BANKROLL CHALLANGE - $10.00 - $20,000.00 IN 2024


1. PLAN

The idea is to turn $10.00 into $20,000 this year by playing online poker on ACR. I will start by playing $2NL Holdem, only one table, until I reach $20.00 dollars bankroll.
After that, I will add one more table until we reach a bankroll of 20 buy-ins($40.00), and then I will play four tables at the same time. The idea is to move up in stakes once I reach 20 buy-ins for the next level. ($100.00 for 5.00NL, $200.00 for 10NL)
Once I reach $1,200.00, I will start playing MTT($4-$10.00- buy-ins), but until then, I will do my best to avoid them because of the higher variance.
In case I move up in stakes and go on a downswing down to 15 buy-ins for that level, I will be moving one level down in stakes.
Since I work an office job, I will be playing five sessions a week, but some will be short. The longest sessions will be on Friday and Saturday since those days are my days off from work; the remaining three sessions will be 1 or 2 hours on Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday, depending on how tired I am from my office job.


2. MY POKER EXPERIENCE
I will be honest from the beginning: I don't have much experience playing poker.
I have been mostly stacked in low stakes online and struggling to keep the proper bankroll and move up in stakes.
Once in a while, I would take a break from it since it is taking too much time and energy from my daily work and routine.
I played $1/$2 and $1/$3 live poker last year and made some small profits, but the place where I live doesn't have a lot of small-stakes games, and I can't afford the bankroll to play any live games at the moment.
I have been studying for a while and decided to give poker another chance.
I am still studying daily, watching YouTube videos, reading books, and using solvers/tools available since I cannot afford private coaching.
That being said, any advice would be highly appreciated during this journey.


3. WHY AM I DOING THIS?
I know that the internet is full of streamers and poker players doing bankroll challenges and that this is not new, but I think this is something that will help me improve my game and become more disciplined.
The idea is to share my daily results and some interesting hands that I am not sure I played correctly, and any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I want to do my best and stick to the rules throughout this challenge, be truly transparent about the results, and share some interesting hands in this thread.
I enjoy playing poker, regardless of how hard this game can be, and I want to prove to myself that I can be profitable before I try playing it for a living.
I believe that this way, I will be able to keep track of my journey, and it will be easier to stick to the plan when I am writing about every step of the way, and it help me improve my mental game.

4. WHAT IF I SUCCEED IN THIS?
Once I reach $20,000 in my bankroll that same day, I will leave my office job and start the professional poker journey!

The first session will be later today! Wish me good luck.

Looking forward to following along gl!

Thank you!

Here is the first session report:

After playing for 2 hours we lost all the money! Joking, haha.
But it was a truly cold session, and a little bit boring playing one table only.

After almost 2 hours of playing and 197 hands, we lost $3.00(x1.5 buy-in).

We only had one all in the preflop situation and it was AK<KK, and here are the details of the hand, and we were lucky that person with KK had only 43.5BB

Yatahay Network - $0.02 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4: http://www.pokertracker.com

BTN: 98 BB
SB: 222.5 BB
BB: 43.5 BB
Hero (UTG): 128 BB
MP: 138 BB
CO: 137 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Kd Ad
Hero raises to 2.5 BB, fold, CO raises to 9 BB, fold, fold, BB calls 8 BB, Hero raises to 35.5 BB, fold, BB raises to 43.5 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 8 BB

Flop : (96.5 BB, 2 players) 4h Qd 5h

Turn : (96.5 BB, 2 players) 9d

River : (96.5 BB, 2 players) 9c

BB shows Kc Kh (Two Pair, Kings and Nines)
(Pre 66%, Flop 81%, Turn 73%)

Hero shows Kd Ad (One Pair, Nines)
(Pre 34%, Flop 19%, Turn 27%)

BB wins 92 BB


- Another more interesting hand and the one that I am not sure if I played correctly was the following:

Yatahay Network - $0.02 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4: http://www.pokertracker.com

