Johanw's Blogs

Roadto6maxNL100�. 20�NL tables again.

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 8:31:07 -0600

Hey all!

Just some short info! Im playing 20€NL atm. Bankroll at 180€.
Hope your games going well! I hope I can stay at 20€NL and never go back to 10€NL / 4€NL again!
Currently reading a book with the name "Let there be range". Great book. Also going throu Jimmy Chances study material I got from his lessions a while ago! Great stuff.

GL with your games!

Best wishes from Johan

My bankroll requirements.

Buyin	Bankroll
4€	0-60
10€	30-120
->20€	60-1000
30€	400-1000
50€	700-2000
100€	1500-?

Roadto6maxNL100$. Still poker! :)

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 9:43:35 -0500

Hi all!

Long time since last post! Hope your games going well. Me myself still play poker but not at all as much as I want to. But there are other things I want even more, take care of my familly, and some things I just have to, go to work. But I love my work so its ok!
I have played 10 hours last 3 weeks. So, there u get my playingtime! :) Before we got our little boy (who is 4 months now) I could get in about 30 hours / month. But now, haha, sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep... is needed. Its like the sleep is the key to life these days.

Poker is still my number one hobby! I play whenever I can and thats not as much as I would need. I read abit in books etc when I get the time. I want to hold the pokerbrain warm untill I get more time to play/practice.

I have been playing the 4€NL tables last 2 months. Did made a hit at 10€NL a month ago but I got unlucky. I also have a really aggressive bankrollmanagement nowdays which takes its toll. I paste my requirements last in the post. Its only on the lowest microstakes its really aggressive. Getting less aggressive on the higher stakes. I want to go up to the 20€NL and grind my way up again. I have been playing 50€NL 2 years ago and did hit a major downswing. Have been playing 20€NL a couple of times since then. But still! Havent made another deposit than the first I made 1july 2009.  20$. And have cashed out some, a couple of times. Prob also a little reason why im at 4€NL/10€NL atm.

Acually I got to 10€NL-limit again today and I hope I will keep away from loosing 3buyins and move down to 4€NL again!   I got abit happy of my progress and wanted to post. Havent really felt for it in a long time.

Good luck at the tables!

Johan

Buyin	Bankroll
4$	0-60
10$	30-120
20$	60-1000
30$	400-1000
50$	700-2000
100$	1500-?

Roadto6maxNL100$. Busy! :)

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 3:55:55 -0500

Hey all!

Long time since last post.
Have played pretty much this summer untill I started working a month ago. Not doing so well at the tables.
With a full time work, working on evenings etc and also a newborn and a 3,5 years old I really cant find much time for poker atm. Tired alot of time and thats no good time for poker.

Think I have played 2 hours in 2 weeks. But its ok, Im happy with life and familly. Grinding the 4€NL tables when I get the time. Have raked some money over the summer to spend on our vaccation to our snowy mountains in the north of Sweden. So thats nice!

Hope your games are going well! I have not much time to watch poker videos either. But I will continue to be a OP-member. I think I will get a little more time further on.

Have a nice weekend!

/Johan

Roadto6maxNL100$. Have a nice summer!

Sun, 10 Jun 2012 2:04:13 -0500

Hope u all are well and your game works out. Mine is acually really really bad. Grinding 4€ tables. Over 20 buyins down in 2 months. Pretty incredible. Had about 700€ then and since one date its all going down. On every stake. Is there a kind of bad spell I 100% wears that one!

Bankroll at 55€ (have picked out 100€ when I had about 170€ to savings to winter vaccation). So I dont have any bigger hope to reach anywhere near my goals this year. Its pretty crazy how bad it can go. Atm I feel that it is very possible I will go broke at the 4€ tables cause everything is against me and it wont change it feels like. I still like to play poker but of natural causes I dont play so much atm. It is funnier when winning and u play more, when u continuesly loose over 2 months u dont feel that happy about playing that much either. "Oh, lets sit down and loose some more money."

Going to have another child any day now so I have plenty of things to do this summer! :) Will try to not loose that last bankroll, so I can continue to play when I feel like. I hopefully post the blog in the end of august. Perhaps I will stop playing.

Have a nice summer!

/Johan

Roadto6maxNL100$. Less playing this month.

Fri, 11 May 2012 1:35:16 -0500

Hey all!

Going to be father to a second child in june, a son accually. Have a daughter 3,5 years old.  Will be free from work 2 months this summer. Will be really great! Will be alot of relaxing with familly and ofcause more poker. Untill then I have an extra project at work and I have to help more at home as my wife dont have that much energy with that big belly. So its less poker for a month now. An hour little now and then I will have whenever I can and have the energy. Im also focused on a half marathon in august that I will run. So that also takes some time from me playing poker. But health is really important and running is fun I think! :D

Hope your game goes well!
Good luck at the tables!

/Johan

Buyin	Bankroll
4$	0-120
10$	80-300
20$	200-425
->30$	300-1000
50$	500-2000
100$	1000-?

Roadto6maxNL100$. Great coaching!

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:53:27 -0500

Hey all!

Havent played so much since last post. Work and other things to do.

But I have had my last session with Jimmychanses. As great as the other three before!

It has been alot of math and great analyses. He wanted me to send hands I wanted to
diskuss instead of watching me when i play, so I did send 30 hands I had thoughts about before the lessons started. Alot more effective I think!
He also made a leak-analyse of me and I have some leaks im currently working on.
Another cool think is that he gave me a tactic to defend against aggressive blind stealers.
A cool approach he is currently trying, a good amount of time thinking about it all I guess.

He always had a great amount of things to go throu at every session. Letting me show some
hands I had played since last session by the end of each lesson.

Efter each lesson he mailed me notes on things we had discussed. Hand analyzes, EV-calcs etc.
I really felt I was a student! :) Cool! Also gave me a nice excel-sheet to calculate EV etc aswell.

So thanks for the lessons John! I will be taking more by summer.
Now I have to play and get all the new knowledge into my game!

Good luck at the tables everyone!

/Johan

**********My bankroll requirements, buyin at 6-max NL tables************

Buyin	Bankroll
4$	0-120
10$	80-300
20$	200-425
->30$	300-1000
50$	500-2000
100$	1000-?

Roadto6maxNL100$. 10 bi downswing. :(

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 5:04:25 -0500

Hey all!

Im still taking lessons from Jimmychanses! Its great for me.
Sadly it has not had any effect to my play that can be shown. Currently went on a 10 bi downswing.
My last 4 sessions has just been crushed 2 times AA vs my KK. Outdrawn every time when full stacked all in vs donkey on flop. When I get in with a coinflip i never ever win. So its pretty frustrating. Bankroll at 550$ atm. Was up to 850$ 4 sessions ago.

Im working some away from the tables with math in hands I have played. Good to practice that and get that
more into my game when I play.

Hope this downswing will end soon.
Good luck at the tables everyone!

/JohanW

**********My bankroll requirements, buyin at 6-max NL tables************

Buyin	Bankroll
4$	0-120
10$	80-300
20$	200-425
->30$	300-1000
50$	500-2000
100$	1000-?

Roadto6maxNL100$. More coaching :)

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 6:18:46 -0500

Hi again all!

The days are running along. Working, familly, poker, working, familly, poker. The summer has been showing up in Sweden aswell or atleast the feeling of it. Some nice days with sun and above 15C.

Did have a lession with Jimmychanses this monday. Will have another one tonight. This is exacly what I need. He knows things that can make my play better and I can take in this information aswell. So those lessons fits me really nice. After the lession I take with me the examples we have gone throu and I see similar situations while im playing that I apply the things we have talked about into.

I will have 2 more lessons after tonight. Then I will play for a time and then evaluate if I want more.

Bankroll around 600$.

Cheers!

/JohanW

**********My bankroll requirements, buyin at 6-max NL tables************

Buyin	Bankroll
4$	0-120
10$	80-300
20$	200-425
->30$	300-1000
50$	500-2000
100$	1000-?

Roadto6maxNL100$. Coachingtime :)

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 3:28:13 -0500

Hey all!

Im going to take some coaching lessons from Jimmychanses. Starting tonight. He seems really serious with his teaching. He dont want to follow me live when I play (cause I can get card dead and we dont get any nice situations). Instead I have sent about 40-50 hands to him, some of them in different situations he wanted me to send. Those will we talk about. He have also been looking for leaks and he said that Im doing a lot of things right. Nice to hear. Hope we find some leaks I can work on! I know there are.

Currently im playing on 30$nl tables again. I went down just below 500$ with my bankroll. Moved down to 30$nl and played them up to 780$ on a week. Then I decided to pick out 100$ for coaching. Looking over my 50$nl-hands I played at 888-poker before I moved to Bwin.

Good luck you all with your poker!

Best wishes from
Johan

**********My bankroll requirements, buyin at 6-max NL tables************

Buyin	Bankroll
4$	0-120
10$	80-300
20$	200-425
->30$	300-1000
50$	500-2000
100$	1000-?

Roadto6maxNL100$. Playing blind. HEM2/PT4?

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 2:43:06 -0500

Hi all!

I have starded to play without looking at my bankroll all the time. Feels alot better and im not getting stressed about the numbers. Ofcause I got to have a feeling if I loose too much and have to move down a stake. Now I dont get stressed by watching the numbers efter the session. Acually in both ways. If I have won alot I usually get in a sort of winners tilt and gets stressed about that instead. I dont like wandering around all day and think about those numbers :) and If i dont see them I dont think about those 27$ as much! Haha!

Im thinking of buyin HEM2 aswell. I now use PT3. I have seen alot from HEM2 and HEM3 seems really nice. I jst have to get a "go" from my wife before I buy it. I will borrow the 90$ from our savings and pay them back when my bankroll reach 1000$ again. I think its around 620-630$ atm. Im not sure :D

Im going to wach "jimmychances" new instructional videos here on Outstanding Poker when I get it.

http://www.outstandingpoker.com/video/video-171---holdem-manager-2-instructional.html

http://www.outstandingpoker.com/video/video-171---holdem-manager-2-instructional-part-2.html

*added note*
I have acually red some forums etc today. Some at 2+2-forums. I have decided to continue to play with PT3 untill the PT4 release. It seems like its pretty good. Some HEM1 users have said they think HEM2 is too buggy etc. PT4 will include some type of visual notes on the table-HUD on what players have raised with in sertain positions. So u see the AQ or 88 not only the 4%/5%... "Notetracker" is its name. Like u can see what cards the opponent has raised with last 3 times from that position. Ill wait and see :D I did see that HEM2 has "Note Caddy" as a HEM APP that costs 50$. Seems like this is the same as Notetracker. But Notetracker will be included in PT4.

GL at the tables everyone!

/Johan

**********My bankroll requirements, buyin at 6-max NL tables************

Buyin	Bankroll
4$	0-120
10$	80-300
20$	200-425
30$	300-1000
->50$	500-2000
100$	1000-?

Roadto6maxNL100$. Summary of my 3 years of poker.

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 2:58:12 -0600

Hi!

I would like to make a summation of my close to 3 years of playing poker seriously, starting of at July 2009. Would be fun to see some other summaries from others!

As a dad and full time working my playing amount is pretty limited and I have to play whenever I have some spare time. Instead of television goes poker and so on. If I would have been younger I would have played ALOT more.
Like the 2 years before 2003 when me and my team won at the championship of the game "Return to Castle Wolfenstein" at Quakecon 2003 in Dallas. It was easy to put in 8-10 hours a day. And with another little one on the way (June) it will definitely not be more time to play!  But I will still have some time little now and then. Its really important for me to put the majority of time on my family and work. Without my family im not happy.

To the summary.

2009 july

I did deposit 30$ to Bwin. Playing at 5$NL, 10$NL and 20$NL I built my bankroll to about 500$. After a bigger

downswing in 2010 I did pick out everything but 30$.

2009 summary: About 80.000 hands. 200 hours. I did also bought PokerTracker within this period.

2010 march

Restarted at 30$. Reached only 200$ untill summer and was down to about 50$ in july.

2010 july

Joined Outstanding Poker. Got a nice book about 6-max online cash games.

2010 October

Bankroll at 1700$. Build my way up throu 5,10,20,30$NL.

2010 November

Did hit a major downswing down to 1200$. Picked out about 500$ (help to a trip to Greece).
Bankroll about 700$.

2010 December

Moved to Redbet.

2010 summary: About 196.000 hands. 480 hours.

 

2011 February

Bankroll around 600$.

2011 April

Peaked my bankroll here. Reaching over 2000$.

Time for a downswing again. Hitting 50$NL and also down at 30$ for a while.
Bankroll down to about 1200$ and picking out about 700$ to family savings.

2011 December

Moved to 888-poker.

2011 summary: 245.000 hands. 560 hours.

2012 March

Bankroll at 700$. Bankroll been going rollercoaster between 500 and 1000$ playing
mostly 50$NL and some 30$NL.

So far 2012 summary: 30.000 hands. 70 hours.

My plans for poker.

Well it can be really hard sometimes. Working on your bankroll for half a year and then loose the bigger part of it. Ofcasue I can skip the withdrawal part and my plans is no not withdrawal anything more. I hope I can hold this promise
I know that I wont reach the 100$NL in a night and I know that everything outside poker like my family is what makes me genuinely happy. Poker is a joy for me but also a dream I have. My hope is that I will continue to play for several years more. For as long I find the joy and the desire I will continue. Perhaps for 10 years more?

I will continue to work on my game. Read forums and watch videos.

I wish u all good luck with your playing and your motivation.
And! Dont forget to let poker be fun and enjoy your life.

Best wishes from
Johan

**********My bankroll requirements, buyin at 6-max NL tables************

Buyin	Bankroll
4$	0-120
10$	80-300
20$	200-425
30$	300-1000
->50$	500-2000
100$	1000-?

Roadto6maxNL100$. Changed site.

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:58:24 -0600

Hi all!

Did went on a little downswing at 888-poker and decided to move to Bwin (european) instead. I have compared the sites and there are more traffic and softer games than 888-poker. Bankroll currently at 735$. Have played around 900 hands on bwin and I have lost 20$.

Hope your games works well!

Best wishes from
Johan

**********My bankroll requirements, buyin at 6-max NL tables************

Buyin	Bankroll
4$	0-120
10$	80-300
20$	200-425
30$	300-1000
->50$	500-2000
100$	1000-?

Roadto6maxNL100$. Near 1k again.

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 2:25:06 -0600

Hey all!

Im still at 50$NL.

Just after new year I managed to build my bankroll up to 1000$. It went down to about 550 for two weeks ago. I worked my way up again to about 880$ and I lost 160$ in a session this monday I thinked it was.
The other day I had a really nice session with a gain of 250$. 5 buyins! That felt nice. The bad luck I thinked I have had lately did got even out.

Won with the flopped lowest trips that did hit quads on the turn.
Won AA vs KK. All in pre.
Won KK vs AK. All in pre.
Won A8 vs AK. Flopped AA8.

Bankroll currently on 990$.

Please let me get above 1000$ and work my way up to 100$NL!

Gl at the tables everyone!

/Johan

**********My bankroll requirements, buyin at 6-max NL tables************

Buyin	Bankroll
4$	0-120
10$	80-300
20$	200-425
30$	300-1000
->50$	500-2000
100$	1000-?

Roadto6maxNL100$. At 50$NL. Less playing.

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:01:18 -0600

Hey all.

Im still at 50$NL (some at 30$NL). Currently standing at 720$. Im about to play abit lesser for a while. I have to sleep more at nights. Have a hard time keeping me awake when Im driving to and from my job, driving for like 50 minutes to get there. Im also trying to get away from my cold that wont give up, so I can start to run again. Havent been running in like 3 month. So abit less playing there will be for a month or two. 

Im feeling best physically and mentally when im running like 3 times a week. About 30 min each. Also have red in the latest science that your brain develops best when u use it to think difficult things and u exercise that amount, no more no less. Perhaps my poker-brain can grow better! :D

It feels like I wont be posting in a while. Hope your game will go well and your bankroll and brain will grow!

/Johan

**********My bankroll requirements, buyin at 6-max NL tables************

Buyin	Bankroll
4$	0-120
10$	80-300
20$	200-425
30$	300-1000
->50$	500-2000
100$	1000-?

Roadto6maxNL100$. Still at 50$NL!

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 5:17:14 -0600

Hi all!

Im still at 50$NL and it goes abit of a roller coaster atm. A small roller coaster :) Been playing 4200 hands at the 50$NL tables since I moved up.

Currently standing at 915$. +85$ since last post. Im grinding some at 30$NL aswell when there are almost only TAGs at the 50$NL tables. Like in the middle of the day.

Time for dinner now. Did just play a 2 hour session of 1100 hands. Gained 15$! :D Was down to 850$ at a point but mangaged to climb up to a possitive number.

There was a crasy 80/75/25 (VPIP,PFR,3Bet) that had like 4-5 stacks at a table. Me and 4 other regulars around him. I did feed him with like half my stack at one point but had to see him be taking down by the others who probably got happy about it! :D

Have a nice day and GL at the tables!

/JohanW

**********My bankroll requirements, buyin at 6-max NL tables************

Buyin	Bankroll
4$	0-120
10$	80-300
20$	200-425
30$	300-1000
->50$	500-2000
100$	1000-?

Roadto6maxNL100$. Grinding at 50$NL.

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 3:40:12 -0600

Hi all!

When I came to 970$ I moved over to the 50$NL tables. I still play some 30$NL tables when there is only tables with less than 30% players/flop at the 50$NL tables. Im currently standing at 830$. Lost close to 3 buyins. There are some regulars I know from the 30$NL tables but also some new really aggressive (TAG) players. I really hope I can manage to stay at 50$NL. I want to stay here and learn more. If im hitting 500$ I will move back down to 30$NL tables again but I think I will manage to stay this time. Most of my 3 buyin loss is cause of me calling in position against some aggressive regulars. The flop comes like lower broadways and they bet. Cause of their high c-bet freq and me in position I call. A blank hits on turn and they check, I bet and they reraise me and I have to fold. Havent seen so much of this before. Perhaps they had some big hands these times. Dunno. Going to play some tonight aswell. Did play 1100 hands over 2,5 hours. -22 BigBlinds/hour last night. Did play with 6 tables, perhaps I will go with 4 tonight. But I did feel that I could keep it up but perhaps I have to go even deeper in my thinking processes and then I have to play fewer tables. Let the future decide.

Have a nice weekend!

GL at the tables! May the flops be with you!

/Johan

**********My bankroll requirements, buyin at 6-max NL tables************

Buyin	Bankroll
4$	0-120
10$	80-300
20$	200-425
30$	300-1000
->50$	500-2000
100$	1000-?

Goal for 1 of june: 1500$.

Roadto6maxNL100$. Over 900$!

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 3:36:09 -0600

Hi all!

Had a nice day today. A gain of 130$. Standing on 903$. Feeling really nice. Im feeling that I have a nice control of almost everything that happens at the table. Been playing only 800 hands today, about 2 hours, playing 6 tables. Work early tomorrow. Need some sleep.

I have some nice examples of hands I liked today and I want to do those things abit more.

In one of the hands I was up against a regular I have alot of hands on. Aggressive on flop. I did try to steal the BB from SB with T9o. He did call. Flop came 2J6 rainbow. VERY dry. (Pot 1,42$). I did bet half pot.  He did raise to 2,40$. (Pot 4,53$). I thought that he also thinked that this flop was very dry and in position he could do a move. I did reraise him to 6,64$. (Pot 10,46$). He folded.

Another hand is this one. I called in BB with Ah5h against two limped opponents. A fish and a regular. The fish in SB. Flop came Kh-4s-Th. Fish did check and I did check, I dont think they both would fold on this flop if I would bet it. The regular who acted last did bet half pot. I got suspicious that he did just bet half pot. If he had a hand he should bet higher. I know he know these things. Pot was 2,34$ and he did bet 1,17$. The fish did fold and I did call. I could reraise here aswell. On the turn Kh-4s-Th-Tc he also bet half pot 2,34$. I thought that I prob could get away with a low reraise cause of his half pot bets. I did make it up to 5,85$ and he did fold. If he would have called and a flush would have hitted I would have a hard decision if he would shove. Im thinking of KT. But on the other side that hand he must protect more than with a half pot bet on flop on that drawy board. Conclusion. I did feel weakness and made a move with a draw to the highest flush. I do more and more moves like this against the regulars when I observe their bet sizing. Feels like a nice thing to be able to do.

Now its bedtime! Feel free to comment my play! If there are other thoughts I would love to hear!

Good night! Good luck at the tables everyone!

Johan

**********My bankroll requirements, buyin at 6-max NL tables************

Buyin	Bankroll
4$	0-120
10$	80-300
20$	200-425
->30$	300-1000
50$	500-2000
100$	1000-?

Goal for 1 of june: 1500$.

Roadto6maxNL100$. Happy new year!

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 8:26:52 -0600

Happy new year everyone!

Currently have a stomage illness, no special fun about it . I hope I can celebrate a little tomorrow anyway.

Since last post when I turned from 500 to 730 in one day I have been up to 830$. Currently at 770$, Hovering around 800$. Its ok. Feels like no problem to stand still. Better than loosing 6-7 buyins in a session.

Have been running into Aces 3 times last sessions. Two times with AK and one time with KK. One of the AK hands I could fold to the regulars 4bet.. But I did go all in instead. With the other AK hand I was up against a maniac when he got the hand of his session.

So. I really hope for the best for this new year 2012. Maybe this is the year when I reach my primary goal, The 100$NL 6-max tables. But Im satisfied if I get  to 50$NL and be staying there and hopefully get some new experience.

Again, Happy New Year and hope 2012 will be a good year for everyone at OutstandingPoker!

Best wishes
Johan

**********My bankroll requirements, buyin at 6-max NL tables************

Buyin	Bankroll
4$	0-120
10$	80-300
20$	200-425
->30$	300-1000
50$	500-2000
100$	1000-?

Goal for 1 of june: 1500$.

Roadto6maxNL100$. Crushing! Turned 230$ up!

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 5:27:15 -0600

Hi all! Haha.. Starting at 520$ this morning, having lost some at the 20$NL tables. I was accually looking at that "four" again when my bankroll went below 500$. Numbers stared 497$ at me in the lobby.

Have played 4 hours today, one smaller session earlier and little more than 2 hours tonight. 1900 hands. Six tables. Worked my way up to 580$ earlier today. Tonight I did start up some loose 30$NL and 20$NL tables. Totally crushing. Felt so so nice. Pounding and pounding, raising whenever I felt weakness. Folded when I was in bad shape. Really tight and aggressive. "Red numbers" showing everywhere in my stats on every table (my color on stats when aggressive). Caught some nice bluffs when no worse hand would call my triple barrel etc. Feeling that I did every decision correct. Made alot of "thin-value-bets" against better players when I was almost certain they had to call a smaller bet and I would fold if they would reraise.

Bankroll now standing at 730$. Last 2,5hour session I gained with 50BigBlinds/100 hands. 150$. Good work Johan!

Now I will get a good nights sleep after this nice pokerday.

Good night!

/JohanW

**********My bankroll requirements************

4$	0-120
10$	80-300
20$	200-425
->30$	300-1000
50$	425-2000
100$	1000-?

Goal for 1 of june: 1500$.

Roadto6maxNL100$. Backwards!

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:40:07 -0600

Hi all. Short post. Have to play.

Did loose 6,5 buyins in my second last session.

Did loose 20$ more in my last session.

Im moving down to 20$NL just to get my confidence back.

Currently standing on 550$. Will play 20$ NL untill I reach 700 again.

New goal aswell. Didnt get to 1000$ on 24/12.
New goal is to reach 1500$ on 1 of june.

GL at the tables and happy Xmas!

/Johan

**********My bankroll requirements************

4$	0-120
10$	80-300
20$	200-425
->30$	300-1000
50$	425-2000
100$	1000-?

(Goal for 1 of june: 1500$.)

Roadto6maxNL100$. Poker marathon.

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 3:21:38 -0600

Hi!

Currently at 770$. Going to play a longer session tomorrow. Have a nice day for it. Home alone. Will try to play for like 7-8hours. My hope is that this will take me up to 1000$. I will write about how it went.

Gl at the tables!

/Johan

**********My bankroll requirements************

4$	0-120
10$	80-300
20$	200-425
->30$	300-1000
50$	425-2000
100$	1000-?

(Goal for Xmas: 1000$.)

Roadto6maxNL100$. Plz plz plz! Let me get to my goal!

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 6:08:58 -0600

Hi!

Had a downswing from a little over 800$ down to 650$ and after a couple of sessions im now up to 840$. There is a chance, and its certainly not impossible to reach, getting to my goal of 1000$ on 24/12 and then move to 50$NL. I feel that I can manage that level now.

Just played a late session of 1.5 hour. 750 hands. It feels steady with 6 tables now. No problem. Perhaps I play 4 or 5 in the beginning of my playing at 50$NL when I get there. It feels like there is not much that can stop me getting there. Just some downswings that can make my playing at 30$NL last a little longer. No problem either. But it would be fun to reach my goal. Im not working much untill Xmas so I have the time aswell to work my way up. I hope I stay above 800$ now!

Have a nice day! And gl at the tables everyone!

/Johan

**********My bankroll requirements************

4$	0-120
10$	80-300
20$	200-425
->30$	300-1000
50$	425-2000
100$	1000-?

(Goal for Xmas: 1000$.)

Roadto6maxNL100$. Near 800$ again.

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 4:43:08 -0600

Hey again.

I like doing posts when its going good!

Im up to 780$ with my bankroll and my goal for Xmas (1000$) feels pretty close!
Lets see if I can make it!

In last session I did catch a river shove bluff from a bigger stack and got a nice pot of a total 100$.

I had AA and there was a drawy low board. Both a draw to a straith and flush. My experience was that the opponent was somewhat knowing in what he was doing at the table. I did 3bet his raise from BTN. I made a 3/4 cbet, same with the turn, he called both pretty fast. The river did hit a Queen and no draw could me made. I did then check into him and he shoved his stack. I was abit afraid he had trips but I was pretty sure he would have raised with that hand atleast on the turn. With the QQ he would 3bet them pre.

Another nice hand I did play against a somewhat regular player. I had AA. I did RFI from BTN. He did 3bet me pretty large. I didnt want to 4bet so he would guess me beeing strong. So I did shove instead. And he called. I thought he was putting me on AK but he had AK himself so I guess he was putting me on JJ-TT or AQ because I did seem to be week. Had been pretty aggressive. And expecially from BTN. He did also have a pretty low "fold to 3bet" of about 45%. So I think he is somewhat eager to call those kind of moves. It worked out.

Have a nice weekend!

/Johan

**********My bankroll requirements************

4$	0-120
10$	80-300
20$	200-425
->30$	300-1000
50$	425-2000
100$	1000-?

(Goal for Xmas: 1000$.)

Roadto6maxNL100$. SWINGY

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 3:20:23 -0600

Hey!

Had a swingy session yesterday. Started of at 625$. Was down to 600$, climbed up to 770$ and then back to 625 again 4 hours and 1700 hands later. Felt not that nice .

I went throu my loosing hands and I came up to that about 50$ of the fall was from misstakes.

/Johan

**********My bankroll requirements************

4$	0-120
10$	80-300
20$	200-425
->30$	300-1000
50$	425-2000
100$	1000-?

(Goal for Xmas: 1000$.)

Roadto6maxNL100$. Changed bankrollrequirements.

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 1:58:34 -0600

Hey! Shot post.

Currently standing at 625$ with my bankroll. Hard to break the 750$ "barrier". Did have my bankroll at 760$ at one time but I have had a couple of bad session in last days. Hope it will turn around today! Have also changed my requirements for 50$NL to 1000$ (750$ before). And requirements for 100$NL to 2000$ (1500$ before).

Happy saturday!

/Johan

**********My bankroll requirements************

4$	0-120
10$	80-300
20$	200-425
->30$	300-1000
50$	425-2000
100$	1000-?

(Goal for Xmas: 1000$.)

Roadto6maxNL100$. Eye-opener, thanks Tim.

