nh on 99, ul.

Re: The 99 hand, no reads on villain post-flop. I think it's pretty much just a puke fold spot. We are absolutely crushing his range but risking way too much $ev for a +cev scenario.

Anyways, today (Friday) was my first grind day since being laid off (finished work Thursday instead of today). Things went well and I will give a more detailed update Saturday. Bed time.

Will address other questions at that point as well, so please stay tuned.

I dont see any way you can fold 99 pre bvb for 20ishbbs when we're active and hero is more active. Without burning $$$$

Couldn't really say at this point to be honest. I really just don't have enough volume in at the 90's yet to determine what an ugly downswing would look like. I would assume 100-150 BI's as possible though. I did experience at 150 BI downswing in 2-180's awhile back which is fairly common in those games.

Yeah I just think it's a super sick spot. We're flipping against a good chunk of his range and flipping as the 2 CL's on the bubble is burning money as much as folding 99 is IMO. I'm really not sure what the correct play is here. Given what I thought was villains range due to previous history of his 3 bet shoving over my SB opens, I think it was the correct call. I'm not sure if my ranging for him was entirely accurate, or if AT was really just the top of his range.

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I played about 8.5 hours yesterday as my first day as pro. Things went very well, I had a handful of cashes and managed to ship both a $6.50 and a $3.30. Overall it wound up being a very nice day.

I have included the SS of yesterdays data, as well as my 90 mans on the year thus far. Looking to put in close to 2000 games in the month of February.

As a side note, I stepped it up to 14 tables over my last few sessions without a hitch. My last session yesterday was 16 tables and I felt fairly comfortable. Until I start mixing in $13.00's I will continue to be playing 16 tables. Once mixing in $13's, I will likely drop my number of tables the first week as note taking the regs will be much more important at those games.



Good luck to all on the felt today. I won't be putting in another session until Sunday afternoon.

Played a short session this afternoon between church and doing **** around the house. Went really bad off the get go until I was finishing up my sessions. Busted a handful of bubbles towards the end but managed to final table 2 different $3.30's and shipped them both to put me in profit on the session.

Sharkscope stats below.

Too lazy to spew much else out at the moment, but I will say I am very much looking forward to grinding out 500+ games over the next 7 days.

Great run

Ran another session this evening and felt really good about my play. Dropped down to 10-12 tables for this session, games were loading slow and wanted to work on and watch for a few spots/leaks in my game.

The session went well and boy was I glad I only had 10 games up when I simultaneously FT'd 4 and had 2 more on the bubble. Shipped both a $6.50 and a $3.30 within 30 seconds of each other. Definitely a good feeling. Graph looks sickly unsustainable now. Thought I was going to finish with another bang in a $6.50 when I was sitting on 30k @ 300/600 but alas lost a 47k pot with AA AIPF vs QQ and 99 (both hit). Had another $6.50 that I bubbled as my very last game in a very standard shove spot. Oh well.

Will be back on the grind in about 8-10 hours.

Looking to hit a minimum of 2000 games starting Feb 1-Feb 28, we'll see what happens !

Good luck to all.



P.S. Still getting crushed in $6.50's and way below EV for the most part. I think my ROI is like 5% in them (was negative before today). Running right around 65% ROI in the $3.30's though!

Go Blake, your just about to turn the corner and crush the 6s +. Got into some fun spots last night.

Trying. Unfortunately the run bad gods are still haunting me in the $6.50's. Continuing to appreciate your advice and thoughts on hands and strategy though Earwig =).

Session update. Played about 4.5 hours this afternoon, ran really bad, bricking my first 45 games, 100k below EV, but was running into coolers left and right too which kept my EV ~ breakeven.

Anyways, have attached the screen shot of my sharkscope from my session, YTD games, as well as the breakdowns of $3s vs $6s. If only I could run even with EV in the $6's I'd be crushing.

Taking a break for a couple hours, getting dinner ready, chill with the wife a bit. Probably do a good bit of review and sweats this evening, also hoping to get in another session late tonight but we will see what happens.

Gl Blake! Keep at it.
Hopefully I'll be grinding like a degen w/ u soon.


Also, get your father to back me for cpc? or at least pay for my cab? haha

Lol, find a way to get your ass down here foo.

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Played a ton today. Including a late night session last night, 8 hours of sleep, woke up and grinded for another 8 straight hours. Late night session didn't go great, about broke even, todays session started super ugly. Think I managed two cashes in ~50 games before I finally built up some stacks and was able to really go to work on bubbles and FT's.

I've adjusted my bubble play quite a bit, being much more aggro when I have chips, and much tighter when I'm one of the 8-12 BB stacks where before I'd always be a bit reckless with my small stack. Also focusing a bit more on calling off my stack in situations where say I'm bb w/ 8 bbs and A8s, a tighter player (17/9) shoves in MP for his ~11bb. This used to be a snap call for me thinking his shoving range is similar to mine, really taking the time to adjustto others ranges and not assume that just because they are a reg, or tightish, or loose, that they have any idea what they are doing.

Finished the day up over $110 per SS, slughtly more in HEM after being in the hole almost $300. 108 games down on the month so far. Shooting for 2000 games this month, want more, but being a short month, and Chicago Poker Classic taking up 3 days at the end of the month, I doubt I'll get much up to the 2500 I really want to put in.

Wanted to play another session this evening as well, unfortunately with the blizzard moving through here (Chicagoland) my power has been flickering for the last several hours which was causing me a massive headache finishing up my last game from the earlier session.

Calling it a night, but hopefully I can get a 10+ hour session in tomorrow if I don't help out my brothers landscaping company clear some of this snow out. Good money, but this wind and the -6 F temperatures they are predicating would be brutal.

