regarding fitness, buy and exercise bike and work while you grind.

You can tighten your abs and hold them for increasing minute

also the charles atlas dynamic tension course

this way you can be rich and ripped from poker...

hey, that sounds like a book,

PM me for a specific workout plan and i will see if i can accept you into my program..

best of luck on the challenge, you will feel better at the end of the day if you are working out!

S

I think this will only distract me if i do it while playing... Tnx for the offer, but not atm, if ever, i'll let you know.

Slowly crawling back from the hole... Nut running so well but making less mistakes.

Subbed. Very impressed and always inspiring to see a family man at the poker grind. GL!

Wow very inspirational on what you are doing...

Love to see the progress you are doing and as well the progress with your family. Well done...

What was your initial Bankroll when you started to ply HU?

And will you continue to post?

Sorry forgot to ask before...

- how many tables to you play at once?
- if more than one is it than the same opponent or a differnt one?
- do you table select, and if yes how?


Thank you

Tnx!

Hi and welcome!

- My initial BR was round 3K€...
- I play up to 4-5 tables against fishes, mostly different one
- yes, i table select, looking for opponents that is weaker than me, gonna start battling regs next month if everything goes well
- yes, i'll continue to post aprox. on every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

OK, i'm calm now and able to write this.

I was so mad at me moments ago for making two stupid mistakes against fish. I was playing just fine, working an hour or so on him, just about to finish him off, when for some stupid reason couldn't find folds in two biggish pots, giving him all back with some extra... ofc he quickly left...
Argh, why do i still do this!?! It's called in love w your sexy hand and not being disciplined...

So this was expensive reminder for the future as it was on NL400 and gonna remember it for sure.

Money wise not so big week, cos i'm not doing well on higher limits but bb wise it's ok, so i hope things will turn around soon and til then, no more such mistakes.


Week:

Just read your first post...Like your story a lot,gonna read the whole thread when i have the time!!!

Good luck with your goals

Hi and thanks for your update and sorry if I ask you some stupid questions..

- How do you know the opponent is a fish, you check them on a pockertracker or so?

- WOW 4 to 5 tables....with how many tables did you start out initially?

Again sorry to ask, I'm just getting ready to purchase the course from Gordon and start the journey my self, that why I'm asking...

Tnx, hope it wasn't too boring

@FromSkinny

Hey, no stupid question there man, don't worry...

How do you know the opponent is a fish, you check them on a pockertracker or so?
- no, i don't use that, i try to figure it out during the play. They come in many forms, but i guess bad passive opp and aggro monkeys are preferable

WOW 4 to 5 tables....with how many tables did you start out initially?

- started with one, adding more when you feel comfortable, now is 4-5 against easy opp, against so-so max 3, otherwise 2 or sometimes even one is best game wise, but not necessarily hourly

Good luck w your journey!

----------------------------------------------------

Just one more day of work (tomorrow) and i'm on vacation til end of next week! Can't wait... it's gonna be some 10 hours grind days for sure, but also 4 days of relaxing in spa center and one school reunion in between!

And jeeej, we are back in green for the month, let's continue this way!

OK, time for some homework given to me by coach...

When i have some question about hand/do a mistake, i can end up w homework like...:

BB: $50.50
Hero (BTN/SB): $49.50

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is BTN/SB with K A
Hero raises to $1.50, BB raises to $5, Hero raises to $13, BB calls $8

Flop: ($26.00) 4 Q T (2 players)
BB bets $37.50 all in, Hero ?

...and then he goes and tell me: "Explain to me what to do and why, like I was a 4 years old baby!" :f_confused:

So here it is, you baby!

OK, so let's do some basic stuff and break down what to do here, using some basic math and different ranges.

First of all we need to figure out what % of equity do we need against opponents range:

Math goes smth like this:

when he shoves, we have to call 36.50$ (what we have behind) into pot of 26+36.50 = 62.50$. So 62.50/36.50 = 1.71. To get % you divide 100/(1.71+1) = 37.

Meaning we need 37% equity against opponents range.

( In game i use approximations knowing that for pot size bets you need 33%, half pot size bets you need 25%, for ¾ size bets you need 30% and for double psb you need 40%.)

Now we have to figure out what can opponent donk shove in this situation:

Let's take unknown opponent, assuming he 3bets round 20%, who can 3b let's say 2 examples:

Value range opponent:




Polarized range opponent:



(This are all estimation and ofc differ from each opponents…)

When we 4b our hand, we have to discard some hands from their range. So they may continue with smth like this:

Value range opponent: (here is reasonable to think that he continues with all his range. I assumed most would rather shove TT-QQ, AK).




Polarized range opponent:




Now, let's see how's our hand doing against possible shoves:

Value range opponent:

Against his whole range we have:



Now, most opponents won't shove nuts into aggressor so let's take them out and also some non diamond suited hands:




As soon as we start taking out some value hands from his range our equity ofc increases in other words, if you think opponents can shove some draws here, then this is a must call.


