"A hard way to make an easy living.." - Reaching high stakes fixed limit...

Today is the day that imma continue this blog, next to my Hungarian one.
Really hope I'll have some visitors, and regular readers as I'm planning to read an update every single evening as I've been doing it in the Hungarian blog as well.

A little story about last 3-4 months:
Played a lot, especially FL .25/.50 SH-FR and since the new year's beginning I've been playing on .50/1 SH.

Build up a bankroll of about ~700$ in december and Januar, but cashouted all of it, coz' one of my friend wanted to stake me 400$.

So I began playing .50/1 SH on Stars about 6 days ago from 400$ stake, and so far everything's fine.

Staking will last until I reach 10.200 VPPs on Stars, so I want to finish it about at the end of February.

Good flop turn river guys! ♠_biggrin:

1-6. Days

So first of all, I'm going to sum up the first 6 days' events..
I run quite well at all, but I have quite big swings, so I'm not satisfied at all.
Yesterday I had a rest-day, only watched vids and revealed a lot of hands from my previous sessions.

So far I've played about 8k hands.

Daily biggest pot:

Hand converted with online PokerStrategy.com hand converter:

Leosztás lejátszása

$0.5/$1 Fixed-Limit Hold'em (6 handed)

Preflop: Hero is BU with A:d, A:s.
MP2 raises, MP3 calls, CO calls, Hero 3-Bets, SB folds, BB calls, MP2 calls, MP3 calls, CO calls.

Flop: (15.5 SB) 8:d, A:h, 2:c (5 players)
BB checks, MP2 checks, MP3 checks, CO checks, Hero bets, BB folds, MP2 calls, MP3 folds, CO calls.

Turn: (9.25 BB) 5:h (3 players)
MP2 checks, CO checks, Hero bets, MP2 calls, CO calls.

River: (12.25 BB) Q:s (3 players)
MP2 bets, CO folds, Hero raises, MP2 3-Bets, Hero caps, MP2 calls.

Final Pot: 20.25 BB.

Results follow:

Hero shows three of a kind, aces(Ad As).
MP2 shows two pairs, aces and queens(Qh Ac).

Hero wins with three of a kind, aces(Ad As).

Challange: 1710/10.200 VPP - 17%
Profit so far: +261.54$
Winrate: 1.76bb/100

Hi!

Just popping by to subscribe and to wish you good luck!

Nice blog and nice graphs So you got staked to have more motivation to play or??
What was your overall win rate on FL .25/.50? I find it harder to win these days in limit holdem I have broken even on ~12k hands, not a big sample though...

@ Ty Tarhonya, this was also one of my reason to write in your blog, good luck!

@ XandreW36, my overall winrate was about 2-2.5bb/100 on FL.25/.50 SH, and was about 7bb/100 on full ring for about 10k hands, so IMO FR is very +EV on stars, and this is the last limit where you can play tons of hands FL full ring.

I got staked because of motivation, and I wanted to see if I'd be scared-money while playing someone else's money, but fortunately this is absolutely false.

I originally started playing FL because I wanted to earn bonuses faster, and because 2bb/100 hopefully could be made in a bigger sample for example in .50/1, and with a bankroll about 1000$ I only could play NL25, the same winnings would be about 8bb/100.

But up to now, I really fell in love with FL, and keep playing until I can make as much profit as I have done.

This year my main motivation is to reach 2/4 and 3/6, and win at least 1bb/100, and become Supernova on stars, as unfortunately I was not succeed in it last year coz' of FTP busto and so on.

Gl! ♠_thumbsup:

Hi, I'm following this as well! Good luck and keep us updated!

Originally posted by taavi1337
Hi, I'm following this as well! Good luck and keep us updated!

Me three
Yeya, more FL players

7-8. Days

So here again.
I've just completed the 20th per cent of the challange, and I'm quite satisfied especially with the profit.

