Getting it together. 55 $ BR Challenge
12-18-2018
, 03:30 PM
Hey Guys,
welcome to my very first PGC thread.
Im a almost 30 year old rec from Germany, who finally wants to take his pokerskills to the next level and bring continuity and discipline in all aspects of my game.
Im playing for about 4-5 year, with big gaps (1-2 years) of not playing at all in between.
Due to some big scores Im about 5.5 € in profit over ~7500 games of micro-low and some very few midstakes mtts and sngs.
I know about the basics, maybe even a bit more and would perceive myself as an at least "ok" player, but Im struggling to become a good or even very good player.
Unfortunately my life was and still is very complicated in the last years, because, lets be honest, Im just a mess in private
, so I always needed the money I won for things beside poker and never could really use it as a bankroll.
My problem is, that I get tilted too fast when I get unlucky in big spots and I dont have a proper brm (like playing 5-11 $ mtt with 40-50 $ dollar left) also I dont really know in which ways to improve my game.
I believe in my own ability and think that I have potential, but I need to get my **** together and thats why Im starting this thread.
Like many other before me I will keep anyone who is interested updated about my progress and would love to discuss some hand with you guys and get feedback from players, that are more skilled than me.
I will start from the very bottom with a ~55 $ br and will start grinding 0,50 $/90 players turbo sngs as well was 1,10-3,30 $ mtts and NOTHING else until my bankroll reches the 500 $. Also I set myself some goals and want you guys as my watchmen, to hold myself accountable for bad play and tilt I finally want to get rid off.
My goals for the near future are
read "the mental game of poker"
(already ordered) during the next 2 weeks [ ]
Spend on average 1,5 hours a day studying different aspects of poker and discuss hand reviews [ ]
Grind my br up to 250 $ in the next 4 weeks [ ]
strictly stick to my game selection and brm [ ]
dont let tilt influence my game [ ]
post graphs and keep you guys updated [ ]
I will also add volume goals to these if I have an idea of what will be reasonable with my available time. Probably will orientate on the next days to create a goal.
My SN is GrayFox666 btw.
Going to start my first little session now
wish me luck.
GL on the tables
-out
welcome to my very first PGC thread.
Im a almost 30 year old rec from Germany, who finally wants to take his pokerskills to the next level and bring continuity and discipline in all aspects of my game.
Im playing for about 4-5 year, with big gaps (1-2 years) of not playing at all in between.
Due to some big scores Im about 5.5 € in profit over ~7500 games of micro-low and some very few midstakes mtts and sngs.
I know about the basics, maybe even a bit more and would perceive myself as an at least "ok" player, but Im struggling to become a good or even very good player.
Unfortunately my life was and still is very complicated in the last years, because, lets be honest, Im just a mess in private
, so I always needed the money I won for things beside poker and never could really use it as a bankroll.My problem is, that I get tilted too fast when I get unlucky in big spots and I dont have a proper brm (like playing 5-11 $ mtt with 40-50 $ dollar left) also I dont really know in which ways to improve my game.
I believe in my own ability and think that I have potential, but I need to get my **** together and thats why Im starting this thread.
Like many other before me I will keep anyone who is interested updated about my progress and would love to discuss some hand with you guys and get feedback from players, that are more skilled than me.
I will start from the very bottom with a ~55 $ br and will start grinding 0,50 $/90 players turbo sngs as well was 1,10-3,30 $ mtts and NOTHING else until my bankroll reches the 500 $. Also I set myself some goals and want you guys as my watchmen, to hold myself accountable for bad play and tilt I finally want to get rid off.
My goals for the near future are
read "the mental game of poker"
(already ordered) during the next 2 weeks [ ]
Spend on average 1,5 hours a day studying different aspects of poker and discuss hand reviews [ ]
Grind my br up to 250 $ in the next 4 weeks [ ]
strictly stick to my game selection and brm [ ]
dont let tilt influence my game [ ]
post graphs and keep you guys updated [ ]
I will also add volume goals to these if I have an idea of what will be reasonable with my available time. Probably will orientate on the next days to create a goal.
My SN is GrayFox666 btw.
Going to start my first little session now
wish me luck.GL on the tables
-out
12-19-2018
, 08:08 PM
12-19-2018
, 09:00 PM
So I just finished my first official session. Had to reschedule it from yesterday evening to todays evening bc I had problems setting up HM2 and didnt want to play before I had it figured out.
Still having some tiny problems, because HM isnt yet showing the results in the summaries right. Like displaying MTTs as STT and such. If its a common problem and someone knows a quick fix Id be thankful, otherwise I will look it up myself tomorrow.
I only played 18 tournament and Im down about 2 $
. I played 3,30 bb, 2,20 bb and 1,10 bb but only managed to mincash in 1,10 bb.
Busted in the 3,30 bb AA<66 for ~+16k but nvm.
I also added 0,50 $/180 players turbo sng and 1 $ 90/ Players turbo sng to my schedule because A) I wasnt playing sngs in a long time and didnt know they existed and B) I feel like there used to be way more traffic in the micro sngs.
I made 1 or 2 FT in the 0,50$/90 and 2 FT in the 0,50$/180 and overall Im satisfied with my game, even though I made some obvious mistakes, but I tagged many Hands and will review them one by one. Cant share them all with you because I dont wanna get banned for spamming.
