start 530

played an hour 15 minute session last night, up almost $20. was being sweated by someone. so the BR is now $579.61

gunna have to go on a whim here. my car is in the shop and theyre supposed to call back sometime soon when everything is taken care of. damned brakes

also woke up with a weird rash on my hand. today has not been a good day to say the least

ok, v SS, AJ > JTo AIOTT 3J84.

QQ > 65ss (huh?) AIOTT 9632. so nice to bag a 210bb pot

this one is going to suck. nvm. another 220bb pot. KK > QQ AIPF.

theres a hand i want to post eventually. open Q9cc OTB, two fish call. f QsTs9d SB donk bets, BB folds, I raise to try to get value from Jx, spade draws, KQ, QJ, T9, and he 3bets. min 3bets. i have to call and reevaluate. tunr Td. he bets small again. such a bad card, but i call. river 7x. he jams, i fold. he bets strong and he bet stronger than what my hand was. i wouldnt be surprised to see T9 or KJ there, maybe J8. fish just dont bluff like that

tempted to call a 3b OOP with a suited connector against a tight player. multiway as well, but the other player was SS. didnt do it, which is good

well i made a good, correct thin value bet twice and got to see the cards, so kudos! unfortunately, the river saved them and we split pot

ok they called, get up and go time

Session 1 (last night)
1.25 hours
+$19.42

Session 2
1 hour
+$23.26
BR: $602.87

start 855

starts off a bit crappy, but ill take this situation any day of the week. AQo < KK AIPF v 30bb stack who posted UTG. I will GII pf with a player like that on their first hand every time i have an opportunity

pulled an unsuccessful river bluff. im ok with it. fish opens BTN, I flat KThh in SB to keep his range wider. i know he'll cbet most boards, and the flop comes QcAs4s. i check, he cbets, i call. t 2c. i check, he bets small. looks weak, but what do i check/raise here, 44? A4? A4 3bets since Kx and Qx can call. so I call and plan to donk out most rivers. river is a crappy 4. i donk bet, he calls and shows QT. it shows that players truly dont fold, although my line wasn't exactly a good bluff

i must look weak as heck on this one table. ive cbet once out of 5 times, but every pot ive raised there have been at least 2 callers

bigggg non showdown pot with.....55. heres the stuation. utter maniac opens, two callers, i cal in SB w 55, BB calls. f T66. checks to maniac, he cbets, two folds to me. i call for value. he's a moron. BB folds. t 8. i check, he bets again, i shove. is it a bluff? is it for value bc i think he'll call for worse? its a "there is no card in the deck that, even against a maniac, i feel comfortable calling my stack off with on the river". he will call with better and fold worse a lot, but im ok with that with my hand and the pot size

holy ****. AA < 74 AIOTT 4447. yup, dude flopped quads. sometimes you get great situations and they just dont work

TT < A9o AIOTR 499J3

and another dude flopped nut straight on me. so its like the AA hand opened the floodgates of run good against me. actually, probably shoving the 55 hand is what did it.

as im wrapping this short sesh up, KK > 98 IOTR 566K7. about time, ive run absolutely terrible this session

Ick. Another short session, since I gotta be up early tomorrow. This one was...I don't want to use the word unlucky, but anytime someone flops quads on you and you're sitting there holding the second nuts, that's unlucky. Yeah, there was like one spot I played badly (the bad bluff), but other than that it was kind of funny how few hands I was dealt and how hot my opponents ran. Meh, happens. The prior session I thought I played very well and was more aggressive than this session. That could also have to do with the stark difference of playable hands though and differing opponents. Eh, still ~+$5 for the day poker wise (life wise -$800 )

1 hour
-$18.42
BR: $584.45

I don't get to post much graph porn.



