Hello, my name is Luis Madeira i'm a 22 years old portuguese guy.
Currently i am unemployed earning money from my investments in sports betting mostly.

This thread will be a motivational one, i learned how to play poker 5 years ago but i only start playing it more seriously 5 months from now, i started at 10nl and reached 25nl but then i cashed out all the money due to the overwhelming variance of the game, this time i wanna play poker without pressure and will not cash out until i reach at least 50nl (well let's see if i can do it ) will start at 5nl zoom.

My bankroll management will be 40BI, taking 4bi shots when i reach 30bi for the next level, last time i played with 20BI and one downswing of only 7BI kicked me out of the game and this time i wanna crush this without any kind of tilt or something


Short term goals

*reach 10nl (minimun)
*play 1k hands per day
*post in this thread at least 2 times a week
*post live cassino photos when i go there

Long term goals
*Share 20% of a good Horse Race bet with my most loyal followers
(to be finished)


Thanks for follow and post any questions that you may have

i play NL5 zoom fullring. Go nl10 in next moth. If you play fullring like me, pm me and we can review together.

I will play 6max

What site(s) will you play on?

Pokerstars

hey luis good luck with this challenge! i look forward to seeing your progress this year

Tom

Thanks a lot

First 2 days on the felt and graph looks like this



Some interesting hands:

Thinks that i overplayed this one



Smashed this board so hard that i can't bet flop



Tiny bet on river because villain has nothing



Villain will do the same with an overpair so i think it's not that bad

First hand: why'd you donk bet instead of c/r flop? Yeah, you're unlikely to get three streets of value. Even getting calls from QJ and JT all the way is difficult.

third hand: what's your call range against a 3b in the sb?

forth hand: I think you way overplayed this. The overpairs you're hoping to get value from JJ+ would have 3b preflop most of the time. I'd say he played it exactly like 77-99 by flating the initial raise and the 3b.

Well you are absolutely right about c/r flop, I played the hand horrible.
On the third hand it's close but I will not fold against that size often and blind vs blind even less. Fourth hand I 3bet pre so I think that you are wrong we have ~44% equity against villains entire calling range so we can put it in on flop

Thanks for replying

After see Grinding it UP! in youtube, i thing i will play some zoom 6max.
bengin at nl2 and go nl5 quickly. See you at nl5.
Can we can share hand history and review ???

And what is your bankroll, what is your winrate.
My current bankroll is 120. Winrate about >10bb 20k hand.

Of course good luck at the tables

How many hand you play per day?
I play from 2000 to 4000 hand per day.
I grind for living. Last year i win 2500 to 3000$ in 888 poker. But i dont want play tour. I want improve my poker skill.

PokerStars - $0.05 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): 107.8 BB
SB: 100.4 BB
BB: 92.4 BB (VPIP: 100.00, PFR: 100.00, 3Bet Preflop: -, Hands: 1)
UTG: 103.8 BB (VPIP: 50.00, PFR: 50.00, 3Bet Preflop: -, Hands: 4)
MP: 111.2 BB (VPIP: 10.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 10)
CO: 118 BB (VPIP: 22.22, PFR: 11.11, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 9)

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has J J

fold, MP raises to 3 BB, fold, Hero calls 3 BB, SB calls 2.6 BB, fold

Flop: (10 BB, 3 players) 4 9 8
SB checks, MP bets 6.6 BB, Hero calls 6.6 BB, fold

Turn: (23.2 BB, 2 players) 2
MP bets 15.4 BB, Hero calls 15.4 BB

River: (54 BB, 2 players) T
MP checks, Hero checks


Missed value?

Yes, JJ must 3 bet preflop and bet flop bet turn, check river or small bet fold river.( this board )
If you flat call JJ pre flop and call flop call turn. you should bet/fold 20bb river.

i like the flat pre. we definitely aren't getting JJ in good vs MP and i'm not sure we're a big favourite vs his calling range anyway. postflop was pretty good, i would bet a little more on flop and turn given board has some draws on. i might bet fairly small on the river but checking is ok too

Well i agree that we maybe b\f river but don´t know about 3bet always, i 3 bet half my jacks and flat the other half for balance against mp. Thanks

Thanks a lot Tom, well i'm the caller so i can only make flop and turn if i 3bet.

