So did you get some chest?

I got a whopping 8 stars coins and a freeroll ticket to a weekly 2.5k that pays like 300 for first. I am gonna do some research today to find out if it might be smarter to move away from pokerstars.

I've already put in some time on the study grind. My adjustments in my BB ranges had massive result. My redline has since started moving up, and now I'm only losing money in the SB while winning 1.98bb/100 in the BB. Therefore I thought it was about time I set up my SB ranges clearly and see how it affects my winrate.

:wrong range uploaded: Will upload correct one later, just on my laptop right now and not in the mood to get up.

For now I've decided not to have a flatting range in the SB as a default. This won't mean I will never flat the SB anymore, as plenty of spots come by where you just get too good of a price to flick in a few cents with a suited 8 high. But I am just gonna focus on either raising or folding preflop in the SB.

Let's see where this goes. Will put in a session later tonight and post updates on the progress. Played a small 30 minute session this afternoon but was surrounded by these 15/12 nits from Belarus and decided to do something with some funEV.

Hummm somehow can't edit my old post anymore. So here we go, correct 3b range sheet:



As always, happy to get feedback from you guys.

Today was a good day. Continue to run like god, and have made close to zero mistakes. Gonna start mixing in some 5nl and will drop back down to 2nl exclusively if I drop down below the 35$ mark (current br at 47$)

Not very many interesting hands, just a few coolers that went my way and other standard spots. I haven't posted very many hands because I am fairly confident of my poker skill and I haven't gotten much feedback on them so far. However if you guys want more hands then let me know. I'm more than happy to jump in my database and post some spots and shed some light on how I think.

Updatez for tha people:



It's pretty easy to guess where I changed my ranges in the blinds and what it has done to my winrate so far.

Is the tinder girl going to be helping with the food situation until you can make enough money to withdraw?

When are the non rent bills due and are they already covered like the rent? If you mentioned already sorry that I forgot

She is basically living with me, except for nights when she works early the next morning. So she thinks it's only fair she pays for groceries since I paid the rent. I don't really agree, but I'm not one to complain when getting free food and daily sex.

I have no non rent bills. All utilities / internet are included in my contract and I don't have a contract on my cellphone. So the next bill is the March 2018 rent bill.

Nice don't complain and enjoy the ride

Decent amount of time to make something shake

Putting in my first session at 5nl and it's an entirely different world. Saw one player pass by wanting to dump his last 2$ literally all the other players are horrible nits.

This will require a different approach than 2nl, that's for sure!

Lol I mean, I was waiting for this more or less. All hands vs same villian who was punting off for lolz. These three hands he did not manage to give his stack to me. Despite giving it the good ol' college try!

The shot at 5nl also did not go well, lost 3$ and was playing vs the most disgusting nits of the internet. Will try again later today. Will spend the rest of the day at the beach and hit the tables again tonight.

Aren't most players at 5nl on stars just bots anyway?

I don't know, I am totally not up to date on microstakes poker. Is it that bad nowadays?

Where do they get these bots from, do they make them themselves? Seems like a waste of programming hours to me.

From what I understand (I may be ignorant on this though) for poorer people in developing countries in Eastern Europe, EurAsia/Central Asia and South America making microstakes bots are easy money toward a better financial situation. They do it at microstakes because that's the level they can afford to buy in at on multiple accounts

what will you do with your first cashout?

hookers and blow?

Could very well be, I have no idea. I've never been confronted by bots that I know of. I highly doubt any of the 2nl accounts I played against are bots. If these bots you are talking about are real, then they are missing out by letting them play on 5nl. They would win infinitely more on 2nl.

Cocaine is the most boring drug known to mankind. Anyone blowing his roll on that silly supercharged caffeine does not deserve to have money at all. Hookers on the other hand are a EV+ investment if you ask me.

As for the drugs part, probably a ****load of 5-meo, ketamine and some PCP.

gl bro, gratz on getting through everything

run dat shiz up! gogogog!

Was browsing around for some info on bots and it seems that they are a big problem for the microstakes community. To be fair, I do not think these bots will be all that great. The main issue I have with 5nl so far is that the large majority of the field is just ridiculously tight.

