So once upon a time I took a few shots at micro stakes. Mine was a story of hot streaks with strokes of brilliant play(see:competent(for micros)) and soul crushing tilt and degeneracy issues. I tried on a few occasions to take the game seriously. I studied, I reviewed, I tried to stick with it. I would make $50 or minimum deposits, play 2NL, 5NL, brush up against 10NL if it was a good run, sometimes spin it up to an amount worth withdrawing, more often go broke. At the height of my “trying to take this seriously”ness a friend staked me out of $2 and into $10 with a proper bankroll and I haven’t really recovered from the soul crush that was bombing out of that situation super hard. Part of me is out to redeem that bomb of a venture financially and mentally. Most of me just likes this game and likes the grind and wants to get back to it.

So here’s my shot at seeing where I actually stand. I have some money left over on lock(US player ), I’m going to set some rules, make progress as public as possible, update weekly at a bare minimum, and do my best to grind up through the micros. If I’m lucky enough to make it to $25NL we’ll start talking about withdrawal schedules while bankroll building, as I’d eventually like to make this at least supplemental income, but until that point I’m treating this as “not money”. Poker bankroll is chips, it’s points, it’s a game. Just gonna prove my mettle and improve my skills and fill some massive holes at the micros for now and post my progress here so hopefully i’m shamed into avoiding posting lol-tilt-spew sessions that i know better than to play through in the first place.

catastrophic technology failure a while ago means a completely fresh start database wise, which is probably a good thing I guess - easier to see where to start knocking rust off.

Posting each week sunday at least. Would post each session but I’m frequently playing about an hour or less of 4 tables 6max, and these can be really uneventful sessions, so i’ll try to keep it interesting. I’ll try to include graphs of the session/day and overall and see if i can bring myself to post stats for review as well.



Rules/Goals
I’m playing either 4 or 6 tables for now. 4 to “warm up” and/or focus on certain concepts/leak fixes, 6 for my “feeling good” grind. While I used to 10-12 table marginally successfully, more than 6 i feel a drop off for now. If i start routinely crushing 6 table sessions we’ll talk about upping it to 8 or 9, but 6 is a hard cap for now. Realistically I should spend a lot of time at 2-4 tables analyzing my play, but if i let myself play fewer than 4 tables I tend to let myself play lazy. that’s gotta be cut out, too. poker time is game time now, if i’m not up for it, i’m not up for it. I’m not gonna “just see some flops before bed” and i’m not gonna load up silly numbers of tables before i can post a decent win rate over a solid sample(i’d settle for 5bb/100 over 50k hands at microstakes as a sign that i’m not completely **** tarded anymore).

Bankroll Management has never been my strong point. I know every rule there is to know but to know but up to now I haven’t had a problem saying “**** it” and chasing losses or sitting HU with my roll or something else, ‘cuz in the back of my head i knew i could always redeposit eventually. This stops now. I’ve settled on(what i believe to be a pretty conservative plan of) 25BIs at the new stake to take shots, 50BIs to move up. Taking shots means adding between one and 50% of my tables one stake up. Starting at $30 means I’m going to be rocking the min-stake games at Lock for a hot minute. I’ll consider it penance for previous transgressions against the gods of BRM.

Volume is going to be a bitch. I work 40+ hrs a week with a 30 minute commute on good days and I’m taking classes. Chemistry is kicking my ass for no less than another 9 hours a week if i want to pass(3 hrs lecture, 3 hr lab, 3 hrs homework/week if i’m responsible about it). Neither of these is going to yield to the goals i have here. The fiance works nights, so 3 nights a week whenever her shifts are scheduled is going to be my most productive time. I think I can put an hour in every day otherwise, so let’s start with that as a base line. 4 tables at an hour a day will be my weekly hand number goal(6max tables... 90hands/hr? x 4 = 360 x 7 = 2520 hands weekly? lame goal... maybe it’ll let me focus on quality over quantity... maybe i’ll double it in week 2) . Quick review sessions after each session(tag interesting hands, player lines etc) and maybe one study session a week will be my starting study time other than ongoing play by play analysis type introspection. Furthermore, I’m experimenting with “letting” myself experiment with playing super short sessions for now - like 15 minutes, 20 minutes. I get frustrated easily and while I always think i’m “under control”, i think it’s a distinct possibility that trying to shrug it off and grinding on skews my game. maybe i’m just a super low endurance player for now - i can work on building it up, but if it’s not there for now, i’m not going to try to force it any more. forcing the grind means treating poker like work instead of a game, treating poker like work means attaching value to monetary wins, attaching value to monetary wins means being disappointed in monetary losses, being disappointed in monetary losses means crazy tilt-spew sessions trying to get “un-stuck”. so as soon as i feel like crap about playing any more, i’m just gonna force a 10 minute break if not just end the session and load up some tf2 or something.

