Day 9-10 done... Was too tilted yesterday to update and just turned off PC lol. Two very frustrating days again for the most part, and then decided to only play Global ( 6m and FR ) for my final 2 hour session. Booked a 3k winner in less than 90 min lol ( all $1/2 )

Global : +6560. Winrate roughly 26bb/100. EV winrate unknown.
Ignition: -630. Winrate -4bb/100. EV winrate 9.9bb/100
Pokerbros: -300. Winrate -0.8bb/100. EV winrate 8.08bb/100

Goal : 5630/20000
EV Goal : 10709/20000

Still feeling sick, so have skipped workouts all week. haven't gone since last Thursday. Still following diet very strictly, and making a new personal low every day, so pretty pleased.

Finished 1/3rd of the month, and am basically on schedule to reach goal. I have about $1000 in rakeback from Pokerbros, putting my profit at roughly $6600. Ideally I won't count RB towards the goal, but if it makes the difference between me reaching it or not, I will use it.

Mentally needed that nice win at the end of the day today. The grind has been very tilting this week with very little goodrun. Feels good to bink a good win ending the day.

My wife and son are out of town Thursday-Monday, so I will be able to put in a sick amount of hours and play optimal hours.

Day 11 is done... Smooth day with good results on Pokerbro's. Even managed to be at a table when a jackpot was hit and won $700 with that. Won't count that win and rakeback towards my goal unless it makes the difference between making it or not.

Global: +7154. Winrate roughly 25bb/100. EV winrate unknown.
Ignition: -630. Winrate -4bb/100. EV winrate 9.9bb/100
Pokerbros: +1059. Winrate 3.13bb/100. EV winrate 10.33bb/100

Goal : 7583/20000
EV goal : 12329/20000

Pretty much on target so far. Feels good to have 2 decent days in a row, especially being able to book a winning day on Pokerbro's. First day since I started there that felt like a 'normal grind'.

Some bad news: The college my wife and son were going to check out announced that they are shutting down their campus/classes/everything. No point in them flying out this weekend. Sooo, my plans to become an antisocial grindmonkey for the weekend have been canceled. Bummer, was kind of looking forward to it.

I expect to put in about 25 hours Fri-Sun, hopefully the weekend games give me a nice little boost.

Diet is going fine. Barely eating/ every day is a caloric deficit. Not feeling hungry or tired, so quite pleased.

I think you need to change you username to ImAWizard because your winrate is sick. Great work!

Just curious, how many tables do you play at once?

My morning session on Pokerbro's is between 4-7 regular 6m tables. Depends on quality and how many they have running. Their software is really slow.

Afternoon sessions are full ring. Typically 3 on each site, so 9 total. Sometimes it varies between 8-10 tables.

Day 12 is done.. Another good day.

Global: +9324. Winrate roughly 29bb/100. EV Winrate unknown.
Ignition: -630. Winrate -4bb/100. EV winrate 9.9bb/100.
Pokerbros: +454. Winrate 1.12bb/100. EV winrate 7.48bb/100.

Goal: 9148/20000
EV Goal: 14021/20000

Ran insanely well on Global today, and definitely have been doing well there throughout the challenge. It's hard to estimate how much above EV I would be on there for this month, but definitely quite a bit. Let's say 10-15 buyins. Starting to balance out the under EV on other sites, so not sure what I'm going to do with it. Probably just drop this daily updates of EV all together.

Taking Saturday off. Heated our pool to 92, have a bunch of friends coming over to enjoy a pool day and drink/relax. Ahead of schedule for this month, so will be able to fully enjoy tomorow 'guilt free'. Back at it on Sunday.

Had two pretty crappy diet days, but still weighted in at a new low this morning. Tomorrow won't be any better as the plan is basically to daydrink and hang by pool.

***Random thoughts on the challenge so far***

Having a (very) high fold to 3bet is perfectly fine, if not optimal in Full Ring games. I see a lot of regs that have fold to 3b% of +- 50-60% from all positions, which is way lower than mine. I probably fold to 3bets around 75%. This number goes down significantly in certain positions, where a wide 4b range comes into play. It's tricky to play vs regs that don't fold much to 3bets, so I kind of just avoid them and pick value hands.

