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08-12-2023 , 07:19 AM
I sent in an application to CFP program more than a few weeks back, IIRC it was during my bigger downswing on Ignition at 5nl zone. They replied with an offer to work with a coach at $100 an hour until they think I am able to work with the senior coaches and do a CFP deal...

Sitting on it. I haven't replied yet. I will undoubtedly get value from one session, at least I will have somebody to do a database analysis and get some feedback and likely some direction on how to make more progress. I have since applying reached a few goals and been moving up stakes on my own though. I've read a lot of horror stories about CFPs but at the same time, I don't talk to anyone IRL about poker because noone I know plays. Also don't know anyone online so again the coaching, even just one session, would probably be decent value.
08-15-2023 , 02:14 PM
The coaching deal was $100 an hour as advertised to me... I haven't put much more thought into it. I am leaning on at least trying out the first hour to get a review and general direction. I have been feeling pretty lazy with studying lately, but it could be because a general lack of time for poker compared to a week or so earlier where I was able to play all day and I was mixing in study as I found spots and such. As a result of feeling lacking, I am trying to put on Joey's Poker Life Podcast on car drives and making sure that I check at least a few hands through GTO wizard after sessions. Also going to be putting in more time into Upswing modules.

Other than that, I have deposited the Global portion of the BR ($110) onto ACR. Ignition has been giving me issues with HH lately, if I am using PT4 a lot of hands get error messages. I haven't really checked but I hope when I download the HH from the client later that it records properly. ACR has never given me a problem with HH and there is always action. I feel like I am not taking full advantage of what I'm trying to learn if I do not use a HUD. I still will put a lot of time playing on Ignition considering how well it has been going. Took a 2 buy in hit last night at 25nl and closed out treating it as a stop loss and hit the lab for a few minutes before putting in a few minutes on ACR. Ended up doing okay, started down (like usual) almost 2 full buy ins but quickly came back + 2 buy ins but ended up dropping down to +$7 at 10nl blitz. Don't think I even played for one hour. Loaded up for a few hundred hands today too on ACR and was able to rack up another win for almost 2 buyins at 10nl blitz. So over last 2 sessions back, about 1k hands and almost 3 buyins won.

This puts me breakeven on ACR for the last 10k sample. But, the last 3k hands I am + 9 buyins exactly. I am also running over 5 buyins under EV for the last 6k hands or so. I think the time away from ACR has let me look back into how I was feeling when playing there. I eventually accepted that everyone was a better player than I was. I just assumed everyone was in the lab and I was the worst player in the pool. I wasn't contesting any pot. Was almost looking for any excuse to fold and see another hand hoping to get AA/KK and get all in PF just to get sucked out on again and stay on this loser's tilt. This mindset absolutely tanked my game. My A game became C game and C game became straight up punting. It is pretty clear that the 20-30 buy in downswing wasn't just bad variance. I definitely still have a problem sometimes if I get coolered or sucked out on by a 2 outer or something but it was out of hand before.

Going to play back on Ignition and Global was a breath of fresh air. I wasn't worried that people see our HH and make adjustments, I had a confidence being anon and was able to drop in stakes and really push into what I think is some kind of fear and get in the bluff streets and play with check raises and overbets etc. I was very scared to try this at 10nl, even as I changed my BR rules, I was playing on scared money. Looking back now all that scared money did was give itself away instead of at least give itself a fighting chance by not insta-folding vs any aggression lol.

I am not going to stop playing on ACR. It honestly is probably the best site for me to try to become a winning reg on because there is always more traffic there vs any other site and the times I can play during the week align with traffic. If it is truly one of the harder sites, then I want to be playing there at least somewhat anyway. The rakeback is great, I can get HH reliably, traffic is good, and I have not had any issues moving any money on or off the site.

Still not sure what I'm going to do about zoom though. It is really nice to be able to fold out a bunch of garbo and see another hand. I read a lot that it's a rake trap (but don't really understand that if it's so popular) and reg table winrates and likely higher. However, 4 tabling reg tables is only getting me like 200 hands per hour. I do take a bit more time bank on purpose than most players but I can zoom for 1 hour and easily hit 1k hands. And I am not sure how much my focus falls off 4 tabling reg vs 4 tabling zoom because I almost can't handle it if everyone is draining time banks on reg tables.

