Current BR: $5085.61

Played 1.5hrs/820 hands, 4 tables of 100NL, 2 of them were heads up for awhile. Didn't get into any good spots, gii otf twice with oesd's neither hit.

Current BR: $5364.26

Played 2 sessions today totaling 3.5hrs/2k hands.

Kinda auto-piloted, didn't think through some spots where I should have.

wp mr. regfish

Nice thread. Been following for a while. Good luck. Think I could do something similar but I have terrible BRM. Any advice on that? It just seems as if a demon take me over and no matter how hard I try I put my whole roll on table and lose it all.
I know how to play solid winning poker but BRM could not be worse.
Anyway nice thread keep crushing!!!

By the way think u got very lucky with AK hand. Lucky that he didn't have a over pair and very lucky that he called with KQ.
That's the thing about poker sometimes u can play bad and be rewarded and sometimes u play great and get punished. Understanding when you are playing good and bad despite the results is a very underestimated talent.
That being said the correct play was a fold on flop although I don't mind a call in which u would have picked up a gunshot with a flush draw and two overs and surely taken it down on the turn.
Playing on auto pilot is def -Ev, one way to combat that is to reduce the number of tables u play. Just an idea but obv u are doing quiet well either way. Good luck and I admire your BRM skills!!!!!

Current BR: $5779.68

Played 2 more sessions totaling 4hrs/2150 hands. Played well, ran well.

@Jordan g: I don't think the AK hand is misplayed at all vs that specific villain as I have solid reads on them. I just found it funny that they snap called me with KQo no draws.

I posted in your PG&C thread earlier. I was EXACTLY the same as you bro. I would be able to beat the low stakes games, but always jumped up stakes and played outside of BRM. I started this thread in January, and for that entire month I made myself stay at 10NL despite being rolled for higher stakes and despite being made fun of for doing so. I managed to stick with BRM, and I think it helped me overcome my degenning.
People can offer you different advice on how to not degen, but in the end it's really up to you to control yourself from doing so. Best of luck to you sir.

Could you explain your solid read on villan . Was it bec he was on button, was it a bet sizing read. How are you so sure he doesn't have pocket pair.
Just to be fair he may also have a read on you or either villan was on mega tilt. I mean he did call you KQ .

Was typing out a response, but it was getting too long and I wasn't even finished explaining half of what I was going to. Basically though, he never has
QQ+ here, shouldn't have 22-77 here often either. So 88-JJ, and a lot of air. I get max value from his air this way, puts his 88-JJ into a tough spot so I will get folds some of the times, when I get called I still have plenty of equity. So that's his range I put him on, as for villain's postflop tendencies I'm not gonna get into them since that's what was making this whole response too long.

That actually make sense, but I'm not sure if he ever folds overpair, especially since he called with KQ.
Nice explanation though. I think your right.

Current BR: $6131.30

Played 4hrs/2070k hands yesterday, 2hrs/1050 hands today.

Current BR: $5832.22

Played 3.5hrs/1100 hands at 100NL. Played well, got into some tough spots, just gonna post one of them, would appreciate any feedback you guys have.

Villain this hand is 27/18, Fold vs 3b 43%, AF 4.9, Fold vs c-bet otf in 3bp 17% over 2k hands. My take on them is they are a solid reg, haven't ever seen them spazz.
I c-bet flop as they don't fold flops often, went for a x/r ott. When we get raised on the river I don't expect this villain to bluff nor turn made hands into bluffs, so at minimum sets is the range I put them on.
Pacific, $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold'em Cash, 4 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

SB: $104.62 (104.6 bb)
Hero (BB): $191.56 (191.6 bb)
CO: $230.14 (230.1 bb)
BTN: $161.29 (161.3 bb)

Preflop: Hero is BB with Q Q
CO raises to $2.62, BTN folds, SB calls $2.12, Hero raises to $11, CO calls $8.38, SB folds

Flop: ($24.62) J 4 Q (2 players)
Hero bets $16, CO calls $16

Turn: ($56.62) 3 (2 players)
Hero checks, CO checks

River: ($56.62) 5 (2 players)
Hero bets $40, CO raises to $203.14 and is all-in, Hero ???

Bet turn ainec imo. River I think depends on whether they're capable of turning but blocker into a bluff. Think we have to call being so high up in our range and the fact that they didn't bet turn.

Current BR: 5653.96

2 tabled 50PLO for about 3 hrs.

They are capable of bluffing, however I don't know if they could do it in that particular spot, the way the hand played out (timings and such) I didn't perceive their range there as polarized.

Current BR: $5397.19

Past couple sessions I decided try out a few different things.
One was to increase my 3b%. Over the 4k hands I was trying this out, my 3b was 17.4%. My redline didn't increase that much, a lot of villains don't like to fold vs my 3bs, though there were a couple players I relentlessly 3b since they had a high fold %.
Overall I think it was insightful and while 17% is ridiculous, it did show me that there are spots where I can consider 3betting more (was averaging around 7% prior).
In addition, my vpip/pfr increase to 32/27 though small sample. I also got stacked quite a bit more than I'm used to due to the fact that I don't often fold tptk+ in 3bps so was getting stacked by sets and some 2p's.

