nice videos, can see you're putting in the work.

Yep! My goal is to put in Y=X/2 where Y is the review time and X is hours of poker. That's a pretty large allocation of time put to review. But I'll decrease this as I start to see myself not making mistakes and seeing myself playing more on the perfect spectrum rather than slipping up/betting errors spectrum.

Next 5 days (Tue/Wed/Thurs/Fri/Sat) I am going to play 25NL 9 hours each day, no session review until Sunday.

My goal is to play around 20,000 hands with a winrate of 4bb/100 which will put my bankroll at $750. I will then start 50NL shot taking.

Doing session review tonight.

Cooking some spicy adobo balsamic honey glazed wings with coriander and cumin rubbed on first. Modelo Especial beer to finish up the night.

Got a long 5 days ahead of me

GRIND IS REAL.

Part 1 of my 25NL Session Review

well then, my HUD is not working now and I don't think i changed anything

this sucks.

played some 50NL without a HUD, lost $100 - I made a couple big errors of judgement but also JJ vs AA and KK vs AA and my flush got beat by a rivered boat, stuff like that.

My 6 winning session rampage has come to an end , sadly.

Hopefully I can get support to help me get this HUD situation worked out - or else I'll have to go back to using holdem indicator which is doable but I much prefer HM2

I'll get strict again at keeping within a reasonable bankroll - let's move to 15 BI's, I already changed my bankroll management before a few times and just kind of do what I feel like doing for the day but I need to be more strict with it. I guess I'm licking my chops wanting to jump back into that 100NL action but I gotta grind back up to it first.

January 3rd 2017,

Played 6 hours over 2 sessions. 8 tabling 25NL.



+$3. Total profit +$252.25 over 9500 hands.

Total bankroll at $555.13.

Looks like another positive day even if it's just 2 or 3 bucks. That's the 6th day in a row? maybe 5th.

Was down $100 from 50NL tables, got back up in the green with 25NL.

8 tabling 25NL. My mouse is acting weird and being glitchy and it's reallya ffecting my attitude. Having to try much harder to get the cursor in the right spot. Probably just gonna buy another one tonight.

Definitely didn't play perfectly today.

HUD for HM2 should be active tomorrow or the day after, apparently sportsbetting updated their hand history format and HM2 hasn't caught up yet.

GRIND IS REAL.

January 4th 2017,

Played 6 hours over 2 sessions. 25NL and 50NL, 6 tabling.

MY WINNING STREAK HAS ENDED NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

-$40. Total profit +$212.25 over 11500 hands.

Total bankroll at $514.13.

Playing a bit aggro-tilted today - maybe cause I am annoyed with myself for testing 50NL with only 12 BI's or maybe it's because I barely ate anything today.

Need to cook this food now and take a break for the day.

Got to drive an ex girlfriend to work today, she was sick. She is hispanic and oh so pretty. I was not good to her 3 years ago but I've changed and I think she is ready to forgive me and she is dating a guy she obviously doesn't care for very much. But you know how women are, they will attach themselves to men sometimes even if they aren't good to them.

So my winning streak has ended, HUD still not working in HM2. I think I was getting a bit greedy today and probably made a few bad plays (like noticeably bad.)

Need to check myself here and get back on track into A+ territory, not B- or C+

Perhaps the extra aggression coupled with aggressive fish plays like when they cold shove on innocuous flops and you hold overpairs, etc....being 3 bet more, just need to adjust all around and remember.............

To Eat. Lol.

GRIND IS REAL.

Wow. I think sometimes the universe is just against you and decides to ruin your game one day.

literally 4 hands in a row...

TPTK on flop and turn, villain shoves turn, super psycho whale stats and I snap it off. He shoved with 3rd pair, no draws, spikes 2 pair on river. Board was 7QK810, I had AK, villain had 810.

River was 7Q4104, villain shoves and I snap with 1010, they have QQ

Next hand, I mean NEXT hand. I have KK...I get 3 bet...I 4 bet, villain shoves, I call, villain has AA.

