Alucard's Cash Journal - 5NL to 10NL

[Figaroo2]

I've had a good look at the stats. The issues are the same as when we last talked.
So briefly my observations are:
Your recent runbad looks to be promoting fit and fold. ( I know all about this!)
When you are running bad it's even more important to scrimp and fight for every single bb going to offset the big suckouts.
Play more from the button, at least 10% more, steal more by identifying players who fold too much to steals (have fold to steal % on your HUD)
Float more by identifying 1 and done merchants who have a high flop cbet% and low turn cbet%
3bet more especially from the BB and BTN.
Your BB AF is very low. Defend your BB more vigourously against stealers by bluff raising the flop more often.
https://floattheturn.com/wp/blog/assassinato-big-blind-check-raise-strategy/

And call flop with the intention of overbet leading the turn (from Polished poker usual lines against steals)
Thats all I can suggest for now its gotton late.

 

[Alucard]

Got into a bit of a crappy spot. Not happy with the way I played it but calling the shove seems reasonable to my eyes not considering the price
We have a club blocker. So what hands would bet 2 streets here on this kind of board?
But calling down 100BBs was a very bad move from my part
I can't believe people playing these kind of crap hands
Could've avoided it all if I'd just 3 bet pre

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PokerStars - $0.05 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4: http://www.pokertracker.com

BTN: 286.2 BB (VPIP: 40.00, PFR: 40.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 11)
SB: 93.8 BB (VPIP: 21.53, PFR: 13.89, 3Bet Preflop: 4.41, Hands: 146)
Hero (BB): 408.4 BB
UTG: 101.4 BB (VPIP: 21.43, PFR: 10.71, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 29)
MP: 141.4 BB (VPIP: 48.00, PFR: 20.00, 3Bet Preflop: 10.00, Hands: 26)
CO: 116.4 BB (VPIP: 40.91, PFR: 22.73, 3Bet Preflop: 9.09, Hands: 22)

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has Qh Ac
fold, fold, CO raises to 2.4 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 1.4 BB

Flop : (5.2 BB, 2 players) Qc Ts Kc
Hero checks, CO bets 3.2 BB, Hero calls 3.2 BB

Turn : (11.6 BB, 2 players) 5s
Hero checks, CO bets 7 BB, Hero calls 7 BB

River : (25.6 BB, 2 players) Jc
Hero bets 16.2 BB, CO raises to 103.8 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 87.6 BB

CO shows 2c 4c (Flush, King High)
(Pre 37%, Flop 31%, Turn 18%)

Hero shows Qh Ac (Straight, Ace High)
(Pre 63%, Flop 69%, Turn 82%)

CO wins 223.6 BB

p.s - hating myself right now for this

 

[BuzzKillington]

To be honest, I'm not sure if you can really count having a card of a given suit as a blocker for cards of that suit. If you hold one club and the flop comes with two clubs, then there are still 10 clubs either in the deck and/or in the hands of other players. 1/11 is less than 10%. I would thus consider the blocking effect negligible. But that's just my opinion.

It's different for cards of a given rank, since there are only 4 of those for each rank. Therefore each card has a significant blocking effect.

 

[Alucard]

To be honest, I'm not sure if you can really count having a card of a given suit as a blocker for cards of that suit. If you hold one club and the flop comes with two clubs, then there are still 10 clubs either in the deck and/or in the hands of other players. 1/11 is less than 10%. I would thus consider the blocking effect negligible. But that's just my opinion.

It's different for cards of a given rank, since there are only 4 of those for each rank. Therefore each card has a significant blocking effect.

it's not quite like that. Blockers really come to play when you count what card combos the V could be holding. I have ace of clubs so I block all the suited aces. KQJ on board means the likely holdings the V could have are very much limited.

Should've 3bet here nonetheless

 

[BuzzKillington]

it's not quite like that. Blockers really come to play when you count what card combos the V could be holding. I have ace of clubs so I block all the suited aces. KQJ on board means the likely holdings the V could have are very much limited.

Should've 3bet here nonetheless

Ah. I stand corrected then. You're right. Blockers are 100% relevant when considering specific cards, of course. Silly of me.

