Hey,


Gonna keep it short!

Been playing a couple of years. Never been a real grinder due to working full time and a lot of overtime. last year I worked 900+ hours overtime, which make it really hard to put in volume at the same time, not to talk about study hours....

Anyway, I'm of duty till about august so far.

I've been playing 50NL (reg and zoom) for far too long now.

It's time to change my old habits and start to build more solid once.

Why 2k in 50 days?
2k will be enough for me to move up to 100NL.
50 days is to have some sort of a time frame, otherwise I'm gonna do the old "I do it tomorrow".

Gonna try to update everyday I play or study.

I have some bad habits I wanna fix first, starting with river calls/folds.

I do to many fast calls, where it is obviously my opp isn't having enough bluffs, or even any bluffs.

Often I lose a lot of money when I'm the pfr OOP, betting flop and turn goes x/x, I X river and face a bet on a board where villain will most likely checkback with all the hands I beat and need to turn SDV in to bluff for me to make a good call.

This will be the first I will study.

You're probably better taking your avg win rate (or an achievable one), working out how many hands it would take to make 2k with that win rate and then setting a volume goal.

Either way GL

Thank you!

I basically did that and it will take about 50 days.

I cant have a volume goal right now, unless I have it to a fixed that.
But daily or even weekly goals will be hard.

I'm of duty to be home with my kids, which make it very hard to know when to get time to grind. some days I cant put in 4k hands and some days it will be non.

I might change the goal. I needed to pick one now to not wait yet another day to do a PGC. The biggest goal is to improve my game, start a good study habit.

201$/2000$

This week I'm gonna do my best to,
- analyze 30 river decisions when facing a bet.
- analyze all hands I've been marking, no point in marking hands if I don't
analyze them.
-Gonna work a bit on my note taking, feels like my notes are too long not really easy to take something from. Often it is like a small HH. Better way would be to take notes that tell me something about how villain is thinking.

Done 15 river decisions today.
I notice that I need to fold a bit more when its close. Most of my opponents have a low river bet, which means they are not that aggro on the river.
I also see a lot of check/calls with hands that is pretty clear valuebets.

Think it is even more important when playing zoom as ranges seem to be tighter.
Gonna focus on these spots in today's session.

Now its time to grind some family time before hitting the tables!

Day 3

-23$

177$/2000$

Did mark a lot of hands today. Some I felt totally lost.
Maybe I post some if the hands tomorrow.

I wish you luck

Day 4

+125$

302$/2000$

Today I felt a lot more focused than yesterday. Probably missed the fresh air yesterday

Did study about half of the hands I marked from yesterday, problem is that I marked even more hands today than I did yesterday, need to analyze faster or longer.

Gonna try analyze all hands I marked so far tomorrow, than I only need to do the hands I marked the day before.
This is because I want to study other stuff too, not only hands I marked.

Day 5

-4$

299$/2000$


Session 1,
Played terrible. Did so many loose calls and bluffs.

Session 2,
Played a lot better, still pretty far from A-game.
I feel I have a bit hard to concentrate, I feel dizzy. caught myself just starring at the screen, totally blank. Gonna take a walk before the first session tomorrow to clear my mind a bit. I used to go to the gym and also meditate.
Should probably start doing that again, help me a lot to have that calmness and confidant while playing.

Did analyze all the hands I marked and also find some time to spend on other poker related stuff.

Tomorrow I WILL play my A-game!!

Day 6

Back to day 1.

Forgot who wrote this.
You say procrastination... I say, Tomorrow I WILL play my A-game!!

-300$
Not that big of a deal.

- Playing 6 days.
- got beat up by both regs and recreational.
- didn't really learn anything from it, just that I keep doing the same mistake, talk myself in to call when I should be folding.
All this for only 1$, hell of a deal!

Next up, try get it for free.

-1$/2000$

Day 7&8

Day 7, No play, just study a couple of hours.

Day 8, Played close to A-game today.

-44$

-45$/2000$

Day 9

Played very well today, very close to my A-game. I usually play in the evening or midnight, but today I did a session around lunch. It was a big difference in my focus. Gonna try get my sessions in as early as possible and study later at the evening.