Also feeling more comfortable playing heads up now, not saying that I'm any good at it yet, but I don't sit out when heads up anymore, unless I'm 6-tabling and want to play full tables for an even pace.

I think villan has either AK or AJ of clubs. Think u have to fold there.

Weird spot. Tried to type out a response like 5 times and got to a different conclusion every time. I think my feeling is to call because we basically can never have the clubs or straight draw, but he can credibly rep them. Add to that random spazzes, a relatively good price to call and the fact that there are a few legit valueshove hands in his range we beat. Albeit weirdly played but still. I wouldn't hate a fold as much as I did 10 minutes ago, but I just can't see how we can fold this vs a reg. On another note I don't mind a turn bet either, as there are lots of draws that can call again.

I appreciate the feed back guys. Kinda sux trying to analyze this hand myself since I know the outcome so I might be biased. 100bb deep it's not really a hand worth mentioning as the hand would play itself.

When I take a look at this hand, I think vs a decent reg, I'll have to consider giving villain a wider range here, simply because they can float the flop with some back doors since we're 200bb deep and they have position on us. Like Jordan g said, I believe they definitely can have AKcc and AJcc here that play this way. Other suited club hands we can include are AT, KJ, KT, JT, J9, so about 7 combos of backdoor flushes that get there? If we give them JJ and 44 for 6 combos and assume they play the same way with those hands, then we have 46% equity vs that range. If I think they can float flop w/ 33 or 55 some of the times, our equity is even better. I don't have enough info on villain yet to determine if they can take this line with all their sets. When thinking about my calling range here and how I played the hand, I'm near the tippy top I think, as most of my backdoor flush draws will double barrel, though I do go for x/j on turns some of the times 100bb deep. At any rate, I called, villain tabled KJcc.

Current BR: $5810

Played 2k more hands yesterday/into this morning at 50NL/100NL. Toned down my 3b frequency, though making an effort in 3betting more than 6-7% as I was prior.

How to hit a 1 outer

So what did villan have?

By the way, I think u are over analyzing the hand. I think you have to put him on the 2 or 3 hands that make the most since and go with your read. When u start counting combos and comparing them u are essentially just becoming an all out math player.
Don't get me wrong math is the best approach sometimes but I think this is a soul read situation.
That's the beauty of playing with a proper roll, just make a read and go with it.
That's always served me well in live poker anyway, but obviously u get more reads live.
Just a thought.

Yeah, I was leaning toward a call. What makes this hand interesting to me is the turn check back. To me it seems draws bet here, but since Villain wanted to leave his options open to see a cheap showdown w/2nd pair they checked back. The turn check back is what made it look bluffy to me and made me want to call. Interesting hand imo; good hand for me to remember.

Current BR: $6147.59

+281 in RB this month. Made Diamond+ Tier which was 7500 points to grind. Played 69k hands this month, great volume for me. Cleared 5000 points for a $500 bonus, we'll see how that goes since I've read on the forums that the promo didn't work for them. Not sure what next month will bring, will probably start cashing out and hang around 50NL-100NL stakes on this site. There's barely any volume at 100NL+ since 50NL is the highest stake that wsop.com and 888 share player pools in, so small player pool for anything above that.

Also quit smoking in the middle of this month, a poker buddy highly recommended vaping as an alternative to smoking, I was thinking about it prior but on their recommendation I decided to definitely give it a try. Best **** ever invented imo. Was smoking a carton of marlboro reds a week, now all I do is vape. Initial purchase is somewhat expensive, and I'm still getting buying new set-ups which I've spent about $400 in the past 2 weeks on, but I won't have to re-buy the mods, just juice and replacement coils which is like $25/week compared to the $90/week I was paying for smokes.

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Nice month man.

Yeah, nice month. Way to go w/ replacing the cigs too. Do you think you will go for similar volume next month?

Thx guys.

This month wsop had a promo where they gave cash bonuses if you reached a certain amount of player points. I should be netting $500 in bonus money but I read in another thread that the program didn't work for someone where they didn't recognize that person opting in for the promo, hopefully that didn't happen to me too, we'll see. To answer your question, I don't think I'll be putting as much volume in next month, I played 173 hrs this month... I'm a bit burnt out and am taking today off even though it's Sunday, one of the best days to play since so many recs play on the weekends.

One of the last sessions I played, I think it's the first time I 3b bluffed river, have a lot of history with this villain so I was comfortable trying it out. Just remember, no one ever 3b bluffs rivers, especially with one of the worst hands to bluff with.

Bluff is waaaaay too sketchy, no blockers (we actually block a decent amount of his bluffs fwiw) and we're likely perceived to be raising our nutted hands otf or ott. It does feel like we have to bluff river but I would just fold to the raise