Hey all,

First post as this forum has really inspired me to become a member here and read/contribute however I can!

I'm a student in Colorado and just made a $20 deposit to AC last week(only place with .01 NL from what I could see of the most popular american cardrooms).

Goal for the new year: Build a $200 bankroll and move up to .05NL. Yes, everyone ever has said this goal, but I'm very serious about this goal and love the game with quite intense passion. Beyond that, who knows how far it'll go?

After reading just a few "Articles of the week", I've gone from 18.50 to 21.90 over the course of 45 minutes using blind-stealing strategy (and 2 all-ins with best hands) and am driven to constantly work on my game.

That being said I know that Pokertracker is very popular and key to improvement, but is not compatible with AC. Is there an alternative that works well or any other suggestions?

Please direct me to any and all good info/threads as I'm looking to seriously devote time into this and am loving the idea of grinding my way up!

Cheers!

I feel I should also mention that I've gone from around 450k in playmoney on PS to 3.5 million over the course of 2-3 weeks before deciding it was time to take this thing on for real.

I've also won a $10 NLHE live tourney a few months back which fueled this small bankroll

This thread is basically going to be yet another of those "$20 up!" thread "blogs", so I will post daily results and new ideas that come to me. If anyone has any other tips for posting or improving my game please mention them!

Oh boy. After going up to about 24.80 or so, I managed to drop back down hard to 20.54 thanks to some serious donk playing. I don't know what it was, but besides a few bad-beats all in (QQ losing to AK, TPTK losing to flushes in one case) I feel like my cbetting and flop play is just absolutely awful.

http://imgur.com/xNnC45C

I can tell that my big leaks are coming from, like I said, my cbetting and overall fish calls with middle pair on a dryish board.

I'll try and find a specific hand and load it.

Can anyone help me figure out how to insert my graphs inline? Searched online and attempted IMG tags which didn't work

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You got this!

Use the actual image URL (right click picture, copy image URL) with img tags

Thanks guys Means a lot since I'm feeling really disheartened by my recent run. I'm reading the blind-stealing threads and I feel like I'm adhering to it pretty darn well, but I felt like tonight (over a few hundred hands!), I was getting blind-steals called about 80% of the time? Same thing with my cbets.

I got called with my air-y cbet (90% of the time) and then I get terrified because at these low levels I know that they don't try to float nearly at all.

Perhaps I'm blind stealing too much (almost every orbit) and with too much garbage on BTN/CO?

Looking at my Tracker #'s I see that my flop aggression factor is 7.31, WAY too high, and my Flop Aggression Frequency is 58.05%. Looks like I'm playing into the flop way too hard too often.

Question is: Why is this the case? I know that I'm getting beaten; my wallet feels it! Is it that I'm not evaluating board texture too much and not being selective enough with my preflop raises for blind steals?

Here's solid proof of my horrid post-flop playing:


Thanks Decision for the help there.

Seriously, I'm doing something horribly wrong with my fundamentals and any tips are greatly appreciated. If you could guide me to more helpful tracker numbers I'd be very grateful.

Down to 18.39 today after 1.5 hours of playing. My play is still shabby even after dropping to 2 tables and limiting the times I try to steal blinds. The stats of my opponents are all call-station-y and I have a very very hard time extracting value.

Set-mines always failed, premium hands miss, top pocket pairs always get folded by the same group that would call the same raise 80% of the other times, cbets always getting called (even cbets on turn on rare occasion).

are you playing 6max or FR? what are your stats vpip/pfr 3bet etc.
read this thread http://crushonlineholdem.com/crush-o...25#postid-6060 this was a frustrated player a couple of months ago , the graph at the end is how he is crushing 2nl . read the blog and you'll get a lot of tips of things to implement.

to show it works I implemented some of the things i read in that blog and have gone through 2nl in 4-5 days, 5nl in 2 1/2 days. Ok I can beat these stakes normally and i played it really laggy, whereas the op in the blog is playing a tight range. http://crushonlineholdem.com/crush-o...wtopic&t=15.16 is where my blog covers this.

Excellent stuff, thanks for bringing it to my attention. I'll read those threads carefully.

20.49/13.56/3.33 stats as of now at full-ring .01/.02 NLHE. I feel like there's a good chance I'm just doing a horrible job reading board textures when doing cbets on blind steals, in addition to just trying to blind steal too often. I wish I kept track of the hands but I'm guessing I'm just trying to hard OOP and with bad hands otherwise. I'll take note of hands that I need analysis on.

