Hello everyone!

I'm Sigil, also known as knelse on many of the poker rooms (might have even played with you that is).

Background:
Andrey, 25 years old, have a beard and a fiancee, am a nerd (mostly computer games, but tabletops also).

My poker story

I started playing poker in 2008 using the short-stack strategy, grinded my way to NL$1k at some point, but had kinda little discipline, so quickly dropped to rakebacking on NL $100 – NL $200. At the same time I was moving between Russia and Israel and trying to decide where to (and if to, tbh) to study. Finally, as it often happens, everything ended in a ****storm. I stopped playing poker as my main income around 2013, invested money in a web-studio, decided on the country I really wanna live in, and ready to roll again!

Why I want to join CFP?

First of all, to prove myself I’m still capable of winning in poker. Secondly (with the same weight) – for money, ofc, as we’re in trouble regarding USD conversion rate in Russia, and I wanna to be on the best side of the dildo (one might say all sides of dildo are the best, but let’s skip that part for now).

Current goal

I'm going to make EUR 60k in my first year of playing HU Cash. I've got some experience in HU (mostly while playing CAPs and Spin-n-Goes), but will need to learn a whole lot to succeed

Finally done with all the formal stuff and started playing.
Hit stoploss (3BI) for today. Most of the loss is on PStars, where my $125 bankroll just ended, ’cause I got drowned in action and made some horrible mistakes.

Problem: hard to play 4+ HU tables at once, especially on different sites with different layouts, time to act, etc.

Installed Stack&Tile, hope that helps.

Yesterday I almost finished the day around zero, but got TT < JJ preflop, AK < KK preflop and straight vs higher straight on turn – so, stoploss again. Made mistakes too, but there’re nowhere as horrible as yesterday. Overall I’d say it was a nice day, I begin to understand what’s going on.

My first profitable day playing HU ever, woohoo!

I’m improving in the amount of mistakes too, today it’s 1 questionable play for 120bb vs mega aggro guy and 2 or 3 for 20-30bb.

Another fine day! I’ve tilted a little in the middle of the session when I had bad runouts on 4 different tables at once, but I was able to control myself and finish the day in good shape.

I’ve bought Europe-bet converter from Kingshands, hope it’ll arrive tomorrow and I’ll be able to add winnings there to my PT4 graphs.



Real result is around +85 EUR, PT4 omits hands

Yay cool day! Made some mistakes though, could have saved at least 2 BI. Playing only vs limping guys seems to do the trick

Kinda strange day. One of sites makes me go into monkey tilt with their soft, I need to do something with it. Every time their pop-up “Hey let’s go play some tournament” shows I wanna murder all of them brutally >_<
Won like 90 EUR or something.

Was ill for a couple of days, starting to play again.

Time to make first week review! Youtube video tomorrow, but the real stuff goes now.

Graph:



With RB and stuff I’m now at 617 EUR / 60000 EUR.

Biggest pot won:

SB: 202.52 BB (VPIP: 86.89, PFR: 67.21, 3Bet Preflop: 50.00, Hands: 70)
Hero (BB): 193.5 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has :As: :Ac:

SB raises to 4 BB, Hero raises to 15 BB, SB raises to 26 BB, Hero raises to 74 BB, SB calls 48 BB

Flop: (148 BB, 2 players) :8d: :3d: :Ad:
Hero bets 119.5 BB, SB calls 119.5 BB

Turn: (387 BB, 2 players) :7c:

River: (387 BB, 2 players) :9s:

Biggest pot lost:

Hero (SB): 184.16 BB
BB: 144.72 BB (VPIP: 78.00, PFR: 36.92, 3Bet Preflop: 19.34, Hands: 676)

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has :Kd: :As:

Hero raises to 2 BB, BB raises to 6 BB, Hero raises to 20 BB, BB calls 14 BB

Flop: (40 BB, 2 players) :7h: :Kc: :Tc:
BB checks, Hero bets 30 BB, BB raises to 124.72 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 93.72 BB

Turn: (287.44 BB, 2 players) :Ad:

River: (287.44 BB, 2 players) :Th:

What I improved already:
1. Much less mistakes and misclicks
2. Don’t play regs and semi-regs any more
3. Volume is getting nice again after I was really sleepy and/or ill for 2 days and was just mindlessly doing EV calculations for like 8 hours. Around 45 or 50 hours of game time, I think (PT4 shows 60 but that’s lies).
4. I don’t fear guys on PStars that much any more. When I started I was just super afraid if someone who sits at my table and not limps for 5 hands
5. Standard and semi-standard spots. I don’t need looking into the notes I made each 2 seconds.

