Archive for Tagpoker Forum A friendly place for winning poker players to share their strategy to making money playing poker.          Tagpoker Forum Forum Index -> Bankroll Building (All Members) Reseal Reseal's Cash Game Escapades TAGlanders, So last Monday I deposited $100 on Carbon Poker and once again began grinding 6max. I started playing 4nl, and managed to grind some 20k hands in a week (over more than 2 days worth of play). I did lose a bit of money here and there at 4nl due to some rustiness in my game. Getting bored of the slog of 4nl, I stuck another $90 into my account and moved up to 10nl. This didn't exactly work out well right away, I lost about 7 buyins at the stakes and decided I had to tighten up my game and play some good solid poker. I'm happy to say I've managed to turn a profit this week. My graph from Monday to Wednesday this week looks like this: and this weeks stats: N.B I will post my full graph in the future, but right now it looks a bit ugly and is just BE cos of the downer I first went on So $227 now sits in my poker account. My goal is to try and run this up to $2k within the next 2 months! Further Goals are to A) Make 5k by the end of the year and B) Be playing at least 100nl by October (when I restart university). These may seem a bit ambitious, but I'm fully committed to making them a reality as right now I have nothing else to dedicate my time to other than poker- I'm able to literally grind 30,000 hands a week if I want and spend countless hours studying the game! Wish me luck guys Reseal x peteoaten Nice going!! Hope the upswing continues for you The Little Fish Good luck mate. Wannawin I remember 'free time' was a long time ago though, make the most of it, and get some freshair (pub)  aswell..! Reseal Just finished a 2 hour long 9 tabling session. Having a good day so far: am up 6.5 buyins over about 2k hands. Looking forward to my late night session against all the mega fish Reseal Had a mediocre day overall. Earlier I 12 tabled for an hour and a half, running poorly and also making some bad call downs, I came out down 2 buyins. Just finished another 90 min session, this time just 6 tabling, I came out 4 buyins up. So the roll's now at $316 and the graph for this week's looking like this: Brokerstar I have the distinct feeling that you're going to have a lot more than $2k by the time you go back to uni my man!!   Sick volume my man. Hard work will really pay off and Alex and I have a leak finder video coming out for you personally too. Keep it up and see you in class on Sunday! Broker BetMagicMoney gogogo man you'll defernatly going to crush it Borg7 Very good job, Reseal. Keep crushing, buddy! Reseal Cheers for the kind words lads! Things aren't moving as fast as they were, just waiting for some run good again it seems. Played 2 ½ hours then, only managed $15 profit. Still, better than a losing session I guess Time to smash out a 4 hour, 9 tabling, late night session later on to try and pull that graph line up some more forced very nice! Reseal Just passed the 40k hand mark for the last 2 weeks. Having a bit of a meh time currently, lost 4.5 buyins last night running bad, and another 3 earlier on just playing too LAG imo. In a 9 tabling session now, was up 4 buyins but have wasted 2 just making what I think could be called poor call downs. Still, up 18 buyins for the week thus far Reseal New Week, New Graph: Sooo, up 6 buyin to start off what will hopefully be another productive week Reseal Taking some shots at 25nl (underrolled) :/ BetMagicMoney Reseal wrote: Taking some shots at 25nl (underrolled) :/ don't do stuff under rolled as its to much stress on your mind imo. crazy stuff around 2700 hands Wannawin Good luck with it, just have a plan for run bad, but think opositive and run good Reseal Only took a micro shot at 25nl then thought I'd leave it until I'm fully rolled. Had a bit of an up and down day yesterday. Firstly, I went down $44 in the first part of the day, but then things got great. The tables were oh so juicy at stupid o'clock and I basically played a 3000 hand session and finished up 8.5 buyins . Here's to hoping the tables are as nice as that later on! Wannawin What time are you finding best to play? Reseal Wannawin wrote: What time are you finding best to play? I've had the best sessions playing at about 1 or 2am onwards tbh. Last night the average VPIP/PFR on every table was literally about 40/10 Reseal Yeh, had a bit of an up and down