Here are two hands I want input on. I'd like to think I played well a) calling with AK rather than a re-raise and going all-in.

I put him on some top-ish pair/high face cards since his numbers are 62/33/11, leading me to think he loves raising with anything half-decent.

Given his numbers I thought I played well, but I think there's a possible speculation that he would be trapping me if it was a tighter player. Thoughts?

Winning Poker Network - $0.02 NL - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4: http://www.pokertracker.com

BTN: 144 BB
Hero (SB): 43 BB
BB: 38 BB
UTG: 50 BB
CO: 56 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Ah Kd
fold, fold, BTN raises to 2 BB, Hero raises to 6 BB, fold, BTN raises to 10 BB, Hero calls 4 BB

Flop : (21 BB, 2 players) 4s 2c Ks
Hero bets 13 BB, BTN calls 13 BB

Turn : (47 BB, 2 players) 3d
Hero bets 20 BB and is all-in, BTN calls 20 BB

River : (87 BB, 2 players) Jd

BTN shows 7d 7c (One Pair, Sevens) (Pre 55%, Flop 9%, Turn 5%)
Hero shows Ah Kd (One Pair, Kings) (Pre 45%, Flop 91%, Turn 95%)
Hero wins 83 BB


Hand 2: I had JJ and thought I made the right decision cbetting on the flop with just that K. Should I just never cbet here and hope he doesn't cbet me after the check on the flop?

Winning Poker Network - $0.02 NL - Holdem - 7 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4: http://www.pokertracker.com

BB: 41 BB
UTG: 14.5 BB
UTG+1: 72.5 BB
MP: 69 BB
CO: 31.5 BB
BTN: 61.5 BB
Hero (SB): 62 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Jc Jd
fold, fold, fold, fold, BTN calls 1 BB, Hero raises to 4 BB, fold, BTN calls 3 BB

Flop : (9 BB, 2 players) 3s Kh 4c
Hero bets 6 BB, BTN raises to 12 BB, fold

BTN wins 20 BB

first hand i'd just shove pre he's wild and likely to call with a lot worse. AK needs to see all 5 cards , not check fold when you miss the flop.
2nd hand what are villains stats, limping the button he's probably pretty bad , unlikely to have a K but could have .

I was up about $1 from start until one hand that was god-awful and I played pretty poorly.

Unfortunately, pokertracker seems to have somehow lost that hand! I really need to have someone look at it... I folded trips to a player because I figured he had a full house.

It was an extremely stressful river for me. Anybody know how to find hands that pokertracker can't seem to find?

EDIT: Is there a chance someone would be willing to take 5 minutes and sweat through a hand or two with me?

where abouts are you based , what times do you play.

Based in central US, play intermittently throughout the day between doing my other stuff. I'm available every day usually in the evening except for weekend nights mostly.

EDIT: In mountain time, so after 6pm there most nights

So it seems like I just won't learn anything the CotW posts and everyone ever seems to tell me since I still lose money like a complete madman. I'm down to 15.23 (from 24.86 on Tuesday 3 days ago).

I try to cbet in horrible places, I call horrible bets and always get picked on by VPIPs above 50 (a few were in the 80s) and my monsters get turned into chopped pots.

I need to have some sort of decent uNL player watch me play because I'm learning these concepts and they make me a worse player.

If anyone can please watch me play and tell me what I'm doing wrong I'd love to pay you back if I could.

After spending a good 1.75 hours with the very-helpful KeithMM and hammering down a more effective (read: less leaky-as-hell) game, I'm now up around $3.5 for the night.

That being said, here is a hand I thought I played a little bit poorly given that I was afraid of the multi-way and didn't consider the low VPIPs of my opponents:

Winning Poker Network - $0.02 NL - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4: http://www.pokertracker.com

Hero (SB): 37 BB
BB: 19.5 BB
UTG: 50 BB
MP: 50 BB
CO: 45 BB
BTN: 43 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Th Ts
fold, MP calls 1 BB, CO calls 1 BB, fold, Hero calls 0.5 BB, BB checks

Flop : (4 BB, 4 players) 6h 2s 2h
Hero checks, BB checks, MP checks, CO checks
Mistake 1? -> checked the flop with overpair multiway against low VPIPS (around or below 20 means I put them on rag aces or broadwayish hands)

Turn : (4 BB, 4 players) 7d
Hero bets 4 BB, fold, fold, CO calls 4 BB

River : (12 BB, 2 players) 5d
Hero bets 7.5 BB, CO raises to 22.5 BB, fold

CO wins 26 BB

The re-raise on the river scared me. I had figured at that point he had hit trips on the flop, possibly a set of some kind for a full house? Comment on it and let me know.

