Swog's bankroll challenge.

Swog

As a few may know i'm currently a first year maths student at Manchester university, i've being playing on the site since November '11(ish). Being playing poker for little over 6 months (since i turned 18), i have become addicted, recording all poker on tv, reading forums, poker books etc... Recently i've been playing profitably making a nice little bankroll, then cashing out, then depositing again. Now i'm looking for a little a bit of encouragement from others and myself to commit to solid hours of grinding in order to maximise my monthly earnings and build a decent bankroll. My ambition is one day to be rolled to be playing the biggest games on this website.

My starting bankroll is £89.21. I will be playing the following games  (recording progress as i go):
- NL4 cash. (full buy-ins)
- £2.25 DYM's (a view to £3.30s soon)
- 7.15pm £100 guaranteed deepstack (daily if possible)
- Monday DTD (weekly if possible)
- £1.05 turbo headsup (occasionally)

i will look to report on progress after every session of poker, possibly every day of poker, posting hands and asking for feedback etc. As of yet, i have no 'target' bankroll to achieve by a set time, i just want to try and play my best poker and commit to volume and hope the profits look after themselves.

Finally, i am willing to give to charity (not sure which yet) 5% of my monthly profits for the foreseeable future out of my own money not my bankroll. I will look to achieve a figure of £2.50 a month in donation (so £50 profit a month). To get the ball rolling, i would like to take advice on my selection of games. If anyone has any suggestions or questions don't be afraid to.

My 'challenge' and journey begins as of now. Good luck everyone.

Swog

First question i will ask:
Is playing the survivor series (£1 buyin) a worthwhile venture, in hopes of cashing big?

GaryQQQ

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First question i will ask: Is playing the survivor series (£1 buyin) a worthwhile venture, in hopes of cashing big?
Posted by Swog

I'd say probably not, it's a bit too much of a long shot while your roll is still fairly small. Also you have to commit to playing at the same time 7 evenings in a row, if you can't make one them your pound is wasted.

Anyway, good luck with your challenge, I look foward to following your progress.

Dudeskin8

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First question i will ask: Is playing the survivor series (£1 buyin) a worthwhile venture, in hopes of cashing big?
Posted by Swog

I can't see any problem with playing this, as long as it's just the £1 BI and not further in the week, £1 a week towards this shouldn't even register on your radar with a £90 roll.
 

Top 3 prizes are usually £200, £400 and £600 and winning either would be massive for you. 

spornybol

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First question i will ask: Is playing the survivor series (£1 buyin) a worthwhile venture, in hopes of cashing big?
Posted by Swog

i would say so, i`v managed to get to sat final table for a pound unfortunatly finished 6th although it was hard work getting there with no decent cards dealt but needing to pick rite spots to play during the week but if you cash say £200 for £1 i wouldn`t complain.

rancid

good luck

YOUNG_GUN

Hi Swog,

in regards to Survivor i think it would be good to play but only if you can commit to all the week.

seems ok your plan roughly 40-50 buy ins starting for and about 25 for nl4 should be fine. 

Will you be dropping down in dym's if you get below a certain amount? 

£2.20 deepstack is a great way to make some money, so definately try to play this as much as possible.

Most of all good luck and have fun, hope it dont affect your Uni. 

Dudeskin8

On the DYM's I'd advise waiting till you have around £100-120 then play JUST the £3.30 ones as rake in £2.25 ones is slightly worse so are not worth playing if you have any choice about it.

Swog

Thanks everyone for the input and the good luck messages. I will be on the tables from 5pm after ive done some uni work.

In response to Dudeskin, that was my thinking initially. £2.25DYM = 12.5% rake. £3.30DYM = 10% rake, which then seems to be the set percentage rake for even the high stakes £55DYM's. So i'll probably follow this advice as it means winning 55% of games. Then if i go below £100 i will stop playing DYM's till i bakc safe to play them.

A question on the £2.20 DYM's i have played these a few times over the last few weeks, cashed in them atleast half the time, but am i not under-rolled to play a £2 buy-in tournament?

