Hello 2+2!

Since I ve heard that you are the best poker forum, I ve decided to come up with my challenge here.

Before everything, let me introduce myself. I am 26, I come from Krusevac, Serbia. I am the 4th year of my university (Serbian language and literature), and I am on this year for 3 years now

So far, in my poker career i ve made a couple of things I am proud of:
1. In 2014 (1st year of my serious approach) i reached Supernova status on Pokerstars through 6max Turbo SNGs. I was playing mostly 7$ and 15$ stakes and made 25k$ profit after rakeback.
2. I used to play limits up to 210$ on chico network.
3. And I also have been studying cash games, and managed to have positive results prerakeback on nl50 and nl100 limits on 888 and Party poker.
4. I have couple of 1st places on MTTs, and quite solid ROI on this format.
5. I started to stake and coach people with one of my best friends

THe problem and the main reason is that after all this time I ve faced a lack of motivation for poker, and for many other things including my education and health care. So my challenge will have 4 goals, and I will be happy only if all of the goals are achieved:

1st GOAL: 10K OF PROFIT after rakeback until the end of the year. Since i ve been out of grind mode for some time, and i havent been studyng almost nothing at all, i will start this challenge grinding 6max turbos with average buyin of 10$. I hope that very soon i will move up. My plan is to play at least 2500 games per month, and work on my game for at least 15 hour per month. I will also play some Mtts in my sessions.

2nd GOAL: MAKING 5 WINNERS in my group. As i ve already mentioned, i took some people to stake and coach with my friend. We took a office where the most of us will be working together. This goal will be considered done only if we have 5 prerakeback winners on minimum 5$ limit.

3rd GOAL: LOSING 8kg UNTIL THE END OF THE YEAR. I am 183cm tall, and right now I have 88kg which bothers me pretty much. Someone will say that this is a result of a poker player's lifestyle, but before all this is a result of my enourmous lazyness. My plan for this is to change my nutrition and start exercising more. Till the end of the month i will be exerising on my own to get in some form, and after that I ve already arranged working with one of the best personal coachs from my town. Untill that, i will be going to the swimming pool, playing basketball with my friends more often and i will try to get up 1 hour earlier than usual and go for a run.

4th GOAL: PASS 3 EXAMS untill the end of the year. This will probably be the most difficult part of the challenge But i think it's time to finish my school, cause literature is something i ve always liked, and i would feel raeally great if i manage to finish it. First exam period is in October, but i will start prepairing my exams these days.

That is all for this 1st post. I really hope that this challenge will have a great effort on me and that i will have 4 reasons more than everybody else to celebrate on the New Year's Eve. I will try to update my progress daily, but i can promisse that here will be at least 4 updates per week, and in every update i wll go through all 4 goals.

Goodl luck everyone at the tables, and good luck to me with all this work!

Time for a first update. It was difficult!

1st GOAL: 10K OF PROFIT (85$/10.000$)
When it comes to my playing, I am totally out of grind mode and I had great trouble to keep focus and my B+ game. However i reached 180 games today. I was making lot of mistakes such as light bluffcatching and calling 3pple barrels. I was also 3betting wider than I should for depths under 12bb.
Today i didn't have time for studying, but tomorrow before grind, i will go through all this spots. I was playing 12 to 14 tables mostly. I think that i will go with 10 to 12 for next couple of days at least.
You can see todays graph down under text

2nd GOAL: MAKING 5 STUDENTS WINNERS (0/5)
I am really happy that guys who are about to start are showing great will and optimism. They are looking forward to start playing. For now, they are still learning materials, and as soon as they are ready we are setting off.
In next 7 days we should move in into the office where will be 3 or 4 of us, and i am sure that that kind of work will be much more productive for everyone. 1st of all, I will be there to sweat them, help them with their tasks and they will be able to ask me questions all the time.

3rd GOAL: LOSING 8kg (0/8)
I saw a doctor, nutrionist this mornig and she gave me meal scheadule according to my blood analysis. It wont be easy at all! I have to forget about many things I like to eat and dring
After this update, I am going for a run. I will be updating my weight on weekly basis.

4th GOAL: PASS 3 EXAMS
I collected literature for a first exam and got in touch with some friends from college. I am happy that they are willing to help me as much as they can, but I dont think that anyone believes that I can do this part of challenge. I will prove them they are wrong!

Thats all for now. As I said, I am going for a run and maybe for a drink (lemonade) with friends. GL everyone!