 

[Beanfacekilla]

Got into a bit of a crappy spot. Not happy with the way I played it but calling the shove seems reasonable to my eyes not considering the price
We have a club blocker. So what hands would bet 2 streets here on this kind of board?
But calling down 100BBs was a very bad move from my part
I can't believe people playing these kind of crap hands
Could've avoided it all if I'd just 3 bet pre

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PokerStars - $0.05 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4: http://www.pokertracker.com

BTN: 286.2 BB (VPIP: 40.00, PFR: 40.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 11)
SB: 93.8 BB (VPIP: 21.53, PFR: 13.89, 3Bet Preflop: 4.41, Hands: 146)
Hero (BB): 408.4 BB
UTG: 101.4 BB (VPIP: 21.43, PFR: 10.71, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 29)
MP: 141.4 BB (VPIP: 48.00, PFR: 20.00, 3Bet Preflop: 10.00, Hands: 26)
CO: 116.4 BB (VPIP: 40.91, PFR: 22.73, 3Bet Preflop: 9.09, Hands: 22)

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has Qh Ac
fold, fold, CO raises to 2.4 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 1.4 BB

Flop : (5.2 BB, 2 players) Qc Ts Kc
Hero checks, CO bets 3.2 BB, Hero calls 3.2 BB

Turn : (11.6 BB, 2 players) 5s
Hero checks, CO bets 7 BB, Hero calls 7 BB

River : (25.6 BB, 2 players) Jc
Hero bets 16.2 BB, CO raises to 103.8 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 87.6 BB

CO shows 2c 4c (Flush, King High)
(Pre 37%, Flop 31%, Turn 18%)

Hero shows Qh Ac (Straight, Ace High)
(Pre 63%, Flop 69%, Turn 82%)

CO wins 223.6 BB

p.s - hating myself right now for this

I would 3b pre here.

However, as played, calling twice is fine if you have a really good read, dynamics, etc. It is gonna be a tough spot though if we don't improve, and there's a good chance we don't improve. 3b pre just makes the hand play so much easier.

River is a check. Betting only folds out bluffs, and if we get raised, yeah we are at best chopping, so after you lead this river, and he jams, yeah dude. He prob knows you have an ace and pretty much polarizes him to flushes. Gotta find a fold on this river as played. We are chopping at best, I think V will rarely bluff shove a river like this... these calls decimate WRs dude. Take your time, think it through, calm, cool as a cucumber bro. These are the hard lessons I had to learn as well. The call offs I used to make, good grief.... I've made some bad calls in my life, way worse than this.

 

[Alucard]

Update - Ran good today. Made around $28. Was trying to go further but every time I did I go down or just come back up slightly. So stopped in the end. Haven't slept in a while but I'm not feeling as sleeping so might throw up another session in a bit.
Got the red line back around break even as well.
Another $20 and we are back to $300.

 

[Beanfacekilla]

Update - Ran good today. Made around $28. Was trying to go further but every time I did I go down or just come back up slightly. So stopped in the end. Haven't slept in a while but I'm not feeling as sleeping so might throw up another session in a bit.
Got the red line back around break even as well.
Another $20 and we are back to $300.

Nice! Keep it going man!

 

[Figaroo2]

Good lad well done. Sometimes a stop and reboot works wonders.
I was thinking last night I was posting around midnight in the UK and you were still posting despite being 4-5 hours ahead of me, so you must have been playing all night.

 

[Alucard]

Thanks guys! I think I played committing more than 12 hours. The win rate may not be the best but did get some shit back on track.
One thing I realized after the red line swing is that it seriously affected my win rate. So was more focused on getting it back on track & lavoiding too many overbluff getting caught situations.
Will do some session s today as well. Need to be close to perfect 😁

 

[Alucard]

Analysis please..
Made a very bold bluff
I can sense a hailstorm coming

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PokerStars - $0.05 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4: http://www.pokertracker.com