Swog

First session of my challenge: (3 tabling NL4 for just under an hour)
i will list some interesting hands for debate (biggest winners/losers mainly) after this post
Table 1) Early on ended up topping up for £0.92 but then ended 50 minutes later running my stack upto £12, after a late setback i eneded with £10.66. Profit of +£5.74.
Table 2) lost £0.47 over the course of the 50 minute session, no top-ups used here, mainly being card dead and seeing my stack fall through the blinds. Profit of -£0.47.
Table 3) Topped up early by the amount of £1.92, where i called an open shove from UTG with JJ, and lost to Q9o, i will be posting this hand, so i would like feedback on this please. Profit of -£2.31.

Overall profit of +£2.96 for this session. (£92.17 bankroll. 185 C4P)

NL4 Minutes played:155Hours played:2.58Profit:£2.96Profit/hour:£1.15BB/hour:28.65

Swog

1) Should i have bet the flop commiting myself tothe shove?

tomov09	Small blind		£0.02	£0.02	£4.04
bathcity09	Big blind		£0.04	£0.06	£5.02
	Your hole cards	A J
Shaz27	Call		£0.04	£0.10	£1.28
Dawson001	Fold
Swog	Raise		£0.20	£0.30	£11.98
Septo_Man	Fold
tomov09	Fold
bathcity09	Call		£0.16	£0.46	£4.86
Shaz27	Call		£0.16	£0.62	£1.12
Flop
		2 7 K
bathcity09	Check
Shaz27	Check
Swog	Bet		£0.31	£0.93	£11.67
bathcity09	Fold
Shaz27	All-in		£1.12	£2.05	£0.00
Swog	Call		£0.81	£2.86	£10.86
Shaz27	Show	K 8
Swog	Show	A J
Turn
		3
River
		5
Shaz27	Win	Pair of Kings	£2.64

2) I think i profited from a few of my own mistakes here? i put him on KK or AA with the weak 3 bet i'd seen him do in a similar spot.

bathcity09	Small blind		£0.02	£0.02	£2.33
Shaz27	Big blind		£0.04	£0.06	£2.15
	Your hole cards	J K
Dawson001	Fold
Swog	Raise		£0.12	£0.18	£8.31
Septo_Man	Raise		£0.24	£0.42	£4.35
tomov09	Fold
bathcity09	Fold
Shaz27	Fold
Swog	Call		£0.12	£0.54	£8.19
Flop
		J K Q
Swog	Check
Septo_Man	Bet		£0.27	£0.81	£4.08
Swog	Raise		£0.81	£1.62	£7.38
Septo_Man	Call		£0.54	£2.16	£3.54
Turn
		4
Swog	Bet		£1.44	£3.60	£5.94
Septo_Man	All-in		£3.54	£7.14	£0.00
Swog	Call		£2.10	£9.24	£3.84
Swog	Show	J K
Septo_Man	Show	A A
River
		8
Swog	Win	Two Pairs, Kings and Jacks	£8.54

3) Should i have being looking to get stacks in on the flop, with the 4th nuts. Or fine as played?

Dawson001	Small blind		£0.02	£0.02	£4.02
Swog	Big blind		£0.04	£0.06	£7.13
	Your hole cards	3 3
Septo_Man	Fold
GaryQQQ	Fold
bathcity09	Fold
Shaz27	Fold
Dawson001	Call		£0.02	£0.08	£4.00
Swog	Check
Flop
		5 3 6
Dawson001	Bet		£0.04	£0.12	£3.96
Swog	Raise		£0.16	£0.28	£6.97
Dawson001	Raise		£0.24	£0.52	£3.72
Swog	Call		£0.12	£0.64	£6.85
Turn
		9
Dawson001	Check
Swog	Bet		£0.52	£1.16	£6.33
Dawson001	Call		£0.52	£1.68	£3.20
River
		A
Dawson001	Check
Swog	Bet		£0.88	£2.56	£5.45
Dawson001	Call		£0.88	£3.44	£2.32
Swog	Show	3 3
Dawson001	Muck	6 Q
Swog	Win	Three 3s	£3.18

4) Fine to call the over shove, hoping i wasn't against a set or nut straight?

