June, Week #3

In the 3rd week of June my results look a little something like this:



Looks like a record month so far. But still not enough if I am to make 20 000$. Last week will require my best performance and concentration abilities. And some luck as well. Certainly not impossible but I will have to work very hard. Tomorrow will also take a break because of a national holiday. Will slow me down a bit, but taking some rest will perhaps also give me additional strength.

Total hands played: 90545
Approximate winnings after rakeback: 14 000$

A quick update in between my sleep and the next session:



Looking very good at the moment. Every day I feel stronger at the tables and one could only imagine what the results would be like if I didn’t time out with KK preflop when facing a 3Bet or if I didn’t misread stacksizes and overshove the 3rd nut flush on a paired river for 300BBs. Every day I time out at least 3 hands I really shouldn’t. And I have no idea whatsoever how to combat this because it’s not like it’s happening every 10 minutes which would be an argument for just simply playing fewer tables. 20k this month looks very realistic, however.

The better I’m doing, the more I get used to it and the more I fear a sick bad run. Some other people I know are really receiving not so great runs with lots of coolers, set-ups. I feel guilty again about receiving only a moderate portion of KK vs AA, set vs overset and similar stiuations. Feel awesome about my small-pot play though. Or at least feel incomparatively more confident about this area than I did before.

I may update the blog a bit more often til the end of the month because it’s getting a bit exciting over here.

Hands played: 101651
Approximate winnings: 16 000$

It looks like I have no real shot at making it to the 20k winnings. Played horribly these last two days. For my defence, I had to take some medication that my doctor prescribed and it has made me extremely dizzy, sleepy and confused these last 3 days. I literally blacked out two days ago shortly after having woken up and I'm in a somewhat similar state right now as well. I didn't even know I could play so bad and be so unsure about so many spots as I was today. Auto-piloted 12 tables and made one extremely bad decision after another while barely being able to keep my eyes open. Though about not playing while in such a state but the tables were good and it was my only shot at reaching the goal. A pity it backfired so bad. Hit stop loss as a result.

Don't really care that particularly much about probably not reaching the goal – got more affected by the very scary feeling of not being completely sure about every other spot that came up. Likely a big reason for having such a feeling is my impaired cognitive ability caused by my stupid medication. It was supposed to help me but it destroyed my dreams instead. Ha ha, not really, but it's still stupid.

I still have a shot if I make something like 5-6k in the last 2 remaining days. But I may decide to perhaps take a break or maybe even better – just play fewer tables for the rest of this month and really focus on quality to get my confidence back up. Will decide tomorrow. I did make roughly 6k in two days last month, so it's not entirely impossible. But to do so on monday and tuesday? Sounds difficult and not really likely anyway. Besides, my super stupid medication wouldn't let me demonstrate the required performance anyways. I should probably stop taking it.

gl

Thx!

June review

So it’s time to take a quick look back at the previous month and my results.

June results:



Hands played: 132 982
Approximate winnings after rakeback: 15 000$

Pretty sick volume in comparison to what used to be my standard a while ago. I still expected to have better results, especially given this volume, and despite this being my highest profit month ever, I am somewhat disappointed. But it’s a first-world problem really, so I’d rather not go on about how much this month sucks in comparison to my expectations.

Either way, It’s beyond obvious to me that I can play so much better than I did in June and all I need to do is focus and think more and in a better quality about the situations that come up at the tables on an every day basis. Cut out some braindead moments, outright spew, hand/board misreads, time outs, misclicks and I should be able to have a 20k month+ without much difficulty. I have improved a lot during June though, so this month should be much better as I will start out as a far stronger player than I was. I will have some trouble reaching the same volume though as I will just physically be able to play on fewer days this month due to some minor holidays I will be going on this Friday and Saturday, as well as the BPC meeting in Croatia for 3 days. Playing 12 tables as a top priority during each session is also something I may decide to give up on unless the tables are incredibly good or unless I’m demonstrating a very solidly consistent high performance. Lost a bit of focus at the end of June so I’d rather be able to pay more attention to what is going on in each of my opponent’s minds in July.

