19/12/21
I'm posting this early, as I don't expect to be playing any more cards today. I started streaming, but things weren't aligning. I was quite tired (possibly from gym, maybe a bit of dehydration) in the session, and ended up just playing Mario Kart instead. Only logged 150 hands, so to have anything to show you guys is a bit of a surprise. I got my first gift since forever today:

And I also caught a guy bluffing with A high:

Apart from that, not much else going on. I'm just vibing for the rest of the day, I'll be more awake and suited to playing tomorrow - if it doesn't take me the whole day to pick up Christmas presents.

19/12/21 (2)
So I've just noticed that this has happened. If you've clicked this link to get here, it's cool of you to drop by! Didn't expect to be the poster boy of PBG, but I'll take it as a seal of approval.


Over the Christmas period, I'm mostly going to be following the same process on this blog. I'll have a lot of time to play outside of University study, so will be streaming my sessions - and cutting out the highlights to post here in text format. I don't think I'm allowed to self-promote, so I won't drop my Twitch stream here, but a little bit of digging and you'd find it. If mods can clarify what I can/can't do with that, I might start including some of that as well - hearing my live thought process might allow it to be unpicked better.

I hope you enjoy reading what I've got so far, and I hope that this helps anyone in a similar position to myself.

Have you worked on these?
Especially the wider BTN & CO ranges are so important!
My RFI from CO is 34% and on the BTN it's 48%, both are too low for micro stakes, but I don't want to teach myself bad habits.

I'd focus on that first, what I do is put a range on a 2nd screen or even on a paper and look at it every time before I fold until it becomes natural.
After that you obviously still want to learn to adjust that standard range to the situation, which is something I myself need to do much more.

Your cbet frequencies, especially IP are way too low.
That's probably the next thing I would try to work on, after widening your BTN & CO ranges.

After that you should take a look at your SB RFI, it should be about similar to the BTN at the micro stakes, since people over-fold their BB.
My SB RFI is 43%, again too low because I don't want to teach myself bad habits. You can probably get away with 50-60%

I'd be interested in seeing some more stats.
Here are the ones I have on my bar in PT4:

21/12/21
Thankfully, we're making progress on most of our numbers. Operation "Stop Being A Nit" is in full force, and we've been having a great time mostly. I'm starting to win again, and whilst my redline is still quite concerning, the blue line is starting to go up. Looking at the last 1200 hands, there is a clear trend upwards again.


The last 50 or so I played this morning, and wasn't a fun time. Didn't get quality sleep last night, I'm feeling proper tired typing this now - and can't find the motivation to do anything. Have a look at the two punts in succession.
The theme today seems to have been being over-aggressive, not checking back when I should be, or going for bluffs in the wrong locations. My mate was right when he advised it's tough to find the right spots. I guess I wait until I feel more alert and capable, and get back to the grind. Hoping to have the energy to stream it too.

I like how you played the 1st hand, 2nd hand is probably spew though

Also, in the 2nd hand UTG cheated

23/12/21
I just wrote a really long post about my plans for this year, and 2p2 made me log in again so I could post it. It got deleted as Chrome needed me to resubmit the form. Not happy about that. Here's a synopsis as I'm not spending another hour typing it out.

• Gym: Find out a routine to cut my weight down from 74-76kg to 67-69kg again. Achieving this through Calorie Deficit and Increased Exercise. Intermittent fasting not going to be attempted, as I'm worried it's going to affect my cognitive ability.
• University: Using my laptop, I can now study anywhere - which will help refresh my surroundings when doing work. I have two really important exams coming up in late January, so I'll be studying from NYD.
• Poker: The biggest goal is to play less. I don't want to follow in the footsteps of some people I know, who've sacrificed other things to gain their poker success - but I do want to improve significantly. The goal for this year is to be comfortable at 20/25NL, but I have concerns about this also being a monetary goal. Lots of work required, but even more important is a healthy balance.

Very annoyed that my thought process is gone, but I'm a lot clearer on the plan now. All of these things will come together over the year, as I get healthier, I become more able to stay focused and disciplined. As I become more disciplined, I complete more work and feel more accomplished and happy. As I become happier and more accomplished, my time for poker opens up. It all works as one big machine.

2022 is the year.

2p2 did it again, making me log in again for like the fifth time. Please fix this. Glad to not have lost this.

24/12/21
Happy Christmas Eve everyone! Today, I want to expand on my 2022 objectives and give some actually measurable criteria that we can look to compare against in the future. I'm relaxing this week, but making sure I'm prepared to hit the ground running when I move back into my house in a week. I have a better understanding today of what I want to achieve, and how to accomplish it - as well as some bigger ideas centred around my twitch channel and a few other endeavours.

Gym/Fitness
The goal from the outset is simply to return to my normal weight range. Having gained on average about 5kg in 3 months, I'd like to return to the point of physical health. I do worry that my metabolism is starting to slow, but I think 21 might be a bit too early for that fact. I think it's the result of a carb-heavy diet, not eating enough fruit/vegetables, and not having as much reason to move about. I haven't ruled it out, but I'd rather not attempt intermittent fasting at the moment, unless it becomes a necessary step. I don't perform well when hungry, and I don't want to tank my cognitive ability (and thus every other goal I have) by not eating 16 hours of the day. I'm going for 3 square meals and post-gym food if required.

At one point in my life, I was able to run 5km on a treadmill in 28 minutes. This is going to be my cardio goal. As far as weights are concerned, I have listed somewhere, my old reps and the weights I used. I'm going to work up to those as my resistance goal. Some days, if I'm not feeling going hard, I'm going to at least speedwalk on a treadmill - I like to do that and watch Jarretman videos. Some level of exercise each day will keep the dopamine flowing.

I was talking to a friend of mine in the pub about Jiu-Jitsu, he's been doing it for a year now and really enjoys it. I'm always been nervous about not being fit enough to do it, but he says to just shoot for it. I expect the "getting your ass kicked" stage but that's how you learn, so I'm not worried about it - just anxious because martial arts are quite cardio-intensive. I'll look around for classes if I ever convince myself enough. To be fair, the MMA fighter I met in a pub poker game up north said the exact same thing, just to get started.

Poker
I said yesterday that I didn't want to commit too much of my time to poker. This stands. In terms of goals for the year, my one is skill-based. I understand that poker study is a long game, thus I've given myself a year for this project. Using GTOWizard, RYE and other study materials, I intend to get myself to a competence where I wouldn't be out of place in 20NL and 25NL. This is a stake that commands respect, and I intend to give it the respect it deserves by earning my place. I have friends who can help me, proven winners at 100NL and 5/10 live, much smarter people than I. I don't intend to lean on them, but they're always helpful if I ask, and I always appreciate them.

My understanding of the study process is that there's a lot of reviewing hands and solver study. Jared Tendler's The Mental Game of Poker has a great flow chart about practice, performance and analysis - it established the process. I will be playing sessions, marking hands, and learning from my mistakes. If I had the money, I'd put everything into the Premium Hand Analyser in GTOWizard, but I can't afford it. The normal iterative process will have to do for now.

I wanted to find a way to merge streaming with my improvement in poker, and I think the cliche of a bankroll challenge might actually be the way to go. It's pretty cool to follow, there's a clear narrative and the increase in winnings would (loosely) be in tandem with my improvement as a player. I'm going to just play for normal for now, and on NYD, I'll top up my account balance to £`100, and that will serve as my bankroll for the year. From then, I'll stick to 4NL, either sinking or swimming, following proper bankroll management. I intend to stream any time I play, but sometimes I find myself too tired to manage both content creation and focus on the cards. If I can leave the year with £1000, that would be insane.

Something I've always wanted to do is broadcast a live cash game on Twitch, and I think I've found a way to do it, using the hole cam strategy from the 00s. I have a big cast of people who I think would play, I just need to identify how to construct the set on the technical side. All I'm saying is, watch this space.

University
I don't want to put the focus on my grades specifically, as that won't motivate me enough to get on the grind. Instead, I'm going to try to go to my lectures, get a certain amount of hours of extra study each week, and have a proper calendar system for assignments/meetings. I also need to update my new lecture schedule for my phone. That's basically all I have to say on this subject, I just want to get to the point that I feel confident about my studies.

That's all I have time for at the minute. The cards have been good to me today, and I've been playing well. I'll prep a hand post after my next day of playing - don't expect to do much on 25th or 26th.

26/12/21
Not to jinx myself, but I think I'm starting to turn it around. My trusty laptop and I have been going through it, 4tabling on a 17inch laptop screen is a stark change from a 2-monitor desk setup, but I think I've welcomed the change and made it work. We haven't seen some hands or results for a while, so I thought I'd give you the results of the Christmas grind so far (23rd to 26th).



With blue-line variance doing most of the heavy lifting, we're starting to carve out some gains moving into the New Year. The red-line, of course, is still really struggling, but the green line ultimately is what matters. A friend of mine said that red-line can't be all that great, as no one folds enough - if that's the case then I have no hope of turning it around fully. I must admit, I've been running incredibly well this Christmas period, and the influx of "Christmas Noobs" has helped me get paid with my goods. It's tough to figure out the middle of the road as far as running is concerned. We know when we're running well, and when we all know when we're running bad. But how do we define running average? This is less intuitive, and thus a bit more difficult to solve.

Whilst I've been at home, my motivation to study the game has completely dropped - I don't have any paper or pens here, and don't really want to try and organise my thinking on such a small thinking space. I like having **** spread everywhere, so I've got more space to work. I bought a second desk when I moved into my new room, so I had a bigger battlestation. It's also pretty fun to swivel my chair around.

Let's have some hands - it's been ages. Most of my marks have been spots where I've thought wait am I actually allowed to cbet there, so this is going to be mostly a cbetting clinic. This is my way of forcing myself into actually getting some studying done on GTOWizard. Like the gym, you can pay for this stuff and not use it, whilst still being on tick. SaaS is such an arsehole charging method. I hate subscriptions

That'll do me for now. This forum is actually running a day behind right now, I've already finished playing my session for the 27th, which is very interesting. Much to be discussed - we'll talk soon. I'm gearing up for a huge 2022.

Nice thread, subscribed.

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As a rough rule of thumb, if we use a scale of how well we are running from 0 to 10 where 10 is best, I think you should take your intuitive guess and then add 2 points.

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I thought you made a really interesting comment here. I think most people who study with solvers would agree with your first point and be happy with their play when analysing the hand. The simplification you suggested is the natural extension of this logic. If we always bet our strong hands (and are happy since they mix bet at equilibrium), and always check our middling hands (and are happy since they mix check at equilibrium), we will naturally fall into the simplification you suggested and not think that we are making any mistakes. On the other hand, while this simplification wouldn't lose any EV when playing against the equilibrium solution, it is an incredibly easy strategy to counter. I think you've made quite an important insight into how your average opponent is likely to approach this type of spot and I think you've got a great opportunity to leverage that knowledge when the seats are reversed (i.e. when you are the BB in this example).

29/12/21
Things are looking up still. So far, the Christmas grind has been good to me. With one day left, it looks like the blue line is swinging back in my favor, and we've starting making money again. Redline is still not great, but I had a great 800 hand session where we actually broke even, so it can be done! (Even if only for a small sample). Anyway, here is the graph of the past 3 days, I'll post the xmas grind full results after tomorrow's session (assuming there will be one - seeing family tomorrow for some amount of time).


Look at that AIEV soar!

The recurring themes in my head for the past week has been one thing: Preparing for the 2022 Grind. Whilst I already have vague plans for losing weight and (maybe) gaining muscle, I don't really have anything else set out. This was my goal today, to try and devise a reasonable day-to-day plan. With my laptop, I'm now able to work in different places to keep things fresh, so I have more option to have a strict routine. This is what I've come up with.

• 9:00 Wake Up, Shower, Breakfast
• 9:30 Study Period 1
• 11:30 Break 1
• 12:00 Study Period 2
• 14:00 Break 2
• 15:00 Study Period 3
• 17:00 Done

At least 2 study periods dedicated to University need to occur each day. Optionally, one study period per day can be poker or another productive learning session.

