After 100 hours of battling out there. Been listening to traping in japan playlist on youtube. The gangsta-samourai vibe. Curving my chinese enemies.



Last night was a tough one. Break even all day. And then the run good. Even won a couple of the jackpot hand thing, str8 flush and quads. For my profit of the day pretty much. Such a dumb way to win. Well I guessed If I felt a little bit of excitement it's worth it. haha.

Mr Darcy. I will equip myself for it. getting a headset and all. Looking forward for it.

Yoooo trapping in Japan!

Ryan Celsius I hope. He is the OG for this type of music. This is my grind music all day every day. Big ups SK.

Yes Bobby, I was sure I was not the only one listening to that while grinding haha.

Hell yeah bro. Definitely top3 for grind music. Lately I've been vibing too old school dubstep mixes like caspa, rusko, skream, digital mystiks. Gets me in a kill em all mindset.

Haha a bit too much for me. I like listening to electronic music but it has to not be to crazy. Or I feel more stress playing.

After 2 week of playing, 115 hours of playtime.
My brain is still intact.



I'm doing daily exercise now. after my breakfast. My muscles are really weak. It was a bit shocking to see. And also it motivate me. So I enjoy the process of it so far.

My daily routine is starting to leak. It's been a while I did proper study. I teach one of my old friend. he knows how to play pretty good. he is a chess player mostly, but probably a better smash melee player than chess haha. I enjoy the process of teaching and I discover new stuff also. So it has been my way of study these days. I'm still kinda scared to go in the solver land. I will upgrade my computer slowly with the money I've been making.

Took a shot at 10NL during the happy hours just after the maintenance. So I was first in line when the chinese action started.



BANKROLL: 776

A lot of the time 10NL is softer than 5. I will take more shots there. But not during the week. When the games are the softest.

After 134h of playtime.

I took a shot at the big boys. Not so tough to beat. Made 2 obvious mistakes. Took a break after those. Played 25NL Zoom. It was very stressful and I dont feel like jumping back in the pool to try to get a good rank for the leaderboard. So back to the broke stakes. We will see where the action is at.




BR:862$

Nice thread SK. I'm in & GL

I quit smoking (again) recently. The gum works for me, although a bit pricey.

I really like the Russian friend-saga. How's he doing recently?

Nice ty $ikke$. I will post an update on him. He represents the average russian guy that we all play against every day. I just finished playing. I could not managed to play low. (lol) Listened to sauce podcast before playing and felt like gambling big. Lost massive at first. The survival instinct kicked in and end up break even.
All praise the poker gods.
Amen.

*Deep voice*
''hum, hum. (too much cigarettes recently) AS SEEN IN THE LAST EPISODE OF: THE
RUSSIAN FRIEND SAGA AND/OR THE BIGGEST MICRO WINNER.

as we saw on the last episode, the russian friend got some momentum playing 5NL and 2NL. he made more than 275$ playing on GG! And I thought to myself: ''Man Vlad can do it''. he showed me graphs of pokercraft, everything seemed fine for him. He decided to quit pokerstars (where he made all of his money) and focus his effort on GG. That was a week ago.

AND, that was before the wrath of the poker gods.

EPISODE 3: THE WRATH OF THE POKER GODS.

One day, he sent me a message. It was a email from pokerstars. His account got banned. ''It appears that you're not paying your fair share of blinds. To be more specific, it appears that you're playing 'free' hands when table are starting.''
He wanted me to translate the email. I knew the desperate level was high, probably over 9000, but I was not expecting that.

He got access to his account back. At least. But the thunder was already rumbling. The moon was sooooo bright that night. The gods were mad. With disrespect comes punishment.

RIEN NE VAS PLUS.




How could THIS be possible! (super standard). More than 15bi under EV! (super standard) After all I did for you poker gods! After all the efforts, the study! The SWEAT THE TEARS!!! I even tried to balance my ranges for you! (...) (super standard).

The gods didn't care. Poker gods have no mercy.
`
''Unlucky'', I responded to him. '' How much in the roll''
- not much
70bb in gg care flip
unreal unluck

-Don't think I ever had that much... :/

- It's on NL2 -60.

- So I think I'll cash out here
it's not 2st time.
Not even 2nd.

I did not answer, restraining myself from posting a crying emoji.
We all know is not gonna quit. He is NO QUITTER.
But, will he respect the poker gods in the future? That is the question. And we will find the answer iiiiiinnnn.

THE NEXT EPISODE OF: THE RUSSIAN SAGA AND/OR THE BIGGEST MICRO WINNER

Lmao great writing

Vlad, meet pokerstars support

After 147h of playtime. The roll is getting big.



I have managed to get second and 4th in some 2$ crap shot tournament, just before playing cash. It's always a good feeling to start a session already way up. In what felt like free money, you always go in tournament expecting a lost.

Sometimes I play a couple of those before a session. Normally I just end up bust and tilted.

