Hello again everyone, or to the few people that followed me through my latest PG&C thread. Here it is:

My failed attempt

So I've made three of these, and am a current 1-1-1. By hockey terms, I have 3 points and could lead the Southeast division. I'm not going to call this the grudge one, because there will probably be another one if I pass this challenge. It's the most challenging challenge I've partaken in. My goal is to run $200 into $4000, enough for a proper live roll and the ability to buy something special for myself that I otherwise wouldn't buy.

This is going to be done through online poker. As a US player, there really isn't many places to play anymore. So I'm playing on Bovada. Looks like they have the quickest, easiest cashouts and fishiest players. The downside is that there is absolutely no HUDs or tracking software (at least I don't think there is a way to have your hands tracked and analyzed like a HEM). So I'm going to go by the trusty old Excel spreadsheet system, tracking my play in terms of $$/hour, like a normal live player. If anyone knows of another way to track stuff like my VPIP, PFR, bb/100, etc please let me know!

I tried live poker, but I didn't have the proper BR and promptly nearly busted it after a bad run and not playing optimally. I loved it though, and I wouldn't mind being able to make a side income to my crappy part time job while going through college. Plus, live poker is a lot safer for US players than online poker until online poker is 100% legal (I know it's legal for us to play, but financially it isn't in the mind of banks). My goal is no longer to move out of my mom's basement. It is financially a smart move until I at least get my bachelor's degree. I have graduated from a community college and at least now have an Associate's Degree.

Quick background information on me:

22 years old
Does no drugs, doesn't party, drinks maybe once every 6 months with friends
I do have friends, we just don't find the appeal in getting smashed drunk.
Does have a girlfriend who is currently away at college. We still aren't public about it yet and two of my female friends tell me to dump her constantly.
Will be going back to college fall semester after not transferring to another college due to high costs.
Do have a part-time job that I've been at for almost 3 years.

Here are the rules:

-Play 6max tables. This will help me with aggression issues I have

-I can play MTTs or Omaha ring games. MTTs are only if I have time for them, and for Omaha I have to play at a level lower than what my current BR dictates for NL games.

-<$250 = 5nl
-$250-$625 = 10nl
-$625-$1500 = 25nl
-$1500-$3000 = 50nl
-$3000+ = 100nl

-I must play every day. The only exception to this is if I work 2nd shift (which is usually 230-11pm), if I am out of town or busy for the whole day, or if I have played 10 consecutive days in which I am allowed to take a sort of rest day.


I'll keep this updated every time I play a session with my BR totals. If I can't find a tracking software for Bovada hands, then this will be much like a live poker challenge. Try to remember the hands as much as possible and stuff like that. I played a session last night at 5nl 6max and went +$11.56 in 1 hour.

Good luck, and I will try to make this as entertaining as possible. Let's get it!

BR: $211.56

Update 1:

Real tame session, only an hour and ten minutes. I like the not having HUDs. I pay more attention to bet sizing and people's tendencies and what story they're telling. It also forces me to pay more attention to the play.

Biggest hand of the session was a bluff actually. BvB, I have 99 and pfr to 0.15. BB calls. He seemed kind of thinking and I had seem him be active in late position and float and stuff.

Flop comes KT4r and I cbet, he calls.

Turn is a beautiful K. I bet again because it's the perfect card to bet at and rep. My plan was to reraise to an amount that I can fold if shoved upon. As expected, the villain in BB raises and I re-raise, fully intending on folding if shoved upon. He folds.

Biggest loser was 3handed table, I raise JTo from BTN, BB calls.

Flop is 678xhh. BB checks, I bet, BB calls.

Turn is the 9h. BB checks, I bet, BB calls.

River is the 4x. BB checks and it's a weird spot. What should I do? He could have the 5, the T, the flush, and all the straight hands will at least call a bet OTR.

1.16 hours
+$1.16
BR: $212.72

I'm going to try this, since I can't go through HEM and check on my hands.

Just had (at 5nl) a player OTB 3bet my .15 raise to .45. He hadn't gotten too far out of line and I hadn't seen many of his hands. I was in CO. I 4bet with AK to 1.35. He 5bets to something like 2.35. This has to be a fold every time at 6max, right?

Lost an AIPF with TT to a shorty who had AA. Looked like he was tilting. Whoops.

