Guess what, another micro stakes challenge from random donk... let's get started


graph before


and after i started working on my game


i tried like every form of poker and right now it seems that i am doing well at 9max cash so i will probably stick with that for a while.

bankroll at 200

interesting hand from yesterday


UTG1 31/14, agg 2 hands 36
MP1 67/30, agg 2,5 hands 30

call pre because i will usually end up in 4way pot oop with marginal hand. on the other hand i am raising AQ in this spot which has almost the same equity vs their range (small pocket pairs, suited connectors)

on the flop fish bets pot and TAG button calls so i think he is usually strong (2pair+) so i have good implied pot odds plus button could be slowplaying 22. my question is if this call is ok since we are oop and he does not have to be that strong as i thought and T is pretty much scary card so he might shut down.

another question is on the turn, i think donk bet is best when spt <1.5 and check/raise when spr >3. decided to go for check raise because i am not that short (spr around 2,5) and wanted to avoid tough decision on river (K,Q,T,2, spade mayby) with like 3$ behind and 6,5 in the pot oop vs 2 opponents

opinions on any street?

i just had shorter session. now i take a 30min break and then i will be playing 1$ world record flippament + 16 fullring cash tables

gl

graph for todays 2nd session


busted early in that worlds largest mtt and played bad 1st half of the session, always takes me like 800 hands (about 30 mins) until i get "in the zone" and start playing decently. i probably should consider playing longer sessions. also i could manage to hit first $50 stellar reward if i put in lot of volume (or move up to nl10 fast) but i doubt it since i will have a lot of school work and final exams in mid december

bankroll at 225, 100vpp left to unlock 10$ stellar reward

played 2 short sessions in the morning, first one was on nl2 24 tabling just to warm up a little bit then after hand 1000 it was 18 tabling nl5. made some sick calls and it actually suprised me how many bb can some nits spew, will post hands later. tables are really bad in these hours, lots of nits but it should be better when milestones hands promotion starts (it should be i about 3 to 5 hours by my rough estimation) so i will play another session when promotion starts.

Sick day, had to fold 2 sets and 1 flush on semi-safe boards. Tried to hit milestones hand so i was 22+ tabling the whole time.



I did some math and according to pokerscout there are around 7k cash tables so if i will be 20+ tabling i have around 0,003% sance to hit one particular milestone hand so its probably not worth trying, instead of that i will try to work more on my game.


here is all hands graph from stars (includes some PLO hands, challenge stareted around lowest point of graph where i choosed to play strictly fullring cash and started working on my game). however its pretty sick to run 100$ under EV when the stakes are NL2-NL5.

Bankroll: 240

that is one weird looking graph

didnt felt good yesterday so i decided to take a nap around 8PM and it ended out as 15h nap since i woke up at 10AM lol , now i feel good so i hope it says that way

anyway here are some interesting hands from yesterday



opponent: 17/14, 6 AF, 38 FCB (8), 134 hands

flop should be raise, not sure why i decided to play it this way

turn is where it gets interesting, he decides to check so he shouldnt had value hand (top pair+) and draw (AhKh), but yea he might get funky with this and check. i checked behind because he is giving up most of the time so i want to give him opportunity to bluff river, now i put him on 77, 88, TT, JJ, KK very occasionally sets

on river he bets 1/2 of the pot which is very reasonable since i played it like a draw/weak pair. now when i think about his range i dont really see that many hand which could call me (crying call with KK?, weirdly playd AK, +some slow plays where 50% of them have me beat), mayby make it like 1.20 (1.10 is min raise) to try to widen his calling range (TT,JJ?).
but then he 3 bets my 1.5 to 3.5 leaving himself 2.5 behind, i decided to fold because at the time hand was played he had stats around 10/10, so i didnt expected nit who raised from UTG to bluf at all on the river. On the other hand he is giving me really good odds so if he has AQ along with sets in his range then its a call. the question is with what kind of hand could he really bluf me since he raised from utg so his opening range is like 77+, AQ+ and almost everything from this range are value hands (top pair+) - raise with 2pair+, call with AK, SDV hands (TT,JJ,KK) - bet/call, check/call, dont see any reason to turn these hand to bluff since my wange was super weak in his eyes. So only 77- is left. I dunno, it really felt like rivered 88 set or slow play







that guy was 16/7 with AF of 0,6







TAG 17/14, 0 3B, AF 6, 100 hands

dont really see any bluffs in his range, mayby some overplayed AT,JJ+?? he bet the turn super strong (90% of pot) so i guess it was a good fold unless he was on monkey tilt

i won some flips today and hit $10 stellar reward, so it was a decent day



holdem on stars so far, challenge started around hand 30 000


30 dollars more until first shot on NL10, hope it goes well

bankroll: 270

GL man, but jesus you're giving your villain's a hellofalot credit in these hands.