The big goal is still there: I need to reach the 60k euro mark by the end of August.

Current status: 20 889 / 60 000 EUR



This will be a difficult one. But doable given that I’m becoming stronger.

But someone please explain this one to me:

NL100



NL200



Sick NL100 run-good incoming soon? Super sad motivation killing run-bad on NL200 inevitable? I’m way too paranoid for this game, lol.

What’s up? Took a brief holiday and went outside my flat to check out what summer is like. Apparently it’s sunny and hot and fun and all. Missed poker though and also missed a Friday and Saturday which is not going to help me this month results-wise at all since I will likely have to miss at least 4 more days of playing and I will really have to make up for it with a kickass performance. The good news is that I’m mentally as ready as never before for an awesome month. The not so good news is that I’ve started out a bit bad:




It’s about to change because I’ve fixed a few leaks recently that should boost my results a bit anyways + I have reorganised myself mentally. I’m about to hit the tables so let’s see how this goes.

Time for a little youtube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtsXGN1PF8A

Good luck! Great results. Would you mind telling me what the monitors you bought are? They look great.

Thanks!

Dell ultrasharp u2515h

They're quite wide though. For a dual setup I may have wanted to choose something less wide and rather with more height. But I'm no monitor expert. Still satisfied with these.

July, week #2

Results:



Very, very very disappointing. Don’t know what to say. Are the games indeed getting so much tougher? Is it just the summer fish to reg ratio and is that even a real thing? I have never played as well, never known as much. Yet the results over the last 100k hands look so sad even in comparison to how I was doing half a year ago when I was a crazy uncontrollable extremely over aggressive spewy guy.

I am running not so well luck-wise and I get one ugly spot after the other – I can’t say I’m always dealing perfectly with the ugly ones. Truth be told, I have not played perfectly at all during this time. Started also experimenting a bit with different lines and different plays. Mostly unsuccessfully though. And still what I was doing this month looked so smart to me. When it wasn’t plain stupid at least. There are a few more interesting hands that I’ve played such as these ones:

Hand #1

Hero (SB): $305.82 (152.9 bb)
BB: $265.80 (132.9 bb)
UTG: $234.85 (117.4 bb)
MP: $59.23 (29.6 bb)
CO: $480.10 (240.1 bb)
BTN: $74.99 (37.5 bb)

Preflop: Hero is SB with A T
4 folds, Hero raises to $5, BB calls $3

Flop: ($10) K J 5 (2 players)
Hero bets $6, BB raises to $17, Hero raises to $38, BB calls $21

Turn: ($86) K (2 players)
Hero checks, BB checks

River: ($86) 4 (2 players)
Hero checks, BB bets $38, Hero calls $38

Results:[spoiler] $162 pot ($3 rake)
Final Board: K J 5 K 4
Hero showed A T and won $159 ($78 net)
BB showed Q T and lost (-$81 net)
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Hand #2

Hero (SB): $215.64 (107.8 bb)
BB: $51.56 (25.8 bb)
MP: $242.55 (121.3 bb)
CO: $202.28 (101.1 bb)
BTN: $200 (100 bb)

Preflop: Hero is SB with A Q
2 folds, BTN raises to $4, Hero raises to $16, BB folds, BTN calls $12

Flop: ($34) 2 8 T (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $14, Hero raises to $34, BTN calls $20

Turn: ($102) 5 (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN checks

River: ($102) 5 (2 players)
Hero bets $165.64 and is all-in, BTN folds

Results:[spoiler] $102 pot ($3 rake)
Final Board: 2 8 T 5 5
Hero mucked A Q and won $99 ($49 net)
BTN mucked and lost (-$50 net)
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You can notice a tendency of choosing borderline-spew lines. I did have reasons for these plays but it doesn’t always work out so it’s likely not that big a surprise that I’m not doing as well anymore in July.