(For some reason, it's missing maybe a table or two worth of hands. Not up $90 for the month, just ~$74)

Definitely running good EV wise, which I'll admit to. What I like about it is the redline. It's not going down nearly as steeply. I know, lolvolume. Just for this month, all 10nl, so I felt like bringing a positive note to this otherwise depressing thread . Let's hope it can continue

I wound up shelling out ~$800 to fix my car. All I can say is that I'm so thankful I actually do set aside money each check just to save for instances like that. Otherwise with how not good the rest of my family's financial situation is, I'm not sure I would have been able to fix it. What happened was the front brakes were shot and the rotor done on the driver front side. I didn't hear anything wrong with it though until ~a week ago, and that's because my car is an older car. I put the money up because until I know 100% that I got the new job, this is going to be my car. No use in getting a new one. All that worry + not a lot of sleep and a long day led me to just forgo playing yesterday. Instead, I read a chapter in The Mental Game of Poker (or two). A couple of things really stuck out to me in those first couple of chapters:

1. Warm-up. I used to warm-up before every session, and then I started to just dive in headfirst. Well, that probably led to me having some bad starts to a lot of the sessions. So I'm going to re-incorporate a warm-up period before each of my sessions to get my brain on track.

2. (and this is important) Bad players will win. I will lose pots to bad players and bad players will get their miracle river cards. Once I accept it, I can sort of not be like "oh dammit, he flopped quads with an unpaired hand against my AA" and things like that. I don't feel like it tilts me or changes my game, but it can frustrate me. Now I just have to let it stick.

Anyways, my goal is ~4 hours of play today at minimum, plus watching the rest of episode 7 of the Coaching Kristy videos (I actually tried to watch it last night, but fell asleep 1/3 of the way through :O....at 1030).

I do also want to post this hand, not because of the bad luck but just because how often is anyone ever going to see an unpaired hand where every card on the flop and the turn card hits their hand? Doing (6/48)x(5/47)x(4/46)x(3/45) gives me 0.000077%. So it happens ~77 times in a million hands. So yay, I was part of a statistical improbability!

start 205

much later than i wanted to start, but had to somehow get my nephew upstairs. love him, but he can be a major distraction while playing. plus, i spent ample time with him beforehand.

oops, priced myself in. 3b A6o in CO against passive layer postflop (but opens a few hands pre), 100VPIP SS shoves in BB. MP folds, im getting 2 to 1 so i have to call. thankfully, he shows KQo and I win the pot

this one is going to be like an hour session. itll be lunch time and i can already feel myself getting a little hungry.

such a nit. one hand played in 20 hands.

not much luck so far. 2 pp, not catching flops, not having any decent cards to be aggro with pf, not getting folds...pretty rough go

ive got 3 greaat tables

action killing cards. flatting a 3b OTB from BB w A9ss, flop 5h9h9x, turn 4h

KK > AQcc AIOITF 979

then in a 4bet pot, 99 > AKo AIOTF 833

wow before i knew it an hour was gone already

This session a little frustrating. Hardly many hands to play, and the players weren't folding all that much (on the flop). Meh, we'll get at it again a bit later. I know I'm playing good, but it's also important to stick to length of time amounts that are committed to before something begins.

1 hour
+$4.21
BR: $588.66

start 450

misplayed a hand against a SS. not a biggie, since he is a SS, but a bit annoying. starting table HU, 3b w AQo, he calls, f K88. my experience tells me that SS being HU are bad aggros, so if I check, he should shove and ill happily call. he doesnt, checks back and it just jumbles the hand

55 > T9dd AIOTR 2d4d2x5dJx. nice little pot

can i bet for value? no. can i successfully bluff? no. then....don't bet. me to myself after i opened 65hh on a 98ddKh flop.

i thought this was funny. SS limps UTG. I raise K9o in CO. BTN and SB call. BB cold 3bets. UTG SS calls, leaving himself $0.20 left. i obviously fold but huh? ive never seen action like that

AA > J5 AIOTF JT2. two players l/c and BB called, so a bigger pot than expected when HU against a 11bb stack

idk what i just saw. well, i do, but i cant describe it. someone please remind me to post the flop min 5 bet hand. im taking a tiny break because that hand was so ridiculous my brain exploded

this second of a planned three sessions isn't going too hot either. its like the previous session, except there are more multiway pots

open KK, hyper aggro post flop player calls, all fold. f A86. my plan here OOP is to let him bet it off. check bet call. t 5. check bet call. both 1/2 psb. r J.check POT SIZE BET tank fold. flop and turn he can bet anything. river? no. its Ax at minimum

AJ > KJ AIOTT J487

im seriously at the jesus table and......i cant get anything. its the table with the min 5bet

So if this is how it feels to just run card dead, I'll take it. Very small losing session, small winning session instead of big losing session. I played better this session than the previous session because I was able to fold while being battered with missing flops and getting bet at and raised. Keeping my emotions under control and not lashing out or saying woe is me (too much). Got another one here shortly, but I'm going to relax for a bit with some coffee.