one last rule for now, checking progress(i.e. opening up pt3 mid session for almost any reason) automatically ends the session. even if i just sat down. it’s a 10 minute time out at least. i think it makes me results oriented. i’ve had sessions where i mindlessly check my ev graph like 8 times in 10 minutes, and while i don’t think it’s directly causing anything negative, it can’t really possibly be doing anything positive. so i’m just going to focus on taking a deep breath and re-aligning my a-game whenever i get that urge. i’ll tag hands during play, and check up on everything AFTER the session.

Anyway. That got a bit out of hand, but I think that’s it for now. And so away we go. Session 1 tonight.

inauspicious beginnings


so i have a lot of rust to knock off. first "real" session in a long time, felt card dead in the beginning and kept thinking to myself "why do i keep running into the top of everybody's range?" then i realized it's my first time back in a while and my perception was probably a bit skewed. stacked off in a completely awful spot and took a few minutes to think about what i was doing wrong. first part of the session turns out i was running like 27/15. went into the second half of the session with the mantra of "nit up, look for better spots and adjust range expectations". seems effective for now, second half took a much better upward tack.

i need to start studying again, but with school and work i barely have time to play as it is. for now i'm alright bumping along break even or slightly above and honestly i think i can do better than that at 4NL and probably 10NL too; we'll see how it goes, i'll increase study regimen later, for now i'm okay mostly playing and reviewing hands and keeping up with posting here.

i need to get better at heads up/super short handed play. there seems to be a lot of table turnover on lock, i found my tables going from 6 to 3 to h/u and closing the table to join another that had formed for some reason. i'm playing few enough tables to stay well on top of it, i just don't know if i'm adapting correctly to 2/3 handed play.

anyway, here's the first 650 hands in 1.43 hrs at 4.69 mt.




notable hands:

terribad stackoff:

Revolution Gaming Network - $0.04 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

SB: $5.04
Hero (BB): $3.79
UTG: $0.71
MP: $3.86
CO: $8.91
BTN: $4.17

SB posts SB $0.02, Hero posts BB $0.04

Pre Flop: ($0.06) Hero has A 4

fold, MP raises to $0.12, fold, fold, fold, Hero calls $0.08

Flop: ($0.26, 2 players) 7 4 4
Hero checks, MP bets $0.05, Hero raises to $0.23, MP calls $0.18

Turn: ($0.72, 2 players) Q
Hero bets $0.48, MP calls $0.48

River: ($1.68, 2 players) J
Hero bets $1.12, MP raises to $3.03 and is all-in, Hero calls $1.84 and is all-in



i don't think i defend the bb here to the mp raise. as played my main issue is the flush coming in, that's gotta be a huge part of his range with the line that he takes. what's in his range that i beat? mp raises to 0.12 with... ak/aq/AJs maybe? none of those are jamming river without the flush. air? i don't recall specific reads on this villain, but i also don't think counting on air being a significant part of villain's range is going to see me out of micros any time soon. this, yea, i hate this hand. i think this line is always a flush and i was basically clicking buttons on every street. this is where i took a break and fixed my play a bit. i have to fix my blind ranges overall. is there a COTD on this or something?

Revolution Gaming Network - $0.04 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

BB: $4.06
Hero (UTG): $7.07
MP: $4.37
CO: $3.85
BTN: $3.70
SB: $4.01

SB posts SB $0.02, BB posts BB $0.04

Pre Flop: ($0.06) Hero has A Q

Hero raises to $0.16, fold, fold, fold, SB calls $0.14, fold

Flop: ($0.36, 2 players) K J T
SB checks, Hero bets $0.18, SB calls $0.18

Turn: ($0.72, 2 players) 7
SB checks, Hero bets $0.44, SB raises to $1.32, Hero raises to $3.56, fold

Hero wins $3.14


i think i left value on the table here. in position i think i can raise smaller or even call the turn here with the nuts - villain tank folded, i think i can milk another bet on the river if i bet/call the turn. worse case he hits his flush?




