[Closed] Pablo's journey (level up to NL5!)

Well this post comes a bit earlier than expected, since some friends are coming over to practice the Pokemon TCG and then afternoon + night it's friends + party time, maybe even live poker against certified fishes ♠_biggrin: ♠_grin:.

I just finished my 2 hour session for today. Played 1.2k hands and ended up +$7.55 which compensates for yesterday's session and a bit extra which is always nice. Add to this most likely $5 or so of rake and it will have been a very nice +$EV week for me :).

This is how my first week went:

I played just under 10,000 hands, but I still have the weekend for longer session against nice fishes.

My total winnings for the week were:

NL2: +$24.97
MTT's: +$10
Bankroll: $137.03

My goals so far this week have been going nicely and have helped me maintain a straight head and for me to play my A-game.

[*]Beat NL2 in the course of 2 months and reach 35 BI's for NL5. - this one is going nicely, and I'm already at 27 BI's, only 8 away to move up to NL5. I don't want to move to fast though, and might extend this goal to 40BI's ($200) so that I feel comfortable 100%. I will decide it when I get there.

[*]Watch all the NL BSS videos of the Bronze section. - this is working out nicely, I've been watching a video daily, and sometimes even 2. I've been alternating between watching english and spanish videos, and I hope to attend a coaching soon.

[*]Post hands for revision at least once every week, both well played and fish hands. - I've actually been posting daily which is nice. I always have a notepad file open when playing so that I can easily remember the hands I want to get reviewed.

[*]Get the PokerStrategy Elephant License - at 542 SP's. - Slowly getting there, but my half sessions and my lack of play due to school slowed this down. I should gather a bigger volume of SP's this weekend. No hurry for this one though.

[*]Learn to control my tilt, which I KNOW is my biggest weakness right now.
[*]STOP being a curious cat and paying to see other people's cards despite me knowing I'm beat. Happens to me way too often. I don't call with rubbish, but I do with marginal hands.

These 2 have been the hardest, and although I do feel I have improved, by folding A's to wait for a better spot against the fish, I could feel tilt yesterday and made a stupid move. good thing I finished my session right aftr that stupid move, before I could make any more. All of this is an improvement which is good and I hope it continues that way.

Finally here are the highlight hands of today's session, 2 of which I want to get reviewed, and the final LOL one that always makes you happy to stack someone.

Set of 3's coolered. - Villains had set of 6's and 8s7s.
Being passive is not +$EV!

T3 is the nuts!

Known players:
[tg]Position_Stack:hands/vp$ip/RaisePreflop/AF/WTS/ORL/BBvsSteal/W$SD;SB$2.00:225/19 /1 /0.9/20 /17 /100 /56 ;BB$1.00:222/10 /7 /5.0/21 /21 /100 /20 ;UTG2$0.78:05/100 /20 /4.0/25 /-/-/0 ;Hero$3.22:///////;[/tg]
0.01/0.02 No-Limit Hold'em (8 handed)
Hand recorder used for this poker hand: Elephant 0.69 by www.pokerstrategy.com.

Preflop: Hero is MP3 with J♠, J♥
UTG2 calls $0.02, 2 folds, Hero raises to $0.10, 2 folds, SB calls $0.09, BB calls $0.08, UTG2 calls $0.08.

Flop: ($0.40) 4♥, 3♠, 4♣ (4 players)
SB checks, BB checks, UTG2 bets $0.40, Hero raises to $1.60, 2 folds, UTG2 calls $0.28 (All-In), Hero gets uncalled bet back.

Turn: ($1.76) T♣
River: ($1.76) A♠ (1 players)

Final Pot: $1.76

Results follow (highlight to see):
Hero shows dos pares, jotas y cuatros (Js Jh)
UTG2 shows dos pares, dieces y cuatros (Ts 3c)

Hero wins with dos pares, jotas y cuatros (Js Jh)

Well once again, if you have reached this spot, thanks for reading! Looking forward to the weekend for many reasons:

• Chelsea vs Man U - GOOO CHELSEA!
• Weekend FullTilt fishies!
• 2 soccer games after a holiday weekend last week. Gotta keep up the pace with my 2 teams!
• Live Poker tonight hopefully!

Nice blog Pablo!

Too bad you runned bad on NL5, you will get their soon. I was playing NL2 PLO the other day and it was amazing! They make you tilt

Good luck on your journey

Great start to your poker blog man! I also checked out some Pokemon related stuff. I was into Magic in the past, and never had a look at Pokemon, heh.
Looking forward for the next update, and good luck!

Cheers,
Psycho

Originally posted by Dante63s
Nice blog Pablo!

