Hello guys,

I'm a 20 year old student studying software engineering. I've played poker on and off the last few years, playing online for some of the time.
With this thread I'll try to document my journey of playing poker as a hobby, I'll also talk about general life things.
TL;DR : Hobby poker thread.

I'm currently playing NL10z, which may be the most boring thing I could be playing, so just check back in when I'm crushing high stakes if micro stakes zoom isn't your thing .
I play 2 tables, and try to think through every hand I play; ranges,frequencies,sizings etc.
My plan is to slowly build my BR and skills, using 20BI BR management and moving down when I go below 15BI.

Graph:


I'll probably end up updating this thread weekly, with a graph for the week.
Also, I'm interested in joining a study group.

Good luck!

A few hand histories to kick things off.


He should have had it offsuit.





Everything got there.

Good luck bud!

Good graph.

Hand 1 and the overbet, shouldn’t we be more polarised than this to overbet shove?

Hand 2 ul


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I do not think there is another way to play the hand xD, it is also not an overbet because the opponent has 8

Second hand seems a bad river bluff, I think you're trying to make fold an A for the size you use, I think that is fatal, may have sense attack Jx in this river, idk if have sense, it seems that not because we have almost no value, you are going to print only attacking in these turns and not attacking the river ever
GLGL OP

Hey, thanks

In reply to Hand 1, I think vs a standard calling range we are losing to 3 combos of JJ and half a combo of KK.
We are spltting with the AK, denying equity to all the random draws he could have, gutshots and fds, and putting KQ and AK in a tough spot vs our range.
I think checking sometimes is fine too since we are crushing him so hard on this board, and giving some protection to QQ.

[EDIT]: I think we can shove turn with range if we are cold 4b QQ+,AKo,AKs. Using QQ as a bluff if villains start folding QQ and KQ.

Side note, are cold 4-bet bluffing ranges a thing?

Hey hey,

Quick update, I didn't play many hands the past week because of exams at my university (which I smashed ).

I tried playing 3 tables for a bit, I felt like I was winning, but winning less, so I will be sticking to two tables for now. I also find the game more enjoyable when playing two tables.

Thinking a lot about learning probability and statistics, because it's something I recently discovered and really enjoy, I feel it's my favorite part of poker as well.

Cant be too unhappy with the graph, but I do feel I misplayed spots:



Last time I posted losing hands, so we'll go with winning hands this time .

Classic cooler for the CO player:

PokerStars - $0.10 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 114.4 BB
SB: 85.4 BB
BB: 64 BB
UTG: 154.7 BB
Hero (MP): 107.7 BB
CO: 121.3 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A A

UTG raises to 2.5 BB, Hero raises to 8.5 BB, CO raises to 121.3 BB and is all-in, BTN calls 114.4 BB and is all-in, fold, fold, fold, Hero calls 99.2 BB and is all-in

Flop: (340.5 BB, 3 players) 3 9 7

Turn: (340.5 BB, 3 players) 5

River: (340.5 BB, 3 players) J





Feels good:

PokerStars - $0.10 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 100 BB
SB: 182.8 BB
BB: 101.5 BB
Hero (UTG): 150.1 BB
MP: 122 BB
CO: 117.1 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 7 7

Hero raises to 2.5 BB, fold, CO calls 2.5 BB, fold, SB raises to 12.5 BB, fold, Hero calls 10 BB, fold

Flop: (28.5 BB, 2 players) 8 2 7
SB bets 9.5 BB, Hero calls 9.5 BB

Turn: (47.5 BB, 2 players) 5
SB bets 24.5 BB, Hero calls 24.5 BB

River: (96.5 BB, 2 players) Q
SB bets 136.3 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 103.6 BB and is all-in



I guess I hit my draw sometimes too:

PokerStars - $0.10 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 183 BB
SB: 122.4 BB
BB: 86.8 BB
UTG: 49 BB
MP: 45.8 BB
Hero (CO): 109.4 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has T A

fold, fold, Hero raises to 2.5 BB, BTN raises to 9 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 6.5 BB

Flop: (19.5 BB, 2 players) Q J 7
Hero checks, BTN bets 7.8 BB, Hero raises to 24.9 BB, BTN calls 17.1 BB

Turn: (69.3 BB, 2 players) K
Hero bets 75.5 BB and is all-in, BTN calls 75.5 BB

River: (220.3 BB, 2 players) 3



Looking for a study buddy, 10z+ winners shoot me a pm!

Hand two is wild. I'm not sure if villain figured he was behind and bluffed the flush holding the Ah or not. I mean not raising turn on a fairly connected board was risky, I'd discount a lot of sets there. So maybe he figured you for JJ-99. In which case pushing on a flush Q river is odd. What worse calls?

Odd move by villain.

Hand three. I'm not sure what we rep by the 2B? Set of 7's or QJ maybe? With such a narrow value range we can probably pick higher equity draws like KT, T9 and hands with less sdv like 98 bdfd to build our bluff range.

Good graph bud, wp with the exams!

Keep it going!


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I'm fairly certain that the guy in the AQ hand thought he rivered the best hand, he probably also felt more confident because he blocks our most likely flushes.

As far as raising turn, I think the board isn't too scary, I don't really have a problem with calling a heart river, which is the only bad card really.

Other hand;77,JJ,Qjs which is 8 combs I actually agree with you looking back at it now, I didn't consider how many combos of value I had, I just knew I had them. I still think ATs BDFD is an ok bluff hand because of the blockers, though I should have definitely considered my range more in that spot.

Thanks for the kind words, I hope my graph stays this nice .