Here we go again !!!!! $50 - $10k 6 months
04-24-2019
, 12:35 PM
Below is week 8s graph .. tbf it doesn't look half as bad as it felt at the time looking at the graph . Also when I won a lot back the next day I didn't realise ideas running so much above ev again I felt I was playing decent ..
Will post a couple of hands later I'll post the 2 from "tilt period " and I'll also post a couple where I found my self guessing what to do as was unsure (which also tilts the **** out of me )
Just looked at the start of this week's graph too it's like 1500 hands and down $60 but hey let's see if we can sort it out by end of play sunday...
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Will post a couple of hands later I'll post the 2 from "tilt period " and I'll also post a couple where I found my self guessing what to do as was unsure (which also tilts the **** out of me )
Just looked at the start of this week's graph too it's like 1500 hands and down $60 but hey let's see if we can sort it out by end of play sunday...
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05-02-2019
, 11:38 AM
Oh wow bin slacking big time at the tables and on here , been quite busy tbf had some nice weather here last couple of weeks so the misses has a 101 jobs for me to do but oh well it won't last lol .
Not much to say really volume was crazy low but was Easter holidays ect. So not going to be to hard on myself .
Just thought I'd quickly put my graph up before the week passes us by .
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Not much to say really volume was crazy low but was Easter holidays ect. So not going to be to hard on myself .
Just thought I'd quickly put my graph up before the week passes us by .
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05-09-2019
, 01:18 PM
Would defo swerve even putting anything on here this week as been slacking big time again but want to make sure I put something up every week if nothing else just for myself to look back on when I'm at the top 
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So yh very very low volume again for last week I could give lots of excuses but let's face they are excuses so I won't do that .
Not going to beat myself up over it though just been doing a couple of other things but on a good note I still have played a little and the little I have played I've kept to bankroll strategy and playing the games I play.
On a bad not the little I have played I've noticed myself drifting from the lines I should be following and yesterday I made some horrible calls that I having really done for about 2 months so need to address this .
Like I say all in all I'm not that disappointed as I'm still here and I will continue , obviously I need to dedicate so much more time to this and I will ,my family are away this weekend so I'm hoping for a killer session .
I'll put last week's graph up later .
Peace out
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.So yh very very low volume again for last week I could give lots of excuses but let's face they are excuses so I won't do that .
Not going to beat myself up over it though just been doing a couple of other things but on a good note I still have played a little and the little I have played I've kept to bankroll strategy and playing the games I play.
On a bad not the little I have played I've noticed myself drifting from the lines I should be following and yesterday I made some horrible calls that I having really done for about 2 months so need to address this .
Like I say all in all I'm not that disappointed as I'm still here and I will continue , obviously I need to dedicate so much more time to this and I will ,my family are away this weekend so I'm hoping for a killer session .
I'll put last week's graph up later .
Peace out
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05-23-2019
, 04:15 AM
Getting really lazy updated here said I'd do it every Monday it's now Thursday morning 
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The realization that I'm not being lazy I am lazy ...
So here we are just completed week 12 and a good time I'd say to reflect on the challenge ..
My volume so far has been real poor I definitely overestimated the amount of hours I'd be able to play in a "happy home " ( I can play all day if i dont mind the nagging lol ) Its not something I'm massively worried about as I'm getting better at managing it properly also it's only really a problem at the start as anyone that dont play poker would wonder why the **** your spending 5hrs a day all week for maybe a profit of $5 but with everything once you start seeing a return on that money everyone would be happy .
I've tried telling the wife well if I wanted to be a lawyer now I'd have to go study for the next 5 years before seeing a pay check she sidney see it as the same lol
Due to me not hitting playing volume I've also slacked massively on studying as anytime I had I tried to play .
Playing poker as a living would definitely be a lot harder than I expected with a lot more control I reckon on a non stop basis . Like I believe I could master playing a certain way no it makes money over and over again yet have 2 or 3 bad days in a row and all of a sudden I'm doing random **** I have to constantly give myself a rain check .
On a plus note im still here still havnt had to reload and am still playing with the hope of 1 day making money out of it . As I said at the beginning im due back in work sept/Oct so if I could make some regular money by then then great but if not then hopefully I'd have learnt quite a bit where I can add a healthy amount onto my wage . Either way it wont of been a waste of time well not too me anyway I know to everyone not in poker will see it as a complete waste of time but then quite happily sit there night after night watching game of thrones or another boxset back to back an you guys ent never genna learn how to fly a dragon ..