BTN: 130 BB (VPIP: 14.61, PFR: 12.36, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 91)
SB: 86.8 BB (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 10)
BB: 270.4 BB (VPIP: 25.97, PFR: 19.48, 3Bet Preflop: 7.14, Hands: 80)
UTG: 145.6 BB (VPIP: 26.79, PFR: 25.00, 3Bet Preflop: 6.67, Hands: 58)
MP: 118.4 BB (VPIP: 13.33, PFR: 6.67, 3Bet Preflop: 16.67, Hands: 15)
Hero (CO): 395.6 BB

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has Qh Ah
fold, fold, Hero raises to 3 BB, fold, fold, BB calls 2 BB

Flop : (6.4 BB, 2 players) 3h 4d 8h
BB checks, Hero bets 4 BB, BB raises to 11 BB, Hero calls 7 BB

Turn : (28.4 BB, 2 players) 3c
BB bets 15.8 BB, Hero calls 15.8 BB

River : (60 BB, 2 players) 6s
BB bets 22 BB, Hero raises to 60 BB, fold

Hero wins 99.6 BB

 

[duggs]

suicide, what are you trying to make fold?

 

[Alucard]

suicide, what are you trying to make fold?

overpairs, possible trips

 

[duggs]

overpairs, possible trips

overpairs arent raising the flop, or bet/folding the river, likely you made him fold a hand you were already ahead of

 

[Alucard]

overpairs arent raising the flop, or bet/folding the river, likely you made him fold a hand you were already ahead of

why not? we are very deep. He could likely be flatting 10s,Js etc. I'm putting 100BB on the line. So I only rep the nutted hands unless he has one of them.
He could be check raising a flush draw as well but I can't just call there??
But it was a bit irrational I know (perhaps very)

 

[duggs]

why not? we are very deep. He could likely be flatting 10s,Js etc. I'm putting 100BB on the line. So I only rep the nutted hands unless he has one of them.
He could be check raising a flush draw as well but I can't just call there??
But it was a bit irrational I know (perhaps very)

because TT possibly 99+ are 3betting pre, and his raising range isnt going to be that thin while your range is uncapped, range is more like 33/44/34/88/57hh/67hh/56hh w with the occasional 48 being thrown in there. Most likely you folded him off of a hand that you were winning against already and but in more money when you were dead. the only times you are actually folding a hand we win against is when he has rivered a 6. furthermore this isnt a good bluff candidate because we block all of the bluffs he could viably have when we hold Ah

 

[Alucard]

Analysis please of the overbet?.. will not post the results just now. Happy the way I played it

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PokerStars - $0.05 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4: http://www.pokertracker.com

Hero (BTN): 650.4 BB
SB: 84.4 BB (VPIP: 30.00, PFR: 25.45, 3Bet Preflop: 11.90, Hands: 117)
BB: 46.8 BB
UTG: 100 BB (VPIP: 13.54, PFR: 11.46, 3Bet Preflop: 4.35, Hands: 100)
MP: 319 BB (VPIP: 18.18, PFR: 9.09, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 12)
CO: 85.4 BB (VPIP: 26.92, PFR: 19.23, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 28)

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has Ah 5h
fold, MP raises to 3 BB, fold, Hero calls 3 BB, fold, BB calls 2 BB

Flop : (9.4 BB, 3 players) 7h As Ad
BB checks, MP bets 3 BB, Hero calls 3 BB, fold

Turn : (15.4 BB, 2 players) 5d
MP bets 9 BB, Hero raises to 37 BB, MP calls 28 BB

River : (89.4 BB, 2 players) 6c
MP checks, Hero bets 123 BB, MP calls 123 BB

 

[Beanfacekilla]

Analysis please.. will not post the results just now. Happy the way I played it

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PokerStars - $0.05 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4: http://www.pokertracker.com

Hero (BTN): 650.4 BB
SB: 84.4 BB (VPIP: 30.00, PFR: 25.45, 3Bet Preflop: 11.90, Hands: 117)
BB: 46.8 BB
UTG: 100 BB (VPIP: 13.54, PFR: 11.46, 3Bet Preflop: 4.35, Hands: 100)
MP: 319 BB (VPIP: 18.18, PFR: 9.09, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 12)
CO: 85.4 BB (VPIP: 26.92, PFR: 19.23, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 28)

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has Ah 5h
fold, MP raises to 3 BB, fold, Hero calls 3 BB, fold, BB calls 2 BB

Flop : (9.4 BB, 3 players) 7h As Ad
BB checks, MP bets 3 BB, Hero calls 3 BB, fold

Turn : (15.4 BB, 2 players) 5d
MP bets 9 BB, Hero raises to 37 BB, MP calls 28 BB

River : (89.4 BB, 2 players) 6c
MP checks, Hero bets 123 BB, MP calls 123 BB

I think you played this hand pretty well man. I may or may not 3b pre here, this depends on reads and our image and game dynamics. I do tend to 3b A-5s on occasion.


