Midstakes heads up hypers - back to the grind

I play on stars, dont know any other site with good superturbo strucure and good rake.

Run good is over, not that I am running bad, last 5k hands was breakeven so not feeling confident enought to play 60s.

Also played freeroll for fun, 130 players first place 100$ and won it ♦
But I need to work on my tournament game, basically was clueless about what I am doing whole tournament except when left hu. Villain had 3:1 chiplead but he just folded allmost all chips to me and rest tilted away ♦

Also not happy with volume lately, I am a bit busy so cant play so much.

Nice blog, you've got a new follower

Resumed play this week. Looks like I start winning something after 400 breakeven games.

But yesterday couldnt put all volume I wanted because stars sng stopped working for a while. Meanwhile played HU NL50, ended +80$ ♦

Interesting river fold ♦

BB: 600.00
Hero (SB): 400.00

Hero posts SB 15.00, BB posts BB 30.00

Pre Flop: (pot: 45.00) Hero has A♦ A♣

Hero raises to 60.00, BB raises to 90.00, Hero raises to 120.00, BB calls 30.00

Flop: (240.00, 2 players) 2♣ A♥ K♦
BB checks, Hero checks

Turn: (240.00, 2 players) 4♦
BB bets 90.00, Hero calls 90.00

River: (420.00, 2 players) 5♦
BB bets 180.00, Hero raises to 190.00 and is all-in, fold

I guess you can fold your air here but Id call 10 chips to at least see what I had. Also dont think his bluff is good here as given pot size and stack sizes he cant make me fold my Kx not sure Id fold here even pocker pair like QQ or JJ.

He obviously thought... well there is a slim chance I can get him off a hand and if not, I can always come back from having 10chips ♦

EDIT: hmm looks like he was the one with more chips, so he would be left with 210, flaw in my theory ♦

I have played one or two villains who was left with 10 chips and in the end won game ♦ I have done it mysefl once ♦

I think I have new favourite villain at 30s.
During the play he called me donk and fish ♠_confused:
His graph vs me:

He was redy to continue play vs fish (me ) but I was too exausted and have to decline.
I checked his stats and for BIG surpize he is breakeven, I thought he will be huge loser. I think this shows how soft are 30s.

worst day this month

ok, it is nothing big but I am on monster tilt, I really dont remember me so tilted.
Ok I can stand that today I am losing allmost all 70:30 situations as favorite but it tilts me so much when some donk makes stupid play and hits on river.

PokerStars - $58.74+$1.26|10/20 NL (2 max) - Holdem - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BB): 500.00
SB: 500.00

SB posts SB 10.00, Hero posts BB 20.00

Pre Flop: (pot: 30.00) Hero has J♠ 8♥

SB calls 10.00, Hero checks

Flop: (40.00, 2 players) 3♥ 8♠ 6♠
Hero checks, SB bets 40.00, Hero raises to 130.00, SB calls 90.00

Turn: (300.00, 2 players) Q♠
Hero bets 160.00, SB calls 160.00

River: (620.00, 2 players) 2♣
Hero bets 190.00 and is all-in, SB calls 190.00 and is all-in

Hero shows J♠ 8♥ (One Pair, Eights) (Pre 67%, Flop 80%, Turn 89%)
SB shows 6♦ 2♠ (Two Pair, Sixes and Twos) (Pre 33%, Flop 20%, Turn 11%)
SB wins 1,000.00

And this happened vs him 3 games in a row.

Than I dont get any action with my AA, KK, QQ whole week, guy calling 90% from bb pre and never folding to cbets decides to fold when I have KK or some crazy 3betor decides fold when I raise my AA, and today I finnaly get action and 2 times my KK was chrushed by floped trips and some donk 3bet jams 25bb 84o and flops straight when I have AA.

But good thing I think I still make good decisions even when angry. I think I didn make any bad play.

End of the month.
Was very good month, was running very good
Could wish only bigger volume.
$EV is +/- 50$ accurate for both graphs.

Overall graph:

I am very happy that I started playing 60s.
Yesterday was my first full day at 60s.
Difference between 30s and 60s is noticable. I finally feel that I need to work on my game. But I am confident that I am beating this level. So far just too many coolers.

60s

Also will take coaching. Good higher stakes player made an offer with very good pricing I just cant decline it, some of you might know him from 2p2 - coffeeyay.

Next month at the beggining still wil mix in some 30s while playing at noon when traffic is lower.

In this month only today started playing.
Here was allmost one week holydays and was on boat trip on the river.

