New month, same run! Nothing changed after the last time you read my thread, and i continue to straggle even to reach a final table.

The good news are that i keep my composure during my sessions and i just play my A game for the 1st to the last minute (maybe my A-game isn't good ).

Anyway, today i will take a break and i will play full on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. It is going to turn guys you know it, we just have to be there

Have a nice day!

Hey fellow grinders, 3 more sessions are in the books and we are deeper into the red

Friday's session was kinda good (and when i say good i mean break-even, yeaaaah) with some ft's on both $3rb's and $2.50's.

Saturday was a real tragedy cause i was forced to stop the session after 4 hours, having a really bad run. It got out of my control because i lost about 80% of my all-ins and i couldn't handle it anymore, so had to stop.

Sunday was a little bit better variance-wise but still no winnings. I went deep to the $2.2rb 2x-turbo but i made a hero call on the river with 50 left. I think overall my play was good till the river but my call was wrong. His check on the flop misled me.

Hero-call

As you can see my volume is kinda small, cause im trying to get over the swing by playing less tables and being more focused on them. The good thing is that im still keeping my composure while playing. I kinda compromised with the fact that this will be a big swing so cant do much more about it.

That's it for today guys, have a nice week!

Good luck bro..with the poker and life..

I wish I have just 50% your dedications to write and learn about the game

Cheers

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Thx a lot bro, i really love this game and i am devoted to do everything it takes to get better. My main purpose for writing here is to inspire anyone who wants to give it a try It's not easy but it definitely worth it.

Cheers!

subbed, glgl

gogitos do you think a pro tournament player online can still survive and do it?
which game is best to make stable money
MTT tournament
ST tournament
Satellites
NLHE Cash
PLO Cash
LHE Cash
HU Cash
or only live play

Yes i definitely believe that you can survive playing poker

Hmm, the second one is a difficult question. First of all you have to really like what you're playing in order to make money. So apart from personal preferences, i think MTT's will make you the most money but the less stable.

Regarding ST's and Sats i think they are equally stable but they both have a cap in what you make, unless you are a sick grinder

I'm sorry but i can't say much about cash or live play cause i'm not familiar with either of them.

how do you manage to have that kind of a unbelievable graph for a tournament player. You need to be the best of the best to have a constantly rising line, I see poker sharks with 90 and higher on sharkscope have long drawdowns which are highly demoralizing and tilty...

So basically does your graph portray the mentality and approach to your game, does it show the bankroll management and volume that you strictly adhere too????

don't you think the 2.5$ 180man's are soft enough to get upto 1000$ quickly?

Thank you so much man for the inspiring words but believe me, there are a lot more pros out there with much much sicker graphs than mine!

As far as results, i believe that my major advantage so far was bankroll management. I never busted and always try to play where i can afford or build it from scratch if i am on a big downswing. That thing helped me survive but it caused some major leaks on my strategy which im trying to fix now that i don't care about bankroll

Regarding 2.5's, i believe that if you know some basic things about push-or-fold and ICM you can make $1k relatively quick...

You are da bomb man, I think very few players in the world are going to have a tournament graph that looks like the steps to a ladder, most even live pros with millions in earnings have swingy graphs, many go broke, I am impressed about the fact that your not gone broke even one, that's the way. You never gambled with money and it shows.

However the trouble I feel nowadays with tournament poker is that everyone knows ICM, everyone knows push and fold and I feel it has become more of a game in which no one is going to win.

The skill advantage probably in a 11$ tournament is less than 5bb/100 correct me if I am wrong and that is eaten by the entry costs. However if the entrants are extremely bad and the skill advantage is like over 20bb/100 then only I think it makes sense to play.

I know some players do beat the tournaments for thousands of dollars every week but am yet to come in touch with any of them personally.

I am tracking you and hoping you will become an idol.

Thanks a lot mate

Believe me, most players THINK that they know ICM and pushing-calling ranges. Well, the easiest of all are pushing ranges but the other two you have to study like crazy to master them! It is super hard to know the best move for every single situation you may encounter in final tables and you know that a single small mistake may cost thousands of dolars. And if it is that hard to master those basic stuff, just imagine how much depth there is in deep stack postflop game.

So the game has so much things behind it that you can play and make profit as long as you do the appropriate homework and stand out of the competition.

Sayin that, i don't mean that i am on that level, but that's what i will try to do for the rest of 2015 and the whole next year. Hope some good things will happen

Cheers, and i believe that we will have many more things to talk about in the future as we progress in the difficult fields of our favourite game

Cheers dude, now just show me a good score, i am gonna start in 10 days, and will share daily reports, prolly in a thread with a challenge...

why did you stop posting Br $ amount?

Wish you the best mate

As i explained on one of the previous posts, i found a new stake while i was in the middle of the challenge, so from now on we will concentrate on the strategy part of the game

Hey grinders, a break-even day is always good, right?