Someone once said to me that you're supposed to treat University like a 9 to 5 job. I can't think of anyone who actually puts that into practice, and I think anyone that does I would find some way of dunking on to feel a bit better about my own procrastination. This is designed to give me some rigidity, but also give me enough freedom to not be at 100% efficiency all the time. Some days I don't want to work as much, some days I want to do some poker reading/analysis. Hopefully, this will give me the option to do it. I expect at some point during this process, I'm going to falter a little bit, and this is where discipline becomes a factor. The only shortcoming right now of this plan is how this will interact with in-person lectures. I don't have my timetable for next semester yet, but my expectation is badly. Having to go to lectures on certain days at certain times without a doubt will get in the way, and I will have to rebuild my schedule around that. If anything comes up, say a dinner invitation, then hopefully by sticking to this schedule I will be up-to-date enough to allow myself an early finish to do that. So long as I don't take the piss.

You'll note that two things I've ranted about profusely are not involved in this schedule. These are going to the gym and streaming. The plan is that I will just find time for these things. Gym isn't too hard, I never spend more than 45 minutes in there, but the current plan I pay for prohibits me from going from 3:30pm to 8:30pm on weekdays. Maybe I can factor in as part of Break 2, but I've also got to fit a lunch (which would have to be a post-gym meal) in there. Experimentation will yield the solution. Also, I worry that overdoing it in the gym will affect my ability to complete Study Period 3 - by which point I'll probably already be sick of what I'm doing.

Streaming is something I want to really work on in 2022. Back as a very small Mario Kart Wii and IRL streamer, I was clearing about $200 a year streaming on and off, just doing content whenever I felt like it. I ran a podcast, did quiz shows, and basically just had fun. This year, with the clean slate of a non-existent audience, I'm moving towards streaming poker whenever I play a session. I've already mentioned topping up to £100, and trying to 10x it in a year, and that is still absolutely my intention. The more I win before Saturday, the less I have to put in as a top-up. I would like to, at least for my online poker, create a Bankroll Challenge narrative. Yes, it is cliche, but I think it's one I would be proud of if I completed, and also just is a tried and tested method. I also want to incorporate the fact that as someone starting at microstakes, there would be a sense of learning together as I progress - I've already busted the solver out on one or two streams in an analysis session, and want to keep this education factor.

I also have some IRL streams planned for 2022. I'm currently drawing up a set design to convert my shed poker game into a budget Aria Studio - with cameras, microphones and the dodgiest hole cam botch job that the world has ever seen (think of a glass table). I think that would be really fun to do for a laugh, given how much I enjoy playing with my homegame lot. Watch this space, so far as that is concerned.

I'm pretty tired now, it's 2:10am and I'm running off 4 hours sleep. Hopefully the positive results continue, and we can say f off to the downswing for a considerable amount of time. I would be more than happy to.

2/1/22
Here we go, the 2022 grind has begun. I allowed myself the 1st to relax and recover, get everything arranged and sorted for my grind. Tomorrow is Monday, and I stare down a pretty nasty 9 start. The first day of a sleep-schedule change is always the worst, but if I can keep it going 6 days a week, I'll be a successful man. I'm writing this post before I go to the gym, as I know all I'm going to want to do is pass out the instant I get home.

The Christmas grind is (technically) over now that I'm back at my own house, but that hasn't meant an end for the winrate. We stand tall among the 4NL players, and I firmly believe the downswing is over. My all-time graph is looking pretty mental for swings at the minute.

We've had a roller coaster ride

Since we started this campaign, though, it's been pretty peachy. Redline is a lot closer to the -10bb/100 that we've been hoping for - a direct result of me finding more spots to go for, and more pots to fight for. Blueline, the more variance-heavy one, is also looking great. I've been putting in more river overbets, with the logic that they don't have to work as often, and I think they're working enough so far. I haven't overbet bluffed yet, and haven't decided if it's a good idea in this stake.