Too bad you runned bad on NL5, you will get their soon. I was playing NL2 PLO the other day and it was amazing! They make you tilt

Good luck on your journey

Thanks Dante! This wouldn't be possible without your initial guidance in San Diego. I'm so glad I met you ♠_grin:. And yes NL2 can be quite frustrating and tilting, but if I can survive the micro stakes and it helps me develop an anti-tilting attitude, it's definately a good situation for me :).

Originally posted by PsychoFin
Great start to your poker blog man! I also checked out some Pokemon related stuff. I was into Magic in the past, and never had a look at Pokemon, heh.
Looking forward for the next update, and good luck!

Cheers,
Psycho

Thanks for posting PsychoFin! Did you google: Pablo Meza Pokemon? Hehe hope you read good things about me ♠_biggrin:. I once tried to play Magic but it was too expensive for a 15yo to keep up with both Pokemon and Magic so I stuck with Pokemon and it has definately payed it's dividends. In 6 years of playing I've made $12k on prizes alone, without counting free trips to places like Hawaii. Hopefully my Poker skills will net me these type of prizes in the future.

And well to please you here is my next update, though small since I'm feeling groggy at the moment and have been all day.

It's been really really cold in Mexico. Combine this with yesterday's party ending at 4am, and I woke up at 8am for my football match (I scored once and had 2 assists on our 3-0 win ♠_cool: ) and then I had a family reunion so I didn't get my afternoon nap and I figured I'd only play half an hour and in 4 tables only just to try and cash in on some fishies, but at the first sight of non A-game I'd quit the session.

Thankfully the session went quite well and I felt confident enough and started opening up the extra tables and played more time. Played just over500 hands but made a profit of $5.80 which is very nice (55.34 BB/100) and had alot of interesting hands, since I loosened up a bit for all the fish present and even though my monster pockets didn't get payed off much, I completed some nice draws and I also got some huge monsterdraws as well which were payed off which was very nice.

Here are some sample hands from the session which I think were interesting.

1.- Here here little fish, I have a monster waiting for you right here!

Known players:
[tg]Position_Stack:hands/vp$ip/RaisePreflop/AF/WTS/ORL/BBvsSteal/W$SD;BB$1.40:22/23 /0 /0.3/14 /0 /-/100 ;Hero$2.03:///////;CO$2.00:27/33 /30 /3.0/25 /0 /100 /50 ;BU$1.98:22/27 /5 /2.0/40 /0 /-/50 ;[/tg]
0.01/0.02 No-Limit Hold'em (9 handed)
Hand recorder used for this poker hand: Elephant 0.69 by www.pokerstrategy.com.

Preflop: Hero is MP2 with Q♦, J♦
3 folds, Hero calls $0.02, MP3 folds, CO raises to $0.06, BU calls $0.06, SB folds, BB calls $0.04, Hero calls $0.04.

Flop: ($0.25) 9♦, 7♣, T♦ (4 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $0.20, CO calls $0.20, BU raises to $0.50, BB folds, Hero raises to $1.97 (All-In), CO folds, BU calls $1.42 (All-In), Hero gets uncalled bet back.

Turn: ($4.29) 3♦
River: ($4.29) 6♥ (2 players)

Final Pot: $4.29

Results follow (highlight to see):
Hero shows color, dama alta (Qd Jd)
BU shows una pareja de dieces (Ah Tc)

Hero wins with color, dama alta (Qd Jd)

2.- Ouch, I know how my opponent feels.

Known players:
[tg]Position_Stack:hands/vp$ip/RaisePreflop/AF/WTS/ORL/BBvsSteal/W$SD;MP1$3.25:33/21 /6 /3.0/22 /-/-/50 ;MP3$3.48:66/26 /5 /3.7/5 /0 /-/0 ;Hero$2.00:///////;[/tg]
0.01/0.02 No-Limit Hold'em (7 handed)
Hand recorder used for this poker hand: Elephant 0.69 by www.pokerstrategy.com.

Preflop: Hero is CO with Q♠, Q♣
MP1 calls $0.02, MP2 folds, MP3 calls $0.02, Hero raises to $0.12, 3 folds, MP1 calls $0.10, MP3 folds.

Flop: ($0.29) 6♥, 4♦, Q♥ (2 players)
MP1 checks, Hero bets $0.10, MP1 calls $0.10.

Turn: ($0.49) K♦ (2 players)
MP1 checks, Hero bets $0.12, MP1 raises to $0.24, Hero raises to $0.36, MP1 raises to $1.57, Hero raises to $1.78 (All-In), MP1 calls $0.21.

River: ($4.05) 7♣ (1 players)

Final Pot: $4.05

Results follow (highlight to see):
Hero shows trío, damas (Qs Qc)
MP1 shows trío, seises (6c 6d)

Hero wins with trío, damas (Qs Qc)

3.- Cheap pot + nuts = niceness!

