What’s up 2+2,

Last PG&C wasn’t working for me, so we go again.

Currently playing/shot-taking NL25z @ PS w 20BI BR.

Goals in poker for the month:
- Play (2h+ 5+ days p/w)
- 20k+ hand month
Goals in poker for the remainder of the year:
- 50k+ hands
- Shot NL50 @ minimum 20 Bis
- Reintroduce regular study when moving up

Modesty of goals set is primarily due to being fairly busy outside of poker w study. I will be playing 2 tables of zoom fwiw, equating to around 400 hands p/h w my rate of play.

Will update regularly w HHs, results, progress, goals etc. Cheers & GL!

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Week 01:
Results on the week:




Nice to see some run good. Low volume as I reintroduce 2-tabling as std.

Prob Bet:
Entered into a SS PB between myself & a friend last month. The bet is first to profit $1k playing either NL25 6-Max (my game of choice) or $25 HU SNGs (friends’ game of choice). Thus far, volume has been near non-existent & results BE.

Until the PB is completed, updates here won't extend much past weekly results. Study is also being put on the back burner for now while I focus my time on volume & the PB.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLOlvGOzxQk

subbed, gl

Week 02:



Run good continues which is awesome to see after running a few hundred $ under AIEV last month. Hitting my hours (10) p/w, but continuing to come short on volume. Now 4k hands under being on target, which means I'm playing far fewer hands p/h than I should be, will look to focus on this in the coming weeks.
Not the happiest w my game this past week, auto-piloting a lot of spots, feel this is a consequence or byproduct of temporarily eliminating study.

The man himself tyty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5iPXcvLbNk

Post some hands you scrub

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Week 03:



Fairly BE week, reasonably happy w game, volume continuing to stagnate around 3k p/w (still ofc unhappy w vol.) This week I'm confident I would reach close to 11k hands on the month if I were able to play today but unfortunately something has come up last minute which wipes out Sun-Wed, rendering it practically impossible for me to hit 20k on the month.

Will start posting hands soon. I realize this thread is pretty unentertaining for viewers rn, but the purpose of this PG&C lies elsewhere currently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0Oy_29OSmI

Week 04: 28.10.18
Today marks the end of the PB. Stats on the previous 4 weeks are as follows; Hands played, 10481; Minutes played, 1990; Net won (USD), $311.51; BB/100 (WR), 11.89. (fwiw, net won @ time of PB completion, $276.11).

- 33/40 hours played. Given 3 days left to play on the month, will consider this a success.
- 10.5/20k hands played. Very poor volume on the month, attributed largely to family stuff wiping out a few days, & more uni work than anticipated.

Below we can see my graph followed by friends graph (PB winner):


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Props to King, WP

PG&C Update:
Going forward, this PG&C will experience a different format. Still unsure on exact update regularity, but daily seems reasonable rn (on days I play). Updates will be much more centered around HHs and less results oriented. Considering re-introducing study, but in a way that minimizes volume/session time lost, so perhaps will spend say 1 day p/w focused on study, instead of a daily routine prior to/post sessions. Will update with decision ofc, as well as chosen area of study etc.

GL! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9bsJ7oGokg

Subbed. GL Will

General Update: 29.10.18 (Day 01?)

BR: $831.04

Goals in poker for the coming month: (Oct 29th-Nov 30th)
- 50+ hours played
- 20k+ hand month

Intending to play (a minimum) of 5 days p/w, this equates to 800 hands & 2 hours p/d. This promotes the goal of increasing my hands/hr to 400(+) from my current 353. I will focus on this primarily through the more frequent use of hotkeys (B, X, F), continuing to play 2-tables zoom.
Reluctant as ever to set goals I experience little control over, but I would like to hit a BR of $1k by the end of Nov, where I can consider shot-taking NL50.

Study:
Re-introducing study. I will focus generally on solver study, investing a minimum of a couple hours each Sunday. Fwiw focusing rn on SBvsBTN 3BPs, but this is highly subject to change as I figure out efficient solver study.
Likely to spend some no. hours 'studying' random poker related stuff through the week also.

Seems like a good idea to look for others who may be new to studying w solvers (preferably GTO+), and want to learn how best to study efficiently w them. Can use each other to bounce questions off etc. and hopefully make the process of improvement a little more streamlined. Some experience preferable, PM if interested

tyty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfzRXseSBIM

29.10.18:



Mostly happy w game today.
Will update daily w session length/total hands, and weekly w results.

