Sup folks?

I am The Full Ring Nit and this will be my PGC thread for the rest of the year. I have one basic goal and that is to make $1000 per month playing poker. Nice and simple goal for now!

Cliffs about myself:
- I play poker on the side and work a fulltime job.
- Playing 25nl FR.
- Huge bumhunter.

"Proper preparation prevents poor performance"

This is one of my favorite quotes and it is especially true when it comes to poker. If you put in the work off the table and have a game plan then the results will come. For me, putting in the hours has always been the hard part.

With that being said, today I woke up and made a blue print for how I am going to approach May and hit my goal of making $1000/month from poker. Here is the game plan:

1. Playing in the softest games.

On almost all sites 25nl is pretty soft. Some sites however are still softer than others. From my experience, any site that allows US players on it is going to be one of the softest out there. I will be playing on 3 sites. 2 of them allow US players which are Ignition and ACR. My third site will be Pokerstars. Despite stars being one of the tougher sites out there, it still has plenty of fish floating around and the most games running. It will help with volume.

2. Game / Seat selection.

Having position on the fish is obviously one of the best things in poker. I am going to use a very strict criteria when it comes to sitting in a game. If the fish is no in one of the 3 seats to my right, I will not sit. (unless the guy is a mega whale 70+vpip). I will also be starting tables from time to time because this is the best way to get on good tables without using a seating script or waiting forever on huge wait lists. It's also good to get some HU/SH practice in too and I think a lot of FR regs do not play SH well.

3. Studying to improve my game.

Every morning I am going to put in a lab session to work on my game. My daily study routine will look something like this:
- Review marked hands from previous days session.
- Watch a RIO video related to the area of my game I am working on.
- Go over spots in Pokersnowie and practice SH / HU vs Snowie Bot for warmup before session.

4. Playing my A game consistently.

Consistency is very important in poker. For me, I have to get every task that I need to do for the day done before I start grinding. This way I can give 100% focus to poker. If I sit around all day and neglect the things I need to do and then start grinding it usually never goes well and losing feels even worse. I cant sit and grind for 10 hours straight like some people. I usually keep my sessions to around 4 hours, then take a break for a bit and get back at it again once I am feeling refreshed. I also think being healthy helps a lot with maintaining focus. I am currently going to the gym 6x a week and eating clean. No fast food / soda etc. All prepped and planned meals.

5. Playing at the best times.

The best time to grind is on weekends. I however work weekends Games are not as good during the week so I will be trying my best to play during prime time on all the sites I am grinding. For Stars its usually around 2pm - 8pm and on the US sites its around 8pm - 4am. I will be doing my best to grind during these times. I will probably play my first session starting around 2-6pm and then my second from 8-2am. I am going to create a little schedule after this to make sure I am making the most of my time.

So there we go. This will be how I approach poker for the foreseeable future. Ill see you guys May 1!~

- TFRN

good luck bro,whats your bankroll for 25nl?

gl.

what site/sites do you play on? EDIT: read 2nd post now

why don't u set bigger goals?

A new month is here and day 1 is already in the books. Had a bit of a slower start to the day than I would have liked. Had a bunch of running around to do and a few things I had to take care of didnt go well and took longer than I would have hoped. Once I got all that garbage done I got a great workout in and I absolutely crushed the day from there.

My first session for the day went very well. I got into some great games and also played very well. Stacks were flying around and most of them ended up coming my way.

Easy come...



Easy go....



This hand was vs an aggro whale 67/33/17 over 87 hands. I really dont like how I played this hand. After going over it I think that 3 betting pre vs this guy and just going with it pre or on most flops is best given his stack size and stats. But as played I really hate his sizing on the river which made it easy to call. I feel like any strong value hand he just goes bet/bet/shove here. Instead he just bets 1/3 pot otr making his hand look really weak. But yea... 3 bet pre next time and get HU vs these monster whales.



My second session was a bit shorter. I had a friend of mine who is a professional sweat me for half of my session. It was interesting to hear his takes on how he would use smaller sizings in certain spots. I'll definitely be looking into that a little bit more. This session didnt go as well as my earlier one. Couldnt hold in most of the bigger pots despite being miles ahead but I still played well so I'll take it.

88/55/21 rips it in with AJo and hits his 3 outter. This was right at the start of my second session too. Always nice to win these at the start of a session to help get some momentum going but not today



Anyways theres my recap for May 1. Nice to start the month on a winning note. The plan for today is put in a little lab session right after posting this, hit the gym, get some groceries and prep some meals and then grind for a bit. Going out for dinner and then to see the new avengers movie later on so might not get to play as long as I would have liked. Anyways, talk to you guys tomorrow! Going to leave you guys with one of the more interesting JRE podcasts I've listened to lately. This guest blew my mind with information on how important good sleep really is.




Hey thanks man GL to you as well! My bankroll is $1500 across 3 sites for 25nl. I plan on moving up when it doubles.

Just in case other people missed it, right now I play on Stars / ACR / Ignition.
The reason I started with $1000/month is because that would actually be my best month so far this year and I don't think I am that great of a player right now. I still have a ton of holes in my game and I would be happy with $1000/month on the side playing part time.

WEEK 1 REVIEW

Week 1 is in the books and were just about to start up with week 2 here. First I wanted to do a quick review of my first week.

