Week 17-20 (1st - 31st Oct):



As already mentioned I did not play much this month on GG or in general.
I felt demotivated because things are not working out at all atm and during the third week of October even started making mistakes for emotional reasons.
So I took the last week off from poker with the intention for a hard reset.








This month I did table select much better by only playing tables with at least one whale -50bb/100 or worse to my right (one of the three seats to my right).
I did not really see an impact in the results but it's also a really small sample.


So we ended up down -1200$ and -1300$ expected.
We got 570$ back in bonuses which leads to a total of -630$ or -730$ expected.

I did play 3 times live this month just for fun which ended up well, winning 2100$.
I also played some NL200 Blitz on WPN which did not go well this month. Probably not good enough to hold myself there, I ended up losing about -3500$ in total (So about 17.5 stacks).

So in total I end up down -2030$ or -2130$ expected.




Only two days positive results, neglecting live results.
This is the worst it has gotten so far. Let's not repeat this one.


Goals for October 2023:
- Focus above 7 in average during a session. (1-10, new stat I track in Excel) Achieved
- Technical application above 7 in average during a session. (Previously called session rating) Achieved
- Study 8h technical stuff per week (GTOW drills, study material, range construction, preflop charts, Pio study etc.) Close but not quiet. Was more like 6-7 hours a week.
- Study 2h mental stuff per week (How can I increase my focus, How can I perform better, How to deal with variance, How to deal with my emotions, Study videos as well) Achieved
- Stick to better table selection for regular tables. Did that for regular tables.
- Keep your daily morning routine (stretching and meditation 20-30min in total) Achieved
- Keep working out twice per week. (Currently a bit a hustle because of my knee injury. So I will list it as a goal since it will be a challenge for me when I can't do the sport I usually do) Not achieved, mainly due to physical health issues but nothing serious. Hope I get back there soon.
- Take two days off this month Achieved.
- Check monetary results only at the end of the week. (The focus has to be playing your A game consistently. Checking results is only a threat to that.) Not achieved. I thought on GG when you hide your balance it stays hidden. But nope, I opens every time I restart GG or even when I want to open RC tables. Really annoying.
- Net winning target for this month is 5k$. Not achieved.


After some discussions I agree that having no fixed days off during the week is not sustainable.
So we will add at least one day off from poker for recovery.


Also from now on we switch the focus from improving as fast as possible to make the most money possible.
This could lead to playing more live or playing 6 card omaha on apps, I am not sure yet how to do that.
But it seems the current pursuit does not really lead to success even though I really tried my hardest.


So we switch our goals a little bit.

Goals for November 2023:

- Solidify your strategy. Don't learn too much new stuff but improve your current strategy and get solid at execution.
- Keep your daily morning routine (stretching, meditation, short walk outside 30-45 minutes).
- Focus on playing when you feel good and want to play. No volume just because it has to be done.
- Take one day off per week.
- 5k$ in profit.


Let's see how this turns out.
Already excited for next month.

Happy Halloween

Tryagain

I started back at Poker about 2 years ago, I was serious a few times but mostly recreational. I have been doing some studying and I got a free month with a poker University and multiple coaches there to converse with. Most are crushers.(they let us watch their live sessions and share their reputation) I also speak with live crushers or professionals and I learned a lot I didn't know before.

I've played some 200 NL and I didn't do so bad. I have also a few Charts that look about where yours look trying to take shots without the respect for my opponents I should have or the deep seeded desire to really take their money. I am seeing that you are in the right mind frame. You are fit... but that isn't enough at this point to crush on-line poker at this point for you. I watched some really great players lose at on-line poker and not high stakes. Some of them have hundreds of thousands. Some are known professionals in the scene.

Something has changed, poker isn't soft anymore. At the limits you're playing I don't think there is as much room for people who aren't crushers. I'd do what you're doing but I'd lower my limit where I win. Win a lot there and then progress upward later.

Live poker is a different animal and much easier to crush. if you beat 1/2 online, you crush 5/10 Live so I'm told. 1 cent 2 cent 1/2 Live. (just reiterating what professionals have told me in these words)

(just it's such a grind now, so many regs, bad regs, RTAers, foreign players trying to grind out a living at lower stakes)

P.S. ACR + GG are about as tough as one another to grind on.

Move down in stakes?

Not to sound like an ass but with that much study, a coach, and all that playtime, you are not running bad, you are just bad at poker. You have to change something if you want to change your results.

+1 dont wanna be rude, but your so god damn right.

Beside that, theres another important factor. I studied mass data analyses for different poker sites and different stakes. GG has by far the lowest avrg. winrate pre-rakeback. The avrg. wr between the regs is even slightly under zero.
So if you even wanna have a chance to survive in the game, you either play reg tables with good table selection, switch to mtt's or switch poker client.

I agree.
I do indeed suck at poker.

After trying to play poker for a living for about 12 months I've decided to go back to a regular job due to the lack of good results.
This is not at all what I really want but it seems that I can't figure out the way to play to make a living out of it.

I will probably play some fast tables here and there and we will see how many hands I will get together.

I stopped tracking my play time, took no more coaching and did not study since November.

So the following results are mostly for the sake of completion.

GG, Nov 2023:


GG, Dez 2023:



GG, Jan 2024:


In 2024 I started to play more on stars again.

Stars, Jan 2024:




I also went through old hands where I got stacked.
I now think there are many punts included. Surely I did not think enough about the actual range of my opponents and rather asked myself if it's a GTO call/shove or not.


So, maybe by thinking more about the actual range of my opponents and using more passive lines on the flop I will find some success.


At the end, I failed.


Greetings

Tryagain

The handful of Crushers these days spend more time in solvers and are likely borderline autistic in the upper stakes. Unless they got some edge like a soft site(which are quickly disappearing) I don't see people winning cash games that function like average human beings psychologically beyond the microstakes which is abc Poker.

The top young guns I've seen that play purely on-line have some sort of Cybernetic like Approach. Their passion is spreadsheets, their passion is databases and people like Charlie Carrel and Viktor Blom don't exist anymore. The poker dream is probably alive for the average human being "live."

GTO + Randomizers + Exploitative Poker = a Math Geniuses dream... You snort that stuff and read it on your toilet paper you can grind out a few BBs per 100.

Maybe ICMizer and MTTs have some hope. They're less brainy and more straightforward. (I know of successful MTT players that don't have GTO running in their veins but for how long?) If the average man can handle the swings and tilt he can make a few hundred bucks a week...on-line

I think this guy is a genuine poker hero whether he thinks it or not. I think he's amazing taking a shot. A lot of people never pursue their dreams!

Totally agree. Fulltime poker is full of risk and not everyone can win, most people is just disapper when the result is bad. He is commite to himslef and have the guts to say "At the end, I failed"

We are all pokerplayer and dreams one day we can do nosebleeds and get tones of money, but not everyone have the courage to do something like this.

Maybe oneday OP will "try again" and the result is different