WARNING!!! Going pro... If you don't like hard work then GTFO!!!

Yeah happy birthday and gl hf ♠_drink:

476 Days To Go - Results

Games played = NL10 Fast

Results Today

Target Hours This Week = 16h
Hours Played This Week = 7h 51m
Percentage done = 49.1%
Percentage gone = 57.1%

(So 1 hour 18 mins behind schedule)

Notes

• Gotta be honest here... I might be running little bit crappy but I have obviously got a huge leak (or three or one hundred) that I cannot see and is not obvious to others so far either
• However, coach thinks it is medium to big pots so we are going to attack those
• Not had chance to attack them YET but have made video of losing pots over 30bb with my thoughts on. Seriously hope the huge leaks are apparent!!!
• Please guys, tell me what you see bad - I am not emotionally affected by criticism - I WANT IT - please smash me to bits!
• I am ill so off work today - hopefully will look at more pots!
• 3 sleeps 'til holiday, kinda need it! But need to work also!
• Let's find these leaks FFS!!!!!!!

Hands

(There is talking on here so you can criticise thought process PLEASE!)

475 days to go...AND I SWEAR I WILL DO THIS!!!

Originally posted by MyFloXyBabY
Yeah happy birthday and gl hf ♠_drink:

Thank you man! I am really looking forward to more birthday celebrations on holiday

Also, as you can see I am striving to find the leaks - it could be bigger pots - I think you spotted something a few hands ago and looking at a hand in the 2nd video of my post here today I think I am doing the same again... See if you spot it again please????

I have just made analysis of this hand...

It is not going to be good, I understand this, but I need to get into this habit.

I would like to receive every single bit of criticism you have please amigos. PM me if you prefer, I will REALLY appreciate it. TY.

Hello! Tricky hand there. Do you have any kind of stats for the players? That would help. If you know the fish donk bets a lot you could raise him. Also you could evaluate the pf raisers range. I think I would have called the donk bet as played but then the pf raiser does a big raise and without any history with him I would put him on JJ+, 99, 44. Maybe also AJs. In that case it doesn't look too shitty for you. But without you having an ace I would only call the raise on the flop and see the turn card and evaluate again.

TLDR; Call flop

Originally posted by DanDule
Hello! Tricky hand there. Do you have any kind of stats for the players? That would help. If you know the fish donk bets a lot you could raise him. Also you could evaluate the pf raisers range. I think I would have called the donk bet as played but then the pf raiser does a big raise and without any history with him I would put him on JJ+, 99, 44. Maybe also AJs. In that case it doesn't look too shitty for you. But without you having an ace I would only call the raise on the flop and see the turn card and evaluate again.

TLDR; Call flop

Hi there! Thanks for input, really appreciate it!

Yh, so far I agree I think call flop (both times) is good.

Do you think PFR would also raise QQ+ (overpairs) there?

Yes, I think overpairs are in his range of raising vs donk betters. I would do it too. I would give him a range of JJ+,99,44,AJs,AJo.
Edit: Maybe KJ,QJ also. There's also the chance of him having higher suited cards than you.

Another hand analysis, hopefully you can see something obvious and help me out please?

PM me if prefer, TY

Originally posted by DanDule
Yes, I think overpairs are in his range of raising vs donk betters. I would do it too. I would give him a range of JJ+,99,44,AJs,AJo.
Edit: Maybe KJ,QJ also. There's also the chance of him having higher suited cards than you.

Yh, totally agree, TY mate.

Oh hi! In spots like these it would be nice to know how often he continuation bets.

Anyhow in spots like these where I hit top pair and he cbets I will usually raise when I'm in position. If he raises it's easy to fold and if he calls he will probably check on the turn and then we can check behind if we don't improve and call a river bet. It's easier that way because you don't really know what kind of hand he has on the turn and it will be damn expensive to raise.

First of all relax man, one good thing about poker forums is you don't have to beg on your knees to get criticized, far from it actually ♦
So I'll be happy to give my humble thoughts about it :

First video KJ trips : A fish has lots of flushes here and not that many lower Kx (some of then making fulls anyway) so the river bet is way too thin for me, moreover with that sizing.

Second video 78s overplayed : calling the donk is ok but vs a raise OOP even with those odds you're bad, there are too many chances one of them has a better FD, it's a fold for me.