Known players:
[tg]Position_Stack:hands/vp$ip/RaisePreflop/AF/WTS/ORL/BBvsSteal/W$SD;MP2$2.07:14/29 /21 /-/40 /0 /-/0 ;Hero$2.00:///////;[/tg]
0.01/0.02 No-Limit Hold'em (8 handed)
Hand recorder used for this poker hand: Elephant 0.69 by www.pokerstrategy.com.

Preflop: Hero is MP3 with T♠, Q♠
2 folds, MP2 raises to $0.06, Hero calls $0.06, 4 folds.

Flop: ($0.15) J♣, K♥, 9♥ (2 players)
MP2 bets $0.10, Hero raises to $0.30, MP2 raises to $2.01 (All-In), Hero calls $1.64 (All-In), MP2 gets uncalled bet back.

Turn: ($4.03) Q♥
River: ($4.03) 8♦ (1 players)

Final Pot: $4.03

Results follow (highlight to see):
Hero shows escalera, rey alto (Ts Qs)
MP2 shows una pareja de reyes (Kc Ah)

Hero wins with escalera, rey alto (Ts Qs)

4.- AI PF against unknown fish, worth the risk!

Known players:
[tg]Position_Stack:hands/vp$ip/RaisePreflop/AF/WTS/ORL/BBvsSteal/W$SD;Hero$3.57:///////;CO$0.90:04/25 /25 /-/100 /100 /-/0 ;[/tg]
0.01/0.02 No-Limit Hold'em (8 handed)
Hand recorder used for this poker hand: Elephant 0.69 by www.pokerstrategy.com.

Preflop: Hero is SB with A♠, K♠
4 folds, CO raises to $0.14, BU folds, Hero raises to $1.00, BB folds, CO calls $0.76 (All-In), Hero gets uncalled bet back.

Flop: ($1.82) 7♠, Q♣, 4♠
Turn: ($1.82) Q♥
River: ($1.82) 9♠ (1 players)

Final Pot: $1.82

Results follow (highlight to see):
Hero shows color, as alta (As Ks)
CO shows trío, damas (Ah Qs)

Hero wins with color, as alta (As Ks)

5.- And now a losing one: Damn you overbetting fishes!

Known players:
[tg]Position_Stack:hands/vp$ip/RaisePreflop/AF/WTS/ORL/BBvsSteal/W$SD;BB$2.09:23/83 /26 /5.5/28 /50 /-/0 ;UTG2$4.52:40/35 /5 /0.9/18 /-/-/100 ;MP1$1.14:23/39 /0 /0.3/20 /-/-/50 ;Hero$2.01:///////;BU$3.68:25/24 /8 /0.4/17 /100 /-/100 ;[/tg]
0.01/0.02 No-Limit Hold'em (9 handed)
Hand recorder used for this poker hand: Elephant 0.69 by www.pokerstrategy.com.

Preflop: Hero is MP3 with K♠, T♠
UTG1 folds, UTG2 calls $0.02, MP1 calls $0.02, MP2 folds, Hero calls $0.02, CO folds, BU calls $0.02, SB folds, BB raises to $0.10, UTG2 calls $0.08, MP1 calls $0.08, Hero calls $0.08, BU folds.

Flop: ($0.43) 5♠, K♥, 6♥ (4 players)
BB bets $0.42, UTG2 calls $0.42, MP1 calls $0.42, Hero folds.

Turn: ($1.69) Q♠ (3 players)
BB bets $1.57 (All-In), UTG2 calls $1.57, MP1 calls $0.62 (All-In).

River: ($5.45) 6♠ (1 players)

Final Pot: $5.45

Results follow (highlight to see):
UTG2 shows color, dama alta (7s 9s)
MP1 shows dos pares, reyes y seises (7d Kd)
BB shows una pareja de seises (7c Ah)

UTG2 wins with color, dama alta (7s 9s)

I will be posting some tomorrow for review, as well as hoping to feel better and have a longer session tomorrow (though pending homework might be an issue in the next few days).

Once again thanks for reading guys!

Hello everyone, just wanted to make a quick update post. My last session was a short one, only lasted 45 minutes but I managed to earn me 3 BI's :). My BR is currently at $157.99 and I can smell NL5 on the horizon now.

I wasn't able to play at all during the weekend cause of football + family activities and my unusual flu state, which I am almost fully recovered from and should be fine by Wednesday at the most. I'll pick up my pace of 2.5k hands per day from Wednesday, since tomorrow will be quite a heavy duty day between a final presentation for one class, my 3rd semester exam for Inorganic Chemistry and then all afternoon spent finishing up a Biochemistry paper due in Wednesday. After this though, Wednesday - Monday (national holiday :)) should be spent wisely grinding the tables to make up for my low activity these past few days and work my roll up to my first monetary goal of 35 BI's for NL5.

