thanks for the advice guys, gonna take that into account
So this is how I ended march


Didn't expect that I'd be a losing player on 25z but it is what it is. Didn't play my A-game all along the way but who does play his A-game consistently for 87k hands right? So no reason to be bothered by now. But lets forget about the results from last month and try to evaluate what my mistakes were and where I can improve on.

I definitely didn't do enough for life balance. I said that I would go to the gym regularly and didn't find the motivation even once to go there. My nutrition was ****, sleeping schedule pretty much non existent and played 3-4 table too often even though I knew that I playing 3-4 tables significantly hurts my winrate and I miss out on a lot of spots. Also I need to work on some kind of routine to prepare my mind for playing…. maybe that would be good

I also didn't go for profitable bluffs on rivers enough. I just didn't have the balls to do that. To fix that I should study those river spots in depth so it becomes more clear to me when I face such opportunities so I actually go for it without feeling down on myself when I run into the nuts.

So this month will be more about finding balance and maintain it. Create healthy routines before and after sessions. Create effective study routines and aim for 70-100k hands of poker. I don't want to put my focus on results for now and just trust the progress and that I will be fine as long as I keep working hard and get routines going for me. Ofc I would be happy if I go on a heater this month but I'll try to stay realistic and just take it as it comes and deal with it.

Thanks for reading, have a nice week and Gl at the tables

aslong as greens going up overtime who gives a **** about redline doing or even allin ev (as its not a very accurate predictor of how hot or poorly youve run luck wise anyway...) aslong as green climbs over time your golden

gl btw

not wanting to hi-jack but hasnt pokerstars got one of the lowest rakes and caps? compared almost all sites other than microgaming and unibet? so never really understood the rake trap thing mean rake in general sucks balls even a standard amount 5% but pokerstars seems to rake less least in cashgames than most sites (tournies whole other story...).

please move down stakes, one bad downswing will break your bankroll,

with this red line I'd say you don't even beat 10nl, no flame, please go and learn fundamentals, and ranges

ich rate dir mal lieber 6max zu spielen als zoom. die rote linie ist eine katastrophe! und solang deine winnings und EV Linie so nah beinander liegen, heißt das, dass du weder gut noch schlecht läufst, sondern du rennst ziemlich deinem Spiel entsprechend. und das leider nicht gut. nimm mehr Zeit für lernen, ich meins nur gut Wenn du Pro werden willst, musst du auch viel lernen! Mein Tipp: Normales 6max zum lernen Du musst viel mehr VPIP am Button haben, usw. wurde eh schon fast alles erwähnt anyway, good luck sir

lol

I went from +$400 to -$300. I'd consider that a downswing and I survived it with no problems at all. Will mix in a lot more 16z though when 25z looks too tough for me. And since I'm working on my game constantly I don't see any reason to drop 5z. I know the reasons why my redline is dropping to that extend and I'm working my ass off to fix that. Also I dropped to 2 tables so I can put more focus in my game. I'll be fine man l, don't you worry

Your post was lolworthy, yes.

Take my advice with a pinch of salt, as I play lower than you, and used to have the same problem (losing too much on nsd, even though my blueline also goes up like yours). You seem a little bit nitty pf for 6 max. I am too (13/11/4 AF 1.8) but I play FR normal and it´s actually ok there.

Anyway, try to make your flop, turn and river cbet spots more villain dependent, and rely heavily in your HUD. Abuse of their fold stats, but look at the bigger picture always, so compare them to vpip, pfr, af, wtsd, wwsf and w$sd esp when you have a big sample. raise cbet and fold vs raise otf also help. Be more careful oop. Think about their ranges at all times (stats help a lot on this one also).

Think about how you will atack each villain type before playing, everyday. Use a notebook. Make a daily briefing before playing. Vs the regs, it pays to make notes about your overall planning, so if you forget or are playing too many tables, you can rely on them to formulate a postflop strategy.

Avoiding putting money in bad spots postflop, and exploiting their leaks the maximum you can should help revert your nsd losses, and hopefully your green line also.

