Hey everyone, first post on 2+2 (yeayy). Just a bit about myself, been playing poker for around 10 years. Im in my final year of undergraduate computer science. When Im not playing or studying poker, Im learning new technologies and learning to build things. I am a native android developer and occasionally like to dip my fingers into game development also. Occasionally Ill try to make some educational videos and put them on youtube if I learn something new and interesting to help others in the same boat. I also love playing FIFA, watching cricket (sport), friends, seinfeld, GOT, and most of the mainstream shows. I dont know how this 2+2 situation will develop, maybe itll just be the one off post or maybe ill stick around a while I dont know. If I meet some cool people here maybe those struggling/fighting the micros like myself that would be pretty cool also. Besides that feel free to drop in and say hi!


Now, onto the poker. I have taken multiple shots at online poker before but I have never studied it rigorously. I have been taking the micros a lot more seriously and putting in a lot of time to studying my own game and practicing proper bankroll management techniques.

I live in turkey so the only option I have of online poker is the microgaming network. This is a little bit unfortunate because I feel that the field is a little bit tougher then other sites (though I could be wrong).The reason why I think this is because, everytime I sit down on a table I almost always see people with whom I have logged hundreds of hands and are mostly regs. This is not enjoyable at all because on most tables Im forced into reg wars and this just means mostly trading blinds and the occasional huge preflop pot with AA/KK. It almost doesnt feel like poker at times. There are some times when Ill spot the occasional fish with 50/5 type stats and I immediately try to play a wider range on that table to give myself a chance to get more hands in vs this player which is quiet easy because most of the regs tell you if they have a hand preflop.

I started with a deposit of 50 euros and in the month of March I have logged around 25k hands so far and Im up to 95 euros. Im pretty satisfied with my performance so far. It feels like I have spent a lot of time for peanuts but I know that my hourly can significantly increase if I can persist and slowly move up the blinds.

In the past I might have thought about depositing more money and taking a shot at higher blinds but after playing 25k hands this month I cherish the lessons I have learnt at these stakes. Another thing which I noticed which might seem so obvious was, since Im playing on 2/4nl mostly I can take bad beats as a normal part of the game. If I sit down at 10nl and get my aces cracked that hurts a lot more because I lose a huge chunk of my BR.

Using a HUD has really helped me study my own game. In the past I used to think I was an insanely unlucky player but reviewing my biggest losses every session I can often spot pots which I have over played and as a result lost money. Simply by looking at my lost hands I have come leaps and bounds at least as far as playing at micros is concerned and occasionally Ill go a whole session without making a single bad move which is a really rewarding feeling.

One of the problems I will have soon is that Im currently using a trial version of PT4 which will finish in ten days or so. I dont think a hud is necessary to play but I think that I would not be able to multitable effectively without one which is a source of some concern. I feel like, investing in a hud is a must if I plan to play long term but Im not sure about that right now. If I choose to buy one now it would cut into my profits and if I go bust I might just decide to take a break from micros and stick to live. So Im wondering if there are any free good huds out there, I dont know.

The fact that I have played 25k hands without going bust is a huge achievement for me. This has been an infinitely large number compared to my previous attempts over the years where I didnt spent time studying the game etc. At the moment Im taking the micros as a mini self challenge. Abstract away the money I consider them as levels in a game:

-2nl
-4nl
-10nl
-20nl
...

My aim right now is to level up and play as many hands as I need to go comfortably to the next level but if after another 25k hands I find myself going bust or breaking even with my initial buyin then I will have to reconsider if the time commitment to playing and learning to play the micros is worth it for me.

Ill be using this thread/blog to try and stay honest with myself. Im new to 2+2 so Im not sure if this thread will be the best place to put hands for reviews but I guess Ill figure it out as I go.

As for my goals, I want to keep them as small as possible and try to reevaluate them as I either reach them or if I have downswing to reduce them. So here goes :

Starting Buyin: 50$
Current BR: 95$
Next milestone: 150$

I expect future posts to be substantially smaller then the current one. I apologize for rambling on for so long and I hope to see you guys again soon!

