Hey guys. I don't think I'm going to play after work tonight. Got way more wasted last night than I was planning on. Ended up putting $25 on Intertops poker where I used to play and playing a cash game till 4am. On 4 hours of sleep and pretty hungover. Not GTO. Back at it tomorrow
Hey guys,
Got home from work and was feeling a bit better, but I didn’t have a very long window to play, so I just got right into it. I jumped into some short stack PLO2 and hopped around between full ring and 6 max since the games kept breaking. Also, I was playing 2 tables of short stack NL5. Unfortunately my internet was being a POS and I kept timing out and force folded hands I didn’t want to. I could feel it starting to tilt me so I just ended 30 minutes early. It’s simply not worth playing with that happening. Any second I could get AA and 3 or 4 bet half my stack off and get lagged out and lose all those chips.
- Sidenote: a similar situation happened when I used to play on intertops. I remember the hand quite well since it got such a reaction out of me. I have KK and raise in MP 3x with 2 callers. Flop comes 77A. I check and call the HJ CBet after the CO player does too. Turn is another K. I check and HJ bets again. At this point, I lag out and my hand force folds. I reconnect when action is taking place on a K river. I would have improved my boat to quads and won the 3 way jam but my **** internet cost me. It is provided with the place I live in, but I am thinking about just upgrading the modem since my router is pretty strong. This doesn’t happen that often, but it seems to happen frequently enough that it is aggravating and annoying.
Anyways, I was up on both NL tables and in a big hand of PLO when the internet cut out. It was a 4bet preflop pot and I was already in for 60BB with 22 behind sitting on AhAdThTd. There were 4 players including me who were still in and of course when one player 5 bet jammed I clicked the all in button just as the internet cut out and I was timed out. That put me in the red today but PT4 didn’t track it for some reason. Im guessing since I was disconnected and I closed the table to reopen and see if that would work it didn’t count the hand or something.
Not very many interesting hands today, although I did write a couple down for review before my session tomorrow. I hope you guys are having a fine table day and keep grinding with me. Thanks for reading! Results down below for what PT4 says.
No poker tonight. Had to treat my girlfriend and spend some quality time with her. Sometimes it's important to stop focusing so hard on your goals for a few hours and show some love and appreciation to those who support your goals and dreams no matter how far out they are.
Playing a $50 +$10 add on tournament tomorrow at local casino. I have played only 2 live tournaments before and came in 12 /150+ and 13/130+. Hopefully tomorrow is our first live cash and we can bring home some gold!
This isn't a part of the BR challenge. I am just going to get in some live play and hopefully ship this thing. If we win, I will add half the win to online and spend the other half on who knows what. If we lose, it's just $60. I have a decent paying job and get paid every week so I'm not going to be devastated if I lose. I mean the goal is a cash though
I will post results tomorrow after play and resume regular BR challenge grind on Wednesday with the aim to play 2.5k hands by Saturday.
I have good news and bad news. That will come at the end.
So, I decided to look up another casino in the area I have never been to before but I have heard about from other people at the poker room I used to frequent. Got online and found out that they had a deepstack tournament going for $20 +$10 add on after late reg. Decided to go play that since it was half the buy in of the other one I was going to play. Also, they had a deal where if you play two hours prior to the tournament you get $10 food comp and an extra 10k chips in the tourney.
My goal was to just win $30 playing in the cash games to freeroll the tournament.
He's the good news: we bought in for $180 and cashed for $308. I took $350 so if I busted I could rebuy, but we ran well and we're in a great game with a bunch of old guys (no offense to the elderly but these guys were just super easy to play against) and only 2-3 tags with one of the tags being a dealer at the other casino, so I knew to avoid him OOP or with marginal hands.
Bad news, I busted the tournament. I only played 3 hands the first 3 levels as I was super card dead. The only hand I played was AQ, made a standard 3bb raise and everyone folded. I mixed it up and was getting more aggressive, but I had to make some huge laydowns in multiway pots which were proven to be good folds at showdown, but it was hurting my stack. Antes started getting big as I was moved to another table.
