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Played 1106 hands today, won $4.90. Just cant get anything going at the moment, my KK/QQ's are hitting A high flops every time. I open raise with KQ, i get 3bet. I open raise with AA and the guy cold calls with KK etc, etc..

4bet bigger, 12.5-13

Reason? He had less than 80BB starting the hand. I dont see any point in making it $12/$13. By making it $11 I am letting him make a mistake.

Played 1549 hands today. Won $62.05. Feels like I'm not running great but im doing ok.

This hand was typical of how I feel I'm running right now

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MP2: $52.95
CO: $15.50
BTN: $15.50
SB: $50.75
BB: $53.80
UTG: $50.75
UTG+1: $53.55
Hero (MP1): $63.20

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is MP1 with J J
2 folds, Hero raises to $1.50, MP2 calls $1.50, CO calls $1.50, 3 folds

Flop: ($5.25) K A Q (3 players)
Hero checks, MP2 bets $3.50, CO folds, Hero folds

Final Pot: $5.25
MP2 wins $5.00
(Rake: $0.25)

Biggest winning pots

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UTG+2: $53.15
MP1: $37.70
MP2: $21.75
CO: $30.40
BTN: $50.00
Hero (SB): $50.00
BB: $71.60
UTG: $50.00
UTG+1: $72.50

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is SB with A A
1 fold, UTG+1 raises to $1.75, 1 fold, MP1 calls $1.75, 3 folds, Hero requests TIME, Hero raises to $6.25, 1 fold, UTG+1 calls $4.50, 1 fold

Flop: ($14.75) 6 2 6 (2 players)
Hero bets $7.50, UTG+1 calls $7.50

Turn: ($29.75) 2 (2 players)
Hero bets $12.50, UTG+1 raises to $29, Hero raises to $36.25 all in, UTG+1 calls $7.25

River: ($102.25) K (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $102.25
Hero shows A A (two pair, Aces and Sixes)
UTG+1 shows J A (two pair, Sixes and Twos)
Hero wins $99.25
(Rake: $3.00)


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UTG+1: $18.25
MP1: $50.75
MP2: $59.30
CO: $52.05
BTN: $50.00
SB: $53.20
Hero (BB): $53.25
UTG: $60.75

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is BB with A K
5 folds, BTN raises to $1.50, 1 fold, Hero raises to $5, BTN raises to $13.50, Hero requests TIME, Hero raises to $53.25 all in, BTN calls $36.50 all in

Flop: ($100.25) T J K

Turn: ($100.25) 2

River: ($100.25) 8

Final Pot: $100.25
BTN shows Q Q (a pair of Queens)
Hero shows A K (a pair of Kings)
Hero wins $97.25
(Rake: $3.00)

Maybe I keep my luck for the AI pots

Played 806 hands today, Won $47.10. Total BR now @ $1.754.86

Biggest winning pot

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Hero (BB): $50.75
UTG: $49.90
UTG+1: $50.00
MP1: $199.45
MP2: $19.10
CO: $70.50
BTN: $30.85
SB: $106.90

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is BB with 7 6
4 folds, CO raises to $1.50, 2 folds, Hero raises to $5, CO calls $3.50

Flop: ($10.25) 7 3 5 (2 players)
Hero checks, CO checks

Turn: ($10.25) 4 (2 players)
Hero bets $5.50, CO calls $5.50

River: ($21.25) 9 (2 players)
Hero requests TIME, Hero bets $40.25 all in, CO calls $40.25

Final Pot: $101.75
Hero shows 7 6 (a straight, Seven high)
CO mucks J J
Hero wins $98.75
(Rake: $3.00)


This is my graph for NL50 since I started the challenge


By lygerwon at 2010-07-02

Still feels like I'm not fully adapted to NL50 from NL25 but I'm getting more comfortable now. Hopefully my winrate will increase in the next few weeks.

Ran hot today, won $112.80 in 844 hands. Total BR now @ $1,867.66. I will be away for the next few days and won't be playing any poker. Will be back on Wednesday/Thursday and am hoping for a big July

Couple of funny hands...this one I wasn't in but had to post it for sheer donk factor. Soul read?


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UTG+1: $55.15
MP1: $41.55
MP2: $20.25
CO: $16.80
Hero (BTN): $87.40
SB: $50.00
BB: $50.75
UTG: $29.05

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is BTN with 7 4
UTG calls $0.50, 2 folds, MP2 raises to $1.50, 3 folds, BB calls $1, UTG calls $1

Flop: ($4.75) T 9 9 (3 players)
BB checks, UTG checks, MP2 bets $2, BB folds, UTG calls $2

Turn: ($8.75) 9 (2 players)
UTG checks, MP2 checks

River: ($8.75) T (2 players)
UTG bets $0.50, MP2 calls $0.50

Final Pot: $9.75
MP2 mucks Q T
UTG shows 6 9 (four of a kind, Nines)
UTG wins $9.30
(Rake: $0.45)

