Nice volume dude, you aren't even dropping below 0 any more

GL on your challenge

Variance but yeah after first 10k hands or so I adjusted to the limit pretty well I think.

@xxiv ty

Totally wasn't buying this guy's line. vs reg who'd been stealing 100% and calling all resteals.

It's so nice when they hang themselves like this with a nice read.

Going well Meale Gl .. subbed

Thanks for the support.

nice work. gl gl. Subbed, See you at the tables

Really really disappointed that I couldn't fold here. Began looking for excuses like, oh he might play QQ like this. When you really think about it, there's no need for him to play QQ that way. This is obviously a set and pretty bad to be calling here.



That's really the only disappointing thing about today so far. Running like trash but I literally don't care if I'm making the correct decisions. Things like ^ upset me more than villains dinking 2 outers after you make a sigh hero call. Gonna take a quick break to refocus and play another 1-2k hands.

Don't think it's a bad hand at all, it's a common trend lately to donkbet on cards that hits callers range better than the aggressor, altho I'm not sure how often you'l see that level on NL5. That being said I can def see ppl turn up w worse here often enough to make it a profitable call down. Your flop sizing is a bit big only 100d, would go max .55

Second last hand w A5o don't know who butchered it more tbh, his sizings sucks and your calldown isn't great vs NL5 population. Reasons for 3betting this pre? Would much rather have ATo+ and suited Ax if he is calling any resteal.

You seem a bit too results oriented in your thinking about hands after they've played out.

I thought if he's stealing 100% and calling resteals 100%, I should be raising my stronger hands? Or is A5 not strong enough?

Same spot again. Vs fish.



And yet I'm able to make folds like this...

Trying so hard not to be. My reason for calling down with A5 hand was because he virtually has no value hands that raise flop. I know it's best to prob say ****it and fold vs a 5nl population but this bloke was Gold Star stealing 100% and barreling, raising flops etc, thought he was top **** and could run me over. I thought having position on him would be a good thing but I should prob have just left.

Actually wouldn't say I'm being too results oriented. In the KK hand I sincerely 100% believe it's a super easy river fold but for some reason couldn't. The villain was a reg who wasn't getting out of line. His leading range on the river simply has me beat.

Definitely disagree here. This isn't some spazzy 2NL fish. Think it's probably more results oriented thinking to think that it's just unfortunate and say that vill could prob have had worse often enough here. I think that kind of thinking is toxic and we should be looking to make the most +EV play given the situation. And in this situation I think villain never ever takes this line with worse.

I think you saying my being results oriented here is actually just me being disappointed that I couldn't find the fold and make the correct play.

Also thank you for your feedback on the hand, I really appreciate you guys higher up coming ITT and commenting. <3

****ty day overall.



Couple of disappointing calls but apart from that not too unhappy with it. Super pumped to finish off the weekly volume nice and quickly tomorrow with only 3k hands remaining til the cap.

After that, I'm going to do as Brokenstars recommended and do an extended review of all the small spots that may or may not be misplayed. Not sure whether this will be a video or a bunch of hands, im thinking the latter since my screen/voice recorded ****ed itself.

BTW does anyone know of a good simple screen/voice recorder I can use? I don't need an editor. Can't get a Camtasia crack and EZVid is ****ing me atm.

Anyway, stay tuned for the 'small-spot' review tomorrow evening for those interested. Peace!

As played hero beats nothing. Folding that set seems pretty weak. I would call for half pot bet, and pot turn as well. They cant resist chasing fd's so need to really charge them.

Not sure if you are missing it or just a typo, but he leads the turn and then bets river again, I would be more concerned about the hand if he were to call turn and lead river, that we can agree on I think Looking forward to the small-pots review, as those are very important pots to get right as well.

I'll pm you about screen rec.

Definitely would be more worrying line if he only lead river you're right. Idk I don't think I can fold turn obv but by river it's a really dodgy scenario.

@mirage what range do you put a solidish reg on in the 666 hand? I think calling the river bet is burning money imo.

Hey mate I use Open Broadcast Software, it's pretty good at capturing a solid frame rate on PC. Requires a little messing around to setup but you work in I.T right?

https://obsproject.com/

Just wondering, is your 5NL played at regular tables or zoom?
Thanks

Regular. @BL will give it a shot now, cheers.

Mate works a bloody charm! TYVM!!!

No problemo
Glad to hear it!

Results for today.



Bunch of setups again today. Managed to suckout a bunch of times which was sweet. Gotta get back on EV somehow, right? Today and yesterday have been pretty brutal in terms of the games just not running in my favour. Folding so much and missing flops etc.

I feel like in my previous attempt at poker, days like today and yesterday would have seen me spew pretty hard. But I'm remaining really disciplined and avoiding troublesome spots. These tough sessions are going to be devastating to my winrate if I start playing bad because of the variance. So really happy with the mental game at the moment.

Weekly review time!



Finished my weekly volume a whole day early which is pretty cool. That leaves the rest of tonight and tomorrow to work on study/off-table stuff. So WR for this week was 4.31 and EV was 4.45 which isn't too bad considering the last 14k hands were breakeven. I mentioned in my OP that for me to move to 10NL, I need a WR of 5bb/100 at 5NL over a min of 50k hands. I've decided I want at least 5bb/100 both in WR and EVWR because I don't wanna suckout my way to success.

Anyway, as I mentioned above, really really happy with my mental discipline in the last half of the week. Broke even and should have lost a bit if I didn't get lucky on the EV side of things. When it got rough towards the end I removed two tables and 6 tabled out the rest of the volume which helped I think.

Hopefully next week will be my final week at 5NL. Will need to boost the WR back up and hit my 28.5k volume target for that to be the case however.

Focus Area for Next Week! - Mistake Eradication

Once again, I want this coming week to be very sound. Want to avoid the marginal spots. Play less 3b pots OOP and focus on adjusting based on player type. No big spewy pots or large mistakes. If we're to beat 5NL in the coming week, everything needs to remain nice and tight.

Results since start of thread. Both 2 and 5NL.



Going to look to get my smallspots review done tonight/tomorrow with the help of a couple guys from my study group.

Solid results there dude, seems like your playing well and making those folds

GL

Cheers brah!