People call way too many 3bets instead of 4betting. I much rather 4bet KQs in CO vs SB 3b than flat the 3b ( or fold ) . Just one random example, but basically 90% of the hands that I would be ok with flatting a 3b, I'm choosing to 4b instead. It's amazing how often people will just fold vs your 4bet, or flat the 4b and be in a world of pain on basically any board.

I basically have a non-existing flatting range from any position other than BB preflop vs a raise. This is something that I have seen some pro's that I respect a lot do in 6max games, and I feel like it also applies to full ring. There are a lot of regs that have a flatting % of like 8-12% in most positions ( pocket pairs, some broadways, some suited connectors, etc etc ) . I don't do any of that stuff. my flatting % is basically 0. I either 3b vs the original raiser (OR) or get out of the way. This can change depending on who's behind me to act, how many players/fish have already called a raise, etc etc.

Simply put, you will basically never see me flat a raise preflop from any position. This applies both to my Full Ring game as well as my 6max game. Please note that there are exceptions to this.

Small CBET sizing is very powerful. You would be amazed at how often somebody just checkfolds vs a 1/3 1/4 flop cbet in regular pots and 3bet pots. My standard cbet sizing on flop in regular pots is 1/3 pot. This is not depending on board structure etc. There are situations where I choose to cbet even smaller, like literally a 1bb cbet. I also find this extremely useful, because it gives me tons of information on my opponent moving forward in the hand.

I feel like I've been making far less mistakes this week, but I still easily could have saved myself $2500 or so by being more focused and doing less stupid ****. I have come to realize that playing on Pokerbros where the level of play is awful, is making my game suffer. I too start doing donk ****. Something to be mindful about and try to avoid moving forward.

I guess that's it for now. Back to the grind on Sunday.

Will update tomorrow.

Day 13-16 done... The weekend ended up being a combo of unhealthy food, drinking and barely any grind. Barely played on Sunday. Put in a lot of volume on Monday/Tuesday, had a very good day on Monday but spend the entire Tuesday recovering losses.

Global: +11023. Winrate roughly 21bb/100.
Ignition: -555. Winrate -3.51bb/100.
Pokerbros: -752. Winrate -1.7bb/100.

Goal: 9716/20000

Ignition card catcher doesn't work anymore for some reason, so probably going to hold of playing there until it's fixed.

Pokerbros is such a mental tiltgame every day I play there. I truly don't know why I bother anymore. My morning sessions are hard to find tables on other sites, so I keep going back to it, but I probably really shouldn't.

Global going very well, so am putting most volume there when there are enough tables. The Corona virus most likely has caused traffic to pick up, as today there were 10 $1/2 tables at 10AM (!), which I don't think I've ever seen before. Traffic has been very good the last week or so.

My schedule has been completely fuked up with this virus. My kids/wife can't leave the house for school/work, which has made it so that my typically antisocial schedule ( due to nobody being around mostly ) isn't really working out. I'm spending a lot more time chilling with my family, rather than having a real grind like I had the first half of this challenge.

My diet is going ok, although the weekend was a disaster. Def put on a couple LBS again, trying to get back into a good rhythm. It's a lot harder to be strict about my diet with my wife home. She enjoys cooking/having a glass of wine with me, and it seems unfair of me to not oblige, given that she isn't around the house/off of work often throughout the week.

I will continue with the challenge for the time being, and hopefully put in more volume the next two weeks. Have fallen slightly behind at this point I think, but not really a big deal. If I were to add EV winnings, RB and jackpot win, I'm probably up 5k more. Will hopefully not use any of this.

Exhausted. Going for 8mile hike tomorrow and hopefully regularly as of now. I have a 1 week hiking trip currently scheduled to Havasupai in April, which for the time being has been canceled. Time will tell I guess.

In gl

Day 17 is done... Played less than I had wanted due to chilling with the wife, but results were decent. Have been playing night time hours this week, basically grinding from 9PM-2AM. needless to say my sleep schedule has gotten messed up.

Global: +12132. Winrate roughly 21bb/100.
Ignition: -75. Something is wrong with my HEM/card catcher. Database will be ruined. Winrate -2.5bb/100 or so.
Pokerbros: -933. Winrate -2.19bb/100.

