Cheers Slyless, unfortunately hitting big downswing as you move up is inevitable when bankroll-building (but so is hitting the bigger upswings). Feels unlucky but there's no avoiding it.

Had a pretty nice session today at NL25 so things are lookin' up

Hours: 313.5
Profit: £1327.18

More frustrating sessions, mb will take tomorrow off and study instead. Now that copying HH is much easier I'll start posting 2 hands a session. These will be my most butchered hand, and my 'oh for f*** sake' hand.

Hours: 317.5
Profit: £1310.88

Butchered hand:

Game #1823085109: Table €25 NL - 0.15/0.25 - No Limit Hold'Em - 22:45:27 2023/02/08
*** Seated players ***
Seat 1: Allanwatts (€36.43)
Seat 2: dzaga-dzaga (€48.96)
Seat 3: 011001110101 (€34.64)
Seat 4: HERO (€26.15)
Seat 5: kate18 (€25)
Seat 6: VILLAIN (€25)
*** Blinds and button ***
VILLAIN has the button
Allanwatts posts small blind €0.15
dzaga-dzaga posts big blind €0.25
*** Hole cards ***
Dealt in Allanwatts
Dealt in dzaga-dzaga
Dealt in 011001110101
Dealt to HERO [Ac Qd]
Dealt in kate18
Dealt in VILLAIN
*** Preflop ***
011001110101 folds
HERO raises €0.63 to €0.63
kate18 folds
VILLAIN raises €2.25 to €2.25
Allanwatts folds
dzaga-dzaga folds
HERO raises €5.37 to €6
VILLAIN calls €3.75
*** Flop *** [8h 6d 3c]
HERO bets €5
VILLAIN calls €5
*** Turn *** [8h 6d 3c] [7c]
HERO bets €8.75
VILLAIN raises €14 to €14, and is all-in
HERO folds
Uncalled bet returned to VILLAIN: €5.25
VILLAIN wins €38.10

Oh for f*** sake hand:

Game #1823087603: Table €25 NL - 0.15/0.25 - No Limit Hold'Em - 22:49:12 2023/02/08
*** Seated players ***
Seat 1: VILLAIN (€51.91)
Seat 2: HERO (€43.64)
Seat 3: asdepique90 (€15.17)
Seat 4: GoranPandev (€24)
Seat 5: dzaga-dzaga (€76.84)
Seat 6: 1791891 (€29.01)
*** Blinds and button ***
HERO has the button
asdepique90 posts small blind €0.15
GoranPandev posts big blind €0.25
*** Hole cards ***
Dealt in asdepique90
Dealt in GoranPandev
Dealt in dzaga-dzaga
Dealt in 1791891
Dealt to VILLAIN [4c 4h]
Dealt to HERO [Kc Ad]
*** Preflop ***
dzaga-dzaga folds
1791891 folds
VILLAIN calls €0.25
HERO raises €1 to €1
asdepique90 calls €0.85
GoranPandev folds
VILLAIN raises €2.85 to €3.10
HERO raises €6.50 to €7.50
asdepique90 folds
VILLAIN calls €4.40
*** Flop *** [3h As 8h]
VILLAIN bets €5.55
HERO calls €5.55
*** Turn *** [3h As 8h] [6h]
VILLAIN checks
HERO bets €13.75
VILLAIN calls €13.75
*** River *** [3h As 8h] [6h] [Kh]
VILLAIN checks
HERO checks
*** Showdown ***
VILLAIN shows [4c 4h], A Flush
HERO shows [Kc Ad], Two pairs, Aces up
VILLAIN wins €52.85

Looks like you're clickin buttons, AQ hand is punty, limp rr 44 is fishy.

Looks like you can't read. He is raising a limper who has 44. AQ is meh like op stated butchered hands.

Yup. Had to reread it lol. Hard reading these old school hh’s.

Is there a cleaner way to upload these? Can't believe in 2023 these sites don't have HH URLs to instant-share on social media. Really missing out on free advertising.

Yeah I keep doing this with AK/AQ because I would get floated so much in 3/4B pots on previous site, what am I targeting, 99 + TT only?! I believe last time I shared AK hand and got called down by A8 on 8hi board. *sigh* when will I learn?

I also think I'm jumping the gun and assuming guys on the BTN are 3betting/calling4B light (because that's what I would do). There's less shannigans going on at NL25 than I think so I should wait until I see players getting out of line before getting into a 3B/4B war.

You can copy the text hand history and convert it into a picture on the hand2note website, it's pretty user-friendly.

Talking of me not learning lessons, I got stitched by 888 again hahaha

They sent me a 15% bonus up to $30 @ 1.5x playthrough by email, so I deposit $200 and they credit me $20 bonus (maths fail). Then after about 4 hours playing NL30 I noticed no progress had been made on the bonus, they've got in the small-print that you have to lose the $200 deposit first before wagering requirements even start to be counted

Out-right scammers, who I'm happy to say I took for another $130, thanks for another bankroll-boost mother-f***ers!

