Most uneventful session today.
2,5k hands, lost 10bb.
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This was the week's results. About 10k hands, lost $20.
Breakeven until today, when I lost $33 in 500 hands. Not a good week despite not the worst results.
Some highlights:
Pacific Poker - $0.10 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
BTN: 113 BB
SB: 123.4 BB
Hero (BB): 131.4 BB
UTG: 99 BB
MP: 114 BB
CO: 308.3 BB
SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Q♦ Q♥
UTG raises to 2 BB, fold, CO calls 2 BB, fold, fold, Hero raises to 13 BB, UTG calls 11 BB, fold
Flop: (28.5 BB, 2 players) 5♣ 9♠ T♦
Hero checks, UTG bets 18.8 BB, Hero raises to 118.4 BB and is all-in, UTG calls 67.2 BB and is all-in
Turn: (200.5 BB, 2 players) 9♦
River: (200.5 BB, 2 players) 8♥
Hero shows Q♦ Q♥ (Two Pair, Queens and Nines)
(Pre 18%, Flop 10%, Turn 5%)
UTG shows K♣ K♦ (Two Pair, Kings and Nines)
(Pre 82%, Flop 90%, Turn 95%)
UTG wins 190.5 BB
V VPIP was 40.
Pacific Poker - $0.10 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
CO: 108.4 BB
BTN: 105.5 BB
SB: 111.6 BB
BB: 100 BB
Hero (UTG): 129.7 BB
SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A♠ Q♦
Hero raises to 2.5 BB, fold, fold, SB raises to 12 BB, fold, Hero calls 9.5 BB
Flop: (25 BB, 2 players) 4♦ K♣ Q♣
SB bets 8.7 BB, Hero calls 8.7 BB
Turn: (42.4 BB, 2 players) K♥
SB bets 25.9 BB, Hero calls 25.9 BB
River: (94.2 BB, 2 players) 6♠
SB bets 65 BB and is all-in, fold
SB wins 89.5 BB
Regular TAG 20/17/8.
Not sure if I should call river. He is pretty agressive in 3bet pots, cbeting 75% of the turns and 100% of the rivers (although just 2/2).
Exploitatively when I call turn I don't think he is shoving river because it's very unlikely that I don't have a king, but if he is, then he is printing money against me.
Pacific Poker - $0.10 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
BTN: 198.2 BB
SB: 100 BB
BB: 40 BB
Hero (UTG): 113.5 BB
MP: 40.5 BB
CO: 104.9 BB
SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A♣ A♥
Hero raises to 2.5 BB, MP raises to 8.5 BB, fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 17.5 BB, MP calls 9 BB
Flop: (36.5 BB, 2 players) T♣ 8♦ 6♣
Hero bets 9 BB, MP raises to 23 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 14 BB
Turn: (82.5 BB, 2 players) 4♦
River: (82.5 BB, 2 players) Q♣
Hero shows A♣ A♥ (One Pair, Aces)
(Pre 80%, Flop 14%, Turn 5%)
MP shows 6♦ 6♥ (Three of a Kind, Sixes)
(Pre 20%, Flop 86%, Turn 95%)
MP wins 78.4 BB
This is just nonsense. Then same V 51/32/13 went to hero call my 3barrell with 4th pair in a king high flop. I have to adjust better ingame against different opponents.
Played the weekend, still breaking even basically. 15k hands of basically that.
At least got back to exercising which gives some edge for the game, and as a result sleep has also been better last 3 days.
I'm not enourmously excited to play, but I'm not playing because I desire so, but because I decided that way. And so we'll start next session in a few minutes, always hoping for the best.
I'm in need for a solver or a training course, but they are all very expensive. Thinking about joining the upswing lab and binge the cash game videos.
For this session:
- Try to play for stacks more frequently;
- Find the big bluff on 3bet pots;
- Raise all SB limps.
Don't know what happened.
Won 72 dollars in 1k hands after such a dry period.
Could play for stacks. Didn't really bluff much in 3bet pots and every SB limper was punished.