I also mincashed in the 2,20 pko zoom but all together I had no deep runs and on the FTs I couldnt get the top places.
Mostly it was pretty standard, but there was one Hand I think I misplayed and I wanted to share with you and ask for opinions, bc unfortunately I also have to figure out how to use sng wizard correctly and dont get the data shown Id like to see.
So here is the hand that probably was an ICM punt and had cost me my overall profit for today:
PokerStars Hand #194647592485: Tournament #2485831121, $0.45+$0.05 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XV (1000/2000) - 2018/12/19 21:29:53 CET [2018/12/19 15:29:53 ET]
Table '2485831121 9' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Barosso (33196 in chips)
Seat 5: Cyborg72rus (55679 in chips)
Seat 6: GrayFox666 (39107 in chips)
Seat 7: bykosten (124596 in chips)
Seat 9: winskilla (17422 in chips)
Barosso: posts the ante 200
Cyborg72rus: posts the ante 200
GrayFox666: posts the ante 200
bykosten: posts the ante 200
winskilla: posts the ante 200
Cyborg72rus: posts small blind 1000
GrayFox666: posts big blind 2000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to GrayFox666 [4d Ac]
bykosten: folds
winskilla: folds
Barosso: raises 4000 to 6000
Cyborg72rus: folds
GrayFox666: raises 32907 to 38907 and is all-in
Barosso: calls 26996 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (5911) returned to GrayFox666
*** FLOP *** [5c 3h 8s]
*** TURN *** [5c 3h 8s] [Ah]
*** RIVER *** [5c 3h 8s Ah] [Ts]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
GrayFox666: shows [4d Ac] (a pair of Aces)
Barosso: shows [As Th] (two pair, Aces and Tens)
Barosso collected 67992 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 67992 | Rake 0
Board [5c 3h 8s Ah Ts]
Seat 1: Barosso (button) showed [As Th] and won (67992) with two pair, Aces and Tens
Seat 5: Cyborg72rus (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: GrayFox666 (big blind) showed [4d Ac] and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 7: bykosten folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: winskilla folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Id be thankful for every kind of helpful insight to this Hand
PS: pasted this HH in the converter but got a message that there something wrong with its format. Any ideas what the problem is?
Still having some tiny problems, because HM isnt yet showing the results in the summaries right. Like displaying MTTs as STT and such. If its a common problem and someone knows a quick fix Id be thankful, otherwise I will look it up myself tomorrow.
I only played 18 tournament and Im down about 2 $
. I played 3,30 bb, 2,20 bb and 1,10 bb but only managed to mincash in 1,10 bb.Busted in the 3,30 bb AA<66 for ~+16k but nvm.
I also added 0,50 $/180 players turbo sng and 1 $ 90/ Players turbo sng to my schedule because A) I wasnt playing sngs in a long time and didnt know they existed and B) I feel like there used to be way more traffic in the micro sngs.
I made 1 or 2 FT in the 0,50$/90 and 2 FT in the 0,50$/180 and overall Im satisfied with my game, even though I made some obvious mistakes, but I tagged many Hands and will review them one by one. Cant share them all with you because I dont wanna get banned for spamming
.I also mincashed in the 2,20 pko zoom but all together I had no deep runs and on the FTs I couldnt get the top places.
Mostly it was pretty standard, but there was one Hand I think I misplayed and I wanted to share with you and ask for opinions, bc unfortunately I also have to figure out how to use sng wizard correctly and dont get the data shown Id like to see.
So here is the hand that probably was an ICM punt and had cost me my overall profit for today:
PokerStars Hand #194647592485: Tournament #2485831121, $0.45+$0.05 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XV (1000/2000) - 2018/12/19 21:29:53 CET [2018/12/19 15:29:53 ET]
Table '2485831121 9' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Barosso (33196 in chips)
Seat 5: Cyborg72rus (55679 in chips)
Seat 6: GrayFox666 (39107 in chips)
Seat 7: bykosten (124596 in chips)
Seat 9: winskilla (17422 in chips)
Barosso: posts the ante 200
Cyborg72rus: posts the ante 200
GrayFox666: posts the ante 200
bykosten: posts the ante 200
winskilla: posts the ante 200
Cyborg72rus: posts small blind 1000
GrayFox666: posts big blind 2000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to GrayFox666 [4d Ac]
bykosten: folds
winskilla: folds
Barosso: raises 4000 to 6000
Cyborg72rus: folds
GrayFox666: raises 32907 to 38907 and is all-in
Barosso: calls 26996 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (5911) returned to GrayFox666
*** FLOP *** [5c 3h 8s]
*** TURN *** [5c 3h 8s] [Ah]
*** RIVER *** [5c 3h 8s Ah] [Ts]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
GrayFox666: shows [4d Ac] (a pair of Aces)
Barosso: shows [As Th] (two pair, Aces and Tens)
Barosso collected 67992 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 67992 | Rake 0
Board [5c 3h 8s Ah Ts]
Seat 1: Barosso (button) showed [As Th] and won (67992) with two pair, Aces and Tens
Seat 5: Cyborg72rus (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: GrayFox666 (big blind) showed [4d Ac] and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 7: bykosten folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: winskilla folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Id be thankful for every kind of helpful insight to this Hand
PS: pasted this HH in the converter but got a message that there something wrong with its format. Any ideas what the problem is?
its about 5.5 K €, hope that was clear
12-19-2018
, 10:11 PM