Then literally the NEXT hand, I flop broadway holding A10, flop comes JKQ, villain cold shoves 100 BB's ($25) into a $2 pot, I snap it off (obviously), brick then A on river, villain flopped bottom straight and we chop.

Just shut the games down after that. Not feeling it anymore tonight. Went in with a super clear mind and won a few pots then those four hands happened back to back to back to back, 4 in a row.

Ewww.

Bankroll at $441, +$141 over what, like 12,000 hands?

BACK TO 10NL , 25NL AND 50NL FAILED.

GRIND IS REAL.

In better spirits as of today I received my new ergonomic wireless mouse!!!

Moves like butter, not all jaggedy and choppy like the last one (which was probably 2 years old and used quite a lot)

This alone will make me play better, surely!

Nice, this is def one of my new investments next month. I hate the clicking of a mouse.. drives me nuts.. Also a chair, mines junk and really uncomfortable.

First time playing live for a while. Brought $600 with me, and had a very rough night. Was there for 6 hours, got stack up to $700, then 3 hands within 15 minutes I lost it all

Top set to the guy who spikes his higher set on the turn and shoves, I snap it off, they had AA

I flopped a boat on a 455 board, holding 44...10 turn and 2 river and the guy didn't raise pre so 1010 wasn't in the range...freakin had 52 LOL

Third hand I really don't even remember. Something dumb though.

It hurt a bit losing that money. I'm not ready for such big buy ins yet and will not play until this challenge is completed and I have a suitable bankroll for it.

Gotta get focused again, and put alcohol out of my life for 2 months while I truly grind and give everything I have to finally getting into .5/1 online.

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Hands like this that remind me why I NEVER BLUFF AT MICROS

nailed his range pretty hard, and my bluff was a calculated decision, not just any random shove.

Villain I have marked yellow which means "nitty, tight, ABC"

And villains don't have reads on me that I'm bluffy cause I'm not.

You know that feeling where you think you were playing perfect A+ poker and it's a friday evening and there are tons of fish and yet.....

You drop 7 BI's over 4,000 hands?



Yeah. That's my life today.

8 tabling 25NL and playing tighter stats than my usual 30/23 - basically more like 23/19 to 25/20 the last 4000 hands.

Lost $700 at the casino (post above) and then dropped 7 more BI's at 25NL on one of the softest times to play.

I will be doing video review of the hands - so expect that soon if you are watching them.

It was one of those days where I was cool as a cucumber - really focused - really felt great - really felt A+ and sharp sharp sharp - Every bluff spot failed, sets running into flushes against fish that could have a huge range.

Basically a downswing.

Bankroll at $279 now. -$21 total over 12,000'ish hands (played some without HM2 working so my data here is all messed up but the site bankroll and total net is correct.)

Definitely back to 10NL again.

FML is all I can say to summarize the last 4 days lol

you'll get there man. just put your time in, results and money will follow.

that's what my buddy always tells me and its true.

LoL , definitely true - Freakin downswings though - I've had much much worse back in the day - 10 BI downswing at 25NL isn't that bad - A few bluff spots that don't work out, shoving NFD in a 3 bet pot to a high 3bet % villains cbet and missing, getting sucked out on a couple times - ***********Coupled with maybe one or two greedy/irrational plays*********It adds up and it's not necessarily bad play - Sometimes you face huge variance players - Which is how I got bankroll to $1700 earlier in the thread - I feel good about objectively reviewing these hands from this 4000 hand session.

Got 67 hands that are all above 30 BB's out of 4000 to review. This will be a 3 or 4 hour video because there were some very interesting hands and I want to make it educational and discuss them as thoroughly as I can.

Also if I want to push into 8 tabling territory, I might have to accept that I'll have a rough few session before it starts to kick in solidly.

