Hi!
I decided to start a little challenge (make at least 75k hands in July) playing nl5 zoom, and if I can... nl10 zoom. I play normally 6 hours on other sites, but for this time I'm going to add 3 hours playing only on Stars.
I hope to play at least 6 days per week, and report here every day if I had hands that I consider interesting to not make a mistake in the future, and of course to read your comments

Bank on Stars for this challenge: 185.
P.D. Sorry for my horrible english... I tried to put the photos but they were not seen, so I leave the link

Below I put the graph of the first day and one hand that idk what to do when I face min xr, my assumption is that the villain doesnt have the correct bluffs on this sizing and most of the time I lose against the set. What would you do? Push vs de xminr blocking the fd, call vs raise?

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Hey man GL!

Just call the raise on the flop, in theory you can't fold with your combo on the turn but especially at these stakes you're almost always behind, I'd still call though because some people just do it with random hands

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2° day >> Thanks Thommehh for the reply, very helpful! I agree with you that I probably can't "always" fold putting the villain on a set because some guys make random moves.

Today I played more 4bet pots and I think that my lines were terrible. On the first hand with the AKo I made the xc OTT only with the idea to donk push river if it comes the flush, and even I'm not sure that the villain can fold his "probably" overpair with the blocker (the villain has 5% of 3b range).




Second hand... I 4bet this combo on low frequency and is a huge mistake call the raise OTT when the villain calling range doesn't have too many bluffs on this line and the A comes.



Conclusion: I need to play more 4b pots to be familiar with these spots and make less mistakes. I hope to find some videos about this sequence on RIO, in a few hours I'll take a look.

Graph of the day:

AK 3b to like 25 pre oop, as played fine I guess, maybe can check/shove without a club
AJ probably fold vs the raise, should be AK/AQ like always

Watch videos of Weazel_1991, Nick Eastwood and BluffTheSpot, there should be enough 4b pots in them

3° day > Cool Thommehh, thanks for the advice, I was watching the videos from Eastwood, good content especially for microplayers.

I dont like how I played today, very tired and without focus, probably the previous long session on the other site (5 hours without a pause) is the cause, but this is not too bad because I was breakeven the last two weeks and this long session got me out of there.

This Month I was taking some notes from PIO about some sequences where I have a good amount of leaks (idk if I made that correct but is good to have a startpoint), so I hope to start reading on Thursday that notes and make some HHreviews about the specific sequence and learn how to change my strategy.


Hands of the session... .

1. I see some week regulars that take the line to cbet face up on the turn when they're afraid that I can have trips (or straigh if were the case). It is a good idea make XR OTT? and if the villain calls make another large bet or even an overbet OTR?




2. Against a guy who donk push on the river, do you like to call putting on some random miss flushdraw or a crazy AQ?




Graph of the day:

22 I wouldn't xr there myself but if you do you have to follow through otr imo
KK I probably fold, you sometimes may have the best hand but I think you're beat often enough

4° day >> Yep, I won't do that on the future, It's probably a missread and bad play, thanks Thommehh.
About the hand of KK, maybe I need to consider masive overfolding versus uncommon lines of agression from some villains. I'm still a tight player, and I want to fix that but when I try to call better something like the next 2 hands happens...

1. For me it's hard to believe that the villain is doing the xr w T9s, but I push with the intention to beat some TT+ . Should I have played call and probably fold turn (I don't want to sound too niti but on this stake I'm trying to understand the pool tendencies)? Or is it just a cooler and I should call down?




2. The combos of sets against the push otr is a fold without information of the villain?




And the last hand... I'm trying to apply some concepts about xr on the flop because in the past I was doing that only for value. I saw on PIO the hand and prefers cbet on the turn 33% when hits the K, in practice what is the correct move when this happens: XC or the cbet 33%?




Graph of the day:

Hey man best of luck with the challenge. Gotta say though I really don't think you should be anywhere near PIO when playing 5nl, far better material out there for you that will help at these stakes far more.

Theres better check raises here than KT imo, T8, 98, some heart combos. As played I'm probably betting turn once you hit top pair but keep the bet on the smaller side.

AA just call the raise, in general in the micros people don't check/raise overpairs often, AA is too high in your range to fold but in people in general underbluff so overfolding can't be bad
99 pretty ugly on the river, I'm folding, you have quite some straights and flushes in your range that you can call and your hand doesn't block any of those hands
KTs check/raise is fine with this hand imo but against UTG I'd only do it if he's opening wide enough, I'd always continue ott

5° day >> Hi Tusdar, thanks for the reply! I understand your point about doesn't play like PIO on these stakes, and even I'm very far to play like PIO, probably I decided to do that because I don't have idea so how to be more agressive and fix the big leak of very high WSD and low WWSF, play bad the small pots (any suggestions to improve that? , and other mistakes that I'm probably not aware of.