Revolution Gaming Network - $0.04 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

Hero (CO): $3.22
BTN: $2.86
SB: $5.04
BB: $6.93
UTG: $4.00

SB posts SB $0.02, BB posts BB $0.04

Pre Flop: ($0.06) Hero has J A

fold, Hero raises to $0.16, fold, SB calls $0.14, fold

Flop: ($0.36, 2 players) 8 J 2
SB checks, Hero bets $0.24, SB raises to $0.66, Hero calls $0.42

Turn: ($1.68, 2 players) K
SB bets $0.84, fold

SB wins $1.57

not having a plan is something i need to fix(also auto-top up). what do i do with this flop? villain is 27/21/51 over 153 hands(he was at like all my tables and 3bet the **** out of me preflop on 3 tables at once right before this). i don't know if i'm broadcasting weak/tight or if he's just betting into me for giggles or if it's a coincidence but i don't know what to do with this hand. if it's not this villain i'm not okay re-raising flop i don't think. beluga theorem and all that, and i think that's what gives me pause here. but i can't hit the call button without a plan - there are too many cards that break me in this hand, trying to dodge q/k/any heart to continue isn't great.


anyway. that's it for tonight. more later. hopefully continuing that upward trend. lots of rust, but it's coming back slowly.

didn't put in the volume i wanted today, and was all over the place to boot. every time i sit down i basically have to remind myself to "nit up" a bit.

month to date i'm down 2 bi's, which isn't the end of the world i guess. i feel like i need to play more hands to get back into the swing of things. i want to put in more volume to continue to calibrate my game. i think i can make the correct adjustments; things just feel different than when i last played. i think i need a much stronger blue line(money won @showdown). **** it my redline needs work too. i'm just ****ting money all over the place is what it comes down to.

"nit up". i think i'm trying to be over aggressive. i'm "seeing" angles that aren't there. when that happened before i would just load up more tables and think less and act quicker and that would basically auto-correct my preflop range. i think i'm better than the majority of the field post flop, but not so good that it makes up for 25/18 vp/pfr. i think a vast majority of my losses are going to be solved by bringing that closer to 20/18.

anyway. i swear to god i tagged a few hands for review, but pt3 isn't showing them. maybe i'll dig them up later, maybe i'll just f it and play on.

today:



up and down all over the place.

session saver:

Revolution Gaming Network - $0.04 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

SB: $7.01
BB: $5.49
UTG: $5.26
MP: $5.15
Hero (CO): $4.90
BTN: $6.37

SB posts SB $0.02, BB posts BB $0.04, Hero posts DB $0.06

Pre Flop: ($0.12) Hero has 9 T

fold, fold, Hero checks, BTN calls $0.04, SB calls $0.02, BB checks

Flop: ($0.18, 4 players) A 7 6
SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets $0.12, BTN calls $0.12, SB calls $0.12, fold

Turn: ($0.54, 3 players) 8
SB checks, Hero bets $0.36, BTN calls $0.36, SB raises to $1.44, Hero raises to $4.72 and is all-in, fold, SB calls $3.28

River: ($10.34, 2 players) K

SB shows 9 A (One Pair, Aces) (Pre 69%, Flop 79%, Turn 3%)
Hero shows 9 T (Straight, Ten High) (Pre 31%, Flop 21%, Turn 97%)
Hero wins $9.66

mostly i feel like this used to be way easier to do - maybe i've only played 1k hands and am not seeing the forest for the trees, but i feel like this is my bread and butter money maker situation. not hitting gutshots, but value towning people for stacks. i'm gonna assume it's still just rust.

Revolution Gaming Network - $0.04 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

CO: $2.32
BTN: $1.08
Hero (SB): $3.23
BB: $4.18
UTG: $4.72
MP: $3.90

Hero posts SB $0.02, BB posts BB $0.04

Pre Flop: ($0.06) Hero has K K

fold, fold, CO raises to $0.08, BTN calls $0.08, Hero raises to $0.27, fold, CO calls $0.19, fold

Flop: ($0.66, 2 players) K 5 4
Hero bets $0.33, CO calls $0.33

Turn: ($1.32, 2 players) 7
Hero checks, CO bets $0.48, Hero raises to $2.00, CO calls $1.24 and is all-in