Final hand was my first hand at the new table. I was 2nd/3rd short stack, UTG+1. I raise 3bb after the UTG player limps with my 77. We get one caller in MP and then the big stack in the BB jams. He was a very loose player from the cash games that I stacked earlier, but I was willing to flip here with only 12 BBs. I call and MP folds. BB rolls over AT off suit and we are a 54% favorite. Runs out 8822 and that gives us 84% on the turn, but the river is the 6outer Ace and we bust. It was a good call based on a read, but variance decided to be a ***** again.
Overall, I was happy to go home with a profit and to not degen it off playing blackjack on my way out. Back to the grindstone tomorrow.
Hey guys,
Started off cold on 4 tables of 6max NL5, were down about $9 at one point but came back to only being down $3.50. I was also playing a $10 prize pool freeroll and made a deep run, but busted in 12th of 587 entrants.
Hopped into some PLO5 after the freeroll ended with 2 NL5 tables as well. I don’t know if today was garbage day or what but I missed almost every draw I had, got coolered with boats over boats, and just ran like ****. Not my day today apparently. We were down $17 at one point but climbed up to -$9. Not a great day but better than being down $17.
Honestly, I was not playing my A game. I am tired and got pretty tilted after getting coolered by all ins that hit on the river over and over. I started just gambling in PLO and that didn’t help either. I was making a ton of big preflop calls and folding when I missed every time. I am not going to be doing that anymore, that’s for sure. C- poker today and the results directly reflect that. Gotta go to work now. Back at it tomorrow.
We got a $1 deposit match bonus today.
Honestly, I am pretty frustrated with my performance today especially. But also in regards to cash games. I know I am better than what the results are showing, and I just need to get out of this slump and truly focus on playing my style and making the decisions I know I should be. Hopefully tomorrow will have a better outcome for us.
Hope you guys run better than I did. Good luck out there.
Treat your girlfriend good. **** her good and tell her what an impressive person she is.
I love my wife too. Its much mnore importante than anything else. You play for very low stakes, it actually doesnt matter at all. Say hello to the world and open your heart.
People will make you rich, and good decisions will make you even richer. This is true words from a millionaire.
Treat your girlfriend good. **** her good and tell her what an impressive person she is.
I love my wife too. Its much mnore importante than anything else. You play for very low stakes, it actually doesnt matter at all. Say hello to the world and open your heart.
People will make you rich, and good decisions will make you even richer. This is true words from a millionaire.
I notice I forgot to put the Bankroll stat in yesterday’s post, but that was a bad session as I mentioned.
I played one HU SNG yesterday after the session I logged and got QQ first hand, shipped it and got called with A4o and held. That was pretty easy!
Started this session off a little differently. I played one regular 9max $1.50+.15 SNG, busted A8o vs A2o pre when the 2 hit the flop and we had no help after. I decided to play some HU SNGs to get myself into a new arena, which I haven’t done yet. I really like these HU SNGs. I was getting really strong reads and taking a lot of notes to start. I played 14 vs one player and went 7/7. It was a good match, that’s for sure. I had a hard time being short stacked when the villain would jam every button. I loosened up my range and found him jamming random hands like T2o and such. Once this was brought to my attention and I discovered him doing this more often I definitely took advantage.
I am going to be playing more SNGs today as I am writing this at the beginning of the session. The rake in the HU SNGs is kind of brutal though, at $0.10 per SNG. If you break even after 10 you’re still down a dollar, though. Also, these are about twice the stakes of the regular SNGs I play, so that’s something to consider.
Got a $1 combat point exchange bonus today.
I decided to take a shot and play a $3.00+.30 9 Max SNG after that. Made it down to final 5 with one guy not even playing, just sitting out.
