Cool, I Will keep on following you and tell you how my time is around the first 10k hands of 25NL!

Especially against fish you, if stack sizes allow so, can make a blocking bet on the river when the 3rd card arrives. I've done this a few times, and Usually They Either call (2nd best) or raise (then u fold). Yesterday I made actuactly this play, except for the river; I called his raise. Guess what he had!? �� I make this a 25-30% blocking bet. When you move up, and players start to realise, you can call more often or even play the nuts this way. Because thinking players might interpret as you making a blocking bet. For higher up though, just to mention ��

Next time when you post a hand, would you also post the VPIP/PFR and AF, and 3b when needed? Makes it easier for the reader to put villain on ranges

Good luck!

Yeh I like those blocking bet tactics and I have a hotkey for betting 1/3 pot for this purpose.

Im pretty sure most hands Ive posted do have the villain stats where relevant. I left it out last time as I didnt feel the villain stats where important, it was more just to highlight my mindless auto-pilot betting when I have sets and ignoring the flush on board.

Good luck with 25nl I look forward to your 10k hand report.

@GilZ89

Btw what size is your bankroll for starting 25nl?

and how many buy-ins are you willing to lose before you move down?

Last time I started 25nl with a $750 bankroll and I moved down when I lost 8 BIs.

At 10NL and 25NL I have a very aggressive BR style. I started playing 4 tables of 10NL with just a $40 dollar BR like 14 days ago. This BR has had ups and downs the past year I guess. I can make a whole story of this, but I will keep it short since it's your thread and not really relevant to it, lol .

I like to party, going nights out, drink alot and just having crazy weekends. If you combine this with poker: it's just not gonna work. No mental focus and in those times I don't feel like playing it that serious. Now, since I'm trying (and I'm doing very well this year 2014) to shut down a lot of those crazy weekends (just 1/2 a month in stead of every full weekend, lol), I want to pick up poker and want to get really serious with it. I have tons of time for it now, wich I will invest around 40%/60% studying and playing when dealing with poker.

I've been playing poker pretty serious for about three years (with ups and downs, also studying it with ups and downs), been working on my game really hard the last few weeks (ranges, EV calc., board textures, analyse hands in HM and post on 2+2, video's etc.) and I look around at 10NL and 25NL and I just feel condident that I am better than most around. One mayor leak fix is that I was spewing so bad sometimes (horrible C-game), that my winrate couldn't get decent because of it.

THAT's the reason why I started taking shots at 25NL with just a 125$ BR. I just start playing 4 tables and when feeling comfortable I started to play 6 tables. My plan was to 6 table with a BR of $200, but I actually already started at a BR of $150. Still going well with a 24bb/100 (wich I will not attain! lol) at just over like 2.5k hands so it doesn't tell that much.

BUT, here it comes: I feel OK at 50NL (have played there before, like a year ago now). So, when I first will take shots at this (when I reach $300, wich is close at the moment) I will start playing 4 tables (will drop down after I lose 2 BI; so $200 at 25NL again) and after a while I will put in the 5th and 6th table. At this stake though, I will keep on playing until I have at least 100k hands and say a 4+bb/100 WR before taking shots at 100NL (like a 4 BI shot with at least 15 BI BR = $1.500).

Sorry for the long post but it's my thought about the stakes for me as a player and a little background to make things clear. Just do things where you feel yourself comfortable with. I don't mind losing a BI (I could always reload if really needed). But if you do and only feel comfortable with at least 25 BI, just stick with it! You WILL succeed if you have a decent mind, work on your game HARD, trust in yourself and don't mind when losing a few BI (tilt is your biggest enemy!)

I will follow you, reply on your thread and I'm sure we can help eachother out getting to 100NL!

btw: where are you from?... I'm from Holland

No need to appologise for the long post I am interested to hear some background. Whilst your bankroll strategy sounds like fun with rapid progression possible it also seems it would be doomed to failure at some point when variance goes against you?

I lost 5 BI's in one day from getting set over set against me 3 times, and KK v AA twice. So I like to have more a padded bankroll.

Holland kool, I am from UK > Scotland > Glasgow

What do you play in terms of VPIP? I am going to guess you are a tight aggressive 14/12

I will only use this aggressive BR management for 10NL and 25NL and when taking my first shot at 50NL. When I reach 50NL I will build a steady BR and keep playing there for a while. For sure, if I do the same every time I go up, variance and a lack of skill will eat me. No one can survive like that I guess.

