Hey everyone, my name's Catfoo. I'm an 18 year old UK-based soon to be Maths student and have been playing poker for ~4 years on a very casual basis. Around 8 months ago I put a bit of effort in and had decent results at NL10 6max but got destroyed every time I moved to NL25 After having withdrawn my initial investment I have a bankroll of ~$500 mostly built from NL10 cash. I've recently focused on HU hypers ($3.50) on Stars and had reasonable success, although from what I gather my sample size is worthless at the moment, I plan to fix that. So there's my background in poker. I currently would prefer to keep my screename private but I think I'll eventually divulge it.

This thread is hopefully going to help motivate me to put in decent volume while I can. When I'm actively playing I hope to update this thread 2-3 times per week with graphs of my results and some HHs.

Ok here we go, lifetime HU Hypers, all $3.50



And graph for the day;


Worst day so far but days like this come and go. No HHs today because I didnt get much sleep and I'm not in the greatest mood.

I'm obviously new around here so if this is the wrong sub-forum then would a mod kindly move it to the correct one, thanks.

ur name sounds like Catfood, gl meng!

Really not happy with my play today. Got coolered a bunch at the start then lost my confidence.

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Just learned how to insert images correctly, is there any way I can edit the OP?

Played $7s today, will move down if I hit a serious downswing. From what I gather the player field seems to be almost as bad but with fewer tight passive fish, more loose aggro fish. I got coolered like 7 times by one idiot who had a 3bet of 45% but pair>paired me preflop 4-5 times.



Gonna be really busy for a few days, so probably very little if any volume for a while. I'll get to analyzing HHs soon. If a mod could kindly let me edit the OP so I can make the images work I'd be grateful, it looks really ugly without the graphs.

Didn't get to play yesterday and didn't expect to get to play today but here I am. Frustrating day running into hands for 80% of it but the heater at the end was nice;



Just realised that every day so far I had found an excuse not to post HHs so here's a few lines I took that I'm not so sure of.

Vs fish;

Poker Stars $6.85+$0.15 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players

BB: t490 24.50 BBs
Hero (BTN/SB): t510 25.50 BBs

Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with 5 A
Hero raises to t40, BB calls t20

Flop: (t80) 4 8 3 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets t40, BB calls t40

Turn: (t160) T (2 players)
BB checks, Hero checks

River: (t160) Q (2 players)
BB bets t80, Hero raises to t200, BB folds



Vs guy who seems LAG/fishy, only like 14 hands against him though;

Poker Stars $6.85+$0.15 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players

BTN/SB: t560 28 BBs
Hero (BB): t440 22 BBs

Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 8 9
BTN/SB raises to t40, Hero calls t20

Flop: (t80) 6 T 3 (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t40, Hero raises to t110, BTN/SB calls t70

Turn: (t300) 8 (2 players)
Hero bets t100, BTN/SB calls t100

River: (t500) Q (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t310 all in, Hero calls t190 all in



Vs mostly passive opponent who's not gone for river value with top pair (As) on safe boards twice against me now. He sees me as very LAG

Poker Stars $6.85+$0.15 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players

BTN/SB: t440 22 BBs
Hero (BB): t560 28 BBs

Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 2 K
BTN/SB raises to t40, Hero calls t20

Flop: (t80) 6 9 K (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t40, Hero calls t40

Turn: (t160) Q (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t60, Hero calls t60

River: (t280) 5 (2 players)
Hero bets t120, BTN/SB folds



Vs Reg who doesn't seem to think much of me because I've had to fold to barrels a lot in our games.

Poker Stars $6.85+$0.15 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players

BTN/SB: t430 21.50 BBs
Hero (BB): t570 28.50 BBs

Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with T 7
BTN/SB raises to t40, Hero calls t20

Flop: (t80) 3 2 K (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t30, Hero calls t30

Turn: (t140) A (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t70, Hero raises to t500 all in, BTN/SB folds

Forgot to post yesterday. Didn't play much but had garbage cards, opponents, play and luck. Wasn't in the right frame of mind and the cards didn't cooperate either, but my opponents were so bad that I didn't get smashed.

Got lots of volume in today, felt like I played great and got reasonably unlucky in terms of cards.



I can't be bothered to post any interesting hands from a strategy point of view, but I did manage to play 3 games in 3 hands vs unknown moron so I'll show those for giggles.

