Skankroll management to WCOOP ME

Hey jules97,

Wishing you the best of luck. I do love tankrolls. I have one planned myself but not on that scale.

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Have fun

Laz

Cheers Lazz,

So it seems 30bb below the cutoff is is go down at next bb, 50bb is instant go down instantly. Could be a bit tricky coz, i'll often be playing on phone for this. Hopefully my memory is good enough...

So I bricked everything on Sunday and am starting with $115.46, so that's NL10.

So here's the plan for NL10

• Cbet relentlessly with too many bluffs
• Valuebet relentlessly
• Size valuebets mega exploitedly based on villains range
• Size bluffs mega exploitedly based on percieved fold equity
• Fold to aggression, fold way too much in general
• Fold 90% too much river bets
• Fold 75% too much to postflop raises
• Fold too much to preflop raises (unless betsizes give odds or are retarded)
• Remove 75% of preflop 3b bluffs
• barrel aggressively on scarecards against full stacks
• bluff raise flops too much against full stacks
• attack villains checking ranges aggressively
• open tighter in early positions
• open looser in later positions
• cold call preflop way too much everywhere

And obligatory 1st session graph

Hand of the day.

PokerStars - $0.10 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $8.27
SB: $10.40
BB: $22.48
UTG: $6.82
Hero (MP): $24.09
CO: $13.40

SB posts SB $0.05, BB posts BB $0.10

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.15) Hero has K♠ A♠

UTG raises to $0.20, Hero calls $0.20, fold, BTN calls $0.20, fold, fold

Flop: ($0.75, 3 players) 3♠ 6♣ 2♠
UTG checks, Hero checks, BTN bets $0.40, fold, Hero calls $0.40

Turn: ($1.55, 2 players) A♣
Hero checks, BTN bets $0.74, Hero calls $0.74

River: ($3.03, 2 players) T♠
Hero bets $1.30, BTN raises to $3.90, Hero raises to $19.70, BTN calls $3.03 and is all-in

I think this hand goes along with the plan listed above.
Preflop: could 3b, but I'm guessing that I have more EV in seeing a flop.
Flop: Not much point leading, these guys aren't folding any thing better than PP's and I'm far ahead of villains bluffs so no point check raising.
Turn: Thought about leading, I think this is a GTO spot to lead a lot and would normally lead. But here, I thought there's not much ponit, he's going to bet an Ace anyway too much and probably bluff too much. I also thoughta about x/r but elected to x/c and keep his range wider.
River, silly exploitable small donk bet, to look like or get a call from Ax and thankfully he raises his weaker flush. ♦

Not a bad start ♦ A couple more buyins and NL25 here I come!
But.. for how long?

Put another 30min in. With some more rungood and another couple of buyins. So that should take me >$150 to a shot at nl25 next time.

Not too many interesting hands.

This one, I felt when he donked the turn with pot, I couldn't really get value by raising and that I'd be up against 44 a draw or air too much. And on the river I wanted to bet small enough that he'd consider a raise with his air/draws. Maybe should have bet a little smaller. And his river raise, perahps I'm a nit, but I don't htink I can reraise. Given his range is still mostly air or nuts and the his size looks like a silly valueraise.

PokerStars - $0.10 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): $10.00
SB: $23.84
BB: $14.93
UTG: $11.90
MP: $30.97
CO: $10.02

SB posts SB $0.05, BB posts BB $0.10

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.15) Hero has Q♥ K♠

fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to $0.20, fold, BB calls $0.10

Flop: ($0.45, 2 players) K♥ 8♠ Q♦
BB checks, Hero bets $0.35, BB calls $0.35

Turn: ($1.15, 2 players) 4♣
BB bets $1.10, Hero calls $1.10

River: ($3.35, 2 players) 7♦
BB checks, Hero bets $1.70, BB raises to $3.40, Hero calls $1.70

The shot at nl25 didn't go so well. Got knocked back down in a few minutes.

Here is how one gets that kind of ev difference.

PokerStars - $0.25 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $26.29
SB: $30.34
BB: $43.88
Hero (UTG): $25.00
MP: $25.00
CO: $43.63

SB posts SB $0.10, BB posts BB $0.25

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.35) Hero has A♣ A♥

Hero raises to $0.75, fold, CO raises to $2.25, fold, fold, BB calls $2.00, Hero raises to $5.80, fold, BB calls $3.55

Flop: ($13.95, 2 players) 8♥ 4♦ 8♣
BB checks, Hero bets $4.80, BB raises to $21.25, Hero calls $14.40 and is all-in

Turn: ($52.35, 2 players) 3♣

River: ($52.35, 2 players) T♥

So then it was back to nl10 to grind it back. Which went pretty well, I think I'm about 175 now so can have another shot at nl25 with a whole buyin (lols) of wiggle room.

Not too many interesting hands. Perhaps this one.

PokerStars - $0.10 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $13.03
Hero (SB): $19.06
BB: $10.43
UTG: $10.44
MP: $10.36
CO: $10.00

Hero posts SB $0.05, BB posts BB $0.10

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.15) Hero has K♣ K♠

fold, fold, CO raises to $0.30, BTN calls $0.30, Hero raises to $1.30, fold, fold, BTN calls $1.00

Flop: ($3.00, 2 players) 8♦ Q♥ 6♠
Hero bets $2.05, BTN calls $2.05

Turn: ($7.10, 2 players) 7♦
Hero bets $15.71 and is all-in, BTN calls $9.68 and is all-in

River: ($26.46, 2 players) J♦

I suppose against someone a little more decent it's probably a good idea to size the flop cbet so the hand lasts 3 streets. But here against a weaker player, the theory goes, 'shovel as much money into the hand as possible, before he gets scared'. I think his calling range on the flop is fairly inelastic to betsizes. With that betsize he'll likely continue with any piece of it. Then on the turn, a small overbet, board is still fairly dry but looks like draws are possible. Kind of the optimal board for fish to hero call, coz they like to do the same kind of large polarized bets with draws.

I think it's interesting that my stats over these few thousand hands are like 16.5/21.5 with a 3b of 3.5. I watched a video weazel made a month or so ago about 3betting and whilst I usually think his stuff is good. I really disagreed with where he said one should 3b so much against people who don't fold. There's just no need.

Bluffing is not about getting people to fold a better hand (and if this is an exploitable reason, it's not a common mistake villains make imo, especially the worse a villain is), it's only done so a villain is forced to pay off heros value hands. And at these stakes, we just don't need to force villains to pay off our value hands, so 3betting marginal hands/bluffs (be it polarized or linear) is burning money, because it takes the top end of ones calling range away (which isn't going to get punished enough by squeezes at these stakes), where these hands are to be very profitable to play as dominating hands postflop against weaker players.

Hi jules97,

Any updates about your challenge?

yeah, it's dead
like my mtt ambitions, fuck mtt's

Sorry to hear that if by any chance you change your mind we'll be glad to have you back with another challenge