Been around poker/2+2 for close to 10 years now varying my level of study and stakes. Had one of these threads when I used to primarily play live a few years ago on an old account and it really helped me get into more of a scheduled study and exercise routine so I’m giving it another go. Onto my unnecessary background with graphs at the end:

2020 was supposed to be the year I treated myself and traveled out to Vegas for some WSOP events with the longshot hope of bringing home a bracelet. I’m primarily a 6-max NL cash game player now but my original plan was to start spending more time earlier in the year studying tournament strategy, then focus solely on tournaments from around April until WSOP time. By the time mid-March rolled around though I decided I wasn’t going to go whether or not the WSOP was still happening. I’m fairly young and healthy, but being married with two young kids with the uncertainty of it all just wasn’t worth taking the risk.

Rewinding to January, I took a shot at 200NL on PokerStars PA and ran the purest of pure through the beginning of April. In April I played around 25 PASCOOP events and luck boxed one, took 3rd in another, and cashed 6 others. After feeling a little burnt out on poker I decided to take a break and focus my otherwise poker time on getting some work-related certifications. Also took a large chunk of my inflated poker roll to fund some home improvement projects. Took off longer than expected but I’m glad I did as I feel more motivated about studying the game and keeping family life, work life, and poker life all balanced. In October I hopped back onto the online streets at 100NL and revisited my whole cash game strategy.

I have always considered and called myself a bad reg since I’m generally comparing myself to whoever the best regs are at my current stake and the stakes higher than what I play. It’s been useful to motivate myself to continue studying and not get too complacent. With my limited free time I have yet to touch a solver and instead have spent my time getting through RIO/Upswing courses, reading and re-reading some of the classic NL books, and relying on pre-made charts to hone up my play. My volume (or lack thereof) will come mainly between Thursdays and Sundays as I have a family as mentioned above (two kids, one on the way) and an incredible career that comes first. Poker and general life goals wise I’ll be using this thread to track my progress and keep myself honest to get me where I want to be in the next 1-2 years (rolled for WSOP/big tournament series events, 500NL online, and 5/10 live) while hopefully making a few connections with other players along the way. I’ve generally kept to myself with all things poker and, as many of you reading this know, can feel pretty isolating so I’m using this as a jumping point to start meetings others. As for my specific near-term goals:

• Play 2.5k hands/week and move back up to 200NL before the end of 2020.
• Study and implement a new concept every 1-2 weeks.
• Exercise at least four times a week.
• Meditate every night.

At the end of this year I’ll revisit and re-evaluate my goals. I’ll try and get a solid update once a week with my progress and accompanying graphz. Cash game results:

2020 200NL in BB


2020 100NL in BB


All stakes 2020 in BB:


Tracked hands 2019-2020 in BB.
Doesn't include a bulk of my 2019 volume which was played on DE sites that don't allow HUDs:

I dunno man looks like you're a pretty decent reg to me! GL, I'll be following

Thanks man, will be following yours as well! Hoping to get to the point soon where I can sit at a table with 3-4 other regs and know I have a fairly big edge on all of them. Definitely not there yet as I’ve relied on constant table selection/hopping to play only on the best tables with the most rec players at a given stake. GL at the tables!

Confused..... So, if you are sitting with 3-4 regs and there is a better table available, you would stay if you think you have a fairly big edge on them?????

JS, if you are at a table with 3-4 regs, and you don't table change you are burning $.

From your chart, it looks like you are winning player. This is pretty rare. If you want to go from a winning player to a crusher, then we have a lot to talk about. The difference between those two are miles but you can get there.

Oh I absolutely switch if there are better options available. “Fairly big edge” was poorly worded, should have said in the near term I’d like to get to the point of being able to play and know I’m at least a favorite against the generalized 100NL reg population. Some days are better than others but there isn’t always more than 1-2 “good” tables (3+ recs) since it’s a limited player pool. I typically try to start new tables but I’ve generally noticed the new/unknown players only sit when a game is at least 3 handed already which means having to play other regs from time to time.

Longer term I foresee wanting to do exactly what you said and move from a winning player vs. recs to crusher but I have a bit of a ways to go to even get to that decision point, mainly in the mental game space.

You look like a good, solid reg to me. I wish I was as "bad" as you. I'll be checking back here regularly to see how you're doing.

GL man.

Btw how much action is there on stars PA? I currently play on NJ and am considering moving. Lots of tables 500+?

thanks!