I'm starting streaming tomorrow, in the evening when tables are the fullest. I'm going to try and balance 4-tabling and being an engaging content creator - I've got a few ideas that I hope I can bring to reality. I'll also do some study tomorrow, so there will be hands to peruse tomorrow. Time to go sweat off dinner.

6/1/22
I haven't played many important cards recently. Most of my time has been devoted to developing a proper schedule to work on. My routine is going well, I'm getting up every morning at 9am, I'm getting 7 hours of sleep per night - I'm even being productive during the day.

Besides the maths that I've been doing, and all the Destiny 2 I've been playing, I've been setting up some really cool things for my game. I now have a coaching agreement with a very successful friend, one that I honestly believe will take me to where I want to go. Already, the level of support has been really encouraging and I see it as being a really profitable relationship. We went through a few things today, and I think will meet again on Saturday to look more in-depth into some of my key areas of work.

For now, though, I have 6 things we brought up in order to work on in my game. I can pick one of these each session and focus on implementing it into my game.

• Isolate bigger, 5bb IP 6bb OOP. I really want to be HU vs limpers/fish instead of multiway
• Use sizings 25% 43% 75% 125% as these are my coach's solved sizings
• Be more careful on monotone boards in multiway pots
• Cbet more IP, cbet less OOP
• Call more OTR, R Eff is 2.14 which is too high (ideal is 1.5-2)

We also have some key areas to study together to look at

• Proper Check-Raising Strategy
• Cbetting in 3bet pots
• Proper Check-Raising Strategy

One of the biggest changes we have decided on, is that I'm moving to playing 3bet/fold preflop. I will not be cold calling preflop anymore. This has a lot of positive effects:

• I will be HU more preflop
• 3bet pots are easier to study than SRP
• Fish make bigger mistakes in 3bet pots
• I will overall pay less rake as I will take more pots down preflop

Obviously, I will still end in Single-Raised pots. It's impossible to avoid something like that in every hand, my open raises will be cold-called and I will still have to navigate those tricky situations. Playing 3bet/fold facing an open-raise will reduce this number drastically. I'm very excited to play like this.

I met up with a few people over the last few days, and have been getting pretty ruined. With everyone coming back from Christmas, there's cause for celebration, but now it's time to get back on the grind. I bought some nicer beers, so I can only have 1 a night or I'll feel like I'm wasting my money. Despite this, some parts of my 2022 tracker are looking great. Hopefully I can get it all green sometime in the future. All my exams got moved online yesterday, so the pressure on the Study Periods is significantly less. The gym is going alright as well, I've taken some progress photos so in a month, I expect to see some minor results.


As far as streaming is concerned, I've not played any meaningful sessions yet - and thus had nothing interesting to stream. Now that I've split my play between my laptop and desktop to keep things fresh, not every hand I play will be streamed. Those that I play on my desktop however, will be streamed. I've spent a few days setting up my overlay for 4 tables, and adding the bells and whistles to the setup. It will be early days, but I believe with some elbow grease, I could amass a small viewing. I hope to reach the niche of other microstakes players looking for content relevant to them.

I really like your approach man, good stuff! if I can give you some advice I would go over each topic separately (for like 3/4 weeks per topic depending on the topic) and once you think you understand the spot better and learned to implement it in game move on to the next one. It can become really chaotic and ev- (in terms of time spend studying-increasing understanding of the game) if you learn multiple (fundamental) spots all at the same time. From my own experience focusing on 1 spot in terms of studying for lets say 3 weeks will have benefits on implementing it in-game because you only have to "extra focus" on this specific spot while playing or studying and processing the info/logic. There is no rush whatsoever so you better learn it right and once everything gets together you will rise!

Also when you move on to the next spot it's important to keep repeating the previous learned thinks so they will get more and more printed in your mind.

Focus on improving. keep up the patience, hard work and good approach and I'm sure it will pay off! GL in 2022

7/1/22
This looks to be the plan for the minute, thanks for your continued support and sorry I'm never available to talk through hands - maybe once my exams are over!

The beginning - this is how I envisioned today's session. The start of the journey, with no idea how high or how broad it may go. If I could book an AIEV win today, then I would feel like I had a place on this path.

