2014 The year of redemption,,Mace's micro cash thread

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My greetings to Cardschat,
I have been a lurker for quite some time now, however this is my first post..
I started playing poker in Feb 2013 from 20$ and over the course of the year got my bankroll upto a cool 1000$,,

And then ,I probably had the the worst new year of my life
Seemingly everything was going wrong

1.i used to be a fitness freak ,however due to circumstances i quit the gym and now i have a little belly
2.My college report card was a disaster ,I fail in 1 more subject and i am out :(
3.

And the worst of it all.......

I blew my entire bankroll because of some pretty bad tilt


I have about 120$ right now


So here are my new years resolutions...
1.Rebuild my lost bankroll ill move up the stakes once i get to about 23 buyins
I plan to reach atleast 50nl (hopefully) by the end of the year
2.Study atleast 1 hour a day
3.hit the gym 3 times a week





Ok so now for the poker , ill start at 5nl and ill be posting my graphs for everyday along with the hands i may need help in..
ill be playing about 2-3 hrs everyday


So ok guys ,, cant wait to get a monster winrate and ill post tomorrow
:)
 
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Very ambitious plans, good luck at the table, year is too much for NL50, if play SSS possible through 3-4 months already play.
I wonder how many tables you play in nl5 ?
 
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Day 1 .January 3rd

played about a 1000 hands today so heres the graph for today

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ehh could be better i did make a few mistakes here and there but i plan to rectify them from now on..

I have hands here which i am not sure about :



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bb is a passive fish 25 5 and a aggfactor of 0.5
and utg is a whale with 80 0 stats

I am in co and decide to raise to 4 bb(i think i should have raised alot larger for value maybe 6 or 7 bb)

i bet the flop to protect my top 2 pair and get value from any lower 2 pairs or draws these idiots might have

however my turn bet is something i am not sure about :hmmmm:

what do you guys think??

Poker Stars $0.02/$0.05 No Limit Hold'em - 5 players - View hand 2393272
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Hero (CO): $5.00
BTN: $6.17
SB: $4.08
BB: $5.11
UTG: $4.07

Pre Flop: ($0.07) Hero is CO with Q A
UTG calls $0.05, Hero raises to $0.20, 2 folds, BB calls $0.15, UTG calls $0.15

Flop: ($0.62) A Q T (3 players)
BB checks, UTG checks, Hero bets $0.45, BB calls $0.45, UTG calls $0.45

Turn: ($1.97) 2 (3 players)
BB checks, UTG checks, Hero bets $1.65, BB calls $1.65, UTG calls $1.65

River: ($6.92) T (3 players)
BB bets $2.81 all in, UTG calls $1.77 all in, Hero folds


2.Hand 2
I took a very passive line

heres the hand what do you guys think??
the guy was an aggro donk and had about 5 % 3 bet(small sample size though)

Poker Stars $0.02/$0.05 No Limit Hold'em - 5 players - View hand 2393276
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UTG: $3.51
Hero (CO): $5.00
BTN: $5.19
SB: $7.89
BB: $4.04

Pre Flop: ($0.07) Hero is CO with 9 9
1 fold, Hero raises to $0.15, BTN raises to $0.45, 2 folds, Hero calls $0.30

Flop: ($0.97) 5 5 J (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $0.65, Hero calls $0.65

Turn: ($2.27) A (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $1.20, Hero calls $1.20

River: ($4.67) A (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN checks



 
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Yeah agrred a bit too ambitious but gotta keep lofty goals :D
I 4 table 5nl right now allows me to think much better than 6 or 8 (I might increase volume later on though)
 
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How is it even possible to destroy 88% of the BR? What stakes were you playing?
 
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I'd be more concerned about your life. Is your poker precluding your college and gym?

Seems to me, assuming you were following a decent BRM ( which I think you were likely doing given you didn't bust the deposit)and have a small but decent winrate, it'd probably take good 4 hours a day of effort to inflate your 20 to 1000

Don't let it take over your life like it did to me earlier this year. My job performance took a slight but noticeable hit when I pumped in 2-3 hours per night and as a result sleep 1 hour or so less per night.

I'm not saying not play poker, but watch out eh? There are more important things out there, because let's face it, the chance of us growing to be very profitable 200nl grinders are pretty slim. Not to mention poker, at least this form, may become passè in a decade or so.

I have put poker more in the backseat past few months and feel better for it:eek:
 
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First hand, with the flush flop, is tricky. I expect you lost that hand a boat. Villains were just as worried about that flop as you were, except for the villain with the KJs in hand, who obviously would trap, or the QT who would certainly come along with or without a spade in hand.

Also remember that at those stakes most everyone will come along with any piece of the flop.

However, they can't normally figure you have no spades, so the flop bet is worthwhile. When they both come along, you should probably close down, and check the turn for the free card, the river is a clear fold for me, so you got that part right.

Simpler is check that turn for the free river card. If it is not a spade, or pairs the board, then take that shot at the pot.
 
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@ld1977 i actually went into a massive tilt and took shots at stakes i had no business being in,but anyways whats done is done no use in pondering over it
instead i choose to learn from my mistake and make sure to never let it happen again

@rodney
believe me when i say poker isnt the problem but instead my lethargic temperament
that's something i will definitely work on

why do you say that poker in this form will become passe?? I thought the nature of gambling is such that there will always be a slow but steady growth in the no. of people playing online poker

@dj11
yes you are bang on
i was against a flopped broadway and the other guy made a boat on the river

hmmm about the second hand i am not sure if i should have called pre flop
and i surely should have check folded the turn
i was very lucky (and relieved)when the villain mucked KQs
 
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@ld1977 i actually went into a massive tilt and took shots at stakes i had no business being in,but anyways whats done is done no use in pondering over it
instead i choose to learn from my mistake and make sure to never let it happen again

How?
 
