Hi all. Ive been reading these forums for a while now and follow most peoples stories which only makes me want to do my own more. Ive been playing poker online on and off for about 4 years but the last six months have started taking it more seriously and am really starting to love the game. I am a 23 year old living in Australia, have a full time job which can hinder my volume but i do the best i can, really enjoy reading (suggestions on good poker books?) and any sports really.

I am all for the idea of these challenges and fully believe that with the right bankroll management strategies and winning playing style (which at these limits is certainly do-able) that my goal is achievable. If i reach 10k i want to look into making this a full time job. When im playing my normal game i am a winning player at the micro stakes. have dabbled a bit in the low stakes but dont know enough to comment yet so will be learning plenty as im going. The reason i said when im playing my normal game is because i am prone to tilting......not often but when i do i buy into games WAY to big for my BR and lose it all most of the time so thats definitely something im looking to get out of my game. Any advice or tips are certainly welcome!!

Okay down to the real stuff. Ive got $100 dollars on pokerstars at the moment but am willing to deposit another $200 if needed so have a $300 bankroll. Im going to start at 10nl FR regular games and grind those out until i have $500 and have a shot at 25nl and go from there. Will try mix in some zoom games along the way if i really start improving my game. Im going to set myself 5 goals per week and do my best to stick to them.

Week 1 goals.

1 - play 20 hours this week.
2 - read 1 poker related book (Small stakes no limit holdem, by Flynn, Mehta and Miller)
3 - do not play over 10nl
4 - average above 10bb/100 hands.
5 - post on here at least every other day

hope you guys enjoy reading along and comment with any tips and advice you might have.

Bring on the fish!!

Hey bud, I'm also aussie and grinding my way up from NL2.

I would say that playing NL10 with a $100 roll, even a $200 roll is a bit dicey. Downswings happen. I lost over 10BI in my first 5k hands, running literally 1000 BB below EV, before eventually coming good and pulling my winrate up to 7.5bb/100 by 25k hands. I'd say start lower, or be ready to move down quick if you run into a downswing, but just my two cents. You can find my thread in the same forum as yours if you wanna take a look at my progress.

aussie aussie aussie!

hey mate just had a look at your thread good to see a fellow aussie having a go!!

yeh fully agree with you about the BR management there but ive essentially committed $300 dollars to this goal as i am willing to deposit a further $200 if things dont go so well in the beginning. I feel that $300 dollars should be enough for me to have a decent crack at 10nl. just about to finish off the first days sessions now will put a post up in a couple hours.

subbed to your thread aswell will definitely be keeping an eye on your progress. GL!!

P.S. looks like your having some sick luck, hopefully the poker gods look after you soon!

so just finished my last session for the day bankroll is currently at $130. nothing to exciting in any of the hands thought i played pretty decently except for in a few spots which i will put up tomorrow when i have more time to figure all of this out. definately noticing some leaks so theres plenty to work on!!!

today i played 3.5 hours in which i got 725 hands
i averaged 44.58bb/100
i read for maybe an hour
and i didnt play over 10nl

so far so good!

run good wishes from me, except if you verse me then neutral wishes and chop pots all around

Best of luck in future, I will read your thread and I hope you will achieve your goal...
Tell me do you play cash or just tournaments?
And what tournaments you grind?

haha TY and sounds good you play a bit?

TY!!

At the moment i am only playing cash. i find sngs and whatnot tend to not help with my previous tilting issues haha so going to steer clear of them. however when my BR gets a bit bigger maybe upwards of $2000 i will play in some of the better mtts getting around.

Heres a hand from lastnight i feel i played correctly up until the river. was betting small flop and turn because i didnt think he could hit that board to hard and wanted some value. Gotta learn to fold these hands i guess. let me know what you guys think.

Also quick question. been playing on stars for a while now. is it worth playing on a softer site? i mean will it make a big difference? if so which sites are best?

cheers

Good luck! I started at 5nl last month with $250 now at $850 and 10nl. Regarding the switch imo stars is king due to security and traffic, i would only consider switching in the future when i play high enough to easily smash deposit bonuses then gtfo.

TY. Good work on the roll building there have you been posting anything on here about it? thanks for the advice. ive had a bit of a look around and yeh stars kills it. cant see it being worthwhile, there are still plenty of bad players around imo.

Just finished my sessions for the day and today i only got in 2.25 hours on the tables, bit less than id like to play but got back from work late so not too worried. today i played 572 hands and made $24.39 for a bb/100 of 42.64 so definately happy there. read plenty and its looking like a good book so far, really clear in discussing concepts and when and how to apply them.

progress with the weekly goals

1 - play 20 hours this week. [5.75]
2 - read 1 poker related book [should finish next couple of days]
3 - do not play over 10nl [x]
4 - average above 10bb/100 hands. [43.72]
5 - post on here at least every other day [x]


Heres a hand i would like someones opinion on....do you think i made the correct play here?

Good progress man, and I hope that will be bigger in future...

Now as to the hand you probably don't want my analysis or opinion because there is a ton of better player who will do that better than me, but I will do my best...

With no information about your opponent I can't tell you if you did 100 % good move or bad, because you didn't said anything, what type of player is he what was your previous action ( if you have history with him) nothing that could give me ( or you ) help with assessment...

