Sup. I'm Mike/fooz, and I've been around 2+2 since the gold rush era (see join date). Some of you may know me from my CardRunner days as a coach/video producer or perhaps my more recent endeavors.

So BlackChipPoker has recently started taking BitCoin. I just happen to have $200 in BTC. And thus a challenge was born! My goal is to run it up to $10k for this first go. Maybe $100k in a second part. I don't have a timeframe at the moment other than: as quickly as possible.

I'll be streaming the entire thing on twitch.tv, hopefully falling into a regular schedule. You can sweat, heckle, and lurk me here:

http://www.twitch.tv/pokertips

This thread will be a forum for me to give updates on my progress and discuss interesting hands. I'll save the more personal updates and general strategy discussion for my blog.

Good luck fooz! Looking forward to some TRs on your travels as well!

Thanks Orange.

First session was interesting. Working out the kinks on the software (well both Black Chip Poker and twitch).

That was super fun though! ..filming it on twitch and chatting with folks. I can see how this might get addictive. heheh

A couple hands of note. And of course I'm relatively readless, since this was my first day playing on this site.

HAND ONE: I flat the 4b w/KK. Sure I could jam, but figure either way is fine. And players at these stakes prob have zero 4b pot experience anyway. Flop is easy call, but can I make the super-hero fold on the turn?? I couldn't do it in game.




HAND TWO:

Here I have the 2nd nuts on the river and get 3bet! Could you fold? I timed down and called, which is what I usually do when I time down on the river.

I'll give your stream a follow and GL

lets get real h2 is a call. shove a 100 times before folding

Another fun night gettin' twitchy.

Man, summa you 10NL regs be crazy! I figured it be all chill and weak tight, but I stand corrected.

One particular reg, was 3-betting me like crazy. When I finally 4-bet him, he flatted the 4-bet and check-raised me off a missed flop.

Two hands later this one comes up...



Calling a 4-bet with AJ? Check/calling the flop? The only thing I can figure is that he thought I'd start widening my 4-bet range since he was 3-betting me so much, which was not my plan. I'm just surprised to be playing 4-bet pots at these stakes. From talking to my students, I'd gotten the impression that it was more of a rarity.

Thanks JustSomeDude! The encouragement & support definitely helps. ...on twitch too. I'm surprised how 90% of the people watching don't say a word.

Does anyone know if you have to have an account in order to comment on twitch? ...or are they truly all just lurkers.

I'm going to put in some more (streamed) hands tomorrow morning (Pacific time) to give the peeps in the European time zone a chance to tune in. ...if there are any games actually running I suppose lol.

Subbed good luck mike will catch stream soon. Some advise when I used to stream. Choose a constant schedule and post it on your page. You do need an account to comment. You can see registered users watching under chat option. Wheel 2nd nuts hand EZ GII. Kk is what ever. AJ hand lol. GLGL!!!

followed ur twitch. my god i am not looking forward to playing vs you later on in ur challenge. but, i am interesting in how you will fare in the 50nl and 100nl because they are harder than stars IMO!

@Chigah:
Wow: harder than Stars?! That's interesting to hear. What time of day do you play?

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Played a quick session today. I mixed in a 25NL game. Yeah - I know a $200 roll is short for 25NL, but the goal is to do this quickly. We're going to push the edge.

Not part of the challenge, but I still have to share this hand that came up in my regular 200NL game. Who do you think is the bigger fish?!

Btw - I have QQ. Editor is fkd.

Actually I am completely bsing. I am speaking from a preBF POV since that's the last time I played on stars. So idk the field probably got way harder since then. Soaybe stars is tougher. But, I play peak times since there is very little traffic otherwise. But don't worry you won't be seeing me much at your tables I prefer keeping my BR hehe

hahah

Yeah - I was just getting into some table selection techniques today. That pretty much amounted to getting on lots of waiting lists and swapping out bad ones. Real sophisticated stuff.

Howany tables are you planning to play throughout challenge? And how often are you gonna be posting graphs or w.e

While streaming, I'm keeping it to 4. I think this is the right balance for getting enough interesting hands, but not too fast for commentary. When not streaming, I'll increase at least up to 6.

