Hello,

I'm an 18 year old beginning shorthanded cash game player that has gotten lazy the last few weeks, hardly playing at all. That's also the reason why I'm making this thread here. To keep me motivated and focused. I deleted my whole HEM database to get ready for a fresh start and to make it clear from where I'm starting now when I'll be showing my graph/statistics. In the meanwhile I came up with a couple of guidelines I have to keep myself at during my journey to become better:

Bankroll management that consists of 30 buy-ins to move up, 20 buy-ins to move back down.
Playing at least 50K hands before leaving that stake, even if I'm already rolled for the next.
Marking all the hands where I didn't know how to play them correctly, posting them on this website, and learning from them.
Never playing more than 6 tables, but also not less than 4.

My current bankroll is at $133,94 which will put me at NL2 to begin with, I will probably hit 30 buy-ins soon for NL5 but I want to grind a large sample first enough to make sure I beat that already, just in case. Playing with such a large bankroll for my stakes will probably not let me tilt so much, which is always a good thing.

good luck! where are you from? i like the idea of playing 50k hands minimum at each stake before moving up

gl

Day 1

Hands played: 1017
Bankroll: $137,81 (+$3,87)

I rather don't tell where I'm from, but somewhere in Europe. And yep, it might be stupid grinding NL2 for so long, but it will keep the doubt out of my head, thinking I might not have beaten NL2 when I'm playing NL5.

Day 2

Hands played: 2010
Bankroll: $150,58 (+$12,77)

Worst hand of the day:

$0.01/$0.02 No Limit Holdem
6 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG ($1.66)
Hero (UTG+1) ($3.97)
CO ($5.80)
BTN ($2)
SB ($5.14)
BB ($2.16)

Pre-Flop: ($0.03, 6 players) Hero is UTG+1 6 6
UTG raises to $0.06, Hero calls $0.06, 2 folds, SB calls $0.05, 1 fold

Flop: 3 8 6 ($0.20, 3 players)
SB bets $0.17, UTG folds, Hero raises to $0.60, SB goes all-in $5.08, Hero goes all-in $3.31

Turn: 3 ($8.02, 2 players, 2 all-in)

River: Q ($8.02, 2 players, 2 all-in)

Final Pot: $8.02
SB shows a full house, Eights full of Threes
8 8
Hero shows
6 6

SB wins $8.91 (net +$3.77)

UTG lost $0.06
Hero lost $3.97

I already won another stack before that, leaving me with 200bb at that table, is there any mistake in staying at the table with 200bb?

No, the worst that can happen is you lose $2, sorry, gl.

Day 3

Hands played: 1206
Bankroll: 147,44 (-$3,14)

I'll be playing some STT (6players) $1.50 turbo games also tonight, just for fun, let's see how it goes.

Anyone knows by the way how much of those tourneys you can compare to 50K hands?

So:

xx SH STT Turbo = 50k SH cash-game hands

Day 4

Hands played: 96
STT's played: 8
Bankroll: $149,53 (+$2,09)