Hello 2p2,

This gonna be long, and I'm a new guy, so I don't expect to have a lot of followers, but I'm very pleased everyone of you, who has some time, to read this and maybe be with me my all journey.

I read a lot of PG&C threads on this forum, mainly because I thought it will inspire me in some ways, but only reading didn't workout, so decided to start my own thread which gonna be like a prove to myself if I can be successful at poker or I'm just another kid with a dream.

Little bit about myself.

I'm 20 years old full - day student from poor country called Lithuania. I'm playing poker for about 6 years now, started as most of you with homegames. I always been best at these games, winning from my best friends isn't thing you can be proud of but that was the way I started to build my poker bankroll. Than I found out some games in my city with other guys, actually they was even worse than my friends but stakes were higher so I started to win bigger money. I'm really happy that I was smart enough to not spend that money, I used it only to playing poker with the intention after reaching 18 deposit all that money to pokerstars. Actually that plan workout better than I expected, I deposited 500dollars as my first deposit and started to win some real money. I was really proud of myself because actually all the time I was freerolling, my own money of all my current bankroll was like 5bucks I started with when playing home games. After graduating school I went to university where I'm studying now and still playing poker online to earn some money for my own expenses. By this time I even can't call myself semi-pro poker player, because I'm still dependent on my parents, so that I'm not forced to make my own money, but for now poker is an ability for me to have some financial freedom.


So, what happened that I decided to start this thread?


Mainly, some sort of downswing gave me some thought that I'm giving too less effort that I should to poker. When I started learning poker I spend much time reading articles, watching videos but now I'm doing all most zero work on my improving. I even can't force myself to do some hands rewiew or analyze my game. And this is a thing I want to change, I hope this gonna be a real new beginning. Until now I played rush games NL5-NL25 ( I will post my graph if someone will be interested, but the volume is just 80k hands or so, because biggest part of my hand history was on other PC).

I guess this post is becoming too long so let's jum into my plan.

Actually I have a bankroll to play regularly at least NL25 or even NL50 (never did that, can call myself some sort of a bankroll nit) but I'm gonna cashout almost all my bankroll and start with 100bucks playing NL5 4-6tables.

The plan:

First month. I will play whole month only NL5 (4-6tabling) no matter if my bankroll will be sufficient to next level. I'm gonna play for at least 4 hours a day, unless I will not be in the mood or tired, if being so I will watch some videos ( thinking about gripsed at start, any suggestion acceptable). I'm gonna put at least 2 hours a day to improving my game: analyzing hands, opponents, discussing hands on this forum. I think that would be enough to beat NL5.

Second month

If I managed to beat NL5 and have a bankroll at least 250bucks I move on
NL10. In my opinion NL5 don't differs a lot from NL10 so I will stick to the same plan as first month - 4 hours playing, 2 hours studying a day. Will stay in this limit whole month.

Third month

Move on to NL25 if i have at least 625 in my bankroll. At this point I think I must to put some more effort in my studying process. I will do some research of video courses, might play less than study. Not sure how well I'm gonna do at this level, so the goal is only beat it in shortest time as possible (min month still counts).

After nl25... we will see so in short, the plan is to beat NL5 and NL10 in two months and NL25 in shortest time as possible.

Some of you who read it might think I have to be more detailed on my goals, how i'm gonna reach them. To make it more interesting, every weekend I will try to write a review how I was doing whole week, what studying methods I used and what new I learnt. Hope if I do well some of you might find out these articles useful.

Tommorow is the beginning of my journey.

Cheers

Played some hands, had some internet issues but managed to put in almost 3hours ofplaying. Made a small profit:
Current BR : 110.89

Decided not to post every sessions graphs, will post whole weeks graphs on weekends.

Basically, all session was marking fishes and regs/ half regs and ignoring them, playing against fishes and selecting good tables. Marked every hand with reg i saw and rewiewed it on HM to get some idea how they are playing. All in all, pretty happy with my play today, made some poor calls I'm not happy about probably post them tommorow, now going with roommate to the bar.

