Hey 2+2 i'v been reading since i started playing poker 2 months ago. I really enjoy reading the poker goals & challenges section, it's been very inspirational. I'v been break even for about 1500 games of the 3.40 stt games. Recently iv dropped about 200$ in 100 games, so i decided to do something about my game. That is to post in this thread and keep track of my daily progress also been more involved on 2+2. I'll also be posting some daily videos of myself playing and hopefully i can get some helpful feedback and find out what im doing wrong.

Goals for the year
-Become a winning player
-Move to the 6.50 stts
-obtain a 750$ bankroll
-Post at least 100 times on 2+2

gl, sngwiz would be one of your best investments for you. also pt3 or hem if you currently dont have it. tableninja is nice too. oh and posting hh in the stt thread for help.

Yup.

Good luck!

heres a 15min vid of my early game
http://www.megavideo.com/?v=UDG86EN4
starting my bankroll today at 185

good luck man

Good luck.
You are very motivated, so I'm sure things will turn around for you soon.

Good luck, OP. But I'd say like 100 meaningful posts. Lol most of mine are in BBV = garbage.

Hey OP, I may run into you eventually, I'm currently doing the 3.40's in my challenge.

Your early game seems good from watching that video. I start to shift gears when it's down to 6-handed, and start with my stealing hands. If it's 25/50 and not 6 handed I will make a few steals maybe from late with good hands when no one has entered the pot.

Once you reach 50/100, if I'm below 1200 (8M, 12bbs) it's push/shove from there. If you're above that mark, then it's stealing hands when in position and no one has entered.

For example, your ATo hand at 15:10 I most likely would have stole with just because you're on the button, no one has entered, and it's 25/50 mark. But I don't think it's a complete leak for folding. I normally raise 4xBB at 25/50 and switch to 3xBB at the 50/100 level, but I've learned from 2p2 that on the button you can raise a bit less at the 25/50 (150 instead of 200) since they may not respect your hand as good anyway.

The biggest part is maintaining your chips for when it gets to push/fold mode, and remember the gap principle, AT, A9, can be great to shove with from late, but often I will fold AJ to an early raise unless you have reads on opponents.

I play 4 at once as well, and am constantly checking previous hands in the hand history to see how players play hands, and the types of hands they play. I color code people based on how they play, not their ROI.

Green = Loose/Dumb
Teal = Very Passive/Weak
Red = TAG
Light Blue = Calling Station
Orange = LAG

I'm interested in seeing how you play middle game steals and push/fold.

Good luck! I'm sure you can do it

Hey thanks for your replies. I use the trial version of pt3 right now and have used sngwiz for a bit but my trial is over for that, not sure if i'm going to buy it.

Just checked out your thread devastation, sick progress mind if i ask what your pokerstars name is so i can say hello if we meet in game.
i'll try to apply your advice in game also thanks for taking a look at my vid

here is a vid of my late game starting at 75-150blinds its a bit long 30mins
http://www.megavideo.com/?v=SVP98ED0

Ok, I'm just gonna write this post as I watch it.

AA push is good, if you're in push/fold mode you should always push regardless of the strength of your hand, unless you've never pushed at the table before. Otherwise they can see that you push with weaker hands and raise a bit with AA/KK.

Later you have 55 UTG with 1500 chips, there are 6 players acting behind you. Which is 6.67M, I think this is a shove. Most of the time you're flipping, sometiems against lose players you have an edge, and rarely you've 20/80 dog. With that M I would even shove 44, but not 33/22.

KK vs 44 is a cooler. If the guy checked I think shoving is wrong, you're betting way over the pot, bet about 80% of pot with the idea of shoving any turn.

With the KQ hand flop bet is fine, on the turn you said you are going to bet big, but you only bet 450 into a 950 pot, that is less than half. Just bet 958 and put him allin.

K2s hand I would have fired a bet on the turn SB vs BB, if an opponent checks to you twice you should almost always bluff at it imo.

When you're talking about the A5o push, that is standard. The A2o han dfrom the button is not really a shove, look how high a chip stack he has, close to 10M. No need to risk anything.

JJ was played well, at 100/200 I'm usually now at raising to 400 or 500, not 600. Shove flop was correct imo, putting him allin for potsize.
Preflop, shove from a bigstack is a fold unless they're loose. Any shortstack is a call normally, but you need to know opponent ranges.

KK that busted you vs A3 was played fine, esp since he called anyway.

I like the A4o fold from the BB, no need to riskc it vs him with that.

QJo from the cutoff is a pretty good stealing hand to try and chip up a bit and start being aggressive, I would have minraised from here. Folding is most likely ok, I dunno. Since you're second in chips folding and playing conservative is prolly ok.

QJs hand in the SB is a shove, and actually it's a shove with any two cards. The BB is similar in stack size, and he will only call with premium hands if he fears going out.

A9o from the button with big stack limping is a good fold imo because the SB and BB are both short stacks.

AQo is definitely a good call, you can't be folding good hands since you are soon to be short too.

A9o from the BB against an SB shove is good. SB is playing correctly by shoving every single hand from the SB. He could have folded that one cause of the other short stack though.

QTs, whoa, you are now in the money, it's time to play super aggressive. That should be an easy raise. Go for first and settle for third when in the money.

98s shove, you are smallest stack and M is below 8. Shove any two cards from SB when folded to you.

QJs, check is good, cbet shoulda been around 800 imo, close to pot. Turn is a definite bet, with stacks like this I doubt he would slow play an ace, he woulda raised any ace from the SB imo. Unfortunately you got drawn out on for not betting turn.

Kxo from the button at 200/400 is prolly a shove. If not, definitely QJo from UTG at 200/400 when you're the smallest stack is definitely a shove.

QJs with the small shove and a call, prolly a good fold.

ATo in the BB is an autocall I think, it's a great hand and you're very short at 200/400 level. Button shove can be any ace, any broadway king, any pair, you're crushing his range. There is something to be said about folding cause you arent the shortest stack, I prolly woulda called and gone for first or nothing.

82o fromt he SB, it's 200/400 you shove any two cards.

A5o facing a raise, you're very short and you're now in the money, if you're going for first that's a shove. With blinds this high you just gotta go with it.

Q8s, it's 200/400 still, shove! ITM and blinds high you should be super aggressive.

Heads up Q5 is good, and since blinds are 300/600 I like to just shove. Shove any A, any K, any pair, any two pretty decent cards, any suited connectors. Blinds are too high to outplay, if he's weak he will fold more. You wanna be shoving allin, not calling allin.

A5o preflop against UTG caller is prolly a shove.

K2o was a good shove. Literally SB vs BB is any two cards with an M lower than 7 unless at the bubble and there are super short stacks around.

Ok so overall you seem to play good until the end, you're being a bit too passive when there are few players. Heads up with blinds 200/400 or higher you can pretty much just shove any two cards. Also, J5o is better than half the deck, and heads up your opponent has 2 random cards. That also is a shove.

You are better getting your money in 30/70 dog when equal chips than waiting for 60-40 favorite when you have barely any chips. When you let your opponent get that many chips you need to win at least two allins to win, whereas with equals chips even as the dog you win more often.

Hope my analysis on a whack of these hands helped, maybe others can provide better feedback, but this is how I play those hands.