Hello 2p2,

I am a long time lurker on 2p2 and this is my 1st blog ever which I would like to use to define some poker, fitness and life goals for 2020 and keep myself accountable for them. Since I never had any kind of blog I am not sure what the reader can expect, but I hope that at least some of you guys find some interesting stuff while reading it.

Background

I will keep this part a short as possible. I am in my early thirties and have dicovered this beatiful game called poker extremely late (around 6 years ago) compared to most of you guys. During my high school/college time I was never interested in any kind of stategic games. Most of my time during these years was spent on sports (played professionally football) and social activities.

However, in 2013 I was diagnosed with vitiligo which is a long-term skin condition characterized by patches of the skin losing their pigment. This diagnosis changed my life in many aspects. I stopped completely my sport activities and for the most part also the social one. Since my childhood I was always somebody who paid attention to my physical appearance. Under these circumstances I was searching for a hobby to fulfill my time and this is how I have dicovered poker. Tbh the first years I played just occasionally some tournaments, but from 2017 I got really interested in cash games and started for the first time to study the game by watching some vids and having few coaching lessons. And here I am now after several failed NL100 shots trying to reach stakes were I can make a side-income from a game which I currently just consider as a lovely hobby.

Poker Goals

Before I mention my goals for 2020 lets give you guys the most important thing in these blogs: My current graph for 2019 and I now for most of you guys this is the only reason for visiting 2p2

However, this one is neither beautiful nor impressive. My results for 2019 are pretty embarrassing but I want to be honest in all aspects of this blog.

All my hands are played on pokerstars.

Graph 2019:


Stakes Breakdown 2019:


So after posting these embarrassing results lets see what are my main poker goals for 2020:

• Reach NL200 by the end of the year and create a side-income from poker. I do not have any asspirations to go pro since I am in an age where this isn´t realistic anymore and I have a well paid full time job.

• Start to study the game. If I am beeing honest I haven´t reviewed 1 hand, runned 1 sim or talked 1 hand with an another player throughout 2019. I always blame my limited time for that due to my full time job and had always an excuse that I want to use my spare time for playing and not studying. However, this is one of my primary goals for 2020. I am realistic here, I can not compete with full time pros in this area, but I can start to study smart and effectively even with a limited time frame. I have done the first step in this direction by purchasing MMASherdog´s HS course.

• Improve my behaviour regarding beeing extremely results orientated. I think even with my poor study routine I would achieve better results in 2019 if I wouldn´t be that much results orientated. I am a huge fish in this area and struggle a lot to improve on this leak (I check my results in the tracker probably 20+ times during a session and therefore missclick, go on tilt, play longer/shorter sessions depending on results, etc ). In 2020 I want to start to make small steps to do not check results while playing by not checking results for 1 session, 1 day, 1 week until the point were I do check my results just monthly. Lets see how long does it takes me to achieve this goal (tbh I am not sure if I have the discipline to achieve this).

• Dedicate 60-80 hours on average per month for playing and studying and use this time wisely. This should result in a sample size of around 350k hands for 2020.

• Use this blog to get feedback from fellow players by posting regularly hands. This is one of the main purposes of this blog since I do not have any poker friends and I am also not part of any study groups where a knowledge transfer can happen

• And the most important one: Have fun but still try to treat poker as a serious side business which could lead to additional money for other investments.

Fitness Goals

Until my mid twenties I played football 5+ times a week. I was therefore always in a good shape. But after my vitiligo diagnosis I haven´t done any kind of sports for several years mostly caused by some kind of depression probably and the fear to scratch myself (by having vitiligo, scratches can lead to white patches which mostly never repigment).

Such a lifestyle resulted that I became overweight (in April 2019 I had 86kg by beeing 175cm tall). The last 6 months I made great progress (my weigth is currently 79kg) in this area by doing a lot of cardio and I want to continue with this in 2020.

I also want to include some bodyweight exercises which can be done from home. If anybody has a good reference for training plans (something like 3x per week for 30 minutes), please let me know. Appreciate any help regarding this, since it is very difficult to filter for good information. I have bought Mark Laurens book, but didn´t have time to read it.

Life and Social Goals

This is the area in my life which needs definitely the most progression. Not sure if this belongs in such a blog, but I want to set myself several goals for 2020 thru the year.

