uFR Challenge III: Day 4 + 5

Day 4. I unfortunately only managed to put in 500 hands yesterday but the games were super fishy and I was up a quick 2 buyins before quitting for the day. It should be July 4th every Saturday of the year.

Day 5. Got off to a slow start today and finished the first session down a buyin after spewing my last hand. I was probably a little tilty at breaking even for 1200 hands with flopping absolutely nothing worth valuebetting. I did a little session review and picked out the biggest fish and the biggest pots I'd seen today and made notes on which ones were stacking off super light.

Then I fired up some more tables and got into some good spots where 2 or 3 regs were constantly 3betting me and I recognized the situation as a good squeeze spot for them and 4bet light successfully a number of times and played back at the right flops and came out ahead in the 3bet/4bet light game.

My favorite hand for this month so far. I loled when I saw the nitty SB fire $1 into $1.50 and thought lol he has Asx. Calling is pretty much a 0EV play since I'm about 25:1 to hit and that's 1/2 his stack, plus I have to have his hand exactly right and I don't think my straight draw outs are good since I'm either crushed or don't get paid off anyways - but hitting straight flushes for stacks is so much fun so I have to call. Fortunately the fish on my left came along for a couple bets to add some value.

Poker Stars $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players - View hand 174086
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UTG+1: $56.25
UTG+2: $50.00
MP1: $52.00
MP2: $74.20
CO: $50.00
BTN: $50.00
SB: $50.00
Hero (BB): $111.70
UTG: $52.70

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is BB with T 6
UTG calls $0.50, 6 folds, SB calls $0.25, Hero checks

Flop: ($1.50) 5 3 4 (3 players)
SB bets $1, Hero calls $1, UTG calls $1

Turn: ($4.50) 7 (3 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $4, UTG calls $4, SB raises to $16, Hero calls $12, UTG folds

River: ($40.50) 8 (2 players)
SB bets $32.50 all in, Hero calls $32.50

Final Pot: $105.50
SB shows A Q (a flush, Ace high)
Hero shows T 6 (a straight flush, Three to Seven)
Hero wins $102.50
(Rake: $3.00)

Winrate is rising again.
3.12 ptBB/100 over 21k hands.

uFR Challenge III: Day 2 + 3

Day 2 was pretty rough. I got off to a really good start and put up 2.5 buyins in 1500 hands. The session I played later in the evening just coolered those away but I did manage to vindicate myself somewhat on my last hand for the day. I need to start shoving rivers more often again:

Poker Stars $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em - 8 players - View hand 171246
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SB: $59.45
BB: $51.30
UTG: $48.70
UTG+1: $56.50
Hero (MP1): $50.00
MP2: $50.00
CO: $39.80
BTN: $55.65

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is MP1 with 3 3
2 folds, Hero raises to $1.50, 4 folds, BB calls $1

Flop: ($3.25) 9 J 3 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $2, BB calls $2

Turn: ($7.25) 9 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $5, BB calls $5

River: ($17.25) A (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $41.50 all in, BB says "why so much" and tanks his entire timebank, BB calls $41.50

Final Pot: $100.25
BB mucks J 7
Hero shows 3 3 (a full house, Threes full of Nines)
Hero wins $97.25
(Rake: $3.00)

More updates in this post to follow as I play today...

Day 3 got off to a nice start. I forgot that it's Friday since I'm on holidays and was wondering why the games were sooooo fishy this morning. I played 18 tables and at least 5 of them had a 60/20 that managed to rack up 4 buyins. Good times!

This was the biggest winner so far today, villain is 53/29 and running hotter than the sun so I decided to put a stop to that:

Poker Stars $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players - View hand 171437
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CO: $50.95
Hero (BTN): $50.00
SB: $50.00
BB: $57.30
UTG: $49.50
UTG+1: $50.50
UTG+2: $49.25
MP1: $50.75
MP2: $188.80

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is BTN with A A
4 folds, MP2 calls $0.50, CO calls $0.50, Hero raises to $3, 2 folds, MP2 calls $2.50, 1 fold

Flop: ($7.25) 7 Q 9 (2 players)
MP2 bets $3, Hero raises to $9, MP2 calls $6

Turn: ($25.25) 6 (2 players)
MP2 bets $10, Hero raises to $38 all in, MP2 calls $28

River: ($101.25) 6 (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $101.25
Hero shows A A (two pair, Aces and Sixes)
MP2 shows J 8 (a pair of Sixes)
Hero wins $98.25
(Rake: $3.00)