week. Broke even for a lot of stretches, also hitting some big downswings. Managed to just then undo the losses I incurred yesterday, with a +4.5 BI session in just 50 mins plays . The graph for this week looks pretty mental: But I'll try and put in a solid session later on to get to over $100 for the week EDIT: forgot to mention, I'm at 63k hands over the last 3 weeks . Think my win rate over 40k so hands at 10nl is 3.68, obviously I'll wanna get this higher over time- as I'm still improving, I think a WR of above 5 should be obtainable with time. Brokerstar Very sick stuff my man and an amazing work ethic. I have a sneaky feeling that you'll be playing much higher in the next month or so. keep up the good work and see you in class on Sunday. Broker BetMagicMoney w00t w00t go go go man Reseal Cheating/Moving Up/Soul Owning Regs So I reached $400 with my roll and started taking a somewhat premature shot at 25nl. This didn't go at all well, so I moved down and then lost some at 10nl until my roll was down to a pitiful $239. Tilt no doubt had something to do with this, and my tilt induced leak of calling where my gut blatantly knows I'm beat cost me a bunch. Naughtily, I decided to cheat, and to have another shot at 25nl. I redeposited $300 into my account. This time I lost about 2 buyins at 25nl before the ownage begun. I've been getting really obsessive about my red line (non showdown winnings) lately, just cos of how much mine's stinked in the past. So, with this in mind, I've done a fair bit of reading about ways of plugging these glaringly obvious leaks. i.e cbetting less/more selectively, double + triple barrelling more, calling down lighter once at least 1/3 of effective stacks go in etc etc. I still find I'm sacrificing a lot of non-showdown profit by putting money into the pot via 2 barrells and then having to fold to river shoves and such. But, things are improving I think. Starting today, and after watching a video by grogheadflow at leggo poker, I've really been loosening up my game some. Just played 30/25 with 8% 3bet over 1200 hands and came out a $108 winner! imo it works really well against regs at 25nl for a while as they just don't adjust their ranges accordingly or hand read to the necessary level when put in some tough spots. So today I made $165 at 25nl and my roll's now at $697 (after cheating for $300 ) Graph for today, (non showdowns still negative unfortunately): sorry for what's probably been a rambling post, it's too late for me to construct a decent one! ChrisB Your non-showdown at microstakes is likely to always be negative. But having it breaking even is great! You said you played 30/27 can you throw up a summary of your positional stats? EP, MP, CO, BTN, SB, BB? Reseal ChrisB wrote: Your non-showdown at microstakes is likely to always be negative. But having it breaking even is great! You said you played 30/27 can you throw up a summary of your positional stats? EP, MP, CO, BTN, SB, BB? I got my session stats slightly wrong, as I was working from memory! Actually I played 30/25. Just did a session review, and my play really was quite erratic- I just ran extremely good. I'll still be experimenting with loose opens, extreme light 3betting, donking, light floating, frequent bluffing/barrelling etc cos I think there's a lot of money to be made playing this style (and appropriately changing gears); it exploits TAG regs the most and is just seriously fun to do. Here are my positional stats for last nights session as requested: As a side note, I was basically opening  any two suited cards from the CO pretty much, and usually any two cards from the button if folded to. U Cook Socks Seems you are way to loose UTG imo, although I am guessing you have had a card rush in that position looking at the $ you have won there. It's a small sample size, but have you lost a few big pots on the button, as it is quite worrying that is your biggest loser. Good stuff though. I really do want to give 6 max a crack, am going to look in to it all over the next few days, see how much time I can devote to it, and go from there. Reseal Blazing_Saddler wrote: Good stuff though. I really do want to give 6 max a crack, am going to look in to it all over the next few days, see how much time I can devote to it, and go from there. gonna join the cash school? and yeh, I spewed a bit too much from the button, tried a ridiculous river bluff (stupidly) against a fish LMAO. Wannawin LOL seems like you