My situation is this: I am 23 years old in Croatia born and raised, on the playground was where I spent most of my days, chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool and all shootin some b-ball outside of the school. (yeah u guessed it, Prince of Croatia), I am just kidding, lets go back to reality, oh there goes gravity oh, there goes rabbit, he choked, he's so mad, but he won't give up that easy. Sooo, at the moment I am working at the hotel of my father and my uncle but I dont like it ( uncle don't be schocked 8-O if u are reading this it would be explained sooner or later) and thats one of the reason I want to play poker for living (yes unlce, poker, I think I can be good at this), some other reasons aaaare (drums).......... I dont want to work everyday from 8am till 4am, I want to have flexible workinghours (is that how u say it? ) and get some rush while doing it like you get on final table of big tournament ( like I know the feeling ) and I want to travel while doing it. I wanted to add something more but I forgot, nvm, I will add later. Oh yes, I dont care about money, I just want to have enough for living without much thinking about it, like I am now but. Some of u are asking why the hell are you starting all this complicated systems and investing time and energy when you are already rich and u will inherit all the businesses by seatting in office 8 hours a day of which 1 hour of work, and I say to you all: beacuse I want to play poker, the key word is PLAY, I want to play in life and be a kid untill I die. I rest my case.



My poker story started like this, back in 2009 one of my father firends who is well conected with mob took me in some underground casino to get rack from some rats (as he calls them) and while he was threating them with a gun I sat down at one of the poker tables and buyin for 5000$ and stared playing (untill that night I only played poker on facebook ), some of you would be nervouse but I wasnt although there were guns on the table and bombs around waist, I was with on of the main charachters in mob so I felt like I was the boss.. So we stared and my first hand I got AhKh and I raised and everyone folded expect one russian guy who was staring at me while cleaning his gun and had a tiny smile which consisted of his golden tooth, and while mumbling something one of his words were "I call"....**** I have to hurry up because I dont have time for telling fairy tells,my true poker story is that there is no poker story, I played couple of times at friends house and on the internet but nothing serious. OR, am I ?


I want to join CFP because I want to own everyone who sits with me at the table, I want to make living from poker and the main reason I choose CFP over anything elese is because you just have to follow the steps that they are giving you, you dont have to buy 910394141904 books and read every post on the internet and get lost in all of the fake information. Althoug I will buy all the books and try to read all the post on the internet but first I want to learn everything that CFP teaches me. I have trust in CFP, lets gooooo, as topic title says, lets make u brag to others that you were reading my posts and chat whit me while I was newbie in poker world because once I become something only the ones who were with me at the point of me being newbie will be welcome. I run at CFP while searching on the internet for poker coaching. The flow of thoughts in my head is increadible.



Thanks guys!

helloooo

Today I started reading and learning CFP 6-max Starter Course at BPC and after writing this post I will do homework (post 3 sample hands) so I can continue to get better. We "startes" had coach session with lord gordon today and I didnt ask any questions I just listend to get the feeling of it. I have a milion of questions in my head but I think 90% (or more) will be solved by the time I read and learn the course. I have edited ( by that I mean txt size, color, font, aligments etc) and printed everything that I have red by now in the course and I will make book of it because it is easier for me to read and learn from paper then from computer and it is more practical for me because I can underline and add notes etc.


This will be the cover of the book as Gordon stated that this is very important





sooo, I will update my blog with my progress tomorrow night. Cant wait to start playing and posting my grafs and progress


Successful people are selfish with their time

so. today I was whole day learning and experimenting on HM2 because I wanted to know every single thing in that program. I watched like 6 hours of videos on youtube and red almost whole HM site. Tomorrow I will go through HM2 again just to make shure I know everything and then I will move on to Equilab and post some calculations and then progress to UhlvarEquity. Hope that those programs will be easier to run, but I know that they will be harder in terms of calculation and equity understanding on different board textures. A lot of my questions were answerd today and I am starting to get a whole picture but I am still lost in everything and trying to connect the dots, I will make sure that this changes fast!

Thats all for today, will post tomorrow on my progress, thx.