I am in the CO with Q9c and min raise to 200 with 1600 in my stack. Big stack folds on the BTN and 2nd big stack calls in SB. MIA player force folds in BB. I would have liked to pick up the blinds but whatever. Flop come 6d4s9d. I bet half pot, SB 3 bet jams and I call. He rolls over Td8x. Okay, I just have to dodge 3 tens, 7s, and diamonds, which gives me 67%. Turn is Ah and we are at 84%. River is a ten and there goes our life. I think he jammed thinking I would fold if I had attempted a blind steal with garbage and cbet to win the pot with air, but I showed up with the goods and got robbed. Unfortunate.
So, I need 50 more FPPs for the $10 bonus, and then I am switching over to the rakeback program.
Went to play cash games of NL5 after lunch and just got beat to a ****ing pulp. AA cracked by KK, JJ vs QQ pre for the cooler, flopped a set of 7s and got set over set when opponent flopped a higher set. Again I have JJ and flop a set on J65. Opponent calls all the way down with KK and rivers a better set. So frustrating. I can’t get out of this ****ing slump to save my life. Like, I play the cards right, I play the player, and I get these ****ing idiots calling down with garbage to river me every freaking time. Or I have the nuts and my internet decides to **** its pants. Like its one ****ing thing after the other. Just give me a freaking break, poker gods.
Oh and also I got pocket aces and my ****ing internet busted a nut and lagged out and that cost me 30 BBs.
Played 2 more $3.30 9max reg SNGs. Shipped one after being down to last place on the bubble, but came back with some good play and aggression. It took over an hour though. Basically a huge nit fest when it was down to 5 and 4. ITM play loosened up, but I was able to take advantage of the tight players to build my stack back. In the second one we took and held an early chip lead until heads up. Final battle was with a pretty passive player who stiffened up towards the end. The final hand was KT v AQ all in on the flop of 22T. Turn was J and river was K giving me 2 pair and villain nut straight. Cashed in second.
Overall, I believe we made money today, however small that may have been. Cash games really screwed my win rate today, though.
Played some PLO2 short stack 6 max to try and get the positive cash on the day without the bonus included to no avail. Broke even there. I will be including the SNG I played late last night in the stats for today’s session since I didn’t report it yesterday. That’s all for today guys. Good luck at the tables!
It is probably clear to you all that I am not as good at cash games as I thought I was. Shocker for a poker player to have denial about beasting everything -- shoutout to Doug Polk and Luke Schwartz. I really need to work on my game off the online felt. I think that I will take a couple days to regroup from cash and really study and try and figure out where I am going wrong besides just bad beats and tilt, which can both be avoided as well. I have found that playing music distracts me and I don't do as well when I have other things going on in the background, and I will be changing that moving forward.
That being said, my SNG game seems to be the best form of profit for me. I get bored of playing one at a time since they last for an hour or two, but my game seems to suffer when I start multi tabling SNGs. This focus issue is another thing I need to work on.
Just spent a couple hours studying turbo SNGs at the 6 max level and am going to try my hand at some of those today if I can find $1.50 ones running. If not, I will be in the 9 max regular/turbos. From my personal experience, I really like the Intertops SNG formats better. They offer a double up SNG where it’s 6 max and top 3 cash equally, which I do really well in. The problem is, they hardly ever run. I mean like maybe one an hour or so. If ACR had that option I would be all over it. But, we have to work with what we have, and so we will. I’m sipping a monster and ready to win some moolah. My computer is already running slow, but hopefully it won’t present too many problems and distractions today. It’s not a ****ty computer by any means. It’s a nice 16” HP touchscreen laptop that’s probably 3 years old or so, but it just starts running slowly when I have PT4, ACR, MS Word, and ACR open all at once. Not sure why, but I will be looking into a new PC for the future and saving up for one. I am selling my motorcycle (not for gambling money) with the hopes of upgrading, but I think a new PC would be a great investment as well. I can use one for poker and one for school. Maybe overkill, but nothing’s written in stone just yet.
