Happy Birthday TDA!

Thanks for the rail when i went semi-deepish in one of the micromillions.

+1

Its all about NLO.

Heh, April came and surprised me before I could get back to this.

I think a minraise in these games is a cheap steal, or a cheap attempt to see a flop, or very occasionally a trap for a 3bet to 4bet over.

My reads were very limited, but he didn't seem the aggro type, so I didn't think he was trapping.

AE and mikes007 have convinced me that 3bet or fold is a better line vs an unknown. I don't think my line of calling $2 here in a pot of $7 is a huge mistake though.

Flop c/r was big, but his bet was pathetic, so I was making up for that ...

I was pretty happy with my turn/river play. I don't think he has a boat here much at all, as he will 3bet the flop if he has a set most times.

As it turned out my read was kinda wrong. He is a passive station type, but not so nitty maybe.

He had QT and paid me off, which was the plan.

In for April since I blew up a good chunk of my bankroll in January and February.

Suggest me one haha

My first month grinding (2nl), i'm now taking a shot at 5nl this month. Good Luck everyone!

1. Work in $1.00 sngs to my rotation.
2. Play 500 games

Villain is very aggro, final tabled EPT London ME a couple of weeks ago.

He needs to learn not to bluff a calling station tho.



Poker Stars $1/$2 Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 6 players
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

BTN: $216.59
SB: $126.85
BB: $175.36
UTG: $214.15
MP: $189.25
Hero (CO): $878.87

Pre Flop: ($3.00) Hero is CO with K 9 A T
2 folds, Hero raises to $7, BTN calls $7, 1 fold, BB calls $5

Flop: ($22.00) 3 J 3 (3 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $13, BTN calls $13, BB folds

Turn: ($48.00) 2 (2 players)
Hero bets $24, BTN calls $24

River: ($96.00) K (2 players)
Hero bets $48, BTN raises to $172.59 all in, Hero calls $124.59

Final Pot: $441.18
BTN shows Q Q J 7 (two pair, Queens and Threes)
Hero shows K 9 A T (two pair, Kings and Threes)
Hero wins $438.38
(Rake: $2.80)




Also, 17650 vpps in March.

I think that may be my biggest monthly total, which is kinda weird as I don't think I played the volume I normally do.

Possibly zoom 200 running regularly over the last couple of weeks may having something to do with the appalling amount of rake I must have paid ...

I agree with you! The ****ty part of it is, I like to smoke though! I hate everything about it even down to the politics, but I enjoy having a smoke. I think that is going to be the hardest part about quitting. Also I hate getting up from the poker table to have a smoke losing out on possible value just to sit back down at the table smelling like an ash tray to whomever is sitting around me... I smoke and even I find that gross. But most of all I'm 26 and I've been smoking for 11+ years now and if I don't quit... well bad things will happen most likely haha. Send me a PM and let me know how you went about it the insight will help I'm sure.

There have been studies to show that if you quite smoking around the age of 30 after a while your lungs will recover as if you never smoked before. Obviously assuming you've never done anything major like got a tumour, etc.

There's a bit of inspiration for you to quit soon

In for April rungood
Goals:
1) Play 100K hands Zoom
2)Move up to 5NL Zoom
3)Make a plan on using my FPPs

Interesting. Maybe minraises are the same at that level then, i was thinking small PP or SCs initially.

Would you mind explaining briefly why the guys think 3bet is better otf? I've been doing a lot of research into 3betting recently. I agree if this was an LP steal but as it's from EP we can't really make judgement on how he'll play anything given our limited knowledge. Plus if he has an Axs type hand we wanna keep that in, not just fold it out imo. If he calls our 3bet we're oop without any info on him which is kinda crappy in a raised pot, esp if he's still around otr and we don't have the nuts

Damnit, called me out ha ha. Well there's a band called Tarkio, could use one of their album covers? People seem to like pandas round here too? Or go for something abstract like a tree to represent your growth and learning lol

Giraffes for March then. Ups and downs.

The up is at Stars, 5nl - 10nl BR now around $250ish




The down is on William Hill (Ipoker). 10nl - 5nl. Sick



Goals for April:
[ ] Get me RB payment at Will Hill and cashout (ldo!)
[ ] Stick to what I do best, Stars Zoom
[ ] Don't worry about volume/winnings, it's all about the decision making
[ ] Stop playing when I'm not on my A game
[ ] Keep watching vids and studying concepts
[ ] Post more hands and comment more in BQ and Micros forums

Have a good April everyone!!

OK, posted this in the March thread but I'll post it again.
First month playing 5NL.

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Got bonuses to clear in April.
Need to grind them out without losing the equivalent
Hopefully start winning at 5NL.

Is that a month playing 5nl? Volume seems to small.

Anyway doing a fun grind up the micros after my shot at hypers went horribly wrong. Going to grind through 2nl 8 tabling. Then 4-6 table 5nl and for 10nl I will probably start having to work on my game so may cut down the tables completely. Hopefully be at 10nl by the end of the month assuming I don't run bad and get some good volume in.

BR - ~$40 (after my first session)

As I explained in the March thread when I originally posted it, I stopped in the middle of the month for maybe a week.
And I did play some 2NL Zoom, but only a couple of 1000 hands.

That's pretty much the volume I play, I'm afraid, I doubt I'd top 15k hands in a full month.

Fair enough, gl with the grind.

Or an animal. Back in the days I had a corgi and iirc Dunna had a cat

Ha ha yeah that's right, with a Santa hat at Christmas obviously!

Decided new year was time for taking it more seriously, so needed a 'serious' avatar.

Imho Gamma needs to step up as well. No avatar at all. For a small stakes baller and respected poster I think that's outrageous

April is 5NL month

If I can get a $75 profit I will move up to 10NL again

I think I'll keep 6-tabling, and if I play 10 hours per week I should get 25k hands, so 6bb/100 as a winrate should be do-able.

haha cheers I'l have been looking into getting one but have't found anything good yet.
Sure I only got an avatar for stars a few weeks back,and that's after two years

It's March 31st. I didn't realise it was gone midnight when I posted that haha.

March was cool, I love running $150 under EV in cash games and further below in SNGs...



Still profited though and I guess that's enough.

Goals for April:

[ ] 30k hands
[ ] 100 9-man turbo SNGs
[ ] Either get some grinding done on my stake or manage to finish it prematurely. Just absolutely no desire to play on **** software after playing on Stars now.
[ ] (will probably come as a result of the first one) Retain GoldStar
[ ] Shot-take 50NL when I hit $1k BR
[ ] Stop being such a f fish

Bah, first session of March going well until this hand.
Lots of history on villain - 30/23 over 270 hands.
Low fold post flop.
Put him on an A or flush draw...

Full Tilt - $0.05 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

CO: $10.23
BTN: $2.45
Hero (SB): $6.38
BB: $1.40
UTG: $3.50
MP: $5.00

Hero posts SB $0.02, BB posts BB $0.05

Pre Flop: ($0.07) Hero has K A

fold, fold, CO raises to $0.20, BTN calls $0.20, Hero raises to $0.60, fold, CO calls $0.40, BTN calls $0.40

Flop: ($1.85, 3 players) A 7 2
Hero bets $0.90, CO raises to $2.04, fold, Hero calls $1.14

Turn: ($5.93, 2 players) 5
Hero checks, CO bets $4.06, Hero calls $3.74 and is all-in

River: ($13.41, 2 players) 9



Was kind of a nice session till then.
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