Unfortunately still having problems w 2+2s HH converter. Getting the hand conversion failed message. If anyone is aware of a solution to this problem, would be massively appreciated.


H1:
https://www.weaktight.com/h/5bd775f4d3904384278b467e
Thoughts on no 5B range vs uncapped SB range? Fairly std post w reads that V is rec.

H2:
https://www.weaktight.com/h/5bd77756d39043af248b488d
Reads on weak blinds, will use a slightly adjusted vs UTG RFI strat here. I'm most unsure on our sizing OTT, thoughts? OTR seems fairly std, a spot where we get to play vs capped nature of SBs range w thin value/contribute to a nice RL :b

H3:
https://www.weaktight.com/h/5bd778ecd3904384278b4704

H4:
https://www.weaktight.com/h/5bd77970d39043d12d8b47f9
A pretty 'std' spot, but found myself a little lost OTT. This was one of my first hands of the day, didn't feel sufficiently warmed up ig lol. Interested to hear insights on this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpTRPY4RjaA

hey,

how long have you been playing online poker and which stakes, if I may ask?

H1: Fold to the 4bet, if SB is a reg. He's gonna be 3betting pretty much JJ+AK, and then 5betting you most of the time.
H2: That river bet is pretty exploitable, but opponents probably won't exploit you here, so it's fine.
H3: Good
H4: Good

You could consider moving down to 10nl for a bit, at least until you learn to play more tables at once. Playing high volume is how the money is made at micros imo.
Even if you become one of the best 25nl players, with 300hands/hr you can't expect to ever make more than 5 USD/hr.

He can build a bankroll and move up though. I always wonder why people say these things without considering that's what most people are trying to do, not grind the micro's for the rest of their lives.

He's gonna be able to move up faster, if he maximizes the amount of money he's making per hour, don't you think so?

Also, I don't think 300 hands/hr is good at any stakes.
It's better that he learns how to multi table at micros, than once he's at high stakes.

30.10.18:



Volumes looking okay, not so happy w my game today, felt like I auto-piloted a lot of spots.

H1:
https://www.weaktight.com/h/5bd8b0edd3904338398b4776
Readless (iirc). Needing 41% equity to BE this spot seemed pretty close. We have just 35% equity vs a range of KQs (3 combo's), QQ (3), & a few combo draws (JT, J9, T9hh). If we were to throw in just 1 combo AK our equity jumps to 40% making a call close to BE, 2 combo's AK and were making a profitable call w 45% eq.
AK is ofc optimistic to include in Vs range. Thoughts on spot/range applied? BC could straight up just be a bit of a spew tbh, guess I just don't like folding AA

H2:
https://www.weaktight.com/h/5bd8b314d3904338398b47d9
Don't think we can make the fold OTR(?)

H3:
https://www.weaktight.com/h/5bd8b393d39043900e8b47d7
V (BTN) known fish. CB possibly questionable 4-way, obv Xing a tonne (TPs etc.) BDFD taken into account when CBing.

H4:
https://www.weaktight.com/h/5bd8b453d39043900e8b4808
Hand seems poorly played due to passive nature, but analyzing each street individually think I'm quite okay w play, or at least when reviewing through a 'theory' based approach. Most questionable street for me is prob OTF, unsure if this is a spot we want to utilize the 1/3 range B. X OTT as pretty sure our range wants to X a lot on the middle card pairing turn & this is going to easily be one of my weakest FDs (fwiw, also few relevant blockers to Vs Axs). Thoughts?

What's good! Playing for around 2ys, spent perhaps 1y playing CGs semi-seriously (term used loosely). Worked through micro's NL2-25z. Beaten/progressed through NL2/5-16z a few times.

Def not considering moving down rn. I have played more tables (3/4z) in the past, but spent some time recently focusing on quality of play w less emphasis on quantity, and now rebuilding in terms of volume/tables.
Dropping down seems unnecessary for volume improvement.
Also not really looking @ $/hr as intending to continue to progress in terms limit, WR, volume etc. Don't perceive poker in any way as a job rn also, so again not focused on $/hr.

