The $50 Online Poker Journey Begins

Gl with your journey

Literally only about 300 hands in, had this hand happen. I didn't do anything special just wanted to post this absolute spew. Lucky me!������

Bovada / Ignition Zone, Hold'em No Limit - $0.02/$0.05 - 5 players
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Hero (UTG): $9.92 (198 bb)
Seat 3 (CO): $10.69 (214 bb)
Seat 4 (BU): $6.80 (136 bb)
Seat 5 (SB): $10.32 (206 bb)
Seat 1 (BB): $3.37 (67 bb)

Pre-Flop: ($0.07) Hero (Hero) is UTG with 2♣ A♣
Hero (UTG) raises to $0.10, Seat 3 (CO) calls $0.10, 2 players fold, Seat 1 (BB) calls $0.05

Flop: ($0.32) 6♣ 4♣ Q♣ (3 players)
Seat 1 (BB) checks, Hero (UTG) checks, Seat 3 (CO) bets $10.59 (all-in), Seat 1 (BB) calls $3.27 (all-in), Hero (UTG) calls $9.82 (all-in)

Turn: ($23.23) 2♦ (3 players, 3 all-in)

River: ($23.23) K♦ (3 players, 3 all-in)

Total pot: $23.23 (Rake: $1.16)

Showdown:
Seat 3 (CO) shows 6♦ J♠ (a pair of Sixes)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 32%, Flop: 2%, Turn: <1%, River: 0%)

Seat 1 (BB) shows 4♠ 4♦ (three of a kind, Fours)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 36%, Flop: 30%, Turn: 19%, River: 0%)

Hero (UTG) shows 2♣ A♣ (a flush, Ace high)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 32%, Flop: 68%, Turn: 81%, River: 100%)

Hero (UTG) wins $22.07

An absolute heater to start the journey, obviously the sun run will not last forever. The sample size is also completely negligible (441 hands), I just want to keep track whenever I end a session regardless. I only play 1 table of Zoom so I can focus as much on each hand as possible. I don't care about the money, it's more about how I play (hence why I am playing 5NL).

Will post notable hands or hands I have questions about when they come. Thanks!

Love this outlook. GL mate, I will be checkin in and rooting for you 😀

Appreciate it!

Just an update for today, nothing too notable.

Just one big hand that I lost that I definitely misplayed. I don't think villain is ever bluffing and I definitely overplayed my hand. Just thought I'd share it regardless.

Bovada / Ignition Zone, Hold'em No Limit - $0.02/$0.05 - 3 players
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Seat 2 (BU): $5.14 (103 bb)
Hero (SB): $6.44 (129 bb)
Seat 1 (BB): $5.09 (102 bb)

Pre-Flop: ($0.07) Hero (Hero) is SB with A♣ K♥
Seat 2 (BU) calls $0.05, Hero (SB) raises to $0.20, Seat 1 (BB) calls $0.15, Seat 2 (BU) calls $0.15

Flop: ($0.60) A♠ 5♦ 2♠ (3 players)
Hero (SB) checks, Seat 1 (BB) bets $0.19, Seat 2 (BU) calls $0.19, Hero (SB) raises to $1.05, Seat 1 (BB) raises to $4.89 (all-in), Seat 2 (BU) folds, Hero (SB) calls $3.84

Turn: ($10.57) 2♣ (2 players, 1 all-in)

River: ($10.57) 9♣ (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: $10.57 (Rake: $0.52)

Showdown:
Seat 1 (BB) shows 5♠ 5♣ (a full house, Fives full of Twos)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 55%, Flop: 98%, Turn: 95%, River: 100%)

Hero (SB) shows A♣ K♥ (two pair, Aces and Twos)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 45%, Flop: 2%, Turn: 5%, River: 0%)

Seat 1 (BB) wins $10.05

First of all GL in your journey.

About hand, I would bet myself rather then X/R vs 2 fish ...Otherwise I think you played the hand good and its just a cooler.

I can't say much because I usually sit with my whole roll on the table... but 10 buy-ins isn't ideal. Hopefully you run good early, or YOU could find yourself Flirting With Busto. 😉

GL and subbed.

