Last two days.
Recap of the month, here is the graph:
Overall:
Spoiler:
NL25, reg + zoom:
NL50:
This is my best month ever and i'm quite satisfied.
I'm doing very well at nl25, probably some run, but I'm very confident in the game.
NL50 is the complete opposite but i don't know why. The tables are quite good al the times and reg are not very good but it almost seems like I have a block.
Probably the biggest differences between 25 and 50 are more aggression and the 3bet pot that are more frequent and where I have never studied particularly.
Goals of january:
-2:1 play:study;
-Atleats 40k hands a month; [x]
-Atleats 3 post a week; [x]
-Find some people to create a nice network to study poker; [x]
-Minimun one non fiction book a month; [x], I'm fifth lol
-Improve in english and reduce my use of google translate to write this blog; [], rip my english
-3 times excercize a week; [], only 2
In the middle of the month I thought I could get to 1k and I managed but for February I do not give myself any such goal.
I want to leave nl25 and go to 50 stably and at least 5bb at the end of February in this sample.
Other objectives:
-40k + hands;
-Study more;
-Now done but start studying the individual reg;
-More activities in the study group.
Today. Week is not going well. Running good on 25 and bad on 50, I'll probably keep it up at nl25 for some day.
Don't know if the next shot will be on nl50 on stars because i saw some nice games on other sites.
Preflop: Hero is SB with Q T
CO calls $0.25, BTN folds, Hero completes, BB raises to $0.50, CO calls $0.25, Hero calls $0.25
Flop: ($1.50) 8 T Q (3 players)
Hero checks, BB checks, CO bets $0.50, Hero raises to $2.11, BB raises to $8.25, CO calls $7.75, Hero raises to $24.50 and is all-in, BB calls $5.01 and is all-in, CO calls $9.66 and is all-in
Turn: ($50.58) 4 (3 players, 3 are all-in) River: ($50.58) 7 (3 players, 3 are all-in)
Spoiler:
Results: $50.58 pot ($1.50 rake)
Final Board: 8 T Q 4 7
CO showed Q 9 and lost (-$18.41 net)
Hero showed Q T and won $49.08 ($30.67 net)
BB showed K K and lost (-$13.76 net)
Yesterday and today. Not much to say.
Playing bad, running worse in runout and card distribution but I can not do anything about it.
Today tryied nl50 whose tables were better than 25 but i can't beat 4 whale and 1 reg apparently. Also when i lose at nl25 i never really tilt but at 50 happen so it's not the best.
Results for this week are +170 for nl25 and -450 for nl50.
Yesterday. Today off for study and probably going back to the tables friday evening.
Going back to the solver for some study and will take some time.
Hands:
Last two days. I'm starting to think it's impossible to win
Today lost 7 stack at nl25 in like 500 hands, and i don't know if is possible doing this thing, probably a guinnes world record. Atleast nl50 goes "better" that the normal.
Pokerstars is it's hitting me very hard. I'm trying other two sites but my intention was to stay on stars.
Starting the day very good. This guy in the last icoop ship like 50k and still want my cents.
Preflop: Hero is BTN with A A
CO calls $0.25, Hero raises to $1.25, SB raises to $3.75, 2 folds, Hero raises to $9.75, SB raises to $31.93 and is all-in, Hero calls $22.18
Flop: ($64.36) 7 7 K (2 players, 1 is all-in) Turn: ($64.36) 9 (2 players, 1 is all-in) River: ($64.36) T (2 players, 1 is all-in)
Spoiler:
Results: $64.36 pot ($1.50 rake)
Final Board: 7 7 K 9 T
Hero showed A A and lost (-$31.93 net)
SB showed K K and won $62.86 ($30.93 net)
Yesterday and today but profit only from today.
Nl50 continue to save the thing but in the last two weeks it was a massacre, both 25 and 50 but keep playing. In the second part of january I have not closed a bad day so it's ok.
I'm thinking that every time i open the solver i understand a lot of thing but in game i'm using this thing in the wrong way or just bad. Maybe simply in this field street poker > my knowledge of gto.
hands:
Preflop: Hero is BTN with A A
UTG calls $0.50, MP folds, CO calls $0.50, Hero raises to $3, 2 folds, UTG calls $2.50, CO calls $2.50
Flop: ($9.75) 7 8 K (3 players)
UTG checks, CO checks, Hero bets $6.82, UTG raises to $58.20 and is all-in, CO calls $15.44, Hero calls $41.63 and is all-in
Turn: ($122.09) 9 (3 players, 2 are all-in) River: ($122.09) 7 (3 players, 2 are all-in)
Spoiler:
Results: $122.09 pot ($3 rake)
Final Board: 7 8 K 9 7
Hero showed A A and won $119.09 ($67.64 net)
UTG showed 3 2 and lost (-$51.45 net)
CO showed 5 Q and lost (-$18.44 net)
Preflop: Hero is CO with K K
2 folds, Hero raises to $0.75, BTN folds, SB raises to $11.62 and is all-in, BB raises to $40.88 and is all-in, Hero calls $24.35 and is all-in
Flop: ($61.82) 8 3 5 (3 players, 3 are all-in) Turn: ($61.82) 8 (3 players, 3 are all-in) River: ($61.82) 6 (3 players, 3 are all-in)
Spoiler:
Results: $61.82 pot ($2 rake)
Final Board: 8 3 5 8 6
SB showed J J and lost (-$11.62 net)
BB showed A A and won $59.82 ($34.72 net)
Hero showed K K and lost (-$25.10 net)
Preflop: Hero is CO with 7 7
2 folds, Hero raises to $1.50, BTN raises to $5.25, 2 folds, Hero calls $3.75
Flop: ($11.25) T 7 5 (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $2, Hero raises to $7.50, BTN raises to $13, Hero raises to $45.94 and is all-in, BTN calls $32.94
Turn: ($103.13) A (2 players, 1 is all-in) River: ($103.13) 5 (2 players, 1 is all-in)
Spoiler:
Results: $103.13 pot ($3 rake)
Final Board: T 7 5 A 5
Hero showed 7 7 and lost (-$51.19 net)
BTN showed T T and won $100.13 ($48.94 net)
Pretty sick session. I'vs started to broke pre in some spot more light and seems that the pool is doing the same.