On to the session. Hopefully we can run hot and play well and stack some chips and cash some checks!
Let the games begin!
1) Got ahead of myself and started out with fancy play syndrome which cost me the first loss of the 6 maxes. A5o In CO open jam and called by A7o in BB. Oh well.
2) 6 max bust with Q9o as short stack in SB folded to me vs 66 call from BB and we miss
3) 9 max reg bust on a sick cooler. We have 66 on a turn of 9949 and ship it. Villain has 97o (called preflop 3 bet with this)
4) SHIP THE COOKIES! Win a 9 max reg $3.30 with A8s vs A7o and held
5) More cookies please! Shipped another 9 max for the win A8 vs JQ holds and right before we knocked out third place with A7o jammed on flop vs BB with J7 on J76r and hit the ace from space on the river. That’s some run good right there!
a. Decided to take a break after this and grab some lunch and play xbox for about an hour to come down off my high of winning two in a row to chill my ego out
6) Flopped trips as chip leader with TT on T56 vs KK all in on flop and flush rivered him a better hand. Back down to about starting stack. We were down to 7 BBs and in 7th out of 7 places. Made a crazy comeback to be chip leader in the final 4 with top 3 getting paid. Got lucky and rivered 2nd place with AQ vs 99 and the ace on the river. Made it to ITM play. Cashed in 2nd when we were heads up and got it in on the flop of J82r with my QJ vs J7 and the 7 hit the river. I was down to 6 BBs after that and shipped 55 and ran into QQ.
Pretty good feeling to get back to winning in these SNGs! Especially with moving up in stakes. Already, the cashes are really adding to my BR and that’s an awesome thing to see it grow. Im not back to where I was after the huge PLO/NL loss, but I’ll take this win today. Hopefully we can see the same progress throughout the week! We got a $1 deposit match bonus today, as well.
Degened with my friend after work yesterday and went to the casino to play low limit blackjack and roulette just to catch up and blow off some steam. Pretty fun but lost money of course. Got home and played one $3.30 SNG and cashed in second after being short stacked with 5 to go. Final hand was my J9s 3 bet jamming vs a call from villain with JTo and no help. Fairly pleased with a cash though! That will be included in today’s results since I feel like one SNG isn’t enough to make an entire post about.
Got home from work and right into the session since I had a limited time to play today. So, I decided to play a couple SNGs of course. That’s been my bread and butter, my saving grace throughout this BR challenge. I only had a little bit to play tonight since my girlfriend was on her way home from work already and I am trying to make more time for her instead of playing poker all night. On my days off I will be playing much more, but on work days I can’t play for 8 hours after. It just won’t work. I just slammed a rockstar energy before this session and I am definitely feelin it. Can you tell?
Anyways, I opened up a Regular $3.00+.30 9 max SNG and decided to toss in a Turbo $3.00+.25 9 max right next to it. The turbo ended first, of course. We had a lot of moves to make and my mind was racing the whole time trying to pick up reads on both tables. It worked. Cashed 2nd in the turbo when it got heads up to a complete maniac who was shoving almost all hands pre. Final hand was a read gone bad. He had been betting his made hands really heavily and checking weakness. The flop came Q85 rainbow. We had A5o and he had T8o. Runout brought him trips and us a second place payout.
Next, the regular was pretty good for us. I made a sick river call with 88 on a runout of KQ927 facing a jam from a tight player with AJo on the bubble that put us in first going to the in the money rounds. It was straight punishment when it got to heads up. I was the aggressor almost every hand and set out to steal all the blinds I could and make my made hands look like cbets with air. Final hand we shipped AQs pre and got called by K9 and held. SHIP THE COOKIES!
So, the last 3 SNGs we played we cashed. I’ll take that ROI any day. Hope you guys are running hot and picking up pots. I don’t think I’ll be playing much tomorrow since my parents are having a cookout at their place. Good luck out there, and have a great Memorial Day!
