Tomorrow will be a nice relaxing day of studying my hands and making a video.

I'm also contemplating depositing a sum equal to half of 25% of my VPP points (basically 12.5% of the total amount raked.)

What this would do (Like $80) is provide me a little bit extra to help out considering I'm currently not getting rakeback. 12.5% would be matched as a reload bonus and I would clear that amount by the end of the month.

With how things are going, it looks like $600 in rake is a good estimate for the month as I already have 30,000 VPP points. ($300 raked basically I think.))

So depositing $75 would be 12.5% of the total raked. This would amount to $150 after the bonus clears.

Of course this extra cushion deposit would stop once I reach 100NL.

I think I'm gonna do it. Getting matched 1:1 for a reload bonus is not really a bad idea imo.

This decision comes after I finally got the last of my bankroll off a different site I played at that wasn't full flush poker. (Last $450)

Seems like a solid plan.

Has full flush cleaned up their withdrawal issues?

Not at all, they are getting worse. Search '2+2 equity poker network cashout thread" and you'll see what's happening.

I have had a $1,000 check 'pending' for over 10 months now, 12 months since I requested it. Many many others are in the same boat. Even with the $40 charge for MG orders (maximum $400) they haven't issued me one for over 3 months now.

I think it's safe to say they are finished.

Well this doesn't look good.

http://www.fullflushpoker.com/wordpress/

Welp.

Looks like Full Flush is dead. I read rumors about them losing their gaming license and their website with lies about it being 'technical error' for the software.

$2300 still on that site. Got most of off though that is still not a small chunk of money by any stretch...

October 13th, 2016. 6 hours of poker. 2000 hands. Starting Bankroll $341. Ending Bankroll at $424 ($20 bonus cleared). +$63. 40000 hands total for the challenge.

6 tabling 25NL. Also 4 tabled 50NL for my first 50NL shot. (I admit pretty aggressive. Arguably silly.)

I actually do not feel comfortable playing 50NL right now it was kind of a spontaneous thing. I won a few nice pots then lost a couple. Lost a couple in 25NL and gained a couple. After 2,000 hands at 25 and 50NL I'm up $63.

Bankroll at $424. I deposited $200 into the account with a reload bonus to match $200. I did the math and worst case scenario if I am to play 10NL for the next 60 days (the time needed for all the bonus to clear) then I would pretty much just finish the clearance of the bonus.

My goal last time was a step ascension to keep pushing upwards. I failed 3 times at 25NL so far. So this means Its gone to the $300-$400 step.

Basically I'll take 2 more 25NL shots and once bankroll get's to $375, I'll get it to $500 playing 10NL.

I want to get a bit sticky with 25NL before I move to 50NL.

I admit I got a bit stressed playing 25NL today. Table was full of Regs/nits having a 3bet fest preflop. I kind of spazzed out in one hand thinking I had fairly good equity but after reviewing I did not.

Here it is. Proof I am still a donkey

Ok, actually in my mind I gave villain a pretty wide range as we were going back and forth at each other also in chat - all in fun - he's a good guy actually. I gave him 88-AA, AK/A5s-AQs, then some rando's like KJs, K9s. Well, happened to be 1010 this time but even if my range was correct, I was still about 7% equity below what I needed after using equilab and figuring out the equity in the pot post-hand.

Donkey Hand



The above hand happened pretty much right after this hand happened.



Hand 3 - Funny hand winning 200BB pot with K high after I bluff shoved turn LOL



The above hand, had notes this villain would float OOP/IP with weak mid pairs, underpairs, etc so I bluff shoved the turn which imo was a decent play on this board. Villain SNAPPED it off with 8 high flush draw+gutshot. I was like...

WAIT WHY IS THE MONEY GOING TO ME!?

Got a big Monster drink and cooking some ribeye/orzo cheesy pasta to "celebrate" me not failing miserably today and to keep me awake as I continue putting together this compilation of plays I do not like.

New Goal - Learn to calculate the monetary amount Lost if you know the equity of villain's range and your pot equity. Let's say pot equity is 39% and vs villain's range you are at 32% - let's say you are 7% away from the equity needed to just break even, what is the monetary cost of this -EV decision? This will be a good calculation to find out just for information's sake.

Also, I wish to say that Sportsbetting.ag has a very fast and friendly customer support.