Today in first part of the day I have spend time on Equilab and UhlvarEquity trying to guess the percentage, my average difference is 10% at first day and I really dont know how, because it seems to me that it is all luck, it should be like 30%. I will train every day and write down the average difference so I cant track the improvement and we will see.



Here are some of my calculations.





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Board: 7sKh4s

Equity Win Tie

MP2 57.95% 57.62% 0.33% { 66+, A8s+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, ATo+, KJo+ }

BB 42.05% 41.71% 0.33% { 8s8c }

My guess was 25%, but I forget thath MP2 could have some other suited cards than spades 😀 stupid me





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Board: 7d8s7c

Equity Win Tie

MP2 56.10% 55.18% 0.92% { 66+, A8s+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, ATo+, KJo+ }

BB 43.90% 42.98% 0.92% { Tc9c }

My guess was 40%, this one was close because I had open-ended straight draw from both sides and at that time he could only beat me with pocket 66 but he has some good kickers.





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Board: ThQh7c

Equity Win Tie

MP2 72.76% 72.71% 0.05% { 66+, A8s+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, ATo+, KJo+ }

BB 27.24% 27.18% 0.05% { 5h5s }

My guess was 40% because last time I forgot that he could have any suited cards and this time I gave my self to much power because of that asumption.





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Board: 4h7hAs

Equity Win Tie

MP2 70.09% 66.28% 3.81% { 66+, A8s+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, ATo+, KJo+ }

BB 29.91% 26.09% 3.81% { KhQs }

My guess was 25% because his 66 are betther than me and if I get K or Q on turn or river he might have flush.





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Lol while writting this post I saw that there is + next to 66, A8s etc and that probably means that he can have 66 77 88 99 etc, lol, but I thought I was doing well. This changes everything. I tired with knowing that and it takes a lot of time, we will see. Maybe there will be some formula in next chapters at CFP 6-max Starter Course to calculate in your head.





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Board: 5sQs7d

Equity Win Tie

MP2 68.48% 64.55% 3.94% { 66+, A8s+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, ATo+, KJo+ }

BB 31.52% 27.58% 3.94% { AdTs }

My guess was 30%, thats nice, after knowing that there are more then 7 cards that he can have hahah, idiot..





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On the second part of my day I started to read and learn NO BS 6MAX POKER, at the moment I am still at the preflop but I know 90+% of it and tomorrow Ill start with postflop, cant wait to continue.

so today I had to work 8 hours, I did study NO BS 6MAX POKER but couldn't concentrate to much while on work. I am at the moment learning post flop and playing for playmoney but it will take time to adopt all the things and act immediatly on table but I am learining faster while playing for playmoney. Hope tomorrow I will have more progress. I think that I will work 4 more days and then I will quit and concentrate only on poker, untill then I will try to learn and master the NO BS 6MAX POKER.


Here are some equilab



Board: Qc5hKs

Equity Win Tie

MP2 16.09% 14.41% 1.68% { 66+, A8s+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, ATo+, KJo+ }

BB 83.91% 82.23% 1.68% { KcQs }

I guessed 80%, not bad



Board: 3d8h9c

Equity Win Tie

MP2 69.51% 66.12% 3.39% { 66+, A8s+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, ATo+, KJo+ }

BB 30.49% 27.10% 3.39% { KhQc }

I gueesed 30%, thats the record for closest guess.




Board: QhThJh

Equity Win Tie

MP2 78.99% 73.58% 5.41% { 66+, A8s+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, ATo+, KJo+ }


BB 21.01% 15.60% 5.41% { Ac8s }

My guess was 25%




Board: 5h3hTc

Equity Win Tie

MP2 29.77% 27.39% 2.38% { 66+, A8s+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, ATo+, KJo+ }

BB 70.23% 67.85% 2.38% { AcTh }

My guess was 72% and this was the first time I didnt put round number like 65 70 75 80 85 90 etc




Board: 7c9s3h

Equity Win Tie

MP2 55.22% 51.39% 3.84% { 66+, A8s+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, ATo+, KJo+ }

BB 44.78% 40.94% 3.84% { AhJc }

New record, I guessed 45%




Board: Ks6d4s

Equity Win Tie

MP2 62.24% 61.93% 0.32% { 66+, A8s+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, ATo+, KJo+ }

BB 37.76% 37.44% 0.32% { 7h7c }

my guess was 70% lol, I missed badly, didnt count spade.



my average difference was 8% today, hope i can get it lower next couple of days!

