Gambling challange
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Gambling challange
Hello everyone,
I'm new to runitonce, I'm here to improve my game and make a thread to keep motivated and share my results and a few hands.
I'm going to start a BR challange, and post my results here.
Starting bankroll: 250$
Site: Pokerstars
Stakes: starting with 10nl
Short term goal: move to 16nl with 350$ bankroll
Long term goal: reach 50nl
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Good luck. Are u gonna play regular tables or zoom? and how many tables u gonna play.
Thanks! Probably mixing both, but mostly regular 4-6reg tables.
Not the best start :/

You should probably get away from looking at small sample results, the mean pretty much nothing and give you no help. Looking at hands and how they play or are to be played within your distribution or vs the field, in these games, as this is pretty low stakes, you probably want to look at exploiting oppontns rather than being super balanced, but refrain from checking short term results whenever you can, you can check hands and stats, how you played, but results don't do much for you.
That being said, using certain bankroll management strategies, like for example, kelly bankroll, you need to stay aware of your bankroll, but other than that, to get good I would not look at results, but rahter at strategy
Thanks for the tips!
PokerStars, Hold'em No Limit - $0.05/$0.10 - 5 players
UTG: $10.64 (106 bb)
CO: $12.77 (128 bb)
BU: $11.25 (113 bb)
SB: $9.98 (100 bb)
BB (Hero): $13.86 (139 bb)
Pre-Flop: ($0.15) Hero is BB with K♣ 3♣
2 players fold, BTN raises to $0.25, 1 fold, Hero calls $0.15
Flop: ($0.55) K♦ 8♦ 3♠ (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $0.40, Hero raises to $1.39, BTN calls $0.99
Turn: ($3.33) T♣ (2 players)
Hero bets $12.22 (all-in), BTN calls $9.61 (all-in)
I'll take a few more intresting hands from session as well. Thoughs on my line? Opponent seems somewhat reggy. I could blalance my shove with combo draws, or a bottom pair+FD type hands. Maybe played it too fast?
Overbet shove definitely not a good idea here imo
Obv you're never shoving with KJdd or A8dd here
You lost value against weaker hands and you'll get only called by better hands.
Just continue betting here
And I don't specially defend my big blind with K3s against a somewhat reg
Definetly I ain't shoving KJ, this shove is only with a few vulnarable+strong hands, as well few set witch doesn't block his calling range and balance those with combo draws and hands like A3dd. I get called by AK btw
I strongly agree that 4x pot is never a bet that makes sense here. I guess I wouldn't call you with AK here also it might be a good share of the players in the pool might. Your result in general is you fold out worse hands (and draws) you could get value of with "normal" bets and you also will make him fold all draws. Note that folding out his draws with your current hand is not best case. You gain more money by having him call a pot sized bet with 30%-ish equity and maybe even bluff the river if missed than when he just folds his 30% equity of a 3.33$ pot (0.3*$3.33 = $1.11) It might be that on the T which brings some draws but doesn't change the strongest hand an overbet might make sense to charge his kings as long as the board is not too wet and also his stronger draws. So 115% or 150% could work but never 400%.
You might have fallen into the trap of protecting yourself against loosing the hand instead of maximizing EV. Yeah with shoving turn the percentage you will loose the hand in the end goes down. But you still earn less money than when you charge a bigger pot 70% of the time and loose some of the time because he improves (I can see that this sucks but it's part of the game).
I'm okey with the K3s float against BTN 2.5x though also it's near the bottom of my range.
yeah, I agree that it's a bit too deep to shove. It's 3x overbet shove btw, but still too deep I agree with this one. Probably somewhat 1.2x overbet would be better in the spot. Pio never raises K3s on a flop in a first place, but I expect villain to be far away from cbet strat that pio use, so maybe that's all right.
PokerStars, Hold'em No Limit - $0.05/$0.10 - 4 players
UTG: $10.43 (104 bb)
BU: $13.51 (135 bb)
SB: $9.90 (99 bb)
BB (Hero): $12.48 (125 bb)
Pre-Flop: ($0.15) Hero is BB with K♦ J♦
1 fold, BTN raises to $0.22, SB calls $0.17, Hero 3-bets to $1.03, BTN calls $0.81, 1 fold
Flop: ($2.28) J♠ 3♠ 8♥ (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $1.64, Hero calls $1.64
Turn: ($5.56) Q♠ (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $3.98, BB (Hero) folds
Against agrro regular. It feels I punted with this hand in some way. I decided to check call my top pair for balance and as an exploitative play, because he was stabing quite agrresive when check to him. Too nitty fold on turn ?
This is quite tough I guess. Interested to see what others think.
