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!

You get used to it

Thanks for following

Goals for this week:

1.Study Preflop ranges BTN vs Blinds 3bet
-Calling ranges
-4bet ranges

2.Study 3bet pots BTN vs BB on various textures:

Examples:

1. High Card Flops:
   A♦-K♥-3♣
   K♦-6♥-3♣
   J♠-Q♥-3♣
   
2. Dry Low Boards:
   2♣-6♦-9♠
   3♥-5♣-8♦
   4♠-7♥-T♣
   
3. Paired Flops:
   J♠-J♦-4♥
   6♥-6♦-3♣
   A♥-A♦-3♣
   
4. Connected Flops:
   8♦-9♥-T♣
   7♥-6♦-8♣
   T♦-J♥-Q♣
   
5. Monotone Flops:
   K♣-Q♣-2♣
   A♠-8♠-3♠
   J♥-7♥-4♥

-GTO
-How to adjust to opponents
-How to react on later streets

Week 3 and Week 4

Game: 5nl + 2nl zoom
Hands: 12,150
Bankroll: $197 (+ $25 )



I'm slacking off so I need to do extra work this week

Goals this week:
20k hands
keep studying 3bet pots BTN vs BB and BTN vs SB

Nice results, keep up the good work!

got funny comment after this hand:



Am I so transparent that he put me on Ace-Ten high and folded his Queen high?

Week 5 (10.06-16.06)

Hands: 13,000
Bankroll: $235 (+ $38 )

Hands debt: 7,000

Now, every time I fail to hit my weekly volume, I have to pay off my HANDS DEBT in next week



Last week, I was on vacation but now I'm back to the grind

Goals for new week

Develop efficient study schedule
Improve my preflop ranges
Study single raised pots SB vs BB
Play at least 17k hands

Funny hand on fullring


PokerStars - $0.05 NL - Holdem - 8 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 54.6 BB
SB: 197.2 BB
BB: 100 BB
UTG: 114.2 BB
UTG+1: 141.8 BB
Hero (MP): 135 BB
MP+1: 132.6 BB
CO: 166 BB

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has 8 9

fold, UTG+1 raises to 3 BB, Hero calls 3 BB, fold, fold, BTN raises to 5 BB, fold, fold, UTG+1 calls 2 BB, Hero calls 2 BB

Flop: (16.4 BB, 3 players) 2 T J
UTG+1 checks, Hero checks, BTN checks

Turn: (16.4 BB, 3 players) J
UTG+1 bets 9.8 BB, Hero calls 9.8 BB, BTN calls 9.8 BB

River: (45.8 BB, 3 players) Q
UTG+1 bets 44 BB, Hero raises to 120.2 BB and is all-in, BTN calls 39.8 BB and is all-in, UTG+1 calls 76.2 BB

Hero shows 8 9 (Straight Flush, Queen High)

Main Pot [165.2 BB]: (Pre 31%, Flop 26%, Turn 12%)
Side Pot#1 [160.8 BB]: (Pre 43%, Flop 43%, Turn 31%)

UTG+1 shows 4 A (Flush, Ace High)

Main Pot [165.2 BB]: (Pre 41%, Flop 32%, Turn 10%)
Side Pot#1 [160.8 BB]: (Pre 57%, Flop 57%, Turn 69%)

BTN shows 7 J (Three of a Kind, Jacks)

Main Pot [165.2 BB]: (Pre 28%, Flop 42%, Turn 79%)

Hero wins 309.6 BB
Rake paid 16.4 BB

I was training BB vs. BTN open and I’m surprised it’s a fold on the river



BTN overbets on the flop, I call (correct). BTN bets 3/4 OTT, I call (correct), BTN shoves OTR, I call (incorrect)

Solver shows A3s. What a fish. I can exploit this guy all day

Week Summary (08.07-14.07)

Bankroll: $400 (+ $200)
+$75 on cash and about $125 in Mtts

Lately, I had a break. After having a 13 BI downswing from being coolered by fish every single hand, I was pissed off and thought I was done. Worked on my mindset a bit and went back to grind last week.

cash graph:


Most of my profits came from MTTs. I won a $20 freeroll on another site and started multiplying it. Had a few cashes in the MicroMillions on PokerStars too

The hand I Busted with in micromillions(Thought I will ship it) when there was about 30 left.:


PokerStars - 25000/50000 Ante 6000 NL (7 max) - Holdem - 7 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (SB): 27.69 BB
BB: 45.27 BB
UTG: 55.83 BB
UTG+1: 46.54 BB
MP: 37.24 BB
CO: 46.6 BB
BTN: 25.47 BB

7 players post ante of 0.12 BB, Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 2.34 BB) Hero has T T

fold, fold, MP raises to 2 BB, fold, fold, Hero raises to 27.57 BB and is all-in, fold, MP calls 25.57 BB

Flop: (56.97 BB, 2 players) Q 7 K

Turn: (56.97 BB, 2 players) 5

River: (56.97 BB, 2 players) 9



Funny thing, I thought this was a huge blunder in theory, but solver does the same. Pay jumps were small anyway.




In real life, I think a 3-bet fold might be better because at this stage, people play scared. I'll only get called by better hands or, at best, a flip. So, shoving didn’t really make sense. Could be wrong though, I'm noob in mtts.



Freeroll where the field was about 1k people, and only 20 USDT for first place—LOL. Played it for hours, so it kinda felt like a waste of time. But it felt good to win my first tourney ever. I was running 10 km while playing on the phone ahaha.

Doing pretty amazing this week



AA pre-flop, sets, flopped straights, doesn’t matter, everything gets cracked. I need to check the hand history and see how much of it was just coolers and how much was me playing like a donk. Probably a lot of spots where I should've made a tight fold, but I was tilted and snap-called without thinking


Last time I checked, my win rate was 16bb/100. But let's be real, on the bigger sample that's probably about as realistic as winning the lottery while getting struck by lightning. So, I put 8bb and 10bb into a poker variance calculator to see the chances of losing with those samples. I was breakeven but close to losing

10bb/100


8bb/100


If we go down to 7 and 6bb/100, the values are similar, so it's not entirely tragic

If my true win rate were 16bb/100, there's a tiny chance of losing, so I guess it's very unlikely that’s my true win rate. Guess I’ll have to let go of that dream

Sick spot

BTN: 83 BB
SB: 100 BB
BB: 186 BB
UTG: 177.5 BB
MP: 31 BB
Hero (CO): 410 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 5 5

UTG raises to 2.5 BB, MP calls 2.5 BB, Hero calls 2.5 BB, fold, fold, BB raises to 13 BB, UTG calls 10.5 BB, fold, Hero calls 10.5 BB

Flop: (42 BB, 3 players) 9 8 5
BB bets 13.5 BB, UTG calls 13.5 BB, Hero raises to 397 BB and is all-in, BB calls 159.5 BB and is all-in, UTG calls 151 BB and is all-in

Turn: (552.5 BB, 3 players) K

River: (552.5 BB, 3 players) 2