We hope not to be tricked today after yesterday's session but you know the feeling.
For this session:
- Find probe bets on the turn
- Check-raise more oftern on the turn;
- Cbet more often IP.
I have been feeling pretty good playing poker.
Trying actively to find every single spot to make more or lose less money makes the game way more fun, but requires a lot of attention, can't just play on autopilot. And that means also, as far as I know, playing very exploitatively, once I'm not really minding blockers, not really minding if I have clubs or spades, nor if I'm top or bottom of my range, at least not against recreational and weak regs. I am just trying to find out what is more likely a human being would do with a range of cards in certain spot, or using a certain size, and exploit instintive tendencies, also actually trying to find out my own (like not going for giant bluffs that make sense just because of being scared) and going against that.
Sometimes we run against the very best on a river probe overbet when action went x/x/ x/x/, but that doesn't seem so frequent to justify not doing this kind of play.
Now for today I'll try to just identify better which play will work against which player type.
This week's results. About 10k hands again, about 11 bi up.
I'm not sure how these results are direct consequence of trying the most to figure out how to exploit (which means playing overall way more agressively), the fact that I'm exercising decently, or just the good side of variance.
Red line is clearly not sinking as the last graph. I'm bluffing more frequently and in big pots.
BR now is 474.
Another session on the green.
But later on the session I was not really giving it my all so I decided to call it.
I should consider when to move up. Maybe taking shots at the days when I know I'll play better and NL 10 the other days. This should be it. If I'm still swinging up, of course.
Another one.
Didn't play much this month. 30k hands so far. Running the best I've ran in maybe half a year.
Taking some supplements which might be helping a bit, mainly on the last week feeling less fatigued, sleeping well and training daily at least 30 min.
Still planning to take 25nL shot about twice a week. I really think it's a good way to get used to the next level. Gotta run good though.
So I took a 1 hour shot at NL25 because NL10 had only 7 players.
It worked. 80 dollars up. Now I'm having some lunch.
This was the most profitable online session of my life. $108.
Even winning some flips.
Absolutely unbalanced. There are some spots like SBxBB that are giving me some headaches. I feel like I'm checking too much when I don't have range advantage and end up folding a lot to floats, specially when they float and continue on the turn. I do protect my checking range so that I'm not exploitable like that, but I don't know much more how to counteract this sort of aggression.
Increase xr OTF? Call down lighter? Increase cbet? I'll end up just raising tighter preflop against these floaters and implement some of those.
I've been 3betting quite a lot, if F3B>50 I'm widening a little, if >65 I'm widening a lot, like 3betting every unsuited broadway, every Axs, and some pocket pairs even.
Still trying my best to be an inconvenience when they check. Just bombing rivers.
Again guys.
6 bi up on NL10. I'm being amazed. The pots won without showdown are making a huge difference. It doesn't hurt that I'm running hot too.
La Rochefoucauld did say that we need greater virtues to sustain good than evil fortune, so cautious celebration in this fleeting crest is advised.
One more bright day. 700 hands, 2,5 bi up, and calling it a day because I'll have a social meeting later and don't wanna be either tired or frustrated.
But I have just hit a mark: 2X THE INITIAL BR OF THE CHALLENGE!
1320 to go. That's gonna take some time.
Good game.
So this is this week's results. Played less than usual (6,6k hands), ran better than usual ($40 over EV).
