"One day, I'll become a professional poker player"

Just a quick reminder that calling stations can be found even at NL25.

PokerStars - $0.25 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by Holdem Manager 3

BTN: $30.96 (123.8 bb)
SB: $25.20 (100.8 bb)
BB: $28.55 (114.2 bb)
Hero (UTG): $50.30 (201.2 bb)
MP: $21.08 (84.3 bb)
CO: $26.34 (105.4 bb)

SB posts $0.10, BB posts $0.25

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.35) Hero has A♠: A♥:
Hero raises to $0.56, MP raises to $0.87, 4 folds, Hero raises to $2.96, MP calls $2.09

Flop: ($6.27, 2 players) 8♠: 7♦: 2♣:
Hero bets $3.50, MP calls $3.50

Turn: ($13.27, 2 players) Q♦:
Hero bets $43.84 and is all-in, MP calls $14.62 and is all-in

River: ($42.51, 2 players) 9♦:

Results: $42.51 pot ($1.91 rake)
Final Board: 8♠: 7♦: 2♣: Q♦: 9♦:

Hero shows A♠: A♥:: (One Pair, Aces)
(Pre 79%, Flop 76%, Turn 91%)

MP shows 9♣: J♣:: (One Pair, Nines)
(Pre 21%, Flop 24%, Turn 9%)

Hero wins $40.60

Cheers!

Wow, wouldn't the lockdown bring tons of new players who didn't have a brm and float into levels

Originally posted by PoKerBu3
Wow, wouldn't the lockdown bring tons of new players who didn't have a brm and float into levels

It's probably the only possible explanation, I just didn't expect it to be that significant. Can't believe how many people at NL25 I have tagged as fishes so far.

Originally posted by CheesyEagle
It's probably the only possible explanation, I just didn't expect it to be that significant. Can't believe how many people at NL25 I have tagged as fishes so far.

Before Black Friday, it was possible to beat NL 50 with just a starting hands chart[1] , since there was a lot of players with more money than brains at the tables.

It was especially good in the early evening (my time on the West Coast of Canada) since a lot of people on the east coast had had a few drinks in them by that time.

So I'm not surprised that NL 25 is soft these days.

Cheers,
VS

[1] So I'm told. I only made it to NL 25 before Black Friday -- after that, I had real trouble w/ NLHE and started playing other variants.

He had a gutshot. Cant fold those

Originally posted by Dandiiik
He had a gutshot. Cant fold those
I play NL 2-7 Single draw.
Quite often, you get a hand like 7,5,4,3 or 6,4,3,2
It is frightening how often I fill those gutshots!

the problem with players looking to become professional is they generally play too high, with insufficent skills and ability too reload, i would suggest blackjack

Originally posted by RngJoker
the problem with players looking to become professional is they generally play too high, with insufficent skills and ability too reload, i would suggest blackjack

The problem with blackjack, is that the house has the edge. The longer you play the closer you get to losing by the margin of the house's edge

In poker, assuming we have skills, we have the edge.

Cheers,
VS

exactly that, im not sure of the exact numbers but a 2%? house advantage in blackjack puts the casinos in the black. As long as you are slightly ahead of the player pool it would make sense that slight edge would make a winning player

Hey guys! Hope you are having a wonderful weekend

Just a quick update on how I'm doing at NL25. So far I've played 10k hands with EV winrate of 11,74bb/100 (heh, won't be mad if I manage to keep my winrate this high for a bit longer before it drops down to some realistic number). This is how my graph is looking right now

I have to say that I really enjoy playing at NL25. As I mentioned earlier this week, I'm amazed how many fishes I meet at the tables. I'll tell you more about that in my next post and keep this one short.

Have a great week as always and good luck!

Crushing it man, good Job!

Oh wow. That is a nice looking graph man. One day I will become a winning player at NL5.

Originally posted by SiKWiThIt
Crushing it man, good Job!

Originally posted by Tyrion88
Oh wow. That is a nice looking graph man. One day I will become a winning player at NL5.
Thank you guys for your kind words I really appreciate it!

Sooooooo,
this week I managed to put on some decent volume and played 32k hands. I was running pretty good so I decided to take a shot at NL50 with $100 stop loss -> it didn't go very well as I lost $130 and about twice as much in terms of EV winnings so I quickly returned to NL25 but instead of stabilising my green line, I experienced my biggest downswing so far. I can't describe what was happening with me but basically every tough/marginal decision I had to make, I made wrong. I wasn't tilting, I wasn't trying to "win it all back ASAP", I just played BAD and ran into plenty of "cooler" spots because of that. I was "falling down" like that for two days...but you know what? I kept calm and after a couple of thousands of hands, everything got back to normal and I was crushing it again

My NL25 stats so far:
20k hands
7,31 bb/100 EV winrate
5,87 bb/100 rake

As I was feeling pretty comfident, I started to slowly mix NL25 with NL50 again. I have to say that NL50 is pretty tough and I was having troubles with adjusting my strategy for it. Here are some of my notes for you to gain an insight into how is it like there:

- if you don't have a strong 3bet/4bet pots strategy, you're getting absolutely smashed
- I was prepared for hyperaggro regs, I got the exact opposite - > people are checking everything, that's definitely what's causing me the most problems...my "strong" bluffing game just doesn't work anymore and I'm getting smoked by those check/calls and check/raises
- people play much less straight-forwardly and slowplay everything (including multiway pots)
- there are still tons of limpers and recreationals in general

Anyway, I managed to somehow acclimatise there and played 20k hands with EV winrate of 4,55 bb/100 (OT: I found out that HM3 doesn't show you EV winnings in pots where there is a side pot. I've lost a huge multiway pot where villain1 (shortstack) went all-in on the flop and me + villain2 got all-in on the turn. I had 80% equity when going all-in but HM3 shows $0 EV winnings. If this hand was included in my EV winnings, my EV winrate would actually be slightly above 5,5 bb/100, heh). I feel pretty happy about how I'm doing so far, especially when I know that I have PLENTY of room for improvement.

Hope you guys are doing well and I wish you good luck as always
See ya!

Oh, I almost forgot to post my graph ♠_biggrin:

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$1k milestone

You got this

Too bad that the shot didnt work out that well. Nice Blog!

Originally posted by onetimebigtime
You got this

Originally posted by advancedTN1984
Too bad that the shot didnt work out that well. Nice Blog!

Thank you guys very much ♠_drink:

At least there was attempt.

Is there any real proposition to improve current situation, not only yours, but other poker player too - with no risk of ruin / humiliation involved, or nothing ever happens in your game?

Originally posted by tomaszmrozowski
At least there was attempt.

Is there any real proposition to improve current situation, not only yours, but other poker player too - with no risk of ruin / humiliation involved, or nothing ever happens in your game?

Hey mate!
I'm afraid I don't understand your question
Sometimes it's difficult when two non-english speakers meet, heh

Woah eagl, that looks amazing.

What kind of teaching material helped you the most to reach this skill level? I try to direct my training.

Thank you very much!

Definitely w34z3l's content. It's easy to absorb and efficient at the same time + he is very articulate and comfortable to listen to.