Hey Harv no my GF has never driven a car in her life and she was straight in and throwing it round the track haha!

Yeah they are fully insured but everything is wrecked from floorboards to walls to electrics! Gonna be a right ball ache!

Hey people! Volume has been terrible this month due to birthday and parents stuff etc! Got my video review from Jon yesterday and he picked out a cpl of key leaks! So I'm super motivated to grind to work on these along with the added value of the miracle! Gonna grindddd my ass off starting tonight

Oh and for those who haven't had a review done yet get on it people! Really is a great opportunity! Thanks a lot Jon!

Hey people volume has picked up 1.8k hands tonight! Not great profit wise was one of those sessions when you land in a bunch of really tough spots! The games are great on ipoker tho so really need to get the volume train going!

One thing that astounds me tho is there is a thread on here currently and alot of people seem to agree that the 20nl speed games are NOT beatable before RB! Even just tonight I saw regs calling 3 and 4 bets with K9s, KJ off, A8 off! I got a stack of two different regs betting 3 streets with a flopped flush off a straight and even an under pair to the board! And by regs I mean people who are online EVERYTIME you logon! I for one will be looking at doing something else if i cannot maintain a 2-5 bb/100 winrate after a couple of hundred k hands!

One thing are regs, another thing are those ipoker bots!! lol

pretty sure that the tables are beatable, i dont believe in that saying.

Good to see that you are starting to play more, volume is the key. if someone would give you $1 each time you handle him a leaf, wouldnt you be picking leafs all day? haha keep motivated bro 2-5bb/100 sounds like a good realistic goal!

Haha thanks Duran! Yeah I have always been a terrible one for volume! Really trying to put the money out my mind now and just try and make good decisions consistently with a big increase in volume!

Wow the games are insane on Ipoker the last couple of days! Loads of fish but also the regs seem to be going nuts! 3 and 4 betting insanely light, check raise barreling with complete air/ weak draws! Have struggled to adjust but think im just about getting there now! Check this little beauty out:

iPoker - €0.20 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4: http://www.pokertracker.com

BB: 131.55 BB (VPIP: 19.01, PFR: 17.36, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 123)
UTG: 146.75 BB (VPIP: 16.67, PFR: 14.44, 3Bet Preflop: 5.26, Hands: 93)
Hero (MP): 178.6 BB
CO: 100.5 BB (VPIP: 15.82, PFR: 12.24, 3Bet Preflop: 4.11, Hands: 203)
BTN: 96.65 BB (VPIP: 60.00, PFR: 20.00, 3Bet Preflop: 50.00, Hands: 5)
SB: 38 BB (VPIP: 41.10, PFR: 11.64, 3Bet Preflop: 5.80, Hands: 153)

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 9h 9s
fold, Hero raises to 3 BB, fold, BTN raises to 5 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 2 BB

Flop : (11.5 BB, 2 players) 9c As Ks
Hero bets 6.9 BB, BTN raises to 13.8 BB, Hero raises to 25 BB, BTN calls 11.2 BB

Turn : (61.5 BB, 2 players) 2c
Hero bets 27 BB, BTN calls 27 BB

River : (115.5 BB, 2 players) 7d
Hero bets 53 BB, BTN calls 39.65 BB

Hero shows 9h 9s (Three of a Kind, Nines)(Pre 55%, Flop 97%, Turn 100%)
BTN shows Jh Kc (One Pair, Kings)(Pre 45%, Flop 3%, Turn 0%)
Hero wins 198.45 BB

WTF hahaha What times do you usualy play (GMT)? Ipoker has plenty fish! I found the regs to be nitty or overly aggessive!

I work full time so evenings and weekends! Yeah totally agree just seems all of the overly aggro have been on the last couple of nights But fkn paddy power has gone down and i cant even load it up!! Grrrrrrrr

Productive day today! Played almost 3k hands and made a small profit after being stuck a bit! Also did another vid for Jon so looking forward to getting some more good feedback!

Hey guys here is a link i posted in the strat section if anybody wouldnt mind trying to help a WHALE out

https://www.pokervip.com/en/forum/poker-strategy/hideous-looking-graphhelp

Hey there,

Maybe you've already checked these articles and videos here on PokerVIP out but they really helped me getting my redline going horizontal (I play 20NL on PokerStars atm), you gotta be careful and pick your villains well , maybe of help? ps watch em a couple times and take notes!

