Accomplish the objective and get the best out of myself!

It’s great that you have started your first blog here.
I newer been to Thailand. How’s life there?

Further I wish you all the best in 2016 and reaching your goal before your education will start

Cheers,
SDK1987

Thanks SDK

I definitely recommend you to visit Thailand one day, being a tourist here is awesome! So much to see, everything is cheap and almost everyone considers the food is one of the greatest.

Wish you too that all the best may come to you and thanks for your support!

Cheers,
Hesticus

YW. I survived New Years Eve easy.
Time will tell if I visit Thailand 1 day. It would be the first time to fly for me as well.

First time can be scary but it will open up a new world once stepping in the unknown

Great beginning to the blog, wish you all the best! Wouldn't mind some photos as well!

Hey Hesticus,

Welcome to the 'Get Rich or Die Tryin' bankroll challenge. If you like, you can also register your twitch channel at Post your twitch streams >>HERE<<.

Have fun

Laz

Originally posted by vonki
Great beginning to the blog, wish you all the best! Wouldn't mind some photos as well!

Thanks a lot! Will share some 'Booms' as well. Come see me at Twitch occasionally I will follow your blog as well and saw at the beginning you are planning to broadcast as well?

Originally posted by Lazza61
Hey Hesticus,

Welcome to the 'Get Rich or Die Tryin' bankroll challenge. If you like, you can also register your twitch channel at Post your twitch streams >>HERE<<.

Have fun

Laz

Excellent idea, thanks! Have signed up now. Also put my sites in my signature but try to make it work properly.

I thought about it in the beginning but I am not familiar with twitch so I haven't had the time to look into it yet, but I might stop by to watch yours, if I figure out how to know when you're online!

Click on my signature below and when you are on my site, click the heart sign (it says 'follow')

Update week 1

In one of the previous blogs of someone I saw that people don't like long texts so I will try to keep it as short as possible.

I haven't played many hands last week since I was busy setting up my Twitch and arrange some other stuff.

BR Week 0: $100
BR Week 1: $103.08
Others (S&G, MTT, etc.) $2
Profit according HM2: $1.08

If I did this incorrectly, let me know.

I would like to address the following 2 hands:

Hand 1
Poker Stars $2.00 No Limit Hold'em - 5 players
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

BB: $0.69 - VPIP: 50, PFR: 28, 3B: 0, AF: 7.0, Hands: 32
UTG: $0.57 - VPIP: 30, PFR: 10, 3B: 0, AF: 0.0, Hands: 10
CO: $2.09 - VPIP: 13, PFR: 9, 3B: 0, AF: 1.0, Hands: 55
BTN: $2.39 - VPIP: 28, PFR: 22, 3B: 11, AF: 0.7, Hands: 46
Hero (SB): $4.13 - VPIP: 22, PFR: 17, 3B: 6, AF: 1.9, Hands: 1162

Pre Flop: ($0.03) Hero is SB with 9 A
2 folds, BTN raises to $0.06, Hero calls $0.05, BB calls $0.04

Flop: ($0.18) 8 4 9 (3 players)
Hero bets $0.12, BB folds, BTN calls $0.12

Turn: ($0.42) 6 (2 players)
Hero bets $0.20, BTN calls $0.20

River: ($0.82) Q (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $0.38, Hero calls $0.38

Concerning his stats he could be opening with a wide range. Not going into too much details, my questions:
1) Should I have 3-Bet him?
2) Should I have not paid him off OTR?
He had some SD combos but the Q was actually a good card for me. Let me know guys and we can discuss further on this hand, I would be happy to

Hand 2
Poker Stars $2.00 No Limit Hold'em - 5 players
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

Hero (UTG): $3.60 - VPIP: 22, PFR: 17, 3B: 6, AF: 1.9, Hands: 1162
CO: $2.03 - VPIP: 16, PFR: 14, 3B: 3, AF: 1.5, Hands: 80
BTN: $3.87 - VPIP: 33, PFR: 9, 3B: 3, AF: 1.4, Hands: 78
SB: $0.70 - VPIP: 86, PFR: 29, 3B: 25, AF: 2.3, Hands: 21
BB: $2.00 - VPIP: 19, PFR: 16, 3B: 0, AF: 0.0, Hands: 43

Pre Flop: ($0.03) Hero is UTG with 8 A
Hero raises to $0.06, 2 folds, SB raises to $0.10, 1 fold, Hero calls $0.04

Flop: ($0.22) T A J (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $0.15, SB calls $0.15

Turn: ($0.52) K (2 players)
SB checks, Hero checks

River: ($0.52) T (2 players)
SB bets $0.32, Hero calls $0.32

It was a complete fish and maybe I shouldn't worry too much about this hand.

