Good to see you moving on from your last thread, I'm currently reading a book before playing again as well - really enjoyed our sweat session and took a lot from it!

Best of luck mate - what's the best poker book you've read so far?

Thanks mate! Yeah, I had to move to a new thread to set a long term goal. What book are you reading right now? Happy to hear that you enjoyed and took a lot from our sweat session

I have only read one book and parts from others. I have read “Let there be range” in the past and I liked it very much, but I think it’s very old now. Also it’s for higher stakes and I don’t think it helped me so such as other books can do for micros. Also I have read a big part of blackrain’s “crushing the micro stakes”. I’m planning to finish the “mental game of poker” for sure, (I am at 50% now) which is a great book imo, especially for solving tilting problems and build confidence. Also I’m planning to read blackrain’s “modern small stakes” (I have read some parts) and also Janda’s book “aplications of nlh” asap.


Last session results. I’m satisfied in general.





Read the book "The Mental Game Of Poker" goal: 103/198 52%
Bankroll: 1350$
Needed for the nl16 shot: 50$

GL OP. See keep on grinding!

In again.

Ty man! Yes the grinding continues

welcome again bro

Warm up with a fresh 20 min poker video with tips about planning from Nick Wealthall.


And my session with alarm set to 1h length:





I played also 6 spin & go’s for fun and I won only one



Read the book "The Mental Game Of Poker" goal: 103/198 52%
Bankroll: 1341,77$
Needed for the nl16 shot: 58,23$

Last session:



Read the book "The Mental Game Of Poker" goal: 103/198 52%
Bankroll: 1344,81$
Needed for the nl16 shot: 55,19$

Last session:



Read the book "The Mental Game Of Poker" goal: 103/198 52%
Bankroll: 1363,47$
Needed for the nl16 shot: 36,53$

Biggest pot won:

MP is a 23/20/10 AF 6.6 in 546 hands and calls my utg open.
BTN is a 24/19/8 AF 2.3 in 6k hands and one of the best regs imo. He have balanced ranges and uses the same bet sizes either for value either for bluffs vs other regs and he adjust good vs fishes.
BB is a look like fish playing 38/0 in 8 hands and he was playing at one table I think. So, after he cold calls the squeeze I think I have the implied odds to set mine here. The MP follows so we are 4way in a dry low flop. All checked so we hit the set free on the turn. I decided to bet small like 1/3 pot here to gain value from overpairs or even AK,AQ and try to stack off the fish on the river. The fish did the work for me and paid me with JJ overpair.

Why bet so small?

because it's a 4 way 3bet pot and I believe that it's very difficult to gain value from regs if I bet something like 50% pot or bigger even if they have an overpair. My target is the BB mostly here and I'm planning a pot size shove vs him. Maybe a littl bigger was better, but I believe that the bet have to be 2$ or smaller. Also sometimes I might bet my TT-QQ here with the same size.

I had no sleep tonight.. I have to fix this. But I'm a night boy
I love this silence of the night. I'll stop it here. Because from a poker goal thread, it will transform to a romance thread.


One session at nl10 9max:



I like these walks to 9max from time to time to change waters.


Strange things:



wtf bro? 44 tables? is it profitable?


New goal import:

I will start reading the book "Modern small stakes". I feel mentaly ok, and I don't have the passion to continue reading "mental game of poker" right now. Of course I will continue reading from time to time. I think "modern small stakes" is more important now. Also I find it very interesting. I paid for this so it's a shame to leave it unread. I made an investment so I have to get my reward by reading it and get the knowledge.



Read the book "Modern Small Stakes" goal: 0/500 0%
Read the book "The Mental Game Of Poker" goal: 103/198 52%
Bankroll: 1371,07$
Needed for the nl16 shot: 28.93$

Last session was a loosing one. It's part of the game. You can't always win.



Biggest pot loss:







Read the book "Modern Small Stakes" goal: 0/500 0%
Read the book "The Mental Game Of Poker" goal: 103/198 52%
Bankroll: 1359.44$
Needed for the nl16 shot: 40.56$

GL man! i'm doing a similar challenge trying to get to 100nl this year from 10nl (i play FR though). Didn't even know 16nl existed until now lol

Gl bro!

