I would argue that is not a dry flop at all. It's pretty wet. Kd7h2c is dry. 3cJdJh is dry. This one is not dry.

It was vs a tight REG 20/16, I leveled myself into folding after the next ace came out.

I'm not so sure a bare A would be doing that on the turn - my spidey senses were going off hard - a straight probably isn't shoving the river, they check behind - on the turn, villain would be raising sets that flatted my flop donk - they would be raising 2 pairs that include an A as well - An A plus a NFD on the turn just calls.

As for the donk, I mix it up sometimes and it disguises the set - I donk with draws/air/sets/etc. Also villains tend to not respond to donk bets too well and if they were on a draw, they might consider raising the flop then I could 3 bet shove - If they have an overpair they call anyway.

In the end, I felt like I was not good any longer.

Perhaps I was good. I dunno.

But I do think I should have jammed on the turn to their raise when the A came out.

My mistake, I thought it was a rainbow flop.

I wouldn't suggest donking in spots like this vs most regs. Even when you mix up your play like this, they just don't usually make enough mistakes based on the information you give them about your range. I'd save the donk bets for fish/bad regs, they're going to make enough mistakes that it doesn't matter if you're going to really narrow your range by leading for pot.

Don't think we can fold river though. Villain never has straights here, and they could easily be raising Ax for value ott.

I did I succeeded. 280 to 10k. One month.

January 23rd, 2017.

5 hours of poker, 2 session. 25NL, 6 max. 6 Tables.


7 BI's below EV at 25NL per HM2 stats.

-$100 at Sportsbetting Bankroll at $245
-$30 at DragonRoom Bankroll at $385

-$130 total for the day.

Awful day.

At Dragon Room, won a 400BB pot straight flush vs A high flush, then fish proceeded to suck out on me like it was their life. Dropped 5 BI's there within an hour. KQ on KK8 flop, I bet flop, bet turn, shove river, River is J, whale had KJ. That kind of stuff. Flush draws hitting. Yawn kind of session.

At Sportsbetting:

KKvsAA twice in a row, lost.

4 bet KK vs LAG, they flat 4 bet, 150 BB's deep, 7 high flop comes out, 2 hearts. I cbet, they jam flop, I snap, they hit their 10 high flush with 109s.

Weak Reg flat my 3 bet from UTG, x/calls a 233 flop, x/jams a 3 turn for 2333, I snap off with JJ, river is a 6 and they showdown 66.

Fish gets a flush vs my straight. A 55/44/32 (yes 32% 3bet)

Biggest pot won was when I hit runner runner quads. Guess I need Quads to win now?

Bankroll numbers are showing different because I did some bitcoin transferring from one into another, got some rakeback thrown in, etc.

Total bankroll $630.

I might stop posting detailed updates every day because with rakeback and bitcoin transferring to keep the balances sort of even, it's going to really be impossible to keep track of.

I'll just post graphs I suppose.

Went through 4 hours of skype team view where a guy from the free poker database tried to get a HUD to work on dragon room, it shows up now but a bit laggy.

Leaks Broken:

One Leak Broken in 2000 hands.

19.5 Leaks Broken over 5 days.

"Not taking time to get value with your monster"

I flopped top set after isolating a fish UTG limper pre, 2 hearts on board, 3 way pot, and I checked flop.

Yeah, I checked it. Painful. I lead turn. 3rd heart comes out on river. I bet half pot, nit overjams the pot, fish folds, I folded top set.

Was Playing as Perfectly as I could, really.

Didn't get emotional even one time even with all the insane coolers and bad beats. I just shrugged it off and kept a cool mind.


GRIND IS REAL.

AND KIND OF STUPID SOMETIMES EVEN WHEN YOU ARE AT YOUR A GAME BUT STILL DOWN LIKE 5 BI'S BELOW EV AND GETTING COOLERED TOO

January 25th, 2017.

5 hours of poker, 2 sessions. 25NL, 6 max. 6 Tables.

Another awful day. Total bankroll at $581. -$49 total for the day.

Crushing it in the first session, up 5 BI's in 3 hours.

Then there was a 2nd session.