Third video KJs : standard call pre at BU cause SB is supposed to raise a lot. As played I like the fold river (if I don't have infos that he is lag/bluffy/tricky) because he won't value thiner and won't have many bluffs that dare to go all the way. It's hard to fold before the river though.
Raising flop would be awful, we would just isolate ourselves vs better kings and force a quasi flip vs FD, absolutely no interest.
Note that according to Matthew Janda it nearly never make sense to try balancing both a calling and a raising range flop on 3bet pots, so he usually only calls.

And... another one!

Damn that river card... think I can check-call versus this size or should check-fold?

Any big errors let me know please amigos?

Originally posted by MyFloXyBabY
First video KJ trips : A fish has lots of flushes here and not that many lower Kx (some of then making fulls anyway) so the river bet is way too thin for me, moreover with that sizing.
THIS WAS WHAT YOU SPOTTED LAST TIME AMIGO! SEEMS I AM BETTING LOTS OF RIVERS (AND TURNS) WHERE I DO NOT HAVE A VALUE BET!!!
Second video 78s overplayed : calling the donk is ok but vs a raise OOP even with those odds you're bad, there are too many chances one of them has a better FD, it's a fold for me.

Third video KJs : standard call pre at BU cause SB is supposed to raise a lot. As played I like the fold river (if I don't have infos that he is lag/bluffy/tricky) because he won't value thiner and won't have many bluffs that dare to go all the way. It's hard to fold before the river though.
Raising flop would be awful, we would just isolate ourselves vs better kings and force a quasi flip vs FD, absolutely no interest.
Note that according to Matthew Janda it nearly never make sense to try balancing both a calling and a raising range flop on 3bet pots, so he usually only calls.
AGREEING WITH YOU HERE TOO AMIGO - THANKS FOR YOUR HELP

475 Days To Go - Results

Games played = NL10 Fast

Results Today

Target Hours This Week = 16h
Hours Played This Week = 9h 27m
Percentage done = 59.3%
Percentage gone = 71.4%

(So 1 hour 58 mins behind schedule)

Notes

• Holy ****!
• This is NOT runbad (but when I do get some now it is more frustrating than normal - never usually bothers me at all)
• 10 buy-in downswing (6 in EV fwiw) in 4000 hands @ -25.5bb/100
• Had "emergency" coaching! I said "stop loss!", he said "you free now?", we did leak finding
• Lost 60bb where I value owned self on the turn again I think - please look at hand below
• Doubt I can make hours up - had 2 stop losses and got to pack for holidays/prepare for Christmas on our return

Hands

CO and BTN are BOTH fish (yeah and BB GTFO!)

Party, $0.05/$0.10 No Limit Hold'em Cash, 6 Players

SB: $22.86 (228.6 bb)
Hero (BB): $10 (100 bb)
UTG: $16.10 (161 bb)
MP: $20.65 (206.5 bb)
CO: $10.37 (103.7 bb)
BTN: $2.61 (26.1 bb)

Preflop: Hero is BB with A♥ K♦
2 folds, CO raises to $0.30, BTN calls $0.30, SB folds, Hero raises to $1.25, CO calls $0.95, BTN calls $0.95

Flop: ($3.80) T♥ 5♣ A♦ (3 players)
Hero bets $2.70, CO calls $2.70, BTN calls $1.36

Turn: ($10.56) J♥ (3 players)
Hero bets $6.05 and is all-in, CO calls $6.05

In review I cannot find a range for him so that I can value bet the turn. I think he has too many JJ, JT, AJ in range and even if he has some Axs preflop calls that he cannot fold (due to fish) there are not enough to make up for it.

I like the way fate is sending me quite a few hands where I value own myself lately so I can work on this leak

474 days to go...

For the JJ it's the kind of headache spot that doesn't amount to much in practice in my opinion, you can't win or lose very much more by overthinking about it (both because it's close and because it doesn't happen a lot), better to focus on other spots.

For the AKo the thing is you can't really x/f happily... so as you are more or less commit to call, why not valuing thin yourself ?
Part of the problem might be that you don't bet big enough (or on the countrary already too big not to commit) on the flop.

474 Days To Go - Results

Games played = NL10 Fast

Results Today

Target Hours This Week = 16h
Hours Played This Week = 17h 26m LOLOLOLOL!!!
Percentage done = 109%
Percentage gone = 85.7%

(So 3 hours 47 mins ahead of schedule)

Notes

• So I was off sick from work and got ridic amount of hours in (for me)
• 21/17/7? Crazy...
• 1.5 hours of coaching
• 1+ hour of study
• Defend BB much more
• Open CO slightly more
• Attack limps more
• Happy to get a load of hands in w/o hitting stop loss!
• One more sleep/session 'til holiday!!!