You have good blockers to his turned queens (KQ, QJ) but no flush or straight blockers. I would believe he stabs more often with a random flushdraw here than with AQ, KQ, QT. In his BTN open-call range there should also be many suited hands.
So probably it's more important that you don't block a flushdraw than that you do block some queens. Most important thing is probably his big sizing on flop and turn. I thing I like your fold :)
Vs two smaller bets it probably transitions to a call (say 50% stab and 50% turn bet).
PokerStars, Hold'em No Limit - $0.05/$0.10 - 6 players
UTG: $10.00 (100 bb)
MP: $10.00 (100 bb)
CO: $13.40 (134 bb)
BU: $14.69 (147 bb)
SB: $10.05 (101 bb)
BB (Hero): $10.86 (109 bb)
Pre-Flop: ($0.15) Hero is BB with J♣ J♠
2 players fold, CO raises to $0.30, 2 players fold, Hero 3-bets to $1.17, CO calls $0.87
Flop: ($2.39) 6♦ T♥ 7♦ (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $1.71, Hero raises to $9.69 (all-in), CO calls $7.98
Against agressive regular as well. Maybe played too fast as well? Comments appreciated- likes guaranteed!
My feeling says this rather should be a c-bet here for you because we need protection and rather check AA-QQ some of the time for trapping instead because we don't need as much protection and it's not as bad when he checks back. You said he is aggressive but he's also a reg. So he shouldn't be overstabbing insanely I guess? If you know he's stabbing 80% then check-raising instead of betting might become attractive.
Looking forward to see how your challenge continues - keep us posted.
I runned a pio on this one as well, pio almost never checking overpairs here, it leaves checking ranges quite capped surprisingly. But when I change villain stabing strategy to more realistic one that I think he is using, pio checking overpairs on flop quite a alot and check/raising them with high frequency. So if my guess about his stabing strategy is somewhat correct, probably my play is fine
cool. did you check if check-shoving or check-raising to non all-in is higher EV? I would be pretty interested in that one.
yeah I definitely wouldn't have expected PIO to not checking overpairs at all. Well the board is pretty damn wet and in 3bet pots we have a higher cbet generally than in normal pots. So it makes some sense.
Didn't see the ev's, but all of em was mixing shoving and smaller raise
Just came back from party, I'll post back to all the comments tomorrow, when I'll be in shape :D Thanks for comments! :)
Moved to Poker Journals section.
Good luck with the challenge!
Ty!
Was running terribly yesterday.:/ Probably will pop up my bankroll for 50 bucks to feel more comfortable

PokerStars, Hold'em No Limit - $0.05/$0.10 - 6 players
UTG: $12.23 (122 bb)
MP (Hero): $29.07 (291 bb)
CO: $10.71 (107 bb)
BU: $9.85 (99 bb)
SB: $9.68 (97 bb)
BB: $11.99 (120 bb)
Pre-Flop: ($0.15) Hero is MP with 9♠ T♠
1 fold, Hero raises to $0.30, 1 fold, BTN calls $0.30, SB 3-bets to $1.30, 1 fold, Hero calls $1, BTN calls $1
Flop: ($4) 7♦ 3♦ 9♣ (3 players)
SB bets $3.80, Hero calls $3.80, BU folds
Turn: ($11.60) 8♥ (2 players)
SB bets $4.58 (all-in), Hero calls $4.58
Is there anyway to avoid this? Maybe I could just fold on flop against that sizing without bd fd? Hand against fish
You can probably fold preflop. Rake is high and squeezing frequencies are low.
Yeah, that's an option, but I have a weakness folding suited hands preflop :D
You can imagine that with this stack to pot ratio it's not enough to make straights and flushes something like 5% of the time (not to mention the problem of getting to the river with all the draws), so you need to be able to do something with your pairs as well as have some bluffing opportunities. You have some of that, but the tighter the squeezing range is, the more difficult it is for us to do anything about it. Villain's just gonna have a good hand too often, and that's not good for equilty realization of a hand like T9s.
Yeah, I totally agree on that, I should tighten up on calling squeezes, as well he was a fish with like 70/30/5 or so, so that was his bottom range I guess
Typically the situation we want to avoid at these stakes.
You're not calling a preflop 3b with 9Ts to go broke with a bad kicked bad top pair.
We're looking to get big draws etc...