Overall, I’m ready to turn this month around. You can notice from my volume that I’m in super histerical try-hard mode at the moment because the 60k aren’t coming yet and if this month sucks my only shot is to beg my coach to grant me the right to start my NL400 adventures earlier than I probably should and then pray I catch the NL400 run-good wave.

But boy do I love poker.

Cool thread, subbed !

Quick update


What’s up? It’s been a while, I must apologise for that. The thing is, I’ve been very busy with playing and studying as I was desperately trying to get out of my downswing + get my performance back on track. The results have improved but it took quite some while:

July results so far:



Comeback in last hands:



Overall, I have to say that run-wise this month has been exceptionally horrible. A short way to put this: in the end I didn’t even hope I’d win a flip because that was just impossible with very few exceptions. I rather hoped I would hold with something like AK vs JT or even AQ, which also seemed to happen with a 50% frequency at best. Got sucked out by 2 outers, very bad run set-up wise in deep pots and everything you would never see in your worst nightmares (a bit of exaggeration here, obviously). BUT. The sad truth is also that I played exceptionally bad for some time – still incomparably better than I ever had in the very recent past. I experimented with a lot of new things, which was mostly justifiable only partly –typically overlooking the simplest factor of specific opponent tendencies. Learned a lot from it, gained also experience in some lines I have not taken in the past, but was likely far from being the most +EV thing to do. And I still have mixed feelings about whether this indeed was a necessary period for me now. Whatever the answer may be, I’ve had awesome coaching sessions this month and the results performance wise are clearly and unmistakenly felt by me each day more and more at the tables. I still twitch from time to time and make that random spew play as I’ve always done at least occasionally ever since I’ve been playing, but it’s getting more and more controlled and more and more sensible and occasionally even smart.

What’s weird is that a month ago I didn’t understand how I ever was able to make money in poker before CFP since I had improved so much. This month I already don’t understand how I ever was able to make 15k with the mediocre knowledge I had back then. Awesome feeling for sure.

So, a lot of major issues with my game have been solved very recently and overall I am confident about my ability to crush next month as hard as I’ve never crushed before. It will still have to be a 30k+ euro month most likely for me to finish this all before the end of August. But I see it as not impossible – certainly not if I enter super-dramatic-incredibly-intense-epicly-awesome hardcore grind mode with 6, 5, or maybe even the occasionaly 4 hours of sleep each night, no blog updates, no visiting home, no phone calls no nothing else but playing and coaching sessions.

I’m leaving Latvia in roughly 7 hours, which means no playing today and the next few days as well. The CFP meeting in Dubrovnik is going to be a blast, that I can feel. Expect next update after the trip. Take care and good luck at the tables!

I’ve returned from my trip to Croatia and I have to say that it was quite the blast. Met interesting and successful people, people with a similar mindset and ambitions. Also made some very good contacts that will be useful in future, as well as just simply made some good friends. Learnt a lot from the seminar and got motivated to set very high goals and just work and work and work until they’ve been reached. Now I’m pumped and grinding as focused as never before.

Last ~35k hands:



Ok, the truth is that the graph for the month looks not as great as the last 35k hands:



I am on a heater at the moment but it’s a ride that I’ve been waiting for a long time. I also am more disciplined now and paying more attention to the situations I’m getting dealt. I am stronger now than I was at the beginning of the month. But let’s see what the future brings – you never know.
Time to get back to the tables as there’s a lot of grinding to do. Have to make the next month easier by earning some reserves now.

Good luck.

Very impressive volume I must say. Results aren't bad either obv
Only thing I'd do if I were you is don't compromise sleep too much. I think an extra hour of sleep can only affect your play in a good way.

cheers

100k isn't really that difficult. Next month I'll try and go for 200k – now that's a challenge. But I've heard of 300k being possible as well. Wouldn't dare to say I could do 300k though.