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 6:12:59 -0600

Hi all!

Have been into a little swing and has been down to 350$ (had 480 in last post) and now I have climbed to 570$ in just a couple of sessions.

The last video from Tim (atta22) made me think alot. I have been doing too many 3bets and not calling when I should instead. Like a robot. I know this is a part of poker, to see this and get aware instead. But its so annoying every time when u see those things. At the same time its really fun and interesting. There is a great depth to the knowledge of poker. Thats something that inspires me alot and make me focus alot better to be able to learn as much as possible. But as I said, sometimes I just go robot.

Its the same rule to the 3bet as with any other action in poker.

"Bet or raise. U do it either to get worse hands to call or to let opponents fold better hands than yours."

If I go 3bet with better hands and I only get called by premium hands. Even OOP. Whats the point?
Im doing a little project, typing down several types of opponents with different styles. Who to 3bet for value and who not to with different hands. Who to "polarize" and with which hands. Who to call for value. This is more like a experiment. I think I will make a post in the forum about this later to make things more clear. I just want to see if I can "solve the pussle" myself. Its a great way to learn and the misstakes are easier to remember then.

Thanks Tim for the "eye-opener" again. Did need it.

Good luck with your play everyone!

/Johan

**********My bankroll requirements************

4$	0-120
10$	80-300
20$	200-425
->30$	300-750
50$	425-1500
100$	750-?

(Goal for Xmas: 1000$.)

Roadto6maxNL100$. Hopefully going more up!

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 3:05:00 -0600

Hi all!

I havent posted in a while. But Im still playing and I still feel I develop my game, thats really cool. Its like, Im sitting and playing, at a glance, the same cards, same situations. But everything changes a bit by bit. Suddenly I see new paths to play my cards. Feels really fun and I enjoy it.

Since last post I have climbed from 350 to 480$. Did just turn down from 520$. I know this is no swings at all. I could easily go down to 300-350$ with a cuple of tough beats. But it feels like I am about to go up soon. I have been between 300 and 500$ for several months. Its good that I dont feel stressed about it, I just keep on playing and eventually I will reach 750$ and hitting 50$NL again.

Im getting less and less scared of putting my money in when there are situations. Its like only a "experiment" without any tough feelings. "Lets see, I think there is a big chance he will fold his better hand when I make this close-to-potbet triple barrel". Often this happens when I think he have a middle pocketpair etc. When I feel he dont have a bigger hand (trips etc) he "had to" defend by reraising me on the flop or turn. When he just call. Or a hand he would be more aggressive with in relation to his position preflop, like JJ or QQ etc.  And this also with the better thinking players. With no scary cards hitting turn and river. Its cool to be thinking in this level. I feel that I have to just play 3 tables atm when I want to be able to think like this in every situation. I feel im getting better and faster at it and sometimes I can keep up with 4 tables if I dont get to heavy action. If so I start to fold in situations I cant keep up thinking deeper. I want to have good reason for every action I do.

I havent played as much as I want. There is alot new at work as we have expanded and It drains my energy with many new things to think about. Also our familly waiting a new famillymember and my gf feeling really ill cause of the pregnancy. So she pukes all the time for several weeks and have been into hospital for several days getting intravenous drip cause she cant keep the food. We hope for the best, she is starting to be able to keep more and more food. So thats nice! So there is really good reasons for me to not play as much as I would want to. But it feels totally okey! Make food, wash clothes, clean the house, go to super-market with our 3-yearold, my gf cant take care of her when she puke all the time.

Good luck at the tables!!

/Johan

**********My bankroll requirements************

4$	0-120
10$	80-300
20$	200-425
->30$	300-750
50$	425-1500
100$	750-?

(Goal for Xmas: 1000$.)

Roadto6maxNL100$. 30$ 30$ 30$......

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 8:48:18 -0500

Hi all!

Still at 30$ and grinding. Up and down. Trying things. Thinking alot. Did just watch Attas last video. Really really nice for me atm. Like a lesson just made for me.

I dont care that I dont run very well atm. I still feel im learning, thats the most important I think.

Currently standing on 350$. Have to move down to 20$ if I go below 300$. Will maybe be hard to reach my goal for the year, to reach 1000$ untill Xmas. But things like that has happend before. I will hold that goal untill I see Santa in the eyes :D

Keep up the grinding!

/Johan

**********My bankroll requirements************

4$	0-120
10$	80-300
20$	200-425
->30$	300-750
50$	425-1500
100$	750-?

Roadto6maxNL100$. Poker and running.

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 9:01:36 -0500

Hi again!

Not been playing so much last weeks cause im sleeping more at nights. I used to play like an hour more and sleep an hour less. But now Im running more and need much more sleep. Im heading for "GöteborgsVarvet Half Marathon May 12 2012" and my goal is to finnish under 2 hours. Made 2 hours and 6 minutes 2 years ago. (have to take another race, Göteborsvarvet was already full, there is plenty of other Half Marathons anyway)

My goal with my poker is still on 1000$ at Xmas. Currently grinding the 30$NL 6max tables at Pacific poker with a bankroll of 425$.

Did just watch Tims new video 

Video #159 - Taking Your Game to the Next Level (Part 1)

Great video and I do mostly think in the way he do but there is some things I can get better at. And those things are things that can make a big difference. Just working on them more.

I havent seen HockeyGuys last video "Moving up to 50$" but im just about to do.
In these times when I dont play long sessions, there are more time to "studdy" the game.
Instead of grinding 25 minutes before bedtime, I watch video or read in the forum.

Hope your game is going well!
Best luck to u all!

/Johan

**********My bankroll requirements************

4$	0-120
10$	80-300
20$	200-425
->30$	300-750
50$	425-1500
100$	750-?

Roadto6maxNL100$. Struggling at 30NL tables.

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 3:24:28 -0500

I dont post so much when things dont work well. Bankroll gone down from 527$ to 400$. I think I play good but I see that Im having some bad luck aswell. Been doing some nice laydowns etc. Lets hope for the best untill my next post.

Gl at the tables everyone!

/Johan

Roadto6maxNL100$. Back from Turkey.

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 5:09:02 -0500

Just back from a trip to Turkey with my family. 1 week of warm weather. I love the heat but also the chilly winds of Sweden.

Did went down about 4 buyins (120$) in a couple of days before the trip and did almost repair it today. Currently standing on 527$ (had 546$ in my last post).

Did fold quads by accident today. Had a J on board JJ2J and I guess my opponent (aggressor) had like QQ-AA. Did fold to his turn double barrel. But that things happen. Especially when u play with a new client which u are not so used to (Pacific poker).

Good luck to u all!

/Johan

**********My bankroll requirements************

4$	0-120
10$	80-300
20$	200-425
->30$	300-750
50$	425-1500
100$	750-?

Roadto6maxNL100$. New site. 6up!

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 6:04:34 -0500

Got away from Redbet (Boss Media). Now I have hitted Pacific Poker. $$$ again after some time with €uro!
Really fishy it seems (thats why I did move there)! Its also 6max, played 5max at Redbet. The only difference is that Im a little tighter UTG.

Grew my bankroll from 422$ to 546$ this evening. 28 BigBets/hour (56 BigBlinds/hour). 4 hours straith, 1100 hands. A really good session. Did do some nice decisions, deeper ones, against regulars. And did a few tough laydowns. I did only play 3 tables for the most time, I have to do that to practice my deeper thinking.

Next session its time for the 30$NL tables.

Have a nice weekend

/Johan

**********My bankroll requirements************

4$	0-120
10$	80-300
20$	200-425
->30$	300-750
50$	425-1500
100$	750-?

GOAL: Reach 1500$ before 24 December 2011.

4$	0-120
10$	80-300
20$	200-425
30$	300-750
50$	425-1500
100$	750-?

Roadto5maxNL100$/�. 5 down. Whinetime!

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 6:14:44 -0500

Hi all!

Lost 5 buyins since last post. From 450 something to 325€.

Fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold J3, fold 47o, fold fold, AK!! raise, get 2 60/20 fishes, flop JsTs7c. Every time!

And sometimes I come to remember those beautiful sets I once knew. I have almost forgot how they looked.

And a flush? Have u ever heard about them? U have to have 5 of the same color, like hearts, diamonds etc. Do you know? Cant u plz show them to me if so? Would like to see one. If u see a flush on the turn, that would be the best!

Im playing with atleast 2 great fishes on every tables but I just feed and feed them. Feed and feed. Feed and feed. Feed and feed. Its like, "what am I doing", just sitting and donating money all the time. Nothing happens.

Baahhhhh.. and then some reg comes and just hits every 33 on AK3 against every fish and gets it all and then its over at that table. I really hate poker when its like this. The only thing im thinking on is just not to tilt and I think im pretty good at that. Most of time.

Like last time I was playing. Had a larger stack than 25€. Like 35€. I got heads up with a 54/24, 0% 3bet player with my 33 on the board 3QK rainbow. He was not able to fold, only against really big bets.

I was the agressor from BTN but I did know he could easily call with broadways in the BB. I did bet pot. Got called. Turn came 3QKA. Did overbet the pot abit. Got reraised. Did go all in. Pot of 70€. The turn came 3QKAK and he turned up his AK.

Lots of this has been happening when I got a hand and when those actions dont happen I just feed the fish. A new nice hobby of mine.

Gl at the tables (sorry 4 the whine).

/JohanW

**********My bankroll requirements************

Stake	Bankroll
4€	0-120€
10€	80-300€
20€	200-425€
->25€	300-750€
50€ 100€	425-1500€ 750-?

GOAL: Reach 1000€ before 24 December 2011.

Roadto5maxNL100$/�. 1up. 7,24BB/100.

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:59:39 -0500

Since last post I have built my bakroll from 428€ to 453€. One buyin. Been going up and down between 380€ and 450€.

Since I started my travel from 90€ in 24 of June I have a winrate of 7,24 Big Blinds / 100 hands. (3,62 Big Bets in PokerTracker), without rakeback included (60€). I still do some misstakes now and then but I really like the game im having.

Im searching for the bad players. I know all the good players by their names at 25€NL so Im sitting down with the known fishes and the new players I dont recognize. Ofcause I have to rumble with the regulars aswell 4betting them light, calling in pos etc. But I dont do it as much as I did before, I focus on the fish alot more now, why take the harder way?

It feels like Im better with my play against the different opponents styles. Different fishes, different styles.

Good luck with your game!

/JohanW

**********My bankroll requirements************

Stake	Bankroll
4€	0-120€
10€	80-300€
20€	200-425€
->25€	300-750€
50€ 100€	425-1500€ 750-?

GOAL: Reach 1000€ before 24 December 2011.

Roadto5maxNL100$/�. 4 up at 25�.

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 5:38:27 -0500

Things going good. I have built my bankroll from 328€ to 428€ since last post.

In a old post June 24, 2011 I wrote:

"Bankroll is now 93€. Lost 85€ in 2 sessions. Feels pretty wierd but ok. Feels like I cant win. Like there is some bad spell hanging over me. But still, I love the game and I feel I get better. I guess thats the most important things. It feels like a long travel to 1000€. The goal for christmas."

Thats one and a half month ago. Now im at 428€. Im really playing my best poker atm. Havent ever played so good. Im pretty introvert with my poker experiences atm, dont share alot with anyone with hands etc, I think alot myself atm. But I read the forum etc. Going to watch Hockeyguys latest videos.

The most important thing I do alot more now is in every situation Im about to bet, I think:

What worse hand would he call with?

Thats in my head alot and Im thinking deeper and deeper depending on the opponent etc. If I cant find any worse hand he could call with I check and after that Im often calling down with the best hand. I have also got better on folding when Im probably beaten.

I focus more about my position and doing better decisions all the time. And this with my opponents styles in mind.

Im just going to grind in the way I do and when I feel ready for 50€NL I will go there. Not before 750€, but maybe a bit over. It feels like I want to go to 1000€ before I try the 50€NL again. Last time was a disaster. I well known lesson. It cant get much worse. So I will be happy going there again some time. Hopefully before Xmas!

Good luck everyone!

/JohanW

**********My bankroll requirements************

Stake	Bankroll
4€	0-120€
10€	80-300€
20€	200-425€
->25€	300-750€
50€ 100€	425-1500€ 750-?

GOAL: Reach 1000€ before 24 December 2011.

Roadto5maxNL100$/�. A little climb at 20�.

Sat, 06 Aug 2011 9:38:04 -0500

Got a little climb at the 20€ tables. From 300€ to 328€. Accually im playing abit of 25NL aswell cause there is more games and softer ones. I dont know why. They are turbos, maybe thats why.

GL at the tables!

/JohanW

**********My bankroll requirements************

Stake	Bankroll
4€	0-120€
10€	80-300€
->20€	200-425€
25€	300-750€
50€ 100€	425-1500€ 750-?

Roadto5maxNL100$/�. Its time again. Hitting 20�!

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 3:17:45 -0500

I have played many thousands of hands (70.000) at the 20€ tables and now its time to go there again. Did just hit the 270€ mark and willbe getting a 30€ rakeback on 2 august. Hitting my requirement of the 20€ tables.

I wont play poker untill i get my rakeback. I will play aggressive solid poker and try to use my now better hand reading skills. It feels really nice. I was down to almost 90€ a month or so ago, nothing worked. Been into solid building and I will continue with that.

Im leaning to change my bankroll requirements to less aggressive at 20€NL and above. But I will start to play at 20€ before I do.

Good luck at the tables everyone!

/Johan

**********My bankroll requirements************

Stake	Bankroll
4€	0-120€
10€	80-300€
->20€	200-425€
25€	300-750€
50€ 100€	425-1500€ 750-?

Roadto5maxNL100$/�. Slowly slowly.. 1000 hours.

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 6:00:23 -0500

Hi all!

Slowly slowly getting closer to 300€. Have built my bankroll from 196€ to 241€. Been up to a little more than 260€ and back to 200€ again and then up. Been into some swingy sessions loosing 4 buyins and some winning 4 buyins. Sometimes shaking my head to the sides, sometimes its nodding up and down.

I will get about 30€ of rakeback at the beginning of August. I hope that will take me to the 20€ tables. I beg and hope Im not going on a swing back again to 10€! But it has happend so many times before so I wont be suprised.

Im not playing so much as I did before. A lot of working and family. But I play whenever I can. 30 hours this month so far. Atm, over the 2 years I have been playing (since 1july2009), I have a little over 1.000 hours of playing. More than 500k hands.  I said to myself I will continue playing untill I reach 10.000 hours. Lets see about that, but u never know. If I continue to play as I do, I will be 50 years old by that time! Hehe.

I have also started to run again, going to run a half marathon next summer in Gothenburg with a good friend of mine.

Good luck with your flopped trips!

/JohanW

**********My bankroll requirements************

Stake	Bankroll
4€	0-120€
->10€	80-300€
20€	200-425€
25€	300-750€
50€ 100€	425-1500€ 750-?

Roadto5maxNL100$/�. Please please 20�-tables.

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 3:20:59 -0500

Hi!

Just a short update. Still swingy here at 10€. Built my bankroll from 182€ to 196€ since last post. 3500 hands. Was down to 156€ and then gone up again. A couple of bad play that Im going to learn from. There are so many ways to play bad :)

To 300€ and the 20€-tables!

GL everyone!

/Johan

**********My bankroll requirements************

Stake	Bankroll
4€	0-120€
->10€	80-300€
20€	200-425€
25€	300-750€
50€ 100€	425-1500€ 750-?

Roadto5maxNL100$. A brain upgrade?

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 1:18:13 -0500

Hi all!

Have built my bankroll abit since last post. From 166€ to 182€. Been pretty swingy since then and have played 6800 hands. Atm it feels like I play better than ever have, valuebet better, fold where I didnt fold before etc. Im reading hands alot better but still not as good as I want to be able to. Just more practice ahead! :) When Im playing it feels like I have got a little "brain upgrade", but I dont know, perhaps im just having some easy time at the tables.

Im have played several interesting hands where my handreading have been to good help. Aswell as my thinking about opponents ranges. But I wont show them now, Im pretty focused on my playing atm and less focused to share my experience, that will come again.

I red that Ryan Smith has made 2nd day at WSOP. GL to you Ryan! :)

Now time for some playing! I just want to go to the 20€ tables. It really feels like I "belong" there more than the 10€ tables.

GL with your progress everyone!

/Johan

**********My bankroll requirements************

Stake	Bankroll
4€	0-120€
->10€	80-300€
20€	200-425€
25€	300-750€
50€ 100€	425-1500€ 750-?

Roadto5maxNL100$. Going better.

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 2:01:09 -0500

Hey.

It has gone better this last week. Got a little rakeback of 30€ aswell. Bankroll at 166€. Was down to about 90€ a week ago.

Have made some nice plays etc. And mostly, have not been beaten up so much by crazy calls that is hitting.

Short post this time! I just want to get to 300€!

Gl at the tables everyone!
/Johan

**********My bankroll requirements************

Stake	Bankroll
4€	0-120€
->10€	80-300€
20€	200-425€
25€	300-750€
50€ 100€	425-1500€ 750-?

Roadto5maxNL100$. Aggressive, bad run, tilting!

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 6:34:23 -0500

Got on a little tilt again after having a bad run.

8500 hands on 10€NL.

AA,  48 times,  win 87.50%,  amount won 0.30€,  0,03BB/hand.
KK,  28 times,  win 96.43%,  amount won 16.72€,  2.99BB/hand.
QQ, 44 times,  win 81.82%,  amount won 24.26€,  2.76BB/hand.
JJ,  36 times, win 77,78%,  amount won 18,39€,  2.55BB/hand.

Its those Aces. JUST 5 times I have got all in preflop with AA. And lost 4 of those 5. (Lost 35€)
Its pretty "fun" that I got all in preflop 5 times of 48 times with my Aces, still I have a 3bet% of 9% on those 8500 hands. Its ofcause not many who 4bet on those stakes but still. Accually only 2 times with the Kings but did won both of them.

In 28 of those Aces I did see a flop. 23 of them was not all in preflop (5 allins pre). In those 23 hands I earned 26,80€, 5.83 BB/hand.

Its all about those pocketpair and sets I never see. And when I finally see one, even the 76/45 dude with streetsaggression 6,7,23 is dead.

All this have made me gone abit on tilt again. I love the game im playing atm, aggressive and fun. But when I loose 3 buyins in 10 minutes with AA,AA,QQ allin preflop. I start to be overly aggressive, but still with some thoughts involved. Im trying to push around with those 17/14 regs but with little success.

Perhaps Im too aggressive for this stake im playing now. Perhaps its not needed. Perhaps I will slow down abit. It really feels fun. Its nice to be the commander of the tables. I dont know, lets let the future decide

Bankroll is now 93€. Lost 85€ in 2 sessions. Feels pretty wierd but ok. Feels like I cant win. Like there is some bad spell hanging over me. But still, I love the game and I feel I get better. I guess thats the most important things. It feels like a long travel to 1000€. The goal for christmas.

Good luck to you all!

See you in a week or so! =D

/Johan

**********My bankroll requirements************

Stake	Bankroll
4€	0-120€
->10€	80-300€
20€	200-425€
25€	300-750€
50€ 100€	425-1500€ 750-?

Roadto5maxNL100$. Aggressive and fun game!

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 3:08:04 -0500

Im currently playing a very aggressive and fun poker.

(wrote in the forum today)
"In the last 5500 hands I have played I have a VPIP/PFR of 26/22 and a 3bet of 9%. A small sample but a big difference from the period before this one. 39% pfr from BTN and 15% from UTG (5max). Fun poker! The difference now compared when I was this aggressive before is that Im reading hands better and think alot more about my position. Feels nice "

I think im on the way back to win again but It seems like I dont have the luck on my side atm. Bankroll at 155€. So have gone down again. But there are always some hands every session, like my AA vs opponents JJ all in pre and hitting J etc. Not many cards falling my way atm.

I wont let go of my current aggressivness, it feels too fun and correct to let go off. Lets hope it will lead to my goal to hit 1000€ before Xmas!

I wont paste those "bad luck" hands. You all know them. I spare u my whine this time!

GL at the tables friends!

/Johan

**********My bankroll requirements************

Stake	Bankroll
4€	0-120€
->10€	80-300€
20€	200-425€
25€	300-750€
50€ 100€	425-1500€ 750-?

Roadto5maxNL100$. Crazy-Image-Time! part2

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 5:50:40 -0500

It feels like Im back on one of the most important things in poker. Aggression! Since last post I have played 3100 hands. Have a VPIP/PFR of about 25/20. 3bet% of 8%. Not a big sample but I feel I have the aggression I had "before". In my last post I wrote about when I started to think deeper in the hands and forgot about beeing aggressive, mostly preflop. Since my last post I have started to be aggressive again and it feels good.

But, I have lost 2 buyin since I started beeing more aggressive. Been down 6 buyins and repaired 4 of them. The first 4 sessions I lost but the last 4 I have won. I have looked on how many times I have flopped a set on the flop with my pocketpair. 8 times out of 179. With the chance of 11,5% this should be over 20 times! This is calming me down a little! :D Easy, I will get some more sets and win more, thats easy math ;)

Well, seriously, I will continue with the game Im having now. Beeing more aggressive and even more aggressive against those who dont defend their blinds enough. Then I both get a more aggressive image and I get their blinds at the same time. There are also the 55/2 (VPIP/PFR) players, those I dont try to steal from. Some of them have a high "fold to cbet", those I open raise abit more often preflop and plan to do a Cbet on flop if it not hits to scary. If they have a low "fold to Cbet" I only PFR the broadway cards and higher pairs. Going to valuetown.

Bankroll at 193€.

Good luck with your trips!

/Johan

**********My bankroll requirements************

Stake	Bankroll
4€	0-120€
10€	80-300€
20€	200-425€
25€	300-750€
50€ 100€	425-1500€ 750-?

Roadto5maxNL100$. Crazy-Image-Time!

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 3:45:02 -0500

I suddenly realise that I havent been as aggressive as I have been before. Especially on the positions CO and BTN.

Before I did raise first in with ALOT of hands against players with a "fold to blindsteal" higher than 75%. I did do that like a maniac untill they got really tired of me. I did make a crazy image alot more before. I will try to go back to that again now. I did start with it a little yesterday and it felt really nice and I got action when I got a hand.

When I raise like this I do it with everything, like 78o, Q9s, 75s etc, even worse. And when I feel they get really tired of me I play a better range. And if they call me when I raise first with 82o from BTN (I did that sometimes when I wanted to make my crazy image right from the beginning) I did just gave up if I didnt flopped a crazy monster.

This is a more funny poker to play, exciting, and I will start doing it again. Why did I stop doing it? Hmmm.. I guess I know the reasons.

I played 6 tables from the 10€NL tables up to 25€NL tables before I went to 50€NL, all this way I did focus alot on this crazy image I did explain above. But then I bumped into better players and I did understand I have to get better to read hands, better when to double barrel etc. When I started to focus on this I did lost my focus on having a "crazy" image. I did continue to play 5-6 tables BUT I had lost almost all my focus on my tableimage. I didnt have the capacity to both keep up my tableimage and reading hands good. THEN I should go down to 2 tables and focus on BOTH my tableimage and reading the hands (double barrel situations etc).

Now my goal is to merge those skills together and use them both equally when playing. Beeing aggressive preflop (mostly stealing blinds against good opponents for this and 3bet alot in position in good situations, all those in CO and BTN) and then in the same time trying to read the hands deeper, putting my opponents on draws etc.

I often feel Im a slow learner and I know I am, I have some trouble to "filter the input" of my head. In job and in other situations all my life Im often behind in the beginning. After a while I take the back of the others. And after some more time Im ahead. I think I can thank my dedication and my stubborness for this.

Lets hope its the same with my poker. Im a familly guy and atm im working full time (did just start with that). But If I keep playing I guess I eventually will reach my goal. This summer I have played 2 years. It feels longer :)

I feel no problem in playing like this 10 more years. I love the game even if Im close to quit sometimes. I accually did quit poker like a week ago. But then started again the next day! :D I really let it go from my "everyday thinking". Felt really nice and refreshing. Maybe I should do this more! Hehe.

Now I will start with my crazy image again! AND read hands! :D I will let you know in a week how this has worked. I have a 3,5 week vacation from 13 of june! That feels nice!!

Good luck with your tableimage! ;)

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Whinetime!

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 6:46:08 -0500

It feels like it was ages since I got some action on some trips in a session or a higher flush than my opponent. Hitted my house when my crazy opponent had hit his flush. Nowdays it often looks like this.

These are the three biggest losses from yesterdays session, where I lost 2 buyins at the 25€ tables. I played only 350 hands. ALOT of bad players but that didnt help today :) I guess I will move to 10€ tonight. This has been a hard time and it contiunes! But! Its summer and I have alot fun with my familly so, Im a happy guy anyway. I just hate when this fun game called poker becomes so booring sometimes.

Good luck at the tables!

This first hand was against a 70/45 maniac.

Button (€95.48)
SB (€36.88) BB (€15)
UTG (€16.45)
Hero (MP) (€26.05)  

Preflop: Hero is MP with A, A 1 fold, Hero calls €0.25, Button calls €0.25, SB bets €2, 1 fold, Hero raises to €6.50, 1 fold, SB calls €6.50  

Flop: (€13.50) 10, Q, 6 (2 players) SB raises to €30.38 (All-In), Hero calls €19.55 (All-In)  

Turn: (€52.60) 6 (2 players, 2 all-in)  

River: (€52.60) 7 (2 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: €52.60 | Rake: €2.60
Results: SB had 9, 8 (straight, ten high). Hero didn't show A, A (nothing).
Outcome: SB won €50

This hand was against a 70/15 opponent.

BB (€68.95)
Hero (SB) (€28.40)  

Preflop: Hero is SB with 5, 6 Hero bets €0.75, BB calls €0.75

Flop: (€1.50) 5, 6, 4 (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets €1.50, BB calls €1.50

Turn: (€4.50) Q (2 players) BB checks, Hero bets €4.50, BB calls €4.50  

River: (€13.50) 7 (2 players) BB checks, Hero checks

Total pot: €13.50 | Rake: €0.65
Results: Hero didn't show 5, 6 (nothing). BB had 5, 7 (two pair, sevens and fives).
Outcome: BB won €12.85

A 40/30 opponent here!

Hero (UTG) (€26.99)
MP (€60.31)
Button (€24.89)
SB (€44.95)
BB (€18.61)  

Preflop: Hero is UTG with A, A Hero bets €1.25, 2 folds, SB calls €1.25, 1 fold  

Flop: (€2.75) 6, 10, 7 (2 players) SB checks, Hero bets €2.06, SB calls €2.06  

Turn: (€6.87) Q (2 players) SB checks, Hero bets €3.43, SB calls €3.43  

River: (€13.73) 9 (2 players) SB checks, Hero checks  

Total pot: €13.73 | Rake: €0.65
Results: SB had 9, 9 (three of a kind, nines). Hero didn't show A, A (nothing). Outcome: SB won €13.08

Roadto5maxNL100$. Studdy.

Mon, 30 May 2011 3:14:59 -0500

Im currently playing at 25€ tables. There is nearly no tables at 20€, dont know why really.
This dont match my current requirement-plan exacly but I feel I can do this for a little. I have to move down to 10€ if I go below about 200€. Currently on 270€.

Im going to play less hands and studdy hands etc more. So I will be more active in the forum now. I really have to focus on this, I have alot to learn here I think. I did post a hand today and got some good points on my hand. I got a long answer from HockeyGuy (just about to read it), I really appreciate it alot. Go Outstanding Poker!

Good luck with your flops!

/Johan

**********My bankroll requirements************

Stake	Bankroll
10€	0-300€
20€	200-425€
25€	300-750€
50€ 100€	425-1500€ 750-?

Roadto5maxNL100$. End of experiement.

