Gl mate. Still making bank with the 2up offers?

Cheers mate

And yeah my accounts have been gubbed though so had to start getting clients lol, started to do no lays and extra places as well which is decent

Man I played great last night! Such a great feeling knowing you're playing well but also running well lol

Ended up cashing for £500, it was getting late so the final 5 decided to split the money with the biggest stacks (me and another guy) getting extra, I was chip leader so i'm saying I technically won

Could you explain how matched betting works?

Matched betting works by taking advantage of all these free bet offers and promotions the bookies give you, you use the free bet and lay it on an exchange site to make guaranteed profit no matter the result.

Check out ProfitAccumulator/OddsMonkey for more details, these are matched betting sites that give you tutorials etc on how to do it (it's £18 a month but you get a 30 day free trial if you aren't happy after 30 days can get a full refund)

Sounds interesting. I will check it out, thanks! How much money have you made doing it, if you don't mind me asking? And, roughly, what would you guess the hourly would be doing this?

I'd suggest doing all the welcome offers first before doing anything else - can make around £600+ in a couple weeks and by then you'd have a better understanding of the whole thing so can move onto the better offers like Bet365's 2up which is incredible

I made about £18,000 from August last year to May this year, most of it from the 2up offer. Set most of it aside though to pay for the Vegas trip

I'll give you a PM, there's a great discord group i'm in for matched bettors

No cashes in my last 2 tournaments although I did win my buy ins back playing 3 card brag during the break, very first hand I had 888 for a 35/1 payout just took it and ran lol.

Felt I played really well on Monday, even better than I played last week when I won lost a huge pot got coolered AA v KK with them hitting a K but I still had 20bb to play with and played really patiently and picked my spots to build my stack up again making a few great folds and calls along the way. Ended up busting 22nd or so with your standard QQ v AK flip, can't win them all!

Next tournament is on Thursday

Good luck, PC94.

Today is the first day i've played any poker since around February before the first lockdown happened here, casinos have all been shut and I wasn't really bothered about playing online. Obviously with COVID, the WSOP was cancelled this year, i'm praying it'll be back next year so I can go then, hope so!

Thought I would be a little rusty since it's been a while but it's like riding a bike really, loaded up a couple of NL5 zoom tables, 250 hands which will do for today. I'm not going to put any pressure on myself to reach any particular targets etc, some days i'll play 100 hands, others 500+ and I may even have a few consecutive days off, depends how busy I am, see what happens! The end goal is to try and continue where I left off, improve my game before I head off to Vegas hopefully next summer. Can't bloody wait until the casinos re-open, I do miss playing live but online will have to do for now.

Anyway 250 hands today, nothing exciting happened really - lost a BI with KK v AA BvB pretty standard.. picked up a couple of small pots here and there but there was a couple interesting hands;

PokerStars - $0.05 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $5.00
SB: $5.09
Hero (BB): $5.00
UTG: $5.80
MP: $5.84
CO: $5.00

SB posts SB $0.02, Hero posts BB $0.05

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.07) Hero has 7 7

fold, fold, fold, BTN calls $0.05, SB raises to $0.25, Hero calls $0.20, BTN calls $0.20

Flop: ($0.75, 3 players) 3 T 4
SB checks, Hero bets $0.30, BTN calls $0.30, fold

Turn: ($1.35, 2 players) 3
Hero checks, BTN bets $0.65, Hero calls $0.65

River: ($2.65, 2 players) 8
Hero checks, BTN bets $1.25, Hero calls $1.25



I spent absolutely ages on the river, nearly folded a few times before eventually convincing myself there's a lot of bluffs in his range, thoughts?

I was yo-yoing between break even and slightly down before the last few hands when this happened;

PokerStars - $0.05 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $4.93
Hero (SB): $6.62
BB: $3.24
UTG: $5.21
MP: $5.31
CO: $5.00

Hero posts SB $0.02, BB posts BB $0.05

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.07) Hero has 9 9

fold, fold, fold, BTN calls $0.05, Hero raises to $0.25, fold, BTN raises to $0.45, Hero calls $0.20

Flop: ($0.95, 2 players) 6 T 9
Hero checks, BTN bets $0.95, Hero raises to $2.50, BTN raises to $4.05, Hero raises to $5.60, BTN calls $0.43 and is all-in

Turn: ($9.91, 2 players) 7

River: ($9.91, 2 players) 3

BTN cashed out $0.22 for a fee of $0.00



Very nice, ended the session just under 1BI up, can't complain. Not a bad start after such a long time away.