That's perfectly fine, pretty aggressive management but I have liferoll to work with, not really playing for money or I wouldn't be playing 5NL. :P

Haven't played any online since my last session, been playing live $2/$3, up about $600 in two sessions so running pretty good there. Will probably return this Monday to grind some more online!

If you can afford to play live why not put a little more online and make it worth it? To each his own but I think you might be wasting some time. Not sure what your goals are though or your motivation to play.

The main reason honestly is just to challenge myself. I enjoy nearly every second I play the game so to me it's not a waste of time. I understand where you are coming from though!

Had a $7 ticket from a satellite I played a while back, played a tournament ($2 Knockout SS) and busted, fired a second bullet and cashed for ~$13.

Cash Results:

Current Bankroll: $55.54USD

Accidentally registered for an Omaha Hi-Lo tournament, a game which I have never played before (I've played maybe 100 regular Omaha hands in my life) but lucked out and scored a mincash.

Lost a decent chunk of the balance playing MTTs that I am DEFINITELY not rolled for, but hey - had a bit of fun.

On the plus side, on a really good table right now with 2 giga-fish.

Cash game graph (running above EV, but will always balance out in the long run):

Bankroll: $45.67USD

Finished the session, ended up stacking both the players tagged in the previous post.

I've been studying a decent amount, trying to take bits and pieces from Yolan Cohen on Youtube as well as other play and explains. I've been incorporated a lot more overbetting in my strategy and trying to exploit the nits at the tables.

Here are my stats at the moment:

VPIP: 26.75%
PFR: 23.24%
3Bet: 15.23%
WSD: 54%

Leaktracker:

It does say that my SB 3Bet Steal Att is much higher than the winning value, although I'm trying to follow GTO preflop as closely as possible playing mainly 3bet or fold from the SB. Same goes for 3betting and river AF (although I am trying to bet thinly for value in spots I believe I can). Does anyone have any information on whether this is a big issue or not? I haven't really been able to find much info from a Google search. Thank you so much.

Current bankroll: $59.77

Deeply regretting playing the MTTs now, would have a much higher bankroll but it is what it is. Onwards!

I think PT4 takes a generic winning filter (probably anything over 0bb/100, idk) and returns the average range. I wouldn't put too much faith in their suggested ranges. If I had to guess, most players are on the tighter side when 3betting in SB and this drives the average a little lower (I'm assuming SB 3bet Steal is 3betvsCO/BTN when in SB). If you follow GTO range to the T then you probably going to be quite higher. It's not a problem itself but it could be if you butchered the rest of the streets. Being a little overaggressive is usually good so I would expect you to outperform the PT4 suggestion.

Looking forward to some future updates. Good luck on your grind

leaktracker is useless don't bother with it. also 3k is a bowl sample so it wouldn't be worth looking at these large data analysis tools anyway yet.

Hi!

I agree with @norwich. 3k hands are too small a sample for us to be able to analyze it.
On top of that, the overall PT4 report might not be the most helpful. It'd be better to take a closer look at individual spots and see if you can spot any leaks there.

It looks like you bet a little less on the flop and a little more on the turn than you could have. This might mean that you only bet on the flop with strong hands and often continue on the turn. It's always good to have enough bluffs in your CBet flop range, otherwise you might get overfolds and big bets when you check the flop.

GL with your journey!

this is a classic beginner player trope. too value-heavy on earlier street (not betting enough) leads to a too value-condensed range on the next street (betting more than GTO - which is good - but completely for the wrong reasons).

Hi, thank you very much for the response. I understand the sample size is very small however the value is quite far out of the range so I was just making sure that I wasn't doing anything too horrendous. In regards to cbetting the flop, I typically bet based on my range. One thing I have noticed is that lots of the pots go multiway so I cbet less often and check most of my range OOP. I will however take into account and perhaps increase my cbet bluffs on the flop to balance out my value. Lets hope to see improvement as I play more hands.

Really appreciate your advice and introspect!

Thank you very much for your response. As I stated in the reply to the previous post, I will try to increase my cbet bluffs to balance out my range to ensure that I am not too value-condensed. 😀