MP: 84.5 BB
CO: 121.5 BB
BTN: 54.5 BB
Hero (SB): 131.5 BB
BB: 121 BB
UTG: 100.5 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Qh Kc
UTG raises to 2.5 BB, fold, fold, fold, Hero calls 2 BB, BB calls 1.5 BB

Flop : (7.5 BB, 3 players) Kh 3s 2d
Hero checks, BB checks, UTG bets 1.5 BB, Hero calls 1.5 BB, fold

Turn : (10.5 BB, 2 players) 6c
Hero checks, UTG bets 7.5 BB, Hero calls 7.5 BB

River : (25.5 BB, 2 players) 6s
Hero checks, UTG bets 38.5 BB, Hero calls 38.5 BB

Hero shows Qh Kc (Two Pair, Kings and Sixes)
(Pre 9%, Flop 0%, Turn 0%)

UTG shows Kd Ks (Full House, Kings full of Sixes)
(Pre 91%, Flop 100%, Turn 100%)

UTG wins 97.5 BB

My breakdown of the hand:
**Preflop**
I wasn't sure if this was supposed to be a fold or defend vs UTG range, once I double-checked my preflop charts, I realized that it was supposed to be a fold, but I am not sure if that is a huge mistake.
**Flop**
UTG player bets 1.5BB, and we all know he will do that with most part of his range there, considering how dry the board is.
I was thinking about possible re-raise, but I figure there is no point in doing that since he still has AA, KK, AK, and KQ is his range and I call and still let him keep betting with the bottom part of his range.
**Turn**
The turn card didn't change anything based on that we can now lose to 66. I don't think I was supposed to fold for 7.5BB on that board, but after calling that bet on the turn I think it is clear that I have Kx.
**River**
As I said before, but didn't realize at the moment, I think it was clear that I have strong Kx since I called 2 bets on such a dry board, and the river bet was good sizing to get value from my hand.
Another 6 lowers the chances of him having 66 in his range, but it was actually a good card for his range as well since there are fewer chances I have a set, and some of the two pair combinations (which I don't think I have in my range) get counterfeited.
If he goes all in, I think I would have an easy fold, but it was hard for me to fold this time.

I guess it would be easier if I folded preflop
What do you think guys?


Another hand where I lost money with JJ, and I think I was supposed to bet bigger on the flop, since this way most of the overcards had too good of a price to call.
I think that with AA,KK it would be okay to bet this size, but with JJ I think I was supposed to go with bigger sizing.
Yatahay Network - $0.02 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4: http://www.pokertracker.com

MP: 108.5 BB
CO: 129.5 BB
BTN: 29 BB
Hero (SB): 159.5 BB
BB: 86 BB
UTG: 107 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Jh Js
fold, fold, fold, BTN raises to 2 BB, Hero raises to 7.5 BB, fold, BTN calls 5.5 BB

Flop : (16 BB, 2 players) 2c 5s 9h
Hero bets 3 BB, BTN calls 3 BB

Turn : (22 BB, 2 players) Kh
Hero checks, BTN bets 11 BB, Hero raises to 149 BB and is all-in, BTN calls 7.5 BB and is all-in

River : (59 BB, 2 players) Th

BTN shows Qh Ks (One Pair, Kings)
(Pre 44%, Flop 25%, Turn 95%)

Hero shows Jh Js (One Pair, Jacks)
(Pre 56%, Flop 75%, Turn 5%)

BTN wins 56.5 BB

LAST HAND- I think we lost the minimum here?
Yatahay Network - $0.02 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4: http://www.pokertracker.com

MP: 81.5 BB
CO: 103.5 BB
BTN: 43.5 BB
Hero (SB): 100 BB
BB: 113 BB
UTG: 200 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Tc Ac
UTG raises to 2.5 BB, fold, fold, BTN calls 2.5 BB, Hero calls 2 BB, BB calls 1.5 BB

Flop : (10 BB, 4 players) 8d 9s Jc
Hero checks, BB checks, UTG checks, BTN bets 1 BB, Hero calls 1 BB, fold, UTG calls 1 BB

