Journey to MS 6-max NLHE
Hello all,
I finally decided to post something here myself as well since I've enjoyed reading some other similar blogs here.
I've palyed poker on and off as red since 2006 or so. I played a lot of MTT's on FT and Stars back around 2010-2013 and was seriously considering going full time then, but life and other interests happened and was more or less out of the scene until late last year. I started playing 10NL 6-max on GG and after an initial sun run, I started to take studying and scheduling my play a bit more seriously. I ended up playing like 250k hand of both rush and reg tables over the winter and spring, then transferred most of my roll to a much lower rake, geofenced IPoker site in May.
My PC was a Mac so no graphs from May (PT4 doesn't support IPoker on Mac), but then I got a Windows OS in June, from where these graphs start.
I'll try to share some fun and interesting hands and appreciate all feed back. I'll update my progress, some stats and thoughts while I'm on this journey but not taking any pressure from this thread 😃 Any advice on BRM or when to move up will be ignored - I'll move up gradually and when I feel I'm ready, but I'm not offended if you call me a BR nit, bc that's true at least for now 😃
Wish me luck!!!
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BB/100 since early June
The same but currency
Forgot to mention I'm currently playing 20NL, on the brink of taking some shots at 50NL. I played mostly 10NL until this month and 20NL has also started pretty well.
Results by stake
And by position
Probably the most interesting hand today... Turn call perhaps questionable, but I think Villain here is very capped and their sizing OTR screamed "medium strength" to me. Their WSD is also over 65 even though that is probably a bit inaccurate given the sample size. Punt or print? I've been doing this kind of stuff quite a bit and it seems to work very well against certain player profiles and don't get caught very often at all...
iPoker - €0.20 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
SB: 113.1 BB (VPIP: 30.47, PFR: 24.41, 3Bet Preflop: 11.11, Hands: 771)
BB: 101.5 BB (VPIP: 22.93, PFR: 19.11, 3Bet Preflop: 9.38, Hands: 161)
Hero (UTG): 219.15 BB
MP: 101.85 BB (VPIP: 29.14, PFR: 21.78, 3Bet Preflop: 11.63, Hands: 334)
CO: 100 BB (VPIP: 22.54, PFR: 12.68, 3Bet Preflop: 2.32, Hands: 790)
BTN: 73.85 BB (VPIP: 78.38, PFR: 10.81, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 38)
SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Q♠ K♠
Hero raises to 2.05 BB, MP calls 2.05 BB, CO calls 2.05 BB, BTN calls 2.05 BB, fold, BB calls 1.05 BB
Flop: (10.75 BB, 5 players) 9♠ A♦ 4♣
BB checks, Hero checks, MP checks, CO checks, BTN checks
Turn: (10.75 BB, 5 players) J♠
BB checks, Hero checks, MP checks, CO bets 7 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 7 BB, fold
River: (24.75 BB, 2 players) J♣
Hero checks, CO bets 13.85 BB, Hero raises to 48.45 BB, fold
Spoiler
Hero wins 50.9 BB
Rake paid 1.55 BB
Forgot to add the Villain's WSD stat above I got from the sites own HUD, where the sample is above 1k hands.
