I like your line.

Indeed, incorporating a 4bet bluff range is often overlooked by micro-limit players.
However, it's a crucial aspect of a well-rounded strategy.
Without bluffs, observant opponents are less likely to pay off our strong hands.
Additionally, a high 4bet frequency can deter opponents from 3betting us too wide.

Postflop is fine too.
Of course, it's essential not to overuse such bluffs.
Passive and straightforward opponents, which are predominant at micro-stakes tend to raise with their strong hands on the flop or turn against small bets.
Consequently, their river range has a lot of medium-strength showdown value hands, making them less inclined to call big bets on the river.

I think we can raise the flop with some frequency to protect against overcards. But I like to do it better against a 1/3 pot bet.
1/2 pot bets are usually a little more value-oriented.

Therefore, calling on the flop and turn is fine.

On the river, you have a bluff-catching hand.
While there might be situations where calling against an aggressive player is viable, folding is often the better default option.
In my database, even aggressive opponents tend to have an under-bluff in this particular line, reinforcing the idea that folding is a prudent choice in most cases.

Yeah like I looked and I just don't have a balanced 4 bet range. It's almost entirely AA, KK, AK. K6/K7 and A5/A4 are definitely going into the range for balance and that means I get to include a few more value hands also so I can add QQ, JJ and mix TT/99? Maybe start with that then low frequency 4betting some other strong suited broadways (mostly Kxs) and some AQo like maybe something like 15-25%?
In this hand, I chose to attack villains 3 betting range because he was playing too much in the SB and also 3betting wide. Is that a good enough reason? Not really sure but I know I don't 4bet enough and I feel like I'm constantly getting 3bet and misplaying afterwards. 3bet and 4 bet frequencies I'm still trying to figure out how to apply those efficiently. I keep up an RNG but I struggle to remember or decide what frequencies to go with

This is the wiz strat which seems more linear.

I think deviations would depend on how your opponent plays vs the 4bet vs playing post flop to a flat.

But I think adding polar hands when widening your range vs the wider 3bets makes sense as I don't think they're flatting those hands. And using Ax and Kx for that seems good.

Finally merged databases from both PCs (again). Last 20k hands on ACR 10nl blitz. I was not expecting the last 20k hands to look like this. And this definitely aligns with the feeling that I've been losing more than my fair share of pots. I can only be happy that I am actually trending upward despite of that. I might be too hard on myself at times especially when blurred by the mindset of being peakstuck. I'm going to take this as a sign that I have been making improvements and hard work might be paying off. Time will tell.






NON SD WINNINGS


SD WINNINGS


Is this normal for # of SDvsNonSD hands?

btw thank you slyless

Seems to be trending on the right direction. I like Finding Equilibrium's approach of comparing his play to an optimal bot, so I decided to import Pluribus 10k hands myself. Here are some stats:


VPIP 26.9
PFR 17.9
3Bet 7.25

WTSD 30.6
W$SD 47.6
WWSF 50.4

Flop CBET 53.7
IP 58
OOP 44.3
Fold vs CBET 45
X/F Flop OOP 49.7

Turn CBET 44.3
IP 49.6
OOP 33.3
Fold vs CBET 49.3

River CBET 53.3
IP 52
OOP 60
Fold vs CBET 52.6

Unfortunately sample size is too small to gather a few more specific and relevant stats, like the frequencies for BTN vs BB etc. But this should give you something, let's say, optimal to compare yourself to.

Cheers!

You have Stefan's main stats available on statname also, if you wanna check them, for free.

Cool stuff. Thanks for sharing this.

Not much to update about. I guess. I went ahead and got the coaching session I mentioned before. I'm changing up the BR rules and my direction of goals.

Nothing is set in stone for the change but it's going to be something along the lines of:

1- The few $'s won will be directly funneled into a "coaching fund", and only after a session can be afforded will I put any extra back into the roll to grow. The roll should still naturally grow as it was before. After each coaching session will start the next phase of earning another session. There will be a clear start and stop. Let's say BR is at $2,000 and a single coaching session costs $100. At $2,100 I will have earned another coaching session and can withdraw $100 and schedule the session. All $ earned up until the session will be absorbed into the bankroll. Let's say I get to the session 1 week later and the BR has absorbed an extra $25 (total BR=$2,025, I already withdrew the cost of the session so it's not included). I do the coaching session and mark where the BR is at, $2,025. Now at $2,125 I will repeat the process. This should motivate me to work more with the coaches and hopefully possible force improvement at a much faster rate than studying on my own.

2- I haven't quite decided how many Buy-ins I want to adjust to but 20-40 seems appropriate. As of now, I have withdrew the majority of my BR and have decided on a "soft" restart at 10nl. Starting with $500 (lost 5 buy-ins due to run bad and subsequent tilt at 25nl) and quickly fell to $400. So that's why I'm back at 10nl but with the coaching sessions I am feeling very confident and happy to put in some volume to test out the waters anyway. It's been going really well so far and I'll update that more when I have more hands for a nice graph or something. It's pretty slow getting hands at reg tables for me.... so patience.

