Week 4 Recap


Greetings,
Fourth week of the blog was filled with high-high and break-even lows. Started the week with biggest winning day ever +499$. Followed it up with few meh days and had work on Friday (much needed because I was getting to lazy and unproductive). Weekend was great. Also big step up for me was trying out 100nl, esp during weekend. Mostly same regs with few exceptions. Also during this week adopted kitten. For next week will have 3 work days and planning to have much lower poker volume and mostly play during weekend. Also during workday morning games have been kinda dead (probably good weather).


Cash: +913,7$
Mtt: -62$ (~15mtt )
RB: +100$
Total: +951,7$




Cash Graph:







Results/Stats:








Session Graph:








Rakeback:









Biggest Win:







HH1: Vs Fish, OTF was not getting direct odds, but I was pretty confident I would get paid if I hit OTT, still need to do some work on implied odds and reverse implied odds. He tanked for 10 sec and called.




Biggest Loss:







HH2: Vs Unknown, need to work on my HU game, did not need to bluff this hand and could have played this as a value hand. Was playing that day like s*** and left quickly after this hand (getting snapped didn't help).




Biggest Bluff:






HH3: Vs Reg, Turn call seems dubious, but once I get there and imo having almost no SDV happy to blast.




Biggest Bluff-catch:





HH4: Vs Aggro-Reg, his story didn't make sense to me and knowing his tendencies decided to call.




Slow-Play:





HH5: Vs Reg, BB was a fish. Don't like 5B 160bb deep and I think calling is much better (as long as the flop isn't QJT) , vs this flop sizing and not having Ac will just put it in.




Calling Station:





HH6: Vs Fish, Have issue in not being able to fold vs obvious value on flush competing boards when they Donk rivers.




Unluckiest:







HH7: Vs Reg, OTF decided to try and play two street strategy. Unsure as this is not my baseline strategy.




Luckiest:






HH8: Vs 2 Fish, happy to be in this amazing pot. Over-call by trips was extra.




Value-Bluff:





HH9: Vs Unknown-Reg, Somehow had 87% OTT. really unsure about my line as this isn't the most commend spot.





Punt:






HH9: Vs Reg, MP was going all-in every hand with under 20bb stack as he was tilting and everybody knew it. Imo Pure punt.




Weirdest spot ever:





HH10: Vs Whale, I was not expecting him to bluff very often,but I was expecting him to over-value Top pair. BTN being reg did not help. Deep time bank call, turn sizing is what I based my decision on as I felt in game as his betting his hand strength.




Biggest Donation:






HH11: Vs unknown, gave him a little to much respect before this hand as he did have nice stack, still weird spot. In few orbits took his nice stack.



MTT spot:









HH12: 18bb efc, busted 9/17. Late reg ended. 1st place was 1,5k€ package to live event and 2nd Place was 1,1k€ cash. 1mil was starting stack. Was gutted.




Goals for Week 4:


1. Gym 1x
Failed, did not feel well enough to go to gym.

2. Start reading MGOP
Failed

3. Study some piled up poker materials
Done, did quite a lot of studying

4. Fully recover
90% Done

5. Set a time limit before sessions
Failed

6. Bink a donkament
Almost binked the most important tournament



Goals for Week 5:
1. Have fun





Thanks for reading.
Any feedback about how I played or things I could do better is much appreciated.

Hello, nice blog and have fun with the kitty

I am interested in the Gym Fail. What do you mean by "not feeling well enough"?

I was sick(common cold) from 15.05.-23.05. and didn't go to work. Goal was to go to the gym one time during last week, but as I was feeling not fully recovered, I failed that goal.

Nice results! Keep pushing!

Hope the cat is a lucky charm

I hope too, for now he's messing my already bad sleep.

May Review


Greetings,
May was great month in therms of poker performance. And not so great in study, health/lifestyle. Have figured out that confidence is one of the main driving factors in my results, so being well studied (confident in my game), will be top priority moving forward. Was skipping work and gym because of being sick. Sleep has been one of the worst ones in many years duo to sickness/ kitten. Also personal life has been very unstable: fixing health, gf losing her job, getting used to kitten, having to work in very hot weather.

Plan for the following month is to take control of my life and fix most of the problems, so I can start saving money for the time I leave my job. Have better structured study plan. Have fun.


Results/Graphs:






RB: +325$ (+25$ of it Welcome bonus)
MTT/Spins: -155,76$
Total: +2270,24$


Achieved ~25% of set goals above, moving forward won't be setting specific goals for following months.



Thanks for reading.
Any feedback about how I played or things I could do better is much appreciated.

nice - looks like a heater, but even so seems like you're crushing despite seemingly being fairly near the beginning of studying/practicing... How do you find the NL100SH tables on party? What are the regs like?

Thanks,
Played 100nl only at the best times of the day, so had 1-2 fishes per table... With half of the regs I played before at 50nl and few even at 25nl. And for the rest of the regs, too early to tell, did not see anything crazy good but small sample.

