Yeah I was thinking that too. By betting you are representing either the flush or straight, so I don't think you will get any value.

Very thin, yes. I def misplayed the hand.

Just FYI, it is possible to have a positive red line at the micros. I've started opening up my game and playing more aggressively and this is the result - my past few sessions at 25NL and some 50NL.



Easy game.

LOL ... awesome. Is this FR or SH?

All 6max on Stars. On the downside I looked at my river call efficiency over those 2k hands or so and it was approx 0.15, so it might just be that I never ever folded, I don't know. Fun though.

$1,000!

After back-to-back $140 days, I've reached a big milestone for the challenge. Took 14 days and 67,995 hands.



Nice to be running/playing much better at the next level:



Progress graph:



I am 100% certain I'll start taking shots at 50NL before the end of the month.

I'll post a few interesting hands from today in the next post. There were a total of 13 that I set aside for review.

[x] crushing
[?] 10K by march

WP verneer. Keep going mate.

congrats on 1000$

Lyncho:Me too by playing more aggressively My red lien went up

Three Hands to Reflect On (starting with turn play):

Think about it, post your thoughts, but please do so in the spoiler format to allow others to post their thoughts as well and not be biased.

Hand 1: Villain is playing 9/0 over 159 hands.

Full Tilt Poker $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players -
CO: $28.55
BTN: $32.60
Hero (SB): $14.17
BB: $20.02
UTG: $22.25
UTG+1: $42.93
UTG+2: $16.22
MP1: $25.00
MP2: $25.77

Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is SB with A K
UTG calls $0.25, 6 folds, Hero raises to $1, 1 fold, UTG calls $0.75

Flop: ($2.25) 3 A 7 (2 players)
Hero bets $1.25, UTG calls $1.25

Turn: ($4.75) A (2 players)
Hero ... ?

Hand 2: Villain is playing 28/20 over 26 hands.

Full Tilt Poker $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players -

UTG: $36.70
UTG+1: $22.11
UTG+2: $10.15
MP1: $25.10
MP2: $28.27
CO: $38.08
BTN: $10.35
SB: $9.55
Hero (BB): $17.46

Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is BB with K K
1 fold, UTG+1 raises to $0.85, 6 folds, Hero raises to $3, UTG+1 calls $2.15

Flop: ($6.10) 8 T 3 (2 players)
Hero bets $3.75, UTG+1 calls $3.75

Turn: ($13.60) A (2 players)
Hero ... ?

Hand 3: Villain is playing 20/10 over 11 hands.

Full Tilt Poker $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players -

MP2: $25.00
Hero (CO): $51.20
BTN: $23.75
SB: $10.00
BB: $52.31
UTG: $13.06
UTG+1: $10.00
UTG+2: $31.87
MP1: $15.98

Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is CO with A 2
5 folds, Hero raises to $0.50, 2 folds, BB calls $0.25

Flop: ($1.10) 3 7 8 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $0.75, BB calls $0.75

Turn: ($2.60) 7 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero ... ?

Also, I want to surpass Andrew Wiggins on Twitter (ah ... the little things we strive for ), so I'm going to give away a free coaching session which reviews your game to one random person that end up following me there. Good luck

following you mate. gl with the rest of the challenge!

Awesome!

Following!

Congrats

This is pretty awesome. What do you do for a living to allow you to do this, Verneer, if you don't mind me asking? It's pretty cool that you can give up opportunity costs of playing higher stakes to help uNL-ers and even at the end of the challenge you donate your profits.

How about hand "9. Raising due to fold equity, calling it off (or shoving) with actual equity (2) (there has to be a better name for this). An opportunity arrives which screams "raise" and then you call it off with equity:"
You mean we should avoid spots like these even though we have enough equity to call it off?

1. 9-0 limps strong aces utg, too. I think you're only getting 1 street of value from his pocket pairs most of the time, except for maybe JJ-KK. His range here is probably AT-AK, 22-KK. To maximize our value against this range I would bet just over 1/2 pot on the turn (and never fold to a raise) and bet pot (shove) any river. He'll have hard time folding his TT-KK on this board. I don't think he can read that you're never bluffing here once you bet the flop and the turn as this kind of a player generally only plays his own hand.

2. UTG+1 hardly ever has an ax here. Would he be the kind of a player who likes to call off bluffs? If that's the case, I'd shove the turn. Actually, in any case, you have less than the pot and I think shove is pretty much the only option here, you'll often get calls from JJ-QQ which is a large part of his range (which should be something like 99-AA + AQ-AK although AQ/AK fold the flop almost always).

3. I would bet the turn to increase the size of the pot (we're deepstacked) as we have good equity vs his calling range and something like 15 or 16 good cards for river. Also, he often folds his smallish pocket pairs and some part of the time also has worse draws here (which he probably won't fold). I would bet most rivers, especially any club, 9, J, K, Q and A. I would not bet an eight or seven or 4, 5, 6.

Verneer, what about the QQ hand a couple of days ago? I would love to hear your thoughts about it.

That really depends ... most of the time I would err on the side of aggression and trying to apply FE as well. On the other hand, if I'm stuck and it means I'm going to risk more than it's worth, I will just call and hope I hit.

GJ reaching $1k so fast.

The_Pest pretty much nailed it:

Meant to say ace dropping on the turn above

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following verneer, loving the threaf, very frustrating to see your graphs though!!
hopefully one day i'll be there