Hey all! I've been playing poker for around 4 years on off. I have been small winner at NL10/NL20 reg tables. I have won around 3k€ with 6bb/100 at NL20 and 13bb/100 NL10 over these years. My problem has been that I'm way too passive. That has not been a problem at NL10 since my pool is full of loose fish but at NL20 I already have been in trouble. My goal for this year is play poker alongside my uni studies and learn to play aggressive and very exploitatively.

2021 results (missing some untracked sites for around 400€profit)


That was last year but my redline was horrible and felt that I was crushed at NL20 despite we won some money there. From now on I'm starting my grind again from NL5z/regtables and I'm trying to build my game a better foundation so that I will be able to keep up at higher stakes.

Played some today and yesterday and its going like this so far.


So yeah all good to you guys. I will be posting here when I feel like it. I will try to keep this updated at least weekly.

Thanks for reading! See ya!

Good luck! Subbed

Hope you achieve your goals

Its the second post in this blog and I already changed my plans. Doesn't sound too good . But yeah, NL5 fast was too boring: high rake, boring, cant make basically any money there. At least in NL10 I can make some $€ while learning this game.

Okay so I decided to grind my usual stake which is NL10 reg tables. The goal is to improve my redline there while improving the win rate as well. 13bb/100 is my goal at NL10 which should be achievable. After 200+€ profit at NL10 for this year I will try to take a shot at NL20 again. Aim is to make it happen next week so I can play NL20 Friday / Saturday when games are the softest.

Below listed my all goals for this year 2022.
1. 7bb/100 winrate at NL20
2. Establish as NL50 reg somewhere around Q3-Q4.
3. 200k hands at very least.
3. 2500€ profit (last year 1500€ w/ around 120k hands)

YTD Graph


I've been flipping poorly but so is poker sometimes. Lets catch up that orange later I have started working with my redline at around 9K mark.

Thanks mate! All the best for your pokerz as well

Week starting off well! Aggression is really paying off so far. Such a fu**ing nits people at NL10 lol.

WEEK


MTD

!Purple line is winnings + RB if u wondering

I will try to keep aggression momentum when I'm shotting NL20 at Friday! Hopefully, more aggression is key for me to finally beat that stake with >7bb winrate. See you at weekend, I gonna then share how the NL20 shot went!

Really good stuff man, you're absolutely printing at NL10 this month. I'm currently also on that grind, if you want to shoot the **** over some hands, I've got a space in my Discord for it, would be good to get some more people at my level in there.

Maybe post some hands to this blog as well for people to go through? Subbed.

Thanks mate! Sure I will join to your discord group. Always beneficial to discuss some hands!

Not sure tough if I will post too much hand histories in this blog. I play extremely exploitable style and my hand histories often makes 0 sense in "theory" point of view. Against good regs I'm trying to play balanced strategy and those are the hands I could discuss here but there are not too many regs at NL10 I can't exploit somehow.

Doesn't have to be a long GTO Theory post. You could make a point of explaining why you went for your exploitative strategy (the reads you had, what that means, and how to exploit those tendencies). I think people (myself included) have a tendency to be a little tooGTO-focused, meaning we miss out on certain spots. Thanks for joining the Discord though, hopefully over time we can get a good group going in there!

Had some interesting / funny hands this session which I can share:

H1: Got max value I guess?

€0.10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 100 BB
SB: 47.7 BB
BB: 118 BB
UTG: 34.5 BB
Hero (MP): 113.7 BB
CO: 109.8 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

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

Flop: (5.5 BB, 2 players) 6 4 T
BB checks, Hero bets 1.8 BB, BB raises to 5.4 BB, Hero calls 3.6 BB

Turn: (16.3 BB, 2 players) 7
BB bets 6 BB, Hero raises to 16 BB, BB calls 10 BB

River: (48.3 BB, 2 players) 5
BB checks, Hero checks

Hero shows A A (One Pair, Aces)
(Pre 78%, Flop 76%, Turn 80%)
BB shows 9 T (One Pair, Tens)
(Pre 22%, Flop 24%, Turn 20%)
Hero wins 45.1 BB


H2: Max value again by inducing ?
€0.10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 3 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 117.1 BB
SB: 108.3 BB
Hero (BB): 100 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A 8

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

Flop: (5 BB, 2 players) J 3 2
SB checks, Hero checks

Turn: (5 BB, 2 players) 7
SB checks, Hero checks

River: (5 BB, 2 players) 7
SB checks, Hero bets 1 BB, SB raises to 8 BB, Hero calls 7 BB

SB shows K T (One Pair, Sevens)
(Pre 43%, Flop 26%, Turn 14%)
Hero shows A 8 (One Pair, Sevens)
(Pre 57%, Flop 74%, Turn 86%)
Hero wins 19.6 BB


H3: What do u think about this bluff. I was trying to get his Ax to fold here (which I think he did). We also block AT and AQ which are villains most likely Ax calling hands. I can see myself taking this line also w/ nuts.
€0.10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

UTG: 100 BB
MP: 135 BB
Hero (CO): 123.7 BB
BTN: 93.6 BB
SB: 99.7 BB
BB: 90.4 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, MP raises to 2.5 BB, Hero calls 2.5 BB, fold, fold, fold

Flop: (6.5 BB, 2 players) K T 3
MP bets 4.6 BB, Hero calls 4.6 BB

Turn: (15.7 BB, 2 players) 9
MP checks, Hero checks

River: (15.7 BB, 2 players) A
MP bets 7.8 BB, Hero raises to 29.7 BB, fold

Hero mucks T Q (One Pair, Tens)

Hero wins 29.3 BB

As a general rule, I don't think you ever wanna minbet. You're either laying pot odds for a really loose call, or you're going to end up getting raised off a lot of things, like SB attempted here. Do you play on iPoker by the way? We may be in the same pool.