Played low HU scoop event and busted in the first game.
From all fishes there I got very good agroo opponent.
Game was very agroo with a lot of 3betting and 4betting and we was all in with allmost full stacks, I had AQs vs his 77 and flopped royal flush draw but ott he hit full house and I was drawing to 1 out ♦

One interesting hand

PokerStars - $7+$0.50|40/80 NL (2 max) - Holdem - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (SB): 3,820.00
BB: 6,180.00

Hero posts SB 40.00, BB posts BB 80.00

Pre Flop: (pot: 120.00) Hero has T♦ J♣

Hero raises to 160.00, BB calls 80.00

Flop: (320.00, 2 players) Q♠ 5♦ 9♠
BB checks, Hero bets 160.00, BB raises to 400.00, Hero calls 240.00

Turn: (1120.00, 2 players) 5♥
BB bets 560.00, Hero calls 560.00

River: (2240.00, 2 players) A♦
BB bets 1,120.00, Hero raises to 2,700.00 and is all-in, fold

Hero wins 4,480.00

Will have to play a lot to make up for these free days.

This week playing only 60s, I am up 500$, so far 2% ev roi over 350 games.
But I think I wont switch to 60s completely.
There is times when they are so reg infested, like atm. 15 minutes just simulsiting regs, just so hard to get lobby.

And actually I dont know if I get more $/h then at 30s.
At 30s I have 4.8% ev roi over 3.5k games, so I would like to believe I can sustain 4% roi at 30s, ofcourse sample size is too small.

I have to have 3% + roi at 60s to make worth playing them.
There is still plenty of fish so imo i can have such roi but just need to play when there is less regs online.

meh, week started pretty bad, Im 1k$ under ev at 60s but I guess its normal as I was 1k$ above ev last month.
At least seems like downswing ended and I start winning, hope it doesnt changes.

Originally posted by daun666
At least seems like downswing ended and I start winning, hope it doesnt changes.

Yeah right ♦

60s

Biggest downswing so far I have experienced, hope it will turn around soon.

cmoon its becoming ridiculous

PokerStars - $58.74+$1.26|10/20 NL (2 max) - Holdem - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: 500.00
Hero (BB): 500.00

SB posts SB 10.00, Hero posts BB 20.00

Pre Flop: (pot: 30.00) Hero has 6♥ Q♥

SB raises to 40.00, Hero calls 20.00

Flop: (80.00, 2 players) 4♥ 5♥ 8♥
Hero checks, SB bets 60.00, Hero raises to 460.00 and is all-in, SB calls 400.00 and is all-in

Turn: (1000.00, 2 players) T♦

River: (1000.00, 2 players) T♣

Hero shows 6♥ Q♥ (Flush, Queen High) (Pre 59%, Flop 97%, Turn 91%)
SB shows T♥ 8♣ (Full House, Tens full of Eights) (Pre 41%, Flop 3%, Turn 9%)
SB wins 1,000.00

I guess im done for this week, will resume next week and hope things will change.

Its not becomming better just another day 10 bi under ev, alltogether its ~ 60bi under ev at 60s this month.

My br now is 4k I could continue play 60s but why play if I cant win? ♦

So I decided to move down to 30s and better practise 2 tabling, It will be also more volume and I hope in this way i will play faster through this downswing.

I will move back to 60s when I feel i am running better and will win at least 10 -15bi.

I will be happy if I will finnish this month breakeven.

First day with profits, up 6bi and 4bi under ev.

I decided to stick with 30s for some time, ofcourse I will play 60s when my bankroll will be bigger but will not switch completely, will try to play ~50/50 just because swings is too big for me.

In last 2 weeks I am 3.5k$ under ev, for most people in my country its half years salary.

Hope this is the end of downswing

Originally posted by daun666
Resumed play this week. Looks like I start winning something after 400 breakeven games.

But yesterday couldnt put all volume I wanted because stars sng stopped working for a while. Meanwhile played HU NL50, ended +80$ ♦

Interesting river fold ♦

BB: 600.00
Hero (SB): 400.00

Hero posts SB 15.00, BB posts BB 30.00

Pre Flop: (pot: 45.00) Hero has A♦ A♣

Hero raises to 60.00, BB raises to 90.00, Hero raises to 120.00, BB calls 30.00

Flop: (240.00, 2 players) 2♣ A♥ K♦
BB checks, Hero checks

Turn: (240.00, 2 players) 4♦
BB bets 90.00, Hero calls 90.00

River: (420.00, 2 players) 5♦
BB bets 180.00, Hero raises to 190.00 and is all-in, fold

I guess you can fold your air here but Id call 10 chips to at least see what I had. Also dont think his bluff is good here as given pot size and stack sizes he cant make me fold my Kx not sure Id fold here even pocker pair like QQ or JJ.

obviously hes folding complete air, but if yu had a super strong read he had air and yu did as well, this would be the sickest bluff ever ♦ making it 10 more ♦

This was interesting and very different month.
Will start with overall graph:

Was running terrible at 60s:

but at least at 30s made some profit:

Also accidenty played 2 games at 100s, fortunately won both ♦

This month showed me what can I expect from variance, Im running better now, at least not losing but still no sign of upswing :/ And I think I handled it mentaly very well, despite all bead beats I could keep playing very well.
Only problem it was hurting my volume as sometimes it was hard to find any motivation to play.

