A hit and run 888poker bumhunting session:




Back at home (nl10 6max pokerstars) for a quick bumhunting:





Read the book "Modern Small Stakes" goal: 105/500 21%
Read the book "The Mental Game Of Poker" goal: 103/198 52%
Bankroll: 1373,67$
Move up rule: br > 1400$ --> nl16 6 BI shot (preferable at weekend)

2 new bad sessions at full ring tables. I will stop the full ring experiments and I will continue by playing 6max till the target of 1400$.








Read the book "Modern Small Stakes" goal: 105/500 21%
Read the book "The Mental Game Of Poker" goal: 103/198 52%
Bankroll: 1340,28$
Move up rule: br > 1400$ --> nl16 6 BI shot (preferable at weekend)

How do you decide when to stop playing? How do you fight the urge not to try and win back some or at least break even? Do you have a $ amount as a stop loss?

Most of the times I will do session with 1 hour length. I'm doing this to reduce the fatigue, and play as much as I can, my A-game. Usually if I want to play more, I will do a break of 30mins, doing a session review, post some hands, or read something. The urge to try to fight to win back some losses it's a common habit to anyone. I did it in the past very often, but I realized that almost never I'm playing my A-game when I have in my mind "I have to win back some losses". About stop loss, I have 3 BIs from th epeak of the session. Of course I'm not looking every 10mins my results, but if I'm close to 3BIs I feel it and then maybe I'll take a look or close without check it out.

The spin & go challenge 5x1$:




One bad session nl10 6max:




I have become overly aggressive at last sessions. Maybe I'm a little hurry for the target of 1400$ to do the nl16 shot again and this affect my results in a bad way. I have to calm down. Let's play our today 5 spin & go's and one calm session with good table selectioooon.


Read the book "Modern Small Stakes" goal: 105/500 21%
Read the book "The Mental Game Of Poker" goal: 103/198 52%
Bankroll: 1310,91$
Move up rule: br > 1400$ --> nl16 6 BI shot (preferable at weekend)

The spin & go challenge 5x1$:





My session at nl10 6max:




I'll play 2 more sessions today.


Read the book "Modern Small Stakes" goal: 105/500 21%
Read the book "The Mental Game Of Poker" goal: 103/198 52%
Bankroll: 1325,33$
Move up rule: br > 1400$ --> nl16 6 BI shot (preferable at weekend)

A quick comeback. Sometimes poker seems so easy..





I won't do another session finally, because I'm a little ill today and I'm gonna sleep early. Very satisfied of my play today. I hope I will say the same for tomorrow. Poker is a marathon, and I'm sure that I want to run it.


Read the book "Modern Small Stakes" goal: 105/500 21%
Read the book "The Mental Game Of Poker" goal: 103/198 52%
Bankroll: 1351,16$
Move up rule: br > 1400$ --> nl16 6 BI shot (preferable at weekend)

5 spin & go's and lost them all:




nl10 6max session. Easy game:



Getting closer to nl16 shot..


Read the book "Modern Small Stakes" goal: 120/500 24%
Read the book "The Mental Game Of Poker" goal: 107/198 54%
Bankroll: 1366,62$
Move up rule: br > 1400$ --> nl16 6 BI shot (preferable at weekend)

Getting closer..




I read the part of the book about opening ranges, both 9max and 6max, and I saved them to Equilab, in order to find them quickly when I need to check out something or to analyze a hand equity. Of course there's almost no standard range imo because every table and situation is different.



Read the book "Modern Small Stakes" goal: 130/500 26%
Read the book "The Mental Game Of Poker" goal: 107/198 54%
Bankroll: 1376,24$
Move up rule: br > 1400$ --> nl16 6 BI shot (preferable at weekend)


A bad session at nl10 6max zoom. 2 steps back.



Read the book "Modern Small Stakes" goal: 135/500 27%
Read the book "The Mental Game Of Poker" goal: 107/198 54%
Bankroll: 1355,54$
Move up rule: br > 1400$ --> nl16 6 BI shot (preferable at weekend)

Keep your head up man. Had a gross session yesterday as well. Part of the game. New day today!

PS: Might've seen you on FT a few days ago. Not sure.

Head up and keep going.. Yeah you can't always win, that's the game. When you realize it, you play your best game longer. It's very possible you have seen me on FT. I play 1-2 times a week.