Yeah I lay good pot odds but that's the point. I was confident that I have the best hand here almost always (reads). Often these situations occur and you can either check and win or minbet and get 1bb of value from V (bonus sometimes you induce them). These fish pay 1bb with basically any hand. They just want to see ur hand. Just try it out and you will see. His raise made no sense and I snap called. Some times he has 7 but I would say 90% of the time I'm ahead. But as I said earlier, my play is extremely exploitable and these hands do not make a lot of sense to others. But this is how I have won over 10bb/100 at micros.

I play on 2 sites and I do play in your pool as well. We probably play little different times though since I checked ur latest stream and I ended my sesh about when u started yours.

Hey goodluck with your journey ! I also have a problem with my redline do you have any tips to improve my red line ?? do you bluff more? and how did you become better at it ?

Looks like you are doing pretty well. It is nice to compare the gto solver based player vs exploitative player to see who ends up better results. GL grinding.

Day's session over. Was a pretty swingy day. Made one bad bluff which was quite annoying. I was not happy with myself so took a 15min break and managed to come to a profit once again. Month is now over 300€ mark which is nice! Hopefully, this will be my final week playing NL10 ever and I can make the transition to NL20+. Below daily graph.


Thanks mate!

For me it took 2 years to really understand the fundamentals of red line. If you just blindly bluff more your redline will go up but the blue line will come down. In my case hugely losing redline was often due too passive playstyle. My tip for you is that do lower your table count if you are multi-tabling and really focus on every single spot. If you usually just check/call this river situation X without much thinking: stop, and think about all your possibilities. You can check/call, check/fold, check/raise, donk multiple sizings etc. Try to find out highest EV line against that particular opponent. That's pretty much how I become better -- and my redline became better as well. Just think every spot through. Autopiloting is the major problem for most people and it often leads to situation where you miss a lot of spots.

It looks like our SDV has turned into a pumpkin on the river.
And we have no better choice than to turn this hand into a bluff against the right opponent.

Great results!
GL!

Added to the "best poker tips" section in my notebook

How are you getting pink line in your PT4 graph?

Thanks! Much appreciated

Downloaded some rakeback stat from https://www.pokertracker.com/custom/stats. Required some changes to rakeback values to make it suitable for my use. Once you have imported that stat into your PT4 you can open the stat and see its values and if there is for instance ".40" as default, you can change there what RB you are getting. I guess you can google better instructions if needed

Pretty solid day once again. 1200ish hands, 24€ profit, 38€ EV. Starting from tomorrow, its NL20 only and 5bi shot. Hopefully I manage to dodge doomswitch (last year lost 10bi in 850hands) and get comfortable there. Roll atm pretty close to 500€.

Hopefully I don't need to come back to NL10 tables. Its pretty played through at this point. Easy money but quite boring.

NL10 REG tables all-time


I will be back at weekend! If you don't hear from me... I'm busto. Obv.

Time to switch to live and play it all at 2/4

Quick update on NL20 shot

Jinxed it yesterday.. We didn't dodge doomswitch. Could have been worse tough. 2771hands, -1,5bi, -4,5bi ev. Got absolutely destroyed. Nits raising every turns and rivers when I had overpair/TP and had to fold. Nits calling 2 streets big bets and donking flushing rivers.. Pretty basic sh*t run. Lost a lot of preflop setups as well but won some with low equity so therefore run above EV.

There were 3 regs using exactly same opening size (2,15) while others use mainly 2,5 and 3. These guys had almost identical stats as well. Was quite suspicious since iPoker is known of found bots. I also noticed that these regs almost like avoided playing against each other. Was very weird.

Not sure what to do next. I have still 8,5bi left at my shot but probably going to continue some other site. Its hard to play A game and be a bit suspicious at the same time. Anyway, pretty much break-even day after RB and welcome bonus cash.

Thanks for reading, see ya!

It's been really frustrating couple of days at NL20. Running like sh*t but hopefully, it will turn around soon. MTD is something like +200€ and +340€ EV and like 60€ of rakeback.

Last couple of days playing my NL20 shot


Positive: Been playing really really well in my opinion last few days. Learned to play better against regs for sure. Unfortunately lot of coolers but I can already see the sun somewhere there!

January 2022 update

So it's time for January update! Games went overall okay and made successful transition from NL10 to NL20. A bit of runbad at NL20 at the start and some buy-ins under EV but all good. Results were actually better what I thought I can have with very limited time to play.

