After analysing my play since I've been back to pokerstars, it seems I have much to do, but the biggest is to pull my head out of my ass



This is all games played since coming back

After looking over my $15/18man games, it seems that I'm not as break-even as I once thought. It actually seems that I have a bad habit of spewing my winnings in other game formats.



Strictly $15/18mans graph above. (some tournies missed, but obv running awesome)




So my goals are simple:
-STICK to only playing 18 mans
-Post HH's atleast once a week
-Move up stakes responsibily with a 100Bi rule of thumb, so will move up to the $30's when I have a BR of 3k.
-Keep my PG&C alive and updated (many have past away due to my negligence)




I used to multi-table 12-16 tables, but at the moment I have a limited bankroll, and so since I'm starting under-rolled for these games, I will be playing 4 tables and adding on additional tables as I increase BR.

Also, my skype is CaptnKrnch if anyone is interested in talking strat,etc.




So cheers to a new challenge and not going busto,


CaptnKrnch

btw: robot unicorn attack is part of my avatar on PS, hoping it pisses off the non-regs a bit

Big reason I started this thread is cause I don't wanna keep flooding the STT forums with my HH's, instead I'll dump them in this crap shoot

So some HHs from today:

PokerStars - $13.89+$1.11|25/50 NL (9 max) - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

MP+1: 1,445.00
LP: 1,410.00
CO: 2,175.00
BTN: 1,495.00
Hero (SB): 1,390.00
BB: 1,490.00
UTG: 1,465.00
UTG+1: 1,455.00
MP: 1,175.00

Hero posts SB 25.00, BB posts BB 50.00

Pre Flop: (75.00) Hero has K A

fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, CO raises to 100.00, BTN calls 100.00, Hero raises to 1,390.00 and is all-in, fold, fold, BTN calls 1,290.00

Flop: (2930.00, 2 players) 5 2 5

Turn: (2930.00, 2 players) 5

River: (2930.00, 2 players) 4

Both limping villains were playing the typical 'donk' style with around 50/10 stats after a smallish sample.

So I figured if I just re-raise these guys, atleast ones gonna call me, and then I'll be out of position. So why not just do a big ol' overbet? Opinions?

Next hand:

PokerStars - $13.89+$1.11|150/300 NL (9 max) - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

MP: 2,410.00
MP+1: 1,455.00
LP: 2,395.00
CO: 1,650.00
Hero (BTN): 3,690.00
SB: 2,660.00
BB: 2,550.00
UTG: 3,930.00
UTG+1: 6,260.00

MP posts ante 25.00, MP+1 posts ante 25.00, LP posts ante 25.00, CO posts ante 25.00, Hero posts ante 25.00, SB posts ante 25.00, BB posts ante 25.00, UTG posts ante 25.00, UTG+1 posts ante 25.00, SB posts SB 150.00, BB posts BB 300.00

Pre Flop: (675.00) Hero has K A

fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 600.00, fold, BB calls 300.00

Flop: (1575.00, 2 players) 5 Q 6
BB bets 600.00, Hero raises to 3,065.00 and is all-in

I min-raised pf hoping one of them would shove-over since thats what they seemed to be doing and stack sizes seemed perfect for it (From their perspective, I can get away from my raise, and they still have good FE with $2k behind).

After he called, i knew i should've just shoved pf. But then he did this little tit raise so I figured time to shove

Opinions?




Thanks,
CaptnKrnch

#1 A shove is fine but maybe you could raise to like 550, then shove any flop if 1 calls. maybe check back on a dry Ace then let the fish hang himself.

#2 i think a minraise is ok.. as for the flop play im not sure, your drawing pretty thin unless he has the FD or OESD.

nice results

A. 3bet SMALL >>>>>> 3bet shove imo

B. Minraise is usually best here vs some randoms, esp if you got a big stack. Just fold when he donks the flop, he has a non pair/draw hand rarely that we crush, but mostly he has something and is never folding.

Haven't updated in a bit, mostly cause I'm going backwards. Now down to 12 tabling the 7's and just finished a session with 0 cash-ins

gonna start getting coaching, had a HH review session today with coach and I'm happy with what I learned, regardless of the painful results.

Won't post a graph, seems not all my games are getting imported properly, most of it's mixed b/w my laptop and my tower, so it's just a big cluster **** right now.


BUT i will post some bubble HH's:





[converted_hand][hand_history]Poker Stars, $6.45 Buy-in (300/600 blinds, 50 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 5 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite. View Hand #10538542

MP: 4,750 (7.9 bb)
CO: 7,250 (12.1 bb)
BTN: 4,175 (7 bb)
SB: 5,780 (9.6 bb)
Hero (BB): 5,045 (8.4 bb)

Preflop: (250) Hero is BB with A 8
3 folds, SB raises to 5,730 and is all-in, Hero ...


So obv we gotta tighten up our calling range here, but at this point, the guys been shoving ATC at me.

???


On to the next one...





[converted_hand][hand_history]Poker Stars, $6.45 Buy-in (400/800 blinds, 50 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 5 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite. View Hand #10538552

BTN: 2,441 (3.1 bb)
SB: 5,066 (6.3 bb)
Hero (BB): 2,430 (3 bb)
MP: 11,060 (13.8 bb)
CO: 6,003 (7.5 bb)

Preflop: (250) Hero is BB with 2 3
2 folds, BTN raises to 2,391 and is all-in, SB folds, Hero ....

He's a reg, and over 350+ hands his steal from btn is 25%.
I'd assume he's shoving wider, so plug it into pokerstove at 35% for example...

and it's a 70/30 for'em, and when the SB folds, I have 29% pot odds.

