[November Marathon] - [JCSeerup] - Let's Kill Them All!

Turned out I slightly misunderstood the special offer w34z3l was giving away. Instead of a free coaching session it was a 1,5 hour sessions in the Leakfinder program instead of 1 hour sessions. obviously I had set my mind up to getting a free coaching session which was an outstanding offer, but this offer is still very good and it gives me a chance to get even more time to find my leaks and improve my game, so no I look forward to our first session this tuesday.

But now it's time to grind, I was thinking about making a lockdown, but that might be too much, so I will just play until I don't feel like playing any more, maybe taking a short break after each hour. But no more talk now lets grind it down!

Experimenting with checking the turn when I have top set, this time it wasn't pretty, but what do you think b/b/b? And how would you react to a shove on the river?

Poker Stars $5.00 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players - View hand 2357546
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

BTN: $5.02 - VPIP: 12, PFR: 6, 3B: 7, AF: 15.0, Hands: 225
SB: $2.99 - VPIP: 8, PFR: 2, 3B: 1, AF: 5.1, Hands: 534
BB: $5.20 - VPIP: 6, PFR: 6, 3B: 7, AF: 0.0, Hands: 32
UTG: $8.71 - VPIP: 11, PFR: 11, 3B: 0, AF: 0.0, Hands: 9
UTG+1: $3.53 - VPIP: 15, PFR: 4, 3B: 4, AF: 0.0, Hands: 68
UTG+2: $3.58 - VPIP: 17, PFR: 13, 3B: 0, AF: 0.0, Hands: 23
MP1: $6.55 - VPIP: 80, PFR: 20, 3B: 0, AF: 2.5, Hands: 5
MP2: $11.70 - VPIP: 14, PFR: 9, 3B: 4, AF: 10.0, Hands: 124
Hero (CO): $11.47

Pre Flop: ($0.07) Hero is CO with K K
3 folds, MP1 calls $0.05, 1 fold, Hero raises to $0.20, BTN calls $0.20, 2 folds, MP1 calls $0.15

Flop: ($0.67) 7 K 6 (3 players)
MP1 checks, Hero bets $0.41, BTN folds, MP1 calls $0.41

Turn: ($1.49) J (2 players)
MP1 checks, Hero checks

River: ($1.49) 9 (2 players)
MP1 bets $0.55, Hero raises to $2, MP1 raises to $5.94, Hero calls $3.94

Final Pot: $13.37
MP1 shows 5 8
Hero shows K K
MP1 wins $12.82
(Rake: $0.55)

I managed to put in a good session so far today, but the results was pretty terrible, but what can you do, sometimes the luck just ain't with you, at least I got a $10 bonus, so I breakeven for the day so far. I'm just gonna get something to eat and watch a couple of episodes of Big Bang Theory or whatever I feel like and then get back to grinding.

Red isn't so nice but if we do it playing well then it's only variance

How could I possible ask for a better setup? ♦

Poker Stars $0.02/$0.05 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players - View hand 2357740
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

BTN: $7.01
SB: $6.24
Hero (BB): $11.92
UTG: $3.66
UTG+1: $7.82
UTG+2: $3.51
MP1: $2.64
MP2: $4.63
CO: $6.62

Pre Flop: ($0.07) Hero is BB with A A
UTG raises to $0.15, UTG+1 calls $0.15, 6 folds, Hero raises to $0.75, UTG calls $0.60, UTG+1 calls $0.60

Flop: ($2.27) A 5 Q (3 players)
Hero bets $1, UTG raises to $2.91 all in, UTG+1 raises to $7.07 all in, Hero calls $6.07

Turn: ($19.32) 7 (3 players - 2 are all in)

River: ($19.32) T (3 players - 2 are all in)

Final Pot: $19.32
Hero shows A A (three of a kind, Aces)
UTG shows K A (a pair of Aces)
UTG+1 shows Q Q (three of a kind, Queens)
Hero wins $7.98
Hero wins $10.54
(Rake: $0.80)

Today I had another good day, making almost 8 BI's + $10 bonus, and I was even running above EV which is nice from time to time! ♦ My bankroll is now at 40,5 BI's for NL10, so I think I'm going to move up very soon. Tomorrow I got my first coaching session with w34z3l which I really look forward to, I hope he can point out some things I can work on and generally how I can work on my game so I can improve.

