Hello,

About me:
I'm a 26 year old Romanian guy,working the office for a ****ty wage and developed an interest in poker since 2008 when a bunch of friends introduced me to this game.
I started playing freeroll tourneys on some Romanian website, "Dracula Holdem" i think it was called,but never reached any final table,was just playing for fun.
Over the years I discovered that there was more in poker than just flipping cards and raising stacks,so I started looking for theory material and started reading it.
My first O.K. grinding month was in march 2013,when I managed to get from 40 USD to 120 USD,playing at 2NLFR,following a strict set of rules and never attempt of breaking them.After each rise,I always ended my BR going through HU tourneys and tilting it.
Since my first successful grind session at 2NLFR,I never gave up the idea of playing poker and making money out of it and that some day will go past my limitations and stop being intimidated about huge sums of money in my BR.

To sum it all up: I love playing poker,never gave up the idea of not making money from it,I have read a couple of materials here on 2p2,watched a lot of poker videos and had only 1 hour session of coaching. I've always been a lurker here,haven't been involved.

My goal:

• To get my 47.75$ BR up to 625$ so I can play 25NL.
• I will be using a 25 buy-in rule for going up in the stakes.(I know my BR isn't qualified for 5NL,but Stars doesn't have 2NL no more so... sucks)
• I will post results weekly(on weekends),since I'm working on the weekdays.
• I will play basic poker and try to learn things along the way.

This is me drawing a line in my messy brain and monitoring my progress carefully,I've never imagined myself doing this.

OK,so almost two weeks have past and I promised myself I will post every Saturday or Sunday.I have been having technical problems with both of my laptops and managed to fix one of my laptops and start playing and registering hand histories on my HEM trial.

It's been somewhat of a roller-coaster to me at 5NL,provided I was only playing at 2NL back in 2012-2014.

There's always a problem with me after running good.I keep looking at graphs after each session or even during my sessions,and every little downswing that hurts my graph drives me crazy. Am I the only one doing this???? looking every second at graphs and balance(I know its not good for my game,any tips on abstaining from doing that?)

I know I risked a lot playing with roughly 10 buy-ins,lol,but I thought about it and I'm gonna change my moving up BR rule to 40 buy-ins, I'ts safer.

After 10 days of playing poker I've managed to put in a little over 10k hands mostly 4 tabling and 6 tabling at the end.

GRAPH for 10 days :


Red line is up yeah, I know i'm bluffing too much but I'm trying to keep a balance to it.

I'm gonna study reading hand ranges for now.I found out a nice YouTube video that tells you how to train for that.



What do you guys think? Is it a good exercise?

SEE YOU NEXT SUNDAY !! *kisses*

Second week started a bit slow,was sick with the flu and had uncontrollable coughs.

I hope that by the end of the month I will start playing 10NL. I have also created a cardrunners trial and began watching videos there.
Still doing the hand reading exercise from the previous post(for some reason you can't access the video only if you use tapatalk).

I'm really happy of how I progressed,from depositing only 48 dollars.

BR : 256.91$

Will probably post hands during the upcoming week,the ones that I marked on my HEM.

Aaaaaand graph for this week....

What you playing exactly? 6max ring table or zoom? or full ring?

I too have a problem, constantly looking at my graph or results after every pot. It's stressful and bad for your game, and I'm trying to get used to not doing it anymore.

I'm playing on FR.
The minute I look at my progress graph I immediately get triggered,I always want to end the day on the peak,but I remind myself that I will have bad games in the future and need to cope with it.
Also,I disabled all table pictures and chat so I don't get triggered by that as well. Lol

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GL OP! Started a similar challenge earlier on.

Best regards Can

"Dracula Holdem"

ROOOOOFFFLFLLLLLLMAOOOOOOOOOO

GL.

This week hasn't been so good to me at all.
On Monday I had a total collapse and entered in a fishy state of mind.As you can see from NSD and SD graphs I wasn't calling with good hands and bluffed a lot. I started thinking that everyone adjusted to my style of play and figured out that's because I had been bluffing a lot during the course of my last two weeks.It's wonderful how the mind starts focusing on these matters instead of letting me play ABC poker.

Had a few AA and KK suck-outs,which pushed me even more into the tilt zone.Yesterday I had a moment of recovery,but I managed to spill 200bb due to my ultra fed ego.

I also participated in yesterdays webinar,hosted by James "Splitsuit" Sweeney,I am trying a lot to get my hand reading skills at the tables to a basic level.Took notes during that webinar and I started making my own HUD configuration in HEM2. I will also end my trial with HEM2 shortly in the upcoming month,so I'll move to HEM1 because I have it registered with a serial key.

Overall points during this week :

• I have made a total mockery of my past sessions and spilled to much(as you can clearly see by looking at graphs)
• Calling too much light,and 3betting lighter as well (went from 3% 3bet to 6 or 7% 3betting)
• got dragged way too much in the fishy mindset,getting tilted by fishies
• overall graph has changed and looks badly,this affects me even more

Haven't done much poker studying to be honest,I clearly deserve it,seems like I lost a bit of passion for doing that.

BR : 257.35$ (I have cashed out 20$ from STARSCOIN rewards)



It seems like I'm only going to move at 10NL probably in the next month.
I need to sort my brain during this time and smash my 4 BI downswing until then.

If you guys have any good books to recommend for 2017-ish games and microstakes or some updated 5NL sessions or leakfinder videos, I would appreciate it.

See you at the tables!