Sat, 28 May 2011 4:09:46 -0500

I was about to do one more try at the 4€ tables and see if I could build my experimental bankroll from 10€ to 1000€ but I didnt and now I have stopped the experiment. I ran so terrible bad at the 4€ and I havent enjoyed it in a good, interesting way. I want to be courius when I play, guessing what the other players have etc. I didnt have that when I played in this experient of mine. It wasnt exiting for me. I have made my way throu the lowest of microtables once. Now I will move back to my primary bankroll, starting at 20€.

I wish u others that have your primary bankroll at the lowest stakes, good luck! U will eventually beat them.

I did play a little session yesterday and won 1 buyin (20€). Felt good with a positive start.

I have new bankroll requirements, somewhat aggressive I guess, but ok I feel.
My current bankroll is 283€ (391$). I should start at the 10€ but I want to try a start at the 20€. Moving to 10€ if my bankroll go below 200€. Lets pray and hope for the best! :)
   

Stake	Bankroll
10€	0-300€
20€	200-425€
25€	300-750€
50€ 100€	425-1500€ 750-?

Good luck at the tables!

/Johan

10� to 1000�. Really.... this is killing me :)

Sun, 22 May 2011 3:10:10 -0500

I started of with a 20$ bankroll in the summer of 2009. Did slowly (learned all basics here) grow it up to about 300$ and picked out all of it but 20$. 6 month later I had 2000$. I had a little downswing and picked out some and restarded at 300$. It took me 4 months and I had a little over 2000$ (1300€) again, mostly playing 20€NL and 25€NL. I did have a pretty tough downswing and decided to get out a bigger part of my bankroll.

Today im sitting with about 260€ (345$) and I have started this "quest" to build 10€ to 1000€ before christmas. Listen to this.. I have atm lost 20 buyins at the 4€NL tables and it seems like im going nowhere else. Im laughing out and just shaking my head to all the stupid players that just kicking my as. I know how to beat those games but It dont seem to go my way at all.

Im atm sitting with 6€ and thinking about starting with my primary bankroll again, why sitting and refilling my secondary bankroll at 4€NL and just loose money? But on the other hand, I DONT want to leave this stake like this.

This time is problably the most frustrating period in my poker history. Loosing 20 buyins at 4€NL.

Before I got upset when I lost 5 buyins at 50€NL.

Really, I dont know anything else than just go on playing. Continue to watch Attas and HGs microlimit videos (have seen alot of them) and just continue to play ABC-poker in every situation.

And ONE thing is sertain. I WONT pick out any big part of my bankroll again. If im about I just have to think of this booring period!

Good luck to you all!

/Johan

I just need to have this hand with again. It does explain my frustration alot.

Boss Media (IPN) No-Limit Hold'em, $0.04 BB (5 handed) - BossMedia Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

UTG ($6.06)
Hero (MP) ($4.15)
Button ($9.87)
BB ($4)
SB ($3.85)

Preflop: Hero is MP with 4, 4 1 fold, Hero bets $0.14, Button calls $0.14, SB calls $0.14, 1 fold
Flop: ($0.46) J, 2, 4 (3 players) SB checks, Hero checks, Button bets $0.32, SB raises to $0.64, Hero calls $0.64, Button raises to $6.04, SB calls $3.07 (All-In), Hero calls $3.37 (All-In)
Turn: ($12.19) 8 (3 players, 2 all-in)
River: ($12.19) 10 (3 players, 2 all-in)
Total pot: $12.19 | Rake: $1.21

Results: Button had Q, J (one pair, Jacks).
SB had 10, 10 (three of a kind, tens).
Hero had 4, 4 (three of a kind, fours).

Outcome: SB won $10.44, Hero won $0.54

10� to 1000�. My life at the 4� tables :D

Sat, 21 May 2011 3:08:19 -0500

Im still at the 4€ tables. I have played 1650 hands since last post (16/5). Im not playing so much atm. I guess its because the nice weather and our garden, but also because I cant get away from those tables. Been here for over a month. I know I will probably get up to 10€ if I start to play more hands but I feel no hurry atm.

Im trying to read hands. It not so easy here cause they have like any hand. But there is some players who are somewhat taggy.

I played a hand today that picture my time at the 4€ tables in a good way. 2 maniac players.

I usually raise 4xBB from MP but I was somewhat prepared that the aggressive player on the Button was going to 3bet me and I was going to call. He had earlier 3betted me higher when I had been doing higher pre flop raises first in. And if I spiked my set I would prob get him if he had something at all. Aggressive by street on this player was 7,7,5 (flop, turn, river).  The other one was just a passive ordinary player, I was abit afraid he had a higher set here when the money weny in to the middle.

Hope all your games going good!

/Johan

Boss Media (IPN) No-Limit Hold'em, $0.04 BB (5 handed) - BossMedia Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Results: Button had Q, J (one pair, Jacks).
SB had 10, 10 (three of a kind, tens).
Hero had 4, 4 (three of a kind, fours).

Outcome: SB won $10.44, Hero won $0.54

10� to 1000�. Grinding..

Mon, 16 May 2011 5:26:24 -0500

Im playing and playing at the 4€NL tables. Bankroll at 23€. Not much happening, but thats ok. Lost like 2 buyins against a 75/50 maniac today. He was sitting on 12€. After an hour I had his whole stack again. So I got even for the session.

Now its sleeptime!

GL at the tables!

/Johan

***********************

My bankroll requirements.

4€NL	0-50
10€NL	20-130
20€NL	50-550
25€NL	400-1300
50€NL	1000-2700
100€NL	2000-?

4€	0-50
10€	20-130
20€	50-550
25€	400-1300
50€	1000-2700
100€	2000-?

10� to 1000�. Just play...

Wed, 11 May 2011 6:30:21 -0500

I will never never never ever withdraw the most of my bankroll again. Im having a really booooooring time at the 4NL and 10NL stakes. Bankroll down below 20€ again after some bad sessions. It feels no need to whine, everyone knows how it feels when nothing works. Dont hit anything and when u finally hit and have no plans to fold (cause of u are finally happy to get some) the 45/34 player got his trips and slowplaying u down to hell.

The thing that is most frustrating is that I almost have no joy playing anymore and thats just because I get beaten up all the time. It feels like Im playing a game just for letting time go by. It feels like I cant win, no matter what I do. What about the knowledge I have about poker, no need at all when nothing works. Every bad 76/55 player is playing like Phil Ivey when Im heads up with them. What to do about it?

I guess there is nothing else to do than just to continue playing and dont be so result oriented. I feel the joy to play when Im about to play, a new fresh session ahead. But atm, mostly on every session, afterwards Im sitting and wondering if there is a bad spell hanging over me. Loosing is a part of poker I have a hard time to handle and Im not alone, but it surely feels like.

GL with your play!

/Johan

10� to 1000�. Going bad.

Mon, 09 May 2011 5:06:10 -0500

Of the 28 times I got AKx and AQx today:

12 times I won preflop.

The 16 other times I got called I did hit the board 3 times. (My cbet success was 28% on those hands, did cbet 50% of them. Alot of callingstations at the 10€ tables).

2 of those 3 times I lost to straiths hitting on turn (They were passive on river so I could see their hand, check in position).

The third I did win with my cbet on flop!! YES!!!! Weeeooooo!!!

Lost KK vs AQ all in preflop, full stack. AA vs flushdraw on flop, full stack.

Bankroll at 32€.

Really hate those sessions, but this is how it is. Just wanted to write it off. Hope I dont have to go to 4€ again.

Good luck at the tables! Hope I got all the bad luck and u others get some nice profit in good situations!

/Johan

10� to 1000�. Going good!

Fri, 06 May 2011 5:34:17 -0500

Since I moved to the 10€ tables with my 50€ bankroll I have gained little more than 3 buyns. I find it very easy here. Current bankroll on 82€.

I have been doing deeper hand analyze here at the 10€ than I ever have done before and there is ONE thing that makes me do this. I have played 3 tables instead of 6. I have missed some good things cause of this. Good experience for me. I really need to think as I do now at the higher stakes. Im like, when I sit down at the 50€ tables I get so exited that I cant analyze correct (playing 4 tables). Something I have to recognize faster and count that in. Take a break untill I get calm for example.

When Im now playing at the 10€ im not that exited and do alot better decisions.  Maybe I have to play 2 tables at the 50€ tables for a longer period when I reach there. I need to have a good analyze before I do ANY decision EVERY time. If I get unsertain and/or emotionally instable, its better just to fold. If opponent did a good bluff that I couldnt see throu, he deserve that pot.

I will change my requirements for reaching 20€. From my current 130€ to 200€. It feels like I have more to learn and I have a great learning atm at the 10€ tables. I will also raise the "move down to 10€" from 50 to 100. Then my requirements look like this.

4€	0-50
10€	20-200
20€	100-550
25€	400-1300
50€	1000-2700
100€	2000-?

Good luck at the tables everyone!

/Johan

10� to 1000� - NL5max. 4 buyins up. Going to 10�.

Tue, 03 May 2011 2:08:36 -0500

I have now reached 50€, my requirement for moving to 10€. I can only loose 3buyins (down to 20€) and I will have to move back to 4€ again. I really hope I dont run bad at the beginning of the 10€ tables. I can easily loose 3 buyins, I know that. Not much marginal.

Bankroll at 53€.

********** My current bankroll requirements **********

4€	0-50
10€	20-130
20€	50-550
25€	400-1300
50€	1000-2700
100€	2000-?

10� to 1000� - NL5max. Rakeback needed! :)

Mon, 02 May 2011 3:08:53 -0500

I have played on the 4€ tables since 12 of April and I got a rakeback today of 20€ from this period (got another 90€, but that goes to my other bankroll).

My bankroll is now 37€. Got a nice win today aswell of about 6€. So im getting close to my current bankrollrequirement for the 10€NL tables that is not more than 40€ (cause of my aggressive bankroll management on the 4€ and 10€ tables). But I maybe will put it  up to atleast 50€ before I move up, I know I can easily loose 2-3 buyins and beeing forced to move down again.

Good luck at the tables and dont forget Hockeyguys new video --> Beating the microstakes, part 2

Johan

10� to 1000� - NL5max. Bankroll requirements.

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 3:01:58 -0500

These are my new bankroll requirements for my new bankroll.

Buyin, Bankrollrequirement for the stake.

4€	0-40
10€	20-130
20€	50-550
25€	400-1300
50€	1000-2700
100€	2000-?

They are very aggressive in the beginning but the higher stakes (beginning at 20€) they are even less aggressive than in my old bankroll requirements. If u are new to poker I recommend that u play alot on the microstakes before moving up. Its good learning, and cheep.

These are my old requirements. I did start with those at the 10€ limit.

10€	200-500
20€	400-625
25€	500-1250
50€	1000-2500
100€	2000-?

See u in about a week. Current bankroll: 11€.

€	0-40
10€	20-130
20€	50-550
25€	400-1300
50€	1000-2700
100€	2000-?

10� to 1000�. Little up.

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 6:07:46 -0500

Struggling at the 4€ tables. Bankroll currently on 14,60€, so thats nice I think. Will get some rakeback at 2 May aswell. To be honest I did actually loose all my 30€ for my experiement at the 4€. That was really frustrating! So I decided to move 10€ from my primary bankroll to the bankroll im going to play up now.  I did play good solid ABC poker but got outdrawn in every way. I feel calm. I will climb up. I really feel alot better on reading hands etc now than when I was on those low tables before. It feels like this "journey" again is good for me.

Good luck at the tables!

/Johan

10� to 1000�. Lets go!

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 2:41:42 -0500

Hi all. I decided to not just experiment with my second bankroll. I will build it up to 1000€ (1500$). Im currently on 10€ so thats why I renamned my blog like this. My primary bankroll is on 300€ and I will merge them when I reach 1000€ and continue to try reaching the 100€NL tables again. Im not sure how my bankroll requirements will look yet, I will post that next time. My guess is that I will have more aggressive (lower) requirements at the lower stakes (4€NL and 10€NL) and then make the requirements higher when I climb up the stakes.

My goal is to reach 1000€ before the year ends. So, I feel no hurry.

In the meantime I will continue to develop my thoughts when Im playing, handreading etc.

Hope your games going well!

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Experiment part3. (lol)

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 5:23:57 -0500

Im about to learn a great lesson. That u can go really bad at any stake u play and have a hard time to turn it around. My experimental bankroll is now 10€ at the 4€ tables. Yes, 10€. And there is nothing I could do about it. Running terrible bad. 2,5 more buyin. I will try to stay alive. Opponents hitting trips and shit and dont know what in every all in preflop Im at.

If my experiment fail? Well, I dont know actually. Perhaps I go for it again with 30€ or I will start to play with my primary bankroll again at the 10€ tables.

Lets see in my next post where im at.

Good luck at the tables!

/Johan

******************************************************************************

EXPERIMENT

I will start with an experimental bankroll at 30€ and have really aggressive bankroll requirements for changing stakes at the 5maxNL tables where im playing at. I will have this experiment going for atleast 3 months. When I reach 52€ I will move to 10€. If I loose 2 buyins (bankroll 32€) on the 10€NL tables I will move back again etc. I will not play more than 4 tables. I will have total control of my current bankroll so I can move down exacly when I brake those requirements (even when Im in a ongoing hand I may stop). Below are my bankroll requirements for the experiment. In the meantime of this experiement I will contiune to analyse my hands, watch Outstanding videos etc.

4€NL - 0-52€
10€NL - 32-120€
20€NL - 80-210€
25€NL - 160-300€
50€NL - 200-600€
100€NL - 400-?€

 I dont recommend this aggressive bankroll management, this is just for an experimental purpose. If u are new to the game, build your main bankroll in a steady way and get all the good knowledge u only can get by playing many hands over a long period and analysing your play.

Roadto5maxNL100$. Experiment part2.

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:03:50 -0500

Been working alot this last week and havent had so much time to play. Have played a couple of thousand hands.
I have learned a great lession at the 4€ tables. That you can have a bad run at the 4€ tables aswell! :D Not only at the 50€NL tables. That feels like a nice lesson I will remember on the higher stakes. Even if u are much better than your opponents it still can be hard to win sometimes.

I will not stay for so long at those tables I think. Its pretty fun here accually, I have alot more laughs here than at the 50€ tables! :D

My game differs alot between the 4€ tables and the 50€ tables and its pretty interesting to think and analyze why in the meantime I play. I will have 8 days free beginning from Wednesday, so I will play alot then.

Dont forget to watch HockeyGuys newest video. Great one! Video #145 - Becoming a Hand Reading Expert (Part 2)

Here are my first sessions of this experiment. Date and Euro.

/Johan

11-04-12

experiment start

11-04-12

29,03

11-04-13

31,6

11-04-13

31,75

11-04-14

39,96

11-04-14

32,24

the bad session

11-04-15

33,93

11-04-18

37,14

*added* LOL, I had crazy session at the 4€ tables today (110321). I was down 4 buyins and did end 1 buyin up.

******************************************************************************

EXPERIMENT

4€NL - 0-52€
10€NL - 32-120€
20€NL - 80-210€
25€NL - 160-300€
50€NL - 200-600€
100€NL - 400-?€

Roadto5maxNL100$. Experiment part1.

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 5:06:05 -0500

Hi all. It has been a storm the last week with my poker and bankroll, downswings sucks and especially when u are abit tilted. It ended with me picking out a big part of my bankroll. I will restart at 340€ (510$). That felt really good. I feel much more calm when I restart like this and I still have a decent bankroll I think.

I need to do something totally different atm. So I will do a little experiement. Using ONLY 30€ from my bankroll to this. This experiment is not recommended in a good bankroll management viewpoint. So dont do this with your main bankroll.

The rest of my bankroll (310€) will be resting when I do this experiement. When my experiment ends I will go back to my old bankroll again and play as normal.

EXPERIMENT

I will start with my bankroll at 30€ and have a really aggressive bankroll requirement for changing stakes. I will have this experiment going for atleast 3 months. I feel Im pretty good at the stakes from the microstakes to the 25€ tables, thats why I do this. I will start at the 4€ tables in this experiement with the 30€ bankroll. When I reach 52€ I will move to 10€. If I loose 2 buyins (bankroll 32€) on the 10€NL tables I will move back again etc. I will not play more than 4 tables. I will have total control of my current bankroll so I can move down exacly when I brake those requirements (even when Im in a ongoing hand I may stop). Below are my bankroll requirements for the experiment. In the meantime of this experiement I will contiune to analyse my hands, watch Outstanding videos etc.

4€NL - 0-52€
10€NL - 32-120€
20€NL - 80-210€
25€NL - 160-300€
50€NL - 200-600€
100€NL - 400-?€

And again, I dont recommend this aggressive bankroll management, this is just for an experimental purpose. If u are new to the game, build your main bankroll in a steady way and get all the good knowledge u only can get by playing many hands over a long period and analysing your play.

Wish me very good luck! :D

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Lost 4 more.

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 6:06:25 -0500

Lost 4 more buyins. From here on I will only play flops I hit. Nothing else. Bankroll at 982€ (1473$). "I really love this alot, feels nice." Im atm an inch from picking out every **** euro.

*edit*

I know Im tilted now and I prob shouldnt play. But I just made up a more aggressive bankrollrequirement. So now I need 15 buyins to play at a sertain stake and If I get below 10 buyins I will move down. Another thing I just made up is that if I go below 800€ I will pick out 570€ (for some special purpose I have) and continue with the 230€. Wish the tilted Johan good luck. :)

*edit*

THATS it... lost even more tonight..

Now I will pick out 580€. I will have a little over 300€ left (450$). Those will be my new bankroll and I will continue with my new bankroll requirements. Starting at the 20€ tables.

Roadto5maxNL100$. 4 doooown...

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 10:17:59 -0500

Got my biggest loss so far. 220€, about 330$. Got drawn out on some all-ins and had a few situaions I perhaps could save about 80-100€ in. The most I just lost to beeing 4beted alot and not hitting many flops against callingstations that cant fold. This is the hard side of poker and it hurts!

Bankroll at 1241€ (1718$).

Hope your weekend is nice!

/Johan

***** And it continues *******

I lost another 50€ tonight (saturday). But I was down even more. Just watch my two biggest losses. Have to ride out those crazy things happening atm. One nice thing is that I dont tilt much at all I think. I tilt more if I do dumb things.

Hand 1

Boss Media - €0.50 NL - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

UTG: €52.51
Hero (BTN): €62.66
SB: €76.24
BB: €58.26

SB posts SB €0.25, BB posts BB €0.50

Pre Flop: (€0.75) Hero has Qh Qs

UTG raises to €1.75, Hero raises to €4.00, fold, fold, UTG calls €2.25

Flop: (€8.75, 2 players) Qc Kh 5d
UTG checks, Hero bets €4.37, UTG calls €4.37

Turn: (€17.49, 2 players) Kc
UTG checks, Hero bets €8.74, UTG calls €8.74

River: (€34.97, 2 players) 7h
UTG bets €35.40 and is all-in, Hero calls €35.40

UTG shows 7d Kd (Full House, Kings full of Sevens)
UTG wins €102.77

Hand 2

Boss Media - €0.50 NL - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

BB: €34.30
UTG: €71.17
CO: €36.56
Hero (BTN): €64.49
SB: €34.47

SB posts SB €0.25, BB posts BB €0.50

Pre Flop: (€0.75) Hero has Ac Kc

fold, CO raises to €2.00, Hero raises to €4.37, fold, fold, CO calls €2.37

Flop: (€9.49, 2 players) 7s 4d Ad
CO checks, Hero bets €7.11, CO raises to €32.19 and is all-in, Hero calls €25.08

Turn: (€73.87, 2 players) 9d

River: (€73.87, 2 players) Js

CO shows Ah 9c (Two Pair, Aces and Nines)
CO wins €70.87

Roadto5maxNL100$. 3up, good good! :)

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 3:02:31 -0500

In a little session this evening of about 50 minutes and 330 hands I managed to gain little more than 3 buyins at 50€ (63$). Felt really nice. Good to get a bit ahead of the "move-down-to-the-25€-line" in my bankrollrequirements.

Bankroll now at 1421€ (1967$)

Good night!

/JohanW

Roadto5maxNL100$. Better start at the 50� tables.

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 7:42:49 -0500

Just played another session at the 50€ (63$) tables. Went up 60€. My bankroll is at this point the highest it has ever been. 1294€ (1792$). Woohoo! :)

I have been 3betting pretty much those first 2k hands on this attempt at the 50€ tables. 9%. I know its a very small sample but it feels like this is about what the % will be. Alot of aggressive players with a 70+% on folding to a 3bet (when initial raiser) on the later positions. 45 minutes into this session I just played I had 15-20%+ in 3bet% on each of my 4 tables. The thing I have to focus abit more in is to slow down abit when I have those aggressive values and just play premium cards for a while, go for set mining etc when I think they are tired of me.

I also think I have got better do find good spots to call in position and steal the pot from players who cbet like 70+% and double barrel only 30-40%. And also have their ranges in mind. I use "range-thinking" more and more in every situation. Feels nice :D

I will play more tonight I think. Good luck with your play everyone!

Cheers!

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. After 1200 hands at 50� tables,

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 1:08:03 -0500

I have today played 1200 hands at the 50€ (63$) tables. Been down 110€ and up 10€. Atm for the day im down 30€. Feels pretty ok. I have done several good double barrels etc. Did try a triple barrel bluff at a player who spiked a ace on the river with his AA and got a boat. I think he would fold otherwise, but im not sertain. I try not to do this type of move too much but sometimes it just fits with the opponents.

Now im going to play some more.

(I did end the day with a huge loss of 1€! Good learning. 1600 hands.)

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. March end. Hitting 50� again! :D

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 3:15:43 -0500

March has been a "pokermonth". I have played 45000 hands (new record). Lost 118€ (177$) totally in March.

Did hit the 50€ (63$) tables and got some bad sessions with a loss of 260€ (390$).

Today Im standing on 1000€ (1500$) and will get a rakeback of about 250€ (375$).
This will make me my bankroll requirements for hitting the 50€ tables showing green light again!

So on the 2nd of April I will hit those tables again. Its Saturday and perhaps some more bad players.

Last time I did hit the 50€ tables I went in with alot of aggression. Alot of aggression with no thinking. Pretty loose and aggressive, trying to get everyone to fold. Dont exacly know why im doing like this but I have some guesses. This time I will think more and take it abit more careful. I will work me up from a careful TAG to a more aggressive TAG the more hands I get. It feels nice to hit this stake again, feels like im not going to be so nervous this time.

I will post after my first session at the 50€ tables to let you know how it went.

Have a nice weekend and may the coinflips be with u all! :D

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Grinding. Grinding.

Sat, 26 Mar 2011 3:43:54 -0500

34500 hands so far in March. Im down 140€ (210$) for the month. I put that on my shot at the 50€ that was a failure, I backed 263€ (395$) there.

Now Im grinding and grinding just to get to my rakeback next month. Ofcause Im in focus to gain without the rakeback but my rakeback coming 2 April will take me close to if not above my bankroll requirement to hit the 50€ tables again. Feels like im going to be more stable this time. I think I will start playing with 3 tables and keep it like that the first week.

Atm my bankroll is at 982€ (1473$). I will get a rakeback of atleast 200€. So Im I can just gain a couple of buyins before that I will take a shot at the 50€ the day I get my rakeback, reaching over 1250€ (1875$) again.

The lastest sessions at the 25€ tables has been pretty booring. Going up some, going down some. Have been pretty unlucky aswell.

Hope the draws will be with u all!

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Consolation. 5up!

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:33:53 -0500

Had some more tough sessions after I moved down to 25€ again. Backed down to about 875€ (1211$). Now I was pretty sad, 4 days ago I had 1270€ (1760$). But then it came yesterday, I played about 1300 hands, 2 hours, and got a nice gain of 5 buyins. So 125€ (185$). Felt nice. Like a little consolation.
I played stable and was thinking about every decision pretty deep. Really, always want to play exacly like that. Ofcause I got nice flops etc, its easy not to get abit tilted then. I will try to have exacly that feeling with me the next time I move to the 50€ tables. When I reach 1250€. I think I will get a rakeback of about 200€ in the beginning of next month. So maybe I will be hitting the 50€ tables again then.

Bankroll: 1003€ (1388$).

Good luck to you all!

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Back to 25� tables again...

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:35:14 -0500

Lost 5 buyins at 50€ pretty quick. 2600 hands. 5 hours. I got some heavy artillery back when I was aggressive but I kept it up. I got into some hard spots and I made some all-ins on turn, when I got my double barrel reraised, drawing to the nutflush, got called and hitted nothing on the river.

Also had some bad luck. Lost 50€ on a 2Q67r board with my 67 against AQ who spiked a 2 on river. Also lost an all-in preflop with AKs against KJo. He had 15% 3bet and was really aggressive against me. He got his jack on the turn.

So, now its time to grind old good 25€ tables again and wait for my rakeback at the start of next month. Going to continue to think about my double and triple barrels. I guess I would done better at 50€ if I would be better of analysing good spots to do DBs and TBs. Hopefully hitting the 50€ again when I get my rakeback.

Bankroll at 989€ (1369$).

May the flops be with u all!

/JohanW

Roadto5maxNL100$. YES! Now hitting 50� (63$) :D

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 4:18:11 -0500

Played a little session tonight. Managed to win almost 3 buyins in like 25 minutes. I now have the required bankroll to hit the 50€ (63$) tables! Feels great! Bankroll is now 1270€ (1758$). I will play a session on the new limit tomorrow.

Im ready, I know everything can happen and Im not afraid of moving down again, we will see what happens. No scared money here! I think this new limit is not that much harder than the one im in atm. The thing is that it probably will take some time to get to know the new players cause there is no place to buy handhistories for Boss Media. I will play them all as good TAGs before I know anything else about them.

I now have 5 buyins to loose at the 50€ tables. if I hit bankroll 1000€ I have to move down to 25€ tables again. I hope I never ever will go down under 1000€ again!

Good night, hope the turncards fall your way! ;)

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. End of my rollercoaster?

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 5:01:27 -0500

I have been going rollercoaster in February/Mars with my bankroll. I think I have been down to 1000€ 3 times and up to around 1200€ now 4 times. Now Im standing on 1201€. Moving up to 50€ (63$) at 1250€ (1730$). I really hope I will manage it this time. Maybe I have to visit the 20/10€ again!? Hehe.

Its the 17 of Mars and I have so far played 23500 hands this month. Think Im going for a new record. I have around 400€ in rake atm so I will get 30% back from them, trying to reach 800€ raked. Hopefully I will reach 50€ now, get a nice boost from my rakeback and then contiune on. I have worked hard for this and I do think Im ready to travel higher.

Its pretty fun about poker. Yesteday night I sat 4 hours (2600 hands) and was down 70€ at one time and ended the 4 hour session with a loss of 10€. Today I sat down to play a little session of about 60 minutes. When i stopped after 45 minutes I had won 3buyins, 75€. Ran crazy good. Im using the ranges more and more and be aggressive with the information. Like this hand.

Villian on a PFR calling range of 11%. VPIP/PFR of 25/16. 3bet of 7%. Aggressive on flop. Able to fold. With his aggressive flop, his callingrange and with in mind that he may thinked the floped missed me and was scary I didnt belive his donk. I really thought he was sitting with some broadway cards, perhaps a lower pair, ofc i had 88,99 in mind but also 77. He would 3bet preflop with TT+. If he would have called or reraised me I could just shutdown or fold.

Boss Media - €0.25 NL - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

SB: €24.72
BB: €13.82
Hero (UTG): €24.63
BTN: €37.81

SB posts SB €0.12, BB posts BB €0.25

Pre Flop: (€0.37) Hero has Ah Qd

Hero raises to €0.87, fold, SB calls €0.75, fold

Flop: (€1.99, 2 players) 9s 8c 5d
SB bets €1.00, Hero raises to €3.00, fold

Hero wins €3.84

May the flops be with u all!

/Johan

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Roadto5maxNL100$. Lots of hands in Mars.

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 5:07:01 -0600

Im going to put in a massive amount of hands in Mars I think. I will play abit more. Bankroll still going rollercoaster between 1000€ (1380$) and 1200€ (1660$). I have 10200 hands atm in Mars, playing 21hours. I really want to reach the 50€ (63$) tables this month. Hope I will.