I do a lot to ignore what people say in the poker space. So much of the discourse is a matter of opinion, rather than fact. People tend to say things that are specific to their own experience in poker, or from bravado they wish to put on display. For a breakeven 2NL player, a 100z reg say that 25NL is easy doesn't help, nor encourage. People love talking about what stakes as easy, what stakes even new players could beat, and comparing live and online stakes, but none of it is actually helpful.

As prepared and improved as I was, actually performing the jump from 4NL to 10NL was fraught with anxiety. I'd been here before, sunrunning and winning all the money, only to give back 5BI in a very short space of time. Perhaps I was out of my depth? or perhaps I just ran terribly? I don't care to think about it. I don't necessarily believe that it's the pressure of increasing the money - I can afford to lose a fair amount at this stake. I think perhaps it was just fear of the unknown. Not knowing who the regs and fish are, not knowing what the skill differential is between stakes. Add this with the pressure of streaming 4 tables for the first time, and we have a pretty big mountain to climb.

I'm pleased to say that it went well. I don't care about stream metrics, that's not really the goal. What is important to me is the game results. I elected to play 3 tables for 2 hours, with a lot of piss breaks in between, with the focus of marking hands to go through in coaching tomorrow. I can't say it was a bad day, honestly.

A swingy one, but despite this, we edge out 0.4bb net. 88bb AIEV is pretty neat too.

I've just gotten out of the coaching session, here was the most interesting hand for me.

One of the most important things I've picked up today has been what exponential sizing is. My coach was using the words 2e and 3e and I had no clue what they meant. Basically, 2e sizing is the required bet size (% of pot) such that the second bet will be all-in. Here's an example.

• If pot is $10 and we have $40 behind, 2e sizing will be pot. A bet of $10 will make the pot $30, and we will have $30 behind, allowing for a pot size jam.
• If pot is $10 and we have $15 behind, 2e sizing will be 1/2 pot. A bet of $5 will make the pot $20, and we will have $20 behind, allowing for a 1/2 pot size jam.

We go again this evening, hopefully it goes well.

9/1/22
My girlfriend is away until Wednesday, so it's just me and my thoughts for the next few days. I think I might be getting sick, hoping that it isn't Covid. I think it's probably the result of me burning the candle at both ends for the past few days. Glad to report, that after a weekend of relaxation, I'm back on form for the week ahead. This will be a rushed post as I've spent the last hour prepping for my coaching session tomorrow, and it's already 2am. We'll start with the graph.


It was not the greatest of days.

We had a lot of big losing hands, and a lot of small winning hands, amounting to a pretty rough day. I did have to deal with a cooler or two, but there were a lot of spots where I tried to think about it, only to realise how confused I was. This led to a lot of good material for study. Here's one hand that interested me today:


Ok I'm whacked now, and need to sleep. We go again tomorrow. Sorry for the short post.

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13/1/22
As part of this process, I don't get to just talk about the good days, and all the positive work and productivity that goes in. Sometimes, a day just sucks. This was one of those days. Outside of poker, I had an alright day, went food shopping, cleaned a lot of the house, and got some work done. But at the tables, it went horribly. On paper, it doesn't look too bad (-£3.61 incl. RB), but I don't think I've had a more frustrating and struggle of a session in weeks - including my 15k hands of straight loss.

Despite all the work, I've put in so far as coaching/study is concerned, and the effort I've put into my mental game, I can't help but finish the day feeling pretty down. I had really good seats today, with some of the biggest fishes I've ever seen at 10NL so far, but the cards wouldn't hit, stick, hold or do much that let me win. Couple that with the uncomfortable nature of dealing with min-bet lines, 4-way pots and min-raise lines, and it all became too much today. Poker doesn't care about you. It's proven that I can exploit and beat these players for brilliant winrates, but with everyone going wrong at the same time, it fell apart. It feels like a setback.

My coach said "You will always have some annoying days, just need to keep playing and will come" and he is right, it's just tough to let it go right now. I'm just going to drop the graph tonight and go to bed. Stronger tomorrow - we will book an EV win.