Overall, my first week results wise went alright. Games were pretty good during this week and I was able to get some great seats on the whales swimming around. My volume was pretty bad and I didn't play nearly enough. I had a couple of things off the tables get in the way but I still could have played a lot more if I managed my time better.

This week was also the first time I've played on ACR. My first impressions were not great. The site was under constant DDOS attacks all week so half the time the site was down or completely unplayable. The times that I did get to play on the site however went well. I think overall the games are decent. The regs are much worse than on most sites. A lot of them would fall under my bad reg category. Huge gaps between their VPIP/PFR. The rest of the regs seem like nitty rakeback grinders. Anyways I hope they can deal with the DDOS attacks better than they have so far because I feel like a lot of people will be taking their money off the site especially the recreational players.

Here are my results for the first week:


WEEK 2 GOALS

I don't have a lot of things on my to do list this week so I should be able to put a lot more hours on the table. Here are my goals for the week:

1. 30+ hours grinding on the tables.
2. 2 hours in the the lab working on my game each day.
3. 6 gym trips.
4. Focus studying each day on blind vs blind spots.
5. Play at least 2 tournaments.

Alright guys thats it for the review. Lets get the show on the road.

GL everyone.
- TFRN

Week 2 is in the books. Very happy with how things went for the most part. Lets go over how I did with the goals I set for week 2.

SCORE: 3/5 Goals Completed.

Great week over all. Didnt manage to hit my volume goal but I think sometimes it best not to force yourself to play which I would have been. Still though, need to play more and get better at longer sessions. I find that 2 hour sessions suit me best right now. I also looked at pokerscout this week and found that it shows the peak times for each of the sites I play on. Going to plan my sessions around these times a bit more.

Defintely played well all week. Got into some GREAT games and ran well. (knock on wood). Here are some interesting hands from the week:


SICKENING freeroll for villain GROSS turn lol.




Not really sure what this guy is thinking but I'll take it...



And lastly for my weekly review, here is my graph so far this month:



WEEK 3 GOALS
1. 30+ hours grinding on the tables.
2. 2 hours in the the lab working on my game each day.
3. 6 gym trips.
4. Focus studying each day on blind vs blind spots.
5. Play at least 2 tournaments.

Going to keep the same goals as last week. I want to do a bit more work on my play from the blinds. Still have a few more RIO videos on these spots to watch and I want to do a more in depth database review with one of my buddies aswell. Lastly, I will cash in atleast one of the tournaments I play in! Thats all guys. Im off to the gym. See you next monday with another update.

GL at the tables this week everyone!
- TFRN

Alright guys sorry for the late update but I'm not going to make an excuses for it so lets just get right into the review.

So far this month poker has gone very well. I'm playing well plus I'm on a bit of a heater so that helps with everything. I've been doing a lot of work off the table with Snowie and recently started messing around with PIO. PIO is reaaaallly interesting and scary at the same time. I know I'm a bit behind on the whole PIO trend but I've noticed a few things in my game that need work already from messing around with it. I have a friend who has put in a zillion hours on this thing so he's been showing me how to get the best use out of it. Heres my graph so far for the month:



I've made a decision that I am going to change up the sites I am playing on. Right now I am playing ACR / Stars / Ignition. I've played a decent amount on all of them and at 25nl, games are still pretty soft on all of them. However they are MUCH softer on all of the American sites which probably isnt a shocker to anyone. Stars still has a lot of whales floating around but the overall skill of the regs is much higher there so game seleciton is crucial. ACR doesnt have many great games but regs are pretty bad. So far this month I've only put in 1.2k hands on ACR because fish just havent been showing up a lot and I'm not interested in grinding rakeback with a bunch of b/e nits. Ignition games are amazing and that's all I'm going to say about that . With all that being said, I am going to pull my money off stars and add a new site. Starting monday I will be adding Global poker into the mix. All 3 sites I will be playing on allow american players which makes it much softer than anything stars or the other major sites can offer. Doesnt look like there is any (legal) software out there that lets you track your results on Global or use a hud so that sucks but if the games are as good as I have heard then its not a big deal. I'm also going to give my bankroll a bit of a boost and start playing 50nl.

Excited to try out this new site starting Monday. Anyways, just a quick update. I'm off to the gym now cya.

TFRN

Alright guys, May is officially in the books! Really happy with this month and how everything went. Put in a lot of work both on and off the table, killed the gym and managed to have some social life too on top of working 40 hours a week. I didnt however hit my goal of $1000/month. We were off by a Whopping $76 so close enough. Here's my graph for the month.



Definitely hit some heat this month no question but I really feel like all the work I did off the tables on my game paid off. I worked a ton on BvB play this month with some of my friends who play for a living as well as messed around with this spot in pio/snowie. I feel like I have a much better idea of how to play BvB hands now. I also decided to move most of my volume up to 50nl the last week of the month. It was nice to catch some heat there right away to help make the move up a bit easier. I will definitely be playing only 50nl for all of June.

Biggest hand won (BB)





Biggest loss (BB)



Really pumped for a full month at 50nl for June. I have a few big things going on the first week of June so going to be taking that off entirely so won't be kicking this month off until June 11. Can't come quick enough! Until then guys, Ill see yea around. GL in june everyone. Cheers!

- TFRN