So heres my results since last post, which will be followed by a long post of how I'm feeling poker wise and what my thoughts are. -I think it will be a good read.
Cash hands played: 18567
Profit: 406.55$
Bonuses: 100$ reload bonus+50 stellar reward
FPP's: I'm at 18k fpp's right now, which is about a 3rd of the way to my goal of 65k for the 1k gift card, (something like .016 per fpp at that rate 18k fpps is worth about 280$)
VIP bonus: I'm about to hit platinum star, i have around 1800vpps to go in 2 full days left to go, not sure how its going to work but I'm going to go for it
EURO: I bought in Euro's at 1.28 per1$ and sold them at 1.307 per 1$ so i know i profited off of it, but I earned more $ at the euros than i bought in for, so not exactly sure how much profit i made from this.
Total profit: 556.55$
So it's been a wild ride at 50nl so far, I've increased the number of tables substantially and have been putting in around 1k hands a day pretty much since school started. I find myself very comfortable 8 tabling, and semi-comfortable playing 9 tables. I tend to lower the tables down to 7 when i start not feeling good about how I'm playing which i got to work on.
I've been playing mostly the short stack tables and grinding the deep stack tables when i feel up for it. There is ALOT of money up for grabs at these deep stacked tables and I feel people tend to bluff huge amounts of bb's in 3b pots. It's kind of hard for me at these tables, unless there is 2 huge whales (i have been seeing the same fish coming to play everyday consistently blowing stacks, some of its to me :) But, I feel like i cannot win at those tables unless there is a huge fish or I am running good. I just keep losing non showdown pots left and right. I'm still up a ton at those tables but it's really frustrating. People are not folding to 3bets/4bets ever. They just call call call thinking they can stack me when i have an overpair vs. set or what not 250 deep. it's kind of hard to just sit there and wait for big hands when stacks are going in every hand, and even when you get KK/AA/QQ im getting alot of action on low dry flops and things like that..If anyone can offer there 2cents on these tables id appreciate it.
Other than at the tables, I'm feeling really confindent at 50nl, i feel like im progressing as a player and constantly have an edge at a table. I feel like i know what to do in certain spots vs. regs, and can exploit them or atleast play breakeven against them. Lately I have been thinking about certain tough spots and certain lines i can take in those spots which is either neutral EV or +ev.
Also, I've been striving to improve my play in the BB/SB because its my biggest losing positions. I had been losing at a huge bb/hand in the bb and sb. I think it was because i was trying to hard to outplay people/ bluff them. I think some of the regs adapted to how I play and know i tend to bluff more. So, instead of fighting for really marginal spots and trying to push people off hands where i have no clue what i am doing I have been fighting for smaller pots against fishy players who are likely to fold, and fighting for those spots against nits whos hand range is well defined based on how they play/what line they took.
Other than that I have been religiously looking at my holdem manager and identifying certain hands which are not showing a profit. IE: stealing j9o on the cut-off and those types of hands which really i can only play profitably with nits on the button and like 1 fish in the bb/sb and another nit in the bb/sb. In these spots im more likely to steal with hands like q7-q9s, j8-j10o/s, and k8-10o (on the cut off). I think in the short tables you can really make some small mistakes raising these hands preflop which destroy your bottom line. I've started analyzing more fully whether or not its okay to isolate or steal based on the players to my left, (not to worried about the player to my right if he open limps.) For instance, say it folds to a fishy, guy who wont fold a pair and he open limps on the CO and im on the button with a hand like j8o or q9o or even like k6o. I'm only going to isolate if I know for a fact that the blinds will fold a ton, or they are like nitty shortstackers who have a defined shove range and will fold a ton. Based off that I'm more likely to add hands like j7,q7,k6+, k5s+ and like 78o/89o to my isolating range.