Had a bit of a down swing so I stopped playing for a bit. Ran into a couple of coolers and then played C level for a bit and dumped so money with top pair etc.

Im sure my A game has improved ALOT over the past month and so has my C game when Im playing not at my optimum, but theres a lot of work to be done still. In general you dont want to ever play your C game but Its odd how it gets a little bit tough to get away from top pair top kicker after a few tough beats.


Starting Buyin: 50$
Current BR: 85$
Next milestone: 150$

Starting Buyin: 50$
Current BR: 115$
Next milestone: 150$


Have had some big hiccups, binged a mtt that put me on track, will be back with issues here or another thread!

NOTE: My only option to play online poker is MPN

I have logged 30,000 hands this month at 2nl and 4nl. Was running in positive until the past few days where my bb/100 fell into the negative. Are these games still beatable? Dont give me the obvious answer, I realize my game might not be A grade and I have a lot to improve but I just cant see enough fish on the table.

Almost all players have vpip of ~20 and pr of ~20. I can say this is the current situation because these are the players i have just logged 30k hands with. Hardly ever will I spot a whale and those will be few and too far apart for table selection etc to come into play.

The games are so nitty that every time I get 4 bet with kings I know Im behind. I understand that if people are playing back they tend to have hands at micros but with kings I expect to be winning on preflop all ins more often then not and that just isnt the case. There are no fish shoving vs kings etc with small pp just flat calling and folding unless if they flop a set. Even queens and jacks just flat and take check call line if all unders (this is ofcourse the correct play, I would do the same. But an out an out fish should be shoving here for an easy double up for me, as I would have thought).

I have tried playing few tables to try to make better decision and focus on the players and I have also tried playing many tables. Id much rather play fewer tables, but if i open up 4 tables I see the same guys on the table and honestly with the regs theres not much extra I can pick up on except for what the hud is already telling me. If I see a fish, well thats someone worth thinking about, isolating and playing more hands vs, taking notes on etc and thats when focusing on the game helps but more often then not almost all the players know what they are doing. Thats why I feel like, fewer tables at those stakes just arent helping me theres zero action unless a cooler happens and people are only in their with big cards or pp except when stealing restealing, no one seems to be in theere with mid suited connectors etc.

I really rewamped my whole game over the past month (im primarily a live cash player and used to play small mtts for fun online) to focus on trying to grind up through the micros but is there a better way to grind on micros that I should focus on? Should I focus on mtts/stts etc because despite the fact that they are tourneys i still see bad players getting it in with worse hands there. Ofcourse the problem in tourneys is that it takes one unlucky pot to waste the entire effort. So should I stop focusing on micro stakes cash games? Playing on these stakes means that Im not losing any substantial money and I realize the importance of leveling up and the experience that comes with it which is essential but my question is really geared towards those people who are currently playing on micro stakes cash games if they are able to grind profits on a consistent basis and not just when they are on a heater.

In short - I am losing more money from the coolers which happen occasionally in poker as compared to people playing poorly and drawing out on me etc. No matter how dry the board is, everytime I get repopped and I have an over pair to he board like AA/kk I cant let go and I always lose. I have come leaps and bounds in my understanding of the microstakes cash games and I will only continue to improve if I continue to play them. My question is, with the rake and the variance is it which can be won. I study the hands that I have lost/won after every session etc and I try to read up and find as many sources to learn from so I know I will only get better in my understanding but what I want to know is if I were to continually improve can i grind up a role at these levels? Profits aside I challenged myself in the beginning that I would find a way to win this game. But do I have a realistic chance playing at MPN?

Starting Buyin: 50$
Current BR: 99$
Next milestone: 150$


Will change things around today, going to start off with 4 tables of 4 nl and see how things go.

Your English is great!

Don't doubt yourself. Just put in the hands, study and the results will follow.

Post some hands here or in the forums that you're unsure about etc.

You got this. Good luck!