What needs to be improved:
1. Volume. Going for 10h/day minimum to hit 250h/month in September.
2. Spewy spots. They’re bad river calls mostly, I just burned 300 EUR maybe.
3. Villain selection. I’m already quitting some guys after like 6-7 hands ’cause they do serious stuff, but I need to do that systematically – sometimes it’s just too tempting to wait 10 hands more and see if they’re really that good or just pushing random buttons worked once.
4. Schedule. For now I haven’t got any, so even CFP dashboard tells me my yesterday wasn’t finished when I try to submit new day’s results

Back from being ill
Won around 250 EUR, everything goes well.

Another nice day, around 250 EUR in profits. Moving to sites with better RB, hope it helps do things faster

Strange week. Had problems with computer that took me almost 3 days to figure out and (hopefully) fix, so it's only 45 hours instead of 60+. Month at 85h atm, need to put more volume in.
Weekly review incoming
Aside from PKR and one other site I made a whopping 0.65 EUR/hour

Duh, who needs weekly reviews when it's 500 EUR profit day

+7 BI versus one guy, my record IIRC.

I finally can play NL100!

Nice rollercoaster day.



Player 1022 hands vs one guy, OMG.

Not feeling well today, played only 4.5 hours (1.4k hands).
Month at 28937 hands, 122 hours and 2597 EUR profit. I CAN DO BETTER!

It could have been a best day...

If only PKR was better.

And one other site too (in GEL actually)

Quick update Still 3 days left.
Profit: 3945 EUR (rakeback included)
EV: 5125 EUR (rakeback included)
Hands: 41588 - PT4 lost some.
Hours: 163.5

Short review of last month and goals for the next month

Profit (rakeback included): 4381 EUR

EV (rakeback included): 5670 EUR

Hours: 173.5 playing + over 100 studying

Hands played: 44853 + some untracked


Winrates:






This one is in GEL actually.

Goals for the next month (in brackets - two stretch goals):

1. 200 hours volume (250 / 300)
2. 5k profit (7.5k / 10k)
3. Go through all new material and understand it (remember it when playing / go to the next step)
4. Stay ready and focused at least 90% of playtime (100% / 110% - even out of tables when studying)
5. Get a sports or fitness routine
6. Stop getting ill from time to time - rly hard with our autumn weather.

Work hard and GL at the tables!
knelse out

Quick update.
Played 5k hands today
Month 1k profit atm.

GL at the tables!

GG

Everything else tomorrow.

Well, not tomorrow, nvm.
I'm going to win 10k this month by playing at nl200 or below. My ultimate goal is win 15k 'cause I'll be playing nl400 already somewhere in the middle of the challenge.
Updates each day I've played. Stay tuned

Hello everyone.
Happy New Year

We're doing 10k challenge again. This time, however, I will post both in challenge topic and in my blogs for your convenience
Good luck at the tables!

First day done
2911 hands (approx)
8.5 hours
+468 EUR profit.
+370 EUR EV.

Hand of the day:

Tough day. Ran into a ton of guys against whom I wasn't able to win almost any important spots. Overall happy how I handled it.
2539 hands
7.5 hours
-134 EUR profit.
-82 EUR EV.

Took a day off.
I'll go to bed earlier to return to normal schedule instead of vampire one
10h+ of A+ game tomorrow!

Finished a little earlier than planned, was somewhat unfocused in second half of the day. It's nice to feel improvements again
2619 hands
9 hours
419 EUR profit.
702 EUR EV.