Turn : (13 BB, 3 players) 7s
Hero checks, UTG checks, BTN bets 9.5 BB, Hero calls 9.5 BB, fold

River : (32 BB, 2 players) 6s
Hero checks, BTN bets 16 BB, Hero calls 16 BB

BTN shows Qh Th (Straight, Queen High)
(Pre 30%, Flop 89%, Turn 97%)

Hero shows Tc Ac (Straight, Jack High)
(Pre 70%, Flop 11%, Turn 3%)

BTN wins 61 BB


Overall, a bad session, and there were no winning hands to post since the biggest pot we won was $0.50.
There are a couple of more losing hands, but these ones are the most interesting and biggest. If I post more hands this reply will be too big
The only pots we won today were bomb pots, which everybody folded after my bet.

Done for today!
We ended the day with $7.00 dollars, and I hope tomorrow will be better.


Any advice or opinions about the hands that I posted are truly appreciated.

Hand # 2

Better 3bet or fold preflop. A multiway pot without position and initiative doesn't look like a place where we can win money or even play better than -50bb/100.

As played - fold on the River.

1. 3 barrels are underbluffed at micro and low limits.
2. Overbets are even more underbluffed.
3. And overbets in multiway pots are even more underbluffed.

Avoid thin bluff catches at these limits and your win rate will increase significantly.

Nice blog.
Good luck on your journey!

gl

Thank you for sharing your opinion, I truly appreciate you!
I think that a 3-betting preflop would save me a lot of money in that situation, and I will do my best to implement that in the future.

SESSION NUMBER 2:

After that losing session, tomorrow morning I had time to play for a couple of hours.

As I said from the beginning, I am looking to be truly honest about the journey, even when everything looks bad.

It started with losing hand, where I ran into AA with AK in the preflop all-in situation.
I question myself if this is an overplay with AK, but considering that I was out of position it was easier for me to go all in, but with K high flop I think I would be all in any way.
Here is the hand:


Yatahay Network - $0.02 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

CO: 103 BB
BTN: 110 BB
SB: 89 BB
Hero (BB): 100 BB
UTG: 241 BB
MP: 185 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A K

fold, MP raises to 2.5 BB, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 10 BB, MP raises to 22 BB, Hero raises to 100 BB and is all-in, MP calls 78 BB

Flop: (200.5 BB, 2 players) K 8 J

Turn: (200.5 BB, 2 players) 4

River: (200.5 BB, 2 players) 5

Hero shows A K (One Pair, Kings)
(Pre 7%, Flop 14%, Turn 5%)
MP shows A A (One Pair, Aces)
(Pre 93%, Flop 86%, Turn 95%)
MP wins 190.5 BB

Another losing hand where I think I was able to avoid it was the following :
Yatahay Network - $0.02 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

MP: 123 BB
CO: 190.5 BB
BTN: 103.5 BB
Hero (SB): 147 BB
BB: 197.5 BB
UTG: 100 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A 9

fold, MP raises to 3 BB, fold, fold, Hero raises to 10 BB, fold, MP calls 7 BB

Flop: (21 BB, 2 players) A 3 3
Hero bets 4.5 BB, MP raises to 19.5 BB, Hero calls 15 BB

Turn: (60 BB, 2 players) 8
Hero checks, MP bets 30 BB, Hero calls 30 BB

River: (120 BB, 2 players) 7
Hero checks, MP bets 63.5 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 63.5 BB

MP shows 7 7 (Full House, Sevens full of Threes)
(Pre 54%, Flop 8%, Turn 5%)
Hero shows A 9 (Two Pair, Aces and Threes)
(Pre 46%, Flop 92%, Turn 95%)
MP wins 235 BB


Was I supposed to go all in on the turn ?
I think that was the best play since my hand had more equity after the turn, and with all in I would deny some equity, but my idea was to keep the bluffs inside of the hand.
Looking the this hand now, I don't see any bluffs here..
I just didn't believe that guy, and it was disgusting that he got one of the two outs on the river.
It looks like he was expecting me to have some high cards that missed and he was betting for value from the beginning? I don't know, let me know what you think.