I believe we have hit a bankroll record as well as a new record for biggest winning session! Even though today (sunday) I included a SNG from yesterday, on Saturday we had an $18 win and that was a big day for us! Things are looking up for this challenge. Ran into technical difficulties trying to upload the graph. Try again tomorrow.
Hope you all had a good Memorial Day weekend. Got up and grabbed some breakfast with my girl. Started a study sesh to work on turbo SNGs and that sort of thing, and I feel like it’s time to put some work in! I’m going to start two tabling today and focus on my edge with reads as much as I can despite it being a bit tougher when multi tabling. Let’s run good!
1) $1.50+.12 6 max turbo: shipped it with K9 vs AT and the 9 binked the flop and held
2) $3.00+.30 9 max reg: A9o vs KK and missed for a bust
3) $3.00+.30 9 max reg: A3s can’t hold vs QJs
4) $3.00+.25 6 max turbo: bust A3 v A9
5) $3.00+.30 9 max reg: bust Q9 jam vs QJc on 9s5c7c and flush rivered me
6) $3.00+.25 6 max turbo: bust J8s v A7s
7) $3.00+.30 9 max reg: 55 coolered by 77 on flop of 223 for bust
8) $3.00+.25 9 max turbo: k7 holds vs 97 for the win
9) $3.00+.25 6 max turbo: AJ cant hit vs 99 for bust
10) $3.00+.25 9 max turbo: KQs misses vs A9 for bust in 3rd
11) $3.00+.25 9 max turbo: AJ can’t hold vs A9
12) $3.00+.25 9 max turbo: AK misses vs QQ
13) $3.00+.30 9 max reg: KK can’t hold vs QQ when 4 to a flush on river gives villain Q flush (TILT)
14) $3.00+.30 9 max reg: Ran A9s into AJo and bust
15) $3.00+.25 9 max turbo: finished in 2nd after I was crippled by AK with JJ. Had 1 BB and jammed 72 into QQ that turned into quads
16) $3.00+.30 9 max reg: JJ busted by AKo
17) $3.00+.25 9 max turbo: bust AQs vs K7d with K on river
18) $3.00+.25 9 max turbo: bust KTs vs QQ on KTQ flop
19) $3.00+.20 6 max hyper: bust first hand AQs vs 88
20) $1.50+.11 6 max hyper: J9 vs AJ
21) $1.50+.11 6 max hyper: JT v QT
22) $1.50+.11 6 max hyper: A8 no hold vs A5
23) $1.50+.11 6 max hyper: KT v 33
24) $1.50+.11 6 max hyper: J7 hits vs 44 for the win
25) $1.50+.11 6 max hyper: AQ beat by 33 for second
26) $1.50+.11 6 max hyper: K9 beat by A3 for second
27) $1.50+.11 6 max hyper: JJ beat by KT for second
28) $1.50+.11 6 max hyper: AJ beat by KK
29) $1.50+.11 6 max hyper: AA beat by KT
30) $1.50+.11 6 max hyper: 88 holds v A8 for the win
31) $1.50+.11 6 max hyper: 98 beat by A8 for second
32) $1.50+.11 6 max hyper: 77 beat by TT
33) $1.50+.11 6 max hyper: QK beat by AK
34) $1.50+.11 6 max hyper: A8 beat by A9
35) $1.50+.11 6 max hyper: AK beats K9 for the win
36) $1.50+.11 6 max hyper: K4 vs AA bust
37) $1.50+.11 6 max hyper: T3 beat by JT for second
38) $1.50+.11 6 max hyper: QT beat by AK
39) $1.50+.11 6 max hyper: QJ beat by A3
40) $1.50+.11 6 max hyper: A9 beat by 99
41) $1.50+.11 6 max hyper: AJ beat by Q2
42) $1.50+.11 6 max hyper: 76s beat by QQ
Not going to lie I played pretty poorly halfway through both of the first 9 maxes as I was not 100% focused on them. I received a call that I shouldn’t have taken that lasted the duration of these SNGs. After those, I got in the zone. During 3-6 I timed out for about 2 minutes as I way playing all 3 at once. By the time I got back in, the turbo tables were both below 6 BBs and I was forced to jam. A couple times I made bad calls for all the chips, and a couple times I had the preflop goods that couldn’t hold up vs the weaker ace or pair. I was tilted a little bit right when it happened, but got over it pretty quickly.