Thanks! I’m actually not sure at 500NL+. I rarely filter on and look at the “high stakes” tables to be honest. I’m actually curious on the quantity and quality of the games NJ vs. PA.



Current plan is to get in a lot of volume and studying Thursday-Sunday so I’ll have my first update at some point over the weekend. Going to be re-reading The Mental Game of Poker and implementing a new BB defense strategy. I’m looking into some iPhone apps to help with studying when I’m not at my computer so if anyone has recommendations (and not to get an Android ) I’d appreciate it!

NJ is tough sometimes to get volume because theres party, stars, and wsop. Also PA has more people. Assuming PA stars is a better set up traffic wise.

Week 1 Update
Lived up to the Bad Reg tag... overall played below average. Happy with the volume but I fell into autopilot mode a few times while 6-tabling which costed me at least four buy-ins. Goes without saying but I'm very lucky to have run above EV. Still working in a new SB/BB defense strat and re-reading The Mental Game of Poker so that will be my focus this week as well. Lucky for me variance has no memory so I'll get some studying in and look to play better in the next sessions. Will also be dropping the number of tables I play at once down to four to combat some of the awful snap river calls I made. Before moving up to 200NL I want to have two consistent weeks of playing my "B" game or above and be up another 5BI at 100NL for enough of a cushion to take a good shot. As for what I'll be tracking week to week and building on as I figure out a good format for these updates:

• Play Rating: C-
• Number of Hands: ~5.5k
• Studying: BB/SB Defense
• Exercise: Three days
• Meditation: Averaged five minutes/day

A preview into the best table I've been at in a long time:



Biggest winning hand of the week. Not a fan of my flat call on the flop but it worked out in the end:



Second biggest losing hand/punt of the week, especially with the A although it isn’t a massive factor as played. One of the handful of examples for why I need to drop the number of concurrent tables and think through my decisions. I snapped this off but should have thought through whether this line by villain is a bluff enough of the time to make it a call:

Subbed. Playing on PA as well. Mostly NL30 and NL50 but shotting some 100 and 200.

Ahhh yeah that's true, didn't even think about the sites splitting up the traffic. I'm curious what will happen in PA once PartyPoker finally comes around.


Appreciate it! Good luck moving up! No doubt anyone with a basic strategy and good table selection can make some money at 100NL. I'm more than happy to share my SN via PM, just not ready just yet to release it publicly for all the lurkers

Week 2 Update
Overall good poker week even while being busy with both the home and work life. Happy with how I played and even happier with the sessions I decided NOT to play. I put together a "Pre-game Prep Checklist" and even though it's nothing special it saved me some $$$ for sure. Made me realize I was wayyyy too tired and not focused enough to play a few planned sessions so I hit the study streets during that time instead. Stuck to 4-tabling and was able to play my "A" and "B" games which I'm happy about more than anything else. Results were OK but I'm not hung up on that. I ran really well for the first few sessions of the week over 1.3k hands then Friday night rolled around... Started off with a terrible river hero call for a stack and that was followed-up by a few coolers over 2-3 hours, although I stayed focused and (overall) played well throughout. For this next week I'll be pretty busy with both work and home life so I'll be taking it easy on the poker front. Will keep reading The Mental Game of Poker when I have time, reviewing some pre-flop ranges, and I'll also be hopping into a $200 500K Guarantee tournament on Sunday so I hope my tournament sun runs continue!

• Average Play Rating: B
• Number of Hands: ~2.5k (close enough )
• Studied: BB/SB Defense, Flop CBet Strategy
• Exercised: Four days
• Meditated: Averaged five minutes/day

None of the big notable hands went to showdown, so I won't be sharing any of the real interesting HHs for this past week

Should have said Sunday the 27th, not this Sunday *facepalm*

Great stuff man - you're stats are impressive with the limited sample size. Also very impressive that you're doing this without the use of solvers and modern strategy. It's sometimes also a win when you have the discipline not to play when you know you're not at your best and you dedicate that time to study. Very good stuff.

I too play on PokerStars PA and have a similar background/situation as you. Currently playing NL100 also. Happy to discuss hands/strategy/etc if you're interested.

Thanks! Just saw your thread, will be following yours as well! Definitely up for chatting hands and strategy. I really think having the discipline not to play (especially when the kids have a rough night) is the biggest leak I’ve ever plugged. Best advice I ever got (and listened to ) was to focus on mental game and never “force” a session.

Will be looking into getting GTO+ or pio after the new year and probably post flop+ for the phone, especially as I look to make 200NL my primary game. I’m “in tech” and understand how solvers work under the hood so I’m excited to start actually using them but want to get through Applications of NL one last time before diving in.