Thx for HH reviews!

ya, somewhat accurate for me (in terms of BR building & moving up).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTYR-mmhRTU

Agree with that. You just made it sound something like, "How can you live off of $5/h ?" when I doubted that was his intention.

01.11.18:



Basically had last couple days off from poker, just played a little on the side where possible, pretty busy w uni work & other irl stuff. Hoping to still get in some reasonable vol. this weekend.

Realizing analyzing hands/hr @ the end of the month may not make the most sense, as some small % of my vol. will be 1-tabling on the side while focusing on other stuff. Could check daily dependent on tables played (when 2-tabling full session/s), but accuracy will suck bc sample so we'll see.

Also, total hands on the month (Oct): 12.5k.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGfLfvjc5A4

Sick to c 12.5k hands in 1 month after finishing a 14k hand sesh


GL Man

02.11.18:



Played well, ran well, low vol. the usual

Reconsidering daily PG&C updates (already), mainly due to negative impact on time spent playing, as well as lack of hands/content to update w. The only downsides to updating slightly less regularly is less accountability (not massively concerned w rn) & having to be more selective w HH posts.
Unsure rn, will update w decision ofc.

Again, few noteworthy hands, here's a couple slightly interesting ones:

H1:
https://www.weaktight.com/h/5bdca70bd39043a43d8b4638
Seems a fairly std call off. After quickly plugging in QQ vs expected ranges were looking @ somewhere in the vicinity of 40% eq. (39% POs).

H2:
https://www.weaktight.com/h/5bdca78dd39043d4788b45e3
Again, seems std. Only notable play is X OTF/non range CB, which looks good here I think. Likely going to be betting AAdx, or at least favoring diamond combo's.
Edit: Without thinking too hard about it myself rn, thoughts on no XR range here? (My strat is very much focused on simplification where possible, & reducing size of game tree seems kinda nice here).

Sick to c a 14k hand sesh tyty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN7rFLxE5yI

Week 05: 04.11.18

This weeks results:


Played some NL50z over the weekend, results:


Intending to shot/play NL50 when pool looks good (likely just weekends for now), w the plan to fire a 'proper' shot/move up when I feel a. confident in ability to realize a decent WR & b. BR will allow it (probably @ $1500 BR). May even experiment w reg tables @ some point, unsure.
Clearly regs seem more capable, sample ofc way too small to discuss differences between 25 & 50z in any detail.

Ran into quite a few interesting hands:

H1:
https://www.weaktight.com/h/5bdf6bd8d39043022a8b46a7
Kick it off w this weird one.

H2:
https://www.weaktight.com/h/5bdf6c46d39043fa798b4725
Think our hand works well as a bluff given line, unblocking some folding range OTR in TT/JJ(h), most AKhx/xh, also turning equity OTT.

H3:
https://www.weaktight.com/h/5bdf6d3ad3904372318b47d6
Nut advantage + high equity draw OTT thus OB.

H4:
https://www.weaktight.com/h/5bdf6ddad3904372318b4802
Kind of forgot this was a limped pot, but meh.

H5:
https://www.weaktight.com/h/5bdf6e23d39043f7408b4627
Tanked down OTF deciding whether raise vs CB makes sense w any KK here. vs a more std sizing I like it, but vs pot unsure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oigcRpBOoZk

06.11.18:



Yday + today. Played some 50z this evening, pool was looking fairly good. First session today played quite poorly (25z), w just a little tilt creeping into my game. Played well this evening @ 50z, just 1-tabled on the side (thus the low hands/hr). Experienced some run bad today, nothing crazy.

H1:
https://www.weaktight.com/h/5be20a1ad39043e6198b4705
BB.

H2:
https://www.weaktight.com/h/5be20a6bd3904359498b460b
X OTF to XR.

H3:
https://www.weaktight.com/h/5be20ae4d39043c17c8b4799
Unsure. Seemingly little SDV vs range post CB sizing, blockers/some equity, often nice combo OTR for tripling.

H4:
https://www.weaktight.com/h/5be20b92d39043a35a8b47e3
Think we can consider utilizing a 3B range OTF, of which, KK seems to make some sense. Felt uncomfortable in game doing so as usually I don't use 3Bs in these spots, makes sense to develop those range vs pool which will be raising wider vs (1/3) CB.

H5:
https://www.weaktight.com/h/5be20be4d3904312698b4609

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuCyrtGQhAk