Hi guys, some of you might already know me from some time before. Today is my birthday, so I decided that this would be a quite simbolic day to start a poker blog again, a way to start to with the right feet, let's say.

I had a poker blog about me trying to get to a specific team, which I did it, however I had to break up with the team because I was broke and I needed to have a job to pay the bills and support myself and my family. So the contract I had with the team is gone and from now on I will spend some time playing with my own money as before.

My Plan:
1. Spend some time retraining myself on my old team strat (which I can apply well most of the time)
2. Deposit money on specific poker apps that are full of whales and have great rakeback deals
3. Play as much as possible on this apps in order move up to at least NL50 until July/24

It might seem a bit audacious for some of you, but for what I saw the skill level doesnt change much below NL100 on this apps, so I think it's a reasonably achievable goal.

But I will only have the bankroll to play there next month, so for now I'm just playing a bit on PS NL2 and making some bucks here and there in order to retrain myself on my old team strat (which I have to admit that works great).

my graph so far:


Wish me luck guys

Happy birthday, and it's great to see you again.

Wishing you the best of luck on your way up in stakes.
I hope to hear about your achievements and insights in the future.

Thank you man, a big part of the reason why I became a winning player is because of your daily insights about my hands, so I'm grateful for you along with other members from this forum who helped me a lot.

I honestly wish the best for you.

Hey man, definitely in! GLGL

I'm feeling that this blueprint strategy works a lot better on zoom tables rather than reg ones, it seems that they overfold much more on a lot of spots. You can take an unbalanced line (over exploitative) on many situations without other players realizing and adjusting it.

Another good thing about playing zoom is that you can always sit out the table to study a hand that you just played, when the hand is still fresh on your mind and you remember quite well what was your thinking process when playing, which is not always possible when you study the hand on the next day.

My graph and stats so far:





Thanks man, it's good to see you again

I was on a group call a few weeks ago, with my group and a coach we respect a lot, and someone brought this exact question, we do have so many exploitative opportunities in zoom/zone, why don´t we all play there? The problem is the rec, huge value in being able to identiy and target them as quickly as possible, they have a lot of unique exploitable leaks, and we can gain way more EV by exploiting them then exploiting regs.

Happy Birthday! and good luck with the poker and thread

even though I'm playing only zoom tables most of my win-rate still comes from pots played vs fishes/whales, I think the only difference is that you will play less pots vs fishes compared to someone sitted with then on a reg table, but I think on the other hand is a lot easier to anyone to adjust vs my unbalanced strat on reg tables.

so if you not pay close attention to every showdown on that reg table you will be running the risk of losing a lot of EV when someone decides to adjust and you don't take notice, something that can happen quite easy when you are multi-tabling (which we usually do when playing reg ones)

Thank you bro, all the luck for you also.

Hi! I just replied to your comment on my post and I wanted to also chime in with my follow of your challenge! Looks like we've got similar mindset and goals here so it'll be fun to follow each other! Best of luck!

Thank you man, much appreciated

Good luck 👍

What team were you part of?

Aint no blue print to poker. Every hand different. Assumptions don't work in poker or in life, just gets you into mistakes bruh.

thank you, but I prefer not to mention

"blueprint" is the name they chose for their strat bro, what the hell are you talking about?

Yesterday I was reflecting about my goal and I came to the conclusion that it will be a lot easier to reach NL50 being staked rather than just grinding to get there with my own bankroll. Not to mention that I still have bills to pay and this bankroll money can be used to that while I'm playing and trying to move up.

my graph:


After I reach 30k hands I think I'll start getting in touch with some staking teams and see what happens.

Anyways, now my main goal is been to improve my volume while not letting my game quality get down, I usually play 2 zoom tables in my A-game with no problems whatsoever, applying the strat pretty well most of the time, so I think now it's time to add more tables and upgrade my game.

I am looking to be able to play 4 zoom tables as much well as playing only one, that way I will be doing something around 2k hands daily, which is a great volume if you can do it playing a high-level game. I know that it will take some time to improve that much, so if I find a way to get there before the end of january it would be awesome.

Did you burn all bridges with your former team?

no, but maybe on the future we can meet and see what happens. I don't have any problems with them at all, only gratitude for all that I learned during this time

I think I just have enough volume to start to getting in touch with some teams, if they ask me to play a bit more there's no problem also

NL2 zoom is really full of passive players, being fish or reg, it's not so easy to find someone who have 40+VPIP there nowadays compared to some time ago.
What kills me on NL2 is the absurd rake we pay there while the rakeback system is pure crap, everyday you get a ticket to play a mtt or spin n go that I don't care at all, it might be cool for someone who plays many formats of poker but for me is just annoying. It would be a lot better to get money instead of that, like they do on the apps.

anyways, my graph so far:

Wassup guys, I have some good news to tell you. I recently joined a braziliam team, they are not that much big and and they are relatively new but I am liking everything so far.