I mean I would love for my PGC to be as popular as some of the ones i've read on here, highly unlikely but I hope I gain some followers along the way, maybe have a meet up in Vegas if anyone else is playing the WSOP nearer the time!

Off to bed now, I will probably play again tomorrow, another 250 hands or so, not forcing myself to play too much like I did before so just taking it easy, not rushing and see what happens

Oh and of course if anyone has any questions, comments/criticisms on hands i've posted etc feel free to post them, i'm not like 6bet I actually listen and appreciate it

(Which will probably make my PGC way more boring than his tbh! )

Oh yeah before I forget, a hand that came up where I couldn't remember what option was best on the river - bet/fold or check/call? or neither?

PokerStars - $0.05 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $9.97
SB: $5.00
Hero (BB): $11.70
UTG: $5.89
MP: $5.00
CO: $7.41

SB posts SB $0.02, Hero posts BB $0.05

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.07) Hero has K J

UTG raises to $0.15, fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero calls $0.10

Flop: ($0.32, 2 players) 8 Q K
Hero checks, UTG bets $0.10, Hero calls $0.10

Turn: ($0.52, 2 players) 5
Hero checks, UTG checks

River: ($0.52, 2 players) 4
Hero bets $0.25, UTG calls $0.25

Played another 250 hands tonight, pretty much nothing exciting happened to be honest.

Most profitable hand was this one:

PokerStars - $0.05 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): $5.07
SB: $5.84
BB: $5.32
UTG: $7.07
MP: $5.25
CO: $19.81

SB posts SB $0.02, BB posts BB $0.05

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.07) Hero has 4 A

fold, MP raises to $0.12, fold, Hero raises to $0.40, fold, fold, MP calls $0.28

Flop: ($0.87, 2 players) 4 7 3
MP checks, Hero bets $0.29, MP calls $0.29

Turn: ($1.45, 2 players) 8
MP checks, Hero bets $0.80, MP calls $0.80

River: ($3.05, 2 players) 5
MP checks, Hero bets $1.95, MP calls $1.95



A couple of hands I wasn't sure about, am I getting good odds to call the turn if I put him on an middling overpair?

PokerStars - $0.05 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $5.26
SB: $5.90
BB: $16.75
UTG: $12.27
MP: $3.05
Hero (CO): $7.62

SB posts SB $0.02, BB posts BB $0.05

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.07) Hero has K J

fold, fold, Hero raises to $0.12, BTN calls $0.12, SB calls $0.10, BB calls $0.07

Flop: ($0.48, 4 players) 3 2 2
SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets $0.25, BTN raises to $0.65, fold, fold, Hero calls $0.40

Turn: ($1.78, 2 players) 4
Hero checks, BTN bets $0.85, Hero calls $0.85

River: ($3.48, 2 players) 8
Hero checks, BTN checks



This is probably a bad bluff vs an unknown:

PokerStars - $0.05 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): $5.04
SB: $24.28
BB: $5.17
UTG: $6.02
MP: $4.09
CO: $7.75

SB posts SB $0.02, BB posts BB $0.05

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.07) Hero has J 9

fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to $0.12, fold, BB calls $0.07

Flop: ($0.26, 2 players) 4 6 A
BB checks, Hero bets $0.10, BB calls $0.10

Turn: ($0.46, 2 players) 8
BB checks, Hero bets $0.40, BB calls $0.40

River: ($1.26, 2 players) 2
BB checks, Hero bets $0.85

Other than that really i'm just clutching at straws trying to find hands to post, pretty uneventful session. Ended up 0.5BI down which reflects that.

Overall:

500 hands played at NL5
$0.97 profit
23/20/10 (VPIP/PFR/3b)

Played 200 hands tonight, pretty much deja vu from yesterday, no action at all. Can't even find a single semi interesting hand to post, ended about +0.5BI so can't complain.

