Originally posted by LahtiPelican
To be honest I don't believe in playing always with call ranges and don't believe in playing 3bet or fold all the time. IMO we have to be familiar with both strategies and which one is better based on the given circumstances.
This is very interesting thought you share. The best approach will be to filter these hands and see your winrate when you have decent volume. Will be happy if you share your results. 
Good Luck and see you soon on the tables!!!
Originally posted by ddoichev
Originally posted by LahtiPelican
To be honest I don't believe in playing always with call ranges and don't believe in playing 3bet or fold all the time. IMO we have to be familiar with both strategies and which one is better based on the given circumstances.This is very interesting thought you share. The best approach will be to filter these hands and see your winrate when you have decent volume. Will be happy if you share your results.
Good Luck and see you soon on the tables!!!I am not sure how can I filter hands like you suggested. In situations where I play 3bet or fold I don't have call range, but when I play 3bet/call/fold I have 3bet range, those 3bet hands will be in both sample. What filters would you use?
Also getting a nice sample size will take some time too, since my main room is Unibet ATM. Usually I play 6 tables on Unibet and 1-4 tables on PokerStars regular tables (if I find good ones. More on that in the next post).
Week 6:
Stake: NL5
Hands played: 2.188
Net won: +$0,64 
Current bankroll: $57,53
Challenge total:
Hands played: 22.529
Net won: +$7,53
Challenge heading to the right direction finally. I hope I will shot NL10 this week again. When I was around $10 bankroll, I became more strict with my table selection.
Here are my rules:
I only sit to a table, when there is at least one 50+ VPIP big fish playing
I only play fishes with more than 60bb stack
I am looking for tables with 62+ VPIP whales to join the waiting list
If I have 4 tables, I close one with big fish and I look for an other one with a whale (This way I play better and better tables in a session).
I have 3 different tags for fishes: purple is for weaker players (35+ VPIP, less than -20bb/100 winrate), green is for big fishes (50+ VPIP) and dark blue is for whales (62+ VPIP, losing a ton 
)
Here is a good example from last week, where I had the Jesus seat on all 4 tables (remember, dark blue is for big whales):
I only played only like 10k (NL2 and NL5) hands since I use this table selection strategy:
bb/100 and evbb/100 looks good so far (Except on SB. That's terrible, but the sample is small)
As much as people frown and complain about table selecting. IMO this is the most important factor in generating a high winrate. Keep to your table selection rules and I am sure that you will fly up the stakes brother!
Originally posted by LahtiPelican
I am not sure how can I filter hands like you suggested. In situations where I play 3bet or fold I don't have call range, but when I play 3bet/call/fold I have 3bet range, those 3bet hands will be in both sample. What filters would you use?
Are you using PokerTracker 4?
If so, post that question in the PokerTracker forum.
Occasionally a PokerTracker representative will reply.
If that doesn't work, try their support system -- they answer quite quickly
Originally posted by SiKWiThIt
As much as people frown and complain about table selecting. IMO this is the most important factor in generating a high winrate. Keep to your table selection rules and I am sure that you will fly up the stakes brother!
Always good the see you here buddy! 
Also I perfectly agree with you on the table selection. They say you don't get enough rakeback on Stars for example, but they can forget that you don't pay too much rake anyway (I know it is not the best, but it is far from the worst as well) and you can't table select in any room nowadays.
Originally posted by VorpalF2F
Are you using PokerTracker 4?
If so, post that question in the PokerTracker forum.
Occasionally a PokerTracker representative will reply.
If that doesn't work, try their support system -- they answer quite quickly
Thanks for the suggestions, but I know PT4 filters pretty well. I meant that I decide between 3bet/fold or 3bet/call/fold strategy based on stack sizes (can be filtered) and mainly PokerStars color tags, which can't be filtered. Only way I can think of to make to tags in PT4 and tag every hand, where I make that decision. Ton of work while 8-10 tabling for sure, and I am not curious enough to make that 
Had some coaching sessions on the subject, so I am pretty confident with my point of view.
Challenge heading to the right direction finally. I hope I will shot NL10 this week again. When I was around $10 bankroll, I became more strict with my table selection.
Happened sooner than I expected, I had my 3rd (or 4th?) NL10 shot today. Stars had some problems with starting new tables on NL10 after the maintenance: it was impossible to open new table on $NL10. That's why I only played 43 hands. It was enough to make 139bb, so I am satisfied.
The key hand was this one: (Can you guess which player was the reason I played this table? 
