Hi, My name is Cagdas. I am 20 years old from Germany and I want to share my grind with you. My biggest goal is to be one of the best in the game, I will play and study everyday. Yesterday, I deposited 50 euros to my GG account. I started playing 1-2 dollars buy-in tournaments. I played 7 yesterday and 10 mtts today. I cashed 8 of them and made the 5th on Daily Big 2 euros. I made lots of blunder, but my main leak is playing as short and mid stack. Especially, pre flop. Also, I struggle playing limped pots from SB. I need to feel more comfortable playing shorter stacks. When we are deeper, I feel way better both pre and post flop mainly because I study deep stack play a ton. Now, I will focus more on playing short. I will update this thread every night, posting graphs after a while. BR sits at 86.39 after 1267 hands. I studied charts on GTOWizard and studied LP SB on GTOBase app. I didn't study a lot yet and will keep studying these. I am trying to exploit people as much as I can, but I am not even close to being good. I will be getting better by playing and having more experience.

GL on your journey, hopefully you can bink something and get properly rolled for mtt's, because of variance and all.

Thank you so much KoelVerhaal. My last session actually started pretty bad. I played 15 Mtts. I busted early all of them except my last buy - in. I think it was pretty unlucky session. But things went well and I come up second on Daily Turbo 1 dollar for 121 dollars. Now bankroll is around 172 euros. I have so many leaks on tournaments, I realized the one who makes the most exploits against recs wins the tournament. It doesn't matter so much, if I am winner against good regs if they are way better against recs. I like tournaments more now, there is more room for being creative and game tree is huge.

Good luck

May your BR continue to grow, your studies be fruitful.

Thank you for your support. After 6k hands, bankroll sits around 125 euros.There are some problems I realized: I am calling 3 bets too wide. Especially, if we consider people 3 bet not polarised enough. I am calling rivers too wide and I can play more aggressively. I will be studying late ranges on HRC at least 20 hands a day.

I want to share with you most interesting hands from todays Daily Big 2. We are in the soft bubble I am the chip leader on the table I have 40 BB on SB, there are around 200 players left, I am in top 30. Action folds to me and I raise 3BB with Js9h. BB, who is really active on table, I assume he is regular, has 32BB, calls. Flop comes 6s6hQd. I bet third, he calls. Turn Ah, which brings flush draw, and gutshot probably only with heart. I bet 2/3 he calls. Now there is 25BB in the pot, and I jam on the 7h river which is 20BB effective. He calls, now I am short stack.

Here was my thought process: I had aggressive image on the table, when he calls flop and turn he calls any six, queen and strong aces. I don't think he has any raising range. For me it is really likely that I bet range on the flop, then I hit ace, or flush draw river, and barrel turn, and jam river. In this scenario, he would fold any queen, and some aces. When I think about it right now, I probably punted and should slow down on the turn. In the gametime, I didn't think that he should already be tight because of payout implications and I cover him. I assume he is only should be tight when I jam. Also, I said to myself, I have block Aj, A9, and one heart which looks like perfect combo. What do you think about this hand and what would you do ? It is not Triton, it gg micros, I should probably take the low variance line and he will never fold top pair in this runout.

Here is my second punt: We are in the soft bubble again This Time PKO 2.16dollars , I have 33 BB on SB, MP has 30 BB, raises to 3BB, actions folds to me, I have black tens, and I did my first mistake, I thought I should play tight because of ICM so I can call instead of 3 Bet, I also saw him limping aces, and he was really passive player post flop, which is a reason why 3 bet would be better, he also raises to 3x, I don't think he is doing it with A9o. Flop comes 239 rainbow, I check he bets 75%, and I call. Turn comes 9d then I done showed 23BB. Which is a worst possible thing you can do. My reasoning in the gametime was he either has two big cards, AK, AQ or overpair. If he has overpairs, I would get stacked, if he has two big cards, he will check back, and my tens are vulnerable, villian can hit Ace or King and but those hands will never fold and I will get value. When I think it right now, I believe my reasoning completely wrong and when we think that he already bet big on the flop, I can fold or call on the turn after check.

As you can see, lots of mistake, but I know for a fact, if I put the work, volume and dedication. I will be at the top. I love the game and trust the process.

Jo hows the grind going?

Busto

busto

Hey Everyone,

I didn't bust, even if I bust I will reload anyway and this thread will be closed when I reach high stakes.

Bankroll sits where we exactly started at 49 euros. I am analysing hand and studying on HRC and Equilab. I upped my aggression and call less. But whenever I analyse hands I see a lot of loose calls. I should have make some exploitative folds, taking more notes on people and not playing on autopilot.

