27th October 2015

I have decided to move down to $10NL Zoom from where I was playing $50NL Zoom. The reason for this is mainly due to tilt. I want to prove to myself I have the patience to move up slowly, gradually, and I want to refine my game at a lower level where I lose less of my bankroll.

I want to keep track of what I'm doing and also want to review my hands in depth and have a place where I can store and review them (rather than asking for advice in many different threads). I'll still ask for advice when required, but some hands don't need advice, just reviewing.

Current Bankroll - $200

I'm going to play 20,000 hands of zoom and review where I am at.

Wednesday 17th February - Day 1 - A new new start

Well I did well at keeping this thread up to date! Anyway a bit of an update on where I am at now. At work just now so will post my graph of the year so far later.

Basically I worked myself up through the stakes and crushed (ran well) at $100NL. Moved up to $200NL after only about 20,000 hands at $100NL and crushed that too. I was up about 15 buy ins at $200NL and dreaming, lost focus, no longer reviewing hands, no interaction on 2+2 to develop my skills. Thinking "this is easy" and crushing. Well no. I proceeded to lose all my buy ins at $200NL plus an extra 5 buy ins through a combination of poor play and run bad and minor tilt (played some $500NL and lost a buy in or so which feels like a ridiculous amount to lose on one hand).

Anyway.... I'm still in about $3k profit for the year if I remember right, but it feels like I've lost a fortune. I have lost $4K in the past week or so at $200NL but $3K of that was $200NL winnings so only actually $1K down on my non shot taking bankroll.

My current bankroll in pokerstars is $830 (as I'd been withdrawing down to $5K and since then been playing $200NL and losing), plus I have $720 worth of star coins. Roughly £1000. Added to the roughly £2000 I'm up, I'm calling my bankroll £3000 starting from now (going to play some live and online).

Plan -
Upload my 2016 graph tonight and then make my database show from today onwards.
Shot at $100NL until I have to cash in my star coins (don't want to deposit - £2000 in for live). Play 100,000 hands $100NL before considering moving up again (zoom).
Review all relevant hands and upload all unusual / unsure of hands to 2+2 for critique.
Going to play quite a few hours of live next week in London, need to do some reading of the live forum before I go.

I was doing this before and managed to move up through the stakes quite quickly, but I got a bit careless, cocky and combined with shot taking, poor play and possibly some runbad it's knocked my confidence.

Will update later today with 2016 so far graph and todays play.

Current Bankroll - £3000

Graph for 2016 up until today. As you can see I was doing well until I tried taking my shot at $200NL. Happy with my winrate at $100NL



Here is a graph of todays 1st session -



Nothing too much to report. No interesting spots or analysis to be done so far. Ran KK into AA for over 100 big blinds. Almost feel given his stats I could have got away from it though....

PokerStars - $1 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 178.88 BB (VPIP: 28.00, PFR: 20.00, 3Bet Preflop: 10.00, Hands: 27)
SB: 103.17 BB (VPIP: 28.57, PFR: 14.29, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 9)
BB: 100 BB (VPIP: 25.36, PFR: 19.83, 3Bet Preflop: 4.23, Hands: 355)
UTG: 114.3 BB (VPIP: 17.05, PFR: 5.43, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 134)
Hero (MP): 354.31 BB
CO: 170.05 BB (VPIP: 27.78, PFR: 16.67, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 18)

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K K

UTG raises to 3 BB, Hero raises to 9 BB, fold, fold, fold, fold, UTG raises to 28.5 BB, Hero raises to 354.31 BB and is all-in, UTG calls 85.8 BB and is all-in

Flop: (230.1 BB, 2 players) 5 J A

Turn: (230.1 BB, 2 players) 4

River: (230.1 BB, 2 players) Q

UTG shows A A (Three of a Kind, Aces)
(Pre 82%, Flop 98%, Turn 100%)
Hero shows K K (One Pair, Kings)
(Pre 18%, Flop 2%, Turn 0%)
UTG wins 227.3 BB

Also my top two pair ran into a set when villain cold called 3B -

PokerStars - $1 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 54.92 BB (VPIP: 22.99, PFR: 17.24, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 87)
SB: 153.28 BB (VPIP: 14.29, PFR: 14.29, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 22)
BB: 87.94 BB (VPIP: 20.99, PFR: 14.81, 3Bet Preflop: 3.33, Hands: 81)
UTG: 98.8 BB (VPIP: 35.00, PFR: 25.00, 3Bet Preflop: 11.11, Hands: 22)
MP: 74.71 BB (VPIP: 100.00, PFR: 33.33, 3Bet Preflop: 33.33, Hands: 3)
Hero (CO): 231.11 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K A

fold, MP raises to 2 BB, Hero raises to 9 BB, fold, fold, BB calls 8 BB, MP calls 7 BB

Flop: (27.5 BB, 3 players) A 9 6
BB checks, MP checks, Hero bets 17.5 BB, BB calls 17.5 BB, fold

Turn: (62.5 BB, 2 players) K
BB checks, Hero bets 62 BB, BB calls 61.44 BB and is all-in

River: (185.38 BB, 2 players) 2

BB shows 9 9 (Three of a Kind, Nines)
(Pre 55%, Flop 98%, Turn 91%)
Hero shows K A (Two Pair, Aces and Kings)
(Pre 45%, Flop 2%, Turn 9%)
BB wins 182.58 BB

Decent day today. Should theoretically have been better though. Graph to date below -



Still no hands that I think are weird or need close evaluation. Biggest winning and losing hand of the day below. Biggest winner maybe wasn't played as well as it could have been?





Current bankroll -
Stars - $1230 (played some SnG yesterday to try and get a prize, didnt do too well)
Starcoins - 78809
Live - £2000

I cashed out £400 which is about $600. Played live on Monday and lost £200. Don't think I made any mistakes though. The cards didn't fall for me. Away to spend (invest) another £200 for 4-6 hours. Will see how that goes.

Current bankroll
Pokerstars - $625
Star coins - 86809
Live - £2200

If I lose I'll go to the airport and play sit and Gos and hopefully bink the top prize . Good plan.