Hello 2+2!

I will for the first time try to hit GoldStar on Pokerstars. I have been playing poker for about a year and a half but not put in a lot of volume for a long time. I'm doing this thread to keep myself motivated and to NOT give up.

I have a $500 bankroll atm witch I have grinded up from a $20 deposit.

To become a GoldStar by grinding 10NLz I will need to play about 41,7K hands but I will put in a few k more hands and hit a nice round 50K.
By doing this I will also get about $106 in rakeback which is pretty nice. Will post some graphs every few k hands.

Goals

[ ] GoldStar
[ ] 50 000 hands (will prob crush it tho)
[ ] EV 4bb/100
[ ] Study 20 hours
[ ] Have fun
[ ] Improve a lot

GL me!

good luck

Good luck mate! Moved up to 10nl myself this month and went not too bad. Going to try for goldstar as well!

NB: Aforementioned good luck is discounted for any potential hands against markodpoker.

Thanks man!
GL you to. But not vs me obv See ya at the tables!

So first day went really well.. Totally crushed and won 7EV buyins which is pretty good:


Played really solid and most hands was pretty standard..
Here is a debatable hand:

How do you play this?
I decided to 3bet/5bet shove JJ vs reg BvB not standard imo but he semed a little agro over smalish sample:



Todays biggest pot:

Wow where do I find this BTN?

Think your shove with JJ is totally fine.

What BTN??

Yeah can´t be that bad..

Hello guys!

So this is how it's been going last 3 days:


Since start of challenge:


So I think that I am still playing pretty good and that I´m just running really bad not only all in EV wise but things like this happened like 7-10 times last 5k hands:


In my opinion it´s just coolers that still is +EV in the long run. Don´t think I have played many instresting hands (that is worth posting) just think that I am making good calls/fold and that the results will come.

Hey mate sorry to hear about the downswing. How are you going VPP wise? I'm running at about 0.04 VPPs/hand which is going to take me about 58k hands.

^ that **** happens, and maybe you can make an exploitative fold against tighter villains. Only semi-bluffs are likely big flush draws and you hold the Kd which blocks a ton of them. Not surprising he turned up with a set and I think that might be a mistake.

Of course if you had a read that villain was aggressive and/or a rec, it's fine.

^I'm 0,05VPP/Hand for the month (0,06 at 10NL lifetime) Saw you at some tables and you are based on my sample on you playing a bit tighter then me so it makes sense.

Yeah mayby it's a fold in a vacuum vs some people but it semes so weak to fold KK there and very very exploitable..

Yeah there are not many draws. AdQd, maybe AdTd and JdTd but thats optimistic. If we add in some other random spazz like AJ I start to feel better though. He can do this both with QQ and AA too. But can we really ever even think about folding here though?

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Yeah it's kinda a tough spot. Maybe if we assume we're always getting it in the other way round (out set v overpair), it's not so bad in the long run. A solid read on the villain is nice, but I guess you just have to play against the population in a vacuum. Unless he's a nit it's probably ok to just go with it.

And yeah I'm definitely on the tighter side, so am expecting to have a lower VPP earning rate. Don't know your SN so wasn't sure what your stats were :P

KK you can comfortably fold there.
I wouldn't worry about being exploited until 200nl. Just take a note of his line. If you see him do it again, you have a reason to believe that he is doing it light.
Problem is that his draws like T9 AQ have high equity against us.
So when he has a lot of equity with his draws, you need a lot of fold equity, for the times when you are crushed against a set.

Okey intresting semes to make sense toe.. Will keep it in mind for later spots!

No sorry don´t want to post my sn because I don´t think that I gain anything from it (but don´t lose that much either)

Haven´t played much last couple of days. Has been busy with other stuff but will put in a big session tomorrow! Played a smal one today and had some intresting spots:



Hand above is vs an unknown. The question is: can we find a fold on the turn here?

In the next hand I have an intresting question: Will a reg villan fold his entire range vs a 3 barral here? (exept JJ if it gets to the river)

Gl sub.IMO AQ hand c/c down never c/r turn.3bet bigger pre on A6s hand and no,villain isn't going to fold 2p,sets to a 3barrel

Villain only had 10BB left ott after betting.

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Ty man!

I think that he is never folding turn because of pot odds and I can never fold river (If I call turn so I just shoved turn)

Bigger 3bet? To what size?

The thing is just that I don't think he has any 2p, set in his range after calling the 3bet pre (exept mayby 3combos of 99 and 3combos of JJ) but I don't think he has any 2p.

sorry guys new thread: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/17...015-a-1545037/

you gave up early!

Yeah and Im caind of dissapointed on myself but the hole point for me is to have fun and enjoy it. I didn't enjoy the grind so no point for me to continue.