Variance plays a big role on my downswing as well as bad plays. I spend most of my time playing late reg. 5k people bounties, which is a huge mental test . Flip after flip after flip etc. But we know that volume cures variance. I will keep playing on the upcoming days. Let's see how it goes.

Hey Everyone, I wasn't posting for a long time, now I will share everything that I experience since I didnt share.
In first week of February, I played in total 3 k hands with -1 all in adjusted bb per 100, I am not going to talk about my stats but I highly upped my aggression, I tried to be careful about my preflop ranges etc. , I wasn't have any deepruns except daily big which is not that deep but I was 42th.
Rest of the February is really really good run in terms of win rate for me, after 7,5 k hands I was winning 16 bb although, there were no significant run except daily turbo 7th, which is not good. When I checked the hands, what I see is not playing late stages effective, rejamming too wide, and not playing conservative on late stages. I see some mistakes from me on Iso pots sb and oop barreling in general, I am looking at my notes and see a lot of sb mistakes oop. On the first week of march is where I put most amount of volume in terms of weekly hand (5K) with 22 bb win rate and moved up to 5 dollars buy in mtts. Here are my some problems,
I checked the spots that I rejam and see clearly I am overdoing it, when we node lock the ranges on HRC, we see when people don't folding enough, we start tighten up. Also one note to 3 betting, when people don't 4 betting enough, we profitably start 3 betting with a linear range and also consisting some suited rappers etc. (the hands that we don't want to get 4 bet ) . Here are the some highlights tournaments : T builder 3rd, daily deep stacks 15th, bounty hunters special 22th, and some min cashes. Again the same problem comes off, not knowing the playing late ranges enough. So in the upcoming weeks, I will be mainly focusing on the things that prevents me doing the most amount of money, I will node lock hands on HRC and studying the spots. Upcoming weeks of of march is where my win rate drops and playing 5 k hands weekly with 5.5 bb win rate. Differences I make was mostly, playing a little wider on the blinds and checked to IP more, it seems like key to exploiting preflop is doing a lots of thinking when playing agressive and knowing how and when to slow down. Best run is unfortunately on the bounty hunters 2.16 34th.This also highlights how important is to knowing how to play late spots. After not running deep on the upcoming week on April my win rate is still high sitting 14bb. What we see over time with my stats is that folding to aggression is becoming more aggressive.
Now after this weeks, my downswing starts, finishing march with negative 4 bb. Now, here are some reasons, first I was moving to the Germany, so I was having bad times changing places, moving to the another apt. etc. I was so focused I guess playing my a game, but what changes in terms of stats, although increasing 3 betting is good for most people, I was doing with really bad cards with no playability etc. calling some river spots is also lost me ton of ev. But all and all it is a still small sample because of other factors I couldn't play a lot of hands but only 11k hands total.
When we comes to the May dates between 1 - today here is the results, 7 k hands with 5 bb win rate, we see that preflop ranges little of the charts, decreasing 3 bet and c bet frequencies resulting in less win rate that I supposed to have. I am making a new fresh start to everything, everyday play and everyday studying as well as regular updates here. I am still the same guy who want to crush high stakes and this forum is not going to be closed until I reached it.Now, I want to make a detailed analysis of my game, from start to finish of any mtt, early stages preflop when deepstack is where the most whales are, and the a lot of ev comes from. Against players not 4 betting or taking the passive lines, we should mostly letting our hands go, close to the bubble stage is where actually most players play tight on the flop preflop etc. Basically we should exploit the player pool and not doing what they do in results.

It sounds like you're on the right track with your poker journey. Keep up the dedication to improvement and you'll continue progressing towards your goal.
Keep us updated on your journey!

So Since the last post I played around 16k hands. I tried the increased my aggression in general but still some spots that I should increase. In the upcoming post I will be more focused on these three things.. Check raising flops / resteal and squeeze spots. In terms of preflop especially sub 30 I need to check some spots on the hands on HRC and also I purchased bbz s poker trainers and charts. Although those are equilibrium ranges it is good to start with them as baseline and really really exploit peoples ranges in the game time and checking the hands after, I also add a warm up routine. After going to the gym. I stopped anything what can make me distracted phone friends etc. and then I am playing some hands on bbz trainer checking spots studying charts and fire up my poker brain and playing, just because school is not my first priority. I want to increase the hours that I am grinding. After my session is done. I gave a break and then review though spots. From todays on I will be adding 2 more tables on pokerstars and I am confident that I will be focusing on them and can play my best game every table because 4 table may sometimes feel so slow. For the future post. I am always hoping deeper runs but I am not super concern about the results just for now. my question should always be whether I am better then the last day so grind going well I am happy with my current situation and gym really makes me string person in general. Playing poker and studying feels like going to the gym. just doing what you should do regardless of how you feel. overtime will make a results and those days are add up.