Im trying to practice on double and triple barrel situations. And polarizing my 3bet range (as Atta talks about in his latest movies) against the players with a "fold to 3bet %" highter than 70%. I do this on the ones with like 50+% and a "fold to Cbet in a 3bet pot" higher than like 60%. All depending on flop texture etc. And ofc alot with position. Also trying to see good spots to check-raise-bluff.

May the flops be with u all!

Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Up and down. Rollercoaster!

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 6:07:15 -0600

Im currently riding rollercoaster at the 25€ limit. Bankroll at 1083€ (1499$). Moving up to 50€ when I reach 1250€. I had 1200€ a week ago. Have got 90€ in rakeback. So im down abit for the month. Yesterday I was down 5 buyins and ended the session on only a half buyin down. That felt nice.

Tomorrow we will get our new broadband, I can only play 4 tables atm cause of my REALLY bad mobile internet. I also get dissed from pots etc. Now I will be able to play 6 tables again and without disconnections. Feels good.

Hope your games are going well!

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Aaaand dooown again ofcause.

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 7:20:40 -0600

Its really annoying, every time when things go good I always go on a downswing right after. Why? Sounds like winners tilt but thats not really it. Im just getting beaten up by incredible situations.

Have went down 3 buyins one day, the next 2 buyins, and today 2 more buyins. 7 buyins down. I was so close to moving up to 50€ and then im going down again. I was over 1200€ (1664$) and now im down to 1020€ (1412$). I have been in alot worse situations but its really annoying anyway.

My next post will be when I reach the 50€. (at 1250€)

In the meantime, Gl at the tables everyone!

/JohanW

Roadto5maxNL100$. Nice rush! 6up. =) Woohoo.

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 8:22:24 -0600

Hey!

Been playing 1800 hands these last days and have won 6 buyins. Feels really nice.

Bankroll grown from 1023€ (1416$) to 1169€ (1618$). Playing at 25€ (32$).

If I continue like this im going to the 50€ tables soon, about 64$. Going there at 1250€.

I feel Im getting better and better with my aggression and handreading. Some months ago I 3betted like a maniac, pretty much to experiment and witness myself what happend with the different opponents. I then slowed down alot. Now Im heating up again, with alot better thinking, handreading etc. In those 1800 hands I have a 3bet % of 11,8%. I feel more and more comfortable with my play and I feel like im in control of the tables most of times. Im not afraid to fold either. It really feels like my practice getting me somewhere. Since I started play poker seriously 1 of July of 2009 I have been playing alot, about 800 hours. Now I just want the next stake! I know bad-beats will come, hard ones, but now im just enjoying the opposit! :D The nice feeling of beeing unbeatable! Hehe.

Thanks Outstanding Poker! :) U have helped alot!

Good flops to you all!

//Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Little playing. Little up.

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 1:08:56 -0600

A week since last post. 32$ up. Havent played so much, about 3500 hands, been doing things with our new house.

Bankroll at 1023€ (1416$)

Now Im just grinding to reach the next stake, 50€ (63$) it feels like. I feel like I will reach it with no problem, its just matter of time.

May the flops be with you all!

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Home sweet home. 2+ up again!

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 6:53:32 -0600

Finally im home again. Played a good session of almost 3,5 hours and played 1700 hands. Managed to build my bankroll with over 2 buyins at the 25€ (32$) tables. About 80$. My current bankroll is now 1000€, about 1385$.

Im getting closer and closer to the 50€ (63$) tables. Feels nice!

When I have been away I have seen that both atta and hockeyguy has released new videos. I have them on my laptop and will watch them before I play my next session.

In the session today I tried to find good double barrel situations and a few triple barrels. I had some mixed results. Some did call me down with marginal hands (even if they wasnt callingstations) and some did fold when I had nothing. This what im working with atm and I hope atta will have good situations about this in his part3 of "How to think like a pro".

It also feels nice to have got my 3betting going strong again, in 20.000 hands its 9,4%. I really push the Looser TAGs around.

Have a nice weekend!

Best wishes from Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. 2up. Skiing.

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 4:06:30 -0600

A short post.

Bankroll grown with about 70$ since last post. With the last rakeback my bankroll is 1307$.

Currently im not playing that much. Im in the mountains in north of sweden with my work to ski.

Back on thursday night.

Cheers! Good flops to you all!

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Good month! Nice rakeback!

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 2:07:50 -0600

January is over. Since my last post I have gained 77$. From 904$ to 981$.

In January I have managed to play 45.000 hands. I will get a nice rakeback of 250$. That will build my bankroll to about 1230$. A good month I think. In february I will focus on playing nice and aggressive poker to reach 1600$ (1250€) and the "63$NL" (50€) tables. (My bankroll will after my rakeback be 890 in Euro(€)).

Im also looking forward to Tims following parts in his new serie "How to think like a pro".

Good flops for u all in February!

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. 30$NL again. Light 3bet updated

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 5:47:36 -0600

I have moved up to 25€ (32$) tables now. Since my lastpost I have built my bankroll from 868$ to 904$. I will move to the 50€ (64$) when I have about 1600-1700$.

There is a great difference between the 20€ and 25€ tables. Alot more aggressive. Dont know why, almost the same tables. Anyway, my 3bet% gets higher cause of more aggressive players with a high "fold to 3bet", especially on CO and the BTN. Some have equal high PFR on all positions ("faux-TAGs") and a high "fold to 3bet". Here are a light3-bet I made in my last session. I picked a random one and this one was not succesfull.

A Light 3bet situation

Here I decided to 3bet a player (73 hands on him) who raised from the BTN. First of he had 100% in "fold to 3bet" but only based on 1 hand. That hand was from the BTN but its only based on one situation, not much. He had a PFR from the BTN of 20% (3 of 15). He had a fold to 3bet of 75%, 3 out of 4 times and I had no "fold to cbet"-stats on him in a 3bet pot. I did bet half the pot on the flop. When he did raise me with a little more than a pot bet. I did watch his aggression by street and did see 0,1,inf (flop, turn, river) i decided to fold. What do you think he had? I did put him on either AK, AT, TT, 88 based on his passive stats on the flop and his PFR from BTN.

(Sorry, didnt wrote the handhistory at first, hehe, here it is)

Boss Media - €0.25 NL - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

SB: €24.66
Hero (BB): €27.18
UTG: €25.97
CO: €3.26
BTN: €32.73

SB posts SB €0.12, Hero posts BB €0.25

Pre Flop: (€0.37) Hero has 7c Ac

fold, fold, BTN raises to €0.87, fold, Hero raises to €2.74, BTN calls €1.87

Flop: (€5.60, 2 players) As Td 8s
Hero bets €2.80, BTN raises to €10.10, fold

BTN wins €10.65

Tomorrow we moving to our house!

Cheers!

Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. A little up. Moving to house!

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 6:22:48 -0600

Have gained a little since my last post. 30$ to 868$. I have been standing on the same spot for a while now. Have played 5,5k hands since last post. A little more than 1000 every day in average. I will get a pretty nice rakeback in the beginning on next month. So I will move to 30$-tables then, if not before. Its just around the corner. I have the bankroll requirements but I wait untill I reach near 1000$. I will then have a little way to 50€ (65$). I will move there when I reach like 1250€ (1700$).

I feel that my game is good. I have no problem to fold hands against loose passive ones when they start to fire back. I just watch their aggression by street. Im aggressive both preflop and postflop. I can put down hands preflop that I wouldnt do before. Im taking my position alot in concideration etc :) If feels nice and I feel confident to take a climb up in the stakes. Im looking up there but playing patiently. I reach it sometime.

The thing that wander my mind the most atm is our movement to our new house this weekend. It will be really nice. A house! :) hehe. Lots of space. Nice for our little girl. Our own lawn.

Attas last video was a great one. Loved that one very much. Im trying to be that specific in all my C-bets when Im playing.

Now its time for bed!

Good luck at the tables!

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. My pokergoals for 2011.

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 1:38:31 -0600

I have played 11.000 hands since my last post. Just a little gain of 35$ to 838$, but still a gain! I will hopefully move back to 30$ (25€) again. I have the BR for it now but I will wait for a few buyins more at the 20$/20€ before I move up.

I have a nice goal for 2011 and that include a trip to the mountains in upper sweden to ski with my family and friends. This also include that I will play at the 100$ buyin tables and have a BR of 4700$. I will then take a third of my BR for the trip.

Other goals for 2011 is ofcause to continue study poker. Read and watch Outstanding videos from from the nice coaches! :)

Its important that I divide my daily time in a good way. I have played 21 hours the last 7 days, thats much in my situation I think. My family is the most important. I have to work at my work. The rest goes to poker with some other exceptions (relatives, friends etc).

Best flops for u all!

Cheers!

/JohanW

Roadto5maxNL100$. 2up! My misstake, CrazyImage-tilt.

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 5:11:30 -0600

Yesterday I played 600 hands. I had the opportunity to 3bet in 200 of these hands. I did 3bet in those situations 6 times. A 3bet percentage of 3% on average on my 6tables. If I had seen that number 2 weeks ago I would feel bad for it cause it wasnt "high enough". I ALWAYS wanted to be that aggressive player everyone is fed up with and THAT was my misstake. At these stakes im at now (15$, 30$) there is to much callingstations and other crazy players who dont even understand to be scared of my 3bets. So.. these last days I have gained 6 buyins AND acually I dont mind my 3bet-percentage anymore. If there is no good 3bet opportunities I dont 3 bet. That is. Not any single 3bet with Q3o against a 75% "fold to 3bet" player. But with 98s I do it.

When I end my session I watch my stats on the tables and I can see that there is a great difference on my 3bet-stat of different tables. On some I have over 10% and on some I have 0-1%. It ofcause all depends on my opponents at the table.

I did know all this before but I have been into a "I-WANT-TO-BE-REALLY-CRAZY" mood-tilt since I started to feel really comfortable of light 3betting. I guess I wanted to see what happend at the tables and now I have the result (as I wrote in my last post). Now I want to be REALLY AGGRESSIVE, but only in the correct situations.

Bankroll at 803$.

JohanW

Roadto5maxNL100$. 5up! :) Imp. lession! updated

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 7:51:38 -0600

I have been struggling at my 5max NL tables, mostly at 25€ (30$), since I got comfortable of 3betting. Yesterday I found out why. I hardstudied my database yesterday and my 3bets in my last 37k hands. I did filter out all the hands I had done a 3bet in. Of the 37k hands I got the opportunity to 3bet 10256 times and 943 of these I did 3bet.

943 of 10256 is 9,2%. So my 3beting is on 9,2%. I had won 398€ in those 943 hands. After I did watch this I did go to my position-tab to watch how much I earned on each pos. And... something was terrible wrong, I had green numbers on every position except one, the button? What? Ok... Where had I earned the most? In the BB. In the BB I had earned 229€ of those 398€.

Those was the stats.

Button won -3.26€, 313hands, 3bet 16,37%
CO won 64.55€, 61hands, 3bet 7,87%
HJ won 17.72€, 6hands, 3bet 15%
BB won 229.19€, 345hands, 3bet 8,54%
SB won 89.04€, 202hands, 3bet 6,24%

I instantly knew, and prob everyone else who read this, that this button stat is not good. And why? Why? I will tell you how I found out.

I did watch like 100 random hands of those hands where I had done a 3bet on the button. And the most interesting ones was the those I had lost in. I did know exacly what I was looking for, I was looking for the initial raisers stats (the one I did do the 3bet against).

Those stats was important I thinked.

"fold to 3bet"
"PFR by pos"

In those loosing hands I did see a few opponents with a low "fold to 3bet" and thats no good players to light 3bet. But there was especially alot of hands where the initial raiser had a high "fold to 3bet" of 65%+ but I had still lost alot against them when 3beting in the button. And why?
I did watch their "fold to 3bet by pos" and yes, there it was. They had very often a lower "fold to 3bet" in HJ and also CO. In the BTN this number was often higher.

I did also see that I didnt 3bet high enough. So I had been 3beting against players that wont fold to a 3bet enough and I had also been given them the right odds to call my 3bet. I did also sometimes 3bet players with a low PFR in an earlier pos, thats not so good either. Not with alot of light 3-bets.

So my conclusions was simple.

(Dont 3bet light from the BTN at these stakes! 3bet for value.) I must correct this to...

Dont 3bet light from the BTN UNLESS u have a reason to do it, not just to get a image of a splashy player.

That is for example when the inital raiser have a high PFR (25%+) from his PFR poss and with a high (70%+) "fold to 3bet" on that pos aswell.
And if he also has a high "fold to flop Cbet in a 3bet pot" 70%+ it makes it alot better. Then is can be good to 3bet him even if he dont fold to 3bet so often.

THEN go ahead and 3bet with T9s etc.

When the players at these stakes have a hand they raise from in an earlier position they often have a hand they wont fold to a 3bet. So dont 3bet them light , have a good hand when u do and have an eye on their "fold to 3bet" by pos. If they have high numbers all over their "fold to 3bet by pos" go 3bet them light.

And when they raise from the BTN they often have a not so good hand and it will be good to 3bet them in the blinds. Look at their "fold to 3Bet" on the BTN and dont 3bet them to low. Bet around 3,5 times the initial raisers bet. If he bet 1 u raise to 3,5.

This is what Im doing atm. Ill tell u more how its going. I will have an BIG eye on this when I move up to the 50€ tables (65$) and higher and look for situations to start 3beting light more.

Bankroll at 739$.

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Added 110110

- Just for your information I have earned 35 more € on my 3bets. And 18 of them are from the BTN. Good start with my change of play. Ill come with more results "from the button side of my 3bet-world".

Bankroll at 778$.

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Slowing down aggression.

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 2:41:00 -0600

I have decided to slow down my aggression a little. Especially my 3bet aggression. SO instead of playing really aggressive on 4 tables I tried to play 8 tables today and playing steady ABC poker with the ordinary "normal" aggression, a pretty high PFR.. and some 3betting against some opponents. Have won 4 buyins today. But only on the 15$, but still. It really worked with 8 tables, turbo aswell actually, I did just fold every shitty hand without even look at the other players fold to steal or fold to Cbet. But when I had a good hand I did watch those numbers abit. And I also limped alot from early poss with my low pocketpairs for a change, alot of fish here.

I decided to do this when I watched HockeyGuys new video. Its really no point in beeing really really aggressive.

I will start to be more aggressive at the higher stakes when I reach them.

Cheers!

JohanW

Roadto5maxNL100$. Nothing works atm. :(

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 3:37:34 -0600

I have to write about my current downswing. Have just been going down and down the last week. Currently down 275$ (11 buyins), 4 tables. Im trying to figure out whats wrong.

Im still aggressive cause I feel thats the best play but when I only get K3o and hitting flops with no action or "funny" crasy badbeats, I start wonder about if there is something wrong. I think this is the exact opposit of going really well. I really put words on why I do a specific actions.

Im now standing on the edge to go down to 10€ again. (About 15$). No fun feeling at all. But as I said, Im trying to figure out if im doing something wrong. Im learning stuff all the time so thats good. I wont get away from my aggression, but Im trying to use it even better. And as I have said many times before, I have a long term pokerpracticing, so if im going to stay at the 10€ all 2011 thats ok for me, not the funniest thing, but ok anyway.
If im still at 10€ year 2018, I will think about finding another thing to practice :)

Cheers!

JohanW

Roadto5maxNL100$. The RB saves me abit.. for now..

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 3:32:34 -0600

I have lost some the last week. Since last post I have lost 180$ and bankroll is down to 684$. And that with the rakeback payed to my account, 90$ more. So, it havent went well at all. Im still able to play at the 30$ tables for a few buyins more. The reason? Well, I could post a ton of 70% all-in situations I lost etc.

One thing Im really proud of is my aggressive play. Im only playing 4 tables atm instead of my 6 tables. I 3bet alot in the BTN etc. On two of the 30$ tables I had 90$+ and on the other two I had pure bad luck. I try to have my 3bet % on the sessions over 15% and my PFR is around 25% then I slow down abit when it appears like some players are abit tired. And thats how I keep doing. It feels like a good play even if I have lost some, I will continue with this and develop it further. Cause when I have a hand I often get payed. When Im in a hand and Im aggressive it all depends on the opponent how Im acting in the restof the hand, it feels like a nice play.

Lets see what has happend the next week.

Hope Im not going down to 25$ again :) Well, thats not the whole world, have been there "some" before.

"Cards with you"

JohanW

Roadto5maxNL100$. 155$ gain this week. 30$NL again!

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 4:26:52 -0600

Managed to grow my bankroll with 155$ since my last post (20dec). Have played 3700 hands in this period. Not so much but a nice gain anyway. Now I have 625€ (about 864$) and will move up to the 25€ tables, I call those 30$-tables here, its almost the same. I want to keep my blog in $, cause of my title "Roadto5maxNL100$" :D

I hope I will run good at the 30$ tables again, as I have done before. This time im a better handreader and more aggressive both preflop and postflop. I have also got better to play against the different opponents styles and to find good/bad situations preflop with my opponents styles in mind. It will be interesting how it will go. Lets see in a week!

Good flops to you all!

Best wishes!

From JohanW

Roadto5maxNL100$. More hands. Little up.

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 6:25:12 -0600

Have played abit more hands since 12/12 when I last wrote in my blog. My bankroll has grown from 685 to 710$! Hehe. BUT! Then I dont count in the rakeback im going to get. I will get like 70$ rakeback on this I have played since last post. I have managed to play 8100 hands since last time and thats more than the week before. Its still this homepage that takes the time. Small adjustments etc. I have started to get used to my new site im playing at and I am capable of playing 6-7 tables and then even some with "turbo"-speed.

I feel that I play good aggressive poker. My 3bet over this 8100 hands is 10,6%. Cbet F 84%, Cbet succ 43%. (is that ok?, I bet mostly 3/4 pot, well when I think about it this value is when the opponents folds (cbet succ), alot of time they call me aswell and I take them to "valuetown", so those values must be good? No math now, to late.)

I love playing poker and I feel more and more calm about my play and Im starting to experiment with new stuffs etc. I have also watched Ryans latest videos, Hockeyguys and Atta22s. Everything helps me. Now its Xmas and I dont know if I will be capable to play more than 8000 hands the next 7-8 days. Lets hope for that!

Btw, I have estimated that the time I have put into poker since 1th of July 2009 up today is about 600-700 hours.
My goal is 10.000 hours! Hehe. Then I will think about quiting if I havent reached my goal, to be able to make a living of poker.

Cheers!

Good flops for u all!

JohanW

Roadto5maxNL100$. More play coming! Loss-week.

Sat, 11 Dec 2010 3:09:53 -0600

Havent played so much this week either. But abit more than the week before. The work with the homepage is starting to come to an end. I have watched Ryans videos and I feel a nice longing for more poker. I play really aggressive when I play now. I still have to think about slowing down sometimes when my 3bet on a table on a session is like 25+ over 100 hands. But it feels like I am on the right direction, it really does. It feels like this is the way im going to play when I develop and get better.

I have lost some the last week. I did first fall deep but managed to gain back some again. The last week I have lost like 70$ and my bankroll is now on 684$. I think I will start to play more and more the following weeks. Im not working so much around xmas either.

Good luck at the tables!

Now Im going to watch Ryans new video!! Hope he dont have an axe around him! There may be some itch ;)

/JohanW

Roadto5maxNL100$. A small start =D Near 2 up.

Sat, 04 Dec 2010 5:24:55 -0600

Played a little session tonight. First session in like two weeks. I have watched some Outstanding movies and red some in my current book. 2 hours, 870 hands. 2 buyins up, 30$ tables. Im playing at Euro-tables atm. But I call the 20-25€ tables for 30$ tables. Gained 60$. Bankroll at 757$. Got some rakeback at the start of the month aswell. Like 20$. Felt nice to play some again! Love poker!

Here is a hand I got away from.

He had 2,1,1 in his streetaggression. VPIP/PFR of 15/13. Fold to Cbet of 67%. Folding the BB to a steal 91% of the time. 200 hands. So I really smelled a big hand here. Felt nice to be able to see his holecards aswell. He could have JJ aswell. But I think he is to passive to have had played the jacks like this. He would prob have called my cbet with JJ. Accually he would not have the JJ, then he would raise preflop. So the set was pretty obvious. He prob wouldnt have played with 68s cause there was only one caller before him and we were two really aggressive players after him to act and he was pretty tight. He was aware of this and I think and played with that in mind.

Boss Media - €0.25 NL - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

UTG: €4.88
CO: €31.26
BTN: €54.97
Hero (SB): €27.01
BB: €26.69

Hero posts SB €0.12, BB posts BB €0.25

Pre Flop: (€0.37) Hero has 9c 9h

UTG calls €0.25, CO calls €0.25, BTN calls €0.25, Hero raises to €1.50, fold, UTG calls €1.25, CO calls €1.25, fold

Flop: (€5.00, 3 players) 6s 2c 8c
Hero bets €3.75, UTG calls €3.38 and is all-in, CO raises to €12.25, fold

Turn: (€15.88, 2 players) Kh

River: (€15.88, 2 players) 7c

CO shows 6d 6c (Three of a Kind, Sixes) (PreFlop 100%, Flop 100%, Turn 100%)
CO wins €15.13

Now its time for Ryans latest video before I sleep!

Cheers and good luck at the tables!

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Poker poker!! =D

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 3:31:09 -0600

Havent played poker for like 2 weeks. As I have said before I have alot of work and I have my familly. I will eventually have more time soon. I thought the work im doing with a homepage for the company Im working on would not take this long but with 100% ordinary working, familly with a 2 years old daughter and then this extra work with the homepage there is no time over for poker atm. I have always been and will always be focusing on ONE thing at the time. I cant just put like 2 hours a week on something im serious about. Poker is the NR1 interest for me and when this homepage is over it will be poker at full speed again. Around 40-50 hours a month.

See ya soon pokerplayers!

Good luck at the tables!

//Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. I want to play poker! :D

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 2:35:51 -0600

Im working my as of with the homepage for the company im working on. No time for poker untill im done. I really want to have it out of the way as fast as possible so I can focus on the poker. I just finnished HockeyGuys "GoodHabits"-video and I feel alot of fun about poker now, I want to play! I also going to watch Ryans new video. But no playing poker today. Just work. I guess it takes a couple of days of hard work and then Im done.

Cheers!

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Some playing.

Sun, 21 Nov 2010 8:44:38 -0600

Have bought a new monitor from my bankroll so I can better see the tables on the new site im playing at.

My bankroll is currently on about 638$. Gained like 30$ this last week. Im currently playing on €uro tables (20€). I will be doing this for a while to see how it feels to get rakeback. I didnt get that on Bwin. Ill stay here for a while and see what happens.

I have been thinking about 3bets, 4bets, ranges etc the later weeks. Havent played so much actually. Alot of work and been with familly.

Good luck at the tables!

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Finally a gain! Weekly posts.

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 5:16:45 -0600

I finally got a good session today on the 30$ tables. The reason I wont give any details is that I accually dont know them. I have decided for the time beeing that I will only watch my session results once a week. There is one exception and that is when I see that im loosing alot and have to see if Im going below my requirements for the limit im on. Im doing this cause sometimes I focus to much on the results. I can go and mutter a whole day about a -5$ session and feel bad about it. So, I just watch the results when I feel its going really down on a session. I will look up my results next sunday and post them.

If I have reached over 1250 I will go to the 50$ tables.

As I said before I think I went pretty good today. On one table I ended on 115$ and on another 103$.

Now im going to watch some outstanding videos.

Cheers!

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Fishes 2-0 JohanW, 60$ down.

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 6:11:28 -0600

I just paste. This is my life atm. Bankroll at 730$. Down 2buyins. Some of the hands are really disturbed. The fishes really won this session aswell. I really dont know when this terror will end. Hopefully before I get under 600$ and down to the 20$ tables again. Sorry for my bad mood.

Most disturbed hand

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

SB: $28.65
BB: $14.04
Hero (UTG): $49.20
BTN: $29.01

SB posts SB $0.15, BB posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero has Jc Kd

Hero raises to $1.05, BTN calls $1.05, fold, fold

Flop: ($2.55, 2 players) Jd 8c Kc
Hero bets $1.95, BTN calls $1.95

Turn: ($6.45, 2 players) 2c
Hero bets $3.30, BTN calls $3.30

River: ($13.05, 2 players) 3d
Hero bets $6.60, BTN calls $6.60

Hero shows Jc Kd (Two Pair, Kings and Jacks) (PreFlop 48%, Flop 93%, Turn 98%)
BTN shows 3h 3s (Three of a Kind, Threes) (PreFlop 52%, Flop 7%, Turn 2%)
BTN wins $24.94

Second most disturbed hand

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

UTG: $16.33
BTN: $28.93
Hero (SB): $42.01
BB: $43.41

Hero posts SB $0.15, BB posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero has As Ac

UTG raises to $1.50, fold, Hero raises to $2.70, fold, UTG raises to $16.33 and is all-in, Hero calls $13.63

Flop: ($32.96, 2 players) Kd 4d Kc

Turn: ($32.96, 2 players) 5h

River: ($32.96, 2 players) Qd

Hero shows As Ac (Two Pair, Aces and Kings) (PreFlop 93%, Flop 4%, Turn 2%)
UTG shows Ks Ah (Three of a Kind, Kings) (PreFlop 7%, Flop 96%, Turn 98%)
UTG wins $31.46

Third most disturbed hand

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

SB: $35.22
BB: $38.21
UTG: $22.90
Hero (CO): $29.55
BTN: $62.50

SB posts SB $0.15, BB posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero has As Th

UTG raises to $0.60, Hero raises to $1.80, fold, fold, fold, UTG calls $1.20

Flop: ($4.05, 2 players) Ac 6d 5s
UTG bets $0.90, Hero raises to $2.10, UTG calls $1.20

Turn: ($8.25, 2 players) 4c
UTG bets $2.10, Hero calls $2.10

River: ($12.45, 2 players) 7h
UTG bets $3.30, Hero calls $3.30

UTG shows Kd 3d (Straight, Seven High) (PreFlop 100%, Flop 100%, Turn 100%)
UTG wins $18.10

Roadto5maxNL100$. loss loss

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 6:45:38 -0600

Lost 90$ these last days on those 30$ tables. I run into alot of bad situations and I often loose allins where im the favorite. Bankroll at 789$. I think Im playing good and I enjoy the game. Accually I thought I did make a win the last session but it was a loss of 30$ according to pokertracker. :(

Here are some hands that really shows how it is for me these days.

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

BB: $10.50
UTG: $34.82
CO: $11.81
BTN: $29.55
Hero (SB): $58.63

Hero posts SB $0.15, BB posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero has Kd Ad

fold, CO raises to $1.20, BTN calls $1.20, Hero raises to $4.20, fold, CO raises to $11.81 and is all-in, fold, Hero calls $7.61

Flop: ($25.12, 2 players) 7c Qc 6c

Turn: ($25.12, 2 players) 5c

River: ($25.12, 2 players) 4h

Hero shows Kd Ad (High Card, Ace) (PreFlop 76%, Flop 7%, Turn 0%)
CO shows Qs Ac (Flush, Ace High) (PreFlop 24%, Flop 93%, Turn 100%)
CO wins $23.87

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

Hero (BB): $38.02
UTG: $23.91
CO: $16.64
BTN: $34.94
SB: $31.64

SB posts SB $0.15, Hero posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero has Tc Ad

fold, CO calls $0.30, fold, fold, Hero raises to $1.20, CO calls $0.90

Flop: ($2.55, 2 players) 9s Td Ks
Hero bets $1.95, CO raises to $3.90, Hero calls $1.95

Turn: ($10.35, 2 players) As
Hero checks, CO bets $5.25, Hero raises to $32.92 and is all-in, CO calls $6.29 and is all-in

Turn: ($33.43, 2 players) As

River: ($33.43, 2 players) Qs

Hero shows Tc Ad (Two Pair, Aces and Tens) (PreFlop 74%, Flop 13%, Turn 75%)
CO shows Kh Ts (Flush, Ace High) (PreFlop 26%, Flop 87%, Turn 25%)
CO wins $31.93

This one I decided to 4b OOP cause his 3bet from BB was 24% andhis fold to 4B was at 100%. I had 500 hands on this guy. He did call my 4b and I got a prett nice flop. But as many times these days I lost in this situation.