are a different person, losing from the button, winning from the blinds ? just got back, with a hectic work schedule tomorrow, but will catch up to chat over your new formula, and hopefully start up a few sweats over the next few days? U Cook Socks Reseal wrote: Blazing_Saddler wrote: Good stuff though. I really do want to give 6 max a crack, am going to look in to it all over the next few days, see how much time I can devote to it, and go from there. gonna join the cash school? and yeh, I spewed a bit too much from the button, tried a ridiculous river bluff (stupidly) against a fish LMAO. I don't know yet, I did ask Broker if there were any spaces. I just have to work out if I can commit enough time to it, to make it worth my while. I still want to continue with my HUSNG goals, so whether I can make time for both of those, and the family is something I have to work out. Reseal Wannawin wrote: LOL seems like you are a different person, losing from the button, winning from the blinds ? just got back, with a hectic work schedule tomorrow, but will catch up to chat over your new formula, and hopefully start up a few sweats over the next few days? yeh definitely mate, I could certainly use someone elses help keeping me in line when I'm playing this loose and aggressive/pushing so many edges! ChrisB Reseal wrote: ChrisB wrote: Your non-showdown at microstakes is likely to always be negative. But having it breaking even is great! You said you played 30/27 can you throw up a summary of your positional stats? EP, MP, CO, BTN, SB, BB? I got my session stats slightly wrong, as I was working from memory! Actually I played 30/25. Just did a session review, and my play really was quite erratic- I just ran extremely good. I'll still be experimenting with loose opens, extreme light 3betting, donking, light floating, frequent bluffing/barrelling etc cos I think there's a lot of money to be made playing this style (and appropriately changing gears); it exploits TAG regs the most and is just seriously fun to do. Here are my positional stats for last nights session as requested: As a side note, I was basically opening  any two suited cards from the CO pretty much, and usually any two cards from the button if folded to. # Yeah your stats look alright, obviously a small sample but EP/MP VPIP a little high, but could be due to cards like blazing said...keep on doing what you're doing Reseal ChrisB wrote: Yeah your stats look alright, obviously a small sample but EP/MP VPIP a little high, but could be due to cards like blazing said...keep on doing what you're doing Yeah I was basically getting a ton of A2s+, 54s+ etc UTG and UTG+1, plus all my usual value hands. I'm not sure whether it's optimal to be opening these sexy suited cards in early positions on a good table (one full of fish) because I probably won't have the correct fold equity to barrel with them effectively and stuf....but against a table of TAGs I find the style works pretty well. ChrisB Reseal wrote: ChrisB wrote: Yeah your stats look alright, obviously a small sample but EP/MP VPIP a little high, but could be due to cards like blazing said...keep on doing what you're doing Yeah I was basically getting a ton of A2s+, 54s+ etc UTG and UTG+1, plus all my usual value hands. I'm not sure whether it's optimal to be opening these sexy suited cards in early positions on a good table (one full of fish) because I probably won't have the correct fold equity to barrel with them effectively and stuf....but against a table of TAGs I find the style works pretty well. Definitely not open hands like A2s and 54s UTG, you want to keep your early position range primarily value hands, but of course this is a guide line...if there are 5 other spewtards just waiting to give you their money, then its arguable. I think it's just best to err on the side of tightness out of position. U Cook Socks Reseal wrote: ChrisB wrote: Yeah your stats look alright, obviously a small sample but EP/MP VPIP a little high, but could be due to cards like blazing said...keep on doing what you're doing Yeah I was basically getting a ton of A2s+, 54s+ etc UTG and UTG+1, plus all my usual value hands. I'm not sure whether it's optimal to be opening these sexy suited cards in early positions on a good table (one full of fish) because I probably won't have the correct fold equity to barrel with them effectively and stuf....but against a table of TAGs I find the style works pretty well. I used to fold A10o utg when I used to play    and in all honesty, I don't think it is that much of a mistake Reseal Blazing_Saddler wrote: I used to fold A10o utg when I used to play    and in all honesty, I don't think it is that much of a mistake Yeh depending on what the table's like, generally I fold ATo UTG, whereas ATs certainly a call as is AJo! ChrisB Hopefully you never openlimp utg :O) Reseal ChrisB wrote: Hopefully you never openlimp utg :O) Ooops, I meant to say RAISE lol... Reseal Swings, Now consistent results Well I found from really LAGing up my game I was being too spewy, and the swings were tremendous. 