Operation: I AM DA CARROT MAN

Hello, I am da Carrot Man imo.

Well, it's now time for a new operation. I sort of gave up on the last one a few months ago because 1. I'd stopped playing for a little while and 2. It was too results orientated and seemed to make me play worse.

So this operation will have 4 main purposes:

1. To post more long term progess reports - (results wise) every 20k hands or so at least. This way I'm not fucking posting a graph every time I play a session and staring at short term BR fulxuation which will undoubtedly cause me to play badly and less objectively.

2. To track my personal progress as a poker player. In other words to log the things I've learned from either watching videos, HH reviews, sweats, and my own sessions and to document how I can apply these to improve my game.

3. To post HH's in a more contained space for people to review and help me with so that I'm not spewing millions of them all over the SHNL forum.

4. To keep track of my volume and try to stop slacking/laziness from hindering progress.

These are far better aims for an OPP than setting tilting short term goals and asploding because I've ran BI's under All in EV and posted like 7 garphs of it in 2 weeks.

Okay, so let's have a quick recap of my progess thus far for those of you who don't know where I've been. I grinded 25NL for a month or so and made enough to quickly move up in around mid september to 50NL. I ran terribly upon moving up and started to play bad as a result. Every time I'd get somewhere I'd fall into a 10BI downswing the next week and the general frustration and stress of this just made me stop enjoying poker. Consequently, I stoppedm playing from about a month and a half as I also had to withdraw funds to survive IRL.

I forced myself to get back to gridning 25NL with my much decreased new roll of $1200 at the end of last month. Since then I have hit a pretty nice streak of run good, played well and built back up to over 2K and to regulating 50NL once again.

This time my aims are to just tilt control to the maximum, not focus at all on short term results (always been my problem in poker) and to just steadily improve my game. I know I can bet 50NL because it's fucking soft to be honest and even the regs are lol bad most of the time. I suck too obviously, but less than most of them imo.

The plans is to move up to 100NL at some nitty figure like 4k, because I really want to have a much improved game by then and have enough cushion to prevent a melt down. Tlit control is a major prioirty and although I have improved shitloads in this respect, it's still a problem for me.

Today I plan to put in aroun 1500 hands at least which is probably around 4.5 hours for me 5 tabling 50NL. I wont be ever playing more than 5 tables, because this is the amount I feel comfortable with.

If I learn any important concepts or there are any interesting hands I'll post here later. For now I'll leave you with some hands from yesterday that have been troubling me. Thanks for reading all, tis good to be blogging again.

1. Villain is new to the table and is 0/0 over 6 hands. I think his range should be relatviely weak on this turn and beside TT JJ, there can't be a whole lot he can call a jam with. Do people like jamming? We obv can't b/f.

No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (5 handed) - Hold'em Manager Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Button ($49.50)
Hero (SB) ($57.30)
BB ($50)
UTG ($50)
MP ($52)

Preflop: Hero is SB with Q, A
2 folds, Button bets $2, Hero raises $6.75, 1 fold, Button calls $5

Flop: ($14.50) 7, 4, 10 (2 players)
Hero bets $8.25, Button calls $8.25

Turn: ($31) J (2 players) Hero?

2. Villain is a reg, 20/20/40ATS over 40 hands. He seems fairly aggro and possibly the barelling type. I didn't want to stack of here this deep with my draw, even though it's probably alright to raise and get it in on the flop. How's my line as played? Can we call river since he's repping a pretty narrow range here?

No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (5 handed) - Hold'em Manager Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Hero (SB) ($126.70)
BB ($46)
UTG ($53.70)
MP ($96.70)
Button ($62.25)

Preflop: Hero is SB with 10, J
1 fold, MP bets $1.75, 1 fold, Hero calls $1.50, 1 fold

Flop: ($4) 5, K, 9 (2 players)
Hero checks, MP bets $3, Hero calls $3

Turn: ($10) K (2 players)
Hero checks, MP bets $6.75, Hero calls $6.75

River: ($23.50) 10 (2 players)
Hero checks, MP bets $14, Hero folds

Total pot: $23.50

3. Villain is "the cleaner" 50NL reg I've seen around a bunch. I'm not sure how often he c/fs flop but figured firing multiple barrels couldbe pretty unpleasant for him on a lot of boards and with our turn equity I defo wanted to barrel here. I'd also just 3 bet him b vs b the last orbit so elected to flat here pre. How's this line?

No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (6 handed) - Hold'em Manager Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Hero (BB) ($107.70)
UTG ($50.75)
MP ($49.40)
CO ($53.95)
Button ($113.60)
SB ($58.50)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 9, 7
4 folds, SB bets $1.25, Hero calls $1

Flop: ($3) 4, 10, 10 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $1.85, SB calls $1.85

Turn: ($6.70) 8 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $5.10, SB calls $5.10

River: ($16.90) 5 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero checks

Total pot: $16.90

Hey dude, I'm too lazy to comment on the hands, cuz the HH's are all f'ed up atm, fix them plz. Good luck with this, and tilt control is a problem both of us have sir. Hopefully we can both stop being whiney skanks and just got stuff done! GOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGO!

Okay time for a quick update. I've probably said this before while running good, but I feel like I'm playing some of the best poker just now than I ever have before. Things are clicking now vs these regs and I'm starting to realise that most of them are really bad and finding ways to exploit it. THis has helped control FPS b/c I'm no longer waving my cock about all the time reflop, but actually looking for spots where their play is hella exploitablem and taking notes like a machine. I feel like I just need to focus now and continue doing what I;m doing while continuing to improve and I'll soon be at 100NLz. Results will come at the end of the month. Priorites until then include.

