Currently a 50nlzoom grinder, had the worse session well, ever, last night, and thought I'd set up a PG&C to get some goals down in writing and to motivate me to work on my game to reach 200nl and upwards.
Been playing poker for maybe 3 years, and somewhat more seriously this year, I share a br with my brother, and he's been crushing! So got a decent starting bank roll of ~$2k.
Goals:
$10k br to move up to 200nl
Work on my game so I can beat the 200nl games
And eventually: Move beyond 200nlzoom whilst printing moneyyy
Short term:
Watch a video before every session
Study applications of NLHE, and derive solid ranges
Train for the half marathon I have at the end of September
Graphs:
Yesterdays Session:
Year to date: (10-50nl)
Gonna have a 25nl session today to get back in to things!
Yesterdays session didnt go to plan, lots of run bad, pretty standard though, allllll gooood, watched a video though so I've got that going for me which is nice.
Preflop: Hero is SB with J J
3 folds, BTN raises to $0.75, Hero raises to $2, BB folds, BTN raises to $5.25, Hero raises to $9.25, BTN raises to $25.88 and is all-in, Hero calls $16.63
Flop: ($52.01) Q J 4 (2 players, 1 is all-in) Turn: ($52.01) A (2 players, 1 is all-in) River: ($52.01) 2 (2 players, 1 is all-in)
Spoiler:
Results: $52.01 pot ($2.00 rake)
Final Board: Q J 4 A 2
BTN mucked T T and lost (-$25.88 net)
Hero showed J J and won $50.01 ($24.13 net)
Any advice appreciated:
Blinds: 1/1
Straddle from loosish but fairly solif player.
Loose aggro guy who's waiting for bigger game raises to 10 utg.
I have Ako 142bb deep and 3b to 25 both straddler and lag call.
Flop:
Kd6d3d
I have no diamond. I bet 35, straddler calls and lag guy shoves for 110.
Hero?
Lag range looks something like: AdXo KQ Kj and then some flushes and sets, probably not nut flush.
And straddler only has nut flush to worry about since he shoves smaller flushes and sets. So thats like 2 combos or something.
Trip ended up okay! Had half of a friend who shipped the tourny so had a BE day with a freeroll for half of the WPT125 which starts today? Guys a hero.
WHen I got back I was still in the poker mood so hopped on to 25nl ran good and got deep and then this happened:
Preflop: Hero is UTG with 8 A
Hero raises to $0.62, MP calls $0.62, CO folds, BTN raises to $2.50, 2 folds, Hero raises to $5.50, MP folds, BTN calls $3
4bet pre is bad I think as I think its okay to flat his 3bet at this stack depth, at the time, my thinking was its a hand that I want to play, but I wasn't sure whether I could flat here, so fits nicely in as a 4b esp as villain 3bets a lot particularly OTB, and squeezing range is probably even wider. Thoughts??
Graphs:
Going out tonight, loads of birthdays coming up so lots of drinking ahead! So not sure how much playing i'm going to get in.