Sounds fun, I've been crushing the 25$ cash games this month. GL

25nl in 2 months would be a nice accomplishment, gl!

thank you guys!

started day with short session, ran really decent winning around 60bb/100. so, todays' goal is to play at least 1,5k hands more. will post some hands after session and hand review.

Find out some 2p2 guys streaming pretty fun, definetly can find useful stuff there.

Current BR : 131.91$

Played another session. actually it really frustrating, ran really bad at start, got back in the game and than few bad beats caused a little tilt which was the main reason why I could not play my A game again.


current BR : 120.72

Had some problems with one reg, filtered him on the hm, hope to see him at the tables a lot, because found a lot of big leaks

time for some hands. not quite sure if someone is reading this but would be really nice to hear some ideas.

against the regular. not quite sure if KJ isn't too lose for utg flop and turn I guess standard because flop came really dry and doesn't hit regs range. on the turn we picked some equity and it's good bareling card for us because it becomes hard to V to call with his low pair hands which is biggest part of his range imo. decided to barrel river because the only hands calling it would be some Q (KQ picked flush draw on flop or the AQ) and the other hands are folding.



thoughts on turn and river? V plays really lose so we can't take out of his range most of nines or even some 45 A4 type of hands. river is probably a fold because we are just bluffcatching missed flush draws.

played third session today, really happy with volume so far. mainly before challenge played zoom, already noticed some differents betweens zoom and regular tables . so probably my first article on the weekend will be about that and how to adjust to these changes.

current BR : 127:88

played almost 2k hands, ran around 5 buy ins below EV, lost two buy ins.

BR : 117.54

Todays' plan : analyze 2 regs on hm, make some notes and play another 4hours session. love holidays, helps to get some volume.


BTW, made side agreement with my girlfriend. if i make nl50 until june 1st we are going on holidays from money i cashed out from poker before! so now the goal is to beat nl 5 and nl 10 in two months, and beat nl 25 in two months.

another session of bad run! result -19.66 and -8.66 based on EV.

BR 97.84 + 13.05 rakeback i'm gettin tommorow = 110.89.

tommorow gonna post graph of my first 10k hands at nl5.

GL, I'm doing a similar challegne. Also, how do you get rakeback on full tilt?

nice, do you have a PG&C thread too? gl to you too anyways. on FTP you are getting rakeback due full tilt points you made. depending on your status you are getting some cash per every 100 points you made. that money you are getting once a week straight to your account.

time to post some graphs..

really not happy about about how I'm doing right now. I would not be honest to myself if I blaim bad run only, made some spews and bad calls too. only thing I'm happy about is volume. so todays' and weekends goal is to hit 20k hands. thinking about tightening up a little bit, because loose agressive style pre/ and tight agressive style post seems to not work at these stakes, but still play until 20k hands same way and see what happens, maybe will hit that good side of variance now







basing on EV line I'm running around 7bb/100 right now.. think it could be way bigger though.

today's session ended up in really annoying way. it caused me to start contest "biggest idiot of the session" and post his hand. so todays' winner is.... ME.

villain is folding to 3bets on bu 57%, folding to cbet 11%. terrible 3bet pre.
flop - again terrible, cbetting guy who is never folding.. wp.. turn as playd is fine imo, checked with the intention to gii there because V is floating a lot of flops. on the river literally talked myself into a call.
pretty obvious V showed off with a boat

end of the 4th day of poker... again, did some analyzis on regs ( now got decent reads on 7 regs and will do the same thing on others, really helpful) pretty much it's the main reason why I started to grind always 6 tables at one time which is max for me, not playing only fishy ones. and obviously... grinded

BR : 121.40.

day 5. not much to say, again ran below EV (2 buy ins). its gonna be loooong grind... pretty much struggling right now, but pretty confident with my game and the progress i'm making, so definetly will make it

tommorow hope to reach 20k hands, will post graph if so.

BR : 103:17

here's a hand which make me smile even though i'm tired, lost few buyins and little bit sick

day 6. another losing day, continued running below EV (little bit less than 2 buy ins). decided to quit after 1,2k hands because felt like not concentrated enough and didn't wanted to play just to hit 20k hands. being ill doesnt help too. still gonna post my graph and set up goals for the next week.



goals for next week:

1. stop watching active session sections in hm while playing.
2. change my attitude. after getting a lot unlucky this week I feel like i'm start to think "oh, again this fish will su*k out on me". and when it happens it makes me tilt more.
3. play atleast 12k hands. will not play when being not in mood or feeling bad.
4. make some profit!

so tommorow is the new day and hope that it will be better.