2 nights ago I started off my session solidly, went up $30....then I hit some slow downward progress to -$180...only to grind it out from there and manage to only finish down $50 in the end! I've decided I'm only going to be using my LAG gear against a table of real solid TAG regulars and nits. I think it's possibly suboptimal to play it the whole time vs. a bunch of fish. So here are my two graphs for A) the last two days (where I feel I've totally been on my TAG A game) and B) For the week: seems my redline leaks are starting to be rectified; I'm getting closer to BE for non showdown winnings at these micro stakes. As a side note, over the 10k or so hands I've now played at 25nl, I'm cbetting the flop 72% and the turn 53% -- much better numbers imo! Cheers, Reseal ChrisB You kinda hit the nail right on the head, you have to play the style that works well against the opponents, not just join a table and think "oh im gonna play lag" its like HU Sngs = adaptation to your enemy BetMagicMoney really nice to see you crushing mate keep it up <3 Reseal Moved up Decided to move up to 50nl. Hit some immediate run good in the form of a $130 session in a little over an hour. Bankroll's at $984 Gonna get a 50nl 9 tabling sesh inl later on I think, and go from there... So far I'm up $350 this week. Also got a nice $70 or so from the Carbon Poker Super Money Tree promotion. Furthermore, I'm now at the 3rd (/5th) VIP level on carbon poker: get nice cash rebates, freeroll entries, birthday money etc lol Wannawin way to go mate... GL with it. Whats not obvious is the hard work/time you are putting in off the tables, shows it is all worth the effort. Brokerstar Yes I've never seen someone's understanding improve so rapidly about the game as yours and your work ethic is second to none. I have every faith that you'll completely crush these games and you almost won't need staking at this rate. Alex and I are also looking to start an advanced class for students that play  volume (30k hands + perhaps) so there will be far fewer in it and we'll be breaking down your game in much more detail and going over more complex concepts but we'll know more on tuesday. This is an evolving school and your efforts and making the evolution to the whole concept speed up too. Great work man.   YATHINNK 50nl, how much of a roll do you need for this? Or are you playing underolled? Brokerstar YATHINNK wrote: 50nl, how much of a roll do you need for this? Or are you playing underolled? It's really down to your own comfort thresholds. 30 BI is a nice size some guys like to have bigger rolls (if they live off of their income) others that play more recreationally like to shot take at about 20 BI's (like Reseal seems to be). It's all about how you feel. The main thing is not to be playing with scared money so if you feel nervous about losing a buy in or two then that is a clear sign that you may be playing too high for your roll even if it's 'mathmatically ok'. Broker YATHINNK I played a minimum amount when I first started but nothing major so I dont have much experience. Might give it a go eventually but don't want to start too many balls rolling. Seems interesting though. Reseal Had a bit of a bad start to the week. Firstly, had a -$190 session at 50nl. Reviewed all my big pots, think I played very well tbh, bar one or two small errors. So I moved back down to 25nl, and again hit what I think is just 'bad' variance; -$80 session. Played a session last night while Suspira sweat me, was a bit up and down, but after I think 1200 hands I finished down $1 lol. On the up side, $120 randomly appeared in my Carbon Poker account labelled as 'adjustment' Also, next week I'm being staked through the cash school to play 100nl. So I think with that, this BR build thread might more or less just turn into my results throughout my stake! In the meantime, I'm gonna try and grind out some serious volume and try and get as close to $2k as I can in the next week Reseal z1s6arn Congratulations on the staking! woot woot!   