River: ($4.76, 2 players) 8

CO shows J K (One Pair, Kings) (Pre 9%, Flop 0%, Turn 0%)
Hero shows K K (Three of a Kind, Kings) (Pre 91%, Flop 100%, Turn 100%)
Hero wins $4.45


so it's obviously still possible. maybe i'm just trying to force it in poor situations(a hand or two of that to come). being more conservative in choosing my spots i think is going to help fix red and blue lines.


speaking of forcing it at the wrong time:
Revolution Gaming Network - $0.04 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

BB: $6.46
UTG: $5.98
MP: $3.94
CO: $6.50
Hero (BTN): $3.90
SB: $10.76

SB posts SB $0.02, BB posts BB $0.04

Pre Flop: ($0.06) Hero has 9 K

fold, fold, CO raises to $0.12, Hero calls $0.12, fold, fold

Flop: ($0.30, 2 players) Q 3 T
CO bets $0.20, Hero calls $0.20

Turn: ($0.70, 2 players) J
CO bets $0.70, Hero raises to $1.80, CO raises to $6.18 and is all-in, Hero calls $1.78 and is all-in

River: ($7.86, 2 players) 8

CO shows K A (Straight, Ace High) (Pre 73%, Flop 84%, Turn 97%)
Hero shows 9 K (Straight, King High) (Pre 27%, Flop 16%, Turn 3%)
CO wins $7.34

i still do this. i haven't found the balance yet. there are hands that when i look at them later i think "why the **** can't you find the raise button with a 10 minute clock, two hands and a flashlight", and there are still hands where i look at them later, re-watch villain's line, understand it perfectly then and now, see myself call the shove anyway and




so those are the adjustments for next session. still need to nit up a bit and find better spots. slow down; take time to evaluate each spot and each villain. have a plan. have tighter starting requirements and "look people up" less unless i'm dominating the hand and their range.

fiance works and is away. i have a metric f ton of schoolwork to do, but here's to turning this around in my first full week. of play. volume goals here we come.

Looking at first hand, you are trying to imply difficult and advanced thinking processes like blind defense into 2 cents limit, then try to justify your poor plays by it.

There is no need to make things difficult when half of the players pool at that limit will make decisions that cannot be explained in any +EV way.

Play tight. Know your range.
Be aware of positional play advantages
DONT BLUFF
Dont SLOWPLAY. you hit a set, you bet.

Players beat the lowest limits not by stealing and re-stealing or double barreling. They beat the limits by playing their strong, made hands and leaving all the rest for the others.

Don't focus on volume or even graphs. It just makes you more results oriented. It isn't the money that you should be focused on. Making correct plays is all that matters. And it affects you so much less having a downswing or few bad beats when you know that all you could do - you did well. And when this is in our heads, the money come by itself. I was told the same... but you know.. the earlier you understand it, the better it is.

thanks! yea, this is basically the mindset that i'm trying to re-capture. i don't really slowplay; bluffing is something i need to reign in for sure.

that first hand, my thoughts after say "i was basically clicking buttons on every street." and when i say "i don't think i defend my bb here" i'm basically saying yea, this is the kind of garbage i need to identify and cut out of my game at these stakes.

i agree with graphs for the most part - a mentioned goal is ignoring them during play which i'm doing well with, it doesn't really even occur to me as an option to check them any more. but for me being volume oriented strikes me as the opposite of being results oriented. focusing on playing my a game for extended periods of time is a stated goal - for now it's just about calibrating that "a" game. in general i think i AM going to wind up leaning a lot more on "blue line" value towning people with made hands, and when i talk about fixing red line i'm talking about bringing it closer to break even rather than a steady leak as it appears to be now(getting into ****ty situations and bailing out of hands to prevent further loss). so basically that just restates what you said and i agree with - don't get myself in tough spots by bluffing, tighten up and know my ranges preflop, play strong hands in good position and just value town the **** out of everyone every chance i get.

my mental game feels stronger than it used to be - maybe it's just because i'm not as aware of all the things that should be upsetting me, but i've definitely already had KK<68s and a few other hands that i feel i've been able to shrug off as "played correctly, nothing to learn here; next hand"

thanks for the tips, i'm definitely working towards them.