BANKROLL:1310

The Gods came and punished me also. I went on a 10bi downswing below EV in the zoom games. I will take some time off. I will be posting my next graph not showing those hands. For motivational purpose. I will stay away from zoom for a while rebuilding it up.

The month is over. End up on a sour note.



But with rakeback and everything its all good. I still have plenty of BI to play a little higher if I want. But the sad thing is: My winrate in 10NL took a serious hit yesterday.

RIP winrate.



But Overall Its not that bad. My focus was laking for the couple last days. Had an other final table tho. That felt pretty good.



BAKROLL : 1038.

I will come up with a plan for the next month.

OKay What is up 2+2. I have taken out some money. And came up with a new plan.

1. THE SMOKING STOPS NOW. MY LAST PACK.
2. PLAY LESS TABLES. I DONT CARE ABOUT THE BOARD. More Focus less tables.
3. I will only play 10NL Get some more volume there.

I want to build a live roll So when the games are back I can play. I have managed to save 1K CAD so far. I did withdraw 500 usd. SO a bit will go for that fund. and the rest to improve my poker.

I will try to go back to posting daily. with more hands in there. So I can get some feed backs.

IS anyone good at database review? That would help.

OKay well I lied. I end up playing 5NL even If I have a big roll for it.

I played a lot yesterday so I'm still happy with the results.



BANKROLL: 727 USD
LIVE ROLL: 1K CAD

I cant upload my GG hands with snowy. Somebody as a way of doing it?.

- SO my new daily life will look like this:
1. Coffee and 2plus2. (review hands I played or a micro threads)
2. Breakfast. small physical exercice.
3. Warming up using pokersnowie.
4. Play.
4.1. Taking break every hour.
4.2. Never smoke weed while playing (tough one for me)
4.3. Never play more than 8 tables at once.
4.4. Never assume a simple decision and think of overall range construction in
each spot.

5. Study. I got myself a solver will experience with it a little. And also watching
some coaching video.
(I might do a full week off playing and only studying, So if anyone would be
interested into participating send me a dm.) Full week with a timeline like it was
a university class.


I will find some hands now.

1. BIGGEST POT OF THE DAY!

GG Poker - $0.10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

MP: $12.38
CO: $20.17
Hero (BTN): $10.89
SB: $11.05
BB: $4.18
UTG: $27.42

SB posts SB $0.05, BB posts BB $0.10

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.15) Hero has K K

fold, fold, CO raises to $0.30, Hero raises to $1.15, fold, BB raises to $4.18 and is all-in, CO raises to $20.17 and is all-in, Hero calls $9.74 and is all-in

Flop: ($26.01, 3 players) 9 J 4

Turn: ($26.01, 3 players) 6

River: ($26.01, 3 players) J

CO shows 5 5 (Two Pair, Jacks and Fives)

Main Pot [$12.59]: (Pre 15%, Flop 8%, Turn 5%)
Side Pot#1 [$13.42]: (Pre 19%, Flop 9%, Turn 5%)

Hero shows K K (Two Pair, Kings and Jacks)

Main Pot [$12.59]: (Pre 66%, Flop 81%, Turn 90%)
Side Pot#1 [$13.42]: (Pre 81%, Flop 91%, Turn 95%)

BB shows 7 7 (Two Pair, Jacks and Sevens)

Main Pot [$12.59]: (Pre 19%, Flop 11%, Turn 5%)

Hero wins $24.91



2. THE BIGGEST MISTAKE OF THE DAY.

GG Poker - $0.05 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: $4.63
Hero (BB): $8.40
UTG: $5.00
MP: $10.43
CO: $8.55
BTN: $5.04

SB posts SB $0.02, Hero posts BB $0.05

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.07) Hero has A K

fold, fold, CO raises to $0.15, fold, fold, Hero raises to $0.62, CO calls $0.47

Flop: ($1.26, 2 players) 8 T Q
Hero checks, CO bets $0.63, Hero calls $0.63

Turn: ($2.52, 2 players) A
Hero checks, CO bets $1.72, Hero calls $1.72

River: ($5.96, 2 players) 5
Hero checks, CO bets $5.58 and is all-in, Hero calls $5.43 and is all-in

CO shows 8 8 (Three of a Kind, Eights)
(Pre 55%, Flop 83%, Turn 91%)
Hero shows A K (One Pair, Aces)
(Pre 45%, Flop 17%, Turn 9%)
CO wins $16.27

I remember that one very well it got me tilted a bit. ON the river I think its a big mistake to be calling. i'm not sure if blocking the str8 is better than having 2 pair. I guess when I go X/Call turn I still have a bunch of 2 pair that fear the str8 that I can Call down on the river. There was an aggressive dynamic (he got and I got a 4B out of each other.) So I tanked called, bad play I assume.



HERO CALL OF THE DAY.