)
PokerStars - $0.10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
SB: 105.6 BB
BB: 165.6 BB
UTG: 100 BB
MP: 99 BB
Hero (CO): 104 BB
BTN: 101.7 BB
SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K:club: A:heart:
UTG raises to 2.5 BB, MP calls 2.5 BB, Hero raises to 14 BB, fold, SB calls 13.5 BB, BB calls 13 BB, UTG calls 11.5 BB, fold
Flop: (58.5 BB, 4 players) 2:spade: 5:diamond: A:diamond:
SB checks, BB bets 5 BB, fold, Hero raises to 32 BB, SB raises to 91.6 BB and is all-in, fold, Hero calls 58 BB and is all-in
Turn: (243.5 BB, 2 players) 5:club:
River: (243.5 BB, 2 players) J:heart:
Players agreed to run it twice.
Turn #2: (243.5 BB, 2 players) 2:heart:
River #2: (243.5 BB, 2 players) 6:spade:
SB shows K:diamond: Q:diamond: (One Pair, Fives)
Board #1 (Pre 30%, Flop 38%, Turn 20%)
(One Pair, Twos)
Board #2 (Pre 31%, Flop 39%, Turn 19%)
Hero shows K:club: A:heart: (Two Pair, Aces and Fives)
Board #1 (Pre 70%, Flop 62%, Turn 80%)
(Two Pair, Aces and Twos)
Board #2 (Pre 69%, Flop 61%, Turn 81%)
Hero wins 116.3 BB
Hero wins 116.2 BB
P.S.: SB was a winning regular on the limit ( 
), which shows how easy is to win on NL10.
Also few record were broken today in my Tankroll challenge:
New BR peak ($100,66)
Doubled starting BR first time
Best day (+$29,77)
The closing EV gap is missleading, because my winrate is 6,95 and evbb is 6,46 in the challenge. I am below EV only because RNG did poorly in the previous NL10 shots.
Stay tuned and find out if I can jump up 2 stakes in one week 
Week 7:
Stake: NL10
Hands played: 1.488
Net won: +$54,39
Current bankroll: $111,92
Challenge total:
Hands played: 24.017
Net won: +$61,92
Total challenge graph
NL2-NL5
NL10
Nothing changed, still running like $hit on NL10 in the challenge...
Originally posted by LahtiPelican
Nothing changed, still running like $hit on NL10 in the challenge...
1000 hands isn't that much -- it's early days yet.
The problem is that it is also a bit early to identify leaks.
Are you still playing NL 5 and just taking shots at NL 10 or are you playing NL 10 always now?
Hey Vorpal!
Good to see you here, and thanks for taking time for your comment on your busy week!
I play bigger volume off-challenge (you can see it from the shinier status 
) and I have decent results, so I have sample to fix leaks on my coaching sessions. However I don't want to talk about that, only about the challenge in my blog.
In the challenge I take shots on NL10 with $80 and step back with $75-78. It is tight, but that's the fun part
I took 5 or 6 shots already but you can see the EV difference on the graph. Will make it sooner or later I guess.
Other change that I decided not to stream. I did not enjoyed it as much as I did in the beggining and also if I want to make good quality content, I would have to buy a webcam, a mic and make comment on my game on a few tables. Also as I mentioned my PC is too old, and it was a struggle TBH.
Also the challenged moved to 888 poker, where I will play Snap poker. Field is easier than Zoom and I hope I can boost the volume I play in the challenge.
Let's talk about lucky stuff
I had two royal flushes today. You read it right, today!
Good news that they both got paid pretty nicely
They were the 4th and 5th in the past 4 months, crazy!
I felt sick on the weekend (now I am completely OK), so I didn't played cashgame. I had a ton of freeroll tickets on my 888 account, so I decided to play them on my phone while I was rested in my bed. One of them was a tournament with $500.000 prize pool and 2 steps. On Satuday I completed the forst step with a 20bb stack. The 2nd step tournament started today with 27386 players and the first 5000 got paid. However a min cash was $50! I only played 3 hand in the tournament.