14/1/22 (1)
I have a little bit of time before studying for my exams, so I wanted to take a brief look at some hands from yesterday. I feel a lot better about things than I did last night, a talk with my coach really helped settle my mind. One possibility could be the drastic changes in strategy that I'm making - there will always be teething problems switching to a new system. Importantly, if I trust in the process and keep my head up high, I will surely be fine.

Here is a brief look-through of some of my hands from last night.

14/1/22 (2)
As promised, booked a yellow line win this evening. I've been getting myself into some uncomfortable spots recently in SB vs BB 3BPs recently, as a result of my BB 3betting strategy against SB opens. Roll an aggressive enough number and sure, we're going mad with Q4s, 97o, the works. Thankfully, I'll never be punished for my crimes at 10NL - and I'm free to rake in the money to my heart's content.

Playing 3bet-only preflop is one of the best decisions I've ever made. My life is so much simpler, for a few reasons:

• I'm picking up 3bb rake-free all the time, as no one 4bets/calls enough
• My postflop spots are simpler, as ranges are more narrow and linear
• (Maybe) people mistake me for being over-aggressive, and I benefit from this incorrect image

Needless to say, I much prefer this system. It makes study a lot simpler for me too, having attempted to study SRPs before, I get lost in the fuzzy fantasy land of solvers, and I don't really gain much from it.

It seems like 10pm to midnight is a great time for me to play in my pool. Lots of 40bb stacks, lots of fish about, lots of gifts being given - there's a lot of potential for me to print. I don't normally play much longer after 11pm, as I go to the gym almost every night before bedtime at 2am, but I think it would be +EV to stick around on rest days. I do find it difficult, however, to stream for 3+ hours, as sitting at my desk too long begins to take its toll, with me becoming dehydrated or agitated from not really leaving my chair. I need to take more frequent, shorter, breaks.

Here's probably the most interesting hand from tonight:


Here is the graph of the evening's session. We are now -£23.92 on the roll. Below is the database. Yellow line isn't positive yet, but it's still annoying to be 3BI under EV regardless.

15/1/22
We had another bad session last night. Not enough cbetting, not enough calling, and not enough folding when we know we don't have it. I don't want to write a whole essay detailing where I sucked last night. I know it wasn't my best work, and I know I didn't do myself proud. I felt pretty terrible after the session, and as usual - very inspired to improve. I'll start with the graph, then show some of the work I've done this morning, before I go and watch the sports.

The redline is still looking to be an issue - but this was a direct results of not betting enough, and allowing myself to get walked over postflop.

Generate a flop, calculate the strategy. If I'm wrong, it goes in the document.

I'm also increasing my calorie intake daily. I think that 2500 might actually be too low, given my level of activity - leading to me being tired all the time. I'm getting 7-8 hours a night and still not being able to pull it together during the day. Thinking about it, I spend most of my day sat at my desk working/thinking, or in the gym. I've upped my goal to 2900, to see if that was a contributing factor. I'll have to make sure I pick better foods to eat, and don't eat too much sugar or nasty stuff.

We go again tonight. I want to make a good turnaround.

Good job!

Working regularly on spots away from the tables is what separates a good regular from a bad one.

There are no secrets, you just have to work, and that's what guys don't like to do.

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18/1/22

I now run study and review in my Discord. I will be helping as many people as I can to get a group started. Everyone is welcome, let's get better together.

We finally did it, we booked a positive session, and I can't be happier.

Not just the blue line, but the red line and green line too.

I honestly don't have much to say, I'm just pretty euphoric today about this. Things are going quite well the past few days, my physical and mental strength are continuing to improve, I'm sticking to the game plan and (for now) I'm getting results. Trust in the process, that's all my motto is at the minute.

I've started jamming more with good hands, because my god do people love a call at 10NL. Here's one guy I put in the bin today:
I'm very tired, time to go to bed for me. We shall have another sick day tomorrow. I'll try and post a longer entry tomorrow also, but I've been working on my stream and discord tonight to get that more streamlined for growth.