Nice stuff man, keep the grind going, looks like this is going to be a piece of cake for you

Had a pretty busy weekend so didn't put much volume in or update the thread. I had my BR a little bit over $5K so I took shots at 200NL today. Up about 1.5bi over 1500 hands, ran well in that I won two flips but I also got coolered a few times so I guess it evens out. Need a lot more volume to see what my winrate will be like but I don't think the games are much tougher than 100NL.

Hand 8: I really hate it when they do this lol. On the flop and turn I just treat his bet as a check and bet my normal size. On the river I call getting 36:1 since I figure he's not folding.

PokerStars - $1 NL (6 max) ZOOM - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

BTN: $197.53
SB: $133.41
BB: $362.40
UTG: $50.00
MP: $107.96
Hero (CO): $145.56

SB posts SB $0.50, BB posts BB $1.00

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero has T K

fold, fold, Hero raises to $3.00, fold, SB calls $2.50, fold

Flop: ($7.00, 2 players) J 5 Q
SB bets $1.00, Hero raises to $4.50, SB calls $3.50

Turn: ($16.00, 2 players) 3
SB bets $1.00, Hero raises to $10.00, SB calls $9.00

River: ($36.00, 2 players) 4
SB bets $1.00, Hero calls $1.00

SB shows K A (High Card, Ace) (Pre 74%, Flop 73%, Turn 84%)
Hero mucks T K (High Card, King) (Pre 26%, Flop 27%, Turn 16%)
SB wins $36.29

Hand 9: Luckboxed this one pretty hard, but obv I can never fold here.

PokerStars - $1 NL (6 max) ZOOM - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

BTN: $102.46
SB: $202.12
BB: $326.54
Hero (UTG): $100.00
MP: $106.16
CO: $138.66

SB posts SB $0.50, BB posts BB $1.00

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero has 3 3

Hero raises to $3.00, MP calls $3.00, CO raises to $9.00, fold, fold, fold, Hero calls $6.00, MP calls $6.00

Flop: ($28.50, 3 players) A 8 3
Hero checks, MP bets $11.00, CO raises to $27.00, Hero calls $27.00, MP raises to $97.16 and is all-in, CO raises to $129.66 and is all-in, Hero calls $64.00 and is all-in

Turn: ($313.82, 3 players) 3

River: ($313.82, 3 players) K

MP shows J 9 (One Pair, Threes) (Pre 21%, Flop 29%, Turn 0%)
CO shows A A (Full House, Aces full of Threes) (Pre 63%, Flop 66%, Turn 2%)
Hero shows 3 3 (Four of a Kind, Threes) (Pre 17%, Flop 5%, Turn 98%)
Hero wins $298.70
CO wins $12.32

Hand 10: This guy likes to barrel a lot so I let him do it. River looked like a nice brick so I fist pump ship all in, but I was wrong.

PokerStars - $2 NL (6 max) ZOOM - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

Hero (BTN): $201.00
SB: $323.79
BB: $230.59
UTG: $615.02
MP: $200.00
CO: $197.00

SB posts SB $1.00, BB posts BB $2.00

Pre Flop: ($3.00) Hero has 6 6

UTG raises to $6.00, fold, fold, Hero calls $6.00, fold, fold

Flop: ($15.00, 2 players) 6 2 9
UTG bets $10.00, Hero calls $10.00

Turn: ($35.00, 2 players) A
UTG bets $25.00, Hero calls $25.00

River: ($85.00, 2 players) 7
UTG bets $69.00, Hero raises to $160.00 and is all-in, UTG calls $91.00

Hero shows 6 6 (Three of a Kind, Sixes) (Pre 50%, Flop 83%, Turn 91%)
UTG shows T 8 (Straight, Ten High) (Pre 50%, Flop 17%, Turn 9%)
UTG wins $402.20

Hand 11: This guy tanked for like 30 seconds before folding the river. Not sure how much of that is him typing in the chat, lol.

PokerStars - $2 NL (6 max) ZOOM - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

BTN: $204.00
Hero (SB): $552.50
BB: $210.10
UTG: $247.20
MP: $367.20
CO: $218.15

Hero posts SB $1.00, BB posts BB $2.00

Pre Flop: ($3.00) Hero has 7 8

fold, fold, CO raises to $6.00, fold, Hero raises to $19.00, fold, CO calls $13.00

Flop: ($40.00, 2 players) 4 7 Q
Hero bets $18.00, CO calls $18.00

Turn: ($76.00, 2 players) J
Hero bets $44.00, CO calls $44.00

River: ($164.00, 2 players) T
Hero bets $471.50 and is all-in,

CO said, "no way"
CO said, "are u for real"
CO said, "canadian ***"

fold

Hero wins $161.20



Looks like volume wise I'm just about on pace to hit 75K hands for the month, and 15K VPPs should be easy unless I have to move down.

