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OBJECTIVES - WEEK 3

• Study at least 6 hours - Right now I'm watching w34z3l's beginner walkthrough series and adapting it somewhat to full ring. I guess I could also re-read Crushing the Microstakes.
• Play 15000 hands - Can easily hit this if I play 4 75+15 sessions each day
• Improve my fold to 3bet stat - I don't know what happened, but I guess is because I haven't adjusted since my days of being a 11/9 nit in NL2.
• Start learning how to defend my blinds - since I really have no idea what I'm doing, especially from the BB, as can be seen in the BB/100 stat.
• Be more active in the forums - probably post a hand or two, or at least discuss some hands.
• Wake up every day at 7:45 am and take a 20 minute nap at 2:00 pm
• Take Saturday off from poker - Monday just doesn't really work for me.

Originally posted by zachrina
Good luck Sir.

I've been a fish for 7 years

I know this is ultra slowpoke, but while editing the OP I realized I've also been a fish for 7 years

PokerStars - $0.05 NL - Holdem - 8 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

CO: 100 BB
BTN: 102.2 BB
SB: 165 BB
Hero (BB): 147.2 BB
UTG: 129.4 BB
UTG+1: 39.8 BB
MP: 127.4 BB
MP+1: 39.6 BB

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has 2♦ A♥

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

Flop: (6 BB, 2 players) A♠ J♥ A♦
SB bets 4 BB, Hero calls 4 BB

Turn: (14 BB, 2 players) A♣
SB checks, Hero bets 4 BB, SB raises to 13 BB, Hero raises to 29 BB, SB raises to 48 BB, Hero calls 19 BB

River: (110 BB, 2 players) 3♥
SB bets 98 BB, Hero calls 92.2 BB and is all-in

wat

This has inspired me to take a shot at 5NL

good to see things are going well ♠_thumbsup:

This time the update will be a little short because I'm going to sleep now.

This week was pretty brutal, with some terrible calls and me being in the wrong side of some coolers. The worst part I think was losing 3 BI in the space of 30 min :rage:. I think I might reconsider my future bankroll management.

Also I couldn't put in the volume I hoped thanks to spending the entirety of Wednesday fixing my PC and being out of the city in the weekend.

UPDATE 3 (03.11.2014 - 09.11.2014)

6752 hands
-$15.60
$112.21
3 weeks

PREVIOUS OBJECTIVES - WEEK 3

• Study at least 6 hours - 6/6+ Majority of Sunday was spent watching videos and improving my postflop hand planning.
• Play 15000 hands - 6752
• Improve my fold to 3bet stat - After some research I realized that people don't really exploit this enough in NL5, so I'll leave this for some later limit.
• Start learning how to defend my blinds - Ok I didn't do much of this.
• Be more active in the forums - Or this.
• Wake up every day at 7:45 am and take a 20 minute nap at 2:00 pm - Today I woke up a little later but I consider this achieved.
• Take Saturday off from poker

Short but important update. I've been playing really badly and very unconfortable so I stopped before losing everything and moved down to NL2 with $90 in the bank, but this time to 6-max. I also cashed out $24 to deposit $30 and make use of the NetBet deposit bonus.

After playing 1000 hands I can say that wow, tables are much more fishy in 6-max, and even more in iPoker.

Current Bankroll:
Pokerstars: $71.20
NetBet: $43.64

I have also had a bad few days, dropping 6 buy ins at NL5!

Good luck

Yeah, I was -11 BI down for November in NL5, which I know is mostly bad plays where I called fully knowing that I was most likely behind. This is probably the worst example

PokerStars - $0.05 NL - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 80.4 BB
SB: 100 BB
BB: 106.8 BB
UTG: 114.4 BB
Hero (UTG+1): 168.2 BB
MP: 205.2 BB
MP+1: 141 BB
MP+2: 98.6 BB
CO: 361.8 BB

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, Hero raises to 4 BB, MP calls 4 BB, fold, fold, CO calls 4 BB, fold, fold, fold

Flop: (13.4 BB, 3 players) 6♣ 7♦ 7♠
Hero bets 8 BB, MP calls 8 BB, CO raises to 26.4 BB, Hero raises to 55 BB, MP calls 47 BB, fold

Turn: (149.8 BB, 2 players) K♠
Hero bets 42 BB, MP calls 42 BB

River: (233.8 BB, 2 players) 3♣
Hero bets 67.2 BB and is all-in, MP calls 67.2 BB

Regarding my BRM I've finally settled for a conservative 50 Buy-in before moving up to the next level. It may be a little bit nitty but it will hopefully help me focus less on the money and more on my play, by not letting a few lost pots eat 20% of my bankroll .

It looks like I'll be staying in NL2 for a little while

This week I moved to 6-max NL2 after running bad in NL5 for practically the entire month, and also moved some of my money to Netbet Poker to use the bonus and see just how bad the players are in the iPoker network. They are really bad, I've never seen so many calling stations in one table before, causing a low cbet success.

My initial stats are slightly nitty on the TAG side, but since I'm new to 6-max I don't think is much of a problem. I know I'm calling too much from the BB, but I'll wait for a bigger hand sample before I decide what to do with it.

UPDATE 4 (10.10.2014 - 16.11.2014)

7851 hands
$14.27 (-$21.61 NL5 + $19.35 NL2 + $16.53 NetBet Bonuses)
$126.48 ($74.43 Pokerstars + $62.05 NetBet Poker)
week 4

This place is kind of abandoned, but I'm not dead yet. I'm still mad for missing a report, but University entrance exams will be over tomorrow, so I'll be able to focus and play poker again.

Short report for these two weeks

2208 hands
$24.74 (NL2 + NetBet Bonuses)
$151.22 ($77.09 Pokerstars + $74.13 NetBet Poker)
6 weeks

Good luck