First official Bankroll challenge 1210$ to 5000$ - completed

It's been a while since my last posts and I did run bad at a time and it was a rough week.
I did try some NL50 and I did make some bad moves and then continued to run bad. However I still managed to make a profit after some days. Total winnings since last post is about +$370.
My Bankroll is a new personal record for me now at 2063$

This is my latest graph since the 17th of november.

I will still try to play some NL50 from time to time and just get used to it. The biggest pot I had was yesterday when I won 70$ in one pot vs a fish who tried with a river bluff. I'll post the hand below.

PokerStars - $0.50 NL - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: 130.88 BB
BB: 130.58 BB
UTG: 245.84 BB
UTG+1: 58.12 BB
MP: 100 BB
Hero (MP+1): 137.04 BB
MP+2: 175.74 BB
CO: 36.26 BB
BTN: 100 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has J♣ Q♣

fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 3 BB, MP+2 calls 3 BB, fold, BTN calls 3 BB, fold, fold

Flop: (10.5 BB, 3 players) 3♣ 5♦ Q♠
Hero bets 5.98 BB, MP+2 calls 5.98 BB, BTN calls 5.98 BB

Turn: (28.44 BB, 3 players) T♣
Hero bets 16.22 BB, MP+2 calls 16.22 BB, fold

River: (60.88 BB, 2 players) 7♦
Hero checks, MP+2 bets 150.54 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 111.84 BB and is all-in

MP+2 shows A♣ 5♣ (One Pair, Fives)
(Pre 58%, Flop 25%, Turn 27%)
Hero shows J♣ Q♣ (One Pair, Queens)
(Pre 42%, Flop 75%, Turn 73%)
Hero wins 280.56 BB

Here is my NL50 graph. I'm still up but I need to review some hands and see where I can improve my game.

So the journey continues and hopefully I'll be able to crush NL50 soon

14BB/100? sounds like crushing to me.

Teach me your ways orz

Yes ok but small sample size

A new week has gone and well it didn't start well, I lost 4 BIs at NL50 when taking shots, so about 200$. KK into QQ, river Q and such funny things.
I moved down to NL16 and NL25 and it was a rough grind things still not went my way and I made some bad decisions too, working to improve in some spots.

Was running below EV for about 8000 hands as you can see in the graph below.

Today I managed to SAT into the 109$ Sunday cooldown prog ko, but since I entered late because of that sat I only had 15BBs, and lost an all in AJ vs A4, river 4. But it was a nice experience anyway.

Except for that I played a homegame where I finished 4th out of 37 players and acutally took down this months leaderboard.

After all this I can now conclude that I made about 115$ in profit since the last post.
BR hasn't growed that much but is now at 2178$. The grind continues and I'll move up to NL50 at 2500$.

Looking back this month I've made nearly 1200$ in profit this month playing cash game. This is my best poker month ever!

Anyway new week tomorrow and soon new month, the grind continues!

Nice graph. Very well done, sir.

Very nice

I have to ask, is FR still all about the set mining and only playing AA/KK?

Originally posted by Dr1fter808
Nice graph. Very well done, sir.

Thanks!

Originally posted by kenthmp
Very nice

I have to ask, is FR still all about the set mining and only playing AA/KK?

No no, in general you raise about 10% utg, 15% - 20% from MP, and 40 -50% from late position. So definately more then set mining and AA and KK

Hi guys,

It's time for a new update. This week has been quite good, I decided to take more shots on NL50 but also mixing in some NL25 tables. I did make some stupid calls and moves on NL50 which I need to improve on, such as not being able to fold AA set when the board it AKJQ, and then facing a river reshove all in, which means I need to learn to fold in those spots. This is the hand I played wrong on the river and couldn't find the fold button.
PokerStars - $0.50 NL - Holdem - 7 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

MP: 100 BB
Hero (CO): 103.96 BB
BTN: 193.36 BB
SB: 99 BB
BB: 126.18 BB
UTG: 138.22 BB
UTG+1: 81.56 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, Hero raises to 3 BB, fold, SB calls 2.5 BB, fold

