Game: Zoom
Current Stake: 2NL
Bankroll: $20
Long term goal: positive winrate on 50NL

Weekly goals:

• Play at least 10k hands
• Study everyday and post some interesting notes
• run at least 45km

Goals will change depending on the week but these are the absolute minimum I need to maintain.

gl with your journey, hope to see you success step by step.

This is my bankroll management spreadsheet:



I play 6 tables, 4 x zoom tables + 2 regular tables

Once my skill is better I might TAKE SHOTS using this formula:

Week 1

Game: 2nl zoom
Bankroll: $112 (+ $92 )

Time for 5nl as I have 22 BI. Could do it earlier tbh but I try to not look at the cashier.

10k hands+: ✔️


45 km+ ✔️

Last week, I tried to figure out the most effective ways to learn poker. My goal was to identify the most efficient learning strategies and to design an optimal way of studying. I aimed to implement the 20/80 rule, focusing on the 20% of activities that would yield 80% of the results.I haven't figured out the perfect approach yet, But I have developed my plan and I will follow it for now.
I believe it's a good idea for me to play all my volume from Friday to Sunday and dedicate the rest of the week to studying

Thats how the process will look like:

1. Choose subject(work on common spots and leaks first)
2. Watch coaching videos about it
3. Study spots with tools: Equilab, Flopzilla, Solver etc.
4. Play and use learned things in practice, mark hands for later review
5. Session review

Bonus:
-Watch other players play and explain
-Hands review with other players
-Read Books about mindset

Also coaching is usefull but need bigger bankroll for that

Week 2

Game: 5nl + 2nl zoom
Hands: 28,017
Bankroll: $172 (+ $60 )




Done with this week.
High volume with a lot of bad beats made me tilt and I didnt play my best game. Gotta play shorter sessions and not forget to workout before I start playing.

results so far:

I will take 10nl shot at $200

"The more your opponent folds, the more your red line goes up"

So mine is at the right place I guess

Weekly Goals check:
at least 10k hands: ✔️
at least 45k of running: ✔️

Some of my notes about GTO (beginners stuff):

People tend to say “he calls too much”. But what defines “too much”? It’s literally GTO. If you dont know whats optimal you just guessing
in order to exploit we need a baseline. Telling someone to play exploitatively means nothing if they don’t have a reference point as to what the optimal solution is supposed to be

This armor analogy is a great way of thinking about GTO vs exploitative.
Basically, regardless of level, the "less GTO" you are, the more "vulnerable" you are to exploit. At micros, they are not aware and as such, you aren't risking anything "taking off GTO armor". It's like wearing a bulletproof vest in a pillow fight with a 3 year old. The offensive side of the coin, though, is taking maximum advantage of how opponents deviate from GTO. The worse they are, the easier it is to make money off them without even knowing a thing about GTO. However, knowing GTO fundamentals enables you to maximally exploit them (as well as to exploit the less obviously exploitable opponents).



So it's good to know GTO but cant take it fully seriously at the micro stakes.

Here's an example of what is optimal preflop range but using it against 2-5nl playerpool would be stupid. When they 4bet it's usually top 2% of the range so we can exploit em by folding most of our hands.

BB range vs BTN 4bet


TT+ 100% shove, calling bunch of suited connectors with low frequency etc.

will follow. Good luck. How do you manage 4tabling zoom. My brain melts after a while!