Might have lied a bit in the title of the thread as it's not really intented to be documenting a crushing journey to mid/HS, rather than blog just to keep a trace of my objectifs and goals. Also i like this kinda of thread so i figured i should do one at some point. Other reason is i realized overtime that i tend to be more motivated, grinding more, studying more etc when i get to document it (even just post results). Also i'm bad at actually setting myself concrete goals (altho i have vague ones in mind). Sooo obviously.. Don't really have a challenge or anything going on right now, and it's kinda weird time to open a blog as it's end of the year, and iwill be off poker soon for few times (fiestas and IRL stuff). But whatever as i don't have timeframe in mind for that blog
But appart from that everything else is true, certified randomly clicking buttons reg who work toward grinding an actual good yearly income. Play mainly 200nl on french skin of party and tried ACR recently to have more table/play z200 when FR is dead). DO LOVE GRAPHS. Have been playing full time for 2 years already (including a huge break this year, might explain later. Have played a bit of everything/sites stakes mainly 100 the first year and 200 last year) 25, living in Mexico, from France (english might be poor at times). Do work on my game recently with to very good (imo) french regs and have implemented lots of new stuff recently so fairly confident i'll up my evbb (net will probably well over as i'm a certified luckbox in poker and life)
Not really sure yet what % of IRL in this blog, prob less than 10%. Feel free to ask anything tho (IRL or poker)

So yeah i guess i should start with a few graphs.

month so far (swinggy swinggy but winning double what i should helps lul). Also had some promotions and load of rakeback so really good month so far.


Results since i got back to poker seriously around end of october (but had a trip to France planned with GF of around a month) so approx last 2 month. So results are kinda bad considering i play in fairly easy environnement and not putting in insane volume. For my defense i came back to poker after an approx 3 month break where i barely played and didn't study at all (irl stuff + cfp coach breaking contract after like 4 month but pretty long story + downswing so yeah i was really not loving poker so much at that time)
Wasn't joking with that heatertho, i should really not post EV line lul
Result are really meh at ACR but sample meaningless so we will see! (I've played a bit of everysites and it seems like an ok option to complete fr site).



I guess that's it ! Will post graph as i enjoyed them and i figured "if i can't do this fkn notlookingatthegraphforXdays thing i might aswell share with other graph enjoyerz.
See you

So as i was thinking about opening a blog for a while and basically did it while still unsure about how to do so (meaning how much strat do i get into, if i reveal SN etc). decided it will probably more interesting/spicy to post at least red/blue line. Probably the regs that i play who care will understand who am i but whatever, i won't share so much on current strats and mostly share HH vs recreationnal or std big pots. Might get me some random calldowns too haha
So here it's how it is for last 2 months


Played a pretty good sesh in the morning at z200


Few big/funnys hands:
Recrea not interest in taking all of my money


Some non believing going wrong

Lesson is "loose 3bets gets you nuts" : got that


No idea how to post HH and they get in 2+2 format from H2N, doesn't seem to work to just copy past HH.

Probably done for the day for poker ! On to irl stuffs

GL man. I havr subbed..

How are the games on ACR? Bonusses. Rakeback etc?

I'd say reg tables (mainly played 200-400) pretty reggish/z200 too but effective rake is very low (esp if you play high/good volume obv). Don't have much more than a feel so far tho as didn't have played a lot there and variance is so so underestimated I feel (might get back to that later)
They have a 100% deposit bonus up to 2k if you deposit in crypto too

in gl, where are you staying in Mexico?

Your redline seems a bit on the nitty side.... Might want to try being a bit more aggresive xdddddd

Ty!
Staying in Playa del Carmen ♥️


Yeah. Btw I'm like "teh most aggroless" guy irl. Not sure why I became this maniac at the tables.

man pics seem sick, you got me hyped to go man!!

looks amazing man..

looks amazing man..

Yeah, actually 2 of the 3 pics or from Holbox, but Mexico overall is amazing to live in. Super good vibe people, beautiful country.


Back to poker, I'm thinking about actual goals for 2023 (as it's the purpose of this thread), and probably my main focus will be about improving my comprehension of the game using quasi exclusively PIO and flopzilla. GTOwizard great tool but doesn't help you as much as PIO at getting better understanding of the game imo.

In.

Ty
In b4 OP broke: "He lived and die with 56 wwsf"

Joyeux Noël

So main poker goals for 2023 are to make money, and really improve at the game. Sounds easy right?
I want to aim for 100k in 2023.
High number and i won't beat myself up if i end up not succeeding. I'm thinking around 700k hh probably .FR only. Because realistically that's where i'll do more money. ACR seems tougher, field way stickier too. So probably around 700k if i play mainly 100-200, might be i bit less if i can get myself to play 200-600nl nd cut nl100. Would like to maintain high winrate, something like 5evbb. I know i ran hot until now (both net and ev), so my evbb isn' sustainable longterme if i keep playing as i do. Obviously plan is to improve through the year. Also all of the abose is subjected to variance so that's less a goal than a rough idea of my EV for the year if i crush my poker goals.
In terms of improving i plan to work a minimum of 10 hours every week off the tables. Work 3 times a week with 2 other grinder for 1,5 to 3hours each time so basically my minimum work is showing up prepared for those every week. I value this working group because it's functionning great and i see us really improve through months. On the side i want to get myself back to work on pio on a daily basis as i feel when well-used it's the best poker tool by huge margin.
I'll report monthly on here. Migh be more but don't wan't to commit to the weekly reports, and it doesn't add much imo.

