Yes it does, thanks for doing that!

It's was my birthday yesterday. Sing me the birthday song guys.

I'm going to try to post a little more often than a weekly update. Perhaps a few comments, screen shots, or thoughts throughout the week as well.

A bad run

I played my A-game yesterday, and was up around $20 at one point, but then had like 10 really bad hands within the final hour, and lost it all. Made a couple dumb moves. But I think mostly it was bad cards.

Working on gental game and outlook

At times like that, I usually feel its so unfair and I get frustrated. This time I felt that, but I dealt with it better and kinda talked myself out of it. Just thinking that I can start again fresh tomorrow helps. And also remembering good runs happen too.

Worst hand

The worst was a nut flush vs a rivered quad aces. My mistake was snap calling the river jam. So stupid when the board pairs. I need to slow down and think. Big leak.



Best hand

Quad 7777. Yeah baby. Bad call down by villain.



Can't get a piece of the whale

Had 2 tables with this massive whale in the pic below. He was on a heater, spewing like a tourist in Thailand with food poising. But I just couldn't get a piece. Checkout my VPIP of 5 LOL. Gimme some cards dammit!

If anything tilts me it's those players.

Yeah they can be pretty frustrating at times. But they pay off in the long run

Have you guys ever had one of these?

lol, what a board! Did you get paid off? I would have just shoved.

Had a royal flush once. Was able to get most of villain's stack and show it down which made me pretty happy.

Had an Imperial flush on stud once. AKQJT98 clubs.

Hey guys. Nope didn't get paid off here. Villain folded. His line was pretty weak, leading out half pot flop and turn, then folded the river.

But whats crazy about this board tho is there is a straight flush on board. We are almost always chopping here, unless I have the ace of diamonds. Any other cards and it's a chop. Surprised he didn't call because of that.

Monthly Videos

Hey guys. I decided not to make a video this week. I'll prolly just make monthly videos for now because I rather spend more time on my game. I did play last week, but I'm just not making a video until the end of the month.

A New Sleep Schedule

I'll probably post weekly results here tho. I should be doing that today, but I'm not because I stayed up all night, trying to adjust to a different sleep schedule. Thailand time zone is the worst for poker. Checkout these peek poker hours:

The nut 4.5 hour session (red in the graph below) = 3am to 7:30am
The best 9 hour grindathon (green in the graph below) = 12:00am to 9am



As you can see, this is the worst poker time zone on the planet, and playing in the middle of the night and sleeping during the day makes me depressed. I need sun light.

So my plan is to sleep at 4:30 pm today, and wake up at 2 am and play poker for a few hours, then workout and do day time stuff until bed time at 4:30 pm.

Aight, I'm sure you guys have had about enough of me talking about the least interesting topic ever, time zones.

The hand that never was

Below is the hand I wish i didn't fold preflop of the week. I was for sure going to call the 2BB if the maniac on our right called. Was considering calling anyway since it was gonna be 4-way, but the nit in my folded, and the LAG in my wanted to slap the inner nit after seeing this flop:

My 2c. Make video's when you have enough stuff to make one. Don't hang on to a timeframe for them. And hide folded whole cards prevents these "I should have...." thoughts, then you can move on to the next hand quicker instead of reminiscing on what could have been.

Tru dat.

And I do have my hole cards hidden. I didn't know there was a setting. I just moused over to show them for the screen shot. Didn't really bother me, but I do agree to limit things that might cause you to tilt like that.

I'm a bit late posting week 16's results due to stuff. And unfortunately, no video this week.

Week 16 started out really nice. It was looking like it would be a record week. Then we took a nose dive, as you can see below. It looks like it must have been spew, but it was actually a lot of coolers. To be fair, there was probably a bit of "as if they have aces again, they can't always have it" but they had it. But I can't really remember exactly ATM.

Anyway, that's poker. It happens. It doesn't bother me as much as it used to.

Here are the moderate results for the week:

+$28.84 - Profit from Week 16

9.4 bb/100 - Win Rate

$327.69 - Balance to date

16.4% - Progress so far

Hey ev. Just wanted to say gl, and really great videos you're making. It's nice to watch a fellow micros grinder go through it :-) Keep at it - you seem to have a really solid game. Grinding through the micros on stars is not easy these days, as I'm finding.

You're definitely rolled for moving to 5NL full time - I reckon your hourly will be highly even if you lose a few bb/100.

And also, that fold on the straight flush board is one of the nittiest I've seen! Just crazy. Sick soul read by villain

Some really nice river overbet shoves too btw. Should work some more of those into my game. Always surprising to see how light some guys call it off at these stakes

Hey thanks Wonky. Glad you like the videos.

I actually have been playing NL5 on and off. I just played NL2 Zoom a lot because I don't like table selecting when not many fish are online. It's because of my time zone, the fish aren't online when I am.