1.5 hours
-$1.10
BR: $587.56

start 750

i think the way to describe today would be ive had a bunch of equity but havent gotten there and the other players are just having far better hands. AsKx, f JT7sss, check bet call, t 2x, donk bet call, river 7x. or 75o in a min raised pot 4 way, f 875, guy has 64o (and thankfully doesnt know how to bet for value)

if ive gotten any value today, a lot of it has been thin value in 3bet pots.

bad turn cards. QT against fish, flop QJT, check/raise, turn A

i find myself asking a lot more today the "can i bet for value? can i bluff?" line. it is working. it gets me to think more about an opponent's range as compared to mine

i know that line. BTN opens, SB 3bets, BTN calls, SB cbets low board, BTN calls, SB checks turn. i used to take it all the time with Ax or any hand that missed

ugh kicking myself. made a mistake preflop. i know, dont be results oriented, but this was just a wtf was i thinking moment. fish limps, bigger fish raises to 3bb, nit calls OTB, SB folds, I have A9dd in BB. I decide it's questionable if I can squeeze there with the nit playing as well. so i fold. wait, what, why did I just do that? if i dont 3bet i have to call getting 4.5 to 1 with a fish having the initiative with a hand like that. to rub it in, the flop came all diamonds

im watching the blue jackets-sabres game in the corner of my eye. we look damned good, but this goalie is absolutely stonewalling us

well tis sucked. AKo < AxJs AIOTF KsQx7s against 100bb whale. turn was like 6s, river Tx. that would have been huge to hold nearing the end of the session

If I had to rate the sessions based on how I played, the second one would be first and the two bookenders would be tied for second. Overall, today was just one of those sessions where value was tough to get with the hands I was being dealt, the boards, and everything else. Obviously the AK hand sucks, but to know that for such a dry day at the tables I was that hold away from a +BI day is pretty good. I guess I do have to give a bit of EV back

1.5 hours
-$12.12
BR: $575.44

Frustration sound. It was set up perfectly to play a whole heck of a lot tonight. Work early, take a nap (because for some reason I can't carry lots of energy into the night after waking early), play a lot on a Friday night. Except my friend asks me to lunch, and I have to keep my resolution so I can say I held a New Year's resolution the whole year. Get home too late to nap, play with my nephew for a bit, workout, get some coffee, and....

There's doubt. Open the client, decide that my eyes are tired but my brain is functional because it's Friday night, and sit at tables.

But there's doubt. There's the "I'm probably more tired than I think I am" doubt. Then with that comes the "Friday night curse" doubt. For you newcomers, I inexplicably lose the most on Friday nights for some reason. Then the "how weak is it if I play 20 minutes and just get knock out exhausted?" doubt. So before I'm dealt a hand at the three tables, I leave. I hate it tonight because I really want to play. I'm probably going to love the decision tomorrow.

The point of this post? Don't play if you have adverse affects. The games will be there tomorrow, and the next day, and the day after your grandkids are born. Don't play if you have doubts. Don't play if you're tired. Don't feel pressure to put in volume if you can't play at least your B-game. Have self-control to not play in adverse conditions.

I wanted to post this because of everything I've seen at Bovada micros, this probably is the worst hand I've ever seen. SB had been at the table for 3 hands, and CO or BTN had been there for about 5. So they don't have any reads on each other. Just...huh? This hand was seriously so bad to see live I had to take a break because my mind couldn't comprehend what just happened.







Yes, 5bet the flop with second pair, good kicker. 4bet the flop and call with K high. I don't even....

start 1125a

rise and shine.

