So I just withdrew my roll of all but the spare change as I had to pay tuition fees and it's been a pretty rough month.



Going to start out grinding a mix of nano-stakes 2c & 10c SnGs, hopefully we won't bust it, if we do manage to get past the initial risk zone and up to around $20-30 I'll switch over to 2nl and start the grind from there. I have $25 in bonuses to clear as well should I get to this stage.

I do work full-time and am back to University in a couple of weeks so volume won't be on the super high side of things, but I will try to put in a minimum of 1k hands a day (hopefully more).

Here goes nothing...

Starting roll: $1.19

Sick,so i like it.

Played a couple of 10c 360 mans, going to bed now.

Closing roll: $4.06

Managed to bink 2nd place in a 50c 360, wasn't rolled for it at around $8 but thought I'd give it a shot to try and speed things up.

Closing roll: $30.10

Going to start 6 tabling 2nl from this point forward.

GL

hah nice. GL!

Nice work so far

What did you play before?

GL

I suggest finding work if you're in financial trouble instead of trying to grind micro games. No hate, just my honest opinion.

he never said he's in financial trouble he just said he had to pay tuition fees

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I also said I work fulltime aha. My poker roll and my personal finances are completely seperate, only reason I withdrew was because I had some unexpected outgoings this month and it would put me behind with the cash i've been putting aside for tuition.

I play all sorts, primarily been an unfocused micro player for a long while now. Sometimes I play tournies, usually using my FPPS to Sat into them, sometimes I play outside of my roll to play certain tournies. (It doesn't worry me as I know I was being paid more than I spend a month anyway, so could always re-deposit.)

The goal for now however is to stop jerking around and start concentrating on my game, I've stopped mass tabling 12-18tables usually and dropped down to 6 (which now feels unbelievably slow might I add.)

Taken a bit of a beating over last couple of days at 2nl so roll is down to around $27, will start posting graphs from now on though so expect one to pop up in the next hour or so when I finish my current session.

I probably won't talk about hands in this thread untill I get upto around 25nl + as they are just so basic.

Just ended session.



Played a few hands pretty speculative, looking back at that last big hand for $10 pot, I played it terribly against a reg I have 200+ hands on and it should of been an easy fold.

Current roll: $23.10

Not played too much lately, been kind of busy and got back into the gym so I've been crying like a sissy girl over my DOMs.



Current roll: $21.83

Haven't posted in while, did you bust?

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Hah no, didn't bust. I've literally just been so busy I haven't had time to play almost at all.

Maybe tops around 30min on a good day and haven't been using my weekends for Poker as I've had alot going on socially recently, work is starting to slow down now though so hopefully will be able to pick-up the volume a little, like I said from the start though; it was going to be a slow grind.

So as I haven't been updating this thread as I've had other things to do I may aswell just skip the long story and update you to were I am now.

Went on alittle downswing but am slowly pulling my way out of it, currently playing 4tables of 6max 2nl.

Current roll: $28.84

Playing a session atm though so will pop back to update afterwards.

this is really cool, its these "silly" challenges which you will probably learn more from than the day to day grind. take it one step further and start with a zero balance and play free-rolls till you've got money. how raging if you went busto shortly after you bagged a tiny bankroll in a free-roll!!!!

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Not quite what I wanted to come back on, but Oh well.

Played quite well for the most part, 2 speculative calls but I can handle it.

Current BR: $23.92

Had to stop, was up $2.50ish over 365 hands. Then this hand happened.

Keep in mind the guy was playing 16/8/7.7

When the flop hits I'm thinking he is on QQ/JJ/AK as I feel he's shoving preflop with KK. Don't see him checking back the flop with JJ, on the turn I'm putting him on AK/QQ, decide to call with the intent of getting a cheaper showdown as I'm still not 100% on him.

When he bet the river though I'm cringing, don't think I can fold it but this was just silly.



Ended session shortly after this $-2.55

Bankroll - $21.36

There is no point to try and put villains on hands in nl2 because there is no thought going through their mind. If they want to press the button, they press it.

Hey Craggian, goodluck with this challenge. On that last hand, I'm betting half pot on the flop, and shipping the turn. Like Watermelon said, most villains in this field aren't thinking about ranges, flop texture, position, etc. Just play a lot of hands from the BU and CO, and bet bet bet for value. BTW, that villains call with QTs from your UTG 4b is brutal. This just shows the average players competency.

Haven't updated in alittle while, same old story. Too busy and all that, just came to post this interesting session.



Some guy was playing super crazy, figured it was a higher stake reg blowing off some steam. He decided he was going to decimate my EV.

Put in alittle bit of a grind over the weekend however. Haven't been running the best though, BR is looking healthier though.

Current BR: 39.69

Currently reading my way through Crushing the Micro-stakes so lets see if it does me any good, also been watching a couple of micro stake training videos on a free trial.

It's important over how many hands villain's sample is (7.7 isn't a small number for a 3-bet stat but since it's 2NL and you have recently started playing it, I'll take for granted you don't have enough hands for him in order to get a conclusion regarding his 3-betting tendencies) but even if we ignore that:

To some extent, I like your judgement on the flop, QQ/JJ/AK is quite possible for him but you should allow some possibility for him having called your 4-bet with random spazz (like QT). I would have possibly lead the flop myself and shoved the turn if called. If he had raised me on the flop, I would have still shoved or called a shove (as a raise would have reduced his possible range to AK (6 combos), JJ (3 combos) and random spazz).

As played, I would definitely lead the turn and shoved/called a shove if raised - for similar reasons. I don't like your thought flow - even if you believe that he has JJ in his range, QQ and AK would give you more combos than the jacks. Of course you can't be 100% sure. Moreover, his check back on the flop may indicate something even weaker.

Get it homie!!!!!

That session.. talk about swingy, playing really well all session, tiny bit of tilt around 150 hands in, but I feel that I got in a couple of spots I wasn't likely to lay down.

Couple of the losing hands.




Villain - 38/33/10.5/4.5AF (59 hands)





I am 100% convinced in this hand that Villain does not have the queen, so I'm going purely on a bluff here to make him fold his pairs.


Then I remember its 2nl...



First hand i've played with villain so I don't think much of this hand, pretty standard and I am fine with it.





Again, relatively unknown villain, like 2hands on him at the time so can't really make judgement.




As played I'm fine with it, I can be against so much here that I beat.

Current BR: 42.83

+1.30

Current BR: 44.13

Hey OP good luck to you with your challenge. Are you playing 6 max or full ring 2NL?