A good session at nl10 6max. 4 steps ahead.




Read the book "Modern Small Stakes" goal: 135/500 27%
Read the book "The Mental Game Of Poker" goal: 107/198 54%
Bankroll: 1392,69$
Move up rule: br > 1400$ --> nl16 6 BI shot (preferable at weekend)

Almost at that 16NL shot! Gl

Thank you mate!

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A bad session at nl10 6max. It’s not a big deal.





Today I decided to play the 5 spin&go’s at a higher buy in, and play 5 x 3$ = 15$.
I won the lucky one with prize 18$ so I won 3$. The players are also very bad at this buy in.
Also, I played one 235fpp storm sat, and I won 11$ T-money. This is the way I spend my fpps and I take almost supernova price per fpp.





Read the book "Modern Small Stakes" goal: 135/500 27%
Read the book "The Mental Game Of Poker" goal: 107/198 54%
Bankroll: 1387,21$
Move up rule: br > 1400$ --> nl16 6 BI shot (preferable at weekend)

How many hands have you played since the beginning of this challenge?

Don't you think there are merits to playing longer sessions at certain times? (Get to see a lot more from villains and exploit tendencies)

Interesting question. The truth is that I didn't check it out. My mind was only to my goals and I didn't check it. This might be the first time I did this for so many days. I checked for you, and I have played 33k hands the last 18 days. So, I'm inside my goal which was at least 50k per month. I just saw some interesting information, like I have lost 9 BIs at nl10 9max.


Definitely. Some times I feel ok and continue play for longer. The exploit tendencies are almost unlimited at this stake imo trust me. On the other hand, even if the the tendencies are so many, the bigger profit comes from weak players. I mean the really bad ones with VPIP over 40 or the maniacs. That's my target almost everytime. I'm not afraid to play with regs and exploit them. I know I can do it. But it's a loss of time. The truth is that sometimes I do a session to outplay a specific reg, exploit his tendecies or tilt him. This have metagame effects and also balance your stats. About session length again, as the goal continue, I want to increase the session length, but slow and steady.

Helloooo.. Friday and 13th today. I hope it will be a lucky day

Last session from yesterday:




Read the book "Modern Small Stakes" goal: 150/500 30%
Read the book "The Mental Game Of Poker" goal: 107/198 54%
Bankroll: 1377,92$
Move up rule: br > 1400$ --> nl16 6 BI shot (preferable at weekend)

Regarding regs: I don't think there's a point either. Completely agree with you. I'm happy so long as I'm not losing against them.

Regarding duration: I talk about the exploits in this regards and less regarding observing regs.

Anyway, keep up the good job!

Oh ok. Yes the time you sit at one table it's important one way or another. There is a big % of recreational players though who sit down and try to double up quick. If they win the transform to a tight passive style or sit out to go to a higher stake. That's my favorite type of opponents hehe. I'm trying to find fresh weak players mostly rather than ones with history. I don't know why, but I believe that fresh opponents have slightly more value than the old ones even if the old have a million of weaknesses

Friday 13th didn't start well. I decided to play my daily 5 spin & go's to 3$ buy in again and lost them all, 4 of them at 2nd place.




After the spin & go's I decided to go for a walk to nl10 9max again. A question from a friend some comments above, made me to see that I have lost 9BIs there, from the start of this thread. So, I though that can't be so hard. I just couldn't adjust quickly from 6max to 9max most of the times. I didn't went with the mindset to win back my losses. I just went for a walk.





After this session, confidence is up to the sky. I will play again after a couple of hours. I'm not sure yet if I will do the nl16 shot today, or I'll leave it for Saturday. To be overconfident it's not always a good thing. The marathon continues...


Read the book "Modern Small Stakes" goal: 150/500 30%
Read the book "The Mental Game Of Poker" goal: 107/198 54%
Bankroll: 1408,1$
Move up rule: br > 1400$ --> nl16 6 BI shot (preferable at weekend)

At 10NL it's probably not worth going after the Regs as there's more that enough recreational players in the pool to focus your time on.

May be helpful just to take a top line look at the Regs so that you can identify the type of reg they are, i.e. Tight-Passive, Tight-Aggressive etc, so that you have a little more understanding in the small pots. Like you said, as long as you're not losing to them.

+1

Going well derek. Keep going mate.