02/27-29/08 100NL

Online
Played 11,655 hands at 100NL and made $766.20.
Lost $120 playing 3/6 2-7 TD.

Total for period: $646.20
Total since start: $12,430.50

Total hands played in February: 75,784

Goal for next month:
Gonna try out 200NL for 10k hands 8-tabling. If I'm doing well I'll add another table for 10k hands and so on till I get to 12 tables. If I don't like the way I'm playing I'll languish at 100NL for 2 weeks or w/e. Gonna play in a live game tommorow night - should be entertaining.

Total for month: $4,691.98

02/25-26/07 100NL

Online
Played 6,214 hands and won $264.25.

Total for period: $264.25
Total since start: $11,784.30

Total hands for month: 64,129

I think I figured out how I can put in like 3-4.5k hands daily without messing up my schedule too much. In the works I think I’ll try developing a short-stacking strategy that is impossible to adjust to (i.e. perfect) I’ll give it a good shot then just attempt it, we’ll see how that goes – probably do that within the next 3 weeks. I still need to play like 7 or 8k more hands this month which I think shouldn’t be a problem. I’m still about $700 short of my target for this month, we’ll see if I can get it – I’m not too worried about it though.

Poker Stars, $0.50/$1 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 8 Players


MP1: $39.20
MP2: $107.35
Hero (CO): $115.60
BTN: $103.50
SB: $19
BB: $102.60
UTG: $167.35
UTG+1: $109.35

Pre-Flop: A 8 dealt to Hero (CO)
4 folds, Hero raises to $4, BTN raises to $12, 2 folds, Hero raises to $30, BTN raises to $103.50 and is All-In, Hero calls $73.50

So this whole hand looks completely retarded on my part – and it kind of is. What happened was is that I have about 1k hands on villain and I’m playing him on 4 or 5 tables simultaneously (I think he had position on me on most of those tables). In the span of like 150 hands he reraised me at every opportunity which he got (at least 5) – so that did 2 things, 1) it annoyed the hell out of me, and 2) made me realize he’s probably 3-betting really light. On this hand the chances that he’s 3-betting light go way up (since he even has position here) I decide to 4-bet him. It’s a smallish 4-bet but it’s not like I’d just push AA/KK here (occasionally I do but probably not against this particular individual).

Obviously, if I’m going to call his push here I should just push myself. There are a couple of problems with that play though. First off he’s only calling with hands that totally dominate me – say something like AA-QQ, AK (maybe JJ/TT depending on how he’s reading me). Secondly, I end up risking $91.50 to win $17.50.

After I 3-bet to $30, he pushes – I hate this push by him for a few reasons – none the least of which is that up to now I haven’t really been playing back to hard against him. Once he makes it I have to determine what his range is. If I think that he’s only pushing the top 10% of hands or so I’m a 35% underdog. If I extend that to the top 15% of hands I’m a 41% underdog. I’m getting about 1.8:1 to make the call which isn’t so good. However, add to the numbers involved in this hand that it’ll probably slow him down a lot (in terms of playing back at me), and other intangible variables it’s probably not too far off of being a call. I’m not necessarily happy with how I played this hand but those were a lot of the thoughts going through my head, and I was very annoyed/frustrated with this guy which made the borderline decision into a call.

Flop: ($208.50) A 8 Q (2 Players - 1 is All-In)


Turn: ($208.50) 7 (2 Players - 1 is All-In)


River: ($208.50) 7 (2 Players - 1 is All-In)


Results: $208.50 Pot ($3 Rake)
Hero showed A 8 (two pair, Aces and Eights) and WON $205.50 (+$102 NET)
BTN mucked J K and LOST (-$103.50 NET)

02/22-24/08 100NL

Online
Played 9,196 hands at 100NL and won $174.25.

