Hello all I am an Australian 6max cash player that plays on ACR, excuse my utterly atrocious writing skills, it is certainly one of my weakest attributes. I decided on ACR over Ignition because I like being able to track my opponents, I like having rakeback and the nail in the coffin was the stability of Ignition during this recent mini-boom.

I am very new to poker and my aim is to become a better poker player and make it my main source of income, which would require beating 100nl, I do not expect this to happen overnight, or even this year, as long as I am improving my game there is no specific time limit on this goal. I realize this is a very ambitious goal and the statistics are against me but sometimes you just need to set a goal and do your best to achieve it, if you fall short at least you put your all into it.

My first foray into poker was in 2015 but I did not play enough volume in any one format to comment on my ability back then, I fell in love with the game and immersed myself for around 6-9 months, alcohol and drugs stopped me from doing anything long term my entire life and the nature of that lifestyle drew me away from poker, I finally got sober at the start of 2019 and am happy to say I went from being homeless to living with a wonderful girl, I can't say its always easy but its far better than being the person I once was.

I will be dedicating myself to poker as I have no financial worries and nothing but time right now, I will be aggressively moving up stakes, if I beat a stake over 20,000 hands I will move up until I hit 10nl then I will re-asses, I realize this is not a large enough sample to know if I am a winner at each stake but I have no qualms re-depositing, at this point in time any money put into poker I consider the costs of a hobby so losing is not a problem as long as I am improving.

I will be recording 30 minutes of actual play daily and reviewing it myself and sharing it with my study group, I don't see much talk about watching yourself play and am curious on peoples opinions of its validity. Read/Watch will soon be following a pyramid approach, I will identify a piece of my game I feel I am the weakest in, spend a period of time focusing on improving it and then moving to the next weakest aspect, but for the immediate future my entire game is so weak I need to spend time on my fundamentals as a whole.

Until I improve I am playing a TAG strategy (19/16/8) so far, I will open up my ranges once I have improved my play, at this point in time I would rather avoid getting myself into situations I am not equipped for. I am going through Red Chip Poker's core program and diverging off occasionally on things I believe to be important (For example today I spent my study time on learning intricacies of Flopzilla), then I will read The Grinders Manual and then depending on where I am at either go through From The Ground Up or move to the pyramid learning system.

My current schedule:

5:00am - 5:20am: Wake

5:20am - 6:40am: Study (Review Session/HH Analysis)

6:40am - 7:00am: Break

7:00am - 9:00am: Play Poker

9:00am - 9:10am: Break

9:10am - 10:30am: Study (Read/Watch)

10:30am - 11:00am: Break

11:00am - 1:00pm: Play Poker (Record 30m Session)

1:00pm - 1:30pm: Break

1:30pm - 3:30pm: Play Poker

3:30pm - 3:40pm - Break

3:40pm - 5:00pm: Study (50% Hand Analysis 50% Read/Watch)

5:00pm: Blog

I am willing to remove Study & Play sessions 3 if I feel I am burning out from 10 hours of play/study a day, we shall see how I go. I will be posting a hand, graph and small piece about how I went daily and doing a more all-encompassing update of my journey weekly.

My current insignificant graph of 7.5k hands.





Thank you for accompanying me on this journey and any advice given is much appreciated.

sounds ez. gl

We share some of the same past obstacles to overcome. Subscribed and good luck!

:P thanks for tuning in

Yes, I have been following your thread since before I posted mine and definitely relate, best of luck in your life and poker journey!



A very slow day in terms of hands, usually I will clear over 1500 4 tabling, there was a few massive whales going nuts, not sure if I just got lucky finding them or corona is making people play crazy, I got in ahead almost every time today and to top it off won almost every all-in even though many were 60/40, EV started to even out toward the end of the day but still ended up way above it.

It was a pretty boring day in terms of actual play, most of the day was just getting it in good vs whales or exploiting TAG's preflop, not many tricky spots were played, I have been talking to some people that play higher stakes and it's been suggested if I don't mind redepositing that I should skip straight to 10nl due to the rake, I am curious to hear more opinions on the subject.

