I will succeed! [HU cash]

Currently on a 17 BI downswing but not too worried, hope to win my bins back soon. I went to my aunts birthday on saturday so didn't play a hand. I'm behind schedule on reaching platinum star on stars so need to play A LOT!

Just ended a session with 2-3 bins down or something, anyways gonna watch a movie now and play more later.

I recently moved some of my bankroll to betfair (ongame network). I'll probably put my whole bankroll there once I've been there enough to know I wanna play there long.

People seem to be using chatbox a lot

I'll post graphs at the end of the month. Unfortunately I haven't had any hands that are worth posting yet.

Ongame Network $0.15/$0.30 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players - View hand 2021344
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UTG: $8.00
MP: $31.52
CO: $72.70
BTN: $28.95
SB: $30.15
Hero (BB): $44.18

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero is BB with 9 8
2 folds, CO raises to $0.90, BTN calls $0.90, 1 fold, Hero calls $0.60

Flop: ($2.85) 6 4 2 (3 players)
Hero checks, CO checks, BTN bets $2.10, Hero raises to $6.45, CO folds, BTN calls $4.35

Turn: ($15.75) 6 (2 players)
Hero bets $7.50, BTN calls $7.50

River: ($30.75) T (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN checks

Final Pot: $30.75
BTN shows 7 7 (TWO_PAIR SEVEN, SIX)
Hero shows 9 8 (PAIR SIX)
BTN wins $29.22
(Rake: $1.53)

CO and BTN both are regs, decided to complete because we are deeper than 100bbs with CO.

I think when BTN cbets I thought his range is capped at 22-TT, maybe some combos of KJs+ and CO is clearly giving up so I think it's a profitable raise on the flop while I'm reping some 2 pairs and sets.

The turn card isn't the best for me to continue bluffing but I think I should still barrel to try and make 33,55,77,88,99 and TT (30 combos since I have blockers for 88 and 99, obv he won't fold them all 100% of the times but I'd expect villain to fold atleast 20 combos avg) fold which didn't happen to be the case. Obviously he is calling or raising 22,44,66 (7 combos). (maybe I should had bet .50-1.5$ more)

I don't think he would fold the river to a shove once he had called the turn, especially since FD and straight draws missed.

Unfortunately he did tank call the turn with 77 and I got owned ♦ Still think my play was good though.. if you have any thoughts about the hand feel free to post.

So my first month on cash games has ended, not happy with results but considering the facts that I moved software and that it was my first cash games month I think it's fine. In the last 4k hands I played NL30 because of the huge downswing but gonna go back to NL50 in any time soon.

Profit: 440.27$(cash games) + 876.56$(tournament win) = 1316.86$

Obviously I made some with rakeback too but I'm not sure about the numbers so I'm not gonna count rakeback, atleast this month.

[ ]Be winner on NL50 6max and HU over 100k hands
[ ]Read one article a week
[x]Watch one 6max video every week
[ ]Review atleast 200 hands once a week
[x]Play 25k+ hands a month
[ ]Post atleast 5 hands a week to hand evaluation forums!

Kinda failed at my goals, hopefully I'll do better on december

Nice profit for November!

Good luck in December

Originally posted by muumionu
Ongame Network $0.15/$0.30 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players - View hand 2021344
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UTG: $8.00
MP: $31.52
CO: $72.70
BTN: $28.95
SB: $30.15
Hero (BB): $44.18

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero is BB with 9 8
2 folds, CO raises to $0.90, BTN calls $0.90, 1 fold, Hero calls $0.60

Flop: ($2.85) 6 4 2 (3 players)
Hero checks, CO checks, BTN bets $2.10, Hero raises to $6.45, CO folds, BTN calls $4.35

Turn: ($15.75) 6 (2 players)
Hero bets $7.50, BTN calls $7.50

River: ($30.75) T (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN checks

Final Pot: $30.75
BTN shows 7 7 (TWO_PAIR SEVEN, SIX)
Hero shows 9 8 (PAIR SIX)
BTN wins $29.22
(Rake: $1.53)

CO and BTN both are regs, decided to complete because we are deeper than 100bbs with CO.