33 hand: Yes, flop should be raised. But this is the micros man. Bet the turn.
76 hand: Never folding here. There is so much more in his value range then only stronger flushes.
22 hand: played perfect untill you folded. There you raped the hand imo.

I think you're making too many assumptions for such a small sample of hands.

Decided to cut down number of tables to around 16 because i was timing out when playing 22+ and made lot of miss clicks in small pots



Bankroll: 285

Thank you for opinions, looked at the hands again and i agree with you, i overlooked some important facts like with that 67 hand, i didnt noticed that open ended gets there or i think i didnt noticed how great pot odds i had when mass tabling. also 20k hands of omaha right before challenge didnt helped , on another hand its better to fold more then call more on micros because of the passive nature of these stakes.

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My biggest problem was lack of bankroll management and heavy tilt issues. That huge spike in the middle was agressive brm (no brm?) + 0 tilt thanks to run good = heater

Didnt really played much last week (only few k hands) because of school. I wont have much time for poker in next 30 days thanks to final exams so i decided to take a month long break from playing poker and focus on tests to make sure i will make it to next semester. So instead of playing poker i might read "Dynamic fullring poker" one more time and watch some training videos when i find some free time.

also cant wait for rush poker on Poker Stars

winrates so far

back in the business... made it to next semester (3-4 left) and i have holidays until february 19th, so i will try to use that free time to play a lot of poker.

february 6th - 19th challenge:
[]4 000 hands/day
[]1 poker video/day
[]60 000 hands total
[]15 poker videos total

some sick swongs so far this month


and since i am not coming back to NL2 i can post my total graph from this stake

february challenge day 1/14

[x]6436 hands / 60 000
[x]poker video

last hand KK vs AA obv

february challenge day 2/14

[x]4748 hands
[x]poker videos

meh day, cant get in the "zone" after playing 1+ month without poker, calling too much and overplaying overpairs a little. I will try to play smaller amount of tables 14-16 tomorrow (played 24 so far for the challenge). Watched several poker videos but they kinda sucked so i will be reading "Dynamic Fullring Poker" indead of watching videos, already read that book once and it was excellent (helped my game so far the most).

GL, you seem like a good player willing to put the volume. But quit folding sets!

february challenge day 3&4/14
[x]9101 hands
[ ]studying poker

day 3 (up to hand 3500) didnt went very good, i tightened up a litte and played pretty solid (imo? ) and actually thought that i am up like 2 BI then i looked at graph and i was down 3 Didnt really had time to study poker because i had some rl stuff to do. Day 4 started pretty good, great session +6 BI after long time, nevertheless second session was funnier, set over set, nuts full vs quads, lost KK vs AA aipf. Up $50 for the month, so cant complain



funny you say that, cos i have been oversetted like 5 times this month

February challenge day 5/14

[x] 3713 hands
[x] studying poker

happy i finished even after hitting 2nd nut flush vs nut flush against fishes two times in one session

February challenge day 6/14

[x] 6262 hands
[x] studying poker

runbad continues, worst day so far for the challenge. Tomorrow i will most likely play less tables and more focus on reading "dynamic fullring poker" instead of grinding.



This hand pretty much sums up how i have been running lately because the exact same situation hapenned 3 times last 10k hand

February challenge day 7&8/14

[x] 7583 hands
[x] studying poker
[x] $10 Stellar reward

I worked a lot on my game last 2 days and somehow i still managed to play some decent volume. It finally feels that i am playing that solid poker i played before 1+ month break so plan for tomorrow is the same, read few chapters of dynamic full ring poker, review hands and hopefully run as good as today.

February challenge day 9/14

[x] 4073 hands
[x] study poker


Crazy day, KK vs AA AIPF three times and one set over set, all in one session, not sure how i managed to make some profit


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had some history with this guy, the only think he did was pushing pot button 48/45 3bet:40(10) cbet:100(4) af:inf hands:34



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Easy fold turn? 16/15 3b:6,6 af:3,9 hands:538



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Not sure about this hand, villain is unknown, fish most likely (50/0 after 6 hands). That strong raise really felt like AT and ofc it was AT, if i put it in pokerstove and add to his range hands like J8, QJ (weak pair flop, 2pair turn) + JJ i have about 57% so its not that bad stackoff i think

I see u at the tables today but i dont think we played a single hu pot ^^
GL

February challenge day 10&11/14

[x] 8316 hands
[x] study poker



haha, i saw your thread and you have steady result so i think its good for me we didnt played single hu pot , gl anyway. btw what is your stars nickname?

February challenge day 12/14

[x] 5454 hands
[x] study poker

swingy day, if everything goes right i might take a shot on nl10 very soon



some funny hands