$1k

After another successful session at $50NL, I have manage to take my bankroll over the $1k mark ! I realise this is peanuts to most high flyers out there, but this is a big milestone for me ! It has been a grind, and needed a lot of patience and discipline not to get greedy and try to take shots at stakes above my bankroll. When I started my blog end of July, my bankroll was at $280 and I was playing at $10NL. Now, I’m playing at $50NL, and feel quite confident at my game.

Tonight’s session, I was 4-tabling and this is something I want to try and improve while still at $50NL. I am not bothered about 16-tabling like some of the other grinders out there. I like my poker to be enjoyable, but I would like to be 100% comfortable 4-tabling any level I choose. I have a decent monitor for doing this – A Samsung 204B 20″ with 1600×1200 resolution, so I can play 4 tables tiled with no overlap, but I still don’t feel completely confident doing it. This is something I intend on working hard at over the next few weeks before I move up again.

Tonights session started off pretty badly with me getting sucked out on a few times. I managed to keep my cool though and win it all back.

I then went on to play back at an overly aggressive player preflop. I 3-bet him, he came over the top and I called. I flopped TPTK and I decided to check, knowing that if I gave him enough rope, he’d hang himself. He didn’t disappoint and he bet out for $20 and I insta check-raised all-in. He tanked for a few seconds before folding. This won me a biggish pot.

Here are a few of the hands in detail:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1671871

I hate monotone flops ! Yuck and nice call preflop by villain with QTs lol !

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1671879

Another suckout here by villain. It happens, I’m not so bothered about the bad beat, but what I don’t understand is why would you call preflop with 97s in a heads up pot, when you have a shortstack ?! It makes no sense at all……

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1671898

Not sure what villain could have had here. My guess is AJ, AK or maybe a medium pocket pair like TT, or a flush draw. I also think he just didn’t believe I was particularly strong, and could perhaps shake me off the pot.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1671918

Pretty standard here really. Even if villain had rearaised all-in preflop, I had decided I was going to call, since he was a shortstack.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1671933

Looking back at some of these hands, I can’t believe how bad some of the players are at $50NL. I mean here, his pf call is awful, but then how he possibly think his single (flopped) pair, crap kicker is any good here ?!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1671949

This is the hand I was talking about earlier. Villain here was very very aggressive preflop, raising about 15% of his hands, and much more than that when it folded around to him in late position, so I was confident my A9s was crushing his range. His 4-bet didn’t worry me in the slightest and I had already decided I was going to check-raise all-in on any flop. He was getting 4-1 to call my all-in on the flop, so if he folded, he really must have had nothing at all and my read was right !

Session stats:

Number of hands: 133

Net profit/loss: +$60

Winrate: +44.81 ptBB / 100

Bankroll: $1006