They denied me the reload bonus initially and I replied something like "What??? I got an email about a RELOAD bonus for OCTOBER!!!"

5 minutes later, I was told I would be in contact with a manager shortly.

5 minutes later, I got another email from said manager promptly changing the decision and giving me the reload bonus.

10 minutes later, I am receiving the bonus within my software.

Great work sportsbetting team, keep up the great work. I have heard nice things about you so far.

I need to remember. A table of 25NL regs is beatable. Why?

Because there is a REASON they are all at 25NL.

Keep a calculated mind and figure out their weaknesses and tendencies and adopt a strategy to defeat them.

Out for the night. Thanks to anyone who is reading/subbing because I plan for this to be quite a long thread until I reach $8000!!!

Oh I thought you said you were playing the challenge on FF... Where are you playing, and if not ignition why not?

Not ignition? I am on sportsbetting.ag poker room.

From what I know, it's the only site that accepts players from my state, Maryland.

ignition poker accepts maryland players?

"Unfortunately, due to America’s legal situation with regards to online gaming, people located in Delaware, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey and New York can’t play on Ignition...."

Sigh. Perhaps I should move to Pennsylvania. I suppose if this bankroll get's going and ignition offers a nice rakeback, and I can see myself pushing into 200NL/400NL and beyond then the move should worth it.

Donation at 50NL , Just thought I'd post for humor sake





Same villain then got revenge on me



Villain is 93/47 over 15 hands, enough sample size imo to label them a psycho whale.

I have made the commitment to play 6 tables max of 10NLand 4 tables max of 25NL until I start to review my hands and do not see the mistakes I have been making.

I have quite a lot of hands that I feel a different line would have been more productive for EV and some spots where I did pretty much play like a donkey/spewtard.

However my 10NL winrate is still positive and that is great news.

Let's start my 4th 25NL shot tonight and hope it goes well !!

October 14th, 2016. 3 hours of poker. 1000 hands. Starting Bankroll $424. Ending Bankroll at $507 ($10 bonus cleared). +$73. 41000 hands total for the challenge.

4 tabling 25NL.

Hand 1. Definitely check this one out. It's pretty cool.

edited to add ***the hand converter misses checks from villains so try to follow the line, a little bit of thinking will make it clear***



Villain was 59/42 over 39 hands. No notes, no observations yet.

Ok so the flop min raise was fishy enough. My first inclination was that if villain had a set, they would probably want to raise bigger with such a drawy board.

I decide to not 4 bet KK because we are deep and I'd hate to lose my 200BB's vs AA here and decide I want to play with the huge fish instead of scaring them away. 2nd villain who 3 bet was very tight stats, 2.8% 3bet over a sizable sample , running 18/14.

1.) My 1/2 pot bet was not repping much strength and the board was very drawy.

2.) Villain's stats were uber psycho-fish leaning into psycho-whale territory.

3.) Because board was so drawy I put fish on a very wide range of total air, looking to airball bluff the turn or true draws or something like 9x spazzing out trying to 'test where they are at'.

4.) The turn bet really me kind of sit back in my chair. I let the timer run down a bit and just got this feeling. A feeling of "I just don't believe this guy at all."

5.) I was thinking. Should I flat the turn to induce a river shove? I came to the conclusion that fish had draws or maybe even a Q plus flush draw at this point.

I decided to jam the turn without truly feeling at all like I was facing a set.

I freaked when the red J came out. Then proceeded to cheer as villain showed diamonds.

PHEW.

Hand 2 - A spot in which I got the opposite feeling holding AA.



Villain is 25/19 over 320 hands. No stats stand out as being extreme. Seems like a solid player.

My pot bet def will appear strong to him. The flop raise was quite big.

The turn bet was really quite big. I don't see villain doing this on the turn after I call flop. 1010/JJ/J10/Overpairs are definitely in my range here.

I made the fold. Solid fold imo.

Playing my A+ game after reviewing many many hands I still plan to finish the video. 4 tabling 25NL really is allowing me to sit back and think through the situations more deeply and more clearly.

It's meditative and therapuetic in a way

GRIND IS REAL. GETTING BACK INTO MY OLD SELF AND GONNA CRUSH 25NL SOON TO COME.