I've also just upgraded my monitor and having ne adding an extra 2 tables to my game and it's going ok at the mo so this will help massively with volume I tried playing 5/6 at the beginning of this challenge and couldn't do it so if I can do this now another few months should be able to add another 2 which is going to double my hand per hour . (It actually helps me sometimes as I need to tighten up in spots anyway and this kind of forces me too ) I play a lot looser when a whale at my table sometime to the extent I realise I'm the new whale
Reflect:
It's been a good journey so far defo had its ups and downs I've learnt loads about the game and about myself . Were now at week 13 but volume wise if I wasn't as lazy as i had been it would be easily achievable in 6 weeks but that's ok there is no rush .
My tilt is definitely improving it's not the end of the world anymore when I lose 5 bi nor do I have to keep playing until I've "broke even for the day " I do still get this a bit which is one of the daftest things ever it's like I play every day ffs what's it matter if I end the day down lol
Another thing that was really hard to deal with at first was moving up and then having to move back down so much so that it stopped me wanted to move up when I'd been winning at a lower level but I'm actually getting used to it and quite glad in as sense that it's happened so much at the micro as I think if I sailed up to nl100 then lost 3 bi instantly I would just keep playing until I'd lost the lot as mentally you cant help but realise what u just lost is going to take twice as long to recoup at the lower level .. I move now realises that dont really matter the stakes kind of unimportant .
Anyway just realised the time so going to stop blabering to myself and go play ..
I'll drop week 12s graph below plus graph since start of thread .
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..The realization that I'm not being lazy I am lazy ...
So here we are just completed week 12 and a good time I'd say to reflect on the challenge ..
My volume so far has been real poor I definitely overestimated the amount of hours I'd be able to play in a "happy home " ( I can play all day if i dont mind the nagging lol ) Its not something I'm massively worried about as I'm getting better at managing it properly also it's only really a problem at the start as anyone that dont play poker would wonder why the **** your spending 5hrs a day all week for maybe a profit of $5 but with everything once you start seeing a return on that money everyone would be happy .
I've tried telling the wife well if I wanted to be a lawyer now I'd have to go study for the next 5 years before seeing a pay check she sidney see it as the same lol
Due to me not hitting playing volume I've also slacked massively on studying as anytime I had I tried to play .
Playing poker as a living would definitely be a lot harder than I expected with a lot more control I reckon on a non stop basis . Like I believe I could master playing a certain way no it makes money over and over again yet have 2 or 3 bad days in a row and all of a sudden I'm doing random **** I have to constantly give myself a rain check .
On a plus note im still here still havnt had to reload and am still playing with the hope of 1 day making money out of it . As I said at the beginning im due back in work sept/Oct so if I could make some regular money by then then great but if not then hopefully I'd have learnt quite a bit where I can add a healthy amount onto my wage . Either way it wont of been a waste of time well not too me anyway I know to everyone not in poker will see it as a complete waste of time but then quite happily sit there night after night watching game of thrones or another boxset back to back an you guys ent never genna learn how to fly a dragon ..
I've also just upgraded my monitor and having ne adding an extra 2 tables to my game and it's going ok at the mo so this will help massively with volume I tried playing 5/6 at the beginning of this challenge and couldn't do it so if I can do this now another few months should be able to add another 2 which is going to double my hand per hour . (It actually helps me sometimes as I need to tighten up in spots anyway and this kind of forces me too ) I play a lot looser when a whale at my table sometime to the extent I realise I'm the new whale
Reflect:
It's been a good journey so far defo had its ups and downs I've learnt loads about the game and about myself . Were now at week 13 but volume wise if I wasn't as lazy as i had been it would be easily achievable in 6 weeks but that's ok there is no rush .
My tilt is definitely improving it's not the end of the world anymore when I lose 5 bi nor do I have to keep playing until I've "broke even for the day " I do still get this a bit which is one of the daftest things ever it's like I play every day ffs what's it matter if I end the day down lol
Another thing that was really hard to deal with at first was moving up and then having to move back down so much so that it stopped me wanted to move up when I'd been winning at a lower level but I'm actually getting used to it and quite glad in as sense that it's happened so much at the micro as I think if I sailed up to nl100 then lost 3 bi instantly I would just keep playing until I'd lost the lot as mentally you cant help but realise what u just lost is going to take twice as long to recoup at the lower level .. I move now realises that dont really matter the stakes kind of unimportant .
Anyway just realised the time so going to stop blabering to myself and go play ..
I'll drop week 12s graph below plus graph since start of thread .