Move down stakes bro and work on your game.You re nit pre, passive postflop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utIWLaFId38
I AIN'T GOING NOWHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERE

Ich weiß deinen Ratschlag zu schätzen aber ich glaube du hast da ein grundlegendes Missverständnis was Varianz angeht. Nur weil EV und net so nah beieinander sind heißt das noch lange nicht dass da alles mit rechten dingen zugeht und dass da alles fair abläuft. Auf 90k Händen kann ich signifikant öfter in set over set rennen und verlieren oder viel öfter in einen KK vs AA spot rennen. Meine 3bet pots können viel öfter verfehlen und flushdraws können weniger ankommen als sie sollten. Klar wäre ein -10bb/100 graph oder ein 10bb/100 graph schon ein netter Indikator wie man sich in dem Feld so schlägt aber bei beinahe 0bb/100 auf dem kleinen sample kann man noch nicht sagen wo ich jetzt stehe. Kann -4bb/100 sein aber auf 4bb/100. Das werden wir sehen. Und bis dahin werde ich wie gesagt weiter an meinem game arbeiten und falls ich dann doch ein losingplayer da bin hab ich kein problem damit fürs erste von 25z abzulassen.

glgl, subbed

Hey guys, still breakeven but I got a question for you guys and I hope someone can help me. Pokerstars put my goldchests from 5000 points needed to 48500 points. So I essentially have to pay 10x the rake for the same rakeback, which is unacceptable when i'm breakeven. Already contacted the support and they basically dodged my question and didn't help me at all. They downgraded my chests to silver and they cost 14500 points for 2-3$ rakeback i'll gain from them.
So obviously I want to switch sites now, can anyone recommend another site with good rakeback and soft pools? Also I want to know if I can use PT4 on them for HUD and so on.

Please please please help me

Precisely the same thing happened for me with Stars; my black chest was 35k points ($350) to rake, after completing 3-4 of them they upped it to 335k points ($3,350), essentially adding 3k extra rake for a reward I'm not even sure is better. Did the same as you and E-Mailed support, to which they also kept dodging until they couldn't any longer, so naturally they stopped replying instead. Have forwarded it to them a couple times asking for updates and still nothing. Absolute joke. However, despite all of this, I wouldn't advise you to look to other sites, as micro's is by far the softest on Stars. The only other site that comes close is GGPoker, and IMO it's too sketchy to risk, although the "risk" does seem to only come into consideration when playing mid stakes, so maybe you'll be ok there. PT4 will not function there, though. glgl

Thanks for the reply. What do you mean by sketchy? Is my money not safe there or is there botting or cheating going on? What about partypoker and which tracking program can I use on ggpoker?

Quite a few reports of people's accounts being froze and sometimes even the funds being seized for XYZ excuses from GGPoker, however this was mainly in conjunction with MSNL/HSNL players; have not heard anything similarly bad with any micro players(??), so I'd imagine your money is safe.

Would still recommend to stay on Stars mate

I guess I respect your opinion on stuff too much to do anything else than staying on stars. Thanks for answering my questions, it's kind of an honor that you're lurking around in my thread

Not at all man, best of luck to you (Y)

Thanks a lot man, you too



This month:



It's been a while since I've posted an update, because I was kinda expecting to get only positive and constructive feedback by other motivated grinders instead of negative and destructive feedback sometimes. I guess that's just normal that some people don't like what you're doing and comment some demotivating stuff to pull you down. Not gonna lie, even the smallest negative comment got to me, but I got over it and don't really care anymore since I got the feeling that I'm slowly improving and finding some leaks along the way and working on them. For this month I'm improving slightly in redline and especially after the 20k hand mark since I've adopted a non flatting strategy in MP CO and SB (but I'm going to deviate from that if I want a very weak player in the big blind to get involved for example). I also try to check raise the flop more, cbet more and atm I'm trying to figure out how wide I need to defend vs a check raise to a 1/3 pot bet. I think more about ranges and take more time for my decisions. I really struggled with just clicking too fast and not really playing my A game because of that. Yeah, sounds pretty stupid that I couldn't play my A game even though I'm 2 tabling right? Since the last update I have been working a little harder than before and I'm still looking forward to up the speed and finally crush 25z so I can move forward to 50z in 1-2 months. I also need to increase volume but I really didn't see a reason to do that when I don't win too much there so I rather studied more. However I want to get 2k hands in on average per day and try to do that while playing my A game, so I need to have breaks since I autopilot after playing more than 1-2h straight.

Gonna update again when I got interesting news or when I think my progress is worth to share. Have a nice week and GL on the tables

What is your raise first in/unopened PFR by position? I can't really make too much of your stats but it seems like you have massive leaks...