The more I crush off the table review, the easier it will be to very quickly assess most situations at the limit I'm currently involved in and 8 tables isn't much more than 6.

2 weeks of high volume 10NL and bankroll should be back at $500'ish.

GRIND IS REAL.

Spent 2 hours analyzing in great detail the first 16 hands out of the 67 hands marked for review.

It is very obvious I actually was not playing my A+ game. Lots of value being missed. Poor bet sizing. Just all around sloppy and unsharp.

I'm scared to see the rest of the hands but I'll have to get those session reviews done tomorrow as it's 3:20 am here. That was 9 hours of poker I put in today.

Here is 25NL session review part 2

Within 5 minutes of sitting down to start fresh a new day, I get this luck.

Ok, done bitching. Let's start some 10NL. Just lost 3 more BI's within 30 minutes and bankroll is at $209 now.

Downswing is now at 13 BI's at 25NL.

I think I'll have a long month ahead of me grinding back at 10NL. Might just take it kind of slower and just plan on committing January to 10NL.

Looking at probably 5 more hours until I finish all the review of that 4000 hand session yesterday.

Ok so here is a post that will help me rise up. I am not going to touch the tables for 3 days and instead study review and re watch my videos.

My poker commandments I forgot about even though the paper is posted directly above my monitors.

"Fold if your gut is telling you something."
"Think more deeply about EVERY hand."
"Stop getting emotional. Fish get lucky sometimes."
"Take more time to extract value with monsters."

I have broken all of these rules the past week and furthermore...

I became arrogant and over reached.

Not only did I venture into 25NL and 50NL again recently but I was playing 8 tables for a 7 hour session. A 4000 hand session is pretty sick if you can do it, but I am not that type of player.

I am admitting I was wrong and that I was being pretty stupid.

I need to reign in the volume and keep it to my original 3 hour session max.

6 tables max.

My downswing is MY FAULT and even though yes I have had some bad beats and coolers, I have also been making greedy decisions that were not based on ranges and analysis but on reacting to other factors such as previous hands lost, dwelling on the downswing and playing differently, etc.

Let us renew ourselves here and remember we are human and even though we may have been playing 100NL a year ago, it doesn't mean that 25NL is going to be a walk in the park - I still need to focus, pay attention, do review, and most importantly.

Be honest with myself.

I wasn't being honest with myself the past 5 days.

GRIND IS REAL.

one thing you could do to kind of exercise that fold button, is to fold like your bigger hands even know you have it. I know it kind of sounds stupid but I think if you can break that barrier, bigger folds will be easier. I know I made a bunch of stupid mistakes this week, knowing I was dead, but sometimes if you make 1 big fold, the rest are easier to fold down the road.

It may be -EV right now to make that fold, but making that fold may be +EV in the long run.

Also I know I go on autopilot sometimes, even playing at 4 tables, and when you get into a bigger pot, just take your hand off the mouse (kind of disconnects a control thing for me), think for a minute, and go through these steps.

1.) Take a look at stack sizes.
2.) What position is V in?
3.) What happened PF and narrow the range down according to the board.
4.) Where are you at vs. V's range?
5.) Make a decision and execute.

All in all probably should be doing this even in small pots, but big ones seem to be the problem right now. You probably know all this anyways but it's a good reminder.

So this is very true - One of the easiest ways to increase EV is to simply take your hand off your mouse in large pots

I am not known for being a calling station - I probably fold too much rather than too little - My commandment listed first above is the least abused - It's more of going on auto pilot and making snap decisions without clearly thinking through them.

This has to do with playing sessions longer than I know I should - and playing more tables (with distractions rather than focusing clearly on the tables)

Out of all the biggest pots lost in that 4000 hand session , 14 pots lost over 50 BB's, only one of them were actually due to calling off too lightly (I had NFD plus overs to a psycho whale that shoves mid pairs and stuff - But I think equilab even shows I'm not truly a favorite there and there was only $6 in the pot and I called a $23 flop cold shove so it's pretty tight, probably very tiny EV positive if anything but I don't like risking an entire stack just to win $1 in EV if you know what I mean - also because rake in a $50 pot probably just cancels that +EV out anyway.) - 4 bluffs that I ran into top of villains range - But then again I was breaking my micros rule of

NEVER F*%(#ING BLUFF AT MICROS BECAUSE DONKEYS WILL DONK YOU.