Hi there.
I'm in no position to give any sort of strategy advice or anything. But I wish you the best.
And as far as Poker Rooms, at the moment I'm playing on BetOnline and Americascardroom.eu
Both accept Bitcoin. And I'm from Iran.
I don't think there is one ither country in the world that has more restrictions than Iran! (You might know that already)
Try them out as well.
By the way, I'm trying to get better at micros as well. Would be happu to share toughts, or be study-bodys or something.
If you're interested, give me a call.


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~900 hands.
+$6.85

Trying a few different things, tried 4 tables of 4nl anonymous. Definitely more action on those tables. Felt like I was paying with real people after a while. Was able to play my standard game and target the fish.

Would have logged in a big win except for two absolute coolers.

KK vs QQ, After some preflop 4 bet action the guy decided to take a check call line with his queens until he turned a queen for a near 8$ pot. And towards the end of the session I flopped a set of 3's on AJ3 rainbow board vs the other guys jacks. I pretty much called the jacks but wasnt good enough to lay it down.

Will post those two hands with some thoughts I had while playing the hand.


Starting Buyin: 50$
Current BR: 106.65$
Next milestone: 150$

Hi
Good job.
Don't bother about collers. It happens
And the hand with 33, it's a situation that you HAVE to pay him off. Specially 100BB deep in 4NL.
Don't even breath man.
Wish you be on the other side of the coolers next time.
Cheers

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Starting Buyin: 50$
Current BR: 85$
Next milestone: 150$

Took a couple of hits, decided to call some time off and havent played much over the past couple of days (spring break xD). Will start playing again today, regardless. This month will not be about volume (as I plan right now). Im enjoying playing fewer tables. I switched to playing anonymous tables which are a whole lot more fishy.

Also made an account on betonline. I did some research online and it seems to have a softer field, what are your views on that? Theres no 4nl/5nl tables running which is so weird considering they have a ton of 2nl and 10nl going. So I havent made the switch yet, but considering the switch over to experiment with betonline.

~1000 hands
+$2.42

Really disappointed with the way I played today. I keep getting in certain spots and not knowing what to do. For example, I kept running into spots where I faced massive over the pot sized bets today.

One of the reason these situations didn't show up before was because i was playing on the normal tables which are far to nitty. Ever since I have made the switch to anonymous tables I see a lot more fishy opponents which is such a nice change. So against these opponents I have been seeing a wide variety of unorthodox non-nonsensical plays. So today I faced huge shoves and I just wasnt able to let go of some hands.


** Game ID 6494085697 Version:5 starting - 2017-04-05 18:26:33
** Anonymous - €4 Max (190715) [Hold'em] (0.02|0.04 NL - € Cash Game seats:6 ) Real Money

- Player 1 sitting in seat 1 with €4.10 at end €8.14
- devmandarkk sitting in seat 2 with €16.22 at end €12.12 [Dealer]
- Player 3 sitting in seat 3 with €2.29 at end €2.27
- Player 4 sitting in seat 4 with €6.06 at end €6.02
- Player 5 sitting in seat 5 with €5.18 at end €5.18

Player 3 posted the small blind - €0.02
Player 4 posted the big blind - €0.04
** Dealing card to devmandarkk: J of h, K of h
Player 5 folded
Player 1 raised - €0.12
devmandarkk called - €0.12
Player 3 folded
Player 4 folded
** Dealing the flop: 8 of h, A of d, 10 of c
Player 1 checked
devmandarkk checked
** Dealing the turn: 9 of d
Player 1 bet - €0.14
devmandarkk called - €0.14
** Dealing the river: 7 of d
Player 1 checked
devmandarkk bet - €0.28
Player 1 went all-in - €3.84
devmandarkk called - €3.56
Player 1 shows: 6 of d, K of d; Flush, Ace High
devmandarkk shows: J of h, K of h; Straight, Jack High
Player 1 wins €8.14 from the main pot

End of game 6494085697


** Game ID 6494035096 Version:5 starting - 2017-04-05 17:50:25
** Anonymous - €4 Max (231802) [Hold'em] (0.02|0.04 NL - € Cash Game seats:6 ) Real Money

