I'm currently sat at a 2/5 that is half as deep as last night's 2/3 :|

Gotcha. I see the way your calculating. Nothing wrong with that. I guess I'm counting total BBs and you're counting buy ins.

Yup. Hopefully today marks the end of this downer, just have to hang on for another couple hours and will hopefully have some green to post!

Daily Update - Friday 01/12

Hours Played: 9.3
Profit: $3,086



What a breath of fresh air tonight's session was! Polar opposite compared to how I've been running of late. Also happens to be the biggest win I've ever had! Very good start to the new week, both in terms of volume and results.

Hand 1

Very loose UTG opens $15, UTG+1 calls, hero $70 w/ JTdd, UTG folds, UTG+1 calls.
Flop $150: 952r (1 diamond)
Check, hero cbets $80, villain calls.
Turn $310: 8o
Check, hero shoves for around pot, villain folds.

Hand 2

Hero opens black QQ UTG $25, UTG+1 calls, UTG+2 3bets to $90, BTN cold calls, hero calls, fold.
Flop: 862r
Hero checks, UTG+2 cbets $150, BTN folds, hero calls.
Turn: 4o
Hero checks, UTG+2 checks.
River: 2o
Hero vbets $200, UTG+2 folds.

Hand 3

MP limps, Hero $25 OTB w/ KTo, BB calls, MP calls.
Flop: 784r
Check, check, hero cbets $40, fold, call.
Turn: 6o
Check, check.
River: Jo
Check, hero bets $90, villain calls with A3o......................................

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I'm not going to post the big winning hands here as they were all fairly standard. Going to get some sleep now. Partying hard tomorrow night and then back at it Sunday!

Results: https://1drv.ms/x/s!AkK4doh8PHLEgk6pBpFJrgcokPKM

That is some chip porn. Nice session boss!

That is some way to get out of the hole. WTG

tellypl has the nicer camera work but that is one of the sweetest pics I have ever seen within the context of your last few weeks.

Awesome job.

Haha thanks lads. Yeah it has nothing on tellys CP, I also think I had about $800 more than that toward the end of the night. Got a bit difficult to transport when our table broke though.

Here's to repeating this on Sunday!?

Nice comeback! Gotta keep the positive vibes when times are hard


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Always!

Daily Update - Sun 3/12

Ended up doing absolutely nothing all day. I honestly think I could have been in bed for the past 24 hours. Which is ridiculous. I don't usually get hungover after partying but felt particularly dusty on Sunday night when I got up after Saturday's big night out. I got out of bed at 5pm and decided I didn't feel like going to the gym or playing and so basically went back to bed. I feel pretty bad about this because I was A) supposed to go to the gym and B) play 8 hours yesterday. I didn't get either of those things done and that's not really acceptable. Today I was planning on not playing but since I missed yesterday, I'm going to play a night session @ the casino. It's usually pretty dead on a Monday night but I suppose something is better than nothing.

Also spent waaay too much money on Sat night out. Need to do this a lot less if I want to survive the holiday season!

Hand 2

Hero opens black QQ UTG $25, UTG+1 calls, UTG+2 3bets to $90, BTN cold calls, hero calls, fold.
Flop: 862r
Hero checks, UTG+2 cbets $150, BTN folds, hero calls.
Turn: 4o
Hero checks, UTG+2 checks.
River: 2o
Hero vbets $200, UTG+2 folds.

I dont play much holdem anymore as Im a PLO player but checking the river in this spot seems better? As we essentially get him to fold his AQ AK hands by betting which we want him to stab with ? He could also have TT/JJ depending on his 3 bet style but the check back on turn indicates the former?

I don't think he bluffs AQ/AK very often so I think vbetting vs TT/JJ is better. He asked me OTR "how big is yours" implying I think he had a smaller pair.

Yeah that’s fair enough. Also as a side point, been looking at your excel sheet. Is there an hourly rate you are trying to achieve that will cover your lifestyle etc?


