My poker gone to the next level

OMG just when I thought I knew a lot of things to do with poker?... I've said this a few times now, I find myself going deeper into the hole.


I don't think the hole never ends and I'm just glad I'm still improving putting the huge volumne in everyday or as much as possible.

I feel confident. But I don't have anything to show for it but I just know good things are on the way as long as I keep making the best decisions in every hand and keep a cool calm head. And sneak in a bit of study here and there


Main thing I've been working on lately is Squeeze/Late Blind steals, I've noticed things like this and continuation bets really help the bad times. You can play well pick your spots right and still not notice too much deviation if at all ...


Anyways back to the grind and hope all is well for everyone.

Given you're not winning at the 2nl and 5nl levels, it seems likely that you'd benefit more from recognizing and addressing the leaks in your game than from learning about plays like squeezes.

Since ABC TAG poker will win at these levels, it appears you may have started to build your house before making sure your foundation is solid.

Keep going in the same direction congrats from me !

Arjonius agreed I did... that's why I went down to 2nl and attacked my leaks my main leaks were.


Bleeding from the blinds (I know you may laugh and think I know why!) but nah... I got an edge now.

Marginal hands OOP

3betting the wrong hands against the wrong opponents.

The hardest one was playing Pocket Pair... OOf (Pot control has made me actually be profitable from my med pairs.)\

And spewing. If I removed a couple days from the last yrs I'd be up a lot.


So yeah that was tough as well.



Sometimes you know your good and will do great things. But that doesn't come overnight also you need to make sure you mentally are ready.

running at 11.44 last 10k hands. Hmmm EP losing money tho at 14vpip weird I'm normally strong there

If you can beat 5NL at pokerstars persistently you are already a decent players because there are a lot of multi-tabling grinders out there. Hope you can find their leaks in the game. Good luck!

Thanks man well I'm just playing 888...

I'm really just focusing on soft games... any sort of edge I can help to grind up the bankroll ...

2.5k hands today running at 50bb ... its hard to call it a night but i want to make sure I'm good for tomorrows sessions as well and when i start sloppy play tho i havnt yet.



I tested myself out last week... i found 3k bout my boundary for a day.

how are you sure that your leaks are your leaks? HAve you done any sweats with better players or are you trying to work out what your own leaks are. If you can get a better player to sweat you , they may well find bet sizing leaks, or misunderstanding theory that will be severly holding back your win rate far more than the leaks you think you have.

Keep going and find your leaks

Your right keith but I don't have a webcam.

Atm I'm at 15,381 hands for the running at 14.98 bb/100


Everyday I'm playing trying to get at least 500-1000 a day during the week and Saturdays i'll be aiming for bout 3k. and 2k sunday depends how well I'm going as well.

But I'm really being strict with my play, If i lose a hand i always question why, was it planned or a bad call etc. Anyways I'm being harder on myself in particular spots because mistakes hold me back

Oh and 24.07 bb/100 for this month the 14.98 was overall past the 15k the 24.07 is 6,3k hands this month so far.

888 Poker - $0.02 NL - Holdem - 7 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

CO: $1.61 (VPIP: 22.52, PFR: 11.71, 3Bet Preflop: 3.23, Hands: 113)
BTN: $6.16 (VPIP: 19.57, PFR: 5.05, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 281)
Hero (SB): $5.92
BB: $2.00 (VPIP: 9.46, PFR: 5.76, 3Bet Preflop: 4.07, Hands: 842)
UTG: $2.13 (VPIP: 10.81, PFR: 5.41, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 37)
UTG+1: $0.97 (VPIP: 88.89, PFR: 22.22, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 9)
MP: $4.24 (VPIP: 19.05, PFR: 9.52, 3Bet Preflop: 5.26, Hands: 63)

Hero posts SB $0.01, BB posts BB $0.02

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.03) Hero has K:club: A:spade:

fold, UTG+1 calls $0.02, MP calls $0.02, fold, fold, Hero raises to $0.10, fold, UTG+1 calls $0.08, fold

Flop: ($0.24, 2 players) 5:diamond: Q:heart: 9:heart:
Hero bets $0.18, UTG+1 raises to $0.87, fold



should I have called?

why would you? he is a fish who has shove his stack in.If he's hit his set your ace and king outs are worthless , you've a backdoor straight drawand two overs. Unless you've seen him shove with air before theres no point in calling . the only thing you are beating at the moment is his air

true just sometimes worry bout folding too much.

