Awesome session. Lost twice with AK after I flopped TPTK. Need to learn how to get away from TPTK more efficiently.

I am playing 2NL as well and 6 tabling at the moment. Any more than 6 and makes things hard for me at the moment. Tried 8 tabling last night and I am down like 3x BI

Here's my graph from a long 6-tabling session tonight.



Haven't had a bad session today. My strategy is finally sorting itself out and now I only see myself adding more tables. Played tonight's session on 6, will start tomorrow with 6 and move up to 8 (and maybe 10) later in the day.



Feels good to be a winner!

With regards to the last session, I made a note that I was limping hands like AQs a little too often from EP. I really hate being OOP with hands like this after the flop. I should learn to suck it up and raise though.

TT hand , if youre gonna bluff anywhere in that hand its the turn and raise him with your gutshot. If the first K didn't "help" you why is the second one going too. As played I'd just check behind as only hands that have you beat are going to call so if you bet you win no extra money and if you lose you lost that extra you bet and can't reaally see any hands that beat you folding to your bet . He shows that he's not folding second pair which reinforces the idiom of not bluffing at 2nl.

with the 88 hand , once he calls your cbet , with 2 overcards on board and the undercard now paired any part of the flop he connected with is beating you ....try and check it down and hope he has something like a gutshot .

oh .....and with regards to the adding tables , WHY. You've just come back from tilting off your roll multitabling and you've played 6 tables and won some nice money being able to think through your decisions. spend a week or more and build your roll , then add tables 1 at atime sand check that its not affecting your winrate. the more you play while concentrating on fewer tables , the more confident you can become in your decisions as you add tables.

Yep, I now think I've successfully removed this idiotic 3-barreling action from my game. It was probably one of my biggest leaks with this new strategy.

Well yesterday I started with 4 and moved up to 5 and then 6 in my last session and handled it quite well I feel. I guess I'll stick with 6 for today then.

Update after this morning's session. 5 hour session this morning.



Another successful comeback from a slow start. Went fishing big time at 1400 hands after flopping a boat. Ended up with $11 at 2NL. :P Up to $30 profit in the last two days. Looking to add a couple more tables tonight.

Short session on 7 tables, going to try 8 tables for tonight's session.

Negative session tonight, mainly due to variance I think. My kings got cracked so often and the cards just weren't falling my way. Having said that, there was one major mistake I think I made.



At around 700 hands, a maniac joined my table. She was shoving everything and she was deep too ($5). Somehow, she got herself up to $10 and I decided I wanted to get with that before someone else did. So I add an extra $3 to my stack at that table.

My mistake was spazzing out when I saw what she was shoving with. 72o. She actually shoved with 72o pre-flop so I naturally thought I could get it in with any slightly okay hand and win. I ended up tilting and getting it in with my TKs. Naturally, she has 7Ao and wins with ace high.

Next time I find a fish like this at my table, I really need to keep my cool and shove only premium cards (I'm guessing AQs+? or maybe a little loser?)

I'm about to start my first session for the day to try get back on top of this variance.

Another slightly negative session again but I'm quite happy with how it was played.



I got it in well most of the time as my all-in EV says I should have had a positive session. Happy with the pre-flop line above as well. I guess the bad variance is just continuing, no worries.

Just going over my all-in EV in my previous games, I can see that on the big games I was a little lucky at some points. I need to ask a few questions about hands like AK and how I should be playing them pre-flop.

Hey Meale.

I'm going to follow your "blog".

Keep it up. We're at the same level, so I'm keen to see how you travel. I have just deposited some funds in Pokerstars to play some 1c/2c.

Not looking to go pro like you, just having some fun. Married with kids, so I can't commit to something like that, but I definitely want to get better.

I have been playing SNG's mostly, and enjoy them, but I want to try some cash games.

I also play in a laid back live monthly tourney that's a lot of fun. About 14-16 guys going at it. All beginners. I do alright.

Anyway, good luck, keep learning, and kill it.

Maybe we can talk strategy sometime...

Hey man,

It's good to see you'll be following. Do let me know how your'e progressing and if you want any advice from someone who's just adjusted to multitabling micros, hit me up!

Anyways, onward to tonight's update.



Almost a 6 hour session tonight and I was playing catch up the whole time it seemed. Starting to question whether my strategy is as good as it was a couple days ago (when I was winning all sessions) or if it's just variance. I guess I won't know until I play a few more hands.