Another losing hand was blind vs blind:

Yatahay Network - $0.02 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 101 BB
SB: 117 BB
Hero (BB): 104.5 BB
UTG: 400.5 BB
CO: 113 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 8 J

fold, fold, fold, SB raises to 3 BB, Hero calls 2 BB

Flop: (6 BB, 2 players) Q 9 K
SB bets 3 BB, Hero calls 3 BB

Turn: (12 BB, 2 players) T
SB bets 6 BB, Hero raises to 18.5 BB, SB raises to 55 BB, Hero raises to 98.5 BB and is all-in, SB calls 43.5 BB

River: (209 BB, 2 players) 8

SB shows A J (Straight, Ace High)
(Pre 73%, Flop 88%, Turn 97%)
Hero shows 8 J (Straight, King High)
(Pre 27%, Flop 12%, Turn 3%)
SB wins 199 BB


Was I supposed to fold on the flop here? I don't think so..

There were a couple of more losing hands, but it would be too much to post so many hands in one post.
When a time like this comes, where everything goes badly, I question myself if am just running badly (downswing) or if I am playing bad?

After this terrible session, I am not stopping here. We are almost on a $0.00 bankroll, but we are changing the plan a little bit.
I am depositing $50.00 dollars, and I will start playing 4 tables at the same time.
Playing only one table can't keep me focussed, and I start looking more at the phone or internet than looking at the table.



Maybe I am playing poorly, but I will practice and learn!


Tomorrow - DAY 3, we will call it a fresh start! $50.00 bankroll. Wish me good luck, I think I truly need it hahah!

Hand #2

The flop-turn looks okay.

I tend to fold without improving, despite good pot odds on the river.

I think we don't need to raise our hand on the turn since we can call it profitable.

We have a strong draw plus showdown value if we don't catch the nuts flush and our opponent checks behind.

Hand #3

Someone called this combination "Gutshot to the grave" and I completely agree with that.

Calling the flop is fine, although folding is not a mistake. To be precise, I would say call with a diamond card and fold without it.

The only card that can help us is the T, which gives us a bottom-dominated straight. We shouldn't play aggressively with this hand.

So I think you overplayed your hand on the turn.


Good luck with your future sessions!

I would totally agree with the name "Gutshot to the Grave"; it really is.
Thank you for such a detailed breakdown.

If you don't mind me asking, why would you call with the diamond card?
Is it because of blocking the outs for the flush?
With the diamond in hand, we are blocking the potential bluff hand that he could have and playing aggressively with a flush draw(A8dd, Q8dd(pair and draw, two pairs on the turn, etc.).
I think sometimes he could still play AQd or QTd in a similar way. But not this aggressive on the turn.
Maybe I am wrong

These hands hold more equity against the small blind's range.

Blocking flush draws isn't a concern because they have strong equity on the flop.

Blockers are effective in later streets.

For instance, on the river when there's an unclosed flush draw on the board and we're selecting hands for a bluff.

In such scenarios, we prefer hands that don't block the flush draw (opponent's folding range).

GL in your grind!

GL Bro!
Where a u from?

Thank you for detailed explanation!

Now it makes sense!

Thank you!

Originally from Belgrade, Serbia, but currently living in USA.

FRESH START, $50.00 DOLLARS BANKROLL

I already played two sessions but didn't have time to post in between.
One was yesterday night, and one was today.


SESSION #3:

After working for 10 hours, watching a famous interview for 2 hours, and spending time with my brother, I thought I had enough concentration to play a good short session.
Terrible idea.
After playing for some time, and making terrible hero calls, and plays, I lost a couple of buy-ins.
I decided to take a break, play some games go to sleep, and play tomorrow after a good night's sleep.

I won't be posting the hands from that session since they are obvious mistakes, and I will avoid playing when I am tired.

Let's go straight to SESSION #4:

As promised, long sessions on the day off:
3,079 hands, $15.00 profit.