Seeing some of the showdowns recently on ACR and also (seemingly) stopping the redline bleeding since incorporating some things I was doing on Ignition has hinted at the notion I did fall into some really bad thought patterns and assumptions about players despite everything I have learned. People are bluffing, the do have it sometimes, not every raise is a personal attack. Each day I feel a stronger urge to learn more and become better at this game. I am excited to see the next few k hands on ACR.

Haven't been playing much the last week really but have been when I can. Basically been breakeven. Lost a few buyins at 5nl zone, won a few at 10nl reg, breakeven at 25nl for a few hundred hands. Then the last 2 days up a little on ACR bringing the bankroll total to a touch over $1,300 again. Not sure if I should check out 25nl reg tables on ACR yet... I am up a bit in a tiny sample and they didn't seem like it was a reg fest or anything but I think there is some mental block only having a handful of buyins on the site and I think ill be on scared money. Going to keep plugging away at 10nl blitz. Not giving up on ACR because I had a bad few thousands of hands. I was crushing it all the way up until 50k hands and I'm pretty sure it was a mental break and not being ready to accept that I can be a winning player. I outplayed myself hard. Poker reminds me a lot of my journey as a backpacker/traveler and life in general... The biggest and hardest opponent is going to be myself.
08-15-2023 , 07:33 PM
- 6 buy ins in last ACR session

I'm just a ****ing mega fish I guess.
08-15-2023 , 08:59 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by swerbs22
- 6 buy ins in last ACR session

I'm just a ****ing mega fish I guess.
+1 buy in at 25nl on Ignition though and have to remember ACR is like a training ground for me right now and not somewhere to get carried away. It only took a few coolers/bad beats to send me into a downswing.

Ignition is where I need to stay focused. Bankroll is essentially even after today's fiasco. There's a blackjack table that you can see the dealer cards? I'm careful with pit games now but it wasn't even hard to risky bets to run up the ACR account back to over $100. Could be dangerous but tomorrow is a new day.

I should be taking myself a lot more serious, sometimes like today's bad sessions I almost blackout and am just seemingly looking to almost lose it seems. It's good that I am trying to stay aware of what I'm feeling and going through. If I find myself in that zone again I'm going to make an effort to close out and just head into the lab to break the habit.

Tomorrow is another day. All in all, my BR was built from complete scratch and I've been lucky enough to withdraw a few times and I still have some $ set aside ($400) I can always add on if I have to I just never did because I didn't want to falsely inflate the BR.

I'm taking away the ACR portion of the BR and separating it from the Ignition BR. They will be 2. This will allow me to stay focused on building them both, but not letting one affect the other. I can play on Iggy 25nl and feel comfortable. I can test out ACR in the meantime the reg tables and stay away from zoom. gotta stay away from zoom. Running mad under EV on reg tables but still trekking on.



Probably going to take up the coaching offer.
08-16-2023 , 07:19 AM
800 hand session quick this morning before work. Played 5nl on ACR and felt really ****ing good. There's for sure a mental block I have that I'm going to need to find out how to fix. I am absolutely not able to play my A game and think purely if I am any bit worried about the bankroll taking hits. This is twice now I moved down in stakes when I felt struggle and the result was a refreshing mental rinse. I'm feeling refreshed

The difference between my A game and my C game sometimes feels lightyears away.
08-17-2023 , 12:06 PM
Going back to the basics. Feeling like I should go refresh everything from A-Z in the Lab basics. This means going back and redo-ing a lot of stuff I likely glossed over or procrastinated to work on or likely forgot. If I apply the inchworm idea then I should be making sure I bring up my rear end or the learning curve. So I'm back in the Lab starting with charts again. I find myself deviating hard from the charts. I never took the time to properly memorize any which would give me a hard reference. Instead, I've had a pretty fluid PF range and I'm noticing how -ev it can be especially since I never put much thought into adjusting those to rake. Basically all my ranges were merging and it is resulting in mega PF blunders that get me in harder spots than I should be. I took the time to rewrite the Upswing charts into Equilab today. Something I should have done at the beginning. Layered into folders I can more easily understand how frequencies interact with the different sections of the ranges.

Going to go through the No Limit Simplified again on Upswing and I want to go through the test at the end again. I did do the test, but again with noone to really hold me accountable I just ripped through it (now the software is kinda poop so it does suck to try to range construct but w/e) and gave it the ol' "that was good enough, lets go ****ing play now". The first time I went through the material I did watch every video from start to finish, a few of them I re watch every once and a while but no notes, no deep focus. It was more or less treated as a complete low level introduction and at the time I felt if I got through the material I would have skimmed over but caught enough tips to be a winner. Wrong.