I got this impression. Maybe post some more (any?) hands.

What kind of feedback did you expect? You posted zero hands so there was nothing to give constructive feedback on except your DB stats which people were quite helpful about IMO.

I'm really glad to see things turning around for you. I am in a somewhat similar situation to yours online poker wise but I guess I've just been running better since I started.

I've played (and won a decent bit of money in) poker for a while now but I only started using HUD a month ago so take from what I say with a grain of salt.
1) Your 3-bet% - it's way too low - At these stakes, a lot of players don't play well vs 3bets, especially OOP

2) Your CBetting frequencies - Do you end up in a lot of multiway pots? It may explain why your CB% OTF is lower than usual - if so, you CB% if fine but avoid multiway pots OOP and 3b more (don't feel obligated to defend from blinds because of 'good price' - its usually a trap, especially for players who are less experienced post-flop)

3) Don't worry too much about your overall red-line dropping so long as its not excessive. A lot of winning 6m players are (-) red-line (go statsname and look at NL 6m crushers - most of them except maybe Bajs are (-); even LLinus redline in more recent history is about B/E or slightly (-).

I started grinding online again about a month ago. In my experience, a depreciating red-line is generally a good thing especially the lower you play (it's becomes a bit different as you move up). Achieving a decent+ wr at lower stakes generally entail (1) making good (or 'exploitative') folds vs nits/fish in certain spots - but not severely under-defending; (2) under-bluffing on certain textures + bluffing in the correct spots - e.g. trying to bluff a fish off a weak Ace on even a semi-wet board is usually very very marginal.

4) As for coping with downswings - Coming from someone who had just transitioned from playing the biggest live CG they offer in my city back to grinding online (starting at the micros and slowly moving up, even though I'm rolled for higher). It sucks, but it can always get worse - you can always run worse, in poker or otherwise. Learn from the experience - quantified results usually tells you a story - so study more, plug leaks and the resilience you build from the effort it takes to pull yourself out of the rut and discipline from the good habits you build along the way is what allows you to find the greatness within yourself.

4) Don't neglect your Uni studies in place of poker. You're only at Uni once and you'll regret it if you mess it up - you have all the time in the world for poker once you graduate - I just finished law school and I did regret not putting as much effort into my studies until the final years.

All the best

Thanks for reading my thread and taking the time for giving some advice, appreciate it a lot man. I will finish Uni after I can live from poker winnings without having to grind 8h a day 7 days a week. I want to stand on my own feet with poker but also want to have that engineering degree in my bag later on. I can't do both at the same time though so I'll tackle poker now and do the engineering degree after that because I can never know how much of a future poker has so better have a Plan B. Agree to all points you were saying above and been working on a couple of them for 1-3 weeks now because I had someone look over my stats. Thanks again for taking the time

have you tried live poker you can probably win a lot more in the short term

yeah live poker is something that I will definitely play as soon as I got the bankroll for this and the mental strength to handle $10k downswings. But for now I need to stick with online poker

Ok guys I really ****ed up this month. I wanted to play more, study more, get my sleeping schedule together and play at times when I really feel fit to play and not play some small sessions across the whole day. I wanted to stick with 2 tables but sometimes I just put in that extra 1/2 table and ruined my ev.
So that's April.

Slightly better redline than last month if you compare it in bb/100 but still nowhere near I want to be. I also talked with my father about my plan as becoming a pro and he didn't really like it because he is an old man and not familiar with certain carreer branches that the internet has to offer nowadays. But he says that he accepts it and wishes me best of luck with that.

At least i didn't lose on the tables this month so there's at least some progress, but I could have been in a much better place by now if I just had more discipline. So what I'm gonna do for this month is bringing the ****ing fire and push myself as hard as I can to make success inevitable for this month. No more procrastinating, no more being lazy and ****ing up my sleep schedule and create a good study habit and make more notes on spots that made me unsure that I need to look up after the session.


May Goals:
-Proper sleeping schedule
-Going to the gym twice a week
-Creating good study habits and really stick to them
-Going out to get some fresh air every day before playing
-Getting a big fat breakfast right after waking up
-Showering cold for the last 30seconds of the shower
-Get some headspace before every session

Enough is enough. I can't stand being breakeven anymore. It's Gametime. Update next sunday