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

BB: $30.00
UTG: $20.83
CO: $30.00
BTN: $23.45
Hero (SB): $28.80

Hero posts SB $0.15, BB posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero has Jc Th

fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to $0.90, BB raises to $3.60, Hero raises to $9.00, BB calls $5.40

Flop: ($18.00, 2 players) Td 9d Js
Hero bets $9.00, BB raises to $21.00 and is all-in, Hero calls $10.80 and is all-in

Flop: ($57.60, 2 players) Td 9d Js

Turn: ($57.60, 2 players) Ks

River: ($57.60, 2 players) 8c

Hero shows Jc Th (Two Pair, Jacks and Tens) (PreFlop 16%, Flop 58%, Turn 5%)
BB shows Kh Kd (Three of a Kind, Kings) (PreFlop 84%, Flop 42%, Turn 95%)
BB wins $56.10

Good night!

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Working.. down 20$.

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 4:56:09 -0600

Working alot. Played an hour today. Backed 20$. Bankroll at 875$.

When Im finnished with this homepage Im making, poker will be my sparetime focus again.

Good night all!

Roadto5maxNL100$. 3 buyin down :/

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 4:06:02 -0600

Have been working some for the last couple days. Alot of work atm with different things. Lost 90$ the day before yesterday and bankroll is on 896$. Atleast 70$ of them I lost in allins preflop as a 60-70% favorite. So it dont hurt so much. I played a good game.

Cheers!

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. 10$ up again..

Sat, 06 Nov 2010 5:04:01 -0500

10$ up today again on 30$ tables. 3 hours of playing 1400 hands. :) Slow slow up the hill. Bankroll at 989$.

Some more playing tomorrow. Btw. We got ourself a house :) Moving in in February. After that we have a big house to walk around in instead of our little apartment. Looking forward to that!

Good night!

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. 10$ up! :)

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 6:34:59 -0500

Just a little win. But a win! 10$ up at the 30$ tables. 520hands. 60 minutes. Bankroll at 978$.

Good night!

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Few days off. Things to do.

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 10:27:57 -0500

Going to bid on our new place tomorrow. Throu SMS. Im also doing a homepage for the company im working on. Im doing it in Silverlight/C#. Its ok. I just want it done. So no poker untill im finished I guess, I want to focus on just poker and have nothing else hanging over me.

I hope I will play some on saturday or sunday.

Good luck with you all!

//Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. 4 up.

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 6:44:36 -0500

Shit, I did write alot and all went away. Gah.. I wrote like 45minutes! =D

I must go to bed. I did write about some hands but I wont write it all again.

Gained 130$ today. Bankroll at 960$.

I feel really relaxed at the 30$ tables. I dont think about the money. On the 50$ tables I get heavely exited all the time. I guess that will be better by the time. I think I do lesser good decisions when Im im that over exited mood

Time for bed! Good night!

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. 1+ up.

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 3:27:29 -0500

Gained little more than a buyin today on the 30$ tables. 37$ gain. Bankroll at 821$.

Watching HockeyGuys new videos. Good videos!

Cheers!

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Moving down a limit, rebuilding.

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 6:00:04 -0500

After this 12 buyin downswing at the 50$ tables I decided to withdraw 300$ for help to the Christmas presents later. We are about moving to a bigger household and I feel like I want to use all my pokerplaying to something that helps abit with our economy. It feels good to get some use of it when the game itself isnt going my way atm. As Atta say its all about grinding it out and thats what im going to contiunue with aswell, it also seems like I play solid poker but the cards just dont falling my way. I also know that I cant withdraw every time I get a downswing. I atleast kept a bigger part of my BR this time. The time before when I had a bigger downswing i withdrawed everything but 40$ and restarted at the 4$ buyin tables! =D

Im after this currently with a bankroll of 757$. When I go over 1250 i will move up to 50$ again and if i go below 600$ I will be joining the 20$ tables for a visit again. Hopefully this will not happen. I have played the most hands at the 30$ limit and I guess I will turn my downswing around there. The bad thing about this is that I dont have as many hands on others on the 30$ tables as I have on the 50$. But I have played 90 hours there, 45000 hands, so I have some hands on some regulars there.

So, wish me good luck! :)

Cheers!

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. 4 down... hello 30$ tables.

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 7:27:28 -0500

4 buyins down. I dont really know if Im doing things wrong in my game or if its just variance. I feel really confused. I have heard several times that this is how it can feel when on a downswing. Gone down 12 buyins at 50$ tables in 3 sessions. Thats why I feel confused. I have built up the bankroll slowly on the 50$ tables and now poff. Bang. Pow.

I come in alot of hard decisions I think. Getting reraised on the turn alot and putting it down cause I have been beaten by flopped sets more than I ever have been. Bankroll at 1055$. 600$ dooooown... Really, nothing is going my way. I will show some hands. Tell me what u think please.

Biggest loss

This guy had been raising alot from position and 4beting alot.

OnGame - $0.50 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

Hero (BB): $50.00
UTG: $93.90
BTN: $72.40
SB: $18.97

SB posts SB $0.25, Hero posts BB $0.50

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero has Qd Qc

fold, BTN raises to $2.00, fold, Hero raises to $5.25, BTN raises to $16.00, Hero raises to $50.00 and is all-in, BTN calls $34.00

Flop: ($100.25, 2 players) 6d 8d Ah

Turn: ($100.25, 2 players) Kd

River: ($100.25, 2 players) Ac

Hero shows Qd Qc (Two Pair, Aces and Queens)
BTN shows Kc As (Full House, Aces full of Kings)
BTN wins $98.75

Second biggest loss

 

OnGame - $0.50 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

Hero (CO): $48.50
BTN: $87.41
SB: $50.50
BB: $54.29
UTG: $55.90

SB posts SB $0.25, BB posts BB $0.50

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero has Ah Ad

fold, Hero raises to $1.75, fold, SB raises to $5.55, BB calls $5.05, Hero raises to $14.00, fold, BB calls $8.45

Flop: ($33.55, 2 players) Kc Ts 7h
BB checks, Hero bets $15.00, BB raises to $30.00, Hero raises to $34.50 and is all-in, BB calls $4.50

Flop: ($102.55, 2 players) Kc Ts 7h

Turn: ($102.55, 2 players) 9s

River: ($102.55, 2 players) 4d

BB shows Th Tc (Three of a Kind, Tens)
Hero shows Ah Ad (One Pair, Aces)
BB wins $101.05

Third biggest loss

Is this really a easy fold? Gah, I need to be better to lay down those I guess. VPIP/PFR of 28/6 on this guy, just 26 hands.

OnGame - $0.50 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

SB: $32.99
Hero (BB): $54.64
UTG: $94.90
CO: $49.00
BTN: $21.22

SB posts SB $0.25, Hero posts BB $0.50

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero has Ad Th

fold, fold, fold, SB raises to $1.75, Hero raises to $4.00, SB calls $2.25

Flop: ($8.00, 2 players) 6d Ts 8s
SB checks, Hero bets $6.00, SB calls $6.00

Turn: ($20.00, 2 players) As
SB bets $22.99 and is all-in, Hero calls $22.99

Turn: ($65.98, 2 players) As

River: ($65.98, 2 players) 5s

SB shows 4s 7s (Flush, Ace High)
Hero shows Ad Th (Two Pair, Aces and Tens)
SB wins $64.48

Fourth biggest loss

Here I did try to represent JT but that didnt worked so well. A desperate move cause of not hitting anything at any time.

OnGame - $0.50 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

SB: $53.93
Hero (BB): $121.54
UTG: $50.50
CO: $51.93
BTN: $90.87

SB posts SB $0.25, Hero posts BB $0.50

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero has 9s 8s

fold, fold, BTN raises to $1.50, fold, Hero calls $1.00

Flop: ($3.25, 2 players) Jd 6c 5s
Hero checks, BTN bets $1.75, Hero calls $1.75

Turn: ($6.75, 2 players) Th
Hero checks, BTN bets $3.50, Hero raises to $10.00, BTN raises to $23.50, Hero calls $13.50

River: ($53.75, 2 players) 3c
Hero checks, BTN bets $53.75, fold

BTN wins $52.25

I think my game is no good atm, I feel im getting desperate and I dont know If Im just going to lay down my hand to every checkraise ppl do or what to do. It really feels hopeless all this. I dont know if I will move down to 30$ buyin before I go below 1000$. It feels like the best thing.

Sorry for my bad mood. But this is really breaking me atm.

I will get back on my feet again. Learned from this I hope.

Good night

//Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Relaxing some, thinking some.

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 2:56:24 -0500

No play today. Had some things to fix with our car. My last session of almost 6 buyins down got me shocked. Bankroll is now on 1258. That is just above my limit for moving up to the 50$ buyin. If I go below 1000$ I will move down to 30$ buyin again. I was thinking some today to maybe move down to 30$ buyin for a little while, but I will continue on the 50$ tables cause of all the hands I did bought before I moved up. Im thinking if there is some things I can change in my current game and I feel abit unsecure about all this.

My play at the 50$ tables have been really aggressive and I dont know if that is just good. My aggression has been good to me most of time and I hope that this last session just was an exception. So I will continue to be aggressive. Maybe slow down my 3bet a little, especially OOP. I will also watch over my 20 biggest loosing hands from my last session before I play again. I think I also have to put in some more check-raises and so on. I dont do these alot, and when I do them, Im almost always bluffing, so im easy to read here. So thats things I have to think about and be observant around.

Cheers!

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Almost 6 down. What to do?

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 6:10:21 -0500

Pissed off atm.

Dont hit much. When I hit a hand a loose looser gets his monster. I loose every coinflip. Everyone is hitting something on flop and my Cbets NEVER work even on the dryiest boards. WhenI hit a dry board and they call me they had trips or they got a backdoor-flush/straith. Gahhhh.. im really frustrated now... Had to write something.. My biggest loss so far... What to do..

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. 2 up. Slowing down a little.

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 5:39:21 -0500

Felt nice with a gain of 2buyins this morning. 100$. Lost 111$ yesterday so I see this as an repair. Bankroll at 1638.

I have started to slow down abit with my 3bet and my Cbets on this 50$ limit. I have been really aggressive which I will continue with. But in some spots I have to slow down sometimes. I didnt 3bet OOP so much this session, I have done that too much.

Cheers!

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Loss! =)

Sun, 24 Oct 2010 12:15:36 -0500

Now the loss came! My first session with a loss in Oktober. But it feels hard when it come =)

2buyins back, (111$). Bankroll at 1538$.

Little more than 3 hours, 2100 hands. The problem with PokerTracker and Ongame Clients are not still fixed but they found a work around. The sad thing is that I cant close a table, then all will crash. If I stop the PT Hud and close down a table and open a new one and start PT Hud again, its no problem. So this is how it will be for the time beeing I guess.

Did do some misstakes, but did also do some good things like inducing all-in bluffes. I Cbet to much I think. I will have to work on this I guess.

Good night!

/Johan

I post abit more acually. I want to show my 2 biggest losses for today. Feels nice to see them. Not much I could do.

Biggest loss

This guy had a regular PFR and had a high "fold to 3bet". So I did 3bet him alot.

OnGame - $0.50 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

BTN: $49.75
Hero (SB): $75.43
BB: $15.73
UTG: $56.08
CO: $50.00

Hero posts SB $0.25, BB posts BB $0.50

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero has Th 9h

fold, CO raises to $1.50, fold, Hero raises to $4.25, fold, CO calls $2.75

Flop: ($9.00, 2 players) 3h 9d 9c
Hero bets $6.75, CO calls $6.75

Turn: ($22.50, 2 players) 5s
Hero checks, CO bets $12.00, Hero calls $12.00

River: ($46.50, 2 players) Qh
Hero bets $23.25, CO raises to $27.00 and is all-in, Hero calls $3.75

CO shows 3c 3s (Full House, Threes full of Nines)
CO wins $99.00

Second biggest loss

A really nice turncard here. ;) And the river did make us go all-in ofc.

OnGame - $0.50 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

SB: $50.58
Hero (BB): $52.25
UTG: $40.74
CO: $56.33
BTN: $46.00

SB posts SB $0.25, Hero posts BB $0.50

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero has Jc Js

fold, fold, BTN raises to $1.50, fold, Hero raises to $4.00, BTN calls $2.50

Flop: ($8.25, 2 players) Tc 8d Qc
Hero checks, BTN bets $5.00, Hero calls $5.00

Turn: ($18.25, 2 players) Jh
Hero checks, BTN checks

River: ($18.25, 2 players) 8h
Hero bets $13.75, BTN raises to $37.00 and is all-in, Hero calls $23.25

BTN shows Qs Qd (Full House, Queens full of Eights)
BTN wins $90.75

Roadto5maxNL100$. Bah! No play today either I guess.

Sat, 23 Oct 2010 2:43:39 -0500

Pokertracker staff still working on their crashing HUD with ongames new client updates. Im following the work on PokerTrackers forum. They told me to send a email to Bwin to get them aware of how many who have this problem and maybe help making those problem fixed faster. Did loose 3$ yesterday when Bwin crashed and crashed!! I dont count this as a loosing session =D ;)

Going to go with my family and celebrate my sisters daughters birthday, she is 1 year :)

Perhaps there is a fix for this problem tonight. Otherwise I will watch some movies from OutstandingPoker or read in my book im currently reading. Must do something pokerish =)

Cheers!

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Ongame problem.

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 7:26:19 -0500

Seems like lots of ppl who plays on Ongame Network and using either Pokertracker or HoldEm Manager cant play with the HUD on more than one table. So no play for me until this is fixed! Have sent crash logs to Poker Tracker support aswell. Looking over the active forumpost at Pokertracker for new information from time to time. The problem started ysterday. Hopefully they will fix it fast or else it will be no poker today either.

Friends coming for dinner today with their 2 children. One of them as old as our daughter. So I have things to do =D

Cheers!

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Looking over my hud.

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 1:32:17 -0500

No play tonight. Updating the cache in my PokerTracker database after I watched over my hud abit. Taking some time :D

I have added:

"Fold to 3bet by position after initially raising". (HJ, CO, BTN, SB)

"4bet preflop, if initial raiser"

"Fold to preflop 4bet after 3betting"

"PFR Cold Call by position" (HJ, CO, BTN)

Good night!

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. 2,5buyin up!4bet-bluff experiment

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 3:44:04 -0500

Got a nice run today. Played 90 minutes, 790 hands and won 133$. Im going to bed now so no hands this post.

Did bust some crazy bluffers today.

Btw. I have started to notice when the better players 3 bet other players that have a high "fold-to-3bet". I have tested a few times to 4bet bluff those players and it has worked. If the open raiser has a PFR of 30% and a higher "fold-to-3bet" of say 80%. And a regular, 3bets. I have made a 4bet bluff with success. Havent done this many times, but Im looking at this some atm when Im playing and searching for good spots where I perhaps can use this play. When I have done this I have done it with like A5o. I like to do it with a ace cause then there is a ace lesser in play that the other players can have. I think I got that from one of Atta22s or Mortens videos, dont know which video, maybe both, its a good advice!

Good night!

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. What a session :D phew

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 4:05:07 -0500

Played a long session yesterday evening. 4,5 hours. 2420 hands. I was down 3 buyins, got back on plus and then back down to almost 3 buyins down again and then got back to a small plus of 15$! =) What a session. Bankroll at 1510$.

So what could I do better in this session?

I am really aggressive now on these 50$ stakes. I have now a 3bet % of 11,55% in 8500 hands. I think I overdo this abit cause I want to get a feel for how much I can use 3bet against the regulars and how the whole table will react. A thing I will think about in my next session is to slow it down when I have played like 100 hands and got a 3bet of over 20%. I lost some money when I did 3bet a regular from the blinds and then Cbeted the flop and got called and had to give up. Sometimes I did doublebarrel but got called alot. I think that my crazy image got them calling alot in those situations. Next time I will watch my own stats for the session at the specific table before I 3bet etc. Slow it down and only play better cards for a while. I can see on my stats from those 50$ BI tables that my Cbet is abit higher than the old 30$ tables and my success is a little lower. I will think about those things.

I got really lucky the end of the session. But my crazy image helped me ofcause. I got a higher straight 2 times, in about 5 minutes, against the same opponent and got his stack both times, he did left the table. The third hand I really got served on a silver plate. I guess this guy also got abit upset, hehe. Here is the hand.

OnGame - $0.50 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

Hero (BTN): $46.00
SB: $37.81
BB: $17.50
UTG: $58.49
CO: $20.00

SB posts SB $0.25, BB posts BB $0.50, CO posts DB $0.50

Pre Flop: ($1.25) Hero has Th Jh

UTG raises to $2.25, fold, Hero raises to $5.25, fold, fold, UTG calls $3.00

Flop: ($11.75, 2 players) Kh 9h 7h
UTG checks, Hero bets $8.75, UTG calls $8.75

Turn: ($29.25, 2 players) 2d
UTG checks, Hero bets $14.75, UTG calls $14.75

River: ($58.75, 2 players) Qh
UTG bets $29.74 and is all-in, Hero calls $17.25 and is all-in

UTG shows Qc Ah (Flush, Ace High)
Hero shows Th Jh (Straight Flush, King High)
Hero wins $91.75

Cheers!

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. 1,5 up this morning. 3Bet!!

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 7:27:11 -0500

I gained 1,5 buyin this morning (85$). Played 40 minutes, 390 hands, while my daughter had her dinner sleep :D

Bankroll at 1495$. I wonder when Im going to get a loosing session. It comes when it comes.

Now I have played 13 sessions without a fall since 2 Oktober. I cant complain.

Today I also reached a goal I have in "Swedish Kronor", over 10.000 swedish kronor. :) Next goal is to reach 100$ buyin and then the next goal is 100.000 swedish kronor, about 15000$.

Currently Im playing 6 tables but when I reach the 100$ buyin and have played there for a while I think I will increase to 9 tables, one at the time. And sometime after that I will try the 200$ buyin. If this plan takes 1 year or 8 years, I dont care. I will get there eventually.

I 3bet alot when I play at 50$, my stats from the 6k hands I have played at 50$BI I have 10,83% 3bet and a Squeeze of 7,5%, dont know how they will change. There are many players that have 75+% at "fold to 3bet" I raise those ALOT when I have position on them. I did also win alot today with my Cbet on the flop when those players called me. My biggest win from a single pot today was only 17$. And I gained a a total of 85$. 17, 16, 15 ,12, 9, 7 was my biggest wins from single hands today. No need to get whole stacks here :).

I like Attas talk about "bluffing-capital", when its time to bluff in relation to if your opponents will belive u at that time. "Meta-game"? I think Im getting deeper and deeper into this and I think I have alot of this with me in how Im used to think in my everyday life. My work as a pedagouge of behaviour treatment and my interest in that also gives me an edge here I think. I have to get "into" my clients heads to help them in the best of ways and I find it really really interesting.

I think I will play some more this evening. Perhaps I get below 10.000 swedish kronor again =D Hope not!

Cheers!

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. 1 up. Working this weekend.

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 6:09:02 -0500

Just a fast report. Working alot this weekend. Gained 1 buyin more at 50$ tables today. 240 hands. Bankroll at 1410$. Its insane how bad players are here sometimes, just watch this hand. Had to go to bed, hadnt time to get more money from him.  Good night! /Johan

OnGame - $0.50 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

Hero (BTN): $87.93
SB: $136.00
BB: $98.67
UTG: $49.75
CO: $83.28

SB posts SB $0.25, BB posts BB $0.50

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero has Qc Kh

fold, CO raises to $1.75, Hero raises to $4.50, fold, BB calls $4.00, CO calls $2.75

Flop: ($13.75, 3 players) 4s As 2h
BB checks, CO checks, Hero bets $7.00, BB calls $7.00, CO calls $7.00

Turn: ($34.75, 3 players) Qd
BB checks, CO checks, Hero checks

River: ($34.75, 3 players) 7d
BB checks, CO checks, Hero checks

BB shows Ks 3h (High Card, Ace)
Hero shows Qc Kh (One Pair, Queens)
Hero wins $33.25

Roadto5maxNL100$. 2.5 buyins up at 50$ =) phew!

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 6:13:33 -0500

Up 120$. 1150 hands. 2 hours. Bankroll at 1358$. I was really excited, hands shaking. =)

Those 2million hands at the 50$ buyin tables took like 40 hours to import to my database =D But shit, that was really a good thing. I have hands on almost everyone at those 50$ tables. Thousands on the better ones. I did 3bet them alot! ;) hahaha, my stats for the sessions on the six tables I was playing at was crazy. 13-15% 3bet. I did really build a crazy image! :) But I also had to watch out for the better players, when they had a hand they played back. AND the loose ones and the combination of those players together.

My database hade like 7k players before I did ad the 2M hands to my database. Now it has 21k. Thats 14k different players that have played on the 50$ buyin since 25 of September (I got the hands from that date)!!!!!! Crazy! Crazy Crazy! =) Thats alot of players.

I got some nice hands when I played today. Lets see two of them.

First hand

Crazy player that I didnt have any hands on from all my imported hands. Really aggressive. I guessed that he was a bad player. VPIP/PFR of 26/19. 3bet 14%. Streetaggression 4,inf,inf. 100 hands.

OnGame - $0.50 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

Hero (BB): $57.10
UTG: $59.96
CO: $53.00
BTN: $72.13
SB: $64.75

SB posts SB $0.25, Hero posts BB $0.50

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero has Ah Ks

fold, CO raises to $1.50, BTN raises to $5.25, fold, Hero calls $4.75, CO calls $3.75

Flop: ($16.00, 3 players) 2d Kc 4s
Hero checks, CO checks, BTN bets $8.00, Hero raises to $16.00, fold, BTN calls $8.00

Turn: ($48.00, 2 players) 9s
Hero checks, BTN bets $50.88 and is all-in, Hero calls $35.85 and is all-in

Turn: ($119.70, 2 players) 9s

River: ($119.70, 2 players) Js

Hero shows Ah Ks (One Pair, Kings)
BTN shows Ad Jd (One Pair, Jacks)
Hero wins $118.20

Second hand

A regular player. 34k hands! VPIP/PFR of 18/14. Fold to Cbet just 50. He like to follow. 3bet of 5. Raising 18% from BTN. 4bet 8%. Streetaggresion 3,2,2.

My own stats in 200 hands where 27/24. Calling 7%. Streetaggression 4,inf,2. 3bet of 22 =).

JUST because he did check the turn I did call his bet. It was a pretty dry board and I guessed he wanted to make a move.

OnGame - $0.50 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

Hero (BB): $113.07
UTG: $50.00
CO: $56.59
BTN: $66.78
SB: $90.92

SB posts SB $0.25, Hero posts BB $0.50

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero has Js Jd

fold, fold, BTN raises to $1.75, fold, Hero raises to $4.50, BTN calls $2.75

Flop: ($9.25, 2 players) 5h 2c 9s
Hero bets $4.75, BTN raises to $13.00, Hero calls $8.25

Turn: ($35.25, 2 players) 6d
Hero checks, BTN checks

River: ($35.25, 2 players) 8d
Hero checks, BTN bets $21.00, Hero calls $21.00

Hero shows Js Jd (One Pair, Jacks)
BTN shows Jh Ts (High Card, Jack)
Hero wins $75.75

I will play some more this evening. Hope it will go well :)

Cheers!

Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. 50$ buyin, here I come! =D

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 3:04:37 -0500

Today I bought 2 million hands (HandHQ) from Ongames 5-max NL 50$ buyin! I dont know how long it will take to get them into Pokertracker but if its ready for tonight im going to hit the tables then. Im really excited =) if I will be going good at the 50$ BI i will after that reach the 100$ BI tables =) The big goal for me. Been playing alot these last 15 months, studying books/videos. Havent really done anything else at my own sparetime. It has been that and then beeing with my family and working. I know this will pay off in the long run. I really want this.

Bankroll at 1237$. If I get a bad run at 50$ i will move down to 30$ if I get below 987$. That is 5buyins. Im not really scared of moving down, thats a good thing I think, it has happend many times before, nothing that concern me really. But I have prepared in alot of ways for this so I hope I will stay at the 50$ BI.

Wish me good luck! =D

Best wishes from Johan!

Roadto5maxNL100$. Near 3 up today.

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 3:30:03 -0500

Almost 3 buyins up today (80$). Bankroll at 1289$. Im really close to move up to the 50$ buyins. As I have said before I will, when i reach 1300$, buy handhistories for about 50$ and hit the 50$ buyin tables with my bankroll of 1250. If I go below 1000$ I will move down to "my" 30$ buyin. I feel like home here now acually =) almost 50000 hands at the 30$. It has been good expecience but its time to move on.

Bed is waiting. No hands today.

Good night!!

Roadto5maxNL100$. Gahhh.. reinstallation.

Sat, 09 Oct 2010 5:09:08 -0500

Have been trying to fix my computer. It went SOOO slow when I installed Visual Studio 2010 express... Im about to do homepage in Silverlight for the company im working at. So, I cant even play 6tables. I just played a session of 1100 hand and gained 10$, bankroll at 1207$, it worked but its really laggy. I did uninstall VS2010 and everything with it and cleaned the register earlier today, thats why I was able to play somewhat this evening. Tomorrow I will reinstall Vista and even never have anything more with programming in this laptop. =) They have to fix another computer for me to work on, thats it.

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. 20$ up. 80min. 530 hands.

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 6:24:14 -0500

A little shy gain. Was at first down 30$, alot of my cbets on dry flops failed. Then I won 2 bigger stacks and ended on +20$ for the day. Bankroll att 1220$. Have been winning in my last six sessions. I have up to this date in October won nearly as much as I did in all September. Feels like im getting more and more fear in getting a loosing session but I know its unavoidable :D. Hopefully I play better cause of this and not more scared.

Now I will watch Mortens new video!

Good night!

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Back with almost 4 up! =D

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 4:07:19 -0500

Been working alot since Tuesday morning. Just played a short session of 50 minutes, 465 hands and got a nice gain of almost 4 buyins, 110$. Bankroll at exacly 1200,00 $ =) hehe. Before I started to play today it felt like I had lost all my "poker-thinking" because my 2 days of. But that wasnt the case :) I got into my play quickly. I didnt have any bad luck today and everything went fine. Took many loose passive players to valuetown tonight  and got some bluffers on the river.

Value-town

I think this guy had AQ. I did wonder how much I should bet the river, If he had missed his draws he would fold anyway. So could he call a 3/4 potbet with his AQ? I hadnt any stats on him. But I had seen him call some bigger bets. When I think about it now afterwards I think he would atleast call a 3/4 potbet on the river cause he did it on the turn. Perhaps he would call a shove on the river there. Hmmm.. well, I got 12$ now but next time I will go for a higher bet in this situation.

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

BTN: $29.85
SB: $34.35
BB: $29.55
Hero (UTG): $46.60
CO: $43.97

SB posts SB $0.15, BB posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero has Ac Ah

Hero raises to $1.20, fold, fold, SB calls $1.05, fold

Flop: ($2.70, 2 players) 7h Qh 6d
SB bets $1.35, Hero raises to $3.45, SB calls $2.10

Turn: ($9.60, 2 players) 4d
SB checks, Hero bets $7.20, SB calls $7.20

River: ($24.00, 2 players) 4s
SB checks, Hero bets $12.00, SB calls $12.00

Hero shows Ac Ah (Two Pair, Aces and Fours)
Hero wins $46.50

100$ more up (BR of 1300$) and Im going to buy some handhistories and hit the 50$ buyin! Soon maybe I have to change the "name" of my blog ;D hihihihi.