I'm constantly reminded how little I know about strategy but the more I think I learn, the more interesting the game gets. Also I don't think I need GTO wizard right now. It's probably not as helpful as I might think and is likely hurting my game because, again, I never took the time to really properly learn how to set up good parameters and the game details (stack size, bet sizing, etc) was always changing so it was only confusing me. Cancelled the sub.

As for playing and how this will affect it. I'm still hopeful I can run up the BR to $1,800 to shot take 50nl by the end of the year and hit that goal. In the meantime on Ignition I'm going to probably only sit two 25nl tables at a time and if I 4 table I can add on two 10nl tables. If I'm not feeling like I'm playing my best I will just load up four 10nl tables. --For ACR, there's like $100 on the account and I'm treating is separately so I have been sitting the 5nl tables and am will be employing a similar BR strat. 20 buyins at 5nl to start. $250 I will shot take 10nl, at $850 I will shot take 25nl. I will be applying the Rakeback directly to the BR as to speed up being able to move up as fast as possible.

Since I am pulling out the ACR portion of the BR this puts the effective BR for the journey at whatever is in Ignition. Something around $1,200. This also brings it under $1,250 which is the limit where I can full time 25nl play. So I am back to stepping down and accepting another defeat at shot taking. Although we are winning at the 25nl games, other stakes have brought us down and the Punts have also hit us decently. Not worried, not upset. Honestly this feels like the right thing to do and feels like spring cleaning the mind. A lot of clutter is there, A LOT of stuff has been crammed in there... It's time to get organized a bit.
08-17-2023 , 10:24 PM
Yatahay Network - $0.05 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): 100 BB
SB: 100.4 BB
BB: 211.8 BB
UTG: 126 BB
MP: 109.2 BB
CO: 180.4 BB

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has J J

fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 2.4 BB, SB raises to 9.8 BB, fold, Hero raises to 21 BB, SB raises to 100.4 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 79 BB and is all-in

Flop: (201 BB, 2 players) 6 T A

Turn: (201 BB, 2 players) A

River: (201 BB, 2 players) 7

Spoiler:
Hero shows J J (Two Pair, Aces and Jacks)
(Pre 81%, Flop 91%, Turn 95%)
SB shows 7 7 (Full House, Sevens full of Aces)
(Pre 19%, Flop 9%, Turn 5%)
SB wins 191 BB




Yatahay Network - $0.05 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

CO: 103.2 BB
BTN: 95.8 BB
Hero (SB): 100 BB
BB: 114.4 BB
UTG: 103 BB

Hero posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has A A

UTG raises to 2 BB, fold, BTN calls 2 BB, Hero raises to 10.4 BB, fold, UTG calls 8.4 BB, BTN calls 8.4 BB

Flop: (32.2 BB, 3 players) J 3 6
Hero bets 16 BB, UTG calls 16 BB, BTN calls 16 BB

Turn: (80.2 BB, 3 players) T
Hero checks, UTG bets 39.2 BB, BTN calls 39.2 BB, Hero raises to 73.6 BB and is all-in, UTG calls 34.4 BB, BTN calls 30.2 BB and is all-in

River: (296.8 BB, 3 players) J

Spoiler:
BTN shows J 9 (Three of a Kind, Jacks)

Main Pot [288.4 BB]: (Pre 16%, Flop 20%, Turn 12%)

Hero shows A A (Two Pair, Aces and Jacks)

Main Pot [288.4 BB]: (Pre 75%, Flop 75%, Turn 64%)
Side Pot#1 [8.4 BB]: (Pre 90%, Flop 95%, Turn 76%)

UTG shows A Q (One Pair, Jacks)

Main Pot [288.4 BB]: (Pre 9%, Flop 5%, Turn 24%)
Side Pot#1 [8.4 BB]: (Pre 10%, Flop 5%, Turn 24%)

BTN wins 274 BB
Hero wins 8 BB


5nl is proving to be fun. ACR account is up to $118. Weekend is here tomorrow and I think the plan is back in the Lab basics again (felt great going back there today) and hit Ignition and try to run up some stacks.
08-20-2023 , 06:26 PM
On a bit of a downswing since last week. Haven't been able to win showdown. Getting caught bluffing a lot on Ignition lately but it's not the main reason for the downswing. A lot of hands are just getting beat. Ignition BR is down from $1,200 to $1,120 after this week which is about a 8 buy in downswing so far. Been on worse. Haven't sat any $25 tables this week either, was playing only 10nl reg tables. Playing during a downswing doesn't get me excited to play higher stakes. I'm doing a pretty good job not going on raging monkey tilt, although, still making spewy/tilty plays sometimes. Trying to be honest about playing bad and accepting what is going on but not letting it affect me for long. In fact, I have been pretty good about recognizing tilt coming on and calming it down before it spirals out of control.