Until my disease diagnosis I was always very outgoing and had a good social life. After the diagnosis I started to spent a lot of time home and avoid contact to new people (especially women), since I was scared that people would always stare at my white vitiligo patches. This is pretty crazy when you consider that I have a fair skin and compared to other patients my white patches are mostly located just on my hands and even in winter for other people very difficulty visible.

But nevertheless I struggled still a lot under my disease whereby my dating life suffered as well as simple social acitvities like going to the beach.

Over the last 2 years I made good progress by trying to not think what other might think about my disease, but when it comes to women I still have a mental blockade to meet new women while clubbing or thru the internet. I hope really to change this in 2020 and I think this blog could serve as some kind of therapy for me. But enough of this non-poker related stuff.

Hope you guys made it to end . I am not sure how often I will update this blog, but I am planning weekly or bi-weekly updates with some hopefully interesting hands and strategy discussions.

Until then I wish u all GL at the tables for 2020 !

Good luck with your goals, I'll be following

In, gl in 2020.

Honestly your story is inspiring. Be brave and gl at the tables. I’m in!

Thanks a lot guys. Lets all have a great 2020

Jan 2020 Goals

[] Play 60-80 hours, use time allocated for playing efficiently (plan session and use timer to remember myself to not get distracted during session)

[] Study 10 hours, finish watching of MMASherdog´s course, run sims from course regarding 3b pots as 3bettor/caller for in depth study in GTO+

[] Check results/stats in PT4 just once a week (sundays)

[] Mark interesting hands while playing and update blog once a week (sundays)

[] Try 4-tabling zoom by just playing it for 15 mins per session (my normal grind routine is with 3 zoom tables)

I think that 60 hours is more realistic for january since I have some family obligations. Hope to get 30k hands in. The most imortant goals for me are to stick to the plan to check results once/week and to finally start to study the game.

I am also planning to continue to run 3x per week for 7km and get familiar with some basics respective bodyweigth workouts ans nutrition.

Lets hope for some thread rungood

Good luck with your goals! Checking the results during a session is something I've been guilty of too. Your plan of gradually reducing the peeks sounds like a good idea to reduce tilt. For me, even a small thing such as shifting to the community interface of PT helped because then there was one more barrier to checking results.

It is something which I am trying out since it improves my results as well as my mental state after the grind immensely.

I never have problems to not check results during the session when I am having the feeling that my session results are break even, slightly losing or positive. However, when I think that i have lost few buyins I immediately start to check results and this influence me a lot in a negative way.

I hope that with small steps I can come to the point where I check them just once per month. But this will take a strong discipline.

Wish u gl at the tables, too!

Gl Kockar - yours is the first thread I have subscribed too!

Thanks mate. I'm honored and GL with your own goals

A really interesting article about variance & an approach how to check your own results from radiosick´s RIO journal (at the end of the journal):

https://www.runitonce.com/chatter/mobius-poker-blog/

It´s sick how cruel variance can be in poker. I reccomend the article to anybody struggling in these areas.

Week 01 Update:


Happy new year guys! Hope everyone had a good start into 2020.

Poker wise first week in the books and it was a great one. Was running very well, played solid and the games seemed extremely soft (most of the time 3+ fish per table).

Graph


Stakes Breakdown


Some more or less interesting HH´s. Appreciate any feedback regarding them.

H1: vs unknown, river seems too thin. Was a bit lost what to do OTR. However, by shoving imo we are isolating ourself mostly just vs flushes.

PokerStars - €0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 62.38 BB
SB: 105.42 BB
Hero (BB): 100 BB
UTG: 402.94 BB
MP: 181.86 BB
CO: 101.5 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K K

fold, MP raises to 3 BB, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 11.5 BB, MP calls 8.5 BB

Flop: (23.5 BB, 2 players) K 5 J
Hero bets 7.36 BB, MP calls 7.36 BB

Turn: (38.22 BB, 2 players) 8
Hero bets 11.98 BB, MP calls 11.98 BB

River: (62.18 BB, 2 players) A
Hero bets 69.16 BB and is all-in, MP calls 69.16 BB



H2: vs aggro reg, preflop and OTF seems standard. OTT seems like a perfect candidate to check and protect our checking range. Not sure what our bluffs OTR are.

