400NL before the New Year

[Corsakh]

Poker Room: Full Tilt Poker and Party Poker
Game: 6max No Limit Holdem
Playmode: 4 tabling, 1,500 hands a day 5 times a week = 7,500 hands a week

Starting Date: 15 June 2007
Starting Bank Roll: $712.5
Starting Limit: 25NL

Target Date: 31 December 2007
Target Bank Roll: $12,000
Target Limit: 400NL

DEADLINES

50NL at $1,000 by 23 June
100NL at $3,000 by 1st of September
200NL at $6,000 by 15th of October
400NL at $12,000 bt 31st of December

[benny999]

cool, GL. definitely possible...

one thing i suggest is taking some shots before exactly at your numbers, if the games look good and you can stick to a stop-loss.
that can really accelerate it. with good game selection, there's not a TON of difference anyway from 50nl to 400nl.

[Corsakh]

Not a very good session today. Little rusty. And a couple nasty splits, like top set vs bottom set to a runner runner straight.

Starting: 712.5
Finishing: 662.5

[Corsakh]

Another not so good day. Played like a total station. I should certainly stop calling rivers this much. Just because I am card dead or villains line makes no sense does not mean my pair is good. The only highlight of the day was winning a 400BB pot with 33 on a A33 flop. Villain 4bet all in with AK.

Starting: 662.5
Finishing: 655.5

[Corsakh]

Dropped two tables. Seem to be running better.

Starting: 655.5
Finishing: 700.5

[Corsakh]

Another small session, two tabling seems to work much better for me.

Starting: 700.5
Finishing: 737.0

[Corsakh]

All right session, 3tabling certainly works better for me. Gives me time to think

Starting: 737.0
Finishing: 772.5

[Corsakh]

All right, break even for today

Starting: 772.5
Finishing: 736.5

[Corsakh]

Weekends are nice. A little robusto. Played a few hours and quit after the first bad call. Sucked out with Ac Ax on Kc Qc Xx board against a guy with Jc Tc. Turn K. River Q.

A little behind schedule, since I was not playing several days before as planned. Hope to catch up till Thursday.

Started: 736.5
Finishing: 850.0

[Corsakh]

Good small session.

Starting: 850.0
Finishing: 902.0

[bigspenda73]

Cool blog, keeping it simple, easy read.

One suggestion, if you have the choice between FT and PP I would choose Party everytime. I don't care how much bonus FT has the play at Party has to be 50x worse.

[Corsakh]

Cool blog, keeping it simple, easy read.

One suggestion, if you have the choice between FT and PP I would choose Party everytime. I don't care how much bonus FT has the play at Party has to be 50x worse.

Thanks

No doubt about that and as soon as I sort out the unmentionable I will be back to party. However, I still prefer having money at both sites since USA peak time is more convenient for me to play at and players are just as bad from 8 to 12.

[Corsakh]

Tiny session and an unbelievable number of high pairs, perhaps about 20 in a span of 500 hands. Too bad I did not play them all too well today, so only a little up.

Starting: 902.0
Finishing: 912.0

[Corsakh]

All right, another small session and I am almost there. Hand of the session:

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, $0.25 BB (6 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

SB ($34.75)
BB ($13.75)
Hero ($27.50)
MP ($15.55)
CO ($41.10)
Button ($23.50)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with J, A.
Hero calls $0.25, 2 folds, Button raises to $23.5 (All-In), 2 folds, Hero calls $23.25.

Flop: ($47.35) J, 7, 4 (2 players, 1 all-in)

Turn: ($47.35) 3 (2 players, 1 all-in)

River: ($47.35) 3 (2 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: $47.35

Results in white below:
Hero has Jh Ad (two pair, jacks and threes).
Button has Qs Tc (one pair, threes).
Outcome: Hero wins $47.35.

Who says never limp UTG?

Starting: 912.0
Finishing: 964.0

[EzDuzIt]

what was the point of limping utg though? raising is much better.
and hopefully you had seen this guy pushing lots of stuff worse than AJ to make this call right?