I think when BTN cbets I thought his range is capped at 22-TT, maybe some combos of KJs+ and CO is clearly giving up so I think it's a profitable raise on the flop while I'm reping some 2 pairs and sets.

The turn card isn't the best for me to continue bluffing but I think I should still barrel to try and make 33,55,77,88,99 and TT (30 combos since I have blockers for 88 and 99, obv he won't fold them all 100% of the times but I'd expect villain to fold atleast 20 combos avg) fold which didn't happen to be the case. Obviously he is calling or raising 22,44,66 (7 combos). (maybe I should had bet .50-1.5$ more)

I don't think he would fold the river to a shove once he had called the turn, especially since FD and straight draws missed.

Unfortunately he did tank call the turn with 77 and I got owned ♦ Still think my play was good though.. if you have any thoughts about the hand feel free to post.

U decide to bluff since his range is capped at... the nuts? And u except him to fold a lot of pocket pairs on a low paired board. Makes absolutely no sense

Originally posted by ihufa
U decide to bluff since his range is capped at... the nuts? And u except him to fold a lot of pocket pairs on a low paired board. Makes absolutely no sense

Yeah you got a point, guess I was dumb enough to think that I could make some pairs fold like this.

Thanks Michelle! And thanks ihufa for improving my thought process/game play

Haven't blogged for a long time.. for no reason whatsoever
The Ongame network is WAY softer than stars, almost at every table there is fish, on NL30 atleast.

Few days ago I did "lockdown" with friend and agreed to play 5 hours straight with no break. Neither of us gave and we both profited 2-3bins on nl30.

I've been doing pretty ok on NL30 (7.62bb/100 over 17.6k hands) and I'm gonna be playing NL50 tables from now on. 1.5 weeks until christmas holiday so that's nice too, gonna grind so much:DP

Ongame Network $30.00 No Limit Hold'em - 3 players - View hand 2033649
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BTN: $25.91 - VPIP: 16, PFR: 3, 3B: 8, AF: 0,5, Hands: 31
Hero (SB): $33.27 - VPIP: 29, PFR: 24, 3B: 10, AF: 2,9, Hands: 18068
BB: $30.54 - VPIP: 29, PFR: 25, 3B: 11, AF: 2,1, Hands: 9271

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero is SB with 9 T
BTN calls $0.30, Hero calls $0.15, BB checks

Flop: ($0.90) 2 K 6 (3 players)
Hero checks, BB checks, BTN checks

Turn: ($0.90) 8 (3 players)
Hero bets $0.90, BB raises to $3, BTN folds, Hero raises to $8.77, BB raises to $30.24, Hero calls $21.47

River: ($61.38) A (2 players)

BB is aggro reg and BTN is fishy

Preflop

Decided to complete because of the fish, probably should isolate raise because the BB could isolate me when I complete

Flop

Plan is to check raise BB since he can't rep strong K's which he would iso preflop so there ain't many strong hand combos for him to stand heat against a raise (62,K6,K2). I can't find many good arguments for donking the flop, by the way I think one of my weaknesses is not knowing when to donk bet!

Turn

The turn gives me 3 outs to the nuts and I believe I can take the pot down with a bet very often here since nobody showed strength on the flop. However BB decides to raise me, since he was very aggro I think he would have draws and 82,86 for value here only so I decided to 3bet him because I'm ahead of some draws like 75,79,45cc+ss,9Tss chopping + I think he'd sometimes possibly fold Q or J high fd's here if he didn't decide to bet them on flop for some reason.
However he decides to 4bet jam.. hmm, as I said before I thought he would be fairly aggressive with strong draws + 2pair obv but I'm not 100% sure he would jam 82 here so that leaves him 86 for value hand which I have 12 outs against and I decided to call.

Ongame Network $0.15/$0.30 No Limit Hold'em - 5 players - View hand 2033689
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BB: $17.18
Hero (UTG): $64.00
CO: $30.78
BTN: $29.83
SB: $50.89

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero is UTG with 6 6
Hero raises to $0.90, 1 fold, BTN calls $0.90, 2 folds

Flop: ($2.25) T 7 6 (2 players)
Hero bets $1.50, BTN raises to $4.20, Hero calls $2.70

Turn: ($10.65) J (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN checks

River: ($10.65) J (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN checks

BTN looked like a solid regular

Preflop

std open

Flop

std cbet, when he raises me I put him on 77,TT,flush combos(89hh,Axhh,QJhh,KQhh) and some single card fd's perhaps.. Since it's so small sized raise I decided to call and hope to hit full house if he happens to have flush.