I've also built up a side roll of about 400$ at a nonpartner Ongame room, where I registered to get HM2 free, so it seems to be a quite good investment. ♠_cool:

Daily really really wellplayed hand against maniac donk.. ♦ ♦
Hand converted with online PokerStrategy.com hand converter:

Leosztás lejátszása

$0.5/$1 Fixed-Limit Hold'em (6 handed)

Preflop: Hero is MP3 with 7:c, 7:s.
MP2 raises, Hero 3-Bets, CO folds, BU caps, 2 folds, MP2 calls, Hero calls.

Flop: (13.5 SB) 5:c, 2:c, 5:d (3 players)
MP2 checks, Hero bets, BU raises, MP2 calls, Hero calls.

Turn: (9.75 BB) A:d (3 players)
MP2 checks, Hero checks, BU bets, MP2 folds, Hero calls.

River: (11.75 BB) 8:s (2 players)
Hero checks, BU bets, Hero calls.

Final Pot: 13.75 BB.

Results follow:

BU shows a pair of fives(6h Qh).
Hero shows two pairs, sevens and fives(7c 7s).

Hero wins with two pairs, sevens and fives(7c 7s).

Challange: 2040/10.200 VPP - 20%
Bankroll: 734.06$
Profit so far: +334.06$
Winrate: 1.88bb/100

Originally posted by szoketomi

Winrate: 1.88bb/100

You thought 3.76bb/100 ? (BigBet = 2x bigblind ) ♦

Playing on Stars? You could tell me difference in limits $.25/.50 to .5/1?? I'm assuming it's similar, just few more regs on .5/1 And decrese in traffic ofc...

Well, 1.88 BIG BET/100, so if we count in big blind, it's really twice more.

The main different is.... To tell the truth, may this is the first limit where you can find many breakeven-0.5bb/100 winner regs, but table selecting is the most important IMO. I can find easily 4-6 tables with 4-5 fish on them, and this way it seems to be easy to make profit on the long road.

I learned far the most from Boomer2k6's vids from this limit, and don't have to be so agressive preflop than postflop, as against fish a 3bet may represent much stronger hand, but if they find any pair, really don't have a sense to fold..

lol, rake is sick

Originally posted by StabiBossa
lol, rake is sick

Yep, I absolute agree with you as I saw it in PT3 yesterday..
But I receive as many VPPs as before Stars changed rake calculating..

Challange: 2337/10.200 VPP - 23%
Bankroll: 726.01$
Profit so far: +326.01$
Winrate: 1.39bb/100

Day 11-12.

Today imma have a rest day, altough in last few days I did not played as much as I wanted.... Big swings in every single session, and I want to find the main leaks today.

Having about 6k hand BE session with huge swings, not so cool.

Challange: 3261/10.200 VPP - 32%
Bankroll: 766.40$
Profit so far: +366.40$
Winrate: 1.02bb/100

Day 13.

The critical "13"... BTW, pretty nice profit and comeback as the new month has just started, after the shitty end of January.
Today I played 2 sessions, first in the morning had about +45 BB then late night +52 BB and 10$ bonus, wanna have about 20-25 days like this and I promise will never cry for downswing... ♦

I am going to post a lot of hands tomorrow or the next day, but fckn. PT3 failed again and may I'll have to reinstall it... ♠_evil:

Seems really good for me that rake decreased on stars.

Challange: 3733/10.200 - 37%
Bankroll: 902.34$
Profit so far: +502.34$
Winrate ~ 1bb/100

Today I only listened to PK during sessions, and all day... Really makes me relax and serious...

Great run man, keep playing like this! Happy river!

@ Ty 2222222222222222! Gl !

Day 14-15.

Finally, I'm over $1k again.
Really worked much for this, and I'm very happy about last few days.
Hands posted maybe tomorrow ...

Gl all!

Challange: 4036/10.200 - 40%
Bankroll: 1022.50$
Profit so far: +602.50$
Winrate: ~1.3bb/100

Originally posted by szoketomi

Finally, I'm over $1k again.
Really worked much for this, and I'm very happy about last few days.
Good job ♠_thumbsup:
We'll see you moving up ??

Hands posted maybe tomorrow ...

Whats 'maybe' for ??... ♦

Originally posted by XandreW36

Originally posted by szoketomi

Finally, I'm over $1k again.
Really worked much for this, and I'm very happy about last few days.
Good job ♠_thumbsup:
We'll see you moving up ??