WHAT YOU DO TODAY CAN IMPROVE ALL YOUR TOMORROWS.

I don't have any personal experience with the CFP group so I can't say for sure if they're good or bad, but the 10 commandments thing is really weird to me. Of course you should listen, but discussion is very important. I think it's better to try and understand at least superficially why you are doing something before you implement it, so that you can see the concepts at work, then of course ask more questions. I'm not sure what the standing up thing is all about but I assume they mean that you should brush off bad sessions and get back to working off your MU :b. idk, always feel weird about authority figures drawing parallels between themselves and deities.

GL!

This morning I went back on preflop in NO BS 6MAX POKER and try to place my self in every possible scenario at every position because I wasnt satisfied to conitinue with postflop and I asked a lot of questions in starters chat and they gave me all the answers so I dont have to annoye the coaches Besides playing for playmoney and trying to figure out preflop, I did equilab and today my average difference was 7.4 % , (would be lower if I didnt do some stupid mistakes and miss couple of times by almost 30% lol. ) but I am satisfied as long as I am doing better than the day before. I am going off to work now and I will try to learn some of postflop there and then tonight try to combine all together to see how it goes.

Here are some Equilab (worst and best)



Board: TdQh8c

Equity Win Tie

MP2 51.88% 51.19% 0.69% { 66+, A8s+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, ATo+, KJo+ }

BB 48.12% 47.43% 0.69% { 9d8d }

My guess was 30%, I didnt count on diamonds and didnt put to much credit on that 8.





Board: JsKd6s

Equity Win Tie

MP2 68.50% 63.87% 4.63% { 66+, A8s+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, ATo+, KJo+ }

BB 31.50% 26.87% 4.63% { AsTh }

I guessed 60%, I was sure I would get Q on the turn or river hahah forgot to exclude luck





Board: 4dTc4h

Equity Win Tie

MP2 54.29% 53.76% 0.53% { 66+, A8s+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, ATo+, KJo+ }

BB 45.71% 45.18% 0.53% { 6h6c }

I gave myselff 70% but he could easily have T or could get any higher hand on turn and river.





Board: 2d6cKs

Equity Win Tie

MP2 75.40% 71.10% 4.30% { 66+, A8s+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, ATo+, KJo+ }

BB 24.60% 20.30% 4.30% { AsTh }

My guess was 25%, not bad





Board: 2d6c8s

Equity Win Tie

MP2 74.78% 73.49% 1.29% { 66+, A8s+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, ATo+, KJo+ }

BB 25.22% 23.93% 1.29% { KcTc }

My guess was 25%





Board: 6hJh4d

Equity Win Tie

MP2 8.47% 8.47% 0.00% { 66+, A8s+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, ATo+, KJo+ }

BB 91.53% 91.53% 0.00% { 6d6c }

My guess was 92%. I just had feeling not to put 90 or 95

hey, thx for good luck.
--about the commandments, it is because everything is very clearly written in the course. He would have hard time concentrating on improving players if he is debating with everyone about ranges and why to 3bet and not to call. We (players who joined BPC) have chats on skype in which we discuss about everything, but with coaches we only talk about hands that bother us and we post every 10k hands to their review. This is the fastest and safest way. I didnt know anything about poker before I joined BPC and imagine if I started to ask the coaches every single detail,they couldnt help others. They would be 50 times more expensive if they want to disscuss with every player because then there would not be some many players and then they would have more time to concentrate on one player. I think u get the picture Join the coaching and u will understand!




