ty for your criticisms chaps. note to self, dont post or play when you are smashed

The same reason that just showing up at the gym doesn't help a fatty lose weight or build muscle.

I'll join in this month. Playing Party 2FRNL at the moment, but currently have no way to deposit so I'm still playing on a free bankroll that I'm struggling to clear. Currently playing at 7ptbb/100 over 15k hands with a $50 bankroll (this should be higher but I took a while to realise I suck at ICM), but due to no depositing am being a bankroll nit. Have no desire to ever withdraw at the moment. I feel I have a good grasp of the theory but sometimes 'forget' to apply it. Goals for the month:

[ ] Get up to $80 and be playing 4NL
[ ] Be comfortable and able to think clearly whilst 5- and 6-tabling
[ ] Post more in uNL, having been a little scared to in the past, especially in threads from higher limits
[ ] 15k hands
[ ] Don't play SNGs

We want players to do this though dont we

+1

my goal is to get my account back but stars takes foooooooooorrrreverrrrrrrrr

Had another losing session, lost just under 2BI; was up 2BI at one point as well - should just quit while I'm up for now as I basically keep playing until I lose which is not good. Got a lot of grinding to do to get back to where I was; now my graph is a complete trainwreck!

The games are so nitty now it just tilts me, I get absolutely no action for 2,000 hands when I pick up either KK/AA/QQ then when I do it's never good; I 3bet someone with KK, he 4bet shoves and I'm up against AA. :/

Zoom is brutal!

Managed to win my way into a €220 satellite on wednesday night, to the irish open main event worth €3,500.

Wish me luck.

GL with that Nismo. (and then in Citywest please God).

PS update your Poker goals thread as I'm following in your footsteps playing around the same limits and I'm interested to see how its going for you.

Aint it in the Burlington?

Yeah i plan to get back at updating that, been taking a slight break lately to clear my head but im back at the tables now

yh, I do want to be called and called and called with J8o..what I dont want is my opponent to win when they play **** which happened a ****ing LOT yesterday. anyway, I was drunk and tilting. I will do better in future.

Been analysing some of my data to see where I'm going wrong lately - looked at 'Second Action - call' which basically means if I raise and call so essentially calling 3bets. Only got 300 hands on this stat and for 250 I was breakeven but the last 50 I'm getting crushed - lost $60 and my overall w/r for the 300 hands is -226bb/100 so found a flaw I can cut out!

Actually, I don't get this - I then filtered call 3bet and it only gave me 269 hands and I'm only down $20 doing this. I don't imagine I've ever been doing much limp-calling (especially for a loss of $40) so not sure how this is working out - either way I can see that I'm too happy to call 3bet and play fit/fold!

I got my rakeback through for my volume from Thurs - Sunday: £25. I was kind of expecting a bit more than that (maybe double) I started off my session spewing on one hand, but made it back. Then I had set over set with a gutshot redraw which was another buy-in. Everything was ok till I flopped top set in a multi-way pot and lost. Then the tilt came. I went into spew mode + missed some huge draws and was feeling totally fed up with it all. I eventually calmed down after having blown through my profit for the day + most of the rakeback I had just been credited which made me feel even worse. I started playing less spewy post-flop + a bit more loose pre and also ran better. Still down on the session, but up on the day. I always feel stupid tilting off money after the event.

This hand totally confused me. I had KKQQ and got it in with top set. I was playing other tables and couldn't figure out why I wasn't sitting with >100bb. I was looking at the screenshot trying to figure out why I didn't have more and was about to contact support when I realised it was O8 Going to try and get them to remove it from my client. It's not the first time I play O8 without realising.



The hand which put me on monster tilt 65% I have top set.



I decided to call the 3bet with QJT8 partially because I was mega tilted. The flop's huge and i'm getting it all in anyway, massive draw Annoyingly someone had a similar draw to me making me 17% to win and 28% to chop.



Starting to run better. Massive draw even despite going up against top 2. OESD + flush draw + I can make full house to win. 58% for me.



I have AAxx, only reason I really shoved was because I thought it was going all in 3 way and i'd be getting a good price to hit flush. Someone folded and annoyingly villain had 2 of my outs. Turn was really good for me though.

Just realised its tonight. Lol at US date formatting.

Just had a winning session! Feels so good after so long haha, up 4 BI! Was really happy with my play, I was going into my time bank a lot because I was putting people on ranges etc - think I wasn't doing this enough lately and it definitely helped.