So far I have 27k hands played at NL since the beginning in August, and I'm running at 3.86BB/100 which is standard and good IMO, considering I've really only picked up the pace since November and now I truly feel I know how to play Poker. My stats for NL5 are disgraceful though after 22k hands and I will be looking forward to improve them along with my Poker skills, as both go hand in hand.

Well thanks for reading, and I promise my next few posts will be far more interesting in terms of Poker and less about my general life :P.

♠_grin:

Things are looking bright in my future ♠_cool:. I got everything (difficult) in school done and over with for the week and I am feeling good now in terms of my health.

Today I played a 1.5k hands session and finished up $13.01 bringing my total bankroll to $171.00, only $4 away from my 35 BI goal to move up to NL5. I had never felt so confident with my play, and I thought it was going to be the other way around with me being MIA for almost a week.

I honestly even feel I don't need to post hands from today's session. I know I played 1 hand too loose, and that's the one I will post on the forums, but aside from that the ones I post here I feel were played incredibly well, and I can definately 'feel' a change in my mentality towards approaching bets/raises/folds etc. and making all the +$EV decisions. the hands I did lose today, I was always ahead when the money went in, so I'm happy with my decisions and would always make the same decisions every time if I had to.

One thing I have realized I have to work on is my end of session attitude. When I know my time is about to be up, I unclick 'automatically post-blinds' buttons on every table, and just play the hands until right before I have to post a blind. I noticed today my play loosens up then, because I it's the end and I had an idea that I had made a profit for the day, so I didn't mind doing more loose plays and this definately cost me money and was when I made the -$EV play.

Here are 2 sample hands each: winning and losing, to show how my decisions keep improving and the final hand showing my single -$EV decision of the day.

Known players:
[tg]Position_Stack:hands/vp$ip/RaisePreflop/AF/WTS/ORL/BBvsSteal/W$SD;SB$2.21:112/52 /30 /1.6/36 /25 /0 /18 ;Hero$2.39:///////;BU$1.86:74/41 /15 /5.2/8 /0 /0 /0 ;[/tg]
0.01/0.02 No-Limit Hold'em (9 handed)
Hand recorder used for this poker hand: Elephant 0.69 by www.pokerstrategy.com.

Preflop: Hero is MP2 with J♦, J♣
3 folds, Hero raises to $0.08, 2 folds, BU calls $0.08, SB calls $0.07, BB folds.

Flop: ($0.26) Q♥, 8♣, J♥ (3 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $0.15, BU raises to $0.56, SB calls $0.56, Hero raises to $2.31 (All-In), BU calls $1.22 (All-In), SB calls $1.57 (All-In), Hero gets uncalled bet back.

Turn: ($6.30) 5♥
River: ($6.30) 3♠ (1 players)

Final Pot: $6.30

Results follow (highlight to see):
Hero shows trío, jotas (Jd Jc)
SB shows dos pares, damas y ochos (8s Qc)
BU shows dos pares, damas y jotas (Qs Js)

Hero wins with trío, jotas (Jd Jc)

Known players:
[tg]Position_Stack:hands/vp$ip/RaisePreflop/AF/WTS/ORL/BBvsSteal/W$SD;Hero$2.03:///////;CO$3.14:70/50 /4 /0.8/23 /25 /-/63 ;[/tg]
0.01/0.02 No-Limit Hold'em (8 handed)
Hand recorder used for this poker hand: Elephant 0.69 by www.pokerstrategy.com.

Preflop: Hero is UTG2 with Q♥, A♦
Hero raises to $0.08, 3 folds, CO raises to $0.14, 3 folds, Hero calls $0.06.

Flop: ($0.31) J♥, Q♣, A♥ (2 players)
Hero bets $0.20, CO calls $0.20.

Turn: ($0.71) 5♠ (2 players)
Hero bets $0.45, CO calls $0.45.

River: ($1.61) 6♦ (2 players)
Hero bets $1.24 (All-In), CO calls $1.24.

Final Pot: $4.09

Results follow (highlight to see):
Hero shows dos pares, ases y damas (Qh Ad)
CO shows una pareja de reyes (Kd Ks)

Hero wins with dos pares, ases y damas (Qh Ad)

Known players:
[tg]Position_Stack:hands/vp$ip/RaisePreflop/AF/WTS/ORL/BBvsSteal/W$SD;MP1$0.53:15/87 /13 /1.7/60 /0 /-/17 ;MP2$4.45:72/35 /11 /2.5/41 /0 /-/78 ;Hero$2.00:///////;[/tg]
0.01/0.02 No-Limit Hold'em (8 handed)
Hand recorder used for this poker hand: Elephant 0.69 by www.pokerstrategy.com.

