Hello All,

It has been a long time since I have been a part of the poker community. I use to be heavy into the Full Tilt Poker Forum before Black Friday. I pretty much gave up on it all after that day. I've played sporadically since but never anything like I use to back in those days. Well long story short I have a big desire to play a bit more serious, improve my game and try to find some comradery along the way. I miss talking poker among those who enjoy it for the same reasons I do.

Anyways my goal/challenge is simply to play as many hands of 2NL for the next 30 days and share my progress or lack of progress along the way. I will share Poker Tracker graphs and stats if this will be helpful. Reason for this challenge is to review hands, work on fixing my play, work on my tilt issue and mostly stay focused. If I know people are "watching me" I will have a better chance at all of these things. I basically need a refresher course as it has been a long time since I did any kind of studying and I'm just a Meh player at best. Need to start from scratch.

I'm so out of the loop that I'm not sure if I should post my hands to this thread or if I should post them elsewhere? Thoughts?

Hopefully I can get a few people to follow me and get some feed back along the way. If you made it this far thanks for reading!

Thread isn't starting out to hot so I'm going to post a couple of hands where I feel I played very poorly and I'm hoping for some insight. If I get no feed back I will drop the thread.

I'm a little embarrassed posting these hands because when I replay them (regardless of the outcome) they just feel badly played. Anyways here they are.

Hand 1: Know nothing about villain as he just sat down.

Winning Poker Network (Yatahay) - $0.02 NL - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: $2.01 (VPIP: -, PFR: -, 3Bet Preflop: -, Hands: 1)
BB: $1.36 (VPIP: 26.67, PFR: 13.33, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 15)
UTG: $1.80 (VPIP: 7.69, PFR: 4.44, 3Bet Preflop: 3.85, Hands: 92)
Hero (CO): $3.90
BTN: $2.14 (VPIP: 21.43, PFR: 8.73, 3Bet Preflop: 4.65, Hands: 129)

SB posts SB $0.01, BB posts BB $0.02

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.03) Hero has Q A

UTG calls $0.02, Hero raises to $0.08, fold, SB raises to $0.14, fold, UTG calls $0.12, Hero calls $0.06

Flop: ($0.44, 3 players) 3 Q 5
SB bets $0.21, fold, Hero calls $0.21

Turn: ($0.86, 2 players) 2
SB bets $0.41, Hero calls $0.41

River: ($1.68, 2 players) 2
SB bets $0.80, Hero calls $0.80


Hand 2:I realize I have a small sample size on this guy but looking at it now I'm thinking this is a fold?

Winning Poker Network (Yatahay) - $0.02 NL - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $2.00 (VPIP: 33.33, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 36)
SB: $0.77 (VPIP: 11.70, PFR: 6.38, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 95)
Hero (BB): $3.57
UTG: $0.69 (VPIP: 20.00, PFR: 8.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 26)
UTG+1: $2.86 (VPIP: 16.67, PFR: 6.25, 3Bet Preflop: 4.35, Hands: 48)
MP: $2.73 (VPIP: 43.24, PFR: 10.81, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 38)
MP+1: $2.27 (VPIP: 22.92, PFR: 18.75, 3Bet Preflop: 5.88, Hands: 97)
MP+2: $3.27 (VPIP: 36.36, PFR: 13.64, 3Bet Preflop: 13.33, Hands: 22)
CO: $3.71 (VPIP: 39.20, PFR: 25.81, 3Bet Preflop: 7.84, Hands: 128)

SB posts SB $0.01, Hero posts BB $0.02

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.03) Hero has A K

fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, BTN calls $0.02, SB calls $0.01, Hero raises to $0.10, BTN raises to $2.00 and is all-in, fold, Hero calls $1.90

Flop: ($4.02, 2 players) 8 Q A

Turn: ($4.02, 2 players) 8

River: ($4.02, 2 players) 6

Hand 3: TBH I'm not really sure what I'm thinking here.

Winning Poker Network (Yatahay) - $0.02 NL - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $2.00 (VPIP: 33.33, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 18)
SB: $0.87 (VPIP: 11.54, PFR: 3.85, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 52)
Hero (BB): $2.34
UTG: $1.77 (VPIP: 28.57, PFR: 14.29, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 8)
UTG+1: $2.55 (VPIP: 16.67, PFR: 6.67, 3Bet Preflop: 6.25, Hands: 30)
MP: $3.08 (VPIP: 42.11, PFR: 5.26, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 20)
MP+1: $2.29 (VPIP: 21.15, PFR: 17.31, 3Bet Preflop: 6.25, Hands: 53)
MP+2: $2.04 (VPIP: 75.00, PFR: 25.00, 3Bet Preflop: 25.00, Hands: 4)
CO: $3.56 (VPIP: 36.14, PFR: 21.95, 3Bet Preflop: 5.88, Hands: 85)

SB posts SB $0.01, Hero posts BB $0.02

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.03) Hero has J J

fold, fold, MP raises to $0.06, fold, MP+2 raises to $0.18, fold, fold, fold, Hero calls $0.16, MP calls $0.12

Flop: ($0.55, 3 players) 3 T 5
Hero checks, MP checks, MP+2 bets $0.35, Hero calls $0.35, fold

Turn: ($1.25, 2 players) Q
Hero checks, MP+2 bets $0.61, Hero raises to $1.81 and is all-in, fold,

Hand 4: Am I afraid of the K? If I am than why am I calling the Turn? Villain likes to see a lot of flops. Not sure what my thought process was here.