Not a good session so far. Two of my tables the guy to my direct left has been a pain in the ass. Just got rid of one guy by 5bet shoving him. He disconnected. And just hit gin too

Got paid off. 55, i lol limp in UTG. SB calls, BB x. Flop 5JJ. x x x. Turn T. x x bet .10 SB calls BB folds. River 8. x I bet he raises I 3bet he calls with the low straight.

Just won an AI w KK on KQ8cc flop. He had T9cc and it was two blanks. And another. AJ>J8 AIPF. They liked making me sweat with a JT9 flop.

A small flop bet is weakness. Always. At least at micros.

Little bit of time without anything happening. One pfr, 2 callers, I call OTB w A2ss, 1 fold, 1 other caller. Flop T83ss. x x pot bet x I shove fold fold snap-call fold. He flips over.....J9o with no spades. Turn ofc is Qs.

Not a good day for AK for me.

Dear Bovada, please just stop giving me A-broadway hands today. They don't work.

Session ended in a whimper. Not many exciting hands today, but a decent profit nonetheless. 1.5 hours played also.

1.5 hours played
+$3.80
BR: $216.52

About to get another session going here soon. Try to get two one-hour sessions in today or longer, since I only work 3.5 hours today. I must say, I really wish I could play on the golf course as well as I can in Tiger Woods 13. I'd kill to break 100 again, I've only broken 100 once and I had to shoot (for me) a ridiculous 45 on the back 9 to get it. It's kind of funny, me and my friends have golfed since sophomore year of high school. I got the first birdie amongst us on the 8th hole any of us had ever played. 8 years later, and that's still the only birdie I have managed.

Alright, let's begin at 1223pm

Lost first pot. TT iso in SB, BB calls. BB been active the 4 hands ive observed, winning two and being in 3. So this was his 4th hand. 4Q7, decent flop to cbet, he calls. Turn 8 and I hate his flop call. x b f. Meh, better spots

Dear A on the flop of my KK, go home. Noone likes you. lol then he ratholes.

Set OTB. noone hit anything. and another set
except....I have 22. He has AA. He pfr to .10, SB call I call in BB.

flop 8Q2dd
SB bets .10, i raise to .45, OR shoves to $1.10, SB folds, I snap.

turn Q

River A oh well.

Least my AA just held up...in an AI pot for 20bb.

mental note: cbet K high flops that are dry. Also cbet paired flops.

I wish there was an auto top up feature on bovada

Yikes. Bad hand. AJ in BTN, Co who is a bit loose pfr, I flat. Flop AT3 (I dont like that flop w AJ) He bets, i flat. I should raise there because I can better define his hand

turn T he bets i call

river Q. yikes. he bets, i tank. while tanking (and activating my time bank) he types in omg hurry up. thats usually a tell tale sign of a weak hand, so i snap call. whoops, he has KTo.

In the next few hands id find out; its not a tell, he's just seriously an impatient ass.

TT on KQx flop. Nope.

I love my nephew to death, but i cannot watch him when he wanders in my room while i play poker. not my responsibility to watch him when his dad is here. maybe ill take him and play baseball with him after the session.

Bovada hates pairing my Ax hands when I 3b or iso. But they just gave me quad Ts in an AI pot. and officially a major fish to my right on same table. and again, pfr w Ax, zilch. cant complain, cbet on QTT flop took it down

Had KQ, wanted to call fishies pf AI shove. probably +EV, but only slightly


The worst cards in poker to get dealt is A4o.

Give the fish credit, at least he knows how to bet

Quick double up, or I will have my first losing session at bovada

ok AK, just die in a hole. ak suited any good.....nope. lol jk jk lol. runner runner flush vs flopped set. he didnt bet flop and bet .10 into .50 OTT, with another caller.

A meh session. Didn't get much except the quad tens, one really bad play, and one bad beat. It's refreshing to know that if I don't call that river bet on the bad play, then I BE for the session. Gunna try to get one more in today, its grub time

1.16 hours
-$1.92
BR: $214.60

Why such nitty BR requirements? With at least $200 you can easily jump right into 10nl. Bovada has the highest rake so it'd be best to be playing as high as possible and moving up quickly.

It's nittier because when I did play online poker, I played almost exclusively FR. I'm playing 6max now to heighten my sense of aggression and positional awareness, plus 6max is the game of the future. So I'm not 100% comfortable of all the nuances of 6max.