Ideally I would not sleep less to reach my goals but if I have to, I will. That's what coffee is for.

July review

The graph for the month looks a little something like this:



Certainly not what I hoped for. At least the end was nice:



But yes, I do have to admit that I often entered lines that I definitely shouldn’t have with some hands quite often this month. The occasional misclick or misread didn’t help. And I also was running quite bad as well. But my fault nonetheless – I could have played much better.
The good news is that I seem to have gotten a certain kind of a “click” or “instinct”, so to speak. My confidence at the tables has certainly gone up. Will have to keep this up because this month I’m planning to just give it my best try to still shoot for finishing CFP by the end of August. Difficult, but doable.

Played hands in July: 121 054
Winrate: 6.54 bb/100
Total profit: ~13 000$ (a very rough estimate as it’s still difficult for me to keep up with the accurate rakeback %)
Challenge status: EUR 31 960 / 60 000

The challenge is big but I’m still going for it. The plan this month is to grind at least 200 000 hands and never stop grinding unless there’s a very big reason not to. A few bonuses here and there will ease the task but other than that it’s really up to me and how well I’ll play with this volume. Let’s see where this takes me.

Have to hit the tables ASAP. Good luck to all of us.

Quick update:



The results are so far not what they should be for me to finish the challenge. Some sort of a super hot run is coming sooner or later, that’s for sure. But we’ll have to see whether it’s gonna be hot enough. There are a few bonuses incoming that I’ve been waiting for quite some time now and they’ll definitely ease the task. But will have to wait for it a while longer.

Anyways, the volume is okish but comes at the expense of sleep. Tried sleeping 5-6 hours several days in a row but won’t be able to sustain that for too long as that makes me feel like crap and also hurts my productivity in the end. Will likely end up mixing in a few 7-8 hour sleeping nights here and there and I should be fine in the end. Thanks god I’m still relatively young.

Current challenge status: 36 813 EUR / 60 000 EUR

Have to hit the tables ASAP. GL to all of us.

Super quick update:



Not what I need to finish the challenge. Yet still I think it’s doable.

I’m a little burnt out from all the volume and that has started to hurt my performance noticeably. A million time-outs and misclicks with air, the nuts, and anything in between. I’m pretty sure I shouldn’t be timing out with sets on the river. Pretty sure. Then there’s also the semi-justified spew under time pressure. I’m rather confident that this was unnecessary:

Opponent: reg

Hero (SB): $274.26 (137.1 bb)
BB: $201.67 (100.8 bb)
UTG: $301.51 (150.8 bb)
MP: $197 (98.5 bb)
CO: $580.59 (290.3 bb)
BTN: $169.17 (84.6 bb)

Preflop: Hero is SB with K T
UTG calls $2, MP folds, CO calls $2, BTN calls $2, Hero raises to $12, BB folds, UTG calls $10, CO folds, BTN calls $10

Flop: ($40) 9 3 J (3 players)
Hero bets $23, UTG folds, BTN calls $23

Turn: ($86) 9 (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN checks

River: ($86) 6 (2 players)
Hero bets $239.26 and is all-in, BTN calls $165

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But I’m more focused lately and at least theoretically I’m at my peak performance at the moment. If I weren’t going for volume I should be able to kill the tables with a little appropriate preparation.

All in all, I’m only stopping on the 1st september. No matter what, September is my relaxation / quality grind month.

Hands played: 93 363
EV winrate: 3.81 bb / 100
Challenge status: 38 266 / 60 000 EUR

Have to hit the tables now. GL.

No wonder u are "a little" burnt out w 93k hands in 13 days!

gl tho, I'm sure u will get the challenge done.

Thanks a lot for the good wishes. I shouldn't be burnt out though. There are people out there who can grind 300k in one month. I should be able to as well.

I wouldn't be so sure I'll get it done, lol. Check that next update.