Also 2tabling going very well, I finally starting feeling comfortable.
Im not 2tabling like 100% but ~ 50% and it lets me get ~7 games more per hour.

I dont know when I will resume playing 60s I only know that I will switch to them completely at least with 10k roll that I can stand downsiwngs like this.

Atm my br is 4k$.

I could make my life easy and just keep playing 30s, where my hourly is ~20-30$ depending what roi I have 2 tabling.
In latvia there is no job you can have such hourly, except if you have your own business or you are head of some company.

At 60s I think I could get my hourly to 30-40$ but at 30s you have less variance as roi is higher so mby 30s is the way to go.

Anyway, next month only 30s ♠_grin:

Was too lazy updating but will sum up June.
Month ago I would complain about having such month:

But after last month Im happy Im up ♦

Ev roi is quite low 1,7% pre rakeback, had 1k games breakeven, Id like to think its not because Im now kinda 1.5 tabling. I open new table when I feel opponent is easy or its close to 10bb when its more preflop game. Also I run hot for last 4k games having 4.9 % ev roi so break even strech like this is expected.

Also volume sucks. In first two weeks I played 1k games and was aiming for 2k games but last week had other things besides poker and couldnt play much and I felt that wont reach 2k games so played also less in last week. I hope next month I will reack 2k games.

I decided to make 3k$ as savings before moving to 60s, than I will feel save in case of downsing, hopefully I will run hot and will be able to put volume in so I can make it next month.

And yesterday played the biggest fish ever, guy's get it in preflop range was Jx+, any two suited and mid offsuit hands, we played 25 games in just 15 minutes ♦ I was running hot vs him and than he declined and played another reg.

having nice week so far , running hot.
I dont remember last time when I had upswing like this.

Also 30s lately are such a donkfest I guess all regs moved up ♦

This months volume will be even lower than usually.

Just dont have time to play, many friends taking vacations in middle of summer and this weekend going to festival - positivus, one of the best this summer in baltics. Its starting on friday but we decided to go on thursday and start warming up (drunk) ♦

I will try get up tomorrow earlier and play couple hours, than I will be able to play again only next tuesday.
Most likely next update will be in the end of the month so here is this month graph + Im also up allmost 100$ at NL100 CAP:

Running good but some people play more in 2 days ♦

and thats how you jam 84s for value ♦

Hero (BB): 366.00
SB: 634.00

SB posts SB 15.00, Hero posts BB 30.00

Pre Flop: (pot: 45.00) Hero has 8♣ 4♣

SB calls 15.00, Hero raises to 366.00 and is all-in, SB calls 336.00

Flop: (732.00, 2 players) 7♠ Q♠ 4♦

Turn: (732.00, 2 players) 5♥

River: (732.00, 2 players) 3♦

Hero shows 8♣ 4♣ (One Pair, Fours) (Pre 56%, Flop 20%, Turn 11%)
SB shows 6♣ 7♣ (Straight, Seven High) (Pre 44%, Flop 80%, Turn 89%)
SB wins 732.00

And here I guess we are beat :?

Hero (SB): 620.00
BB: 380.00

Hero posts SB 10.00, BB posts BB 20.00

Pre Flop: (pot: 30.00) Hero has A♣ Q♠

Hero raises to 40.00, BB calls 20.00

Flop: (80.00, 2 players) J♣ 9♠ A♠
BB checks, Hero bets 35.00, BB calls 35.00

Turn: (150.00, 2 players) 9♣
BB checks, Hero bets 75.00, BB calls 75.00

River: (300.00, 2 players) 7♠
BB bets 230.00 and is all-in, fold

Originally posted by daun666

And here I guess we are beat :?

Hero (SB): 620.00
BB: 380.00

Hero posts SB 10.00, BB posts BB 20.00

Pre Flop: (pot: 30.00) Hero has A♣ Q♠

Hero raises to 40.00, BB calls 20.00

Flop: (80.00, 2 players) J♣ 9♠ A♠
BB checks, Hero bets 35.00, BB calls 35.00

Turn: (150.00, 2 players) 9♣
BB checks, Hero bets 75.00, BB calls 75.00

River: (300.00, 2 players) 7♠
BB bets 230.00 and is all-in, fold

Nice fold, Id fold too but I often think that we dont need to be good often and call...

If you dont mind answering, what hourly are you getting? Im trying to decide if I should switch to HU hyper turbos from 6max... I guess I can calculate the hourly myself but I don't know how many you can play in 1 hour if you're "1.5" tabling.. im guessing ROI for 60s for decent reg is 2-3%...

Also nice blog!