So....puke as you call? Or since it's the bubble can we let ourselves get this crippled? If I fold, next hand is basically shove ATC with BB calling ATC.


Last one:








The Avg. VPIP/PF on this table was very low, maybe 11/9 among them. My stack had gotten this big cause I was abusing the bubble, then I shoved this one.



Once again, thanks for all the help and hopefully I can get less ****ty and move up stakes



Cheers,
CK

The A8 is very close and don't mind a fold at all. 23o's an easy fold and AT standard shove. Actually not sure why you posted the AT hand it's an atc shove with a view to leaving out bottom 25% if pwning alot already as you indicated you had.

This..

Thanks for the tips guys, special shout out to Penfold and Tomodak, you guys are always willing to help out and I think you've both posted in basically every strat thread I've created

Too bad your tips and my play haven't been showing up in my results

Took another nasty downswing and I now have to play the 3.50's.

Beat: Had to go down two levels in roughly a week
Brag: Didn't throw up
Variance: **** you variance


So here's some HH's from my recent bend-over sessions:







So my game has changed significantly since posting strat's and reading 2+2, I might have even folded this before. But now I'm not sure, we're UTG, so should I just limp this? Hoping to shove over a raise? Or is TT too weak, just not worth playing UTG? Or should I just shove for 13BB's?

This may seem like a basic hand for some, but after downswinging $500 or so, I don't even know if I play anything properly



Next hand....





[converted_hand][hand_history]Poker Stars, $6.45 Buy-in (10/20 blinds) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 9 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite. View Hand #10553952

BTN: 1,500 (75 bb)
SB: 1,500 (75 bb)
BB: 1,500 (75 bb)
UTG+1: 1,500 (75 bb)
UTG+2: 1,500 (75 bb)
MP1: 1,500 (75 bb)
MP2: 1,500 (75 bb)
Hero (MP3): 1,500 (75 bb)
CO: 1,500 (75 bb)

Preflop: Hero is MP3 with K K
4 folds, Hero raises to 60, CO folds, BTN calls 60, SB calls 50, BB calls 40

Flop: (240) 9 3 2 (4 players)
SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets 180, BTN calls 180, SB calls 180, BB calls 180

Turn: (960) 6 (4 players)
SB checks, BB checks, [color="red"]Hero....


So I must be behind here right? What to do?

Granted the PF raise should have probably been fatter, it's just the 7s, so even opening to 100 or more, prob get a few donkish calls.


Last one...








The guy that limped is 19/7 after about 60 hands, like 20% VPIP from EP.


I think I did the right play here considering I was a shorty, but that being said, what do I know anyway?

Would you guys do the same? Or wait for another hand?




Alright that's it for now


NEW BANKROLL: $419

See you at the 3.5 tables!

Hand #1 It is definately profitable to just shove this straight up with 13bb (1st table), but there might be more profitable ways to play it. You could make a small raise (just over min) vs a tighter table, to find extra value that way, tricky part to this is when somebody shoves on you (:O whats his range???). If you do just shove though, you're not going to be ahead all that often when you get called, maybe you beat 66-99, AT KQs, otherwise you're flippin'. Never gonna limp this though.

Hand #2 The PFR is a fine size, although it is a good point of raising to like 80c in a 7$ game, you are going to get just as much value i think, just gotta make sure regs dont pick up on the 4x (not that big a deal really though i guess, money you lose from reg you pick up extra on fish, and those games are not very reggy anyway imo). as for the Postflop play, flop fine, turn is turning way to drawy but if somebody picked up twopair/set would'nt they play more aggro because of this? id probs stick in another 300 n then slowdown on the river or to any raises snap fold.

Hand #3 Yeah i like a Jam here, A8s is crushing his limping range and its a chance to maintain FE bigtime... if he snaps off with a monster note him up and move on.

GL at the tables

Haven't updated in a bit, 15 tabling the 3.5s at the moment, it's going well, about 25% r.o.i but no real sample.

Figured I'd throw up some HH's from today:








So the UTG plays fairly loose, maybe I coulda shoved all-in but I figure not worth flippin so early. Not so much results oriented, but I wanna know what your lines would be against a loose/fishy player? Is the flat PF too passive?



And another...






I was gonna re-raise him PF, but he was 100/50 after about 10 hands(lol sample) so I figured he woulda called and then I'd have to play him post-flop outta position.

When the flop came, I figured I was ahead, guaranteed this guy was raising with any two, so I figure a c/r would be nice, but then they both called??

Figured I had to be behind now, but what would you guys have done? I guess if I was the 1st raiser I could have gotten away from the pot cheaper, but I was looking for max value from an aggro calling station



and lastly...





[converted_hand][hand_history]Poker Stars, $3.16 Buy-in (10/20 blinds) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 9 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite. View Hand #10616572

CO: 1,500 (75 bb)
BTN: 1,480 (74 bb)
SB: 1,760 (88 bb)
BB: 1,500 (75 bb)
UTG+1: 1,500 (75 bb)
UTG+2: 1,260 (63 bb)
Hero (MP1): 1,500 (75 bb)
MP2: 1,500 (75 bb)
MP3: 1,500 (75 bb)

Preflop: Hero is MP1 with Q Q
UTG+1 calls 20, UTG+2 calls 20, Hero raises to 100, MP2 calls 100, MP3 calls 100, 4 folds, UTG+1 calls 80, UTG+2 folds

Flop: (450) T 9 K (4 players)
UTG+1 checks, Hero ...


At these stakes, there seem to be alot more callers, so I checked the flop, but how do we handle such an odd ball flop with so many callers?


BR sitting at about 450


Cheers and thanks for all the insight

CK