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Just trying to get it as high as possible. $30 as a minimum would be nice because itd fast track my savings but ideally I want to get it up around 40 which I think is pretty good for Brisbane games given the rake.

Daily Update - Monday 4/12

Hours Played: 5.7
Profit: $510

Kind of a slack day today. Got up late, went and got breakfast, then went back to bed after a real crapped gym session. Started to feel physically ill so I went home early. Raining all day so I didn't get a chance to go outside and read in the sun. Arrived at the casino late but found myself in a pretty juicy 5/5 which was 5/5/10 for a bit as well. Won some money. Tomorrow I want to get to the casino earlier and play for longer. I also want to get a better workout in and hopefully some sun.

Hand 1

4 limpers, hero $40 w/ AQo in CO, 1 MP limper calls (he's good player, $400-500 effective)
Flop: 9TJr
Check, check
Turn: 4cc
Check, hero bets $60, call.
River: 5o
Villain leads $75, hero shoves for ~$300, villain folds.
Notes: Flop we could definitely cbet - it gets us a free river but this board is pretty bad for us imo and we don't really want to get check/raised here. Think the check behind is fine. Turn, once he checks, I expect him to have total air or some sort of weakish showdown value. Think we can get him off Tx or 9x, maybe some Jx by the river if we start betting now. When he leads river, it just looks incredibly weak. I can't see any value in his range that check/calls turn and leads river so small so I just ripped it and hoped he would fold lol. He says, "I can beat 9s, did you flop it?" he folds and I show him the ace of hearts - he cashes out a few orbits later. :')

Hand 2


UTG (horribad) opens $15, MP (extremely loose here) 3! to $35, hero CC 99 in HJ, UTG calls.
Flop $105: 242r
UTG donk shoves $170, MP folds, hero ???
Notes: UTG is bad chinese guy. Has been the biggest whale as times but tonight he wasn't drinking and was playing fairly snug. I expect his shove to be a lot of TT-JJ but maybe also 77-99 or even lower. I figured since he's Chinese, he'd definitely have 88 here? Anyway, I sigh called and river a 9 to suck out vs his TT. Probably a fold though since it's such a large bet relative to the pot.

Hand 3

Hero checks SB w/ T9o, 5 to flop.
Flop $25: T64r
Hero leads $15, BB calls, BTN (extremely loose and mucking around) raises to $60, call, call.
Turn $205: Qss
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River $205: 9o
Hero checks, BB bets $110, BTN folds, hero ???
Notes: Come river, I think we can bet for value but getting raised absolutely sucks. I opt for the check with the intention of calling a bet. But then BB bets which is super weird. Somewhat tightish middle aged guy but saw him do some weird **** with A9o earlier. I kinda just wanna fold to his bet here. He should like always have me beat? Anyways, I called and he had 22 - felt like a real good spot to just sigh xplo fold at the time. It's probably fine though.

Results: https://1drv.ms/x/s!AkK4doh8PHLEgk6pBpFJrgcokPKM

When I see a super tall tower of chips like that, I want to walk by and accidentally knock it over very badly. So far Ive resisted the urge but Im not sure how much longer I can stop myself.

Hahah ye guy next to me was trying to all night. :')

Oh, one the best part of having friends that play MSNL-HSNL and crush it is knocking over their stacks, because online you can't just close their laptop..

I would be betting this river like always. too many hands you can get value from will check back as played. Never folding if checking, unless it goes bet/raise (which will be so rare)

keep it going!

Hand 1: This flop isn't bad for our range. I'd argue it's better for our range than his. If he is a "good" player, then he should almost never hit this flop hard. That being said, we don't really want to give him any more free cards.

Hand 2: Rough spot. This is some kind of overpair 100% of the time though. We only lose to TT and JJ that take this line, but beat 55-88. Seems to be a call. Also isn't awful to get into small -EV situations against fish that are going to bust at some point. That way, you make sure the money has a chance at coming to you.

