It’s been a while since I updated…nothing all that exciting to be honest. Just lots of grinding.

So I’m involved in this micro full ring challenge where we get a bunch of players together, pick teams, and then see which team can come up with the highest total winrate at the end of the month. Since I signed up for 50nl, I decided to set my goal at playing 20k hands at 50nl, 20k hands at 100nl. So tonight I played like 3k hands or so, made it to 21k hands, and called it good. Over that sample, I’m 9.8 bb/100, or 4.9 PTBB/100, which I’m totally happy with. But it could be better.

See, I have this bad habit. Whenever I’m facing a river bet and I have a decent hand, I always want to call. It’s like my fold button just disappears and I’m left with “call” or “raise” as my only two options. I even spew called a river bet with KQ high tonight. =/ Like…..I know everything is situational and sometimes calling with KQ high is the right play. But I was playing against a regular whos like 20x better than me. Here’s the thing - your edge against solid regs is going to be very minimal if at all. We make money in poker by playing against bad players - fish, BAD regs, loose passives, etc etc - and not by trying to out-level solid regs. If I could stop doing that stuff and fold more on the river, my winrate would be much higher.

On that note, I have a semi brag that I accomplished tonight. I played some poker at work (silly front desk job at my college) and decided my goal for the night after getting home was that I would grind until I hit $5k in my bankroll, no matter how long it took. I needed to grind out like 5 BIs. 2 and a half hours later, after playing pretty solid and stacking some really bad players (starting tables FTW!), I hit my goal. So I’m halfway to the big number, the 5 figure roll, and it’d be great to hit that in the next 3 or 4 months, as I’m moving up to 100nl and hopefully 200nl by the end of the summer.

So anyways, that’s about it, things have been going pretty good, a little swingy, but overall pretty damned good.

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Hi everyone at tworags.com. I will be cross posting from here on out, from my other blog site, www.feltpoker.com/blogs/sevens If you want to check out older blog posts, that's where you'll find them! A little about me, I've been playing online full ring NLHE for about 3 years now. I started with $5 that I won in a freeroll, grinded that up at 10NL on Full Tilt, moved my way up to beating 25nl and having a $1k roll, and then was offered a staking/coaching deal that I jumped on. I started at 25nl with that, moved up through 50nl (lol 3 shots at 50nl before finally "getting it") and just last night took my second shot at 100nl. So if you'd like to go through my old blogs and follow my progress of moving up in stakes, the above URL is where you'll find them, but from here on out, I'll just be cross posting. Anyways, thanks for reading!

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As per my 30 BI guideline, I was ready to take my second shot at 100nl last night. I moved up through 50nl fairly quickly, but this was my third time at that level, I had made some adjustments to my game, and I was also rolled pretty well for the level to begin with. That, and shipping a nice 1kbb pot vs a fish does pretty awesome things to your bankroll. =)



So I sat and played 8 tables, played my normal game, and ran hotter than the sun. I hit at least two set over sets, flush vs straight, flush vs set, and disregarding the fact that poker is ez when you’re running well, I think I played pretty good. The big noticeable differences between 100nl and 50nl were a lot less limping PF and a lot more 3b’ing PF. I can’t totally confirm this either, but IIRC people’s bet sizing seemed to be a little better too.

Anyways, I ended up +4 BIs on the session, would have been more but I lost KK < A8s after this 3/4 stack called 90% of his stack pre and flopped a FD > made flush on the turn. Ah well. Everything else seemed pretty normal, and I hope to stay at 100nl for a bit and maybe shot take 200nl by the end of the summer.



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Ok! So this month has been a little crazy. I feel really good about my 50nl game finally and I think I’ve gotten it to a point where my graph will stop looking like a EKG graph. I’ve been able to make some adjustments to my range in certain spots and I think it’s been helping. Definitely thanks to *Split*, who without his help and advice I’d probably be stuck in 50nl land forever, and to the feltpoker.com forums, because you guys get some sense into my head all the time. With that said, I am -4 BIs with KK this month and in general running like garbage in big pots.



And then the session of my life. I spent the night hanging out with my girlfriend and got home around midnight. I was itching to play a session, so I got on Stars and started grinding. Nothing too exciting, but I noticed this mega fish at one of my tables. In a small sample, he was running 85/35 and 3-betting like it was his job. And going ape-shit postflop and basically running everyone over. And then it happens. On one hand, I pick up JJ in the SB. Fish minraises to $1 from LP, I 3b to $5 and go for value on a low flop where he rivers a straight and stacks me. A few hands later, I flop TPTK with AK and bet bet shove. He hits a runner runner flush with J6s (no pair no draw on the flop). I’m super tilted at this point and the fish has nearly a 6 BI stack. And the people just start doing stupid things against him, putting stacks in super light. Anyways….



…I manage to get my money in good against him a few times and have built up my stack to over $300. Fish has slightly less than me, and now a few regulars are sitting and everyone’s just waiting to stack the fish. I’m playing nearly ATC against him, just because I can get so much value with any pair. And then this hand happens.



I’d say that makes up for how I’ve been running in big pots. :)