[bigspenda73]

He's obv been pushing everyhand and he was just trapping him.

[EzDuzIt]

without him saying that i dont know how you can just assume that. unless you were being sarcastic.

[Corsakh]

what was the point of limping utg though? raising is much better.
and hopefully you had seen this guy pushing lots of stuff worse than AJ to make this call right?

The guy was raising all in every second hand. But I noticed that his reraise range was much tighter than his raise range. So I open limped once with 84o in late position. He read it as a trap and we checked it to the river where I proudly showed him my hand. Next time I limped in this hand

[Corsakh]

All right, we may consider the first part of the operation completed. Card dead for the most of the session but managed to stay afloat. Then stacked two people, first AA vs TT on a rag board. Second flopped a set of sevens vs QQ. Sevens improved on the turn

This is my fifth winning session in a row and I am almost rolled So I should start playing 50NL tomorrow.

Starting: 964.0
Finishing: 996.0

[Corsakh]

First 50NL session Some players are better, but some are pure maniacs. Made one bad call, generally pleased.

Starting: 996.0
Finishing: 975.0

[Corsakh]

Looks like break even for the day. A couple of suck outs, coincidentally from the same villain, and one bad call. Not too terrible, hope to improve tomorrow. God, 50NL is soft even in off time.

Starting: 975.0
Finishing: 995.0

[Corsakh]

Unbelievable sucky session

My third hand into the session and the first time I see the flop - comes a set. Nevermind, villains JJ improve on the turn. Just a couple hands later, Q3o with its pair of threes, bluffs me out of a big pot where I had pocket aces. Leaves. God. I proceede donking off two BI in stupuid spots like pushing QQ vs KK and refusing to give credit to the villain that he has trips on 224 board when I have a good over. He shows me 82o and I take a steam break. First time I get stacked my 82o. Well

For some reason, games seem much softer than 25NL. I'd say about as soft as 5NL on stars. Sure there are some decent players, but the majority is just so aweful...

So I proceede playing for another three hours, hit like one hand and total 3BI down for the session.

Starting: 995.0
Finishing: 858.0

[Corsakh]

Made a little bit back.. Hit almost nothing.

Starting: 858.0
Finishing: 895.0

[Corsakh]

God these games are swingy. Was down 5BI at one point, managed to come back and a little on top. A lot of suck outs to 2 , 3 or 5 outers. Lost a 300BB pot on one of these, ouch. Anyway, I seem to be able to adapt

Starting: 895.0
Finishing: 955.0

[Corsakh]

Getting used to higher stakes

Starting: 995.0
Finishing: 1034.5

[bigspenda73]

How many hands have you played since this started?

[Corsakh]

How many hands have you played since this started?

Hard to tell, since had no tracker. About 10K I imagine.

[Corsakh]

Been very lazy. And sick Fever for a week, then Ia was setting up my computer. Got ptracker, acehud and moved into 50NL thinking its gonna be easy God, was I wrong Only 6k hands so far, but not fun

I dont think a single set got paid off. But about 5 or more got busted by various straights and flushes. Then it took me 5k to realize that apparently QQ on a rag board at 50NL is more nuts than it is at 25NL. I called one big turn c/r with it just because I was on tilt and got shown TPTK. I was like wtf, and now not folding QQ no matter what. People also call 3bets OOP with total garbage and then go all in on the flop with any piece of it. Crazy.

Anyway, I made one video during this time. Just some grinding. Link is here:

http://corsakh.files-upload.com/file...78/FTP50NL.avi

And here is my graph for the last 6k hands or so:



Not good, not good

Starting: 1034.5
Finishing: 994.5

[Corsakh]

All right, gradually working up with the help of bonnies and rakeback. Generally running pretty poorly. Semibluffs fail, sets get outdrawn or outflopped. Only aces are still good, have not lost a single AA hand in the last 10k or so. At least my win rate is back to green although yet not high as I expected.

Starting: 994.5
Finishing: 1407.0