But I think I'm done with NL2 Zoom now. I've reversed my sleep schedule and I'll be playing only NL5 and start taking shots at NL10 when I feel I'm ready. Want to hit that $2000 goal this century :P

I think I am misunderstanding your comment about folding the straight flush, or you may have misinterpreted the screen shot above. I folded the preflop, so I didn't know it was gonna be a straight flush. I would never fold that post flop lol. It's the nuts. The only way it could not be the nuts is if someone had 76, and the 8 of hearts came up.

Yeah it's hard to figure out if it's better to shove or do a normal bet sometimes. But I think it can be very profitable against a lot of opponents at these lower stakes.

^ I meant the one where you had the royal flush and villain was playing the straight flush on the board and folded, somehow putting you on Ad

LOL okay that makes more sense. Yeah pretty tight fold by Villain!

LOL and amazing



He actually left the table before he ran out of heater.

Best week so far guys. On this new sleep schedule, I was able to put in a few 5 or 6 hour sessions. I played pretty solid. Made a few dumb mistakes. I probably ran a bit good too. But I'm attributing most of it to of few improvements I've been working on, which I will explain below.

Getting Better at Mental Game

For the most part I've been controlling my emotions a lot better, taking bad beats a bit better, and not getting so hard on myself when I make a mistake. Just focus on the next decision.

Stop Looking at Results

One thing that has helped is I've stopped looking at results during the sessions now. Because if I'm down, it feels bad. If I'm up, then lose a bit, it feels bad. The only time it feels good is when I'm near the peak of the session, but that's rarely the case. So just not checking results has eliminated one source of tilt.

3 Betting Light

I've been studying 3 betting and 3 betting light these past couple weeks. I've increased my 3 bet percentage from about 3.5% to about 5.5%. Now I'm using a polarized 3 betting range against reg looking players. Against fish, I 3 bet a wider value range, with no bluffs.

12 Tables Now

I've also been playing more tables. I'm using a thing called Gridmove to snap my tables into the right places. Basically it an easy way to make your own autohotkey scripts for table size and position. It's really awesome actually and I'm surprise I've never seen anyone else using it for poker. It has saved my a lot of time and allowed me to play more tables. So usually I play around 10 or 12 tables, and up to 16, but 16 is pushing my limits at the moment. 10 to 12 is my sweet spot right now. I spend a lot of time ditching nitty tables and looking for fishy tables, so I need some focus time for that. I could probably play 18 tables if I didn't spend any time bum hunting.

+$122.90 - Profit from Week 17

13 bb/100 - Win Rate

$482.41 - Balance to date

24.1% - Progress so far

Great work.

Hey everybody. And by "everybody", I mean "Centebakkie", since you seem to be the only one following this thread anymore :P

No video this week, just results. Might make a vid next week.

Tilt and sleep

Had a decent week at NL5. Continuing to play more disciplined than before. The tilt beast still surfaces from time to time, but not as much anymore. I think I could hit 10 bb/100 if I played my A-game more. And I play much better when I'm not tired. When I'm tired, I make bad decisions and get frustrated faster. So there was one day this week where I started to play, even tho I was really tired, made one bad river call, then stopped playing to prevent further loss and bad decisions.

Should I move up?

Been playing NL5. About 50K hands so far. Thinking about taking a shot at NL10. A bit nervous because I'm such a nit that way. But I think I have to do it soon. It would be nice to make money faster at NL10 and complete this challenge.

Anybody have experience at NL10? And how does it compare to NL5?

Bankroll includes rakeback

I mentioned this in a recent video, but not in text. Juss to be clear, I'm including Pokerstars Stellar and VIP Rewards in the bankroll total, but not the weekly results. I am not including the $110 in deposit bonus in either.

+$71.79 - Profit from Week 17

7.0 bb/100 - Win Rate

$524.31 - Balance to date

26.2% - Progress so far

This them here is the results for the week:




Here is the graph for the week:




Here is a graph since the beginning of time:

Can you spot the point where I stopped playing NL2 Zoom and played only NL5?

Still following! Just haven't had the chance to post much lately. Glad to see you are still doing well!

10NL is softer on BCP (US) but I think it's bc there are a lot more tables available for whatever reason. While there is usually only four for 5.

theres always people lurking around :P solid results lately man

Dude your graph is [censored] good. Your red line made me often doubt if you are really a beginner ! Personally I think it's time you should move to PLO. NLH gets kinda boring and the games are way less profitable then PLO. Just compare the lobby's and you will see lots more players % per pot and bigger pots in PLO.

Added: Looking at your game, graph, with the stakes you are playing, you are guaranteed to and IMO have already completed your challenge.

Just read it, you're running awesome! Keep charging. I think you ought to mix some 10nl in at your current bankroll...you're certainly getting close enough.