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05-28-2019
, 05:12 AM
Week 13 completed
Was a good week been playing mainly on 6 tables so getting 2k hands a day is more than achievable now .
Actually had at least 2 days off this week so still a little shy of the 15k but going for I think it will be easy to hit most days I will either go for a few more hands or use the time that's been freed up to go over session/go through course.
Had a 1-1 coaching session yesterday with 1 of the coaches from my course , was a real good session. Spotted some clear mistakes and also some mistakes in the way I'm thinking also cleared up a few things I done that were good but I was unsure of .
Key take always,
Use a more advanced HUD and learn the stats/when to use them .
Give a lot less respect to fish .(I already do a bit but more needed) Yes course they will have it sometimes but the amount they will call u down without it is massively +ev.
Be more careful labeling fish 1 of the fish I labelled coach said looking at the stats it could quite easily be a lag having a good run of hands , which if I'm giving fish a lot less respect this could be a very costly mistake .
Things I'll do next: go through some more stats and start adding/using them .
Be more careful with my labels, add more labels so I can have colours for real bad fish then bad ones and maybe suspect ones .
Oh another big leak my 4bet sizing was massive I have no idea where I picked it up from I've standardly for at least the last 50k hands been 4betting at least 3x there bet Benn told to make it more 2x/2.5x . No wonder I ain't seen anyone getting queens in against my aces
Anyway below is graph for week 13
Let's do this
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Was a good week been playing mainly on 6 tables so getting 2k hands a day is more than achievable now .
Actually had at least 2 days off this week so still a little shy of the 15k but going for I think it will be easy to hit most days I will either go for a few more hands or use the time that's been freed up to go over session/go through course.
Had a 1-1 coaching session yesterday with 1 of the coaches from my course , was a real good session. Spotted some clear mistakes and also some mistakes in the way I'm thinking also cleared up a few things I done that were good but I was unsure of .
Key take always,
Use a more advanced HUD and learn the stats/when to use them .
Give a lot less respect to fish .(I already do a bit but more needed) Yes course they will have it sometimes but the amount they will call u down without it is massively +ev.
Be more careful labeling fish 1 of the fish I labelled coach said looking at the stats it could quite easily be a lag having a good run of hands , which if I'm giving fish a lot less respect this could be a very costly mistake .
Things I'll do next: go through some more stats and start adding/using them .
Be more careful with my labels, add more labels so I can have colours for real bad fish then bad ones and maybe suspect ones .
Oh another big leak my 4bet sizing was massive I have no idea where I picked it up from I've standardly for at least the last 50k hands been 4betting at least 3x there bet Benn told to make it more 2x/2.5x . No wonder I ain't seen anyone getting queens in against my aces
Anyway below is graph for week 13
Let's do this
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06-05-2019
, 05:14 PM
Week 14
Had a bad week volume wise as my lad was off school so missed a good few hours there plus was waiting until the weekend to catch up as misses and lad were meant to be going away but didn't end up going so that messed that up a little but oh well .
Stayed up late playing Saturday night watching the fight and I'm glad too say I had a much better night than AJ did ,bless him .
Going forward really happy with the amount of volume I'm going to be able to get in .
Have came to the conclusion today that being a "fish" is like an addiction well is to me anyway. No matter how well I've been playing or how much I know I shouldn't do something I always find myself doing it from time to time for various reasons , sometimes it's a bad beat too many or just lost 3 stacks in a row sometimes it's even happened when I'm running hot and start feeling invisible I suppose this is part the reason poker will always be profit as even if everyone had mastered the game and knew how to play perfect it would then come down to the most disciplined would walk away with the chips ..
Anyway I'll put my graph down below , the reason I mentioned the above is that I've just finished a session and for say the second half of it I played like a complete novice only good thing is i cant imagine anyone trying to bluff me anytime soon
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Had a bad week volume wise as my lad was off school so missed a good few hours there plus was waiting until the weekend to catch up as misses and lad were meant to be going away but didn't end up going so that messed that up a little but oh well .
Stayed up late playing Saturday night watching the fight and I'm glad too say I had a much better night than AJ did ,bless him .
Going forward really happy with the amount of volume I'm going to be able to get in .
Have came to the conclusion today that being a "fish" is like an addiction well is to me anyway. No matter how well I've been playing or how much I know I shouldn't do something I always find myself doing it from time to time for various reasons , sometimes it's a bad beat too many or just lost 3 stacks in a row sometimes it's even happened when I'm running hot and start feeling invisible I suppose this is part the reason poker will always be profit as even if everyone had mastered the game and knew how to play perfect it would then come down to the most disciplined would walk away with the chips ..