just folded TPGK multiway to a 2xpsb on a J65 flop. guy who is a loose fish. he min raised a player pf

jeez wtf have i become? i just shoved 99 pf for value. so here was the hand. player from above opens in MP to 5bb. I 3b to $1.30 w 99. SS shoves in BB. he's been there two hands. mega fish calls. i shove. i think he'll call with lower PP, Ax, Kx broadways. plus...dead money. and if he had AA, KK, QQ, JJ he probably just shoves over SS. so i feel i only really have to fade TT. he tank-folds, and my 99 holds against KJdd

oh, some hand before, J9o > KJo AIOTT J95Q in a pot where he limped, i raised OTB, he flatted and it played from there

just made first mistake of session. opened KTcc in CO, unknown BTN player and passive BB call. f AA4. check to me, i cbet. probably not the best spot to cbet in the first place, but my reasoning was that i might be able to get low PP to fold. BTN calls, BB folds. t K. tis is where I make the mistake. i bet for value against every PP. when in reality, not many PPs are calling a turn bet. so im only getting called by worse. he calls and i compound my mistake by doing the same OTR. he calls and shows A9.

this one kinda sucks, but standard and happy with my play. JJ < AA AIOTF 553 SB v BTN against a midsack. fine with me.

found out what his 2xpsb is. diddly. and now im 190bb deep with him

wow 3bet getting called in 3 places

same guy who got AA against my JJ just got AQhh against my AQo for a full stack. raise, two calls, i raise w AQo in SB, BB, OR, and BTN all call. f 9h5hQx. i bet, folds to BTN who calls. t Jh. i hate this card. i shove my less than 1/2psb though because id rather GII now than him have KhQx or QxTh and see a free card (all hands he'll call a shove with OTT). he calls and of course turned the flush

not the best of sessions $$ wise so far, but i think that aside from the KT hand im playing very well. just running into some crap spots where i got god moded against

super passive fish bets 3x pot OTR when the river pairs the board. i wonder what hand he has??? easy fold w TPGK

urf 3betting a aggro whale and you cant because the board is J9X and you're holding AQo. never folding that. worse is calling obviously, but they just have too much equity against me

and he folds preflop when i have aa

AhTx < 9h8x AIOTT Jh7x4h8h. he was a SS playing every hand, so i priced myself in against his one pair hands OTT. just couldnt hit any 9, heart, or A OTR. i got him t do what i wanted, call pf and OTF with a bad hand as a SS, it just didn't work out.

as i said, im playing very good today. im just running into bad situatons

i cant even get players to fold not nut high air in limped pots with no draws and no equity

i feel so weak 3betting and folding flops against fish....check/folding....but there is no value in trying to bluff a mindless player off of anything on a QJ9 board.

this was good. this is why i play the way i do. K7dd > A9o AIOTR K696K. he's a passive fish, can call with lower PP and 9's, and would raise if i was beaten. so i raised when he limped preflop, bet flop, turn, and river.

well....open AKo, get min3bet by a SS, two other SS call in the blinds. they all have $3 stacks so i raise to $16.66. they all call :O one has QJo, one has J7o, and i think the other had KQo. obviously the one with the least amount of equity wins, the J7o.

jeez it feels good to finally flop a set. QQ > KQo AIOTF 7xKdQd.

and then give some back. 55 < QTss AIOTT 32ss6x5s against a baaaaaad SS

urf. KK < QJ AIOTT KT98 aainst someone who would have been more likely to have TT and 99 than QJ. that sucks and is pretty much stereotypical of what this day has been like. good situations running into nutty hands

As I said earlier, I felt really good about my game today. I made the mistake with the KT hand. Other than that, this was just pure variance. Top set against the only possible straight? A midstacker 4 handed having a higher pocket pair than JJ on a 553 flop? A guy turning the nut flush in a 3bet pot? The first two listed are just unlucky, and maybe the third one is a little more....eh, I guess standard or whatever. I played good. The results suck, but I played good and put myself in good spots.

2 hours
-$12.92
BR: $562.52

We're about to get to work here in about an hour (hey, I gotta get some wound down time from my real life work and my excitement for the Browns!). But I felt it was a good occasion to post some hands. By the way, I'm not caught up in trying to improve my redline, but through 4,200 hands I've got a bunch of almost parallel to a straight line stretches with my redline with a couple of instances of sharp decline.

Anyways, is this good? MP was a aggro spew fish. BB was a typical Bovada shortstacker. I shoved this for value.








This next hand. OR was a tighter player, but not overly creative. Other players were fish. BTN is the player who stacked me earlier with his AA against my JJ. Not a good player at all.