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. 24$ up. Getting the car! =D

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 1:21:24 -0500

Did play 825 hands earlier today. Made a shy profit again today. 24$ up. I dont mind, as long as I dont loose =D. I made a bigger misstake today when I played, otherwise I would earn another 17$. Got abit angry on myself, should not made that call. Will prob paste that hand some day. Not now.

As Im writing this im sitting on a train to go get our new car. So im bloggin on the train :) Have never done that before.

My bankroll is now at 1089$. Its growing and Im proud of my decision to not move to the 50$ when I reached 420$ =) that was my earlier aggressive requirement for the 50$, (thanks Tim, Morten and others for the advice!) Now I have played 45k hands on 30$ and learned alot I think.

When I get 1300$ I will buy 2.000.000 hands from the Ongame 50$ and hit that level. It will be fun when It happens.

Now I have to shut down my laptop before it shuts down by itself =D no battery left!!! Big warningsign!!

Best wishes!

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. 20$ up.

Sun, 03 Oct 2010 3:06:02 -0500

Did build my bankroll with a shy 20$ this evening. 110 minutes. Bankroll at 1065$. When I reach around 1250 I will buy handhistory from the 50$ limit and then move up to it.

//Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. New car!

Sun, 03 Oct 2010 9:19:44 -0500

Have to tell! Just sold our car. Going to buy another tomorrow. A Saab 9-3 Tid Kombi Vector instead. Did get a good price.

Here is how our new car looks like. Same color aswell. =) Got a slighty better price than I expected on the sale. Thats a bonus!

http://image.bilgaraget.com/extra/carimg/243901_244000/saab-9-3-243920_6621482.jpg

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Short session. 1 up. Crazy dude.

Sat, 02 Oct 2010 6:35:47 -0500

Been at work all day yesterday and today. Did play a short session when I came home. 35 minutes and then I got really tired. No need to play to tired, I know what happens. My brain starts to think sloooooowly :D.

Gained 31$, bankroll at 1045$.

Now its time for bed!

This was the hand I got my winnings from today. I hadnt any stats on this guy but he had been going all in preflop and on the flop many times with his whole stack against a simple PFR or just cbeted/donkbeted the flop allin. And I did put him on a high club on the flop when he went all in and my hand held. I just reviewed the hand and I think my preflop 4bet should be higher. Like 5$ instead of 3$. Anyway I still would go all in preflop against this crazy dude. Comments are welcome.

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

SB: $31.04
BB: $27.14
UTG: $33.74
CO: $29.55
Hero (BTN): $30.12

SB posts SB $0.15, BB posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero has Qs Qd

UTG calls $0.30, fold, Hero raises to $1.50, fold, fold, UTG raises to $2.70, Hero raises to $4.50, UTG calls $1.80

Flop: ($9.45, 2 players) 4c Jc 8c
UTG bets $29.24 and is all-in, Hero calls $25.62 and is all-in

Flop: ($60.69, 2 players) 4c Jc 8c

Turn: ($60.69, 2 players) 7d

River: ($60.69, 2 players) 6s

UTG shows Kc Qh (High Card, King)
Hero shows Qs Qd (One Pair, Queens)
Hero wins $59.19

Good night!

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Justice! =D

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 6:59:34 -0500

Did went down 3 buyins yesterday. Today up a half buyin. Was down like 2 buyins at one moment. Bankroll at 1014$. I have to be short, going to sleep. Work early tomorrow. I really liked the response I got from Morten and Atta on my last post. I love every response I get, its fun to hear other players words on my hands and stuff.

I have a tough question for u all. Why do I almost scream out "JUSTICE!!" when I see the river of this hand? ;)

Good night! /Johan

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

CO: $26.95
BTN: $26.28
SB: $14.60
BB: $32.75
Hero (UTG): $62.55

SB posts SB $0.15, BB posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero has As Ah

Hero raises to $1.20, CO raises to $4.05, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to $12.60, CO raises to $26.95 and is all-in, Hero calls $14.35

Flop: ($54.35, 2 players) Js Td 2h

Turn: ($54.35, 2 players) 4c

River: ($54.35, 2 players) Ac

Hero shows As Ah (Three of a Kind, Aces)
CO shows Jd Jh (Three of a Kind, Jacks)
Hero wins $52.85

Roadto5maxNL100$. YES! Over 6 up tonight! =D

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 4:30:06 -0500

Sometimes everything just goes your way. Flopping trips with your pocketpair 50% of the time. Every semibluff goes to a nutflush. You get your house when an "all-in-lover" gets the flush.. your C-bets are working 80% of the time...and so on.. those sessions are as funny as the bad ones are frustrating.

Today I did build my bankroll with 190$. Its now 994$. Close to 1000$! =D Four digits. My plan eight years in the future is to have built a bankroll of atleast six digits. :) 2.000.000 swedish kronor is my goal when im 40 years old, im now 32. Thats about 285.000$. I like to dream about this and this is one thing that gets me focused on improving the game. When I dont think about my long term plan I think about the smaller funnier things about the game. I laugh about my own frustration sometimes. My other goals with poker is to be able to travel around the world. Me and my gf have dreamed about this since we met but havent got the money for that. Perhaps this is possible in the future. If not, I prob will be earning some for a smaller trip somewhere =D.

To the game. I have started to experiment with checkraises on the flop against better regulars at the 30$ buyin stakes im playing at. I do this when they are the aggressor and I think they have respect for my play. I do it on dry flops and on dangerous flops that I think have missed them and on what they prob think could have hitted me. Like this hand. Im atm scared every time I do this kind of play but that will go away, just as the scary thoughts when I started to do 3bets preflop =D they are now as scary as the cbet, a big part of the game and not scary at all.

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

BB: $109.91
UTG: $29.40
BTN: $30.90
Hero (SB): $34.99

Hero posts SB $0.15, BB posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero has Qd Qh

fold, fold, Hero raises to $0.90, BB raises to $2.70, Hero calls $1.80

Flop: ($5.40, 2 players) Jc Td Th
Hero checks, BB bets $3.30, Hero raises to $10.00, fold

Hero wins $11.40

Good night!!

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. 1 up. 26k hands at 30$NL in Sept.

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 3:46:57 -0500

1 up today. Bankroll at 805$. Have been playing some short sessions these last days and have been working some aswell. This month my bankroll has been moving between 700 and 900$. I have played 26000 hands at the 30$ limit this month. Im learning and figuring things out. Carefully trying new things sometimes etc. Next month I will go for some coaching I think. Morten maybe, if he have been starting to coach then. I think he said he will coach at my stake aswell.

Going to go for sleep earlier today. Meeting at work tomorrow, I hate to be tired then =D

Good night!

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Haha, what a fold. =D Gahhh!

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 3:47:58 -0500

Did just play 800 hands. Went up 22$ on the session btw. Bankroll at 790$.

Did the misstake of my life. Did fold the nuts (or almost) on the river to a push. I really dont want to talk about it *laugh* =D But I have to tell it.

I had the QQ with the board QJ5 against a pretty tight aggressive player. He did raise from UTG (2% PFR from that poss on him.) and I just called him with my Queens. I just called hit potbet on the flop. The board got QJ55 and he bet 3/4 pot. I did put him on AA or KK. I did just call him. The river came another 5 and the board was QJ555. Now I somehow thought that he had a higher house with his AA or KK and did fold to his shove........!!#¤%&%"##"¤. I did only loose 10$ on the hand but I should have won 30$ =D

So.. there the story is :) hard to admit.

Good night!

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Have been on winners tilt =) 2up.

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 5:22:45 -0500

The 27 and 28 of august I won 14 buyins at the 30$. Since then I have been going up and down, up and down. I must now admit that I have been on winners tilt since then. But these weeks of treading water has been very good for me, im atm not focused on how much to win, instead Im focused to play the best I can and take my thinkingprocesses further with the help of OutstandingPoker videos, books and analysing my bad decisions. I have started to stop watching PokerTracker how much I have won or lost. That energy I put into thinking of doing the best decisions at those tables I have in front of me. I think "The dollars always moving up or down, I have seen this for a long time now, lets look at the tables more instead and dont care about the $-sign" This helps me alot.

Have played 3000 hands yesterday and today. I just went up 2 buyins and bankroll is on 778$. Im atm reading "Harrington on Online Cash Games 6max". This with combination of OutstandingPoker videos have made my preflop play alot better these last weeks. Im putting pressure on the regulars on 30$ with 3-bets and earning from their 75+ "fold to 3bet". There are good players and there are really bad players and I know I have to think about those bad players before I do any move against a better one.

I have two hands to show. A winning hand and a loosing hand. Both pretty interesting I think. Lets start with the winning one.

Winning hand

My opponent had some strange stats I think. A VPIP/PFR of 30/0. Streetagressions was 2/inf/inf. I had 67 hands on him. Fold to Cbet of 100 but only 2 situations on this. He donkbetted me on the flop and I did put him on a draw, I reraised him with a potbet, it that enough? Well, here is the hand. I didnt have the odds to call If I knew he got a flush on the turn, but he could have like anything cause of his aggression and I had the Ace of heart that could save me. With his callingrange of 30 and his aggression I made up to call his all in on the turn.

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

Hero (BTN): $40.84
SB: $27.76
BB: $32.65
UTG: $24.87
CO: $31.29

SB posts SB $0.15, BB posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero has Ah Jd

UTG calls $0.30, fold, Hero raises to $1.20, fold, BB calls $0.90, fold

Flop: ($2.85, 2 players) 6h Jc 9h
BB bets $2.85, Hero raises to $6.45, BB calls $3.60

Turn: ($15.75, 2 players) 3h
BB checks, Hero bets $7.95, BB raises to $25.00 and is all-in, Hero calls $17.05

Turn: ($65.75, 2 players) 3h

River: ($65.75, 2 players) Ac

BB shows 9d Kd (One Pair, Nines)
Hero shows Ah Jd (Two Pair, Aces and Jacks)
Hero wins $64.25

Loosing hand

Somewhat a better player on these stakes. VPIP/PFR of 21/17. Streetaggression 6,3,4. Fold to 3bet 67%. PFR from HiJack 25%. 309 hands. I decided to 3bet him in possition. The other players I was no really loose ones so I wasnt so affraid of another one. When he did call my 3bet I knew he had some good thing and that he hitted that flop good. Hopefully with trips. He did and I had bad luck.

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

SB: $15.05
BB: $9.62
UTG: $33.19
Hero (CO): $29.19
BTN: $31.11

SB posts SB $0.15, BB posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero has Th Ad

UTG raises to $0.90, Hero raises to $2.70, fold, fold, fold, UTG calls $1.80

Flop: ($5.85, 2 players) Jh Qh Kc
UTG checks, Hero bets $4.35, UTG raises to $11.70, Hero raises to $26.49 and is all-in, UTG calls $14.79

Flop: ($58.83, 2 players) Jh Qh Kc

Turn: ($58.83, 2 players) Qd

River: ($58.83, 2 players) As

UTG shows Ks Kh (Full House, Kings full of Queens)
Hero shows Th Ad (Straight, Ace High)
UTG wins $57.33

Comments are welcome

Cheers!

//Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Up, down, up. =D Poker Coaching..

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 6:07:02 -0500

Been working some these last days. Have played some short sessions only (30-45 minutes). Im stuck at 30$ buyin and have been playing 30000 hands there now. I have no hurry. Im reading books, looking at hands. Looking at other ppl hands. Thinking and learning.

Bankroll at 727$. Soon I will get my affilliate bonus from Bwin. 100$. It will go to a sparkling water mashine. =)

Next time I will get a 100$ bonus. I will try some coaching from one of our pros. I guess I will pick HockeyGuy cause I think he fits my stakes the best. I wonder if Morten is coaching at 30$ buyin? Is he coaching? Think I red it somewhere. He is not at the poker coaching page. If I want Atta22 I have to wait untill I get another bonus again ;) hehe. He is too expensive!

See ya!!

//Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Nearly 3 up..

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 4:59:35 -0500

Im short and focused.. almost 3 up tonight.. 87$.

Good night!

/Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. 3 buyins more.... doooown..

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 7:15:23 -0500

I feel like there is no way of me to win.... Its really impossible.. I dont hit anythin and get called on ALL cbets..  on dry boards etc etc...When I hit something, some dork have something incredible better...  It really feels like there is NO way to earn something.. and its probably so at the moment.. I cant win atm.. and I have to play good so I dont loose so much.. but then I think that if its only going down..why dont restart at 4$ buyin...?

Have made my bankroll go from 900 to 658 in a week.. and I havent played much.. 240$.. 8 buyins..I have backed 12-14 buyins before but it was the last time I picked out the cash and restarted at 30$.

I really dont want to see the cash go down the drain and only watch it.. so unnecessary..If i go to 550$ I will pick it out and take a brake. Perhaps, perhaps not..  I know that those things can happen.. downswings.. but why not get it out now and restart, it feels like it will probably end up that way anyway..

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Gaaahhhhhh......  I have to just keep going to get better... I know!!!!!

I guess I will just keep on playing... I just have to get my feelings out! :)

Sorry....

Happy holiday!

Best wishes

Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. So unreal... No fun at all..

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 6:18:27 -0500

Little more than 3 buyins back again.......  im really upset so Im going to sleep now.. 550 hands..

Ill got AA 5 times, AKx 6, AQx 7times, AJx 9times. Didnt earn a penny on them. Didnt hit flops. Did bet my Cbets on dry boards. Felt like everything was against me.... gahh..      It really felt like I couldnt do anything except looosing..

Well... I did my best... hope it going my way a little more next session..

Good night..

Roadto5maxNL100$. 3up! =) Yes! A little repair! A hand!

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 6:00:35 -0500

Played 65 minutes, 500 hands and managed to repair my little 5buyin downswing with 3 buyins (92$). Bankroll up to 843$. Feels really nice. It wasnt easy decisions today. I have a hand to show you. Im acually abit proud of my analysis of this hand. It feels nice to be able to do that more and more while playing. I would like any comments on this hand! I will still be proud of it if u dont like something with it =D

Im also proud (shit, im alot proud today) to say that my biggest loss today was only 4,65$! =D

Biggest win today

This was a player with a VPIP/PFR of 30/12. Had 148 hands on him. His streetsaggression was 1,1,2. Fold to Cbet 50%.

I was abit afraid that he had a higher flush with the Ace of spades but his callingrange was pretty wide so I guessed he could have alot of other spades combinations. I hoped he had his flush on the flop aswell or perhaps he had only a Ace of spades, in BOTH ways it was the best to shove on the turn I think (comments?), so he didnt have odds to call with the Ace of Spades (if he had it) and hoped for a nother spade to come. And the other way if he held two lower spades than mine (what he acually did have in this situation) he would want to call my all in on the turn if he thought that I had one higher spade (Ace or King) and was trying to semi-bluff him.

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

UTG: $35.30
CO: $9.58
BTN: $39.74
Hero (SB): $38.06
BB: $30.00

Hero posts SB $0.15, BB posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero has Ks Ts

UTG raises to $0.90, CO calls $0.90, BTN calls $0.90, Hero calls $0.75, fold

Flop: ($3.90, 4 players) 5s 6s 3s
Hero checks, UTG bets $1.50, fold, BTN raises to $4.50, Hero raises to $7.50, fold, BTN calls $3.00

Turn: ($20.40, 2 players) Th
Hero bets $29.66 and is all-in, BTN calls $29.66

Turn: ($79.72, 2 players) Th

River: ($79.72, 2 players) Js

Hero shows Ks Ts (Flush, King High)
BTN shows Qs 8s (Flush, Queen High)
Hero wins $78.22

Good night pokerfriends!

//Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. 5 down, since yday. Pause..

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 7:59:17 -0500

Im going to take a pause now...dunno for how long.. I guess I will play tomorrow evening again :) when I think about it. Bankroll down from 905$ to 751$. Now Im going to make dinner to my gf who is coming home soon. No poker tonight. PAUSE!

Im down 5 buyins since ysterday. Comments on my play are free and welcome in any form.

Hand one from today

Thought he was bluffing because he missed his draw. He had 79/0 in VPIP/PFR. 58 hands. His flop,turn,river aggression was 1,1,inf. Fold to Cbet 71%.

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

CO: $32.26
BTN: $22.94
SB: $31.93
Hero (BB): $30.74
UTG: $63.16

SB posts SB $0.15, Hero posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero has As 9d

fold, CO calls $0.30, fold, SB calls $0.15, Hero raises to $1.20, CO calls $0.90, SB calls $0.90

Flop: ($3.60, 3 players) 9s Js 4h
SB checks, Hero bets $2.70, CO calls $2.70, SB calls $2.70

Turn: ($11.70, 3 players) Jc
SB checks, Hero bets $5.85, fold, SB calls $5.85

River: ($23.40, 2 players) 2c
SB bets $10.00, Hero calls $10.00

SB shows Jd 3s (Three of a Kind, Jacks)
SB wins $41.90

Hand two from today

Stats on opponent 52/0. Fold to Cbet 33%. 35 hands. Streetaggressions 2,1,1.

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

UTG: $31.43
CO: $73.06
BTN: $20.07
SB: $34.12
Hero (BB): $30.15

SB posts SB $0.15, Hero posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero has Qc Qh

fold, CO calls $0.30, BTN calls $0.30, fold, Hero raises to $1.20, CO calls $0.90, BTN calls $0.90

Flop: ($3.75, 3 players) 4s 5c Ts
Hero bets $3.00, CO calls $3.00, fold

Turn: ($9.75, 2 players) Qs
Hero bets $4.95, CO calls $4.95

River: ($19.65, 2 players) Kd
Hero bets $9.90, CO calls $9.90

Hero shows Qc Qh (Three of a Kind, Queens)
CO shows 8s Js (Flush, Queen High)
CO wins $37.95

se ya!

//johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. 3 down... what to do about it....

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 4:10:39 -0500

Sorry but im in a bad mood.

87$ down.. "very fun"..  this was one of the last hands I just played and was thinking that I will catch up some in this session becuase I was down some.. but no, ofc not..

Did some stupid things aswell this session, as trying to bluff out a callingstation whos never ever have seen the fold-button in his pokerclient. This last hands made me so sick of this shit... It feels like the last 3-4 sessions have been sooo booring..  When I accually get something they either fold or they have a monster OR they are lucky as hell.  I typed in the chat to this last guy to go and buy a lottery ticket and become a millionare..  I got exacly the flop I did wanted.. but no.. he had a contract with luck himself. This was a good regular with a VPIP/FPR of 21/16. His aggressionfactors on flop, turn river was 2,2,3. 600 hands. I had been pretty aggressive with a VPIP/PFR on this session 32/25. He sertanly have alotof hands on me and could prob see that I wasnt so aggressive overall but in this session I had been 3betting and raising alot.

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

UTG: $40.78
CO: $19.43
Hero (BTN): $36.78
SB: $21.87
BB: $26.33

SB posts SB $0.15, BB posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero has Ac Jc

UTG raises to $1.05, fold, Hero raises to $2.85, fold, fold, UTG raises to $7.00, Hero calls $4.15

Flop: ($14.45, 2 players) Jh 3s Ad
UTG bets $9.00, Hero calls $9.00

Turn: ($32.45, 2 players) 5d
UTG bets $24.78 and is all-in, Hero calls $20.78 and is all-in

Turn: ($74.01, 2 players) 5d

River: ($74.01, 2 players) Kd

UTG shows Ks As (Two Pair, Aces and Kings)
Hero shows Ac Jc (Two Pair, Aces and Jacks)
UTG wins $72.51

Good night....

Roadto5maxNL100$. 1 up today. Relaxing. New Car.

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:08:11 -0500

Played 820 hands today. Gained 26$. Bankroll at 905$.

We (me, my gf and our daughter) are at my gf father this weekend. Relaxing and eating great food. Ofc I have to put in a 1.5 hour session. The pokerpractice is more important than relaxing all the time =D We are also going to buy my gf fathers wifes car. Our is getting pretty old. This is a Saab 9-3 from year 2007. Nice car :)

Have a nice continuation on your weekend all Outstanding pokerplayers!

Best wishes!

//Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. 3 hours session. 3$ up!! Hehe.

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:21:45 -0500

Played 1638 hands in a little more than 3 hours. I was down 1buyins at first, I managed to go up to 1 buyin up. After a little while I was down little more than 2buyins and the last half an hour I managed to work my way up to a even result. Im satisfied with that repair. I even managed to earn 3$ in 3 hours! =D

I felt that I didnt get any good holecards at all and I couldnt keep up my aggression im used to have. There where alot of loose passive (60/5) and I didnt hit much against those with my high aces.

Bankroll at 879$.

No hands today.

//Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. 4 up! Gogogogo!

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:32:34 -0500

Grew my bankroll with 122$ at 30$buyin earlier today and its on 894$ now. When I get to 1000$ I will pick out around 100$, I have promised my girlfriend that I will buy a Sodastreamer then =D so we can do fizzy (sparkling) water :D. I put alot of time on poker atm (2-3 hours every day) and I want to show that we get something from it. =) Maybe someday I will play 4 hours a day and have the rest to spare time.

I think I will move to 50$buyin when I have built my bankroll to around 1200$. Thats a big difference to my first 50$buyin bankroll requirement that was 440$ =) or something.

//Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Aaaannd 3 down =)

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 3:24:29 -0500

Lost 87$ yesterday of 2,5 hours playing. 1200 hands. Got rivered out and stuff and I also did pushed all in by mistake one time... that was no fun at all.. 76s.. =) Has never happend before. 30$ down the drain and a nice lesson on looking where you click :)

Bankroll at 772$.

No hands.

//Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Aaaannnd 4 buyins up..

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 4:15:14 -0500

Up down up down up down.. =)

Won 119$ today. Bankroll at 866$. The bad luck I had yesterday turned to a nice session today.

I have to show a nice hand.

I did just call the initial raiser on the flop cause I was really sure that the preflop raiser would raise after me. I think he would fold If I would have raised there cause I know he respekts my play. So I did just act weak to get his money in. I hoped he had the AK and therefore raise but he did do that anyway to get of the other two loose passive guys.

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

BB: $13.73
UTG: $10.82
Hero (CO): $33.22
BTN: $27.91
SB: $46.14

SB posts SB $0.15, BB posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero has 4h 4c

UTG calls $0.30, Hero calls $0.30, BTN raises to $1.80, fold, BB calls $1.50, UTG calls $1.50, Hero calls $1.50

Flop: ($7.35, 4 players) 4d Kd 8h
BB bets $1.05, UTG calls $1.05, Hero calls $1.05, BTN raises to $26.11 and is all-in, BB calls $10.88 and is all-in, UTG calls $7.97 and is all-in, Hero calls $25.06

Flop: ($80.52, 4 players) 4d Kd 8h

Turn: ($80.52, 4 players) 5s

River: ($80.52, 4 players) Ts

BB shows Ks Js (One Pair, Kings)
UTG shows 9d Td (One Pair, Tens)
Hero shows 4h 4c (Three of a Kind, Fours)
BTN shows Qd Ad (High Card, Ace)
Hero wins $41.93
Hero wins $8.73
Hero wins $28.36

Good night!

//Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Lost 3,5 buyins...

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 6:39:27 -0500

Hi.

KK vs AA...  Every loose passve player raise my Cbet on turn with a potbet and I have to fold. AsAc vs QhT..  three hearts on board and ofc a fourth on the turn.. no hits whatso ever... felt like I couldnt do a thing to earn anything in any action whatsoever...   I will just forget this session :)  I know 3,5 down isnt much.. and I would prob be even lower if I wouldnt have folded...   It really felt like every loose passive player hit his hand..  I did really want to see if they had that monster... but I did fold instead and watched the cash go away....

Good night

//Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Played 2h. Up 2,5 buyins.

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 6:04:51 -0500

Hi again.

Yesterday was a really rollercoaster. I was up 3buyins first. I fell to even. I won 2-3 buyins again and landed on 1 buyin. =D Think PLUS PLUS PLUS!

Today I played 2 hours and got up 2.5 buyins. Bankroll grew with 76$ and is now 851$. No time to post hands now but I know there is some hands I must go back to and have a look. I think I could have won like 1 more buyin if I would have make slightly better decisions. Will have a look tomorrow after a long days work. Working allday from 8 untill 23 in the evening/night.

Good night!

//Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Friday! Up 3 buyins in 465 hands.

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 5:12:10 -0500

Hi! =)

Played a session of 50 minutes before I went to the dentist. No holes! Weee. Btw. went up 91$. Bankroll at 843$. Now I feel abit for the 50$ buyin again but I have said to myself to wait and do that when I have been at the 30$ buyin for a little while and have finnished my reading in Harringtons new book about beating small stakes. Some Outstandingpoker movies will also be watched =D

A nice hand I think from the session today.

This was againt a little loose aggressive opponent with a VPIP/PFR of 28/21. Aggression factors over turn,flop,river was 3,2,1.   116 hands on this guy. He had not folded to a Cbet 7 of 7 times and he had raised my Cbet 3 of 3 times. I was abit scared of AQ, thats why I played like this and when I did understand that he didnt have it I tried to get him to try to take the pot on the river, and I did call that. Any comments on my play is welcome, should I have cbet the turn aswell? (if we didnt knew what he had) A potbet from him would have maked me to fold the turn. But he didnt and I understood that he didnt have anything and I did want him to bet the river thats why I just checked. Its hard to be out of position! =D

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

BB: $60.28
UTG: $7.26
BTN: $34.39
Hero (SB): $29.25

Hero posts SB $0.15, BB posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero has Js Ah

fold, BTN raises to $0.90, Hero raises to $2.70, fold, BTN calls $1.80

Flop: ($5.70, 2 players) Qh Ac 5d
Hero bets $4.35, BTN calls $4.35

Turn: ($14.40, 2 players) 7d
Hero checks, BTN checks

River: ($14.40, 2 players) 3s
Hero checks, BTN bets $9.00, Hero calls $9.00

Hero shows Js Ah (One Pair, Aces)
BTN shows 5c 6c (One Pair, Fives)
Hero wins $30.90

//Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. 3470 hands. 52$ up.

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:39:07 -0500

Played 3470 hands yesterday. Did build my bankroll with 52$ to 750$. Hard sessions, on all three I first went down 2-3 buyins and then turned it around to a win at the end.

No hands this post!

Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Home today. 1 up at 30$buyin.

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:03:54 -0500

Played 1200 hands in little more than 2 hours. At first i went down almost 3 buyins before got some good action. I thought if there could be a reason and I guess I was betting to much into callingstations. I did remember after the session that the "players seen flop" was unusuall high when I did play before twelve this morning. I almost didnt knew any players and I tried to be to aggressive on flops and Cbeted alot when I didnt hit anything. I think that was one of the reasons. The money I got back were mostly from those callingstations when I did get some stats on them.

I am up 33$ today and I think I will play some more later tonight. Bankroll at 733$.

//Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Back to 30$buyin. 120$ up today.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 3:22:01 -0500

Just a report!

Did try some at 50$ yesterday and lost more than 3 buyin. When I got under 600$ I went back to 30$ buyin again. I was back to 580$ when I changed to 30$buyin. Bankroll now at 700$ again, I dont think I will try 50$ again when I hit 750$ (as my bankrollrequirement are). I have instead said to myself to continue playing at 30$buyin and read some more about small staked (50-200$ buyin) and ofcause watch some movies from Outstanding poker! I am about to watch this one, havent seen it.

http://www.outstandingpoker.com/video/video--61---12-no-limit-holdem-6-max.html

Go Atta Go Atta! =D

Roadto5maxNL100$. 87$ down @ 50$ tbl. 30$buyin again.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 4:57:36 -0500

Going down to 30$ again, hope to come back to 50$ again in a while. Havent runned well at 50$. Did loose a AA vs QQ freflop allin a moment ago, fullstacked. He did hit his flush on turn. This mixed up with no hits on my hands.

As I have decided I will move down to 30$ when I go under 600$ bankroll. Have 580 now. Now I will go up to 750 again try try 50$ once more.

//Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. 1,5 buyin down on 50$buyin.

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 5:11:15 -0500

Looosing session for the first time in a little while.

