It's time for a new thread..... the old thread was depressing with all of the Black Friday stuff being in there. I think by now, most Americans know how they are going to handle poker post-BF.

What this thread is: It's basically a big poker goals and challenges thread, a bbv thread, and a strat thread all rolled into one. All of us with small bankroll and big dreams post in here to brag, bitch, get help, and motivate each other into improving and building a bankroll.

We are going to go from this:



To this:



Bankroll
Bodog: $400

Plan of Attack
- Start actually working on my game
- Focus mostly on cash games.. 10nl until I hit $500 on Bodog.
- Allow a few days per month for sngs/mtts.

Things in the game have changed... but there is still money to be made.. so on we gogogo!

Previous Thread

New thread, new beginning.

This is my first month of somewhat serious play - I screwed around on FTP and Carbon for 7 months but never got any volume in. I'd play 100 or 200 hands, if I did well I'd play again the next day, if I did poorly I'd get all mopey and quit for a couple of weeks. After all that I was almost exactly breakeven (well, okay, Full Tilt's still got my fifty bucks. I guess I'm a loser.)

My highest hands/month was 3000. I challenged myself to play at least 5,000 this month. It was a grind to play 167 hands a day, since I could only play two tables comfortably. I went on a cooler and tilted away a couple of NL5 buyins and got mopey again.

I set my goal at 5,000 hands so I had to keep playing. I decided I'd try my hand at limit. It was fun, but I wasn't very good, wasn't learning anything, and besides, my goal was to move up in NL. So I went back to the no-limit tables.

Whoops, accident. I left the search filter on my limit settings. So instead of playing NL5 I was seated at NL10. I decided to roll with it, had a winning session, and realized it wasn't all that much tougher than NL5 and I could probably do this.

Shortly after, something clicked and I could easily 4-table. Putting in hands was a breeze now.

I had a couple of bad sessions, and rather than be mopey and quit I decided to play through them. This, too, was a bad idea. I am much more prone to tilt than I thought, and was playing extremely sub-optimally. I blew 4 BIs in a 600 hand session and felt pretty miserable about it since I was playing very stupidly.

But, I came back, and through hard work (and just a little bit of luck (okay probably a lot)) reversed that. I'm very optimistic about next month - if I can come out slightly ahead tilting like a monkey, with a bit of discipline I can do a lot better next month.



Bankroll @ August 1: $100
Bankroll now: $105 (+$10 in bonuses)

I'm aware $100 isn't a sufficient roll for NL10 but that is just my account balance, I can afford to redeposit if necessary. If I bust, I will rebuy for $100 and move down to NL5.

Goals for September:
- Quit as soon as I feel like I'm not playing 100%. Even if there is a whale to your right. There's plenty of fish in the sea...
- 10k hands minimum
- Take a shot 6-tabling. I've 5/6-tabled a little bit while moving tables and waiting to unpost, but I'm not yet comfortable doing it a lot.
- I'd like to make SilverStar next month, which according to PS's site is about 12-13k hands at NL10. We'll see.

My graph is pretty breakeven but I feel like I've made a lot of progress the last 30 days. If I could only move up in stakes and add tables every month I'd be a millionaire in no time

Nevermind, down to -$20. Got riverred for stacks three times by whales calling down with air

1 month into rebuilding after BF, had a go at Live Proing it in homegames around my area (not 21 ) but failed, so back on the grind on Merge.

Basically all I'll say to all of you is that hard work pays off.

I was a lazy 180/mtt reg pre BF, barely studied etc, and since BF I've been working my ass off at improving and becoming one of the best regs playing my games.

ROI wise on the entire merge network im tied for #1 at 3% pre RB and I still study in HEM and SNG wiz about 1-2 hrs a day.

Always strive to improve every day


7/27



8/31:Note: Short the $2000 for winning the SNG LB; money will be credited tomorrow


August:
-Super turbo table profits: $1009
-Other game table profits: $172
Hourly Pre RB: $5.87
-Super turbo rakeback: $3863.61
-Other game rakeback: $157
-Leaderboard: $2000
-Total Profit: $7201.69
Hourly With RB/Bonuses: $35.76
-August prop bet profit: 300
-August staking/piece buying profit: 772.50
August Total Profit: 8274.19

Have just started NLHE after years of playing LHE, grinding from a starting roll of $200 at NL10.