PokerStars - $0.05 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 100.4 BB (VPIP: 23.33, PFR: 20.00, 3Bet Preflop: 21.43, Hands: 31)
SB: 120.8 BB (VPIP: 18.18, PFR: 9.09, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 24)
Hero (BB): 137.4 BB
UTG: 110.6 BB (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 1)
MP: 103 BB (VPIP: 33.33, PFR: 33.33, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 3)
CO: 162.4 BB (VPIP: 50.00, PFR: 50.00, 3Bet Preflop: 100.00, Hands: 4)

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has J K

fold, fold, CO raises to 2.4 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 1.4 BB

Flop: (5.2 BB, 2 players) T 9 9
Hero checks, CO checks

Turn: (5.2 BB, 2 players) Q
Hero bets 3.2 BB, CO raises to 9 BB, Hero calls 5.8 BB

River: (23.2 BB, 2 players) 7
Hero checks, CO bets 24 BB


Well this was a difficult decision to me, what to do here?

I'm not playing as much as i wanted to so i will only post update on the weekend, right now we are up 20$ and that is **** i think that i am calling villains to much on river and it's clear that at this stakes villains don't 3barrel or even 2barrel enough.

Will post some hands to analyse and to see you insights, showing the graph too, i will try to put 12k hands at least.

Good luck

Well the challenge it´s now on both Full tilt and Stars. Good cold call with QQ here?

Full Tilt - $0.05 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 108.2 BB (VPIP: 20.51, PFR: 15.38, 3Bet Preflop: 8.33, Hands: 42)
SB: 100.8 BB (VPIP: 24.00, PFR: 20.00, 3Bet Preflop: 14.29, Hands: 25)
Hero (BB): 101 BB
UTG: 131.6 BB (VPIP: 22.22, PFR: 17.46, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 64)
MP: 129.8 BB (VPIP: 14.10, PFR: 7.69, 3Bet Preflop: 5.56, Hands: 80)
CO: 100 BB (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 14)

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has Q Q

fold, fold, CO raises to 3 BB, fold, SB raises to 10 BB, Hero calls 9 BB, CO calls 7 BB

Flop: (30 BB, 3 players) Q 9 T
SB checks, Hero bets 23 BB, fold, SB raises to 90.8 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 67.8 BB

Turn: (211.6 BB, 2 players) 4

River: (211.6 BB, 2 players) A



Check back river?

PokerStars - $0.05 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 364 BB (VPIP: 17.39, PFR: 17.39, 3Bet Preflop: 11.11, Hands: 24)
SB: 110 BB (VPIP: 13.33, PFR: 13.33, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 16)
BB: 79 BB (VPIP: 22.22, PFR: 11.11, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 19)
UTG: 114.8 BB (VPIP: 31.25, PFR: 15.63, 3Bet Preflop: 6.25, Hands: 33)
Hero (MP): 111.6 BB
CO: 38.2 BB (VPIP: 37.50, PFR: 25.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 8)

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has A Q

fold, Hero raises to 3 BB, fold, fold, fold, BB calls 2 BB

Flop: (6.4 BB, 2 players) J 7 Q
BB checks, Hero bets 4 BB, BB calls 4 BB

Turn: (14.4 BB, 2 players) 2
BB checks, Hero bets 9 BB, BB calls 9 BB

River: (32.4 BB, 2 players) 8
BB checks, Hero bets 20.6 BB,

Well pretty ****ty graph, will put more volume this month and then we will see if i can beat 6max zoom or nort, if not well i thnk that i will quit ahah

first hand i think 4bet/call off with QQ is good since if we call we invite the CO to call as well which we don't really want 3 handed with QQ. on the other hand, cold 4betting is a strong play vs these positions so maybe we don't wanna turn our hand face up (AK/QQ+) and just flat our entire range for calling the 3bet here vs thinking villains. the reason for this is that we're unlikely to cold 4bet as a bluff vs CO open and SB 3bet (we might be more inclined to if it was BTN vs SB or CO vs BTN), and we also uncap our flatting 3bet range.

idk i think you can go either way

Thanks for the reply