KK vs 35s, villain flats 3bet OOP, donk shoves , I snap, they're a whale, they hit flush draw.

KK vs 96s, villain is whale, they x/raise 652 flop, I 3 bet flop, they min 4bet flop, I jam flop, they snap, turn is a 9.

Flopped broadway, lost to a flush draw.

Bled $125 in 2nd session, biggest pot lost was $25, 2nd biggest pot lost was $10. This means $100 bled , all pots $10 and under within 1.5 hours.

It was horrendous, really. Never seen anything like it. I was hitting good hands, but the action dictated I was no longer good on later streets, so I was making good folds.

Being sucked out on.

HM2 officially shows -16 BI's at 25NL. This is a 20BI downswing now.

Ending my 2nd session earlier than normal, because I am feeling sick, just a sick feeling.

On a positive side, I had $1000 in my PayPal account I didn't know was even there from rakeback from a while ago. I always just assumed it got transferred into my banking account but nope.

***Leaks Broken***

"Getting tricky vs LAG****tards that cannot be bluffed off pockets 22's on a KQA flop. Just shut down and value bet instead."

1 strike.

"Stop getting emotional"

1 strike. Losing KK vs 53s and then KK vs 96 all in pots back to back stung a little.

"Take your hand off the mouse and think more."

My only tilt spew of the past month. I never tilt spew, ever. Today I got wrecked in the 2nd session, 7 BI's down in an hour.

1 strike.

3 strikes total for the day in 2000 hands.

22.5 leaks broken over 6 days.

GRIND IS REAL.

January 26th, 2017.

5 hours of poker, 2 sessions. 25NL, 6 max. 6 Tables.

Total bankroll at $650. +$69 total for the day.

-$150 total for the challenge over 100,000 hands.


Did some research into my database and found that over the past 40 biggest pots lost at 25NL, 10 of them were from KK of which 8 of them I was ahead when the money went in. 3 of the biggest pots were from AA and 2 of the biggest pots were from QQ.

AA I have 1100 bb's won, QQ I have 1200 bb's won and KK I have only 200 bb's won. This means most of my downswing is literally due to 8 KK hands that sucked out on me.

I have perfected most of my play. I looked over the last 15000 hands , biggest pots lost and thinned out the field to everything that was spew/poor decisions, etc, and it was only a handful of 6 hands.

I'll be wiping my database clean once again to start fresh for February. This has been one of the worst runs I've had and it definitely caused me to play a bit poorly in some spots due to stress/tilt/emotional issues.

Losing KK all in 5 times in a row in what was 120-150 bb stacks a lot of the time, well...that affected me. Losing 6 coinflips in a row, well...that affected me.

Running AK into AA vs non-nitty villains AIPF 3 times in 3 days, well...that affected me.

I'm no longer going to be affected by run bad.

**** happens.

Play perfect poker and the bankroll will grow.

***Leaks Broken***

Zero for the day. First session where I didn't break any leaks. I hope I can continue following this. Much better to just let it go when my KK get's cracked again. Maybe I'm becoming desensitized to it? I hope so.

22.5 leaks broken over 7 days.

My converting software doesn't include checks in the 2+2 converter so just fill in the blanks :P






Villain had JJ.



REALLY wasn't expecting everyone to join in, but HEY IT'S A PARTY!
Villain who squeezed huge I had a read that value would be had more postflop because 1 - they squeeze light, 2 - they don't respect me at all so they're going to call my flop raise if they cbet but most of the time they'd just fold to my shove.

I'm going to be rewriting my list of leaks to put the ones I break the most on top.

"Stop getting emotional"

This is by far the biggest leak for myself. Probably most players I would guess.

"Beware of sudden fish aggression."

Fish trigger me. I hate it when they get aggressive, I always level myself into thinking they are spewing or bluffing but more often than not I think they actually just have a hand that is strong that they might have played in a very irrational/non logical manner. I need to remember that fish don't use logic/reasoning/normal rationale for bet sizing/board textures, etc.

All that matters is they suddenly get aggressive and that should bother me much more than it has. I have ignored their aggression a lot. This is my 2nd biggest leak.