+99$

53$/2000$

Day 10

+137$
Also +100$ in reward.

290$/2000$

Played very well today. Was a bit lazy in the beginning of the first session but otherwise very well.
Think I need some new pre-session warm-ups, the one I do right now doesn't really seem to work very well. Same story every time, first session is always the worst one, should be vise versa as I'm starting with full of energy.

How did u do here ?

My thought was that if I write a note like a short handhistory, I would need to check that note and understand what it means. More or less understand in what spot I can take advantage of this note.

I switch this type of note-taking to a more general note that will form how my opp is constructing his/her range.
E.g if I see someone bluffcatch too wide, instead of taking the note that he/she "XC down, XX on XXX-XX", I now switch it to, "XC down loose".

First way of doing might be better for others, for me it's easier to just see that I can valuebet thinner vs this type of opp.

I Also switch the note taking based on regulars or recreational player.
Vs regs I have notes that tell me how they approach the game, which type of strategy they use.
I often take notes on stuff that stats cant tell me, like 2 regs could have the same CB stats but betting totally different, one of them cbetting like that "NoBS" stuff from Gordon and the other is trying to be more balanced.
Other notes can be " Pot stealer", tells me that this type of player is likely to pull of more bluffs, like bluffing more otr when missed BDFD or just try to move people of splits and stuff OTR, unlike the rest of 50NL pool which has a very valueheavy range when betting river.

For recreational players I take notes that tells me what to do.
"Valuebet river thin", I know what you think, " useless note, I VB thin vs all recreational players as they are calling too much", true, but this tells me I can valuebet even thinner.


Hope you understood everything, my English isn't perfect.

Day 11

Today I shouldn't have played, ended the session early. I was very tired but talked myself in to playing anyway. should probably study these days.




I still dont know if this was good or not, gonna check it tomorrow. SB is a weaker player and BU is a more active reg. Don't think BU is checking twice with any strong hand. Also thik that SB is betting turn as the board didn't change much, only KK got there which is in BU checkback range.
Gonna be hard for both players to bluffcatch Ax here as it is a split board vs any other Ax. Dont think 2 pair is checking turn.
River should be kinda safe too.


Poker Stars $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players - View hand 3075067
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

BTN: $342.73
SB: $104.49
BB: $71.23
UTG: $59.70
Hero (MP): $57.47
CO: $362.79

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is MP with 8 8
1 fold, Hero raises to $1.50, 1 fold, BTN raises to $5.50, SB calls $5.25, 1 fold, Hero calls $4

Flop: ($17.00) A 9 5 (3 players)
SB checks, Hero checks, BTN checks

Turn: ($17.00) K (3 players)
SB checks, Hero checks, BTN checks

River: ($17.00) 5 (3 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $51.97 all in, BTN calls $51.97, SB folds


95$/2000$

Day 12

Today I was focused but I did a lot of fast calls, which I think was incorrect. Still making too loose calls based on the player pool tendencies.

Gonna try to over do it tomorrow to really get a good habit of folding and start having a good reason for calling.
As many players in the 50NL zoom pool don't understand relative handstrength, they often bet in spots where they don't even have enough bluffs unless they go monkeyspew with a lot of random crap.

I really need to trust my reads on the playerpool, apply more logic and stop going with a stupid gut-feeling.

Todays session ended -33$.

62$/2000$

Sure I understand u very well ))
My english isnt perfect either.

I feel like my note system isnt good as well. I take alot of notes and often times I dont have enough time ingame to go through them in 10 seconds so this notetaking kinda only helps for the session to get a feeling of a players mood and not so much to profile them. Profiling pretty much is something like: this player has a tight tendencie, this player is pretty much ABC all the time, this player is creative and cant let go of pots etc.....
Because where they can be exploited you see pretty much in the stats anyways.

Dont know.. I feel like there is some value I still miss there.

good luck for your challenge dude !

Day 13&14

@lolthatwasfunny
I feel so too. gonna put in some time in to this part of the game.
Thanks!!


+95$

156$/2000$

Day 15

$119 + $50 reward = +$169

$375/$2000

Played well the last 2 days, feeling very focused.