Ya - I read yours the other day, and it sounded oddly familiar!

When are you playing your sessions on Thurs-Sun? At night or during off hours? I've been forcing too many sessions lately at night because once our 3 year old goes to bed, that's "Dada's time" to play. Often too exhausted but learning to understand that I'm not at my best and play accordingly.

I just got Postflop+ and Solver+ for iPhone. They're somewhat limited in what they can do, but allow you to drill down and at least see what GTO play looks like. They'll be great to keep me accountable for when I travel out of the state and don't play online - looking forward to having them for that actually because I often travel and forget about poker for weeks at a time.

GTO+ seems to me like a good solver jump off point - definitely not as intimidating as Pio, and hardware requirements not as intense. Really think I'd need a new computer if I decided to dive into Pio - you'd probably know more about that with your IT background.

I worked my way through the Acevedo book Modern Poker Theory recently, and that's what kick-started my interest in solvers, that and just getting better.

What's the Applications book you're looking at, the one by Janda?

Definitely resonate with that! Usually 8:00-9:30/10:00 so I’m not having to battle with the kids in getting them to actually sleep, kills the mental game otherwise haha Depending on my work day I’ll also get in a session here and there from 5:00-6:00, but I’ll be cutting down on those to study for some work related certifications instead. One weekend night a week (Friday or Saturday) I’ll also hop back on at 11 and grind until I can’t anymore. Sometimes that’s until midnight, sometimes until 2-3AM.

Yeah having it on mobile will let me at least do micro-studying when I’m not on my desktop. I have “TakeEV” atm (which doesn’t even look available on the App Store anymore) to just quiz myself on hand ranges based on existing charts sporadically throughout the day. Even if I take a week off I find myself forgetting my exact raise first in ranges which is something I have memorized like the back of my hand at this point, let alone not reviewing them over a few weeks!

PIO looks to generally need a new PC or server build to get the most out of it, and the price point for GTO+ is much more attractive. I just need to add a little more RAM and then I should be all set.

Yup exactly. That and Jandas newer book NL for Advanced Players that I have but never really spent the time reading in depth. Being on the computer all day I prefer books much more over sitting on the computer even more.

Pretty sure that was me with the QJss hand if it was the old dead guy with a leg username.

I should have folded pre against you but was drunk and felt like gambling.

Sure was! Gin flop for you given the action though




Won’t have an update for this week as I only played two small sessions. Hit all of my non-playing goals though which is a plus! Only have to work 1-2 days this week so my goal is to play 5k hands to make up for this past weeks lack of volume.

Well… the last two weeks have been putting my mental game to the test. Glad I decided to re-read The Mental Game of Poker and focus on playing my best every session without being overly concerned with short term results. In all honesty though it has been hard not to check my results given the past two weeks:



Overall I rated myself playing my B game on average. I full stopped a few sessions right as tilt set in and dipped into “C game territory” autopiloting accompanied by some light river calls. This isn’t the worse downswing I’ve had, but it’s certainly up there. It is the best I’ve taken it from a mental game standpoint at least. The feeling of being stuck, getting Aces/Kings/Queens, raising, and then everyone folding is a feeling I can't quite describe and I don't think non-poker players will ever understand. With all that being said when I was down 18 BIs it did shake the confidence I have in my game. It’s that little voice of doubt we’ve all had before: “Is it just the cards or have I lost my edge?” “Is this X BI loss really just a downswing?” "Should I really be triple barreling there?" And the questions go on until there is a light at the end of the tunnel. For my poker bankroll sake I hope that light at the end of the tunnel isn't a train though!

After reviewing the big hands I can comfortably say most of the lost BIs are run bad, but 3-5 are from playing sub optimally. I have always been overly conservative with my bankroll so the risk of “going broke” is negligible even with these results. Getting back to 200NL before year-end is a scratch, so 2021 will be the year I approach poker in a non-results-oriented fashion by focusing on what I can control: studying, putting in volume, and maintaining a high level quality of play.