That's it for goals, will be off poker from now until probably around the 15 of january, so next updates prob around end of january

Hey there!
Lil update:
My month/year just started a 2-3 days ago as i was off for holidays. Wasn't so much fun as life isn't always what you'd like it to be. GF was planned to get a surgery, and it was cancelled like 48 hours before for some very weird reasons, prob because really they missed some material or space for her and she wasn't at risk of death so other were prioritized over her. Obv they only tell you that once you have rented a house near the hospital, made the 5h drive to get there etc etc. She was waiting a very long time (litteraly years of not being able to work) for this and it has been very hard to swallow. But anyway, **** happens for a reason and we gonna find a way to make it happen (meaning gather the money and go private way lol). Also it was a humbling experience to hear stories from other people who were waiting that day in the hospital. Lots of them already had experienced the same, some multiple times. Coming from France i had this idea that public hospital is a mess, is slow, but it does work. Not the case really in Mexico, and so probably even worse in looots of places in the world. It's obvious and everybody knows it, but living it for the first time really was something.

On to poker, i have already played a bit. Very unhappy with overall quality of play and my way of handling it. First of all i came back from a week of no poker and just randomly launched a sesh playing 8 tables without even warming up for 30s. That's obv terrible and that's really something i need to work on.
I'm almost always motivated to grind, and i have passion for grinding. In my beginnigs in poker i was fascinated with the game and was litteraly living for poker, thinking about it non-stop. Not exactly the same these days, as it became my job, but i still have this motivation to put it the hours, so that's very very important i think and i must cherish it, but also learn to control myself and try to prepare myself better before sesh just to avoid spewing from brain just not being ready to think correctly.
So yeah played poorly, but ran very hot (it seems i just can't loose allins on the last like 100kh so that's feel pretty nice obv)


Also i bought a very nice computer ( i9, 32gb ram and other impressive caracteristics i don't really understand/remember), just don't have it yet as it's coming all the way from Hong Kong, to France, and then my best friend is gonna send it to me to Mexico. Quite a trip, i just hope it's gonna arrive here in one piece.
Can't wait to receive this beauty and get back on the pio grind. Also i wanna start using more h2n as i feel it's just an awesome tool and i don't exploit it enough.

So yeah, that's it for now, goals for the end of the month is to keep playing mainly 100-200 and got back to my routines. I really want to let 100nl behind me and only grind 200+ but i need to grow my roll a lot more before that, as i feel downswings at 400-600 just hit me too hard for it to be reasonnable at the moment. Also as i have a very high std dev so my sessions/weeks/month are very swinggy and i realized recently i need to be way more rolled than i thought before to be confortable playing my degenerate gameplay at 400-600

So yeah, off to grind now, will probably update frequently in coming days as i feel it helps me in some way to write all of this down.
Will post a few wtf HH

Random hands:

good boiii


Very spewy, esp with my degenerate image. Really don't need to be that disrespectfull and try to make him fold flushes, just bet 3/4 and make him fold anything else have to be way way better


well not this time


Very sad for me, but even more for vilain who just checked this to SD (???)


Old one but i had to brag it at some point lol


That's it for today!

Bonus is the view i get when i'm on a proper sleep schedule and on time for sunrise

Bonus is the view i get when i'm on a proper sleep schedule and on time for sunrise


Looks like as Coco beach. Very nice place. I live nearby.

GL with your progress.

That's a lot of posts for one day but i just have to share this

Hey there !

A bit about january:
So results wise it started really good and then ended up veeeeery bad lol. I had an almost 40bi EV down middle of the month. I think i got some kind of weird winner's tilt. Feeling like i'm entlited to win every session, almost every hand. Result is i ended up not thinking str8 and only in terms of "yeah, can't call, so i'll raise because people overfold every line right", ended up being super spewy. Also played a bit too much of 400-600 after saying i shouldn't really without having a bigger roll sooooo yeah poker wise not the best month. Played a bit of untracked too, didn't do too to well there but i'll play it again in future for sure cause it's really soft.
Played around 50k hands which is decent considering i started the month on the 10th


IRL went well for second part of the month tho. GF is gonna have the surgery, i met el famoso KidCudi from here, v nice guy, started putting some organization and structure to my life so i'd say it has been still a productive month. Also stopped smoking weed completely since a few days, was hard at the beginning with the obvious lack of dopamine but now i feel better and i'd like to keep weed like super super occasionnal. Not an easy task when you have access to good weed for low price but heh, nothing's easy.

Going back on why i made this blog : Have said i needed more structure and putting myself concrete goals. Didn't do any of this in January altho i had an idea for overall year. So end of the month i've worked on this. I think i found a nice way of dividing goals for the year into concrete goals for each month (then for each week).
So in Notion organised my self to get an entire view of the year which looks like this:

So that's February for example, still need to modify a bit but gives an idea:

So like every month is a "project" and then when I complete months goals i report them in Year overall and i can see my progress over the course of the year.
Super happy i found a way to do that as i feel it's gonna help me a ton.
And to track my goals on a daily basis and make sure i complete them i made this habit tracker:

And for obvious reasons it's very good too, can't fool yourself with this.
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That's it for now will post updated goals for february in a day or 2.

TLDR; Very happy with January even if results where bad because i think i learned a lot and also did everything i wanted to (just did it bad for the playing part lol). And i think i'm really going forward now (as opposed to some period in last 2 years where i was just stagnating).

Thanks for reading, will prob update mid-month !
GL everyone at the tables !

Nice update man, and that redline; HOLY **** hahahaha absolute maniac


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That habit tracker seems great and highly ev for life, I might try it aswell!