And this one was a nice donation

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UTG+1: $51.80
MP: $50.10
CO: $36.40
BTN: $23.25
SB: $18.30
Hero (BB): $50.00
UTG: $34.65

CO posts a big blind ($0.50)

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is BB with 9 9
3 folds, CO raises to $3, 2 folds, Hero requests TIME, Hero raises to $8, CO calls $5

Flop: ($16.50) Q 8 Q (2 players)
Hero bets $9.50, CO raises to $28.15 all in, Hero calls $18.65

Turn: ($72.80) T (2 players - 1 is all in)

River: ($72.80) K (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $72.80
CO shows 4 2 (a pair of Queens)
Hero shows 9 9 (two pair, Queens and Nines)
Hero wins $69.80
(Rake: $3.00)

Glad to see you doing good and adjusting well to NL50

How many tables do you play?

Thanks

Playing 6 tables at once, thats all I can really fit on my laptop screen

Was back playing yesterday, not sure how much I won exactly as my HEM is acting up, something to do with a timeout error, will try to fix that today.

Total BR is @ $1,924.01

Played 1144 hands today and made a nice comeback, was stuck a bit but ended up making a small profit. Total BR now @ $1,930.91


Pretty sick hand here


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BB: $17.50
UTG: $50.00
UTG+1: $27.00
UTG+2: $75.20
MP1: $55.00
MP2: $103.80
CO: $45.25
Hero (BTN): $53.80
SB: $40.90

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is BTN with A A
UTG raises to $1.50, UTG+1 raises to $5.25, 4 folds, Hero calls $5.25, 2 folds, UTG calls $3.75

Flop: ($16.50) K A A (3 players)
UTG requests TIME, UTG checks, UTG+1 checks, Hero checks

Turn: ($16.50) T (3 players)
UTG checks, UTG+1 bets $9, Hero calls $9, UTG folds

River: ($34.50) 3 (2 players)
UTG+1 requests TIME, UTG+1 bets $12.75 all in, Hero calls $12.75

Final Pot: $60.00
UTG+1 shows K K (a full house, Kings full of Aces)
Hero shows A A (four of a kind, Aces)
Hero wins $57.00
(Rake: $3.00)

No other hands over 36bbs which was surprising. Won a few nice pots pre flop with 4/5 bet shoves

Pretty much at the half way stage of the challenge now with 7 weeks gone

Overall graph is missing about $40 profit that I won playing on another computer.


By LygerWon at 2010-07-08

Some quick stats

NL25
Hands Played: 39155
bb/100: 8.72
$ Won: 853.92
$ Raked: 704.42

NL50
Hands Played: 16394
bb/100: 3.72
$ Won: 305.05
$ Raked: 533.43

Overall
Hours Played: 157
$/hr: 7.38
Total Profit (inc. RB): $1,477.32
$/hr: 9.41

Tough day today, lost $48.60. Total BR now @ $1,928.72

Biggest losing pot. His 3bet size is really akward, means I'm either shipping or calling. I guess I should just call the 3bet IP? Hate the fact that it was 125BB rather than 100

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SB: $87.90
BB: $127.80
UTG: $54.45
UTG+1: $56.65
MP: $14.00
CO: $58.90
Hero (BTN): $63.60

CO posts a big blind ($0.50)

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is BTN with K A
3 folds, CO checks, Hero raises to $2.50, SB calls $2.25, BB raises to $10, 1 fold, Hero raises to $63.60 all in, 1 fold, BB calls $53.60

Flop: ($130.45) 7 6 8

Turn: ($130.45) 6

River: ($130.45) 5

Final Pot: $130.45
BB shows A A (two pair, Aces and Sixes)
Hero shows K A (a pair of Sixes)
BB wins $127.45
(Rake: $3.00)

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MP2: $65.45
CO: $50.00
BTN: $50.00
SB: $50.00
BB: $17.50
Hero (UTG): $50.00
UTG+1: $48.00
UTG+2: $36.70
MP1: $50.00

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is UTG with J J
Hero raises to $1.50, 2 folds, MP1 calls $1.50, MP2 calls $1.50, 3 folds, BB calls $1

Flop: ($6.25) 6 8 4 (4 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $3.50, MP1 requests TIME, MP1 calls $3.50, MP2 folds, BB raises to $11.25, Hero raises to $19, MP1 folds, BB calls $4.75 all in

Turn: ($41.75) 2 (2 players - 1 is all in)

River: ($41.75) A (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $41.75
BB shows J 8 (a flush, Ace high)
Hero shows J J (a pair of Jacks)
BB wins $39.70
(Rake: $2.05)

Rough couple of hands there!

Loving following along with you - keep up the overall good work!

Played for an hour this afternoon and dropped $106, almost all of it was coolers/ bad beats so don't feel too bad about it. Had just hit the 2k mark on my account yesterday and now its back at $1,820

Won a good bit back but then lost another $100+ in a session, keep running into setups, really frustrating. Thinking of moving back to NL25 for a while. Down $207 in the last two days.