Computer “ran into a problem” and shut down immediately when all 3 $1.50 hyper turbos launched. I got it back online and was down to 3 BBs each table. Why does this **** have to happen? I decided to step back down a buy in level since I wanted to keep playing and possibly get my confidence back. I needed 35 RPs today to move up a player level on ACR and get a $10 bonus even though I was losing money, which is counterintuitive but I needed to move up a level by 5/31 anyways. I can’t really play much tomorrow so today was grind day.
We did manage to get the $10 bonus which definitely helped with the run bad today. Something I have noticed about these Hyper Turbos is that people slow roll A LOT. Like idk how many times I saw someone jam and the other play run the time bank down with QQ or KK or AA. That just tilts me. All in all, it was an action packed day. Unfortunately, we booked a loss, but it was good experience in all game types despite getting my ass kicked. Good luck everybody.
Cash Game Session 36 Results:
Win/Loss: 0
Hands: 0
BB/100: 0
Hey everybody,
Hopped right into some SNGs this morning before work. Had some early run good, which was a nice change from yesterday, with most of my hands holding in the flips like 77vKTs and such. Definitely not a high volume session like yesterday, but we got that quality over quantity. Plus, nobody was playing the 6 max hypers so that kind of halted volume as well, and you all know I'm not a big fan of mass multi tabling as I lose my edge in regards to range analysis and bet sizing reads on most of the rec players at this level.
1) $3.00+.30 9 max Reg: T7 beats K7 for the win
2) $3.00+.30 9 max Reg: 88 beat by K9s for second
3) $1.50+.11 6 max Hyper: AQ holds v J9 for the win
I only played the three SNGs (all were running at once) this morning before I had some errands I needed to run prior to work, but we booked a $19.xx win that got us recovered from yesterday. I am looking forward to playing again tonight after work if I can, but there may be some more life things I need to do. For sure I will be back at it tomorrow.
I contacted customer support last night after the session and switched my account over to the rakeback program. They said it will take up to 3 days to convert, but I am excited to be getting a portion of my rake back. I know for people not playing super high stakes or a **** load of hands every day this program is more beneficial. This will hopefully be a nice boost to the BR since we are no longer getting deposit bonuses (expired) and free cash. Let’s keep running it up and hopefully we can hit $1k by the end of the year!
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Hey everybody,
Hopped right into some SNGs this morning before work. Had some early run good, which was a nice change from yesterday, with most of my hands holding in the flips like 77vKTs and such.
1) $3.00+.30 9 max Reg: T7 beats K7 for the win
2) $3.00+.30 9 max Reg: 88 beat by K9s for second
3) $1.50+.11 6 max Hyper: AQ holds v J9 for the win
I only played the three SNGs (all were running at once) this morning before I had some errands I needed to run prior to work, but we booked a $19.xx win that got us recovered from yesterday. I am looking forward to playing again tonight after work if I can, but there may be some more life things I need to do. For sure I will be back at it tomorrow.
---Came back for a second sesh after work. Decided to try some cash games and got stacked twice in about 50 hands both times with 99 vs QQ once pre, once on a flop of 823 rainbow. That’s not good. Got back to the $1.50+.11 Hyper turbo SNG grind. Results for those below.
