Hey guys,

I am losing my motivation to grind and study in the last few weeks and also lost discipline in other areas like eating clean, working out and meditation. For this reason I want to start blogging and share my journey with its up and downs here.

I`m 27 yo, from germany and graduate in a few weeks. My plan is to move to South East Asia as soon as possible but things are still unclear due to coronavirus. I might go to East Europe next month and roam around there for a while until going to Asia is a thing again.

Currently playing z50 with some shots on z100 on stars and party. Live usually playing up to NL500.

My longterm goal is to be able to beat z200 within the next 6 months

Goals for the next 30 days:
- 100k hands on z50
- Post 30 hands in Discords, Skype or Forums
- Rate 30 hands in Discords, Skype or Forums
- 30 Review sessions on my own
- Studying CG Course
- 5 Review Session with a friend
- meditate before poker and sleep
- eating more green
- 30 coldshowers
- Research for new place to stay etc. etc.

I will post here every morning to write down my goals of the day and before I go to bed to see how much of my workload I got done and where I struggle.

Lets go!

15.07.2020
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Didnt complete three of my goals but I played a decent amount of hands at least. I also decided to mix some z100 in, since the tables look quite good during nighttime.

Not sure about this one. Its probably a x-back on the river although I usually think people fold TT pre and jam KK. But not sure if Villain still has AK there. Any feedback is appreciated.






16 July
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How many BB in EV does a cold shower generate?

It will boost your monthly winnings by roughly 15% if you do it every day.

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Doing better.


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Hi sir, have you ever considered value bluffing?

Personally I think bc you unblock the NFD's you gotta bet bigger otf. I feel like 1/4 pots are not in style anymore. J7 texture isn't bone dry or anything like a 552r is if you know what I mean. Villain has all the FD's, some Jx and underpairs that will call 1/3 at least one street.

Ott I'm jamming for sure bc that T is super bad card and starting to give villain some additional equity. Lots of really bad river cards that kill the action (such as the one that hit)

As played, obviously check. We don't know anything about villain as you didn't post stats so we can't say anything about if villain has AK in their range. Even if they do it's only 6 combo's max. Villain has AQ (9), 2 pairs (~4 to 6) and sets (~2-4) as well

Imo if you think villains are folding TT pre and you are even slightly unsure if they flat or jam KK pre 100z is definitely not for you (yet)

do you have historical winrates you can post from 10NL and 25NL?

subbed! gl

Was in the same place with wanting to travel far but now going to Bulgaria this summer. Having a grindhouse in Varna, most likely until mid September. Drop me a msg if you happen to go there!

Hey man,
Welcome and thanks for sharing your thoughts. I appreciate.
I agree with everything you said. Should be a jam on the turn and as played a x-back on the river.
Don’t think he has 9C of AQ tho. AQo will not defend vs. the 4bet pre in most cases from my experience. Same for 2p (4-6C) is not realistic from my point of view.
KK always jams pre. TT should be a 100% defend vs 4bet but I can imagine some regs will fold it since UTG 4bets are heavily underbluffed – also on 100z.
@100z not for me: You might be right. I just try to get a sample in and see how it goes. If its not working out, ill move down, study, come back and so on.
I don’t have historical winrates for those limits. Just my last 70k hands on 50NL



Thanks man. Sure, ill will reach out to you. Gl with the grind. Where you going after your time in bulgaria?

ah ok you're UTG. My bad. In that case villain might have 1 or 2 combo's of AQ but it depends on how aggro/loose they think you are.

They'll defend KK sometimes but probably jam like 80%+ - depending on how nitty villain is I would just call and play post flop, looking to fold on any A flop.

I don't think they 3bet TT vs EP usually.

So basically you're targetting QQ/KK/Ajs/QJs and flush draws

It might seem tempting to continue value betting vs AK combo's but since you block a lot of those I'd just target the combo's I mentioned above before the river card gives you throw up spots.

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Still not able to complete all things I want to do at the same time but thats okay since it just might take some time to get into it again. Besides that I feel I am already consistent in the areas I value the most. I decided to skip 50NL for now and play 100NL only since the games seem to be good and over the first 9k hands I played there its going well and I feel very comfortable in the games. Maybe during daytime on weekdays I will play 50NL since I expect the games to be worse during that time period but we will see.

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z100 is going really well over the first 14k hands. Its a good start but I have to complete at least the 100k hands before I can have tendencies to see where I stand. I hope its not just an upswing. Routines are going fine as well except eating to much snacks during the nightgrind.


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Will be following, gl.

Not sure yet. Mexico, South America or SEA are all options!

Welcome man, thank you!

Yeah, same. I basically consider those three as well. SEA would be my preference tho. Bali will reopen for tourists at 11th September if I am not mistaken. I guess more countries/places might come along within the next few weeks. Keep me updated about your plans and glgl.




Yesterday I didnt review/posted hands because watching/studying the video I watched took me about 2.5 hours to study and I didnt want to miss the sunday action. I will review all the hands today. Besides that other areas are going well. The Volume is alright too and I feel very comfortable in the z100 pool. Sometimes I call down to light vs fish because my ego hops in and at that point making the wrong fold feels psychologically worse than making a bad call. It happend 2 times now over the first 19k hands.I end up in self sabotage, tell myself "well he is a fish, he can spew for sure once in awhile" and justify the call by this. This is just the fear of getting outplayed by a worse opponent - so just ego. Problem is detected and I will work on it.


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Almost 1/4 of the volume in the books and nothing to complain about so far. My disciplin goes down when it comes to reviewing tho. I was skipping it again yesterday. I hope for a better attitude today.

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I was not able to keep it going here the last two days since I was busy with my thesis which I have to submit next week. But now its almost ready which means I can focus on volume and studying the whole weekend. NL100 is not going as good as in the beginning. Made a few more horrible call downs and spew plays. But overall I am very happy and I feel the pool is the right place for me at the moment.

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Hi mate, in for the ride . What have been/are your main ways of studying ? Enjoy SEA man I’m sure you’ll have a great time when things start opening up properly