*Achieve gold star, should only need another 5K or so hands.
*Keep thinking objectively and not focus on the short term results.
*Make another 3BIs at least (Just levelled you hard with that one BOOM)
*Successfuly bond the new rabbit with the old one (not easy imo)
*Complete philosophy essay.
*Somehow stretch out real life monies to accomodate social life.
*Not buy any sushi cos I can't fucking afford it

*lose more money to kiwi at backgammon, because you're up $1 atm

gl sir

New rabbits ftw! Pics of them humping everything or gtfo.

GOGOGOGOGOOGOGOGOGOGOGO sir, good to hear you're wtfpwning

Ok, It's gotta be about time for an update. Feburuary was a pretty big success for me in that I managed to recover my cahsed out shitty roll of $1200 into what's now a healthy $2700. To top things off, I ran like god in a live donakemnt and cashed for £630 which has paid my awesome new poker station including 24" uber monitor that I'm now using. No more shitty old laptop and scroll pad imo. Pic of this and rabbits humping things for dranger when I get around to stealing my g/f's camera.

March is going to be a bit of a problem in that I'm just not going to have time to put in the 30k hands I really want. Uni is a bit of as bitch and I've just totally negelcted one subject that I know Ima drop next year. Trouble is I'm gonnahave to learn it from scratch in order to write an essay this month and then pass an exam in May to get deh credits. So yeah after next week is over I'll really need to try to put in some sick volume and just do what I can until then. I also really need to work on my chess game. I won tonight against a much weaker player in the club championship, but not convincingly and when I reviewed the game it was littered with diabolically bad tactical overlooks. Need to get studying in for sure.

Poker is still the number one priority and I should be able to reach 4k and 100NL pretty soon if I can manage to it some hands in. 20K is my minimum target for March but 30 would be ideal, prolly not gonna happen though.

Really not happy with how I played today it was almost a revert back to the end of last year in that I was checking HEM in the middle of the session and 6 tabling kind of thoghtlessly at times where I'd just end up not putting my opponents on as accurate of a range as I know I can do.

When I start my evening session in about an hour i'm going to play no more than 5 tables because this till seems to be the divide between me playing les than optimally due to being overun with action. I'm going to stay focussed and defintiey break after 500 hands or so unless i still feel very sharp.

Isn't it amazing how a small sense of "I can pwn these stakes" can lead to spew?

Originally Posted by BooG690

Isn't it amazing how a small sense of "I can pwn these stakes" can lead to spew?

Yeah, it's like "how dare he 3-bet me I can pwn these stakes and therefore this guy SPEEEEWWWWWW!"

BR has just crossed the $3K mark for the first time ever. 100NL is in sight, no more fucking withdrawals, no matter how hungry I get.

Omgz nice work dewd! Still waiting on your entry for the Contest ITT for my new avatar.

For the chess stuff, where do you go to study that shit lol. I'd like to actually learn to play it, but I don't know where to start. o_O I know how the pieces move and stuff, its just all the actual playing that fucks me.

Keep it up sir!

If you're looking to take chess more seriously then first stop wpuld be to check out Dan Heisman's "Novice Nook" blogs on ChessCafe.com . He gives some good tips for beginners getting started and what to study, how to improve.

Basically your total noob training should comprise of a few things imo.

1. Play some games, practice makes perfect. These should be long games so you can actually think about what you're doing I'd say 30 mins each or more. Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) is a good place to start as it's free and has competition of all levels.

2. Study endgames. This will give you your most fundemental understanding of what each piece actualy does and help your board vision.

3. Study tactics. Chess Tactics Server That's a pretty good server to do some basic tactics puzzles on. 90% of chess is tactics especially at low level.

4. Once you feel comfortable with tactics and have played some games and feel you're getting somewhere, choose and learn a very small set of easy basic openings. Stick to these and only these until very comfortable in them. i recomend just playing e5 vs e4, d5 vs d4 and opening e4 yourself, playing something basic from there.

Chess is a bitch though because it's time consuming sometimes, so don't neglect pokars too much imo.

Lemme know when you're ready to play for rollz.

No poker for me today as we've got a chess league match tonight and I really need to brush up since I've barely played in the last week.

Be back on the grind tomorrow.

I can also recommend Chess.com - I thought it would just be somebody who'd snapped up the domain and ran with it, but it's actually done really well. You can play all sorts of games (and tournaments) for free, from two weeks per move to two minutes for the entire game. There're also a bunch of learning resources, including enough free stuff to get by (in combination with the links carroters gave you ldo) if you don't wanna become a paid member (I'm not a paid member, so my endorsement is of chess.com as a free site).

ZOMFG how dare you advertise in my blog.

Still continuing to run really well which is so fucking nice I tell ya. I'm trying hard to not fall into the trap of getting delusional and thinknig I pwn like all limits, b/c evidently I don't. It can be easy to feel like you're playing your best poker during an upswing because you keep being shown the part of your opponent's range you've tailored you action for. This is largely variance and not an indication that I am Ivey.

On the flip side though, I feel like in the last few weeks I've played some of the best poker of my life. I also feel like I've fucked up a ton of spots and played horribly in too.

My goal for tonight's session and those thereafter: Stop and think. Take the time to understand I've thought through the situation, my opponents range, how we plays it, and what this means for me to the maximum degree possible given the time available. That is all.

I'm taking vladrocilphetamineocil™® right now, and loving it!

Yesterday was a weird day. Felt like I was probably 4-betting too much vs the wrong people and going off too small a 3-bet sample. There's really nothing wrong with foldiong to a lot of 3-bets at 50NL especially when FPS donmks are jamming wierd shit over your 4-bets. Today I'm going to keep 4-bet bluffing for spots where i'm sure it's good and play a bit less FPSy in general. I'll avoid getting into rediculous cockwaving wars with losing donk regs because that's why they're losing donk regs.

