Earlier was 2x 3 hour sessions, had lunch in between. Stuck in another 2 hour evening session just now and claimed another $75.

Im playing upto 20 tables but maybe averaging around 15, been enjoying the fast pace so far.

Yeh if ur needing help with ahk scripts hit me up in pm and I should be able to get u up and running without TN.

AHK scripts I have:

StarsStacker: I use this to move a table out of my main stack and put it to the side.

StarsCash: This one auto clicks yes to accept a seat after TST offers me one. It also limits max tables etc.

TimebankStars1.02: Auto clicks timebank button and auto sits me back in.

TableCounter: Kool script that shows a window with the number of tables I have opened. Total number of tables played. And time in minutes.

MouseMove: [Made this one myself, check me out ] Hotkey that moves the mouse cursor to a specific pixel location in the Stars window and left clicks. I use this to move to the "Sit Out Next Big Blind" check box and click it.

Sorted

Sill enjoying some run good:



Bankroll at an all time high:



Got a stag night to attend later on so voulme might take a hit.

When its hot, its hot

This is getting boring now ...

This chap at my table tonight knows all about pot odds because he has obviously read a poker book. I thought everyone could learn from this guy dropping this kind of knowledge so decided to share. Here is the hand that proceeded the chat:



: i had 2 pairs
: unbelieveble night´~
: only fish luckers
: u dont have 4:1 pot odds and call??
: do you know what is pot odds?
: only fish luckers here
: next time i put all in
: now fold super fish
: ****fish
: **** super fish
: i hate luckers
: if he played well i aplause
: but didnt call with odds
: now the other guy made bluff and he folds....
: unbelieveble fish~

wow thats sweet dude good work GL with the grind

Good to see you're back on track . I had a pause too, because of the WC (where we sadly lost against Argentina...). From now on I hope to put some serious time in poker. How many hands and/or +bb/100 do you take into account when moving up?

thanks mate

i've been following your thread for a while, very happy to see that you are at 25NL, congrats. It's the big jump 10NL -> 25NL

Yeh glad Argentina got beat in the final, dont think they deserved it, and Messi player of the tournament? Only FIFA could come up with that. You Dutch? Was disappointed big Tim Krul never got drafted in for penalties again in that game.

Im a Man Utd fan so looking forward to Van Gaal taking over next season.

I was promoting myself to 25NL as soon as my bankroll reached 30 BIs so moved up when I hit $750

And dont think I would move up from 25NL to 50NL until I have maybe 35 to 40 BIs plus I would need to feel comfortable that I know what I am doing - which means it could take a while.

I seem to uncover some leaks. Get it in my head how to deal with them and sort out over the next 25k hands. Which works, but I then seem to slip back to bad habits elsewhere and old leaks and bad habits creep back in and bring my winrate back down to earth. Poker the eternal struggle.

Gl at the tables

Thanks dude.

Im never too sure if Im playing well or just riding a high variance wave when things are going well. My game seems to be swingy compared to others.

Im off to go analyse why I suck so badly from the Big Blind, else my winrate will never improve from -50 in this position.

Yeah, I'm Dutch. I think team would have way more confidence when Krul would have played... too bad though. You are English I guess? Yeah, I hope Van Gaal will bring Man U to the top!!

I know, it's a hard struggle. Just keep faith and work on your game, as I do and try most of the time. Also hope to be at 100NL within a few months. Time will tell ...

GL and I'll be following you!

Im further north of the border of being English, but since Scottish football is almost dead we watch a lot of Premiership action up here so most people support a Prem club as well.

Haha good luck to you too, hopefully we will both be in Club 100NL by Xmas time. The extra money would come in useful. Im not gonna lie I had cereal for dinner cos funds are low because I spent my cash on some new equipment to play poker. Now thats sacrifice and commitment, and also the hunger I will need to succeed

Ok here is my graph of my hands played today:

Yeh thats right it isnt there, because I never played any hands. Im sick of getting punched about in the Big Blind and my winrate floundering about the -50 and -60 marks.

Spent a full day inside HEM2 and an Excel spreadsheet, combing through the finer details of this beautiful game from the BB.

Was actually just about to finish up and there was one stat I hadnt looked at and thought it would be so small of a % of my VPIP that it wouldnt matter. But I wouldnt get any sleep wondering about it. For completeness I added it to the spreadsheet, only for my jaw to drop when I seen how much I was leaking from this schoolboy error

Lets say its something to do with being in the Big Blind and facing a Raiser and Caller and then instead of squeezing you decide to Call like a mug and lose -3.13 bb per hand and you do this 230 times it will cost you 719 of those big blinds, yup 7 BIs flushed down the toilet just from this.