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SB: $9.50
BB: $88.35
UTG: $50.05
UTG+1: $37.50
MP1: $50.00
MP2: $60.20
CO: $51.75
Hero (BTN): $52.85

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is BTN with 4 4
3 folds, MP2 raises to $1.50, CO calls $1.50, Hero calls $1.50, 2 folds

Flop: ($5.25) Q 4 J (3 players)
MP2 checks, CO bets $5, Hero requests TIME, Hero raises to $12.50, MP2 raises to $20, CO folds, Hero requests TIME, Hero raises to $51.35 all in, MP2 calls $31.35

Turn: ($112.95) T (2 players - 1 is all in)

River: ($112.95) 7 (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $112.95
MP2 shows 2 A (a flush, Ace high)
Hero shows 4 4 (three of a kind, Fours)
MP2 wins $109.95
(Rake: $3.00)


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CO: $50.75
Hero (BTN): $73.00
SB: $18.25
BB: $20.00
UTG: $56.00
UTG+1: $68.40
UTG+2: $45.00
MP1: $23.65
MP2: $51.50

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is BTN with K K
1 fold, UTG+1 raises to $1.50, 3 folds, CO raises to $6, Hero requests TIME, Hero calls $6, 2 folds, UTG+1 calls $4.50

Flop: ($18.75) T 4 3 (3 players)
UTG+1 checks, CO bets $15, Hero raises to $67 all in, UTG+1 folds, CO calls $29.75 all in

Turn: ($108.25) 3 (2 players - 2 are all in)

River: ($108.25) 5 (2 players - 2 are all in)

Final Pot: $108.25
CO shows A A (two pair, Aces and Threes)
Hero shows K K (two pair, Kings and Threes)
CO wins $105.25
(Rake: $3.00)


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CO: $57.15
BTN: $17.50
Hero (SB): $50.00
BB: $50.75
UTG: $28.70
UTG+1: $98.25
UTG+2: $50.00
MP1: $91.20
MP2: $22.85

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is SB with A A
5 folds, CO raises to $1.75, 1 fold, Hero raises to $5.75, 1 fold, CO calls $4

Flop: ($12.00) 6 5 5 (2 players)
Hero bets $6, CO calls $6

Turn: ($24.00) 4 (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $11.50, Hero raises to $38.25 all in, CO calls $26.75

River: ($100.50) 8 (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $100.50
CO shows K A (a flush, Ace high)
Hero shows A A (two pair, Aces and Fives)
CO wins $97.50
(Rake: $3.00)

I guess by raising all in with the set of 4's you were hoping to chase anybody who might have been drawing to the flush, right? But I don't really get it when he could have had the higher set or flopped the flush? Was this player stealing often and that's why you made the all-in move?

The loss with the pocket AA is just brutal and quite frankly it seem.'s unfair. That's a tough tough beat.

Perhaps a move down a level for a day or three wouldn't be a terrible idea.

Well I'm pretty sure he has a flush and I want to see the last two cards, if i just call i have $30 behind with the pot at $40, if the turn blanks an he ships I'm forced to fold and I really dont want to do that. With $40 in the pot already I may as well just ship it and see both turn and river (against the flush I have 35% equity). You never know he might have some random hand like AcQx, he might even misclick or d/c

hi man, i've been reading about your progress to your goal and really hope you get it, keep doing....
by the way i would like to ask you something.
Did you usually choose the tables before play?
Did you have been in a poker school before?

Good Luck man

Hi, thanks for following. I choose my tables to some extent, I wont go looking for tables with 3/4 fish on them but I will do my best not to play tables with 8 other solid regs. Playing tables with too many fish can be a problem as you can get too much action and your aces and some idiot cracks them with J4s

I pretty much learned how to play poker on my own. I'm not a member of any learning site, the only books I have read are SS2 and a cheap outdated book on online poker I got a few years ago. Casually browsing the internet has helped a lot though.

Holy ****ing rake...I hope you're getting rakeback man....

yeah i usually try to avoid too loose tables, where in some sick hand somebody hits 2 pairs or straight they dont know how and kill my AA, KK, QQ.... it happens too much when we play in a table full of loose players ... i think 2/3 fish and all rest standart players are good for me and to play my game.
But do you think is more important to avoid regs than find fish? what kind of stats you think is really important to analize in villains hud?

Well now i've subscribe to a good(i think, cuz it is recomended by a portuguese famouse player in his blog) poker school and it really helped me so far, now im a slighty winner/break even player but i hope to get better next days when watch more videos.

Keep fighting man !

Sure am. Usually around $50 every friday

I'm building up my HUD at the moment, I use a lot of stats, VPIP/PFR/agg obviously but also c-bet %, fold to flop/turn c-bet, bet when IP etc

So I decided to play NL25 today and the difference in standard is unbelievable. I played 3 or 4 hands really bad and lost about $60/$70 because of it. Still managed to win $16.76 for the day though. Might stay at NL25 for a few days to rebuild a little.