BetMagicMoney clearly carbon has super users GL with the stake peteoaten Grats on the stake Good luck at the tables ! Reseal Cheers for the kind words lads. and THANK YOU greatly Wannawin for showing me how to properly and permanently align my HUD on carbon. Has to be plus EV for my winrate, now not having to manually adjust it every time. I am a donk for not knowing to set a default seating position though , Up 2 buyins so far today over about 1500 hands. EDIT: forgot to add this brag, I've played 91k hands in a month. yeah buddy! Brokerstar Reseal wrote: EDIT: forgot to add this brag, I've played 91k hands in a month. yeah buddy! That's really sick. I've never managed to break 100k in a month yet but then I'm lazy   Reseal Well, things have not been going well this week. I think I've probably been on my B game, and possibly need to tighten up a little - but I'm basically on about a 10 buyin downswing. This has all but undone all the nice profit I accumulated over the last few weeks . I've obviously had to move down to 25nl for now. Just gonna keep at it and try and put up some nice numbers later. Will be doing  a few in-depth session reviews just to make sure my play is fine. Would be nice to get back to 50nl before the staking! BetMagicMoney dislike you'll be ok buddy just keep your head up! Reseal Yeh running like absolute turd this week. I've been on my A- game tonight, made 1 or 2 call down mistakes but that's literally it. $200 below my EV this week   tmle09 hope you run better man gl Reseal I know the blinds are always going to have a negative expectation, but I feel I have one or two red line related leaks where they're concerned. I am trying to devise a more profitable blind defence strategy. This thread over at DC, and it's contained links is a gold mine for non showdown leak plugging for anyone that's interested: http://www.deucescracked.com/foru.../261891-Problem-with-Non-SD-Redli and here's my overall profit graph (with a +ve red line ) if you take the blinds out of the equation: z1s6arn Yaaaaay! Reseal Well I basically lost over $500 in under one and a half weeks. Just couldn't get a winning session in. I think after losing the first $300 or so (whilst still playing pretty good poker I might add) I went on life tilt. Life tilt for me is calling down too light/constantly thinking people are making moves on me lol. Tonight I thought f**k it, and booted up 12 tables. 12 fairly tight reg infested tables. I took some nootropics beforehand and away I went. I was ITZ. Across all the tables the fish were few and far between, but this didn't bother me as I think I still have a skill edge vs most regs when I'm not outlevelling myself. The result? 7 buyin win over 2.8k hands! So nice to have booked a decent winning session (one where I win more than 1 buyin ) and hopefully I can keep it up and get rebuilding ChrisB Isn't it pretty obvious we are going to have a positive expectation in non-showdown pots when the blinds are filtered out? The blinds are the sole reason we play poker, if there were no blinds you could just sit and wait for aces all day and it would be profitable. Good to hear about your "unconventional" session that went well Reseal ChrisB wrote: Isn't it pretty obvious we are going to have a positive expectation in non-showdown pots when the blinds are filtered out? The blinds are the sole reason we play poker, if there were no blinds you could just sit and wait for aces all day and it would be profitable. Good to hear about your "unconventional" session that went well yeh I agree, I just had a bit of a stupid aha moment lol; it was after reading an mpethybridge post about the red line, over at 2+2. Running well atm. 2 outered a boat with top two vs a set earlier. Up 1 buyin at 10nl today, 4 buyins at 25nl ChrisB Reseal wrote: ChrisB wrote: Isn't it pretty obvious we are going to have a positive expectation in non-showdown pots when the blinds are filtered out? The blinds are the sole reason we play poker, if there were no blinds you could just sit and wait for aces all day and it would be profitable. Good to hear about your "unconventional" session that went well yeh I agree, I just had a bit of a stupid aha moment lol; it was after reading an mpethybridge post about the red line, over at 2+2. Running