If he is tight player, I assume that he is not that tight he have a wide range on SB, I will put him on Ax, K 9 or bigger K, but I will move Kx because you have 2 kings, QJ, Q10, Q9, J10, maybe some suited connectors bigger that 65, and pairs bigger that 7's...
Now Ax he will definitely play like that- check-call, check with intention of raising if you bet, and betting on the river 60-70 % of pot...But this is tricky because he could play an absolute nothing like this assuming that his high card is good on this board because is hard for you to have A or 7, but I will take that option away because any high card that he could have is Qx ( we decide to remove Kx) and Jx he will check with intention of folding... So the most obvious option is that he got a big hand, and with you call you beat like 20 % of his range on SB, and there is so many combinations that crush your KK... The best decision you know because you know what type of player he is or if you don't I think that you make good fold, and this is tough fold and a lot of player will call here and in my opinion in 70 % lost a hand...

I write this messy I hope that you understand me what I try to tell you and you probably wait for someone better to give the opinion...

thanks for the advice mate sorry i didnt give much info he was very tight passive player though not a huge sample with him maybe 100 hands. he was playing 10/06.

todays update i played around 2.75 hours and saw 562 hands, not too unhappy with that. i am however unhappy with the i played/ran. i lost $15.70 which gave me a bb/100 of -22.4 but my overall is still well on track for my goal of 10bb/100. i played my first session pretty well i feel and was actually up nearly $15.00 but was very tired and still recovering from being sick the last week or so, so probably shouldve skipped the second session but wanted to get the volume in. anyway lesson learned!!! still on track for all my goals though so happy with that. Also didnt play over 10nl which after losing a few buy ins is a big thing for me so stoked with that!!

leaving you with this beauty that i played ****ing terribly. dont want to post it but feel i need punishment!!

Its the end of day 4 and im much happier with the way i played today. felt alot better and made better reads. still running like a champion which i am stoked about!! got a fair bit of time in today after work, 3 hours (766 hands) and i ended up $45.69 in the green for a bb/100 of 52.25 definately in line for my goals. Also got a fair bit of reading in and havent played above 10nl, actually played a decent amount of 5nl at times. Also noticed some sats running for the micromillions main event $22 buy in so i registered in 2 of those for about 450 FPPs each and won both of them which added a cool $42 to the bankroll!! no im not terrible at maths but lost a bit more than a dollar when i sold them and rounded it down.

here is a hand from today where i definately ran well but i cant tell if i actually shouldve called the all in here or folded?? just one of the many situations where i get confused haha. the CO is a reg whose pretty tight 15/10 but i called PF because the player UTG is a huge fish 64/41 and thought if my hand hits the flop hard im most likely going to be able to stack him off.





Have a good one!!

Pretty tricky that last hand, maybe u can post it at uNL hand review forum, i would like to know what more peeps think about this. Anyway, my first thought is that call pre is somewhat marginal due to the fact that we are most likely crushed by CO range, HOWEVER we do get around 3:1 on the call vs perceived fish against who we have position. But we are still easily dominated by CO range and probably have nasty reverse implied odds.
I also think you should not concentrate on getting 10BB/100 or 14BB/100 or 8BB, but focus on making best decisions every time you play a hand.
Good luck mate!

Nice run today, keep it hot!!

I will not commenting the hand because it's tricky as anyway said but most important you make the profit...

I'm interesting why you didn't leave 1 micromillion main event card and sell the other, when you got 2 cards why not try to make a good deep run in tournament, you never know what can happened?

Also I want to ask you if you are interested in poker group learning, chatting like study group, I'm trying to make a group to bring some people who love poker and want to improve they game ( like me) for now there are couple of us, so if you are interested let me know?

Thanks for that mate! i will try posting in a hand review specific forum and see what i get back. ill let you know.

Hopefully my run stays hot haha!! wishful thinking i think. i wouldve normally left myself registered for the tournament but it starts about 4 hours before i start work on monday so didnt see the point and just took the $22. Yes definitely keen what have you got planned? let me know the details and everything but yeh sounds like a good idea.

About to start a session at the moment. going to try make it last a couple hours but am pretty knackered again and last time i tried that it didnt end too well. definitely will play at least one hour. results coming!

I thought for a begging to create facebook group, actually it's already made (do you want to send you link of group?), and to see how many guy are interesting and see the other details and create skype group...And also good thing is because you are cash game player, you can teach us some cash game strategy and some tips...

yeh sure go for it mate ill have a look!

sorry for no update lastnight played terribly and ran pretty badly so after losing $30 due to poor play i just got away from the computer as quick as i could haha. whenever i am feeling sick and tired it seems to be affecting my game much more than i initially thought it would so going to steer clear of doing that from now on aswell.

just played a 2.5 hour session with some zoom mixed in. still wasnt playing the best but not as badly as lastnight so getting back into it. broke even for today up maybe $2 but got some decent hands and time at the tables so all goooooood. i will do a final update for the week tomorrow after my last session with graphs and a few interesting hands so keep an eye out for that!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/5033...?ref=bookmarks

So this is that group that I was talking about, we didn't start jet because we are still in collecting people, we don't need much people, we need guys who are interested in poker and who want to progress...and I thought that you can be one, and together I thing we can make faster progress, by commentating hand share videos and disgust about strategy and poker...Anyway if you are interested this can be good thing, we will see..