4) 66 beat by AK
5) A6 holds v K3 for the win
6) JT beat by AK
7) A5 beat by KQs for second
8) QJ hits v A5 for the win
9) JJ beat by 99
10) A3 beat by 99
11) A2 beat by A3
12) 66 beat by J9
13) JT loses to AT and KJ
14) A9 hits v TT for the win
15) J8 beat by JJ
16) JJ beat by J8 for second
I don’t know why I continue playing cash besides it’s fun, but I have more fun when I am winning! There are multiple types of SNGs I am posting wins consistently at, and those are my main focus from here on out. I hope to improve in the cash game aspect so I can do better live and online, but I need to continue doing what works for me. That is SNGs. I hope to build the roll to $300 by the end of July, which is completely realistic and I feel confident about. I will work in some shot taking, but only when my roll is sufficient and I am feeling the best. That’s the great thing about online, I can play whenever. If I go to a casino and start feeling sub par, I don’t want to leave because I had to drive at least an hour to get there, you know? That’s a problem.
Anyways, this post will appeared edited because I posted it prior to the second session. The graph will be accurate for up to the end of session one. Full results below will be accurate, though.
I contacted customer support last night after the session and switched my account over to the rakeback program. They said it will take up to 3 days to convert, but I am excited to be getting a portion of my rake back. I know for people not playing super high stakes or a **** load of hands every day this program is more beneficial. This will hopefully be a nice boost to the BR since we are no longer getting deposit bonuses (expired) and free cash.
Update: My account is now in rakeback mode and I already have a couple bucks accumulated. It apparently isn’t available to claim until Mondays though, which is alright I guess. That is already going to get me more than the deposit match bonus and CP exchange would be combined. Looking forward to it! Let me know if you guys know how to track rakeback in ACR/PT4. Thanks for reading!
Let’s keep running it up and hopefully we can hit $1k by the end of the year (so long as I quit bleeding chips in cash games).
Cash Game Session 37 Results:
Win/Loss: -$8.74
Hands: 63
BB/100: too many
I was gone all day today with my old lady, but got right to studying SNG strat when I got home. It is not going to be a humongous session today since I am working early tomorrow morning. Switched my work schedule this week to get Saturday off. My dad and I are going to see a motorcycle stunt show on Saturday night, but I wanted to still be able to play some poker. The rakeback is officially coming in and I will probably be posting updates weekly in the results section at the bottom of the page. Let me know if you guys want to see that updated daily or what. Not sure quite yet how often I will be able to redeem rakeback yet, but updates will be sure to come in here.
I am looking to play some Hyper Turbo 6 max SNGs again tonight. The lower buy ins are nice for me to be able to mass table and still have a micro edge with shoving ranging based on BBs and ITM/Bubble play vs most players at the smallest stakes. I believe this edge started to develop when I would play a high volume of jackpots when I first made this account (before the BR challenge started). Let’s get it going!!
Here are the results/final hands of the $1.50+.11 6 max Hyper Turbos we played tonight:
1) Misclicked on the check/fold button and hit call any with J3, crippled, JT beat by AJ
2) 46 beat by KJ on A53 flop checked through
3) A5 beat by QJ
4) A8 beat by 22
5) A6 beat by A3
6) 56 beat by A3 for second
7) AK beat by JT
8) A3 beat by AQ
9) A9 beat by AQ
10) A8 beat by QT
11) KK beat by JT
12) K9 holds v Q3 for first
13) 33 beat by AT
14) A4 beat by AQ for second
15) K8 beat by AA
16) A6 holds v Q5 for first
17) K4 holds v 58 for first
18) AK beat by 55 when turn the nut flush and he rivers quads
19) 55 beat by QKs
20) QJ beat by 44
21) AT beat by 22
22) 44 beat by AJ
23) KT with top pair on turn beat by rivered J6 straight.
