10 weeks, 10 000$: Crush 18 man sngs and gain muscles!
07-03-2017
, 12:10 PM
intro:
- I'm a 24 years old student from belgium and my screenname is kouakout on stars.
- I've been playing poker for ~ 7 years, mostly low stakes sng and mtt(i sometimes play cash but i suck!).
- I've never set goals or really worked on my game before, i just play a ton cause i love poker(always loved games in general).
- Nevertheless i've been trying to take the game more seriously and focus on 18 man sngs lately, and i think doing a pgc will motivate me more.
graphs for this year:
overall
7$ 18 man
goals:
a) Make 10 000$ in 10 weeks playing 18 mans:
last 6 months i played 2500 7$/18s and won 0.97$/game, its obviously a small sample and i probably ran good but i think i can keep that winrate cause i think i can improve my game a lot. I have no clue what winrate i can achieve in 15s and 30s but if i can make at least 1$/game playing them i can make 10k in the following 10 weeks playing 40-50h/week.
b) gain at least 5kg:
this goal might be too easy or too hard to reach i have no clue. ill just go to the gym often and pay attention to my diet and see where it goes.
This thread will contain:
- session recaps
- weekly volume goals
- interesting hands
- graphs
- anything else you think can make the thread better
- I'm a 24 years old student from belgium and my screenname is kouakout on stars.
- I've been playing poker for ~ 7 years, mostly low stakes sng and mtt(i sometimes play cash but i suck!).
- I've never set goals or really worked on my game before, i just play a ton cause i love poker(always loved games in general).
- Nevertheless i've been trying to take the game more seriously and focus on 18 man sngs lately, and i think doing a pgc will motivate me more.
graphs for this year:
overall
7$ 18 man
goals:
a) Make 10 000$ in 10 weeks playing 18 mans:
last 6 months i played 2500 7$/18s and won 0.97$/game, its obviously a small sample and i probably ran good but i think i can keep that winrate cause i think i can improve my game a lot. I have no clue what winrate i can achieve in 15s and 30s but if i can make at least 1$/game playing them i can make 10k in the following 10 weeks playing 40-50h/week.
b) gain at least 5kg:
this goal might be too easy or too hard to reach i have no clue. ill just go to the gym often and pay attention to my diet and see where it goes.
This thread will contain:
- session recaps
- weekly volume goals
- interesting hands
- graphs
- anything else you think can make the thread better
Last edited by fish_but_lucky; 07-03-2017 at 12:25 PM.
07-05-2017
, 03:06 AM
07-05-2017
, 07:59 AM
07-05-2017
, 09:50 PM
Easier in wich way? What format do you think i should specialize in instead?
My logic was:
- 180s or mtts: more fish and less ICM so probably higher ROI, but more variance.
- 6 or 9 man sngs: higher reg/fish ratio, plus i think regs are better.
- spins: 3 handed and no icm so easier to learn but also more solvable, wich means i would need to spend a lot of time to study and understand how gto works just to catch up with other regs. And even if i spend time doing it im not sure i can ever beat the guys that are playing higher stakes since it seems like a lot of them where former HU hyper regs and a big portion of hands in spins are HU. Moreover the random prize add tons of variance. I sometimes play 7s and im think im winning a bit but i dont think i can win higher.
- HU: kinda like spins plus i think hourly are lower than in other formats anyway. You either have to wait for fish and have high ROI but play few games/hour, or sit other regs and have small ROI (if you can beat them
). I play some too and im loser in them. 95% of my games are against other regs and im getting crushed badly by some of them, they just seem too good for me.I could definitely be wrong about those things so feel free to correct me.
My plan right now is to grind and study 18s then switch to 180s and mtts. Ill try to work on my HU game and understand gto better but not to grind HU or so, i just think it will help my game in general.
Last edited by fish_but_lucky; 07-05-2017 at 10:19 PM.
07-10-2017
, 06:54 PM
Last week recap
my goals where:
- Workout 4 times [X]
- Play 40 hours [ ]
- Study/review hands at least 10 hours [X]
workout:
I'm glad i've reached that goal but i need to ask (or hire) somebody to teach me how to use those machines properly cause right now i feel like...
Poker:
Played ~ 25 hours wich is definitely less than expected and i have to make sure i play enough in the following weeks. However, on of the reason i haven't played that much is i've spent a lot of time time working on my hud and reviewing some games etc, so i'm not too upset about my poor volume.
18s Results:
- 495 games
- +277$
Goals for this week:
- Play 40 hours
- Workout 4 times
- study/review hands 10 hours
my goals where:
- Workout 4 times [X]
- Play 40 hours [ ]
- Study/review hands at least 10 hours [X]
workout:
I'm glad i've reached that goal but i need to ask (or hire) somebody to teach me how to use those machines properly cause right now i feel like...
Poker:
Played ~ 25 hours wich is definitely less than expected and i have to make sure i play enough in the following weeks. However, on of the reason i haven't played that much is i've spent a lot of time time working on my hud and reviewing some games etc, so i'm not too upset about my poor volume.
18s Results:
- 495 games
- +277$
Goals for this week:
- Play 40 hours
- Workout 4 times
- study/review hands 10 hours
07-16-2017
, 09:34 PM
Week 2 recap:
- Play 40 hours [ ]
- Workout 4 times [ ]
- study/review hands 10 hours [X]
poker:
Played ~ 30 hours (790 games), so more than last week but still not enough. I played once while i was a bit tired and played bad. So the following day i decided to play less tables, lower buy in, and shorter session. It went quite well so in the future ill do that whenever i dont feel like playing or whenever i'm tired, instead of not playing at all.
One positive thing is i bought subscription to power equilab, cardrunners ev, and got the free version of piosolver (turn and rivers only). I think those tools will help me a lot especially my early game where i feel like i have no clue what i'm doing.
gym:
I went to the gym once then didnt went back for the rest of the week cause i probably trained too much and felt tired the hole week after that. I went running the other days instead.
Lessons learned this week:
I definitely need to Plan things in advance more, disciplin myself and organize my time better if i want to achieve my goals.
18s results after 2 weeks:
- 1204 games
- + 1083$
So i played ~ 1/2 of what i had planned but winrate is ok (0.9$/game)
- Play 40 hours [ ]
- Workout 4 times [ ]
- study/review hands 10 hours [X]
poker:
Played ~ 30 hours (790 games), so more than last week but still not enough. I played once while i was a bit tired and played bad. So the following day i decided to play less tables, lower buy in, and shorter session. It went quite well so in the future ill do that whenever i dont feel like playing or whenever i'm tired, instead of not playing at all.
One positive thing is i bought subscription to power equilab, cardrunners ev, and got the free version of piosolver (turn and rivers only). I think those tools will help me a lot especially my early game where i feel like i have no clue what i'm doing.
gym:
I went to the gym once then didnt went back for the rest of the week cause i probably trained too much and felt tired the hole week after that. I went running the other days instead.
Lessons learned this week:
I definitely need to Plan things in advance more, disciplin myself and organize my time better if i want to achieve my goals.
18s results after 2 weeks:
- 1204 games
- + 1083$
So i played ~ 1/2 of what i had planned but winrate is ok (0.9$/game)