Goal: 11124/20000

Started off the day by literally losing my first hand on Pokerbros AA vs KK ( had loaded 6 tables FR since they were running ) and insta quit them all. I am trying so desperately to believe that the app is legit/games are amazing, and that I'm just running bad. It's getting harder and harder tho.

Been slacking since Saturday ( day off/party/booze ) with my diet. Have gotten lazy and unplanned, eating way more crap food this week than before. This seems to always happen to me when I switch to night shifts. Think I'll switch back going into next week.

There are some regs on Global that put in insane amount of hours at the tables. Luckily I don't struggle with any of them all that much, as they are at my tables basically 24/7 that could have been problematic.

April was supposed to be a 2 week solo trip to Europe, followed by a ten day hiking trip with my wife and some friends. The Euro trip is canceled for sure, and the hiking one most likely also. Part of the reason I was OK with doing this intense March grind was because I knew I was basically taking off of poker the entire month of April. Needless to say my plans have been changed. I'll try to stay focused for the remainder of March and still grind out the challenge. The next 3-4k profit will be the hardest mentally, since when I get to 15k+ I will feel obligated to grind it out.

It kind of sucks that Global doesn't have graphs, and Pokerbros/Ignition is just an awful one tons under EV. Was hoping to share some pics throughout the challenge, but all the profit comes from Global. If this thread ever becomes popular, I wonder if any people are going to claim that it's a little 'too convenient' that I will have claimed to make 20k in one month, yet all the profit comes from a site that doesn't allow tracking.

Tired AF, off to bed.

Damn man. You are living the dream. Keep it that way

I track my stats with Global with a simple Google Sheets spreadsheet. I just log the date, starting balance, and ending balance and then track the wins and losses in a graph.

Will update tomorrow... played like 14 hours straight starting the day on 3 hours of sleep. Horrible combination, no clue even why I decided to do it. Booked a small profit of $900 or so. Played like a ******ed robot all day, very bad poker.

Mbn to win 900 playing like a ******

"small" profit eh? haha. Nice win tho.

During these days, it feels very eerie - so, it's easier to get into bad sleep habits and weird hours. I know I am...

Day 18 and 19 is done... Played some of my longest sessions these past two days in addition to playing more tables than usual. The result is that I played really bad poker and made tons of mistakes. Still had a pretty decent two days profit wise. It could just always be so much more if I didn't do so much ******ed ****. Playing more than 6 full ring tables on Global is just NEVER going to be a good idea for me. period. yet sporadically I found myself playing 10+, and regularly 6-8. It's great that so many games are running lately, but I find myself not wanting to miss out on any of the potentially great games, and therefore sitting all. Bad bad bad.

Global: +13859. Winrate roughly 17bb/100.
Ignition: -200. -3bb/100 or so. HUD is not working.
Pokerbros: -933. Winrate -2.19bb/100.

Goal:12726/20000

When I woke up there were a gazillion 6m games running on Global so I jumped right in. Have mainly been playing full ring this month, and it's been a while since I play this format. Went in with the attitude of ' I can't be a FR nit, gotta fight back a little' . This lead me to spewing massively for about two hours. Only dropped a couple hundred on that 2 hour session, but holy **** was that bad. When I see an overbet, there's like some switch that goes off in my mind and I start looking for reasons to think they are bluffing. Spoiler alert; they practically never are. For every big overbet call I make and win, I lose about 5 of them. Definitely a big flaw. Add a little 'but he has a capped range and he knows that I know...' to my thought process, and it's a good recipe for disaster. Think I called a 5x potbet shove on river today with 4th pair or something. Obviously lost haha.

I find myself distracted talking about some hands/general strategy/whatever with other players on skype while I grind sometimes. This has such a negative effect on my game so I'm going to try very hard to prevent this from happening the rest of this month. An added negative that comes from this chatting with other regs, is that I very often don't agree with their thoughts on hands/spots, and that I often consider them better players than myself. So then I play/continue my session second guessing myself, which is obviously bad. The truth is, practically none of these players I talk to have my type of winrate, so why the **** am I trying to get their approval??? I'm not saying working on your game/discussing strategy with other players isn't a good thing, but when I'm putting in tons of hours at a 10bb/100 winrate or higher, what's the point. Must be doing something right.

