Heh, I had 88, then when the A hit on the turn I went to go and write something like 'u got me' before hitting fold, but with my hotkeys on I somehow managed to hit min-raise.



I guess you thought I was going for cheeky value. Which is perfectly reasonable given the randomness. Total fluke I'm afraid!

Quick update:

I have NOT forsaken this challange in a waft of smoke, but I HAVE been very busy with crypto this last week or so. Does anyone else trade crypto? I only have peanuts to play with (% of my BR) but studying how traders work on youtube you can see how many similarities there are between day trading and poker: you sit at a computer all day and you manage risk, then you ride out the downswings with your superior gambling techniques.

Good practice! I'm not sure where the current bull-run in crypto will take us but I find everything that's happening right now with Gamestop, Doge etc pretty fascinating, like we're watching history figure something out. Back to grind soon.

Consider me excited. Gl with the challenge and glad to hear you haven't dropped it. Looking forward to the next update!

I've also dabbled in the world of crypto, more for curiosity than profit.

Can't stop, won't stop...

Nice one Lethiferous. It is a mental experience. I had 4 bitcoin @ £250 back in the day but times were tough so had to sell well before the last few mega-pumps. I'm still grateful though having learnt so much about finance and tech.

Having said that, holiday over, I'm back to work to now - huzzah. Put my Doge profits into a few alts I like the look of long-term and now gonna step back to 'passive amateur' rather than trying to battle the trading sharks.

Gotta say, taking a couple of weeks off has helped my motivation no end and I'm itching to get back at this mission now. More important to take breaks than I'd realised.

GL all. 2021 is our year.

**30k Update**

Not much to report. Currently running 3.6BB/100, which is getting nearer to our target of 5BB/100. Wish I hadn't been such a spew monster in that first 10k, but it'll all iron out eventually. We're almost half way to 25nlz!



I'm still my own worst enemy at this stake, but the fish are everywhere so I'm probably getting by on better fundamentals alone. Definitely leaning towards exploitative play more now and making nitty folds against uber-strength, while holding tight and catching the odd weird bluff when nothing makes sense.

Nothing makes sense. That's what I'm calling my poker academy. Or solve for nothing.

One of the two.

Nice, good to see you're doing well. I think 3bb/100 at micros Zoom is really not to be sniffed at. The rake is so high that squeaking out any WR at all is a decent achievement.

ayy!

Well done sir! Keep at it!

Thanks both! Much appreciated.

Nice results!

Just caught up on the thread awesome read! We have a lot in common lol. GL to ya I'll be following from now on.

The thought of you barking out every command is awesome and hilarious to me lol.

It has it's quirks for sure. Last week I had a cold and every time I sneezed I was open-jamming on both tables. Kept getting away with it and starting laughing, which triggered yet another open-jam. Can't stay this lucky for long.

Welcome aboard.

This was fun! Sneaky ceres flatting his AA against me potentially 3 way! This is your punishment.

PokerStars - $0.10 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 156.7 BB
SB: 291.4 BB
Hero (BB): 104.5 BB
UTG: 114 BB
MP: 190.1 BB
CO: 101.5 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A Q

fold, MP raises to 3 BB, fold, BTN calls 3 BB, fold, Hero raises to 15 BB, MP calls 12 BB, fold

Flop: (33.5 BB, 2 players) K K 8
Hero bets 10.7 BB, MP calls 10.7 BB

Turn: (54.9 BB, 2 players) Q
Hero checks, MP bets 17.3 BB, Hero calls 17.3 BB

River: (89.5 BB, 2 players) Q
Hero checks, MP checks

Hero shows A Q (Full House, Queens full of Kings)
(Pre 13%, Flop 6%, Turn 5%)
MP mucks A A (Two Pair, Aces and Kings)
(Pre 87%, Flop 94%, Turn 95%)
Hero wins 85.5 BB

Our most interesting hand so far Drawcess. I think you played it well, not 100% sure on my line.

My thinking was this: BTN has low PP/SCs that I crush, and if I raise it'll a) knock him out and b) I wasn't sure what size anyway, given I'm effectively shoving at double your squeeze (nice size btw), so went to set the trap for overpairs and broadways. (which AFAIK is somewhat acceptable in BU v OOP spots, not sure about here though)

Turn I wanted to give a good price for AQ, some FDs and SDs in your range.

And yet...that pesky river foiled my evil plans (as per whenever I try stuff like this).

Quick lil update

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'Somehow' my pokertracker missed -7.5BIs of hands so I had to request hand histories and add that in (despite the obvious temptation not to). No point in lying is there?

Add to that these last few sessions have been lol downswing mode so all that combined looks like I'm now basically breaking even at this stake. Haha.

New graph (I think)



A few points for me to think about this.

I haven't been 'unlucky', really; some upswingy stuff and vice versa. The reality is, still, I am just making so many big (BB wise), baaaaaad, river and turn calling errors that I think this winrate is pretty accurate overall.

My C-game is aeons off my A-game and it's nuked the idea I could coast this. Bottom line: there is so much low hanging fruit ripe and abundant in my game, and 10nlz in general, to pick off first before worrying about anything else right now.