Dawson001	Sit out
Swog	Small blind		£0.02	£0.02	£3.84
Septo_Man	Big blind		£0.04	£0.06	£4.36
	Your hole cards	5 A
GaryQQQ	Fold
bathcity09	Fold
Shaz27	Call		£0.04	£0.10	£4.36
Swog	Call		£0.02	£0.12	£3.82
Septo_Man	Check
Flop
		2 5 A
Swog	Check
Septo_Man	Check
Shaz27	Bet		£0.12	£0.24	£4.24
Swog	Raise		£0.40	£0.64	£3.42
Septo_Man	Fold
Shaz27	All-in		£4.24	£4.88	£0.00
Swog	All-in		£3.42	£8.30	£0.00
Shaz27	Unmatched bet		£0.54	£7.76	£0.54
Swog	Show	5 A
Shaz27	Show	A 2
Turn
		Q
River
		4
Swog	Win	Two Pairs, Aces and 5s	£7.17

5) Should i call the huge open shove here, or wait for a better spot.

Septo_Man	Small blind		£0.02	£0.02	£4.38
Micknick	Big blind		£0.04	£0.06	£9.04
	Your hole cards	J J
Choppowski	All-in		£1.54	£1.60	£0.00
Swog	Call		£1.54	£3.14	£2.08
scryer03	Fold
FADAM	Fold
Septo_Man	Fold
Micknick	Fold
Choppowski	Show	9 Q
Swog	Show	J J
Flop
		Q K 9
Turn
		A
River
		A
Choppowski	Win	Two Pairs, Aces and Queens	£2.90

Serge77

I suggest you should play the mini events at 8:15 every night. It's only £3.30 to enter. Only on sunday the mini primo is £5.50. If you make the final table it's a very good way to build your bank roll

TWRAMYEP

NL4 is softer than the DYMs, so Id go with them for most of your volume.

About your question on under rolled for multis, yeah your underrolled but it dosnt mean you cant take a few shots

Swog

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I suggest you should play the mini events at 8:15 every night. It's only £3.30 to enter. Only on sunday the mini primo is £5.50. If you make the final table it's a very good way to build your bank roll
Posted by Serge77

Am i rolled to play a £3.30 tournament?

YOUNG_GUN

Good start, like the way you present it too.

All hands played fine:

1) you want to bet flop due to their stack no point check calling, get in on flop when you have most equity (any heart or Ace) 

2) Looks like you played very well, got quite alot of value on what seems like a dry board wp

3) they have approx 40bb so its an auto stack of in my books.

Keep posting and run good

YOUNG_GUN

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In Response to Re: Swog's bankroll challenge. : Am i rolled to play a £3.30 tournament?
Posted by Swog

Personally i dont think you should play the mini mains, although they are good and if you cash it will give you a nice boost. I think for tourneys you should play £2.20 deepstacks (guranteed ones) and no more even the £1.10 if you cash well could like give you 50% increase in your roll, anything higher i think it will dent ur roll a bit too much but still if you run well could be worthwhile. 

With your bankroll management, its really whether you can deposit if need be then you can be more agressive and take shots earlier. 

TWRAMYEP

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In Response to Re: Swog's bankroll challenge. : Am i rolled to play a £3.30 tournament?
Posted by Swog

Can you go on a 30 buyin down swing in multis? of course

Swog

i have made a mistake in my hand history post, by duplicating two of my hands. i have now corrected this if anyone would like to comment.

Thank you Young gun, glad you enjoy my posts. hope to see you on the tables sometime. Good luck.

YOUNG_GUN

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i have made a mistake in my hand history post, by duplicating two of my hands. i have now corrected this if anyone would like to comment. Thank you Young gun, glad you enjoy my posts. hope to see you on the tables sometime. Good luck.
Posted by Swog

You will do matey, i have to redopist(first time in ages because i withdrew) so will be starting literally from the bottom so may see u nl4 or in cheap mtt/stt 

Swog

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In Response to Re: Swog's bankroll challenge. : Can you go on a 30 buyin down swing in multis? of course
Posted by TWRAMYEP

Thats exactly the point i was getting at. i'd probably play them when i hit the £200 mark.