I'm going to post some hands I'm unsure about from yesterday and make sure I wasn't making too too many horrible mistakes. Hopefully I can play a bit more solidly and with a bit more dsiciplione today and not take such offense to being 3-bet because that's just fucking gay. All feedback on these very much appreciated.

1. Villain is 19/17 with a 3-bet of 14 over 88 hands. I think felting here is probably fine becasue he'll be folding air a ton and probably felting worse aswell given it's b vs b and we're both aggro regs. I don't get owned wanna play TT oop in a 3-bet pot. Rivers probably a fold right?

No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (6 handed) - Hold'em Manager Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

CO ($77)
Button ($97.75)
Hero (SB) ($55.75)
BB ($53.80)
UTG ($50)
MP ($25.65)

Preflop: Hero is SB with 10, 10
4 folds, Hero bets $1.50, BB raises $4.50, Hero raises $12.25, BB calls $9

Flop: ($28) A, 4, 3 (2 players)
Hero checks, BB checks

Turn: ($28) 5 (2 players)
Hero checks, BB checks

River: ($28) J (2 players)
Hero checks, BB bets $10, Hero?

2. Villain is totally unknown, I've just sat down. I like c/c on the flop since I get a bet out ofovercards this way and really don't get too much value by leading. I'd fold to a decent sized turn bet i think. As played fold river?

No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (6 handed) - Hold'em Manager Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Button ($50)
SB ($147.95)
Hero (BB) ($50)
UTG ($50.10)
MP ($51.35)
CO ($64.45)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 7, 7
2 folds, CO bets $1.50, 1 fold, SB calls $1.25, Hero calls $1

Flop: ($4.50) 3, 3, 3 (3 players)
SB checks, Hero checks, CO bets $2.50, 1 fold, Hero calls $2.50

Turn: ($9.50) Q (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $4, Hero calls $4

River: ($17.50) 2 (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $10, [color=#666666][i]Hero?

3. Villain is 33/30 with a 11% 3 bet over 50 hands. I thought KQ would be a decent defend, I hadn't yet played back to any of his 3-bets. This flop sucks though and I just wasn't sure what he was c betting. Does anyone float or raise here?

No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (6 handed) - Hold'em Manager Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Button ($50)
SB ($147.95)
Hero (BB) ($50)
UTG ($50.10)
MP ($51.35)
CO ($64.45)

No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (6 handed) - Hold'em Manager Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

MP ($53.85)
CO ($50)
Hero (Button) ($50.75)
SB ($50)
BB ($110.55)
UTG ($24.15)

Preflop: Hero is Button with K, Q
3 folds, Hero bets $1.75, SB raises $5.75, 1 fold, Hero calls $4.25

Flop: ($12.50) 9, 7, 6 (2 players)
SB bets $8, Hero folds

Total pot: $12.50


Total pot: $17.50

4. Squeezer is an active looking reg running 22/19 over 150 hands with 10% 3-bet. Original raiser is 18/14 38% ATS and caller is 16/10 semi nit. I can see villain squeezing lightly here a good amount. Too spewy?

No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (6 handed) - Hold'em Manager Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

MP ($31.10)
CO ($61)
Button ($50)
SB ($50)
Hero (BB) ($55.55)
UTG ($55.20)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 8, K
2 folds, CO bets $1.50, Button calls $1.50, SB raises $6.25, [color=#CC3333]Hero raises $14.50

5. Villain is 19/17 and has raised one out of 2 c-bets so far. I feel like there's probably more draws and air in his range than sets so decide to peel here and evaluate bet sizing etc on different turn cards. This is a pretty bad one so anything but folding seems bad given his range has just improved a ton. Thoughts?

No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (4 handed) - Hold'em Manager Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Hero (UTG) ($72.90)
Button ($50)
SB ($43.75)
BB ($55.65)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with K, 10
Hero bets $1.75, Button calls $1.75, 2 folds

Flop: ($4.25) 10, 3, 5 (2 players)
Hero bets $2.70, Button raises $8.50, Hero calls $5.80

Turn: ($21.25) J (2 players)
Hero checks, Button bets $12, Hero folds

Total pot: $21.25

Originally Posted by Carroters

1. Villain is new to the table and is 0/0 over 6 hands. I think his range should be relatviely weak on this turn and beside TT JJ, there can't be a whole lot he can call a jam with. Do people like jamming? We obv can't b/f.

No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (5 handed) - Hold'em Manager Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Button ($49.50)
Hero (SB) ($57.30)
BB ($50)
UTG ($50)
MP ($52)

Preflop: Hero is SB with Q, A
2 folds, Button bets $2, Hero raises $6.75, 1 fold, Button calls $5

Flop: ($14.50) 7, 4, 10 (2 players)
Hero bets $8.25, Button calls $8.25

Turn: ($31) J (2 players) Hero?

2. Villain is a reg, 20/20/40ATS over 40 hands. He seems fairly aggro and possibly the barelling type. I didn't want to stack of here this deep with my draw, even though it's probably alright to raise and get it in on the flop. How's my line as played? Can we call river since he's repping a pretty narrow range here?

No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (5 handed) - Hold'em Manager Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Hero (SB) ($126.70)
BB ($46)
UTG ($53.70)
MP ($96.70)
Button ($62.25)

Preflop: Hero is SB with 10, J
1 fold, MP bets $1.75, 1 fold, Hero calls $1.50, 1 fold

Flop: ($4) 5, K, 9 (2 players)
Hero checks, MP bets $3, Hero calls $3

Turn: ($10) K (2 players)
Hero checks, MP bets $6.75, Hero calls $6.75

River: ($23.50) 10 (2 players)
Hero checks, MP bets $14, Hero folds

Total pot: $23.50

3. Villain is "the cleaner" 50NL reg I've seen around a bunch. I'm not sure how often he c/fs flop but figured firing multiple barrels couldbe pretty unpleasant for him on a lot of boards and with our turn equity I defo wanted to barrel here. I'd also just 3 bet him b vs b the last orbit so elected to flat here pre. How's this line?