Spent 20 something hours yesterday moving snow... I really should have taken some pictures... We had a condo (100 units) where virtually every garage had between 3 foot and 8 foot drifts in front of it. A factory with a 15 foot drift about 200 feet long, 15 feet wide.

Just an absolutely sick amount of snow in the chicagoland area yesterday. I was hoping to go out again today and try to finish up with my bro, but my back feels broken, my shoulders are f'd, my hands and forearms are killing me, and my knees are dying. Taking it pretty easy today. Just fired up a session, hopefully get some volume in.

Gl op, I've enjoyed following your thread

TY TY.

Got that session in yesterday that I mentioned above. Went very well. Was up ~$200. Played a short session this morning and made good profit again. Evening session was pretty much a breakeven venture with a good comeback towards the end.

Currently loading up another session and should be playing for about 5 hours.

Will hook up a good update at the completion of this session.

Update as promised. Haven't quite pushed the volume as much as I would have liked for my first week as a poker pro, but the weather, power outages, and other work have taken up a bit of my time.

Don't foresee myself playing a ton this weekend, but hoping to get a good session in for at least a couple hours tomorrow, and perhaps one on Sunday as well if the wife permits. Will be grinding my ass off next week. Also have plans to work on my game this weekend. I feel like I've improved in a bunch of spots over the past week, and I'm just now firing up HEM to look over some of the regs I play with and take some more notes about their ranges that I may have missed while actually playing.

Been sticking to $3 games for the majority as I had been running pretty bad in $6's but most of my sessions consist of 6-$6 and 8-$3. Due to SharkScope not including the bounty portion of the buy-in, explains why it shows my ABI as $3 instead of the ~$4.30 something in HEM. I will be looking to add a few more $6's into my game this upcoming week and hopefully be ready to start mixing in $13's by the third week of February.

Updated January stats are below. I have also included February thus far, as well as my 2011 90-man graph.

That'll be all for now as the wife made it perfectly clear that I had to get up at a reasonable hour tomorrow... Enjoy your weekend folks.

Nice dude, keep it comin. Rootin for you, 90mans have been bitchslapping me lately, but I'm sure I'll see you in the 6's in the days to come.

Nice one Blake , hope the rungood continues! can i ask a quick question please? I feel i can multi table 4 with no probs but i would like to increase to maybe double that , what advice can you send my way. Thanks in advance!

Hold Em Manager. Once you get passed 4-6 tables, you can no longer focus enough on the action on each table in order to determine player types. This is where software like Hold Em Manager or any other HuD (Heads Up Display) will make all the difference in the world for you.

Start with that, get used to the settings. Find what stats you want to use. I use:

VPIP, PFR
Steal, 3Bet, Hands
AggF, Fold to 3Bet

Try starting with something simple like just VPIP and PFR. Proceed to add in other stats as you feel you can utilize them. Don't add too many tables too quickly, from 4 go to 5, from 5 to 6. Just make sure you are 100% comfortable making optimal decisions before you consider adding more tables.

GLGL

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Got ~25 more games in yesterday, things went well. Not going to update stats right now as I'm just loading up a session. Should be a good 8-10 hour grind today, hoping for close to 100 games.

GL grinders.

What a couple of days. Well it's been a roller coaster ride on the felt to the say least. My volume has been good, not great. Didn't quite get the 200 games I wanted in over the last 2 days.

Managed to end a 50 BI downswing ($4 ABI) in profit as I closed out the night tonight and just absolutely destroyed the tables in my last 20-30 games.

93 games completed for $44 profit on Monday.
74 games completed for $310 profit on Tuesday.

Overall not too bad.

Not going to give the giraffe atm cause the creeping down and straight line back up for $400 at the end just looks too epic. Ya'll are gonna have to wait for that or pull it up on SharkScope yourselves.

I'm off to bed. Back on the grind again in about 9 hours.

just realized i hadn't bookmarked this thread yet (have been reading it)....gogogo blake

and hit me up on skype today, i might actually not be grinding and can talk easier

Nice going Blake! i tell ya fella these 90 KO's are driving me nutz! i seem to be getting it all in approaching the bubble with approx 20 BB's with say AK and getting a caller with a PP ie: J's and losing , what's your advice on this if any? I feel i can multi 6 with no probs do you have a strategy for how you register for these ie: 10 minute intervals? thanks again!

Will do.

Only real solution to bubble busting is more volume IMO. Occassionally it may be right to fold a hand like AK on the bubble if say 2 players are all in in front of you, you are deepstacked, and so is one of the other players, however, losing flips on the bubble is pretty standard really.

I've busted 18 out of 390 games on the month in either 10th or 11th place, so I don't think I'm really in any great position to offer advice about not bubbling. LOL.

As far as registering, since I'm trying to load mainly $6.50 games now, when starting a session I reg about half $3.30's and half $6.50's (6-8 of each). Everytime I bust a game, I reg for another $6.50. I don't try to space it out into intervals or anything, I simply register for all the games up to my maximum number of tables and play them as they start up.

Run better and you will wind up with some 40-50bb stacks on the FT and then it's time to decimate!

Thanks Blake i really appreciate the pointers , i think i just need a confidence boost as i know i can make a profit in these KO's (prob nowhere near as much as you ) just having a bit of runbad it seems. Also what kind of BR you think i will need to solely play the $3.30's? like i said earlier i am multing 6 at a time.

Recommend $300 or 100 BI's per level. 100 BI swings are possible although fairly unlikely in these games IMO especially when 6 tabling if your WR is pretty good.

WR? =winrate? Well I have played 30 or so and ft 4, but I have been short stack so no leverage . Obviously I need more volume to judge myself. So far a 4th is my best then 6th/7th the others ,hope I can turn it around!