so when did i last post? 4/21? i definitely feel like something clicked in the past few days. i haven't posted 'cuz i've been crazy busy with school, and have only put in a few disparate random "sessions" before today, but i feel like i've at least caught the slide and am in a position to start turning it around. i'm honestly a bit relieved that these numbers are finally green. i'm not sure there was a specific adjustment that i made so much as just an overall effort to stop putting myself in "marginal"(see:godawful) situations and find better spots with more equity and fatter value. if there was one specific change it was to just plain stop stacking off in ******ed places. so here's since my last update:



i have to explain why there are 10NL stats in there, why i'm bending my BR rule, 'cuz i did. it's because i'm a US player on Lock Poker. at 8pm on saturday evening, the first time all week i'm done with work and school and looking forward to finally getting to put a good session in, there was exactly one 6max 4NL table running. and it was full. i waitlisted that, started another and sat around for a bit. eventually sat at that one 4NL table for about five minutes before i decided i had to sit another table even if it was a stake up. so i wound up sitting one 6 man table of 4NL, one 4NL table with 2-3 people on it, and two full 6max 10NL tables. not the smartest thing i've ever done, but i was feeling good, and feeling like i was playing well, so i took the chance. it didn't bite me this time; i'm not going to make a habit of it.

the numbers are finally green; like i said i feel like i've "caught the slide" - it's not the most encouraging graph, but breakeven is way better than a steady -15bb/100. i'm going to continue to make minor tweaks to my game to pull that line solidly into the positive.

it took getting smacked around quite a bit(and will continue to), but it's coming back to me a bit i think. lessons relearned: high equity, fat value situations. not stacking off in marginal spots. got it.

(in the interest of full honesty, i'm running literally 5 bi's over EV right now - so this whole "i'm not as terrible as i thought" thing is probably at least partially me continuing to be a fish on a heater - but i'm not letting **** like that cloud my mental game)




i honestly didn't tag a single hand to review. :/ whoops. i'm still adjusting to the new rules i've imposed on myself, so i don't have questions about my lines yet, because i'm not sure what / think is right, so i'm not sure what to ask about. i'll be sure to fix that in the coming days as well. heading into another week with a slightly less insane school workload i'll be paying closer attention to the volume goals and making an attempt to play my new found A game.

quick 30 minute session before buckling down on some schoolwork. wasn't even going to post except two interesting things happened. first off, the sun run continues. first hand of the session, literally readless, hud hasn't even loaded yet:

Revolution Gaming Network - $0.04 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

UTG: $1.11
MP: $4.04
Hero (CO): $4.00
BTN: $4.61
SB: $4.28
BB: $6.51

SB posts SB $0.02, BB posts BB $0.04, Hero posts DB $0.04

Pre Flop: ($0.10) Hero has A Q

fold, MP raises to $0.16, Hero calls $0.12, fold, SB raises to $0.51, fold, fold, Hero calls $0.35

Flop: ($1.22, 2 players) Q 6 2
SB bets $0.82, Hero raises to $3.49 and is all-in, SB calls $2.67

Turn: ($8.20, 2 players) Q

River: ($8.20, 2 players) 7



i'm pretty sure i'm on solid ground here from the CO - i'm expecting a fold a lot of the time. the 3b is a bit worrisome... i block tp/fd hands... 3b/donk is a very strong line at 4NL i feel. people tend to just give up when they whiff, c-betting is rarer than it should be overall. i guess his hand is very polarized. i don't think he 3bs KQ, QJ - so on this flop he's either whiffed, got a set somewhere, KK/AA or we're chopping. even still, i think i ran into the top of his range and i'm going to shove into a lot of air here, and honestly, it's 4NL, i'm not surprised to see him turn over KQ, JJ-77, any two clubs. i think i have to shove this flop, despite beluga saving me so much money.


the second interesting thing i didn't realize until it was time to close 'em down and get to homeworkin':



*boop* poked my head just above the red numbers. not bad.

i'm starting may almost exactly where i started april, just with a better game plan. so here's to nailing volume goals and continuing to ignore the 4.5BI ev debt i owe and just riding out this sun run into 10NL(250 BR) by the end of next month.

current BR: $48 ($30 start and crap ton of points i didn't know i had redeemed for cash)


ps final observation, i think a lot of the mistakes i was making come from playing a few live sessions. the fish are completely different online and playing tables like i play live is, well, catastrophically bad. getting the feel for things again though. feels good man.

last post was the 30th? yea, school/work/family emergency has been keeping me off the tables basically all week. less than 1k hands last week. ugh. and finals this week. basically going to be doing 72 straight hours of school work - might be able to squeeze a session in on a break or something. looks like actually hitting volume goals will have to wait for summer. anyway - here's this week.




still adding the occasional 10NL table when there just aren't 4NL games on lock. i only run them if i have fewer than 4 $4NL tables available. i always waitlist every 4NL table and sit an empty 4NL tables, and replace the $10NL tables as soon as 4NL seats become available.

it's been several long days since i tagged these hands for review, but i'm sure they were tagged for a reason so i'll run through my thoughts on them real quick(there were others, but i'm clueless as to why i tagged them - gotta take better notes day of. ah well).