I want to make some notes of some things that I think I am improving or doing well, and not just focusing on negative things. I have been keeping the upswing online chart pulled up while I play and have been testing myself every hand to reinforce and help memorize the charts. Ignition has a long enough time bank that I have no problem thinking about and declaring what I think I should do, pausing, and then quickly checking the chart to see if I was right. If I was right I give myself a little pat on the back and continue the hand with a small boost to my confidence. This is helping me in so many ways. I'm mixing up my strategy in a better way and (I think) it is helping me better wrap my head around preflop frequencies. Before I would basically open/raise any hand in the range pretty much depending on how I felt about it. Now, I am utilizing a randomizer and the preflop charts, doing my best to stick very close to it.

I don't think following the charts is going to necessarily bring more winrate to my game at 10nl. They are constructed for 500nl so as I get more comfortable I should maybe make more of an effort to tighten it up a bit because of rake. It's likely going to take a **** ton of hands to get to a place where the PF charts reach unconscious competence in my game so this is another reason that the slight downswing isn't upsetting me really at all. I am almost happier to be putting in more intentional work towards my game, and if that negatively impacts my WR for the short term, it's fine.

Been having some issues with PT4 and Ignition not importing hands. I open Jurojin and PT4 then get hands while playing, then open ignition and sit. But sometimes it records it and sometimes not. Also there's always a few hands that get error messages and don't record so I might just not use PT4 in real time and just download/upload later. If anyone else had this issue and knows a fix, let me know.

Still feel like a mega fish most of the time. Wonder if that will ever change.
08-20-2023 , 06:44 PM
Guy was just spewing every hand. w/e
Ignition - $0.10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: 178.3 BB
BB: 100 BB
UTG: 100 BB
CO: 176.7 BB
Hero (BTN): 238.8 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) UTG has A 7

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Q Q

UTG calls 1 BB, fold, Hero raises to 3.5 BB, fold, fold, UTG calls 2.5 BB

Flop: (8.5 BB, 2 players) 5 6 J
UTG checks, Hero bets 6.1 BB, UTG raises to 30 BB, Hero raises to 235.3 BB and is all-in, UTG calls 66.5 BB and is all-in

Turn: (201.5 BB, 2 players) 9

River: (201.5 BB, 2 players) 8

UTG shows A 7 (Straight, Nine High)
(Pre 32%, Flop 22%, Turn 16%)
Hero shows Q Q (One Pair, Queens)
(Pre 68%, Flop 78%, Turn 84%)
UTG wins 191.5 BB
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Walked right into the trap.
Ignition - $0.10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

UTG: 122.2 BB
CO: 96.4 BB
BTN: 186.9 BB
SB: 249.4 BB
Hero (BB): 100 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) BTN has 5 8

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A A

fold, CO calls 1 BB, BTN calls 1 BB, fold, Hero raises to 4 BB, fold, BTN calls 3 BB

Flop: (9.5 BB, 2 players) J 6 4
Hero bets 7.5 BB, BTN calls 7.5 BB

Turn: (24.5 BB, 2 players) Q
Hero bets 19.1 BB, BTN calls 19.1 BB

River: (62.7 BB, 2 players) 7
Hero bets 69.4 BB and is all-in, BTN calls 69.4 BB

Hero shows A A (One Pair, Aces)
(Pre 85%, Flop 80%, Turn 91%)
BTN shows 5 8 (Straight, Eight High)
(Pre 15%, Flop 20%, Turn 9%)
BTN wins 191.5 BB
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Little out of control. I do get a lot of fish to stack off with just TP though with this line
Ignition - $0.10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 98.5 BB
Hero (SB): 100.5 BB
BB: 105.7 BB
UTG: 147.4 BB
MP: 100 BB
CO: 103.5 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) BTN has 6 Q