- Player 1 sitting in seat 1 with €4.00 at end €3.92
- Player 2 sitting in seat 2 with €2.00 at end €1.92
- devmandarkk sitting in seat 3 with €4.21 at end €0.00
- Player 4 sitting in seat 4 with €9.60 at end €13.87
- Player 5 sitting in seat 5 with €4.08 at end €4.08 [Dealer]
- Player 6 sitting in seat 6 with €4.00 at end €3.98

Player 6 posted the small blind - €0.02
Player 1 posted the big blind - €0.04
** Dealing card to devmandarkk: A of h, 10 of d
Player 2 raised - €0.08
devmandarkk called - €0.08
Player 4 called - €0.08
Player 5 folded
Player 6 folded
Player 1 called - €0.04
** Dealing the flop: 10 of h, A of c, 9 of c
Player 1 checked
Player 2 checked
devmandarkk bet - €0.34
Player 4 called - €0.34
Player 1 folded
Player 2 folded
** Dealing the turn: 2 of c
devmandarkk checked
Player 4 bet - €2.64
devmandarkk went all-in - €3.79
Player 4 called - €1.15
devmandarkk shows: A of h, 10 of d
Player 4 shows: Q of c, K of c
** Dealing the river: 5 of s
Player 4 wins €8.48 from the main pot

End of game 6494035096


What should have been the best move here on the flop? The flop was wet as ****. I knew I had the best hand on the flop but there were a million turns which would make my hand worse. Also, I made a pot sized bet but, I knew that if I got a caller there was no way for me to know if the person calling me is on a flush draw or straight draw. I was basically hoping that a blank shows up on the turn. But that didnt happen and I was dead in the water. I checked the flop because I almost knew he hit the turn flush. I was thinking about pot control to check call and draw to a full boat because I felt if i hit the boat I would stack him. Then he made a 2.5x pot bet and that threw me off completely. I couldnt imagine anyone with the nut flush trying to get value like that. I mean I would have folded many hands and should have folded this one but I talked myself into it.


I apologize I dont know how to format the hands in a more presentable way.

So look, the issue is, I can convince myself that these bad players everytime they make such huge shoves they tend to have it but there were occasions where they made such moves where I didnt let go with my trips or something and they showed absolute junk. So, everytime I am in such a situation where I have a big hand Im confused. There was a hand where I had trip jacks and the guy made a huge over bet on the river and I called when there was a possible straight on the board and he was bluffing with a missed draw, on another occasion I had two pair KJ the pot was small like 9bb, the guy bet 32bb on the river and I didnt know what to do, there was a paired board so I thought he might have trips but I called looking at the meaningless action that had happened before and sure enough the guy was just bluffing.

I keep seeing spots like this where bad players are just making stupid moves which makes me want to call them in hands where they do have it. I dont like to think Im a calling station, I dont stick in a 100bb in the micros with top pair on the river. But when I have a strong hand and I get shoved into, I dont know if I should believe them or make the big lay down.

Bit of an update, havent been playing so much. Hit a run of bad cards and then fell into my old practices of fooling around with sngs/mtts etc. Managed to blow off most of the profit. Took a few days off in the mean time shifted the cash off from MPN to betonline. That was a move I had been contemplating for a while and the string of beats and tilt convinced me to take a few days off to think things over and make the switch.

First things first, I have set up pt4 to work with betonline card catcher. Seems to be catching hands of my sessions shows up on the tables but I cant get it to show my stats and stuff in the results section. Do I have to make a new db for a new client? I was hoping to build on my graphs from where I left off.

Second question I have for you guys - I noticed that betonline has a lot of traditional 9 handed action going on at micros. Now I have focused entirely on building my 6 handed game over the past month and a half mainly due to a lack of 9 handed action on mpn etc. Is there ANY reason why I should consider switching back to 9 handed action? I tried a few rounds and I felt oddly out of place. I figure it might be good to multi table 9 handed tables due to lack of action/slow pace but I guess I wasnt the only one thinking that. One glance at the players revealed mostly the same names which might be a reason for me to stay off so I dont see so many regs all the time. Im afraid that I might spew off money and just confuse myself and my ranges which I have worked so hard on developing. I certainly wont want to play my 6 max range on the 9 handed table etc. So basically do you think its +ev for me to revamp all over again?

