Crazy caught up in wedding stuff which is getting a little overwhelming at times. Doesn't help that I just moved, and I'm getting ready to launch a new product that's been in production for almost 6 years. Craziness right now.

I really couldn't get much volume in this month simply because of lack of time. Here's totals from last month and also overall since I started tracking. I'm just about at my goal though so that's good. I also have a ton of good material to go over at these stakes.




Overall to this point:




So as some time frees up I'm going to go over several hands from this month and get as detailed as possible.

Well, our honeymoon ended up being A LOT cheaper than we had thought, so I changed my goal to 5.5k and hit that last week. So yeah for reaching goal! Not bad considering I played probably ~7k hands/mo in my spare time, and played at smaller stakes than I'd normally play. I'm honestly not sure if I'm comfortable playing too much higher anymore and keeping much more money online. I might build it back up to play 200 and 400nl and keep it around there, but likely not much higher anymore, which makes me a little sad. Tough to be an American.

That being said it was fun, and it took me a couple of weeks to adapt my game, but I think I did pretty well. I think about played approximately 55k hands total to reach the 5.5k. I'll try and post some of my thoughts about beating 50 and 100nl, and some hands as well.

Villain is a fairly standard regular. Haven't seen anything amazing postflop from him.

Hand Converted by Ace Poker Drills Poker Training Software

NL Holdem $0.5(BB)
SB ($49.5)
BB ($66.32)
UTG ($59.2)
HJ ($13.65)
CO ($16.81)
HERO ($55.4)

Dealt to Hero A 4

UTG Raises To $1.5 , HJ Folds , CO Folds , HERO Calls $1.5 , SB Folds , BB Folds

He's obviously ahead of my range. I'm calling mainly to use my position because I have a good feel for how most regs will play at this limit.

Flop ($3) 2 7 Q
UTG Bets $2.5 , HERO Calls $2.5

Following my plan. Would be much more ideal if I had at least a back door flush draw, but I can easily rep the queen or maybe turn a backdoor gutter. Raising doesn't make much sense if I'm going to rep the queen on the turn. Too dry of a board.

Turn ($8) 2 7 Q 7
UTG Bets $5 , HERO Raises To $13.5 , UTG Folds

Now I can easily represent the 7 or Q. Both of which are in my range, and both of which may raise the turn here for value since I wouldn't get much more value on the river in most cases on this kind of board any ways. About as dry as you can get, so my perceived range is strongly 7x/22/Qx.There's a ton of better hands I can get to fold at this point, even including AK/AJ, but mid pairs etc... will have a hard time calling out of position. Notice my sizing as well. I risk 13.5 to win 13, so I need him to roughly fold a little over 50% of the time for it to show profit long term.

HERO wins $17.85

Villain had 99 and folded.


Here's perhaps the worst hand I played in several months on there. Well, actually I'm sure it is. I'm going to blame being tired on this one because I don't tend to make these kinds of mistakes. As soon as I did it, and even before my opponents fold I was like... wtf am I thinking (or why am I not thinking).

CO was a pretty aggressive regular. didn't know much about BB, but he was short and likely not very good.

Hand Converted by Ace Poker Drills Poker Training Software

NL Holdem $1(BB)
SB ($102.29)
BB ($37.55)
HJ ($205.55)
CO ($236.36)
HERO ($113.65)

Dealt to Hero 7 7

HJ Folds , CO Raises To $3 , HERO Calls $3 , SB Calls $2.5 , BB Calls $2

Flop ($10.5) 7 K 4
SB Checks , BB Checks , CO Bets $6 , HERO Calls $6 , SB Folds , BB Calls $6

Wish the bet sizing was better, but I need to call because I want to bring SB or BB in, and hopefully get someone to CR a draw.

Turn ($28.5) 7 K 4 5
BB Checks , CO Checks , HERO Bets $19 , BB Raises To $28.55 (all-in), CO Calls $28.55 , HERO Raises To $104.65 (all-in), CO Folds

So someone must have a draw or weakish K. Just betting for value, but my big mistake is shoving once BB goes all-in and CO calls. He would have bet a flush draw and two pair/set's+, so his most likely holding is Air, Kx, or other biggish pair. This was a standard call again. May not have lost value, but I didn't help my cause.

River ($209.25) 7 K 4 5 K

BB shows K 8

HERO wins $113.65

CO had AA. Might have been able to squeeze more river value. He was a decent reg, but if I called turn, and he checked river, then I would have sized my bet to get calls from 99+ since I wouldn't expect him to check Kx often enough. Sigh.... everyone makes mistakes.