Flop: (7 BB, 2 players) K♠ A♠ J♥
SB checks, Hero bets 3.98 BB, SB calls 3.98 BB

Turn: (14.96 BB, 2 players) Q♥
SB checks, Hero bets 8.54 BB, SB calls 8.54 BB

River: (32.04 BB, 2 players) 6♥
SB checks, Hero bets 22.84 BB, SB raises to 83.48 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 60.64 BB

SB shows 3♦ T♦ (Straight, Ace High)
(Pre 16%, Flop 13%, Turn 74%)
Hero shows A♦ A♣ (Three of a Kind, Aces)
(Pre 84%, Flop 87%, Turn 26%)
SB wins 195 BB

Anyway I've played a few thousands hands and here is the graph since the last update:

Yesterday I also played and tried ti qualify for the Sunday million 215$ when 2 tickets paid and 3rd would get 41$. All went good until there was 4 players left, then Stars froze and I was chiplead. It turned out that pokerstars servers had shutdown and it took 3 hours before they solved it.
They cancelled the tournament and I found out that no one had the ticket but I received 151$ in cash, which still was nice.

Since the last post on the 30th of November, I've made a profit of +572$
My BR is now 2750$

The grind continues and I will play more NL50 games.

Originally posted by grimpop
This is the hand I played wrong on the river and couldn't find the fold button.

I hope you noted that your opponent called the flop with an only a gutshot.
I would question whether leading the turn and river is wise -- so many two-pair hands on boards like these.

Originally posted by VorpalF2F

Originally posted by grimpop
This is the hand I played wrong on the river and couldn't find the fold button.

I hope you noted that your opponent called the flop with an only a gutshot.
I would question whether leading the turn and river is wise -- so many two-pair hands on boards like these.

Well I didnt notice that until after but yes. More interesting is who calls with T3o these days. I agree somewhat on the turn but I still think continue to cbet is the best here, if he reraises then I might call depending on the size hoping to hit a fullhouse.
On the river however I made a baf play and shluld have just checked it no reason for me to lead there and especially call the show.

I wanted to show with this hand that sometimes I make these bad plays and its one of the spots where I need to improve.

In grneral, when a player reraises the river, is ut always a fold unless you have the nuts?

Originally posted by grimpop
In grneral, when a player reraises the river, is ut always a fold unless you have the nuts?

If what opponent represents is plausible, then fold for sure.
If not, you can bluff-catch -- but you need to be careful.
Some players will overbet the pot with busted draws for example, and some will do it with sets.

The call with AA vs X/R on 4 straight board is too loose. Even on NL500 - NL1k, i dont expect people to have a bluffing range often enough here. Also if you want to get value of top set on this board, you should downsize to 1/3 pot starting from the turn.

How many hours do you typically play in a day?

Following on twitch gl

Originally posted by Itsnevereasy
The call with AA vs X/R on 4 straight board is too loose. Even on NL500 - NL1k, i dont expect people to have a bluffing range often enough here. Also if you want to get value of top set on this board, you should downsize to 1/3 pot starting from the turn.

Yeah I realized that and it's something I need to work on. Ok thanks for the feedback will try to downsize to 1/3 pot.

Originally posted by kenthmp
How many hours do you typically play in a day?

That's a good question, I looked on my stats and last month the average was about 6 hours per day, so yes I play about 6 hours per day.

Originally posted by RedsYNWA
Following on twitch gl

Thanks!

Originally posted by grimpop

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

Went thread through quickly and this one caught my eye. Villain is whale and we dont 3bet AA preflop? Only reason I could think of is if there is really 3bet happy people behind trying to isolate open raiser. Should be as default 3bet 100% of time imo.

Originally posted by ghaleon

Originally posted by grimpop

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

Went thread through quickly and this one caught my eye. Villain is whale and we dont 3bet AA preflop? Only reason I could think of is if there is really 3bet happy people behind trying to isolate open raiser. Should be as default 3bet 100% of time imo.

Yes I totally agree, in this situation there was a guy who was 3betting very wide after me with over 20% 3bet preflop, however he folded this hand, so my plan was to bet big but didn't work out as I wanted to.