I am introducing lots of new concepts/general strategies too so my mind is often preocuppied possibly precipitating a classic 'learning GTO too early' scenario? Maybe. I'm not sure it's necessarily a bad thing though because learning complex things just takes time. I'd much rather stumble about and figure out my strategy at 10nl than higher. (+ compared to my worthless humanites degree this stuff is so much harder, no question)

So... no complaints. No excuses (yet). 'You can't handle the truth!', said Jack Nicholson. Oh, can't I ??

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Personal life issues haven't gone away, athough they are entering a new interesting stage where I'm opening up about it much more and getting to grips with *shudders* actual sobriety (5 sober days last week, huge for me). I refuse to give up.

I know non-sobriety is my #1 leak in life and poker.

And still enjoying the learning process loads too, even on bad-health days. So until that dies off this challenge and enthusiasm will remain on track. How I still love poker after all these years and losses is beyond me but it's true.

Game still opens up new levels every time I play.

<mission completion -0.5%>

Just been reading some other PG&Cs and reckon I need to be more specific and demanding on myself. Kind of person who needa a boss and that boss is gonna have to be me.

From now on:

• min 10k hands a week
• min 3 spots researched and written up
• weekly update to stay accountable

...and why did I return to poker?





Just wanted to share my first 14.5BI downswing! Previous record is about 13 so I'm in new territory here. Proud.

(I know it's probably nothing to some of you guys. Just enjoy collecting 'em)


Hopefully the fun continues and I can get to the more respectable -20BI range.

Keep the head up! I hope the sarcasm isn't a sign of a lack of confidence or something. Maybe you should really ask yourself: why did you return to poker? Fist good job on posting the run bad graphs. It shows that you can take a hit in your ego.
Be proud of your strat. But accept the hard times.
Practice and enjoy.

Yeah cheers SkullKid. I am mostly trying to enjoy the variance for once.

Been playing well these last few days so it sort of feels irrelevant and a good spot to practice the ol' objective mental management skills.

There you go! there is always something to work on! I feel like transforming the bad luck and variance into a strength: ''When I run bad I try to push my focus even harder.'' is a big aspect that separates average from good players. Prove yourself that even when you run bad, you can play good. And always be proud of the quality of your play not the result of it.
Cheers! ... Mate.

Good luck with this. I really enjoyed my beer when playing, but since I only drink after the session, my winrates have skyrocketed.

Don't worry about the variance man, that's normal stuff! If you want to see how crazy it can be, follow BenaBadBeat on instagram. He posts graphs from every day, and regularly has 20BI up and downswings at 500z in a single day.

Keep grinding man! Always lots to work on for us at microstakes!

Message me on discord sometime if you want to review hands.

I feel better

Swings are fun and make for great stories once you get out of them. Just make sure that happens and it’s well worth it.

**40k update**

Did sir order an upswing?



Back on track lads. Can't lie, sobriety aint no fun. Mind is numb and haunted, body is ****** killing me, but... it does feel good to be functioning like a normal at last. Nice little upswing just what the doctor ordered to put things back on track.

Now I need a wee lie down. zzzzz

Good luck,
wondered why your screen name was pizotifen lol (cause ive been on and off that medication ha for cluster headaches migraines and chronic ones too for years now intensity regularity went up they'll honestly hell i legitmiately cant do anything when there bad bad and there, there every day at a high intensity for months with odd day of respite or let up less intense thrown in there for a day or if lucky a week or two ha, cant listen to music watch tv with sound f*cking anything or think straight have conversation mind fog i turn it literal vegetable there depressing as hell, been down on waiting to see a neurologist since august already had it looked at once there a nightmare, think the ability to be able to think and the ability to enjoy music or sounds the worst, felt like head was gonna explode one point and a continuous one for 3-4months straight last summer) i always got some level of headache or almost always, its like behind my right eye and my right temple its just almost always there at some level of intensity then i might get lucky get a odd day break or few weeks they suck balls! ****ing hate them.
and stopped taking the pizotifen cause i dont think it was really doing anything for them anyway dr said should decrease intensity or whatnot but personally not sure it did or was so just stopped and suffer with them as much as can do and pop ibruprofen only when really really need too as mess guts and if i did so every time had headache id be taking it all day every day for months on end and even that dont normally work anyways might ease it bit, but yh its some weird hell past few years personally for me with these headaches i know i sound like exaggerating but i used to like playing music so not being able to listen to music cause patterns sounds jar my head or play it cause same and also minds mushy peas just sucks and then cant even veg out watch movies or films cause again sound thinking or exercise cause seems to make the more intense worse, basically when there bad for me i just wanna roll up in a ball and sleep die cause im uncapable of doing **** all else even being sociable to family friends so its bit like why am i alive awake ha may as well be dead as barely functional vessel here, i been lucky past week though in truth not had too many bad bad ones had bit of break from them and so grateful.
dont wanna take medication for them either as messes with other medications im on or makes me more a vegetable than already am, hopefully im still on that neurologist waiting list might need to chase that up with my GP along with other things.
anyway i feel your pain with the headaches if yours are anything like mine man.

good luck this year with poker and the headaches hopefully they magically disappear ha, realised drs dont really know much about them or anything to do with brain to be honest its just guesses alot of it, even with neurologists there specialised and its wish washy guessing, not like theres a cure.