I focused on making less hero calls, and I think that saved me money.
There is one fold I am not sure about, but I don't regret folding.

Yatahay Network - $0.02 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BB: 111.5 BB
UTG: 82 BB
MP: 111.5 BB
CO: 100 BB
BTN: 384 BB
Hero (SB): 179 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has J J

fold, MP raises to 2.5 BB, fold, fold, Hero raises to 10 BB, fold, MP raises to 23 BB, Hero calls 13 BB

Flop: (47 BB, 2 players) T 7 J
Hero checks, MP checks

Turn: (47 BB, 2 players) Q
Hero checks, MP bets 15.5 BB, Hero calls 15.5 BB

River: (78 BB, 2 players) 3
Hero checks, MP bets 73 BB and is all-in, fold

MP wins 74.5 BB


PREFLOP
I think this is standard 3bet, but maybe I was supposed to fold to a 4-bet or go all-in since I am out of the position?

FLOP
Amazing flop for us, and I checked to the preflop raiser, expecting that he would c-bet.
I think that his range is QQ+, AK in this case, and after he checked back in position, it only made sense to me that he has AK, and he wanted to realize his equity since he has a gut shot to the nuts.
TURN
And there it is, from nuts to the garbage. Joking of course, but considering the fact that I was expecting him to have AK after checking the flop, this is a terrible card for me and I decided to check again for a pot control.
Maybe I looked too weak after checking twice, and he continued betting late with AA, KK, or AQ if he is crazy.
He bets I called since we have outs even against AK.
RIVER
Since we didn't improve, and I was expecting him to have AK there, I decided to fold to river jam(pot size bet)

If his range is QQ,KK,AA,AK, we are beating 38% of his range and we had the pot odds of 3:1(pot size bet on the river). Maybe I was supposed to call because of this since we need 33% to brake even?
I hope I calculated this correctly.


HAND #2
Yatahay Network - $0.02 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BB: 122.5 BB
UTG: 187.5 BB
CO: 123 BB
Hero (BTN): 164.5 BB
SB: 177 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A K

fold, CO raises to 2.5 BB, Hero raises to 7.5 BB, SB raises to 177 BB and is all-in, fold, fold, Hero calls 157 BB and is all-in

Flop: (332.5 BB, 2 players) 5 J A

Turn: (332.5 BB, 2 players) 5

River: (332.5 BB, 2 players) 4

Hero shows A K (Two Pair, Aces and Fives)
(Pre 43%, Flop 86%, Turn 95%)
SB shows T T (Two Pair, Tens and Fives)
(Pre 57%, Flop 14%, Turn 5%)
Hero wins 316 BB

Here is one nice winning hand, where I decided to call and see the flop 4 ways with AK, and got lucky that the guy made the crazy move with QQ. Thank you !
I was thinking that going all in would look too strong and I would only get called by the hands that have me crushed AA, and KK, and considering there are 4 players calling this big raise, I was a little bit worried someone is slow playing AA.

Another fold on the river, to avoid bluff catching thin on this level. My only concern is was I supposed to fold on the turn already?
Yatahay Network - $0.02 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: 100.5 BB
BB: 103.5 BB
UTG: 106.5 BB
MP: 104 BB
Hero (CO): 100 BB
BTN: 152.5 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has T T

fold, fold, Hero raises to 2.5 BB, BTN raises to 8 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 5.5 BB

Flop: (17.5 BB, 2 players) 3 7 7
Hero checks, BTN bets 5 BB, Hero calls 5 BB

Turn: (27.5 BB, 2 players) 5
Hero checks, BTN bets 15 BB, Hero calls 15 BB

River: (57.5 BB, 2 players) 4
Hero checks, BTN bets 124.5 BB and is all-in, fold

Hero shows T T (Two Pair, Tens and Sevens)

BTN wins 55 BB


How about this one? Did I make a mistake for not c-betting the flop here?
We are only betting QQ in this case, in this case, and I was thinking that KK is too strong to turn into a bluff by betting into A flop in 5bet pot almost 200BB deep(175bb effective), and we are only betting QQ with that flop.