Tomorrow at home because in my city is holiday so some study.
Hi Imperium,
Very nice to see your dedication to updating the thread and uploading your results.
I'm from Italy as well, Lazio, and I play on PS.it just like you, no cash though, only MTTs.
Just posted my thread which wants to be very much like yours.
yesterday and today. Yesterday +40, today 100.
Yesterday i played two session, one in the morning and the other the evening.
Morning goes quite well but then in the second session burn 90% on the profit.
I very need to stop doing this thing. I'm just burning money.
Today small sesh, only nl50 and goes well and also finally some ev.
Results of half month are: real -40$, ev -354$
I'm beasting everything , atleast back in the even zone.
Hands of today:
X/R is ok i think, also calling the 3bet. I'm not scary of 53 but probably a lot of bluffs.
Check flop because i have everything and except 3 aces dont have any bad turn. Also this guy was in pot mode in the last hands so a reason more i think to check.
Flop and turn is standard. River is probably the worst in the deck with 5 and 6 of diamonds. No real info on the guy and without is probably better to check/fold. Lucky that he's a whale.
I'm starting to think that i can't beat nl50 right now.
I don't really know what to do. Seems like that every time they bet and i call they have but my red at nl50 is ****ing down so they are betting a lot.
So then i start to overall and goes quite well but when goes bad i start thinking that i'm an idiot and of course tilt.
At nl25 atleast i know that i have just to overfold to any type of aggression but here i don't know.
I've tryed the same game between 25 and 50 in the first shot but wasn't gone well.
Another amazing thing is that apparently I can not double barrell on cards that i hit naturally as a RfI as flush or overcard because I'm getting a huge amount of raise. Nice.
I did not put this hand in the solver but usually at some low % he fold flop, atleast GTO+ in my study. Don't really know. Turn was thinking about fold and river suck. Also calling turn to fold river It does not seem brilliant to me.
River also i don't really know what he could have.
I don't think that he's shoving that river with 99 but is also difficult to have from the flop any bluffs without sdvalue, pretty much only KTs.
Seems like that every time i'm not at the top of range they start betting.
I wouldn't barrel the 94s. If someone is folding a ton to 3bets preflop then hammer them pre and don't pay them off post when they call with their strong nitty range.
H1: might just fold vs x/raise in these positions, as crazy as it sounds. Imo his range will be very strong 2p+ and strong draws. Turn we have to call cause he can be v betting worse, although vs this sizing it is gross. Brick river I prob fold vs big bet, might call smaller ones.
Easy fold on this runout
H2: def not a great spot to barrel and using 94s as 3bet isnt ideal even vs 83% fold.
Might just be a spot to check range OTT, specially vs someone this tight. He prob shoving Qx+ here, cabt imagine otherwise.
If i were you I would just drop to 25nl, win some stacks in there and regain confidence. 50-25 isnt so diferent from what i have heard, your mindset when playing this stake might be the issue, as well as variance ofc.
gl
Nl50+25 zoom, it's easy to understand what part is 50 and what 25.
Done some graph research, , and see that now i'm losing a ton of red line.
I mean, i always in my career lost red but in the last 20k hands is very down but my wwsf is high compared to the past. At nl50 is a complete disater.
Today lost 2.5 bi of red in 1k hands and it's impossible to win doing this thing.
At nl25 is the complete opposite. Not up but even.
At the moment on stars at nl50 there are 1 good reg, 1 nit and 1 bad reg and the rest fish at the table but for today i'm done.
+1 to my missclick skill, turn i'm on bet/fold, any opinion? i think it's better compared to check back/call river
H1: might just fold vs x/raise in these positions, as crazy as it sounds. Imo his range will be very strong 2p+ and strong draws. Turn we have to call cause he can be v betting worse, although vs this sizing it is gross. Brick river I prob fold vs big bet, might call smaller ones.
Easy fold on this runout
H2: def not a great spot to barrel and using 94s as 3bet isnt ideal even vs 83% fold.
Might just be a spot to check range OTT, specially vs someone this tight. He prob shoving Qx+ here, cabt imagine otherwise.
If i were you I would just drop to 25nl, win some stacks in there and regain confidence. 50-25 isnt so diferent from what i have heard, your mindset when playing this stake might be the issue, as well as variance ofc.
gl
From what i see in my environment there are some big difference between 25 and 50.
More depolarization on the raise, more aggression, less overfold to cbet(a lot less), no one is folding to x/r atleast flop, reg 4bet like ****.