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 4 A

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) BB has A 8

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) UTG has 7 9

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) MP has T 9

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) CO has 2 9

fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 3 BB, BB calls 2 BB

Flop: (6 BB, 2 players) Q 2 4
Hero checks, BB bets 1.9 BB, Hero calls 1.9 BB

Turn: (9.8 BB, 2 players) A
Hero bets 11.8 BB, BB calls 11.8 BB

River: (33.4 BB, 2 players) 8
Hero bets 83.8 BB and is all-in, BB calls 83.8 BB

Hero shows 4 A (Two Pair, Aces and Fours)
(Pre 36%, Flop 83%, Turn 86%)
BB shows A 8 (Two Pair, Aces and Eights)
(Pre 64%, Flop 17%, Turn 14%)
BB wins 191 BB
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Thought I could rep the flush with this line, calling to see if board paired
Ignition - $0.10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 3 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BB): 101 BB
BTN: 105.6 BB
SB: 103.6 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 9 A

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) BTN has T T

BTN raises to 2.5 BB, fold, Hero raises to 9 BB, BTN calls 6.5 BB

Flop: (18.5 BB, 2 players) T 6 5
Hero bets 3.5 BB, BTN raises to 11.6 BB, Hero calls 8.1 BB

Turn: (41.7 BB, 2 players) K
Hero checks, BTN bets 13.1 BB, Hero calls 13.1 BB

River: (67.9 BB, 2 players) Q
Hero bets 67.3 BB and is all-in, BTN calls 67.3 BB

Hero shows 9 A (High Card, Ace)
(Pre 27%, Flop 28%, Turn 18%)
BTN shows T T (Three of a Kind, Tens)
(Pre 73%, Flop 72%, Turn 82%)
BTN wins 192.5 BB
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I thought I have all the bigger boats here but another failed bluff. Is it better to use lower rank suited connectors as a bluff here? I guess when he has an Ace here he makes it really hard for us to have AK/AQ.
Ignition - $0.10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 165.1 BB
SB: 106 BB
BB: 93.8 BB
UTG: 102.9 BB
Hero (CO): 113.4 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) BTN has J A

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Q T

UTG raises to 3 BB, Hero raises to 7.5 BB, BTN calls 7.5 BB, fold, fold, UTG calls 4.5 BB

Flop: (24 BB, 3 players) K 2 A
UTG checks, Hero bets 7.5 BB, BTN calls 7.5 BB, fold

Turn: (39 BB, 2 players) A
Hero checks, BTN bets 18.6 BB, Hero calls 18.6 BB

River: (76.2 BB, 2 players) 5
Hero bets 79.8 BB and is all-in, BTN calls 79.8 BB

Hero shows Q T (One Pair, Aces)
(Pre 42%, Flop 43%, Turn 16%)
BTN shows J A (Three of a Kind, Aces)
(Pre 58%, Flop 57%, Turn 84%)
BTN wins 224.1 BB
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Right sometimes.
Ignition - $0.10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BB): 100 BB
UTG: 100 BB
CO: 100 BB
BTN: 103 BB
SB: 231.2 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has T T

UTG raises to 2.5 BB, CO raises to 5 BB, fold, fold, Hero raises to 18.5 BB, fold, CO calls 13.5 BB

Flop: (40 BB, 2 players) 3 5 J
Hero checks, CO checks

Turn: (40 BB, 2 players) 4
Hero checks, CO bets 28.5 BB, Hero calls 28.5 BB

River: (97 BB, 2 players) 7
Hero checks, CO checks

Hero shows T T (One Pair, Tens)

Hero wins 92.2 BB



hopefully this next week brings better results.
08-24-2023 , 09:51 AM
Don't really have any graph updates, basically break even still. Hanging in there, feel like I'm learning a lot in the last few weeks.
08-24-2023 , 11:20 AM
OP,

The As9h and QTss hands are total spew. I did not review the others.

Quit trying to "rep" stuff at 10NL vs strong ranges and without even have good blockers. You have As blocker, but your line makes no sense at all. Villain has also raised, showing strength. It would have been better just to reshove flop and not call. You likely won't get any value when the 4th spade hits anyway. The QTss hand is bad because you're against an UTG tight range, villain has shown strength by calling, you have no club blockers, you are blocking a lot of his drawing hands with spades and broadway. Line makes no sense to b/ xc turn/ then jam river.