I was down 3 buyins and managed to repair half of before I did quit. Did loose 75$ and bankroll is down on 703. I didnt hit so much and I did get some heavy artillery back at me sometimes. :D

I did play 1125 hands. I think I was abit overly aggressive, just a little. I will be abit lesser aggressive next time. There where some cbet-situations I should check.

Good night!

Roadto5maxNL100$. A short session on 50$buyin again.

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:09:44 -0500

I played 320 hands at 50$. Im free from work today and tomorrow. Working all day wednesday and I will work saturday from eight in the morning to eleven on sunday night.

So now im testing the 50$ buyin. I did win 30$ this little session. I will play a longer session tonight. I am nervous when I play but I think im still doing good decisions. Im trying to give a really aggressive image when I sit down at the table. I raise almost every button if there are players who wont adapt in the blinds. This is good for two purposes I have seen.

1. To build an aggressive image.

2. To collect stats on the blinds if I have none.

And if there is a limper in the field before that have a high "fold to Cbet" Ill raise from BTN with almost anything untill I see someone adapt to the aggressiveness, then I slow down again and wait for good cards. If feels like this is how I will play at this stake and its also very funny :) But I think its really important to think that different opponents will adapt to my game in different ways. Someone will get really aggressive back, some will let me be aggressive and bet untill I slow down.

I do 3bet more aswell against aggressive preflop players.

Its really interesting to see and try all this. I have also started to dubbelbarrel abit more against some opponents.

//Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Tried some at 50$buyin today.

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 5:15:30 -0500

Hi!

Tried some at 50$ today. Was down one buyin at one point but did ended with a little win of 20$. I played 700 hands and It felt good. Here are alot more good players but still some loose passive.

I will write more when I contiune playing at 50$. My bankroll is at 750$ now and I have decided, with the influence of my girlfriend, to move down to 30$ if I go under 600$. Lets hope I go the way to 1500$ and reach my goal :) 100$ buyin. I feel that I have alot to learn at those new levels and Im ready to loose some to learn some if that happens.

Good night!

//Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. 14 up since yday at 30$buyin!=D

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 8:22:10 -0500

Hmmm. This feels almost unreal. Really dont know whats happening. Im just playing 6 tables and collecting money. Yesterday (the blogpost before this) and today i have built my bankroll from 279$ to amazing 694$. Nearly 14 buyins up. Its almost as I start to feel scared of it cause it feels so unreal :) hehe. Strange feeling.

Some days ago I did change my bankrollrequirement to move to 50$ buyin from 420 to 750$..... Im almost there like *poff* now. Insane. I must say I think I play perfekt. Confident. Its like everything is going my way apart from some hands I have bad luck in.

Hehe! The biggest pot from yesterday at 103$ or something was beaten today with a pot of 113$. That pot also won by those amazing pocket eights and a flopped set.

This is a nice hand I think. Im proud of it. I did put him on what he did have and that he missed. AND i didnt bet when I knew he prob would fold. I did let him try to bluff me and it worked! Woohooo :) Didnt have any info on him.

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

CO: $29.77
BTN: $13.32
SB: $13.16
BB: $42.93
Hero (UTG): $28.55

SB posts SB $0.15, BB posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero has As Ad

Hero raises to $1.20, CO calls $1.20, BTN calls $1.20, SB calls $1.05, fold

Flop: ($5.10, 4 players) Td Ks 5s
SB checks, Hero bets $4.05, CO calls $4.05, fold, fold

Turn: ($13.20, 2 players) 8d
Hero bets $6.60, CO calls $6.60

River: ($26.40, 2 players) 2h
Hero checks, CO bets $17.92 and is all-in, Hero calls $16.70 and is all-in

Hero shows As Ad (One Pair, Aces)
CO shows Jc Qh (High Card, King)
Hero wins $58.30

Cheers!

//Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. Revenge! Over 6 up at 30$buyin! =D

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 6:27:10 -0500

Hi folks!

Guess what?! You are right. Im happy about my run today! I did build my bankroll with 194$. From 268$ to 462$. And that was made from a nice session of 1370 hands in little more than 3 hours. 6,4 buyins up at the 30$buyin tables.

All seemed so easy today. But Im learning that this is the way poker goes. You can sit and got nothing and only aggression back at you, play good and dont loose so much. When U going good enjoy and learn how to get the most of it and dont get to much of a hero and start playing like u could win every pot.

I think my skills to get away from trouble is getting better and better (folding AK, QQ at specific situations etc) and I loved my aggression. I had almost 19% at my PFR today. I stole alot of blinds. I did rose with any random hand from the BTN against players in the blinds with either a high "fold to steal" or a high "fold to cbet". I didnt do this when I felt they got really pissed with me and I had bad holdecards. I do see alot of my profit today as a result of my aggressive tableimage.

When I think back to my bankroll of 60$ the 1 of august and now 460$, I feel that im doing the right thing at the tables. But I havent had all the sessions with me,for example, the session before this one I did loose 3 buyins.

I will look for some hands to show. Hmmm. The two biggest pots i got from pocket eights. On both I did flop a set on wet flops with two opponents. Have a look! There is nothing fancy with em but I think my betting is good, or what do u say? Any comments are welcome as usual.

Biggest win

61$ won.

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

CO: $33.00
Hero (BTN): $35.51
SB: $28.80
BB: $82.19
UTG: $30.75

SB posts SB $0.15, BB posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero has 8c 8h

UTG raises to $0.90, CO calls $0.90, Hero calls $0.90, fold, BB calls $0.60

Flop: ($3.75, 4 players) 8s 5h 2s
BB checks, UTG bets $2.85, CO calls $2.85, Hero raises to $7.00, fold, UTG calls $4.15, CO calls $4.15

Turn: ($24.75, 3 players) Jc
UTG checks, CO checks, Hero bets $18.00, UTG raises to $22.85 and is all-in, CO calls $22.85, Hero calls $4.85

River: ($93.30, 3 players) 9d
CO checks, Hero bets $4.76 and is all-in, fold

Hero shows 8c 8h (Three of a Kind, Eights)
Hero wins $91.80

Second Biggest win

56$ won. (pot over 100$, biggest I have been in since I started to play in july 2009)

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

BB: $74.67
Hero (UTG): $28.73
CO: $35.79
BTN: $38.81
SB: $28.80

SB posts SB $0.15, BB posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero has 8s 8h

Hero raises to $1.20, CO calls $1.20, fold, fold, BB calls $0.90

Flop: ($3.75, 3 players) 3c 8c 6h
BB checks, Hero bets $3.75, CO calls $3.75, BB raises to $18.75, Hero raises to $27.53 and is all-in, CO raises to $34.59 and is all-in, BB calls $15.84

Flop: ($100.46, 3 players) 3c 8c 6h

Turn: ($100.46, 3 players) 8d

River: ($100.46, 3 players) Jh

BB shows 6s 3d (Two Pair, Eights and Sixes)
Hero shows 8s 8h (Four of a Kind, Eights)
CO shows 5c Ac (One Pair, Eights)
Hero wins $84.84
BB wins $14.12

So, lets find my losses!

Biggest loss

What to do? =)

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

SB: $29.40
BB: $16.67
UTG: $33.81
Hero (BTN): $36.51

SB posts SB $0.15, BB posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero has 7h 6h

fold, Hero raises to $0.90, fold, BB calls $0.60

Flop: ($1.95, 2 players) Td 3s 5c
BB checks, Hero checks

Turn: ($1.95, 2 players) 4c
BB bets $0.90, Hero raises to $3.75, BB calls $2.85

River: ($9.45, 2 players) 5s
BB bets $2.40, Hero raises to $31.86 and is all-in, BB calls $9.62 and is all-in

BB shows 5h 5d (Four of a Kind, Fives)
Hero shows 7h 6h (Straight, Seven High)
BB wins $31.99

Second biggest loss

I think I did loose the minimum here. Pretty standard play I guess.

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

UTG: $29.25
BTN: $31.69
SB: $34.08
Hero (BB): $30.00

SB posts SB $0.15, Hero posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero has 3h Ac

fold, BTN calls $0.30, SB calls $0.15, Hero checks

Flop: ($0.90, 3 players) 4c 5c 9h
SB checks, Hero checks, BTN checks

Turn: ($0.90, 3 players) Qc
SB checks, Hero bets $0.75, fold, SB raises to $1.50, Hero calls $0.75

River: ($3.90, 2 players) 9c
SB bets $2.10, Hero raises to $5.40, SB raises to $8.70, Hero calls $3.30

SB shows 9s Qs (Full House, Nines full of Queens)
SB wins $20.24

Good night!

//Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$. 3 down. :( No fun..

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 5:02:10 -0500

The most booring session... Lost 100$, 3 buyins. Bankroll at 268$.  Over 1000 hands. 2,5 hours.

Didnt hit anything.. and when I did hit I got drawn out. But I think I played pretty good even if I got bad hits. I didnt TILT.. not what I noticed. I get abit upset but I just think that I do whats best and if I have bad luck there is nothing I can do about it than just continue playing with good decisions.

I just got to get rid of those terrible hands from my mind. Any comments on them would be nice! Thanks!

Booring hand nr 1

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

BB: $72.51
Hero (UTG): $29.55
BTN: $43.62
SB: $42.14

SB posts SB $0.15, BB posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero has 3d 3s

Hero raises to $1.05, BTN calls $1.05, fold, fold

Flop: ($2.55, 2 players) 8s Js 3c
Hero bets $1.95, BTN raises to $42.57 and is all-in, Hero calls $26.55 and is all-in

Flop: ($59.55, 2 players) 8s Js 3c

Turn: ($59.55, 2 players) 4h

River: ($59.55, 2 players) 6c

Hero shows 3d 3s (Three of a Kind, Threes)
BTN shows 7s 5s (Straight, Eight High)
BTN wins $58.05

Booring hand nr 2

I maybe should call on the river cause I had no stats on him. T9 was possible. Comments?

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

BB: $14.48
UTG: $49.47
Hero (BTN): $34.83
SB: $29.25

SB posts SB $0.15, BB posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero has Ah 9s

fold, Hero raises to $0.90, SB calls $0.75, fold

Flop: ($2.10, 2 players) 9c 3d 9h
SB bets $0.30, Hero raises to $2.40, SB calls $2.10

Turn: ($6.90, 2 players) Td
SB bets $0.30, Hero raises to $6.00, SB calls $5.70

River: ($18.90, 2 players) 7c
SB bets $5.58, Hero raises to $25.53 and is all-in, SB calls $14.37 and is all-in

SB shows 9d Th (Full House, Nines full of Tens)
Hero shows Ah 9s (Three of a Kind, Nines)
SB wins $57.30

Booring hand nr 3

He was loose passive. But the board screamed DRAWS! :)

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

UTG: $30.27
CO: $29.25
BTN: $70.47
SB: $32.69
Hero (BB): $58.21

SB posts SB $0.15, Hero posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero has Qd Qs

UTG calls $0.30, fold, BTN raises to $1.20, fold, Hero raises to $3.45, fold, BTN calls $2.25

Flop: ($7.35, 2 players) Jd 9h 6d
Hero bets $5.55, BTN calls $5.55

Turn: ($18.45, 2 players) 3h
Hero bets $13.80, BTN calls $13.80

River: ($46.05, 2 players) Jh
Hero checks, BTN checks

Hero shows Qd Qs (Two Pair, Queens and Jacks)
BTN shows Kd Ks (Two Pair, Kings and Jacks)
BTN wins $44.55

Booring hand nr 4

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

BTN: $43.95
SB: $18.87
BB: $34.15
Hero (UTG): $30.00

SB posts SB $0.15, BB posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero has Td Ad

Hero raises to $1.05, fold, SB calls $0.90, BB calls $0.75

Flop: ($3.15, 3 players) Ah 4c Ac
SB bets $2.10, fold, Hero calls $2.10

Turn: ($7.35, 2 players) Kc
SB bets $3.75, Hero raises to $26.85 and is all-in, SB calls $11.97 and is all-in

Turn: ($38.79, 2 players) Kc

River: ($38.79, 2 players) 2c

SB shows 9h 9c (Flush, Ace High)
Hero shows Td Ad (Three of a Kind, Aces)
SB wins $37.29

Cheers!

Roadto5maxNL100$. Crazy session yesterday. 5$ up :)

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:47:06 -0500

Hi!

Had a crazy session yesterday where I was down almost 3 buyins and ended on earning 5$ at the 30$buyin tables.

So I felt good to get away with a small earning instead of a loosing session.

Overall I got played back from alot of passive loose players and I said to myself to belive them every time, so I guess I would earn some more if I wouldnt got into alot of those situations. At the same time I think I saved alot of money not to follow them down and leave on the flop/turn.

Biggest loss

Biggest loss was against a player who wanted to get all in preflop with his full stack very often when I did raise preflop. He showed some of his holecards and it could almost be any 2 cards. He had a VPIP/PFR of 77/32. He wasnt so aggressive after the flop. Stange guy I thought. He did go allin to 3-4 of my pfr in a row and I decided to call him with my AJo. He showed KQo. He got his King on the turn and I lost my whole stack.

Second biggest loss

This one I would like any comment to. I was up against a player with a VPIP/PFR of 71/17. He had a "fold to cbet" of 67%. His aggression over the streets (flop,turn,river) were 2,2,3. And he never 3beted. Only 24 hands.

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

CO: $25.34
BTN: $53.03
SB: $25.29
BB: $38.71
Hero (UTG): $38.71

SB posts SB $0.15, BB posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero has Jh Js

Hero raises to $1.20, fold, fold, fold, BB calls $0.90

Flop: ($2.55, 2 players) 2d 4d 2c
BB bets $2.55, Hero raises to $5.10, BB calls $2.55

Turn: ($12.75, 2 players) Kd
BB checks, Hero bets $6.00, BB calls $6.00

River: ($24.75, 2 players) Qd
BB bets $26.41 and is all-in, fold

BB wins $23.52

Any comments on how I did play the hand?

I think when I look back that I should have checked the turn and then call a little raise if the diamond wouldnt hit the river. Comments?

Haha, I got to show the biggest win. A crazy man who wanted to donate his stack to me when he started to play heavely at me on the river when I had got the nuts.

Biggest win

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

BTN: $30.24
SB: $36.34
Hero (BB): $40.10
UTG: $62.64
CO: $22.90

SB posts SB $0.15, Hero posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero has Jd 9s

fold, fold, fold, SB calls $0.15, Hero checks

Flop: ($0.60, 2 players) 2d 5s 7c
SB checks, Hero checks

Turn: ($0.60, 2 players) Th
SB checks, Hero checks

River: ($0.60, 2 players) 8h
SB bets $1.35, Hero raises to $5.55, SB raises to $9.75, Hero raises to $39.80 and is all-in, SB calls $26.29 and is all-in

Hero shows Jd 9s (Straight, Jack High)
Hero wins $71.18

Second biggest win

This was against this earlier crazy dude who went all in preflop with everything. I got aces against his A9o.

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

UTG: $34.22
CO: $87.35
Hero (BTN): $29.85
SB: $26.78
BB: $11.97

SB posts SB $0.15, BB posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero has As Ad

fold, CO raises to $1.50, Hero raises to $4.05, fold, fold, CO raises to $87.35 and is all-in, Hero calls $25.80 and is all-in

Flop: ($60.15, 2 players) Qc 3d 3h

Turn: ($60.15, 2 players) Jd

River: ($60.15, 2 players) Qd

CO shows 9h Ac (Two Pair, Queens and Threes)
Hero shows As Ad (Two Pair, Aces and Queens)
Hero wins $58.65

A nice hand

This was a nice hand I think. Against a loose aggresive player. I did check the river to get him to bet.

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

BB: $10.50
UTG: $42.05
CO: $39.48
BTN: $47.35
Hero (SB): $29.22

Hero posts SB $0.15, BB posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero has Jh As

fold, CO raises to $0.60, fold, Hero calls $0.45, BB calls $0.30

Flop: ($1.80, 3 players) Js 7c 5c
Hero checks, BB checks, CO bets $1.80, Hero raises to $3.60, fold, CO raises to $5.40, Hero calls $1.80

Turn: ($12.60, 2 players) 7h
Hero checks, CO checks

River: ($12.60, 2 players) 6d
Hero checks, CO bets $12.60, Hero calls $12.60

Hero shows Jh As (Two Pair, Jacks and Sevens)
CO shows 8d Ac (One Pair, Sevens)
Hero wins $36.30

Cheers Johan

Roadto5maxNL100$ buyin. Change of bankrollrequirem..

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:29:45 -0500

Hi!

My feelings last time that I had when playing 30$-buyin. I felt that I wanted some more experience at that limit before I move to 50$. And with Atta22s advice as a comment in my last post I have decided to change my bankrollrequirements for 50$ and 100$ buyin. My old requirements was like this. For example I had the requirements for 50$buyin a bankroll of 420$ and if I would go under 300 I would move down to 30$ again.

4$ buyin. 0-70$
10$ buyin. 50-140$
20$  buyin. 100-280$
30$ buyin. 200-420$  
50$ buyin. 300-700$ 
100$ buyin. 500--> (play at 100$ for a year or so)

Now I have changed the requirements for the 50$ and 100$ buyin. This is how it looks now.

4$ buyin. 0-70$
10$ buyin. 50-140$
20$  buyin. 100-280$
30$ buyin. 200-750$  
50$ buyin. 500-1500$ 
100$ buyin. 1000-6000$

I decided to make a goal at the 100$buyin to 6000$. If I think I want to try 200$ when I get there I will have a 30buyin requirement for that level. I want to establish myself at the 100$buyin and get alot of experience there.

When do I reach the 200$-buyin? Hmmm. I like to make long term plans but.. Ill hope Ill be there within the next 3 years. I feel comfortable playing 4 tables. I have played 6 tables but I stay with 4. I can geta better grip of the game thats happening then.

Thanks for the advice Tim.

//Johan

Road to 5max NL 100$ buyin. 3 up at 30$buyin!! YES! :) :)

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 5:35:43 -0500

Hi all!

Finally I got winning out from an 30$-buyin session. Bankroll up 95$ to 364$. Now I have a little climbing to do to reach the 420$ mark to moveup to 50$. Atm it feels like I want to stay at the 30$buyin tables a little longer than if I just reach 420$ next time, but I think I stick to my plan hehe.

This was really what I needed, last time I went up to 30buyin I lost 90$. So this was my revenge! Here are abit more aggressive at this stake but still opponents I can take advantages from. I did lost to an KK va AQ all in against a full stacked this session, but thats how it goes. The most I earned from a complete maniac who ppl got angry at and lostmoney that I won. I did end on 90$ at that table. Ill show some hands. Biggest losses and winnings.

Biggest losses

The biggest loss was -16$ and that was against that preflop allin with KK vs AQ. He did hit AQ on flop.

The second biggest loss was against this maniac I talked about but it was just in the beginning so I didnt know he was such a maniac as he was about to show. But I think I did the right thing to lay my hand down anyway. Hmmm, I tried to put my handhistory into this feature "hands" here at Outstanding but it does not seem to want the handhistory I paste. Have tried in Internet Explorer aswell but no difference. Well I paste as usuall.

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

BTN: $30.99
SB: $21.41
BB: $7.74
UTG: $16.91
Hero (CO): $33.90

SB posts SB $0.15, BB posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero has Ks Kh

UTG raises to $1.80, Hero raises to $4.80, fold, fold, fold, UTG calls $3.00

Flop: ($10.05, 2 players) 8d Qc Jc
UTG checks, Hero bets $1.80, UTG calls $1.80

Turn: ($13.65, 2 players) 9s
UTG bets $4.05, Hero calls $4.05

River: ($21.75, 2 players) 4c
UTG bets $5.10, fold

UTG wins $20.67

Here I had to fold cause I didnt know anything about him. As u will see when I show the winnings he is a total maniac.

Here is the third biggest loss. Couldnt play this any other way. I would fold if he would go all in on the river. Didnt know anythin about him. I would call a bet on the river up to... hmmm. I guess I would fold to pretty anything except a minraise.

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

BB: $10.23
UTG: $21.51
CO: $29.22
BTN: $29.55
Hero (SB): $29.70

Hero posts SB $0.15, BB posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero has Kd Ah

UTG calls $0.30, fold, fold, Hero raises to $1.50, fold, UTG calls $1.20

Flop: ($3.30, 2 players) 8c 5d 7d
Hero bets $2.55, UTG calls $2.55

Turn: ($8.40, 2 players) Kh
Hero bets $4.20, UTG calls $4.20

River: ($16.80, 2 players) 2d
Hero checks, UTG checks

Hero shows Kd Ah (One Pair, Kings)
UTG shows Kc 5c (Two Pair, Kings and Fives)
UTG wins $15.96

And now the winnings.

Biggest win

I was a little afraid of the QJ utill the second 3 droped on the river but not much at all cause of his stats. Hold your seats. VPIP/PFR of 91/45 and a 3bet of 13%. Aggressionfactors on flop. turn and river was 5,9,infinite.

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

SB: $28.14
BB: $6.29
UTG: $23.65
CO: $56.51
Hero (BTN): $29.55

SB posts SB $0.15, BB posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero has Kh Kc

UTG calls $0.30, CO raises to $1.20, Hero raises to $4.35, fold, fold, fold, CO calls $3.15

Flop: ($9.45, 2 players) Tc 9h Kd
CO checks, Hero bets $7.05, CO calls $7.05

Turn: ($23.55, 2 players) 3d
CO checks, Hero bets $18.15 and is all-in, CO calls $18.15

Turn: ($59.85, 2 players) 3d

River: ($59.85, 2 players) 3h

CO shows Qh Ad (One Pair, Threes)
Hero shows Kh Kc (Full House, Kings full of Threes)
Hero wins $58.35

Second biggest win

Oh, this was just with AK against a player (not the total maniac) with AQ, all in preflop. I had been showing alot of aggression and he was constantly trying to reraise me and stuff and I didnt think he had AA or KK.

Third biggest win

This was against this total maniac again. I didnt put him on KJ (or KA later) but was abit afraid the third played had something. But when he did lay down I did just try to get the cash in hoping that the maniac had some random king. He was able of calling big bets and THAT i knew ;) hehe

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

BTN: $27.09
SB: $32.77
BB: $28.83
Hero (UTG): $70.55

SB posts SB $0.15, BB posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero has Th Qh

Hero calls $0.30, fold, SB calls $0.15, BB raises to $1.20, Hero calls $0.90, SB calls $0.90

Flop: ($3.60, 3 players) Kh Ks Jd
SB checks, BB bets $2.10, Hero calls $2.10, fold

Turn: ($7.80, 2 players) As
BB bets $2.55, Hero raises to $15.45, BB calls $12.90

River: ($38.70, 2 players) 2d
BB checks, Hero bets $51.80 and is all-in, fold

Hero wins $37.20

Thats all for today! Work waiting in a half an hour. Cya!

Road to 5max NL 100$ buyin. 3 up at 20$buyin. 30$ again.

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 5:09:00 -0500

Hi all!

I went 3 buyins up today on the 20$-buyin-tables. I changed to 30$-tables. I did just end my session there and lost 20$. (got rivered out to a 4-outer) Im going to take another hit tomorrow. I really think I will make it this time.

Bankroll is now 270$.

Im going to bed right away. No handhistory this time either.

Cya!

Road to 5max NL 100$ buyin. 1 down at 20$buyin.

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 4:14:13 -0500

Hi all!

Have been working alot last days.

Played an hour tonight and went a buyin at the 20$-buyin-tables. Bankroll down to 223$.

Got to go to bed right away. So no hand posting today. Sorry.

Today I felt like I was stuck on some really loose players and I couldnt be as aggressive as im used to. And when I got cards and got called I didnt hit much. So, no fun session. But thats how it goes sometimes. I did lost one hand to a player with half a stack who got an higher flush. A loose guy.

Good night all!

Road to 5max NL 100$ buyin. 2 up at 20$buyin.

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 6:08:44 -0500

Hi again!

Played 570 hands today. 90 minutes. Felt nice to build up my bankroll with 42$ to 243$ after last loosing session at the 30$ tables with a drop of 98$. 2 more buyins up and Im going to hit the 30$-tables again. Was a pretty stable session today. Didnt had to many scary decisions. And I got a little from a flopped tripps. Nothing special.

I just want to post a hand that I laughed at. And yes, the pot would be nice to win . But no thanks.

Crasy dudes (dedicated mostly to the player on the button)

The fun think was that they hadnt been crasy and playing like maniacs or so. Just two loose, passive players. The did have 43/0 and 48/0 (VPIP/PFR) and no 3bet on their stats. That was ofcause why I did fold this hand. The button bets into the pot of 2$ with 10$ at a table capable of flush and house with the worst he can almost have. Crazy dude.

OnGame - $0.20 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 3 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

BTN: $10.67
SB: $29.62
Hero (BB): $20.37

SB posts SB $0.10, Hero posts BB $0.20

Pre Flop: ($0.30) Hero has Js 7c

BTN calls $0.20, SB calls $0.10, Hero checks

Flop: ($0.60, 3 players) Jc Jh Qc
SB checks, Hero checks, BTN checks

Turn: ($0.60, 3 players) 5h
SB checks, Hero bets $0.50, BTN calls $0.50, SB calls $0.50

River: ($2.10, 3 players) 8c
SB checks, Hero checks, BTN bets $9.97 and is all-in, SB calls $9.97, fold

SB shows 3s Jd (Three of a Kind, Jacks)
BTN shows Th 5c (Two Pair, Jacks and Fives)
SB wins $20.94

Good night!

Johan

Road to 5max NL 100$ buyin. Down to 20$-tables again. :(

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 3:18:20 -0500

Hi all, im going to be short. Bankroll down from 300 to 200$ at the 30$-buyins. Moving back to 20$-tables.

I played bad in one hand. Thats 30$ back. Prob would save 20$ on that misstake. I did go QQ vs AK preflop, really aggressive, loose player preflop. He did hit a K on flop and then I got lucky on turn getting a Q, he did then get a Ten on the river and got a straith. Otherwise I played good I think and ofcause Im sad going back to 20$ tables again. I really didnt hit anything at this session. Just back to 20-buyin again and work me up to 280$ once more and then try hit the 30$-tables again.

Good night!

Johan

Road to 5max NL 100$ buyin. Crazy 30$-tables. 11$ up.

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 9:19:46 -0500

Hi again! Played a short session while washing clothes. 50 minutes. 300 hands. Went up 11$. Bankroll is now at 300 dollar. I have to show a hand against a really aggressive maniac. I did get bad-beated but it is still a nice hand to watch . U have to feed the fishes to keep them alive!

Badbeat against maniac

I accually hadnt any stats on him (I prefer that when I do those things, but I had seen him raise with some low pairs from every possition and beeing really aggressive with some all-ins on the flop like a crazy maniac. So when the flop did came and I knew he didnt raise preflop I could pretty much sort out all pairs. I did sort out AK, AQ and AJ. I was abit afraid of A3 but I had to do this against this crazy dude. He could have had been drawing aswell.

OnGame - $0.30 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

BB: $74.98
UTG: $19.88
CO: $30.00
BTN: $31.23
Hero (SB): $30.00

Hero posts SB $0.15, BB posts BB $0.30

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.45) Hero has Td Ac

UTG calls $0.30, fold, fold, Hero raises to $1.20, fold, UTG calls $0.90

Flop: ($2.70, 2 players) 3d Kd Ah
Hero bets $2.10, UTG raises to $18.68 and is all-in, Hero calls $16.58

Flop: ($40.06, 2 players) 3d Kd Ah

Turn: ($40.06, 2 players) 4h

River: ($40.06, 2 players) Jh

Hero shows Td Ac (One Pair, Aces)
UTG shows Ad 4c (Two Pair, Aces and Fours)
UTG wins $38.56

But I did still manage to earn 11$ at the 30$ and I did see alot of weak players and maniacs. Maybe a little more overall aggressiveness on the 30$-buyin-tables compared to the 20$-buyin.