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I have done some learning while working but couldnt concentrate too much because everyone has to say and ask something. I think I understand over 90% in NO BS 6MAX POKER, tommorow morning I will try to understand 100% and keep learning. I have send annexs to one print company so they will make me poster of it and I will put it on the wall in front of me so I can look it up untill I master it completly. I also told them to make some free space on poster so I can add some notes while I gain some experience and add something that Gordon told us in coaching session. I will do 200 hands on equilab and then I will go to sleep!

GL OP!! Stubbed. I'm considering joining CFP. I guess we will see what happens with ya before I do.

heheh thx, yeah we will see


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Today was learning day also, tomorrow night I will proceed on to the next step in Starters Course and I hope that in wednesday I will start playing (finally). I got couple of questions that I need answers on, but I will leave it until the final step. I am working on UhlvarEquity now, atm I am below 10%, hope to get close to 5 next couple of days.



Board: JdJc3c

Equity Win Tie

MP2 8.91% 7.35% 1.56% { 66+, A8s+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, ATo+, KJo+ }

BB 91.09% 89.54% 1.56% { KcJh }



Board: 5d8s6d

Equity Win Tie

MP2 40.58% 39.11% 1.48% { 66+, A8s+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, ATo+, KJo+ }

BB 59.42% 57.94% 1.48% { Ac8h }



Board: 6d6c9s

Equity Win Tie

MP2 62.16% 57.88% 4.28% { 66+, A8s+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, ATo+, KJo+ }

BB 37.84% 33.56% 4.28% { Ad7c }



Board: Js9sJc

Equity Win Tie

MP2 72.10% 68.24% 3.86% { 66+, A8s+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, ATo+, KJo+ }

BB 27.90% 24.04% 3.86% { Ac8c }



Board: 6cKs6h

Equity Win Tie

MP2 68.78% 68.30% 0.48% { 66+, A8s+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, ATo+, KJo+ }

BB 31.22% 30.74% 0.48% { 5s5c }



Board: Qc9hJc

Equity Win Tie

MP2 68.11% 67.02% 1.09% { 66+, A8s+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, ATo+, KJo+ }

BB 31.89% 30.81% 1.09% { 8h8s }



Board: ThAs9d

Equity Win Tie

MP2 79.66% 79.37% 0.29% { 66+, A8s+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, ATo+, KJo+ }

BB 20.34% 20.05% 0.29% { 4s4c }



Board: 3c8dJc

Equity Win Tie

MP2 82.37% 81.18% 1.19% { 66+, A8s+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, ATo+, KJo+ }

BB 17.63% 16.44% 1.19% { KhTh }

So how does it work? They give some kind of course study material before you play?

yeah, they give you book with preflop&postflop guide for everything that can happen and thats just for start. You have to post every 10k/20k hands and then they analize (they made software which sees how close did u follow their guidlines and if u are over 85% u can move on to the next step). Go to bestpokercoaching.com and see it for ur self



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I wont go to sleep until I update my blog I said to myself today. I worked from 14:00 until 22:00 and then head back home (2h ride) and I arrived 20min ago. It is 00:31 at the moment. Tomorrow I will start my first ever online poker playing with real money. I didn't know anything before I joined BPC and CFP, I had to google like 200 poker words that Gordon uses while explaining, I even mixed turn and river, didn't know which is what so that gives u clear picture how big of a noob I was BUT this will change fast, it is already changing, I learned almost everything in that book and I have printed annexes and preflop ranges to help myself and i will put it on the wall in front of me so I can see it while playing tomorrow morning. Cant wait to start, I have to wake up at 7am and I will be busy until 9 and then I got whole day for poker, hope I wont hit stop loss and finish early lol, but if I do I will analyze my hands and learn something new from it and be ready for another day. I am really tired and cant do equilab, will do tomorrow double of the amount. thx and gn

Problems are not STOP signs, they are guidelines.

soooo, there was no internet connection yesterday so I didnt start playing, I started today.

To be honest I am satisfied although I lost 2.5 BI. Let me explain why


The drops that are pointed with pink arows are made only because of my rookie mistake, in one of them I thought I have straight but I didnt lol, I was so confused checking what and when to do that I missred the cards, the other one I cant remember and I dont even care because it was also some stupid mistake, so, I wouldnt be down 100BB because of that.