If you could make a list of bad turn cards, this would be #2, just behind K. Going over the hand, I think that I have an SPR of less than 2 in a 3bet pot with TPTK. Players shouldn't really have a flush or chase a flush unless they have QX. But at the same time, this card takes QJ, JJ, J9 (it's Bovada) and moves those hands to the win column. The more I think about it, the more I think I'm beat OTT. AQ ties me, I beat every KQ except KQ, and I beat QT and JT. All of those hands though have equity. If he is beating me, I'm drawing dead in almost all spots except when he has two pair. But if I check and he shoves, I'm getting 3 to 1 with TPTK in a 3bet pot. The nit in me wants to find a fold. But idk. Thoughts?








This next hand is just an example of a change in my game over the last ~week and a half. The player I'm up against is a passive fish who played like a 60vpip and was a calling station. If I'm raised anywhere, I'm folding obviously. But if he calls, I'm just going to bet bet bet.








With a hand like this, being in the blinds and a thin value hand, I'm using smaller bet sizes everywhere. Preflop, why raise to $0.50 OOP? Just make it $0.40 against a fish. And risk less postflop if it is for value, but bet more when we go for fat value. A fish isn't going to notice the difference.

I'm posting this hand so you guys can berate me and I can get it in my mind to just don't do this. Flop is ok, because I think I can get lower PP to fold. Once he calls on the flop though and the turn is a K, I have to check. The reason I bet, and I said this when I played the hand, was to get calls from the lower PP. But I wanted to fold those OTF. Here is a list why the turn is bad and this whole hand after the flop is bad:

1. Lower PPs will not call a turn bet. Fish just won't do it with two aces and a king on the board. Fish may be stupid, but they know high cards when they see them, and two is a bad omen.

2. My hand just wants to see a showdown for as cheaply as possible. It's a way ahead/way behind scenario. Either I'm ahead by a lot, or I'm behind by a lot IE I'm not catching up. He isn't calling if he is way behind, and he isn't folding and may just raise if he is way ahead.

3. This hand was within the first 20 minutes of the beginning of the session. So virtually no reads. IE no reads, no big marginal pots.









And because I hate ending posts on bad notes, I give you this hand. SB was a reg looking player and iirc, I had been fairly aggro at this table for quite a while. If I 4bet here, I have to call a jam because he could just be fed up with me bullying the table. Funny.

start 920

well crap. 88 < AQss AIOTR 6x9Tss7x (he donk bet, i raise, he flatted for 1/3 his stack) Js.

so far, same story as last ~3 sessions. terrible boards, few value hands, lots of multiway pots, and very few cbettable flops. we'll try to get something going

whoa cold 4bet. almost never happens. i was in b/f mode against a fis preflop, so no harm, no foul. but still, so rare.

v SS, KJo > 88 AIOTR J226K. debated 3betting for a split second pf before flatting IP. definitely much better against a shortstack

small pot, ATo > Q8cc AIOTT 92JJ. i was honestly just betting to take the pot, and did think my AT would be better than a random 5bb left player

two players to my left. one is 3/0 thru 30, the other is 3/3 thru 30

biting my tongue here. two hands at two different tables with nits UTG both times. UTG raises, I'm in SB w AK. and in one of them a passive fish min3bets. i took control. flatted the one without the three bettor and folded the one where the fish min3bet. that might be the inner nit in me speaking

these tables tonight are soul sucking. fish quickly replaced by nits. already closed two tables. think im just gunna ply an hour and quit sadly.

Meh, I don't know, I just couldn't really muster up the energy to ply a long or even decent session once some of the tables starting dying...quickly...and I started getting hungry. Meh.

.94 hours
+$0.33
BR: $562.85

start 1225

i broke one of my rules. an early triple barrel bluff. however, the guy looked like he is probably going to be a regular, and i had his range nailed down to weak PP. i raised a limper pf, both blinds called ad limper. f 223. they check to me. if they had anything, theyd have bet themselves. so i bet. SB folds, BB calls, MP folds. t 5. he checks again. i bet, he calls. he has low PP. 66-something. r A. he checks. great card. ive gotta bet this. he folds everything. so i bet, and he folds.

AKo > K5hh AIOTR A87Q6. he tried to bluff raise all in OTR, but he had such a small stack that i was getting something like 5 to 1 on a call.