Lastly, I have since moved down from nl4 to nl2. Still not focusing on volume these days. April has been good in terms of cash games I would say in between mpn and little bit of betonline action today I have somewhere like 4000 hands at 9bb/100 though its a short sample.


Going to reevaluate my goal and bring it down. Also going to be spending a little less time over the next some days playing poker but hopefully I can keep playing hands consistently through out the month.



Starting BR: 50$
Current BR: 60$
Next milestone: 100$

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
—Edward Gibbon


Ran into a couple of rough hands but wont think about it too much because I think I played them just fine.

iPoker - $0.02 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 122 BB (VPIP: 25.10, PFR: 18.31, 3Bet Preflop: 1.28, Hands: 495)
SB: 115.5 BB (VPIP: 15.00, PFR: 14.17, 3Bet Preflop: 2.33, Hands: 121)
BB: 92 BB (VPIP: 29.17, PFR: 1.04, 3Bet Preflop: 3.33, Hands: 97)
Hero (UTG): 136.5 BB
MP: 154.5 BB (VPIP: 35.19, PFR: 12.96, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 56)
CO: 96.5 BB (VPIP: 22.73, PFR: 18.18, 3Bet Preflop: 12.50, Hands: 22)

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K K

Hero raises to 5 BB, MP raises to 11 BB, fold, fold, fold, BB calls 10 BB, Hero raises to 44.5 BB, MP raises to 154.5 BB, fold, Hero calls 92 BB

Flop: (284.5 BB, 2 players) 2 9 4

Turn: (284.5 BB, 2 players) 7

River: (284.5 BB, 2 players) 9

Hero mucks K K (Two Pair, Kings and Nines)
(Pre 17%, Flop 8%, Turn 5%)
MP shows A A (Two Pair, Aces and Nines)
(Pre 83%, Flop 92%, Turn 95%)
MP wins 287 BB


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iPoker - $0.02 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

CO: 101.5 BB (VPIP: 33.33, PFR: 25.00, 3Bet Preflop: 16.67, Hands: 49)
BTN: 112 BB (VPIP: 24.53, PFR: 19.18, 3Bet Preflop: 2.00, Hands: 324)
SB: 47.5 BB (VPIP: 50.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 4)
Hero (BB): 100 BB
UTG: 107 BB (VPIP: 20.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 5)
MP: 17.5 BB (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 4)

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 7 7

UTG raises to 3 BB, fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero calls 2 BB

Flop: (6.5 BB, 2 players) 4 T 7
Hero checks, UTG bets 4.5 BB, Hero raises to 13.5 BB, UTG raises to 104 BB, Hero calls 83.5 BB

Turn: (200.5 BB, 2 players) 6

River: (200.5 BB, 2 players) K

UTG shows J 9 (Flush, King High)
(Pre 49%, Flop 34%, Turn 23%)
Hero mucks 7 7 (Three of a Kind, Sevens)
(Pre 51%, Flop 66%, Turn 77%)
UTG wins 196.5 BB

Good luck on the grind!
Both hands are standard, don't worry about it.

Starting BR: 50$
Current BR: 67$
Next milestone: 100$

Havent been able to put in volume. Playing a few thousand hands a day. 8/9 tables seem to be working well. Bad beats really putting me off.

Getting better and better at my opening ranges. Theres some spots where I get confused especially Im really scared of hands like KJo/KQo. At the moment I come in with a raise on those hands if its unopened. Im still working on my calling ranges. I get confused what to do with these hands when theres a raise before. At the moment I tend to let these hands go vs people who I know are regs but when I see a fish Ill call it down and this seems to be working okay. Though I know a fish can have a hand once in a while also.