I think I will play more later today, starting work tomorrow after dinner and will be working untill saturday night.

Cya!

Johan

# Road to 5max NL 100$ buyin. BR up 2 buyins. 30$-tables here I come!

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 5:39:54 -0500

Hello! Sorry for the long title! Im so happy I reached 30$ buyin tables again. Last time I started my biggest downswing there, all the way down throu 20,10 and down to 4$ buyin again. That was a hell of a month. But I learned alot from it and now im back. My bankroll is now on 288$. The first of August I had 60$. I have gone up 11 buyins the last 7 days. But I know. I have had alot of cards with me, I almost always have won an All-in when I have been the favorite. I have even won with KK vs AA all-in preflop. I feel that I have become better of staying away from trouble and have been better with when to Cbet. I also have worked on my play from the blinds.

As I said I will move up to the 30$ buyin tables next time I play. I dont change limit instantly as if I was loosing and had to climb down a limit. The reason I dont move up instantly when my bankroll allows me to, is because it will take me another 20-30 minutes to get good stats on the opponents on the new tables. So I was better of continue playing on the 20-buyin tables.

My rules for the 30buyin limit bankroll management is that if I grow my bankroll to 420$ I will move to the 50$-buyin. If I go under 200$ I will instantly move back to the 20$-tables. Here are my moving-up-down plan for you that have missed it. Its pretty aggressive and u have to be able to back down several limits if u hit a bad-streak. My goal is to reach the 100$-buyin and stay there for a longer while, like a year or so.

4$ buyin. 0-70$.
10$ buyin. 50-140$.
20$  buyin. 100-280$.
30$ buyin. 200-420$.
50$ buyin. 300-700$.
100$ buyin. 500--->

Lets see if I have some interesting hand from todays session. I played 490 hands. 86 minutes.

Biggest loss.

The biggest loss I had today in a hand was 3$, so that im proud of. I had no info on the player but I had to lay it down.

OnGame - $0.20 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

UTG: $26.18
CO: $25.40
BTN: $19.18
SB: $11.91
Hero (BB): $21.41

SB posts SB $0.10, Hero posts BB $0.20

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.30) Hero has Qc As

UTG calls $0.20, CO calls $0.20, fold, SB calls $0.10, Hero raises to $1.20, UTG calls $1.00, fold, fold

Flop: ($2.80, 2 players) Jh 2d 9s
Hero bets $1.75, UTG calls $1.75

Turn: ($6.30, 2 players) Kd
Hero checks, UTG bets $6.30, fold

UTG wins $5.99

Biggest win

Not a very special hand. But it feels really nice to flop this against a really loose played u have noted: "calling my raise from BTN with A2o in the SB). I was about 90% sure he had the Ace and wanted the money in as fast as possible.

OnGame - $0.20 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

BTN: $17.79
SB: $29.05
BB: $20.00
UTG: $10.81
Hero (CO): $27.24

SB posts SB $0.10, BB posts BB $0.20

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.30) Hero has 3d 3s

fold, Hero raises to $0.70, BTN calls $0.70, SB calls $0.60, fold

Flop: ($2.30, 3 players) Ac 3h Ad
SB checks, Hero bets $1.70, fold, SB calls $1.70

Turn: ($5.70, 2 players) Ts
SB bets $2.50, Hero raises to $10.00, SB calls $7.50

River: ($25.70, 2 players) 2c
SB checks, Hero bets $14.84 and is all-in, SB calls $14.84

Hero shows 3d 3s (Full House, Threes full of Aces)
Hero wins $53.88

Second biggest win

This was a pretty fun hand. Im up against two new opponents I had no reliable stats on yet. I just had seen them call alot so I guessed they where loose-passive players. I decided to slowplay the flop here cause of the rainbow flop and it was the right decision. A jack fell on the turn and I did reraised one of the players with more than the flop and both called! I did also check on the turn when the board got paired jacks and got even more money in. Ofcause I was afraid of the house so if the second player would have gone all in on the river I would prob have to fold. Dont know what the last opponent had. I dont think he had the jack. He would prob called then. I guess he had like AK, AQ cause he didnt bet the flop.

OnGame - $0.20 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

CO: $18.91
BTN: $7.31
SB: $16.06
Hero (BB): $25.45
UTG: $20.90

SB posts SB $0.10, Hero posts BB $0.20

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.30) Hero has 7c 8c

UTG raises to $0.80, fold, fold, SB calls $0.70, Hero calls $0.60

Flop: ($2.40, 3 players) 4h 5s 6d
SB checks, Hero checks, UTG checks

Turn: ($2.40, 3 players) Jd
SB bets $0.70, Hero raises to $3.60, UTG calls $3.60, SB calls $2.90

River: ($13.20, 3 players) Jh
SB checks, Hero checks, UTG bets $8.00, fold, Hero raises to $21.05 and is all-in, fold

Hero wins $27.74

If anyone have something to say or ask about how I play my hands I love to hear your words. I wont be offended, I like to talk hands. Just write!

Now bed is calling soon. Perhaps I will look 10 minutes on Atta22:s new video that came today!

Cheers!

Road to 5max NL 100$ buyin. BR up 7$! 248$ now. KKvsAA

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 3:42:27 -0500

Hi. Have played 900 hands today and went up 7$. Im accually very happy for that. I will tell u below.

My bankroll went up to 248$. When I come to 280$ i will move up to the 30$ tables. When I play on the 30$-tables and get below 200$ I will move back down to 20$ again. I hope I will reach 280$ soon! As I wrote earlier I did restart my bankroll at 30$ in late april. I have been up in 330$ and on the 1th of August my bankroll was 60$. The last weeks have went my way and I also have improved my game when watching Atta22, Hockeyguys videos even more and red in "Harrington on Online Cash Games". A book I recommend.

Today I have to tell about 2 hands I played. I dont have to paste any handhistory. I just want to tell that I have had KK against a full stacked opponent with AA twice today and both all in preflop. It has happend before (my KK vs AA), so im not surprised in any way.

But the one thing im taking with me and will think about is that both players had 0% on their 3bet stats and both did 3bet me hard after they had limped and I had raised. I had atleast 60 hands on both. Both times I saw this on their stats but I still did went all in when they 3-betted me. Lucky me that I did hit a King in one of the hands so it did get even!

Perhaps against some player with those stats it maybe can be better, if im in position, and just call and see what happens? Maybe I hit my king. Maybe they dont bet. But that will probably just happen with AK and they wont play AK this way as they did with AA I guess. Or maybe I will lay down my KK. If I get exacly those situations I had today against exacly this kind of stats, I think I will fold if I dont think hes got tilted for some good reason.

Good night!

Johan

Road to 5max NL 100$ buyin. Bankroll 240$. Playing too tired.

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 4:40:25 -0500

God im tired.

Im at work now and will go to sleep soon. Ending 8:30 tomorrow morning and not working untill friday. Im so tired after a long day and I thought about that I have started to not play poker when im too tired. And I think its better of that way. The last weeks I have gone further in my thinking processes before my decisions at the tables and thats why I now can admit to myself and really see for myself that if im tired, I cant think how I want to think.

Before I just said to myself when I was really tired, "its just about getting some nice holecards and play them", it CAN be that way, but If I need to be aggressive at the table, change gear in reacion to my opponents and analyse my opponents reaction to my aggression, their ranges, stats etc, on the four tables im playing at, I now feel my brain cant catch up then. I make bad decisions. Perhaps ONE table could be ok, but thats too booring anyway .

Just some words before I go to bed. Perhaps someone will try not to play while too tired and see if it helps. It helps me. See ya!

Johan

Road to 5max NL 100$ buyin. Good start at 20$ tables. 63$ up. Bankroll 240$.

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 2:08:49 -0500

Good evening!

Had two really nice sessions today with all together 570 hands at 20$ buyin. My bankroll grew with 63$ to 240$. Little more than 3 buyins, feels nice! Starting work tomorrow again after 6 weeks of vaccation. Feels not that good, but ok!

I had some crasy hands today. As I write here I cant see the handshistory in pokertracker. I think I have to restart my computer. But wont do that now. I played against a player. Loose one. He raises 5 BB from the button.

I called him in the BB with JJ. The flop came rainbow QJT. He CAN have the AK..  , but I thought he was going to slowplay it then, what made up how I continued the hand. I checked and he did bet like almost a pot. Hmm.. I have to see if the board pairs on turn.. I called. A 5 came. I checked. He betted 3/4 of pot. Shit, perhaps he have that AK anyway... but I called hoped if I was wrong the board would pair. A 2 came. No flush possible. He got All in...  I had like 6$ left or something and called. He showed me 72s. Busted.

I will post hands on tuesday on this session (working all day tomorrow), there were some other crasy hands aswell. And some nice ones I think

Cheers

Johan

Road to 5max NL 100$ buyin. Moving to 20$ buyin.

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 3:25:12 -0500

Hi!

I wanted to post the two of my biggeest wins from my session yesterday.

I will later today play at the 20$-buyin tables once again. This time a little better, if feels like. Im at 177$ with my bankroll and im heading for 280$ to get to 30$. If I run bad and go below 100$ I will instantly  move down to 10$ buyin again.

And now over to the hands.

Both hands made me do hard decisions on the river. Both hands are against the same player. I had like 240 hands on him before and he had a VPIP/PFR of 27/8. I did know he wasnt a really bad player but did know he was playing alot of connectors. He had a "fold to cbet" of 90%. Preflop 3bet of 6%. And aggression factors on flop, turn and river of 2,2,3. Note the river. So I knew he was aggressive but not too heavely. When he just sat down he started to play very aggressive and I didnt recognize his play from earlier. I thought he was trying to make his tableimage as a maniac when he sat down. I even did fold a pair of Queens (overpair) against him. Those are my two winning hands against him and my laydown with my Queens. I just felt for folding there. Let me know what u think about it.

First hand. (perhaps the third he played after he sat down at the table)

He betted his outs and missed on the river

OnGame - $0.10 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

UTG: $11.55
Hero (BTN): $14.09
SB: $10.71
BB: $9.75

SB posts SB $0.05, BB posts BB $0.10

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.15) Hero has As Ad

UTG calls $0.10, Hero raises to $0.40, SB calls $0.35, fold, fold

Flop: ($1.00, 2 players) 8d 2s 5c
SB bets $0.75, Hero raises to $1.50, SB calls $0.75

Turn: ($4.00, 2 players) 7d
SB bets $2.00, Hero calls $2.00

River: ($8.00, 2 players) 2h
SB bets $6.81 and is all-in, Hero calls $6.81

SB shows 5d 6d (Two Pair, Fives and Twos)
Hero shows As Ad (Two Pair, Aces and Twos)
Hero wins $20.54

Second hand (He had shown signs of tilting, writing I was an idiot)

OnGame - $0.10 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

BTN: $11.25
Hero (SB): $24.17
BB: $10.00
UTG: $9.60

Hero posts SB $0.05, BB posts BB $0.10

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.15) Hero has Jc Js

fold, BTN calls $0.10, Hero raises to $0.40, BB calls $0.30, BTN calls $0.30

Flop: ($1.20, 3 players) 2c 6c 3c
Hero checks, BB bets $0.90, fold, Hero calls $0.90

Turn: ($3.00, 2 players) 9h
Hero checks, BB bets $2.25, Hero calls $2.25

River: ($7.50, 2 players) Qh
Hero checks, BB bets $6.45 and is all-in, Hero calls $6.45

Hero shows Jc Js (One Pair, Jacks)
BB shows 8s Jh (High Card, Queen)
Hero wins $19.38

His flopraise and my laydown with QQ.

He hadnt been so agressive when we came to this hand and he made a pot size raise. He accually slowed down by the time. I just felt for folding, I know he perhaps would bet his flushdraw, but bet this big? He knew I followed in the early hands with smaller bets. I thought that he was trying to tell me that he was trying to bluff me of with a big bet when he accually had flopped his set. My decision came alot from the situation, the time between his hands and his slowing of aggression, his early pot size raise etc.

OnGame - $0.10 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

BB: $9.75
Hero (UTG): $31.67
BTN: $10.29
SB: $2.70

SB posts SB $0.05, BB posts BB $0.10

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.15) Hero has Qh Qd

Hero raises to $0.35, BTN calls $0.35, fold, fold

Flop: ($0.85, 2 players) 8c 2s 5s
Hero bets $0.65, BTN raises to $2.80, fold

BTN wins $2.05

Cheers Johan

Road to 5max NL 100$ buy-in. Bankroll up 23$ to 177$.

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 10:33:11 -0500

Hello again!

Played 344 hands and went up 2 buyins (23$). And I also did get my affilliate bonus of 25$ so my bankroll is 177$ now.

I must say that I feel im playing good and thinking alot of raise-ranges and limp-ranges on my opponents.

Here is a badbeat I want to show!

Badbeat of the session!

I didnt have any stats on this one yet. Im glad he was shorter than a half stack.

OnGame - $0.10 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

UTG: $4.08
CO: $11.74
BTN: $22.03
Hero (SB): $9.50
BB: $3.50

Hero posts SB $0.05, BB posts BB $0.10

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.15) Hero has Td Th

UTG raises to $0.30, fold, fold, Hero calls $0.25, BB calls $0.20

Flop: ($0.90, 3 players) As Tc 8h
Hero checks, BB checks, UTG bets $0.10, Hero raises to $0.70, fold, UTG calls $0.60

Turn: ($2.30, 2 players) Kd
Hero bets $1.15, UTG calls $1.15

River: ($4.60, 2 players) Kh
Hero bets $4.60, UTG calls $1.93 and is all-in

Hero shows Td Th (Full House, Tens full of Kings)
UTG shows Ks Ts (Full House, Kings full of Tens)
UTG wins $8.04

Cheers!!

Road to 5max NL 100$ buy-in. Bankroll up 31$ to 129$.

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 2:20:59 -0500

Good evening!

Played 410 hands. Got nice action on a couple of aces. I went up 3 buyins, won 31$ and my bankroll is up to 129$.

Next time I play I will recive my 25$ affilliate bonus and get over 140$ and will move up to 20$. If I go under 100$ I will move down to 10$ buyin again. My goal at the 20$ buyin will be 280$, then move up to 30$ buyin.

A winning hand

The player was a loose one with VPIP/PFR of 57/4. "Fold to c-bet" was 50. And his agression on flop, turn and river were 1,2,7! Note the 7 on river. That pretty much made up my tough decision on the river. Had 84 hands on this guy.

OnGame - $0.10 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

UTG: $4.47
BTN: $9.97
SB: $16.94
Hero (BB): $14.29

SB posts SB $0.05, Hero posts BB $0.10

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.15) Hero has Kc Kh

fold, BTN calls $0.10, fold, Hero raises to $0.40, BTN calls $0.30

Flop: ($0.85, 2 players) 8s 4c 7c
Hero bets $0.65, BTN calls $0.65

Turn: ($2.15, 2 players) 3h
Hero bets $1.10, BTN calls $1.10

River: ($4.35, 2 players) 8h
Hero checks, BTN bets $7.82 and is all-in, Hero calls $7.82

Hero shows Kc Kh (Two Pair, Kings and Eights)
BTN shows 6d 2d (One Pair, Eights)
Hero wins $19.00

A loss hand

The BTN had a VPIP/PFR of 30/8. But had a 3Bet percentage of 11. He had 9,3,6 aggressionfactorns at flop,turn and river. I thought that he would 3Bet if he had higher pair than me. And I thought he was trying to represent the Ace on the turn but didnt belive him and I didnt want him to draw against the river with a higher diamond and if he called with a better hand I would have a diamond to rescue me if he hadnt one. Does this sound ok?! Comments?! Plz!

OnGame - $0.10 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

Hero (CO): $22.97
BTN: $4.84
SB: $3.22
BB: $9.86
UTG: $9.55

SB posts SB $0.05, BB posts BB $0.10

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.15) Hero has 8d 8c

UTG raises to $0.40, Hero calls $0.40, BTN calls $0.40, fold, fold

Flop: ($1.35, 3 players) 7s 6d 3d
UTG checks, Hero bets $0.90, BTN calls $0.90, fold

Turn: ($3.15, 2 players) Ad
Hero checks, BTN bets $1.25, Hero raises to $21.67 and is all-in, BTN calls $2.29 and is all-in

Turn: ($10.23, 2 players) Ad

River: ($10.23, 2 players) 2s

Hero shows 8d 8c (One Pair, Eights)
BTN shows Js Jd (One Pair, Jacks)
BTN wins $9.72

Cheers!

Johan

Road to 5max NL 100$ buy-in. Bankroll up 13$ to 97$.

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 9:18:54 -0500

Hello, played 530 hands and went up 13$. Bankroll at 97$.

I will paste biggest win and biggest loss this time.

Biggest win

I did get two callers preflop. Both with VPIP over 65! The player at CU had an PFR of 28.
I did put BB on a weaker Ace, thats why I only called the raiser on flop. It appared I had right!

OnGame - $0.10 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

BB: $8.50
UTG: $14.73
CO: $4.70
BTN: $4.75
Hero (SB): $10.49

Hero posts SB $0.05, BB posts BB $0.10

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.15) Hero has Kh Ac

UTG calls $0.10, CO raises to $0.40, BTN calls $0.40, Hero raises to $1.45, BB calls $1.35, fold, CO calls $1.05, fold

Flop: ($4.85, 3 players) 6s As 5h
Hero checks, BB bets $0.10, CO raises to $3.25 and is all-in, Hero calls $3.25, BB calls $3.15

Turn: ($14.60, 3 players) Qc
Hero bets $5.79 and is all-in, BB calls $3.80 and is all-in

Turn: ($22.20, 3 players) Qc

River: ($22.20, 3 players) Qs

Hero shows Kh Ac (Two Pair, Aces and Queens)
BB shows Ah 7s (Two Pair, Aces and Queens)
CO shows 4s 4h (Two Pair, Queens and Fours)
Hero wins $13.87
Hero wins $7.22

Biggest loss

A complete maniac. 71/61 on his VPIP/PFR. He also had a aggressionfactor of 19! over all streets. I had 28 hands on him. No info on "fold to cbet". When I think about this hand now. I think I would get all in preflop but the hand would had finnished the same. I hoped he had only one Queen

OnGame - $0.10 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

BB: $6.03
Hero (UTG): $9.95
BTN: $10.65
SB: $9.92

SB posts SB $0.05, BB posts BB $0.10

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.15) Hero has Ad Ac

Hero raises to $0.40, BTN raises to $0.70, fold, fold, Hero calls $0.30

Flop: ($1.55, 2 players) Qd 9d 5c
Hero checks, BTN bets $1.55, Hero calls $1.55

Turn: ($4.65, 2 players) Kc
Hero checks, BTN bets $8.40 and is all-in, Hero calls $7.70 and is all-in

Turn: ($20.05, 2 players) Kc

River: ($20.05, 2 players) Js

Hero shows Ad Ac (One Pair, Aces)
BTN shows Qh Qc (Three of a Kind, Queens)
BTN wins $19.05

Cya!

Road to 5max NL 100$ buy-in. Bankroll down 14$ to 84$. :(

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:31:13 -0500

Hello! Back to 84$ with my BR.

Dont feel for writing much. My hand where I lost most.

First hand. Against 22/22 TAG player. 1 aggression factor on each street. I had 3bet him some at this point.

OnGame - $0.10 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

UTG: $9.44
CO: $10.98
BTN: $24.58
Hero (SB): $11.40
BB: $10.00

Hero posts SB $0.05, BB posts BB $0.10

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.15) Hero has Kh Ah

fold, fold, BTN raises to $0.40, Hero raises to $1.50, fold, BTN calls $1.10

Flop: ($3.10, 2 players) 8h 3c 8s
Hero bets $2.35, BTN calls $2.35

Turn: ($7.80, 2 players) 3h
Hero bets $3.50, BTN raises to $20.73 and is all-in, fold

BTN wins $14.06

I dont think I could play this any other. Ideas?

Second hand.

Had no current stats on this player. He had about little less than third quarters of a full stack. And I had observed some hands he had been calling much. I did put him on a weaker five than mine.

OnGame - $0.10 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

BTN: $12.92
SB: $6.79
BB: $10.00
UTG: $13.90
Hero (CO): $9.20

SB posts SB $0.05, BB posts BB $0.10

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.15) Hero has 5c Ad

fold, Hero raises to $0.35, fold, SB calls $0.30, fold

Flop: ($0.80, 2 players) 5s 5h 9d
SB checks, Hero bets $0.60, SB calls $0.60

Turn: ($2.00, 2 players) Kh
SB checks, Hero bets $1.00, SB calls $1.00

River: ($4.00, 2 players) 4h
SB bets $4.84 and is all-in, Hero calls $4.84

SB shows 9h 7h (Flush, King High)
SB wins $13.00

Cya!

Road to 5max NL 100$ buy-in. . Bankroll 99$.

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:29:18 -0500

Hello!

Played 40minutes earlier today, 220 hands and went up to 99$ with my bankroll.

I really took advantage of the stats I had on my opponents in some hands.

First of, against " Loose Maniac". He had 92/35 on his VPIP/PFR.  He minraised from CO. BTN and SB folded. I raise here to about 50 if im up against a very loose player. Even if his "fold to 3-bet" was 0 i decided to just call and hope that the flop would be free of any Ace. And most important is that he had a 71% stat on "fold to Cbet" which means I prob wouldnt get so much action if I would 3bet preflop. But if the BTN or SB would called I would have to raise from BB with my kings. He also had the aggression factors of 4,2,4 on flop,turn and river. Here is the hand.

OnGame - $0.10 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

SB: $10.28
Hero (BB): $11.42
UTG: $6.68
BTN: $9.75

SB posts SB $0.05, Hero posts BB $0.10

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.15) Hero has Kd Kc

UTG raises to $0.20, fold, fold, Hero calls $0.10

Flop: ($0.45, 2 players) 7d 2h Qd
Hero checks, UTG bets $0.40, Hero calls $0.40

Turn: ($1.25, 2 players) 8d
Hero checks, UTG bets $0.70, Hero calls $0.70

River: ($2.65, 2 players) 7h
Hero checks, UTG bets $5.38 and is all-in, Hero calls $5.38

Hero shows Kd Kc (Two Pair, Kings and Sevens)
UTG shows 3c Ac (One Pair, Sevens)
Hero wins $12.74

I thought about his big riverbet for a while. I did not think he had a 7. Not the flush. Maybe a Queen with his range and aggression. I could have had anyting! I had to call his bet. The turn and river didnt scare me. I think my decision preflop to just call did boost up his aggression. And most important, if I looked at his "fold to Cbet" is was ashigh as 71%. So, If I had 3bet his raise preflop and he had called, he probably would have fold to my c-bet on the flop.

I had another interesting hand aswell but I have to take a bath with my daughter. After that its time for food and  after that its time to get cozy before bedtime.  And then its some poker again I guess. Mummy is working.

See ya!

Road to 5max NL 100$ buy-in. . Bankroll 84$.

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 4:54:10 -0500

Did end on the same I started with today. 700 hands and abit closer to my 25$ affilliate bonus

Bankroll on 84$ now.

It was one hand earlier today I could save some dollars on.

OnGame - $0.10 NL (5 max) - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

BTN: $15.77
Hero (SB): $10.34
BB: $10.01
UTG: $3.38

Hero posts SB $0.05, BB posts BB $0.10

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.15) Hero has As Kd

fold, BTN raises to $0.30, Hero raises to $1.00, fold, BTN calls $0.70

Flop: ($2.10, 2 players) Ad 2c Js
Hero checks, BTN bets $1.60, Hero calls $1.60

Turn: ($5.30, 2 players) Jc
Hero checks, BTN bets $4.00, Hero calls $4.00

River: ($13.30, 2 players) Th
Hero checks, BTN bets $6.65, Hero calls $3.74 and is all-in

BTN shows Qs Jd (Three of a Kind, Jacks)
BTN wins $19.75

I did have some good stats on this player. 28 VPIP/17 PFR. He raised small from BTN. That can sertanly point on a combination with a jack in it with that 17% pfr in mind.His "fold to continuation" he had 0. But that only on one hand I saw later. I went too far this hand I think. Especially with his stats in mind.

I played this hand like he was a maniac. I just called him down. I should bet at the flop to start with.

Good Night!

Road to 5max NL 100$ buy-in. . Bankroll 84$.

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 4:49:10 -0500

Hello again!

Played abit this morning. My girlfriend and daughter went out for a walk with a friend of ours with her kids. Im home, going to vacuum clean! Dont know anythin funnier .

Accually I went up almost 3 buyins and im on 84$ now on the 10$ buyin tables.

Have thought about some of the last nights bad sessions hands. Its good to play them sometimes in our head I think and analyse and think about them. Thinking either that I only had bad luck there or I will try to do better in situations like that.

Today I was really focused on my preflop play. I played 4 tables and was able to focus on my opponents huds. I looked alot on opportunities to steal blinds from player who had a high "fold BB to steal" like over 70% i raise 3 BB from BTN anytime.

I also resently have started to look at the players ranges alot more. And if I have raised preflop and got called. I first look at the opponents "fold to c-bet"percentage. I see what his 3-betpercentage is and I look at the flop texture and make a decision how to contiunue. If Ihave hitted the flop I think about how the flop possible can have hitted the range they are playing. What holecards they would have 3bet with and what they possible cant have based on that information. I also 3b alot more against loose agressive players with a wide range fromthe button. I still learn alot about that play and I ONLY do it against very specific opponents.

I havent thought as detailed about those ranges and how to use them when the flop comes before and have started to get into the thinkingprocess the last few days. Feels like a new dimension that I can use to make my decisions easier. FUN!

Now the vacuum cleaner waits for me!

Cya soon!

Road to 5max NL 100$ buy-in. . Bankroll 57$.

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 6:54:16 -0500

Down about 2 buyins tonight. Playing at 10$ buyin.

My biggest losses.

-10$: I had been heavely aggressive at the table with about 40/40 and I did sense alot that the guy was starting to play back at me hard. He reraised my raise with AKs and I went all in with a full stack, the same as him. He showed AA :(

-8$: I had KK and raised and got called. Flop AKT rainbow. He had QJ and was playing strange back at me with small bets. So perhaps I could save some money here.

-7$: AA. Flop QQJ. Cbeted 3/4 pot. Got called. 5 hit the turn. I Bet halv pot and he go in with rest of his stack that I called, I felt weakness and was abit committed there. He had 55.

-7$: AKs allin preflop vs a maniac. He had JTs and did hit a straight on the river.

if I loose 8 $more I have to move down to 4$ again. Blehhh

/Johan

Road to 5max NL 100$ buy-in. . Bankroll 79$.

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 5:48:25 -0500

Hello again.

Here is some info on my bad run (or bad play).

www.outstandingpoker.com/poker-strategy/badrun-badstreak-microstakes-bad-luck-bad-play-t340.html

Best regards

Johan

Bankroll = 79$.

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 4:15:57 -0500

A short first post. Im going to make dinner asap!

I started this bankroll a little more than 3 months ago at 30$. Been up to 330$ and did run really bad.

Im atm reading "Harrington on Online Cash Games - 6max".

I use pokertracker.

See ya soon!

NL 5-max - my road from 4$ to 100$ buy-in.

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 4:12:25 -0500

Hello everyone!

This is my pokerblog where I will let u know how my bankroll develops. My goal is to reach the 100$ buyin and stay there for a longer while. I jump the limits pretty aggressive. This is how I jump between them. The buyin is 100 BB. When u have an aggressive "moving-up-down"-plan u really must move down just as u go below the value for moving down. When Im a dollar below I end all current tables and move down.

4$ buyin. 0-70$.

10$ buyin. 50-140$.

20$  buyin. 100-280$.

30$ buyin. 200-420$.

50$ buyin. 300-700$.

100$ buyin. 500--->

I first started playing poker 2004 for some months but did stop. Now I have played at microstakes for over a year and have learned much and love the game and the analysis. I have a family (girlfriend and a 18month girl) and a job (working with kids with behavour problems) and poker is my number one hobby.

/Johan

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