Update:

I ran really hot in the 3.5s so far this month, 157 games with 161$ profit.


Unfortunately I still run bad in the 7s. A good amount is run-bad, but a fair amount is also a tougher player pool and me trying to adjust to the new and better players too. I will lower my volume this month to study more hours and find leaks with my coaches.
Played 114 games for 159,45$ in losses.


I played 8 tables continuously and mixed 3.5s with 7s. I cascaded all the tables and pick the final tables out the cascade row to have them separately and focus mainly on the final tables. I really enjoyed playing and stopped looking at my results while playing. I did a lot of checking my bankroll, checking pokertracker4 if I was running -ev, which is very harmful (in my eyes) to my play. It was harder than I thought to be honest, but I will continue not-looking while playing.

I am currently reading the mental game of poker to improve my mental game. I am by no means tilting my ass off, but looking towards the future I strongly believe that having the right mind-set will be +EV for sure.

As far as the other goals:
I attent every weekly coaching session.
I started working out again (went two times last week).
I did not post an update here every other day, which would be overkill too as I am not a fulltime player.
I won't play 1000 games this month, but focus more on studying.

I will be gone for four days now, workshop for my study, but will update on sunday again.

I have some hands where I have some questions about:

What do you guys think about the preflop call? Seeing it now I'm not a big fan, the pot is 980 and I have to call 240 which will make the pot 1220. Thats almost my entire stack. What do you guys think about shoving pre? I did not stab the pot on the turn or river because of the A. Think I lost value here.



The hand with pocket 9's I jammed into villain. After analyzing this in HRC it is terrible. What do you guys think? Can we give villain a wider range? I gave villain a very tight range because it is the final table and people in general don't 3x unless they are fish and/or they have monster hands. Opinions? Replayer below and here is a link to the spot and the HRC analysis:
https://gyazo.com/18fcf9187c1522dd8d51fbe9c43aed06
https://gyazo.com/b4c65ffc987ccd31a16a1c653d48ecd1



One more hand: we complete the BB for sure, but what do you think about the flop action? I could, in terms of pot odds, make a very profitable call, but we don't have a lot of room left on the turn given my stacksize. I think jamming is the only way, what do you guys think?



That's it for now,

Cheers,
Okselson

T9 - you can't really make speculative calls preflop with your stack size. You're simply too shallow.

99 - If you had a read that villain is only doing this with a really strong range, then shoving really is bad as you're crushed by his range. Fishy raises like that are often signs of real strength and with so many people left to act, folding seems OK.

I thought Q8 was well played. We have a small amount of fold equity by shoving but we'll be rarely that far behind so shoving seems fine.

Hi guys

@spand42, thanks for your comments! The 99 indeed was very very bad, lesson learned

Update:
this month has been going quite well, with finally some success at the 7s. My volume is still not good, which I do not like. Currently played 485 games with 380$ profit. Ran pretty hot, felt really great after my 'first real downswing'.

Some other news besides poker:
My boss offered me a contract for 15 hours a week, 60 hours a month.
I was making 10.35€ an hour, with no kilometer allowance (if that's the word) and I was working between 6-10 hours.
They offered me 10.90€ an hour with kilometer allowance and 60 hours paid every 4 weeks, so 13 times a year even if I'm not working.

I work as a calling agent by the way for a security company. We answer phonecalls when companies are closed (at nights, weekends, holidays, etc). It's not hard labour work, it fits great with my study and it pays quite good. I have to think a lot tho on my work but I actually like it, I interact with a lot of different people (angry, sad, helpless) and I have to come up with a solution every single conversation which can be quite a challenge sometimes .

I am very aware that I will have even less time for poker, but right now choosing for a safe income is a lot more +EV. I will continue work on my game for sure, as poker is my dream.

Sorry it's not a lot poker-related, but had to share it

I will update again on sunday, with some hands.

Hi,

update:

I am aware that, unlike other PG&C's, I don't update a lot and it's mostly keeping track of myself. I like to keep record of everything, which holds me kinda 'accountable' in a way. Hopefully I can grow it into a nice big thread in the following months!

This month so far is going pretty decent, played 566 games with 479$ profit. I had so much work to do at school and at work, that I could barely play. I am up too for this year, turned the swing around



I need 855 VPP by the end of the month to stay Goldstar. Unfortunately that is not possible because I have too much to do for school.... Probably next month I will get it again.

T9o in the BB, on the bubble. What do you guys think about the check/shove? The only option? Calling makes no sense to me (given the stacksizes) and folding two pair seems weird too. I like the line.



67o in the BB. Completing with 1bb in the BB. I have trouble on the flop. His 740 bet gives me 25% pot odds, BUT it is 6 handed and really close to the bubble so there is a lot of ICM trouble.

I know that a lot of people would not call the preflop call, because it is in a ICM heavy spot, which I can really understand too. Any opinions on this one?



That's it for now,
Cheers

Glad to see the $7's are going well!

Hand 1: Yeah not much you can do. Folding doesn't seem like a option like you said. just unlucky.

Hand 2: I would fold pre probably this short and close to the money and preserve more FE on future shove(s). But as played you probably have to fold because against this betsize he's not very likely to fold to a all-inn. Maybe donk shoving the flop is a option (1800 into 1450)? I mean if you have to fold even after flopping this strong then defending is propbably not great.

Anyway just my two cents. Gl at the tables!

It's time for an update my friend!

So, its been quite a while.

Tried playing a bunch of MTSNGS, MTTS and Zoom. Why? Because I'm a dumb junky looking for action

Ok, but seriously, wasted a bunch of time not focussing on one format. Wasted money and time, but we are back on the 18 man grind. In the meantime I did play some 7$ 18 mans, grinded the losses back, but spew of at other formats. That means I am stuck with a 160$ bankroll for the coming week (I can deposit next week, but rather not), so for now I will play 1.5 18 mans until I hit 250$ again.

I have formed a study group with two other grinders and we will study twice a week for 1.5 to 2 hours. I actually made a post in a subforum here, because we are looking for more profitable grinders to add to our group. If you are interested, here is the link:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/10...l#post52235306
That's all for now.

Cheers