Quick update:



The graph more or less says it all. I really need a miracle to make it. Of course, the fact that I'm extremely unlikely to reach the 60k mark is not nearly as troubling as the mediocrity of my latest results. In fact, one could say that I'm quite concerned about what is going on. I've done some thinking about this all and I have some conclusions about why that graph looks the way it does and I will share them at the end of the month when all this done but for now the bottom line would be that sadly I cannot blame this on variance, not at all.But yeah, I guess I'm stubborn and I'm not gonna drop the challenge despite it, apparently, doing more harm than good in the end. Perhaps this was exactly what I needed in the bigger picture. It's like they say – it's when your results are not what you want them to be that the biggest opportunities for improving arise.

Hands played: 156 004
EV winrate: 2.02
Challenge status: 39 193 / 60 000 EUR

Isn't that an awesome winrate? That's just sad. But perhaps several record days are just a couple days away from now. Maybe even hours. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to enjoy the benefit of having learned a lot of valuable lessons during this time.

Right, as I said – a very detailed report will come at the end of this month. For now I'm signing out to take some rest and proceed tomorrow. Luckily there's still 1 friday and 2 saturdays left in this month. Have to make the most of them.

GL to you. And GL to me for sure.

Challenge / August report

Hey, it’s been a while since the last update and it’s about time I made a comprehensive overview of what was a very intense and colourful month for me.

August graph:



Contrary to what I stated in the last update, I did manage to find the brakes in the end and rather ended the month more sensibly instead of pushing myself to do things in a way that ended up being suboptimal and somewhat damaging in at least some ways. Took some rest, focused a little bit more on quality in the end and didn’t even go for a round number of 200k hands volume. No regrets about the decision to slow down – felt very great and even beneficial in the end.
In hindsight, August and the challenge itself has still been a great as well as an educating experience despite all the frustration and actual failure in the end. Could I have made it ever at all? Definitely. My general approach could have been better, as well as my performance for sure. Variance, of course, is also still a factor even for the volume I put in, although I do not intend to blame it too much for my not succeeding and the truth is that its impact is not easy to measure anyways. All in all – with the experience I have now I’m sure I’d have a much better shot at making it now than I did when I initially anounced that I’d try.

The results this month are quite horrible and the reasons for that are likely much the same as the reasons why I failed the challenge as a whole.

EV winrate this month: 1.71
Volume: 196 140

There are quite a few conclusions that I’ve come to regarding why I failed, what I didn’t take into account, what I didn’t do as well, etc. after all this and some of the more relevant ones I consider worth sharing.

Not a big surprise, but the major if not the only reason I failed was bad quality of play.
Without doubt my play was far from perfect during this period. As counterintuitive as it may sound, on paper I was a much better player each month than the month before but due to several reasons that just was not the case at the tables. The reasons being as follows:

Going for volume just simply decreases quality of play

Everybody knows it. I sort of did as well but did not take that into account consciously. Just hearing it from somebody else is not the same as noticing the difference in praxis. And it took me a long time to realise that one cannot solve problem situations just as well and precisely when playing 12+ tables as when playing only 6-8. And I kept trying to play 12+ tables like as if I was playing 6-8, for a long time not understanding why suddenly playing has become ever so more frustrating. What I should have done instead – just keep everything simple and not get into more complicated situations than necessary. Maximum precision and going for max EV is not what you do when going for volume the way I did. At least not for me. Or at least not yet. Since I did not get this for such a long time, I kept getting myself into problem spots and that’s the fastest way to start making mistakes or suboptimal plays, which I ended up doing a lot.