I'm still a bit behind schedule for the month but I hope to catch up the next couple of days and in the weekend I might even get a bit ahead of schedule if I work hard.

I came, I played, I got stacked

Had a coaching session with w34z3l this morning, and I got something I can work on. Afterwords I was very positive because he told me my game was alright and that I should try to move up. I did, but I didn't turn out to be as good an idea as expected. After about 3,000 hands I'm down about 8 BI's at NL10, so back to NL5 for a while

The plan is now to get something to eat and then come back and put in an insane amount of volume at NL5 and hopefully run a bit better

One weeks hard work at NL5, lost like that.

Felt like that after my session today too

I don't really feel like putting any words on my graph for the month besides it was going so well. And to top it off my FTP account just got locked for "missing documentation".

Yesterday I didn't play much, only a bit of NL2 and some MTT's where I was close to getting a big score when i got 25 of 1xxx in a $1 tournament. Afterwords I was thinking a lot about what I was going to do when it comes to poker and I decided that I want to work hard and win, so I sat down and started reviewing hands and for one of the first times I really felt I knew what I was going to do and it really felt good.

Today when I got back from work I sat down made some updates on my HUD and started grinding, it didn't end up being a very long session, but I felt like I played very, just grinding it down and exploiting as much as I could and I think it went very well! For the future I will try to stay as focused as today and watch out for every possible detail and I believe I can beat the game and finally move up. ♠_cool:

Now I will get back to reviewing. Today I just found out how to set up hotkeys to mark hands, so every time I was unsure about a hand today I got it marked.

Red line is definitely solid, keep up the good work, but more updates and ofc..

more gifs!

I haven't updated for a while simply because I have kept losing, and after my sessions all I wanted to do was watch some TV Shows to cheer me up. Also I haven't played a single hand so far this week, I have spent the little time I have on studying and sleeping..

After my coaching session with w34z3l sunday I kept losing although I think I played well enough to at least put up a positive session, so I think/hope that it's just run bad, but going into negative for the month I start to doubt if I just suck at poker and will never win again. So I decided to take a little break from playing, but that doesn't mean I can't study, I have especially been looking at 3 betting and 4 betting which w34z3l pointed out as something that needed improvement, the next thing I will focus on will be cold calling and reaction against 3 bets, which I think is going to be a bit harder.

Now lets get to the sad results :/

Today I decided to play a session for the first time this week, it was pretty clear in the beginning that last week was terrible, I did not play super great, but after some time I got in the zone and overall I think I played pretty good, but at the end I started losing, so decided to stop instead of starting to splash away money.

An other great thing happened to me today, for the first time in some months I made a royal flush and got paid big time...!

I just finished the session about 30 min ago, so I just looked at a couple of big hands and posted them here, I will try to look a bit more into the session and see how the things I have been working on was applied today.

KK Turn spot

T8s Flopped Flush All-in spot

If this is the one chance I got for posting a winning graph this week I'm not gonna blow it. ♦

Poker Stars $0.02/$0.05 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players - View hand 2369762
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

BTN: $2.52
SB: $4.71
BB: $6.29
UTG: $5.19
UTG+1: $4.43
UTG+2: $4.64
Hero (MP1): $8.76
MP2: $2.50
CO: $4.70

Pre Flop: ($0.07) Hero is MP1 with K Q
3 folds, Hero raises to $0.15, 4 folds, BB calls $0.10

Flop: ($0.32) 4 T J (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $0.21, BB raises to $0.72, Hero raises to $1.94, BB raises to $6.14 all in, Hero calls $4.20

Turn: ($12.60) 9 (2 players - 1 is all in)

River: ($12.60) 6 (2 players - 1 is all in)

Originally posted by JCSeerup
Goals for the month:

• 65,000 hands
• Profit before bonuses
• $60 in bonuses
• 10 gym sessions

Time to sum up teh moth.