Hands posted maybe tomorrow ...

Whats 'maybe' for ??... ♦

Yep, tonight I'll have 2 tables session on 1/2, and I want to record it with camtasia as well..

Maybe is coz I was exhausted and felt really really laziness to post hands.

Yes, here is an epic hand, agains maniac, only used bet/raise buttons, when suddenly 2handed gets AQ.................... And suppose limp/call is the best with this hand, of course... ♦

Hand converted with online PokerStrategy.com hand converter:

Play hand

$0.5/$1 Fixed-Limit Hold'em (2 handed)

Preflop: Hero is BB with Q:s, K:d.
SB calls, Hero raises, SB calls.

Flop: (4 SB) 9:d, Q:d, 4:c (2 players)
Hero bets, SB raises, Hero 3-Bets, SB caps, Hero calls.

Turn: (6 BB) Q:c (2 players)
Hero bets, SB raises, Hero 3-Bets, SB caps, Hero calls.

River: (14 BB) 3:h (2 players)
Hero bets, SB raises, Hero 3-Bets, SB caps, Hero calls.

Final Pot: 22 BB.

Results follow:

Hero shows three of a kind, queens(Q:s K:d).
SB shows three of a kind, queens(A:c Q:h).

SB wins with three of a kind, queens(A:c Q:h).

Awesome play by villain: ♦

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$0.5/$1 Fixed-Limit Hold'em (5 handed)

Preflop: Hero is CO with Q:c, K:c.
MP3 folds, Hero raises, BU 3-Bets, SB folds, BB caps, Hero calls, BU calls.

Flop: (12.5 SB) 7:c, 6:d, 4:c (3 players)
BB checks, Hero bets, BU raises, BB calls, Hero calls.

Turn: (9.25 BB) 8:c (3 players)
BB checks, Hero checks, BU bets, BB calls, Hero raises, BU 3-Bets, BB folds, Hero caps, BU calls.

River: (18.25 BB) 7:d (2 players)
Hero bets, BU calls.

Final Pot: 20.25 BB.

Results follow:

BU shows a pair of sevens(Ts Ac).
Hero shows a flush, king high(Qc Kc).

Hero wins with a flush, king high(Qc Kc).

When shit from BB makes a lot of value:

Hand converted with online PokerStrategy.com hand converter:

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$0.5/$1 Fixed-Limit Hold'em (5 handed)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 5:h, 9:s.
MP3 folds, CO calls, 2 folds, Hero checks.

Flop: (2.5 SB) J:d, 5:c, 5:d (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets, Hero calls.

Turn: (2.25 BB) 9:d (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets, Hero raises, CO 3-Bets, Hero caps, CO calls.

River: (10.25 BB) 8:d (2 players)
Hero bets, CO raises, Hero 3-Bets, CO caps, Hero calls.

Final Pot: 18.25 BB.

Results follow:

Hero shows a full-house, fives full of nines(5h 9s).
CO shows a flush, king high(Kd 6d).

Hero wins with a full-house, fives full of nines(5h 9s).

River overplay, but supposed if a regular is winning, will never put in 4 BB with a gut shot.......... :rage:

Hand converted with online PokerStrategy.com hand converter:

Play hand

$0.5/$1 Fixed-Limit Hold'em (5 handed)

Preflop: Hero is SB with Q:d, Q:h.
2 folds, BU calls, Hero raises, BB calls, BU calls.

Flop: (6 SB) 6:h, 5:s, Q:c (3 players)
Hero bets, BB calls, BU calls.

Turn: (4.5 BB) K:c (3 players)
Hero bets, BB calls, BU raises, Hero 3-Bets, BB calls, BU caps, Hero calls, BB calls.

River: (16.5 BB) J:s (3 players)
Hero bets, BB raises, BU calls, Hero 3-Bets, BB caps, BU calls, Hero calls.

Final Pot: 28.5 BB.

Results follow:

BU shows two pairs, kings and fives(Kh 5d).
Hero shows three of a kind, queens(Qd Qh).
BB shows a straight, ace high(As Ts).

BB wins with a straight, ace high(As Ts).