Hand 3: Fold on the flop. This is a different scenario than I suggested for Hand 2. The difference here is that we showed strength, BB showed strength by calling next to act, and then BTN is raising with no incentive to do so. We can just easily be drawing to 3 outs so much of the time, or even to runner runner.

River, we donk out like $120 ourselves, and then fold to a raise. We can't be attached to big hands when someone tells us that we're beat. As played, we just call and hope that he's bluffing with 75

I worry that if I did it at the casino, I'd get tackled by security :') But in a homegame it's all fun n games. =]

Certainly don't mind betting the river. I figured BB may just fold a bunch now and by checking we let the spaz on the BTN try steal it.

It's fairly good for his range imo. He's a "good player" as good as you can be when you limp/call a $40 iso lol. Kinda strange to see him do that and it doesn't happen very often. He can easily have 99/TT all two-pair and all straight combos on this board.

We're not really worried about giving him free cards because our hand really doesn't need protection or anything...

Honestly I felt as the time it was close but that we should lean more towards folding. Probably not a mistake too much either way but ye felt like we lit money on fire when he has us dominated there...

Can never fold on flop vs BTN he's a huge spastic. He's playing ATC and mucking around A LOT post so folding top pair is out of the question imo. My range is stronger than both of the other players'.

Yeah I'm definitely okay with betting river but prob not $120 since we're targeting Tx hands. Do think there's merit to checking river when BTN is such a spastic though.

Daily Update - Tuesday 5/12

Hours Played: 7.7
Profit: $1,176

And with that session, downswing over! Wanted to stay a bit longer to get my 8 hours in but one player left when it was 8 handed and that created a domino effect and next minute we're cashing out. Glad to book a few decent wins coming up toward Christmas.

Below is a hand I played differently due to a comment that was made in this thread a couple pages back... So a couple pages back I posted the following hand...

UTG limps, hero $25 w/ AQcc, BTN, SB, and limper call.
Flop $100: QJTr
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Turn $100: 6ss
SB leads $75, only hero calls.
River $250: 4sss
SB leads $200, hero ???

I then received a comment from MSNL crusher "Dizzyqtp" saying the following,

And so I've been thinking about cbetting a bit more of a linear range in multiway pots. So tonight this hand came up...

Limp, limp, Hero isos $30 w/ KK, 3 callers.
Flop $120: 7J8
Checks to hero, we cbet $70, SB 3bets to $250, folds to hero, hero ??? SB started $500 effective. Is a decent reg and is capable of raising flush draws here. I'm pretty sure we have an easy fold (even though after the hand the guy said he had a nut flush draw) because he can have all sets, bottom two, at least 4 combos of straights, combo draws, we block some of his flush draws, AND my range is strong because I've cbet into 3 players in a bloated pot.

My question is, and I'd appreciate a comment from you as well Dizzy, should we be looking to cbet here or check back in position? Historically, I've done plenty of checking here but I decided to cbet this one in response to your comment. And to anyone else reading this, we doing mostly cbetting or checking here?

Hand 2

Limp, hero $30 w/ 89dd in HJ, SB (500) calls, limper calls.
Flop $95: 892r
SB leads out $150, limper folds, hero moves all-in, SB tanks for aaaaaages, exposes the 3 while checking his cards, proceeds to call it off with 3x, board bricks out and he mucks on a brick turn and storms off. Donations like this are always fun. :')

Results: https://1drv.ms/x/s!AkK4doh8PHLEgk6pBpFJrgcokPKM

I think you should be checking back sometimes and betting sometimes, depending on players in the hand. Against players who will play more straight forward, I like betting, because it makes for an easy b/f. In my games, I'd be betting this more often than not. HOWEVER - from what I see form your posts people are not playing as straightforward as my games (small sample bias?) I'd be checking more often. That being said, I'd be calling almost all turns, and many rivers (obv runout dependent)

People in general playing pretty straight forward. It's a 4 handed flop so a bit harder to change Strat based on any one player

Based on this seems like an easy b/f then