October 14th, 2016. 3 hours of poker. 1000 hands. Starting Bankroll $507. Ending Bankroll at $549 ($20 bonus cleared). +$22. 42000 hands total for the challenge.

4 tabling 50NL. This was my 2nd shot at 50NL. After tonight I will go back to 25NL and grind it for a while at the same time paying closer attention to my reviewed hands.

Decided that if I do take an aggressive shot to ascend higher, it should be friday/saturday nights late night time.

I try my best to keep the maximum time per session at 3 hours. I find that after that I start to get lazy and make mistakes.

So I stopped for the night even though I was up overall.

Two hands where I lose big pots vs probably one of the worst players I have ever witnessed at a table. Bizarro land, check them out for a good laugh.

Hand 1.



Basically it's whatever. Not much to even discuss imo. I think jamming river for value is the most standard play vs a villain that is 77/21/3bet13%/cbet 82% agg factor of 4.4

Ok, time for hand 2.



Yeah I mean, this one speaks for itself. It's whatever, basically.

Here is one hand in which I will just say was spew. I was PRETTY sure villain is going to have lots of pp's here so I decided to just scare them into a fold but then I realized they are a 42/5 fish and right afterwards I'm like "yeah ok, that was extremely stupid of me"

My only spaz hand since I reviewed my entire session for the last 10,000 hands. (And no, my 4 bet pre was solid vs this villain as they were caught squeezing light twice already.)

2 week Summary so far. $93 to start, $145 bonus cleared, $200 deposited for the 100% reload match. That is $438. Bankroll at $554. All in all, I am +$116 for the challenge after 42,000 hands. 10NL winrate was 2.3bb/100 over 24,000 hands.

I feel great about this so far and my game is only getting better.

Failed 3 25NL shots so far. Gotta get sticky with 25NL - I think I'll start to mix in 50NL into my 25NL sessions like a 3 25NL to 1 50NL - At $600, I'll 2 of each. At $700 I'll 1 to 3 then at $800 I'll do 4 50NL. At $800 I'll probably still take my first 100NL shot and then if I fail 2 BI's I'll just keep this plan again by mixing 25NL and 50NL.

In order to push into the an aggressive 100NL shot taking routine, I can do $800-$600, build bankroll to $1,000(take 2 more shots.), build bankroll to $1,200(take 2 more shots.) Maybe I'll get lucky and get sticky with 100NL immediately. Or maybe It'll take me a few tries as it did for 25NL. (Mainly I was playing like total crap at 25NL too...so...yeah.)

I do definitely plan to keep this aggressive and progressing and will most likely make another reload bonus if I am allowed next month as if I feel like sportsbetting poker room is good for their money, a reload bonus is basically FREE money, essentially.

100NL is where I was at before, also playing 200NL sometimes if I knew there were huge whales at the tables. 50PLO was a main game of mine at Full Flush as well.

Just a thought after I reach $8,000 - I'll probably start my next challenge of trying to maximize my table loadout - I would love to get up to 8 tables and I think once I learn most of the players tendencies at these levels then it should be easier to do more at one time. 8 tabling for 3 hours a day with a 2.5bb/100 winrate with a mix of 100 and 200NL or even a few 50 and 100 PLO would be quite a decent monthly profit.

Being able to mix together 6 max, full ring, 6 max PLO and full ring PLO would allow me to truly table select and stay away from the nit/reg fests.

Perhaps I could try to eventually grind HU cash game because there are always HU 5/10 and 2/4 going on at sportsbetting poker room. At this time, there are no 6 max tables going on anything higher than 200NL which kind of is interesting.

GRIND IS REAL.

October 16th, 2016. 2.5 hours of poker. 1000 hands. Starting Bankroll $550. Ending Bankroll at $549 ($10 bonus cleared). -$10. 43000 hands total for the challenge. +$106 overall.

3 tabling 25NL. 1 tabling 50NL.

I feel like I made a few bad plays tonight. Won't go over details. Just kind of weird spots, but I do feel I made the wrong plays. Both times I should have just folded I think.

Just going to update quick and easy for a while and continue crushing off the table review work.

I think I was feeling the mental exhaustion from a weekend of restaurant work. Perhaps if I have a day off, it should be Sunday nights and I can use that to do a HM2 review and take it easy.

Just wasn't 'feeling it' tonight which is also why I ended a bit earlier than the 3 hour mark.