Day off tomorrow, very busy. Probably Sunday as well, will wait and see.

Overall:

700 hands played at NL5
$3.17 profit
22/19/9 (VPIP/PFR/3b)

Just finished a fun 500 hand session there, enjoyed it. Thought I played decent, not my best though. It was a much more entertaining session, I tag a lot of hands during the session, ones I think I can post here and try and explain my reasoning/thinking etc but only thing is I forget by the time I open this thread , not great at explaining my thoughts anyway to be perfectly honest, rather annoying!

Finished just under +2BIs, best hand of the day was this one:

PokerStars - $0.05 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $5.82
SB: $4.87
BB: $4.09
UTG: $5.14
Hero (MP): $6.22
CO: $4.20

SB posts SB $0.02, BB posts BB $0.05

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.07) Hero has 7 6

fold, Hero raises to $0.15, CO calls $0.15, BTN calls $0.15, fold, BB calls $0.10

Flop: ($0.62, 4 players) 3 A K
BB checks, Hero bets $0.30, fold, BTN calls $0.30, fold

Turn: ($1.22, 2 players) 6
Hero checks, BTN bets $0.95, Hero calls $0.95

River: ($3.12, 2 players) 8
Hero checks, BTN bets $4.42 and is all-in, Hero calls $4.42



Took ages to call the river, nearly folded. Can I ever fold there? At the end I thought if he had Kx diamonds he'd more likely check back the turn for pot control/free card, same with any other flush draw perhaps? Spent so long thinking he could have the nut flush/bigger flush before I decided I just had to call.

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Very glad he checked back the river, would've been another tough decision! (Probably would've folded)

PokerStars - $0.05 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $8.48
SB: $5.23
BB: $10.96
Hero (UTG): $8.13
MP: $19.88
CO: $5.05

SB posts SB $0.02, BB posts BB $0.05

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.07) Hero has Q Q

Hero raises to $0.15, MP calls $0.15, fold, BTN raises to $0.60, fold, fold, Hero calls $0.45, fold

Flop: ($1.42, 2 players) 5 4 T
Hero checks, BTN bets $0.60, Hero calls $0.60

Turn: ($2.62, 2 players) 5
Hero checks, BTN bets $1.10, Hero calls $1.10

River: ($4.82, 2 players) 8
Hero checks, BTN checks



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A nice little cold 4bet BTNvSBvBB to take the pot down preflop, using the PT4 stats on the SB to good use here

PokerStars - $0.05 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $23.25
SB: $5.36
Hero (BB): $6.36
UTG: $7.64
MP: $4.49
CO: $5.00

SB posts SB $0.02, Hero posts BB $0.05

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.07) Hero has A T

fold, fold, fold, BTN raises to $0.13, SB raises to $0.52, Hero raises to $1.90, fold, fold

Hero wins $1.17

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Biggest pot I lost today was 20BB ($1), won a lot more small pots than I lost so grinded my way up to a 2BI profit, can't complain!

I wish my PGC was as popular as some others so I can get some feedback on these hands.. I could post them in the forum I suppose but meh i'll save that for the really tough hands I had no clue about.

Will probably play another 200-250 hands tomorrow night, see what happens. Night all!

Overall:

1,200 hands played at NL5
$13.01 profit
23/19/9 (VPIP/PFR/3b)

what's up buddy - I can give some thoughts on a few of the recent ones.

KJo hand I agree with betting the river - once he x's back turn you very likely have the best hand and he most likely has SDV he will want to x back and you won't get any value. You will have some missed straight draws so he will have to look you up with worse like he did.

KJss hand you need to call 0.85 into pot of 2.63 so you need 0.85/(2.63+0.85) = 24.4%. Vs his exact hand you have 31.8% - obviously you are playing against a range - but vs a range of NFDs, 22-TT and A2s you still have 26.2% + some implied odds so should be fine to call. I'd consider donking river when you hit vs bad players especially.