well atm. 2 outered a boat with top two vs a set earlier. Up 1 buyin at 10nl today, 4 buyins at 25nl Even stupid A-ha moments are kinda nice, assuming we aren't talking about the band...which is shit xD Reseal I'm having a +10 buyin session right here, at 25nl. running good but feel I haven't made many mistakes Wannawin right here? Reseal Wannawin wrote: right here? lol yeh right here, i.e. right now. weird way of putting it, I know. Brokerstar Reseal wrote: I'm having a +10 buyin session right here, at 25nl. running good but feel I haven't made many mistakes As ze Germans may say, Schveeet   Nice to see you bouncing in the right direction. Reseal Been having some epic sessions lately. 12 tabling FTW. Doing it exclusively now Lost like $150 earlier yesterday evening, only to make it back at stupid o'clock when I won $170. Now I'm up $100 again tonight. Fish sure seem to be dishing out the $ atm! Wannawin cool mate, glad to hear you are running well again. still on 25s? BetMagicMoney gogogo <3 Reseal Moved back up to 50nl with my roll 17 buyins deep. 9 tabling it and having fun! Reseal Over $1k roll, staking Up to $1048, expecting $275+ from the Super Money Tree and also getting another $750 into my account from Brokerstar soon as a stake for the 50nl games. Life's good Brokerstar Re: Over $1k roll, staking Reseal wrote: Up to $1048, expecting $275+ from the Super Money Tree and also getting another $750 into my account from Brokerstar soon as a stake for the 50nl games. Life's good Money has been sent, sorry it took so long. Now kick the shit out of some slightly higher stake fish and I'll roll you for even higher games..   Wannawin way to go mate.... BetMagicMoney gogogo <3 Reseal My run bad has been really really ridiculous the past 2 days. I think the proceeding days I was still stacking off slightly too light etc. But last two days I've lost over $350 and it's just literally been beat after beat. @Brokerstar I'm happy if we just chalk up my losses @50nl this week to be ones from my own bankroll, and not from the staking money you've sent. I don't know really where it's gone wrong for the most part, but I'm sure there are still some major leaks in my game somewhere :/. n1ghtah cheer up mate. Its just a minor bump on the road for you. Ive seen you a couple of times now. and your playing great. besides those things we have talked about but talk with broke. take a rest and then we will get them those fish z1s6arn Reseal....quiet in here.... You good? z1 Reseal z1s6arn wrote: Reseal....quiet in here.... You good? z1 Am now lol. I shouldn't really get into the habit of only posting my winnings (brags) but was so embarrassed with my results and play a few weeks back I couldn't muster the effort to post in here. After Dom staked me for 50nl I went on the mother of all downswings (somewhere in the neighbourhood of 20-30 buyins). Not nice at all. But since then I've managed to overcome that variance (and for sure some tilt/bad play) to grind out some wins at 50nl. At $1500 I began taking shots at 100nl. So far I'm up 5 buyins at 100nl, and also $1k in the last week. Some of the beats I've put on people today have been ridiculous though; i.e. 2 outers and 4 outers   . So just fingers crossed right now I don't have to move down at all. Oh, and yeh, 100nl is soooo fishy. More so than any other stake I've played it has to be said. This could of course be variance! BetMagicMoney post graph please <3 that your crushing it dude z1s6arn Reseal wrote: z1s6arn wrote: Reseal....quiet in here.... You good? z1 Am now lol. I shouldn't really get into the habit of only posting my winnings (brags) but was so embarrassed with my results and play a few weeks back I couldn't muster the effort to post in here. After Dom staked me for 50nl I went on the mother of all downswings (somewhere in the neighbourhood of 20-30 buyins). Not nice at all. But since then I've managed to overcome that variance (and for sure some tilt/bad play) to grind out some wins at 50nl. At $1500 I began taking shots at 100nl. So far I'm up 5 buyins at 100nl, and also $1k in the last week. Some of the beats I've put on people today have been ridiculous though; i.e. 2 outers and 4 outers   . So just fingers crossed right now I don't have to move down at all. Oh, and yeh, 100nl is soooo fishy. More so than any other stake I've played it has to be said. This could of course be variance! I would love for you to post the down swing and talk us through