doing my own rags to riches story

Starting Balance: $152.97
Ending Balance: $165.91*
Difference: +12.94
YTD difference: +115.91
*Current Cash balance: $337.91


I got a nice "donation" to my bankroll, but for progress sake i'm keeping that seperate from my earned balance.

didn't play much up a bit at $10NL and moneyed a 4/20. had one interesting hand from the tournament. about 35 left and i'm working with a decent stack.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t200 (7 handed) Hand History Converter Tool (http://poker-tools.flopturnriver.com/Hand-Converter.php) from FlopTurnRiver.com (http://www.flopturnriver.com) (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

SB (t1736)
B-dubbers (t12413)
UTG (t12625)
MP1 (t5717)
MP2 (t670)
CO (t8535)
Button (t9423)

Preflop: B-dubbers is BB with Jhttp://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/images/smiles/heart.gif, Jhttp://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/images/smiles/club.gif.
1 fold, MP1 calls t200, 1 fold, CO raises to t800, 2 folds, B-dubbers raises to t5000, MP1 raises to t5717, CO raises to t8535, B-dubbers folds.

Flop: (t19352) Khttp://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/images/smiles/club.gif, 8http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/images/smiles/heart.gif, 6http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/images/smiles/spade.gif (2 players)

Turn: (t19352) 6http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/images/smiles/club.gif (2 players)

River: (t19352) 7http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/images/smiles/diamond.gif (2 players)

Final Pot: t19352

the original raise was just a resteal, CO had been getting away with a few steals uncalled the past few rounds and i wanted to take the pot down without seeing a flop. obviously the big raise got me in trouble.

calling would have left me with ~3500 chips and in really bad shape if i'd lost, but at the same time i'm getting good odds to call. but with a limp rereraise and a raise/push over all the action i was convinced i was behind at this point, so i opted to fold and preserve my stack rather than cripple myself when i thought i was behind.

good fold or was i stupid to fold given the pot odds?

I think you already realized, but the size of your 3-bet is pretty bad. I would make it ~2500 or just push.

As played it's a call. They have to be on a range of QQ+ for it not to be an easy call and at the $4/180's it's never that tight. It's going to be more like:

Hand 1: 37.9627 % 37.18% 00.78% { JJ }
Hand 2: 36.5379 % 35.07% 01.47% { 99+, AJs+, AQo+ }
Hand 3: 25.4993 % 24.28% 01.22% { 55+, A9s+, KQs, ATo+, KQo }

Starting Balance: $165.91
Ending Balance: $194.27*
Difference: +28.36
YTD difference: +144.27
*Current Cash balance: $366.27

another good day. busted 15th in a stud/8 10+1 mtt and was up a good bit at 10NL. Bubbled out of a 2 table sng and busted early in a $5.50 mtt.

i hit the 5000 hand mark at 10nl and thought i'd throw my stats up.
http://home.earthlink.net/~lnwerling/ptstats5000.JPG
about 60% of those hands were played 6 handed so my vp$ip is a bit higher than how i play full ring. my vp$ip for hands i played 7-10 handed is between 20-21%. since switching from 6 handed i've been on a tear. 19 sessions at full ring, 5 losing sessions totaling about -$16 between them. i've had 7 sessions where i've been up $10 or more, and 3 where i've been up $20 or more.

glad to hear you've been having success.

even though your results are looking great, you might want to lower your vpip just a little and greatly increase your preflop raise%. 29/8 is too weak. increasing the PFR is by far more important since you can get away with playing more hands at microNL 6max.

my longterm 1/2nl stats are about 24/16 -- i never limp into pots. ever. you want these numbers as close together as possible. gl :)

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