Swog

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In Response to Re: Swog's bankroll challenge. : You will do matey, i have to redopist(first time in ages because i withdrew) so will be starting literally from the bottom so may see u nl4 or in cheap mtt/stt 
Posted by YOUNG_GUN

Fair enough, i'll give you a greeting if i'm not to tied up on other tables. Shall i see you in the 7.45pm £1.10 £100 guarenteed deepstack? brilliant for our bankrolls.

Dudeskin8

NL4 hands you posted.

1. Looks fine, if he had more you could possibly fold to shove.

2. Initial raise should be a bit more at least 16p at NL4, when he 3bets you it's a snap fold, KJ is a decent raising hand but you don't want to be calling OOP with it as most flops you will be check-folding and losing money. As played you ot lucky and played it well from there but still a fold pre.

3. Yep arise again on flop looking to get it in. Bet pot on river.

4. Fold or raise preflop, OOP I prefer a fold. Flop is just a cooler.

5. I like to reshove here as it gets others out the way, if you call like here then it is to induce others into the pot and you HAVE to call if they shove.

Swog

Just completed my 2nd session of the day. (£1.10 Deepstack and 2 NL4 cash tables)
Cash table 1) Early top-up of £1, then ran my bankroll up to £7.12 in a 2 hour grind. Profit of +£2.12 
Cash table 2) Another early top-up of £2.86, where i was rivered, but as played i shouldn't have paid of his river value bet (hand below). 2 hours later i had gained a few BB's back for the end of the session. Profit of -£2.11
Tournament table 3) This was the £1.10 £100 guarenteed deep stack which i'm looking to play every day, if possible. Didn't start well with me being 50% of my stack down by level 3. However, i doubled up through a large stack with my first ROYAL FLUSH ever, the board shown a flush on the river, and the opponent didn't believe my over bet shove, with the 10 of diamonds i took the pot down. After a little bit of card dead syndrome a hand was played where i gained a healthy sized pot, when i flopped top pair and an ace high flush draw, by the turn the chips went in and i was looking at a king high flush draw, the river came the flush for both, which won me the pot with the absolute nuts. I was still however fairly below average chips and needed to hit a few hands, however a good read by myself picked of a big river bluff with 3rd pair to the board, seeing me become 10th out of around 40 remaining players. I then survived to the money bubble of 20th, and then found myself in the top 10 with average stack, stealing blinds as i went along. As the 3rd hour of play arose and chipstacks where relatively low compared to blinds, my final hand was upon me, with 12 big blinds i 3bet shoved the chip leader with KK's preflop, to be beaten by a set of QQ's. The hand pretty much played itself. i finished 8th out of 102 competitors for a £4.08 cash. Look forward to the same tournament tomorrow, with the hope of going one step further. Profit of +£2.98

Overall profit of +£2.99 for this session (Bankroll £95.16. C4P 208)

NL4			£1.10 Deepstack
Minutes played:	409		Games played:	1
Hours played:	6.82		Cashes:	1
Profit:	£2.97		Cash %:	100.0%
Profit/hour:	£0.44		Final tables:	0
BB/hour:	10.89		Final table %:	0.0%
			Wins:	0
			Wins %:	0
			Winnings:	£4.08
			Profit:	£2.98
			Profit/game:	£2.98

1) Did i lose value here with my Aces, or should i be happy with the profit i made given villains hand?

gpam	Small blind		£0.02	£0.02	£6.06
TPS	Big blind		£0.04	£0.06	£1.81
	Your hole cards	A A
Dendrobe	Fold
Swog	Raise		£0.12	£0.18	£4.50
69joe	Call		£0.12	£0.30	£4.44
gpam	Call		£0.10	£0.40	£5.96
TPS	Fold
Flop
		3 Q 8
gpam	Check
Swog	Bet		£0.32	£0.72	£4.18
69joe	Call		£0.32	£1.04	£4.12
gpam	Fold
Turn
		9
Swog	Bet		£0.60	£1.64	£3.58
69joe	Call		£0.60	£2.24	£3.52
River
		K
Swog	Bet		£1.00	£3.24	£2.58
69joe	Call		£1.00	£4.24	£2.52
Swog	Show	A A
69joe	Muck	Q 10
Swog	Win	Pair of Aces	£3.92