About the xr w KTs, I will be more cautious with the combos of xr vs EP and continues ott w a small bet.

Thommehh- I took your advice about probably overbluf vs underbluff lines. Today I faced the same spot than yesterday against a villain that overcall vs 3bets (calling range 44+ or 55+ maybe) and has a tight range on ep.
Maybe It's too nit, but on this point against this pool I'm tighter than normal.

Hand 1



Hand 2

3b pot bvb, I bet big ott because I wanted some calls w pockets and draws, and always river xback. It's ok the bet ott and x back, or its better x ott and probably bluffcatch river?
Against the villain push I beat some draws but I'm not sure if he's doing that with them




Graph of the day:

This is what I kinda mean with staying away from PIO. If you WSD and WWSF is low then you have large fundamental leaks in your game and this is something you need to learn about and PIO won't help anywhere near as much with this. Without looking at your database is those two values are low it probably means you're calling too much with average hands both preflop and down to the river. You need to learn to let some hands go easier would be my assumption but it's hard to tell for sure without seeing a large number of hands.

In the hands you just shown you also seem to be betting close to 50% pot on the flop after 3-betting, you can size down a lot here to 33% and still get villain to fold a large part of his range that completely missed. It also doesn't mean you can't not play for stack by the river card as well. You should be especially sizing down on paired boards as it's now harder for villain to have made a hand.

With the AA hand I really don't think you can just let that go like that. The large majority of the player pool in 5nl is very bad and can't stop themselves spazzing out with any sort of overpair to the board. Yeah he might have a set here but the pool is probably doing this with JJ and QQ as well and AA is just to big of a hand to hero fold on the flop here imo.

AA you'll probably be up against TT or 55 a lot but if you fold AA you fold everything except TT here which is ofcourse super exploitable

KQ cbetting turn is fine, since you have the Q of diamonds he can't have Qx of diamonds so it's pretty likely he has a T, some people will check/raise a T on the flop though so it's a tough spot, at your stake it's probably fine to fold. Your line is good but on blank rivers you could go for a valuebet still as most people will let you know they have a T before the river

I'd guess the the deuces hand on the K35 board is just a pure fold, our hand looks semi relevant blocker wise but it's not. once called we're kaput pretty much too hard to improve

6° day >> I agree with your opinions, folding AA is way too explotaible because it's very high in my range. The next time I'm only going to call down.

About your line Thommehh to push otr as thin value with the KQ, It's very new for me, but It's probably like you say that the villain xr most of the time the Tx before the river.
So I will do the thin push in other similar situation and let's see what happens.


Today I was playing very lazy, made very mistakes postflop (more than normal). On the other hand, I checked my database with the last 20k hands and wrote my leaks comparing with the stats of good regulars. I know that It's a small sample, but I wanted to have a general idea of my game during the last days.

Changing the subject, I consider myself a person who has difficulties following a schedule, but I want at least to comple certain hours of doing something. So I will to do a checklist and report here If I'm doing that.
The list consist of:

A) Play 6 hours on other sites [ ]
B) Play 3 hours zoom pokerstars [ ]
C) 1:30 hour reviewing the hands of the day with PIO [ ]
D) 1:30 Reading my notes and making HHReview about the specific sequence that I
want to improve [ ]
E) Watch 2 or 3 videos from RIO [ ]
F) Sleep 6 hours at least (maximum 8 hours) [ ]


On Saturday I start with that.


Hand of the session:

4b pot, I was thinking to fold vs the second barrel because was hard for me to see what hands I'm beating, maybe only A5s if he decided to 4b bluf? I could be wrong (like always)

PokerStars - $0.05 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 64.4 BB
SB: 52.2 BB
BB: 104.6 BB
UTG: 28.8 BB
MP: 147.2 BB
Hero (CO): 165.4 BB

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, MP raises to 2.4 BB, Hero raises to 8 BB, fold, fold, fold, MP raises to 21 BB, Hero calls 13 BB

Flop: (43.4 BB, 2 players) 5 Q K
MP bets 10.2 BB, Hero calls 10.2 BB

Turn: (63.8 BB, 2 players) 9
MP bets 20.8 BB, Hero calls 20.8 BB

River: (105.4 BB, 2 players) J
MP checks, Hero checks




Graph of the day: