Not much analysis do be done as it seems like you already know what went wrong. In regard to hand 6, I think we can get away with betting something lol like 225-275 OTT in this exact spot. I think a lot of v’s won’t even notice how much that will commit them. Ime it seems like a lot of recs are more attached to absolute bet size rather than bet size relative to pot, and jamming 600 seems scary to a lot of players, but this is VERY nit picky as there is obv nothing wrong with your line, just a thought.

Yeah I was debating doing exactly this & think it may have been the better line vs this guy in hindsight.. but checking gives him the chance to spazz river so idk.

After the hand he said "that one is going to haunt me for awhile, I should have jammed the river" ..? So no idea what he tank folded there that wishes it jammed river instead lol.

Minraising whales is the second most tilting thing ever, first being regs tanking pre after one limp as if they're giving off timing tells. I made the same mistake as yourself last week jamming 66 on 235 two tone after getting minclicked with an spr of 2. One day we'll learn.

Haha thanks bro - glad I'm not the only one that gets tilted by that **** haha

Felt refreshed playing today after a low-key weekend. Was seated in a good game right away which luckily stayed good. It is always nice to be able to just sit and play a full session in one seat and not have to worry about scoping out other games.

Overall I played well, the session unraveled a bit near the end though and I did made a couple of bone-head mistakes, one of which I don't think I have ever actually done before...but we will get to those.

Was up to my aggressive preflop ways again tonight per usual. I 3b preflop at least 14 times that I remember this session without ever getting dealt QQ+/AK lol. (I was dealt AA once but everyone folded to my $20 open ) For the most part I took it down pre/on the flop but a few went further than that and we will review below.

Hands I 3b tonight: JJ, TT (2), 99, AQo (2), KQs, KQo (2), ATo, A2s, KTs, T9s, 67s

On to the hands:

h1: bonehead mistake #1. Right off the bat! Preface: Villain in this hand was really bad and just opening random garbage preflop like K6o and playing terrible so I was happy to iso him with almost my entire continuing range preflop. However, I was eating dinner and missed that he lost a huge hand. I thought he was 1k eff but he really only had 300 and I did not realize

He opened to 30 over a few limps and I 3b 67dd to 100; he jams 300 and I call off letting him know I do not have a very good hand lol (gotta gamble now; good for the image anyway). He has QTo lol
Board runs out QT77x for the max pain for villain and we scoop

h2: limp; I raise KcJs 25 SB; limper calls
($50) Flop: AJ4dd x x
($50) Turn: 5cc x; he bets 40 I call
($130) River: Jccc x; he bets 55; I raise to 165 he calls with AK

h3: CO limp; BTN 20; sb call; I call 77 BB; CO call
($80) Flop 883r; x x CO donks 35 folds to me I call
($150) Turn K; x x
($150) River 8; I lead 75 he calls MHIG

h4: 2 limps; BTN (V from last hand) raises to 30; I 3b 9d9h 115 in BB; he calls pretty quickly
($240): Flop 863r; I bet 100; he raises instantly to 250; I call
($740): Turn Qcc; I x he bets 300 with 400 behind; I fold

we did it guys, I didn't spazz stack off vs a min-raise! This spot is kind of tough tbh; this guy could be aggro but for the most part when he was betting big he had it. folding flop just felt a little too weak...his turn sizing is so clearly for value that I felt okay x/f'ing but it does suck with how aggro we had been playing preflop (this was one of the guys I was 3betting a lot) I feel like he slowplayed QQ+ pre though. I also think my pre sizing is a little small and my flop sizing is a little big.

h5: BTN (Same V) limps; SB complets, I check 53hh in BB
($15) Flop T95hh; x; I x; BTN bets 35; fold I call
($80) Turn 4o; x x
($80) River Qhhh; I x he bets 125 I call and lose to A7hh

/shrug - annoying sizing and can see arguments for just folding flop and/or river but this guy had some random spazz/bluffs and a few combos of worse value possible too. not that worried about this one but it is pretty marginal.


so at this point a random action player I don't have any history with switched over to our table and the game changed pretty drastically. He straddled his first hand and when it limped to him raised to $250 and took it down lol.

h6: I open 66 20 UTG; 4 calls
($100) Flop J62r; action player donks 35; I call; 2 calls
($240) Turn 9cc; he leads 115; I call; BTN calls
($585) River 5o; he leads 165; I jam; BTN folds; he calls ~600 total and MHIG obv



h7: bonehead mistake #2... the game was now 2/5/T btw. the action player is in the straddle in this hand.

utg limp; I raise Q9ss 45 utg+1; straddle and limper call
($135) Flop 775ss x x x
($135) Turn 4o; straddle leads 80; fold; I call

at this point...I for some reason thought I had Q8ss for 2 overs+fd+gutter..

($295) River 9o; he checks and says "I am calling whatever you bet"; I check back. He shows 33 and I muck without looking at my hand....

as soon as I mucked I realized I had Q9 and not Q8 and I just mucked the winner. weird thing is I usually re-check my hole cards like 3+ times a hand (which is why I don't think I've ever done this before tbh) and for some reason I just never looked back at my hand here. no idea why I didn't. most annoying thing is I totally believe him when he said he wasn't folding river and if I double-checked my hand I would have bet river large for value so I really missed out on like ~500+ here. Oh well; it happens.

h10: 2/5/T; same V opens 35; I 3b TdTh to 135 he calls 2.5k eff
($280) Flop 789dd; x x
($280) Turn Addd; he leads 325; I call
($930) River Ko; he bets 525; I fold (he shows AQ no diamond)

bit of an awkward one. flop is terrible for our range but this specific hand kind of wants to bet but I also don't mind checking back this deep. On the Ace turn when he leads for over pot I think just folding is okay. At the time I felt like I had to peel with the Td..and it is probably close but I think letting it go vs this size is okay - we check back pretty much our entire range on this flop so we have a lot of strong hands to continue with ott. definitely not looking to hero off on this river either.

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not a perfect session by anyone's standards but I am fine with it. Played for 5 hours and won 929

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10K Challenge Update
Sessions: 8
Hours: 39.75
3,937/10,000

H2 and H3 are especially hilarious. Keep it up, everything else seems atleast standard/not too crazy except the Q9 fold lol.

Been meaning to ask - do you know why so many high stakes games go off every Tues? I could never make it on a Tues, but curious.

It has been like that as long as I have been playing so I am not totally sure tbh. I think it was just something that got started a long time ago and stuck; but I am not sure what/who originally picked Tuesday haha.

Its funny how tough it is to play a mistake free session (or close to mistake free). When you think it all through afterwards, you understand the situations and the correct play becomes clear, but for some reason it's tough to consistently think everything through the right way at the table, every time.

Nice work, 40% there!

What is up thread. It has been a good bit since I've played any poker but we were back in the action today. I've been pretty busy at work & went out west for a few days to ski with my family (actually first time I've ever skied lol...I sucked but was much improved by the end of the trip), so I haven't gotten to play since the last time I posted. Want to go through today's session and update some life stuff as well.

Another really nice 2/5 session today on the first day of March Madness. I got seated right into a good/fun game and stayed there the whole time. Had some familiar and friendly faces in the game so there was a lot of conversation and the game had a really good vibe.

I ran great today; not so much in the "win a bunch of huge pots way" (I did win one) but in the "flop a lot of pairs that are the best hand, get people to fold to your cbets/double barrels when you have air, not have too many people complete draws on you" kind of way. Won a bunch of small/medium-sized pots and didn't lose too many, and when you open as many hands pre as I do that is going to lead to a very solid session. Only misplayed one hand, other than that really happy with how I played. Really nothing too interesting/no tough spots but will still share a couple of hands:

h1: 3 limps; I raise AJo 35 BTN; CO calls
($80) Flop J43r; he donks 45 I call
($170) Turn 9o; he leads 85 I call
($340) River 8o; he x I bet 245 he calls with KJ and we scoop

h2: open 65cc 20 in LP; SB calls
($40) Flop J32r; x I cbet 20 he calls
($80) Turn 7cc; x I bet 55 he calls
($190) River Tccc; X I bet 135 he calls we win

h3: straddle; CO limp I raise A9ss 50 BTN; 3 calls
($200) Flop 775ss; x x CO donk 100 I call 2 folds
($400) Turn 3o; he bets 200 I call
($800) River Tsss; he jams 450 I snap we win vs 7x

Same V as h1; otf he can have a lot of hands; ott he is pretty heavily weighted to 7x with that sizing and as we can see he is not going to fold if we make our flush so not gonna fold the turn. Always nice to just run good and bink it

h4: 3 limps I raise to KQo 40 BB; CO, BTN call
($120) Flop J56r I cbet 70; BTN calls
($260) Turn Tdd; x x
($260) River 2o I x he bets 150 I call and lose to 57hh

This is the hand I misplayed. Turn is such an easy barrel idk why I checked. River call is obviously too light (and I knew it in the moment) but I felt like heroing vs his sizing and wanted to see the 78 lol. The river call is whatever, I'm just annoying for not barreling 3 streets here. Good value bet (pretty sure it was a value bet) on the river by villain.

Session was on the shorter side today; played 3 hours and won 2198. Planning on getting a session in tomorrow as well.

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Life update:

In college I was a pretty competitive sprinter on a d1 track team. After I graduated, I kept up with training for the first year and a half or so and still competed in the occasional meet, but trying to balance a full-time job + working out (running and lifting) + 800hrs of poker a year + having a social life was extremely difficult and tiring. About a year ago I pretty much stopped working out and chose to focus on work/poker (can't make $$ running right?!), which worked out really well since my poker results were great - but more recently I have just started to feel really unfit/lazy and knew I needed to get back into working out.

So after 11 months of basically no physical exercise (by far the longest I have ever gone without training in my life) I decided it was time to get back into it. Going on a poker downswing definitely helps the motivation; as does having some of my friends convince me to do a race with them. Went on a couple of runs and got back into the gym for the first time yesterday (so ***** sore lol) and it feels great. Working out really helps focus my mind and even after only a few days back I felt so much more refreshed than usual in my poker session today. So going forward I am planning to go back to trying to balance everything like I was before, and need to be really focused on managing my time well and getting good sleep (which was an issue in the past). But overall I already feel great about getting back into it and am motivated to get back into a more balanced lifestyle. This will definitely lead to a little less poker/shorter sessions etc but I think it is worth it.

Job wise - I know I had posted in the thread I had an interview a couple of weeks ago so wanted to update you on that. Did not get the promotion yet; however there was very positive feedback from the managers who I interviewed with and there just ended up not being an immediate spot on the team I most wanted to be on. So hopefully something will open up in the not too far future.

Sorry for the long post today - figured I'd make up for the 8 days of silence

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10K Challenge Update
Sessions: 9
Hours: 42.75
6,135/10,000

Solid life update. Keep crushing dude, and way to have the motivation to get back into fitness. Being in the same spot, I know how hard it is but also how important it is.

KQ hand is

thanks man - it is tough for sure but definitely worth it.

and yeah... I am a station; can't win the hand if you fold right??

Hahah agreed. I just think generally with the skill of live villains they can be bluffing with better a ton here. Also, this board with K high is different than like calling down on something like 87742 with a missed flushdraw as played for example

oh it was for sure a bad call; way too light. woulda been awesome if I was good though lol.

Back at it again today for some Friday poker action. Was in a decent 2/5 game and had a couple of interesting hands; but after a few hours my game wasn't that great and a T/T game opened that looked very good with only 1 pro and the rest recs, so I decided to hop into that for a little while. Only bought in for 200bb instead of my normal 300 though. Was completely card dead off the bat so I had a nit image (rare) and ended up using that to run a pretty big (and ambitious lol) bluff that thankfully worked. On to the hands below:

2/5NL

h1: limp; I raise AhAx 25 MP; limper call
($50) Flop: QJ9r; x x
($50) Turn 2hh; x I bet 30; he x/r to 65 I call
($180) River 7o; he bets $150 and I fold

can't fold KQ high for $150 but we can fold AA he said afterwords he had KT

h2: limp; I raise AJo 25 CO; 3 calls
($100) Flop: A25r; x x I bet 35; BTN calls; BB raises to 150; I call BTN folds
($435) Turn: Qcc; x x
($435) River 6o; he bets 175 I call and lose to A5o

h3: 3 limps; I raise AxKh 40 BB; only SB calls
($90) Flop: K63r; x I bet 30 he calls
($150) Turn: 9hh; x I bet 90 he calls
($330) River 8hhh; x I jam 380 eff he calls and MHIG

h4: limp; Raise AdAx 25; 3 calls
($100) Flop: QdT5r x I bet 65 only limper calls
($230) Turn: 2dd; x I bet 115 he calls
($460) River: 7ddd; he donk jams 330; I call and lose to 55

Tellypl is about to come in here like: "Dizzy wtf...you come into my thread and tell me bottom set is an ez fold when villains donk jam on the backdoor flush card and you can't even fold aces you dumb fish!!!" lol. To be fair I think this spot is way different and vs this villain I'm not folding AdA here. Very surprised for him to show up with 55 as played; would expect to have gotten it in on the turn vs that hand.

After that moved to T/T; only interesting hand was my bluff:

h5: CO raises 50; I 3b T9hh 150 BTN; he calls
($320) Flop: AcQs8s; x I bet 140 he calls
($600) Turn: 2cc; x I bet 350 he calls
($1,300) River: 7ccc; x I bet 670 he folds

Like I said this was pretty ambitious but I don't totally hate it - glad to get it through. Sizing was not great.

Picked up a couple more small pots at TT and booked a decent win in a short session.

Played 3 hours @ 2/5 and lost $85
Played 1.5 hours @ T/T and won $782
Total: 4.5 hours; +$697

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10K Challenge Update
Sessions: 10
Hours: 47.25
6,832/10,000

Bro. People don’t come to the casino to fold. (Including us) totally agree it’s a different spot though.

Crushing as usual. Might need a new challenge soon

1) You called a turn check raise and your 1 pair hand was beaten
2) You called a flop raise and your 1 pair hand was beaten
3) YOU did all the betting and were never raised and you won a big pot
4) You called a large river jam and lost a big pot with 1 pair

Do you not sense a pattern? I quickly went back over a couple other of your session posts and found over $1000 in similar losses. You really need to fold when people show aggression. They arent trying to exploit you.

They have your 1 pair hand beaten. You gave away $690 in these 3 hands by not folding when the other guy got aggressive. The majority of your hands are played really well but this is a huge leak.

Yeah, Mike, you are absolutely right. Being a station is probably one of my bigger leaks and something I should work on.

I just open so frequently pre-flop and do a lot of betting post-flop that it feels really bad to fold hands as strong as TPGK to check raises especially when I use a small sizing/check a street etc. But you are probably right on and the reason my style is so profitable is that people wait to make a hand against me and won't play back at me. Thanks for pointing it out - it will be something I focus more on.

As for these 3 hands: h1) folding AA to the turn check/min-raise after I x backed flop seems a little silly and I at least did fold to the river bomb when I'm always beat. I guess you can make an argument for just folding turn b/c he probably just leads all his Qx and doesn't really have any bluffs that check min-raise though.

h2) yeah b/f AJ on the flop seems fine here; the worst call of the three for sure.

h4) on this draw-heavy board I would expect v to x/r either flop or turn with his 2p/set combos so when he donk jams river he is really only repping a BD flush; which is not very many combos when I have the Ad and the Qd is on the board; and he has at least every combo of J9/KJ for bluffs (he would limp call pre all offsuit combos). We only need to win 30% of the time. AdA is a pretty good bluff catcher here so I don't mind my call tbh. He also thought for ~10 seconds about the turn call which is almost never indicative of a hand that picked up a bdfd.

(obviously I was wrong and he showed up with a set here but I think that is pretty unusual)

My style is very much like yours. I open all kinds of hands so I go to the flop with middle pair or TPWK lots of times. The key is to punch punch punch...but when they punch back you surrender. Like you said, people arent sitting there getting fed up with you waiting to bluff you. They are sitting there getting fed up but waiting to finally get a big hand to fight back with. That's when you let them have the pot.

Boring update as we played some extra-low stakes today. Every once-in-awhile; my one buddy wants to play some poker with me so I play 1/2 with him. Zero interesting hands today but will still post an update for the results.

I got to the casino before him and sat at a new 2/5 game very briefly. Won a bunch of small pots right away then had this hand:

h1: 2 limp; open A3hh LP 30; 3 calls
($120) Flop QT7hh; x x ; I check; BTN bets $85; folds to me I jam $350 eff

BTN is a short-stacking semi-nit; his range for even betting this flop is pretty strong, but he can for sure have 1-pair hands; combo draws; and occasionally a naked draw. With his stack size we can't peel oop - so may as well utilize any FE we have and jam it in. Our line reps value basically never; but he doesn't think like that and we for sure have FE vs some of his range and will always have decent equity.

He tanks for ~30 seconds and nit-rolls me with QT (lol, told you); and we brick out.

2/5 results: 30 min played; -200

My friend shows up and we get called for the same 1/3 game. About 10 minutes into the game I realize I had forgotten that the 1/3 games at my casino are absolute dog-****. Since we have a 1/2; 1/3; and 2/5, the people who play 1/3 are the players who are "better" than your average 1/2 player; but are too nitty/scared/don't have the money to play 2/5. Aka my game was me; my friend; and 5 tight/passive/trappy nits and 2 bad short-stacks. You could not PAY me to play in this game; quite possibly the least fun experience ever. We were eating dinner while we were at this table, so I stuck it out for a little, but it was truly awful. Lost like every pot I was involved in too lol. Quickly put our names on the 1/2 list and made a move.

1/3 results: 1hr 15min played; -219

The 1/2 game was a lot better at least, though I really have a tough time having fun at small stakes games. Every pot is so much smaller; pre sizings are so large compared to stacks; and you have to play such a value-heavy strategy. At least the guys at my table were down to have a good time and talk which made things a lot more enjoyable. To fight the boredom I play pretty splashy in these games for sure; and was straddling every UTG and had ~half the table joining in as well. Was able to make a hand or two and catch an obvious bluff to recoup some of our losses (lol). 1/2NL is still PLENTY beatable (duh) in my casino; just not how I want to be spending my time and requires a much different strategy than what I like to play.

1/2 results: 3hrs played; +265

Total: 4hrs 45min; -154

Basically a null session; was good to play with my friend though. Plan on playing my normal stakes tomorrow so hopefully a lot more action. The bad beat did hit at a 2/5 game right before I showed up today, so maybe some of those guys will be back tomorrow and looking to shot-take T/T

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10K Challenge Update
Sessions: 11
Hours: 52
6,678/10,000

MUCH less boring update today. Games on Friday nights are the absolute nuts and today was no exception. This was an absolute roller-coaster of a session; and as you will see in the hand histories below I got WAY out of line in some hands, especially early on, but pulled it together towards the middle and end of the session. Mistakes were made today for sure, but I also had some very good hands and made a few very good folds towards the end when I ran into some big hands.

Was at the same game for the entire night. The table started off very good but quickly turned EPIC and was an absolute blast to play at. Tons of hands tonight so let's get into it:

h1: EP limp; me 9h9s 25 UTG1; get 5 calls
($150) Flop: 7s7h6d; x x me 75; folds to BB who raises to 215 (450 back); I fold

h2: EP 20; 2 calls; I call J9cc SB; BB calls
($100) Flop: 455hh; x around
($100) Turn: 3r; x to BTN who bets 30; I raise to 150; only he calls
($400) River Ao; I bet 275; he jams ~700 total; I (obv) fold he shows 45o

Told you I got way out of line early on lol. didn't expect him to ever be strong after x back that flop and 30/100 ott. Obv massively over-bluffing here considering I have complete air plus I was completely and utterly wrong so....yeah...pretty spewy and don't need to be doing this

h3: 5 handed (I don't chop short-handed) folds to my SB I raise 20 with J7cc; BB calls
($40) Flop: AT4r one club; I cbet 15 he calls
($70) Turn: 4cc; I bet 50 he calls
($170) River: 8o; I bet 220; he calls AKo

River should prob just be a give-up vs this guy

At this point; the game got really really good. We got almost the entire table to go for 2/5/T (utg straddle) which lasted for 4+ hours and there were multiple whales at our table; one of which was in the process of getting absolutely hammered. There were also a bunch of huge pots between other people at the table; and anyone who lost $ kept reloading so the game keep getting deeper & deeper. All of the rest of the hands are 2/5/T unless I specify no straddle:

h4: UTG limp; me 45 8s8c UTG1; 2 calls; UTG limp/rr to 245; I jam 1150; He calls with AQcc. Board runs out 724Q8 for the max sweat and we scoop.