Last night I was so tired, so i just went to sleep without updateing.

1st GOAL: 10K OF PROFIT (50$/10.000$)
Played only 80 ganes. I ve started my day very well, but the second session was disaster, and the last one I finished around breakeve. Here is the overall graph:

The new thing is that I ve deffinately decided to move from Stars to Party Poker. The reason is simple: higher rakeback. On Party Poker with their new VIP system and ongoing promotions i will have round 40% rb. Plus, i have to grind regulary every week and get 600$ of rake to have 30% from VIP. The great thing, that Party now has much better structure, its not that turbo-hyper anymore. And the bad thing, is that I will have to work much more these days, cause their bubble factor is much stronger 60%-40%. Not like on Pokerstars 65% 35%.

2nd GOAL: MAKING 5 STUDENTS WINNERS (0/5)
Today we are going to set up office for work. We will just need to wait for internet providers and we can start our work there. We have lot of interested people wor joining the group. Just yesterday 5 new guys contacted us. And one of my best friends, Milos, with whom I am working decided to become my student for SNG. He was grinding cash so far and decided to switch, which is great, cause he deffinately beats small limits right now. We will have to work together for a while and I suppose he will be my first student winner!

3rd GOAL: LOSING 8kg (0/8)
Things are going well. I am doing everything my doctor told me + I go for a run every day. I am already feeling much better.

4th GOAL: PASS 3 EXAMS
Collected everything I need for another exam. Looks like that i might have an opportunity to go for one in September, but we will see. Universities are still not open, they will be soon, so I will go to Nis and get all needed information.

Today i probably wont grind cause I have an appointment at doctors, i will try to study 60% 40% bubble factor, and tomorrow I will go to the Belgrade (capital) for some controls. But i will be working on the 2nd 3rd and 4th goals of the challenge

Good luck everyone untill the next post!

Quick update:

Went to Belgrade for medical control, i will have to go to the surgery. It will deffinitely make this challenge harder, but i will try to rearange things and achieve it.

1st GOAL: 10K OF PROFIT (285$/10.000$)
Movet to Party, i like the situation there. Traffic for 6max turbos is better than it used to be + hypers are very good for grind. Low rake and solid structure. Games are more reginfeste as i expected to be beacause of better rakebac. Played around 150 games today.

This is graph for party only, the one for the stars is in the previous update, there is 50$ of profit.

2nd GOAL: MAKING 5 STUDENTS WINNERS (0/5)
One more guy contacted us. He used to grind cash, can play 6 tables at once and know how to work in hm2.

3rd GOAL: LOSING 8kg (0/8)
Things are going well. I exercise regulary and stick to the doctor's advices.

4th GOAL: PASS 3 EXAMS
Nothing much happened on this field today. When I came back from Belgrade I had to start my grind.

GL everyone at the tables!

Quick update:

Bad news for grind: My hard drive is broken, i wont have my PC until Tuesday and i dont know if anything from it will be saved.
I had a ds last night, so my overall profit since the beginning of the challenge is 102$. I will probably play fastforward cash on my laptop these days.


Good news for weight loss: I took a home bike, which i will use mostly when i am watching series and movies.




Good luck everyone!

Time for an update after 1 week of challenge:

1st GOAL: 10K OF PROFIT (10$/10.000$)
Not the best week. I havent playes as much as I wanted, I made a lot of mistakes, but last two days I am very satisfied with my game. I also started to work every day before and after sessions. Working on ICM spots + going throug marked hands for giving a notes on regs and checking some spots where I wasnt sure whats the correct play.
Tomorrow i travel to Bor for a friend's birthday, and after that I am going to Belgrade on another medical control, and i will stay for a couple of days there cause there is Beer Fest now, so I want be playing a lot again. Here is the graph:


2nd GOAL: MAKING 5 STUDENTS WINNERS (0/5)
On monday we should be in office and start working hard. Today we made a deal with a guy really has a great potential. He has played around 45k sngs (mostly 1,5$ buyin) and has around 4K profit. He is capable of multitabling 12 tables, he just needs to learn some materials and start grinding.
Milos is already playing 3.5$ on Stars and doing very well.

3rd GOAL: LOSING 8kg (3.4/8)
This is the most successfull goal so far. I have lost this week 3.4 kilograms and i am really happy about that. I also feel more fresh and energized. I dont even have a need for sweets or juices. I am aware that in the begining you lose weight much faster, but results are giving me a huge motivation.