July 7-9
Hands: 5,781
Profit: +$362.49
VPPs: 1,591

Monthly (Yearly) Progress
Hands: 23,003 (98,089)
Profit (Bankroll): +$1,407.04 ($5,027)
VPPs: 5,753 (17,025)

Hey, thanks! Things have been going well so far so I hope it continues that way!

In! That graph is beastly.

Subbed, will add on skype too if that's cool, playing 25nl zoom now looking to improve so definitely up for going over hands.

Didn't post any updates the last few days cus I hit a really bad downswing at 200NL which took a sizable chunk of my roll, then I moved back down to 100NL and the run bad continued. Been trying to work on my game and stay focused. Anyway I need to regrind for a while at 100NL and hopefully have enough to move back to 200NL by the end of the month.

July 10-13
Hands: 9,930
Profit: -$1,701.28 (most of it at 200NL)
VPPs: 2,859

Monthly (Yearly) Progress
Hands: 32,936 (108,022)
Profit (Bankroll): -$294.24 ($3,307)
VPPs: 8,612 (19,884)

Yeah would love to talk to you.

Haven't updated in a while. Been busy with a lot of things so didn't put as much volume in as I liked to. I'm a little behind pace for hands but I should have more free time in the next week or so to make up for it. Gonna see if I can get my roll back up to $5K so I can take another 5bi shot at 200NL, and hope not to run as bad.

July 14-22
Hands: 16,616
Profit: +$1,130.47
VPPs: 4,265

Monthly (Yearly) Progress
Hands: 49,552 (124,638)
Profit (Bankroll): +$836.23 ($4,462)
VPPs: 12,877 (24,149)

subbed! Nice work so far mate.

More graphs needed though

+1 for the graphs, and good work so far u seem to be moving up really fast through the stakes, i just added you on Skype as well

Could have put in a little better volume the last few days but got kinda lazy. Still got 6 days left for about 18,000 hands shouldn't be hard if I put in an extra session here and there. Here's some interesting hands that I can remember.



Hand 12: Dunno what's he thinking with that call, I have basically no history with this guy, guess he's just a spewtard lol.

PokerStars - $1 NL (6 max) ZOOM - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

Hero (BTN): $161.38
SB: $198.35
BB: $100.00
UTG: $134.80
MP: $43.21
CO: $96.16

SB posts SB $0.50, BB posts BB $1.00

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero has A K

fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to $2.50, fold, BB raises to $6.00, Hero raises to $14.00, BB calls $8.00

Flop: ($28.50, 2 players) 9 9 6
BB bets $20.41, Hero raises to $147.38 and is all-in, BB calls $65.59 and is all-in

Turn: ($200.50, 2 players) Q

River: ($200.50, 2 players) T

BB shows A J (One Pair, Nines) (Pre 25%, Flop 20%, Turn 14%)
Hero shows A K (One Pair, Nines) (Pre 75%, Flop 80%, Turn 86%)
Hero wins $197.70





Hand 13: This one is interesting. Villain is a megafish who will call with just about anything I think. Still, you have to wonder if my shove was just a little bit too thin.


PokerStars - $1 NL (6 max) ZOOM - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

BTN: $195.24
SB: $85.84
BB: $320.47
Hero (UTG): $104.43
MP: $284.23
CO: $69.94

SB posts SB $0.50, BB posts BB $1.00

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero has Q Q

Hero raises to $3.00, fold, fold, BTN calls $3.00, SB calls $2.50, BB calls $2.00

Flop: ($12.00, 4 players) 5 6 4
SB bets $8.02, BB calls $8.02, Hero raises to $30.00, fold, fold, BB calls $21.98

Turn: ($80.02, 2 players) 7
BB checks, Hero checks

River: ($80.02, 2 players) 5
BB checks, Hero bets $71.43 and is all-in, BB calls $71.43

Hero shows Q Q (Two Pair, Queens and Fives) (Pre 81%, Flop 62%, Turn 7%)
BB shows 3 3 (Straight, Seven High) (Pre 19%, Flop 38%, Turn 93%)
BB wins $220.08




Hand 14: Everyone was slowplaying a flush apparently. It wasn't too hard to away though because he pretty much has to have the nuts when he cold 3bets the flop like that. If it was a HU pot I'd probably get stacked here. BB was obv a huge fish.

