Ty bro. I'll do my best..

I spent 20mins to watch 3 fresh videos from one of my favourite poker uploaders, SplitSuit.

Finally, I decided to start the nl16 6BIs shot. I'm very happy that the first session was a good one.
I feel stronger than ever. I'll do my best to hang on at nl16.



Read the book "Modern Small Stakes" goal: 150/500 30%
Read the book "The Mental Game Of Poker" goal: 107/198 54%
Bankroll: 1423,21$
Move up rule: br > 1700$ --> nl25 4 BI shot (preferable at weekend)
Move down rule: br < 1300$ --> nl10

Hellooo..
As usually I played the spin & go's for the daily challenge. I chose to play 1$ games. But.. I forgot to press the start button from the challenge tab and I played 4 games before I realized that lol. So, I played 9 games in total + one 235 fpp satellite which I lost. As a result I won 1$. Yeaaah.




A small taste of nl16 6max zoom at one table to feel the waters and grabbed almost a half buy in:




I did also a long session at nl16 6max regular tables. The tables was so good, that I really couldn't stop playing! As a result I lost 2,5 buy ins (It's better to talk the buy in language instead of saying "40$") but I'm totally satisfied with the quality of my decisions really:





This is the sum results (with the zoom small session) till now for the nl16 shot:




I'll try to post 2-3 hands, that there is a possibility that overplayed them.
I'll do one more session today at least for sure.


Read the book "Modern Small Stakes" goal: 150/500 30%
Read the book "The Mental Game Of Poker" goal: 107/198 54%
Bankroll: 1388,99$
Move up rule: br > 1700$ --> nl25 4 BI shot (preferable at weekend)
Move down rule: br < 1300$ --> nl10

Bad news. I played a very bad nl16 zoom session yesterday:



I played also a silver star vip freeroll tournament for fun, and finished 40th out of 20k lol and won 7$




Read the book "Modern Small Stakes" goal: 150/500 30%
Read the book "The Mental Game Of Poker" goal: 107/198 54%
Bankroll: 1352,3$
Move up rule: br > 1700$ --> nl25 4 BI shot (preferable at weekend)
Move down rule: br < 1300$ --> nl10

A little disappointed so far for my nl16 results but that’s the nature of the game.
I played 6 spin & go’s today + 1 storm 235fpp sat and lost 4$:




I played again today one nl16 zoom session. I don’t know why, but I opened 4 tables which is out of my standards. Maybe it’s a tilt effect. My decisions was very bad, and I was lucky in two big pots, otherwise I had to lose 2 more buy ins. I think I have to calm down, study a little more out of tables, play mostly regural tables or maximum of 2 zoom tables at this momment. The road is long..




Read the book "Modern Small Stakes" goal: 150/500 30%
Read the book "The Mental Game Of Poker" goal: 107/198 54%
Bankroll: 1353,98$
Move up rule: br > 1700$ --> nl25 4 BI shot (preferable at weekend)
Move down rule: br < 1300$ --> nl10

Once again, I realized that I reduced very much the time I spend outsie of tables. I have about a week to do a session review and take notes. It’s not only the notes that might be usefull, but all the process it’s very educative and helps in many ways.

So, this time I started by reading the mss book. After reading, I did one nl16 9max session to test the ranges that book suggests. Except one preflop all in shove mistake with TT blind vs LP it was a good session.







Read the book "Modern Small Stakes" goal: 168/500 33%
Read the book "The Mental Game Of Poker" goal: 107/198 54%
Bankroll: 1347,03$
Move up rule: br > 1700$ --> nl25 4 BI shot (preferable at weekend)
Move down rule: br < 1300$ --> nl10

Sunday night and the final shot came. Good session in general, very unlucky run of cards. I lost 3 BIs with ev break even. Back to my home nl10. It doesn’t matter at all. I’ll be back soon, stronger.








Read the book "Modern Small Stakes" goal: 168/500 33%
Read the book "The Mental Game Of Poker" goal: 107/198 54%
Bankroll: 1298,48$
Move up rule: br > 1400$ --> nl16 (preferable at weekend)

Great attitude mate and great discipline with your shots too.

OK ... im going to be the first one to politely disagree with this.

Ive been reading this thread for a while without posting and i agree that OP has a decent attitude and shows good discipline with his bankroll.

Now .. these are traits that is obviously required by any poker player aspiring to move through the limits ... however, there is being cautious and then there is being over cautious.

Personally ... staying at $10nl with anything under $1400 is just too cautious imo.

As far as i can gather .. OP plays around 5-6 tables of 6 max on Stars and therefore even with the simplest of table selection he is going to have no problems finding that amount of tables that he has a decent edge on so whats the worst that is likely to happen ?

It is very VERY unlikely he would drop 30 or so buy ins and drop below $1k but even then he still has 100 buy ins.

Taking 6 buy ins shots at $16nl when he reaches $1400 is too conservative because 6 buyins means you are in the hands of very short term variance and its putting too much pressure on trying to succeed in the short term.