I have history with this guy and he limp/rr at a much higher freq/with a wider range than your average player at 2/5. Kind of a ****ty spot with 88 here for ~100 straddles...this is probably too light though tbh since, although I know he limp/rr's a decent amount, I haven't seen enough show-downs to have a solid grasp on his range for it. I think I should have just let it go (or overlimped pre vs this guys utg limp specifically). Luckily we win the flip and scoop a massive one.

h5: LP raises to 30; I 3b 130 AKcc Straddle; he calls
($260) Flop: JT5cc; I bet 200; he calls
($660) Turn: 2o; I x; he bets 400; I call
($1460) River Ao; I x; he bets 400 (left 500 behind); I call and MHIG vs 77 (lol )

A lot of weak live tells from this guy in the hand. I was considering a ton of different lines post-flop and I am still not sure what I like best. I was a bit confused when he bet the river b/c I knew he was never valuing worse and I couldn't figure out what he was bluffing with. But can't fold for that price and with the live reads/chance of button-clicking.

h6: Open TcTx 35 EP; 2 calls
($105) Flop: 234cc; v from last hand donks 75; I raise to 275; other guy folds and he gii for 350 total. We call and hold vs J4o

h7: EP 35; SB call; me 125 (misclick; meant 150) AQss BB; SB calls
($285) Flop: J47cc; x x
($285) Turn: Qccc; x me 175 he calls
($635) River: 2o; x I jam 350 he calls MHIG

h8: Open red 66 30 EP; 2 calls
($100) Flop 345ss; x I check; ~drunk whale bets 30; fold I call
($160) Turn Qcc; x x
($160) River 4o; x he jams 1300...I tank fold he shows T3o lol

Seriously gave consideration to calling this one...but he hadn't been getting THIS out of line yet in the session and the price is so bad considering he can have any 4x in his range/accidentally show up with a Q. I really felt like I was good/this sizing is more often a bluff but couldn't get myself to call. Don't mind the fold for that ridiculous price since we have to be good so often.

h9: limp; I raise QcQx 50 CO; BTN call; whale call; limper calls
($210) Flop 942cc; x x I cbet 125; BTN raises to 250; whale folds; limper cold 3b to 525; I fold; BTN goes all in for ~700 and limper calls with 44 and wins.

h10: no straddle; Open KJss 25; 5 calls
($150) Flop J66r; x to me; I x; x to BTN who bets 100; folds to me I call
($350) Turn Ahh x x
($350) River 8o I bet 225 he folds/shows Jx

h11: limp; EP raise 25; call; I call A2hh; limper calls
($100) Flop A62chc; x x caller bets 50; I raise to 200; limper cold 3b to 425 ($1k eff); 2 folds; I fold

limper is a nit. he basically plays exactly like GG (buys in 80-100bb; over-limps AQo in the CO; nut-mines & never bluffs etc etc) so....easy explo fold. He said he had 66 (duh )

h12: folds to SB who completes; BB raises to 40; I 3b AKo 180 in the straddle; SB folds; BB jams 500; I call and lose to QQ

h13: 2/5/T/blind 30 (this happened very often...game was A+). 3 calls; I raise to 200 in BB with ThTx; folds to SB (same v as last hand) who calls
($490) Flop K25hh; he snap jams 800; I fold and he claims 55

so...like I said; rollercoaster of a session and some fun HHs. Started off stuck 1k; then went on a massive heater; and then ran into a bunch of sets but was luckily able to always find a fold and lose the minimum which is great and lost one flip. This game was so much fun to play in. How poker should be.

There was a T/T game that ran today but it looked absolutely awful. The 2/5 table I was at was the best game in my room tonight by FAR. One of the things this challenge has helped me with and something I will continue to do going forward is to look to play the best game in the casino; and not necessarily just default to playing the biggest game.

played 5.5 hours; in for 2k out for 3,493 so +1,493 on the day

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10K Challenge Update
Sessions: 12
Hours: 57.5
8,171/10,000

I actually like #2 although I probably just give up on the river.

WOW! What a sick table that was.

Today I was in a below-average game, got dealt below-average cards, and played below-average poker. If you weren't able to assume...that will lead to a below-average session lol. Nothing really too bad, just spent most of the session folding preflop & the few big hands I did play I didn't play that well.

h1: limp; I raise AhTc 25; SB and limper call (both ~1k eff)
($75) Flop: KcQx5c; SB donk 40; limper call; I raise 205; SB fold; limper call
($485) Turn: 8ccc; x x
($485) River 7o; x x I lose to QcJh

Meh - turn or river prolly needs to be a bet, but felt like he was pretty draw heavy when he limp/calls pre and then goes call/call on the flop so didn't really seem like the best turn card to barrel...and then otr I was worried a bet wouldn't really be believable/would just get stationed by a lot of his Kx hands. He may have not even folded QJ, who knows. Having the Tc is an interesting blocker here though.

h2: straddle; limp; I raise AJo 45; limper calls (same v as last hand)
($100) Flop AT5r; x I bet 35; he raises to 115 I call
($330) Turn Jss; x I bet 125 he calls
($580) River 8o; x I jam 740 he snap folds

River sizing prolly too ambitious; should have bet a normal value sizing

h3: raise AhKc 20 UTG; 4 calls
($100) Flop: AQ5ccc; x x I bet 30; call; last to act raises to 100; 2 folds; I call; fold
($330) Turn 8o; I x; he jams 440 I call
($1210) River brick; lose to 55

No real great option on the flop being oop and only having 1.3x pot behind. 5 ways I probably should just check this combo on the flop. AP turn is an easy x/f - we never ever ever have the equity to call off here. Just a bad call by me influenced by being card dead/bored. Just getting it in on the flop would have been much better than my line.

Played 4.5 hours and lost 438

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10K Challenge Update
Sessions: 13
Hours: 62
7,733/10,000

More of the same today: bad games; terrible card distribution; and crappy play. Just could not make the best hand tonight in any sizable pot, none of my bluffs were getting through, and paid a guy off in an inexcusable spot. Gonna make the update quick today b/c I'm pretty exhausted:


First up: the one time we actually had the best hand:

h1: open A9hh 20 ep 1 call
($40) Flop: 984ss; me 25 he call
($90) Turn: Qo; I x; he bets 55 I call
($200) River Ao; I x; he bets 95; I jam for ~500 total he folds AsX

River raise on the thinner side but his sizing didn't feel like he had a better hand. Pretty easy to find bluffs here for us too.

Second up: the one bluff that we actually got through:

h2: Straddle; 4 limps I raise 100 AQo SB; BB and BTN call
($340) Flop: K97r; I bet 125; BB folds; BTN calls
($590) Turn: 9r; I bet 240; he calls
($1,070) River K; I jam 700; he folds

BTN is a young TAG so when he overlimp/calls button here his range is pretty much only small pocket pairs and some suited connectors. Once he calls turn I'm pretty much done with the hand and giving him credit for exactly 77/9x here I guess...but we get the nut river to bluff on where we are getting him to fold his entire range pretty much.

h3: Straddle; folds to me in the SB I raise 40 JcJd; Straddle calls
($80) Flop: 2x4s5s; I bet 50; he raises to 150 I call
($380) Turn 2o; I x; he bets 175 I call
($730) River 7o; I x; he bets 400 I call and lose to A3hh

Complete punt. This guy is never bluffing me. Even worse of a call when the 2s isn't on the flop. Maybe one day I will learn how to fold. Turning into a station when I am losing/card dead is such a huge leak.

h4: Straddle; 2 limps; me 60 AhKc SB; Straddle and BTN call
($190) Flop: T42dd; I cbet 115; BTN calls
($420) Turn: Jo; I jam his 300 eff; he calls with 3d3x and we do not improve

Welp; called it a day on that one.

A lot of other small/medium pots I lost as well. Played 5 hours; In for 2,700; out for 1,022 for a nice little -1,678 day. I really need to learn a way to play my A-game more consistently. It is really tough to do after working a full day and driving straight to the casino for sure; but sessions like these cost me a lot of money. Today was never going to be a winning session but I should be able to lose a lot less. Decided to add a graph to the results for extra aesthetic even though it is moving in the wrong direction currently!!

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10K Challenge Update
Sessions: 14
Hours: 67
6,055/10,000

Dno about H2 tbh, he calls it's spew, he folds it's okay at best.

H3 yeah either fold flop vs the teamneverbluff guys or calldown is fine

im new to poker really but curious about hand 9 on the river do you put him on a missed flush draw there if so (which im asumming) why dont you bet smaller there like 70-85-95 or something just to tempt him to call as hes a whale as you put it right so even if he may have no showdown equity he may pay to see what you had ha i know its exploitable but does it really matter being exploitable against a whale and its still few more bigblinds coming your way just curious on the river sizing as only things out there are weird twopairs a straight made on turn and gutshot river and he didnt bet river checked to you and your never folding so just curious why you didnt go smaller to get a call (as he cant have much of anything if anything whatsoever) just curious as obvs you got way more experience than me so was just wondering why you bet what you did river as your sitting with third nuts and your not worried about the nuts so your wanting to induce calls or even bluff raises right?