BR : 92.12 with already accumulated rakeback I'm almost even right now. so let's start from scratch!

day 7. yesterday had 38.5 C temperature, probably gotta flu, felt better today in the morning so diceded to play short session, played 1k hands made small profit. didnt go to lectures today, hope to be fresh tommorow or on Wednesday. bad timing to get sick, but not much i can do i guess.

BR : 96.30

day 8. felt good today, so played well too. grinded up nice profit (around 20) but lost most of it in few situations when after value betting against a fish had to fold on the river. all these hands came like in 50 hands so started tilt a little bit so decided to take a break.

BTW, reached 20k hands. here is the graph:



changed my game from the sb a lot last few sessions. noticed that I'm losing some money from the sb after isolating limper, reviewed some hands and noticed that I'm isolating way too wide after 2+ limpers. will work on some filters on hm today too.
pretty happy with how I'm doing with goal to not look into active session section while playing, haven't do that last two sessions.

BR: 101:38

had a good session, made few big mistakes, but ran good. lost all small flips against shorts, however won a big hand AK>AQ pre ~200bb effective against a fish and won a nice freeroll against a reg. BTW, started to play some rush too, goes well so far.
will work hour or more today on my red line improving, makes me sick to watch how it goes down so far, definetly have a lot of leaks.

BR : 122.07

day 9. played well today, but lost some flips, got unlucky once KK<AK and lost a big hand against a massive fish ( will post it on the end ).

BR : 112.61

today gonna work on my 3bet/4bet/5bet ranges, found some cool stuff on the net and then will try to put another 2 hours or so at the tables.


Villains stats : 91/14 over ~100 hands

end of day 9. downloaded pokerranger, willing to buy it after free trial ends. I found out that I'm burning a lot of money in cold calling situations/calling cbets. decided to start 2 tabling rush to have ability think about ranges every hand. will play like that tommorow too and than switch back to regular tables because cash knockout coming since february 6.
will try to do my best there, not sure how it goes, might be some challenges from there too for myself.

current BR : 126.48

looks like i'm getting back in it, hope to keep going like that

day 10.

happy with todays session, made few mistakes, but its ok since i know what i did wrong. got coolered few times so that was the case why i ended up losing. non - showdown looks way better when i'm only two tabling.
cash knock - out challenge tommorow, so i think i will dedicate all my time to playing to achieve some good results. I'm confident with my game right now too, fixed some leaks so i think i'm capable in beating nl5 right now, just have to put some volume and hope to run little bit better.

here is my graph, played almost 30k hands (29260), posting now because will try to focus on grinding another few days.



far away from crushing, but I'm not really upset about results so far since i feel i'm runnig worse than usual.

BR : 115:48 + 12.67 RB = 128.15 total

day 11.
terrible day. started playing at shortstacks tables. thought it was a good idea, because they are almost never running on full tilt, but that day there was many of them, so pretty much was obvious that it is because of cash knock out. I was sure that most of players at these tables are playing to earn as much points as possible so that they are making a lot of poor decisions and I can take advantage of that. result - lost around 10 buy ins in a hour or so. went to play 2 tables rush and lost another 4 buy ins, so at the end of the day had around 90bucks.

day 12
best day so far. won back everything I lost on day 11, played really solid, getting good hands in right spots helped a lot too.
still got coolered few times

time to set up goals for next week.

1. get in the money in cash out week.
2. play at least 2k hands a day.
3. continue doing some excersises at home.
4. do hand reviews while going to school by bus.
5. read a book for 1 hour a day.

current br : 127.88

end of day 13. jeez, it looks like these rush games are all about managing to lose min with second nuts. sick that my instincts are always right when I'm against a fish with 2nd or 3rd nuts and got to play for whole stack, but still never manage to get away without getting it in

BR : 126.10