First time 24 tabling

So yesterday I decided to give 24 tabling a go for the first time. I've 12 tabled and 16 tabled before but I gave 24 tabling a shot and it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, except my eyes started bleeding after an hour and I quit +2BI. It was only 10NL as I wouldn't feel comfortable doing it at 25NL obviously, and I was as high as +5BI until I got AKs in against AA pre, and got 2 outered on 3 different occasions, but it was a good experience I guess.

Hit a bit of a swing at 25NL, although I was playing far from my best game, I mean real far. I got into spots I shouldn't have, made a call when I knew I was beat (villain shoved for pot on 65AA8 river, and I had AQ, it's probably a piss easy fold, I don't think he does this with A7-AJ, and of course he flipped 88. Got QQ in against T8o on T74tt flop and he spiked a T on the turn obv.

College wise I've gotta give them a ring in the next few days and see how much I've gotta pay for the course. Of course I can withdraw my roll, and I wouldn't even care if I had to withdraw my entire roll, I would love to get a coaching/stake deal from 2+2. Kinda difficult to look for a job right now too as I don't know what's going on with college and what days I'll be there, so although I'm still looking it'll hard to apply for full-time jobs when I start college in 4 weeks..

Birthday in about 8 days too! Going out with 2 good mates on the saturday, and the saturday after prolly go down the pub 'n watch the Arsenal/Man Utd game with a mate I went to school with, probs won't get too pissed. Not.

No motivation to play 10NL :/

I haven't played in 4 or 5 days since running so bad at 25NL, I only dropped 3BI and am 5.5BI under EV for 2k hands, but even just casually grinding 10NL, I just can't be arsed. No I've been playing regularly for $25 stacks, a $10 doesn't bother me anymore, I find myself 3betting light, playing junk because I feel I have a bigger advantage, it's like I can't bring myself to play my A Game at 10NL because I've played 25NL..

I won't reach my 30k hands goal this month because my little break, but I should hit the rest of them. I've already well past $150 for the month, although that took a little hit because of the 3BI at 25NL, although still ahead, I still should watch some more vids which I plan to do and I've nearly finished HoC. v1, although I should probably stop reading 5 pages here and there..

I think I'll start properly grinding tomorrow night, the sooner I get past 25NL the better.

Quick update

I run so goot! Had a great week at 10NL, have watched some DC vids, had a sweat with a 50NL reg and had some discussion with another about hand ranges and what not and learned a TON. I used ot play about 14/11 but opened my game to about 21/18 which is great, I rerally didn't realise how fucking passive 10NL was! Am winning at abou 9.5bb/100 for th elast 22k hands at 10NL, and am near enough rolled for 25NL! Ship it.



That's this month thus far, been playing well and am really confident about my game, I feel like I've learnt so much in the last few days and feel I'm pretty much ready right now to take on 25NL. I need I'm going to study equity ranges and what not before I move up, I feel I should understand profitable situations a lot more instead of kinda hazarding a guess at a +EV play.

SHIP TEH 25NL BY THE END OF THE MONTH!

June Review

The month was a little mixed if I'm honest, it didn't start out too well, just getting used to 10NL and breaking even, but struggling. Then I kinda of realised I needed to play the same smooth game I knew best and it started to work. I got ill in the middle of the month so went about a week while playing about 2k hands, if that. But when I recovered I seems to hit some form, I concentrated a lot on my game and plugged my concentration leak which was a big bonus, I just seemed to auto-pilot 6tables while watching TV or listening to music, and it made no sense to do so. Here's my graph for June;


I didn't pass any of my goals except the first one, settled at 10NL. I didn't read much HoH, and I got no where near the hands total, i think 40k was a little ambitious tbf anyway, but I think I should finish HoH this month. Still no job, I need some money for college in September, and I didn't even attempt to learn any PLO.

I'll identify some goals for July in the next few days and get them up.

Playing solid

So I dropped to 2tables on Monday, just wanted to concentrate on my game and how it's going, and focusing on reads and what not, and I did well, got my redline constantly rising, and my green line constantly rising too without any big pots, just chipping away at weakness.

Kinda ruined it last night though, loaded up some tables and had KQo OTB, raised pre, got the BB to call. He check min raised a 46Qtt flop, so I called, and he insta checked the turn. I figured he did this with straight draws and flush draws, especially as he checked the turn to me, almost as if he wanted to see a free river, so I 3/4 potted it and he raised all in and of course, came up with a set.

Was a bad play on my behalf, small hand, small pot and all that, I think if I check the river I can see a free showdown aswell.

[?] I'm a fish

Right now I'm looking at my 10NL games and coming out with the conclusion that I'm a fish at the moment. I stack off too easily, I lose concentration and make hero floats/calls, I get a mindset that the villain has 'x' hand instead of 'x' range and proceed to call villain down, and although I'm in profit at 10NL since I moved back, my BR isn't moving because I win a few BI's, and then proceed to call villains down with shit.

I plan to try to change that in the next week, I haven't played a lot in the last 10 days because of varience kicking my arse but I'm going to give it a good go. Also I'm looking forward to the end of the July, my parents are taking my little sister to haven for a week and my other sister is coming along with my niece, however I'm hoping to get out of it because I can't afford it. I can, but I don't fancy wasting my money on something will will be costing me more money, ducy? So hopefully a week long grind is in store for me there, hopefully some 25NL shots too!