On the positive side, they offer more resources than my older team. Like a Gtowizard paid membership and Run It Once also, which is a big help for sure.
They also have a lot of HS and MS players as coaching instructors willing to help.
Talking about their strat, it is also a simplification based on MDA studies and is quite similar to what I was already doing, with some minor differences about the sizes mostly.

The major difference I saw is on the preflop ranges, bc they cover much more situations preflop like spots where 1 player open-raised, another 3betted and we have to act after that, for ex.

And they don't give you a document explaining how you will play each line, instead of they give you videos explaining on how to play the line and you have to write your own document explaning how to play the line with your own words, which I think is a great approach to help learn and fixate a strat more quickly.

So now my main goal is been to watch all the instructional videos they have, understand and write on paper everything resumed and start grinding ASAP.

Hey man, that's really great news. Now go crush'em

Thanks man, I will do my best to make things work this time

Today I studied the spot "3BP OOP as PFR" and I made a resume about it on Evernote, like I did on some other spots. About their post-flop strat, it looks like a simplified version of my old team strat but I think that the strat they use at the upper stakes (like NL25+) might cover more topics than this one.

I will do my best to study and resume their whole strat before December begins because I want to put some decent volume before the New year and maybe start January playing on a higher stake than the one that I'm playing now.

I'm having good results so far since I joined the team, I'm 8 buy ins up and I'm not having much problem applying the team strat in most of the situations. The part of the strat that I believe I'm not playing well are the preflop-caller spots, specially 3BPs IP an OOP as PFC, although I'm not making blunders I think I'm not defending well enough to play at NL50+ without been exploited by some regs here and there.

The good news is that now I have access to gtowizard elite membership (which is saving me to pay 149$ monthly) so I can practice well all this spots that I feel that I'm somehow overfolding or overcalling. I think if I dedicate this month on covering this holes on my game I will feel a lot more confident to put some serious volume when january starts, and maybe after that if nothing goes wrong I can move up to NL25, which I think it's not impossivle to get there before february ends, so let's see what happens.

Sometimes you will do your best, and you will do everything in your control to make things work and even that way life can throw you a curve a ball and ruin all of your plans in a glimpse of time.

That was what happened with me in this last few days, I recently created a brand new account on bodog because my new team asked me to create a new account using their refferall link, but I already had an account on bodog, so bodog discovered that I had a second account (as one of the team managers asked me to create it) and now they banned my account and I can't play for my team again, since they only play on bodog.

They didn't fired me so far, but I think that's will going to happen really soon since I can't fix that. So maybe it's time to close this thread and walk away with my own feet again, as the thread name suggests.

Anyways, I'm 100% greateful for all the help and good advices that I got from a lot of guys from this forum, specially @FazendeiroBH, @slyless, @Kiljusieppo and @Claret~N~Blue.

I honestly wish all the luck for anyone who followed this thread, all the luck for each one of you.

Good bye

I'm sorry to hear about the challenges you're facing with your poker account and team situation. Life can indeed be unpredictable, and setbacks like these can be disheartening.

If you decide to close this thread, I wish you the best in whatever path you choose to take. If you ever decide to return or share your poker journey again, we will be here.

Take care.

Hi guys, it's me again. After some time off trying to create another account, I eventually managed to create another one without problems after a lot of try and error, so now I'm active on my team again, and I'll do my best to make things work this time.

Although I have been inactive on my team for 2-3 months, I devoted myself to playing and applying the team strategy playing on GGpoker with my own money, that bankroll I built from scratch playing as many freerools as I could, after raising $15 playing freerolls I grinded on NL2 until reaching $60.

I know the amount in cash is quite insignificant, but I think it was good to preserve my mental health while practicing the team strategy for when I was going back. To be honest with you guys, the blocking of my account was really bad for me, and I was in a very self-destructive moment after that happened, so I believe that occupying my mind with something useful as building a new bankroll was definitely positive.

Well, now I have a study plan to remove the main leaks in my game that I currently have, which I believe are preventing me from moving up, and I will share this study plan with you guys in my next post for those who might be interested.

Anyway, wish me luck guys.