Total for period: $174.25
Total since start: $11,784.30

Total Hands this month: 57,915

I have to earn another 20k FPP in order to buy a bonus for March, basically that means that I have to play an additional 13k hands above my 60k goal. Considering how close I am to the 60k goal I don’t think this will be too difficult – but as usual just a grind. I was expecting this to be a $5k month but I’m about $950 short of that, so I guess I’ll actually try to win $$ while grinding.

Two hands from the last couple days:

Poker Stars, $0.50/$1 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 7 Players


UTG+1: $130.90
MP: $114.80
Hero (CO): $300.60
BTN: $105.55
SB: $58.55
BB: $53.45
UTG: $25.65

Pre-Flop: A A dealt to Hero (CO)
3 folds, Hero raises to $4, BTN calls $4, 2 folds

I make my standard raise and get a single caller behind me who is the BTN (58/7/0.6 after 114 hands I probably had a lot less hands at the time).

Flop: ($9.50) 6 T 5 (2 Players)
Hero bets $6, BTN calls $6

The flop comes a completely mundane T65r – quite a few hands hit this flop but few actually connect strongly. I make my standard con’t bet and the BTN calls – not exactly the scariest thing to see from this opponent.

Turn: ($21.50) J (2 Players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $12, Hero raises to $30, BTN raises to $95.55 and is All-In, Hero calls $65.55

This opponent actually had a fairly high turn bet % number (around 40% - a lot of people just look at the overall AF # and forget that it’s actually a combo stat that is very heavily weighted towards the flop). I decide that a check/raise here will allow me to extract the most value/get away from my hand. Unfortunately, I don’t follow through with my plan of getting away from the hand facing ‘extreme’ resistance and I call anyway. Really there’s no hand here that will push after I c/r that I am ahead of and I got pretty lucky in that he only had 2-pair and I had a lot of outs – though none of them hit.

River: ($212.60) 9 (2 Players - 1 is All-In)


Results: $212.60 Pot ($3 Rake)
Hero showed A A (a pair of Aces) and LOST (-$105.55 NET)
BTN showed 6 J (two pair, Jacks and Sixes) and WON $209.60 (+$104.05 NET)

Poker Stars, $0.50/$1 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 9 Players


SB: $25
BB: $100
UTG: $95.45
UTG+1: $69.20
UTG+2: $51.85
MP1: $103.80
MP2: $41.45
Hero (CO): $98
BTN: $369.95

Pre-Flop: K T dealt to Hero (CO)
4 folds, MP2 calls $1, Hero raises to $4, BTN calls $4, 2 folds, MP2 calls $3

I raise here to isolate the limper since I’ll have position the rest of the hand, I don’t like the button calling behind me – but the more the merrier I guess.

Flop: ($13.50) 8 6 K (3 Players)
MP2 checks, Hero bets $7, BTN raises to $14, MP2 folds, Hero calls $7

It checks to me and I make my STD con’t bet in this sort of pot (the pot is actually ~$12.70), while this bet may seem small I think it gives me the most flexibility and is the right balance between pricing people out/getting calls/ allowing me to spend as little as possible finding folds on the hands where I miss. I get min-raised by BTN, which I don’t really like – if I reraise I’m basically only getting played with by hands that destroy me and getting everything else to fold. I choose to call even though I’ll be OOP. BTN only raises the flop ~4% of the time and only bets turn ~21% of the time (after 164 hands) so it seems that if this is a complete bluff he’d be much more likely to just check behind on the turn and let me know where I’m at – potentially letting me value-bet my pretty weak hand on the river.

Turn: ($41.50) 7 (2 Players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $22, Hero raises to $80 and is All-In, BTN calls $58

This card is fantastic for me, I now have TP with a FD and a gutter. BTNs bet basically means he likes his hand – but it’s also small enough for me to have plenty of FE. I kinda put his range here on something like AA, KK, AK, 88, 66, Kx down to like K8, 86, 97, 77. Against this range I’m about a 48.2% underdog. So this is a fairly easy push, eliminating the weaker Kxs I’m still a 43.8% underdog – which with the dead $$ is more than enough to push in this spot. (Oh the reason why hands like AA-AK are included is that the BTN in this hand is 25/2.5 so they’re well within his range). Against what BTN actually had, I was only a 36.36% underdog, but obviously this move is +ev. I happened to get lucky and hit my flush.

