NLHE Cash Game Update

Played 3 hours of NLHE last night for a profit of exactly $800. Turned a full house with with JJ against an opponent that flopped trip 7's and stacked him. rivered another Full house to out-boat an opponent and he stacked off as well. Did have a hand where I flopped a set of 5's on a 852dd board, bet and got 3 callers. Diamond peeled immediately and it checked around. The river bricked, MP bet about 40% pot and I folded... hope it was the right play.

After my debacle on Sunday, I can officially say I am back in the black for the week which is pretty exciting. Thought this might be a losing week TBH. Will be playing a $240 satellite for a $1200 ME Qualifier this weekend. Will keep ya's posted.

2018 Bankroll Challenge: $22,030/$100,000

Nice couple of days it seems. Keep up the good work, and glgl on the $240 sat as well.

Multi-Session update: NLHE, NLHE tournament/Satellite, PLO

Well, I got back to into the Black for the week as of the last update, but that did not last very long haha.

Thursday evening, I played in the best, deepest, most action packed NLHE game that might run all year at the card club I play at. 1/2 NLHE game with almost 20,000 in play and multiple $1,000+ pots per hour. There was one pot where a guy called $400 preflop with 53 against an all-in who had AA and the flop was 246...bye bye AA.

Anyway, the game was super deep with action packed spots so I bought in for about $2,600, which was 75% of the biggest stack. I then played the hand below

Hero (2,500): 64 in BB

UTG opens to $25
4 callers, all deep stacks but I cover
Hero completes action in BB
Button is Indian Reg that fluctuates between Super Lag or Super nit depending on how long he's been playing and if he is stuck. Much looser earlier in the game, only nits it up if he gets up big early.

Flop $150:532.....BINGO!!
Hero checks
UTG ($900) bets $50 (peculiar small bet)
2 folds
Button ($2,000): Raises to $250
Action folds to hero
Hero ($2500): Raises to $650
UTG folds
Button Shoves $2,000
Hero snaps covering

Hero Shows: 64 for the flopped straight
Button Shows: 64 for the flopped straight AND FLUSH DRAW

I am playing a $4,000+ pot at "1/2" NLHE and I am getting free-rolled!!!!!!!!

Talk about a disgusting spot to be in...even more disgusting when the K hits the river...
Shortly after I lose the rest of my stack with an overpair vs flopped set. Tucked my tail and went home after that.
Best game I might play in all year, and I got absolutely wrecked for -$2,600

Friday I played a long 9 hour session where I ended +$1,300 cutting previous days losses in half. Most interesting hand from that session was also against the Indian Reg above, I'm a little fuzzy on the exact details, but I successfully pulled off the check/raise river bluff against him after putting him exactly on one pair and getting him to fold after 5 minutes in the tank. I showed him the bluff and he proceeded to go on mega tilt right away losing $1,500 in the game after that hand.

Saturday, I did not play any poker. Needed a breather after last 2 days.

Sunday, played the ME qualifier satty, came in 4th for $460 on a $240 buy in. Did not advance to next weeks Main event seat give away, but making money is just as fine too. I was card dead for what felt like the whole tournament, so I am very pleased with the results.

I then played a home PLO game later that night where I profited $600 in 2.5 hours. Made nut flush on very first hand and stacked a guy to start immediately up $500...it's good to have those types of starts

Overall, down a bit since the last update but in a good spot moving forward. Only down $460 since last update and all things considered I'll take that as a win

2018 Bankroll Challenge: $21,570/$100,000

These are the spots that hurt the most, Kind of rather see a set in those situations lol. But At least you are still doing fairly good challenge wise and fews losses here & there wont make a difference. Keep up the good work.

Yea, having losses like this one aren't too bad because they aren't attributed to bad play. I'd much rather play good and lose then play bad and lose. I haven't really had a stretch of losing sessions this year, so that's pretty baller.

Also, I'd prefer that he has literally any other hand other than 64cc haha. This is literally the only hand I am in bad shape against.

NLHE Cash Game Update

Yesterday was a long grind it out session, one of those session's that ultimately comes to down to 1 hand and did you win it or not. Yesterday, I did not win the 1 hand

I played for about 7 hours last night and ended up -$1,010. Within the 60-90 minutes, I was down about $500, but I stayed patient and grinding back up over the course of 5 or so hours. I made hardly any really good hands, didn't get any PP's over TT last night, flopped zero sets, but somehow got up about $150. Then a drunk patron from the bar decided to play some poker buying in for $300 and eventually running his stack up to $1,000 pretty quickly. We were kind of verbally sparring with each other and I had the feeling that he did not want to be bullied by me and would do something stupid if given the opportunity.

