What's up 2+2. Long time lurker who made an account for this.

I'm going to run $50 up on ACR, and see where I end up. The experience will be logged here and the eventual goal is to buy something awesome with poker money. I used to play a lot of 50NL on Bovada, but I took a break from poker and it's been a long time. I withdrew my (unimpressive) earnings on that site, and stopped playing for the past year.

Time to get back in there, fellas. I have a busy schedule, but I'm going to find some time for the occasional 1k to 2k hands. As of starting this post, I've already played five sessions and I'm at around ~5k hands. We're off to a ballin' start and I'm up in the ACR 2NL streets claiming territory.



As you can see, that yellow line is up 14 cents, so I'm running like Usain ****ing Bolt.

The bankroll is currently at $70.69 and I'm at 20.84 bb/100 after the first 5k hands. I'll take shots at 5NL at either $100 or $125 depending on how I feel. I'm not in any rush and want to move up the stakes properly. I'm playing 6 tables and feel very comfortable. More would throw me off and less feels a bit slow.

I've been playing 23/16 and mostly getting value. Bluffing doesn't seem to be a very good strat here, so I'm just picking on people whose stats say they are overfolding, and giving up pretty quickly if they stay interested. I'm also flatting way too many hands when I should be 3betting, especially in position. Things to work on for sure.

Earlier today I broke somebody with two back-to-back hands, and they ended up tilt-shoving pre-flop over and over again until their autofill put .88 in and they shoved that off too. Sadly I got none of these proceeds, but it's okay because the following hands made me a good chunk before they threw the rest away. I didn't even play the hands good.

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Q J
fold, MP raises to 3 BB, fold, Hero calls 3 BB, SB calls 2.5 BB, fold
Flop: (10 BB, 3 players) 7 K 6
SB checks, MP bets 5 BB, Hero calls 5 BB, fold
Turn: (20 BB, 2 players) 8
MP checks, Hero bets 9.5 BB, MP calls 9.5 BB
River: (39 BB, 2 players) 3
MP checks, Hero bets 138 BB and is all-in, MP calls 138 BB
MP shows A K (One Pair, Kings)
(Pre 60%, Flop 3%, Turn 0%)
Hero shows Q J (Flush, King High)
(Pre 40%, Flop 97%, Turn 100%)
Hero wins 299.5 BB

At the time, I was thinking they probably had a king. In retrospect, shoving seems kind of dumb when I can just bet for value. So I should bet 3/4 or so in similar spots where I feel like a strong two pair or TPTK type hand would call. They really just called with one pair though, so I was pleasantly surprised. The next hand occurred only minutes later against the same villain.

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 9 9
fold, fold, CO raises to 3 BB, BTN raises to 8.5 BB, Hero calls 8 BB, fold, CO calls 5.5 BB
Flop: (26.5 BB, 3 players) 2 6 3
Hero checks, CO checks, BTN checks
Turn: (26.5 BB, 3 players) K
Hero checks, CO bets 12 BB, fold, Hero calls 12 BB
River: (50.5 BB, 2 players) 9
Hero bets 48 BB, CO raises to 206 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 158 BB
CO shows 6 6 (Three of a Kind, Sixes)
(Pre 19%, Flop 66%, Turn 77%)
Hero shows 9 9 (Three of a Kind, Nines)
(Pre 81%, Flop 34%, Turn 23%)
Hero wins 439.5 BB

Literally only bet that size on the river because he was talking mad **** in the chat after the other hand and I thought he'd call light with a pair again. When he jammed, I thought about the flush for about half a second and figured he doesn't have a flush here often enough for me to ever fold. It was immediately following this hand that he tilted his entire bankroll to the table and left. It was glorious.

We're now approaching 7500 hands. Haven't been able to play very much because of school commitments, but I got a pretty good session in today. I had also played a session the other day where I lost like 5 buyins at 2NL, which sucked. Some of it was due to bad luck, like running kings into aces, etc. But some of it was just me making bad decisions, too.

Todays session I jumped into 6 tables at 5NL, and played about 900 hands. I felt really good the entire time and focused on trying to extract value from people. I ended up making $14.31 and recouping the 2NL losses, as well as pushing the bankroll up a little more. I got dealt aces 6 or 7 times, and got zero action from any of them, so that kind of sucked. I'll list the grand totals and the graph below, now.

2NL: $12.01 - 9.32 bb/100
5NL: $14.31 - 31.8 bb/100
Bankroll: $76.32



Next session, hopefully soon, I'll play 6 tables of 2NL again and see if I can avoid losing a bajillion buyins. I don't want to make a habit of jumping stakes under rolled, but 2NL is pretty damn boring, so hopefully it passes quickly. At $100 or so, I'll fully commit to 5NL.