Next to arrows (blue ones) point when I had AA and AK and went all in. When I had AA the villian had 66 and on turn the 6 came for his set and the other time villian got J9s and on the turn 9 came and I lost with AK. So if we played 100 hands with same hands I would come up as winner because percantage is on my side and I dont care that I lost that hand today, I will win 80% of the time.


And the last arrow was just being tired and my head just burned and I couldnt play as sharp as I did.


So all things considered I am satisfied for today, in future my graf will be satisfied too

expect problems and eat them for breakfast

thelegend700 wrote:

Good luck!!!

Thx man, I appreciate it, btw GREATE quote in signature!



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Today I woke up at 6am and started playing with mindset of improving my game from yesterday. I started very stupid, I had some hands that I miss red and lost money because I didnt act according to the NO BS 6MAX POKER book, but then I gather my self and start playing like I should and start winning some hands. I had one huge fall when I went pre flop all-in with QQ against KK and lost. But thats poker, I was tilted but I gatherd my self quickly and start again like nothing happend. Here is the hand:






Here is the picture of my overal graf combining yesterday and today (arrow indicates where I started today) .



I have finnished today with 28.40bb/100 compared to -60.94bb/100 yesterday and I am all together -14.70bb/100. I hope to get that straight tomorrow. I will be able to play only in morning because I have to go to hotel to work for two more days and I wont be able to play there but learn the book and then I am officialy done with working and I can focus all my energy on poker and in becoming the best I can possibly be in shortest amount of time. I will wake up to play at least 3-4 hours and then I have to be at hotel before 12am because we have coaching session with Gordon.


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Board: Kh5sQd
Equity Win Tie
MP2 89.65% 89.61% 0.04% { 66+, A8s+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, ATo+, KJo+ }
BB 10.35% 10.31% 0.04% { 8c6c }


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Board: ThQh3h
Equity Win Tie
MP2 48.93% 48.71% 0.23% { 66+, A8s+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, ATo+, KJo+ }
BB 51.07% 50.84% 0.23% { 9h9s }


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Board: Jh8c9c
Equity Win Tie
MP2 59.92% 54.87% 5.05% { 66+, A8s+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, ATo+, KJo+ }
BB 40.08% 35.03% 5.05% { AdTs }


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Board: 5s4sJd
Equity Win Tie
MP2 82.70% 81.77% 0.93% { 66+, A8s+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, ATo+, KJo+ }
BB 17.30% 16.37% 0.93% { QhTh }


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Board: 3sJh6s
Equity Win Tie
MP2 59.56% 59.56% 0.00% { 66+, A8s+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, ATo+, KJo+ }
BB 40.44% 40.44% 0.00% { 2d2s }

yesterday was hard day, mentaly hard. I had many ups and downs, mostly against players that have no range but I sticked to the book and just wait for them to get on my hook when I had monster. I was really stressed whole time, waiting for good hands, but eventualy I got relaxed and didnt care anymore, just played as I would normaly. Here is one hand that I lost against that type of player





I called because he went all in like 10 times with bad hands and I had TP with GTSD, maybe In normal situation I would fold this but this was my first time against that kind of player and I was very tilted.



Here is the overall NL2 graph, I put the hearth to show u where was the fight. Heart, beacuse it also shows my heart rate at that time.






Yesterday I went on coffe with Stefano Surian ( GREAT GUY!!!) we talked about poker and one of the things that he suggested to me is to start playing speed tables to learn faster. I decieded to start it this morning. The site where I am playing NL2 did not work because they had some maintenance so I went to other site and deposite some money there and then I saw that the lowest speed table is NL5 and then I just wanted to play normal NL2 but there was only two tables with 6/6 and then I decided to give a shot at NL5. Here is the graph..





I have only played 100 hands because I have to go to college now and will play again after that. So far it seems ok, not much different from NL2 but the stakes are bigger and puts more pressure at the start, numbers and overall look of the table is different to my brain so it takes some time to get use to it (I felt the same when I started playing NL2), but after couple hundred hands I will get comfy and play like I play on NL2.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.