Hello!

I have started this journal to keep track of my progress, starting at NL2 (Poker Stars) and my goal is to become a decent cashgame player.

Background:

I am 21 years old and living in Sweden.
In late 2014 I started playing poker for the first time online, played very intensively for 4-5 months but then decided to quit due to lack of fun which when I look back at it was more of a bad bankroll management problem.
I don´t strive for having poker as my main job, I like my current job very much, it is very flexible and gives me an ability to work on my poker game too.

Rules for my poker:
I will use 100 buy-ins for every level, starting at NL2 with $200.
I am trying to combining playing and studying and I am aware of that there is one tactics for playing NL2/NL5 versus playing higher up in the stakes.

My plan is to update this thread once a week.

Since this is the first post and don´t want it to be utterly boring this will be the end of my first week, started saturday 14th so a bit more than a week...

Week 1
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#1 - 255 hands - 53 min - +$0.86
#2 - 747 hands - 89 min - +$2.39
#3 - 1287 hands - 115 min - +$4.58
#4 - 1240 hands - 115 min - +$2.02
#5 - 525 hands - 42 min - -$6.37
#6 - 1529 hands - 163 min - +$7.11
#7 - 3148 hands - 314 min - -$4.10
#8 - 1448 hands - 173 min - -$4.59
#9 - 1102 hands - 151 min - +$5.72

Since the beginning:
Hands: 11 281
Time: 20.25 hours
Result: +$7.62

In the future I will bring a couple of hands to discuss.

Always trying to get better...

Week 2


#1 / 2335 hands / 263 min / +$20.22
#2 / 1359 hands / 117 min / -$7.29
#3 / 1981 hands / 265 min /+$2.25
#4 / 1029 hands / 106 min / -$7.63
#5 / 828 hands / 74 min / -$11.31
#6 / 1753 hands / 168 min / +3.71
#7 / 762 hands / 86 min / -$2.60
#8 / 1203 hands / 135 min /+$12.20
#9 / 352 hands / 54 min /+$3.88
#10 / 1884 hands / 249 min /+$4.76
#11 / 2647 hands / 283 min /-$1.40
#12 / 450 hands / 64 min /+$4.12
#13 / 907 hands / 120 min /-$4.30
#14 / 2230 hands / 291 min /-$0.40
#15 / 1233 hands / 104 min /+$4.63
#16 / 104 hands / 29 min /+$1.49
#17 / 2582 hands / 286 min /-$5.04
#18 / 381 hands / 35 min /+$1.52
#19 / 879 hands / 94 min /-$1.16
#20 / 283 hands / 39 min /-$3.25
#21 / 3946 hands / 365 min /-$11.64

Hmm.

Can summarize this week pretty easy.

-Fighting too much for marginal spots.
-Tilting a bit when I lose pots I, in the moment thought I deserved to win.
-Looking to much at the results in HM2 during the sessions = stressful.
-When a few BIs down, trying to win it back = super long sessions.
-No flow at all on the vast majority on my all ins = crazy All in EV adjusted.

So what should I do to stop sucking?

-Stop playing turn & river vs passive players when I am not sure I have/can hit the best hand.
-Thinking more long term, when I lose an all in w KK v A3o, then it will profit me in the longrun. Screw the part that he sucked out that time.
-Don´t play these monster sessions without a break, split em up.

I´ll give you two hands this week.

#1
K I C K E R

Jesus.



#2
What would you have done in this spot?
Villain is a 75/12 over 130 hands.



Since the beginning:
Hands: 40 409
Time: 74.03 hours
Profit: +$10.38
Bonus: $20
Total profit: +$30.38