Because I didn't play it poorly. I have years of history with the villain - I saw him jam shove on bluffs 100s of times.

You obviously don't understand the concept of playing the player, not the cards. NOW PISS OFF! lol

Oh and I explained my thought process a few posts ago. So go and cry to your mama because you don't know how to:

1) 3bet light
2) read an opponent correctly
3) make amazing hero calls like me

no reason to get aggressive at OP because of any line he takes

i liked the reasoning and the hero call, but in general its a pf fold, and definetly a fold on turn

Hey thanks... Yeah I mean, it was in 2NL for crying out loud..... I'm allowed to make jerky moves if I like....

And for all those hating on me saying how "ooohhhh if you play like that you're a loser... blah blah blah.. I make my money off players like you blah blah blah.." well I mean.. how can you judge me just by me posting some of my stranger hands.... would you like me to post hands where I C-bet the flop, then take it down, winning $0.30? I mean.. come on....

Anyway.. maybe you guys will like how I ended my session at 5NL today:

Your attitude is awful and you limit yourself as a player by ignoring good advice, the 95o hand is spew.

Flatting 55 UTG+1 vs an UTG open 100bb deep in a 9 handed game is also spew.

You can do what you like, that's obvious. The advice lots of people try to give out is to help you get better. You don't do this by "jerky moves".

OK fair enough. I'll take that on board.

Can you explain why flatting for 3bbs with a low pocket pair in early position is spew? Am I supposed to fold it because their range is like 99+ and I'm way behind the majority of the time? Is that right?

Oh yeah.. may as well do my BR update...

BR: $102.25

Not very good progress. Yesterday was terrible, I had to drop back to 2NL and everything. But glad I got back over the 100 mark.

There is that, although the fact people are likely to stack off w/overpairs on low boards etc means that isn't horrible, but we also are put in really tough spots when people squeeze and are offering better odds for the people left to act which means we end up playing multiway pots OOP w/ a crap hand.

That's before we factor in that we are really capped in a spot like this and easy to play against.

Obviously not all of those points apply against certain villains but I'd be amazed if anyone turned a profit by flatting 22-55 in that spot at any limit.

In before busto _ j/k

gl op!

Hey thanks for the advice MMSS. You're right. I have come to terms now that my playing style hasn't/wasn't ideal/optimum.

I've took on-board the advice of playing junk hands. I realise now that even if getting a short term return on playing something badly... over the long term it is essentially incorrect and unprofitable.

I need to think in terms of "long term". I need to think before each action, "What is the long term best action to take?" "Is a raise in this spot profitable long term? Is a call here profitable long term?" I need to start thinking like this.

As for 95o calling the all in.. I see now, that although I called that one time and it was right, if I called it a further 9 times, they'd have me dominated.

I am a fish. Accepting that is my first step to succeeding in the long run.

BR: $105 and change

Well, I played like a total nit this evening and was winning perfectly fine. Much less variance. I built up a stack of 18 dollars only to get KK vs AA all in pre... Aces held, I lost 5 dollars.... Then I got this hand...




Then this....




Feel free to tell me that I played each hand horribly....I just couldnt fold the river with trip aces... thought he was trying to buy the pot.... well, like I said, I'm a fish. But yeah, without those 3 hands, I would have been +4 buyins.

BR: wait for it... wait for it.... $106 and change...

gl

Just some helpful advice...
Stop playing trappy with your sets and other value hands just go
For fat value all the time at the micros... Bet bet bet

Dont expect vills to fold to your fps moves at the micros bc as shown with the 95 hand they dont even fold A high...

You can throw preflop rules out the window so to speak in certain sits... When you are good enough to beat the micros...

Use the micros to build up your fundamentals so that when u do move up you wont get picked apart by your old leaks...

Be humble.. Gl

This, too many players love going trappy trappy with the nuts at these stakes. Always play your monster hands aggressively at these stakes especially against bad players. Think about it. No bad player will ever fold top pair or even medium pair if you bet with a monster at these stakes. By betting you get to build up the pot and extract maximum value from your monster hands.

you're ****ing tilt beast, I dont believe it. Holy ccow

When you are on tilt call me so I watch you, have fun and then cover you up.

I just finished a 900 hand session... end stack of $19 and change.... went to show down 11 times, won 8 times.

Thanks to the advice on this thread, I think I'm definitely less fish like and more nit like.

Some hands:



















BR: $120.76

Now, because this is a 2NL -> 2000NL challenge... I figure I need an aggressive bankroll management strategy. I'm moving up to 10NL with 15 buyins. I'll take a 2 buyin shot, and hope and pray for run good.

BR: $80

Back to 2NL........

stop calling with the 3 5 suited and 2 3 suited

it's not good IMO

Well 2NL was short an sweet... literally played 3 hands and said.. "man.. this sucks..."

So I gave 5NL another spin....







BR:$103 and change...

OK epic 2000 hand session first time I 4-tabled... usually I single table... but doing 4 tables had me more concentrated... made it easier to fold losing hands and stay focused...as I could just jump to next table.

BR: $121.45

I'm really pleased I won back my losses from earlier and finish the day ahead again. I'm done for now, I feel exhausted after that.

BR: $135.22

Still 4 tabling. Can't believe I used to waste my time single tabling.

Made a few goofy moves today... shoving all in with flush draws twice and not hitting...... must stop doing that. Otherwise I played fine.

Something like 3000 hands played and went to SD 60 times. Pretty nitty.

Also glad about the buyin restrictions I placed on myself, felt a bit of the, "Let's play 25NL to win back the 2 dollars I just lost really quick." monster come back.

Went on full scale rage tilt mode after this hand:







Squandered a few buyins ended up bankroll of $116 lol

Went back to $2NL to regain confidence:








BR: $127 and change

Well mathematically you should hit ur flush 1/3 times so you didn't shove enough times, shove it once more!

zzoop is your poker stars name outed? if so whats your SN?

Some of the hands you posted, I am sure we've played against each other.

How about excluding yourself from stakes you shouldn't be in, by setting those rules in Pokerstars software?

Gives you 24 hours before you can move up. Will save you a lot of "move-up-to-win-back-losses-but-go-busto" moves.

Hey guys got pwned at 5NL so back at 2NL to work on my game....

@ HoldemSapiens - ya I banned stakes above 5NL - so that's stopped me going broke this time for sure!

@ qdull I don't want to out my SN on the boards! (just yet)

Installed HEM2 again...

Todays graph:



BR: $Too embarrassed to say... but let's just say it isn't $100.