binkmepls blog (with Pleno!)

You could always post at our Hand Evaluation forums for our professional hand judges to comment, everyone can do with some challenging feedback from time to time.

First hand, 3x overbet, not really anything that's worth risking that much with there, you'd need to be right sooooo often to be worth it.

Third hand, you're getting almost 2:1 on shoving without calls, and it just gets better from there the more come in, so I don't see how it will be wrong often enough that it would be too much of an issue just jamming. (But I'm not the one to listen to)

MFW I see you check the turn in all of those hands

Bet for value FFS

love your posts callum... more pics itt!

Cliffs of the big posts on previous page
- playing 10nl 6max cash online @ WPT poker..
- came from LIVE and struggled for first 60-80k hands
- now much more solid and strong fundamentals, seeing good results

- playing live satellites into £150/£250 and £500 live events @ DTD poker club, nottingham.
- having much improved results the more i play

- studying a lot of online videos with a mixture of live and online tips/ strategy
- been embracing a better approach to attitude and behaviour
- had much better results in big tournaments as a result
- came 11th when my 10's couldn't beat KJ aipf for 2.1m out of 9m in play vs Rupinder Bedi @ £200k GTD DTD£500 in May....

- working hard and #lovethegame
- currently backed by pleno

Getting crushed atm..

lost a few standard all ins, one terrible one and an unfortunate couple of hands.. c'est la vie.

I think i have a really great mindset, i just need more time atm. With every hand I'm growing in appreciation of both poker and patience.

I have a lot more respect than i used to for the 50k+ month grinders... esp since my mate pulls 125k+ regularly.

Its definitely the hardest way to earn an easy $ i know!

Kept morale high and didn't look at graph much throughout session but knew I was losing in the start/ mid stages...

Thought I was still losing, but just less now... then i looked and over 3hrs and 751 hands I have won a total of $-2.46. ♦ ♦ ♦
#lovethegame

Feeling so chuffed with this session, so much good in it. So much discipline, and still a few mistakes... maybe 2bi's worth.
Loving it though!

Shame about the 2bi's worth of runbad but meh.... is supposed to beat aipf 37.912% of the time anyways!

keeeep it up, more time pls.

June 17 0320 am
Just finished a long session but feeling super good about it!

played so solid, made a mistake or two near the start then just grinded my ass off and after a few swings.. most brutal was getting to 2bi's up then blowing it down to 1.5bi down in like 100 hand stretch... finished highest point of night at over 2.5bi's which is meh...

But its all bb's people! = won @ 21.29bb/100 over 1200 hands... BOOM!

Graph looks horrid tho as its got a super slow down redline but an up and up and up blue... (red = non showdown/ blue = showdown)
(means I had the best hand at the river a lot but folded in the hands a LOT)

but the green is all that matters and $$ in the + column is the idea.

Even have a couple of examples of 'standard' online stuff but coming from a live background this literally makes my skin crawl to do it.

Check this out:
1.
http://wt.ag/LwEHN5

2.
http://wt.ag/LwEMQR

3. Was really annoyed with this as I kinda 'expected it', shoulda checked back but meh... going to shove it up his ass next time!
http://wt.ag/LwF7mI

4. biggest pot of all 1227, easily a stupid and unrepeatable mistake.. had callum on the skype n teamviewer at the time, he was like WTF u doing... u mug...
http://wt.ag/LwFg9M

[X] mug confirmed.

5. didn't get there...
http://wt.ag/LwFqOk

HOWEVER... some good hands... Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy

1. I literally typed in skype "I've just gotten lucky vs AA I think..." on the flop of this hand.
http://wt.ag/LX0IsK
wp sir

2. Seems spewy but i expected this guy to have literally atc here, or any purr..... definitely for value..
http://wt.ag/LX0TUM

3. GAME OVER - please insert more coins
http://wt.ag/LX13vs

4. Little sick i guess, but meh... whatever... definitely think i shoulda reshoved flop.
http://wt.ag/LX1k1u

5. Was also typing in chat to Callum, "this guy is taking off here, I'm cc any river.... ohhhh snap.... and ......................................win, ty." (as callum says 'i wouldnt call here, its for value...')
http://wt.ag/LX1C8u

In yo face....