Goal for September is to move up to NL25, so achieve a $500 roll by the end of the month.

Progress is good so far, coming up to 10k hands at approx 6ptbb/100.

What are the BR requirements for MTTs? Thinking of adding some MTTs into the mix once I hit my goal next month

If you grind them all the time.... you want 150-200 buyins. If you just plan on taking the occasional shot for something fun and different.. then I would say no more than the equivalent of one cash game buyin... preferably stick to like 50-100 buyins.

I will use this to log my progress with the assumption that no one is actually reading it.


Starting roll: I deposited $200 on RPM before they stopped accepting US players and have since run it up to $273 playing 25NL. I'll drop back down to 10NL if I dip to $200. Hopefully I can continue to run good.

I will be playing 10NL and 25NL with occasional MTTs and SNGs as time allows. I normally wouldn't care about keeping tabs in a public venue like this, but I figure having to share with the community will keep me more disciplined with regard to my largest leak: calling down to see if I was right.

I still haven't decided on HEM or PT3, and someone mentioned that there were some new versions coming out soon, so I may just wait for that to happen.

I don't have any actual goals other than to just play the best I can in each hand, having sound reasoning at least in my mind for every play I make. Too often I find myself on autopilot just playing my cards, missing out on value, good bluffing opportunities, or calling down too light when I know I should fold.

My goals for september:

- Stop cashing out!
- Getting from 6 tables to 9 tables without any lower Winrate
- Make at least 350$ in September
- Moving up after September
- Playing at least 30.000 Hands

BR Currently: 1097.66$ + 263.41$ on neteller + 47$ on FTP






This month

New thread, old thread....that is still a sweet, sweet graph.

I think I hate you.

This is my second time through; I played a lot last summer just trying to learn. Only deposited like $100 and eventually went busto. Didn't re-load and instead spent a few months reading and studying a bit. Had to put poker on the back burner for a while in the winter and spring due to some industry exams, but those are done for now. Deposited $500 a few months ago and started playing. Just to show you how out of the loop I was, I didn't even know about Black Friday until early June (!).

Anyway, was up a bit, down a bit, down a lot after hitting a few rough spots. Actually went and played some live poker at a casino here in London, and while I didn't do that great, something seemed to click and I went on a massive heater. Ended up all the way back to break even plus a 1BI profit. I hit a pretty big downswing for a couple of weeks and had to move down after my bankroll fell under $200, but have righted the ship quite a bit.

Current BR: $360
(P/L: -$140)
September goals: Try to play at least 5,000 hands. Get back to break even.

My bankroll on 31st August: $55.
By the end of September, I aim to have it up to $55.50.

My first entry in the new thread. I decided to have a go tonight, I played 1k hands and finished up about a buy-in. Annoyingly I was up over 2 but I ran bad in a few spots and was down on the session before I made some back. Every hand had something a bit nasty about it so apologies .

I could have 3bet pre-flop but didn't want to build a big pot OOP. I could have even jammed it on flop but decided to peel. Got it in with the nuts and villain in horrible shape and found a way to lose.

Hand #1
Poker Stars $0.02/$0.05 Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 6 players - View hand 1428098
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

MP: $5.88
CO: $6.24
BTN: $4.31
Hero (SB): $5.00
BB: $17.93
UTG: $2.65

Pre Flop: ($0.07) Hero is SB with Q A Q A
2 folds, CO raises to $0.17, 1 fold, Hero calls $0.15, 1 fold

Flop: ($0.39) 6 T 7 (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $0.30, Hero calls $0.30

Turn: ($0.99) Q (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $0.76, Hero raises to $3.23, CO raises to $5.77 all in, Hero calls $1.30 all in

River: ($10.05) 9 (2 players - 2 are all in)

Final Pot: $10.05
CO shows T T A 8 (a straight, Six to Ten)
Hero shows Q A Q A (three of a kind, Queens)
CO wins $9.55
(Rake: $0.50)
I got a bit lucky here.

