Sup everyone. I'm from Jersey in the US and plan to get back into poker after taking a break for 5-6 years. I'm 30 y/o correctional police officer and currently I put in for a schedule request so I can work (2) doubles + (1) single shift so I only have to work 3 days a week. That would put some balance in my life between work/social life/gym/poker. In terms of poker i used to be a cash game grinder but im down to try something new and play some cash on the side. Essentially my journey would be starting from low stakes and build up a roll so I can play $30-$50 tournaments online and start playing some live cash games. The combination of the two with decent volume could be some good money. Short term goal is to deposit $300-$600 between all sites I can play MTTs on and start from there. I work full time so If i need to deposit another $500 idc. Looking for motivation/feedback on here thanks in advance.

Total Deposits- $300
Bankroll- $480.38

July Goals
- Play 40-50 hours between MTTs/STTs/Cash
- Workout 5x/week
- Meal prep all days at work

Anyone who plays MTTs do u use HEM or PokerTracker? I have HEM but it's not picking up the stats on some of these sites.

Currently on a bit of a heater. Here's the last few weeks- only 22 tournaments played. Top finishes were $7 deepstack rebuy mtt on WSOP Took 6th for $181 then the next day took 2nd for $571.



Total deposits- $300
Bankroll- $1,300

Good start bro, keep it up!

The heat is hot. Nice binks.

Thanks man

Yeah got that right lol

nice runs! keep up! looking for your future results!

The tournaments I play are around 150-300 players so it's lower variance relatively speaking. Either way been very fortunate with increasing my BR significantly. Appreciate it man.

Just deposited onto a new site so I can grind the best mtt networks here. Another $200 down the tubes. Total deposit of 500 hoping tomorow is a good day going to play sngs in the afternoon then mtts at night.

Total deposits- $500
Bankroll- $1,500

One of my buddies staked me for a $21 hyper rebuy 8k gtd at midnight tonight and at 2030 $11 rebuy for 7.5k. I normally play 2k gtds so im willing to give up 50% for those. Seems reasonable. I'll update my thread during my breaks if I go deep.

Sigh, probably played this like a pu$$ preflop

Winning Poker No-Limit Hold'em, 1 Tournament, 500/1000 Blinds (8 handed) - Converted at http://handhistoryconverter.com/

MP2 (t89,216)
CO (t59,902)
Button (t9,456)
SB (t35,188)
BB (t4,749)
UTG (t17,950)
UTG+1 (t31,164)
Hero (MP1) (t19,457)

Hero's M: 12.97

Preflop: Hero is MP1 with Q, A
1 fold, UTG+1 raises t2,000, Hero calls t2,000, 5 folds

Flop: (t5,500) A, 9, 8 (2 players)
UTG+1 bets t2,000, Hero calls t2,000

Turn: (t9,500) J (2 players)
UTG+1 bets t7,000, Hero folds

Total pot: t9,500

Got destroyed tonight. Stood no chance. Couldn't win a flip to save my lyfe. Standard. Except nothing less after running hotttt last 2 weeks. Essentially tonight my stake sent me money through app so it was like withdrawing money out so added in withdrawals so I dont put it in as lost money.

Total deposits- $500
Withdrawals- $100
Bankroll- $1,271.32

7/20/18 Session -$123.62
Touraments- 16

Hands
- No real interesting hands, just lost like every flip. Ill be reviewing the tournaments during the week so I'll get back to you guys. I can def work on my 20bb stack game. Think I might have defended some 3b shoves kinda light. Def some tilt calls, losing mad flips is not always easy to deal with.

Total deposits- $500
Withdrawals- $100
Bankroll- $1,310.68

7/20/18 Session -$44.40
Touraments- 10
Time played- 1:40 [6-Tabling]

7/20/18 Session +$83.76
Touraments- 8
Time played- 1:20 [7-Tabling]


Hands
- I'm done playing for the week im going to review/study for the next 4 days and play again starting sunday.

On my 1.3k roll I'm playing up to $6.60r for MTTs and up to $20 for 9 man turbos/hypers. How is this for brm? Play around 6-8 sngs at once and load up 11-12 MTTs when I play em. Most of my volume is from the sngs though.

This is an auto 3 bet shove pf at your stack size. Def on the flop. At 19bb there are very few hands/spots you flat call pf.

yeah absolutely. what about AJs/88? thats the btn of your range?