Now with players who like to abuse the fact that i steal/isolate wide, I've found that the only way to adjust is to just not raise those type of hands above, and just play tighter. Those types of players i feel will still continue to 3b me as much even though I'm raising a tighter range and will be in a tough spot when i have the AA/KK/AK and flat and they cbet any high card board board with like TP dec kicker and i ship it or call/call shove. (K high board when i have AK). And to the times when they cbet out of position on a like dry board like 362 or 552 or something like that and i shove over their cbet with over cards, They are forced to fold pretty much everything except pair/overpair type hands. Since overcards make up a bigger portion of their range which would 3bet (i think), hands like KQ, KJ, AQ, QJs and some suited connectors, will have a hard time when i shove over their cbet (With AK/AQ/KK/AA). I'm not to sure on this, though. Specifically say I have AK/AQ on the button. I isolate a fish oopen limp (it folds to him) and a regular who can 3b KQ/QJ/AQ/AJ/KJ/ suited connector type hands+ their premiums (about a 10% 3b %). Can it be more profitable to flat with AQ/AK here at the 50bb tables? If he's capable of cbet bluffing oop at 50bb's deep, is it profitble to shove over most dry flops (when you dont hit) like 362/445 (you get the idea)? I think it will be a good idea to call pre, w AK-AQs/o since I'm sure he's folding all of that range -premiums. Even if the fish comes along to the 3b, the fish has so much shit in that range which we don't want to fold to a 4bet+ it makes our range look alot weaker when we don't 4bet. for instance, the reg might think we have PP's and some sutied connectors that decided to call thinking we had the "odds." He'd be more inclined to cbet any K high/ A high board assuming our range was like only 22-JJ, + like 89s/109s. When we do hit, with our AK/AQ were going to stack his kj/kq/aq/aj, and if he actually decides to cbet a low uncoordinated board, I'm sure we can shove over profitably with our overcards (unless he is unlikely to cbet a low uncoordinated board with air since the fish is in the hand.
So this is how my mind has been ranting on these past few weeks, I've been really interested in these type of situations, and really been trying to figure it out. Add that to the fact that I'm trying to move up to 100nl soon, (just need to get the broll up) and I'm pretty ultra motivated to play poker. The only set backs is class. I have a "scheduled" life now, which is frustrating when I'm in the mood to study poker/play and have to go to class or finish a project. Like right now, I decided to not go to class and just right this blog/ do some other HW for the class. I am sick so I can right off class easily, but I'm sure I'll have some work to make up after today.
So that's my extremely long rant for today, expect more blogs like this (probably not daily). I feel like writing these types of situations out really really help me improve and get on my best thought process that I have for poker. I really want to be able to grind poker for a living/part-time living someday (outside of college) so I'm putting in the effort now while i still have time to. That gets me to my goals; I intend to make it to 100nl withing a month or two, and learn how to 10+ table and grind it out like I have been at 50nl. As of today I have around 32k hands at 50nl and a 1.75-2BB winrate. I hope it stays true over my next 30k hands of 50nl so I can move up quickly.
With all this my bankroll online overall is now 1850 or something like that, (I never deposited the rest of my bankroll from the casino since i needed it for books.) I think keep adding the tables and keep playing how i've been playing+improving will get me to 100nl over the next month or so. And that's that, sorry for the rant but I think it will be a good read. Please comment on any of the situations above and help me out if you can. thanks.
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The examples you gave weren't always clear and I'm not sure which game you were talking about in certain examples. Some of the things you talked about just won't work at 50bb max tables.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I think you're wrong in thinking that regulars are 3 betting with that range from the button against your CO/Button steals in 50bb max games. Have you considered that a regular is probably as likely, if not more likely to 3bet with 89s type hands than with KJ/QJ/AJ, especially given the fact that you are adding a 3 bet flatting IP range?
Also, decent regulars won't be exploited in that spot as much as you think, since most regulars cbet 1/3-5/8 the pot OOP in 3 bet pots, for the exact reason of being able to fold when they have overs and get their opponent to make a very big overbet mistake when they have overpairs.
Also, are you considering the odds you're giving your opponent to call with overcards in that spot? What about balancing your 3bet flatting IP range? Are you only ever going to do this with AK, AQ?
I have a lot more to say about this, but I don't think this is the best way to talk about it. Want to do a session on Saturday night?