Hand #2
Poker Stars $0.02/$0.05 Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 5 players - View hand 1428099
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

Hero (SB): $5.18
BB: $10.66
UTG: $5.00
CO: $6.24
BTN: $15.32

Pre Flop: ($0.07) Hero is SB with 5 T 9 T
UTG raises to $0.15, 1 fold, BTN calls $0.15, Hero calls $0.13, 1 fold

Flop: ($0.50) 3 A T (3 players)
Hero bets $0.38, UTG calls $0.38, BTN folds

Turn: ($1.26) K (2 players)
Hero bets $0.80, UTG raises to $3.60, Hero raises to $4.65 all in, UTG calls $0.87 all in

River: ($10.20) K (2 players - 2 are all in)

Final Pot: $10.20
Hero shows 5 T 9 T (a full house, Tens full of Kings)
UTG shows J T A Q (a straight, Ten to Ace)
Hero wins $9.70
(Rake: $0.50)

I decided to bet call on flop with NFD + backdoor flush draw. I didn't think turn was going to go check check and figured maybe i'd have some fold equity so I shoved it with my 2 flush draws and managed to hit.

Hand #3
Poker Stars $0.02/$0.05 Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 6 players - View hand 1428100
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

Hero (UTG): $6.26
MP: $9.54
CO: $5.00
BTN: $9.73
SB: $2.16
BB: $6.00

Pre Flop: ($0.07) Hero is UTG with A Q Q 6
Hero raises to $0.15, 1 fold, CO calls $0.15, BTN calls $0.15, 2 folds

Flop: ($0.52) 4 7 5 (3 players)
Hero bets $0.35, CO raises to $1.55, BTN folds, Hero calls $1.20

Turn: ($3.62) 2 (2 players)
Hero bets $3.44, CO calls $3.30 all in

River: ($10.22) 9 (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $10.22
Hero shows A Q Q 6 (a flush, Queen high)
CO shows J 4 Q 4 (three of a kind, Fours)
Hero wins $9.72
(Rake: $0.50)
meh....flopped the nuts and lost - standard.

Hand #4
Poker Stars $0.02/$0.05 Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 5 players - View hand 1428101
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

BTN: $5.00
SB: $3.02
Hero (BB): $5.30
UTG: $7.84
CO: $11.90

Pre Flop: ($0.07) Hero is BB with J 9 8 K
1 fold, CO calls $0.05, 1 fold, SB raises to $0.15, Hero raises to $0.40, 1 fold, SB calls $0.25

Flop: ($0.85) T 8 7 (2 players)
SB bets $0.81, Hero raises to $3.24, SB calls $1.81 all in

Turn: ($6.09) 9 (2 players - 1 is all in)

River: ($6.09) 2 (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $6.09
SB shows A 5 A 4 (a flush, Ace high)
Hero shows J 9 8 K (a straight, Seven to Jack)
SB wins $5.79
(Rake: $0.30)

I was trying to isolate the short stack. MP is such a huge nit, i've rarely seen them put money into the pot with anything but the nuts. The hand's pretty standard on my part, just sucked to lose.

Hand #5
Poker Stars $0.02/$0.05 Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 6 players - View hand 1428102
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

UTG: $3.59
MP: $14.96
Hero (CO): $6.52
BTN: $8.84
SB: $6.98
BB: $2.20

Pre Flop: ($0.07) Hero is CO with A A K T
1 fold, MP calls $0.05, Hero raises to $0.15, 1 fold, SB calls $0.13, BB raises to $0.65, MP calls $0.60, Hero raises to $2.75, 1 fold, BB calls $1.55 all in, MP calls $2.10

Flop: ($7.85) 5 J 4 (3 players - 1 is all in)
MP checks, Hero bets $3.77 all in, MP calls $3.77

Turn: ($15.39) 6 (3 players - 2 are all in)

River: ($15.39) 9 (3 players - 2 are all in)

Final Pot: $15.39
MP shows 7 4 5 6 (two pair, Sixes and Fives)
Hero shows A A K T (a pair of Aces)
BB shows Q Q T 7 (a pair of Queens)
MP wins $8.22
MP wins $6.42
(Rake: $0.75)

lol...the dream flop for me and the turn was the worst card in the deck and I need to get a lucky river to win.