River: ($201.50) J (2 Players - 1 is All-In)


Results: $201.50 Pot ($3 Rake)
Hero showed K T (a flush, King high) and WON $198.50 (+$100.50 NET)
BTN mucked A A and LOST (-$98 NET)

Hmm I actually like doing these analyses I’ll try doing some more in the future. Since I’m usually playing anywhere between 12-14 tables a lot of my ‘reads’ of non-regulars are based purely on stats. However, stats coupled with experience and hand reading at this level are good enough to make me winner.

2/15-21/08 Bunch of stuff

Online
Played 41 hands of 10/20 LHE HU and lost $800.
Played 16 hands of 10/20 LHE 6-max and won $304.50
Played 386 hands of 5/10 LHE HU and won $185.50
Played 337 hands of 3/6 LHE 6-max and lost 67.50
Played about 60 hands of 2/4 Limit HORSE and lost $4
Played 5 hands of 1/2 LHE HU and won $5.20
Played 18,270 hands of 100NL and won $523.95

Total: $147.65

MTTs
$200 PS - 1809/7900 lost a flip QQ vs AK
10k FPP PS - 1300/9500 misplayed the turn on a hand but it's probably marginal won $277.50

Total: $62.50

Total for period: $210.15
Total since start: $11,610.05

Total hands: 48,719

02/9-14/08 100NL, MTTs

Online
Played 7,704 hands at 100NL and made $738.25.
Played 20 hands at 3/6 2-7 TD and lost $4.

Total: $734.25

MTTs:
$50 PS - 25/2121 profited $422.23 on this one messed up on 1 hand with like 30 left and that basically screwed me
$200 PS - 2305/7786
$300 FT - 5058/5637

Total: ($92.77)

Also finished clearing the $1,500 bonus.

Total for period: $2,141.48
Total since start: $11,399.90

Total % of goal completed: 18.05%
Total % of time passed: 45%

So I'm basically way behind schedule, but it's looking like June/July will make or break my target #'s.

Total hands for month: 30,449

02/6-8/08 100NL

Online
Played 8,889 hands at 100NL and lost $267.90. The first 2.5k hands went really well and I won about 4.7 buyins. Then I just dropped 10.5 buyins in the next 3k hands and worked it to only be down 2.7 buyins over the next 3.5k hands or so.

Total for period: ($267.90)
Total since start: $9,258.42

Total Hands: 22,745

The bonus is coming along nicely and I only need to play about 5k more hands to get it. The bonus adds between $13-18/hour onto my earn rate I think.

02/3-5/07 100NL

Online
Played 6,483 hands at 100NL and made $1,135.30.
Played ~80 hands at 3/6 and 2/4 2-7 TD and lost $70.50

MTT
$200 PS - finished around 1300/6600 didn't cash

Total for period: $849.80
Total since start: $9,526.32

Total hands for month: 13,856 hands

2/1-2/08 100NL

Online
Played 7,407 hands at 100NL and won $913.90

Total for period: $938.00
Total since start: $8,676.52

Total Hands: 7,373

Goal: Play 60k hands this month.

1/21-31/07

Online
Played 1,127 hands at 5/10 6-max and lost $909.50
Played 58 hands at 3/6 LHE HU and won $17.20
Played 19,269 hands and lost $9.80
Played 39 hands at $50NL HU and won $11.50
Cleared a $1,500 bonus

Total for period: $690.40
Total since start: $7,738.52

Total hands played this month: 40,024

Not a good month next one will hopefully be better.