Hey guys, figured i might as well start one of these lovely threads to help track my progress, keep motivation, and interact with others.

I am currently playing 10NL FR on Tilt. I am 16 tabling at the moment and will get iron man status this month. however next month I am liquidating all of my medals and FTPs for miniFTOPS tickets and playing many of the events. After this I think i am going to switch over to stars so i can play more tables if i desire

I plan on posting graphs/hands. maybe i'll make a video if i figure out how (not sure i own the necessary equipment)

Background/about me:
I am 22 years old and just finished college with a degree in Aerospace Engineering. I have a minimum of 4 months to play poker as I am awaiting to find out whether or not I have been accepted as an officer in the Air Force and wont find out until june.

As for poker I started playing when i was a senior in high school when my friend x-fer'ed me $20, i busted it in like a month or so and then he sent me another $40 and i havent had to deposit since. I was pretty bad though at the time. My first year in college I was up to $100 but one night lost around $85.
This is when my luck went hot lol. I won an $11 HU sng followed by a win in a $16 18 man SnG. I then sat 2 50NL tables and had $250 stacks on both. Next week I played a $20 HU Tourny and took 2nd for $400 the next day played same tourny and got 2nd again for another $400. withdrew most of the money and started studying playing 25NL which i have done for like 3 years now. My total cash winnings is close to $4k. and my biggest score was a Stars PCA step 6 2nd place for $1400. a year ago though i got bored with poker and withdrew most of my money and didnt start playing til this year.

Started with $200 and played mostly 10NL 6max rush with some FR in there. got my BR up to $510 ATM and plan on staying at 10NL jsut for a lil while longer.

Here is my FR graph for this year. the first ~27k hands is me playing 4 tables of 10NL FR rush, after which i decided to revamp my game, watched a video from here and started 16 tabling. which is what I will continue with.



I plan on playing at least 3 hours a day, sometimes slightly less sometimes alot more depending on plans/mood etc

I'll be happy to post anything or answer any questions as i go along

played a small sess just now and this was the only big hand really and it was pretty funny imo

he's a reg i have decent stats/reads on and he is normally more aggro so i could think of any hand he could have that he would play like this that beat so me i just kept betting and then shoved the river to get him to fold all his missed draws. thought he had 88/99 close enough lol

Full Tilt Poker $0.05/$0.10 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players
The Official 2+2 Hand Converter By DeucesCracked Poker Videos

BTN: $18.68
Hero (SB): $10.00
BB: $13.14
UTG: $4.82
UTG+1: $9.93
UTG+2: $10.15
MP1: $10.49
MP2: $6.23
CO: $10.34

Pre Flop: ($0.15) Hero is SB with T 9
6 folds, BTN raises to $0.30, Hero raises to $1, 1 fold, BTN calls $0.70

Flop: ($2.10) 6 7 T (2 players)
Hero bets $1.33, BTN calls $1.33

Turn: ($4.76) J (2 players)
Hero bets $3.30, BTN calls $3.30

River: ($11.36) 6 (2 players)
Hero bets $4.37 all in, BTN calls $4.37

prob be nice if i actually listed my goals too lol

GOALS:

-become decent 50NL reg
- play >70k hands per month
hopefully these are achieved by the time i find out about the military so i can reevaluate my life by then

why would u shove to make him fold his missed draws

meh good point lol sometimes i dont think. scratch i said that since that doesnt make sense for obv reasons. the hand was really strange though and i shoved simply cuz i couldnt put him on any hands that beat me

That is not a bad shove as you are trying to get max value out of your hand, that is if you put him on nothing. I would check back cuz only a better hand calls most of the time, that push is -EV most of the times as any proper player would not call that unless they have you beat.

but thats the thing, i have history with this guy and the only hands i could put him on were all hands worse than mine and maybe AT as most hands he would have raised the flop or turn if he had me beat.

done for the day got my 250+ FTPs and made ~$35 in 3000 hands

Well if he never has you beat but never has anything then u'd be better of check/calling to catch his bluffs, especially on such a drawy board where a lot of 7x+gutters, flushdraws, straight draws, random double gutters that floated flop etc can either turn their hand into a bluff knowing that when u check the river u mostly always have showdown equity, or just stone bluff with their air. by shoving, you're never getting called by better (since he has no better hands if your read is correct), but you get 0 value from his air since you fold it out.