Hours: 323.5
Profit: £1432.07

Hours: 326.5
Profit: £1508.61

Fancied a bit of a change today so played a bit of NL20 on Ipoker, sorry guys I broke the challenge rules and used a HUD

Ran pretty hot and bankroll is in better shape now so I'll likely have another shot at NL50 tomorrow night.

Edit: Thanks Slyless for the hand2note tip, impressive software for the price

Hours: 329
Profit: £1624.38

Nice few sessions at NL50 and nearly back to the bankroll peak after the nightmare sessions and subsequent stake-drop.

Planning a trip to the local casino this weekend to play some £1/£2, I'll be using 50% bankroll + 50% own cash to soften the swings. Dumping my whole roll in one session after building it for 6 months would be make me too sad.

Hours: 333
Profit: £1632.34

Off to the casino tomorrow so expect some big graph swings tomorrow as I'll be playing NL200!

Good games tonight but I spewed on one hand, my thought on the turn was he is nearly always slightly ahead with Ax on the turn and I'm in a really good spot to rep some nut hands. Can someone give me some advice on my turn/river thinking here please?

Hours: 337
Profit: £1705.76

Well I promised you mad swings at NL200. Result: +£66 for the bankroll Had 2-3 sharks at my table but they weren't playing flawless poker, overall the game was a lot softer than NL50 games online.

Planning to go back and spend a whole Saturday there soon, preferably when I have a £2k roll.

Hours: 338
Profit: £1738.19

Nice easy Sunday on iPoker stealing blinds at NL50 + hitting a rakeback bonus.

Thought I'd post my comeback graph too:

Don't think nutted hands are going for the c/r when turn opens another fd.

Ye vs a 3B I bet NL50 villains are checking back the turn with a lot of Ax and draws, mb I should always be barrelling nutted hands here unless Im against a maniac (making the c/jam vs normal reg dumb). Thanks RandomLurker!

Follow-up question:

So should we be c/c turn + river? I guess this is a sport where I should have an RNG on my desktop and be calling 25% on the river or something like that.

I'd rather check/call the turn. We have SDV so there is no need to turn our hand into a bluff.

On the river, it's mostly a check/fold with no improvement. We block our opponent's bluffs.
Fold with A2dd, call with A2ss, A2cc.

Very nice call on blocking our opponent's bluffs! Thanks for your input Slyless.

More butchered hands incoming...

Hours: 343
Profit: £1809.56


Only played around 50 hands with Villain but he's opening about 17% UTG, is this call down ever correct? Should I be flipping a coin to Hero call?..

My mad reason for calling down is there are some QJ, QK, AJ, AQ that could bluff this spot but generally a bare 9 or T or under-pair is not barrelling this




Any advice on this river bet? I feel virtually no-one at NL50 is balsy enough to make this bluff or fold some 2 pairs:

Hours: 344
Profit: £1887.07

One hot session away from completing the challenge, it's going better than my w8t-loss thread that's for sure!

Interesting, can't say w8t-loss in this forum, some kind of advertising ban or fat-shaming thing?

A2 hand:
OTT I agree that check-call is best, continuing betting also seems almost as good.

AK hand:
I think villain has for value (though some like JTs might not bet turn): AT, KTs, QTs, JTs, T9s, TT, 99, 55

And bluffs (if they bluff): KQ, KJs, QJs, 87s

21 value combos and 23 bluff combos (could be very wrong of course). It would already be quite different if you e.g remove KQ, or if they never bluff 3 streets. I kind of like the calldown, but not sure.

88 hand: I think I would overbet the turn, it puts something like AQ in a tough spot. As played, river seems a bit too thin. Maybe you can bet small like 1/4 pot or just check. As played it's a tough spot, but fold is probably good.

Thanks CuteRaven, yes I like the OB on the turn too, at these stakes I doubt many are mucking 2pair or even big acess, and may even get some re-shoves with flush-draw and 2pairs.

Hours: 346
Profit: £1966.59

So close I can taste it, in before giant 20buy-in downswing back to £1k

My best bluff of the day. This is why I have such a hard time letting go of AKo oop, I think every bas***d is doing the same to me:





Hand of the day (300bb pot), I've been on such horrendous runs in the past that I literally cover the screen with my hand in these pots because I hate looking at the board run-out:

Hours: 349
Profit: £1,787.58

As predicted and promised, another nightmare session! Was really happy with how I played tonight but the deck just handed me my ass. I actually manage to pull back about £80 at the end of the session so it was looking far worse.

Lots of interesting hands so I'll post some tomorrow.

Not to poo poo your best bluff of the day but vs. an almost pot sized c-bet a naked gutshot feels like it should be a pure fold. Unless of course you have some reads on the guy.

Definitely not calling this for GS equity alone, intension was to put AK/AQ/AT in some difficult positions when he checks turn. I would only pull this occasionally vs someone playing a tight ABC style.