I was stealing a lot more against the regs and 3betting them a lot as I realised I'm up huge when I 3bet (obviously this is mostly because I have AA/KK/QQ when I do this a lot of the time) but the regs at NL5 play 3bet pots without the initiative so badly (me included - big flaw of mine) so unless they 4bet it's easy money as most give up on the flop.

Been a while since I've got such a nice gift:

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

Hero (BTN): $12.23
SB: $5.00
BB: $7.02
UTG: $5.84
MP: $3.23
CO: $1.65

SB posts SB $0.02, BB posts BB $0.05

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

fold, MP raises to $0.15, fold, Hero raises to $0.50, fold, BB calls $0.45, fold

Flop: ($1.17, 2 players) 6 A 6
BB checks, Hero bets $0.70, BB raises to $1.40, Hero raises to $11.73 and is all-in, BB calls $5.12 and is all-in

Turn: ($14.21, 2 players) 5

River: ($14.21, 2 players) K

BB shows 8 8 (Two Pair, Eights and Sixes) (Pre 55%, Flop 8%, Turn 5%)
Hero shows K A (Two Pair, Aces and Kings) (Pre 45%, Flop 92%, Turn 95%)
Hero wins $13.62

Would of had a bigger decision but there's almost no chance he has 66/AA. Was expecting to be splitting the pot tbh but I'm not complaining!

Very weird hand:

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

BTN: $5.21
SB: $4.85
BB: $2.12
UTG: $4.29
MP: $7.83
Hero (CO): $7.29

SB posts SB $0.02, BB posts BB $0.05

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

fold, MP calls $0.05, Hero raises to $0.20, fold, SB raises to $0.60, fold, MP calls $0.55, Hero raises to $1.60, SB calls $1.00, MP calls $1.00

Flop: ($4.85, 3 players) K 8 8
SB checks, MP checks, Hero checks

Turn: ($4.85, 3 players) A
SB checks, MP checks, Hero bets $2.00, SB calls $2.00, fold

River: ($8.85, 2 players) 3
SB checks, Hero bets $1.25, fold

Hero wins $8.48

Folding with $1.25 behind. No idea what he could have here - QQ?

I've been 4-tabling Zoom lately and have watched every hand that I folded to data-mine faster. What do you guys think of this?

I think "lol"?

You don't need to watch the hand to get the HH, so you're actually slowing things down for yourself.

how are you data mining faster? as far as I understood, if you are in a hand, you get the full HH (click previous hand link, you shulkd see what happened at showdown)

For zoom poker at the smallest stakes.. do you guys think that its better to play with a $50 or $100 roll ... I plan on 4 tabling.

100th post. /flex. .. actually 101 post. shieeeet.

Oh I wasn't aware, thanks for the info. Now don't I look silly...

Better to look sillier than you are than to be sillier than you look

For some reason I can't convert my HH so i've put in all that is really required and removed villain and other players names for privacy purposes.

This is at a Zoom table, 11 hands on villain 18/18.

I'm pretty sure, regardless of stats we're stacking here, especially with 100bb effective stats. I just want to make sure that getting it in is fine and just forget it.

Seat 1: ($5.07 in chips)
Seat 2: ($2.57 in chips)
Seat 3: ($26.85 in chips)
Seat 4: VILLAIN ($5.41 in chips)
Seat 5: -($8.44 in chips)
Seat 6: ($2.96 in chips)
Seat 7: ($6.38 in chips)
Seat 8: ($8.09 in chips)
Seat 9: kevsaled3e ($9.68 in chips)
: posts small blind $0.02
: posts big blind $0.05
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to kevsaled3e [Ks Kc]
VILLAIN: raises $0.10 to $0.15
: folds
: folds
: folds
: folds
kevsaled3e: raises $0.35 to $0.50
: folds
: folds
: folds
VILLAIN: raises $0.45 to $0.95
kevsaled3e: raises $1.05 to $2
VILLAIN: raises $3.41 to $5.41 and is all-in
kevsaled3e: calls $3.41

I anticipated that there would be fish getting themselves all hyper after the Isildur showdown this evening

kev, if its zoom, paste it then delete the word Zoom fro mthe title/header.

hand is fine. Your 2nd raise is a bit :/ just shove to his 4bet.