Sup guys. Long time lurker, first time poster. When looking back at my 2011, I'm really not proud of the way things turned out for me. There were some extenuating circumstances that held me back(BF, money stuck on Cake), but those aren't very good excuses for the lackluster year that I had. So, it's time to take some accountability for my actions, and I think that this thread will be a good way to do that.

Currently I grind $1/2 live at Harrah's Cherokee in NC, and I am also rolled on Cake(unfortunately haha, I really just want to pull this money out). I also am currently being staked/coached on the Entraction network by a friend of mine for 6max and HU 100NL and 200NL. As far as goals go for this year, they are pretty simple: make 100 stacks and grind 500k hands online. There may be some additional goals which I'll add later, but for now let's start with the grizzafes and threadsavers!

First session that I played last night after midnight(LOL loser who stayed in on NYE etc.):



Ran pretty ****ing good. Plus games were super soft.

Lol...just noticed that there are like three more threads with a 100k goal this year. Should be interesting to see which of us manages to actually make it! GOGOGOGOGO!

I'm sorry...you play 100NL and you want to win 100 stacks. I'm not very good at math but 100x100=10,000 afaik. Other than that, gl!

haha i think you know what i meant!


just put in 1k hands..ran well again



Biggest winning hand:

Grabbed by Holdem Manager
NL Holdem $1(BB) Replayer
SB ($114)
BB ($132)
Hero ($100)
CO ($94.54)
BTN ($100)

Dealt to Hero A 9

Hero raises to $3, fold, fold, SB calls $2.50, BB calls $2

FLOP ($9) 9 6 2

SB bets $5, BB calls $5, Hero raises to $17, SB raises to $35, BB calls $30, Hero calls $18

TURN ($114) 9 6 2 J

SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets $62 (AI), SB calls $62, BB raises to $94.38 (AI), SB calls $14.50 (AI)

RIVER ($329) 9 6 2 J K

SB shows 9 9
(Pre 47%, Flop 67.4%, Turn 21.4%)

BB shows 7 T
(Pre 24%, Flop 9.0%, Turn 0.0%)

Hero shows A 9
(Pre 29%, Flop 23.6%, Turn 78.6%)

BB wins $29
Hero wins $297

Biggest losing:
Grabbed by Holdem Manager
NL Holdem $1(BB) Replayer
SB ($106)
Hero ($346)
CO ($37.50)
BTN ($100)

Dealt to Hero A A

fold, BTN raises to $2.87, SB calls $2.37, Hero raises to $10.74, BTN raises to $28.61, fold, Hero raises to $346 (AI), BTN calls $71.39 (AI)

FLOP ($202) 5 5 2

TURN ($202) 5 5 2 6

RIVER ($202) 5 5 2 6 Q

Hero shows A A
(Pre 81%, Flop 91.6%, Turn 95.5%)

BTN shows Q Q
(Pre 19%, Flop 8.4%, Turn 4.5%)

BTN wins $199

Also one hand I'm not sure about if anyone wants to take a whack at it:

Grabbed by Holdem Manager
NL Holdem $1(BB) Replayer
Hero ($169)
BB ($221)
UTG ($25.28)
CO ($267)
BTN ($147)

Dealt to Hero T T

fold, CO raises to $3, fold, Hero calls $2.50, fold

FLOP ($7) T 7 7

[color=red]Hero checks, CO bets $4, Hero raises to $13, CO raises to $29, Hero ?

Villain is 29/22/8 c/r-24% overall agg - 3.9

I feel like he reps alot of big draws here or 7x, but a ton more combos of hearts than 7x. So, whats my play?

I'm guessing you wanna win 1000 stacks then...
I don't play 100NL anymore but I'd say anything but flatting would be ridiculous...

yes 1000 stacks then haha, but yea i agree. i ended up flatting, and the board ran out Kh, Kx. he ended up having 97s and i missed some value with the way the board ran out. meh results oriented, etc.

hey newbssss. played a little bit last night and the session was up and down. ended up a little bit. i had a plan today to put in 2k hands, which will probably be my goal every day, but the time difference on entraction is ****ing with me. i need to probably start playing around 2pm est most days now. just another adjustment. ended up getting in around 800 hands tonight before the games really started to deteriorate. here is the graph of the last day and a half.



Biggest Winning Hand

Grabbed by Holdem Manager
NL Holdem $2(BB) Replayer
SB ($289)
BB ($549)
UTG ($231)
UTG+1 ($299)
CO ($200)
Hero ($273)

Dealt to Hero 9 9

UTG calls $2, UTG+1 raises to $8, fold, Hero calls $8, fold, fold, UTG calls $6

FLOP ($27) 2 9 6

UTG checks, UTG+1 bets $18, Hero calls $18, UTG calls $18

TURN ($81) 2 9 6 Q

UTG checks, UTG+1 bets $62, Hero calls $62, UTG calls $62

RIVER ($267) 2 9 6 Q 3

UTG checks, UTG+1 checks, Hero bets $185 (AI), UTG calls $143 (AI), UTG+1 folds

UTG shows 9 J
(Pre 34%, Flop 0.3%, Turn 0.0%)

Hero shows 9 9
(Pre 66%, Flop 99.7%, Turn 100.0%)

Hero wins $551


lawll ez game

Biggest Losing Hand

Grabbed by Holdem Manager
NL Holdem $2(BB) Replayer
SB ($203)
BB ($257)
Hero ($217)
CO ($203)
BTN ($161)

Dealt to Hero K J

Hero raises to $6, CO calls $6, BTN calls $6, fold, fold

FLOP ($21) 2 8 4

Hero bets $14, CO calls $14, BTN folds

TURN ($49) 2 8 4 5

Hero bets $34, CO calls $34

RIVER ($117) 2 8 4 5 7

Hero bets $82, CO calls $82

Hero shows K J
(Pre 60%, Flop 51.5%, Turn 15.9%)

CO shows Q T
(Pre 40%, Flop 48.5%, Turn 84.1%)

CO wins $278

this dude ****ing time banked until the last second too...****ing tiltttt. i should be betting all three streets bigger now that i look at this again. i guess it worked out b/c he had the goddamn nuts. results orienteddddd!

Overall Progress

Interesting Hand

Grabbed by Holdem Manager
NL Holdem $1(BB) Replayer
SB ($103)
BB ($236)
UTG ($41.48)
Hero ($100)
BTN ($77.81)

Dealt to Hero Q Q

fold, Hero raises to $3, fold, SB raises to $10, fold, Hero calls $7

FLOP ($21) A 5 K

SB bets $12, Hero calls $12

TURN ($45) A 5 K 4

SB checks, Hero checks

RIVER ($45) A 5 K 4 2

SB bets $81.68 (AI), Hero calls $78 (AI)

SB shows 6 7
(Pre 23%, Flop 10.4%, Turn 18.2%)

Hero shows Q Q
(Pre 77%, Flop 89.6%, Turn 81.8%)

Hero wins $198

Thoughts:
I played this hand last night and thought that it was a pretty interesting spot, as you don't see overbet ships that often at 100NL, so it can be difficult to correctly interpret. I only played about 50 hands total with this guy, so I have no notes and really only a few relevant stats to go by. His numbers were 31/27/20. So although he is pretty aggro in nature, he was displaying some reggish tendencies also. Because his 3bet was so high, I decided to just flat this hand IP b/c he's just not really going to call/ship much of that range against a 4bet. Really bad flop, but plenty of his range also misses on this board b/c of his wide 3b range so its a mandatory call. His check on the turn basically indicates that he's either trying to pot control a bad ace or worse pair or he's just giving up completely. So when he overbets on the gutshot/flush completing river something just doesn't seem right. The sizing makes his range suppppper polarized and we can go ahead and eliminate flushes from his possible hands b/c given his aggro reg tendencies he would have almost certainly continued to barrel the backdoor fd on the turn. That only leaves a gutshot, and I'm almost certain he wouldn't overbet that on the river b/c of my checkback on the turn. My range in this spot looks pretty weak, so his sizing on the river to get paid for his straight would almost certainly be more standard. Therefore, I thought that there was enough air in his range to make this call. Definitely took me a minute to figure this one out though.

Have a good Tuesday!!!!

TAKE MANEY