24) KJ beat by 88
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$2 Jackpot Poker hands:
1) AK beat by K9 all in pre with K5749 runout
2) AT beat by AJ
3) JJ win v A8o
4) A4 beat by 77
5) A4 beat by KK all in pre with 63AK7 runout
$3 WSOJ spin
1) 7T jam v JJ on 79J flop (bad move)
Not our best session as is clear in the results. Made a couple bad jams early on as I was playing too many tables and was losing my edge. I slimmed my tables down and tried playing tighter, but was not hitting the same run good as the past couple nights. Most of the flips I was losing and coolers were coming left and right (see #18). Also, not holding with the small pocket pairs definitely took its toll (see #11, 13, and 19). Losing the Ace high with better kickers also sucked. We can’t win them all, and that was evident tonight when the variance kicked in.
Around #20 I managed to realize my strategy was different from last night as I was playing mostly push/fold and not playing post flop. That is completely my fault, and I am to improve that going forward. I did manage to pick up a really important read on one reg, and I plan to punish him for that mistake. This didn’t matter tonight. I couldn’t win a flip and that held through the jackpots.
Here’s the losing session rant: Pretty frustrating tonight. I know variance comes into play and kicks your ass, but it’s pretty annoying. I’m not freaking out or screaming or breaking ****, but I am pretty tilted at this moment following the last jackpot game. I mean at least 5 times I got it in at least a 70% favorite and got beat. It’s not a great feeling, especially watching the BR fall. I know I should have quit after the regular SNG sessions beat me down, but out came the degen. Not going to let myself do that again. Sure, I can afford playing a JP or a SNG 2.0, but I haven’t had much luck in that department. I’m exhausted and not looking forward to work, so that just adds on to it. Good night guys. Back at it tomorrow.
Hey everybody!
Studied when I got home from work for a while and hopped into some games. I decided it would be best to single or double table only –-> no 6 tabling for me today. This will help me focus and lead to better decisions based on more information than what a HUD provides me. I’m not going to list out all the hands anymore, but I am still writing them down in a notepad. I will do this because 1) it takes a long time transferring all the final hands when I play 20+ per day, and 2) it kind of clogs up space on the page. For now, I will just write what I played and the results.
As I said before, I will add a weekly rakeback update, but I won’t be updating every day.
So, we ran pretty poorly early on with A8 v 99 all in pre flopping an ace and running into a 9 on the river, and also pocket tens all in early vs A4 with a flop of 544 had us down. Luckily, we weren’t playing too high of stakes, so it didn’t set us back much. I shipped a $3 regular 9 max, though, and that put us positive for the day. Not a whole lot to report on besides the bad beats, which seem to be quite frequent.
I decided to call it quits after 8 SNGs since I wanted to book a win for the day more than I wanted to get coolered repeatedly. Results will be below.
As a tentative plan, if all goes well, I plan to get back into the gym this upcoming week. I really have let myself go this summer with my primary focuses being work and poker. I need to make time for the gym, I just have to sit down and plan out when I will do it to maximize productivity during the day and still have time for other life things. Updates coming on this front.
Got to the gym this morning and ate a pizza after, so there’s that. Banged off a couple sit and gos before going to the stunt show here.
I played quite a variety today. This ranged from $1.50 6 max Hypers to $3.00 reg 9 max and turbos. I was pretty much playing whatever was running at the time within the $1-3 buy ins. There wasn’t a whole lot of action on ACR this morning, unfortunately. Finally, I settled on some $3.00 9 max turbos and regulars.
Lost a 6 max HT for $1.50, lost a reg $3 9 max and $3 turbo, but we shipped both a $3 turbo and 9 max. That gave us a nice win for this morning’s session with an ROI of over 80%! I would happily take that any day. It did help that when it got to the bubble/ITM play I was starting to heat up and get hands finally. Patience definitely paid off in the regular speed SNGs, that’s for sure.
Not moving up stakes to the $5s until we are at $350, and not shot taking until we see $250. I am looking forward to breaking out of the low $200s and getting this BR higher! Good luck out there everybody. I will probably be playing again tonight, but it depends when the show is over. Have a good Saturday!