4th GOAL: PASS 3 EXAMS (0/3)
After I come back from Belgrade I will start learning more. By now I ve only went through some literature. I will also go to Nis when university opens to ask professors for sme instructions.


Thats is all for this update. I will write again after Belgrade. Good luck everyone at the tables!

Nice thread! You have your work cut out for you. GL!

Hey, thanks for support! I ve been off the tables these days visiting doctors. Managed to play round 50 games, but it was good. In couple of days I will write bigger update, now there is just a graph:

Time for update:

1st GOAL: 10K OF PROFIT (536$/10.000$)
Finally yesterday I had a good run. But what is more important, I am not satisfied about my grind so far. I had lot of obligations out of town, but however, volume must be much bigger. I will do my best next 15 days.




2nd GOAL: MAKING 5 STUDENTS WINNERS (0/5)
2 players started their grind. Currently they are playing 3.5$ on Stars and they are doing well. Soon the rest of them will start also.
We are now playing from office, so I expect faster progress in their game. Office is still not complete, we have to bring some things, TV, lazy bags and stuff





3rd GOAL: LOSING 8kg (2.5/8)
I am now 85.5kg, 1kg more than last Monday, but I am satisfied cause I had like 4 barbecues this week I will continue now with my nutrition and everyday exercising.


4th GOAL: PASS 3 EXAMS (0/3)
I am studying!!! 1 hour a day, but still counts. In 7 days University will be reopened, so I will go to get all details and speak with professors.


Thats all for now, until next update GL at the tables!

Subbed - GL!

Subbed,

im 20 years from Germany and looking for an Game, where i can make some money by side.

First of all i could help u at your Fitness journey, i went from 193cm 135KG to 193cm 84kg.

The Plan is easy
1. Calorie Deficit /(You should start to count them)
2. Wheigtliftig.U dont need Cardio.


// I started with the 0,50$ 9max on stars and im playing with this chat = https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...hl=en_US#gid=3


some tipps?

cheers

Thanks for suppurt, GL!

Hey, thanks for following! Yes, I may need advices, but my main problem is that i am very lazy and not gym lover Congrats on your result, really impressive.

Are you working with someone? Do you have coach? And how do you stand with working in ICMizer and Holdem Resources Calculator?

Atm i only watch some videos / streams and send hands to a friend, who´s playing for a living quite a while.

Never worked with icmizer or hrc. :/

Atm im playing 0,50 turbos 45-180 mans.

Went from 10$ to atm 28$ but there was some nl2 / pl2 / 1$ KO hyper turbo involved (i like games where u just push/fold)

From those Hyper formats i am only familiar with 6max turbos with 65% 35% bubble factor. Just take one hour a day working in those programs, ICMizer is maybe better for beginners, and HRC is great when you later want to learn and construct minraise, 3bet ranges. You can analyse spot there and see if hand is showing bigger +EV to open shove it, min raise/ call or fold it.
And yes, very important thing is to write down notes for your opponents. Some ICM spots you find them wierd, postflop lines etc.

I wouldnt like to spam here on thread, so I will put graph after todays grind in this reply. Maybe I will play one more session later tonight.



Nice run I had today, so I am on 784$/10.000$

A little braging: First K of the challenge. I really have a nice run, setups that i win, good card distribution, but I am also satisfied with my game.

In, gl

Hey, thanks. Gl yo you too

Quick update, today's first session was very nice. Not many games but again great run. Idk if i will play again today, so here are the graphs.

Today's session:




Challenge overall, 1263$/10.000$

really nice graph, GL

Thanks for your support! GL!

Quick update:

Haven't played much.
1268$/10K$



Last two session I ve played very bad. I was chasing some spots, wider stacking of preflop, bluffcatching passive opnents, barreling on bad boards. So today i will make a bigger review, and maybe play one more session.

My best friend from University comes today. She is now on doctor studies of linguistics, and she will help me with 2 exams before we go out tonight.

Also this morning i was 84.4kgs, which is the record for now, but on monday i will check again, we will see if i can stay this way with tonight party and barbecue tomorrow

2 students are grinding 3.5$ on Stars. They are around brekeven pre rakeback for now. Ofcourse small sample, but I am sure that they will beat this limit very soon. One more student will start on monday his grind, I hope, with 1.5$ and another one will go on party for 1.10$ and 2.20$. 5th is still going throug materials, he is total beginner, but he has great potential and he will be working here with me in ofis, I believe that he will have great progress untill the end of the year.

