Hello!

I'm going to start a thread to follow and track my results in poker. I wont post a long background story but here is a small one.

Shipped 2.50$ 180man, invested in HEM. Won some money in SnGs and lost them in sports betting with a double or nothing mentality. Did that few times. I now came back at the start of June after having a year off from poker, I also have a new laptop so no old database from old one. Deposited 50€ to stars and plan is to make it out of micros. I found out about the stars RB change after depositing but I'll see how it turns out. I also subbed to RIO essential to watch some videos there.

Plan is to play 9-12 6max tables depending how I feel. If I do sports betting it will be singles only with a stake of 50bbs of current poker stake I'm at.

I'm going to give myself a 4BI shot at 5nl when I reach 100$.

Here is my June so far with one evening left. Not much volume but I believe I can improve a lot on that in the future.



I'll try to post some handhistories and thoughts from my journey and see where I end up, gl!

Well played my last session of the month and it went well. People just donated stacks to me.

Some hands from the session

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The necessary



2)

Vs reggish east-eu guy who kept attacking everybody after they checked



3)

Can I ever fold this vs 80/10 fish?



4)

Fish from previous hand started shoving pre and when he didnt



End of June graph



Br is now roughly 85$ so hoping to have shots at 5NL in August! With this winrate it wont take long! (Inbefore someone saying lol sample I know Im running well at the moment and cant sustain this winrate for 100k hands)

First day of August is in books and it was good one. I wont be able to put this much volume each day but today was a good one also volume wise.

I was running good in the right places. Also ran my flopped fullhouse to turned quads twice, I was IP both times and luckily only other villain stacked me off and other one tried to slowplay me.

Posting some hands

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Any opinions on this one? I believe river call in micros is really close one because nearly nobody bluffs there,



2)

First hand vs this V



3)

vs a fish with 50/38 stats in 8 hands so pretty meaningless



Is there a way to see rake paid in HEM2?

Bankroll was actually 85€ in previous post so now its a bit above 90€ which is roughly 105$, I could shot take NL5 now, going to decide about it before the next session.

The AK hand , calling is prob better than shoving given your description. You have the nut high hand on a super dry board and if you think you're ahead it makes no sense to shove, you get snapped by pairs a lot.

TT hand you should bet the flop and bet the turn. Losing a lot of value, checking isn't good there neither is check calling the turn.

KJs hand is fine imo given your description, can't fold there with so much equity given your pair outs may also be live and he has half a stack.

ATs hand bet the turn, get out of the habit of check calling or check raising, you want to be the aggressor. By check raising turn there you're essentially turning your hand into a bluff.

Rake paid in PT4 is called rake attributed I believe, not sure about HEM but it's probably something similar.

GL Sir!

Ty! Also thanks for the input. I agree I need to get rid of trying to kind of trap people with hands that arent good enough to do so on given situation. That leads to me putting myself to harder spots which is really unnecessary.

Instead of taking shot at NL5 I decided to 4 table NL2z and I felt I could probably focus more there, might play zoom more - just didnt like it when I last played it year ago or so. I think I played pretty fine but ran quite bad

Day


Some hands

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This hand was really weird. Had no idea how to play this. Might post this in small stakes forums too



2.

Im happy Im not tilting at all after hands like this



3.

V has opened 22 out of 28 times otb so thought this is probably a good place to 3bet bluff. His jam just didnt make any sense to me as he probably 4bets JJ+ here and he shouldnt have many 6x. Now looking at the hand I could probably bet more ott



And I found the rake after searching a bit more from HEM2 settings/stats. I think I will play more NL2 zoom before shot taking NL5.

AA hand is abit weak imo, you could bet the flop and turn and get value from single spades and keep the initiate.

TT nh! Unlucky

Your thinking in the T9o hand seems very logical, nice hand.

Havent been able to put in much volume but did take a shot at NL5z which went quite badly lol. I felt there wasnt much I could have done, just really ugly rivers and runouts and never hitting the flop etc. Gonna grind NL2 again.

Some hands from NL5z

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Think I should have raised more otf so I could have jammed turn



2)

Not good when shot taking higher stake



3)



Graph in NL5z

Finished the day off in NL2z, went alright


1)

One hand that confused me. Basically thought otf that Im only getting called by better hands and ott that is the only card in the deck im calling his bet. River I got no clue what to do. We beat sets and 2pairs but lose to flushes and KQ



2)

vs fish

I havent had time to play in the last days but been thinking about few things.

Is there a (free) program that converts stack sizes to big blinds and works in stars and party at least?

Also what do you suggest as program to analyze hands and/or construct ranges. I feel my opening ranges still need work not to mention 3bet/4bet ranges.

And about studying/reviewing my own hands. Never really put effort to this before so where should I start? Mark hands that I feel I misplayed and just think through different scenarios?

Could anyone maybe recommend a hud with popups? Im going to reduce zoom table count to 3 and really try to learn and understand different scenarios

First day of 3 tabling behind, was running quite bad I think but played decently. Can think a lot better when 3 tabling so gonna keep doing it for now.



Some hands

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Notes taken from betsizing



2)

Villain was tagged overaggro, havent folded to 3bet so far and hasnt folded to cbet on any street and has cbet every street or attempted stealing the pot. River aggression 100%. 57 hands



3)

Nothing to say



4)

Notes taken again, minraise = nuts every single time in NL2z



5)

Or close to nuts on stars



6)

One hand that I dont know if I played it well.
Villain is 32/16 and 18 3bet in 27 hands (small sample). My thoughts were that he doesnt have any set or overpair because he would had 3bet those pre so he either hit the J or is on a draw which I thought is more likely given the board texture. Called cause I had two overcards + nut FD. Thoughts?

Just finished a wild session, didnt play my best but definately didnt run too good. Felt Im never getting any value, all my bluffs are catched and everytime I tried to bluffcatch villain was like at the top of his range.



Some hands made me think whaaaat is going on here??

1)

For a blink of an eye I dreamed of winning a big pot. On flop I thought lets raise quite small to keep some Kx in and thought that FDs would probaly just shove into us. FPS syndrome. Note once again the minraise by btn.



2)

One of the wut hands vs fish. He was 10/8 in 91 hands so I put him on AA/KK/KQ which I block and dominate.



3)

My biggest pot won so far I think.



4)

My theory knowledge is still quite small I think but my thinking here was that my thinking here was that villain would pretty much always bet all his value hands ott to prevent me from drawing so when he checks it to me I think it caps his range (does it?), so I go for an overbet which he really cant call. Also I dont want to bet smaller so he cant draw/cr us. Called 3bet because of sizing.



Might have time to play other session today.

Just finished an annoying session in normal tables, gonna go through some hands before posting any here. Also lost like 3bi in 200 hands last night in zoom. Need to clear my mind even though im not feeling tilted.

Session in NL2 reg tables

After the last update here is my NL2 graph


Decided to have new shot at NL5z and im still there, though not going as Id want it to go.

NL5z graph after last update so doesnt include the first shot

Graph of all NL5z so far


So down a bit in NL5z but running way below EV. I have had some pretty crazy swings there already. Im not feeling tilt when I lose a pot to reg but when a fish draws past my AK with Q5o otr im tilting lol. Going to post some hands from NL5z tomorrow!

Hey, is all going well?
We Need an update :P