Winning Poker Network (Yatahay) - $0.02 NL - Holdem - 7 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BB: $1.84 (VPIP: 26.32, PFR: 15.79, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 19)
Hero (UTG): $2.00
UTG+1: $0.80 (VPIP: 15.38, PFR: 15.38, 3Bet Preflop: 13.33, Hands: 54)
MP: $0.78 (VPIP: 11.32, PFR: 3.77, 3Bet Preflop: 10.00, Hands: 53)
CO: $1.93 (VPIP: 20.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 11)
BTN: $8.05 (VPIP: 50.60, PFR: 28.92, 3Bet Preflop: 8.70, Hands: 83)
SB: $4.49 (VPIP: 30.77, PFR: 20.00, 3Bet Preflop: 8.33, Hands: 26)

SB posts SB $0.01, BB posts BB $0.02

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.03) Hero has Q A

Hero raises to $0.06, fold, fold, fold, BTN calls $0.06, fold, fold

Flop: ($0.15, 2 players) K 2 9
Hero bets $0.07, BTN calls $0.07

Turn: ($0.29, 2 players) Q
Hero checks, BTN bets $0.14, Hero calls $0.14

River: ($0.57, 2 players) 9
Hero checks, BTN checks

GL on your grind. I think your beating yourself up in cooler situatons.

THe AQ is close spot i think river is fold but he only bet 1/2 pot.

the JJ id fold the turn your relative range is weak. He 3b pre and bet out into 2 players and barreled the turn. Your only beating a bluff at this point and your dead against all the value hands. YOu keep shoving here I promise you will lose a lot of money in a vacuum.

AKo is a fold too was ******ed he shoves 2.00 over .10 but hey you got AKo its not the worst call in the world you could be flipping but ya id fold until i get more info on what he doing that with.

The last AQ hand I would barrel the turn when i hit the Q. The button yes can have K but he can also have flush draw or a hand like TJ with gut shot. They have much wider ranges on the button ( but depends the player). I don't want to give him free card. and on the river if he does call the turn and it bricks off depending how much he bets and how wide i think his range is from the button I might fold or hero call. If hes more tighter id probably fold river if hes more of a lag id probably snap him off and hope to rek a little piece of his aggro soul. And if its a really good reg whos playing to low for how good he is I would check jam the river with the AQ if he bets river. We block AK and KQ and he rarely has a set he should be raising the flop or turn on a wet board with a set so his range is probably capped to K or nothing and by check shoving we push him off K and when he has air he doesn't get any info on how we play. He will also fear going for thin value in future and we can realize more equity against a good player which important. This is something you probably want to wait to do at high limits though. I am going to high level here for 4nl haha. But I was thinking that would be cool play to check shove if he goes for thin value with a K maybe at like midstakes

I would rather check call turn with with JJ and check call all bricks. I dont think villain ever folds a hand we beat when we raise turn. I mean you shouldnt be trying to make him fold AQ or AT

Thanks for responding. I appreciate your time and input. I've heard this said recently in a video as well as your reply but when you say we block AK and KQ does that just mean we have 1 potential out because of the Q in our hand and 1 potential out because of the K on the board? I'm not really understanding this. This is truly something I don't remember learning or talking about back pre 2008. LOL Hopefully you or someone can help me understand this.

Thanks

Yeah this hand was hard to post as it showed how poorly I played. I know shoving here was just stupid. I remember marking this hand because I was shocked that he folded to the shove. I knew what I did was wrong and wanted to review it later to make sure I didn't play a hand like this again. The outcome worked this time but it wasn't the right play. Thanks for your input I appreciate it!

I think from here on out I'm just going to pick one hand from a previous session to go over. Posting too many at one time is just too much and I think it might be easier to discuss just one hand at a time. That is if anyone responds. LOL

Ok so this hand we can see that the BTN is playing 60% of hand granted it's only 46 hands on this player but it gives us a rough idea that this player likes to play a decent amount of hands.

1. I can assume his range is pretty wide here, correct... esp. from the botton?
2. Is my re-raise size a little too small here? Suggestions on what it should be?
3. What do we do on the flop?

Winning Poker Network (Yatahay) - $0.02 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

CO: $1.16 (VPIP: 46.15, PFR: 15.38, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 13)
BTN: $1.18 (VPIP: 62.22, PFR: 20.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 46)
Hero (SB): $1.14
BB: $1.61 (VPIP: 27.94, PFR: 16.18, 3Bet Preflop: 5.00, Hands: 68)
UTG: $0.90 (VPIP: 28.57, PFR: 21.43, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 14)

Hero posts SB $0.01, BB posts BB $0.02

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.03) Hero has J J

fold, fold, BTN raises to $0.07, Hero raises to $0.23, fold, BTN calls $0.16

Flop: ($0.48, 2 players) 7 A Q
Hero ?