So, I've played poker for just over 5 years! I have never taken it seriously and usually just play for fun and for the buzz of winning a tournament. I've now come to the point in life where I'm setting goals in both work and personal life. Having targets help enable me to focus more and gives me an added motivational boost.

My real name is Kayle and I'm 25 from York, I work in the insurance industry for high net worth properties and large businesses. Be nice to get a following on this thread and people I can bounce ideas/questions off! I will be starting from the bottom but will look to progress very quickly! As per the title I will start with $50 and my aim is to spin this up to $1000 as quickly as possible. Starting from 2nl I will look to move up to 5nl and then 10nl as soon as I have 20-30 buy-ins for each stake. I would like to be able to finish the year playing 25nl consistently.

Over the last 5 years I have played around 50k hands at the micros and looking back through my stats I don't feel I've done to badly given I saw this as a bit of fun. I'd describe myself as a break even player at present! I will look to post my stats from HEM2 when I log onto the laptop later today as I'm currently posting from my iPad.

I am currently looking at what the best coaching material is for the micros, if anyone could offer some advice on videos/sites that would be useful then it would be appreciated!

I am also keen to know what you guys think about "best poker coaching/coaching for profits" as I've recently come across this as a coaching site but always hard to tell how good something is just off the face of testimonials and adverts.

That's about it from me! Like I mentioned earlier I will post some stats shortly to give you an idea of my play.

LETS GOOOOOO

Now that I am putting in the effort to watch videos and understand ranges I am confident my graph is only going to go one way. I will post interesting hands as we go along and explain my thinking.

As yet I have not played a session of poker this weekend, it has purely being a studying weekend and of course watching my man Bellew win!

I have football at 6pm tonight but I am hoping to have a good 4/5 hour session once back.

So this is the first night I have managed to sit down and play a session due to work and other unforeseen commitments.

I am feeling a lot more confident in my ability to read situations and establish some ranges. It also helps when you start a challenge and run well straight away. Here are a couple of hands that were nice to me.

I did say to start with that I would only play 2NL however I wanted to add one table of NL5 to see how I got on. Because I want to power through the micros I will slowly add an extra table as we go along the more comfortable I become.


Hand 1

This hand pretty much plays itself. Opponent very fishy playing almost every pot.




Hand 2

Hi guys,

So I plan on updating this blog every 2-3 weeks at the moment as this will give me a decent report of hands to go through. After starting the blog I signed up to the BPC site to have a look into this further. I have not joined the academy or CFP yet because I wanted to see how much information I could absorb that was free first.

Luckily I feel like this is paying off! I already feel so much more confident at 2NL and I'm just itching to start moving up already. Starting off it was difficult to learn standard lines and have a clear process in my head but it finally feels like this is sinking in. I have no worries playing 3-4 tables pretty seamlessly without having to overthink decisions.

I am managing to play on a daily basis around 4-5 hours and sometimes longer which is good volume at the minute considering I have a full time job and other commitments.

I will post some hand in a moment that have been the only ones really worth shouting about in the last couple of weeks. Most of them are pretty standard spots and didn't need to much thought. When I first started to put the hours in I didn't start well and dropped to $43 after my first couple of sessions. I was fairly happy with my overall play and could see it was mainly variance for me being down, luckily I wasn't tilting and just remained calm as its only a couple of buy-ins anyway. Since the bad start I've had 3-4 really good sessions and feel like I am crushing even when I'm not hitting cards.


Bankroll currently - $53.60

I will update again in the next week or two and see how we are getting on at that point. Hopefully I will have even more good news and a bigger BR.

Good luck at the tables!

I logged in today in this forum although I much rather reddit because of an idea and stumbled ain your thread

Anyways Im gonna reply to your hands.

Really like how you played hand 1 and 2, nothing to add there.

Hand 3 is also well played, like that trap with aces. Hand 4 is fine but could have checked back some none zero percentage of the time, its true that you want to check back with middling hands, but if you only always check back with middling hands you are always capped in your check backs and villians could exploit you overbluffing to the gunshot when you check back.


For this reason I like to check back some top range hands, mostly the "invincible" ones. A full house is really hard to beat even by runner runners so I would check back sometimes in this spot. Value betting is not bad though.

Then you do some veeeeeery questionable open with 54o on the button and CALL a 3 bet. Jesus I dont even usually open 54o heads up, too many combos of that trash to balance out the value, really hard not to get exploited(like you did with the 3 bet), and make money with it. Rest is ok, easy to hand to play with that flop.

Hand 6 with aces is good, 3 bet fine size, then GII lol, pretty simple.


The next hand with aces I find quite hard to understand. Two guys limped, you raised and they called. Flop comes paired with not much draws and you bet it all to the infinity like if you got trips or smth. You dont have much range advantage here, doesnt connect with your preflop range, villains could 1. value own you to death with trips or a set, 2. put you in nightmare spot by raising your bets.

You decide to go along and bet bet, one of villians raise you on THE TURN, you called planning to do what on the river? You got lucky that the Jack paired him and he just wanted showdown, because the hand was butchered all over.


Last hand(which I will call hand 8) With AK I dont like at all. Its been opened and you CALL FROM THE SB WITH AKo. Man you want to 3 bet with Ak(specially off suit), try to win preflop, even as a bluff if you like. Anyways, keep going. The flop gives you 2 pair and you check to the aggressor which is standard, then you go for the check raise(?(?)?)?)?) on a super dry board which you cover totally, that favors the preflop aggressor, presumably to bluff out all his bluffs and value own you against kings aces and even possibly a set of three.



Btw Im gonna PM you about smth that might interest you