Working my way up

Aims
Play and be bankrolled($400) for $10NL 9Max by September 1st
Play at least 30,000 hands at $2NL 9Max by May 1st

Read the entire beginners digest
BankrollManagement 101. Important to new players by a500lbgorilla
The Newbie Circle of Death by storm75m
You Cannot Make Someone Fold by Pyroxene
Moving Up and YOU by Bigspenda73

169 hand SS-NLHE ring strategy: Preflop by Renton


Dealing with Bad Beats by taipan168


Blind Stealing 101 by spoonitnow
Raising Behind Limpers by spoonitnow

I will add any more aims as I progress

wouldn't it have been easier/more logical to just continue your old operation which you only made a couple of posts in?

Originally Posted by Keith_MM

wouldn't it have been easier/more logical to just continue your old operation which you only made a couple of posts in?

it would be logical, but I wanted a clean slate :/

and going to hopefully be playing between 1 and 6 depending on if I want put some volume in, or trying new things, working on something etc.

Put some volume in today just over 2600 hands mostly 6 tabling was playing about 11/8 which I am not sure if is too tight?? Was trying to open up more in late position and stay tight in early position, but I think I need to open up even more on the button/cutoff especially if the blinds are tight. I am up about 5 buyins which is good , I want to try and get about 30,000 hands on this level before I think about moving up to 5NL but what should be the minimum bankroll for moving up like $150 30 buyins should be enough and then move back down at $100?

For the time being anyway I am trying to work on my pre-flop play and trying to get a sound base before trying anything else.

Originally Posted by scfc_andy15

it would be logical, but I wanted a clean slate :/

and going to hopefully be playing between 1 and 6 depending on if I want put some volume in, or trying new things, working on something etc.

Dude I wish you luck and all but come on, Keith's right, this is your 4th OP in like 5 months

last one k? k

ok last one, I promise

So I thought I would tell you a bit why this annoying twat keeps posting blogs and blocking up the forum, firstly I am bit of a perfectionist this spans back from since I was little when if I went outside the lines of a colouring book then I would rip the page out because in my mind it was ruined, then as you could see a page had been ripped out in the margin I would throw the whole book away because of the same reason in my head it was ruined..... yeah you can see where I am going with this I am a tiny bit mental. Carried on but got better, went to school messed up ripped out a page, I think my record was I had 4 pages left in a maths book at primary school like at the end of the first week . That was fucking up my education though so I managed to stop and just fucking cross out like a normal person.
Then I starting playing video games, this bit is where I am weird, like on gta if I died I would restart the whole game as I didnt want a kill on the record list and if I just restarted from where I was I thought it would be cheating...... yeah I never completed it. Another thing was if I went back a few months later I would always have to start a new game as I couldn't of been 100% sure I hadnt cheated on that game or died or missed a kill etc.
So then poker started.... I probably have posted like 4 blogs on here that haven't lasted more than a week and a couple of posts, probably because I have been on a downswing and I didn't want it recorded or I went on tilt and didnt want that recorded either So I decided to start a new blog but I couldnt start from the bankroll I had unless it was a full number, for example if I had $19.76 then I would take $1.76 to PLO and try and work it up to $20 or lose it and play with $18 just so I could start my blog with a "normal" number.... the amount of money I have lost just to get a whole number is crazy. Its one of the reasons I got HEM so I could track my results, without deleting them, as I dont know how even if its possible to reset the results. IF YOU KNOW DONT TELL ME!!!!! So this blog is also like a personal challenge to try and keep going, so wish me luck.

p.s sorry for starting loads of blogs
p.s.s you can delete the old ones if you want....
p.s.s.s if I start another blog in 2010 you can ban me from the forums

"Man's greatest strength is not never falling but in rising everytime we do fall."

Ok update time played about 6000 hands $19.27 up, so am running at 16.47 bb/100. But just played a pretty bad session where I only finished $4.16 down but it could of been a lot worse, here is some hands.....

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, $0.02 BB (9 handed) - Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
SB ($2)
Hero (BB) ($2.50)
UTG ($0.21)
UTG+1 ($2.70)
MP1 ($2.14)
MP2 ($2.17)
MP3 ($2.93)
CO ($1.37)
Button ($3.46)
Preflop: Hero is BB with A, K
UTG calls $0.02, 3 folds, MP3 bets $0.06, 3 folds, Hero raises to $0.22, UTG calls $0.19 (All-In), MP3 calls $0.16
Flop: ($0.66) 10, K, A (3 players, 1 all-in)
Hero bets $0.50, MP3 raises to $2.71 (All-In), Hero calls $1.78 (All-In)
Turn: ($5.22) 6 (3 players, 3 all-in)
River: ($5.22) 4 (3 players, 3 all-in)
Total pot: $5.22 | Rake: $0.34

He had pocket tens

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, $0.02 BB (9 handed) - Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
BB ($2.28)
Hero (UTG) ($2.03)
UTG+1 ($2.67)
MP1 ($2.83)
MP2 ($2)
MP3 ($4.47)
CO ($1.94)
Button ($2.08)
SB ($0.68)
Preflop: Hero is UTG with K, A
Hero bets $0.08, UTG+1 calls $0.08, 4 folds, Button raises to $0.26, 2 folds, Hero raises to $1.05, 1 fold, Button raises to $2.08 (All-In), Hero calls $0.98 (All-In)
Flop: ($4.17) J, 9, 9 (2 players, 2 all-in)
Turn: ($4.17) 5 (2 players, 2 all-in)
River: ($4.17) 4 (2 players, 2 all-in)
Total pot: $4.17 | Rake: $0.27

He had aces, he had sat down about 12 hands before and 3 bet 3 times already so I thought AK was above his range, but it is such a small sample....