QQ hand I would probably 4b stack off pre depending on the Villains stats. AP I wouldn't fold anytime postflop. (again depends a bit on stats)

76dd hand I would size up flop and probably barrel turn - we are unlikely to be good but picked up additional equity on a board that we have the range advantage on. AP I would snap river - way too high up in range to fold even facing the jam.

glglgl!

Thanks for the input! Will have to pop in the discord server again sometime if I remember.

Played another 250 hands tonight, got off to a great start winning 1BI after the first few hands but after that it was pretty uneventful. Lost more small pots than I won so ended up with a tiny loss.

This was the hand at the start, villian was an aggro fish so had to sigh call and hope I was ahead, thankfully he was drawing dead.

PokerStars - $0.05 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $4.77
Hero (SB): $5.00
BB: $5.38
UTG: $7.68
MP: $5.00
CO: $4.91

Hero posts SB $0.02, BB posts BB $0.05

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.07) Hero has J J

fold, fold, CO calls $0.05, fold, Hero raises to $0.25, fold, CO calls $0.20

Flop: ($0.55, 2 players) K 6 K
Hero checks, CO bets $0.53, Hero calls $0.53

Turn: ($1.61, 2 players) T
Hero checks, CO bets $4.13 and is all-in, Hero calls $4.13

River: ($9.87, 2 players) 6



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Didn't play this very well I don't think, at the end I decided there are a lot of missed draws in his range that he'd bet on the turn and the fact I played it passively I thought he would think I was weak but probably a bad call.

PokerStars - $0.05 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $6.31
Hero (SB): $9.15
BB: $5.00
UTG: $7.51
MP: $3.44
CO: $20.10

Hero posts SB $0.02, BB posts BB $0.05

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.07) Hero has 9 A

fold, fold, fold, BTN raises to $0.12, Hero raises to $0.50, fold, BTN calls $0.38

Flop: ($1.05, 2 players) 7 J A
Hero checks, BTN checks

Turn: ($1.05, 2 players) T
Hero checks, BTN bets $0.44, Hero calls $0.44

River: ($1.93, 2 players) 4
Hero checks, BTN bets $0.81, Hero calls $0.81



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Shouldn't have tried to be clever and just 4bet pre, probably cost me a lot of value!

PokerStars - $0.05 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $9.60
SB: $6.64
BB: $5.47
Hero (UTG): $5.19
MP: $5.12
CO: $13.41

SB posts SB $0.02, BB posts BB $0.05

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.07) Hero has A A

Hero raises to $0.15, fold, fold, fold, fold, BB raises to $0.60, Hero calls $0.45

Flop: ($1.22, 2 players) K 7 J
BB checks, Hero bets $0.65, fold

Hero wins $1.17

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Not an interesting hand at all but as we were both checking it down I said to myself 'well i'm beating 67' thought it was amusing, I do have a tedency to call out an opponents exact hand - one of the reasons why Daniel Negreanu is one of my favourite players! (I know he's not liked too much around these parts.. )

PokerStars - $0.05 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $10.07
SB: $5.00
Hero (BB): $5.14
UTG: $5.00
MP: $6.20
CO: $5.05

SB posts SB $0.02, Hero posts BB $0.05

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.07) Hero has 4 9

fold, MP calls $0.05, fold, fold, fold, Hero checks

Flop: ($0.12, 2 players) 2 Q A
Hero checks, MP checks

Turn: ($0.12, 2 players) Q
Hero checks, MP checks

River: ($0.12, 2 players) 8
Hero checks, MP checks

Hero shows 4 9 (One Pair, Queens)
(Pre 55%, Flop 74%, Turn 83%)
MP mucks 7 6 (One Pair, Queens)
(Pre 45%, Flop 26%, Turn 17%)
Hero wins $0.12

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That's it really, nothing else to note. Ended the session -$0.88 so i'll try not to have nightmares about that

1,450 hands played at NL5
$12.13 profit
23/19/9 (VPIP/PFR/3b)

Another 250 hands played today, pretty quiet until the final 20-30 hands where I won roughly 2BIs with these hands:

PokerStars - $0.05 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): $10.08
SB: $8.47
BB: $10.41
UTG: $5.75
MP: $7.35
CO: $5.35

