After year or two of retirement from online poker I decided to make a little come back to earn money for next summer.
My reasons of starting this blog might be a little selfish but here they are: A♣: Track my progress and results 2♣: Polish my english skills ( so please tell me if I do any horrible language mistakes ) 3♣: Meet people to develop poker skills with 4♣: Post some music from time to time 5♣: Post problematic hands
So let's go further
I deposited 36$ to FTP 2 days ago and played mainly NL2 from time to time adding NL5 table when not many tables were up, occasionally adding 1$ RUSH SNGS on demand.
For now Cash games results looks like that
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Hand against unknown(few stats included) , not sure if good fold after seeing what happening on the tables at this stakes, looked like draw heavy + it's BvB situation but I dont have trust that people understand that on this stakes, you're very welcome to post your comments and thoughts about it ♠_biggrin:
At the end music , I'm in love in this song last time
Edit:
Just started a session, but after like 15 min in last second of time bank made a horrible call and lost a stack, so little break and come back in about an hour after few exercises and studying a little hand evaluation forum Hand below standardly in a spoiler:s_frown:♠_frown:
Another poker day after me so I will put the graph somewhere below. Today I decided to avoid rush tables and mix up FRs with SHs and pretty liked it so for next days I will try to stick to this plan if there will be normal tables available.
All in all I'm pretty happy because in 2 days I little bit more than doubled my starting bankroll (82.92$) and can't wait to stabilize on atleast NL10 ( When I feel I'm in good shape I am using 15 BI rule with 3 BI stop loss shooting strategy)
Plans has changed , I am sitting in da house and posting in hand evaluating section and going to local casino tournament and after this going to Chill out with 2 friends ♦
Originally posted by Alleen86
Hey man! Good luck with your goals! The graph looks awesome! Which limits have you played before retireing online poker?
I have played up to nl200 zoom, but to be honest from this limits I could only say i have beaten hard only up to nl50 and the rest was just little bit over than breakeven/rakeback pro playing but this is the past so atm I am just little fish fighting for dreams (video of dreams included below)
Atm I am more than little bit drunk after casino's tournament where for whole 3 hours I had not any playable/pushable hand and was forced to push 84s from utg on 5 blinds when on UTG behind me some arabic GOD MODE guy called med me with Q9o and go busted even with monster draw (gutshot+draw to pair + fd ) A53ss flop but w/e FREE BEERS IN CASINO DO THE JOB ♠_love:♠_love:♠_love:♠_love:
Edit: Lost 3$ in drunk session cuz still not drunk enough to go to bed , but there is a song for all people who love the SEA <3
Okay so morning 60 min session of nl2 RUSH behind me, I am pretty happy with my game but "spewed" or overplayed few hands unfortunetly so to the result is -2,36$
Firstly I will post biggest pots lost:
Villain seems to be pretty tight fishy reg so the note came in and next iso's will be 8x or smth if he plays like that , obviously he had a set but I couldn't resist for such a good price (Future EV of notes ♦) also I was intending to fold a river but 1/4 pot.... he outplayed me like a kid
Final Pot: $2.38
CO shows 2♣2♠
Hero mucks J♦J♥
CO wins $2.24
(Rake: $0.14)
Here we got a wizard with 22/3 0,3 AF and my miss click 3bet but as I hit OESD and made big cbet I am going broke so feeling pretty fine with this, maybe playing passivly could be an option but not in my style
and embarassing hand I shouldn't cbet against passive fish but as I did I have rule to bluff till the end especially when ace comes on and flush completes
Nothing special both villains are TAG regs so the sb migh 3bet BU pretty lighter even when he has 5,7% 3bet on sb total so I just made them a little test
and the last hand I liked, Villain so far looks like crazy aggro donk who never folds to cbets, I don't really like cbeting here because I dont have any plan for next streets , x/f could be an option but more I like is just raise it up and try to take down this pot or just give up if he calls , his sizing persuaded me to make this raise, because against 65%+ of the pot I would easily x/fold
Feel free to discuss the hands, today I will finally download equilab but I don't think I will use him much unless I will gather some bigger sample sizes
Another session cuz of low traffic played little bit of rush NL2, then got tired of it and mixed up 6 SH tables 6 FR tables of NL2 and few NL5 FR/SH, however in my opinion FTP isn't friendly for multi tabling I have to fix some software to handle sitouts and maybe hotkeys , maybe someone can recommend something?
Pre Flop: ($0.07) Hero is BTN with A A UTG raises to $0.15, 1 fold, Hero calls $0.15, 1 fold, BB calls $0.10
Flop: ($0.47) K J 6 (3 players)
BB checks, UTG bets $0.37, Hero raises to $0.97, BB raises to $3.58, UTG folds, Hero calls $2.61
Turn: ($8.00) T (2 players)
River: ($8.00) 8 (2 players)
Final Pot: $8.00
BB shows 6 K
Hero shows A A
BB wins $7.53
(Rake: $0.47)
Second :facepalm::facepalm:
Villain is aggresive not folding to 3bet and cbets stubborn regular that's why I decided to show where his place is but ofc it resulted opposite, now I would rather preffer to just flat pre and play smaller pot passivly with him instead of building big pot OOP with semi crazy guy.