Search here on PokerVIP for:

Improving your redline in Poker 1
Improving your redline in Poker 2

Defending Blinds Post-Flop - Part 1
Defending Blinds Post-Flop - Part 2

Modern Blind Defence in Poker
Mistakes in Multiway Pots

Good luck!

Thanks alot buddy much appreciated!

Always nice to see oldschool players returning back to poker. Happy hunting!

I do have a bone to pick with this particular hand. First of all, I would rethink a bit leading here. People who make these min3bets pre flop often will continue with their aggression post flop so x/r seems like a quicker way how to get the money in (you might induce your opponent just to shove with draws or GS or some other nonsense). There's certainly something to be said about not letting your opponent see a free turn card and drawing and leading certainly is not a mistake but that's not my objection. I find the flop 3bet sizing to be just awful and here's why:
a) You just give your opponent the opportunity to draw cheaply which is exactly what your flop lead was in part designed to prevent (or, at least, I think).
b) Your opponent might just call and the turn card might kill your action. For example, if the turn bricks your opponent might fold most of his flush draw hands while he would probably call any size raise on the flop. Or say a Ts comes on the turn and your opponent is holding something like A5, it might kill your action completely while your opponent would call any bet on the flop.
c) Given your stack sizes it's better to raise the flop in a way that allows you to shove the turn and that way get it in using 2 streets, Something one should be always aware of.

Thanks for the feedback buddy! Always good to get constructive comments! I'm loving the journey of constantly reviewing hands and trying to improve!

I really think that poker is like opening a can of worms! It's easy to not study and be lazy and make a small profit month on month! But the more I look at my play the more and more leaks I find etc! I watched a vid by Dreadwolf last week and he said that every time he looks back from old play he think 'my god I was shit' etc! Also said that when you can't do that is when you need to be concerned! Well I am most certainly doing that pretty much on a weekly basis at the moment! I have only seen a cpl of Dreadwolf's videos but that is one seriously dam switched on guy! Some of the concepts that seem to come naturally to him are on another level! I wouldn't be surprised at all if he is a high stakes crusher in the not too distant future!

Some nice hands there...any graph we can see?

Its mad isn't it how you can realise the progress made in such short spaces of time. I look back even to a couple of months ago and see loads of things I done differently, things I have learnt etc. I really need to spend more time studying though, I'm so lazy when it comes to it, must sort that out!

Will check out Dreadwolfs vids soon, they sounds really good. Got any links you can recommend?

Yeah I'm bad at reviewing sessions but making more of an effort! I do think you can get far too caught up with trying to look for and plug leaks tho! When really playing decent abc poker is enough to crush the stakes most of us play!

Dreadwolf has only done a couple of videos on here so just filter by coach and it will bring it up! Almost every decision he makes has almost nothing to do with the cards in his hand! I'm pretty sure he could beat 50nl playing blind haha!

Hey guys! Been working hard on my game etc and really feel like im starting to find my groove on ipoker! I am playing 3 tables and sticking to that for the mo as my winrate seems to fall big style playing a 4th! I think the majority of players in this pool are just massive volume whores and happy just to grind break even and cash in the bonuses! So i think taking advantage of the 'clicking buttons' regs is the key to beating these games! Where as i think when i play 4 tables i am doing exactly that so losing my edge..............i hope that makes sense!

Anyway update is that i had a very good day yesterday winning 100e then today was just mehhhhhh! Everytime i got a bit in front i walked into a hand i couldnt lay down etc! Quite frustrating day actually coz so many times people butchered hands against me giving me far too good odds or shoving top pair hands when i had huge draws! Then i just seemed to BRICK!! But i really cant complain as yesterday i ran like Usain Bolt! Weekends graph...........im happy with both volume and win rate!



Going forward im going to continue the plan of decent volume decent win rate! Up to now I have really struggled to get the balance of these 2 but think im getting there now! Hopefully anyway

Really dont know how some of you guys play this game for a living.............sooooooo FRUSTRATING haha!! Played bad and ran bad -4.5 buyins in 1.2k hands! Leave it for today!