Let's keep this short and simple so we can get started immediately. There will be two of us posting in this thread with the goal of keeping ourselves accountable and networking with other like minded individuals. Our poker goal is to move up stakes as quickly as possible with both of us aspiring to reach HSNL. Although this isn't really a race as the title suggests, we are competitive individuals and will push each other as far as possible.

Initially, there will not be much structure to our posts to avoid spending excessive time and effort on formatting but that will change as we develop a routine and if interest in the thread picks up.

We would love feedback and interaction with the community so do not hesitate to post. Each of us will do an About Me post shortly.

Feel free to let us know which of one is the Fish and which the Donk.

About Me
My name is Ben and I've played poker for a number of years now. I'll save my full backstory for another day as it is rather typical and uninteresting but here's a quick a summary. I started playing poker years before Black Friday and was a winning player. Played pretty much every format of NLHE (9max, 6max, HU, SNG, MTT, etc.) over the years but was beginning to hit my stride in MTTs right before Black Friday put a damper on my plans. The abrupt shutdown and withdrawal of poker in US left me sour and the future of the game never looked more bleak. That is when I decided to take a break for an undecided period of time. Over the next six years I've kept a pulse on the poker landscape in the US and emerging markets and although progress has been slow, the itch to compete has has swayed my return.

After my return, I was able to quickly find a couple of dedicated and like minded individuals to form a study group. We commited ourselves to learning and studying the game over the last three weeks and made a lot of progress. Our emphasis has been on NLHE 6Max Cash Games but eventually my goal is to branch out to MTTs again. My goal is to climb through the stakes as quickly as possible while documenting my progress and sharing my journey in this thread. Hopefully I can inspire and connect with community.

Here is my current graph at 50NL (I know, lol sample size):

Hello since this my first post so I will go a little more in depth about myself , My name is Xufeng Liang I am a 32 year old accountant living in london. I was born and raised in China moving to the U.K when I was 7. Growing up in a middle class professional household I basically had every benefit laid at my feet. However being a single child to asian family can be extremely stressful (nothing new there, seems like pretty well documented fact). At a young age I defined my idea of success by the goals my parent set for me, believing that making them happy will ultimately make me the happiest. As I grew older, I continued to follow this methodology defining myself by those around me, my friends/bosses and relationships. I became one of those weird chameleon like people changing myself based on the people around me. However despite the abundance of opportunities I began to resent everything and everyone in life, and slowly became extremely angry and depressed.

On a sunny morning in London I snapped, I woke up and and realised ****, I am ****ing almost dead, I think I may have completely wasted my ****ing life. I am in a job that I hate, a toxic relationship, and everyday I resented waking up the morning. This culminated into a mental breakdown of sorts, tinged with elements of madness, ( I would refuse to get out of bed for days at a time, except to go to the toilet, I would also phone my friends and randomly scream at them, really really sorry guys).

But ultimately it was one of the best things for me where I took time to finally evaluate my life(out of madness comes clarity) . I decided to start a clean slate, I left the relationship and started working part time for a Boss i actually like and am inspired from as opposed to just making the most amount of money.

Which leads to poker,I’ve always had an immense passion for the game, but never pursued with the kinda zeal it deserves. With a new sense of commitment I was lucky enough to find like-minded players like Ben and especially mike who has been a major inspiration to me not only mentally but spiritually, and i really don’t know how i could have made it through such a tough time in my life without him as my absolute rock. He’s the person i wish i could be! although he does get extremely ranty and loves to point out how smart he thinks he is, but Mike is obviously much smarter than myself and Ben put together, and it pains me to say, much more handsome too.

So to keep it simple my all consuming goal is to move to mid to high stakes within a year. I am currently only playing NL25 right now, and I am fully aware of the amount of work ( and high risk of ruin).. Currently I am bankrolled for much bigger games, but am in experimentation phase of my poker career, as I started invested in coaching, study group/ sweats and work with equilibrium solvers.

I will try to move up stakes every few weeks hopefully I will jump up to nl50 and post some results soon.Future posts will probably have a strong strategic theme, with this growth into range vs range thinking. Here's my chart, low hand sample, but like Chairman mao said, we gots to start somewhere.

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P.s this post has been edited by my fiend mike

gl guys, will be following for sure. Which site you playing?

Thanks for following along! I am currently playing 50nl on US sites. There aren't many of them so you can probably guess which ones.

Gl guys.

To answer your question, based to these three posts I’d say you are the donk and xulster the fish?

Thought saw by the fact you started the threat and it says “donk and fish”, usually people gets to mention them first on sentence. The second reason will be that you play at 50nl while he plays at 25nl although he said he has the bankroll for 50nl but unsure he has the skill.

So? Am I right? ^^


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