Yatahay Network - $0.02 NL - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): 175 BB
SB: 109 BB
BB: 71.5 BB
UTG: 452.5 BB
MP: 100 BB
CO: 217.5 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K K

fold, fold, CO raises to 2.5 BB, Hero raises to 7.5 BB, fold, fold, CO raises to 21 BB, Hero raises to 55.5 BB, CO calls 34.5 BB

Flop: (112.5 BB, 2 players) 4 A J
CO checks, Hero checks

Turn: (112.5 BB, 2 players) 2
CO bets 162 BB and is all-in, fold

CO wins 107 BB



I am satisfied with the fact that I started adopting to the players, avoiding bluff catching too often, and making some good folds.
After this session we are close to 60$ bankroll, and almost even for the challenge.

Tomorrow I will have another long session!

In my last post, for hand number #3, here is a correction of what I wanted to say:


How about this one? Did I make a mistake for not c-betting the flop here?
We are only beating QQ in this case, and I was thinking that KK is too strong to turn into a bluff by betting into A flop in 5bet pot almost 200BB deep preflop(175bb effective).

JJ hand

The preflop call is okay vs 4bet.

Yes, you have enough Equity to call against AA, KK, AK range on the River, but if we discount some AA-KK on the flop, then we have worse Equity:



Good fold. In any case, this is not a situation where we can make a lot of money.

KK hand

Well played. The pot on the flop is huge and we don't need to make a CBet.

Today's session - SESSION #4, was not as long as the last one but still profitable, actually pretty good.

After 1,610 hands, we made a profit of $16.60, I think that was pretty good.
Running like a god in all in situations, and getting it in good.




One thing that I am not sure about is the following spot if we are supposed to find the fold here, and if it is profitable to be super careful about these spots with AK.
I guess AKs are always all in, but with AKof, maybe I was supposed to call 4bet or fold?
For me, it is easier to go all in than play out of the position huge pot.

Since my sizing was not small, and his 4bet was even bigger, this looks like he is never bluffing here:

Yatahay Network - $0.02 NL - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

MP+1: 97.5 BB
MP+2: 293 BB
CO: 100 BB
BTN: 123 BB
SB: 41 BB
Hero (BB): 100 BB
UTG: 114.5 BB
UTG+1: 90 BB
MP: 171.5 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K:spade: A:club:

fold, fold, MP raises to 3 BB, fold, fold, fold, BTN calls 3 BB, SB calls 2.5 BB, Hero raises to 17 BB, MP raises to 43 BB, fold, fold, Hero raises to 100 BB and is all-in, MP calls 57 BB

Flop: (206 BB, 2 players) J:heart: 4:heart: 9:heart:

Turn: (206 BB, 2 players) K:heart:

River: (206 BB, 2 players) 2:club:

Hero shows K:spade: A:club: (One Pair, Kings)
(Pre 7%, Flop 1%, Turn 0%)
MP shows A:spade: A:heart: (Flush, Ace High)
(Pre 93%, Flop 99%, Turn 100%)
MP wins 196 BB



Here is one bluff from today:

Yatahay Network - $0.02 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): 100 BB
SB: 100 BB
BB: 125.5 BB
UTG: 198.5 BB
MP: 118.5 BB
CO: 373.5 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A:heart: T:heart:

fold, MP raises to 2 BB, fold, Hero raises to 7.5 BB, fold, fold, MP raises to 20 BB, Hero calls 12.5 BB

Flop: (41.5 BB, 2 players) J:spade: K:heart: T:club:
MP checks, Hero checks

Turn: (41.5 BB, 2 players) 4:diamond:
MP bets 29.5 BB, Hero raises to 80 BB and is all-in, fold

Hero wins 95.5 BB

Once he checked the flop, it looked like he had QQ, and I thought we could have AQ in our range and we were blocking AA,AK,AQ at the same time, and I decided to give it a shot and go all in for bluff representing straight, and it worked.




Here is another bluff from today, maybe I was able to pull it off with smaller sizing than this?