I'm still up a good bit overall at the 25nl tables and I don't think I have lost really any confidence there, but I do think I get too greedy. I don't think I belong there yet though. I don't really have a set opinion on how long I should or want to do the coaching for. One session was pretty eye opening for me and I'm excited to work with a coach.

This is how I'm looking at the scenario. I made a lot more $ at micros than I thought I was going to when I started to play a year ago. I have been able to use that to buy myself a new Lenovo, pay off some bills, and purchase +life stuff like dinners/dates/MMJ/ and ofc the poker software. I hit my monetary goal for the year with more than 2 months to spare. $1,875 was the goal. So I can look at this a few ways I think but what struck me is that I can basically afford 18 coaching sessions. That's more than once per month. If those coaching sessions would prove to be useful and I would improve greatly as a player from them, then I would and should recoup the $1,875 no problem. I can sit on the BR and be afraid to lose a significant portion of it every time I play a higher stake or I can really buckle down with someone much more experienced and get better at poker. 18 sessions to get into the CFP is very far off from the number of sessions on average it takes so if I would be failing after that many sessions then I could probably just quit poker. There is the problem with hourly coaching that they aren't incentivized as much to teach you everything but I think there may be a different dynamic with a coach who is part of a CFP program with a direct interest in working with players to get into said CFP.

I guess it's just another restart here.

Starting with $500

BR currently at $419 after drop back to 10nl. At $600 I can get the next coaching session.

I have 18 sessions to git gud or quit.

Meant first $’s won, not few

Bro If you want we can talk over some hands for an hour per week. won't charge you for it obv.

All I got right now is a little 4k sample, 10nl. Getting close to getting back to loading up 25nl again. Maybe like 3 buy-ins left

Nice redline

I want it all

Results for the weekend. Started the weekend with around $420, grinded 10nl up just a few Buy ins away from being able to load up 25nl again ($500 BR) and happened to get into a couple tricky situations back to back to back. I'm not super unhappy with the hands, I want to try to push my luck in some spots for sure because I think I'm too timid most of the time. Struggling to keep WWSF as high as I want it to be too but I have improved this stat quite a bit. BR is now back up to $500 and I'm going to be looking to load up 25nl tables, maybe two 10 and two 25's, I think depends on how the tables look. Probably end up just closing out any unprofitable table asap and opening the opposite stake so that the bad tables can fill up while I look for a good one.

And can anyone tell me how to do a line break when making up a post so I don't have to spam underscores?

Hand History driven straight to this forum with DriveHUD 2 Poker HUD and Database Software

NL Holdem 0.10(BB)
HERO (100BBs)
BTN (233.5BBs) [VPIP: 30.2% | PFR: 27.9% | AGG: 40.7% | Hands: 93]
SB (98.4BBs) [VPIP: 25% | PFR: 8.3% | AGG: 12.5% | Hands: 12]

Dealt to Hero: A 4

BTN Raises To 2.5BBs, SB Folds, HERO Raises To 11.5BBs, BTN Calls 9BBs

Hero SPR on Flop: [3.77 effective]
Flop (23.5BBs): 3 J 7
HERO Bets 7.4BBs (Rem. Stack: 81.1BBs), BTN Calls 7.4BBs (Rem. Stack: 214.6BBs)

Turn (38.3BBs): 3 J 7 2
HERO Bets 18.2BBs (Rem. Stack: 62.9BBs), BTN Calls 18.2BBs (Rem. Stack: 196.4BBs)

River (74.7BBs): 3 J 7 2 T
HERO Bets 62.9BBs (allin), BTN Calls 62.9BBs (Rem. Stack: 133.5BBs)

Hand History driven straight to this forum with DriveHUD 2 Poker Tracking Software

NL Holdem 0.10(BB)
HERO (100BBs)
BB (179BBs) [VPIP: 0% | PFR: 0% | AGG: 0% | Hands: 6]
UTG (106.3BBs) [VPIP: 100% | PFR: 60% | AGG: 30% | Hands: 6]
HJ (255.8BBs) [VPIP: 16.7% | PFR: 0% | AGG: 0% | Hands: 6]
CO (28.5BBs) [VPIP: 16.7% | PFR: 0% | AGG: 0% | Hands: 6]
BTN (226.8BBs) [VPIP: 50% | PFR: 16.7% | AGG: 0% | Hands: 6]

Dealt to Hero: Q A

UTG Raises To 2BBs, HJ Folds, CO Calls 2BBs, BTN Folds, HERO Raises To 14.5BBs, BB Folds, UTG Calls 12.5BBs, CO Folds

Hero SPR on Flop: [2.67 effective]
Flop (32BBs): 8 K T
HERO Bets 10BBs (Rem. Stack: 75.5BBs), UTG Raises To 20BBs (Rem. Stack: 71.8BBs), HERO Calls 10BBs (Rem. Stack: 65.5BBs)

Turn (72BBs): 8 K T J
HERO Bets 65.5BBs (allin), UTG Calls 65.5BBs (Rem. Stack: 6.3BBs)