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, $0.02 BB (9 handed) - Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
MP3 ($2.01)
Hero (CO) ($2)
Button ($2.52)
SB ($2.73)
BB ($2)
UTG ($2.36)
UTG+1 ($1.36)
MP1 ($1.60)
MP2 ($1)
Preflop: Hero is CO with 5, 5
UTG calls $0.02, UTG+1 calls $0.02, 3 folds, Hero calls $0.02, Button calls $0.02, 1 fold, BB checks
Flop: ($0.11) A, 7, 5 (5 players)
BB checks, UTG checks, UTG+1 checks, Hero bets $0.10, 2 folds, UTG calls $0.10, 1 fold
Turn: ($0.31) J (2 players)
UTG bets $0.16, Hero raises to $0.62, UTG raises to $2.24 (All-In), Hero calls $1.26 (All-In)
River: ($4.07) 10 (2 players, 2 all-in)
Total pot: $4.07 | Rake: $0.27

He had aces but they is no way I am every folding that is there.

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, $0.02 BB (7 handed) - Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
UTG ($2.31)
MP1 ($2.10)
MP2 ($4.65)
Hero (CO) ($3.54)
Button ($2)
SB ($2.16)
BB ($2.12)
Preflop: Hero is CO with K, K
UTG bets $0.06, MP1 calls $0.06, 1 fold, Hero raises to $0.28, 3 folds, UTG raises to $2.31 (All-In), 1 fold, Hero calls $2.03
Flop: ($4.71) 9, J, 5 (2 players, 1 all-in)
Turn: ($4.71) K (2 players, 1 all-in)
River: ($4.71) 4 (2 players, 1 all-in)
Total pot: $4.71 | Rake: $0.31

Again came up against aces, but managed to suck out :P

Anyway am on target for the hands played, but am starting new job tomorrow so might not have as much time to play but will still try and put in some volume. To finish on a positive note I am enjoying poker more now than I ever have, so hopefully it will carry on being immense

Originally Posted by scfc_andy15

p.s sorry for starting loads of blogs
p.s.s you can delete the old ones if you want....
p.s.s.s if I start another blog in 2010 you can ban me from the forums

lol ... ok.

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."

I am going to be honest in this blog, as I feel that is the only way that I am going to improve as a poker player.

I have played just over 7000 hands and I'm up about 10 buyins, but I don't think I have played well really as I have just being playing 6 tables on auto-pilot with most of my decisions been made pre-flop. I have tried to open up more in late position than I am used to, to try and take advantage of my position against my opponents, although it is a small sample of hands I am $13.73 up from the button and cutoff compared to the SB where I am $8 down so I am going to try and stop playing as many hands in that position as I have been doing.

I am going to two table maximum for the next 1000 hands and I am going to work on my pre-flop play, especially starting hands. I have been raising 4x plus x for every limper and it has been working and I am going to continue doing that.

Question though is it ever acceptable to fold KK pre-flop while playing $2NL 9Max??

Btw this blog is mostly just going to be random poker related posts by me with no real logical sense or anything

I am continuing with my learning of pre-flop play and set myself a little task by asking myself why we raise pre-flop and these were the answer I came up with....

• For value, as we want as much money in the pot as we can while we are ahead of our opponents range.
• To disguise the strength of our hand, if we raise every hand we wish to continue with pre-flop then our range is a lot wider than if we only raise AA/KK/QQ/AKs
• To steal the blinds, we are taking the blinds with marginal hands that we wouldn’t normally raise with if called we have position on the blinds.
• For the lead in the hand, as the pre-flop raiser you have control over the hand as you have shown the most aggression, normally get checked to on the flop but not always.
• To isolate weaker player(s), if you feel that you have an edge post-flop and wish to play a pot with them and wish to get others out of the pot or more money in pre-flop.

These are the only ones I can think of at the moment but I will add some more if I can think of some.
The reason behind doing this and things like these is because I want to learn the reasons behind why people do certain things like raise pre-flop, not just because everyone else does it. It might make me look stupid by writing it down seen as everyone else already knew as soon as they started playing but I am willingly to look stupid as long as I am going get better in the long run.

　

I am going to try and complete all of spoon range exercises over the next week or so as I am shit with ranges and need to learn it asap

Spoony exercise 1 - Complete
Spoony exercise 2 - Complete
Spoony exercise 3 - In Progress