I stole the bigblind in the first:
Pacific Poker - 600/1200 Ante 150 NL - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
MP: 33.21 BB
MP+1: 15.51 BB
MP+2: 8.02 BB
CO: 14.82 BB
BTN: 24.83 BB
Hero (SB): 9.6 BB
BB: 9.08 BB
UTG: 11.35 BB
UTG+1: 18.94 BB
9 players post ante of 0.13 BB, Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 2.62 BB) Hero has 8:spade: A:diamond:
fold, UTG+1 calls 1 BB, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 9.47 BB and is all-in, fold, fold
Hero wins 4.12 BB
Doubled up in the second:
Pacific Poker - 1250/2500 Ante 300 NL - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
MP+2: 20.92 BB
CO: 6.75 BB
BTN: 3.17 BB
SB: 6.37 BB
BB: 13.6 BB
Hero (UTG): 3.71 BB
UTG+1: 1.08 BB
MP: 2.17 BB
MP+1: 12.01 BB
9 players post ante of 0.12 BB, SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 2.58 BB) Hero has Q:club: Q:spade:
Hero raises to 3.59 BB and is all-in, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, BB calls 2.59 BB
Flop: (8.75 BB, 2 players) J:club: 9:club: 4:club:
Turn: (8.75 BB, 2 players) 8:club:
River: (8.75 BB, 2 players) 6:spade:
BB shows J:spade: A:heart: (One Pair, Jacks)
(Pre 28%, Flop 13%, Turn 0%)
Hero shows Q:club: Q:spade: (Flush, Queen High)
(Pre 72%, Flop 87%, Turn 100%)
Hero wins 8.75 BB
And finished the tournament in the third:
Pacific Poker - 1750/3500 Ante 400 NL - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
BTN: 0.93 BB
SB: 24.33 BB
BB: 4.65 BB
UTG: 9.31 BB
UTG+1: 15.63 BB
MP: 3.2 BB
MP+1: 5.82 BB
MP+2: 0.19 BB
Hero (CO): 2.77 BB
9 players post ante of 0.11 BB, SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 2.53 BB) Hero has 4:club: A:spade:
fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 2.65 BB and is all-in, fold, fold, BB calls 1.65 BB
Flop: (6.83 BB, 2 players) K:diamond: 2:spade: 8:club:
Turn: (6.83 BB, 2 players) 7:diamond:
River: (6.83 BB, 2 players) 3:diamond:
BB shows J:club: K:club: (One Pair, Kings)
(Pre 45%, Flop 87%, Turn 93%)
Hero shows 4:club: A:spade: (High Card, Ace)
(Pre 55%, Flop 13%, Turn 7%)
BB wins 6.83 BB
That's how I made my biggest MTT cash from a freeroll.
Originally posted by LahtiPelican
Week 8:Stake: NL10 and NL5
Hands played: 7.883
Net won: -$52,24
Current bankroll: $59,68Challenge total:
Spoiler
Hands played: 31.900
Net won: +$9,68
Some records
Thanks to the little bankrill booster from Monday and some hot run, I reached a new BR peak in the challenge: $130. At this point I was allowed to play NL25. SInce 888 has only NL20 and NL30 tables (NL25 is only ZOOM), I fired up 2 from NL20. I had a 80+ VPIP calling station on the first and a 60+ VPIP fish on the other. Here's the graph from the session:
Short session, but overall I am very very satisfied. Also I made some bucks on NL10 today.
So the new records:
BR Peak ($153,67)
First time I reached the triple of the starting roll
Biggest winning day (+$31,45)
The worst day is still bigger than the best winning day (-$49,55) and I made more from promotions than from poker, so there is some work to do. At least the direction is good now
Originally posted by LahtiPelican
I fired up 2 from NL10. I had a 80+ VPIP calling station on the first and a 60+ VPIP fish on the other.
Nice that you could get such a decent red line with such high VPIP players at the tables
They must have been scared of you!
Originally posted by VorpalF2F
Nice that you could get such a decent red line with such high VPIP players at the tables
They must have been scared of you!I don't know which was the key to the good session: the good red line or the 90%+ won showdown?
Actually all of the blue line came from the fishes and most of the red line came from regs. Since these were my first hands on NL20 on 888 (Thanks for pointing out my mistake, I meant NL20 not NL10) the regs played very nitty against me and folded a lot.
Originally posted by LahtiPelican
Week 10:Stake: NL10
Hands played: 199
Net won: +$0,39
Current bankroll: $143,79Challenge total:
Spoiler
Hands played: 34.839
Net won: +$93,79
Originally posted by mjez1
nice progress
You have a pretty aggressive BRM.
Thank you! It is just a side roll for the challenge and fun, I would never do this with my main roll and of course it is the "Do not try this at home category" 
Actually you reminded me that I forgot one update:
Week 11:
Stake: NL25
Hands played: 201
Net won: +$26,76
Current bankroll: $170,55
Challenge total:
Hands played: 35.040
Net won: +$120,55
Actually my money is trapped in a poker room where I don't want to play any more, but they don't let me to withdraw. Until it is not solved, the challenge is on pause.
Also I played around 80k hand outside the challenge this month, so I didn't have too much time for it.