Preflop: Hero is CO with Q♣, Q♦
UTG2 folds, MP1 calls $0.02, MP2 calls $0.02, MP3 folds, Hero raises to $0.12, 4 folds, MP2 calls $0.10.

Flop: ($0.29) 8♥, 3♠, 6♣ (2 players)
MP2 checks, Hero bets $0.20, MP2 calls $0.20.

Turn: ($0.69) 7♦ (2 players)
MP2 checks, Hero bets $0.55, MP2 raises to $1.10, Hero raises to $1.68 (All-In), MP2 calls $0.58.

River: ($4.05) A♥ (1 players)

Final Pot: $4.05

Results follow (highlight to see):
Hero shows una pareja de damas (Qc Qd)
MP2 shows escalera, ocho alto (4h 5h)

MP2 wins with escalera, ocho alto (4h 5h)

Known players:
[tg]Position_Stack:hands/vp$ip/RaisePreflop/AF/WTS/ORL/BBvsSteal/W$SD;UTG1$0.62:22/64 /5 /0.4/64 /-/-/22 ;Hero$2.10:///////;MP3$1.35:27/15 /7 /4.0/40 /-/-/50 ;[/tg]
0.01/0.02 No-Limit Hold'em (9 handed)
Hand recorder used for this poker hand: Elephant 0.69 by www.pokerstrategy.com.

Preflop: Hero is UTG2 with A♣, A♠
UTG1 calls $0.02, Hero raises to $0.10, 2 folds, MP3 calls $0.10, 4 folds, UTG1 calls $0.08.

Flop: ($0.33) 8♥, J♠, Q♣ (3 players)
UTG1 checks, Hero bets $0.20, MP3 raises to $1.25 (All-In), UTG1 folds, Hero calls $1.05.

Turn: ($2.83) A♥
River: ($2.83) 4♠ (1 players)

Final Pot: $2.83

Results follow (highlight to see):
Hero shows trío, ases (Ac As)
MP3 shows escalera, as alto (Kd Td)

MP3 wins with escalera, as alto (Kd Td)

And now finally my loose call which I shouldn't have done:

Known players:
[tg]Position_Stack:hands/vp$ip/RaisePreflop/AF/WTS/ORL/BBvsSteal/W$SD;SB$0.99:57/26 /14 /2.3/14 /30 /-/50 ;Hero$2.63:///////;[/tg]
0.01/0.02 No-Limit Hold'em (6 handed)
Hand recorder used for this poker hand: Elephant 0.69 by www.pokerstrategy.com.

Preflop: Hero is CO with 9♠, 9♥
2 folds, Hero raises to $0.08, BU folds, SB raises to $0.99 (All-In), BB folds, Hero calls $0.91.

Flop: ($2.00) J♣, 5♥, K♣
Turn: ($2.00) 7♥
River: ($2.00) 3♦ (1 players)

Final Pot: $2.00

Results follow (highlight to see):
Hero shows una pareja de nueves (9s 9h)
SB shows una pareja de damas (Qs Qh)

SB wins with una pareja de damas (Qs Qh)

And well right now I'm also playing the Daily Dollar. My chip stack is currently at 23,200 with blinds on 400/200 - 50a and 2000 players left, so only 650 more for ITM! Gotta be patient :).

EDIT: Got ITM, and was shortstacked with KQo on the BB. Blind battle ended in an all in KQo vs QJs and villain hit the flush on the river. That guy went from a 10k short stack to 185k chip leader, so I was not surprised he got me that way, but still dissappointing when I could've doubled up to a comfortable 50k with blinds at 1200/600. Oh well, this is my best performance in the Daily Dollar and in such a massive MTT so far which I'm proud of. I'm glad I put the money in when being ahead, it's too bad sometimes it just doesn't work out, oh well! I earned a fabulous $2.60 to bring my roll to $173.60 and if I have a winning session tomorrow morning I will be looking forward to NL5 in the afternoon ♠_love:

Thanks on a good blog,

IMO this is the most important stage for you, you feel really good, and can see a bright future. DON'T stop self-criticizing, PLEASE stay vigilant, give it one tilt session and you could lose it all. GL&HF.

Originally posted by lozz08
Thanks on a good blog,

IMO this is the most important stage for you, you feel really good, and can see a bright future. DON'T stop self-criticizing, PLEASE stay vigilant, give it one tilt session and you could lose it all. GL&HF.

Thanks for the comment lozz08. You are right I do feel really good, but I also know this major improvement has been majorly thanks to my increasing study + video watching + hand posting and session reviews. I feel like starting on NL5 will be like starting all over again, and I look forward to improving my game the same way I have up until now.

Self-criticism is definately the most important thing, and I will definately stay on the lookout for tilt. I know that even though I have improved, I am definately far from immune to it. GL&HF yourself ♠_biggrin:

EDIT: I also added and modified a few of my goals, as well as putting a nice DONE! label to two of them, since I managed to finish ITM last night in the Daily Dollar.