PokerStars - $1 NL (6 max) ZOOM - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

BTN: $108.06
SB: $119.55
BB: $182.55
UTG: $97.75
MP: $327.58
Hero (CO): $117.05

SB posts SB $0.50, BB posts BB $1.00

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero has K T

fold, fold, Hero raises to $3.00, BTN calls $3.00, fold, BB calls $2.00

Flop: ($9.50, 3 players) 2 4 7
BB bets $3.00, Hero calls $3.00, BTN calls $3.00

Turn: ($18.50, 3 players) 9
BB bets $6.00, Hero calls $6.00, BTN calls $6.00

River: ($36.50, 3 players) 3
BB bets $14.00, Hero raises to $45.00, BTN raises to $96.06 and is all-in, BB calls $82.06, fold

BTN shows 6 A (Flush, Ace High) (Pre 61%, Flop 35%, Turn 100%)
BB mucks Q 7 (Flush, Queen High) (Pre 39%, Flop 65%, Turn 0%)
BTN wins $270.82




Down a little but still got a few days left for the month and hopefully some run good so I can go back to 200nl next month.

As suggested I will post graph instead for updates and just keep the monthly updates in text. I'll post the monthly/yearly graph when the month ends. They're running ring game happy hours this week so it might be better if I schedule my play during those times.



July 23-25



Monthly (Yearly) Update
Hands: 56,835 (131,921)
Profit (Bankroll): +$704.63 ($4,376)
VPPs: 15,007 (26,279)

Subscribed, great thread and keep up the good work.

Hand 14: Everyone was slowplaying a flush apparently. It wasn't too hard to away though because he pretty much has to have the nuts when he cold 3bets the flop like that. If it was a HU pot I'd probably get stacked here. BB was obv a huge fish.

PokerStars - $1 NL (6 max) ZOOM - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

You're getting 4 1/2 - 1 on a call here. You don't think you have the best hand 18% of the time with the second nuts here?

I mean, yeah cold 3-bet is pretty insane, but since you lead and BB is a fish, if BTN knows BB is a fish also then...

couldn't BTN be thinking, 'ok another good reggish player leads out here, since we all checked turn, he doesn't have to have a flush to lead here, since BB is a fish he could easily be overvaluing a straight or two pair with his raise, so I should re-raise for value with my Q high flush here."

Unless BTN has uber nit stats, I really think 18% of the time, the above could be the situation and your K high flush is the best hand.

I mean your probably not going to listen to me here, since results oriented wise you turned out to be right, but that still doesn't mean that 18% of the time he couldn't have had the Q high flush, and BB be overvaluing a straight or two pair as fish are want to do.

I don't know man, folding the second nuts when one other player in the pot is a total fish (by your words,) and you only need to be good 18% of the time, I'm not convinced.

Yeah I'm getting a pretty good price, but given I have the second nuts, he'd have to be 3bet jamming the 3rd nuts in order for me to call this, and that just seems a little over the top given the amount of strength I show with my raise and esp the large size I made it. I just really don't think he can be shoving a Q high flush here, at least I know I would never do it in this spot. Would be interested to hear other's thoughts though.

Oopps, yeah, I mixed up the river play in my response. For some reason I thought you were the one to lead at the river, and the fish was the one to put in the first raise.

If that was the case, I think you'd have to call, as BTNs 3-betting range should be wider when you lead, and the fish raises, then when the fish leads and you raise. I think in this situation he could be 3-bet shoving a Q high flush.

Since the fish lead, and you raised though, I do agree that BTN's 3-betting range is much tighter, and assuming he is a solid reg is probably only the first nuts.

So if BTN is a solid reg, I like your fold, that means my only remaining question is...

What are BTN's HUD stats?

Gl OP, is volume the only reason your choosing to play zoom over standard 6max??

Yeah if I was making the bet and fish raises and reg shoves I'd probably have to call K high flush here cus then I do believe he could have the Q high flush. I'd probably have to fold the Q high flush though because then he'd have to be shoving the J high flush, but it's close.

BTN is like 22/17 over a small sample, don't have any reads on him.