Week 5 Recap


Greetings,
Fifth week was worst one yet. Took Monday off and play local live 10€ which I min-cashed. Had work in very unpleasant conditions +25 C* (Thursday, Wednesday, Friday). Play like s**t on Saturday. And played pretty good imo on Sunday. During the week also played on IPoker as I got deal for 35% flat rake back and there are few leader-boards that take little effort to get in the money. But had very hard time adjusting to software, spent many hours trying to use table helpers to improve play-ability but with little success.

For the following week will be take it very slow as I have dentist on Thursday and work 3 days in a row. Hope to get in some action during weekend.



Cash: -358,84$
Mtt: 0
RB: +55$ (17,5€ Ipoker)
Total: -303,84$ (will combine $ and € for simplicity reasons)





Cash Graph:








Results/Stats:








Session:









Rakeback:









Biggest Win:







HH1: Vs Fish, cant remember his hand... but if he cashed-out for 40$ I assume he had AQo.




Biggest Loss/Blunder:







HH2: Vs Reg, flop sizing is s**t but I like turn and river. Been struggling with 3B pot OOP and working on it atm.




Unlucky:






HH3: Vs Aggro-Fish, wanted to fast play.




Biggest Bluff-catch:





HH4: Vs Aggro-Fish, have note that this guys does weird s**t.




Goals for Week 5:

1. Have fun
Failed Losing is not that fun and trying to adjust to Ipoker software was really tilting.




Goals for Week 6:
1. Play when feeling ready
2. Take it slow





Thanks for reading.
Any feedback about how I played or things I could do better is much appreciated.

Hey man, great thread! I feel your pain about new software, can be quite tilting. GL!

Week 6 Recap


Greetings,
Sixth week of the blog was a roller coaster. Started out fine with playing small amount on Monday and Tuesday but already with some tilting problems that caused some unnecessary losses. Then had 3 work days in a row. Saturday was fine ran pretty bad but whatever, also came 3rd out of 21 in a local live mtt (70€ PKO) for extra 200€ profit. But on Sunday second session mental crashed and I went full bananas, blasting every spot possible and trying to take my anger out on everyone... after two hours of carnage was happy to be down only 30$


Made some important changes, New chair (was playing while laying at bed for the last few weeks,because my back was in pain from my old chair). Withdrew all my money from IPoker, tried it out was not a fan of software and field seemed full of boring rake-back grinders.



Cash: +26,55$
Mtt: +200€
RB: +50$
Total: +276,55$




Cash Graph:







Results/Stats:









Session:








Rakeback:










Biggest Win/Luckiest:






HH1: Vs 2 Fish, happy to stack of so good vs full-stack fish.



Biggest Loss:






HH2: Vs Nit-Reg, played a lot vs this guy and I guess my reputation has caught on to me(will adjust).




Unlucky:






HH3: Vs Fish, sometime they do pair the board for the good guys.





Biggest Bluff-catch:





HH4: Vs Fish, He snapped all-in OTR and imo that make his less likely to have flush.




Biggest bluff:






HH5: Vs Loose-Whale, I really hate bluffing fishes/whales. had a good feeling he gets here with super wide range, still unsure if I should ever do this against loose-fishes/whale.




Hero-Call:






HH6: Vs bluff-heavy Fish, this guy was trying to win every hand... Playing very wide range and never stop betting.




Big-Bluff:






HH7: Vs solid Reg, imo great spot to blast as his calling range is really narrow.




Mega Punt






HH8: This was at the peak of my tilt vs guy that caused it. Basically decided if his playing too wide pre/post and bluffing everything I'm going to F this guy up and just go for it in this hand.







Goals review of Week 6:

1. Play when feeling ready
LOL

2. Take it slow
LMAO




Goals for Week 7:
1. Work on my mental
2. Improve my preflop ranges
3. Play from table only








Thanks for reading.
Any feedback about how I played or things I could do better is much appreciated.

The first queens guy was having none of it haha. Nut full house into a straight flush... nasty.

You went with your read and the A7dd call worked out but it seems like a play that would be torching most of the time in my opinion. As you saw with that last one even aggro fish still make hands sometimes.

I notice a lot of your bluffs don't have a whole lot of backdoor equity and are really relying on folds. This means that if you're called you don't have any outs other than blasting. Sometimes that works but sometimes it doesn't. Maybe being a bit more selective with bluffing hands will help?

Hopefully the new chair really helps out and damn that's a cute cat. Keep up the good work man!

"full bananas" always make me laugh Glad you were able to do some damage control. Work on mental is what needs to be done!

GL!

Thanks, Captain.

Weak/Strong Mental is the difference between losing and crushing( for me), so will be paying a lot of attention and working to improve it.



Thanks, Aussie.

Agree that this call is tourching vs 95% of the players, but vs this guy imo it's profitable as he was carelessly bluffing anything and also (if I remember correctly) had different sizing for value and bluffs. Had a really strong read in this hand and snapped him.
This hand happened 10min before hand in question...Tanked call, just because I lose to some Ax bluffs, shame we choped.


You could be right, as I do enjoy making big calls/bluffs. Also the bluffs you see are the biggest ones and to be included they have to be all-in(kinda), so otr I try to choose the ones that unbluck folds(fd or straight draws etc) that might be the case why it looks like im pure blasting, idk.

That A5s hand is not something I usually do but seemed like a nice spot to do it, as imo his folding quite a lot and I have never seen him trapping pre(2 months).