What a day this has been. I've managed to play 2k hands today, but decided that $1.40 wasn't a big deal and I moved up to NL5. Now I remember why I kept tilting at that limit. It feels like all my monsters keep getting broken and I am put in weird situations. I also picked a very wrong time to play, it was 10:30am in Mexico, so around 5pmish in Europe and so there were alot of decent players out there, which made for more difficult decisions and some which I wasn't ready for on my first day back up at NL5.

Overall though I ended at +$6.77 after 2 1k hand sessions, one in the morning and one that ended just now. I was only able to stack someone once, where as I got stacked twice, so that definately didn't help. I saw I was making alot of mistakes, mainly out of frustration that my AJ+ hands never hit the right cards or never hit an A on the flop, and made a very dumb call with AJ in a hand I will post below. I definately intend to avoid these kind of situations, specially against unknown opponents and give them the benefit of the doubt and try to find better spots to take their money. I will do my cbet on the flop but won't waste my time with these hands anymore with a cbet/raise plan on the flop or throw a 2nd barrel if no help comes from the turn, as I seem to keep losing more money than winning in these situations.

I also faced AK vs AA once all in preflop, which really sucks but it's a cooler and there's nothing you can do about that, specially without stats or reads on new opponents. Aside from that I got AK vs AQ all in preflop and won that one so it was nice to compensate for my previous mistakes.

Definately alot learned and realized from this first session, and I'm happy it even ended on positive numbers, as my graph below shows I wasn't doing very good at the beginning.

Below are the most interesting hands from the session:

Known players:
[tg]Position_Stack:hands/vp$ip/RaisePreflop/AF/WTS/ORL/BBvsSteal/W$SD;MP2$11.97:159/17 /9 /1.3/30 /13 /50 /63 ;Hero$5.32:///////;[/tg]
0.02/0.05 No-Limit Hold'em (8 handed)
Hand recorder used for this poker hand: Elephant 0.69 by www.pokerstrategy.com.

Preflop: Hero is CO with 3♥, 3♣
2 folds, MP2 raises to $0.20, MP3 folds, Hero calls $0.20, 3 folds.

Flop: ($0.47) 3♦, 9♠, Q♦ (2 players)
MP2 bets $0.35, Hero raises to $1.00, MP2 calls $0.65.

Turn: ($2.47) 9♣ (2 players)
MP2 checks, Hero bets $0.50, MP2 calls $0.50.

River: ($3.47) A♥ (2 players)
MP2 checks, Hero bets $2.00, MP2 calls $2.00.

Final Pot: $7.47

Results follow (highlight to see):
Hero shows full house, treses sobre nueves (3h 3c)
MP2 shows dos pares, ases y nueves (Ad Td)

Hero wins with full house, treses sobre nueves (3h 3c)

I will definately try to avoid doing this in the future as it certainly has to be -$EV:

Known players:
[tg]Position_Stack:hands/vp$ip/RaisePreflop/AF/WTS/ORL/BBvsSteal/W$SD;BB$4.83:48/10 /6 /-/0 /0 /100 /-;Hero$5.00:///////;MP3$4.85:311/15 /8 /2.9/32 /18 /67 /54 ;[/tg]
0.02/0.05 No-Limit Hold'em (8 handed)
Hand recorder used for this poker hand: Elephant 0.69 by www.pokerstrategy.com.

Preflop: Hero is UTG2 with A♣, K♦
Hero raises to $0.20, 2 folds, MP3 calls $0.20, 3 folds, BB raises to $0.75, Hero calls $0.55, MP3 folds.

Flop: ($1.72) 7♠, 7♦, T♣ (2 players)
BB bets $1.00, Hero raises to $3.00, BB folds, Hero gets uncalled bet back.

Final Pot: $3.72

Results follow (highlight to see):
Hero shows una pareja de sietes (Ac Kd)

Hero wins with una pareja de sietes (Ac Kd)

My fish/dumb/noob moment of today's session

Known players:
[tg]Position_Stack:hands/vp$ip/RaisePreflop/AF/WTS/ORL/BBvsSteal/W$SD;UTG2$5.84:24/63 /54 /4.0/18 /-/100 /100 ;Hero$5.00:///////;[/tg]
0.02/0.05 No-Limit Hold'em (9 handed)
Hand recorder used for this poker hand: Elephant 0.69 by www.pokerstrategy.com.

Preflop: Hero is MP3 with A♠, J♥
UTG1 folds, UTG2 raises to $0.15, 2 folds, Hero raises to $0.45, 4 folds, UTG2 calls $0.30.