77 > A5o AIOTT A742. i cbet, he min raises, i flat. he has a midstack. t 2x. check, he bets like pot, leaving less than a minraise left, so i just shove and he calls

98ss > K6o AIOTR 9x9hKh6xJx

these tables are actually surprisingly good for a monday afternoon. too bad im running card dead on two tables

there is a 90/0...thru 50 hands....directly on my right...ad he just left

im not 3betting as much or raising as muych preflop this session, but im not really getting the cards and opportunities to do so

very very dry spell. first half hour was great, this last half hour plus has been pretty dry

AQo > JcJx AIOTF KQ7ccc against 20bb stack

77 > A4o AIOTT 247Q in a multiway pot against a midstack

no fish at one of the tables, kind of debating just leaving it, going 3 tabled for the last quarter hour

starting the wrap up of the session

So this was a pretty good session. I wasn't as aggro preflop as I had been, but that may just be due to a lack of sutiable cards and situations, as I had stated previously. I didn't really make that many mistakes, and it shows in the profit for the session. Largest since June 26th, and in that session we were at 25nl

2 hours
+$37.08
BR: $599.93

#frustrating

My day off and I can't play any poker. Started the day cleaning the whole house down for the cable people to fix the phone-internet-cable thing. So that knocked the internet out for a bit. Then my nephew went to the hospital, so I was left with my niece. Oh my god. I never knew 1 so to be 2 year olds had so much energy! And by the time everyone was back, it really was too late for me to play any as I gotta be up in about 7 hours. Frustrating, especially when there is a volume based cash bonus this week of ~15 hours at 10nl (~10 at 25nl).

It wasn't a total loss. I continued on the Coaching Kristy 2 series and reviewed my last session to see what went so well. I didn't realize this at the time, but I didn't really win a massive pot. The largest pot I won was just under a 140bb pot (big, but not stacking someone who has 100bb). I won a lot of small and medium sized pots and didn't really lose many medium sized pots or any big pots. We really need to keep that up, but I do feel much more comfortable ~2 weeks after starting this new play style.

start 650

sometimes i do need to channel the inner nit, and i almost did against an unknown player who posted in CO 5 handed. JJ < AA AIPF. i knew he had a big hand, but talked myself into calling since he posted in CO.

well looks like i regained my missed equity from being one outed, and at a great time too. 55 > JJ AIOTT A5JA. you read that right. i hit the one out on the river.

that was a good exercise in not being afraid to value bet 3 streets with a non nut hand.

TT > A5 AIOTT v SS (multiway pot) 9632

yuck spot. 135bb deep with someone. UTG bad player min opens, a call, someone who has me covered 3bets in BTN. im in BB w KK. im not thrilled 4betting him so deep, so i flat. then the heavens part. bad player 4bets. it folds to me, i shove (we're only ~90bb deep) and he calls with ATo. he spikes a river A, but it was the 4th diamond and i had a diamond

right before going to a break, holy jesus pot. JJ > T5 > QQ AIOTT 55J2hhh for a 350bb pot. right before taking a break. holy crap

coming back had 3 tables up, left one of them but staying on the one i have 430bb on. just awful players at the table

TT > A7o AIOTT T782 against SS. its an easygame when you can flop sets

another suckout, though this one im just like eh. AJo > A2o against 20bb stack AIOTF A26. eh

ugh. not what i was expecting. reg looking player opens UTG and ALL 4 PLAYERS CALL to me in BB with AKo. I raise. UTG 4bets and one player calls AI. meh meh meh meh. i fold. thats just so strong

get him back. i dont get this one bit. AQss > JJ AIOTR 85ss7xKs9x. call cbet, call cbet, raise AI OTR. and he called

im fine with folding AQo OOP to a 3bet preflop. guy hadnt raised a single hand preflop and was the stereotypical weak/passive player

wrapping up session now, totals should be great

So I did run fairly well this session, but I also played decently at the first part of the session. I tightened up a bit too much for my liking afterwards, pretty much after the break. I have to work on that, and hopefully finishing the Mental Game of Poker can help me with that. But it can almost be excused when you increase your BR by 9% in a single session (but not really). It's also the second largest winning session since re-starting the thread, and probably the first time I've won over 4.5 buy-ins in a single session at 10nl or higher.

2 hours
+$47.71
BR: $647.64

So what do you guys think, start shot taking 25nl?

yes for sure with that bankroll, set yourself a stop loss so you know before you shot take how many buyins your prepared to lose before you move down and rebuild, and don't adjust your play too much because you're moving up, i think alot of the time when we move up we think - oh they must be much better and adjust and end up finding out they are just as fishy practically as the earlier level, gl!