Poker Stars $6.85+$0.15 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players

Hero (BTN/SB): t500 25 BBs
BB: t500 25 BBs

Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with T T
Hero raises to t40, BB raises to t100, Hero raises to t220, BB raises to t500 all in, Hero calls t280 all in

Flop: (t1000) 3 K 9 (2 players - 2 are all in)

Turn: (t1000) A (2 players - 2 are all in)

River: (t1000) J (2 players - 2 are all in)



Poker Stars $6.85+$0.15 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players

BTN/SB: t500 25 BBs
Hero (BB): t500 25 BBs

Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with K 4
BTN/SB calls t10, Hero raises to t60, BTN/SB calls t40

Flop: (t120) J K 2 (2 players)
Hero bets t60, BTN/SB calls t60

Turn: (t240) 6 (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t60, Hero calls t60

River: (t360) 2 (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t320 all in, Hero calls t320 all in



Poker Stars $6.85+$0.15 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players

Hero (BTN/SB): t500 25 BBs
BB: t500 25 BBs

Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with Q Q
Hero raises to t40, BB raises to t100, Hero raises to t210, BB raises to t500 all in, Hero calls t290 all in

Flop: (t1000) K 4 8 (2 players - 2 are all in)

Turn: (t1000) 4 (2 players - 2 are all in)

River: (t1000) J (2 players - 2 are all in)



Charity is appreciated.

Played pretty well yesterday. For the 2nd half of the day I ran horrible in every way possible. Got 88+ in like 15 times preflop and was behind for over 12 of them. Many 2pair>2pair and I even ran under equity in all-in spots to top it all off.

gl with your goal, i play 3,50 hyper hu myself and are planning to climb too

Only played a tiny bit yesterday, ran terribly as usual.

Thanks man, I think my medium-term goal is to be crushing the 30s GL to you too. Really need my luck to change soon, I'm 49.2 buyins under EV at $7 over 650ish games.



The most brutal part is I know I have the same chance of getting EV neutral as I do of going 99.4 buyins under.

Also for the thread in general;

-EV day [ ]

Looks like I need more people wishing GL, scientific proof right here that it works.



BBBBBink!

I was going to play longer but I really wanted to get a 3 figure winning day in. It's arbitrary I know but it was a minor arbitrary goal of mine.

>$100 day [x]
-EV day [ ]
>$100 EV day [ ]

Lots of coolers for the first half of the day. Felt like I played pretty well but took a lot of beats too. Had a chat with a couple regs who where sitting any and we agreed not to sit each other. #1 Bumhunter in the making. Anyway, when in doubt, just f**king drill 18/22 games.



-EV day [ ]

Barely got to play today. D/ced one game with 200 chips left so that's why the chips don't stay in multiples of 500. Stopped early because I was lagging badly. I'll post a graph of 1000 games at $7 level soon, tomorrow or next day. This includes some shot-taking before this thread began.



-EV day [ ]
Days of +EV in a row:11

First section of today was disgusting. Insane coolers, demoralising beats, a game where I gained 1055 chips in equity and lost (lol). But suddenly, at game 51 my savior arrived. He was the first person I've played from China, and he blessed me with his presence for 22 games. It was some of the finest poker I've seen in years, with many great hands, such as;

Poker Stars $6.85+$0.15 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players

Hero (BB): t240 12 BBs
BTN/SB: t760 38 BBs

Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 2 Q
BTN/SB calls t10, Hero checks

Flop: (t40) T T T (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t40, Hero calls t40

Turn: (t120) A (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t140, Hero raises to t180 all in, BTN/SB calls t40

River: (t480) 3 (2 players - 1 is all in)



And also this magnificent play;

Poker Stars $6.85+$0.15 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players

BB: t400 13.33 BBs
Hero (BTN/SB): t600 20 BBs

Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with K 9
Hero raises to t60, BB calls t30

Flop: (t120) 7 3 T (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets t60, BB raises to t340 all in, Hero calls t280

Turn: (t800) 3 (2 players - 1 is all in)

River: (t800) 8 (2 players - 1 is all in)



And from a disaster that could potentially result in the first -EV day of the thread, the day was saved.



-EV day [ ]
Days of +EV in a row:12

hey man, nice results!

I find using "prizes" instead of "chips" and "overlay net adjusted" instead of "Display All in EV" is a better indication of how I'm doing.

Just a suggestion!

I'm following, GL!

Today's results were not spectacular, althought I played really f**king well. I just played enough to get 1000 games. So here's that;



And so here's 1000 games, which includes about 100 that I played when shot-taking from the $3.50s and ran worse than I ever have in my life;



If I hadn't accidentally played 1 too many I'd have booked a nice profit of $0.70. In the final game I got allin for the win with A7s v QJ and the flop was AK3, but the soul-destroying T on the turn wiped out my profit. However if we're only looking at games since the start of the thread, since this is when I re-focused my game, the graph is a little nicer;



And it wouldn't be fair to end a summary post like this without any HHs so here's a nice hero I made;

Poker Stars $6.85+$0.15 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players

BTN/SB: t480 16 BBs
Hero (BB): t520 17.33 BBs

Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 7 T
BTN/SB calls t15, Hero checks

Flop: (t60) K Q 7 (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t30, Hero calls t30

Turn: (t120) K (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t60, Hero calls t60

River: (t240) 5 (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t360 all in, Hero calls t360



...but sometimes I get a little carried away

Poker Stars $6.85+$0.15 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players

Hero (BB): t530 26.50 BBs
BTN/SB: t470 23.50 BBs

Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with T J
BTN/SB raises to t40, Hero calls t20

Flop: (t80) K K 6 (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN/SB checks

Turn: (t80) A (2 players)
Hero bets t40, BTN/SB raises to t100, Hero calls t60

River: (t280) 5 (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t330 all in, Hero calls t330





Thanks, hopefully it won't be too long before I'm crushing the 30s with you Yeah I figured this out shortly after posting that graph that mixes ChipEV and money, I dunno why they didn't write the software to line it up correctly.