Yeah that's the main reason, I struggle a lot getting volume in. And also I find it hard to mass multi table, but I am very comfortable 4 tabling zoom, but I would need like 12+ tables or something to get in the same amount of hands/hour at regular tables. And I don't like to stack my tables so when I tile it I can only fit like 6 tables at most. And finally I think my game is better suited for zoom. I kind of spew off a lot when I play regular tables cus the action is so slow.

Nice results so far Added you on skype, I am playing 25 zoom at the moment

Swingy so far

Do not degen this thread off pls sir

Well this month was quite disastrous. Went on a huge downswing after my last update, so I waited til the end of the month to post cus I couldn't even bear to look at my graph. I'll prolly be staying at 100nl for quite a while longer, and might have to move down if things don't turn around soon. Here's some random hands I picked out, some of em are just bad beats.

Hand 15: Don't think I can really fold here only quads and QQ beat me and he doesn't have too many 7's in his range and I've seen people shove a Q here.

PokerStars - $1 NL (6 max) ZOOM - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

BTN: $179.84
Hero (SB): $125.07
BB: $32.11
UTG: $398.03
MP: $461.92
CO: $54.78

Hero posts SB $0.50, BB posts BB $1.00

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero has 8 8

UTG raises to $2.00, fold, fold, fold, Hero calls $1.50, BB calls $1.00

Flop: ($6.00, 3 players) Q 7 8
Hero bets $4.00, BB calls $4.00, UTG calls $4.00

Turn: ($18.00, 3 players) 7
Hero bets $13.50, fold, UTG calls $13.50

River: ($45.00, 2 players) 7
Hero bets $36.00, UTG raises to $140.00, Hero calls $69.57 and is all-in

UTG shows 7 4 (Four of a Kind, Sevens) (Pre 18%, Flop 4%, Turn 2%)
Hero shows 8 8 (Full House, Eights full of Sevens) (Pre 82%, Flop 96%, Turn 98%)
UTG wins $253.34


Hand 16: This was literally the first hand of the session, I bet 3 streets against the fish and he shows up with the biggest bs ever.

PokerStars - $1 NL (6 max) ZOOM - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

BTN: $112.67
Hero (SB): $100.00
BB: $100.00
UTG: $75.25
MP: $184.87
CO: $304.46

Hero posts SB $0.50, BB posts BB $1.00

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero has Q A

fold, fold, CO raises to $3.00, fold, Hero raises to $10.00, BB calls $9.00, fold

Flop: ($23.00, 2 players) K A 2
Hero bets $13.00, BB calls $13.00

Turn: ($49.00, 2 players) 4
Hero bets $22.00, BB calls $22.00

River: ($93.00, 2 players) 3
Hero bets $55.00 and is all-in, BB calls $55.00 and is all-in

Hero shows Q A (One Pair, Aces) (Pre 60%, Flop 76%, Turn 80%)
BB shows 5 K (Straight, Five High) (Pre 40%, Flop 24%, Turn 20%)
BB wins $200.20


Hand 17: Apparently set mining for 1/3 of your stack is a good play now.

PokerStars - $1 NL (6 max) ZOOM - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

BTN: $79.87
SB: $146.93
Hero (BB): $100.00
UTG: $292.47
MP: $422.28
CO: $129.87

SB posts SB $0.50, Hero posts BB $1.00

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero has A A

UTG raises to $2.50, MP calls $2.50, fold, BTN raises to $12.00, fold, Hero raises to $24.00, fold, fold, BTN calls $12.00

Flop: ($53.50, 2 players) 2 4 6
Hero bets $16.00, BTN raises to $55.87 and is all-in, Hero calls $39.87

Turn: ($165.24, 2 players) 5

River: ($165.24, 2 players) 4

Hero shows A A (Flush, Ace High) (Pre 80%, Flop 34%, Turn 76%)
BTN shows 6 6 (Full House, Sixes full of Fours) (Pre 20%, Flop 66%, Turn 24%)
BTN wins $162.44

Hand 18: Can't even win when I'm 97% on the flop, ugh.