No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (6 handed) - Hold'em Manager Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Hero (BB) ($107.70)
UTG ($50.75)
MP ($49.40)
CO ($53.95)
Button ($113.60)
SB ($58.50)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 9, 7
4 folds, SB bets $1.25, Hero calls $1

Flop: ($3) 4, 10, 10 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $1.85, SB calls $1.85

Turn: ($6.70) 8 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $5.10, SB calls $5.10

River: ($16.90) 5 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero checks

Total pot: $16.90

better late than never?

hand 1, flop sizing seems bad. i'd either make it 7 on flop-> 13 into 28 on turn and shove river (though even this is kinda awkward because PF 3b was kinda big), or like 13 flop and shove turn.

i'm really meh on whether to shove this or not. he calls with a lot more than TT/JJ (AJ and JTs especially and an occassional QQ+, and an occassional 98s or KhQh or something). if we'd made the flop smaller, i would def continue here for like 13, but as played i really don't know.

hand 2, flatting the flop OOP this deep seems really really bad

hand 3, i would pretty much never 3b this pre and always flat. flop and turn is good/std and river is interesting. i'm kinda inclined to bet big, like 15 and assume he's USUALLY folding 99. don't know how often someone's playing Tx like this in bvb. i'm not totally sure, but my natural inclination is to bet again here

Hand 1
meh, you might warrant pot odds to call river. Its prolly not hugley +Ev or anything though.

Hand 2
PF and flop are fine-I'm C/F this turn though.

Hand 3
Seems ok to defend against reg, think flop fold is fine. To many bad cards to come 2 more sts.

Hand 4
wat? looks pretty spewy

I responding to the last batch of hands not the ones Surviva316 did btw

as for second post, hand 1: there are gonna be people who hate preflop and people who think it's fine. i think i lean slightly to the it's fine category, but folding isn't a bad option either obv. i def make PF bigger, though when we're OOP. like 14.50.

it seems really really hard to fold river after you played it like you did. he doesn't have to have random SC's/low PP's/KQ very often for this to be a call.

hand 2: nah, bet flop. everyone thinks your FoS here. prolly bet flop, c/f turn would be my line. as played i like it, now fold.

hand 3: PF's obv fine/std. now just fold. there are PLENTY of hands in our range that we can play back with, we don't need to fuck around with this garbage

Thanks a ton for the feedback guys. I feel like I'm still playing a bit spewy today although probably less so then yesterday. Have played 1300 hands for +$27 whooooop. I'll probably have one more sesion tonight to take me to 2000 and then break for the weekend and commence alcoholaments as of tomorrow.

So many 50NL regs are losing tards on PTR tis funny actually. I just need to not asplode vs them and play well post flop. Really excited to get to 100NL. Currently clearing the $285 stars bonus which takes like 1990 VPPs. I'm 600 through. Should have it cleared by the end of next week.

I'll address your replies to those hands later if i see anything relevaant to dsicuss, I haven't looked at the first batch inm ages tbh. My head is kind frazzled right now from the sesh I just played.

didn't notice there was more:

hand 4: i don't really know what there is to NOT like about this hand, other than sizing. 13 seems PLENTY big (i'd prolly even make it 12.50).

hand 5: this is a spot where i'm really not inclined to flat OOP. even AsXs is like ahead of us here. our best option is prolly to just fold the flop and maybe start to play more passively in cbet spots against him in the future.

LOL MILESTONE GARPHAMENTZ.

Okay time for some hands from todays first session. Feel I played alright for the most part, but perhaps made some spewy plays and began to lose a bit of focus towards the end of the session. I really need to make sure my focuss stays in check throughout.

1. Villain is 25/23 and has stolen from the sb 3/3 times this session including this one. His c bet is 100% over 3 oppertunities.

Preflop: pretty standard defend I feel I can outplay him IP and JT0 is doing pretty okay against his likely lol wide range.

Flop: I think I should be able to take this away on some turn cards and I have decent equity vs his still wide range imo.

Turn: He'll bet this with pretty much all his air and his aces and better. I'm really not too sure about his river frequenciesm but felt like i could fold out all the air that beats me at showdown and anything else weak he's turning into a bluff.

River: My read was that his continuing range would be Ax+ so i don't want to try to make him fold any of it on this river.

No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (5 handed) - Hold'em Manager Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Hero (BB) ($56.95)
UTG ($54.25)
MP ($58.60)
Button ($54.60)
SB ($47.65)

Preflop: Hero is BB with J, 10
3 folds, SB bets $1.75, Hero calls $1.50

Flop: ($4) Q, 3, 8 (2 players)
SB bets $2, Hero calls $2

Turn: ($8) A (2 players)
SB bets $5.50, Hero raises $12.50, SB calls $7

River: ($33) 10 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero checks

Total pot: $33

2. Villain is 41/30 with a fold to 3-bet of 0 over 2. He looks like an aggro donk that can't really fold anything until he's seen a flop.

My main question here is whether to bet the river. I don't think he folds TT JJ etc but I feel like he has pretty much all pairs here.