"Take your hand off the mouse and think more."

Easy to go on auto pilot in spots that you think are standard, only to figure out later if you just took a few more seconds, you'd realize they aren't so standard and you slipped up.

3rd biggest leak.

The other 14 leaks, I only broke 3 times in 7 days. This means 3 leaks were broken 19.5 times I believe, 14 other leaks broken 3 times.

Pretty incredible to think about.

Moral of the story.

Find your kryptonite and quarantine that **** FAST.

GRIND IS REAL.

January 27th, 2017.

6 hours of poker, 2 sessions. 25NL, 6 max. 6 Tables.

Total bankroll at $675. +$24 total for the day.

-$125 total for the challenge over 100,000 hands.

***Leaks Broken***

1 Strike. "Not paying attention to sudden fish aggression."

We all know it's my weakness

Playing my A+ game, nitting it up a bit more than usual - But it seems to be working I guess?

Last 4 sessions my + EV is an extra 2 BI's over what I actually won.

I'm pretty close to getting myself into the green in 25NL. 6 BI's EV adjusted below 0, but showing 14 BI's down total - That's 8 BI's below EV over 25,000 hands.

23.5 leaks broken over 8 days.



The only hand all day where villain actually hit when I hit! Tons of small pots won, one big pot lost that I should have won.






SUPER FISH.

January 28th, 2017.

6 hours of poker, 2 sessions. 25NL, 6 max. 6 Tables.

Total bankroll at $705. +$40 total for the day.

-$85 total for the challenge over 107,500 hands.

What a milestone! Basically I'm now 3 BI's away from breakeven over the first 100k hands of the challenge!

What a ride!

Uninstalled so many files today, 40 gigabytes worth, and uninstalled SQL for HM2 so after reinstall, database seems to be gone - and my card catcher isn't catching perfectly but I still have a HUD...need to get that fixed.

Purchased $400 worth of pc components for a new build. My current system can't handle so many things running at one time.

i3 6100
500watt psu
$80 motherboard I can attach my radeon graphics card
120GB SSD (really excited about this upgrade)
8 GB memory to start (currently my mobo maxes at 4GB which bottlenecks everything
$60 mid-tower that had **** ton of reviews on new egg.

0% interest over 6 month plan

Saturday Night Fish Fest. Blind fish donk shoves river with 69, 2nd fish reshoves with 77, I was forced to fold JJ. Lolz.



Will be depositing the paypal bonus money I found as it was rakeback from previous sites long ago.
Bankroll will theoretically be $1500 in 2 days after I get rakeback from my current hands.

Once I reach $2k bankroll, I'll start pushing into 50NL.

The jump from 10NL to 25NL is much harder than 25NL to 50NL imo. Shouldn't be too difficult to adjust.

I hate that it took me this long to get my game back.

Playing my best as of late. Lovin it. No spew/folding more when my gut is like "ok...w/e...douchebag fish suck out...take the pot I guess..."

Seems to be working?

Was up 6 BI's at my peak today, then bled and bled and missed all my draws for pretty much the entire 3 hour 2nd session as that's when I plumetted (how the hell do you spell this word???)

Also ran trips into trips two times with the weaker kicker vs one fish and vs one bluffy/spewy reg. Oh well. I can definitely fold weak trips to many villains but not those ones!

***Leaks Broken***

Interesting one, I was getting a bit too call stationy in the first hour of my first session. Not sure why. Was calling when I'm pretty sure it just wasn't worth it with things like back door NFD draws in multi way pots, etc.

2 strikes. I did fix it though, I was just like "what am I doing...chasing??? Not like me at all."

"Beware of sudden fish aggression."

1 Strike. Yeah, don't remember the situation but It happened. not a big pot, but I probably should have folded to the river bet.

26.5 leaks broken over 9 days, Seems to be about 1 leak per 1,000 hands which I'm fine with. Nobody can really play leak free/perfect poker every single hand I'm sure of it.

But I know I can do better. I would like to see a 1 leak per 2,000 hand ratio.

GRIND IS REAL.

January 29th, 2017.