Any stats on opening % from UTG+1 at that position?

Generally speaking AQo+ and TT+ is my shoving range here. AJs and 88 are the few hands I'm flatting.

I would be more inclined to flat AJs and toss 88. But yeah I guess either way it's a marginal spot with them. Thx for the response man.

GL dude, you seem to have a good work ethic and a good outlook on life. Definitely +EV to play small fields when you are starting out your roll and minimize variance.

I agree with Mr Spyutastic that the hand above is a shove pre. Generally ~20 bb look to reshove or fold over any open, I'm almost never flatting off these stack sizes (minus defending the BB). In this specific spot I'm probably shoving something like 88+ AJs+ AQo+ KQs intuitively, but would be helpful to look at it in ICMizer or HRC.

Keep posting hands on here and it will help you improve.

Seems fine, I follow this: https://www.pocketfives.com/f7/sng-m...-guide-378221/ for a conservative/good BRM strategy.

Thanks a lot man. I've been through a lot to get to this point but yeah small field has been great. So much easier to cash etc. average field is around 200-250 players I would say.

Totally agree with u guys. I've been making a ton of mistakes preflop and when I'm on FT's I am pretty aggressive postflop which usually means I end up with a huge stack or go out early. This has to do with my background playing cash games for so long. With that being said, my reshoves/ defend range needs some adjustments since I'm still in the transitioning phase.

I've been trying to review my own tournament like review every single hand but I can't find a good replayer. I downloaded universal replayer but Java is blocking the pop up or whatever and I can't seem to figure it out. On HEM I don't believe I can review the whole tournament as it doesn't display from start to finish.

In any case will def be reviewing n uploading many hands.

Don't worry, give it time, keep reviewing and keep playing small buy ins getting a lot of hands in and you will keep improving your reshoving/short stack game.

I don't know about HEM (I use PT4) but I'm sure there is a way to generate a report of hands from a tournament

Reviewing some tournaments/sngs;

Villain is a reg. Thoughts on the hand?

Winning Poker No-Limit Hold'em, 2 Tournament, 15/30 Blinds (7 handed) - Converted at http://handhistoryconverter.com

Button (t4,610)
Hero (SB) (t10,803)
BB (t4,910)
UTG (t5,112)
MP1 (t4,705)
MP2 (t5,700)
CO (t4,445)

Hero's M: 240.07

Preflop: Hero is SB with Q, A
3 folds, CO raises t90, 1 fold, Hero raises t225, 1 fold, CO calls t150

Flop: (t510) 9, Q, 2 (2 players)
Hero bets t255, CO calls t255

Turn: (t1,020) 7 (2 players)
Hero bets t650, CO calls t650

River: (t2,320) 10 (2 players)
Hero bets t1,300, 1 fold

What range do you open with in this spot?

Winning Poker No-Limit Hold'em, 2 Tournament, 125/250 Blinds (9 handed) - Converted at http://handhistoryconverter.com

UTG (t16,120)
UTG+1 (t5,921)
Hero (MP1) (t5,888)
MP2 (t6,500)
MP3 (t2,929)
CO (t6,218)
Button (t4,775)
SB (t5,605)
BB (t12,980)

Hero's M: 15.70

Preflop: Hero is MP1 with A, J
5 folds, Hero?


What range are you shoving here pre?

WPN No-Limit Hold'em Tournament, 150/300 Blinds (8 handed) - Converted at http://www.handhistoryconverter.com

UTG (t19,903)
UTG+1 (t5,296)
Hero (MP1) (t3,975)
MP2 (t10,563)
CO (t2,254)
Button (t4,775)
SB (t13,120)
BB (t7,050)

Hero's M: 8.83

Preflop: Hero is MP1 with 10, K
5 folds

H1- your 3 bet sizing is too small. Also bet smallernon river like 1/3 pot.

H2 - Open ATo+, 66+, KJo+ 98s+, A2s+

H3 - Shoving 22+, ATo+, T9s+, KJo+, QJo+
If table is tight KTo might slip in. it's real close depending on the table.

Agreed, would size up on hand #1 to 3.5-4x. River bet is on the big side, I think there's an argument for half pot but I wouldn't go more than half pot there because think about what parts of his range you're targeting.

Here's a push/fold chart to give you an idea of GTO shoving ranges 15 BB or less: https://floattheturn.com/wp/pushfold/