2) Is there a cause for flatting pre to trap others in?

craigly12	Small blind		£0.02	£0.02	£1.25
Swog	Big blind		£0.04	£0.06	£3.82
	Your hole cards	K K
newskooler	Fold
clubhammer	Fold
newyorkgaz	Raise		£0.08	£0.14	£3.26
TONTOB	Fold
craigly12	All-in		£1.25	£1.39	£0.00
Swog	All-in		£3.82	£5.21	£0.00
newyorkgaz	Fold
Swog	Unmatched bet		£2.59	£2.62	£2.59
craigly12	Show	J A
Swog	Show	K K
Flop
		Q 6 6
Turn
		K
River
		7
Swog	Win	Full House, Kings and 6s	£2.42

3) Don't think i played this well what so ever, shouldnt have called the river bet... is the call pre-flop okay gived the implied odds?

Swog	Small blind		£0.02	£0.02	£3.80
leoncupra	Big blind		£0.04	£0.06	£1.27
	Your hole cards	J 4
clubhammer	Fold
harvestmoo	Call		£0.04	£0.10	£1.80
TONTOB	Call		£0.04	£0.14	£3.72
spursDS23	Fold
Swog	Call		£0.02	£0.16	£3.78
leoncupra	Check
Flop
		J 4 8
Swog	Check
leoncupra	Check
harvestmoo	Check
TONTOB	Bet		£0.12	£0.28	£3.60
Swog	Raise		£0.48	£0.76	£3.30
leoncupra	Fold
harvestmoo	Fold
TONTOB	Call		£0.36	£1.12	£3.24
Turn
		2
Swog	Bet		£0.80	£1.92	£2.50
TONTOB	Call		£0.80	£2.72	£2.44
River
		A
Swog	Check
TONTOB	Bet		£1.36	£4.08	£1.08
Swog	Call		£1.36	£5.44	£1.14
TONTOB	Show	A A
Swog	Muck	J 4
TONTOB	Win	Three Aces	£5.03

4) Am i okay to get it in here with 2nd pair and a flush draw on the flop, given i'm only being called by an Ace, i must be 50-50 here, with 2pair and trips outs to?

69joe	Small blind		£0.02	£0.02	£5.12
cerys18	Big blind		£0.04	£0.06	£1.92
	Your hole cards	9 8
totty22	Raise		£0.08	£0.14	£0.73
Tacklebery	Call		£0.08	£0.22	£3.36
Swog	Call		£0.08	£0.30	£3.81
69joe	Fold
cerys18	Call		£0.04	£0.34	£1.88
Flop
		9 3 A
cerys18	Check
totty22	Bet		£0.34	£0.68	£0.39
Tacklebery	Fold
Swog	Raise		£0.72	£1.40	£3.09
cerys18	Fold
totty22	All-in		£0.39	£1.79	£0.00
Swog	Call		£0.01	£1.80	£3.08
totty22	Show	K A
Swog	Show	9 8
Turn
		10
River
		7
totty22	Win	Pair of Aces	£1.66

EvilPingu

I'm on a pretty similar bankroll to you at the moment. However, you seem to be playing more cash whereas I'm playing mainly low stakes DYM's and the odd £2.30 BH, so will be interesting to compare my diary thread to yours and see which is the best way of building a bankroll.

Without wanting to de-rail your thread, what's Maths @ Uni like? I'm still at College atm, will be applying for Uni next year, and thinking of doing a Maths degree.

Good luck building the bankroll up BTW

Swog

Thank you i've played you a few times, here and there. Had a little look at your thread and i'm keen to see how you progress to. I'm waiting till i reach £110 before i play DYM's, starting of at £3.30's to avoid the bigger rake.