Over my “poker career” I have ran so pure after big downswings it’s pretty insane. Even though I’ve come close to dropping down in stakes I have never actually had to when it wasn’t due to me taking money out of my poker dedicated roll. I had one month a few years back when I was primarily playing live and down a number of buy-ins. My main room at the time was running a promotion where if you played 4 hours on a Sunday you would get a "slot dollars" voucher. After playing a long Saturday night session into the early hours of a Sunday I was down another 2-3 buy-ins with one of the last hands I played I remember getting it all-in on the flop where I had AA and villain had AKs. The flop was KXX and the dealer pealed a K on the turn. I wrapped up my session shortly after, grabbed my voucher around 5AM, and on my way out found one of the 97%+ return machines and hit the jackpot for ~2k. I remember just shaking my head at that point as all these (how do I put it politely...) other slot players at 5AM on a Sunday morning surrounded me to watch. As I waited for an attendant with the ridiculous sound screeching from the machine for what felt like forever, I remember looking around and that moment solidifying my decision to not play -EV games unless it was part of a vacation type trip with friends to AC or Vegas. Fortunately for me/unfortunately for casinos I have no desire in playing slots, pit games, etc. unless I know I have an edge. Back on topic... A different year I was primarily playing on a small site online and down a number of buy-ins, with a lot of my losses attributed to one agro-maniac player in particular. I woke up early one day to check the games (that would sometimes be running overnight and then I would be the only fresh minded player at the table) and saw the agro-maniac sitting alone on 2 tables while playing on a third that was full. I jumped in to play heads-up and less than 2 hours later the player quit and I was up 15 buy-ins. The player would c-bet every flop at full pot, c-bet almost every turn at full pot, and shovel it in on most rivers. I hit a miracle run of cards and just had to keep clicking "call" with a few folds mixed in. So what's the point of these stories? Tomorrow (today at this point) I’m going to fire up to three bullets in a 500K guaranteed tournament and if I somehow bink a good score my sun run after a downswing trend will continue!

Outside of poker the past two weeks have been great. The holidays with the family weren't as eventful/travel filled as years past but nonetheless it was fun for me, the wife, and most importantly the kids. Now I just have to figure out where to put all this new crap errr I mean toys. My wife and I are expecting our third child next year as well, and both the wife and baby are healthy so good news all around life wise.

Moving into next year I’ll give one last year-end update on January 1st to start the new year fresh and after that will plan to post an update every 10k hands instead of every week. As of now my tentative 2021 goals will be:

• Study 30 minutes a day.
• Play at least 10k hands/month.
• Update this thread every 10k hands.
• Exercise a minimum of four days a week.
• Meditate every morning and night.
• Get back into reading more consistently/read at least 20 pages a day.

If all goes as planned in 2022 I'll be eyeing up Vegas and the WSOP

With all of that I hope everyone is staying sane, staying safe, and is having/had a good holiday. Best of luck at the tables!

Sucks about the downswing man, but your mental approach sounds incredible. It's so hard not to look at results, but the goals that you have for yourself listed here should take care of that in the long run.

Entertaining story with the slot machine voucher We've all been there in some sick way or another.

Good luck in the GTD tournament!

Also, this.....

I have the same problem!!!

2020 Year-End Update

Final session for 2020 is in the books! On a non-poker related note, needless to say, I hope 2020 is a “once in a lifetime” ordeal. Unfortunately didn’t get to sun run the 500k GTD tournament… that came during the cash games following instead

Tournament wise I fired two bullets and ended up mincashing. After busting my first buy-in I was playing pretty solid when this “turning point hand” happened:

I wasn’t crippled and still had plenty of BB's to play, but afterwards I only had a few small sized pots come my way and was pretty card dead overall having to fold into the money. Effective bust out hand was immediately after the bubble burst:
Actual bust out hand:
Happy with how I played on my second bullet (no need to talk about the first ) and after reviewing the hands I wouldn’t do too much differently. Given how soft the field was I’ll definitely be incorporating more tournament specific studying and playing into my routine next year.

Cash game wise was a rollercoaster of a month, with full confidence in my game being restored! Very happy with my overall quality of play. For the month there is not much else to say other than I ran good, then bad, then hotter than the sun over a total of ~15.5k hands. I have ALOT to work on, but I'll continue focusing each day on slowly becoming a better player:




Wrapping up the year, my 2020 tournament results came in around ~+$4,000 (have to look exactly how much for the taxman) and cash game results coming in around ~+$7,800,



2021 starts tomorrow and so do my new set of goals. Ideally this sets up 2022 for some larger live cash game shots, tournament shots, and the WSOP in Vegas :

• Study 30 minutes a day.
• Play at least 10k hands/month.
• Update this thread every 10k hands.
• Exercise a minimum of four days a week.
• Meditate every morning and night.
• Get back into reading more consistently/read at least 20 pages a day.