PokerStars - $1 NL (6 max) ZOOM - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

BTN: $75.00
SB: $94.00
BB: $149.33
UTG: $58.75
MP: $140.86
Hero (CO): $192.89

SB posts SB $0.50, BB posts BB $1.00

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero has J J

fold, MP raises to $3.00, Hero raises to $10.00, BTN calls $10.00, fold, fold, MP calls $7.00

Flop: ($31.50, 3 players) J A 5
MP checks, Hero bets $15.50, BTN raises to $32.00, fold, Hero raises to $182.89 and is all-in, BTN calls $33.00 and is all-in

Turn: ($161.50, 2 players) K

River: ($161.50, 2 players) T

Hero shows J J (Three of a Kind, Jacks) (Pre 54%, Flop 97%, Turn 91%)
BTN shows Q A (Straight, Ace High) (Pre 46%, Flop 3%, Turn 9%)
BTN wins $158.70

Hand 19: Here's an actual hand. Villain seems to be a weak TAG and a bit stationy post flop. On the river I bet for thin value since I expect him to call with all his J's here. When he shove the river his hand seems polarized towards flush or air cus he's not the kind of guy that would shove anything else. I call cus i have Q blocker so there's not as many flushes he can have.

PokerStars - $1 NL (6 max) ZOOM - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

BTN: $156.56
Hero (SB): $100.00
BB: $254.28
UTG: $105.77
MP: $352.61
CO: $53.00

Hero posts SB $0.50, BB posts BB $1.00

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero has Q Q

fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to $3.00, BB calls $2.00

Flop: ($6.00, 2 players) 9 4 J
Hero bets $4.00, BB calls $4.00

Turn: ($14.00, 2 players) 5
Hero bets $10.00, BB calls $10.00

River: ($34.00, 2 players) A
Hero bets $18.00, BB raises to $213.00, Hero calls $65.00 and is all-in

BB shows K Q (High Card, Ace) (Pre 32%, Flop 26%, Turn 16%)
Hero shows Q Q (One Pair, Queens) (Pre 68%, Flop 74%, Turn 84%)
Hero wins $197.20

July 26-31



Well, that doesn't look very pretty. Here's the monthly graph and my results:



The first big swing is from the shot taking fail at 200NL, second one happened at the end of the month when I can't seem to win a single hand.

Monthly (Yearly) Results

Hands: 70,516 (145,602)
VPPs: 19,390 (30,662)
FPPs: 48,475 (70,366)

Winnings: -$1,011.41
Stellar Rewards: +$150.00
FPPs: 48,475 * 0.016 = +$775.60
Profit: -$85.81

Bankroll: $2,679



It's not all bad though, now that the Stars deal with FTP is settled, hopefully they'll be able to give us money back soon, cus I still have ~$10K stuck there, could probably use some of that... I'll keep playing 100NL at the start of the month, and probably move down if my bankroll gets to $1,500 or less. Hoping that doesn't happen.

And reviewing my goals for the month:

July Goals

1. [/] 75,000 hands

Failed, by a little bit. I ended up with 70,516 hands, which is pretty close I guess. In the last few days I couldn't even get through a session without having to quit early to prevent myself from tilt spewing all my money, so I put in a lot less hands than I could have.

2. [✓] 15,000 VPPs

Success. It's actually not that hard if I can keep playing 100NL. I got 19,390 VPPs this month. So I'm still well on track to Supernova.

3. [✓] Start a PG&C thread.

Success. I already completed that at the beginning of the month.

4. [ ] Update PC&G thread at least once every few days.

Fail. I could have updated more, but I didn't because updating involves looking at my graph, and it's something I prefer not to look at when I'm on a big downswing cus it just makes me tilt.

5. [/] Watch more training videos and take notes.

Fail. I watched some vids from DC and Leggo but not too many, I just wasn't very motivated here, and I find it really hard to pay attention to vids.

6. [ ] Participate more often in discussing hands on the forum.

Fail. Although I don't think it's too bad. I do read threads on the forum a lot, but I don't post very much unless there's something that everyone seems to agree with that I don't.

7. [✓] Expand my list of poker contacts.

Success. I got to discuss a lot of poker with people playing around the same stakes, and also got in a Skype group with a cool bunch of people and that has helped me a bit.

August Goals

1. [ ] 65,000 hands

2. [ ] 15,000 VPPs

3. [ ] Stay at 100NL or higher by the end of the month.

I'll be a little busier in August due to exams coming up, so I'll have to study hard for those cus I've been slacking off, hence the lower volume goal of hands. For VPPs I keep at 15,000 which shouldn't be hard if I'm staying at 100NL. And for the 3rd goal I'm hoping my downswing doesn't hurt enough that I have to move down in stakes, but if it does I still hope to be playing 100NL+ by the end of the month.