No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (5 handed) - Hold'em Manager Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

UTG ($62)
Hero (MP) ($134.70)
Button ($49.25)
SB ($36.40)
BB ($51.50)

Preflop: Hero is MP with K, A
UTG bets $1.50, Hero raises $5, 3 folds, UTG calls $3.50

Flop: ($10.75) 8, 8, 9 (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets $6.50, UTG calls $6.50

Turn: ($23.75) 5 (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero checks

River: ($23.75) Q (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero checks

Total pot: $23.75


3. MP is 14/10 nit box who I've seen nothing extraordinary from, CO is 35/21 and has a pretty wide flatting range after the nit calls.

My question concerns the flop with this hand. I think c betting has it's merits in that we can get value vs CO's draws and the nit might fold TT-QQ here sometimes. We don't get any value from worse made hands, so c/f flop might be better given the nit's range ios so strong. i don't like c/c and playing a guessing game if CO stabs when it checks round to him. c/f or b/f? Thoughts?

No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (6 handed) - Hold'em Manager Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

SB ($32.15)
BB ($47.60)
Hero (UTG) ($99.55)
MP ($118.85)
CO ($50.85)
Button ($52)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with 9, 9
Hero bets $2, MP calls $2, CO calls $2, 3 folds

Flop: ($6.75) K, 4, 5 (3 players)
Hero bets $4.45, MP calls $4.45, CO calls $4.45

Turn: ($20.10) 5 (3 players)
Hero checks, MP bets $14.20, 1 fold, Hero folds

Total pot: $20.10

1st hand looks good with the double gutter pickup on the turn. I also feel that he will be C/C river with most of range. Raise looks good because you price out any FD's on straight pot odds. (28%).

I'm only going to comment on the first hand because the other two I don't feel that I can be much help.

Okay it's now April. I have exams in April at the end, but I also have no classes at all. In between studying and other activities I'm shooting for 30k hands. This isn't huge but I think it's reasonable given exams and more than I usually put in. Come May I'll be looking more at 50K+ and poker becomiong more of a some what full time job for me over the summer.

This month, besides volume my main goal is to take a really good look at my game and try to find some of the major leaks I still have and patching them up. I'm going to take note of spots where I feel confused and like I just don't know how to play well in and decide why this is. For starters I think the follwowing are probably issues.

1. Calling a street in single raised pots when i know he's betting the turn a LOT and that I'm folding the turn a LOT etc. These sort of spots demonstrate my lack of planning and understanding and show a rigid mindless thought process that just fights confusion by giving me a one street solution which is definitely -EV for the whole hand.

2. 3-betting and spazzing out vs people that aren't folding enough and getting involved in needless cockwaving wars with players that suck and will spazz their stack at me all the time when I have a hand.

I'll come up with more over the course of my next few sessions. Gonna put in some volume now. Laters.

Put in 2.5k hands yesterday which I'm happy with, it's way more than my usual daily average. Today, I'm going to keep up the dedication by playing 1k or so before I go out later on. BBQ and drinking tonight which I'm in need of after a skint eventless week IRL.

Determined to make 30K hands this month and play well at 100NL when I move up. Sucks that I have to wait until Wednesday to purchase the full version of HEM. It'll be 50NL until then.

So I have to wait till Wednsday to take your manies in peen waving 3 betting/4 betting warz at 100 NL?

Originally Posted by Dragon Slayer

So I have to wait till Wednsday to take your manies in peen waving 3 betting/4 betting warz at 100 NL?

Lol fraid so. Unfortunately for you though I'll just nit it up and take your monies each time you cold 6 bet 52s at me!

Lol congrats on running and playing good dude! You're overdue. Thanks for the chess links and tips, I'll def check them out. It's been a while since I've popped in here cuz my email is shite and doesn't let me know when ppl post anymores.

Keep it up and move to 100s already ffs.

Thanks Dr Anger, I'll be hitting up 100NL tables no later then wednesday for sure.

Gonna play 2k hands today minimum to get myself on track for my monthly goal. Main goal for the session is to really focus and noit get distracted by anything. I found myself jus open folding 66 on the CO last night without even realising I'd done it. That sort of shit cannot happen anymore. FOCUS.

Originally Posted by Carroters

Main goal for the session is to really focus and noit get distracted by anything. I found myself jus open folding 66 on the CO last night without even realising I'd done it. That sort of shit cannot happen anymore. FOCUS.

That is a great goal. I know that I miss a ridiculous amount of opportunities when I do not devote 100% to poker. If you devote 100% to poker for however long you play, it is so much +EV. Instead of giving it 75% to poker and 25% to irc or TV or AIM or w/e distraction. Just try and devote 100% to whatever you are doing at that specific time, including talking to people and you will notice great changes in everything.

Umm lolz look how good I run today, BAHAHAAHAHAHAHHAHA.



Btw $517.16 over 1711 hands is 30.14 BB/100 - FWIW I think that's easily sustainable over the long run...

! lol

Nice work haha. Keep up teh run goot imo.

weeee @ running 3 buyins over EV ^_^

Originally Posted by CBAT

weeee @ running 3 buyins over EV ^_^

That's all 50NL, try 6.

Holy smizokes, 10 buyins in 1700 hands is amazing!

Time for a cooler for our heads up

Originally Posted by Carroters

Lol fraid so. Unfortunately for you though I'll just nit it up and take your monies each time you cold 6 bet 52s at me!

Well not so fast, at my current rate i'll be back down to 50 ennels in no time. But gratz on making da luvs with Mr. run gud.

Thanks, DS. Btw are you still wanting to play in the HU tourney? I can add you in to play one of the byes, but it'll need to be tonight or tomorrow otherwise it's kinda unfair to folks not knowing if they have a match or not.

Please lemme know sir.

DS BooG has told me you're playing so I've entered you. You drew dranger at random.