Revolution Gaming Network - $0.04 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

BTN: $3.86
SB: $6.14
BB: $4.81
Hero (UTG): $4.00

SB posts SB $0.02, BB posts BB $0.04, Hero posts DB $0.04

Pre Flop: ($0.10) Hero has A J

Hero raises to $0.16, fold, fold, BB calls $0.12

Flop: ($0.34, 2 players) 7 7 J
BB checks, Hero bets $0.22, BB raises to $0.64, Hero calls $0.42

Turn: ($1.62, 2 players) 8
BB bets $4.01 and is all-in,

four handed i'm utg with AJs.... i think this is a case of my continuing without a plan for taking the hand down. i think i can continue and flat the flop raise here, here but the turn card isn't the best. okay, i have villain at 40/22 over 700some hands. i think that puts a lot of 7s and FDs in his range from the BB.
i think i'm okay with this as played actually - i'm not sure if i had a question here. i think i'm strong enough to continue here, but not to stack off on that turn. it just hurts - i guess there will always be these types of spots, but when i first started back there were way too many and i still get pangs of guilt for beating my redline up like this(calling flop raise and folding turn ship).




It's been taking me a while to get a feel for how TPTK type hands play at 4NL - it depends on the opponent of course, but I think i'm finally starting to get some value out of these where before i was shipping them into sets/2pr type hands too much which made me react by getting bet off of them constantly. i hate to keep using terms like "feel", but that's about as best i can do - maybe a better way to put it would be i'm more confident about my opponents ranges given the lines they're taking in these games.


Revolution Gaming Network - $0.04 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

UTG: $3.51
MP: $4.81
CO: $7.84
BTN: $3.96
SB: $3.90
Hero (BB): $7.87

SB posts SB $0.02, Hero posts BB $0.04

Pre Flop: ($0.06) Hero has A Q

UTG raises to $0.14, fold, fold, BTN calls $0.14, fold, Hero calls $0.10

Flop: ($0.44, 3 players) Q T 4
Hero checks, UTG bets $0.44, fold, Hero raises to $1.00, UTG calls $0.56

Turn: ($2.44, 2 players) J
Hero checks, UTG checks

River: ($2.44, 2 players) 4
Hero checks, UTG bets $2.37 and is all-in, Hero calls $2.37




anyway, here's to one more week of garbage volume before actually hopefully hitting my hand goal for a few weeks in a row.

ytd so far:

i need to start playing late night sessions more often. ran 6 tables my HUD said every table had someone at around 100 hands, >40 vp$ip.

sometimes i think the only reason i'm not broke is hitting the occasional free money opponent like this. they do exist.




don't know how clear that is, but that's what open shoving every hand looks like. **** $49 onto a $4NL table over 29 hands. i lucked out and took almost $10 off him in that time with AA and AK.

hating lock at the moment. started session there were two active 4NL tables. waitlisted both, sat an empty 4NL table and sat 6th of 6 at a 10NL table. the 4NL table i started filled up, so i started another. that one filled up. started a third. that one filled up. got seated on one of my waitlists, replaced my 10NL table to run four 4NL tables. this all took like 10 minutes total. my question is, is this time slot just coincidentally when all the micro players signed on?(like 1am est??) or are there literally like 16 players staring at 2 full 4NL tables waiting for a spot to open up? there were like 2 ppl on waitlists, but i fill 3 new tables in 10 minutes? lock should be paying me extra RB or some ****. jesus.

anyway, **** $10nl, making **** like this happen.



moral is, despite YTD green line, i might finally be doing okay at 4NL. lolsample size, but significantly +.

mini beach vacation this weekend. bringing some poker literature to re-read, hopefully coming back actually able to break out of the micros. -1.5 BI is not where i expected to be after 6k hands(-0.3 bb/100). obviously have some work to do, so studying again and refocusing my mindset. finals next week, then hopefully crushing 4NL for real.

hands later i guess, too frustrated to study atm.