Another reason is because in case I do hit some massive huge downswing (and I highly doubt I will, but it's possible), I don't want to go through the hoops of depositing again being in the US. I'm $35 away from 10nl and will be implementing 5 buy-in shots, so it shouldn't be too terribly long before I'm at 10nl.

When I get to like $230 or so I may even start to mix in 10nl tables with the 5nl tables, like split 2 a piece or something.

STart at 335

BB, river two pair, someone slowplays flopped two pair. meh, lost the minimum

Tiger is choking. sigh. as long as angel cabrera loses. for some reason, i hate him. guess im rooting for snedecker. or adam scott. hell even jason day. as long as its not cabrera!

woohoo. flopped set, got decently paid off. idk what he had bc the server wont let me see the hand history. i feel he had Kx. was on a J6KssTxJs board.

this not being able to see hh is frustrating.

Quads again. woot. and paidgasm.

folding AA on 3JK7 board. villain hasnt played many hands at all. im in UTG+1, hes in BTN. one other caller. I cbet on flop, he raises to slightly more than min, i call. x, he pots turn...i cant ever be good there. I'm at best facing KJ i think.

still no hh. arghhhhh

and just 3 outed. 3bet someone w QQ, they call. 3/4 pot bet by me on 336 flop, they call. 3/4 pot bet on 4 turn, they shove, i snap. they show AQ. A river. they said "whoops, thought you were bluffing." ???

wtf??? limp, i call on BTN, SB calls, BB min raises, limper calls, i call, SB 3bets, BB calls, original limper shoves???? i fold, SB folds BB calls. BB has AK, orignal limper has A9. watching the hand made my brain hurt.

i need to start 3betting iso raises with mediocre pairs.

mmm biggest pot ive won so far on bovada. 3b fish w QQ, both at like $6.00, he calls. flop orgasms w Q96. x x. t 6 he bets, i call. r...oh who the hell cares he bets, i shove he calls. since hh still doesnt work, idk what he had.

awww had straight flush draw. missed.

wow. umm. KK. limper, iso, sb call, me in bb overpot, f f call. sb has been fishy. flop 934, 1/2 pot bet, i shove, he calls with...96. t 5 sweats me, river is an 8 for a 280bb pot to me. ummmm...yeah.

and he reloaded! max buy in! too bad i have to stop soon.

i hate these meh hands like KQ and 55

last hands.


Session over. I got good cards and tended to be a bit more aggressive, especially preflop with stealing and cbetting. it helped that the players seemed to be a bit worse than earlier today. idk, maybe I'm a bit too careful with 77-TT type of hands, but I feel playing mostly fit or fold at 5nl with these pairs can't be too bad. Now off to work

1 hour
+$10.20
BR: $224.80

what is part time job you have? what does it pay?

My part-time job is at a crappy grocery store, where I get to supervise cashiers and such. I also get to work in customer service and sometimes I work with HR. It pays a crappy $9 an hour, but I get a raise in July to $9.50. I also get two paid weeks of vacation. It sucks, especially working the customer service desk and having to touch other god damned ****ing lazy ass smug ****s and bastards laundry because their too ****ing lazy to go to a ****ing laundry mat and do their own ****ing laundry. I believe everyone needs to work a year in customer service, because you realize how unbearably ignorant, selfish, stupid, and condescending adults are.

But it's only until I graduate college, after which I'll be a high school math teacher.

Are you the same guy from the fulltilt poker forums?

Bovada is real soft just focus on table selection, obviously. And check out pokeit, it will track bovada hands. You dont get the HUD feature but it tracks hands so they can be reviewed after the session.

Hit me up if you ever wanna talk strat.

Subd

wow thats going to take some serious discpline with that br management

wow, you musta been gone a while because the future is now.

gl will follow

Ah yes I am. A little less brash and clueless though. I'll definitely hit you up sometime for strategy, especially past the 10nl mark. And thanks for the pokeit tip, I'm checking it out right now and it looks to be exactly what I'd want since Bovada is HUDless. I've actually never known how to download HH either from Bovada, and just figured that out. Thanks!

The discipline part won't be the problem. I did say that once I got to $230, I'll mix in 1 or 2 10nl tables with 2 or 3 5nl tables. I'll be "completely" rolled for 10nl at this pace by Thursday or so, and I spent the bulk of my online cash game time at 10nl. Likewise, I'll probably throw in some 25nl tables around $500 or so, 50nl tables around $1000, and so on and so forth. The extreme BR management is just because I'm from the US, don't want to go through the hassle of depositing again, and 6 max is a relatively new game for me (although back in my Full Tilt days, I did take down a couple 6 max tournaments).

