Hi guys.
I live in Georgia, I'm 23 year old PHD of Tbilisi State University.
Started playing 2 years ago. Read some instructional threads about poker, Got non deposit bonus on party poker and was playing there for a while on NL5 beginner tables. Most players were fishier than me and so I was winning a little and I thought I was a poker god but when I moved up, I was crashed and lose whole bankroll.

After some time I started learning poker more deeply and got another bonus on Ipoker. Started grinding and studying from NL2 and everything was going well.
Moved up through limits very fast and was winning decent amount of money for me. At the end I was playing on NL50. I had enough BR to move up but, I was working as programmer and have not had enough time to work on my game.

Here is overall graph of Ipoker:


After that I began playing on FTP until it closed, 4 tabling NL50RUSH.



In 2011 I was playing in local Georgian poker rooms. 99% of players were fish and NL200 there was like NL2 in other rooms. There is a lack of game on NL200 and above, that's why I want to start grinding on PokerStars and move up the stakes.
I quit job and have enough time to improve my game.
I think I have enough skill to beat NL25 and NL50 on stars and I will try to move up from this limits as fast as I can.
My Bankroll is 600$ now and I'm beginning to play NL25.

At 800$ I move up to NL50, at 500$ - move down.
At 2200$ move up to NL100, at 1800$ - move down.

I will play about 1K hands in a day and post results and some interesting hands here.

hey gl man, will be following your thread

GL bro, I know you can DO IT!

Ty guys.
Was running good today


Villain stats: 72/20 , what a nice turn card ^^


Villain is 74/23, nice guy



Villain is 27/16 AF - 3 , 3b - 8, c/r flop 1 from 4 times.
I didnot put AK in his range. Assumed he 3bet it.
fold was very nitty. It seems that I didnot have more than 30% vs his range.
If he stacks off with KQo on this flop, then it would be ok to get in.
there are many bad cards OTT, but flatting c/r and reevaluting turn seems to be optimal


villain 24/16 25 hands, cant find fold button in this hand. I have no idea why he decided to donk 99, he is losing too much value with this move



my BR is 725$ now. There are a lot of fishes at NL25. I think I will move up soon

Calling that 5 bet with your qj is awful there. You lose to EVERY value hand basically you are calling presuming he has a bluff he never has less than a set. But meh run good is better than playing good Everything else seems standard.

We have 40% with KhQh and flipping with AhQh, any other hand crushes us. He was aggro, if we put KQo in his range we have enough odds to call push.

Equity Win Tie
44.05% 42.36% 1.69% QdJd
55.95% 54.26% 1.69% JJ-TT, KQs, AhQh, KQo

But I doubt he plays KQ the same way. Anyway I agree, getting in is the bad idea.

One good news and one bad news.

good news: had some good sessions at NL25 and got BR over 800$, so I moved up to NL50.

bad news: pretty bad session at NL50



I was running bad, flop AQ3ss - AQ vs 33, AK vs AA couple times.
sitting with 200BB deep terrible fishes and not getting a hand.
Dropped to 660$. As I said I'll move down at 500$ but I hope It will not happen Overall I think I played whole session OK.

some hands:

Villain 19/16/2.6/6
flatting OTF is bad IMO, my hand is face up. he has draws(QTs , KQs) that dominate us and If I hit 2pair+ we will not get payed off enough by worse, we might have some fold equity and raise is optimal move I think, calling push is standard. Basically we are flipping between our ranges in this situation.



Villain 26/18/3.2/7
from my experience turn c/r by reg BVB on such kind of boards is a bluff most of the times. On the river, didnot put 8 in his range, bet looked like "I have nuts or nothing", I don't know if it was +EV or not calling his river bet, he looked aggro, so I decided to call.




21/17 std TAG, was restealing 3rd time in a row BVB, I think 5bet bluff is +EV in such situations, Its +EV also in the future with this player


I'm tired and sleepy today, I hope for good sessions tomorrow

Hi there, another bad session today, I made some mistakes.
During last months I was only playing tables where everyone was a fish and forgot thinking normally in some situations I should correct it.




some interesting hands:

Hand 1:
Villain 17/12/2.1
after calling the flop and raising turn he reps 88 or some draw hand, he would have raised flop with set, because flop is too wet to slowplay set and this kind of players are not tricky, they play straightforwardly. So I decided to push my JJ over his raise.



Hand 2:
Villain 60/14 , he once donk/called flop with 97o on 832r flop, he was folding rarely. I think I missplayed this hand, no need to bluff fishes.
Anyway he has tons of one pair hands in his range on the river and this push might be +EV.



Hand 3:
Villain 27/19/2
I had no idea if he was calling T7s from blinds, I thought his range was narrower



Hand 4:
Villain 30/23, opening MP 27%, he has worse Aces and lower suited aces in his range, but I think he'd never bet so much with those hands on the river, bad call on the river, is not it?




Hand 5:
Villain 24/21/4
I played well this hand, I'm sometimes raising backdoors to have some bluffs in my range, OTR I was repping nuts or bluff, so he thought if he was ahead on the turn , he'd be ahead on the river and he called.

hand 1= well playerd
hand 2= in this hand I would bet the turn smth like 5.50$, rather then check raise, because we are burning more money and if we are called in 90% of time fish villain has a hand, the hand that he will fold on the river is Kc with pair, and we don't know if he is capable of folding second pair in "huge" pot on the river.
hand 3 = I can't see the fold button there in a vacuum, cooler
hand 4= river call depends on the villain, his agg factor on the river, and does he overplaying his hands or not. can he valuebet himself with the Ax low kicker hand, or not.
hand 5 = well played superb push on the river

GL, hope u'll beat NL50 soon

I lose some buy ins , actually most of them were coolers, couple AA < KK.
Also some hands I played terrible. I'm moving down. I have 444$. With 600$ BR I'll move up NL50. I like agressive BR managment, I'll be back at NL50 soon

I bluffed this guy couple times in one session, once trapped AA, so he could have tons of hands there by dinamic, but he had only one hand beating me... 33



pretty terrible

Just ended first (and I hope last) session at NL25. Was running very good, stacking off everyone, ended +10BI. fast come back at NL50, hope I'll continue running good ^^

****ty sessions again and again at NL50, Im getting really mad.
I'm doing everything well, I'm not tilting , but variance kills me





Losing flips every time


As played he got 44 most of the time, I thought I got him, but... Im getting worst river cards from the deck

Overall Graph


I have 500$, moving down again at NL25.

I won couple BI at NL25 and got 50$ VIP reward bonus, moved up at NL50 and just finished session at NL50, played well. I hope I'll continue playing like this.



my image was nitty 17/15 0% 3b over 50 hands, he is never doing this with J (even I dont think he has J in range), he never flats with AA , because he thinks that I 3bet tight, maybe KK, but I dont think he plays KK this way, I think he is trying to fold my AK if I have it. So I push, yo. I think he will fold QQ here too



Villain is 17/13
Clever river check because I dont think that he calls river bet with anything worse, because I'm UTG and we don't have any special dinamic



I'm planning to take some coaching sessions theese days and improve my game

I reduced number of tables, now I'm playing 4-6 tables of NL50 and thinking on each hand more deeply.

OMG he beats only the bluff
and I don't think regular will risk 140$ for 11$

BUT HE HAD TOPPEST OF FLUSHES COOLERZ.

Nicely played op I love overbet shoving when I know they cant fold in spots like this, like when you think they have trips or something