Hand #6
Poker Stars $0.02/$0.05 Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 5 players - View hand 1428103
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

Hero (UTG): $6.00
CO: $7.11
BTN: $2.61
SB: $12.45
BB: $5.05

Pre Flop: ($0.07) Hero is UTG with J 2 A J
Hero raises to $0.15, 1 fold, BTN calls $0.15, 2 folds

Flop: ($0.37) 9 J 5 (2 players)
Hero bets $0.27, BTN calls $0.27

Turn: ($0.91) 7 (2 players)
Hero bets $0.60, BTN raises to $2.19 all in, Hero calls $1.59

River: ($5.29) 3 (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $5.29
Hero shows J 2 A J (three of a kind, Jacks)
BTN shows Q A T 8 (a straight, Seven to Jack)
BTN wins $5.03
(Rake: $0.26)

This was a bit tilting i've got to say, I probably could have found a 4bet pre-flop but didn't want to face a 5bet. Villain was 30% to win and we were 13.66% to chop.

Hand #7
Poker Stars $0.02/$0.05 Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 6 players - View hand 1428104
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

BTN: $5.87
SB: $7.33
BB: $9.17
UTG: $5.00
Hero (MP): $5.00
CO: $7.50

Pre Flop: ($0.07) Hero is MP with T J A K
1 fold, Hero raises to $0.17, 1 fold, BTN raises to $0.49, 2 folds, Hero calls $0.32

Flop: ($1.05) J K 3 (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $0.67, Hero raises to $3.01, BTN raises to $5.38 all in, Hero calls $1.50 all in

Turn: ($10.07) 6 (2 players - 2 are all in)

River: ($10.07) A (2 players - 2 are all in)

Final Pot: $10.07
BTN shows A Q T K (a straight, Ten to Ace)
Hero shows T J A K (two pair, Aces and Kings)
BTN wins $9.57
(Rake: $0.50)

This was pretty easy.

Hand #8
Poker Stars $0.02/$0.05 Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 6 players - View hand 1428105
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

Hero (BB): $5.45
UTG: $5.93
MP: $7.01
CO: $11.78
BTN: $2.09
SB: $6.15

Pre Flop: ($0.07) Hero is BB with 9 5 5 7
1 fold, MP calls $0.05, 1 fold, BTN calls $0.05, 1 fold, Hero checks

Flop: ($0.17) 8 5 6 (3 players)
Hero bets $0.13, MP raises to $0.50, BTN calls $0.50, Hero raises to $2.17, MP raises to $6.96 all in, BTN calls $1.54 all in, Hero calls $3.23 all in

Turn: ($13.01) A (3 players - 3 are all in)

River: ($13.01) 7 (3 players - 3 are all in)

Final Pot: $13.01
Hero shows 9 5 5 7 (a straight, Five to Nine)
MP shows 3 7 4 4 (a straight, Four to Eight)
BTN shows 7 3 T T (a pair of Tens)
Hero wins $6.38
Hero wins $5.98
(Rake: $0.65)

New thread, ooh ^^

I was actually on the winning end of one of these classic holdem situations today:

Poker Stars $0.05/$0.10 No Limit Hold'em - 4 players
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

BTN: $19.05
SB: $10.10
BB: $10.00
Hero (CO): $17.69

Pre Flop: ($0.15) Hero is CO with 9 9
Hero raises to $0.30, 1 fold, SB calls $0.25, 1 fold

Flop: ($0.70) A 9 6 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $0.30, SB raises to $1.09, Hero raises to $3.22, SB raises to $7.42, Hero raises to $17.39 all in, SB calls $2.38 all in

Turn: ($20.30) 8 (2 players - 2 are all in)

River: ($20.30) K (2 players - 2 are all in)

Final Pot: $20.30
SB shows 6 6 (three of a kind, Sixes)
Hero shows 9 9 (three of a kind, Nines)
Hero wins $19.30
(Rake: $1.00)

Took a shot at NL10 and had a + $25 session, which is nice since I've been running like crap lately.

flop sizing is v bad

BR: 1k liferoll.
Plan of attack: Be a recreational donk and run good. Replenish and take breaks as necessary.
Stakes: 1/2 NL, The Borgata.
Goal: Have a real BR and maybe be able to play online one day again.

gl blane and others

i miss the old thread kinda

So do I. I was in the midst of a break before BF. I came back for a week then boom the lights went out.

long time, no post

Since then:

-Cashed out 80% of my BR before travelling around SE Asia for 5 months (life-changing time btw, if you're thinking about it, JUST DO IT!)
-panic cashed out the rest of my roll from Pstars on BF
-used $50 I left on to build back up to $250
-currently playing using aggressive BRM (I have progressed enough emotionally by this point to play 25NL with 10 BI)

So far at 25NL, I've ran well, until I had my first losing session today ... brought me down to $249 from $278, so back to 10NL for a session (hopefully just one!)