Thanks! It's been a while since I've truly played online poker with a set in stone goal and with passion and desire. I did try Everleaf and lol at that attempt, software was terrible, volume and player was was extremely low and their MTTs blew hardcore. But the players were lolbad.

Also, to any regular readers of here, let me know if you like the "live" posting of my thoughts during the session (where I have a reply window open, type in all of my thoughts during the session, then use that as the session post). Grammar is sloppy obviously but I feel it can help me to later look upon those hands and study them.



So I'm going to play at least one session today. I don't know when or how long, as I may go play 9 or 18 today since it is my day off and it's gorgeous outside. But there is that.

I'm also a U.S. grinder who plays on Bovada although I play MTTs. Check out Holdem Indicator if you want HUD stats, and it's perfectly legal.

I'll definitely follow this thread, we have some similar goals like moving out and quitting a job which I did recently. I have plenty of excel charts in case you want to play MTTs, just PM me. GL, I'll be making a thread very soon so check it out.

Thanks for the advice! I did look at Hold'em Indicator, but since this thread and my goals are geared towards a live roll, I feel that I should go sans HUD and instead rely on instincts and reads. I will definitely follow your thread when you make it though!

Went out and did shoot 18 today. Someone I used to supervise at work is the superintendent of the course, but alas he wasn't there today. I played an awful first 3 holes as it was my first time out all year. Shot a 54 on the front 9, which is about what I expected. What I didn't expect was shooting a 44 on the back 9! I know for many of you that's an average or bad score, but I had shot below 100 once in my life before, and to do it on my first time on the course all year was just an awesome feeling. In fact, I was only +5 after 7 holes.

It includes the best shot I've ever made so far. Par 5, bad tee shot, second shot hit deep into trees with about 180 left. Stiff wind in the face (all day actually), I take a 3 hybrid and drill the ball through and above the trees and shape it to fade, landing perfectly on the green about 8 feet away from the hole. Sadly, I missed that putt.

I also took some time to look through my stats on pokeit. I'm not being aggressive enough. I don't think you have to be aggressive preflop at 5nl, and in fact it's probably better to limp with limpers or call small raises preflop with these fish because you can hand read better than they can. It's postflop and stealing aggression that I need to do more on. ....and I also found out that I incorrectly folded AA yesterday. Oh well. Back on the grind here soon!

Ok, for some reason pushing the backspace button causes my browser to go back. and erase. everything i typed. frustrating. cliff notes of what i typed.

started 715, got tilted from crying baby and a kid that wouldn leave me alone, stuck a BI early 67dd AIoF Q85ddd flop, guy had J3dd. took a break, restart at 740, and a very uninteresting session filled with dumbfounding holdings of the fishies. and a bit of ranting and good strat hands from me. sigh.

going to try different method, the non pop up method. i mean, its 4 tables, tey dont have to pop up when its my turn.

lol jk. its useful af.

bluff HU w 2nd nfd

pfr ATo, flop KTTr, x b he calls. t blank x b small to sucker QJ in, he calls. r is the wost card, the 9. he 1/2 pots it, i think and call.



what do you guys do when you iso unpaired and you dont pair and the flop smacks the opponent's range?

very nerdy, but i almost always have let's plays on in the background for background noise. for you guys who dont know what they are, people on youtube play video games. its not music, but its just nice background noise to help stimulate the brain

ugh. BTN steals, i 3b in sb w 77, he flats. flop T52. b c turn 6 b c. slow down on river?

mmmm. KTo, pfr in co, bb c. flop 33T x b c turn gin T x x river K x b shoveeeee callll.

88 no lie.

fish on my direct right. with a big stack. hmmmmmmmm.

