So I tried to move up from micros a couple times and two times I built up a nice bankroll but still I ended up throwing it away due to tilting. I hope I will get it this time.

I started with $50, played some nl2, got coolered and it registered me to ggcare which gave me $39.23. I got up to $100 and took a shot at nl5 and now I'm at $202.75 with a little help from ggcare again which gave me $32.42. I will be taking shots at higher stakes when I have 20 buy-ins of the next stake. If I lose 2 buy-ins, I move down. I think that's a decent approach. I play on ggpoker's rush & cash tables.

I will of course be posting HHs.

Graph:

So, I'm after taking a shot at nl10 and it went quite well(I'm almost 3k hands in).

Played a short session, went up 3 buy ins, then I played later a next session where I lost it all and went back to being up 3 buy ins again.

I don't know why hand2note shows ggpoker as pokerstars. lol

Graph:



Hand 1:


I went for a squeeze, got called by an original raiser. I think we mostly c-bet here small, I don't think we want to check much with diamonds or clubs but I'm not sure about it. K is an easy bet on the turn and on the river I can't see checking back AQ, maybe AQhh but it would still probably bet or mix it.

Hand 2:


Standard pre flop action. Villain c-bets the flop and I 3-bet him, I think I could have bet bigger, villain calls. Villain checks on the turn, I check back. Villain checks on the river and there's nothing left to do but bluff.

Bankroll: $232.75

Good to see you back.

H1: A general rule for lowstakes in general is that population gets sticky in big pots. Important datapoint here is the fact that villain is UTG facing a 9x 3bet squeeze, so your river bluff has to work not only against a sticky villain, but one with a very strong range from preflop action. With that said, probably this hand is a bluff in theory, not sure how you construct your squeeze range vs UTG and 2 calls.

H2: Don´t like the flop raise at all. If I have a raising range here at all, I'd rather polarize it more and use gutshots with backdoor flushdraws (e.g. T8s), overs with bdsd/bdfd like JTs etc, than an OESD. AP agree with the river bluff.

H1: My squeeze range is usually hands like broadways, expect QJo, QJs, QTs, JTs. I know about population but when I tried this challenge a few times already, I always heard not to bluff population which is honestly bs in my opinion.

H2: Why would you do it with gutshots instead of OESD?

Little update.

It's going pretty well, I would say. For the last 2 days, I was going back and forth, win 3 buy ins, lose 3 buy ins etc. Today I broke through and had a good session without pretty much any loss.

Overall graph:


NL10 graph:


I don't know how I'm gonna post graphs in later posts. Maybe a graph at the end of a week and hands throughout the week. I don't know but I will figure it out.

Hand 1:

I c-bet on the flop, villain calls. I continue with a 3/4 bet on the turn, could be an overbet as well, I think.
Villain check raises me and I call. Villain donks and I go all-in.
I honestly couldn't really put villain on a specific hand but it seemed like he had a set or a weak flush, especially by his small bet on the river. It's a good play, I think.
I don't know about theory but looks fine to me.

Hand 2:

Apparently 65s doesn't RFI a lot from what I've seen after I played this hand but still, a hand was played. I raise 65s, a villain 3-bets from BB and I call.
Villain c-bets for like 33%, I of course call with BDSD and BDFD.
Villain bets 50% and I call on the turn, then villain checks on the river and I jam.
I don't think betting small here is good because we're getting called by QJs, KJs etc, Villain may have QQ but I'm not sure if they bet 50% on the turn.
Pre-flop wasn't very good but I like how I played it post-flop.
Someone could charm in and say something about the jam on the river but I think we jam mostly to not get called by Jx, QQ, KK? Not sure about QQ and KK.

Bankroll: $259.07

Another day, another update.

I was having rough sessions for the past 2 or 3. Runouts were terrible, couldn't get paid when I actually had a hand, people were calling my bluffs = classic downswing, I lost around 8 buy-ins. During this little downswing, my tilt was coming back but suprsingly enough I didn't tilt any buy-ins like I used to do so that's good.

Today someone changed something in ggpoker's rng and I had a monster session, I won around 7 buy ins.

Started studying hands in gto+. Before I would select hands to review later and I wouldn't do this.

Overall graph:


NL10 graph:



Hand of the session:


There's nothing to discuss here but I want to show with this hand what kind of a session I had. lol

Bankroll: $309.98

Well I started playing on GG not a long time ago too with a tiny deposit, grinding 2NL 5NL 10NL 25NL were super fast, cash drops (since i play 9max ante tables) leaderboard prizes, flip n go tourney prizes helped a lot too and from badbeat jackpot share i got like 200$, so overall it took me like 20 days to play 50NL with 20 BI bankroll and at one point i took shots at 100NL.

Usually for me 10-15 BI range is enough for the stake to play and if i lose i can move down, anyway lowest is 2NL so if things go wrong you can deposit again who cares haha so a little aggressive approach can speed up things and you can play 20BI+ bankroll after 25NL+ but i rarely move down since 25NL it feels impossible to lose, so easy, things get trickier from 50-100NL not because players are super strong but players are crazier, i feel like people play worst at 100NL but they are just too overly aggressive which creates a lot variance, for example when i took shots at 100NL i 3BET with weak hands to steal blinds/antes and got 4BET shoved with even weaker hands like 80% times, they seem to play 200BB+ all in pots with small pairs which i rarely faced at micros, which seems common in 100NL+ lol

Good luck mate, grind fast! its super easy!

But sometimes easy things are hard, lol. Those jackpots and ggcare tourneys on ggpoker are sick, honestly.

Been building tha bankroll up. Sessions usually go really good and I've been studying spots in GTO+ which I didn't really do before like I said in previous post. Redline is on the decline but honestly I don't worry about it. I'm not playing tight or face up to worry about it.

Bankroll: $394.25

Graph:


NL10:


Hand:


I open from the BTN, villain calls from BB. V checks, I bet 1/3 and he calls. I barrel it with a big sizing since we have a FD and a OESD, I got called. Now, on the river I still think it's fine to bluff since we can rep a straight with 8x. Of course, we done like having busted FDs but with an 8, I think it's fine. I don't know about a sizing, I think I could have bet more.

Forgot to update.

Had to take a little break and I will probably start playing again on the weekend or next week. I got a new job and had to focus on it. Stay tuned if anyone follows it. lol

I would post a graph but I'm too lazy for that. I will start posting when I start playing again.

Bankroll: $364.67