I cannot wait until things go back to normal. Every time I plan for big volume weeks, something happens. My schedule was completely flipped due to someone falling ill at work and I'm not a morning person. So yeah. I did play an hour of 25nl last night because that was all I could muster, and I won ~$21. Wasn't too happy with my play, as I was a bit tighter than I have been the past 2 weeks. I did record my thoughts as I usually do, except I hit the close button before posting for some reason. I'm ready for a decent session tonight though. Gotta get some volume in somewhere!

start 830

so far.....typical friday night. raise limping fish, get called, dont make anything on flops and have to fold to aggression. wanted to play much earlier, but as always things dont go as planned. my youngest brother right as i was getting ready to start was left with two kids. one screaming her head off. i felt bad for him so i helped him watch them

holy hell i just won a 160bb pot with mid set against......bottom pair

maybe i can be exploited there...i doubt it. b/b/f when a fish pot bets the river after x/c twice.

exact type of hand i wouldnt have played like a month ago. raise a limper w QTo OTB. get so much more bb that way

guy on my right owning me. he's not good, but he's playing hands im dominating and getting there on me.
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that was a strange hand. opened UTG and gt min 3bet by BB. unknown player. should have 4bet since first give away is min 3bet, but flatted. he did it with....77?

i was in the middle of a big hand that i folded AA on a QQ66 board multiway in a 3bet pot to a turn crai. the inner nit in me turns off at the wrong times, he had 77 but i won a bigger pot. ATo > QJcc AIOTR TT997ccc

i dont think the fold is terrible multiway against what i percieve to be a passive postflop fish, but ill post it later. no need to dwell on it

99 > K9ss AIOTR 9A4QJ. I 3bet him because he was terrible intending to GII (he had a 1/2 stack)

i feel as if tis is one of my better played sessions of the week. lack of true good cards, but im making up for it in other areas

its easy when you can flop a set. 99 > A3o AIOTR Qd3x9dAxJx for a 205bb pot

think im gunna play an hour and a half. dont wanna stay up too late having to be up early yet again tomorrow. so wrap up in ~15 minutes

AdTx > 86dd AIOTR Qd3dAx5d9d. x/c. x/c. donk pot bet river. his line, not mine. b b shove was mine. he was a half stacked

I played probably a B+ game today. Definitely much better than I have for most of the week. Yeah yeah it helps to run good as well. Flopped 3 sets, rivered a flush that I didn't think I needed but was in the realm of possibilities, and the like. I wish I would have played a bit more hands, but that may have been the slim pickings of hands that I did receive. But hey, I'll take a session like this all day every day. Just think of what could have been if I had called that AA hand. Oh well. Live and learn.

Session from yesterday:
1 hour
[COLOR="rgb(46, 139, 87)"]+$21.22[/COLOR]

Session from today:
1.5 hours
+$51.25
BR: $720.11

And to those astute ones, largest winning session since re-starting this thread on May 5th.

Nice job crush!!!

start 850

so far had one mistake of a hand. called a raise on the river when the flush got there. i felt the guy was a reg, so there was that kind of dynamic. i had TP w K kicker, i x/c flop and check turn. he gave up on river, so it could have looked like i was trying to steal the pot.

so far i am playing more hands than the previous few sessons. not better cards, just kind of taking advantage of situations

TT > 88 AIPF against SS

smaller pot, QQ > KTo AIPF.

puled a move i shouldnt have against an unknown. 3bet with AJo n BB to BTN open (is ok), cbet 989 flop (is ok), he called and then cbet the T t. why is this the mistake (in my eyes)? the only thing he can fold is AK and maybe naked 8, assuming he flats a 3b w 8x and calls a cbet on a board like that. even then, i should know better to not try to get an unknown off of a pair. with the T, he can shove KQ, QJ, AQ, AJ along with his strong hands. essentially, ALL OF HIS HANDS except for stone cold bluffs have so much equity that he should be able to profitably shove everything he called the flop with. he shoves i fold. so i believe every step except my turn cbet was played correctly.