Life wise there isn't anything too exciting happening, but that will all change in April once the next addition to the family arrives. Until then I'm enjoying as much uninterrupted sleep as possible. I also got a set of golf clubs and played my first round of golf yesterday and, for as awful as I am, I really enjoyed it. Looking forward to having a new non-poker hobby in 2021 to get out of the house and home office that I have pseudo-lived in since March.

Really appreciate everyone that has posted here and/or PM'ed me since I started the thread. Good to see twoplustwo still kicking (although much less active) after all of these years. Best of luck in 2021 all!

TL;DR



Busiest month I’ve had non-poker wise in a long time. Struggled a bit keeping a solid routine and found myself spending a lot of nights in what I’ll call “mental check-out mode” where I mainly watched n read random crap on my phone. For me I noticed a clear pattern when I start to slip. First thing that I defer is meditating, followed by exercise, then poker study. When that happens I don’t really have the confidence in my game to play long (2 hour+) sessions and my days become incredibly mundane. This in turn makes my day-to-day such a freaking grind. I knew this winter would be tough, but damn the mental toll being stuck inside nearly 24/7 most days is rough. Monday through Friday I wake up, get the kids ready, check my work schedule, get myself ready, half-ass study a few hand ranges, head into my office space for work, sprinkle in some time to eat lunch, put off working out, finish up by 5:00/5:30, make dinner for the family, eat, battle with the kids at bedtime... rinse and repeat. Gotta figure out a way to break it up a bit more and hold myself accountable to working out with an actual lunch break at least. Was able to get back on track this week and feel good with my balance overall winding down the months end.

I picked up “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game” for some non-poker/non-work related reading material. Although I don’t follow Major League Baseball (I find it a bit boring to watch on TV but enjoy going to a game or two during the season) I pitched in rec leagues through college until the point my shoulder politely told me to F-off, so reading how the Oakland A’s were really the first MLB team to approach baseball from a game theory/data perspective is pretty sweet bringing together what I’ve learned from poker and a game I grew up playing. I never thought about it on such a granular data level which is what fascinates me so much now.

Poker wise I've stuck to my routine before playing and the results have followed. Meditate, review RFI ranges, review SB defense/3B ranges, review BB defense/3B ranges, randomize flops to review BUvBB CB sizings, and then finish up by getting through all tagged hands from the previous session before even logging in and being tempted to hop into a "great" table. If I am way off in any of my reviews I know my time is better spent studying or doing something else completely. I can also confidently say I met my goal of becoming at least an AVG Reg at 100NL on PS PA. With that gonna be shot taking/moving up to 200NL. Played ~200 hands of 200NL today and won 2 BI's so my core strategy I've worked very hard on over the years of "take a shot and run hot" seems to be working out again. I wanted to really grind it out today but my internet connection is slow and the last thing I want is to D/C so I had to cut it short... Onto a few fun hands:

Hand #1
TL;DR Rationalize loose calls and be results oriented.
BvB spot from yesterday and I have villain tagged as a standard reg. I'll blame the low RNG for the flop call (think I should be folding most of the time especially given the high likelihood villains tend to barrel in these spots.) Turn I think is standard given the flop call, and the river pot sized bet is what peaked my interest... Villain went almost 1/4 of the way into their extended timebank before potting it which is unusual although I try not to look too much into timing tells. Ended up using almost all my timebank before making my decision. Thought process at the time was the 6 had really good blocker effects to eliminate combos of 66 and 67 which would play this way along with 6X hands that possibly got there with a BDFD. 77 (1), 66 (1), 67s (1), 67o (3), 35s (4), 58s (4), 44 (3), and J7s (2) were all still plausible but I was hard pressed to find other value hands that a standard player would pot. I asked myself "would a standard reg really go full pot with 57, 78, 79, 7T?" Getting 2:1 on a call where villain should be making a polarized bet I made the assumption that although villain might have all the 7X - 89 (16) and T8 (16) would also play this way and would make up a huge portion of the mandatory bluffs on the river.