6 hours of poker, 1 session. Usually this would be breaking a leak but I actually took a good nap around 4:30 pm, started tables at 6pm and felt so clear minded that I played 2 session back to back. 50NL, 6 max. 6 Tables. Had a 7th table of short handed Omaha 50PLO going at the last hour.

Down 5 BI's $250 at the lowest peak, was almost about to just cut it off, then started winning some nice pots, then full stacks the last hour. Came back to get +$93 overall.

I need to have a more conservative management for bankroll now because I'm making it my life once again. I'll take 100NL shots around $4k. $2300 more shouldn't be too difficult with the rakeback I'm getting and (hopefully) a decent winrate. Giving myself February to complete that goal.


THIS MEANS THAT NOW I AM OFFICIALLY IN THE GREEN +$8 OVER 110,000 HANDS CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!!!???

Total bankroll at $1750. Because I deposited the Pay Pal $1,000 I found that was from rakeback before, plus more rakeback the past few weeks. I am being very honest about the winnings, +$8 currently since the beginning of the challenge. The bankroll is from rakeback, more deposits and also 1:1 bonus matching on reload bonus earlier in the thread.

***Leaks Broken***

Broke a new one today?? Overplaying 88-JJ. But I don't know, really. A 93/48/33 whale with a 100% BB 3 bet (50 hand sample size but look at those stats) 3 bet me pretty big, I shoved 99, they snapped and had 1010.

I probably could have just flatted, but maybe I'm being results oriented. I'm not going to tick myself for this one, just to add it in.

26.5 leaks broken over 10 days.


GRIND IS REAL.

Part 13 of 25NL session Review! What a ride so far!

Doing my first 50NL session review now!

SO EXCITED!

Gave myself 5 ticks for bad play out of 9 hands.



Hopefully my 50NL will receive less ticks.

January 30th, 2017

2nd Worst day of the challenge.

Lost $430. Since I was planning on taking a 6 BI shot at 50NL, I won 2 BI's yesterday and today I lost 8.5 so my 50NL shot is officially over.

Bankroll at $1250



So it's 4 way preflop, I squeeze HUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE with AKo to isolate the whale - I flop a goldmine and I read the notes on the villain.

I decide to x/jam all in and was pretty sure I would get a stab from them. Well they ended up SNAP POTTING the flop, I follow through with my jam all in and they SNAP CALL. 8 high. No flush draw.

Just a 4 outer.

Let me just save you the trouble of wondering, yeah I lost top set to a gutshot shove later on in the night.

I had xx1010 in omaha, Board was 2610 with 2 hearts. I decide to x/jam once again. Whale villain pots it, I raise semi-big, they shove - They show 2443 in their hand.

Guess what card hit.

Yeah, a 5.

They didn't have a flush draw either.

Oh well.

My heater will come some day.

Besides that I did sort of play some spots pretty poorly.

Bluff shoved the turn vs a 13% 3bettor and 90% bet flop over a large sample. Basically a tornado psycho REG and their range is going to be ridiculously wide but they had KK that time

Back to the 25NL grind.

***Leaks Broken***

"Beware of sudden fish aggression."

2 strikes. Only remember one hand but I'll give myself two strikes only because I suck at following this rule.

That's basically it.

I was so calm today, I know I'm playing my best as of late, had a few slip ups today but oh well.

28.5 leaks broken over 11 days.

I admire your work ethic, much love <3

^+1 Gonna go through some of your videos later. I've had the same 3 major leaks since day 1 so hopefully I'll pick up a thing or 2 from your proactive approach to leak busting!

Shhhtt man reading this thread was a rollercoaster. Love the thread and the videos tho. Keep up the hard work. Why do you play on these sites with minimal traffic?

Cheers!

Hope op is ok and still at it!

Back at it! I meant to take a shorter hiatus , bout 2 or 3 weeks but it turned out to be quite a while lol - I'll start back at 25NL and still use a very conservative BR management - new pc - updated all the sites, HM2, etc, rebuilding the HUD layout I had before.

I have been obsessed with Dota 2 and I have attained 4 new piano students as I teach private lesson out of my home.

This year, I wish to rebuild the studio and get back to a decent student number, it fell off last year with restaurant work/poker/etc.