The rest is fine. I like the turn bet. River shove is big sizing, and I don't think he folds a big ace here so well played IMO. I think we are targeting a smaller range though with river sizing, and we do fold out some hands that might hero smaller bets, so I'm not 100% sure if sizing is what I would choose for river.

I think real time I prob go 50-60 BB OTR. But I don't mind your play at all.

 

[Alucard]

Got tilted a bit after loosing to 104 suited in the end. Then played a very bad couple of hands. So went down around -$15 during that period
Nevertheless running good. Taking a break. Will get back into the tables after a while. Super annoyed about getting tilted & playing like an idiot. Should've stopped then & there

First 2700 hands are from yesterdays session.

 

[Alucard]

getting the red line back on track fixed a lot it seems

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[braveslice]

Awesome job! You got your golden touch back. Even EV was against you and still killing it.

 

[el_magiciann]

Mate i like your thread very much, red most of the hands and analysis by some really good players, i think you play good disciplined poker, just be carefull to these tilts everyone geting sometimes, i didnt play poker for a while but last month i deposit around 200$ at stars and lose them all because of bad BM where i have big problems and bad displine too, i was playing only MTT's where the variation is really alwfull , so i think you can ruin this 5nl and even 10nl where you can make some more money, but stars is sometimes alwfull to good players especially in their zoom games.... wish you all the best and run good mate!

 

[Alucard]

Mate i like your thread very much, red most of the hands and analysis by some really good players, i think you play good disciplined poker, just be carefull to these tilts everyone geting sometimes, i didnt play poker for a while but last month i deposit around 200$ at stars and lose them all because of bad BM where i have big problems and bad displine too, i was playing only MTT's where the variation is really alwfull , so i think you can ruin this 5nl and even 10nl where you can make some more money, but stars is sometimes alwfull to good players especially in their zoom games.... wish you all the best and run good mate!

hey thanks for this! Really appreciate it!
Yeah need to work on my tilt problem. I get super duper tilted when a fish with some 104s or 93s gets one or two over me.
And the next thing, I lose by playing really stupid because of that.
Thank you & wish you the same mate!!!

 

[Alucard]

lolz

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PokerStars - $0.05 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4: http://www.pokertracker.com

Hero (BTN): 294.4 BB
SB: 231.6 BB (VPIP: 26.37, PFR: 18.84, 3Bet Preflop: 6.50, Hands: 296)
BB: 152.8 BB (VPIP: 36.17, PFR: 23.40, 3Bet Preflop: 10.00, Hands: 49)
UTG: 120.8 BB (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 1)
MP: 147.8 BB (VPIP: 27.59, PFR: 3.45, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 31)
CO: 197.2 BB (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 3)

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has Jh Jd
fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 3 BB, fold, BB raises to 10.2 BB, Hero raises to 26 BB, BB calls 15.8 BB

Flop : (52.4 BB, 2 players) Qc Ad Kc
BB checks, Hero checks

Turn : (52.4 BB, 2 players) 4c
BB checks, Hero checks

River : (52.4 BB, 2 players) 2h
BB checks, Hero checks

BB shows Ac 9c (Flush, Ace High)
(Pre 32%, Flop 86%, Turn 100%)

Hero mucks Jh Jd (One Pair, Jacks)
(Pre 68%, Flop 14%, Turn 0%)

BB wins 50.2 BB

 

[Beanfacekilla]

Ha ha ha. Goofy hand dude. This dude is waiting for you to bet for him.


10c on the turn, for fun dealer? Well that wouldn't be fun for you.....