PokerStars - $1 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $77.82
Hero (SB): $120.92
BB: $109.32
CO: $202.12

Hero posts SB $0.50, BB posts BB $1.00

Pre Flop: (pot: $1.50) Hero has A 6

fold, fold, Hero raises to $3.00, BB calls $2.00

Flop: ($6.00, 2 players) 7 6 4
Hero bets $2.00, BB raises to $6.66, Hero calls $4.66

Turn: ($19.32, 2 players) 7
Hero checks, BB bets $13.00, Hero calls $13.00

River: ($45.32, 2 players) J
Hero checks, BB bets $43.82, Hero calls $43.82





Hand #2
TL;DR Acknowledging some improvement in my game.
Probably not interesting to any readers, but I remember thinking to myself "Rewind a month and I wouldn't have been able to shovel the money in quick enough." Since this was 4-ways I think I should mainly be checking here with this specific hand rather than what I thought at the time was a pure bet. Also not sure of my flop bet size... Always something to work on

PokerStars - $1 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

UTG: $100.00
Hero (MP): $200.08
CO: $102.81
BTN: $96.00
SB: $28.29
BB: $46.17

SB posts SB $0.50, BB posts BB $1.00

Pre Flop: (pot: $1.50) Hero has 8 9

fold, Hero raises to $2.30, CO calls $2.30, fold, SB calls $1.80, BB calls $1.30

Flop: ($9.20, 4 players) A 5 9
SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets $4.81, CO raises to $13.99, SB raises to $25.99 and is all-in, fold, fold, CO calls $12.00

Turn: ($65.99, 2 players) 3

River: ($65.99, 2 players) T





Hand #3
TL;DR I don't like folding. Still think river is close...
Against a very fun player and we definitely had a dynamic going at this point. Preflop given how deep we were along with being IP against villain raising 22 some of the time seems good. On the turn I wanted to get as much money in as possible before any scary river cards came and killed the actions. Definitely didn't expect the 4B! Nutted hands like 57 (16) and 7T (16) came to mind, but I assumed villain would X/R 66 and 99 on the flop so I discounted those. With that I think this player would overvalue 2-pair type hands like 86 (9) and 89 (9) and play them the same way. Doubt the 4B on the turn would be any JX combo other than exactly JT and I don't think there are any random air bluffs on the river so that leaves us with 33 value combos that beat us, and 18 value combos that we beat. Biggest losing hand of the month:

PokerStars - $1 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $126.08
SB: $100.00
BB: $381.30
Hero (UTG): $246.50
CO: $107.52

SB posts SB $0.50, BB posts BB $1.00

Pre Flop: (pot: $1.50) Hero has 2 2

Hero raises to $2.30, fold, fold, fold, BB calls $1.30

Flop: ($5.10, 2 players) 6 2 9
BB checks, Hero bets $2.66, BB calls $2.66

Turn: ($10.42, 2 players) 8
BB bets $9.90, Hero raises to $26.24, BB raises to $42.58, Hero calls $16.34

River: ($95.58, 2 players) Q
BB bets $92.58, Hero calls $92.58





Hand #4
TL;DR Know your villains and go with your notes
Against a player I had tagged as LAG. Think the flop call is standard although I did consider raising. If I raise though I think villain is only really continuing with flushes, AQ, and 99. Turn is the best blank card out there so given my notes on villain/pot size I shoved hoping to fade a snap. Biggest winning hand of the month:

PokerStars - $1 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BB: $100.00
UTG: $180.12
MP: $156.79
CO: $320.66
Hero (BTN): $203.21
SB: $100.00

SB posts SB $0.50, BB posts BB $1.00

Pre Flop: (pot: $1.50) Hero has A K

UTG calls $1.00, MP raises to $2.00, CO calls $2.00, Hero raises to $12.00, fold, fold, fold, MP calls $10.00, CO calls $10.00

Flop: ($38.50, 3 players) A 9 K
MP bets $36.58, fold, Hero calls $36.58

Turn: ($111.66, 2 players) 2
MP bets $54.33, Hero raises to $154.63 and is all-in, MP calls $53.88 and is all-in

River: ($328.08, 2 players) Q
Players agreed to run it twice.

River #2: ($328.08, 2 players) Q




Looking to February my goals remain relatively the same:

• Study 30 minutes a day.
• Follow pre-game routine.
• Play 10k hands.
• Exercise four days+ a week.
• Meditate every morning and night.
• Read everynight before Zzzzzz.

Hey man, catching up on some threads here and enjoyed reading through these hands. A couple interesting ones for sure. REally love your thought process on the A6o hand. Great stuff there. I'd be curious who the villain is in that one

On the 9s8s hand, I have struggled in similar spots MW in the past here. I always want to drive this type of hand, but MW, it's probably not a Cbet. I dunno. Hard to play with a raise and a re-raise. Obviously you can continue against 1 caller or raiser. Just a tough spot here.

Anyways, hope things have been going good for ya this month. Cheers!