PokerStars - €0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 158.24 BB
Hero (SB): 116.82 BB
BB: 100 BB
UTG: 123.56 BB
MP: 67.78 BB
CO: 127.18 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Q Q

UTG raises to 3 BB, fold, CO raises to 9 BB, fold, Hero raises to 25 BB, fold, fold, CO calls 16 BB

Flop: (54 BB, 2 players) Q 5 7
Hero bets 12.5 BB, CO calls 12.5 BB

Turn: (79 BB, 2 players) 9
Hero checks, CO checks

River: (79 BB, 2 players) 6
Hero bets 79.32 BB and is all-in, CO calls 79.32 BB



H3: vs unknown, I think making it a 3 street game is fine here. Might even go smaller OTT because of the awkward SPR OTR.

PokerStars - €0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 102.52 BB
SB: 100 BB
BB: 114.92 BB
Hero (UTG): 100 BB
MP: 100 BB
CO: 274.08 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K K

Hero raises to 2.3 BB, fold, fold, BTN raises to 8.6 BB, fold, fold, Hero raises to 24 BB, BTN calls 15.4 BB

Flop: (49.5 BB, 2 players) 6 7 6
Hero bets 12 BB, BTN calls 12 BB

Turn: (73.5 BB, 2 players) 4
Hero bets 20 BB, BTN calls 20 BB

River: (113.5 BB, 2 players) J
Hero bets 44 BB and is all-in, BTN calls 44 BB




H4: vs reg, villains OTT sizing seems weird. Not sure about the river. People underbluff a lot in these kinda of scenarios on these stakes.

PokerStars - €0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): 100 BB
SB: 127.76 BB
BB: 232 BB
UTG: 153.04 BB
MP: 218.68 BB
CO: 131.04 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K T

fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 2.5 BB, SB raises to 10 BB, fold, Hero calls 7.5 BB

Flop: (21 BB, 2 players) K 4 7
SB bets 6.58 BB, Hero calls 6.58 BB

Turn: (34.16 BB, 2 players) J
SB bets 16.24 BB, Hero calls 16.24 BB

River: (66.64 BB, 2 players) Q
SB bets 94.94 BB and is all-in, fold

SB wins 63.3 BB
Rake paid 3.34 BB

H5: vs maniac reg, mixing raise & calls OTF, never folding vs this guy OTR.

PokerStars - €0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 100 BB
SB: 236.64 BB
Hero (BB): 100 BB
UTG: 211.36 BB
MP: 15.26 BB
CO: 108.16 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A T

fold, fold, fold, fold, SB raises to 2.5 BB, Hero calls 1.5 BB

Flop: (5 BB, 2 players) A 3 6
SB bets 2 BB, Hero raises to 7.5 BB, SB raises to 18.5 BB, Hero calls 11 BB

Turn: (42 BB, 2 players) 6
SB checks, Hero checks

River: (42 BB, 2 players) 3
SB bets 31.52 BB, Hero calls 31.52 BB



H6: vs weak reg, seems very spewy. Apart from preflop not sure about any street. Should probably just give up OTT and not decide to turn it into a bluff.

PokerStars - €0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 116.06 BB
Hero (SB): 136.96 BB
BB: 282.8 BB
UTG: 100.38 BB
MP: 217.52 BB
CO: 100 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A K

UTG raises to 2.62 BB, MP calls 2.62 BB, fold, fold, Hero raises to 14 BB, BB calls 13 BB, fold, fold

Flop: (33.24 BB, 2 players) 2 Q T
Hero bets 10.42 BB, BB calls 10.42 BB

Turn: (54.08 BB, 2 players) 5
Hero bets 26.72 BB, BB raises to 258.38 BB and is all-in, fold

BB wins 102.14 BB
Rake paid 5.38 BB

H7: vs solid reg. Vs bigger sizing I think we can mix OTF. Prefer having a spade in the hand when xr-ing OTF. Might even xr a bit bigger. OTR without the As I think we can find a fold. Even with the As vs standard 50z nitregs this might be a fold. Anybody block-betting the river?