Flop: ($0.97) 2♠, 8♦, T♦ (2 players)
UTG2 bets $0.50, Hero raises to $1.50, UTG2 raises to $3.00, Hero raises to $4.50, UTG2 raises to $5.39 (All-In), Hero calls $0.05 (All-In), UTG2 gets uncalled bet back.

Turn: ($10.07) 7♣
River: ($10.07) 3♣ (1 players)

Final Pot: $10.07

Results follow (highlight to see):
Hero shows carta alta as con kicker jota (As Jh)
UTG2 shows trío, dieces (Ts Th)

UTG2 wins with trío, dieces (Ts Th)

What can you do? These are tilt testing hands.

Known players:
[tg]Position_Stack:hands/vp$ip/RaisePreflop/AF/WTS/ORL/BBvsSteal/W$SD;MP1$1.42:98/32 /0 /1.6/27 /0 /-/78 ;MP2$5.78:88/20 /14 /3.0/40 /50 /100 /33 ;MP3$4.93:159/17 /9 /1.3/30 /13 /50 /63 ;Hero$6.31:///////;[/tg]
0.02/0.05 No-Limit Hold'em (9 handed)
Hand recorder used for this poker hand: Elephant 0.69 by www.pokerstrategy.com.

Preflop: Hero is BU with A♠, K♦
2 folds, MP1 calls $0.05, MP2 raises to $0.15, MP3 raises to $0.50, CO folds, Hero raises to $6.31 (All-In), 4 folds, MP3 calls $4.43 (All-In), Hero gets uncalled bet back.

Flop: ($10.13) 4♣, 6♥, 2♠
Turn: ($10.13) 8♠
River: ($10.13) 4♥ (1 players)

Final Pot: $10.13

Results follow (highlight to see):
Hero shows una pareja de cuatros (As Kd)
MP3 shows dos pares, ases y cuatros (Ad Ah)

MP3 wins with dos pares, ases y cuatros (Ad Ah)

Well thanks once again for reading. Right now I'm only just going to play the Latin American Freeroll and see if I can get ITM vs all the fishes. I'm tired and not feeling in a real Poker playing mood, so more hands and the Daily Dollar will have to wait until tomorrow afternoon.

Nice blog!

Let's keep improving and get to NL10 soon =D
I'm glad you are at FT and I am at PS though heheh.

Btw, how do you post the hands with stats?
I'm using HEM and I can't find out how to do it, even at HEM forums they couldn't help me.

Good luck (yes, that is what is needed against fishes making hero calls at microstakes and sucking out) at the tables.

Originally posted by Skeat
Nice blog!

Let's keep improving and get to NL10 soon =D
I'm glad you are at FT and I am at PS though heheh.

Btw, how do you post the hands with stats?
I'm using HEM and I can't find out how to do it, even at HEM forums they couldn't help me.

Good luck (yes, that is what is needed against fishes making hero calls at microstakes and sucking out) at the tables.

Thanks! We should definately keep improving and it's good we aren't competing for fishes on the same site ♠_grin:.

The hands I post with stats I take them from PokerStrategy's Elephant. You should download since it's free and you will eventually have the 1000 SP's, and it still works very nicely even if your Trial runs out. My Trial ended like 2 months ago lol but I still use it effectively. I don't play with stats though, and probably won't until near the end of eating NL10 or after it when I start NL25, but that's still a looong way to go.

And thanks for the good luck, I hope you have good luck as well, but don't get mad at the hero calls from fishes, it's those same fishes who will eventually pay you off and let us beat the level, so them winning is also +$EV since they will keep making the wrong decisions ♠_cool:.

I'll post hands from my session tonight, I'll be starting in 2 hours or so once the American fishes start coming out to play ♠_evil:.

Well as promised. I played 1.5k hands tonight. I started off with a half hour session only at school and managed to stack someone with the following hand which I found quite funny. A simple steal became a 100BB profit ♠_cool:. I was ready to give up the hand on the Turn too!

Known players:
[tg]Position_Stack:hands/vp$ip/RaisePreflop/AF/WTS/ORL/BBvsSteal/W$SD;SB$5.37:12/25 /17 /2.0/50 /50 /-/0 ;Hero$5.00:///////;[/tg]
0.02/0.05 No-Limit Hold'em (8 handed)
Hand recorder used for this poker hand: Elephant 0.69 by www.pokerstrategy.com.

Preflop: Hero is BU with 4♠, 3♠
5 folds, Hero raises to $0.20, SB calls $0.18, BB folds.

Flop: ($0.45) 6♠, Q♠, 3♥ (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $0.35, SB raises to $0.90, Hero calls $0.55.

Turn: ($2.25) 2♦ (2 players)
SB checks, Hero checks.

River: ($2.25) 3♦ (2 players)
SB bets $1.30, Hero raises to $3.90 (All-In), SB calls $2.60.