Villian was a TAG, bordering on Reg with a small but not insignificant sample

Yatahay Network - $0.02 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (MP): 135 BB
CO: 184.5 BB
BTN: 150.5 BB
SB: 100 BB
BB: 100 BB
UTG: 204 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 8 8

fold, Hero raises to 3 BB, fold, fold, SB calls 2.5 BB, fold

Flop: (7 BB, 2 players) J 4 6
SB bets 5 BB, Hero calls 5 BB

Turn: (17 BB, 2 players) 9
SB bets 12.5 BB, Hero calls 12.5 BB

River: (42 BB, 2 players) 9
SB bets 31.5 BB, Hero calls 31.5 BB

After talking to some more people I decided to jump into 10nl, not a bad first day, I decided to swap my third play session out for extra study for the day.

Yatahay Network - $0.10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: 186.4 BB
Hero (BB): 101.5 BB
UTG: 100 BB
MP: 108.1 BB
CO: 93.9 BB
BTN: 138 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, MP raises to 2.2 BB, CO calls 2.2 BB, BTN raises to 7 BB, fold, Hero raises to 25.9 BB, fold, fold, BTN calls 18.9 BB

Flop: (56.7 BB, 2 players) 4 9 5
Hero bets 28.3 BB, BTN raises to 112.1 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 47.3 BB and is all-in

Turn: (207.9 BB, 2 players) 7

River: (207.9 BB, 2 players) J

A bit of a rough day mentally, opening up my ranges from a 19/16/8 TAG style mean't there were a lot more decisions to make, I tried to go from 0-100 to fast and followed some stuff blindly instead of understanding why I am following it, then implementing it, played less tables for most of the day to.

Tomorrows goal is to finish constructing my own new ranges, understand why I have each card in my range and then move forward.

Yatahay Network - $0.10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 100 BB
SB: 43.7 BB
BB: 139.9 BB
UTG: 264.1 BB
Hero (MP): 100 BB
CO: 101.5 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, Hero raises to 3 BB, CO calls 3 BB, fold, fold, fold

Flop: (7.5 BB, 2 players) 6 2 4
Hero bets 3.7 BB, CO calls 3.7 BB

Turn: (14.9 BB, 2 players) 5
Hero checks, CO bets 11.1 BB, fold

Dropped one of my sessions because I am not thinking properly come the 5-6 hour mark, maybe I will add it back once I build up some mental endurance and more things become second nature.

Not a great day, a mixture of playing bad because I tried to get to fancy and do things I don't understand and a bit of just not running well.

Did not get around to posting yesterday, here is the graph for the last 2 days.

It's been an okayish 2 days, some bad plays, and a bit of getting my kings and AK owned by better holdings all in pre

Yatahay Network - $0.10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

MP: 79.3 BB
CO: 127.5 BB
BTN: 97.5 BB
Hero (SB): 100 BB
BB: 101.5 BB
UTG: 101.5 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

UTG raises to 2.5 BB, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 7 BB, fold, UTG calls 4.5 BB

Flop: (15 BB, 2 players) T 9 5
Hero bets 11.2 BB, UTG calls 11.2 BB

Turn: (37.4 BB, 2 players) Q
Hero bets 18.7 BB, UTG raises to 37.4 BB, Hero calls 18.7 BB

River: (112.2 BB, 2 players) 4
Hero bets 35.5 BB, UTG raises to 45.9 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 8.9 BB and is all-in





Yatahay Network - $0.10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

MP: 100 BB
CO: 118.5 BB
Hero (BTN): 100 BB
SB: 107.7 BB
BB: 100 BB
UTG: 161.5 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K 4

UTG calls 1 BB, fold, fold, Hero raises to 3.5 BB, fold, fold, UTG calls 2.5 BB

Flop: (8.5 BB, 2 players) Q A 5
UTG bets 8.5 BB, Hero raises to 17 BB, UTG calls 8.5 BB

Turn: (42.5 BB, 2 players) 5
UTG checks, Hero bets 13.5 BB, UTG calls 13.5 BB

River: (69.5 BB, 2 players) Q
UTG bets 69.5 BB, Hero calls 66 BB and is all-in

Been a bit slack playing and posting the last few days, hoping to make up on some volume tomorrow.

It's gone alright, I feel like I am contentiously improving my game right now which is good, just need to increase the discipline a little more.