No doubt most of the better players know this already but I wont be doing too much cold calling from the BB in future, except when it is BB vs SB. Think I will 3bet or fold most all other scenarios.

So it is 22 July 2014, lets set a challenge from now over the next 50k hands to improve my win rate to around -40bb/100 from the Big Blind.

At -50 bb/100 in Big Blind
We lose -500 bb (5 BI) per 1000 hands

In my sample of 53k hands at 25NL this month I played 6,830 hands in the Big Blind
-0.50 * 6830 = -3415 bbs or -34.15 BIs

If I can improve this to -40bb/100
-0.40 * 6830 = -2732 or -27.32 BIs

(34.15 - 27.32 = 6.83) Improvement of +6.83 BIs over 50k hands

And over 50k hands a +5 BI improvement would +1bb to my overall winrate.


Sorry had to think out loud there for a minute. Where was I...yeh improve my Big Blind winrate lets goooo

Here is one of my crown jewels from the leak I was taking about in my rant above. BB vs 1 Raiser and Caller. In future I will squeeze or fold.

You cannot have a set game plan for this scenario, it should be dependent on who the original raiser is and how he reacts to being 3 bet.

In the above hand .. how often does is isolate a limper, does he fold to a 3 bet ?

After you have called preflop, you really need to fold that flop, you have the crappy end of everything there and your OOP.

The bottom line is vs a Raiser and Caller when I am in the big blind, I lose 3.13 big blinds when I call. When I squeeze I make around +3 bb per hand. Therefore moving forward my gameplan must be: if I can profitably squeeze the situation go ahead and do so. For example when I have Kx or Ax hands as these are blockers to my opponents holding AA or KK. This along with other good squeeze conditions such as villains having high fold to 3bet stats.

If I am holding some suited connectors like 56s I am going to be best to fold and take the -1 bb hit. I cant be a strong enough post flop player yet and I end up getting into a mess like the hand above. With which I agree I should have folded and should not be chasing draws with bad reverse implied odds.

If the situation arises where there is one raiser and maybe 2 or 3 callers then I will have better odds to call with 56s and take a flop. But vs 1 raiser and 1 caller I will play squeeze or fold.

I looked at various different blocks of data for this scenario and when I call here my winrate is -1bb per hand at best, which means I would be as well folding.

Collect that dead money mate.

Thought I would update by expressing another leak of my game that I need to deal with as this is a recurring problem. When things are starting to go downwards I seem to get some form of tilt that leads to me playing against fish and whales like a complete ******.

I did this last night. Think frustration had been building up so I decided that I would get my winnings up by stacking some fish quickly. So I place a couple of tables to the side to watch these tables where there are fish that are wreckless and extreme high VPIP. I have read in some poker texts that we should try to play as many as pots as possible against these fish to take maximum advantage and to also stack them before anyone else does.

This leads to me playing loose against these fish with some horrible starting hands. As I see more Regs joining the table I get more desperate to stack the fish before anyone else does. This leads to me playing looser. I end up winning the majority of pots against the fish by exploiting their weaknesses. However, I win a load of 2 and 3 dollar pots then the fish always gets one of them hands where they bet with nothing, bet with nothing and then catch some peculiar straight on the river. I then get stacked and lose a buy in.

At this point I go on full tilt determined to get the stack back. I then start playing with my emotions instead of my head. I did this last night and spewed more than a few buy ins.

I have decided no more playing loose against fish. I will have to be patient and play my normal game and stack the fish when I am strong by getting it in, rather than trying to win 20 small pots.

This is new:

Maximum Value Town

Ive actually cut down on the number of spots where I play 22-66 due to getting hit by Set over Set so often and the Tilt that then follows. But this dude looked like a massive ****** so thought I would take a flop.

Damn .. you have been busy, im not even going to reach Silver this month.

Villain 15/13 over 460 Hands
3Bet 6.9
4Bet Range 4.8

Was thinking his range is 77+ and AQ+ (His Raise First In Early is 12%)

By the River I dont think he shoves with anything less than Ax or a full boat.

One of them where you feel bad no matter what you do on the river.

On a side note I dont like to shove Kings, but against a 4Bet Range of 4.8 is it correct to shove here? Pokerstove puts KK at 68% to win against that range plus our fold equity.

Both the villains are fishy. The dude who shoves all in is an 84/6 whale agg factor 2.2, we have 55 hands on him.

History to the hand is; I squeezed the very prior hand against same two villains and took down the pot on the flop. So when I squeeze and cbet again maybe he is just angry and thinks im bluffing. Anyway stacks were deep here, and this is a big shove. His likely hand range: AK, A3, K3, 33, Flush Draws, perhaps something like TJs