AJo. all limp. BTN i **** you not min raises. im in SB. what do i do? flat, fold, or 3bet?

today was the coldest 70 degrees ever. stifffff wind. lol its even cold down here in the basement

good sirrah, your K6 on a T63A8 board are just no good.

wow. fish is getting merked. called a shove on a 4 flush board w...the 2. 2 hi flush always the nuts LDO

something ive noticed. iso raising rarely works at 5nl

and busted fish right before my endtime of 2 hours. QQ>T9s AIPF

youtube is a piece of crap btw. half the time their videos just stall. wtf

So this session was a nice little lesson in tilt management. It's rare that I actually tilt, and I think that's been built up through going to a bad athletic high school, playing in chess tournaments in long games in losing positions, being overall patient, and being mentally strong. So when I do tilt, it's something big. I tried to start this session an hour earlier than 715, but everyone was asleep so I was the de facto babysitter for a toddler and a baby (including their dad, he was sleeping). And losing one of my first hands combined with the screaming baby and the toddler shoving an xbox controller in my face (their dad was awake at this time) just snapped me. After all, they've all been here since Saturday. But I took a nice, 15 minute break. Walked around, looked for shoes for soccer for my nephew, then came back ready.

It was a grind. 2 hours, for me, is a long time, and I'm glad I could relax, settle down, and play unphased by anything. I even wound up coming back at the end for a small profit. I may just add a 10nl table tomorrow, I'm not sure. And when I can 100% go through my hands on pokeit, I'll post some trouble hands and big winners. And in case you guys were wondering, my shorthand poker scribble:

f-flop
t-turn
r-river
x-check
c-call
b-bet

2.08 hours
+$2.82
BR: $227.62

Np. Anything up to 100NL is soft as **** on Bovada.

Haha, those plays don't surprise me on Bovada. Sometimes, it's hard to read these damn guys. I've been bluffed out so many times because some players make random air ball bluffs and I actually try to put them on a draw.

The fish on Bovada are a lot more aggressive than the normal fish I must say. When I folded AA, the guy hadn't played many hands and was firing bullets and it turned out he just had 88 on a 7JKss3 board. That was a mistake lol.

And yeah, I am hoping its soft as **** until 100nl, that'd be awesome! But I do want to face some competent players, as that really is one of the only ways to get better. I know in poker you want to face fish all the time, but you're not always going to face fish. So you have to be prepared for when you face good players as well, because reading from a book or looking over strategy or discussions pale in comparison to the real thing.

Today should be a good day for playing. Coffee will be needed though, as I'm not allowed to nap like I usually do after an early day because I got a way earlier day tomorrow. Just got off of work, no plans for the rest of the day, so yeah. I'm gunna xbox it up for a little bit, since I haven't played in some time, and then get a session going. Let's do it!

Oh, and yes, I'll be adding 1 10nl table to the mix since I'm close enough to $230.

Start at 214

looking for 10nl tables, only open ones so far all seem...well, relatively tighter. 35% p/f, avg pot below $2....wait till better

hmmm. 50% p/f, $2.75 av pot...good

really disapointed with...ooooosfd....blanked both , still chopped lol

86cc 797cc flop.

anyways disdappointed w coffee tumbler. brother bought it for me for xmas. lasted 3 months and maybe 25 uses. it broke how? by me pouring coffee into it. it cracked inside from the bottom up to top. :0

well thats the stupidest play ive ever seen. x/r w K5 on QJ5hhx flop, then called a shove! his K5 had no hearts in it either. and this was at 10nl

wow. stl w 69hh flop 578. t 9. r 6. funny.

just lost ~5nl BI. AKo<AKo AIPF. fun

gotta learn to take it. need t call that all day pf, didnt once and i should have. its 6max, hands are typically worse

i think i got some sunburn
odd i normally dont get sunburn due to my skin complexion.

hmmm. ATxc in BB, 4 limpers, i just x (bad play?), f AJ4ccc, x x(should i bet?) x x x. t 9x x b c c f f, r blank x bet(this guy is K5 guy) f c. ill try to clean it up lol. he had KJ iirc.



lol just won full BI at 10nl. AA is your friend.

damn. guy on my right runnin extremely hot at 10nl. won last 8 pots. lol loses a pot then leaves

my 96 hand gets retribution. stacked the guy when i flopped bottom set vs his tpnok

someone can hit runnr runner flush w AK and i cant hit one flush card. ahhh

i think i give up a lil too easily on hands. like pfr QQ, flop 75Assx not in position w 3 callers.

not as many hands, winding down...

i cant call 3bet w KJs....can i?

So sessions over. Not necessarily card dead at the end, just raise and fold or raise, cbet and take the pot. Doesn't help when people come down here looking for stuff and staying down here. That's something I'm not good at at all. And that's where online is different than live. There is a feel of anonymity online, so you feel everything has to be kept tidy, in order, and secret. At least I do. Live, you don't have that worry. Meh.