That's all for now, next update on monday probably. GL everyone at the tables, and enjoy your weekend!

Here is one interesting hand I ve found in my review.

Before posting the hand I would like to say that i was not playing my A or B+ game. Probably some autopilot B- game, but I remember this hand and I think I like this spot.


Blinds: 25/60, ante 6
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: Player1 ( 1525 )
Seat 3: Hero ( 2675 )
Seat 5: Player5 ( 3152 )
Seat 6: Player6 ( 1648 )
Player1 posts ante of [6].
Hero posts ante of [6].
Player5 posts ante of [6].
Player6 posts ante of [6].
Hero posts small blind [25].
Player5 posts big blind [50].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hero [ 5s Qs ]
Player6 folds
Player1 folds
Hero raises [87]
Player5 calls [62]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Kc, Jh, Jc ]
Hero bets [124]
Player5 calls [124]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 7d ]
Hero checks
Player5 bets [352]
Hero raises [850]
Player5 folds
Hero wins 498
Hero wins 1200 from main pot


I have around 500 hands with this player, and he was already marked as a floater.
He is 45/26, has 0% folding to Flop Cbet and 99% folding to Turn Cbet.
Aggression factor is 4, and bet vs missed c bet on flop 88% (I didnt have stat of beting vs missed c bet on turn at th time i was playing. So these statistics I ve listed here made me to make a decision i ve made)

From the beginning of the hand my plan was to try to exploit his tendencies. I dont do this often, but I thought this was great spot for the play.

So, I made a cbet, he called. Now, he would probably fold lot of his range against second barrel, but I wanted to get more chips, by x/raising here.
I also think that he will maybe fold more stronger hands against this play. Idk maybe even some Kx combos that , i think, he wouldnt fold on second barrel.

Tbh i dont have note how he plays draws, but I was blocking lot of them with this Q, so he has much les combos of QT 9Q. Not having this note and blocking lot of straight draws would make me give up on the river. That was the plan, but i think that with this play I get him off manu stronger hands (A highs, some pocket pairs, and maybe some Kx )

I would like the hear some others opinions.
Do you like the play?
Is it better to double barrel?
Is it maybe better to x/r the flop?
Do you like a hand i ve picked for this play, or maybe i should do this with different ones?

subbed gl!

Thanks for following! Ty u too

After 3 weeks of challenge here are the results:

1st GOAL: 10K OF PROFIT (1118/10.000$)

After several days of great run it stopped. I mean, nothing special, i am down for less than 20 bis, but at one point I started to play very bad, than I ve done a big review, went through showdowns of some regs i meet often at the tables, wrote down note for them, and again i am satisfied with my game and focus. The thing I plan to change is reducing number of mtts I play. I dont play them well, and after losing in late phases I lose motivation for my sng grind. I know it sounds stupid, but I can't handle it.

Here is the graph:





2nd GOAL: HAVE 5 STUDENTS WINNERS (1/5)

I think that I can say that we have our 1st guy who is beating 5$ limit. As he said he played the most of his games on Unibet, where he was beating even 10$ limit, but unfortunately we cant show results form there, since Unibet isnt supported with PT4, HM2 or any other program i know. However he has some sample on Microgaming network. He doesnt have realiable sample but when I went through his hands, he deffinitely beats that limit. He had trouble on 10e and 20e limits, where are more regs. Some of them I know and the are really good players, so this would be our first goal, to move up and beat those limit.

Here are his graphs from Microgaming:





As I said, not enough games, but his game is quite solid. First of all we will have to get deeper into some ICM spots since he is using only some charts without working regulary in ICMizer and adjusting those ranges. When we fix that we will try to improve his postflop knowledge which even now is ABC solid. All in all I am happy that he is with us, definately a great potential.



3rd GOAL: LOSING 8kg (3.6/8)

I am on 84.4kg, and I am happy how this challenge is going so far. This week I will do my best to reach 83 if its possible. I will start with 2 trainings per day. One in the mornig on my home bike while I watch the episode, and the other one between lunch and dinner when I do cardio workouts.


4th GOAL: PASS 3 EXAMS (0/3)

Today university is open again after summer holidays and i will go this week on a day or two to Nis to ask around and get a neccessary literature.

Thats all for now, this week I will try to be as much productive as I can on all fields, and next week I am going to Princess Casino in Gevgelia, there is some good event 250e buyin 30k GTD + some side events. And I will also use this opportunity to go to the Greek seaside

GL everyone!