Final Pot: $10.05

Results follow (highlight to see):
Hero shows trío, treses (4s 3s)
SB shows dos pares, damas y treses (Qc Jc)

Hero wins with trío, treses (4s 3s)

And so I started at like 87 BB/100 lol but this meant nothing. I started up my 2 hour session at a very nice hour, and although it was quite the roller coaster, it definately wasn't as swingy as yesterday's, and I didn't start playing my A game as shown by the following hand, but I picked it up as the night passed by and I ended up with +2.5 BI's (+$13) overall so a very good day and better than yesterday. Here's the hand which started me off and showed me I wasn't playing my A game:

Note to self: AK is not the nuts preflop!
Known players:
[tg]Position_Stack:hands/vp$ip/RaisePreflop/AF/WTS/ORL/BBvsSteal/W$SD;SB$4.95:258/18 /16 /2.7/21 /15 /67 /33 ;Hero$5.00:///////;[/tg]
0.02/0.05 No-Limit Hold'em (8 handed)
Hand recorder used for this poker hand: Elephant 0.69 by www.pokerstrategy.com.

Preflop: Hero is MP3 with A♥, K♦
3 folds, Hero raises to $0.20, 2 folds, SB raises to $0.45, BB folds, Hero raises to $1.50, SB raises to $4.95 (All-In), Hero calls $3.45.

Flop: ($9.95) A♣, 3♣, 6♦
Turn: ($9.95) Q♠
River: ($9.95) 4♣ (1 players)

Final Pot: $9.95

Results follow (highlight to see):
Hero shows una pareja de ases (Ah Kd)
SB shows trío, ases (Ad As)

SB wins with trío, ases (Ad As)

Seeing the time span in between this hand and the one being posted next definately shows me I was on tilt and wasn't aware of it, which is something I will need to work on, and I play this hand even worse than the one before...

Do not bluff with air. give up the hand after the flop with no improvements...
Known players:
[tg]Position_Stack:hands/vp$ip/RaisePreflop/AF/WTS/ORL/BBvsSteal/W$SD;SB$4.18:143/10 /8 /2.0/38 /18 /50 /20 ;CO$5.36:17/47 /0 /1.0/40 /0 /-/50 ;Hero$5.07:///////;[/tg]
0.02/0.05 No-Limit Hold'em (7 handed)
Hand recorder used for this poker hand: Elephant 0.69 by www.pokerstrategy.com.

Preflop: Hero is BU with K♠, A♠
3 folds, CO calls $0.05, Hero raises to $0.25, SB calls $0.23, BB folds, CO calls $0.20.

Flop: ($0.80) T♠, T♣, 6♠ (3 players)
SB checks, CO checks, Hero bets $0.55, SB calls $0.55, CO folds.

Turn: ($1.90) 3♣ (2 players)
SB checks, Hero checks.

River: ($1.90) 5♦ (2 players)
SB bets $1.35, Hero raises to $4.27 (All-In), SB calls $2.03 (All-In), Hero gets uncalled bet back.

Final Pot: $8.66

Results follow (highlight to see):
Hero shows una pareja de dieces (Ks As)
SB shows dos pares, dieces y ochos (8s 8h)

SB wins with dos pares, dieces y ochos (8s 8h)

Analyzing my session and seeing this type of hands helps me improve, so it's not bad that this happens and it's good I realize my mistakes instead of complaining I lost an underdog flip. I'm happy about this way of thinking ♠_biggrin:.

And I guess that's all for now. Tomorrow is full graph day! It's looking quite nicely and I like how it has a very very positive correlation between hands played and BB's earned. Very motivating!

As for yesterday's tournament. I went out in the Latin American Freeroll with 300 people or so left. Can't remember the hand but there were FIVE people sitting out at my table, so I was just stealing everything but I got bored and it was pretty late, so I went into nit-mode and got out on a hand I can't even remember. Wasn't worth putting in the effort for another 3 hours to win $15...

Today's Daily Dollar was lame though, and only got 2 playable hands. AA to which everyone folded to from my UTG 4BB raise, and JJ which got beat by As9d on a TsQsQKs5s board. Oh well it happens. I'm debating on wether to play another session tonight seeing how I don't have school tomorrow, but my doubting and a bit of exhaustion is telling me not to play, since I probably won't be playing my A game and I should just wait for tomorrow and this time make good use of the weekend, since I missed all the nice fishies last time around.

Thanks for reading!

Well what a lame way to end what was becoming a very succesful week overall. I ended up losing 5 BI's today in NL5, and my BR now stands at $169, which makes me have to move down a limit to get back to $175 before moving up again.

Today's session was just messy. I was playing bad at all! I just kept getting sucked out on and my monsters were torn apart by sets and lucky fishes so there was nothing I could do. Here are some exampls of such hands.

80/20 broken down