Yatahay Network - $0.02 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: 86.5 BB
BB: 82 BB
UTG: 103.5 BB
Hero (MP): 105.5 BB
CO: 103.5 BB
BTN: 86 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K:diamond: A:spade:

UTG raises to 3.5 BB, Hero raises to 11 BB, fold, fold, fold, fold, UTG calls 7.5 BB

Flop: (23.5 BB, 2 players) 6:spade: 9:spade: J:diamond:
UTG checks, Hero checks

Turn: (23.5 BB, 2 players) 4:diamond:
UTG bets 5.5 BB, Hero calls 5.5 BB

River: (34.5 BB, 2 players) T:spade:
UTG checks, Hero bets 37.5 BB, fold

Hero wins 33 BB


The last hand is the situation where I have a hard time playing correctly.
I just had so many situations where people started betting instead of checking to the preflop raiser for the bluff on this level, but I guess I didn't learn the lesson from the last time - the triple barrel is rarely a bluff on this level.


Yatahay Network - $0.02 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

CO: 88 BB
Hero (BTN): 153 BB
SB: 200.5 BB
BB: 87.5 BB
UTG: 122.5 BB
MP: 114 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A:club: K:diamond:

fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 2 BB, fold, BB calls 1 BB

Flop: (4.5 BB, 2 players) K:spade: T:club: 7:diamond:
BB bets 4.5 BB, Hero calls 4.5 BB

Turn: (13.5 BB, 2 players) Q:diamond:
BB bets 10 BB, Hero calls 10 BB

River: (33.5 BB, 2 players) 2:heart:
BB bets 25 BB, Hero calls 25 BB

Hero shows A:club: K:diamond: (One Pair, Kings)
(Pre 65%, Flop 27%, Turn 27%)
BB shows T:heart: 7:club: (Two Pair, Tens and Sevens)
(Pre 35%, Flop 73%, Turn 73%)
BB wins 79.5 BB

Thank you styless, you are the best!

For JJ hand, I was thinking the same, that spot is not where I will make a big difference in $$ if focusing on it and trying to find the call there.

Hand #1

We can fold AK against this big 4bet. On the micro, opponents often use such sizings with the nuts, afraid of scaring us away with a shove.
With AK and QQ, opponents are more likely to 4bet-shove in this situation.
I think we can continue here with AA-KK if we don't have any reads.

Hand #2

Not sure about call vs 4bet preflop with ATs.
At these limits, opponents have very narrow 4-betting ranges like 2-3% and I would tend to play tighter, especially against early positions.

Hand #3
Yes, I think 3/4 would be enough.

Hand #4

You can raise the flop, especially against fish, to get an idea of where you stand.
Overall it looks fine. I don't think we can fold TPTK against a fish (unless it's a non-extremely passive fish).

I will do my best to recognize those spots and fold AK to avoid getting stacked when I am that much behind with equity.


Regarding the call with ATs after 4bet, I think it was a small sizing from the opponent comparing what they usually do with AA,KK, like one of the hands I shared previously, and it looks like he could be doing that with a wider range(some smaller pairs).
Since I was in a position where I wanted to see a flop.
Some people on this level think that pair is the nuts, and they pray you always have AK; they ended up making some calls with 66,77,88,99, on some boards that are bad for AK.
I thought he may have some smaller pair in this case since sometimes, and it may be true. He snap-folded after my all-in, after betting big on the turn.
I understand that, in the long run, it is too loose to call ATs there.

We are still alive and the challenge is still in process!

Unfortunately, I didn't have a chance to play that much this week, which is why I wasn't posting, but the results were fantastic.

I had a couple of crazy runs on 5NL, and I cashed out in one $2.5 tournament for 3rd place + bounties.
I decided to enter 2 $1 dollar tournaments and that $2.5 tournament and it ended up being a good idea since we won $100+ dollars on that one.

Since we increased the bankroll playing 5NL, I decided to give it a shot this couple of tournaments, and here are the results:



Here are the cash game results from last week(starting with day after last post):

We are still alive and the challenge is still in process!