River (203BBs): 8 K T J T

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NL Holdem 0.10(BB)
HERO (219.4BBs)
BB (100BBs) [VPIP: 13.6% | PFR: 9.1% | AGG: 28.6% | Hands: 23]
HJ (101.5BBs) [VPIP: 23.2% | PFR: 19.6% | AGG: 17.6% | Hands: 56]
CO (159.2BBs) [VPIP: 23.6% | PFR: 23.6% | AGG: 55.6% | Hands: 56]
BTN (16.1BBs) [VPIP: 45% | PFR: 15% | AGG: 32.4% | Hands: 41]

Dealt to Hero: Q Q

HJ Raises To 3BBs, CO Folds, BTN Folds, HERO Raises To 10.5BBs, BB Folds, HJ Raises To 23BBs, HERO Calls 12.5BBs

Hero SPR on Flop: [1.67 effective]
Flop (47BBs): 4 8 6
HERO Checks, HJ Bets 17.4BBs (Rem. Stack: 61.1BBs), HERO Raises To 196.4BBs (allin), HJ Calls 61.1BBs (allin)

Turn (321.9BBs): 4 8 6 6

River (321.9BBs): 4 8 6 6 5

Hand History driven straight to this forum with DriveHUD 2 Poker Tracking Software

NL Holdem 0.10(BB)
HERO (104.1BBs)
CO (178.4BBs) [VPIP: 58.9% | PFR: 22.2% | AGG: 26.7% | Hands: 91]
BTN (119.1BBs) [VPIP: 20.6% | PFR: 11.8% | AGG: 25% | Hands: 34]
SB (73.4BBs) [VPIP: 41.7% | PFR: 8.3% | AGG: 13.3% | Hands: 24]
BB (36.9BBs) [VPIP: 45% | PFR: 0% | AGG: 26.3% | Hands: 20]
UTG (121.7BBs) [VPIP: 46.2% | PFR: 27.5% | AGG: 33.3% | Hands: 91]

Dealt to Hero: 7 8

UTG Folds, HERO Raises To 2BBs, CO Folds, BTN Raises To 6BBs, SB Calls 5.5BBs, BB Folds, HERO Calls 4BBs

Hero SPR on Flop: [3.55 effective]
Flop (19BBs): 8 9 6
SB Checks, HERO Checks, BTN Bets 10BBs (Rem. Stack: 103.1BBs), SB Folds, HERO Raises To 30BBs (Rem. Stack: 68.1BBs), BTN Raises To 113.1BBs (allin), HERO Calls 68.1BBs (allin)

Turn (230.2BBs): 8 9 6 7

River (230.2BBs): 8 9 6 7 6

Hand History driven straight to this forum with DriveHUD 2 Poker HUD and Database Software

NL Holdem 0.10(BB)
HERO (182.3BBs)
UTG (99.4BBs) [VPIP: 58.9% | PFR: 22.2% | AGG: 26.7% | Hands: 91]
HJ (109.5BBs) [VPIP: 34.5% | PFR: 20% | AGG: 24.4% | Hands: 55]
CO (90BBs) [VPIP: 0% | PFR: 0% | AGG: 100% | Hands: 1]
BTN (29.1BBs) [VPIP: 53.5% | PFR: 16.3% | AGG: 35% | Hands: 43]
SB (156BBs) [VPIP: 46.2% | PFR: 27.5% | AGG: 33.3% | Hands: 91]

Dealt to Hero: 7 Q

UTG Folds, HJ Folds, CO Checks, BTN Folds, SB Folds, HERO Checks

Hero SPR on Flop: [35.6 effective]
Flop (2.5BBs): 9 5 7
HERO Checks, CO Bets 2.4BBs (Rem. Stack: 86.6BBs), HERO Calls 2.4BBs (Rem. Stack: 178.9BBs)

Turn (7.3BBs): 9 5 7 Q
HERO Checks, CO Bets 7BBs (Rem. Stack: 79.6BBs), HERO Calls 7BBs (Rem. Stack: 171.9BBs)

River (21.3BBs): 9 5 7 Q 5
HERO Checks, CO Bets 79.6BBs (allin), HERO Calls 79.6BBs (Rem. Stack: 92.3BBs)

Ignition yearly results. First 50k hands are 5nl zone, the rest is 10nl and 25nl.

Fun fact, #1 biggest losing hand for this sample is 93o= -$412.33
Balancing it out with the #1 biggest winning hand is AA= +$514.73

Had time for just a small session today. Honestly didn't feel able to focus on anything today and didn't want to blow through stacks for no reason or I may have made time for more hands. Still loaded up four 25nl tables, kept a few 10nl tables open until I found better tables. Started the day at an even $500 and ending almost halfway to the next coaching session.

Faced so many weird lines today. Felt like any time I checked I just got shoved on by any short stack and bet into HUGE by "regs". Could be misremembering, I'll see about exporting and going through them tomorrow during work.

Playing breakeven lately. Feels like I'm the one playing like trash. PC has some failing parts so it's out of commission for a while. Tilting. I guess it should just be motivating to improve more.

Nowhere near my A game for over more than just a few sessions. Feeling really lucky that the damage isn't worse.

you got this!