Anyway I'll put my graph down below , the reason I mentioned the above is that I've just finished a session and for say the second half of it I played like a complete novice only good thing is i cant imagine anyone trying to bluff me anytime soon
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06-15-2019
, 09:41 AM
Hardly played this week started off real bad lost a lot of buyins the 1 day then tilted and lost even more 
. If anything good did come out of it is suppose how I handled the tilt yes I played very poorly but I didn't move up in stakes which I have done in the past .
Anyway not going to go on much going to leave last weeks graph here then try an get some hands in for this week before end of tomorrow :-!
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. If anything good did come out of it is suppose how I handled the tilt yes I played very poorly but I didn't move up in stakes which I have done in the past . Anyway not going to go on much going to leave last weeks graph here then try an get some hands in for this week before end of tomorrow :-!
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07-03-2019
, 10:29 AM
Well well well .
Where to start I'm not too sure had a real bad day/2 at the tables lost a lot of buyins again . Not too sure what happened to be honest as havnt even so much as went over the session yet I think it started off just getting unlucky but then quickly turned in to playing bad , will be going over the sessions before I get started again as I have a feeling it may have started from over confidence again which defo needs addressing .
I'm going to leave my graphs for the last 3 weeks below ( only played 1 or 2 days ) after I had a real bad start I decided to take the rest of the week off which has ended up being close to 3 but hey ho .
All in all it wasn't terrible as I didn't move up and try to recover my roll/blow it so I'm quite happy about that but I think for whatever reason I've been scared to get going again which is a shame as i was playing quite comfortably 6 tables which after the time off I'll prob struggle with to start .
Also I've done zero study since then .
I've had some nice times with the family though plus a couple of nights out and sorting other stuff out that has been push to the back of the que lately .
Anyway like I say alls not lost kind of seemed like it at the time but it ain't that bad especially if I learn from it .
What's next
Drop down stakes to nl0 and crack on .
Target 2k hands per day
2 webinars a week
1 hour study per day ...
Havnt started for this week yet so numbers will be low plus going to see my mom in Spain next week for a week the holiday after the holiday. May seem silly starting now but just want to get something moving again before I go away least that way I can do a bit if study while away ...
Here's the graphs below , I'm defo going to go over the sessions before I start again so will update here when I do .
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Where to start I'm not too sure had a real bad day/2 at the tables lost a lot of buyins again . Not too sure what happened to be honest as havnt even so much as went over the session yet I think it started off just getting unlucky but then quickly turned in to playing bad , will be going over the sessions before I get started again as I have a feeling it may have started from over confidence again which defo needs addressing .
I'm going to leave my graphs for the last 3 weeks below ( only played 1 or 2 days ) after I had a real bad start I decided to take the rest of the week off which has ended up being close to 3 but hey ho .
All in all it wasn't terrible as I didn't move up and try to recover my roll/blow it so I'm quite happy about that but I think for whatever reason I've been scared to get going again which is a shame as i was playing quite comfortably 6 tables which after the time off I'll prob struggle with to start .
Also I've done zero study since then .
I've had some nice times with the family though plus a couple of nights out and sorting other stuff out that has been push to the back of the que lately .
Anyway like I say alls not lost kind of seemed like it at the time but it ain't that bad especially if I learn from it .
What's next
Drop down stakes to nl0 and crack on .
Target 2k hands per day
2 webinars a week
1 hour study per day ...
Havnt started for this week yet so numbers will be low plus going to see my mom in Spain next week for a week
the holiday after the holiday. May seem silly starting now but just want to get something moving again before I go away least that way I can do a bit if study while away ... Here's the graphs below , I'm defo going to go over the sessions before I start again so will update here when I do .
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07-07-2019
, 01:41 PM
Week 18
No poker again this week just going to put this on here as dont want to lose track with the thread and my journey , on holiday tuesday real busy tomorrow so going to be no poker next week either .
I plan on studying a bit whilst away and also going to enter a pokerstars live tourney out there (alicante) so I'll update next week when I return and then cont. the challenge..
Ps.
Need an extension on the 6months , another 3 might do it
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No poker again this week just going to put this on here as dont want to lose track with the thread and my journey , on holiday tuesday real busy tomorrow so going to be no poker next week either .
I plan on studying a bit whilst away and also going to enter a pokerstars live tourney out there (alicante) so I'll update next week when I return and then cont. the challenge..
Ps.
Need an extension on the 6months , another 3 might do it
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