Last day grinding in January was very good and played my A++ game. Made great hero folds and valueowned fish.


There was one interesting hand I could have played better but IMO played it still decently since when cards are dealt other way around I stack him. My intuition told to fold at flop since V was ubernit who folded too much every spot and bet only strong. His donk was very value heavy and had donk flop 3% with decent sample. I doubt he 3bets me flop with 65 so I almost folded already OTF. At turn I was trying to do some sort of block/protection/value/information bet. Value from 65 if he ever has that and I was ready to fold to raise + I can check back all rivers unless he donks it again. Managed to limit losses here quite well in my opinion.
iPoker - €0.20 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

CO: 199.85 BB
Hero (BTN): 250.65 BB
SB: 166.3 BB
BB: 44.3 BB
UTG: 101.45 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 2 2

fold, fold, Hero raises to 2.5 BB, SB calls 2 BB, BB calls 1.5 BB

Flop: (7.5 BB, 3 players) 6 5 2
SB bets 5.6 BB, fold, Hero raises to 16.2 BB, SB raises to 39.8 BB, Hero calls 23.6 BB

Turn: (87.1 BB, 2 players) T
SB checks, Hero bets 25 BB, SB calls 25 BB

River: (137.1 BB, 2 players) 8
SB checks, Hero checks

Hero mucks 2 2 (Three of a Kind, Twos)
(Pre 19%, Flop 10%, Turn 2%)
SB shows 5 5 (Three of a Kind, Fives)
(Pre 81%, Flop 90%, Turn 98%)
SB wins 132.95 BB

And then the monthly graph! Lets keep this going in February and shot taking @ NL50 !
January 2022 results + 60€ rakeback


Thanks for reading and GL to your grinds as well!

Great start for February! Played B+ cuz for some reason I was a little bit distracted but most importantly, we FINALLY hit the run good! Lets smash this month and shot NL50 at the end of it.
GLGLGLGL

Month update: February 2022

Sick run still going strong! Playing well IMO but not this well obviously . Starting roll at January was 200€ and now we are 980ish€. Withdraw 150€ for IRL stuff so roll is 830€ atm. When roll hits 1000€ we shot NL50 with 4bi stoploss! Below some hands aswell.

RunGood Inc. (month so far graph)


Some hands

H1: this might be a bit controversial. So first of all: I just called it because 3bettor was extremely tight (18/13/4) and played post-flop very straight forward. So mainly was thinking that I pretty much know the situation all the time with this guy post even OOP and I can avoid loosing stack vs KK/AA and possibly even bluff him off better hand. Okay, we called pre and its HU. Flop standard call. Opinons turn? I was thinking that this donk jam looks weird and he might even call us down with QQ/KK. He is nitty af pre but still going to showdowns pretty happily (30%). I kinda assumed he never has FD here. Don't know tho.

iPoker - €0.20 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

CO: 126.85 BB
BTN: 201.35 BB
SB: 141.75 BB
BB: 35 BB
UTG: 105.25 BB
Hero (MP): 101.5 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, Hero raises to 2.5 BB, CO calls 2.5 BB, BTN raises to 12 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 9.5 BB, fold

Flop: (28 BB, 2 players) A A 8
Hero checks, BTN bets 14 BB, Hero calls 14 BB

Turn: (56 BB, 2 players) 2
Hero bets 75.5 BB, BTN calls 75.5 BB

River: (207 BB, 2 players) 4

Hero shows K A (Three of a Kind, Aces)
(Pre 75%, Flop 80%, Turn 86%)
BTN shows Q A (Three of a Kind, Aces)
(Pre 25%, Flop 20%, Turn 14%)
Hero wins 202 BB
Rake paid 5 BB


H2: had to stop session after this punt. Was too frustrated with myself. UTG is reg and MP is loose "call down with any pair" station. Those factors taken into consideration I should have not lost stack here. Stupid stupid stupid...
iPoker - €0.20 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

UTG: 116.2 BB
MP: 72.75 BB
CO: 308.7 BB
Hero (BTN): 100 BB
SB: 118.5 BB
BB: 39.1 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB, CO posts penalty blind 1.5 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 3 BB) Hero has A A

UTG raises to 3 BB, MP calls 3 BB, fold, Hero raises to 11 BB, fold, fold, UTG calls 8 BB, MP calls 8 BB

Flop: (36 BB, 3 players) 8 4 Q
UTG checks, MP checks, Hero bets 14 BB, UTG raises to 29 BB, fold, Hero raises to 89 BB, UTG calls 60 BB

Turn: (214 BB, 2 players) 5

River: (214 BB, 2 players) 3

UTG shows 8 8 (Three of a Kind, Eights)
(Pre 20%, Flop 87%, Turn 95%)
Hero mucks A A (One Pair, Aces)
(Pre 80%, Flop 13%, Turn 5%)
UTG wins 209 BB
Rake paid 5 BB

H1:
I think we'll make more money against QQ/KK by checking the turn and betting the river.
Against Ax we will stack anyway.

Nice results!
Keep it up and GL!

Yeah you might be right..

Thanks!