PokerStars - €0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 134.62 BB
SB: 100 BB
Hero (BB): 108.26 BB
UTG: 159.74 BB
MP: 55.88 BB
CO: 122.82 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has T A

fold, fold, CO raises to 2.5 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 1.5 BB

Flop: (5.5 BB, 2 players) 5 9 T
Hero checks, CO bets 4.02 BB, Hero raises to 13 BB, CO calls 8.98 BB

Turn: (31.5 BB, 2 players) 4
Hero bets 9.88 BB, CO calls 9.88 BB

River: (51.26 BB, 2 players) 3
Hero checks, CO bets 32.5 BB, Hero calls 32.5 BB



H8: vs fish. Considered a xr OTF, but prefer having a spade in the hand. OTT usually fish will go bigger when he hits TP. With this in mind, turned equity and the oppurtunity to bluff on clubs while blocking the Qc, seems like a fine xr OTT. Went for 1.7x shove OTR since bluffing fish for something like ¾ PSB seems like a bad idea for me.

PokerStars - €0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 104.34 BB
SB: 103.06 BB
Hero (BB): 107.1 BB
UTG: 137.1 BB
MP: 100 BB
CO: 152.72 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has J Q

fold, fold, fold, BTN raises to 2.62 BB, fold, Hero calls 1.62 BB

Flop: (5.74 BB, 2 players) 5 8 T
Hero checks, BTN bets 2.12 BB, Hero calls 2.12 BB

Turn: (9.98 BB, 2 players) K
Hero checks, BTN bets 5.6 BB, Hero raises to 19.46 BB, BTN calls 13.86 BB

River: (48.9 BB, 2 players) 4
Hero bets 82.9 BB and is all-in, fold

Hero wins 46.46 BB
Rake paid 2.44 BB


May the thread run good long continue . GL to everyone at the tables!

It's been a long time mate. I hope things are well.

GL to you in 2020!!!

In. Good luck with your goals

Thanks Luke. I am glad to see you are living your dream bro. Hope you battle the endbosses of the game this year. GL!

Ty mate

Anybody knows how to go to one of the previous versions of the stars client? Made an update and with the new update client isn´t showing number of entrants anymore for players in zoom.

Thanks.

Week 02 Update:

Nothing much to report. Volume is low as probably it will be the whole january. Hope to get this week more volume in and to also put some time into study. I have studied 0 hours until now.

Graph


Some HH´s:

H1: vs reg

PokerStars - €0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 89.76 BB
SB: 198.5 BB
BB: 269.14 BB
UTG: 182.08 BB
MP: 344.12 BB
Hero (CO): 106 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K K

fold, fold, Hero raises to 2.3 BB, fold, fold, BB calls 1.3 BB

Flop: (5.1 BB, 2 players) 5 T 6
BB checks, Hero bets 4 BB, BB raises to 12.98 BB, Hero calls 8.98 BB

Turn: (31.06 BB, 2 players) 5
BB bets 22 BB, Hero calls 22 BB

River: (75.06 BB, 2 players) Q
BB bets 78.44 BB, Hero calls 68.72 BB and is all-in



PokerStars - €0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

H2: vs regfish

BTN: 89.34 BB
SB: 120.14 BB
BB: 107.16 BB
UTG: 111.84 BB
Hero (MP): 132.28 BB
CO: 162.84 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Q Q

UTG raises to 2 BB, Hero raises to 7.5 BB, fold, fold, fold, fold, UTG calls 5.5 BB

Flop: (16.5 BB, 2 players) 7 2 T
UTG checks, Hero bets 5.18 BB, UTG calls 5.18 BB

Turn: (26.86 BB, 2 players) 5
UTG checks, Hero bets 20 BB, UTG calls 20 BB

River: (66.86 BB, 2 players) 2
UTG checks, Hero bets 88.92 BB, fold

Hero wins 63.52 BB
Rake paid 3.34 BB

PokerStars - €0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

H3: vs fish

BTN: 83 BB
SB: 191.52 BB
Hero (BB): 100 BB
UTG: 384.44 BB
MP: 95 BB
CO: 92.44 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 6 K

fold, fold, CO raises to 2.7 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 1.7 BB

Flop: (5.9 BB, 2 players) 8 A 7
Hero checks, CO bets 1.84 BB, Hero raises to 6.66 BB, CO calls 4.82 BB

Turn: (19.22 BB, 2 players) 5
Hero bets 20.5 BB, CO calls 20.5 BB

River: (60.22 BB, 2 players) 7
Hero bets 70.14 BB and is all-in, CO calls 62.58 BB and is all-in



GL at the tables everyone!