Im going through a recent upswing so dont want to get ahead of myself. Really wish I could put in some crazy volume to test out where Im at but as it stands I can only spend a few hours studying/playing poker with school and real life etc.

Gl to you. You will always have upswings and down swings. Just have to stay positive when the down is happening and not be cocky when the ups are.

Happy to hear you're in the right track.
What I did about these hands( and any hand) is actually I made a range of my opening hands from each position. And I'm working through that recently and it's been great.
Try sorting your poaitional O-Range using flopzilla.
See how they hit and mis and go from there.
Wish you the best.
Cheers

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Havent been able to put in too many hands this month thus far. Ill try to post updates every 5k hands or so unless if I get in trouble with a particular hand and I need help etc.

Month of March was break even after nearly 30k hands. It was really depressing but I think I have learnt a lot since then.

April has been lucrative so far.

~12k hands across MPN and BOL
~+6bb/100

Its a very small sample so nothing to write home about just yet.
Im becoming more and more meticulous about my preflop opening range and I have greatly improved in that department which has helped me avoid a lot of troublesome postflop situations.

I am working on my preflop calling range also but that is not near as perfect and I often get myself in trouble. I feel there is a TON of work I need to do here but Im going with the flow as best I can and dedicating time to my preflop opening ranges and hoping that perfecting those first will keep me afloat for a while. So occasionally ill often end up folding preflop a hand I know I should be calling with but at the moment Im trying to err on the side of caution though I realize that it could be -ev.

Lastly, I wouldnt say I have been on a heater but at the same time I havent had a long string of bad beats either. Seeing positive results has given me the confidence to back my strategy when things have gone bad and I have been able to just let go when I am not sure and believe that if I am doing something right it will show eventually in the long run.

Quick update. Been out of the game for the past few days because of school. Had a friendly live session with some old friends and went +100$ so that was nice but Ill keep that separate from this thread.

The plus side is that I got Peter Clarke's - The Grinders Manual. Thick book but it looks like a good read. Will slowly make my way through it and take notes if necessary. Really excited to see if it can help me at the bare minimum stakes at which Im playing and hopefully push up.

This weeks going to be another rough one ahead. Dont see how I can get in enough hands. Missed my gym for the past few days also so Im looking to set that straight first thing tomorrow!

Since my last post I have had a horrible string of beats and a near +20$ day so its been up and down. The string of beats really puts me down. Every time I win like 5-6 buyins I think that I wont ever go below past these but some how i manage to do that. Another thing I have realized is that yes, tilt is playing its part. But, its like for every 3-4 buyins I blow in bad beats I might play spewy and tilt off a buyin slowly over the course of the session when I start trying a bit too hard. Need more discipline.

Seesh, micros are rough. For every time I come back up thinking it'll be the last and another down swing teaches me new things. Its been a lot of work for the bare minimum blinds but I think I have learnt so much about the mental grind. I have learnt more about life from playing poker in my life then I have from any book/course. Makes me look bad considering Im struggling to even get my feet out of the lowest blinds but after a while you start to view everything in life as a big game of cards. But those lessons about life which I have learnt from playing cards are priceless. The patience and the long mind mentality online poker is teaching me now, well no wonder I was never able to consistently beat the online games before. I never even thought about them.

Still not getting as much time as I would want to play poker. Last year of university so trying to arrange my priorities however I am clearly not very good at those. Dont really expect to be putting in a lot of volume still.

One more thing, I have slowly started making my way through Peter Clarke's - The Grinders Manual. I have read the first 3 chapters. I am making notes along the way as I go. I also like to write down questions as they come to my mind while playing a session so I keep a notepad near by. I hope to get answers to these questions as I move through the manual. Some of the questions are for example:

Q - Bet sizing for C-bets when c-betting light and when c-bet for value IP and especially OOP.

Q - 3-betting OOP/IP. Currently I make it 3x IP and 4x OOP.