If your going to move up to $16nl when you reach $1400 then at least give yourself a chance to settle into the new limit and build up some reads and stats etc with say a 15 - 20 buy in shot, and then drop back down to rebuild if things dont go your way ... you will still have over 100 buyins and can easily rebuild again.

This is not a dig at OP because he obviously has a decent attitude and will no doubt do very well .. but maybe just free the reigns a little perhaps

Well the great attitude comment was referring to this.

Just a good, positive mindset.


Re: bankroll discipline. It is certainly much more cautious than I will, would and have applied in the past but I can't be too critical because I've always tended to be the other way (playing 25NL with $300 BR) and I sense derek won't be busting his roll as often as I have :-)

However, I take your point on board. He is certainly well rolled to keep grinding 16NL for a while longer.

Thank you guys for the comments. The truth is that I agree with all comments. I'm over cautious with my BRM. The reason for this is mostly because I didn't have much confidence for the nl10 stake because most of my winnings are from lower stakes. Now this have changed and I'm very confident. So the option of taking a shot with more BIs seems very logical. Some friends also suggest me to do this. I have it in my mind and probably I will do it the next time I reach 1400$. Even a 20BIs shot seems very safe. Probably I will choose something around 15 BIs next time. I will have more space to play, I will be more relax and I will have more time to build history vs other players so it seems like a better plan to move up.

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+1 for more bis shot.15 bis shot seems good.

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Good luck man interesting thread.

Ty man

Hello Monday!

One nl10 6max zoom session 2 tabling from yesterday night:




One storm sat as usually with 235 fpps. A maniac helped me to win. He kicked out 4 players! Last hand here.




I read an excellent new article by BlackRain79 with title Why You Need to be More Patient at the Micros in Order to Succeed

And back home to nl10 6max. I did a good session, I increased the number of tables a small amount, playing from 6 to 9 tables. I did a bad call here, which I think that is an easy fold, and just 2 hands before closing the last table, I stuck off one fish here.





Read the book "Modern Small Stakes" goal: 168/500 33%
Read the book "The Mental Game Of Poker" goal: 107/198 54%
Bankroll: 1314,53$
Move up rule: br > 1400$ --> nl16 shot. Not sure yet how many BIs (preferable at weekend)

Hey man, +1 for the 15BIs shot next time

I would donk the flop with the TTs because its such a coordinated board and there are many hands we can extract value from: 2 pairs, Pairs with st8draws, and both vilains seems kinda passive.

Wp with the 66s. GL

I like the cautiousness of being over rolled for NL10 because the ability to move up shouldn't depend just on your BR, but on your assessment on if you've confidently beaten the level.

However, I probably would agree that a slightly larger shot at moving up is necessary. Maybe even just extending from 6BIs to 10BIs.

That's exactly what I wanted to do and why my BRM seems so cautious.

Yeah I'm thinking something around 10-15 BIs next time

Hi there, no time for poker yesterday, but I played around 1k hands I think, via my mobile phone, zooming 9max games mostly. I just sent a hand history request to pokerstars, so that I will import them to my poker tracker and post the results. I played also around 500 hands today via my mobile phone again. I guest that yesterday I was break even, and today I won around 5$. Let's see if I'm close to my guesses.

I have something in my mind about the Sunday Million 9th Anniversary 9M gtd. I have in my mind, to invest a small amount of money (something like 20$ maybe), to play some satellites and if I won a ticket, to transform it to T-money. The reason is that I believe that the average player pool will be weaker than my skills in the satellites I have in my mind. The satellites I have in my mind are 4max hypers, 4x shootout with 1$. I believe that I will have a huge edge there because I am a 6max cash player and also because I'm playing 6max hypers sats very often with my fpps and I have a small experience. Also except of the first place ticket, 2nd to 4th wins 12$. So you have to win 3 4max tables in a row to get in the money. I will see.

I do the same thing, play Zoom on my iPad then request HHs from Stars for HEM2. You worked out a simpler system yet to do this? Can only get max 200 Hands from the Lobby request system and I swear at some point Stars are going to get sick of me asking for HHs.

I've played on tablets before and I'm sure you could request things like all hands played past 24 hours.

I sent an email to support, and requested the hand history for the last 30 hours. There is an option from the pokerstars application at the requests tab for history request from the last 24 hours but I didn't do it yesterday and now I want the last 30 hours hands so I sent an email manually. I hope that I will have no problems with that. In the past I had requested a lifetime hand history and they were very fast in their response.

Very fast response again. I just received the email. My guess for the number of hands was correct! 1.5k played the last 30 hours hehe. Let's see if I was also correct about the results.

Very satisfied of the unbelievable fast response from pokerstars support.
I was wrong about the results guess, but I'm super satisfied with my quality of play without hud.







By stake. I don't know why PT4 recognise as 2 different stakes, but with same name the nl10 9max zoom hands. Anyway.






Read the book "Modern Small Stakes" goal: 168/500 33%
Read the book "The Mental Game Of Poker" goal: 107/198 54%
Bankroll: 1309,66$
Move up rule: br > 1400$ --> nl16 shot. Not sure yet how many BIs (preferable at weekend)