Posting graphs is an interesting question. I'm a firm believer in not checking your results very often...only when you have to for whatever reason. It just makes you sweat the roller coaster ride of variance to much. But i recognize half the fun of following someone's challenge is seeing how they're doing. As a compromise, I think I'll post a graph every 5k or 10k hands.

In for this one, gl!

Can't wait to watch, I've been trying to fight the twitch revolution.

ha - why fight it?

Goin' live in less than 30 min

you already done? that was a quick session! are the past broadcasts purposely disabled?

Gl following! Since I just found this thread n haven't watched any of your videos yet r u playing FR or 6 max or a combination of both? Def not enough FR content out there..GL!

@Chigah. Streamed for about 2 hours yesterday.

If you're wondering if I'm streaming soon or when the next broadcast is, just send me a message on twitter: @DJGano

Correct - for now I'm choosing not to show past broadcasts.

@JYamada - thanks! I'm mostly playing 6-max with some HU. I doubt I'll play FR. 4 tables seems to work best for viewers to follow, and I want to maximize the hands/hour given only 4 tables.

fyi - will go live in 1 hour.

Shout out to Chigah for sweatin' with me for the bulk of today's 5 hour stream. Longest one yet and plenty of exciting spots.

I was even mixing in some 200NL - 600NL Stars tables to go with my BCP challenge on the 10NL and 25NL tables. So something for everyone.

Here's an interesting hand that came up with JumungusFungus (who had been watching the stream the day before). I'm curious to hear what you guys think of both my turn jam and his call before I say my opinion:

(JumungusFungus)

In game I think my thought process was, "Sh**. Well, 3bet pot, close to the top of my range, villain is good and will put me in tough spots without nutted hands."

When I think about it a little harder, I can see two combos of 78s, QTs and 3 combos of 77 as the majority of your nutted hands here...maybe rarely 88 if I'm my 3bet+cbet stat was looking high over the smallish sample.

I'd expect you to 4bet TT here vs me at least half the time, and I think you raise flop, fold pre, or 4bet with J9s...as well as some of the FDs.

importantly IMO, I don't block any NFD's, which frees up a few combos I am well ahead of (at least OTT when there's only one card left). I'm imagining AJdd, Kjdd, A9dd...if you are flatting here sometimes with A6s or A5s type hands I like this move with the A blocker as well. I don't think I expected this from QJdd-AQdd.

If I plug approximately that into flopzilla, it looks like we have about 34%, which makes us just about where we need to be for a slightly +EV call (not counting rb...it's close then I guess). And if I add QJdd-AQdd my equity is closer to 50%.

I guess its a fold then with the Ad..

too much showdown value to turn into a bluff when you really can't expect players at these stakes to fold out any better hands. all it accomplishes is folding out hands you beat that could bluff and gets it in behind.

there's more than enough equity to c/call turn, then either c/call or c/fold river on bricks depending on how wide the villains 3betting btn vs co

as for villains play, until he knows your calling pairs lower than 99 oop vs a 3bet then he should be snapping you up all day with AA/KK because he's only behind your 6 QQ/TT combos, and you most likely don't even have QQ in your flatting range co v btn.

gl with the challenge! regarding graphs, since you're only 4 tabling it would be great if you post one every 2 weeks rather then every 5k hands. since this appears to not be your main games that means it gets like 25% or less of your attention, so 4 tabling 25% of your hours will make 5k hands like >1 month which is kinda boring, imo. and really, why would the results/variance of anything lower than 50nl impact your mental game?

Thanks for the responses, and I think you're both spot on.

In game I thought I had at least a non-zero chance of making AA/KK fold on the turn, but in reality that value is probably still too close to zero. I agree check/calling is the best way for me to play it on the turn. And probably check-folding every river I don't improve.

BTW - my screen name on BCP is pokerinabox. If you play an interesting hand with me, feel free to share it here. Or if you post elsewhere, share the link.

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I'll be streaming a new session in just under an hour: 3pm PT / 6pm PT / 11pm CET.

And showing off my new interface! Stop by and say hi.