it! Keep up the good work! z1 Reseal Not too enthusiastic about posting my graph right yet as it's quite laughable. A rough idea is, it goes down from +$400 to -$1800 or so over two very fast downswings lmao. Then I break even for like 20,000 hands or something. And finally in the last week I've shot back up to only down (lol) $600. Yesterday was interesting, and very swingy. I started off the day basically going up $550. The evening session then just didn't go well at all, and I actually finished down something like $150 for the day overall. Probably about $200 of that was bad play I'd say, the rest was variance with draws not coming in, losing races etc. Today has been another story. I have been running feckin hot. Everything's been going right just about (apart from overbet shoving air all in and getting looked up by bottom pair) and I find myself up $645. So since Sunday, when this hot streak started, I'm up $1200 I'm not at all going to be letting this go to my head. I'm still going to be concentrating on playing good, solid, fundamentally sound poker. I'll be checking in regularly with Alex and Dom to see where there's tweaking to allow even further crushing . Reseal z1s6arn Thats really awesome! Good to hear your back on track mate. Down swings can really take their toll and its great you've learned how to pull yourself out of a deep one. I cant wait to hear about your next update next week! z1 Reseal Update: More work needed, genuine boosting. Well, it's been over 3 months since I last updated. At that point I'd started going on a tear at 100nl. That was short lived- I went to a mate's place and was playing on my Mac, and HUDless. That, and my foray into HU NLHE as somewhat of a noob/trying to play street poker vs some good regs resulted in me dropping about $2k or something whilst away; and more at the local casino due to what was only run bad imo. I guess that kinda put me on life tilt, so it took me a while to play solid poker again (I continued losing at 50nl, and more recently at 25nl). Only stake I have an actual win rate at over a decent sample size is 10nl ! I have played most my volume at 10nl though...So anyway, about 3 weeks ago I started getting a few extra coaching sessions with a guy off 2+2, after advertising for help with my non-showdown winnings leaks. In 5 sessions we concentrated a lot on hand reading, limped pots, 3 way pots, continuation betting, barrelling and an absolute ton of correct bet sizing  (especially in the small pots). The biggest change for me has been my whole approach to hand reading, I am actually thinking much more critically about hand ranges and how each segment of villains' range plays and reacts to different bet sizes. The results for my red line have been fantastic: Brag right here: Code: http://www.pokertableratings.com/merge-top-hold'em-winners-alltime/0.05-0.10-NL 3rd with a nice win rate compared with others Last week the Cash School was restarted with siminitt/Anthony as the new coach. I'm very happy with how the first two sessions went, siminitt reviewed DaHorse's and mine HEM databases and all our biggest winning and losing hands from the past month. We really spent a good 2 hours each session just analysing a small number of hands. siminitt is an awesome player and equally so a great coach! I'm very optimistic for what he and Broker have in store with the Cash School in future. siminitt has let us sweat him twice in the last week too- it's great to see such an advanced player at 100nl/200nl 12 tabling! He also reviewed his biggest pots with us after. So although my bankroll's taken a hit, I couldn't be more optimistic about how poker's looking right now. I urge people to get involved with the Cash School if they're at all interested in playing 6max; the value-for-money and sheer quality of the mentoring is exceptional. P.S Off to Australia in 2 weeks, for 6 months!!! Reseal Just had another 5 buyin session right there 25nl again soon, yeah buddy Brokerstar 29 buyins for the week is awesome work mate and it looks like the HEM reviewing sessions are really having a solid impact on your redline which is what we were after. See you in class tomorrow. Dom siminitt On a Roll Reseal lost 1.5ish buyins taking a shot at a very soft 25nl game at 4am last night! oh well, just added another 5 at 10nl to my hot streak. should be all time winner at merge nl10 when PTR update their rankings! sandman369 Are you on Carbon? If so what's your sn so I don't run into you Reseal sandman369 wrote: Are you on Carbon? If so what's your sn so I don't run into you my sn is Reseal lol, and yeh Carbon. bridgegunner well done reseal glad to seeing you doing so well. I will see u in the cash school in september. on the way up Reseal Graph of last weeks results: Click to see full size image Brokerstar Yes, yes, yes!!! Finally getting that redline moving in the right direction!!!!!!!   