BR: $249 (stars)

Peter2k can you please explain to me how you get a graph like that?

As i wrote on other thread.. Sorry for my bad english first But i hope to help u a little bit Or do u mean how to get it??? Use Holdemmanager

1. Open Fullring Table
2. Search for fish
How do i identify fish?
- Mostly Halfstacks or 70-80bb stacks
- Players who have Auto rebuy/Top Up disabled
- Stats
- Notes

3. Dont mess with Regs
4. Play tight
- Play as many hands against the fish In position as u can! Try to see the flop as cheap as u can with speculative Hands. If you hit good... bet bet bet

5. Learn how to fold
6. Learn how to Squeeze max value out of fish
7. Dont bluff the monkey
8. Read them Like a book
9. If the fish leavs table... leave it too (Only play if there is at least 1 fish)
10. Profit????




No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (9 handed) - Hold'em Manager Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

MP2 ($2.35)
MP3 ($6)
CO ($11.25)
Button ($9.70)
SB ($17.04)
BB ($32.65)
Hero (UTG) ($10.83)
UTG+1 ($4.83)
MP1 ($1.95)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with 5, 5
Hero calls $0.10, UTG+1 calls $0.10, 3 folds, CO calls $0.10, Button calls $0.10, 1 fold, BB checks

Flop: ($0.55) 7, 5, 10 (5 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $0.41, UTG+1 calls $0.41, CO calls $0.41, Button calls $0.41, 1 fold

Turn: ($2.19) J (4 players)
Hero checks, UTG+1 bets $1.09, 1 fold, Button raises $3.08, Hero folds, UTG+1 raises $3.23 (All-In), Button calls $1.24

River: ($10.83) 2 (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: $10.83

Results:
Button had 8, 9 (straight, Jack high).
UTG+1 had 10, 9 (one pair, tens).
Outcome: Button won $10.29

Well I always saw these threads and never participated in them but now seems like a good time since I took my roll down to 400 so I could buy a car.

Current bankroll $395 on Bodog.
I plan on playing a whole lotta $6 turbos and $10 and $20 MTT's til I bink.
Hopefully it'll be the 100k


O ya Ice_W0lf I didn't know you played Bodog. Whats ur SN?

Might need to move down (my cutoff is BR of $250). Had a bit of a bad session last night; most of the losses came on 3 hands. One hand I think I just went too far in the hand with just TPGK. One hand I got rivered. And one hand I kinda out-leveled myself against a 70/12 fish (lesson: even fish can have good hands on occasion...).

BR: $252
(P/L: -$248)
September goals: Try to play at least 5,000 hands. Get back to break even.

Im going to try be fairly more active in this thread and hopefully we will have a new bunch of people posting.

BR on Stars: $365

As it stands: Moving from 5NL to 10NL by mixing tables while 6 tabling.

Aim for month: Completely move to 10NL and hopefully be near $500 depending on volume. I have half this month free though, so time to hit the grind!

Edit: If any other 5NL regs want to discuss screennames/stats I might have on them feel free to PM me.

Roll: 1030€ on entraction + ~$30 on stars

Plan: PLO20€ and PLO10€ on entraction.

Goals:

- get better & win monies & move up.
- try to play more to get more volume.
- Have fun.

GL!

So far I've played like a complete moron today
Let me know what you would do in this spot? Villain had been playing kind of snug, not opening with too many hands, but I didn't have alot of hands on him either.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (6 handed) - PokerStars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

UTG ($15.81)
MP ($24.74)
CO ($10.45)
Hero (Button) ($7.31)
SB ($3.78)
BB ($10.34)

Preflop: Hero is Button with 9, 9
UTG bets $0.30, 1 fold, CO calls $0.30, Hero calls $0.30, 1 fold, BB calls $0.20

Flop: ($1.25) 8, 7, 2 (4 players)
BB checks, UTG bets $0.90, 1 fold, Hero calls $0.90, 1 fold

Turn: ($3.05) 3 (2 players)
UTG bets $1.90

Would he fire on the turn with hands like AK, AQ after getting called on the flop? I didn't think the flop hit his range.