A lot of these hands look like fancy play and forced aggression. It's not necessary to make this "sick" plays, which in reality are losing heaps. Just play solid ABC, make some bluffs holding the best blockers vs lines that make sense and you're opponent is weak.
08-24-2023 , 11:44 AM
+1

The way to crush NL10 is to play the most boring poker possible.
08-24-2023 , 11:56 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by CoinFlipPoker Inc.
OP,

The As9h and QTss hands are total spew. I did not review the others.

Quit trying to "rep" stuff at 10NL vs strong ranges and without even have good blockers. You have As blocker, but your line makes no sense at all. Villain has also raised, showing strength. It would have been better just to reshove flop and not call. You likely won't get any value when the 4th spade hits anyway. The QTss hand is bad because you're against an UTG tight range, villain has shown strength by calling, you have no club blockers, you are blocking a lot of his drawing hands with spades and broadway. Line makes no sense to b/ xc turn/ then jam river.

A lot of these hands look like fancy play and forced aggression. It's not necessary to make this "sick" plays, which in reality are losing heaps. Just play solid ABC, make some bluffs holding the best blockers vs lines that make sense and you're opponent is weak.
Yeah, I have slowly and surely been falling into many bad habits when playing. Autopilot being a big one and not thinking through decisions. Clearly making massive blunders and I reviewed myself after not playing for a few days and it was pretty clear a massive amount of my losses are huge bad bluffs. Many of them snapped off. I'm glad to hear it from others that can point out leaks especially when it may not be so obvious to OP. I realized I don't even know what ABC poker is which is why I'm back at the beginning of the Lab basics. Going through some of the material again is really embarrassing tbh. I might be one of the worst players in the pools. No idea how my BR has been growing. Sun run ig.
08-24-2023 , 01:50 PM
What was your decision regarding the 100/hr coaching deal?
08-24-2023 , 02:03 PM
Yeah, none of the lines mentioned above make sense. I would remove entirely from my game plan the donk shoves if I were you. Learn a simple (as long as it’s good and profitable) strat, and execute it well. You have to bluff in a lot of spots even at 10nl, players overfold a lot. It’s just that, the way and spots you did, it’s pure forcing aggression spew.
08-24-2023 , 02:19 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by FazendeiroBH
What was your decision regarding the 100/hr coaching deal?
I've been thinking about it. Leaning towards it maybe more in the future. I would like to be able to make the rate to pay for it from my roll so until im banking consistent $100 a week I probably keep doing my own thing.

I'm trying to talk to more people about hands and read and see what others are doing/thinking and I went back to the beginning of the Upswing Lab and went through almost all the material again, watching modules a couple times again instead of just once like a skim read.

Not disagreeing that I spew A LOT. It's pretty much the main focus of my game right now to not do that and stay focused on playing a lot more relevant hands. Toss away air and giving more credit to villains when it makes sense instead of try to outplay everyone everywhere. I have dialed it down A LOT and I think I am actually on a much better path. I'm looking for this kind of feedback though so see something, say something please. I'm about to leave work but I have a few hands recently that I would like to post.



ACR graph for the day I’ll upload later, hyper focused on no spew, proper PF ranges and frequencies. Have been tagging a lot more hands than I ever did and looking back at them after session and trying to get some feedback in the Online NLHECash forum. I'm seeing massive improvements to my redline recently. There was many many pots I would attempt a big bluff but end up folding or giving up and losing. Cutting that out alone is probably like 3-5 bb/100

Last edited by swerbs22; 08-24-2023 at 02:48 PM.
08-24-2023 , 05:02 PM


Today's graph ACR
08-24-2023 , 06:19 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by swerbs22




Today's graph ACR
Wow is that at 10nl?
08-24-2023 , 06:31 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Spyutastic
Wow is that at 10nl?
10nl yeah. Super small sample but I hit a lot of small goals during the session today and am feeling pretty good about it. Pretty much no spew I think so that right there is like a massive +
08-24-2023 , 07:19 PM
Oh I just realized that was in BB. I thought it was in $ and I was like wow 20 something buy ins in 650 hands that's crazy.

But good job nonetheless.
08-24-2023 , 07:35 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Spyutastic
Oh I just realized that was in BB. I thought it was in $ and I was like wow 20 something buy ins in 650 hands that's crazy.

But good job nonetheless.
Nah. I did run up 20buy ins at 5k zone on ignition at one point I think though but it took like 5-6k hands
08-25-2023 , 04:00 PM
in - nice thread!

Good luck
08-25-2023 , 07:21 PM
Seem to be back on track coming to the end of the week. 3 sites played on this week and winning on all of them.