To quit when you know you are not playing your A game is the sign of a seasoned poker player, I think.

To not play your A game is the sign of a poker player who is human and is totally normal. Which is why your B game should be break even and your C game should really never come out.

Tonight I was playing a solid B. Not B- or B+. Just B. I'll get to rest for the next few days, however so should be back on the grind feeling fresh.

THE GRIND IS REAL.

on which network is sportsbetting.ag? How good is the traffic?

I believe it's chico network. In bad hours it's around 900 players. Good hours it can exceed 2500. Always tables of all stakes to play, at least 4 if you want at any limit from 2NL to 200NL.

This was a nice donation to my cause



50NL villain was 71/54/18.2 3 bet over 28 hands. Gotta love those 50NL whales

Gonna take a day off from playing and finish up my session review stuff.

Also watching some videos on HM2 HUD setups and advanced things like popup creator, etc.

For the past 6 years I have actually only used a very very basic HUD.

tot hands, PFR, VPIP, 3bet%, cbet%, fold to cbet%, agg factor, steal and fold to steal.

That's basically it. I think I can add 1 or 2 new stats in per week and get a few more in there like turn cbet, 4bet%, etc.

But mainly I pride myself on taking detailed notes when I see something noteworthy. Such as a villain with 10% 3bet %, making a note they squeezed me with Q9o from BB...then I can start 4 betting them lighter in the future. Or if they spaz out to donk bets on drawy flops when they hold marginally strong hands like TPTK, etc.

I'M SO FULL OF IT I'M GOING TO PLAY SOME POKER TONIGHT!!!

Just updated my HUD pop up window basically created one from scratch...let's hope it works and I can gleen somoe extra info from villains

like their fold to 3bet OOP vs IP, their 3bet%'s per different positions, etc.


Also going to use cbet turn % to see if I can't use that to float - then raise turn on specific boards to take down those pesky aggro double air barrels.

Going to be 6 tabling again tonight as I feel refreshed and let's see how much of a donkey I will be with 6 tables!!!

BIG WIN TODAY!!! FINALLY A BIG WIN!!!

October 17th, 2016. 3 hours of poker. 1500 hands. Starting Bankroll $549. Ending Bankroll at $816 ($20 bonus cleared). +$145. 44500 hands total for the challenge. +$250 overall.

6 tabling a mix of 25NL and 50NL to start. As the bankroll steadily increased, I started shutting down the worst of the 25NL and starting up other 50NL and also 2 (50bb) 100NL , one was a full ring and one was a 6 max.

So that was 4 50NL and 2 100NL tables going at the end of the session. Once I saw $800 cleared, I shut down the software and decided to take a break.

THIS MEANS MY FIRST 100NL SHOT IS COMING. Only 17 days into the challenge and my bankroll is $800!!! (After depositing a total of $293)

Playing my A++ game tonight.

My biggest 7 pots lost for this session were totally standard hands. set over set, mid pair plus NFD vs 50BB flop shove, stuff like this.

Sick fold/vomit spot, I felt 95% comfortable that villain had me beat here.




Played 500 hands with villain. Stats were 27/21, 12%, 2.3 AF, 56 cbet%...

loose pre flop but tighter postflop stats. The board was dry as a nail and AQ is NOT doing this an extreme majority of the time, it would just call. By this time, this villain has to know I'm polarized to AK/total airball or AQ/AA/KK - He didn't get to the river with air so it can't be a bluff shove.

The jerk most likely x/called all streets with a flopped set and gave me rope.

I was going to check back the river but thought if villain had a set by now, they would raise. Then I realized the board was too dry for this and villain, if they had a set, played it balanced and nicely.

Really not sure if I should have bet for value vs Qx or just checked back. I guess it's totally villain dependent and I went for a bet. Probably difficult to prove one line is more +EV then the other. But it's an interesting spot.

good hand sir, if you're reading this.

Ok, I had some bad math earlier.

I deposited $100 and it was matched 100% so that's $200.

I then deposited $200 on Oct 1st and $75 has been cleared so far so that is $275.

$200 plus $275 = $475. $815-$475 = Total challenge profit so far is $340.

$340 profit over 44,500 hands.

GRIND IS REAL.

Subbed! Most agg brm I've ever seen lool