Final Pot: $10.54
BTN shows 6 4
Hero shows T K
BTN wins $9.92
(Rake: $0.62)
Third
on the river I was just like
Preflop std vs fish , Flop the same as preflop with A high I would check behind , Turn was nice so let's go for some money, but slowly and on the river after this what happened I am not sure if I should bet river but I haven't seen many hands which beats me but couldn't call 200bb deep but I really wanted too !!
Pre Flop: ($0.03) Hero is MP2 with K K
UTG calls $0.02, 1 fold, UTG+2 calls $0.02, MP1 checks, Hero raises to $0.04, CO raises to $0.22, 6 folds, Hero calls $0.18
Final Pot: $10.81
Hero shows Q A
SB mucks 8 7
Hero wins $10.18
(Rake: $0.63)
And a gift for graph lovers , red line got little bit down because when mixing up with NL5 my bankroll doesn't allow me to fancy plays and I am trying to be solid as much as I can ♦
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Now little break for food, exercises and rest , more updates at evening/night
Originally posted by 8runo
Just looked it up - I imagine its the "Deactivate BB Code" button that you have ticked within the options in the change signature area.
Originally posted by Kalecia
Another poker day after me so I will put the graph somewhere below. Today I decided to avoid rush tables and mix up FRs with SHs and pretty liked it so for next days I will try to stick to this plan if there will be normal tables available.
Just my thoughts on this ... one thing I find is that when I stick to one format, I do substantially better than when I chop and change. I therefore tend to try and pick a format and stick to it for as long as possible - I certainly avoid changing as much as I can within a day.
My hypothesis is that a substantial amount of the adjustments I make are small and subconscious and that I only make these adjustments when focusing on just one format. Though it doesn't seem to be causing you much problem so far.
You may have seen from my blog that I couldn't even mix daily 6max NL$5 Zoom on Pokerstars and 6max NL€5 Speed on iPoker without impacting both severely (when you'd have thought it was the same game!).
That's what are you saying impacts me aswell but only when I'm playing Fast tables. For me works good having on one monitor full screened and stacked full rings and on 2nd full screened and stacked SHs. It's NL2 so so far I am feeling pretty comfortable, probably if I won't go bankrupt and reach NL10 I will stick to one format only which will be SH
By the way on FTP there is limit to 6 tables per limit only(IF THERE IS 6 tables working) that's the main reason why I am mixing up all theese games
Anyway thank you for your interest and good luck at the tables
Length: 91 min
Hands played: 1548
Profit: 13,94
Bankroll status(so happy of crossing the barrier of 100$ that's why screen ♦):
Graph:
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For now that's everything I am tired gonna eat smth, exercises and after that spam hand evaluation section when drinking ONLY ONE beer:f_drink::f_drink:
Little lack of motivation of writing much about the game or anything else but I will post my results so far, atm mixing NL5 with NL10 with 180$ BR
Results so far by sessions:
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By stakes(Had not nice welcome on NL10 with few setups and coolers and one or two halfly reasonable spews ♦)
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Atm my plan is to claim up to nl50 as fast as possible, after collecting 50 BI on FTP I am going to mix up some poker rooms with some nice first deposits/deals or w/e to maximize profits
Morning session was disaster but despite writing this I am not going to post Magical turn all-ins and Magical rivers, because I am still little bit over EV ♦ Now it's time for breakfest little bit of exercies and streching, because in 2 days I am starting trainings and need to be in atleast avarage shape after this summer parties
Originally posted by Kalecia 2♣: Polish my english skills ( so please tell me if I do any horrible language mistakes )
Your English is fantastic, so you don't have much to worry about
However, having attempted to learn French (amongst native French speakers), and finding it very slow and hard, I know how useful it is to have native speakers correct errors. So I'll try and help when I can
Originally posted by Kalecia
Atm my plan is to claim up to nl50 as fast as possible
I think you mean "Atm my plan is to climb up to nl50 as fast as possible".
Originally posted by Kalecia 2♣: Polish my english skills ( so please tell me if I do any horrible language mistakes )
Your English is fantastic, so you don't have much to worry about
However, having attempted to learn French (amongst native French speakers), and finding it very slow and hard, I know how useful it is to have native speakers correct errors. So I'll try and help when I can
Originally posted by Kalecia
Atm my plan is to claim up to nl50 as fast as possible
I think you mean "Atm my plan is to climb up to nl50 as fast as possible".
Thank you very much
Originally posted by vonki
subbed, gl!
Thank you for support
And small bang bang for ya guys ♦ unfortunetly lost HU 2 flips in a row lost
Gonna sleep now too tired cuz I haven't slept for 25h too tired to write much also I MIGHT disappear for few days, because I need to study to sit(dunno if it's correct word) exams at university , however I mean the 2nd and last try to pass exams from English (was absent cuz I choiced to walk in the mountains instead of being present and another one from knowing the commodites (which also was failure cuz I was in the trip to Paris and went with HUGE hangover)
Good luck at the tables for everyone who read it ♦