Global + 2 buy ins
ACR + 4 buy ins
Ignition + 5 buy ins (as of tonight)

Probably going to get a decent amount of hands in this weekend. If I play ACR blitz I can easily get a few k hands in. Going to try to stay on Ignition though and I can only 3 table until I get another monitor because I need to keep up my charts to cycle through Preflop. I'm not getting as many hands but at the same time we are really thinking a lot more about decisions and I think at this point I need to focus on quality over quantity.

Here's a couple hands.

Was pretty happy about not shoving river here, working on bluff shoving control lol
Ignition - $0.10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: 141.5 BB
BB: 124 BB
UTG: 60.7 BB
CO: 100 BB
Hero (BTN): 189.5 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) BB has J J

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A K

UTG raises to 3 BB, CO raises to 10.5 BB, Hero raises to 26.5 BB, fold, BB calls 25.5 BB, fold, fold

Flop: (67 BB, 2 players) 4 Q 2
BB checks, Hero bets 15.7 BB, BB calls 15.7 BB

Turn: (98.4 BB, 2 players) J
BB checks, Hero checks

River: (98.4 BB, 2 players) 3
BB checks, Hero checks

BB shows J J (Three of a Kind, Jacks)

BB wins 93.5 BB
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My guy had just lost a massive pot, had to be on tilt. Time banked the PF call lol. Figured why not swing for the fences.
Ignition - $0.10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

MP: 106.9 BB
CO: 170.2 BB
BTN: 100 BB
SB: 99 BB
Hero (BB): 181.1 BB
UTG: 112.8 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has J K

fold, MP calls 1 BB, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 4 BB, MP calls 3 BB

Flop: (8.5 BB, 2 players) 7 5 9
Hero bets 7.1 BB, MP calls 7.1 BB

Turn: (22.7 BB, 2 players) 2
Hero bets 21.6 BB, MP calls 21.6 BB

River: (65.9 BB, 2 players) 5
Hero bets 148.4 BB and is all-in, MP calls 74.2 BB and is all-in

Hero shows J K (Flush, King High)

Hero wins 203.6 BB
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Was just trying to wait for the table to fill up. Tough spot, at least for me... Not sure about how I played this. Posting in ONLHEcash thread later for feedback.
Ignition - $0.10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: 150.7 BB
Hero (BB): 104 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A 7

SB raises to 3 BB, Hero calls 2 BB

Flop: (6 BB, 2 players) 7 Q 8
Hero checks, SB bets 2.9 BB, Hero calls 2.9 BB

Turn: (11.8 BB, 2 players) A
Hero checks, SB bets 5.7 BB, Hero raises to 23.1 BB, SB calls 17.4 BB

River: (58 BB, 2 players) 3
Hero bets 27.6 BB, SB raises to 121.7 BB and is all-in, fold

SB wins 108.2 BB
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Last one. Guess I should have just gave him credit for that cold 4 bet after the 5x open and raise. pfft
Ignition - $0.10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 177.4 BB
SB: 100 BB
BB: 100 BB
UTG: 103.1 BB
Hero (MP): 279.3 BB
CO: 120.3 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) BB has A A

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Q Q

UTG raises to 5 BB, Hero raises to 12 BB, fold, fold, fold, BB raises to 22 BB, fold, Hero calls 10 BB

Flop: (49.5 BB, 2 players) 9 T 2
BB bets 11.8 BB, Hero calls 11.8 BB

Turn: (73.1 BB, 2 players) 8
BB bets 66.2 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 66.2 BB

River: (205.5 BB, 2 players) 2

BB shows A A (Two Pair, Aces and Twos)
(Pre 82%, Flop 88%, Turn 86%)
Hero shows Q Q (Two Pair, Queens and Twos)
(Pre 18%, Flop 12%, Turn 14%)
BB wins 195.3 BB

Last edited by swerbs22; 08-25-2023 at 07:41 PM.
08-25-2023 , 07:38 PM
Also would like to add, my highest tilt level this week was probably something like a max a 4 out of 10 and honestly I am getting through most sessions feeling almost no punting like anger tilt. Very proud of tilt control this week, it's a huge step for me because it's not as obvious as I first thought it would be. I think tagging hands for review later either by myself or asking others is also a massive help so if anyone is following this and you have been giving feedback, big ups.
08-25-2023 , 09:33 PM
Great job man. I feel like we've been on a similar trajectory.

      
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