What's up guys!
My name is Patrick, I'm 28 originally from Germany and live Spain. I work in hospitality and real estate.

My poker background is that I played for many years on and off and used to play nl50 online regularly before and also a lot of mid stakes NL cash games. I try to work on my game as much as possible through, coaching, videos HH and this forum now.

So I recently decided to give online poker a shot again and started a challenge where I deposited 300€ to play nl10 zoom on Pokerstars.es less than 2 weeks ago.
My goal is to develope my game a much as possible and to get to play nl50 (regular 6max since there are no zoom games above nl10 in Spain. Jut occasionally nl25) regularly by the end of September.

I started 4 tabling nl10 zoom , averaging 3k hands per day at the beginning of the month and ran pretty damn well to get to 30 BI for nl25 in under 30k hands (stats and graphs below)

When I have more time again I will also start getting back on the grind in the 2/5€ cash game down at the casino.

My plan is to use this forum to discuss hands and get opinions on different aspects of my game during this challenge mainly online but also live poker related in the near future.
I want to average a minimum of 15K hands per week (online) and post my progress and different hands on here as often as possible.

Looking forward to some nice feedback!

Here are some of my run good stats and a graph of this month so far:

nice red line! gl

Thanks


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Before I forget it, tomorrow I will be taking my first shot at nl25. I have a 4 BI strategy where I will play 2 tables until I'm up 2 BI then I'll play 4 tables. If I loose back to NL10 zoom to run it back up. I'll start playing 6 tables when I'm familiar and comfortable with the new game flow.

I'll post and update and some hands once I'm done...


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Alright, bout to kick off the first session al nl25.

♠️♥️Bankroll: 750€ ♦️♣️


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First very short session at NL25 is in the books. Work was calling after less than 2 hours of play, but at least things started out in the right direction with a small win.

Here is the graph of the session:


My first impression was that coming from 4 tabling NL10 zoom I needed a bit of adjustment to get used to the slower play at 2 tabling regular 6 max now. Didn't take to much time to get used to and I felt like it helped me with decision making.

The player pool at least at my tables felt quite similar and I had a few of the same regs from before on the tables but also a pretty damn fishy and mainly bad regs.

The new or at least to me new Pokerstars format of registering blind into the games rather than being able to choose your specific table, limits game selection quite a bit, but since the overall player pool doesn't seem too strong I hope that won't be a problem.

Would be cool if u guys had some tricks or software recommendations for game selection!

♠️♥️Bankroll: 769€♣️♦️


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Another short 2 tabling session of just about 2.5 hours before work. Short but sweet 2 BI up!

Now I'm comfortable with the bet sizing and actually so far maybe I've just been lucky but it seems like the player pool is almost identical to NL10 Zoom as in Regs and amount of fish. Now up around 3 BI in NL25 I'm gonna bump it up to 4 tables for a few sessions before 6 tabling and worst case at 650€ back down the stakes...

I will get more time to play from tomorrow on to accomplish the 15k hands p/w, just got some (other) work to get done this weekend.

Will also start posting hands when I get more volume in now with more tables and longer hours of play.

♥️♣️Bankroll: 823€♠️♦️



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So here is the first hand after a session where i finally got in 1K hands. from now on onwards hopefully ill get to my promised 15k per week.

so on to the hand, loose passive calling station V, seen him make some questionable plays like what seemed like a value raise after hitting top pair on a straight and flush board.

Rest of the hand apart from river is pretty standard imo, what u think?

PokerStars - €0.25 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

UTG: 112 BB (VPIP: 22.58, PFR: 14.75, 3Bet Preflop: 2.50, Hands: 440)
CO: 90.48 BB (VPIP: 33.80, PFR: 1.41, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 72)
BTN: 121.36 BB (VPIP: 19.28, PFR: 11.21, 3Bet Preflop: 3.26, Hands: 227)
Hero (SB): 93.4 BB
BB: 56.56 BB (VPIP: 33.33, PFR: 13.49, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 130)

Hero posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has J A

fold, CO calls 1 BB, fold, Hero raises to 4.48 BB, BB calls 3.48 BB, CO calls 3.48 BB

Flop: (13.44 BB, 3 players) Q 6 K
Hero checks, BB checks, CO checks

Turn: (13.44 BB, 3 players) T
Hero bets 9.56 BB, fold, CO calls 9.56 BB

River: (32.56 BB, 2 players) Q
[color=red]Hero ???

here is a graph of the first 1.5k hands at NL25:


♦️♠️Bankroll: 906€♣️♥️

So here is an update on things are going, i didnt get a chance to play too much this week as some unexpected work came up. Still on the right track, we broke the 1K€ marker and are running super hot for the first 4.2k hands...

here is the graph:

Bankroll: 1066€

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