numerous goals and challenges in this thread:

- last deposit ever (100 on 5/21)
- 5 digit bankroll
- follow a BRM schedule (might have modifications)
- position self to be ready for the return of online poker in america
- get better at multitabling
- proof of skill, or suck
- play every day
- formal study once a week (filling notebooks, using calculators, etc.)

couple things:

- op will most likely abandon thread and challenge
- plan is actually to drop down in stakes after the halfway point to decrease variance
- will update bankroll every post
- won't have many hh
- might have theory
- will have ramblings

prop bets:

- all side action ITT impacts the bankroll, however any wins incurred will increase the 10k goal by that margin


BANKROLL SCHEDULE (approx.) -->


100 - 500 (100bi @ nl4)
500 - 1100 (60bi @ nl10)
1100 - 3500 (120bi @ nl20)
3500 - 8500 (100bi @ nl50)
8500 - 9500 (50bi @ nl20)
9500 - 9900 (40bi @ nl10)
9900 - 10k (25bi @ nl4)

dropping stakes probably appears stupid. maybe i won't go below nl20, but that isn't for another 380 buyins; not worrying about that now is the play.

i won 32c playing 1 table on the side while making this post.

BR: 100.32

frist

I don't understand the logic of moving down in stakes after your bankroll overtakes the $8500 mark but moving up in stakes prior to that?

Risk of ruin goes down if I move down in stakes. Will take longer in terms of expectation, but consider if I combined like terms and played for the same # of cumulative buyins at each stake (still 495 BI total), in that case it would take longer and have even less variance than the current model. The logic is I think it's more important to make 10k than to do it as quickly as possible as long as the time frame is still reasonable.

BR: 100.55

GL OP. Looking forward to the ramblings.

My hourly might just be in the ~1/hr range for the next 2-3 months. I have worked my stamina up to playing 4 tables.

BR- 114.63

I think 100bb poker, normally played without antes, creates a game mechanic unideal for the health of an ecosystem. The people buying in for a table minimum belong at cap tables, and most that play full stacked would also enjoy a deeper game with antes -- reason being is that strategy expands the deeper a game gets, meaning hands like 42 become more playable.

If there were no capped games and recreational players were forced to convert to deeper games, the rake should be then lowered to a smaller %, while the max rake taken increased. I believe this would lead to a less hostile environment, one less ideal for weak professionals employing a robotic style, and I would personally enjoy the games more.

Tomorrow I will be live journaling poker maths itt. I don't have a framework for what I want to study, and haven't been noting many HHs....most likely there will be some PokerStove adventures and EV calcs.

One thing in particular I want to start working on/fine-tuning is my mental game. I've realized that even if a player were to make perfect decisions for a session, if they use a thorough thought process then it shouldn't be graded an A+.

I've broken down factors worth assessing:

- Did I actively follow the action and profile villains?
- Did I think through all of my hands?
- Did I consider alternative lines and how they might play out?
- Did I let mood or fatigue affect my play?
- Was the session an optimal length?

There may be a few more categories to add, but I will be grading these 4 each session and sharing if anything interesting shows up.

BR- $125.79

Stove Chronicles. Lesson 1.

Preflop holdings, broken into a grid on Stove. 13x13, ldo.

169 possibilities ignoring qualities of suit.

13 of those are pocket pair... 78 combos

156 possibilities broken down into suited or unsuited.

78 suited... *4... 312 suited combos

78 unsuited... *12... 936 unsuited combos

-------
= 1,326 unique hands

(If I had a 20-minute time bank then I wouldn't need to go further...)

Drills:

Top 10% of holdings = 88+ AJo+ KQo A9s+ KTs+ QTs+ (i would add JTs to this group and reduce unsuited KQ and AJ combos. will have to check the poker theory forum to see if distributions are rigid, which I don't think they are.)

Top 20% of holdings = 66+ A9o+ KTo+ QTo+ JTo+ A4s+ K8s+ Q9s+ J9s+

Top 30% of holdings = 55+ A5o A7o+ K9o+ Q9o+ J9o+ T9o+ A2s+ K5s+ Q7s+ J8s+ T8s+ 98s+

Top 40% of holdings = 44+ A3o+ K7o+ Q8o+ J8o+ T9o+ A2s+ K2s+ Q4s+ J7s+ T7s+ 97s+ 87s+

Top 50% of holdings = 33+ A2o+ K5o+ Q7o+ J7o+ T8o 98o+ A2s+ K2s+ Q2s+ J4s+ T6s+ 96s+ 86s+ 65s+

BR - 252.53

+152.53 playing nl4 since beginning of thread. I'm adding 1 table of nl10 to the mix and will add a 2nd after passing 300.

it ended up being ironic that i was sweating the last couple buyins. i've been managing a bankroll to avoid that exact predicament, however it was hard to avoid with each BB lost keeping me further from moving up, so each hand mattered more and i found myself tilting over marginal 20c bets not going my way!

i had a large-ish edge on the field at 4nl and hope it is more of the same. expecting to see fewer jammers, and river check raises with 53o though.

Bonus HH:

CO (rec) limps .04
BTN raises to .16
SB folds
Hero flats BB holding AJ
CO calls

A A 5 (Pot = .50)

Hero leads .25
CO calls
BTN folds

9 (Pot = 1)

Hero bets 4.15 (all-in)
CO calls 4.15

Villain shows 95 (!!!)