My maths degree isn't the easiest, its a huge jump from a-level maths, but if you enjoy maths and have a good knowledge of it then go for it. I'm only just getting to grips with the pace of it all.

Maybe, we could challenge each other to see who meets a certain bankroll target first?

Good luck with the bankroll challenge and with college work. See you on the tables.

Swog

Another question, when would i be rolled for £3.30 DYMs? in your opinion?

EvilPingu

In Response to Re: Swog's bankroll challenge.:

Thank you i've played you a few times, here and there. Had a little look at your thread and i'm keen to see how you progress to. I'm waiting till i reach £110 before i play DYM's, starting of at £3.30's to avoid the bigger rake. My maths degree isn't the easiest, its a huge jump from a-level maths, but if you enjoy maths and have a good knowledge of it then go for it. I'm only just getting to grips with the pace of it all. Maybe, we could challenge each other to see who meets a certain bankroll target first? Good luck with the bankroll challenge and with college work. See you on the tables.
Posted by Swog

Yeah, I'm up for that, even though I'll probably lose, lol. I probably make most of my money from rakeback, so getting to any target might take me a while :P

Swog

After another hourly mid day session sat at the cash tables heres how i got on:
Cash table 1) After winning 3 decent sized pots late on in the session (+£2.14, +£1.94 and +£0.83) i sat out with a stack of £7.88. Profit of +£3.88
Cash table 2) It seems like i lost little pots over and over on this table, mainly with check folding flops that i didn't hit, made a nice bluff catcher call with Ace high on a double paired board to take down a 30BB pot. Profit of -£0.10
Cash table 3) A weird table where i was down through most of the session here, but then turned it around with a late flourish at the end. A weird hand played out where i got check raised on the river with top pair top kicker that i was sure was good, i folded and was down by £1, a few mistakes from my opponents and some kickers over kickers in my favour saw me leave with £5. Profit of £1

Overall profit of +£4.78 for the session (Bankroll £99.94. C4P 220)

NL4Minutes played:543Hours played:9.05Profit:£7.75Profit/hour:£0.86BB/hour:21.41
Not long until i should be grinding the £3.30 DYM's aswel. Heres a few hands played today, thanks for reading...


1) should i have checked behind, or was a small value bet okay here?

nffc4eva	Small blind		£0.02	£0.02	£3.15
bbb10	Big blind		£0.04	£0.06	£3.79
	Your hole cards	A Q
tracey1969	Fold
winsawin09	Call		£0.04	£0.10	£3.72
Swog	Raise		£0.20	£0.30	£6.35
nffc4eva	Fold
bbb10	Call		£0.16	£0.46	£3.63
winsawin09	Fold
Flop
		A K 7
bbb10	Check
Swog	Bet		£0.35	£0.81	£6.00
bbb10	Call		£0.35	£1.16	£3.28
Turn
		K
bbb10	Check
Swog	Check
River
		3
bbb10	Check
Swog	Bet		£0.44	£1.60	£5.56
bbb10	Raise		£1.97	£3.57	£1.31
Swog	Fold
bbb10	Muck
bbb10	Win		£1.88		£3.19
bbb10	Return		£1.53	£0.16

2) is calling the big 3bet shove on the flop with TPTK a winning play?

Micknick	Small blind		£0.02	£0.02	£3.10
scryer03	Big blind		£0.04	£0.06	£4.17
	Your hole cards	10 A
Swog	Raise		£0.16	£0.22	£5.64
brian1988	Call		£0.16	£0.38	£2.30
Micknick	Fold
scryer03	Fold
Flop
		8 5 10
Swog	Bet		£0.32	£0.70	£5.32
brian1988	All-in		£2.30	£3.00	£0.00
Swog	Call		£1.98	£4.98	£3.34
Swog	Show	10 A
brian1988	Show	2 10
Turn
		7
River
		9
Swog	Win	Pair of 10s	£4.60		£7.94

3) played itself i think?

