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Charlie44:
Had an awesome session today $54.57 profit. Was really agressive (for me) and it seemed to pay dividends. Must expect the regs to play back at me but Ill bask in the glory for now. Had a few lucky breaks but I think I was due a few - Another KK all in against AA but this time hit a King and alos my up and down straight draw got there to stack someone.
Winnings for the month now looking much better - surprising what one good session can do.
Today Month to date
Preflop profit -7.45 -137.98
Overall Profit $54.57 $95.27
Hands 1,008 21,408
BB/100 54.14 5.52
VPIP 17.55 14.02
PFR 15.28 10.86
3 Bet PFR 6.94 3.73
2bet/fold PF 73.08 62.80
4 bet pf 6.00 4.20
Att to steal LP 45.00 35.86
Att to steal SB 43.48 29.59
Obviously some areas to still work on. like the 2 bet/fold %age. However the preflop loss I am not now worried about. Of the hands that I raised we saw a flop 87 times. If they had folded I would have won $13.05 and I would have had pre flop profit of $5.60. However for those hands I actually won $61.18, so I want them to continue making the error of calling my raises and maximising my overall profit.
So my conclusion providing I continue to hit my target of 14% PFR and I continue make more profit than 1.5BB per hand when I raise and get called I won"t be concerned at all with any preflop losses. The only proviso is that I need to get my 2bet/fold %age down to 60% average.
Also been looking at finding the best time to play to maximise my profits. I have started looking to some indicators including volume of players ( the more players the more likely there are fish!? ). Looking at what %age of players are playing only one zoom table (again fish -including me!! - tend to play only 1 table). Also looking at spread of players from different countries and the time zone there. - I guess about 11pm local time you"ll get the most amount of drunks ?! Theres a good graph on PT4 which shows personal profit by time period. Currently I seem to make most profit hours commencing 7PM and 11PM. One thing I"ve noticed also that surproisingly there is only about 10% of players from UK playing on tables.
Anybody got any other tips ?
Charlie44:
Hit one of my monthly targets today - over 24k hands for the month. ;D. Have a couple of bad results over the last few days but managed to pull some of the losses back today - It"s becoming a bad trait to report on the good days but not on the bad days - need to correct that ;)
Today Month to date
Overall Profit $16.30 $56.47
Hands 1,008 25,102
BB/100 16.17 3.17
VPIP 16.37 14.22
PFR 13.76 11.13
3 Bet PFR 4.00 3.73
2bet/fold PF 83.33 64.36
4 bet pf 2.50 3.97
Att to steal LP 38.89 36.22
Att to steal SB 40.91 30.09
Will give summing up of the month after tomorrow"s session.
Charlie44:
Dispappointed in my play today especially in 1 hand when I misinterpreted hud stats for villain. I had JJ got 3 bet by apparent aggro villain, and ended up stacking off on T high board, and he showed QQ . After, I realised that I had only 38 hands on villain and his 33% 3 bet rate was actually 1/3 :-[ Very expensive silly mistake. Todays result and for the full month as follows :
Today Month to date
Overall Profit -$4.69 $51.48
Hands 1,003 26,018
BB/100 -4.68 2.86
VPIP 14.52 14.24
PFR 12.10 11.17
3 Bet PFR 3.30 3.71
2bet/fold PF 56.52 64.02
4 bet pf 4.44 3.99
Att to steal LP 31.33 36.06
Att to steal SB 34.78 30 28
So I achieved my target number of hands (24k) but way short on BB/100. However I am not discouraged. The main thing is that I feel I am learning a lot and improving. I have very much appreciated support and advice from apaters.
Whilst I am spending time reviewing and learning I don"t think its enough. So I intend again to spend less time playing hands this month and more time reviewing hands posting on forum getting feedback, investigating my leaks, think about strategies, watching videos, reading etc. I think in this way I will improve more quickly, and I will increase my hand volume again at a later date. So my target this month will be 18K hands per month. I will stay at 1 table of $10NL with a profit target again of 8 BB/100. Hopefully by end of October I will feel ready to start introducing some 25NL play and/or 2 tables.
Thanks again for support. Bring on October :)
Charlie44:
Hadn"t reported for a while so thought I would today. Always easier after a good session :). Results as below. Month going well at moment. Feel I am improving and I think avoiding dubious spots. More ready to lay down top pair if appears I am beat.
Today Month to date
Overall Profit $30.71 $74.95
Hands 755 5,947
BB/100 40.68 12.60
VPIP 16.42 15.61
PFR 13.48 12.60
3 Bet PFR 2.96 2.08
2bet/fold PF 72.22 75.23
4 bet pf 0.00 1.18
Att to steal LP 34.38 41.10
Att to steal SB 34.78 35.97
I still need to get more agressive in certain spots e.g. I def. need to increase my 3 bets. However I feel currently the most profit has/will be generated by getting value from weak players and folding second best hands.
I am just about on target for hands played and way ahead on BB/100. I have just cashed my $50 stellar reward and close to my $25 reward bonus. So all"s rosy in the JM garden at the moment - but I am sure there are a few surprises round the corner. Poker has the knack of doing that to you ;D
Charlie44:
As I haven"t reported lately thought I"d better update my blog.
On the poker side things are definitely going well. As well as good results I feel I am now making much better decisions and mainly maximising profits on good hands and minimising losses on 2nd best. Whilst I haven"t been logging hands on the strategy forum I have been analysing them and looking for improvements.
I have found a very useful tool called Flopzilla. I dont know how many have seen this but it allows you to set likley ranges of oppos and showing how hard that range has hit the flop, what equity you have and what cards on future streets are likely to be good for villian"s range. It can"t be used during play but is good for analysing hands after awards setting strategies e.g against player types or for continuation betting. Cost about £20 and I think its paid me back already . Defintely recommend it.
Current state of affairs :
Today Month to date
Overall Profit $33.60 $148.66
Hands 777 14,136
BB/100 43.24 10.52
VPIP 15.00 15.54
PFR 11.32 12.54
3 Bet PFR 2.12 2.36
2bet/fold PF 61.54 72.76
4 bet pf 2.94 2.23
Att to steal LP 38.03 40.53
Att to steal SB 47.06 39.22
So well up on hands and BB/100 targets for the month currently. My agression still leaves somthing to be desired but I am not too worried about that at the moment. I think I have now played enough hands to indicate I am profitable at 10NL so I am going to start dabbling in 25NL and see how it goes. Anybody any feel about the increase in abilities between 2 levels?
In any case will give it a try. Wish me luck !!
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