The first ten days or so I played 3 tables on each app, which would work fine because Ignition and Pokerbros are extremely slow. I really should not play more than 6 tables on Global at any time.

I hate to use it as an excuse, but this virus has thoroughly messed up my schedule. I am hoping to return to a normal routine starting Monday, but I'm not sure it will happen before the month ends. I play so much worse when I haven't slept much and am living unhealthy ( stay up late, irregular hours, skipping workouts, diet less strict,...) My wife was just informed that her place of work will be shut down until further notice, so she's basically jobless for the foreseeable future. Great.

Several times today I was told to go F myself at the tables by some clownregs, or attempt to insult me by calling me an 'idiot nit' . Good stuff. I do chat a lot while I play and troll the people hard. I believe the recs enjoy seeing responses when they reach out, and it might make the regs think I'm ******ed. If I can pull that image of, then great.

I think the other day I saw 'DeMarkus, Dark coin and the noots' discuss strategy in the chat. Almost **** myself laughing

Am possibly taking off the rest of the weekend. Made some vague promise to my wife that I'd take off the entire weekend, plus we have friends coming over all Saturday. If I'm off, the grind will continue on Monday, going into the last week.

Hi sir, firstly respect to your result!
Question to you: 1, Never flatting is interesting. I know this is a trending in 6max but not sure if it's correct in fullring as well. A lot of hands like pp needs to realize equity, it sucks to get 4bet.
2, Never having a big cbet sizing is also kinda strange as we have significant range adv pre on a lot boards, small sizing we get V to realize so much equity and we extract way less value than we should on the flop. Is this strat u only use for this player pool? Or it's something u always do.

@Samspeedstar;


1. I just typically fold them from EP/MP, unless I know OR folds a lot vs 3bets. I might 3bet something from 77+ up and just fold the rest. The later in position I get I might decide to flat depending on players behind me. If a reg opens utg, I'm in CO with 55 and I have only regs behind me, I'd just fold. If I have 77 in same position I prob 3bet unless OR never folds vs 3bets or doesn't like to fold postflop. If there are 1/2 recs behind me I might flat. Just all depends on players behind me. Typically I rarely ever flat anything though unless I have a specific reason.

2. If I'm alone in a pot vs a fish/rec, then my betsizing changes to whatever I think is optimal. my small sizings only apply to battles vs regs, or when I need to be aware of (perceived)ranges, capped ranges,.... If I'm HU vs a fish and I think betting pot will get me to win the post, then I'll just bet pot.

I don't think that a bigger betsize is necessary on flop vs regs. If they have, say, any type of draw, they are going to call or raise me no matter what sizing I use. I might induce a little more action by betting so small. I'm not a math guy, so maybe it's not optimal, but works for me and rarely ever feel like the small sizing backfires on me. x

Day 20 is done... Only played 2 hours, but I'm having people come over soon so will be drinking/relaxing rest of the day. Still unclear whether I'm playing tomorrow or taking the day off to chill with the family.

Played about 2 hours, shipped around $500. Easy game.


Global: +14352. Winrate roughly 17bb/100.
Ignition: -200. -3bb/100 or so. HUD is not working.
Pokerbros: -933. Winrate -2.19bb/100.

Goal:13219/20000

Can you please explain further this 4betting KQs co v sb biznass is all about?

Most people have a 3bet range of roughly 55+, ATs+,KJs+. from SB vs a CO open. This is very general and kind be much tighter/wider depending on what kind of player we're talking about.

Most people will only jam QQ+ AK vs a 4b in this spot. I rarely ( if ever ) see a 5b ship these days with 99,TT.JJ,AQ,.... People either opt to flat the 4b or fold.
If they flat, there are tons of boards where they will have a very hard time continuing vs my 1/4 1/5 cbet. I can do the same things on many turn cards with same sizing, since my range (unless board is really drawy/wet and I would protect my hand if I had a valuehand ).