Swog	Small blind		£0.02	£0.02	£3.03
brian1988	Big blind		£0.04	£0.06	£2.98
	Your hole cards	K K
Micknick	Fold
scryer03	Fold
johnm69	Raise		£0.20	£0.26	£1.28
Swog	Raise		£0.72	£0.98	£2.31
brian1988	Call		£0.70	£1.68	£2.28
johnm69	All-in		£1.28	£2.96	£0.00
Swog	All-in		£2.31	£5.27	£0.00
brian1988	Fold
Swog	Unmatched bet		£1.57	£3.70	£1.57
Swog	Show	K K
johnm69	Show	J J
Flop
		10 K 10
Turn
		Q
River
		9
Swog	Win	Full House, Kings and 10s	£3.42		£4.99

4) Similar hand 2, same question?

FADAM	Small blind		£0.02	£0.02	£1.63
nffc4eva	Big blind		£0.04	£0.06	£3.27
	Your hole cards	10 A
bbb10	Fold
tracey1969	Fold
MICKSAFC	Call		£0.04	£0.10	£1.40
Swog	Raise		£0.20	£0.30	£5.30
FADAM	Fold
nffc4eva	Fold
MICKSAFC	Call		£0.16	£0.46	£1.24
Flop
		10 9 5
MICKSAFC	Check
Swog	Bet		£0.36	£0.82	£4.94
MICKSAFC	All-in		£1.24	£2.06	£0.00
Swog	Call		£0.88	£2.94	£4.06
MICKSAFC	Show	10 8
Swog	Show	10 A
Turn
		4
River
		10
Swog	Win	Three 10s	£2.71		£6.7

5) weird hand where he had min raised me on the turn before, so i though i'd call and see what he did on the river, should i have called his bluff on the river, given his small bet?

pike320	Small blind		£0.02	£0.02	£3.07
madmonk808	Big blind		£0.04	£0.06	£3.35
	Your hole cards	6 A
doherty851	Fold
Swog	Raise		£0.12	£0.18	£2.93
pike320	Fold
madmonk808	Call		£0.08	£0.26	£3.27
Flop
		8 7 7
madmonk808	Check
Swog	Check
Turn
		5
madmonk808	Check
Swog	Bet		£0.13	£0.39	£2.80
madmonk808	Raise		£0.26	£0.65	£3.01
Swog	Call		£0.13	£0.78	£2.67
River
		5
madmonk808	Bet		£0.32	£1.10	£2.69
Swog	Call		£0.32	£1.42	£2.35
madmonk808	Show	2 J
Swog	Show	6 A
Swog	Win	Two Pairs, 7s and 5s	£1.31

Swog

After many more cash sessions that i haven't updated on here due to lack of interest my current stats look like this:

NL4
Minutes played:	3456
Hours played:	57.60
Profit:	£33.91
Profit/hour:	£0.59
BB/hour:	14.72

C4P - 510 (Target 1000)
Bankroll - £113.35
Monthly profit (since start of thread) - £24.14 (£1.20 to charity so far)


I've ditched the idea of playing heads up, deep stacks and DYM's as i'm enjoying cash so much and making nice hourly profits. Can any one encourage me to bring some other types back into my game?

Dudeskin8

Hiya mate, my only advice would be to use hands played as opposed to time played as this is a guarenteed figure that is set in stone, judging time is often tricky and mistakes are made. Also with bb/100 hands you get a good idea of  how your doing e.g I think around 5bb/100 is actually quite decent.

Swog

comment noted, however how would i be able to judge how many hands i've played an hour, wouldn't that be just as tricky as working out how many hours ive played per table? I've got a pretty efficient process with working out how long i'm at a table for, obv course o've got to give or take a little bit.
I've took average hands as 90 per hour and added the following to my spreadsheet:

NL4
Minutes played:	3456
Hours played:	57.60
Profit:	£33.91
Hands played	5184
Profit/hour:	£0.59
BB/hour:	14.72
£/100:	65.4%
BB/100:	16.35

Hopefully when i reach around 50k hands i would have a reasonable sample size to work out approximate win rates, so my 155BB/100 maybe a little skewed, but still decent with approx 5k hands.

Is 90 the average hands played ?