Don't hesitate to take that NL16 shot, it's actually softer than NL10$ games on Stars imo, but you'll need StarsHelper to convert stacks to bb's, otherwise it's a mess. Add some NL10 EUR tables as well, if you want juicier games. GL!

Thanks man! gl to your goals! yeah nl16 exists


Thanks bro!



Thanks man. I played some hands at nl16 before somethink like 10-20k I don't remenber exactly right now and I agree that sometimes there are very soft tables. StarsHelper sounds a good idea. Thanks a lot for the advices!

Two new sessions:






And one unbelievable hand from the last session:







Unbelievable hand. I can't make any sense everytime I look the hand. Maybe it was a magic trick and he knew the result lol. Villain was playing 25/20/7 with AF 1.1 and he played so aggressive with gutshot + 2 overs. Maybe my small bets affected his play. The outs are too many and I can't escape neither on the flop neither on the turn. On the river KQ makes no sense (neither Q8) so I don't think there's a way to escape anyway from the hand. I don't know if he was on tilt but the note saved.

Read the book "Modern Small Stakes" goal: 0/500 0%
Read the book "The Mental Game Of Poker" goal: 103/198 52%
Bankroll: 1349,47$
Needed for the nl16 shot: 50.53$

I've played a bit of 16NL over the journey and it is a really fishy pool for some reason.

It's like a no mans land of fish that get lost between 10NL and 25NL.

Profitable level.

What would you do with AJ on that board?

Too difficult to answer without villain tendacies and type of AJ held

On the straight over straight hand I might be alone here but I think you could fold the flop. In my mind he's either raising with a flush draw (almost certainly a better one) or an overpair that would be worried about the possibility of the turn/river making a straight or flush possible.

The turn is definitely a fold for me, how are we calling OOP with a small FD and guthshot for 18bb?

Another thing to consider is how he perceives your UTG range, that flop doesn't play too badly for him, I'm not sure what your opening range is like UTG but it's not containing many 9's or J's and his calling range may well do. Given his AF he's not raising much so we can assume we are behind most of the time.

When he barrels the turn I just think it's a really tough call, we'll only beat him if our draws come in and we aren't getting good enough odds especially OOP to call.

The shove is good play from him I think, you could argue it'll miss value from TPTK/overpairs but when you've c/c a brick on the turn he'll think you must have 2pair+ and won't fold to an obvious scare card.

Just my 2 cents, interested to hear your thought process mate, give me a shout on Skype tomorrow!

It's lot player depended. Probably I call the flop raise, On the turn sometime I will call sometimes I will fold if the villain have passive stats and suddenly fires 2nd barrel after raise cbet flop. And if I call I fold on the river shove of course vs this type of villain.

I like your way of thinking and maybe it's a loose call oop 2 streets.

But after a little deeper analysis, if we suppose he raise flop with these hands you said, we have something like 37% equity, so I don't think that is an easy flop fold.





Let's check out our equity on the turn again. The turn is a blank card, so we expect to continue betting will all the range he raise the flop right? So here we take something like 23.5% equity and considering that when we hit we are oop and also when when hit the flush for example we are not sure that we have the best hand, I think I will agree with the fold to turn bet. But on the river, really KhQh make no sense..

Yes this is an important part to consider. I don't know how he perceives my UTG range because sometimes I change my range depending of the opponents. So I can't know what he stats he sees for me.

I can only agree with that


I don't think that his bet here is a good move. It's a good move only if he knows my hand lol. I will never play a set like I played, and almost never I have two pair here to take value from me in the long run.

Thanks for your opinions mate. Last 3-4 days I haven't opened skype because of 3-4 hours of poker available daily. I try to get used to new habits like warm up before sessions by reading a book or watch a video, and session analysis after sessions, by watching some important hands and take notes, so if I decide to play 2 sessions of 1 hour length, I need almost the double time for all these. It's a little hard to spend 50% of you time outside of tables but I enjoy it very much and I think that this helps me to get better. We will talk asap man