Hey guys, I'm a long time lurker of 2+2 forums and I thought I'd finally make a thread to log my progress while I get serious with online poker. Just a bit about me, I'm a 22 year old British Born Chinese (BBC) guy, studying engineering student at Aston University in Birmingham, originally from Bournemouth/Southampton area.

I started playing poker properly in December 2013, I was lucky to have a few friends who taught me the fundamentals of the game and I quickly turned my £3k roll to £6000+ in the first few months of the year by mainly playing tournaments at my local casinos. While these were soft, the variance finally hit me and I turned to cash games while still playing 5nl-10nl online. During May and June I had a massive upswing in live £1/2 and made a profit of £5500, but just like before, another big downswing means I need to stick to online for now.. but I hope to be back one day a better player than before!

TL;DR -

- Almost busto from live poker, starting fresh with 500$ on stars to build roll
- Starting at 25nl zoom (2-4 tabling)

Stats/graphs from earlier in 2014:

Full tilt





Starting BR: 500$

Goals:

[] 100k hands in July
[] $1k BR
[] Move up to 50nl zoom
[] $2.5k BR
[] $5k BR

Day 1: Decent day, 3k hands played, some interesting hands for yous

PokerStars - $0.25 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $25.36
Hero (SB): $43.18
BB: $30.20
UTG: $48.59
MP: $14.70
CO: $25.25

Hero posts SB $0.10, BB posts BB $0.25

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.35) Hero has 4 4

fold, fold, CO raises to $0.66, BTN calls $0.66, Hero calls $0.56, fold

Flop: ($2.23, 3 players) 7 4 T
Hero checks, CO checks, BTN bets $1.50, Hero raises to $5.00, fold, BTN calls $3.50

Turn: ($12.23, 2 players) K
Hero bets $9.00, BTN calls $9.00

River: ($30.23, 2 players) A
Hero bets $10.70, BTN calls $10.70 and is all-in



PokerStars - $0.25 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): $24.30
SB: $25.00
BB: $27.16 (VPIP: 33.33, PFR: 33.33, 3Bet Preflop: 25.00, Hands: 17)
UTG: $28.80
MP: $18.99
CO: $25.25

SB posts SB $0.10, BB posts BB $0.25

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.35) Hero has Q K

fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to $0.75, fold, BB raises to $2.25, Hero calls $1.50

Flop: ($4.60, 2 players) J 9 K
BB bets $3.25, Hero calls $3.25

Turn: ($11.10, 2 players) 3
BB bets $7.00, Hero raises to $18.80 and is all-in, BB calls $11.80

River: ($48.70, 2 players) 2



PokerStars - $0.25 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $25.00
Hero (SB): $25.00
BB: $26.36 (VPIP: 16.67, PFR: 8.33, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 12)
UTG: $27.26
MP: $40.88
CO: $25.00

Hero posts SB $0.10, BB posts BB $0.25

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.35) Hero has K K

fold, fold, fold, BTN raises to $0.50, Hero raises to $2.00, BB calls $1.75, fold

Flop: ($4.50, 2 players) 4 A 6
Hero checks, BB checks

Turn: ($4.50, 2 players) A
Hero bets $2.20, BB calls $2.20

River: ($8.90, 2 players) 3
Hero bets $4.75, BB raises to $15.70, fold





Current BR: $707.55
+$207.55 profit

20BI is pretty small for this IMO but you are Ging so you can easily get there. GLGL.

Day 2: Super swingy session today, still in progress though, putting in some good volume at 25nl zoom



Trolololol
PokerStars - $0.25 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $25.00
SB: $32.43
BB: $25.73 (VPIP: 44.12, PFR: 5.88, 3Bet Preflop: 5.56, Hands: 34)
Hero (UTG): $68.68
MP: $20.32
CO: $58.26

SB posts SB $0.10, BB posts BB $0.25

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.35) Hero has A Q

Hero raises to $0.75, fold, fold, fold, fold, BB calls $0.50

Flop: ($1.60, 2 players) 2 8 9
BB checks, Hero checks

Turn: ($1.60, 2 players) 3
BB checks, Hero checks

River: ($1.60, 2 players) K
BB bets $2.25, Hero raises to $67.93 and is all-in, BB calls $22.73 and is all-in



Is this ever a call on the river?
PokerStars - $0.25 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $16.46
SB: $25.78 (VPIP: 14.81, PFR: 13.58, 3Bet Preflop: 3.70, Hands: 83)
BB: $23.06
Hero (UTG): $25.93
MP: $25.00
CO: $25.00

SB posts SB $0.10, BB posts BB $0.25

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.35) Hero has A K

Hero raises to $0.75, fold, fold, fold, SB calls $0.65, fold

Flop: ($1.75, 2 players) 4 T K
SB bets $1.31, Hero calls $1.31

Turn: ($4.37, 2 players) 9
SB bets $3.28, Hero calls $3.28

River: ($10.93, 2 players) Q
SB bets $7.09, fold

thats an aggressive BRM, but I guess its fine as long as you can reload anytime another 500$
also grinding micros
gl

Yeah 500$ is quite aggressive brm for 25nl, but I'm up to about 900$ after 3 days from playing including bonuses so I've almost doubled my initial roll. At what point do you think taking a shot at 50nl (zoom) would be ok? I was thinking 1.5k~ or so?