That opportunity came when I straddled or $4 and picked up AKo, Drunk player opens to $20, BB calls $20, Hero makes it's $125, Drunk guy snap jams it in, BB folds, I call for about $1,020.

Drunk Player: Q9o
Hero: AKo
pot: roughly $2,100

Runout: Q9JA6...Dunk Villain flops 2 pair, holds and immediately racks up.

After just literally grinding for hours waiting for a spot this good, I get it and get rek'd in a 2 to 1 situation. I leave shortly after since the game was dying down and called it a night.

Hopefully I can avoid the negative side of variance tonight at PLO and get a nice win.

2018 Bankroll Challenge: $20,560/$100,000

PLO/NLHE/O8 Update

Tuesday PLO
This has been a week of variance smacking me in the face. 2 biggest pots I played in PLO I was 80% and 60% on the turn for 1k stacks each and I lost both hands. Was a rough night for PLO and I lost -$2,100.

Thursday NLHE/08:
More Variance biting back in NLHE, 2 biggest pots of the night, 1 for 800 and 1 for 1250 total I was 88% and 90% respectively and lost both in ridiculous fashion. I flopped a straight on a T96 board with 87s and got it all in for heaps against KK only to see a QJ runout and get cracked. Very frustrating, I picked up from Holdem and decided to go play O8, semi on tilt after losing -$810 and not really caring what happens with the last $300 I brought for the day. Just want to release some steam.

And that game change ended up being amazing, I ran the $300 up to $1,700 in about 2 hours worth of O8 and Limit omaha high play. Ended up profiting $1360 in O8 for a total profit of +$550 for the day. Was a long grind and made a bad session profitable. Hooray me.

Not sure if I'll play this evening, might just take the rest. I'd probably been running above expected EV this year and was do for the negative aspects of variance to catch up... Doesn't mean it's much fun when it actually happens though. I've lost a lot of big pots recently as 2:1 favorites or more...hopefully I start getting the 2 again and not the 1.

2018 Bankroll Challenge: $19,010/$100,000

NLHE Cash Update

played 4 hours yesterday for a profit of +$1,457. That's more like it Would have been $160 more if I didn't play a tournament twice while waiting for a cash game seat to open up. The defining hand of the session was a fun one:

Hero ($1,250): A4

Button Straddle to $10
SB ($600): Calls $10
Folds to hero in MP1
Hero ($1,250): raises to $45
Cutoff ($800): Calls $45
Button ($950): Calls $45
SB: does the signature tank where he is acting like he's torn, but really he's got a monster and is gonna raise.
SB does in fact raise....to $90 total
all players call including hero

Flop ($362): A97
SB($510): checks
Hero ($1140): checks, puts sb on KK at this point after checking flop, curious to see rest of flop action
Cutoff: checks
Button: checks

Turn ($362): A979
SB: Rips it all-in as soon as the 9 hits the board.
Hero: tanks...analyzes the situation at hand. Smells like either AA or KK only, no in between. I don't typically see players limp AK, they typically just raise. AA, KK, QQ or the only hands I typically see limp/raised at this type of stack depth. There also shouldn't be too many 9's or better Ace's in play behind Hero.
Hero: after about a minute calls the all-in
Cutoff & Button fold
SB announces: "you're probably ahead" and shows KK
Hero smiles and holds for the $1,400 pot.

Was very happy that my reads were spot on. Feel's good to just know exactly where you are at in a hand. A couple of the players where surprised I called with a kicker so low, but I felt pretty strong I had the best hand and wasn't worried.

Won another nice pot later in the night with AJo on a AJ5 pot. Pretty smooth sailing for most of the night.

After a week with some rough sessions, hopefully I can string together 4-5 wins in a row and finish February strong.

2018 Bankroll Challenge: $20,467/$100,000

Limit O8 & NLHE update

Played 10 hours of Limit O8 on sunday for a grand total profit of -$700. Was a long frustrating night. My nut low draws never hit or were quartered every time, my premium starting hands were flopped junk high boards. I played okay for about 5-6 hours, but the last half of the session my game was nowhere near its best. A very frustrating session overall.

Played 7 hours of NLHE for a grand profit of $122. The last 3 hours of the session were kind of frustrating because players were playing so poorly and getting large amounts of $$ into pots with poor hands, but I just could not pick up anything or I could not hold anything. I had maybe 5 medium pocket pairs that did not hit sets and lost two $350 - $400 sized pots getting outdrawn on the river. In general, it was a great game to play in other than the fact that I couldn't get anything going

Back at it tonight for PLO. Got a solid game plan tonight, hopefully I can execute and have some positive variance come my way

2018 Bankroll Challenge: $19,889/$100,000

End of Feburary / Early March Updates - PLO, NLHE, Limit O8

Been about a week and thought I would drop back in with an update after playing lots of pokerz.