Here is my graph now:


You can tell where the night starts by the huge jump-up at the global minimum on the graph when my first hand was AA, got it all-in pf vs. AKo and, of course, won.

your big mistake in this hand was just limping behind with your TT which let the limpers get into the hand with all kinds of junk.If you raise pre 2x probably folds and never gets to hit trips.

Yeah that's kinda what I figured. slow-rolled my better hand until it became the worse hand.

I'm gonna plow through a few more hours of it today and see what I can accomplish.

made $1 in my last 1 hour session. Pretty good considering I was getting quite a dry run of cards, but managed to catch the good hands and ride them for the most value. Here's a hand I'm curious about.

Winning Poker Network - $0.02 NL - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4: http://www.pokertracker.com

Hero (MP+1): 50 BB
CO: 54 BB
BTN: 39 BB
SB: 21 BB
BB: 35 BB
UTG: 28 BB
UTG+1: 53.5 BB
UTG+2: 130.5 BB
MP: 30.5 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Ks Qd
fold, UTG+1 calls 1 BB, fold, fold, Hero raises to 4 BB, fold, fold, fold, fold, UTG+1 calls 3 BB

Flop : (9.5 BB, 2 players) 4s Ac Qs
UTG+1 checks, Hero bets 6 BB, UTG+1 raises to 12 BB, Hero calls 6 BB

Turn : (33.5 BB, 2 players) Jc
UTG+1 bets 21 BB, fold

UTG+1 wins 32 BB

Villains stats were 61/6/3
I feel like he had a rag ace. Good fold? Thoughts?

remember my comment on the last hand abut bet your hands until raised then fold........why call the raise?

Here's a hand where I had AA and folded on the flop. Just didn't feel comfortable with it.

Winning Poker Network - $0.02 NL - Holdem - 7 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4: http://www.pokertracker.com

BTN: 20.5 BB
SB: 35.5 BB
BB: 50 BB
UTG: 51.5 BB
UTG+1: 51.5 BB
MP: 53 BB
Hero (CO): 76.5 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Ah As
fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 3 BB, fold, SB calls 2.5 BB, BB calls 2 BB

Flop : (9 BB, 3 players) 9h 6s 9d
SB checks, BB bets 9 BB, fold, fold

BB wins 9 BB

Villains stats are 24/3/3. I put him on a full house, rag aces or maybe rag broadway? He did not bet out strongly on the flop with overpairs before then from what I remember. The fact that the called the 2bet suggests a pocket pair and I'm guessing it connected.

Otherwise I've had a few rapid-fire unlucky all-instoday, one stupid all-in preflop with JJ, but am only down $1.30.

1) All-in pf w/ QQ vs AA
2) all-in pf to the same guy 2 hands later w/ KK vs AA
3) stupid all-in against a laggy player with JJ, he had KA and connected on river.

Made a few all-ins against short-stacks and ground my losses down. Except for that JJ play I felt good about today's playing.

Decided that video games weren't gonna cut it so I watched McStacken's 101 videos at crushonlinepoker, took down some notes and 4-tabled 2NL for 1.5 hours or so and am now actually higher than I was earlier today before my bad beats.



On the left are the fish I mildly stomped, the middle is me, and the right is you guys showing just how darned thrilled you are for me.

Overall graph:


Redline without blinds:


Now that we're all fat on cake and ice cream from my joyous celebration, here's a hand I'm curious about:

Winning Poker Network - $0.02 NL - Holdem - 8 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4: http://www.pokertracker.com

BTN: 13.5 BB
SB: 43.5 BB
Hero (BB): 84 BB
UTG: 95.5 BB
UTG+1: 54.5 BB
MP: 64 BB
MP+1: 96.5 BB
CO: 40 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Kh Qd
UTG calls 1 BB, fold, MP raises to 2 BB, fold, fold, BTN calls 2 BB, SB calls 1.5 BB, Hero calls 1 BB, UTG calls 1 BB

Flop : (10 BB, 5 players) Qs Ah Qh
SB checks, Hero bets 6 BB, fold, MP calls 6 BB, BTN raises to 11.5 BB and is all-in, fold, Hero calls 5.5 BB, MP calls 5.5 BB