For instance, the hand above where villain had TPTK on that wet board, I personally would never have called that shove unless I had ridiculous reads - But because I have basically a 0% bluff range at micros usually, villain was just being a total donkey and calling a river shove with just top pair - sets, straights, flush were all possible from me.

25NL session review part 3 - 2 hour video going over another 16 hands.

Gotten 1/2 of the 67 hands completed in over 3.5 hours of session review. Will do some more tomorrow and finish it up Monday.

GRIND IS REAL.

No poker for today - Just watched some of my previous review videos - Will finish the review tomorrow and start the grind again Tuesday.

Sometimes you just need a few days off to refresh during a downswing.

25NL Session Review Part 4.

Went pretty fast this one, got lots of hands reviewed and great to see more mistakes I am making.

One more video remaining to complete that 67 hand review from the 4000 hand session.

PHEW that was a lot of review :P

GRIND IS REAL.

Dropped 2 more BI's at 25NL. HM2 is showing a +EV adjusted for me for tonight

15 BI downswing now at 25NL.

I'm cool, calm and collected because I only have to get back to $200 before taking more 25NL shots which is 5 BI's at 10NL.

Biggest hand lost, 4 bet KK, flop is 10 high, I cbet and villain shoves, had 10J, hits 10 on river and wins.

Had KK on 9948 turn, I get money in, villain had 10J and spikes 7 on river.

I get AQs in vs a $8 stack, vs JJ and lost.

3 bet psycho whale with 99 flop comes Q85 and they check shove (for not too much more) and had AA (lulz) but before they potted flop and turn and shoved river on me twice and showed their bluff 2 times already - one they had A high and I had K2 for trip K's (flush, straight, boat possible too) - and the other one they had 55 and overshoved the turn like $22 into $7 pot and I folded 99 , overpair to board...

Oh well.

bankroll at $150. Down $150 from beginning of year.

I'm gonna turn this back around, you'll see. Ain't no stopping me.

GRIND IS REAL.

bizarre, up 5 BI's at 10NL today in just 2500 hands.

So I'm up 15 BI's at 10NL over 7000'ish hands but down 15 BI's at 25NL in 7000ish hands.

taking my next 25NL shot now, bankroll at $200, will move back to 10NL when bankroll reaches $140-$150.

Crossing my fingers that my run bad will end because my play bad seems to have ended for the TIME BEING LULZ



1.) My playstyle is pretty high variance. I think I can nit it up a bit and keep it at a steady incline.

2.) I may have gotten lucky vs some huge whales that were calling me down with 4th pair and stuff like that. Maybe I can't extrapolate this to the entire 25NL fish field and I am over valuing their tendency to be worse than they are?

3.) I should stop bluffing because I keep breaking my golden rule of DO NOT BLUFF AT MICROS EVER

a.) Because fish bet weird and small bets do not always mean weakness
b.) Even if you know they are weak, shoving sometimes get's you called by 2nd/3rd/4th pairs and then you feel like a jack ass losing to THAT CALL
c.) Even the regs are super bad and can't read boards or lines well enough to even fold top pairs
d.) I doubt most villains are active enough to take my bluffs into account in future hands so I probably can't get paid off by monsters because they won't be taking notes and adjusting so my bluff can't gain future equity in such a way.

So in conclusion I should play like it's 10NL.

Bet when I have something, Check when I don't.

That is pretty much my strategy at 10NL and it seems to be working.

Let's try to keep this until I reach 50NL and see if that strategy works there too.

So in conclusion.

Bet when I have something, check when I don't.