Yesterday, i focused mostly on $2.5's where variance is smaller and its easier to regain confidence when you are on a bad run. My best result was a first place in a $2.5, where i also had a 4th and a 7th place.

Regarding, $3.5rb's i played 10 of them and i managed to get paid in 4. Unfortunately, all those runs stopped at the final two tables. I definitely need to see again those tours for some weird spots i had in late stages.

So, for today, i will start by running some calculations on yesterday's tours that i went deep and i will start my session around big $5.5. I will play today, tomorrow and Sunday for sure, maybe add Saturday to the schedule

Gl all!

Hey grinders, another break even day, hoorayyy!

Last session was really strange, cause it didn't start very good but at a certain point after 2 hours i went into fire mode variance-wise. I wasn't losing a single hand and there was a moment were i had 8 tables (6 $2.5's and 2 $3rb's), with top 10 stacks in all of them with 50ish around left.

And guess what, i did not bink any 1st or 2nd place. The best result was a 6th place in a $3rb where i lost a huge chipleader pot with around 15 left AK<KQ but i somehow managed to get back, did the same thing to the same guy with KQ vs AK and i finally lost at the ft w/ 66<AJ.

All my ft's on $2.5's were 3rd, 4th and 5th places so when the session finished i was left staring at my screen, tryin to figure out what went wrong.

I went to bed at around 1 a.m. but really couldn't sleep. Thoughts were messing my head and i also had two coffees, which isn't good i guess.

I was thinking how strange feelings are caused by this game?? From the moment you hate yourself, your life, and everything around you because you don't get the results you expect, there is a simple small twist in your head, that makes you don't even want to go to sleep, and see your last night's hands and reevaluate and start the grind again!

I keep havin this feelin every time that i am on a bad run so i spent last night thinking about what i'll do. Then, i wake up this morning with 5 hours of sleep and considered sleeping again before i start my session, but you know what... f**k it, i can't wait

A quick shower, a cup of coffee and back to the grind. Let's get out of this stupid hole! Gl all guys, and remember, you have to be there when it happens

Hey grinders, last session was kinda strange. First of all, i finished up for the day but i feel like it could have been a lot better.

I shipped the last $2.5 of the day but before that i had not one, not two but five 3rd place finishes!!! Also, add a 4th place to those and we are ready to win the bronze medal :P

The good thing is that i had no finishes from 9th up to 5th place and this is due to the aggressive game i played on the ft bubble.

Nothing worth of notice on mtt's, so let's hope for the best in the future.

Have a nice week guys

A winning day after a long period of sessions in the red! I shipped a $3rb and i had several ft's on $2.5s with a 2nd place being the best finish.

Now we will turn this thing around for sure Let's see some interesting hands from last session.

Not this river

I had a pretty big stack in the Hot $4.4 early on and then a guy came in our table who did this. Do you call here?

I didn't have any info on him until that point so decided to fold but after that i realized how crazy he was playing and as it happens in those situations, i got punished!

The only way to take value was to slow play in this hand! Give him the cheese

A nice spot for a reg to 3-barrell, so i couldn't fold.

Have a nice day guys!

Hey grinders, a break even day yesterday where i tried to accomplish the two 180-man sng wins (this was yesterday's challenge in PokerStars Christmas festival) but unfortunately couldn't do it.

I shipped a $2.5 relatively early on the session and had several ft's after that but most of them where 8th-9th places except a 3rd one.

Overall, i ran really bad on $3rb's and that's the reason i was break even since i had pretty good results on $2.5's.

Some funny hands: Hand #1 and Hand #2

So will do a session today, and for sure on Sunday. Saturday is still on debate, but we'll see Cheers

Hey grinders, i owe you two sessions from last Friday and Sunday and here they are. As you can see i can't say much about em.

So 2015 is near its end and in some way i am super excited. Regarding my schedule, i'll play today and tomorrow and then probably a couple more sessions next week and that's it. (no more Sunday sessions for this year )

I am preparing a nice recap post for 2015 which has been a real roller coaster for me (i'll upload it next week) and in the first days of 2016 i will analyze all my goals for 2016. I don't know if i'll be able to write after each session now that we have holidays but i'll try to keep you updated if something important happens.

Try to enjoy every moment with family and friends guys, a new year is coming with many big things waiting us! Wish you all the best!

GL! liked you on Facebook and going to like your page, as my page later today!

nice thread

will follow

"Believe me, most players THINK that they know ICM and pushing-calling ranges. Well, the easiest of all are pushing ranges but the other two you have to study like crazy to master them!"

100% agree with that comment.

Many people THINK they know it, but in fact they have roughly memorized a push chart (which is enough too not make to big mistakes there). But when it comes to calling range (adapting it to push rate your opponent, stack size, your own position, etc.) the percentage of players at micro/low that do this properly get's significantly lower. And ICM, especially folding AK,AQ,AJ type of hands in situations where folding is +EV (e.g. as second in stack vs push of chip lead...of course depending on other factors as well) is something barely any low/micro player is capable of.