up 4 BI or so and with my roll over 3100.

Got up this morning and thought "hey I'll play some FR before work, see whats what...in the butt"

BR is now 2995 again.


In the Butt. I'm an idiot.


edit: thats 2995, not 2195 as previously mistyped. dont panic

Hey, didn't know that you were an FTR poster, chatted with you last night as I got rolled at $50NL 6max. Ran/played much better today.

GL with your endeavors and see you at 6max!

ah, ya I found the hand. Don't worry I won't post it.

Good to year ya ran better. I'm hoping to have a good week myself coming up, farm the second half of the FPPs I need for the platinum bonus and get the bankroll to 4k. Then I think I'll start to seriously consider moving up to 100NL.

Just not going to do it earlier, I don't want to have to move down again even if I run bad at first. 40 buy ins for me will be the bare minimum, maybe nitty but I know I'll play far better with that kind of cushion.

Well if this doesn't work out there's always cadaver dogs.

J/k. Good to see things are going well. Continue to pwn pls kthx.

lol ya, thanks. probably a good possibility ya.

But I dunno, I cant seem to get my two jack russells very trained

Brag:

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...eaterMay19.jpg


Easily the sickest run yet. I've made this much in a day before, but it took all day. This took like 2 hours.

Wowowowoww nh. Glad I wasn't sitting at your tables this morning!

Originally Posted by speedcake

Brag:

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...eaterMay19.jpg


Easily the sickest run yet. I've made this much in a day before, but it took all day. This took like 2 hours.

Hollllyyy shitt that's a sexy graph

You were due for this, and your patience paid off.

Cbat: I didn't know you played 6max? Update that blog yo. (I see it under your sig' now)

Originally Posted by Micro2Macro

Hollllyyy shitt that's a sexy graph

You were due for this, and your patience paid off.

Cbat: I didn't know you played 6max? Update that blog yo. (I see it under your sig' now)

Sorry to hi-jack speedcake!

Yeah, I do. But I am superstitious ! I'll update at the end of the month with my progress.

Originally Posted by CBAT

Originally Posted by Micro2Macro

Hollllyyy shitt that's a sexy graph

You were due for this, and your patience paid off.

Cbat: I didn't know you played 6max? Update that blog yo. (I see it under your sig' now)

Sorry to hi-jack speedcake!

Yeah, I do. But I am superstitious ! I'll update at the end of the month with my progress.

Ahh okay fair enough.

Sorry speed but your blog has now turned into a random message board. Enjoy.

lol, honestly thats ok with me. I might try to post some hands, I kind of fail at that.

its been swongy last couple of sessions. But tonight managed to recover some small losses and finished up 2 BI over my previous high. so BR now at 36BI for the next level.

I think I have to revise my goal to 4k for moving up, 5k is just where I'd like to keep it eventually after I am withdrawing moneys. We'll see how I feel I guess.

One thing that needs to happen this month is more hands played though, I only have about 50k. Fail, IMO.

I also am closing in on the fpps for the plat bonus, rakeback ftw. wheee

Short 750 hand session tonight, ran goot +2 BI. Can't complain about too much. I misplayed AKs vs a tagg who had been 3betting me early and often, cost me some money when I folded on the flop after 4betting pre and he only called me in position.

Misplayed TP/TK on Kxx 2tone flop vs another tagg when he flatted my pot sized cbet. I checked blank turn thinking check/raise, but when he bet....I only called? wtf was I doing. I ended up calling a freakin value bet on the end when the flush came in. what a fucking tard I am sometimes.

Meh.

37 BI for 100nl

still way behind on my hand volume goal

still not enough fpps for the platinum bonus, about 19k short

still working at my donk ass no paying job

i moved up. Had about 38 buy ins, so figured I'd go ahead and see how it goes. Gave myself a stop loss of 5 buy ins which would leave me still way over rolled for 50NL.

So far so good I guess, a bit swingy but I think I'll figure that out. Got coolered, as is standard. however. Up 2 BI so far so..


Ship the 4k Bankroll. woot!


Actually +379 so far in 5k hands total this month at 100Nl, played a few hands earlier in the month. So all in all I think it's going to go ok.

The plan now is to just keep building my roll. Im going to have to start withdrawing moneys once I get to 5k and get bonuses, but I still want to move up as well. Supernova is going to happen this year easy. I think what is going to happen is I am not going to quit my job any time soon. Had planned to do so once I had 5k and 3 months of my share of expenses saved. But sticking wit it a bit longer will keep the pressure off of my BR.

It's really swongy, but here is the garf so far for anyone interested

very nice sir. good job on the move up

http://weaktight.com/1160374

Biggest pot I've played yet. Probably could have played it way better than this. Mouth breather running 46/24/4.3 over a smallish sample

Nice job!!

Always nervous getting ai 200bb deep, but against this guy you're good way too often not to. Nice hand in my opinion.

Looks like around hand 3000 things went crap but nice recovery!

ya, thx!

Things are too swingy so far for my taste, but I've been able to recover. And really it's never been more than 3 BI that I've been down. Hopefully I just keep improving, figure some things out at this level and keep the BR going.

I'm going to drop to 4 tables for at least half of my sessions for the foreseeable future, until the BR is much larger and I'm more comfortable. I'll still open up more on weekends most likely.

and I need to actually start posting hands now. It's getting a bit more serious for me, have plenty of them saved in HEM so no real reason not to post em.

Fuck poker and fuck -4 BI spew

that is all