10nl, from the one table and 1 hour I played, didn't seem very different. Slightly better players, but it's also 3pm so the fish aren't just flocking yet. More aggression still needed. But that's why I'm playing 6 max, in order to learn this stuff.

Will try to get a session in sometime later tonight, not sure if I'll be able to since nephew still here (and he clings around me a ton) and I haven't been able to call the gf the last few nights because of it, so I gotta do that (she gets very emotional even if I'm too busy to talk to her for one night). And be in bed by 1030 hopefully? 5am or earlier is a massively early wake up call for someone used to working the 230-11pm or 3-9pm shift.

1 hour
+$8.29
BR: $235.91

Story time:

I almost never buy lottery tickets, except for win the odds are decent and the prize is big. Last time I bought any ticket, I bought a $2 scratch off a month and a half ago and won $5. Tonight I buy 3 picks for our state's small lottery, jackpot close to $350,000. When I got the tickets, I said there's no way I win because the same number was on all three picks.

...kjlefleflsdnv;oiewjfjweGJwg. That number wound up actually drawing, and one of my picks had 3 of 5 of the numbers. 2 more and I wouldn't work at that crappy job ever again. Meh, decent consolation prize though. Anyways, about to get a session started. Session. Phone. Bed by 1030pm. 2 10nl tables, since I'm over that $230 mark. Let's get it!

start at 833

get me some action

can they see my stats?

about timeeee

tp eh k on 2 flush board. 3rdf t st r

action seems kinda dry???

ahhh i finally see action...on a 5nl table. T9>89 on 972 flop. alrighty

cant justify calling a bet for a gutshot...even with a bet and two callers.

ahhhh see the action. see the fish be(at) the fish

aggro aggro aggro ie iso w KJ

how did i just min raise?

changed tables....worst 10nl table ive ever seen.

my nephew just roamed down here..thought they were watching him. meh, let him play xbox, then his dad got him.

mmm. badly played QQ at 3 handed table lol. I lost the minimum, he won the minimum


calling an iso raise IP w 87s 100bb deep...marginal

stacked off to a shortie. A6 pfr OTB, he calls in BB. 2ATcc, x b c, 3 t, x s c, he has A9. meh.

i complete in SB w 87cc after 2 limpers f 238ss i bet, f f c t T i bet he min raises...fold, right?

lol just lost a $4 BI. 88 pfr BTN call BB call. f 433 x I bet BTN raises bb folds I shove he calls with....67. :O. turn obv 5.

mmmm gin flop nut straight, all 4 fold.

missing a lot tonight. dont even have any stack above full buy in.

wow. get AAd, 3b, caller oop. f 977dd x i bet he shoves i snap. he shows...J5dd?!?! t is Qd. ****. river is happy 2d and all is well

first to pot wins

there are a crap ton of paired flops. but i saw that in live poker too

**** you 5am. **** you people who want to grocery shop at 6am. .

and if i didnt 100% have to call my gf tonight id be grinding an hour more. happy relationship & gf >>>> winning $5 in poker (or really any money in poker). lol itd probably be losing $5 with how tonight went.


My god, the games are soft, but those were the worst table conditions I have ever seen on my lol sample size at Bovada. Lots of preflop folding and such. That's something I have to get better at. Being able to raise pf unopened with marginal or less than marginal hands. IE 97o in CO or K7s OTB. Artificially loosen the table up to get the players to loosen up, then go back to my game. I will say that I did increase aggression this session, which is a good thing. Worked more than I thought it would, but left me in some sometimes sticky spots OTT IE the about 87s hand. Meh, was due for a losing session. Not a bad one though either.

1 hour
-$3.46
BR: $232.45

I want to nap so bad. I already did, and sleep is the most glorious thing in the world. Forget what anyone told you about perfect rounds boobs being that glorious; it's sleep. When you're asleep you can dream about them anyways.

So I have a random $10 "Bonus Money" in my account. I have no idea why and it looks different than the rest of my money, but it adds in to my Account Total. Anyone have an idea of this, and if I should add this $10 to my BR total just yet?