Playing a lot of tables decreases table management skills

It’s already more difficult to make good decisions while having so many active tables that keep popping up with new and diverse spots. It’s not getting easier if apart from that I also have to focus on setting up new tables as well as identifying bad ones. In praxis that often meant that I would open a client, start looking for a new table and before I’ve managed to join a waiting list, the client has automatically become minimised because another table needs my attention. That cycle would sometimes repeat itself several times before I manage to get the table I want, creating minor frustration as well as confusion. Often that would also mean that I ignore the tables and join a new one quickly and then discover that I’ve got several not so easy decisions to make under extreme time pressure. And it neither helps me with effectively setting up the necessary tables the way I want, nor does it help my performance since that just gives me more tasks to try and deal with while having a lot of side tasks to playing is the last thing I really want. Not difficult to see how that could have affected me over the time span of 3 months. Although I have to say that despite it being frustrating, I dealt with it this somewhat well, albeit still suboptimally.

Multitabling is different on each site and depends on the number of players at the table

This I should have understood much sooner: 12 tables on site A can easily be a completely different experience on site B. There are sites on which playing 6 tables can be somewhat of a challenge. Not understanding this and still going for a fixed goal of playing a set amount of tables is dangerous if playing on a site that has no time bank, is buggy and lags and just simply has **** software. This caused major problems in a wide variety of areas on just about an everyday basis. While frustrating, it actually improved my reaction and playing speed, so I did get something out of this in the end. But still, I don’t even want to know how much money I lost because of overlooking this factor.

The other thing I overlooked is that playing twelve 6-handed tables is not the same as a mixture of 6-handed, 5-handed, 4-handed, and even 3-handed tables. So essentially I ended up having a fixed braindead approach of always having 12 active tables no matter what, not paying attention to how that often backfires with additional time pressure, which alongside all the other afore-mentioned factors is the last thing I needed.

Experimenting with new plays while improving is likely going to cost money initially

During these 3 months I’ve started experimenting more and more with different kind of plays that are quite cool + actually are even very profitable under certain conditions. Arguably, I could have postponed these experiments for the sake of the challenge but a) long term gain is more important to me; and b) I wouldn’t be able to resist the temptation anyways. Long story short – trying out new things until I’m able to either implement them well or asses them as not desirable for me will cost money for me. In this case I even had non-desirable conditions under which to experiment so I probably ended up losing a little bit more in these experiments than I should have. Lesson learned.

Performance is affected by mental and physical state

Needless to say, I did experience a lot of frustration and there were times when I felt it more and times when it was less noticeable. I cannot assess to what extent my mental state really affected my performance as I still tend to believe that since it does not affect my strategic knowledge about spots I should be able to make just as good decisions as long as I am able to assess the factors precisely and emotionlessly. But in praxis I still found myself misunderstanding some situations or overlooking some factors in those days where I felt a little bit more **** than usual, and the cause could be identified as rather emotional. I do not make tilt plays but there was at least one if not two completely mindless tilt calldowns I made just out of spite on one of my very bad days. And also at least one double barrel that I also rather made out of spite while tilting. Those are huge exceptions and it felt very weird afterwards. That was just not me. Interesting to know that I have this dark side to me as well and that I am breakable for now if enough pressure is applied. But apart from those few cases the effect of my mental state was more felt in terms of me losing concentration/focus as well as me being drained of necessary mental energy as a result of that state.

Now the physical state is also an interesting factor. In order to get the necessary volume I often ended up sleeping only 5-6 hours. Not difficult to imagine that lack of sleep affects energy levels, right? I did not notice the difference until I actually stopped the challenge and got some more sleep and focused a bit more on quality. The difference was extreme – my thought process was much clearer and I also just felt much better in general. Performance went up. OK, sleeping enough is not difficult to fix. Alternatively I could also look into improving the quality of sleep and that would probably help. But come to think of it, my lifestyle as a whole is quite ****. 0 physical activity for quite some time. Not enough rest from poker-related activites. Frequently suboptimal nutrition choices. I’ve started fantasising about what a machine I would be if only my lifestyle was better if just adding a little bit more sleep makes such a big difference.


