First official Bankroll challenge 1210$ to 5000$ - completed

Wow -- nice graph!
Best of luck with your challenge!

Wow -- nice graph!
Best of luck with your challenge!

Thanks Vorpal!

I didn't have much time to play poker today but I manged to play some hands on NL25 and NL16.
It was a small win today on cash game for around 26$ but I also managed to play a sat to the Bounty Builder 55$. I could have got in but decided to aim for the last place before winning entry, since it would give me 40$ in cash and I realized I didn't have time to play the MTT today.

My biggest leak today was being unable to fold JJ on the BB vs a 4bet preflop from the SB who only 4bets 1%. Of course he had AA but still I couldn't find the fold button.
Same thing happend with my AA hand which I think I overplayed when villain had trips with 8. Trying to improve there but it's not always easy.

Total winnings today is +62$
Current BR: 1271$

New day tomorrow.

sick graph. I admire your results.

Best of luck!

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Thanks Avalon! Are you also playing cash game?

So now it has been nearly a week since I last updated and the reason why I haven't updated is beacuse I lost big while playing NL25 and NL16 some bad plays but also some bad beats. I ran up my BR up to 1351$ and then in 2 days I lost 300$ so the BR was at 1051$, it's really hard when it doesn't go the way you plan.
However I also know that in the long run I will be profitable and this is part of the game.

One of the reason I lost so big is that I targeted a superfish who went all in with nearly every hand, however he hit every time, J2o vs my AK, flop AJ, turn 2.
QQ vs A9o all in preflop, river A and such.
I will review my biggest losing hands later and try to improve. I believe that I also tilted a bit vs this player and in general.

I managed to get some hope today when I played and made 75$ in profit. My total BR is still lower then when I started, current BR 1120$.
I decided to move down to NL16 again when this happende and when I have about 50 BI I'll move up again.

Loss since this post: -90$

Except for this I also played some MTTs, got deep yesterday in a 5.50$ prog KO and finished 16th. Lost TT vs KK sb vs BB. AQ vs 99 and 99 vs KQ all in preflop in the end.

Anyway new week and new opportunities.

Another week has gone and I managed to play about 10 000 hands, fullring cash game. I still run a bit bad but somehow managed to make a profit. I also managed to play a few MTTS and finished in 85th place in the Bounty Builder 16.50$ for 75$ cash. Got unlucky in the end AK vs J8 all in preflop, flop 558, turn 8. Then KJ vs J2, flop J2, turn 2. Hopefully I'll make a FT another day.

Anyway I made a total profit of 408$ this week. BR is now at 1528$.

The biggest pot I had this week was on NL25 with this hand vs a superfish, stats over 90 VPIP.
PokerStars - $0.25 NL - Holdem - 8 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 196.56 BB
SB: 125.48 BB
BB: 49.8 BB
UTG: 100 BB
UTG+1: 235.88 BB
Hero (MP): 147.64 BB
MP+1: 100 BB
CO: 115.24 BB

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has A♠ A♦

fold, UTG+1 raises to 3 BB, Hero calls 3 BB, fold, fold, fold, fold, BB calls 2 BB

Flop: (9.4 BB, 3 players) 9♦ A♣ 2♣
BB checks, UTG+1 bets 5 BB, Hero raises to 16.36 BB, fold, UTG+1 calls 11.36 BB

Turn: (42.12 BB, 2 players) T♣
UTG+1 bets 26 BB, Hero calls 26 BB

River: (94.12 BB, 2 players) T♠
UTG+1 bets 44.96 BB, Hero raises to 102.28 BB and is all-in, UTG+1 calls 57.32 BB

Hero shows A♠ A♦ (Full House, Aces full of Tens)
(Pre 88%, Flop 99.9%, Turn 100%)
UTG+1 shows 2♥ A♥ (Two Pair, Aces and Tens)
(Pre 12%, Flop 0.1%, Turn 0%)
Hero wins 290.68 BB

decent looking graphs

That one big win can make a huge difference, can't it?

u look like full ring crusher.

Is this regular tables?

Thanks VorpalF2F, yes indeed that one big win can and will make a huge difference. If I win over 1000$ in one go, that would be a record for me. Someday...

Originally posted by kenthmp
u look like full ring crusher.

Is this regular tables?

Thanks, yes this is only fullring regular tables played on pokerstars.

I played a few hands today and had a pretty good session. I made 172$ in profit playing Nl25.
On top of that I also played a homegame which I won for 72$!

So total win or profit today was 244$.
My total BR is now at 1739$

Graphs below:

Your bankroll seems big enough to shot take NL50. No plans on doing so?

edit: Just read u like to have 50BIs. Keep grinding and crush 'em

Originally posted by kenthmp
Your bankroll seems big enough to shot take NL50. No plans on doing so?

edit: Just read u like to have 50BIs. Keep grinding and crush 'em

Yeah exactly, will do that when I have 50 BIs, however I did try a few hands out this morning and went ok, but quickly went back again, since I'm not properly rolled according to me. But it looks like the fish will still be fish

I had a try today on one NL50 table and it went ok.
Sofar it's looking ok. I made a profit today of 116,88$ The BR is now around 1830$

This was one of the hands that I won a fullstack with.
PokerStars - $0.50 NL - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

UTG: 180.8 BB
UTG+1: 100 BB
MP: 119.62 BB
MP+1: 103 BB
Hero (MP+2): 100 BB
CO: 81 BB
BTN: 100 BB
SB: 100 BB
BB: 99.46 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 3 BB, CO calls 3 BB, fold, fold, BB calls 2 BB

Flop: (9.5 BB, 3 players) 8♣ 4♠ 4♦
BB bets 11 BB, Hero calls 11 BB, fold

Turn: (31.5 BB, 2 players) Q♦
BB bets 10 BB, Hero raises to 33.96 BB, BB calls 23.96 BB

River: (99.42 BB, 2 players) K♠
BB checks, Hero bets 52.04 BB and is all-in, BB calls 51.5 BB and is all-in

Hero shows A♦ A♣ (Two Pair, Aces and Fours)
(Pre 78%, Flop 88%, Turn 95%)
BB shows T♠ 8♠ (Two Pair, Eights and Fours)
(Pre 22%, Flop 12%, Turn 5%)
Hero wins 198.42 BB

Nice run - keep it going!

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What, he called down T8 on a board with K and Q???

:f_o::f_o::f_o:

Originally posted by grimpop
I had a try today on one NL50 table and it went ok.
Sofar it's looking ok. I made a profit today of 116,88$ The BR is now around 1830$

This was one of the hands that I won a fullstack with.

The practice in North America is to use the comma for the thousands separator -- and the period for the decimal separator.
When I saw the "116,88$" I nearly popped an eyeball.

Nice hand, nice run...

Originally posted by kenthmp
:f_o:

What, he called down T8 on a board with K and Q???

:f_o::f_o::f_o:

Yeah I was quite surprised on NL50

Originally posted by VorpalF2F

Originally posted by grimpop
I had a try today on one NL50 table and it went ok.
Sofar it's looking ok. I made a profit today of 116,88$ The BR is now around 1830$

This was one of the hands that I won a fullstack with.

The practice in North America is to use the comma for the thousands separator -- and the period for the decimal separator.
When I saw the "116,88$" I nearly popped an eyeball.

Nice hand, nice run...

Oh I didn't know that, well definately not any thousands yet

Thanks I hope it continues like this