So that's my evening.. had a couple of wodka cokes, enjoying some authentic Russian wodka, can't type the name as its in cyrillic but meh.. tasty. Now to bed and to apparently take C to the train station in the morn... gl me.

peace..

p.s. When i have a graph or something looking even remotely decent, I'm going to get it and rub it all over the titties in Alex 'made100kez' and Pleno 'beatseverythingthatcanuseacomputer' 's joint faces! ♦ ♦ ♦

(BTW forum mods... I'm struggling with the extended editor and pictures, it says it won't accept them etc.. can you send me a pm explaining/ helping please - I want to Callumn-esque Gif this blog!!!)

Today is a big day....

Today marks our first LEVEL UP! (in this case it is 'going back up' but still its going UP!)

Had a chat with Pleno yesterday and he confirmed out BRM system will be as follows

20bi's with a 4bi drop down.
Equates to =
10NL - $200
25NL - $500
50NL - $1000
100NL - $2000

And today we finished the session +$37.61 over 563 hands and won at a 66.63bb/100 rate, which puts our BR at $508.77

This marks my official re-entry to 25NL and hopefully I will be staying there and moving through rather swiftly now I'm playing so much more solidly and fundamentally stronger.

Had a sweet 1-2-combo today where I table selected a fish and a few hands into the second table with him I called a bluff of his on two spades
where I check flop, he checks back, I check call turn and he pots river... I've already decided I'm calling ANY river and snap. I had and he turns up with . Cheesy
Then INST-3bt him on the other table... and this happens!>>>>

http://wt.ag/Mn8QPQ

I loll'ed so hard it made a little weeee come out.

I then proceeded to play really solid and bleed so little, I tried to 'win' a few hands that weren't rightly mine by check raising or donking in spots where I expected folds - I got them and I managed to make a few nice calls!

All in all, good day at the office and
"we're moving on up.... its time to break free...... nooooothing can stop me!"
(except losing $50 tomorrow and hitting stop loss and bi loss in one go - but hey ho..)

First session @ 25nl...

more like it please!

It won't let me put a pic from my computer up, so I'll put session details up.

445 hands
86 minutes
net won - $80.21
72.10bb/100 (sustainable ofc!)

♦ ♦ ♦

happy days, ran pretty sweet in a bunch of spots and made one bad raise, bet, bet, shove... but its ok. I know what and why I should've done, won't do it again in the same spot I hope.

So after playing nice and solid for a while and earning 25nl, and then focusing yesterday to make sure I didn't lapse into 'old John'....

Well i waited an extra day but it happened.

So upset with myself i almost debated not posting this but if i don't it defeats the point of this whole thing. One of the things I hold in myself different to others in both poker and life is that in lots of situations I just 'tell the truth' about what I want/ have/ have done and others either exaggerate or fib/lie or leave out details.

I knew today was bad but hadn't realised how bad.
(sorry pat, I'll make sure I do 'look' to check next time)

Really simple, I didn't win a lot at showdown..

stats were a depressing

22.7 VPIP
19.3 PFR
8.2 3bt
31 WTSD%
16.7 W$SD%
2.85 Agg

Everything is relatively 'normal for me, maybe a tiny bit too many showdowns..

The sucky thing is I actually 'got there'.... A LOT... ..... already dead. Ah.....

Here is a 'fair' example of the hands we did not win today: (some are painful, but in game it seemed 'ok')

http://wt.ag/KUliGm - we shove because when I've seen people check minr its normally nutted but ckr small has often been / type hands.. I figured he would be forced to fold a decent % with these type hands as I have a blocker to a lot of the 'monster' draws.

http://wt.ag/KUlQMv - hand before I had AKo as well and raise/4bt it..... vs this villain I'm really sure he will have A8, 99-JJ sometimes, X, and other random 910 type hands enough that this should be fine - i think.

