Went to my usual town game, entered a 50 tourney, busted.. Played 4 hours of 1/2 mostly 6-handed and some 3-4 handed at the end.. profited 675...

Bankroll is high 6k. Also, I just rented a room for 400 a month.. being able to relax and sleep in my own bed and feel like a normal person is +EV

Foxwoods was insanely busy on friday and itll be busy tonight too. Surprised you opted for a homegame but nice to see u book a solid win.

Woooo! No longer homeless!

congrats on the room!

+1 OP

Haha.. it's exciting. I am quite a thrill seeker and the idea of adventure and risks always gets me.. I enjoyed the challenge for the first month or so.. but it's waaay too cold to be homeless now.

I played 10 hours of cash. I got it AI on flop with AK vs AQ on AT2 r board and lost. AI on K926r with 66 vs K9 and lost. Still managed to profit 41 dollars, so that's a win.

Keep grinding man congrats on getting the Room if anything that can only help your game

Very short session. Using the 2 free weekly rooms I get now.

+281

Made 463 tonight. Guy to my left was sort of a maniac. He turned his hand into a triple barrel bluff betting heavy like every hand.. I caught him once but the other 3 max buyins went elsewhere. Seat 2 was a super passive nitty reg.. older gentleman..the hand: I overlimp in CO with A2cc. Seat 2(SB) completes and BB makes it 7. We go 5 ways to the flop: K76cc. SB checks BB bets 20. I call. SB calls. Turn Qc. SB leads for 40, BB folds.. I raise to 110.. he has 300 more and I cover. He calls, river Kh. He checks and I decide that there are way too many sets/two pairs in his turn calling range.. value was too thin.. I check.. he shows KQo. Nuts. He could have value bet that river I got kind of lucky.

Bankroll is low to mid 7k

This thread is awesome, I'm really rooting for you man. I'd love to do the same but I've a baby coming in April so just going to stick with the day job.

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I just finished reading thread, my journey started pretty similar to yours with a 9k upswing in the first 300hr
wish you the best
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What was your game plan when you hit 9k? What success do you have now? I'm curious because I am 307 hours into my journey and up $11,600 and my bankroll is finally over $8,000.

4 hours of cash at foxwoods after I checked out of my hotel. Tough little grind.. made 129.

Show up at my local cash at 10pm and was into the game for 440 and cashed out 1030.

Got invited to a 1/2 game tomorrow around 230pm.. excited to check that out. I always like playing cash at local games, they are soft and full of recs.

Bankroll tipped over 8k tonight.

Nice work man


Zy

Been in a similiar spot like you.
Allthough i failed to start last 4 months with 500 euros to start.

Highest point was 2k at some point last month.
I reconised some troubles with the regulars from the game. They seem to try to control who is getting into games. Allthough they cant control it officially they are basicly mobbing tight nittish players.

Dunno if you guys experienced same stuff or how you dealet with it.
I guess it also plays a role with which group circle you are associated. Beeing a lone wolf is like beeing an easy target.

4 hours .. +265.. looking for advice on this hand.

Hero has AQo in sb.. Villain is in CO and is most active at the table.. we have a lot of history and he raises pre wi th any Broadway cards so I'm most likely ahead of his range here.. I flat his 16 dollar standard pre raise.. we are 5 handed. BB completes with ATC and very fit or fold.

Flop: 46Qr.. Checks to villain who bets 26. I flat, BB folds. Turn J. I check he bets 52. At this point I have him on QT, QJ, KQ, AQ, KK, AA, JJ. River is 4. I checked. Is this river a bet/fold? Perhaps bet 90/fold to raise?

You didn't c/r flop why?

Check/fold river.

You are 30:70 on the river vs. the range you gave which means you are behind but can bluff catch if the price is right. But if he's betting JJ on a Q high flop is he not betting TT? What about AK? Two overs, turns into a gutter + overs on the turn. So I think you have to include a few bluff combos in there which makes it a call in a vacuum for anything less than a pot size bet. However if this guy has no 3-barrel bluffs in his range I'd also tighten up his value range to not include QT and just fold.

Felt this hand was butchered from the start. I like squeezing in SB here. As played I'm repopping his 26$ bet otf to 100$. As played I'm c/calling river

thats what i was thinking

I think I was ranging him too tightly, as he fires all of his bluffs three times typically, which is why I check/called every street.. I've called him with mid/bottom pair three streets before and was good. His range is much wider..but he has been selective about his spots at this point in the session.. he checked back KQ.. which means check-raising this flop would have been much more valuable.. but is it exploitable to check/raise flop and commit our stacks on turn for 200bb stacks..? Perhaps I'm pot controlling too much and missing value

First of all my situation is different to yours since poker to me has always been a side income and I don't really depend on it, so with this being said..
I never had a plan and after my upswing ended, cuz eventually it ends, realize this and be mentally prepared, I broke even for the next 150-200hrs and even tho I wasn't losing I wasn't winning anymore and that's I was used to, my game was off and I wasn't able to find any good spots anymore, as a result I lost motivation for the game and decided to take a break, I spent 2 months off the tables and putting a lot of work on my game (videos, forums, etc) which was a good decision because I came back with my A game, confidence and motivation was back and I moved up stakes because the way I see it is if you can beat the 1/2 game for more than lets say 12bb/hr you're basically losing value ($) by not playing higher stakes, lets say 2/5 is thougher and you only beat it for 6bb/hr, still $30>$24, the truth is there's no big difference in the level of play between 1/2 and 2/5, if you're a good player eventually you'll find out that the same fundamental mistakes occur in both games, fishes always gonna fish. I currently play a mix of 1/3 (deep games) 2/5 and even 4/8 successfully shots lately actually beating my 1/2 winrate which I think it makes sense since one becomes better player over the time.

Good luck n keep us posted.

Yup, be ready for the 100hr+ breakeven stretches. They're brutal.

I agree.

On paper a downswing is certainly worse

But break even stretches gave that weirs mental thing where you sent sure what you are doing wrong or if there is even anything wrong, you don't know where to even look.

Atleast that's my sentiment.