ive always wondered how awsome it would be to play poker for a living but i feel like online poker nowadays requires a crazy amount of skill to grind out a liveable profit in todays game. im not saying im not willing to put in the work i just feel like it would be much more profitable (and fun) to play live in a casino. the only things stopping me are bankroll and skill. so i thought it would be a good idea to get some hands in online and plug some leaks that i have before transitioning to live play. considering how bad the average live player is i dont think i would need to be able to beat that high of stakes to be able to take those same skills to the casino and be a winner. i was thinking that if i can beat micro stakes online then i would be able to beat 200nl live and most likely 500 nl as well. so my goal for this blog is to share with yall my progress from 2nl to 10nl by talking strategy and posting some hand historys that im having trouble with for some discussions and hopefully by the time my bankroll is ready to take shots at 1/2 live i will already be a winning 10nl player with the skills to crush the live fish.
About Me: i am a 19 year old whos been obsessed with poker for the past couple years.
ive played about 100 hours of live poker since turning 18 but havent had much success due to skill/bankroll. i havent been keeping track of my results up untill now but i would assume that ive made a couple hundred dollars in profit so far.
im currently working a crappy fast food job making minimum wage at about 20 hours a week. so i have all the time in the world to study and grind. especially since im living with my mom and dont have any living expenses as of right now.
i dont own a computer or have internet at home so the only way to study or grind is on the library computer on betcoin.ag this is the only poker site that ive found that doesnt require you to download anything which the library computer would not allow.
Goals: 1) my first goal is to put 40 dollars in bitcoin onto my poker account on betcoin within the week so that i can start playing 2nl with a 20 buy in starting bankroll
2)my second goal is to get a personal computer as well as an internet connection set up at my house so that i can play at any time. and on a site that allows hud like hm2 so that i can study my hands better. this will probly happen within 4 weeks from now.
3)my third goal is to get ATLEAST 10,000 hands in every month single tabling. this is going to be pretty hard to track while im playing on betcoin so im going to need to switch sites fairly quickly. the reason i am choosing to single table is because i would really like to focus on the quality of each hand that i play rather than quality and especially since when i transition to live play i will always be single tabling. once i get used to online more and can get reads on my opponents more quickly i might consider 2 tabling
4)my fourth goal is to make it to 10nl as quickly as possible because i have played some 2nl here and there after after winning a couple freerolls on betcoin and in my opinion players at these stakes play like they dont care if they win or lose. which is undertandable when each pot is about the cost of a gumball lol. the only reason im playing online is to prepare me for live where most of the players actually care about the game and arent going to open shove every single hand just for the lols. even though 10nl is played for way less money than 200 nl live is i feel like its the most similar to 200 as im going to find online.
5) and my fifth and final goal is to save up as much money as possible while playing online so that i will be able to take a shot at 200 when i feel i am ready. im thinking maybe 10 buy ins should be a good starting point for my first shot. i know this is a small bankroll but im planning on taking a week off of work so that if i go busto i can start my job back up again and rebuild to an appropriate bankroll 20-30 buy ins.

So wish me luck guys and if you have any advice for me feel free to let me know!

First of all good luck with your goals...
It is going to be a big journey to become a pro with many difficulties in the future. I wish you to find the courage to go through all these and succeed in all your goals.
I am also trying to live from poker as a pro and hope to get there some time.
In order this to happen we should always keep learning, keep being focused and never give up.
GL

thanks for the words of encouragement bro. staying focused is going to be the biggest factor on me succeding or not. i tried to improve my game a couple months ago and i feel like i made a lot of progress but got distracted with other stuff in life and now i feel like i am back where i started. i bought this 6 month training program called pokerzion. it was created by john anhalt. the guy who made leak buster and a bunch of other training software. basically it plans out 24weekly lessons for you that are designed to take you from a complete begginer to a solid abc player. i took one month and scimmed through the program and forgot about it. know that im refocusing on poker im definetely going to go through the program again, take some notes and discuss some of the things i learned on here.
the lesson plan for week two is on preflop play. in the training video that i watched it was suggested that i make a dynamic hand range one for good table conditions and one for bad table conditions. im curious to know what your range would look like for a microstakes table.
Also what do you think about playing small pocket pairs in early position from the blinds or utg. do you limp in to set mine or would you take the intiative and raise them?

Also, what do you guys think about blind stealing at 2nl. does the average 2nl player fold there blinds enough to make this profitable?

i don't get the two conditions range?
what do you mean by that?
The range you have can't be different from any situation to any other...
in a 6max cash game i raise every pair from every position (as long everyone folded before me ofcourse). In a 9max table i fold all the low pairs utg and i add 55 44 on utg+1 and i open raise them all on utg+2.
Limping is not an option since only fishes do so. You ll get isolated every time and you ll lose a ton of pots just by folding a cbet on the flop.
About blind stealing: not only at 2nl but in most of the games I think they don' t defend as much as they should from BB so you have to do it often. I raise at least 40% from the button and 30 to 40% from sb (that depends on the player on my left, 30 if he defends more and 40+ if he is a nit)
My preflop ranges are the same if i play 2nl or 100nl maybe I add a few more 3bet bluffs in 100nl but no big differences.
ofcourse i take for granted that you have 100bbs and you automatically reload to 100 when you have less.
I hope I helped...

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What i mean is im planning on altering my hand range depending on how my opponents are playing at the table. For example, a "bad table" would be if i have loose aggresive opponents to my left than i will tighten my hand range and a "good table" would be if i was playing with very passive opponents in which case i would have a wider range than the "bad table". The reason im seperating them into two different ranges is because due to my lack of experience i dont know if i would be able to tighten/widen my range appropriately in diffrent situations. Thats why im writing it down before hand so i dont deviate too much from the hands i think i should be playing while at the same time remain flexible to the situation. im probly a fish compared to you lol. But id have to disagree with what you said about ranges not being diffrent in any type of situation. I feel like some hands might be more profitable to play than other hands due to table dynamics and opponent tendencies. Unless theres something im just not understanding about ranges.

Firstly we are not trying to find out who's better here and give him a medal but to improve ourselves.
I think that what you are trying to say and i totally agree is that someone' s plays must adjust to the players on the table and use an explotative strategy. Then sure you ll play differently against various opponents but you can't have a second range. What might need to happen sometime is to tighten or loosing the range you have in case someone 3bets a lot or whatever but again the postflop play is more important in those situations.

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