Anyways, I'm going to eat a snack since I'm not used to eating lunch at noon, brew up some coffee, get some blood flowing and play a session. Still 2 10nl tables and 2 5nl tables

Start 642

fish can be full stacked they just usually arent

hmmmm overbet pot hu v bb....sounds like a fish

so my bb/100 before last night at 5nl was 25bb/100. lol sample size, yeah...but I don't think it's too far off.

cbetting 3 flush flops are suppose to be good cbetting flops. ehhh not all the time

two isos, two won pots. 99 and 88. aggression aggression aggression

and bad cbetting flops are when you flop top set on an 842 rainbow board. lol yeah

ehhhhh. AKs>AA aipf. shortstacker did the limp-raise, which cant be too bad me shoving.

lol inernet just spazzed out. lets fix it.

urgh. closed out of all my tables while disconnected. we installed my brothers old router....a week or so ago. lets hope it doesnt do this again

ehhh. called shove from shorty who played 3/4 of the hands id been at the table for w AJo. is that bad, or just standard? (he had AQo)

lol and he ratholed. i forgot they do still exist

cant cbet a 942ss flop after iso'ing...or call a bet. burning money

this is a good strat hand. pfr KJo OTB. BB calls. bb is kinda loose. he has 10.xx on 5nl table flop AKJdd. x i bet .2 he calls. t Ax he x i x. river 4x. he pot bets, what do i do?

ugh should have looked to see shortie limped before limping 97s IP.

ewww. 3b shortie w AKo OTB, he calls. f J87ddd. i dont have a d. what do i do? he has slightly over 1 psb left

new rule. if i fall below 80% full stack and there is more than 1 player w a full stack or greater, i have ot top off. pointless if there are just shortstacks at table

i am awful at facing 3bets.

caribou ground coffee. yummmm. and discounted/half price at my store!

second time tonight ive had Axbroadway v AA. this time not AIPF

4 handed, 3b 88 OTB. cold call in SB?!?! flop 67khh. uneasy feeling with the cold caller.

3b 22 3 handed in BB?

fishy to my left at 5nl. like that

the biggest adjustment i need is to learn to play unpaired hannds after the flop bnetter.

hmmm. AKo, pfr in CO, BB calls. f K47dd. x i bet .4 into .57, he calls. t 8x. x bet .8 into pot, he raises to 3....what do i do?

i havent hit a set today. havent hit much. but bluffing at 5 and 10nl cant be a good thing to do

position wins me a pot i had no business winning. took the strong line of calling a bet then raising a bet on a paired board.

when i was on ftp, i always thought 6max was boring. i couldnt play many tables because i had to make betsa and raises quicker. now, i feel i can play for a long time.

nice. calling 3bets with Q9s and cbets with a gutshot.

wait nvm ive hit one set today.

im always so uneasy about when to semi bluff and when to just flat. x/r i think is best for a semi bluff oop. and when ip, just flatting is best?

mmm have bnigstack on super fishy table. yum.

that helped to salvage the session calling $5.5 pf w TT to a guy been shoving pre 50% of the time. 76s, flop is A22not his suit, and i just look away.

tats how a semi bluff is run. sucks when someone has a hand, but you can catch your flush card
unfortunately, it was the reverse, i had the good hand and h got his out.

well, looks like 22 cracked AA again. i had 22

and light 3betting a chronic strealer him calling and the flop coming AKwhocares is a good result.

wrapping up a mehhhhhh session. probably down.

i really have to pee. tmi.

lol this one 10nl table wrecked me. not bad, but i couldnt win **** on it.

Like I said, a meh session. I can tell there is a slight difference between 5nl and 10nl. It's not major, but there is one. I can say I was a bit more aggressive preflop and postflop, but it did leave me in some bad situations that I'm not entirely used to. I gotta go over those hands and spots when I can download the HHs to see what I did wrong. Especially that AK hand where I flopped TP and the board ran out almost as good as it could have.

There was also a couple people at 10nl stealing ruthlessly anytime it was unopened to them and they were in SB, BTN, or CO. I know that can't be profitable doing it all the time, and there's gotta be a way to exploit it. Calling in SB with K9o to one of those because it should beat their range probably isn't it. Anyways, it was a nice, long session in part to compensate for Friday since I won't be playing a session that day (work the 2nd shift) and also the time just kind of flew by. Playing 4 tables and having to pay attention to the action, decipher people's bets and lines, and not just looking at numbers and stats is way more enjoyable than looking at numbers and stats. Well, time to skype with the gf before she gets whiny (I really wanna eat dinner).

2.33 hours played
-$3.47 (not including $10 bonus)
BR: $238.98