The biggest loser was against another of these guys. I was hoping to get him to spazz out with his top pair on the flop here. Didn't realize his hand might actually be that strong otherwise I might have bet the flop bigger but, whatever I'm probably still ahead enough of the time on a seemingly blank turn:

Poker Stars $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em - 8 players - View hand 171438
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BB: $53.95
UTG: $51.40
UTG+1: $40.35
Hero (MP1): $73.75
MP2: $39.75
CO: $52.95
BTN: $43.30
SB: $57.60

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is MP1 with K K
2 folds, Hero raises to $1.50, 4 folds, BB calls $1

Flop: ($3.25) J 7 3 (2 players)
BB bets $1, Hero raises to $4, BB raises to $10, Hero raises to $20, BB calls $10

Turn: ($43.25) 8 (2 players)
BB bets $32.45 all in, Hero calls $32.45

River: ($108.15) 5 (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $108.15
BB shows J 8 (two pair, Jacks and Eights)
Hero mucks K K
BB wins $105.15
(Rake: $3.00)

Winrate is starting to climb out of the BE stretch induced mean average of 0 from the first 10k hands
15k hands
1.5 ptBB/100
$222.20

I thought I was up more than this but HEM had my sessions messed up and I was in for a dissappointing look at results when the HUD said +$130 on the day and HEM actually says $65.

Tables were quite nice this afternoon I'm assuming due to July 4th weekend. Finished the afternoon up 5 BI and quite happy. Then got sucked out and coolered 3x in my evening session within the first 15 minutes:

AA to KK AIPF 4 flush boards are the bane of my existance.*
99 to 55 on 5569x
88 to QQ on Q8xxx

*I officially request a rule change that one card flushes do not count, you don't deserve to draw to a one card flush and throw the rest of the hand ranking chart out the window with your 7 high no draw, unless the flop is mono, cause if you are drawing to a 1 card flush then you are terribad.

Winrate currently stands at 2.0. I win the interwebz.

uFR Challenge III: Day 1

Happy Canada Day everybody!

Today was the 1st day of the challenge. I wanted to make sure I got off to a good headstart on the volume to increase my winrate multiplier and last night was the best time to do it for me. I have played A LOT of poker in the last 21 hours.

Unfortunately I ran absolutely terrible in the cooler department overnight and quickly found myself down 7 buyins. This one was my last dropped buyin as was playing very poorly on top of that as you can tell by my horrible line in the hand history and I thought it was a good time to take a break:

Poker Stars $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players - View hand 169945
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CO: $50.00
BTN: $65.00
SB: $54.85
BB: $50.00
Hero (UTG): $50.00
UTG+1: $38.00
UTG+2: $28.45
MP1: $45.60
MP2: $32.40

CO posts a big blind ($0.50)

Pre Flop: ($1.25) Hero is UTG with 9 9
Hero raises to $2.50, 1 fold, UTG+2 calls $2.50, 4 folds, SB calls $2.25, 1 fold

Flop: ($8.50) 9 6 6 (3 players)
SB checks, Hero checks, UTG+2 bets $5, SB calls $5, Hero calls $5

Turn: ($23.50) 5 (3 players)
SB checks, Hero checks, UTG+2 checks

River: ($23.50) 5 (3 players)
SB bets $7, Hero raises to $42.50 all in, UTG+2 calls $20.95 all in, SB calls $35.50

Final Pot: $129.45
SB shows 6 6 (four of a kind, Sixes)
Hero shows 9 9 (a full house, Nines full of Sixes)
UTG+2 mucks Q Q
SB wins $43.10
SB wins $83.35
(Rake: $3.00)

Went and got myself a Tim Horton's coffee and fired up different tables. I told myself to just play solid ABC poker and win those buyins back. My goal was to win back at least 5 of those in the next several thousand hands. The coolers didn't stop, but the rest of my game improved, I played relatively tilt-free, and I slowly won 2 buyins for every 1 I continued to lose back. It was pretty gruelling to say the least but I am actually glad that I had the experience of just pure grinding for hours on end to see what that's like, especially in a losing situation.

A little later in the afternoon I put in about 4 more hours and started to show some profit for the month and I'm starting to feel really good about July and it's potential.

So I played a lot of hands for the first day of the challenge. Actually this is the most hands I've ever played in a single day.