Hope to hear some comments and I will be happy to dig more into these hands!

Cheers!
Hesticus

Ok, 1 more pic for the show

OMG guys, yesterday I had a terrible evening! I started playing well but then a fish came at the table in which you would always say 'that is good news!'. However, I don't know what happened (actually, I think I do) but I was spewing chips and made such bad plays and was really really angry at myself.

Hand 1

Hand 2

I am quite ashamed of these hands but I post them anyway. I don't think it's necessarily a lack of skills, rather I think I have some kind of anxiety in which I just do not think anymore but just try to steal without asking myself 'why?'. In the second hand I clearly was on tilt and didn't think straight anymore.

I see 2 options to work on it:

1) Get a (mental) coach
2) Study the book Mental game of poker/read articles here on PS

Now, I don't have the money to get me a coach so I prefer to opt in for option 2.
What do you think guys?

Hey! I've added you in the community tool, accept it and send me your skype ID and I'll see if I can help you somehow

Thanks a lot! ♠_biggrin: I've sent you a pm

Hi all, update for last week's progress:

BR Week 1: $103.08
BR Week 2: $108.07
Rakeback: $3.71 (according HM2)
Net won: $2.48

Still quite confused since the numbers don't really add up, profit should be $4.99 if we compare last and current BR.

2 Screenshots of my progress:

As you can see, the graph is not yet steady, which suggests some leaks in my play. Most probably the downswing in the graph has to do with the hands I posted earlier here (see message 07.01.2016).
I got in touch now with Vonki and sent a Skype ID. I hope we can have a small chat somewhere this week and see what we can do and where I need to work on. Thank you very much for trying to help me out Vonki!

A small hand review (2 hands):

Hand 1

Questions:
1) Should I have raised more OTF?
2) Should I have taken initiative instead?
3) Maybe something else I overlooked?

Hand 2

Questions:
1) Was this even a good line (both pre and postflop)? I may have 3Bet this one
2) Did I get the right pot odds?

Hope to hear from you guys!

Cheers,
Hesticus

Hi Hesticus,

I think the call in the 2nd hand was BAD!
I made myself a rule: if i get confronted with a over potsize bet, i need to have a very good hand. This should probably most of the time be TwoPair+.
Here you definitively do not have the correct odds. You can try to put it in Equilab yourself. I just checked against one likely holding, which I put in as JdJc. I can imagine that villain raises pre, makes a cbet and then subsequently is too scared of potential river cards (flushes, straights, overcards) and so simply shoves.
You have 39% against that - it will not become any better unless you insert an unhealthy amount of bluffs. With calling much more than potsize, you need close to 50%.
To see a good thing about the hand, i would have played Pre&Postflop the same way, even though villains betsize on the flop is also not to my liking.

Hi SvenBe,

Thank you very much for your answer

This is kind of the first time I made a serious attempt with Equilab. I come a bit to this conclusion. I tried to put J♥:T♥:

Conclusion of equity was this:

http://www.power-equilab.com
Board: 9h8h2s5s
Equity Win Tie
BU 65.32% 65.17% 0.15% { 99+, 22, J9s, T9s, 76s, JhTh }
BB 34.68% 34.54% 0.15% { 8s7s }

Apologies, I had limited time during my answer.

Villain had a tight opening range so I didn't put him on many hands. However, after his bet OTF I only had the idea that villain had big pocket pairs and suited connectors. All other hands in a mw pot didn't make sense. Therefore, the range I made is very very tight indeed. If anyone would say differently, please tell!

In this case, indeed, I have only 34.68% equity and should strongly reconsider my all-in EVs for many other hands since I did it before as well. I listen to your advice SvenBe and will work on this. Thanks, much appreciated!

Cheers,
Hesticus

I btw had a big downswing early this week but I am catching up luckily Hope to show another profit coming Monday!