Anyways 12k hands now. running at just under 15bb/100 ... been goin up and down nicely but its pretty straight today break even day for 1200 hands weird.

I'd opt to bet less on the flop if I choose to bet at all. Like .14-.15. It doesn't seem like a big difference but small bet sizing changes like this to your cbet bluffs over the course of tens of thousands to hundred of thousands of hands goes a long way toward increasing your w/r. At this level no one is exploiting your bet sizings. You can bet your value hands larger and your bluffs smaller.

With that said I might just be inclined to check/fold flop here. He's just too short. With his stack at these limits he's happy to shove any pocket pair here and hope he's good, which at the moment he is. Or any 5x, 9x hands which there is a ton in his range. Even with only 9 hands on him you can assign him a pretty wide range here based on how he's played the first 1 1/2 orbits.

Yeah I have read that before. I guess really .14 or .15 would still do the trick because its more than 1/2 the pot. I'm always worried if I don't do 3/4 at least ppl won't believe it as much, I seem to get more scared ppl folding. But there is times it doesn't work and that's where I would save the money.

Hopefully If I can adjust that as a tab on 888 would be useful like 2/3 cuz I only use 1/2 or 3/4 or full pot.

12,882 hands 40.49 for the month so far travelling just under 16 now.

vpip from button to SB 36 , 28 , 23 , 18, 24 , 27 .... SB is my 2nd highest winnings this month $15 ... co and SB are negative at 7 a piece. which is not attractive... MP at 24 and BTN 13 and EP is a modest $2.65


24k hands at $46 all dates.

888 Poker - $0.02 NL - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

UTG+2: $2.40 (VPIP: 8.40, PFR: 4.58, 3Bet Preflop: 5.26, Hands: 132)
MP: $1.52 (VPIP: 62.96, PFR: 7.41, 3Bet Preflop: 8.33, Hands: 29)
MP+1: $4.03 (VPIP: 15.49, PFR: 8.67, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 455)
CO: $0.98 (VPIP: 16.89, PFR: 12.87, 3Bet Preflop: 0.78, Hands: 446)
BTN: $4.25 (VPIP: 29.18, PFR: 7.34, 3Bet Preflop: 0.38, Hands: 786)
SB: $1.47 (VPIP: 16.67, PFR: 5.13, 3Bet Preflop: 4.35, Hands: 78)
Hero (BB): $3.57
UTG: $0.86 (VPIP: 100.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 1)
UTG+1: $2.42 (VPIP: 30.86, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 81)

SB posts SB $0.01, Hero posts BB $0.02

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.03) Hero has J:diamond: Q:diamond:

UTG raises to $0.04, UTG+1 calls $0.04, fold, MP calls $0.04, fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero calls $0.02

Flop: ($0.17, 4 players) T:diamond: A:diamond: 9:spade:
Hero bets $0.17, fold, fold, MP raises to $0.34, Hero raises to $1.19, MP calls $0.85

Turn: ($2.55, 2 players) K:diamond:
Hero bets $2.34, MP calls $0.29

River: ($3.13, 2 players) 8:spade:

2 slow days wed/thurs slightly down but today $20 and now including my first stab at 4nl where I lost 40 in a day ouch!.. I am now including 2nl and today 4nl infront by 20 odd... but still solid in 2nl by about 50.