Haha hardly crushing but thanks mate

PM me ur skype if u wanna!

Played a couple of $15s, I'll move back down if I drop 10 buyins here, I plan to play a bunch tomorrow, hopefully >100 games. Posting graph for laughs/completeness;




I don't have a poker-dedicated skype at the moment but I'll make one soon. I'll send you a PM when I do I move to university on Saturday so I'm gonna try to find other poker players there, but of course my volume will drop massively for 9 weeks.

$15 regs I'm coming for you, prepare to lose equity and win money

>100 games as promised
Really not too happy with my play to be honest, but got neutral card distribution and ran good in all-in situations. Lots of them were people calling >80% of their stack, flopping a pair vs my A high then the cash goes in and I re-suckout so I don't feel too bad about it. Idk of the regs at this level are better or I'm just a but nervous but I'm not 100% comfortable so I gotta work on that. Like ~75% of the regs I played today shove way too wide over limps so I had a few funny hands like limp-calling a shove w/ A9o hand 1 against a reg I had a note on from a previous game and he turned up with Q8o.



There'll be no updates for a while because I go to Uni tomorrow, might turn this into weekly updates instead of daily, still undecided. I've stopped counting days of +EV, I'll tally them when I get my first -EV day. All graphs from now on will be in cash, not chips.

Have now moved into University, everyone I'm staying with is super nice and cool, got a good group of friends already. Managed to squeeze a little bit of play in today which is here;



I'm planning on joining the poker society here, to get to know other players who are willing to take poker semi-seriously. I'm going to remain vague of real life event though, and it's looking more and more like I'm going to be posting weekly or bi-weekly updates on here. Every month I'll make sure I post my month summary graph and my all-time graph, and this month they are the same thing



This contains in total about slightly over 1k games of $3.50 and $7, and almost 200 games of $15. ~850 games of $3.50 and ~120 games of $7 were prior to making this thread. I'll probably be posting fewer interesting hands also, but if I remember to save funny ones I'll post them. GL everyone at the tables, against everyone but me

Ok so obviously university life is too busy for me to update this thread so often. I'll make at least monthly updates but there isn't going to be a particular schedule and volume will vary wildy. In October I played a tiny bit, ran horrible for card distribution and played disgustingly badly so here's that so we can all laugh at me;



I realised Uni is too busy for me to play during term time so I didn't even play in November.

In December I dropped back to 1 tabling $7 to re-find my feet and get my confidence back, and I'm now 2-tabling $15s and feeling like I'm playing pretty well. I've toned down some of the crazier parts of my play and it's working out. Running badly of course but here's this month so far;



I'll post a month summary in early January and that will have an all-time graph attached too. Currently my all-time EV is $916.86 and Actual is $494.84

I couldn't end this post without a hand so here's one from today that made me giggle;

BTN/SB: t455 15.17 BBs
Hero (BB): t545 18.17 BBs

Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with 5 K
BTN/SB calls t15, Hero raises to t90, BTN/SB calls t60

Flop: (t180) 6 9 T (2 players)
Hero bets t90, BTN/SB calls t90

Turn: (t360) 3 (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN/SB checks

River: (t360) 9 (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t120, Hero calls t120

OK so 2013 is basically over, going to a party tonight so I'm done for the year. Here's December in full;



And here's the year summary, which is the same as all-time this year



The bankroll sits at ~$1120 and I planned to move up to $30s at $1200 then drop down if I lose 10 BIs. However I'm going back to Uni very soon and I don't really want to move up when I don't have a lot of time to play so that might be put on hold for a while.

Poker Goals for 2014;

-Become a reg at =>$60 with a >2.5% EV ROI
-$10k EV profit pre RB
-10K games played at levels =>$15
-Play better

My goals outwith poker and pretty standard s**t that I'm sure nobody wants to hear.

Hope you all had a great 2013 and have a better 2014

Ok so I somehow found time to get a decent volume day in so I thought I'd give it its own post. Also at game 69 I moved up to $30s. Beginning to get a feel for this new level. The regs are much better than the $15s regs and >80% of my games were vs regs, half of whom have like >$20k profit lifetime according to sharkscope. I played pretty excellent today, had disgusting card distribution but I somehow managed to not let that show in EV. Unfortunately I had an unreal stretch of being card dead with <10BBs so some of the regs think I'm weak and kept sitting me. Today has helped me mentally prepare for some swings at $30, since I had a >$300 downswing through no fault of my own, which represents like 25% of my roll. I didn't tilt or anything so that was good.