Keyword: Hopefully.

Very little play time

I've been ill for the last 5 days so have played maybe 400 hands since Tuesday. I hope to play some tonight and get a lot of hands logged tomorrow.

Not much to say really, I don't have much passion to play as the weather is hot, my USB adapter is broken and keeps getting disconnected thus having to keep reconnecting and waiting for the blinds to hit me again, which tilts me, so all in all a -EV situation. I had KK on tuesday, I lead and got 3bet, I then got disconnected and it wouldn't reconnect so that tilted me for ages, the adapter is really annoying me now as there seems to be no solution at all, Netgear are shit.

Aggggh, life tilt.

So Far, So Good

Had a good day so far at 10NL, I've stayed there throughout the month (except 9tabling 5NL @ my sisters one night to chill) which is one of my aims, although it started up and down, I've settled down and developed a good game for this level. I think I was up 4 or 5 BI's for today until I just took a couple of coolers to lose 2BI, but overall I played quite well.

I think I dumped a few $$$ though with some bad calls. I was raised all-in with AA on a 469tt flop after a limp/call, I think I can get away from there. I tanked for a while and I new I was beat but had to call as I guess he may have had TP with a flush draw, talking myself into calling.

But overall I've played a lot better and am starting to increase my roll.

Downswing

..of some prop tst completely card dead which lead me finally getting aces for the first time in 5k hands, raising pre, getting a caller, and shove over a donk bet on a 8JJtt board, which of course he showed up with QJo, and he called a 3bet OOP, so whatever.

10NL is still a grind, I need to really improve my game but I know I can do it, I think I might ride my card dead period at 5NL while I get my confidence back and start playing 10NL again on Friday/Saturday night when the fish come out to play.

10NL's a steady grind

So I'm not used to be put to difficult decisions since I graduated from 2NL and 5NL, and 10NL is noticeably tougher, albeit still very weak. I think my arrogance got in the way at the start, because I massacred 5NL and got told 10NL was just as bad, I felt as though I could probably walz through this level too, which is probably why I got off to a rocky start.

I've had a steady couple of days though, and I want to keep it going. I hope I don't have to play 5NL for a while, I'm happy grinding out small profits at 10NL and as long as I don't sink, I'll be happy to have a break even month as I'm learning a lot more at these stakes than at 5NL, plus if it needs be, I can also drop back to build my roll quickly and come back up.

Steady grinding though.

Fuck Varience and Fuck 10NL

Every single hand I had this evening, was 2nd best. I lost 2 BI's as I quit out of frustration, I could have tilted (I did tilt and quit immediately), and losy a hell of a lot more. I had QQ twice, AK were the first 2 cards on the flop each time, everytime I had AK, i 3bet pre, miss the flop, cbet and get raised, these aggro donks that think ultraaggresion is the way to win are starting to annoy me, especially when I they bet EVERYTIME you check instead of cbet.

And donk bettors, why do it? Seriously, why? I 3bet pre with AK, flop comes Q76tt, they min bet, I raise and they call, and they do it again on the turn, I flat, then the flush hits the river and they insta-shove.

Everytime I move back to 10NL I seem to run like shit it's a joke.

10NL Failure, rebuilding the roll

So I got to $240, decided to have a 4BI shot at 10NL which started okay but got coolered for 4BI, QQ vs. KK, set over set, set vs. straight and another BI with a couple of progressive folds in spots I felt I was beat despite putting a lot of money in.

I rebuilt my roll back to about $200 and took a little shot again, and again, lost to a couple of donk 2 pairs, it really frustrated me. I'm close to PlatinumStar, just gotta grind out some more VPP's for the month but with me being busy tomorrow and working on saturday, I need to get a move on.

I'm gonna grind the $1 DoN's for VPP's tonight, I'll get them quicker with a tiny profit but aslong as I reach Platinum I'll be happy.

10NL Not So Good

So I took some shots at 10NL earlier, generally the play was just as bad, I picked off many river bluffs while value betting galore on my big hands. There were 3 or 4 bad hands where I lost a BI and gained them back through grinding small pots, and generally they could have been avoided.

Because I spot villains trying to be more aggressive, I seem to try and stoop to their level. Turning my hand into a bluff at most opportunities, re-raising scare cards and trying to bluff them off pots like they do to me, I think I need to settle down and just play my own nitty game.

I've got 17BI's for 10NL but I want 25BI's, which I can get by the weekend if I have a good next couple of days. I'm also looking into a deucescracked monthly subscription where I just go mad and download everything to a disk during my time with them, unfortunately I withdrew everything from my bank today as I'm going on holiday next year and I need to get that sorted out, so I think I may wait until next month when I'm beating 10NL and attempting shots at 25NL.

Got a couple of sick hands I'll get up tomorrow.

10NL starting from Monday

So my BR is at about $165 right now, and with 2 full days of doing fuck all approaching me, I hope to take it to close to $250 for next Monday, in which case I'll move to 10NL full time. BRM suggest 20BI, which is $200, but we're only 100BB's deep, so I'd feel more comfortable with $250 behind me which is what I'm aiming for.

Playing really well right now and have immense confidence in my game, I'm running well and it's all going to plan, I just hope it lasts through 10NL too.