Focusing on volume incorrectly results in misclicks, time-outs, and misreading the board/hand

This was the biggest problem I had that was caused by most of the above-mentioned factors together. I cannot assess the damage done by all this but I can only guess that I’d rather not know. I’m really not exaggerating when I’m saying that there maybe were a few days during the challenge when I did not make a misclick or when I did not time out with a strong hand either preflop or postflop.

Misclicking was mostly not the biggest issue in terms of money lost as a result of it but it still was extremely tilting. I can deal with suckouts, losing flips and even making mistakes all day long and I will not even get affected much unless it happens frequently several times in a row or unless something else has made me lose my inner peace before. But one misclick/time-out/misread and I lose my ****. That’s when I do swear, and it’s quite nasty. I smashed my mouse against the table at least twice uncontrollably during the challenge. Even writing about this and remembering it all makes me angry. That’s crazy because I’m actually really angry right now, lol. I guess that what makes me so angry about this and not other situations in poker is the fact that it’s completely avoidable, stupid and expensive. Almost each day I timed out with something like AA/KK/QQ/JJ/AK preflop at least once. I once even timed out with a set on the river. And then, of course, come all the other hands of various strength and importance. I guess that this really cost me a ****load of money.
The misreading part was not as often but when it did occur it cost me my stack. The classic A4 = AA was nothing new to me in this challenge. What was refreshingly new though was the never thought of K4 = AK. And even the completely super tilting AT = AA. No really, wtf? AT = AA? I was very very pissed off.

Most confusing were the situations where I suddenly find a table where I’m, let’s say, on the river with a completely weird trash ahdn and I don’t even remember how I entered the hand and why the hell I’m in it in the first place. That happened occasionally and in different kind of variations and did make me feel weird. But I’ve heard that there are other players that have the same problem, so for now there’s little reason to think that I’m slowly going crazy. For what it’s worth, it was interesting to try and come up with the optimal solution in cases where it was not a clear give up once I started to play the rest of the hand consciously.

Summary

I feel awesome about having gone through this and I’ve definitely learned a lot. It could be argued that this was unnecessary and damaging but I feel like I’ve actually done something big for myself and I’m very eager to see what I’m able to do now when I’ll be focusing a lot on improving and quality. I’m proud that I was completely all-in on this, trying to squeeze out every free second of my time to get more volume in by taking this to the extreme, eating very fast, sleeping little and trying to even save time and increase hands played per hour by making the fastest clicks possible while playing. Say all you want about monetary goals but I dare to say that despite it being the official target, it’s actually about something much bigger than reaching that figure.

Challenge start: Beginning of June
Challenge graph:



Challenge status: roughly 50 000 / 60 000 EUR after rakeback
Volume: 450 176
EV winrate: 4.09

Took quite the break at the beginning of this month and also have been playing 6-10 tables only, focusing more on quality, although I still can't say no to a good table and sometimes still go for 10+, although maybe I should rather still control myself and set a clear goal – quality no matter what. Then again, I should probably also define for myself what I really understand with "going for quality" and how to do it better/more effectively.

Results thus far this month:



Before yesterday I could have made a brag post about what a great small sample EV winrate of 8bb/100 I have and I probably should have done that. Dropped 2k yesterday, didn't even notice hitting stop loss. But it's ok, now I have the time to actually go over a lot of spots more deeply after my sessions and yesterday's one is quite a good source for studying – can't wait to start.

I'm also experimenting this month quite a bit and it's no secret that it often results in borderline spew plays, and also some really bad plays. But getting burnt is the best way to learn, I guess. At least for me it seems to be the case. Let's just say that I expect to get those BBs back in future after having learnt my lessons and becoming stronger as a result.

Still a little bit left to go to reach the target and finish CFP. Next month I'll do it no matter what. With quality or without it.

Hands played: 47 999
EV winrate: 5.59 bb/100
60k challenge status: EUR 52 095 / 60 000

Almost there! I just joined the cfp program and starting from the bottom. Hopefully things go well! Good results though, nice job.