Closed out February with a solid -$2030 session in PLO. I stayed about 30 minutes later than I planned on, and tried to crack a guys AAxx hands AIPF twice. went from up $1,000 to down 2k in a matter of 30 minutes. Truly horrific playing to close the session, defintely cracked in the mental game area that night. Took the next day off after that to regroup.

For the month of Feb, I was +$461 over 128 hours for a solid hourly rate of $3.58...at least it's positive. I won a Feb promotion at the club I play at where 5 raffle tickets were drawn and each person won $1,000 dollars. If it wasn't for that ticket, February would have been a loser.

March on the other hand...march has been beasty so far.

March 1st: I played a 5 hour 26 minute session in NLHE for a profit of +$757
March 2nd: I played 2 separate sessions 1 in the daytime and 1 at night and both NLHE. The first session was 5 hours 30 minutes for a profit of +$1,175. The 2nd session was 3 hours exactly for a profit of +$1,293. It's fun to play sessions with bad drunk players who give their moniez away
March 3rd: Played a short 2 hour 5 minute NLHE session late at night, booked a win of $1,028.
March 4th: played 3 separate sessions this day, 1 NLHE sesh for about 3 hours from 2:30 AM to 5:30AM (after a night of drinking at da clubz). Booked a -$310 loser, mostly due to flopping top two against bottom set. Later that evening I played a 4 hour 6 minute session of Limit O8 in which I booked a +$656 winner and played pretty well. To finish the night, I played a 24 minute session of NLHE....mostly just to earn a raffle ticket for the march promotions I booked a +$34 win

I also updated all my information into a poker tracking app. I'll post some pics soon so you guys can see my hourly and other relevant stats.

2018 Bankroll Challenge: $23,492/$100,000

Just this year, does not include December stats which are included in bankroll challenge on 2+2

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NLHE & PLO Cash Game Update

Played a relatively quiet session of NLHE on monday, a bit shy of 2 hours. The game was a bit smaller and tighter than I normally play and after getting up a few hundred initially I left + $23 winner. Could have kept playing, but just decided to call it a night. I was 3rd in line to move to the main game which was much better, but it would have been 2-3 hours before I finally got moved. Just didn't feel like grinding.

Yesterday I played almost 4 hours of PLO and was a +$2,620 winner breaking the 2 week losing stretch of PLO that I played. I made a good turn bluff in a 5 way pot raising a EP lead with only the nut flush blocker when the turn completed the flush. Took the pot down. Got lucky in a big pot cracking AAxx with a rivered flush....after losing 3 big pots last week to AAxx it was nice to see that they are crackable in PLO haha. Then I flopped top set of Kings and held against the NFD in a nice size pot getting the money in on the flop. After 2 weeks of run bad in PLO, it felt nice to get some run good.

On another note, I have had multiple friends tell me good things about Global Poker. I haven't played much online the last 8-9 months, is Global Poker a good site to play on? The paypal and FB integration make me think that they have a good thing running right now and I've heard it's fairly soft.

2018 Bankroll Challenge: $26,135/$100,000

NLHE Cash Game Session Update

Played a 7.5 hour session of NLHE and booked a loser of -$720. Within 3 hands, I was down -$700 after losing hand where we got the monies in with hero holding AJdd vs Villian's 62cc on an A76ssd board.... Very next hand same villain had AA and I flopped a flush draw with an over got the moniez in and board went AA giving Villain Quads...Villain racked up immediately and left haha.

Over the course of the next 3 hours or so, I grinded up back into the positive territory. Then I went card dead for basically the next 4 hours, making a straight against a better straight and losing $400 and bricking out on a Straight Draw Flush draw for another $400. The game was pretty damn good, I just could not hit to save my life the few times I actually had something decent. Guess I can't win everytime :/

On another note, I have logged a few hours playing PLO on Global Poker this week. With about 3.25 hours of play, I am +477 playing 1/2 and 2/4 PLO. I like the layout and ease of use for GP, I'll probably mess around on this site 5-10 hours a week to stay sharp in PLO and maybe fire some of their decent tournaments on Sundays.

2018 Bankroll Challenge: $25,892/$100,000

I haven't checked back in on this thread in a bit of time now but glad to see things are good are still on track to hit that $100k goal. Congrats on all the success again and here's to having the biggest winning year yet.