iPoker - €0.20 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
BTN: 101.5 BB (VPIP: 26.24, PFR: 23.29, 3Bet Preflop: 12.24, Hands: 1,240)
Hero (SB): 244.25 BB
BB: 100 BB (VPIP: 29.01, PFR: 24.34, 3Bet Preflop: 13.66, Hands: 502)
UTG: 212.6 BB (VPIP: 45.65, PFR: 36.96, 3Bet Preflop: 15.79, Hands: 46)
MP: 100 BB (VPIP: 27.62, PFR: 18.83, 3Bet Preflop: 9.28, Hands: 241)
CO: 100 BB (VPIP: 22.55, PFR: 12.91, 3Bet Preflop: 1.85, Hands: 713)
Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has J♣ T♥
fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 3.05 BB, BB calls 2.05 BB
Flop: (6.1 BB, 2 players) 8♣ 9♥ 2♣
Hero checks, BB bets 3.35 BB, Hero raises to 11.8 BB, BB calls 8.45 BB
Turn: (29.7 BB, 2 players) 7♣
Hero bets 22.25 BB, BB calls 22.25 BB
River: (74.2 BB, 2 players) 5♦
Hero bets 207.15 BB, BB calls 62.9 BB
Spoiler
Hero shows J♣ T♥ (Straight, Jack High)
(Pre 45%, Flop 48%, Turn 82%)
BB shows K♣ 8♥ (One Pair, Eights)
(Pre 55%, Flop 52%, Turn 18%)
Hero wins 195 BB
Rake paid 5 BB
iPoker - €0.20 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
CO: 166.8 BB (VPIP: 37.78, PFR: 15.56, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 45)
Hero (BTN): 358.7 BB
SB: 130.2 BB (VPIP: 28.76, PFR: 23.87, 3Bet Preflop: 13.30, Hands: 541)
BB: 128.2 BB (VPIP: 42.11, PFR: 13.31, 3Bet Preflop: 4.29, Hands: 325)
UTG: 100 BB (VPIP: 26.98, PFR: 19.06, 3Bet Preflop: 9.65, Hands: 280)
MP: 100 BB (VPIP: 22.52, PFR: 12.70, 3Bet Preflop: 2.58, Hands: 804)
SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has T♥ A♥
fold, MP raises to 3.5 BB, CO calls 3.5 BB, Hero raises to 12.25 BB, fold, fold, fold, CO calls 8.75 BB
Flop: (29.5 BB, 2 players) J♥ 5♦ 3♥
CO checks, Hero checks
Turn: (29.5 BB, 2 players) A♦
CO checks, Hero bets 25.95 BB, CO raises to 71.9 BB, Hero raises to 346.45 BB, CO calls 82.65 BB
River: (338.6 BB, 2 players) 4♠
Players agreed to run it twice.
River #2: (338.6 BB, 2 players) 3♣
Spoiler
CO shows 4♣ A♣ (Two Pair, Aces and Fours)
Board #1 (Pre 32%, Flop 20%, Turn 17%)
(Two Pair, Aces and Threes)
Board #2 (Pre 28%, Flop 18%, Turn 15%)
Hero shows T♥ A♥ (One Pair, Aces)
Board #1 (Pre 68%, Flop 80%, Turn 83%)
(Two Pair, Aces and Threes)
Board #2 (Pre 72%, Flop 82%, Turn 85%)
CO wins 166.8 BB
Rake paid 5 BB
CO wins 83.4 BB
Hero wins 83.4 BB
iPoker - €0.20 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
CO: 100 BB (VPIP: 26.27, PFR: 23.29, 3Bet Preflop: 12.09, Hands: 1,231)
Hero (BTN): 144.75 BB
SB: 211.6 BB (VPIP: 47.62, PFR: 38.10, 3Bet Preflop: 16.67, Hands: 42)
BB: 100 BB (VPIP: 27.66, PFR: 19.15, 3Bet Preflop: 9.47, Hands: 237)
SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 8♣ A♦
fold, Hero raises to 2.55 BB, fold, BB calls 1.55 BB
Flop: (5.6 BB, 2 players) 5♣ 8♠ 2♦
BB bets 3 BB, Hero calls 3 BB
Turn: (11.6 BB, 2 players) A♠
BB bets 5.8 BB, Hero raises to 17.4 BB, BB calls 11.6 BB
River: (46.4 BB, 2 players) J♦
BB bets 8 BB, Hero raises to 121.8 BB, BB calls 69.05 BB
Spoiler
Hero shows 8♣ A♦ (Two Pair, Aces and Eights)
(Pre 65%, Flop 82%, Turn 91%)
BB shows 4♦ A♥ (One Pair, Aces)
(Pre 35%, Flop 18%, Turn 9%)
Hero wins 195.5 BB
Rake paid 5 BB