Q - Set mining. Im sure Im losing a lot of EV here. I find myself clicking buttons usually justifying my plays to myself which might be bad. When I see a raise and at least one caller and I look down on a small/mid PP I always make the call because with more players in the hand I think my PP has nut potential and I can win a big hand . But there are other times I get confused. How to play a small PP OOP vs an EP raiser? How to play it in position? Notice how I dont have a problem opening with my pairs. That I have down. Ill usually open with 77+ UTG and 66+ in the HJ varying my play with how the table is playing of course. But its when some's raised the pot and I look down on the PP which confuses me.


As I said Im not playing a whole ton, but since Im trying to digest this new information, when I play I volume down and play fewer tables. 3-4 at max and try to think about all those things which i have just learnt and practice them. For example his standard open raise sizing is something I am trying. Personally I think that these recommendations are a little bit more suitable for the higher micros but Im experimenting with them anyways and he suggests adjusting them according to the table of-course. Heres some of his recommendations and what I have since been following.

UTG -> 3x (3x)
HJ -> 3x (3x)
CO -> 2.5x (2.5x)
BU -> 2x (2.5x)
SB -> 2.5x (2.5x)

The ones in the brackets are what I use. Of-course this is just a general outline on his/my part. I will raise a lot more if I think theres a fish in the blinds who will call me regardless. I also think that his bet sizing will be helpful on slightly higher blinds 5c/10c but on 1c/2c where people just want a reason to call I might make it easier by pricing them in sometimes. So without being too predictable and depending on the players in front I will often make it more pricey with my stronger hands.

One last post for the day, there are three things which I have actively been pursuing for the past few months - school, poker, and fitness. My priority queue has been the following: poker -> fitness -> school. As a result I have seen improvements in my poker and my fitness but the schools been lagging. As its coming crunch time with my exams Im working real hard on revamping my priority queue to be the following: school -> fitness -> poker.

So while the poker grind is still on I want to use this space to update my fitness grind here as well. In the last three months I lost 5% bf without losing almost any muscle. I started in the high 25's and made it to low 20's. A week away from the gym has set me back a little bit but yesterday I started Jim Stoppani's Shortcut to shred program again. I also recently ordered a fresh batch of supplements so theres the added incentive to focus on my workouts. I dont think Ill be able to hit the gym 6 days a week. But 4-5 times would be nice also.

Today is Day 2 - Shoulders, Legs, Calves. Lets go!

Starting BR: 50$
Current BR: ~89$


Played online after a couple of days off, schools been killing me. Had a huge day though with respect to micros won 20$+. Ran pretty good, but more importantly ran into some really bad players tonight. Might have something to do with the weekend but I consistently ended up on fish infested tables. I really wish it were like this all the time because I just felt like I couldnt lose today. I had tough beats in between also but all in all the players just played so bad it was a surprise.

~9k hands on BOL at 21bb/100 so far in March

Another tough week coming up so I dont know how much time Ill be able to put into it. Slowly making my way through the manual also, really helpful advice in there. There was a chapter on isolation which I used extensively today. Of course it helps having the weaker players on the table to exploit but I felt in control and the practical implementation of the advice reaffirms my faith also. On to chapter 4.

Fitness goals are on track, had a day off yesterday. Today is going to be day 6 back and biceps.

Starting BR: 50$
Current BR: ~101$


First day back after a long break for exams. Honestly felt really rusty prior to sitting on the table.

~ 800 hands
~ +6.30$


This was the perfect "get back into the game" session. I was extra careful to avoid bad situations and tough decisions as much as possible. And thankfully there were no coolers, just straight up abc poker did the trick. I was really afraid of starting off with a rough session and I know doubt would have set in really quickly but thankfully that didnt happen.

Still feel like, the month or so away from the game has set my game back a lot. Though, I dont know... after the break I just didnt feel as enthused at the thought of grinding micros again. The last month has been really stressful with endless projects and exams and I took a few days off before firing up poker again. I dont know if I want to start up the mental grind again though. Positive session today might be what I needed to keep me going.

Hi man.
Good to hear you hit the tables and had good results. It definitely helps the confidence.
Wish you best of luck

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