Just simply fold preflop
PokerStars Zoom, Hold'em No Limit - $0.05/$0.10 - 6 players
UTG: $2.98 (30 bb)
MP: $7.09 (71 bb)
CO: $12.56 (126 bb)
BU (Hero): $18.77 (188 bb)
SB: $10.00 (100 bb)
BB: $8.00 (80 bb)
Pre-Flop: ($0.15) Hero is BTN with A♥ 5♥
3 players fold, Hero raises to $0.30, SB 3-bets to $1, 1 fold, Hero calls $0.70
Flop: ($2.10) K♦ Q♣ 5♦ (2 players)
SB bets $1.34, Hero calls $1.34
Turn: ($4.78) T♣ (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $2.18, SB folds
A bit strange hand. Not sure If I should be floating the flop, probably I could just fold it on flop, with no backdoors at all? On a turn I decided to turn into bluff, because I dont feel like I have ton of showdown value, too optimistic maybe?
Flop call seems completely fine by me and I like the turn bluff aswell. You have virtually no showdown value with your pair of fives and it's hard for you to have anything worse to bluff with. You should get some folds from stuff like AT/T9 or just air that could bluff you off on the river.
Yeah, that's exatcly what I was thinking during the hand
Runned a pio sim on this one, pio turn this combo into bluff as well almost everytime
Uprgraded my hud btw, threw in a few valueable stats and probably find a leak in my game using those. I have one question as well, does stat Bet Flop in hm2, means a Bet when checked to preflop agressor?
Isn't bet flop just... you know... bet flop?
Not sure, but I think not, I believe it means stab, but not sure
I think this stat consist of donk bets + stabs maybe?
My flop bet is 32% and cbet about 60%
Keep losing stacks :/
PokerStars Zoom, Hold'em No Limit - $0.05/$0.10 - 6 players
UTG (Hero): $10.74 (107 bb)
MP: $8.94 (89 bb)
CO: $10.00 (100 bb)
BU: $33.93 (339 bb)
SB: $12.29 (123 bb)
BB: $13.28 (133 bb)
Pre-Flop: ($0.15) Hero is UTG with 7♠ A♠
Hero raises to $0.30, MP calls $0.30, 4 players fold
Flop: ($0.75) Q♠ 7♣ K♠ (2 players)
Hero checks, MP bets $0.72, Hero raises to $2.10, MP calls $1.38
Turn: ($4.95) T♣ (2 players)
Hero bets $8.34 (all-in), MP calls $6.54 (all-in)
Thoughs on this one? Don't have any info (zoom table), probably a fish with not full stack, so I expect his preflop range to be way wider than reg in the spot
PokerStars Zoom, Hold'em No Limit - $0.05/$0.10 - 6 players
UTG: $16.66 (167 bb)
MP: $10.05 (101 bb)
CO (Hero): $11.01 (110 bb)
BU: $10.68 (107 bb)
SB: $11.50 (115 bb)
BB: $10.00 (100 bb)
Pre-Flop: ($0.15) Hero is CO with K♦ A♦
UTG raises to $0.22, MP 3-bets to $0.63, Hero 4-bets to $1.52, 4 players fold, MP calls $0.89
Flop: ($3.41) Q♣ 4♠ 5♦ (2 players)
MP checks, Hero bets $0.83, MP calls $0.83
Turn: ($5.07) Q♦ (2 players)
MP checks, Hero checks
River: ($5.07) J♣ (2 players)
MP bets $3.80, CO (Hero) folds
I should probably have a few bets on turn with low sizing, could I involve this combo in that range?
PokerStars Zoom, Hold'em No Limit - $0.05/$0.10 - 6 players
UTG: $10.00 (100 bb)
MP: $30.35 (304 bb)
CO: $3.08 (31 bb)
BU: $19.60 (196 bb)
SB: $12.20 (122 bb)
BB (Hero): $12.66 (127 bb)
Pre-Flop: ($0.15) Hero is BB with T♦ K♦
4 players fold, SB raises to $0.30, Hero 3-bets to $0.93, SB calls $0.63
Flop: ($1.86) 2♣ 5♦ J♣ (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $1.09, SB calls $1.09
Turn: ($4.04) 2♥ (2 players)
SB checks, Hero checks
River: ($4.04) 9♥ (2 players)
SB checks, Hero checks
Probably not the best combo to bluff river?
It feels like it's hard to be balanced in the spot. If I'm betting all my value combos on turn my range on the river becomes super capped, question is what value hands I should be checking on turn? Probably standart I would check my weekest J's, but I guess that's not enouth. And what bluffs do I pick on the river after checking turn?
Exploitative wise, against unbalanced villains, it feels that only blockers that matters in the spot for bluffing are low cards, probably we dont want to block pocket pairs witch he might fold?
Runned a sim on this, all I understood that it's super complex board to play
Definitely yes
Probably will end the challenge, started playing on microgaming, I took a look on my pokerstarsgraph with rakeback setup on 100% and with no rakeback:D
it would be so smooth :(
probably get like 100bucks at best from rakeback. Everyone should leave that site, it's quite crazy ;d
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