Highlight of my night happened a few minutes ago. I had pocket 7s and the flop came 7KQ. It was me, a fish, and a regular left in the hand. I wonder what the reg' is doing there on the flop still and since I was in EP, I checked it to those guys. They check and the turn comes a 6. I decide to lead out with a pretty small bet of about 6c. Fish calls and the reg' raises to 16c. Now I am absolutely 100% sure the reg' has hit his set of 6s. Perfect. I raise him up, and he raises me, before I raise again. The fish is long gone by now, but the reg' eventually calls hoping I didn't slow play kings or queens or something. I lead out on the river which is a blank, he raises, I shove, he gets it in too. Yep, he mucks his inferior set and I take his stack. What I love so much about this is that it was so clear when the flop came that he was set mining and that he'd hit it on the turn. I was proud of my read. :3

Anyway, I'm going to try get some sleep now.

Edit: Oh by the way, this session was on 10 tables which was quite comfortable.

Back in the green with a smaller session today.



Looks like I didn't get stacked once! Did have to fold KK where I didn't exactly want to, but other than that, no worries!

I made a note throughout the session to look at my AQ/AJ/AT stats and I see that I've got a solid red line with them however my showdown is getting pumped every time. Is that to two pair every time? I don't know. Definitely the trickiest hands for me to play.

Also interesting to note today's red line was consistently negative. Don't think it's a bad thing, just odd that it's so different to the usual.

Almost a 7 hour session on 12 tables tonight. Ended up on top which was nice.



HEM was calling me a rock all night. Honestly, while playing like a rock is considered a bad thing most of the time, I think it was quite profitable. Since there are so many fish, if I play loose, I find I'm getting involved where I shouldn't be and these fish just hammer me. The good part is that they're too dumb to know I'm playing as a nit and that when I've got it, I've got it, so they pay me off anyway. Good strategy for 2NL? Maybe... It won't fly in the higher stakes though.

It's odd though, because for the most part, my general approach/strategy hasn't changed. Some night's I'm an ABC player, some a rock, and some a LAG. Doesn't really bother me too much but would appreciate it if anyone could shed some light on the topic.

Interesting to see that I lost money with my AK hands last night.



Not 100% sure how I can be playing these better, although I did run into quads with it once which did affect the overall green line.

Also, I was up against a complete nit (only 70 hands on him) and there was a lot of action pre-flop. I was pretty certain I could put him on KK or AA but payed his short stack off anyway. Pretty stupid play.

I'm going to update the OP with some graphs and whatnot.

Edit: So I can't update the OP. I finally have over 20k hands and I'm in the +ve! I want to wait until 100k hands to ensure I'm still a winning player before saying I am. I think I'll have reached my goal of $200 before that point if I keep going how I am, though. $40 profit from 20k hands is excellent as far as I'm concerned. Here's my graph since I started playing properly.



Interesting to note that over the last 10k hands, my red line has been dropping. I'm not concerned so long as the green one is going up. I think my last session was a little bit of a run-good session since my orange line on it says I shouldn't have been up as much as I was. Having said that, I did get sucked out on a few times but only really lost one full stack.

Gave 15 tables a shot this afternoon, seemed to go okay.



I'm playing as the biggest rock though and I don't know what to do about it.

I will be following you also

Good Luck!

Hi Meale.

With playing so many tables, have you found yourself misclicking much?

Have you also found yourself regretting some decisions you've made due to being rushed by your required actions on other tables?

Thanks dude!

Evening,

Just had an 18 table session and I can tell you I very rarely made any miss-clicks. It honestly hasn't been an issue yet and if you're even somewhat concentrating, I don't think it's a problem.

Rushing decisions, I'm not going to lie, I think it's happened a few times. Occasionally there will be 4-5 tables in the stack because I was distracted and I will fold a hand that I could have stolen blinds with, but nothing major. The only miss-click I remember was raising KK to two BB instead of four.

I've found that adding more tables has been very smooth and simple. The decisions are instant and when you do come across a spot you're unsure how to play, I generally play on the less aggressive side of things (e.g. fold or check).

Anyways, onward to tonight's session!



Biggest heater of a session. Didn't get sucked out on once. So much action on all of my big hands. It was beautiful. :') As I said above, first 18 table session using the stacked screen configuration. I thought it was quite good and can see myself 24 tabling pretty shortly if I focus the whole time.

Good first session with 24 tables TBH. Got sucked out like a mother****er with a set of queens against KK (hits K on river) for $3.50 towards the end. :/ Way to ruin my night river!



My non-showdown line is looking nasty as, but I think the general strategy of playing like a rock is working for the time being.

It's actually really bugging me that I'd have finished that session on $7+ instead of -$1 had that last hand not happened. :/ I need to get over it.

Another good 24-table session today. Thought I was getting pumped throughout the session but turns out I ended up +$5 which is awesome. I found that a lot of my bottom/middle sets were getting destroyed by better sets. The frustrating part is that you know they've got a better set than you, but you can't fold because this is the micros and you never fold at the micros with a set. :/

Isn't the odds of a set over set 98 to1? Pretty sick if you lost a few of these in one session!