Honestly not sure what is best, moving up or just adding tables to increase hands/hour. Will take a few more swings at 5nl over the coming days to help me make up my mind.

Put in my first 4 tabling session since my return to the online felt. Must say it felt good to have an actual pace in my play. Managed to put in enough hands in 2 hours time to make up for the bad side of variance vs the punting fish and for the loss during my shot at 5nl.



Graph now looks like this (5nl shot excluded)

Good stuff man!

You've ID'd the traits (ultra nit rakeback grinders/bots). So adjust to exploit and realize they are only reraising/check-raising post flop for value and rarely thinly or as a semi bluff. you seem to have a pretty good grasp of fundamentals so I think you'll adjust and slam the 5nl and be up to 10nl by mid-month

Uugh massive blow up session thanks to being a ****ing child about finally not running like absolute god. I realized what was going on, but was playing very poorly for about 1,5 hours. Luckily I only lost 7$ so the damage is minimal, but it was totally unecessary so I am pretty upset with myself.

Below the two hands that led me into the tilt zone. Further down the road some other slight annoyances, but this was what started the fire.

IR and 3better are both nitregs. I totally ****ed up here and should have flatted. Dumb 4b and still not sure if I should be finding folds here, even vs enormous nits. However since he is 3b/5bing from CO vs een UTG open and a SB 4b, I gave him credit and let the hand go.



A few hands later he just totally owns me with the cib. I level myself into thinking the nit is trying to bully me and I tilt jam. Ridiculous line, unforgiveable play on my end.




After that tilt just set in and I played very poorly. Luckily I didn't get punished too hard and only lost 7$ in total. Stats now look like this:





After typing this whole confession post I feel slightly better. But not sure if I will put in any more hands today. Have a medical checkup tomorrow so need to get some sleep. Might even take tomorrow off and do something fun with the chicka.

Decided that days off are for pussies, so got up extra early to put in some volume before I go to the doctor. Played solid, just ran like absolute crap. Lost 4bi in less than an hour, then grinded another 1,5 without winning a single pot worth more than 5bb.

I mean I saw this coming, I know I can crush the micros but a 20evbb/100 was never going to be sustainable. Dropped down to 12evbb/100 now and think that I should be able to maintain around 10evbb/100 over a real samplesize.

This is what the stats over the whole sample are right now. Apart from the one tilt session yesterday I think I've been playing solid poker



Just around 10$ below my highest point so far. That's 5 buyins, which should be no more than 2 days of grindin without any misfortune. So the "downswing" is still extremely small. Will most likely take the rest of the day off and continue the grind tomorrow. Target is to have the bankroll at 100$ by the end of the month.

We put in some work but I have to admit that grinding 2nl when not getting stacks gifted to you left and right is pretty frustrating. I will go over my entire preflop game and adjust my ranges where I think it's necessary. That will take up a few hours of my "workday" today, and pretty sure I'll just go in ****it mode after.

We procured some extremely high quality Lucy and tonight we plan to pay tribute to the great Albert Hofmann. We off prescription drugs but we still breaking terms of service up in this biatch!

Played around mixing in some zoom and will probably move over. There is little to no difference in the quality of the player pool, apart from the fact that the fish make slightly less mistakes preflop. The big advantage is that I can get in so many more hands than on the regular tables.

At least we are back to our winning ways, although we had to get lucky with QQ vs AA pre once we played a solid session. Pretty confident I will reach my goal of a 100$ br by the end of the month (currently at 43$)

Fresh off the detox back on the acid? It's hard to do well at this game even when you're living sober bud but I'm not gonna preach. Also the woman is probably a net negative. If I was in your position the last thing I'd be doing is involving somebody else in my life, I'd just be trying to fix my life.

I think OP has already realised (consciously or not) he has a safety net worst case scenario so has already checked out. A week ago there was talk of begging to get enough money to eat, if that was the reality of my situation I'd damn sure have put in more than ~8k hands in a week, that's like 15 hours of poker?


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^ probably but I'm sure you'd be surprised at the people who don't even turn up the gears at these times in life