Turn

check folding here, once he checks back I think he very often has sets himself - 77,TT + some fancy played K or A high flushes maybe.

River

Yeah I get to the full house finally but I don't see more value in bet/folding than check/calling. If he happens to have 77 or TT he would raise me and I'd get owned, if he has flush it should be K+ or atleast Q+ and he should bet them himself so I decided to go for check/call.

Haven't blogged for a long time.. I just watched a video by Raskolnikov and it motivated me enough to start blogging again.

I decided that I'm going to move completely over to heads up since I like it more and I believe I have more natural talent for it (I COULD BE RESULTS ORIENTED). I've learned and watched a lot of videos for some days now and I'm really motivated to play and learn every day now!

I will probably try to go for supernova on Pokerstars this year by playing hu only + some lowish-mid tournaments on weekends which tickets I buy for :f_grin:fpps :f_grin:.

This is my all time heads up graph:

bb/100 is 15.11

As you can see my red line is going up in the end, I think it's because of insyder19, watched some of his videos- THANKS!

Had a nice nice day today, played 2 tables against some guy who was nl200 6max regular but new to HU.. Won like 7-8 bins from him and it feels good. He started spewing quite a bit in the end so it was like free money. Unfortunately he decided to quit after 1.1k hands.

Tomorrow I'm gonna move back to the city I study at called Tartu but still will be playing quite a lot I hope! Also I'm trying to watch at least 1 video a day of hu since I possibly won't have the platinum status next month since I'm not tracked on stars and I play on stars now mostly since I play hu.

Yesterday I won biggest pot of my life against fish. Guess I could had raised turn bigger to make it easier shove on river but I guess he would call river shove with T no matter what so a bit smaller sized raise to get value from 2pair hands.

Poker Stars $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em - 2 players - View hand 2053097
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Hero (BTN/SB): $182.79
BB: $168.44

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is BTN/SB with J T
Hero raises to $1.50, BB raises to $4, Hero calls $2.50

Flop: ($8.00) 7 9 6 (2 players)
BB bets $5, Hero calls $5

Turn: ($18.00) 8 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $12.50, BB raises to $31, Hero calls $18.50

River: ($80.00) Q (2 players)
BB bets $10.50, Hero raises to $142.79 all in, BB calls $117.94 all in PLEASE DON'T HAVE TJ PLEASE DON'T HAVE TJ

Final Pot: $336.88
Hero shows J T (a straight, Eight to Queen)
BB shows T A (a straight, Six to Ten) DAM I FELT GOOD
Hero wins $336.38
(Rake: $0.50)

nice blog dude! i hope i can move up there soon

Fun hand! ♦ Looks like you know what you're doing, so it wont be long before we see you up there giving out the sage advice I think. ♠_cool:

Oh and you do write well by the way.

Regards and keep it fun,

Mal.

Thanks guys! Really appreciate it, motivates me a lot when I get some posts hehe : )

You sure can zumpar, just keep learning and don't give up!

Only played few hundred hands today because of moving to Tartu. I finally changed my 6 max hud to more heads up specific one

Tomorrow gonna wake up early and grindddddd + watch videos which I'm enjoying unexpectedly a lot lately:f_love:. gl me, hope my heater will continue ;p

[ ]Motivate myself somehow into playing longer sessions

I'd be interested in this point if you've invented any special tactics. Gl ♦

Originally posted by szoketomi

[ ]Motivate myself somehow into playing longer sessions

I'd be interested in this point if you've invented any special tactics. Gl ♦

Actually I have now played way way longer sessions than usual, mainly because I only play HU now, it's way more fun for me. I played like 10 hours session few days ago : D

Anyways gonna play some NL100 today for first time ever.. I'll wait for fish at empty table and join a reg at the same time Gonna move back nl50 if I lose 5bins because I don't have all my bankroll on stars right now.