SB posts SB $0.02, BB posts BB $0.05

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.07) Hero has 5 6

UTG raises to $0.12, fold, CO calls $0.12, Hero calls $0.12, fold, fold

Flop: ($0.43, 3 players) 3 A J
UTG checks, CO bets $0.31, Hero raises to $1.00, fold, CO calls $0.69

Turn: ($2.43, 2 players) 7
CO checks, Hero bets $1.50, CO calls $1.50

River: ($5.43, 2 players) K
CO checks, Hero bets $3.25, CO calls $2.73 and is all-in



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PokerStars - $0.05 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $4.93
SB: $11.70
Hero (BB): $5.99
UTG: $7.54
MP: $9.07
CO: $5.07

SB posts SB $0.02, Hero posts BB $0.05

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.07) Hero has Q A

fold, fold, fold, BTN raises to $0.15, fold, Hero raises to $0.60, BTN calls $0.45

Flop: ($1.22, 2 players) 5 A 8
Hero bets $0.40, BTN calls $0.40

Turn: ($2.02, 2 players) Q
Hero bets $1.25, BTN calls $1.25

River: ($4.52, 2 players) 8
Hero bets $3.74 and is all-in, BTN calls $2.68 and is all-in

Hero shows Q A (Two Pair, Aces and Queens)
(Pre 74%, Flop 87%, Turn 100%)
BTN shows A T (Two Pair, Aces and Eights)
(Pre 26%, Flop 13%, Turn 0%)
Hero wins $9.47

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Nothing much else of note, end the session +$11.10, not too shabby.

1,700 hands played at NL5
$23.23 profit
23/20/9 (VPIP/PFR/3b)

Will see if I can hit 2,000 hands tomorrow if i'm not too busy

Played 300 hands tonight, won 1BI very early with this hand:

PokerStars - $0.05 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): $6.80
SB: $4.85
BB: $5.00
UTG: $5.00
MP: $7.50
CO: $9.92

SB posts SB $0.02, BB posts BB $0.05

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.07) Hero has K K

fold, MP raises to $0.15, fold, Hero raises to $0.50, fold, fold, MP calls $0.35

Flop: ($1.07, 2 players) 3 2 8
MP checks, Hero bets $0.36, MP calls $0.36

Turn: ($1.79, 2 players) J
MP checks, Hero bets $1.20, MP raises to $2.40, Hero calls $1.20

River: ($6.59, 2 players) 2
MP checks, Hero bets $3.54 and is all-in, MP calls $3.54



Then afterwards it was pretty uneventful, lost more small pots than I won this time so ended the session around +$2.

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There was one hand that popped up that in these situations i'm always unsure the best way to play:

PokerStars - $0.05 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $5.38
SB: $7.80
Hero (BB): $6.69
UTG: $5.00
MP: $28.25
CO: $6.95

SB posts SB $0.02, Hero posts BB $0.05

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.07) Hero has 9 9

fold, fold, CO raises to $0.12, fold, fold, Hero calls $0.07

Flop: ($0.26, 2 players) 2 T 4
Hero checks, CO bets $0.08, Hero calls $0.08

Turn: ($0.42, 2 players) 6
Hero checks, CO bets $0.20, Hero calls $0.20

River: ($0.82, 2 players) T
Hero checks, CO bets $0.55, fold

CO wins $0.79

c/c flop and turn and fold river a good line?

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2,000 hands played at NL5
$24.98 profit
23/20/9 (VPIP/PFR/3b)

250 hands played tonight, lost just under 1BI.

Nothing really to note, lost with KK v AA and AA v KK, just unlucky today. Won more small pots than I lost to minimise the loss at least. That may be that until Monday, busy weekend. Happy thanksgiving to all you Americans out there!

2,250 hands played at NL5
$20.25 profit
23/19/9 (VPIP/PFR/3b)

Didn't play tonight, was absorbed solving a sudoku puzzle from Cracking The Cryptic YouTube channel (check them out if you haven't already, amazing!) 90 minutes but I finally finally managed to solve one of their puzzles without any help at all, feel so proud

My brain is fried though! Will try and play tomorrow night.