Polarized range opponent:

Against his whole range we have:



Here, I'll assume opponent shoves all flush draws, pocket pairs as semi bluff and value hands:



And as soon as he starts taking out value hands, our equity gets better:



But how do we know all that ingame you ask?

Well, you take your outs against range, so if he can shove draws then beside us being ahead, we have 10 outs (3 aces, 3 kings and 4 jacks as outs) to improve even if we are behind, giving us ~40% equity.

Fast math: 10 outs * 4 (as we see two cards to come) = 40%

Hero calls $36.50 all in

Turn: ($99.00) T (2 players - 2 are all in)

River: ($99.00) 7 (2 players - 2 are all in)

Nice post,

Ty!

Month is over for me as i'm off to vacation for next 4 days. It hasn't been pleasant month, in fact i think it was the worst one so far overall, but i did learn few things and that's what matter.

So enjoy and see you next week!

Month:

Heyhoo boys and girls!

I'm back from vacation and all i can say is that it was short and sweet. Most of my muscles hurt from running up and down the slides with kids

Anyway, i missed poker (haven't done anything related) so i was super excited to get at least 10h of play today, but unfortunately poker had smth different in mind and forced me to stop, reaching a stop loss.

Checking back things, i think i played fine i even didn't have any big pots, it was mostly my hands loosing value on anything further than the flop

I just can't catch a break. I'm taking a beating by everyone on every limit on every site, if i wouldn't have the discipline I think i'd be down a lot more. They just have it, as simple as that.

Gonna drop NL400 and cut tables to max 3.

This week:

WOW not good Rover, sorry to see that. But I guess this is pretty normal at HU...

The next upswing is right behind the door

Tnx for the support From Skinny!

Not playing NL400 and less tables seems to work atm, dunno if that's the reason cos i feel that i play the same way. I'm just glad i don't see everything red in last couple of days.

Other matters:

I finally got my lazy ass to woods and cut me self a nice tree for making a primitive bow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eWD...LMO4q5KD9Ly7E_

Gonna have to leave it to dry till fall or better next spring. In meanwhile I'll try to make some glass arrowheads with flintknapping as soon as get some deer antler from coworker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfMN3BVISmQ

I don't know why, i just find those kind of things interesting, like making a fire in primitive ways. When i finally did it, it felt great!

It was strange day yesterday, first my wife broke a mirror in the morning, then i broke a glass pot lid in the afternoon... well, at the evening she then again broke a glass while washing dishes and get her self eight stitches. Good thing nothing happen while we were sleeping

Note to my self: buy a medic kit for home! Was running like crazy to a car in dark to get it!

Funny, i can watch other people bleed, don't mind corpses and i was even eating while watching autopsy, but as soon as see some more of my blood, i get pale and dizzy. I hate that, i so wanna donate my blood but i can't. Not cos of the needles, i don't mind pain at all, just watching or knowing that my blood is leaving me gives me the creeps.

Poker wise i'm doing better, graph on Sunday

2 things...

Keep crushing...and get used to blood...How are you gonna be able to handle the "nosebleeds" later on in your poker carreer????

Hehe, good one and tnx! If i ever play nosebleeds - it is 100/200$+, right? then i'll force myself no matter what to donate blood
-----------------------------------

Love those warms days, we had barbecue season opening on a new grill and it tasted delicious! I also cleaned all the junk in basement and garage and it feels great when a to-do thing is completed.

Poker wise i recovered all loses and managed to make some moneyz this week, taking it easy and table select hard:

I'm super excited about the future since i've been given an opportunity to work w my coach on other aspects of poker besides play. During coaching i became part of his team, which includes some great hard working people. Things are still in working progress but idea is to give something back to community by helping others in various ways. So stay tuned and if you want to know more in the future you can always contact me in PM.

WOW sounds interesting looking forward to that!!!

Tired like hell, didn't sleep much last night since my kiddo was crying most of the night. He has a cold, which means full nose and not being able to breathe trough it. I had to get up at 4:30 for work. Felt like zombie whole day, came home, made pancakes, drank one small beer, gonna turn on a movie and fall a sleep...

No poker today, no sir!

It has been somehow exhausting week work wise and baby wise with Easter stuff on top of it.

I'm glad it's over cos next week is more relaxed and week after that i have vacation days where i'll lay schists on my mother in law house - yeah, use to do that as a side job for additional income.

I think i'm pretty good at it, some of my work:










Poker this week:

Argh, i just hate when i have time for grind and then i go and hit a stop loss. Checked the hand with coach, overplayed one hand, could do better in two or three but rest of it was just grrrr

Good thing i have two more days of relaxed grinding left to recover.