Week 03 Update:

Had a preety good week on the tables. Watched also 2 videos of MMA´s HS course and started working with GTO+, which puts me to 3h overall study time this week. Plan is to finish watching the course and then study with GTO+ 3bp´s as 3bettor IP as well as the caller.

Graph


Below some HH´s. Appreciate any feedback regarding them.

H1: vs reg, blocking nuts OTT, having some equity and the opportunity to bluff diamonds OTR seems like reasonable bluff.

PokerStars - €0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 85.34 BB
SB: 157.9 BB
Hero (BB): 109.42 BB
UTG: 125.56 BB
MP: 132.84 BB
CO: 273.62 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has T T

fold, fold, CO raises to 3 BB, fold, fold, Hero raises to 11.5 BB, CO calls 8.5 BB

Flop: (23.5 BB, 2 players) 9 K A
Hero bets 7.36 BB, CO calls 7.36 BB

Turn: (38.22 BB, 2 players) Q
Hero bets 22.5 BB, CO calls 22.5 BB

River: (83.22 BB, 2 players) 8
Hero bets 68.06 BB and is all-in, fold

Hero wins 79.06 BB
Rake paid 4.16 BB


H2: vs reg, might be a punt blocking villains folding range OTR.

PokerStars - €0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 225.8 BB
SB: 136.46 BB
Hero (BB): 100 BB
UTG: 100.46 BB
MP: 91.22 BB
CO: 103.62 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has T 9

fold, fold, CO raises to 3 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 2 BB

Flop: (6.5 BB, 2 players) J J 8
Hero checks, CO bets 2.04 BB, Hero raises to 8.92 BB, CO calls 6.88 BB

Turn: (24.34 BB, 2 players) 2
Hero bets 18.5 BB, CO calls 18.5 BB

River: (61.34 BB, 2 players) A
Hero bets 69.58 BB and is all-in, fold

Hero wins 58.28 BB
Rake paid 3.06 BB


H3: vs unknown, think with Qd we have a clear call and without a diamond not sure tbh.

PokerStars - €0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 108.5 BB
Hero (SB): 137.56 BB
BB: 256.42 BB
UTG: 44.68 BB
MP: 203.78 BB
CO: 129.3 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K Q

fold, fold, fold, BTN raises to 2.3 BB, Hero raises to 10.5 BB, fold, BTN calls 8.2 BB

Flop: (22 BB, 2 players) Q T 4
Hero bets 7 BB, BTN calls 7 BB

Turn: (36 BB, 2 players) 3
Hero checks, BTN bets 17.1 BB, Hero calls 17.1 BB

River: (70.2 BB, 2 players) 8
Hero checks, BTN bets 73.9 BB and is all-in, fold

BTN wins 66.68 BB
Rake paid 3.52 BB


H4: vs fish, based on his turn sizing I don´t expect him to have a strong hand but we need quite a bit protection

PokerStars - €0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 105.94 BB
Hero (SB): 103.9 BB
BB: 86.28 BB
UTG: 144.72 BB
MP: 84.88 BB
CO: 100 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A J

fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 3 BB, BB raises to 7 BB, Hero calls 4 BB

Flop: (14 BB, 2 players) J 3 4
Hero checks, BB bets 6 BB, Hero calls 6 BB

Turn: (26 BB, 2 players) 8
Hero checks, BB bets 12 BB, Hero raises to 90.9 BB and is all-in, fold

Hero wins 47.5 BB
Rake paid 2.5 BB


H5: vs unkwown, don´t like calling vs such a huge 4bet size. But JJ seems too tight too fold and too aggro too 5bet jam. OTT I am top of my range but expect to lose quite often

PokerStars - €0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 154.62 BB
SB: 99 BB
BB: 136.72 BB
UTG: 143.26 BB
Hero (MP): 100 BB
CO: 205.62 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has J J

UTG raises to 3 BB, Hero raises to 9 BB, fold, fold, fold, fold, UTG raises to 28.5 BB, Hero calls 19.5 BB

Flop: (58.5 BB, 2 players) 3 8 9
UTG bets 18.34 BB, Hero calls 18.34 BB

Turn: (95.18 BB, 2 players) 6
UTG bets 59.68 BB, Hero calls 53.16 BB and is all-in

River: (201.5 BB, 2 players) 9




H6: vs fish, would probably call off if river wasn´t a spade.