473 days to go...

Originally posted by MyFloXyBabY
For the JJ it's the kind of headache spot that doesn't amount to much in practice in my opinion, you can't win or lose very much more by overthinking about it (both because it's close and because it doesn't happen a lot), better to focus on other spots.

For the AKo the thing is you can't really x/f happily... so as you are more or less commit to call, why not valuing thin yourself ?
Part of the problem might be that you don't bet big enough (or on the countrary already too big not to commit) on the flop.

Really good points mate, thanks as always.

The consensus from the pro's is the same as yours on AKo hand, jam is fine (just). JJ hand was more for practice (aka homework) and I agree that river decision is not important (other than at least I did not jam it!!!).

473 Days To Go - Results

Games played = NL10 Fast

Results Today

Target Hours This Week = 16h
Hours Played This Week = 19h 08m
Percentage done = 119.6%
Percentage gone = 100%

(So 3 hours 8mins above target)

Notes

• Had to sit out and cool down twice due to wtf moments (like I know they are going to have it quite often but again, really!?)
• Was around stop loss for ages, couldn't get up but didn't go down
• Wonder if such small stop loss (2bi) is affecting me mentally
• No more sleeps 'til holiday and to be honest, thank fk for that!!!

Hand

Party, $0.05/$0.10 No Limit Hold'em Cash, 6 Players

SB: $10.10 (101 bb)
BB: $9.90 (99 bb)
UTG: $9.90 (99 bb)
MP: $18 (180 bb)
Hero (CO): $10.20 (102 bb)
BTN: $16.54 (165.4 bb)

Preflop: Hero is CO with K♣ A♦
UTG folds, MP raises to $0.30, Hero raises to $0.70, 3 folds, MP calls $0.40

Flop: ($1.55) A♥ 3♣ 9♣ (2 players)
MP checks, Hero bets $0.88, MP calls $0.88

Turn: ($3.31) 6♠ (2 players)
MP checks, Hero bets $1.63, MP calls $1.63

River: ($6.57) K♥ (2 players)
MP bets $7.05...

(Villain appears to be reg)

Please advise on bet sizes and river decision. FWIW I bet these sizes to put biggest pressure on his QQ-TT, 9x (if he has).

Week summary later...

472 days to go...

Summary for Days 479 --> 473

Stakes/Sites Played = Party NL10 Fast

Graph For Week

Net Profit = -$124.39
Rakeback & Bonuses = Nil

Total Profit This Week = -$124.39

Target Hours Play This Week = 16 hours
Actual Hours Played This Week = 19h 18m

Notes

• Not a lot to say...
• Hopefully I can admit my failures and weaknesses, believe in myself, stay determined to grow and learn from all of this.
• Going on holiday tonight, probably could not come at a better time!

500 Day Challenge Total Profit = -$16.85

472 Days To Go!!!

HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!!!

Sorry to hear about this my friend. It's good you have an awesome coach. Soon you will be laughing about this moment!

For the AK hh I call, he can't have that many sets can he ? What did he show ?

Hard month too I guess ? Hang in there, maybe play less, work more, find something !
My recent results are so awful I contemplate quiting poker, I can't even differenciate the times I'm running really bad from the times I'm too physically or mentally out of shape to handle "normal bad beats"... I need to stop for a moment to heal all that and hopefully come back with a better mindset.
What a hard game it is that we're playing, isn't it ? But it's what makes it so interesting I suppose

Happy holidays, good rest and see you next year ♠_drink:

Happy Christmas everybody!!!

I hope you all have a fantastic time!

(btw I had a fantastic holiday - will update asap)

Ola amigos!!!

Well I hope you are having a fantastic festive period!?

I certainly am - we are having awesome family time together and managing to have a few beers with friends in there too.

I played "some" poker but not a lot. Tbh I am having some family time and rest ready to kick the living **** out of 2017 (poker wise and otherwise) - cannot wait tbh.

This is all I played over the last few days (since holiday)...

Notes:-

• Redline looking bit better (sample) which is something we are working on
• Played some NL4 fast (hands 1000 to 1650) as nobody was playing in the morning again
• Running bit pants but no worries there
• Feel ready for big attack on this over the next 459 days ♠_evil:

459 days to go amigos - all is good - let's do this!

Had a great festive period but got sick yesterday Good to hear you had great quality time with friends and family
I wish you beforehand a happy New Year and we will talk again in 2017!

Cheers,

Hesticus