Looks like having an expert on Holdem Manager is really doing the trick for you. What do you think has helped the most in this transition from losing redline to winning? Reseal Brokerstar wrote: Yes, yes, yes!!! Finally getting that redline moving in the right direction!!!!!!!   Looks like having an expert on Holdem Manager is really doing the trick for you. What do you think has helped the most in this transition from losing redline to winning? Has been multi-faceted improvement imo. Probably just thinking everything through and weighing up all options critically before doing anything, as opposed to just autopiloting and making a load of 'standard' decisions. Not autopiloting really is the key to good red line poker. Dropping the number of tables helps a lot. I think whilst your really improving, 4 tables is the most +EV amount. Some strategic adjustments: more advanced hand reading, folding less on later streets when the SPR is much lower, thoughtful bet sizing, defending blinds more, stealing more from the BU and CO, 3betting more, double and triple barrelling more (but in a logical way), but above all smarter continuation betting!!!! EDIT: forgot to mention something very important for red line. THIN VALUE BETTING!!!! don't underestimate it. Super important for the green line too tbh. Reseal started my shots at 25nl today. super swingaments really, I was down $175 and then just went on a minor upswing to +20. Finally finished the day down $20. meh The key to beating the higher stakes is gonna be to play at the right time of day. 1am GMT onwards seems to take me to fishville and is just super profitable all round. All the American recreational players are on at what are the wee hours of the morning for me Really happy with how I played over my 2k hands or so. Not many mistakes whatsoever. Good solid poker with a few nice moves thrown in for good measure Reseal lost 130 or so last night to some real run bad. went like this: QQ<KK, KK<QQ, AK<AA, AA<AK. cbets/3bets/barrels weren't getting through. nothing worked tbh. had a better session then, won 60. not bad considering the tables were toughish. just managed to create some interesting dynamics with the other regs and outadjust them I think siminitt Keep it up mate - wont be long before redline is at breakeven kolonel Re: Update: More work needed, genuine boosting. Reseal wrote: P.S Off to Australia in 2 weeks, for 6 months!!! Where you staying mate ? Dont get caught up in NSW, full of freaks Jakester1288 Re: Update: More work needed, genuine boosting. kolonel wrote: Reseal wrote: P.S Off to Australia in 2 weeks, for 6 months!!! Where you staying mate ? Dont get caught up in NSW, full of freaks Ignore this advice. Stay away from Victoria, NSW or QLD are the places to be, especially with summer coming up. Reseal Re: Update: More work needed, genuine boosting. Jakester1288 wrote: kolonel wrote: Reseal wrote: P.S Off to Australia in 2 weeks, for 6 months!!! Where you staying mate ? Dont get caught up in NSW, full of freaks Ignore this advice. Stay away from Victoria, NSW or QLD are the places to be, especially with summer coming up. hehe, staying with my Dad in Brunswick Heads, NSW for the most part. I grew up there, just been living here for about 14 years :S . Might go down to Melbourne at some point to stay with some friends and try to get some work though! I went to Nimbin last time I was out. Now that is a freaky place Reseal limited internet access :( So I arrived here in Australia Saturday morning. Things are great, am having an awesome time all in some terrific weather The only thing I'm missing currently is poker! My Dad doesn't have broadband yet (lol) so I have just the very limited internet access down here at the library. Should be another week or two until we get some home broadband... Then all I have to put up with is him trying to prevent me from playing but yeh, nothing I can't deal with. We'll be ballin lads.        Tagpoker Forum Forum Index -> Bankroll Building (All Members) Page 1, 2  Next Page 1 of 2