A9o < J7ss AIOTF 89J v 10bb stack.

starting to get a bit tired. can you blame me? up at 530 this morning, worked 10 hours and ive been pretty much running on coffee since wednesday. im just really frustrated because if not for the **** that went down at work, I'd have played 15-20 hours this week. instead ive had to played as many tired 1-1.5 hour sessions as i can and it really just isnt optimal poker

AQo > A4cc AIOTT A22T while wrapping up

The above statement is why we've got another shorter session. I don't like it, but I'm not going to play when too tired. I started off playing great and then it was a gradual slope downwards until I really started feeling it ~an hour in. Really hoping everything stays as scheduled this week so I can get a good deal of volume in.

1.25 hours
+$27.25
BR: $747.36

start 435

this has literally been the week from hell and i jinxed myself by saying it would return to normal before the week started. i should rephrase that. my life hasnt been hell, just being at work nearly 10 hours everyday has left me exhausted

if i have no equity...i can check/give up or i can throw out a bluff. for instance, 5 handed i open K7o in CO bc weak blinds...weak table overall. blinds call. f AQ3. checks to me. i have backdoor equity but nothing else.

this session is going to be about an hour and a half, playing another a bit after. yes, im lame and wat to have a relaxing coffee time

v 5bb stack, 87o > J6o AIOTF T63.

KQo < 77 AIPF against a 15bb stack. not much to say, i 3bet someone else pf, he shipped his small stack so i called.

two hands later against same villain, TT > AKo AIPF. this time he had 32bb, so i wind up ahead

another thing ive learned: there arent many hands better than TT. or 99. or 88. or 77. preflop, at least.

there is a major difference between cbetting an AQ3 flop with K7 and a 874 flop with KJ, both multiway. players fold more on the AQ3 flop than they do on the 874 flop. both have very little equity, but one is just better.

tight, almost nitty stats so far. not because im wanting to play thight though!

sweet. T7dd > Kx2d AIOTF K93ddd for a 193bb pot. he check/raised AI. didnt raise PF. needed it with how horribly card dead i have been

there is a table where theyre calling everything preflop. so i think im going to, for the first time almost ever, adjust my preflop raising amount.

small pot against two super shortstacks, JsJx > Ax7s > KQhh AIPF

haha QQ 3 times in 5 hands at the same table. won all three pots

100% happy with this. CO fish limps. bad passive. I have 95dd in BTN. two tight nits in the blinds, and every time ive cbet he has folded. so i raised him pf, folds to him and he min raises. lol snap fold. he hadnt raised a single hand preflop in the 50 hands id played with him

KK > 88 AIPF against midstack. . id gone from like 15/9 in 30 hands t 30/25 in 40 hands.

last hand at a table flop top set 4 waY but no action

This was a decent session. I thought I played well and could rationalize all of the moves I made. Ran very card dry at the beginning, so just kind of had to tread water then. Then got some hands and won some money after that first straining hour or so. I'll be back later to play. Feels good to start playing again!

1.5 hours
+$39.35
BR: $786.71

start 925

not off to the greatest of starts. this is a bit thin, but given his stack size and the fact that, well, it's bovada and he is probably bad, i think it's ok. A8dd < AQo AIOTT AK7Qxxcc. first, he had a 40bb stack size. second, he just flatted my raise of two limpers. third, he ca probably have A2-A6, KT, KJ, QJ, QT...and if his ace is better than mine, AJ, AT, or A9 (none that have two par) then im not too far behind (7, 8, K, Q, A)

big pot. KQo > J9ss AIOTR T8J29. i 3bet, cbet multiway to see a free card OTR. worked.

about to be sweated

I played alright during this session. I don't think as good as this afternoon and made at least one bad call, but decent overall. It also helps when players will bluff with K3o with bottom pair . I'm just hoping I can continue playing like this, because it's working.

1.25 hours
+$40.17
BR: $826.88

How's the graph looking?

Good luck! I'm looking forward to following this!

Ask and you shall receive. Obviously need some more volume, but this whole work situation is making it very difficult for me to put in much quality time. Running good I think, but I also think it isn't just coincidence that all this started once I started watching some videos on deuces cracked.

Just wanted to chime in to say that I like seeing this thought process. This shows you are really thinking about the 2 key things that Baluga is talking about in the coaching Kristy videos: fold equity and pot equity.

Nice little run you're on now. Keep it up man!