I try to do this massive overbet with the nutters every so often, it never gets called

nh and gl!

At first I considered making it ~8 since he already overbets the pot when he leads out the river, then I just decided to go for it thinking he's never folding a flush with his stats and it paid off because he snap called for his entire stack

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Subbed GL man, will try to contribute a fair bit always nice to find someone grinding locally!

as long as you feel confident and you run good you could start at 1k$... but It would be better at 1,5k-2k just to avoid going broke if you hit a downswing
im a bankroll nit and it feels like I played forever NL10( lol), going to move up to NL25 when I hit 1k; Im playing 4tables NL10z= lots of hands and brutal variance sometimes

Dw you will be back at live 1/2 next week when you've binked the double sweepstake.

20bi is more than enough for 2-4 tabling 25nlz.
What happened live? Give us some hhs...didn't think you could.lose hands :s
Gl

Sub that ****

When are you boys back from Vegas? You need to pay me for my sweepstake victory

This guy is a complete unknown, shove river y/n?

PokerStars - $0.25 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): $25.56
SB: $21.68
BB: $32.25 (VPIP: 100.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 1)
UTG: $28.42
MP: $28.64
CO: $29.59

SB posts SB $0.10, BB posts BB $0.25

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.35) Hero has J A

fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to $0.75, fold, BB calls $0.50

Flop: ($1.60, 2 players) A A J
BB checks, Hero checks

Turn: ($1.60, 2 players) 5
BB checks, Hero bets $1.00, BB calls $1.00

River: ($3.60, 2 players) 5
BB checks, Hero bets $2.05, BB raises to $10.00, Hero raises to $23.81 and is all-in, BB calls $13.81

It's fine, you probably get calls from Ax at least some of the time.

Ugh that's horrid.
Think it's played fine though, nobody is folding Ax here I don't imagine so going to get called by worse plenty.

Be back monday.

Cheeky question dodge there

I'll tell u the hh when I see u smitsmit

Been running awful online the past couple of days, I'm back to break even. Thank goodness there's mobile players to gift me like this to get me back on track.

Considered betting 22-25$ on the river but then just went for it hoping he'd call off with overpair and he shows up with this.

PokerStars - $0.25 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $39.69
SB: $63.01 (VPIP: 50.00, PFR: 50.00, 3Bet Preflop: 50.00, Hands: 8)
BB: $23.01
UTG: $27.96
MP: $28.06
Hero (CO): $52.98

SB posts SB $0.10, BB posts BB $0.25

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.35) Hero has J J

fold, fold, Hero raises to $0.75, fold, SB raises to $2.25, fold, Hero calls $1.50

Flop: ($4.75, 2 players) 6 J 7
SB bets $2.25, Hero raises to $6.00, SB calls $3.75

Turn: ($16.75, 2 players) 2
SB checks, Hero bets $11.00, SB calls $11.00

River: ($38.75, 2 players) 2
SB checks, Hero bets $33.73 and is all-in, SB calls $33.73



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I should probably be folding flop here? But his stats tho..

PokerStars - $0.25 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): $25.75
SB: $19.20 (VPIP: 30.77, PFR: 15.38, 3Bet Preflop: 16.67, Hands: 147)
BB: $35.34
UTG: $18.14
MP: $28.20
CO: $29.03

SB posts SB $0.10, BB posts BB $0.25

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.35) Hero has T 9

UTG raises to $0.50, fold, CO calls $0.50, Hero calls $0.50, SB calls $0.40, fold

Flop: ($2.25, 4 players) 5 T 9
SB checks, UTG bets $1.00, CO calls $1.00, Hero raises to $4.20, SB raises to $18.70 and is all-in, fold, fold, Hero calls $14.50

Turn: ($41.65, 2 players) 2

River: ($41.65, 2 players) 6



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Shoving flop > flatting? Was close to folding turn after I realised I should just GII OTF.

PokerStars - $0.25 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $40.47
SB: $26.52 (VPIP: 42.64, PFR: 11.36, 3Bet Preflop: 2.31, Hands: 98)
BB: $51.02
UTG: $31.53
MP: $95.06
Hero (CO): $33.46

SB posts SB $0.10, BB posts BB $0.25

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.35) Hero has A A

UTG raises to $0.67, fold, Hero raises to $2.20, fold, SB calls $2.10, BB calls $1.95, fold

Flop: ($7.27, 3 players) T T 5
SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets $5.00, SB raises to $10, fold, Hero calls $5.00

Turn: ($27.27, 2 players) 7
SB bets $14.32 and is all-in, Hero calls $14.32

River: ($55.91, 2 players) 9

Haven't updated in ages, sorry guys

Update for the month:

hands played: 52,258
profit: -62.50$
bonuses / milestones 150$

Can someone tell me why my graphs vary between high blue/low red lines and vice versa, is this me not playing consistently and changing my game too much?

For example, 15/07/14



today:

22/07/14


aaaand when I have a losing session it looks like this:

21/07/14

lolsamplesize

Hi everyone quick update, just 1 day left of July and I'm finally hitting some good form this past week. I've had a couple of people from 25nl zoom ask for my skype and its been nice reviewing hh with others and all that. I've just moved back home to Bournemouth for the summer so the grind is on! I'm probably going to be playing live cash again also at the local casinos

Giraffe since moving home a couple of days ago:

Huge spike right at the death there