I recently saw my first post on 2+2. I was playing NL2, but had busted my $13 “bankroll”. I said I didn't understand why because “i was playing good cards like A10 etc”. My god, I don’t know was it more sad or funny.

But no one refused help and I got plenty of advice. That’s the beginning of my poker at 2+2.

Now my poker has changed by miles. I play NL5 < NL10 on iPoker. However, my poker life has been very frustrating since it has been a massive rollercoaster. Which brings me to this thread.

Actually, it is like fourth time I am trying to start out a PG&C thread but I always chicken out before clicking "post" because I never know how will I continue. after the initial post. After all, this is not a 50-to-10k-in-2013 type of thread. It is more like a cry-for-help type of thread. Sad? Maybe. But I am not giving up

Obviously, it took me a while to go from a complete beginner (as shown above to an ABC/TAG player. I try to spend a lot of time learning like reading books(winning low-stakes poker, crushing the micros, theory of poker, poker blueprint, dynamic full ring poker) and watching videos that I find on torrent sites, youtube, etc.

I also have a pokercouch. But there is a problem. Being he is a good mid-stakes player, he does not seem to be quite as good in teaching. I don’t pay him, he’s like affiliate/coach but I have no idea whether I should continue with him or is there some way to improve the training process.

As mentioned I play NL5 > NL10. What this means is that I was pretty decent in NL 5, moved to NL10. But after varying degrees of success or no success at all, I now switch between NL5 to NL10.

Let’s talk numbers.
My stats used to be a bit on a looser side, like 28/23. Now I am tightening my game to 19/15, maybe 15/13. But my results are still rubbish.
My NL10 graph


My plan for the future:
I am not a grinder by a mile. I Play 4-6 tables, for 2 hours several days a week. I have a family and a job.

So, my plans are:

• Stop losing. Seriously. Just stop. Once I stabilize my game, I will work on more tables up to 12.
• Take up a training site I feel constant, fresh content must be better than what i do now. (I recently saw Grinderschool for micro-stakes players.it’s only $10 which is perfect for me. At least until i stop losing. Any feedback?)

• Find better ways to have sessions with the coach or find some other group/coach.

• Keep this thread up and kicking by posting hands, general thought process, analyzing my leaks, etc.

Final word on goals

My first stop in poker is NL50, 6+ buy-ins/month. This is not a results-oriented goal. This is just the point, where I see myself being able to finally withdraw regularly which would really help support my family. But I have time and motivation and first and foremost for me is still improving in all aspects of my game.

So, first up. Does anyone have any advice on how to make coaching sessions better instead of only looking at hand histories? Any stories on grinderschool? Any ideas where should I search for leaks?

Thanks for everybody who stays. I will soon post some hands and statistics.

Day 1
Well, this is my first session since the start of this thread. I was playing 4-5 tables of NL10.
In total: End result: 3h 26m., +$22 in 817 hands.
This is like it looked:


Yes, at the beginning I got a bit lucky in terms of fish at my tables, but the downswing afterwards... I have no idea. It seems I just wanted to keep up the lucky momentum and suddenly everything changed. I just don't know.

Lucky enough in the end I got some juicy sports again (two pair vs straight, etc).

Now, back to the downswing - there is one hand. Villain is a very bluffy 46/11/ 3bet 6.3 Flop after 186 hands. Here it is:








It may seems a crazy line and maybe I should have played it simpler. But, the villain is not only fishy, he is very bluffy (donk bet 58; vs MissedCbet 38, etc.). In a hand before he pot bluffed on rover vs me. I thought he is bluffing in this hand but raising (especially when flush completed) didnt' make much sense. Any ideas on playing differently?

Day 2 - Well, so far so good.

Since I created the thread and summer began, I feel there are much more fish at the tables. Today I played a 2 hour session:

It was not bad, at the very beginning I got quad jacks on JJ55J, and got called by fish with K4.
I think I was playing pretty well and concentrated but certainly one of my leaks is nearly instant folds to raises on turn. It is very exploitable but I am just never sure how will I proceed so I just fold.


Hand 2:
Villain is complete unknown. I was baffled by the donk bet and I am not sure on stab on the turn. I think should have raised flop. But as I say, it's an unknown:







Hand 3:

Min raise is a mis-click.
SB 31/8 (48 hands).
BB - 16/7 (640 hands) Fold to Cbet 50/25/100, Raise CB 1 in 4






Hand 4:

Villain 29/11. 305 hands.
Cbet 65 flop, 0 turn.
He is really passive (agg 1.8 on flop, 0.5 turn)


I expected him to Cbet, thus a check + check-raise seem very awkward. It's possible he was slow playing a monster.

Yeah, nothing too good to say.

Recently, I played only two short sessions because there were very little fishy players. These to sessions resulted in a loss of almost 200bb. It is not that I played badly, I just ran set of KK into straight. Although, maybe I could have found i fold in the turn? Cos I can't call, so either raise or fold and I was pretty certain J's were in his range a lot:

Hand 5:
Villain 27/0 , 75 Cbet, 48 Fold to Cbet Flop, 0(5) Fold Cbet Turn, 50vs Missed CB




Overall, the month is 2000 hands (600 minutes) +$7.5 (-0.47 bb)

The good news I did sign up to Grinderschool. Hopefully, I will improve faster now. I'm out now for today but I think I will have a session tomorrow.

Any progress to report?

Busto maybe?

Hey, guys.

Busto? Naah.

Here's a quick update that I will be working on from here.

Everything was good for a long time but recent two weeks I had my first massive downswing. On two sites I lost around 30 BI. I just kept running into big hands, get outdrawn, etc. Plus, I'm probably quite bad

Slowly but firmly I started moving up.

FTP - 25 BI is now 32 BI.
iPoker - this might have been way better. Yesterday I has a long session (6 hours). started with nicely going up by two BI. Then AA>KK knock me down to -0.5 BI. Also, I ran a high pair into quads on 99988. I went to -1.5 BI, then -3 BI. got breakeven. And then finished again with -2 BI.

After that massive downswing I decided to make a pan on improving.
So, I read Pooh-bah posts (one a day), I watch videos on weekends.
I was up to 9 tables playing but I realized it doesn't do much good to my game at this point. So, I am mostly 6-tabling ATM.