Today:

This Month:

I think it was a pretty good month despite I had a nasty downswing when I took a shot a 10NL and I actually got in the negative for the month, but the danish viking warrior pulled through and came back in the green ♦ I also got $90 i bonuses so it's not all that bad.

This month I also feel like I have learned a ton, I have been looking a lot on my game and how I could improve it, I got two coaching by w34z3l and I got one more that I might have next weekend if he has time.

The only thing that didn't go as planned was the gym goal, I didn't even get signed up for the gym, but I realized pretty quickly that I probably don't have enough time to go to the gym next month I will hopefully drag my ass down there and get signed up and maybe go there in the weekends and one weekday, but I really want to spend as much time as possible on poker.

I'm really hoping to continue my run good and get a goodie bag after this challenge if they don't find me goof enough for the session review ♦

For got to post the last big hand of teh month ♦

Poker Stars $0.02/$0.05 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players - View hand 2369871
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

BTN: $8.43
SB: $5.97
Hero (BB): $23.20
UTG: $2.36
UTG+1: $3.72
UTG+2: $4.95
MP1: $4.01
MP2: $2.40
CO: $2.20

Pre Flop: ($0.07) Hero is BB with A A
6 folds, BTN raises to $0.15, 1 fold, Hero raises to $0.50, BTN raises to $1.20, Hero raises to $3.10, BTN calls $1.90

Flop: ($6.22) 3 3 T (2 players)
Hero bets $2, BTN raises to $4, Hero raises to $6, BTN calls $1.33 all in

Turn: ($16.88) 7 (2 players - 1 is all in)

River: ($16.88) T (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $16.88
BTN shows Q T (a full house, Tens full of Threes)
Hero shows A A (two pair, Aces and Tens)
BTN wins $16.18
(Rake: $0.70)

you played 70k ish hands? Seems to be quite a few of us wondering who gets the runner up coaching

Originally posted by LemOn36
you played 70k ish hands? Seems to be quite a few of us wondering who gets the runner up coaching

I think it's about more than volume, you gotta show that you apply yourself to the game in more ways than just table volume.

I will be honest and say I haven't read many other blogs, so I don't know how well everyone else has done, but I feel that I have done my best this month although the results could have been better.

Edit: Just realized realized the challenge is clearly volume based which is kind of a joke since it was pretty hard to find out about, but I don't want to be a bad loser (which is against my nature ♦ ). But GG to the winner, still hope I can win a goodie bag and that pokerstratgy will be more clear about what their competitions is about in the future, since I easily could have played 10-15K hands more this week which might have put me in the second place.

Originally posted by JCSeerup

Originally posted by LemOn36
you played 70k ish hands? Seems to be quite a few of us wondering who gets the runner up coaching

I think it's about more than volume, you gotta show that you apply yourself to the game in more ways than just table volume.

I will be honest and say I haven't read many other blogs, so I don't know how well everyone else has done, but I feel that I have done my best this month although the results could have been better.

Edit: Just realized realized the challenge is clearly volume based which is kind of a joke since it was pretty hard to find out about, but I don't want to be a bad loser (which is against my nature ♦ ). But GG to the winner, still hope I can win a goodie bag and that pokerstratgy will be more clear about what their competitions is about in the future, since I easily could have played 10-15K hands more this week which might have put me in the second place.

how can you play on FTP ? living in a different country now or ?

Originally posted by Avataren

Originally posted by JCSeerup

Originally posted by LemOn36
you played 70k ish hands? Seems to be quite a few of us wondering who gets the runner up coaching

I think it's about more than volume, you gotta show that you apply yourself to the game in more ways than just table volume.

I will be honest and say I haven't read many other blogs, so I don't know how well everyone else has done, but I feel that I have done my best this month although the results could have been better.

Edit: Just realized realized the challenge is clearly volume based which is kind of a joke since it was pretty hard to find out about, but I don't want to be a bad loser (which is against my nature ♦ ). But GG to the winner, still hope I can win a goodie bag and that pokerstratgy will be more clear about what their competitions is about in the future, since I easily could have played 10-15K hands more this week which might have put me in the second place.

how can you play on FTP ? living in a different country now or ?

I live in Dublin.