Simply put, I get a fold very often, a 5bet jam rarely or only with QQ+, and i can play every 4b pot IP as the aggressor instead of calling a 3b and facing boards like 472r where I can't really do much except float wide ( which feels blegh ) or just fold.

So you just fold or 4bet everything lool?

there is more buttons than call and fold!

@meale;

Obviously I have more than just a 4bet/fold range, but yes, my default will be to 4b KQs in that particular spot. I'd definitely also do it at the anonymous tables. I don't think that vs most players I can play KQ profitably by flatting a 3bet. I think I lose more from folding/having worst hand than what I can win by flatting and going to showdown/having best hand.

But again, there are many situations where I might decide to flat the 3b instead. Opponent that 5b shoves a lot, never folds vs 4bets,...

Yes there are more options than fold or call, but I don't really have a wide raising range in 3bet pots on flops, especially not IP. On Anom tables I do, but not on my regular sites vs regs I play with daily.

I'm just finishing up my review of the day and not really feeling like writing a long strategy post. It's obvious that you disagree with my approach, and it's also obvious that you have spent way more time studying the game, so I'm sure your POV makes more sense. I might start working on my game again in April, but for the time being I'm just going to finish this grind, hopefully reach my goal, and not second guess my strategy/lines. Yeehaaw!

Day 21/22 is done... Took Sunday off, hit it hard today ( Monday ). Good results, getting a little closer every day.

Global: +15265. Winrate roughly 18bb/100
Ignition: -200. -3bb/100 or so. HUD is not working.
Pokerbros: -294. Winrate -0.64bb/100.

Goal: 14771/20000

Made a deal with my wife that we will go hiking for 6-8 miles every morning at 6AM. I was getting up that early anyway when kids were still in school, and I'm hoping it brings back some of my productivity/feel better physically. This means that I'll start grinding around 10AM. Late lunch around 2PM, then grind from 4-8 and spend 2 hours with family after. Repeat daily this week.

Been eating a lot of **** food and starting drinking alcohol again daily ( nothing excessive, a glass of wine with dinner etc ). I can just feel that there was a mental shift somewhere last week when the whole Corona thing hit, and I gradually fell back into bad habits. Had a very good day today in every aspect, so hoping to continue the rest of the week.

25 buyins / week GOGOGO almost there!

Day 22 done... Another day of easy grinding. Played good poker for the most part with an exception here and there due to being tired/session being long.


Global: +16238. Winrate roughly 18bb/100.
Ignition: -200. -3bb/100 or so. HUD is not working.
Pokerbros: +523. Winrate 1.11bb/100.

Goal: 16561/20000

Played 2x4hr session, so 8 hour day. Happy with productivity. Went for 7mile hike at 6AM, feel like I messed up my leg somehow so not hiking tomorrow. have been feeling 'off' the last 3 days. Not sick, but def not healthy. I think it's partially the poor dieting/increase in alcohol, but it's also some stuff that I'm not used to like a pain in the back of my head, general feeling of nausea,... Obv not saying I think I'm infected with anything Corona related, but definitely feeling worse than I have in a long time ( except for when I was sick at the beginning of this month ). I haven't been sick in years, so kind of interesting that this month has been so many instances of me feeling off. My general diet,drinking and exercising habits have been way better this month than the last 6 months, so don't think it's that. Will keep an eye on it.

*** DING DING DING EV CHALLENGE GOAL REACHED DING DING DING ***

If I take the EV from my known sites ( Pokerbros and Ignition ) and the achieved winrate from Global, I'm at 5306 ( Bros/Ignition) + 16238 ( Global ) = 21544. Add to this about $1200 in RB on Bro's and $700 I won from a jackpot thing, that makes the total 23444. I'm def running above EV on Global, but should be pretty close to the 20k goal/above.

Obviously not going to count this stuff, and will continue to grind out the 20k ACTUAL profit. Still nice to know that I have gotten so close by now.

I guess all throughout the month, I have had a total of 7 losing days if I combined all sites. Only 2 of those days are losses above 1 buyin. So basically only 2 losing days ( $900 one time, $600 the other ). I have had a total of ... 1 losing day total ($1000) on Global. Pretty awesome results.

I'm just going to focus on finishing this month/challenge, but slowly starting to put some thought in what my goals will be for April.