Ya I still want to get in, I just saw BooG690's PM about it from a couple days ago. Should I just go ahead and ship him the $15?

Ya please ship

So I upgraded HEM today and played my first session of 100NL for + 2BI. Went pretty well, feel I played reasonably well, also the hand below happened which was nice. I guess there are still uber whales about - woohoo.

I've got to prepare for a chess match tomorrow night so likely no pokers till Friday now

No-Limit Hold'em, $1.00 BB (6 handed) - Hold'em Manager Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

SB ($193.25)
BB ($100)
UTG ($139.35)
Hero (MP) ($137.65)
CO ($100)
Button ($101.20)

Preflop: Hero is MP with 7, 7
1 fold, Hero bets $4, 1 fold, Button calls $4, SB calls $3.50, 1 fold

Flop: ($13) 7, 5, 4 (3 players)
SB bets $20, Hero raises $57, 1 fold, SB calls $37

Turn: ($127) 4 (2 players)
SB bets $132.25 (All-In), Hero calls $76.65 (All-In)

River: ($280.30) 4 (2 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: $280.30

Results:
SB had A, 10 (three of a kind, fours).
Hero had 7, 7 (full house, sevens over fours).
Outcome: Hero won $277.30

Yay for tilted 100NL fish.

Hey man. Just saw this page for the first time and its been a great read. Ive been trying to move up to 100nl for 2 months or so. Good luck with it and i look forward to reading about your transition.

Recently i googled 'moving up from 50nl to 100nl', and got a lot of interesting threads which talk about this jump. Helped me a fair bit.

Originally Posted by shakesss

Hey man. Just saw this page for the first time and its been a great read. Ive been trying to move up to 100nl for 2 months or so. Good luck with it and i look forward to reading about your transition.

Recently i googled 'moving up from 50nl to 100nl', and got a lot of interesting threads which talk about this jump. Helped me a fair bit.

Hey thanks for dropping by. So far from what I've played of 100NL it seems like there are slightly less fish, still loads of shortstackers and the regs are better. There's still a ton of mindless aggro monkey ones, but there's also some actual decent winners aswell as people who have played much higher dropping down.

I think you have to learn to deal with aggression a bit more easily and not play as fit or fold vs post flop aggression as one might be able to get away with at 50NL.

I'll check out some threads and see what others think aswell.

Anyways, today was a really good day since I won a couple of BIs at 100NL 6max and won like 4BIs playing 50NL HU. I probably wont make too much of a habit out of this as the rake is lol gay and 6max is my main strength imo. It was funny today though a few regs refused to play me after PTRing me - the disadvantage of being a luckbox ios that it makes you look good and stops you getting action.

This month has started extremely well indeed. If i can keep it going strong it'll be my biggest winning month for sure. If you looked at my results you'd think I was absolutely crushing, but I really feel like I'm mianly just running really well right now. I'm trying to stay focussed and grounded becasue i know a downswing will always show up, it's just a matter of time. My main wekaness as a player in the long term is not being able to play well during downswings and frankly just avoiding playing through fear of running terribad. My next biggest test as a player will be how i handle the next one. If you catch me saying shit like "I jus need a break for 3 weeks" or anything like that pls slap me with a large trout.

Milestone news: now made 5k from poker in the last 115,000 hands. Most I've ever made without cashing out my entire roll. Who knows maybe this will be the time I actually make it as a player.

Peace for now.

Played like utter, total shit today. Lost 2BIs in a session that should probably have been BE at worst. I played like shit because I was tilting because the pots are bigger at 100NL and the aggression is more. I was actually making emotionally fulled choices one after the other there and just had to quit. I need to get my mentality sorted the fuck out before I play any more poker.

I was planning on playing all day today, but with my current state of mind it's just a terrible idea. I woke up today in a bad mood, and I've no idea why. i just had a ton of random anger and distain. The weather is really nice, everything in life is all good, yet I felt pissed off. Then I started to feel a little better fired up 6 tables of 100NL and boom I just became angry again.

This hasn't happened to me since like before christmas; the whole full blown tilt shit. I'mn versed enough in poker to recognise it, yet i still tell myself it'll pass and play on. I could have saved a BI there just by taking a break for 20 minutes. I mean shit, this is pathetic.

I feel like I need to be hyponotised in order to sort out my fucking brain that is now starting to care about money again like some degen gambler. I have 43BIs for 100NL, but I'm feeling like this isn't enough. I mean, it clearly should be though. I have said that if I drop to 3k I'll move back down to 50NL to rebuild so it's not like I'm going to busto my roll or anything. I need to spend today studying, reviewing HHs and getting back on the train of obvjective logical thought.

Some Observations about 100NL so far

1. Way more regs to fish. A table can just fill up with light 3 betting, squeezing regs in like 5 minutes.

Answer: Try to table select as well as is possible, although this doesn't seem too possible now given stars' new set-up.


2. People 3 bet a ton more than at 50NL.

Answer: Tighten up opening ranges in LP with 3-bettors in the blinds/BU. 4-bet as a bluff with blockers in spots where their rasnge figures to be weak, provided they aren't bonkers and can actually fold to a 4-bet. Defend with a lighter range that figures to either be ahead of or play well against their 3 betting range. Obv stuff, just do it in a dsiciplined cool way and don't fucking explode ffs.

There's other differecnes too that I'll list later and formulate general plans of adapting for. Simply to remind myself that adjustment is neccessary and that there is a logical way to solve the initial problems of a new stake. I can beat 100NL for sure if I can sort out my mental issues. I'm going to work on this today and try to do this sooner rather than later.

/Rant.

Ohhh yeah I forgot to mention something.

I've developed a major huge mofo of a leak since moving up - I've become a complete station. I need to stop this now. DON'T BE A FUCKING STATION.