GG Poker - $0.10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $10.00
SB: $8.40
Hero (BB): $10.00
UTG: $11.77
MP: $8.55
CO: $7.79

SB posts SB $0.05, Hero posts BB $0.10

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.15) Hero has A A

fold, fold, fold, BTN raises to $0.27, fold, Hero raises to $1.06, BTN calls $0.79

Flop: ($2.17, 2 players) 7 3 T
Hero bets $1.09, BTN calls $1.09

Turn: ($4.35, 2 players) J
Hero checks, BTN bets $1.96, Hero calls $1.96

River: ($8.27, 2 players) 8
Hero checks, BTN bets $5.89 and is all-in, Hero calls $5.89 and is all-in

BTN shows A Q (High Card, Ace)

Hero shows A A (One Pair, Aces)

Hero wins $18.96

That one felt pretty good haha.

PREFLOP: Nothing to be said.

FLOP:For me on that type of texture with Aces I try to mix it in all of my line. X/C, X/R, B. When I bet I have 2 size. the 33% and the 50%. I would sometime use AA as a 33% and a 50%. I decided To go bit bigger on what seemed to be a weaker player.

TURN: Interesting spot now. And I believe all the option are still on the table now. Could go Bet, X/C or X/ship it.

the turn obv intereracts well with the flop calling range of my opponents. Now more 2 pairs and str8 are possible. And the backdoor comes in, if my opponent isn't to fit or fold to call with those flop. I ended up going for the X/Call option, as not a lot of river can kill my option of going call again river.
I suppose less high Pocket pair like KK and QQ don't like a X as much. Not sure.

THE RIVER. 4 card str8 and the guy shove. I was not sure if he would shove for value with sets and two pair here. Like the big lost pots. it's not the type of spot people go craycray in. Considering the number of BB in the pot. So It felt to me that he said I have a str8. But I dont see him having very much str8 except (10-9, and 8-9. (now a bit less with the river 9)) Mb the j9s. Might as well check that one turn, to not face the X/raise. Not sure.
Fish call. I win. haha.

Good stuff SK.

I suspect hand 2 is probably a high freq cbet, obv folding to a raise. And folding river is probably correct as you say.

Hand 3: pretty mental from villain. Well sleuthed. I'm experimenting with putting a few overpairs into my turn x/jam range - although that wouldn't have been as effective as x/call vs this gun-happy villain.

I don't think it's a bad thing to be playing lower stakes if that's what you feel like. At least that can help avoiding the mindset of 'I'm a x NL player, I'm not going to move down to x/2 NL'.

I think having 2p in the second hand is way better than blocking the straight. At least in that case, you're beating some of his possible thin value bets.

Yeah that hand was showing some humbleness. Knew it was a mistake. Still clicked the call and it tilted me enough to need a break. So i had to show it.

What is up 2+2. Still doing the thing with the stuff.



BANKROLL: 775 USD
LIVE ROLL: 1K USD

And Now how it all happened:

1. TRAPPING THE FUN GUY.

PRELFOP: Okay, in that one when he uses bigger size I dont assume too much of it. Considering he was the unknown at the table.
FLOP: Very good for us. Against regular I would mostly bet and rarely check. But against this guy I decided to downgrade my bet frequency. How can I apply it in a simple way. Well I will go with was is my base line:

AK: Bet almost always.
AQ: Bet always.
AJ: Bet almost always.
A10. 75/25
A9. 75/25

And if I want to slightly increase my freq of X, in that spot based on vilain:

AK. Mostly Bet
AQ. Mostly BET.
AJ. 75/25
A10. 50/50
A9. 50/50

In that case I went with that modification based on the player type. that seemed gun happy.

GG Poker - $0.10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $10.95
Hero (SB): $10.00
BB: $5.80
CO: $10.00

Hero posts SB $0.05, BB posts BB $0.10

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.15) Hero has A 9

fold, BTN raises to $0.40, Hero raises to $1.20, fold, BTN calls $0.80

Flop: ($2.50, 2 players) 5 3 A
Hero checks, BTN bets $2.50, Hero calls $2.50

Turn: ($7.50, 2 players) J
Hero checks, BTN bets $7.25 and is all-in, Hero calls $6.30 and is all-in

River: ($20.10, 2 players) 8

BTN shows 7 8 (One Pair, Eights)
(Pre 36%, Flop 5%, Turn 0%)
Hero shows A 9 (One Pair, Aces)
(Pre 64%, Flop 95%, Turn 100%)
Hero wins $19.00

I did not have very much more interesting spots lost some all in preflop and stuff. Nothing out of the ordinary. One call that I made that was mb bad. But it was against a fun player so I dont mind calling them in close spots.

GLGL.

Funnily enough I was running this exact spot last night having only just realised Ace-low-low isn't a board we can depol range. Presumably because BU has more sets and nuttish draws.

I don't have A9s in my SB range here but your breakdown is broadly accurate to my solve where we mainly bet our strongest Ax and check more as they get weaker. WP/villain is a bona fide psychopath

Thx for the Russian Saga-update, SkullKid.

OT: Keep the dream alive, my friend. But why reserve money nów for future live play? Just use all your money as a complete bankroll imo. With almost $2k, you can easily move up to 25NL and beyond!