I use minimal traffic sites bc I live in MD and 90% of poker sites ban me.

Thank you for the comments about my work ethic. I plan on taking this all the way.

From multiple graphs, I am slightly up at 25NL, was running about .5bb/100 over 60,000 hands.

I purged all databases but if you remember my 10NL graph soared positive.

My 25NL stats/winrates were before I took a serious look at leaks and emotional instability issues.

Feels great to have my head back in the game.

GRIND IS REAL.

Should be playing PoE . Also instead of of purging all your hands why don't you just start a new DB? I know you have the computer to handle over a mil HH

Well, I figure any proof or evidence of any winrates, graphs, I'll always have in this thread. I also have pictures saved on my SSD

But sometimes you just need to start clean, fresh. At least for me.

If you remember, I had a 100,000 breakeven stretch.

But also I never thought about starting a new database.

Also I checked out that game, is it hard? I only play games that are extremely challenging where it's insane competitive or you die a **** load - Have to think/tread carefully before popping spells, attacking, etc.

its a long game. and yes it can be difficult if you don't have a good enough build to do end game content. If you've ever played diablo 2, its a lot more complex and more difficult.

I'm lvl 84 and still haven't killed shaper or uber atziri. working on it though

First week back update.

Gonna do videos tomorrow or wednesday -

Overall I feel I am playing very well - Made a few errors of judgement, playing more PLO than I did before only because of limited tables at certain hours so the variance has been heavier than normal.

I knew it would take a bit to readjust but I wasn't out of poker for 6+ months like before, it was 2 months this time and I still watched my older videos from time to time.

Minus 270 for the week, essentially 10 BI's. About 6000 hands. Nothing to worry about, many standard spots. Looking over the hand histories and reviewing my leak finding list, I don't believe I really got out of hand in any real way except two hands where i leveled myself into doing something stupid. One was a total spew at a 50NL holdem table so that was regretful. Other than that, 3 to 5 outers were hit in all in pots that cost me the pot in PLO, whale calling with 3224 on a 3JK flop with no flush draw my flop shove

(meaning he called with a ****ing bottom pair with 4 high kicker then spiked a 3 on turn for trips vs my 2 pair plus wrap holding 10JQK.)

Those things happened more than they should.

New week approaching. I'll try to get better at giving daily updates as well. Just getting back into the swing of things.

Playing maximum 3 hours a day and only playing 4 to 5 tables, not 6 at this time. I want to establish a better winrate at 25NL and 50NL playing 4 to 5 tables and see if reducing it from 6 is going to help me focus better in real time.

GRIND IS REAL.

This is just Holdem hands from April so far - Across one site that is not supported by HM2. It's a tiny traffic site, max 70 players - I had to work personally with the developer of this software to special make a HUD that would work with this site.

Pokeit.co - I can't recommend this high enough. It's a basic HUD, it isn't perfect but it does the job.

This only shows Holdem for now - I am up over $300 at 25PLO shorthanded - mostly HU and 3, 4 way tables. Somtimes it fills up to 6 max but that's rare. HU Omaha is coming out to be pretty lucrative even at 25PLO. I get nice rakeback there too, and rakeback at Omaha HU is insane, truly. Every 20 hands, you're going all in with the villain - villain's have 3, 4 BI's at the table after 30 minutes and pots are already 4BI's at least , I mean that rake ADDS UP.

I haven't gotten to any review videos yet - I feel there is currently no need at my stakes currently. I am past my spew and irrational thinking stage and have plugged pretty much every leak.

Once I get to 50NL I'll sharpen my game a bit more, study some more theory.

Bankroll is at $1500 currently, highest it's been in the journey. I want to get to $2,000 then start slowly easing myself into 50NL, splitting 25NL and 25PLO at the small site with high rakeback and 50NL at sportsbetting where I can choose 1 or 2 of the juiciest tables.

I've only been playing 4 tables, sometimes 5 , but not 6. I also find I can watch netflix or w/e while playing 4 and it keeps me away from boredom clicking.

Update coming next week.

On my way to $2,000 bankroll.

GRIND IS REAL.