My goals are to grind up as much as possible as quick as possible.
Have like 2k$ approx in loans that i wanna pay as quick as possible ,because of that i'll withdraw as much as possible every monday which will make my endgoal to build roll for live poker that much harder ,but dont have that many options right now.
Will play aprx. 10k(zoom) hands per day or close to that amount till 25NL and will try to post results daily.
Once i move every stake i'll post overall graph and results per stake and will start posting hands only after 25NL ,because i plan to play ABC pretty much and wont be interesting for anyone to see abc hands.

Day 1 so far lost 8.80$ in tournaments which i regret and will scrap from now on , maybe once i get to 10NL i'll add some tournaments on the weekends ,but will see about that.
up 16.20$ so far 2NL bankroll is 35.60.

Done for day 1 +29.67$ from 2NL and down 8.80 from tournaments.
Only 8k hands today abit short of the 10k hands goal ,but im too tired to play 10k hands today.

Bankroll 49.18

Done for day 2 -12.81$ Day to forget basically.Even on 2NL in the zoom pool fish tend to just fold over and wait for AA/KK and overbet shove like morons and i ended up calling up like 15 stacks ,but im gonna adjust that stuff.


Bankroll at the end of the day: 36.30$

Done for day 3 +13.66 Another badly played day overall... was hoping to be at 5nl by day 3 ,but i guess i'll need 1 more day to build up the roll and need to fold alot alot more.

Received some money back from pokerstars due to getting cheated some time ago which amounted to 15.34$


Bankroll at the end of the day : 65.20$

Done with 2NL -9.33$

Took shot at 5nl also later that day which didn't go well.



-6.68$


Bankroll at the end of the day : 49.02$
Will start to move towards redline strategy and play less hands in the future.

Done for day 5 +33.40$ Finally winning something.EV is kinda missleading since i got coolered like 5 times in 4bet pots where i just flat AA and run into QQ/JJ topset on top the flop , but then again i had AKss vs AA split preflop and won 3 flips in row so...
Looking forward to build the roll so i can withdraw some by Monday hopefully...


Bankroll at the end of the day : 81.33

Nice, GL building both live and online.

Day 6 from Being up like 8BI to down -34.27 $ really sad day.


Bankroll at the end of the day : 47.06$

Day 7 was running so bad , but on the bright side im improving my game towards those zoom nitty pools. +24.11$
hoping to get few good days in row to move to 10nl



Bankroll at the end of the day :71.17

Day 8 +39.38 too tilted to continue with 5nl at this point will give 10NL a shot maybe 5BI shot.

Deposited 26.72 more towards the roll

Bankroll at the end of the day and start of 10nl : 135.07

Day 9 : -89.74 shot at 10NL ... -26.41 as well on 5nl... going back to 2nl for final attempt and giving up if this time it doesnt work...

Haven't updated it on a couple of days will do so in a few days.
Did some review and decided whil im on insane downswing it's going to be beneficial to focus on less volume and higher quality even on extreme micro stakes.
Changes that i plan to make are looking to play 4 normal tables and 2/3 zoom instead of 4 zoom and focus more on individual spots and try to win as many pots as possible while not trying extremely hard to outplay them.
Used to think i need to do some extreme stuff like making them call call / fold just to make money out of them ,because they seem to be insanely nitty ,but thats abit too hard to execute properly when playing 4 zoom tables and not worth the risk and the tilt it brings when it doesnt work.
All i need to do is survive the next 90$ rake so i get 125$ chest which will bring my roll for 10nl or close to it.

Finished with 2nl terrible results ,but it is what it is. +60.98$ on that stake for 47.5k hands 6.41bb/100 WR 4.85BB EV WR




Finished with 5nl trend here +71.88$ for 55k hands 2.61bb/100 WR 3.39bb/100 EV WR




10nl so far is meh +10$ rake paid 270$ for 31k hands which is insane... need to discipline myself and fold alot more i just tilt myself too easily and cannot click the fold btn when i know for a fact that they got there on the river that has costed me like 50 stacks so far maybe more for 31k hands...

pff haven't updated in like a week and everything went to **** basically.
Tried to take few shortcuts by trying to shot 25NL with 10 BI and then this happened


after that 10nl went to ****.



Giving it last go at 5nl 125$Rake away from getting 125$ chest i'll stick to that and move to 10NL when i have 200$+ roll and then move to 25nl when i get to 500$ roll eventually.
I'll be playing extremely tight and nitty and just be extremely results orianted.
Planning to give up by the end of the month if nothing improves honestly.


200/2k$ withdrawn only so far.

Crushed 5NL in the past few days


This is overall 5nl

I Guess tight is right and i could've won more even if i was tighter ,but yea...
Gonna take 10NL shot with 140$ bankroll and 100$ in rake left for the 125$ chest so hopefully this time is gonna be better playing tighter.

Wanted to put update once i reach 100k hands at 10nl ,but the results are rather dissapointing.


Took 25nl shot ofc 8BI below EV is amazing when taking a shot.


300 more withdrawn for the goal 500/2k so far.
Bankroll overall is pretty shallow for 25nl and i'll think about it today if im gonna continue 25nl or go back to 10nl for 15BI more , but its super frustrating so im not sure at this point.

Best of luck!

How do you study poker? And what in your opinion is your strongest and weakest parts of the game?

I don't do any study right now focusing on volume pretty much.
My weakest part for sure is underrestimating fish.Basically bashing my head against the wall expecting different result.
Overall my mental game is extremely poor.Winning tilt as well as losing tilt are huge issues.Esp the losing tilt when i keep getting unlucky when i play properly the spots and just keep getting suckout on i just tilt and start donating lots.

My strongest part is def hand reading and situation reading.



i mean how not to constantly tilt so far 25nl.


21k hands 13 BI below EV if i reach again 50BI below EV for 1month im quitting pokerstars all together.

at 30k hands im down 20BI below EV honestly feels extremely rigged to me and not just variation.It happens mostly vs whales and almost never vs regs.Last year i had 50 BI below EV month the same way ,but i cannot take another 50 BI below EV month.Maybe on 40BI below EV i'll just delete pokerstars this time.

Tilted myself so much and busted my roll deposited the 500$ that i withdrew earlier and lost them as well pretty much. 27BI below EV for 35k hands.
Going back to 5nl for the last time or getting a job and quitting poker sadly can't do this much longer without results.
Did some database research on my own gameplay and concluded that im just punting off too many stacks on multiple street barrels or draws that are good in theory ,but on practice i can save myself lost of money ,because they're inelastic.
This time im going for blue line strategy gonna bleed redline money like all the regs do just to make them not many any money off me.

Hey edko,

seems like your financial situation puts a lot of pressure on you while playing or thinking about Poker.

Why you can't have both until you are in a better situation? Like working in the morning for food, rent and expenses and playing some hands after the job is done. IMO this will put you in a way better mindset which means that you can develop your skills as a player instead of becoming a nit reg stuck on micros.

good luck

Took a little break and came back but nothing changes....


41BI below EV for 80k hands is just a joke no matter how you look at this...