http://wt.ag/KUm9aj - fairly sure I leveled myself here... I check the flop to try and look like AA, KK, QQ and I was check shoving. This villain has been rather tight vs me pre, but in this spot with the btn I don't expect him to be nutted - AND he has not seen me cold 4b once. So I bet/ shove in order to look like the hands stated... obv he's just said "well I ckb flop so he's taking off..." which is such a shame that its true for a different reason. SUXXXXX.

http://wt.ag/KUmslf - complete misclick pre, i was trying to do something on another table that was slightly overlapping and i minraise pre... fml. then was never folding that flop. got there innit.

http://wt.ag/KUmFoJ - completely playing his range... I was 100% he had A8-AJ.. Shame I'm right about somethings sometimes..
MUST NOT TRY TO MAKE PEOPLE FOLD TP @ 25NL

http://wt.ag/KUmOIO - I had notes on this guy playing strangely in and out of position.. he'd flatted AQ/ AK IP but been hyper aggro OOP... therefore I weight his range to AK/AQ almost exclusively and didn't love the call but asked myself "if we think he has AQ/ AK all the time, why are we slowrolling him?"

Turns out, he has dem AA's and just decided to 'hope' I could call. sigh.

http://wt.ag/KUni1j - going for value... (not using the word thin because I don't think it is)...... guess he had an A.

http://wt.ag/KUnDRS - 71/19 over 20 hands and had played them badly... didn't figure I'd be behind here very often, if at all.

Sucks so much, really disappointed and sick part is i feel 'fine' I only finished because I lost a bunch of 'silly' hands in a row at the end then thought I'd check how bad it was and if we were near stop loss yet, turns out..... we were past it quite a bit. I don't look @ HEM during a session now as advised by my skype group... but today that didn't help me stop where I guess I should have.

Other than this I don't know what to say except that I will be back soon... would be nice to stay a few nights next time.

Not sure what to do for the rest of the eve tbh.. just want to grind.

#sometimesthegamedoesntloveyou

Had a few decent sessions @ 10nl and got myself back up to 25nl already... had two days worth of play @ 25nl and we're back up and winning!

Had a messy day today, this was our graph..

We ran bad for about 3bi's but still managed a winning session, more pls!

No blowups yet and on our way to beating 25nl, keep going like this and 50nl in a few weeks!

Got Tallinn this weekend for a Stag Do, that's no longer officially a stag-do as she's left him... But f*ck it, we're off for a lads holiday anyways!
Don't worry Charlene, it will be fine... i'll just be very hung over on Monday when I wake up. Cheesy Cheesy

Here are some of the biggest hands..
http://wt.ag/MnQT7q - this guy was 50/50 over a small sample so figured he's going to call too much pre and may even shove too much.. therefore 4bt = good, normally im probably flatting here.

http://wt.ag/MnYGSD - dont even like river call...

http://wt.ag/MnYLph - this will seem crazy at these limits but this guy is mental and super ool bvb - fistpumping till river....

http://wt.ag/MnYP8D - tytyty Cheesy

http://wt.ag/MnYTFo - this used to be me! lol thanks mate.

http://wt.ag/MnYVx3 - really hard to explain but in game I was SURE I was good.... apparently i was right.

Worst one...
http://wt.ag/MnZ8Ap - Urtyba takes so long to fold it was so torturous.... obv he gets insta-service... this one was a little annoying. Right as i hit the 720 hands or so.

Lets stay here this time... ♦ ♦

Any recommendations about the blog are more than welcome, it seems the community on here are very different to the other blog I have.

Also
- PS.com vid series I should watch as an aspiring micro stakes player as i move through and into small stakes?

- good articles/ coaches to look out for in the lobby?

- anything else helpful?

tyty

I would shout WTF and fold in the AT vs QQ hand. River sizing is too big imo

$8.75 is about right

Not a fan of 3b/5b 55 at 25nl tbh but you said the guy was a loon so it cant be awful.

I think you have to jam turn in the TT hand. Too many river cards are going to suck balls.

AA hand

JT hand seems like a big spew and you were lucky to walk into the very bottom of his range. Just fold flop, people aren't bluff raising here enough and his overall range has you crushed

KQ hand when the board pairs.