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@ld1977 i actually went into a massive tilt and took shots at stakes i had no business being in,but anyways whats done is done no use in pondering over it
instead i choose to learn from my mistake and make sure to never let it happen again

@rodney
believe me when i say poker isnt the problem but instead my lethargic temperament
that's something i will definitely work on

why do you say that poker in this form will become passe?? I thought the nature of gambling is such that there will always be a slow but steady growth in the no. of people playing online poker

@dj11
yes you are bang on
i was against a flopped broadway and the other guy made a boat on the river

hmmm about the second hand i am not sure if i should have called pre flop
and i surely should have check folded the turn
i was very lucky (and relieved)when the villain mucked KQs

Gambling will always be there but poker has been seeing slower growth in recent years. It's subjective but it feels like pokerstars have less players during peak hours these days compared to 2 years ago, or at least, not much of an increase at all.

Good if you're convinced it's not your poker, but just sayin growing 20 to 1000 with the correct BRM and done within 9 months is definitely quite monumental, especially if you have no prior poker experience. I mean I played 2 hours per day average starting with 20 usd myself from august 2012 with win rates at about 15bb/100 2nl, 5bb/100 at 5nl and then 2bb/100 at 10 nl. Now I have about 550 usd after losing while shot taking 25 nl with 900 last month.

Curious that you would go THAT tilty of all a sudden and destroy 9 months effort so fast.

Just watch yourself k bro?
 
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Monumental? I think it is kinda easy with enough volume. I went from 0 to 2100$ (this is pure profit after deduction of costs for poker software I bought) in a bit over a year while having pretty shitty win rates along the way.

I deposited when I was at 1700$ (11 months from the start) so after that FD bonus started kicking in but I am still counting it since bonuses and promotions are legit income.

What I am seeing here is rapid BR increase due to a heater and then spewback due to a downswing. Meaning, I don't think discipline had much to do with it.

Same goes for shot taking with 36 BI on a non-2NL level.
 
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Monumental? I think it is kinda easy with enough volume. I went from 0 to 2100$ (this is pure profit after deduction of costs for poker software I bought) in a bit over a year while having pretty shitty win rates along the way.

I deposited when I was at 1700$ (11 months from the start) so after that FD bonus started kicking in but I am still counting it since bonuses and promotions are legit income.

What I am seeing here is rapid BR increase due to a heater and then spewback due to a downswing. Meaning, I don't think discipline had much to do with it.

Same goes for shot taking with 36 BI on a non-2NL level.


Enough volume yes, volume that would take many hours for sure, which was the whole point of my post.
I hear you play like 3k hands per day? I don't even hit 1/3 of that on average

Then again, I suppose it ain't my business how one leads their life.

Btw, I've since dropped back to 10nl, not going to go back up till I have like 35 buyin again. :p
 
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Well I have played 480k hands in a year, most hands played in a day was 5.5k (12 hours of playing)... presumably when clearing promotions, and that was silly since it turned out I can't really be at my peak form if I overdo it.

Nowdays I don't go over 3k hands per day but even that is rare.

But that is irrelevant really, because where exactly is the rush? Isn't it better to move up in an orderly fashion after you are pretty much certain you have defeated the current level? I don't think jumping up and down achieves anything positive, besides if you ride a heater upward then when shit hits the fan you are gonna get destroyed.
 
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Day 2 4th January

The weekend fish made this one another pretty decent session
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12.97$ over 963 hands


Heres one hand which got me pretty annoyed the villain is a fish who was constatntly making these dodgy bets trying to get oother people off of better hands (maybe i should have bet larger on the turn to get value from kings and worse aces and his flush draws)

poker stars $0.02/$0.05 No Limit Hold'em - 5 players - View hand 2393840
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BTN: $5.00
Hero (SB): $5.52
BB: $3.51
UTG: $6.29
CO: $2.27

Pre Flop: ($0.07) Hero is SB with A J
3 folds, Hero raises to $0.15, BB calls $0.10

Flop: ($0.30) K 5 7 (2 players)
Hero bets $0.20, BB calls $0.20

Turn: ($0.70) A (2 players)
Hero bets $0.40, BB calls $0.40

River: ($1.50) J (2 players)
Hero checks, BB bets $1.05, Hero calls $1.05

Final Pot: $3.60
Hero mucks A J
BB shows T 8 (a flush, King high)
BB wins $3.45
(Rake: $0.15)


Apart from this there werent many difficult decisions

@LD what stakes do you play and how many tables do you play on (just curious)
 
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Against 2 flush draws definitely bet bigger on the turn. River might be c/f or b/f depending on your read on him (if he autobets river then c/c is OK), fish often have flush here after calling 2 bets.

I moved up to 5NL with 60BI, 10NL with 60BI, 25NL with 68BI. Never moved down even though I struggled a bit on every new level before defeating it.

Currently playing 25NL, normally 6 tables but I go up to 10. Ideal would be 12 but that is a bit too much and my quality of play drops sharply.
 
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First 5000 hands update:

had a decent run the first 5000 hands ,here's the results graph


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23.38$ over 5000 hands at a winrate of 9.35bb/100


Ill post a few hands tomorrow (will need a bit of help on these )
 

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Update

Just got my bankroll upto 270$

gonna be moving up to 10 nl now
 
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Very nice graph, but BRM doesn't convince me. Why don't you solidify it a bit before you move on?
 
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