Welcome to my first ever blog. Here, I want to describe and reflect my journey through the stakes. You will find updates, goals, handhistories and anything else regarding poker in here. I‘ll try to post as often as possible. But at first, I‘d like to start with a short introduction.

Who am I?
I am 18 year olds and currently in my last year at school in Germany. I started playing around 6 months ago. Since then I moved up from NL2 to NL10 with a lot of ups and downs while my brm, work ethic and tilt controll wasn‘t to good for most of the times. Atm I play on NL10z on pokerstars.es and partypoker.

What do I want to achive?
I want to become as good as possible and move up in stakes. This blog should help me to keep my motivation. Therefore I will post monthly, weekly or even daily goals and updates.

So lets start.
Week 1: 01.01.2019-07.01.2019
Goals:

-14k Hands Volume (2 or 4 tabling zoom)
-watch 1 RIO Video per day
-review 5 hands per day (eventually post a handhistory in here as well)
-read 1 chapter of Mental Game of Poker
-don‘t watch any twitch streams
-take shots on NL25z w/25bi and move down w/23bi

That‘s it for the beginning. Feel free to leave any comments with questions or suggestions. I‘ll post some updates with graphs probably during the week.

So I thought I'd would be a great idea to take shots on Nl25z because the pool was really soft. In the end I was running bad af and reached my stop-loss at 23 BI. This was by far my worst day ever. In the last hands, I tilted away some money as well because I thought PLO would be great game as well. It isn't. At least not for me. So I will be back on NL10 till I have 25 or 27BI for NL25 again to try the whole thing once more. At least I know now, that NL25 isn't too much tougher than NL10.

This was the graph btw.

The first week wasn‘t to good overall when it comes to result but I learned a lot. For example I found out that reg tables a way softer and a stop-loss and breaks are very important.
Overall I reached my volume and study goals.

Week 2: 08.01-14.01
Goals:
-play 10k hands (6 tabling reg tables)
-watch 5 RIO videos and take notes
-7 day challenge: No social media (Insta, YT,Twitch,..) This blog is excluded
-don‘t let the downswing change my motivation and mood

Good luck turning it around - recommend psek1 on RIO.

Thanks for the suggestion. Will check him out. And I forgot one goal: don‘t watch my results till Week 3.

GL!

The videomakers I learned the most from on RIO are (in order) Cameron Couch, Paul Atwal and the South American dude who makes 200z live vids.

I suggest live action videos if you're a beginner/intermediate player, because there are so many small & bigger plays that you can incorporate in your toolkit.

You are right. Live action videos are imo the best in the beginning to get used to a basic gameplan, without getting to specific. I really enjoy the videos of Henry Lister lately. I put in a lot of volume (20k hands) in last week and achieved all my goals. In the future I won‘t write my weekly goals in here, but I will try to keep the thread alive by posting something from time to time. Always, when I feel like doing so

It‘s been a while since my last post but I didn‘t gone broke (yet). So I am playing currently NL20 on a regular basis and I feel like my game, especially the mental one, improved a lot over the last weeks. I still have a lot of leaks, like calling down too much or playing my C-gaming when I am tired or unconcentrated. NL20 will be my home for the next couple of weeks or even months because I don‘t want to take shots as agressive as I did in the past.