PokerStars - €0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): 100 BB
SB: 49.76 BB
BB: 100 BB
UTG: 100 BB
MP: 100 BB
CO: 114.96 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Q Q

fold, MP raises to 2.5 BB, fold, Hero raises to 8 BB, fold, BB calls 7 BB, MP calls 5.5 BB

Flop: (24.5 BB, 3 players) 2 J 4
BB checks, MP checks, Hero bets 8.5 BB, BB calls 8.5 BB, fold

Turn: (41.5 BB, 2 players) K
BB bets 20 BB, Hero calls 20 BB

River: (81.5 BB, 2 players) 7
BB bets 63.5 BB and is all-in, fold

BB wins 77.42 BB
Rake paid 4.08 BB

GL at the tables guys! Lets hope to finish january strong.

Week 04 Update:

Could be a more productive week. Was a bit lazy especially respectice stuying. Put around 1.5h in off-table work which is pretty low. Almost finished MMA´s HS course. From the live play videos I recognized that I am way too loose preflop as the BB vs RFI. As an example MMA folded A9o as BB vs BTN 2.8x open. On my stakes where people still regularly open 3x and considering the rake I have to tighten up a bit as BB.

Volume this week is ok-ish. Could be better, but I played almost 30k hands this month which is what I was aiming for.

Graph


No HH´s this week. Was too lazy to mark hands

GL at the tables and lets finish Jan strong!

GL Kockar, keep up the grind and the results will come!

Thanks mate. Appreciate it. Will try my best

Jan 2020 Recap

Graph


Stakes Breakdown


Overall I am quite happy with my game for this month. Volume is also ok. And for me the most important thing is that I have started to put time into studying the game. Next month I will start to use GTO+ to improve my game by choosing one spot and applying the things learned in the course. I will take also a 15 BI´s shot at 100z next month. So lets hope that the run good continues.

Outside of poker life is good. Jan is always a pretty busy month for me and it didn´t change in 2020. Spent a lot of time with my family which is always nice. Continued with my fitness routine which has a massive positive impact on my lifestyle as well as on my poker game.

Hope everyone had a nice start into 2020 and GL in Feb

Feb 2020 Goals


Poker Goals:

[] Play 60-80 hours, optimize grinding routine and have structured time schedule which fits poker, personal life and full time job best

[] Study 8-12 hours BTN vs CO 3bp as PFA/PFC wth GTO+ by applying learned knowledge from MMA´s course

[] Take 15BI´s shot at 100z and move down if shot fails

[] Check results/stats in PT4 just once a week (sundays)

[] Mark interesting hands while playing and update blog once a week (sundays)

[] Try out regular tables and see if you like them and what would be the best schedule to include them into the grind while managing it with a full time job and getting a reasonable monthly sample size


Fitness Goals:

[] Run on average 3x per week for 7km

[] Include 2x per week a basic bodyweight program which can be done from home


I will take a 15BI´s shot at 100z this month. Hope it works out better than the shots last year. The failed shots last year a combination of run bad, poor mental game while losing and defo also some technical game shortfalls. One thing which I would like to try out are regular tables. Imo they are way softer than zoom. However, it is very difficult to manage them with a full time job and normal social life while getting a reasonable sample. Zoom is in this perspective much more friendly for part time players. I am even not sure if I like grinding them since I am an absolute zoom enthusiast. Maybe I shouldn´t try to see everything black and white and incorporate them on weekends while playing zoom when having limited time. Imo they are way more +EV than zoom and as a full time player I would probably stick to them and play on multiple sites rather than just on stars.

GL to everyone in Feb and lets crush

In,gl. Nice month. Like the way you structure your thread.

Ty mate