Looking at my stats I play a LAG 19/16. This TOTALLY depends on the table though. When there are a lot of weak tight or loose passive on my right I play definitely more LAG than those stats. Besides that I am very loose on CO and BT. I only play 4-6 tables though. Might do 8, just sometimes.

What about your stats and table #?

Hey sounds like we are similar. Whilst I would like to play a 14/12, to cut out some of the variance and BE hands and pay less in rake, every time I try to play tighter my win rate seems to plummet along with redline. Dunno if this is just maybe variance though.

I end up playing around 19/16 too, mainly due to getting aggressive with stealing from CO and Button and also quite a lot of 3 betting from these spots.

I play 10 tables right now, I feel I can play more than this but my laptop cpu is nearly 100% so I need to stick with 10 right now.

Bankroll $705

I haven't played since two weeks, just starting today again. Been going out and drinking way too much, wich is a problem for me. I try to keep it in control from now on! (tried before, lol)

What is you bb/100 at the moment? What is your hourly rate $? And how many hours a week do you play normally? I guess you sometimes get less motivated too (since your last post was also about 2 weeks ago), like me?

Hey, havent played as much recently. The reason being im pretty sure my win-rate is close to BE so my BR really only increases when Im cashing bonuses. Ive spent the last few days in HEM trying to work out where to improve. My laptop screen has also broke, which isnt helping things so also considering getting some new equipment just now.

Will be back to grinding soon enough.

Update:

Over my last 50k hands my winrate is a mere EV 2bb/100 and I pretty much always seem to run under EV which leaves me breaking even and only making cash from rakeback and bonuses.

Have done a lot of work and studying in HEM so I am hoping that over the next 50k hands my winrate improves. Still feel the SB and BB are problem positions for me and in particular 3betting from the blinds.

Im gonna try iron out some more problems before I attempt 25nl again.

July has went nicely so far, as well as improving certain areas of my game such as AKo, I seem to be in a nice upswing of variance as well.

The bankroll reads $744 and I am 87% towards a $50 bonus so it may be time to go and play with the 25nl kids.

There is no point covering up your name ... i know who you are

Well done mate, good to see things are improving.

How is the 6max game going? Or has the World Cup affected your playing time. Hopefully you have been taking notes on some players for next season so you dont get smashed too badly by me in the Fantasy Football next campaign

nice job man, I am in the exact same position as you, I play 10NL 6 max though. BR @ $775 and i am about 15% to a 50$ bonus on stars.

GL @ 25NL

Ohh man ..shots fired ... remember this day ... its downhill from here.

Thanks bro, gl @ nl25 and let me know how it goes

Return to 25nl - Day 1

Nice volume in a day ... that is more than ive played in over 10 weeks.

Yeh I started off cautious by reducing my tables. Then I realised I was playing the same game of poker except the the blinds were 2.5x, so just bumped my tables back up as soon as I felt comfortable.

Will try and get some decent volume in the next few weeks.

I see Netflix is still getting the better of yourself.

Session



Inducing a squeeze.

I want to know why your not putting in 6 or 7 hours a day.

His session before this one had 4k hands.

1) The World Cup
2) For the last 3-4 weeks I had some work to do which was taking up 3-4 hours per day.

Funny you say this cos I just finished a 6 hour session. Broke even for the remainder of it so still finished $174 up.

But im no poker genius right now so I understand that study time is just as important as grinding.

My setup was really killing me cos my laptop was like 7 year old. Then the screen went on it. Really didnt want to spend any cash right now but felt forced into it.

Dipped into my overdraft and bought some new equipment. So just been getting HEM2 and AHK scripts setup the last couple days.

Must say it feels AMAZING to be able to play so many tables without lag. Was 20 tabling earlier and I was timing out less often than I did under my old setup with 10 tables.

I will try get plenty volume in and aim for at least 6 hours playing time to keep Hap happy.

Good good .. we have discussed your set up before, glad to see you have upgraded as its definitely worth it for your poker.

What i would not like to see is better equipment means a load more tables, and this is coming from someone that used to mass table FR.

6 hours ... is that three 2 hour sessions or two 3 hours sessions etc ?

What AHK scripts you using ? ... i might need a alternative to TN1 when that goes belly up ?