Going to be boosting up my bankroll instead of going to the casino... Wiser to boost our roll and keep to a 40 buy-in strategy and see how it pans out... In the past I've been only doing 20-buyins and got up to 20nl which was great but I got killed and before I knew it the endless slide went plummeting. So hopefully I've learnt a bit since then and keep rising and be ready to move even further up. What would be a great fairy tale would be making it to 100nl on 888 and getting a spade royal flush and hitting the jackpot! *dream*

Spewing Money used to be my downfall untili read Chris "Jesus" Ferguson's Bankroll control methods where you never buy in to a table for more than 5% of your bank roll and always buy in for max amounts.
But its holding yourself to those numbers and never saying screw the system.

Well I've noticed my main leak still which occurs if I'm not 100% concentrating on it is my blinds it always creeps up on me. Now I have tags on my screen in big bold writing.

I just sometimes get a lil bit fancy in the blinds.

Okay well I went to 4nl a while back and lost quite a bit so I went back down grinded 2nl again.

Now I'm at 4nl yet again and I suddenly went on a downfall but I gave myself a buffer I started at $130 And Tuesday I went down as little as $86... I'm use to big swings and I my leak of the blinds was hurting me again and I had to make sure I purely did ABC poker OOP because I noticed everytime I didn't it stung.


Now I'm sitting at $137... Sameday I went down to 84 I had a break came back and got to $100... It's a skill I've gotten, somehow I manage to everytime repair the damage, though I don't take it for granted and if I got to 80 under I'd giveup for the night and play 2nl and grind it until I was back to 40buy-ins.


I will move to 6nl when I hit $240 which seems pretty far but as long as I keep focusing on making the right decisions and holding my major weaknesses of my game it will come and quite easily.

In my sleep I stack my tables, and it's coming quite easily but those leaks do come around every so often but I think its a blessing so it keeps me in check/alert

Had 2 days in a row where I've done well and my graph only smooths out a bit then quickly rises. Anyways I guess u could call it a heater but also great playing. I'm still running into the odd set and KK vs QQ the opponent hit his queen preflop but I am happy with that.


Anyways exciting times and I'm only playing 1k hands tonight going to restup a bit so I don't burn out, because I've worked hard and had a physical day at work.

Anyways prolly no one cares bout this thread but it's a lil journel

KingDave13 said:

Spewing Money used to be my downfall untili read Chris "Jesus" Ferguson's Bankroll control methods where you never buy in to a table for more than 5% of your bank roll and always buy in for max amounts.
But its holding yourself to those numbers and never saying screw the system.

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I use to use 20buy-in rule... But now I'm going to try 40buy-ins. I'm a lot more aggressive than Chris and he's known as a big nit.

So I think if I'm going to be double the money, it makes sense to have double the buy-in.

See how it goes, it's gone well so far I've also downloaded a stack of poker books like Ace on river etc a big list which I havnt bothered to go through yet. But I have spent the time playing/Analyzing hands etc I tend to read books when I'm sour about poker or trying to stay away from playing due to spew fests which now I have controlled.

It appears I'm infront with all levels after 32k hands this year which is a good feat and a personal record for me

Seems if I don't do anything silly and keep alert with known past leaks which sometimes reappear I should be moving up soon enough.

Last week I lost 60 due to bad play but every day this week including sunday I've been between 10-20 dollars up that's with an avg of 1k - 1.5k hands a day. sunday would've been bout 3k

Aces2w1n said:

I'm a lot more aggressive than Chris and he's known as a big nit.

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He mainly plays big buyin deep stack MTTs, so his reputation for being tight is based on them. I don't recall ever seeing anything about how he plays cash. I'd guess he's somewhat TAG, but also that he has more than enough knowledge and skill not to be nitty.

Also, even as an MTT player, I have to believe he is still good enough at adapting to cash to crush the micros. The fact that you don't have his degree of skill advantage is another reason your BRM guideline should be higher than his.