I'ma go for a run tonight to try to destress a bit and burn off negative things.

Tilt will not beat DA CARROT MAN IMO.

I encountered the exact same feelings when moving up. Its something that completely baffles me. The emotional decisions was there, the calling station bit was there and the stupid clown at the back of my head telling me the tilt would pass was also there.

I did a bunch of reading on this jump and they say that the jump from 50nl to 100nl is a bigger than the one from 100nl to 200nl. The main reason being is that the sort of regs and fish that are so abundant at 50nl are sooo different from the ones at 100nl. The regs are way better and one of the reasons is that a lot of grinders/regs at 100 are playing to make a living. They can make 3-5k in a month and so they are more serious. 50nl regs can make 1-2k and so they are in the process of becoming good grinders. Because of this there are a lot more sophisticated plays post and a lot more aggression pre. A lot of higher stakes players drop down to 100nl when the games at there levels aren't good or that particular game is juicy. For a 50nl reg its like walking into a completely different world. That adjustment process is what causes all these mindfucks. At 50nl we are so happy and complacent that poker seems great.

My poker goal is to beat limits like 2/4 and higher with the same ease as I can beat 50. And i dont think its impossible at all. There are a lot of people who do it and maybe its not with so much ease, but it is with the same amount of confidence.

One of the most glaring differences is the preflop aggression and the adjustments you mentioned are pretty spot on. However I have found that once you get used to the preflop game and you bring it post its not that bad. Esp with position there are a lot of spots that u can take down pots. Against really aggro 3bettors i tend to call more in position and shove good flops. Against guys who 3b a lot btn vs Co I c/shove good boards( for my perceived range). This slows them down a bit against you. I feel that you have to take a stand against these regs and then thy will start to ease up on you. So try not to get too flustered by their pre agrroness and use it against them post. I would really recommend going through ur HEM and studying the regs on the new limit. You can pick up some good sizing tells and spots which they bluff and stuff. It helps a lot. I think the most essential thing to do to truly make 100nl ur regular game is to 1.) avoid playing too many marginal spots with regs. 2) Learn how to play marginal spots against regs( for when they come up). 3)Know that the regs are not always bluffing you. I think once u get a good handle on how to deal with the regs in the most profitable way u will be more comfortable, and can target the fish like you would at 50nl without having to worry about dealing with regs in the process.

Anyway hope this helps. Good luck at the tables.

Thanks shakess that's a really helpful post man. Tis good to know I'm not alone in struggling to adjust to what I was told was prety much the same game as 50NL but is in actuality pretty damn different imo and yours.

I feel pretty good today. Last night I watched a video, and did some studying and felt like i was in a good poker frame of mind even though I didn't play as I#d had some wine and stuff.

Today, I'm going to do some hh analysis and look through my HEM a bit and then hit the grind. I realy need to put in some volume at 100NL in order to get comfrotable and to see it as my home.

Session Goals

1. Stop playing for at least 20 minutes/half an hour at the first signs of tilt or emotional thinknig getting its own way.

2. Be calm and rational in all spots and think objectively.

3. Put in 2k hands minimum.

4. Have a 3BI stop loss, as losses at 100NL clearly do start to affect my game after a while.

5. Always, always put my opponents on a range and don't make "shrug meh" decisions based on dumb ass irrelevant self convincing shit.

I'll report back later to update on how I played etc.

Well today went really well FOR +7BIs. I played much better than I have been lately since moving up to 100NL, didn't tilt or make any emotional decisions and played with rational balls, instead of being afraid of losing a stack.

I think I should settle in quite soon. Just need to keep learning and adjusting while keeping tilt in check.

good luck! I'll definitely follow this thread during your move to 100NL.

Originally Posted by Carroters

Well today went really well FOR +7BIs. I played much better than I have been lately since moving up to 100NL, didn't tilt or make any emotional decisions and played with rational balls, instead of being afraid of losing a stack.

I think I should settle in quite soon. Just need to keep learning and adjusting while keeping tilt in check.

Nice maaaaaaaan...those pics don't work!!

So April was pretty good overall +$2065 at 50 and 100NL in 17k hands. Volume was once again total fail, I hve had revision etc stuff to do but it's still no excuse. In May I'm going to be pretty busy with exams for the first half of the month, but i think after the 17th or whatevr I should be able to play 6-8 hours a day and then continue this in June.

Feeling okay now at 100NL and still running pretty good.

I'm really going to try to work on my poker mentality this month. What I meen by that is completely detacthing emotions, hope, anger etc etc from my game and just being happy to see it as one big grind that sohlud in the end keep making me monies. I'll be moving up to 200Nl at around 10-12k not quite sure exactly when yet, I guess it'll just be when i feel ready. Got 100NL to worry about and beat first so 1 step at a time imo.

Gonna kick May of with a session now and shoot for my 4th straight good winning month.

So I got myself up at 10am this morning. This is way early for me and the first step to put an end to my terrible sleeping routine. I went to bed at 5am, so feeling kinda tired, but a hell of a lot better for seeing some am time. Also, gonna go for a swim tonight and just become more active in general with exercise, this should help keep me getting up early.

Tomorrow it'll be 8am after going to bed at 12am. Yay for not being a slave to my own laziness.

Gl man crush da 100 ennels. Its back down for me for a while

Here's how 100NL is going so far. Idk whetehr this red line should worry me it doesn't seem to be getting much better and most think the red line should start to even out as you move up the stakes. I'm still running pretty good. Volume has been fail due to exams and stuff but this week and next month it'll be grind central for sure.

Imageshack - 100nlsofar.jpg

Omfg FTR still wont let me post images so yeah go here if you can be assed.