Unfortunately, I didn't have a chance to play that much this week, which is why I wasn't posting, but the results were fantastic.
I decided to enter 2 $1 dollar tournaments and that $2.5 tournament and it ended up being a good idea since we won $100+ dollars on that one.

Since we increased the bankroll playing 5NL close to a 100$, I decided to give it a shot this couple of tournaments, and here are the results:



Here are the cash game results from last week(starting with the day after the last post):



Yes, I know it is a small sample, 4k hands, but I was busy at work and traveling for a couple of days so I didn't have a chance to play more, anyway a nice profit.

I tried playing 10NL after winning that tournament since we were close to 20 buy-ins for that level, but I ended up losing two buy-ins and stopped there.

Today I decided to give it another shot, and most of the cash game wining in previous screenshot was from today's session.

We are still alive and the challenge is still in process!

Unfortunately, I didn't have a chance to play that much this week, which is why I wasn't posting, but the results were fantastic.
I decided to enter 2 $1 dollar tournaments and that $2.5 tournament and it ended up being a good idea since we won $100+ dollars on that one.

Since we increased the bankroll playing 5NL close to a 100$, I decided to give it a shot this couple of tournaments, and here are the results:



Here are the cash game results from last week(starting with the day after the last post):



Yes, I know it is a small sample, 4k hands, but I was busy at work and traveling for a couple of days so I didn't have a chance to play more, anyway a nice profit.

I tried playing 10NL after winning that tournament since we were close to 20 buy-ins for that level, but I ended up losing two buy-ins and stopped there.

Today I decided to give it another shot at 10NL, and most of the cash game winning in the previous screenshot was from today's session.




As always, here are a couple of hands that I noted for some reason:

Here we lost to a set of 10s, and I think I should always go for full value here, and well played from the guy slowplaying it.

Yatahay Network - $0.10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 129 BB
SB: 65.9 BB
BB: 90.8 BB
Hero (UTG): 210.4 BB
MP: 100.5 BB
CO: 100 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K A

Hero raises to 2.5 BB, fold, fold, BTN raises to 4.5 BB, SB calls 4 BB, fold, Hero raises to 21 BB, BTN calls 16.5 BB, fold

Flop: (47.5 BB, 2 players) A T 3
Hero bets 10.6 BB, BTN calls 10.6 BB

Turn: (68.7 BB, 2 players) 3
Hero bets 25.8 BB, BTN calls 25.8 BB

River: (120.3 BB, 2 players) 5
Hero bets 153 BB and is all-in, BTN calls 71.6 BB and is all-in

BTN shows T T (Full House, Tens full of Threes)
(Pre 57%, Flop 97%, Turn 95%)
Hero shows K A (Two Pair, Aces and Threes)
(Pre 43%, Flop 3%, Turn 5%)
BTN wins 250.4 BB


Should I call this all in here? I was used to under bluffing from people in 2NL, and 5NL, and I don't know if I should start bluff catching more here at 10NL.
The guy showed 4 of the spades, as one of the cards, once he folded.

Yatahay Network - $0.10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): 196.6 BB
SB: 102.8 BB
BB: 100 BB
UTG: 179.7 BB
MP: 210.5 BB
CO: 106.2 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has J J

fold, fold, CO raises to 2.5 BB, Hero raises to 8.5 BB, fold, fold, CO raises to 27 BB, Hero calls 18.5 BB

Flop: (55.5 BB, 2 players) 6 T T
CO bets 16 BB, Hero calls 16 BB

Turn: (87.5 BB, 2 players) 2
CO bets 63.2 BB and is all-in, fold

CO wins 83.2 BB

I will continue playing 10 NL since we have almost 300$ in bankroll, and it is going well. I will also play those big $2.5 and $1 tournaments sometimes since they have good payouts, and playing 3 or 4 a week won't kill me.

It is going great so far!

Best of luck. ACR is tough.

Thank you!

Btw, I don't know why and how I posted 3 separate posts that are the same. Please disregard that mistake haha