Turn : (44.5 BB, 3 players) Js
Hero checks, MP checks

River : (44.5 BB, 3 players) 3s
Hero bets 21 BB, fold

BTN shows 9c Qc (Three of a Kind, Queens) (Pre 31%, Flop 20%, Turn 14%)
Hero shows Kh Qd (Three of a Kind, Queens) (Pre 69%, Flop 80%, Turn 86%)
Hero wins 42.5 BB

Given I was BB with a not-extremely-good hand against a table of both tight and loose players, I felt like checking behind to see if I hit a monster, which I did. Given that AA and AQ probably would have seen a raise pf, I decided to bump it up, getting a shove. I know I have to call for such a small amount, but should I have re-shoved to eliminate heart draws and the like?

Back down to 19.40 after a little up/more down kind of day.

This hand brought me from 20.22 to 19.40 or so. I think AA is an easy raise/fold on this flop right?

Winning Poker Network - $0.02 NL - Holdem - 8 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4: http://www.pokertracker.com

CO: 58.5 BB
BTN: 41 BB
SB: 59 BB
BB: 30 BB
UTG: 27.5 BB
UTG+1: 44 BB
Hero (MP): 50 BB
MP+1: 52.5 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Ah Ad
fold, fold, Hero raises to 3 BB, fold, fold, BTN calls 3 BB, fold, BB calls 2 BB

Flop : (9.5 BB, 3 players) 7c 8h 4c
BB checks, Hero bets 6 BB, BTN raises to 18 BB, fold, Hero raises to 47 BB and is all-in, BTN calls 20 BB and is all-in

Turn : (85.5 BB, 2 players) 2c

River : (85.5 BB, 2 players) 9d

BTN shows 7d 7h (Three of a Kind, Sevens) (Pre 19%, Flop 90%, Turn 95%)
Hero shows Ah Ad (One Pair, Aces) (Pre 81%, Flop 10%, Turn 5%)
BTN wins 81.5 BB

Update, made a big downswing with KK v AA, then nutjob hitting a flush after all-in on the flop with the best of it, etc.

Next 10 hands are boring and frustrating, then I catch a big upswing against the nutjob and a few others and made it back to 20.17 after a bad day at the tables.

I guess there is some semblance of fairness (even though yes, I know, downswings can be way bigger and I'm playing for pennies here).

Here's a few insane hands the nutjob won thanks to excellent luck:

Winning Poker Network - $0.02 NL - Holdem - 7 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4: http://www.pokertracker.com

Hero (MP): 163.5 BB
CO: 20 BB
BTN: 16.5 BB
SB: 64.5 BB
BB: 20 BB
UTG: 20 BB
UTG+1: 100.5 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB, CO posts DB 0.5 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 2 BB) Hero has 8d Ac
fold, fold, fold, CO calls 0.5 BB, fold, SB raises to 64.5 BB and is all-in, BB calls 19 BB and is all-in, fold

Flop : (41 BB, 2 players) 2d Th 2s

Turn : (41 BB, 2 players) Jh

River : (41 BB, 2 players) Qs

SB shows Jd 2c (Full House, Twos full of Jacks) (Pre 34%, Flop 96%, Turn 100%)
BB shows 9h Ah (One Pair, Twos) (Pre 66%, Flop 4%, Turn 0%)
SB wins 39 BB

Winning Poker Network - $0.02 NL - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4: http://www.pokertracker.com

Hero (BTN): 163.5 BB
SB: 40 BB
BB: 23.5 BB
UTG: 20.5 BB
CO: 100.5 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 9c 3h
UTG raises to 4 BB, fold, fold, SB raises to 40 BB and is all-in, BB calls 22.5 BB and is all-in, UTG calls 16.5 BB and is all-in

Flop : (67.5 BB, 3 players) 7c 8h 2h

Turn : (67.5 BB, 3 players) Js

River : (67.5 BB, 3 players) 8d

SB shows Kh As (One Pair, Eights) (Pre 44%, Flop 23%, Turn 12%)
BB shows 2d 5h (Two Pair, Eights and Twos) (Pre 28%, Flop 67%, Turn 81%)
UTG shows Qd Kd (One Pair, Eights) (Pre 28%, Flop 10%, Turn 7%)
BB wins 64.5 BB

And this is only a few of the hands he went absolutely crazy with. I got in with AKo against his pocket 3s and AJo against his QJo. Love to play with him again and take the wild ride through every card in the deck!