Doin' good once you have time to reall grind you'll be making some good money. Keep up the good work!

Nice work Carrot. It looks like you figured out the redline bit in the last 2.5K hands since it's pretty much BE there.

Okay I really suck at not forcing myself to get up or stick to a good healthy routine.

I'm going to take the time now to write up a brief but forcing plan of what I'm going to do tomorrow.

10:00 - Get the fuck out of bed sharpish and shower, make breakfast etc.

11:00 - Go for a swim and steam room etc, good for exercise and fun.

13:00 - Watch a leggo video and think about poker

14:00-18:00 - Grind with just one half hour break.

18:00: Dinner

19:00-20:30: Grind the final session of the day.

CHILLAX after this, mayube spend time with the g/f or whatever, get to bed by 12:00am latest.

I'll post the next days plan tomorrow, I will report here to update on whetehr or not I'm sticking to it, which will need me to sign on at 10:30 latest. I will ship $20 to the first person to reply to this thread as of now if I fail.

shotgun

Fuck you rpm

I'm up bitches. It's 10:18 so no money for rpm, ahh wells you'll have to pwn fishes instead I guess sir for your bread.

You can't owe no bloods no bread yo.

nh celery man. let's hope you can make a habit of it!

We should make some prop bets for a grinding sesh day one time Carroters.

Ten hours sleep?!

Poker Stuffs

Meh tbh prop betting isn't really something that appeals to me just yet. It may be an optionthough if I feel I'm failing at meeting my goals on my own though.

Tomorrow's plan:

10am: Get up, shower, eat and watch some of a leggo video,

11am - 1pm: Session 1

1pm: Lunch, finish watching leggo video.

2pm - 4pm: Session 2

4pm: Excercise, go for a run then chill for a bit.

5pm - 7pm: Session 3.

7pm Onwards: Spend time with g/f and chill etc.

12pm: Bed.

I'm not trying to get 10 hours a night, just going to bed earlier in an attempt to get up at 8 or 9 the next day.

Again, Who ever responds first to this thread as of now will recieve $20 if I fail to post on here by 10:30 uk time.

IRL Updataments

So my relationship is pretty rocky, my g/f might be moving out to a different city and the future is unclear. This however, will not be seen as totally negative, but in fact positive. Either one of two things will happen:

1. We'll improve our relationship and be happy again.
2. The relationship will end and I'll be single.

In the second case, sure It'll be hard as hell at times at first and I'll miss her a ton etc. However, it'll be for the best if this happens and because we just can't make it work. Life is short and full of things to grab so the worst thing to do is spend years with someone you just aren't happy with anymore; it's not fair on either party. So, if it comes to this, I'll need to find someone else to move into this place with me, and I'll be single, free and able to meet new people have some fun and enjoy fucking about for a while. I still have shit going for me without her, I don't need her to be happy. This irrational fear that keeps dying relationships going is a waste of potential happiness and a -EV choice.

For instance I have a friend who's been going out with this guy for like 6 years. And for the last 3 or something, it's been lifeless shit and empty. The fear keeps them together, the fear is for people who fail at life and at making themselves happy.

Love yourself and you'll be happy, (unless you get coolered like 56 times in a row ldo) I am the only person that can make me happy, all people, passtimes, and objects are simply instruments I may adopt to further this pursuit. This doesn't mean I am treating people only as means to my ends, I'm not - Fuck you Kant. I'm just not hiding the fact that if they weren't helping my ends, I wouldn't know them.

Whatever happens happens, we make the best of the spot we find ourserlves in. We don't have to run good and be free of hurdles to succeed in poker, and the same goes for real life.

/rant

Hope everyone's having a good month so far. gogogoggo June - the best month of the fucking year.

first?

Jfc...

FUCK YOU KIWI IN YOUR JEW KIWI MOUTH HOW DO I ALWAYS GET SECOND!?

FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUU

(On that note, I think FTR needs to adopt a rage emote just for dranger to use on occasions like this)

10:09, up, tired, shower time, bleurgh.

lame.

Okay, my g/f is away for a few days this week, I have no money to do shit IRL right now, so this calls for extreme grindathon. I feel like my game's been sub-optimal lately and like I've just not been making decisions aswell as I could, or thinking enough in a lot of spots. This week's aim is to get a good amount of volume in, play much better than I have been and be disciplined with regard to sleep regime and exercise. Unfortunately, the world cup makes this somewhat hard since there's a bunch of games I want to see, especially tomorrow. I'll go ahead and make a few rules for this week to keep me focussed and in check then I'll make tomorrow's schedual.

Rules for Grindathon Week

1. Get up no later than 9am any day this week and shoot for 8am towards the end of it.

2. Play a minimum of 10k hands hopefully more than this by this time next week - 15k would be ideal.

3. Exercise at least once everyday - swimming, running, muscular etc.

4. Think about ranges and do some studying between sessions etc.

5. No wasting time on pointless fruitless things.

Tomorrow's Plan

9am: Get up, breakfast, shower, do some HH anlysis.

10am - 12pm : Session 1.

12pm: Lunch and session review.

1pm - 3pm: Session 2.

3pm - 5pm: World Cup

5pm: Exercise

6pm: Watch leggo vid or Hh review if no good new ones

7pm: Dinner

7:30pm - 10pm: World Cup

10pm: Chill

11pm: Bed!

Get up at 8am the next day.

If I don't get up at 9am and fail to post on here by 9:30am, I'll ship the next person to reply on here $20.

Originally Posted by Carroters

If I don't get up at 9am and fail to post on here by 9:30am, I'll ship the next person to reply on here $20.

Ship it!

...god fuck sdlkgjs:lgkjds:lhjds:lh