I lost one of the biggest pots of my life in bb:
Pacific Poker - $0.10 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
BTN: 203.8 BB
SB: 145.1 BB
BB: 230.4 BB
UTG: 120.8 BB
MP: 89.5 BB
Hero (CO): 214 BB
SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A♣ Q♠
fold, fold, Hero raises to 2.5 BB, fold, fold, BB raises to 12 BB, Hero calls 9.5 BB
Flop: (24.5 BB, 2 players) Q♣ A♥ 9♣
BB bets 12.2 BB, Hero calls 12.2 BB
Turn: (48.9 BB, 2 players) 2♦
BB bets 50.2 BB, Hero calls 50.2 BB
River: (149.3 BB, 2 players) 9♠
BB bets 156 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 139.6 BB and is all-in
BB shows A♦ A♠ (Full House, Aces full of Nines)
(Pre 93%, Flop 95%, Turn 100%)
Hero shows A♣ Q♠ (Two Pair, Aces and Queens)
(Pre 7%, Flop 5%, Turn 0%)
BB wins 408.5 BB
V had only 4 combos that beated me. AA, QQ, A9dd, 99. Could not fold this one.
BR 702.
This is one sinister hand played today (NL10):
Pacific Poker - $0.10 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
BTN: 100 BB
SB: 155 BB
Hero (BB): 100 BB
UTG: 68 BB
MP: 87.1 BB
CO: 117.8 BB
SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A♥ K♣
fold, fold, CO raises to 3 BB, BTN raises to 9 BB, fold, Hero calls 8 BB, fold
Flop: (21.5 BB, 2 players) 7♦ 2♥ 2♠
Hero checks, BTN bets 5.3 BB, Hero calls 5.3 BB
Turn: (32.1 BB, 2 players) T♥
Hero checks, BTN checks
River: (32.1 BB, 2 players) 6♥
Hero bets 85.7 BB and is all-in, BTN calls 85.7 BB and is all-in
Spoiler
BTN shows A♣ Q♥ (One Pair, Twos)
Hero shows A♥ K♣ (One Pair, Twos)
Hero wins 193.3 BB
When he checks turn, he. will. be. bombed. I just wasn't expecting that he would welcome it.
Yes, if he is checking TT for the FH, congrats. He 3bets 8, hardly has any 66 and 77 in his range. And even AT will have a hard time calling here. Having the Ah is pretty good too.
But 888 is really really laggy and I'm on the verge of tilting hard because of this. I don't know. When the sound doesn't match the action I just get weirded out. Not to say when I see one card and it takes one hour to see the other one. Just awful. I have sent an e-mail yesterday but no response so far.
Keep winning, though.
First losing session in a while. 2bi down.
Just jammed AJo BxB to start the day against QQ.
Then got stacked by a gentlemen who folds 3% for 3bet in 5k hands and he flopped a set when I had TPTK - I can't get anything from this guy by the way. He bets big every single street and always has it. I mean it. I have a sort of superstition about him and 2 other players that I'll be better not playing against, even having an edge.
Then just now got stacked in a 3bet pot with J high flush OTF against nut flush calling a shove 66bb OTR. This one was obviously a fold (there was already one player all-in which lowers his incentive do bluff and river had paired)... and I could've done it if I was playing even my B game.
Every reg got his piece today.
It's crazy because this lagging of 888 poker is tilting af and I actually believe the main reason why I'm playing like an imbecile.
I don't know how it is so tilting. I just enter the session knowing that I'll have to struggle against that malfunctioning software - it somehow prevents me to get into the flow of the game because the visual and auditive flow is disturbed, I might uncounsciously feel the sum of the effect of a thousand mini-interruptions and never quite get in sync.
On the top of that getting no answers from the support team.
I have tried reinstalling the app, closing other programs, running antivirus, cleaning unnecessary files, I've tried changing video resolution in general, changing app properties, changing refresh rate of the screen and nothing.
Not joking, I'll change to pokerstars or even coinpoker if that doesn't get solved in a few days because it is simply impossible.
I don't know how it works for the BR challenge but I'm playing pokerstars by now. It's working just fine. Asked a brazilian friend that is having the exact same problem this week, which might not be a coincidence. The chat support wasn't able to help me at all - just telling me to do the procedures I have already done, not informing any software problems although I've noted they took out that promotion with the spinning wheel (that was lagging the most of all). Told me they would reach me by e-mail... I'll just wait for it. If it takes too long, I'll post on reddit (they have a support there I guess) or just withdraw and get used to stars.
I started at $42 there.