Add 3k$ from PB onto this over 14k hands (all 100nl). Ended up breakeven for the last 20days or whatever. My fold2riv cb this month is probably less than 40% so im def calling too much at 500nl over adjusting slightly.



So yeh even though its only 6.4evbb/100. winning 16.3k$ in a month is possibly my highest winning month and i didnt play all that much towards the end. So im super happy about it. Hopefully a smilar month in June. Seeing YMB graph got me some motivation back for next month. Insane month for him.

Been a bit down the past few days. Had the whole cummings situation in UK which just tilted me more than it should have with how farcical his whole story was, and in the past few days ive seen too many videos of murders in the US on twitter not realising it was going to happen and its just got to me a bit.

But i have been Loving the chess hype on twitch. Maybe its because football isnt around at the moment but i was way too hyped yesterday for the magnus vs naka match. Feels weird af being hyped over chess but the memes and coverage has been super good.





PokerStars, Hold'em No Limit - $2.50/$5.00 - 6 players
Replay this hand on Upswing Poker

UTG: $500.00 (100 bb)
MP: $500.00 (100 bb)
CO (Hero): $500.00 (100 bb)
BU: $572.34 (114 bb)
SB: $607.63 (122 bb)
BB: $500.00 (100 bb)

Pre-Flop: ($7.50) Hero is CO with A♥ Q♥
2 players fold, Hero raises to $12.50, 2 players fold, BB 3-bets to $50, Hero calls $37.50

Flop: ($102.50) J♠ 2♥ Q♦ (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $47.50, BB calls $47.50

Turn: ($197.50) K♣ (2 players)
BB checks, Hero checks

River: ($197.50) 8♣ (2 players)
BB bets $402.50 (all-in), Hero calls $402.50 (all-in)

Total pot: $1,002.50 (Rake: $3)

Showdown:
BB shows 9♥ 9♠ (a pair of Nines)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 53%, Flop: 10%, Turn: 5%, River: 0%)

CO (Hero) shows A♥ Q♥ (a pair of Queens)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 47%, Flop: 90%, Turn: 95%, River: 100%)

CO (Hero) wins $999.50



PokerStars, Hold'em No Limit - $2.50/$5.00 - 4 players
Replay this hand on Upswing Poker

UTG: $500.00 (100 bb)
BU: $500.00 (100 bb)
SB (Hero): $555.17 (111 bb)
BB: $509.00 (102 bb)

Pre-Flop: ($7.50) Hero is SB with A♣ 5♣
1 fold, BTN raises to $10, Hero 3-bets to $47.50, 1 fold, BTN calls $37.50

Flop: ($100) 6♠ 2♥ T♣ (2 players)
Hero bets $49.25, BTN calls $49.25

Turn: ($198.50) 4♠ (2 players)
Hero bets $100, BTN calls $100

River: ($398.50) 5♦ (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $303.25 (all-in), Hero calls $303.25

Total pot: $1,005 (Rake: $1.50)

Showdown:
BU shows K♠ 9♠ (high card, King)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 42%, Flop: 29%, Turn: 34%, River: 0%)

SB (Hero) shows A♣ 5♣ (a pair of Fives)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 58%, Flop: 71%, Turn: 66%, River: 100%)

SB (Hero) wins $1,003.50



PokerStars, Hold'em No Limit - $1/$2 - 6 players
Replay this hand on Upswing Poker

UTG: $203.00 (102 bb)
MP: $93.33 (47 bb)
CO: $227.36 (114 bb)
BU: $200.00 (100 bb)
SB (Hero): $200.00 (100 bb)
BB: $104.71 (52 bb)

Pre-Flop: ($3) Hero is SB with J♣ T♣
2 players fold, CO raises to $5.06, 1 fold, Hero 3-bets to $22, 1 fold, CO 4-bets to $50.44, Hero calls $28.44

Flop: ($102.88) 8♦ Q♠ 9♦ (2 players)
Hero bets $17, CO raises to $176.92 (all-in), Hero calls $132.56 (all-in)

First Turn: ($402) Q♦ (2 players, 2 all-in)

First River: ($402) 8♥ (2 players, 2 all-in)

Second Turn: ($402) 2♠ (2 players, 2 all-in)

Second River: ($402) 7♥ (2 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: $402 (Rake: $2.75)

First Showdown: Board: 8♦ Q♠ 9♦ Q♦ 8♥

CO shows Q♥ K♠ (a full house, Queens full of Eights)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 60%, Flop: 4%, Turn: 23%, River: 100%)

SB (Hero) shows J♣ T♣ (a straight, Eight to Queen)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 40%, Flop: 96%, Turn: 77%, River: 0%)

CO wins $199.63

Second Showdown: Board: 8♦ Q♠ 9♦ 2♠ 7♥

CO shows Q♥ K♠ (a pair of Queens)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 60%, Flop: 4%, Turn: 0%, River: 0%)

SB (Hero) shows J♣ T♣ (a straight, Eight to Queen)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 40%, Flop: 96%, Turn: 100%, River: 100%)

SB (Hero) wins $199.62




Gl everyone.

Sick results. Congrats on the month .

really great month, wp!

hit with 30day conversion limit on stars. Pm if anyone will swap 3k$stars for UK bank or BTC. thank you.

Since ive been pokerpro ive just been terrible at managing my finances so im hoping people share what they do or offer some advice. Sure i could figure this out myself but ive been terrible for past 5 years so happy to take what i can.

Ive always done 1month rent contracts but going to look at long term contracts on tuesday. Should get a nicer place for the same costs and no longer living in studio.

my living costs usually come to around 2k$-3k$ (due to covid it will be 2k$)

So in my bank ive got enough to pay for 1 year rent (1k$ per month) and a 2 months living costs. Hoping by end of month ill get this to 8+ month living costs

so

Is it best to withdraw 2k$ every month to maintain 1 year money? or is it best to withdraw some x% of winnings every month? or withdraw 0 money and just try to aggressively move up stakes as quick as possible?

this might be premature but what % of winnings should go into investments/btc?
i just want some solid strategy so i dont go broke again.

you have 15k in the bank if i got that right? So i assume most of your money is on poker sites?

Correct.

0 investments. and not a huge amount online. Enough for 200/500 but not a huge amount given i had close to nothing at start of this thread.

I always keep the same amount in my poker roll (35ish bi). I know this is a little low but I'm fine depositing if i need to. Then similar to you wrt rent/expenses although I've paid 6 months up front for many years now so that has become the new norm.

As for left over money, it's in investments - property, crypto, stocks etc.

I'd really recommend beginning to set aside a small amount each month (even if it's $100) and build up some investments. The most important thing is to not overextend, small, frequent amounts is always the aim. An ISA is a good place to start, then once you max that out, you can begin to build in other areas (stocks etc). These will end up making you a lot of money in the future if you just keep things consistent. Obviously money sitting in your bank is pretty much getting torched.

I would really suggest lowering your life expenses, it sucks but you dont have enough money to spend 3k per month, as a compromise put a hard cap on 2k and invest 1k per month, half into traditional stuff and half into btc

thx for the advice. seems like i spoke to soon in terms of investments. So i signed a 12 month contract and paid up all in cash. Had to give 2 months deposit aswell. Think i overspent now given its all a lump sum. I think it would have been best to do 6 months instead but what is done is done. I just need to make sure i budget month by month now properly. I also spent far too much with moving in related things. So many small things just add up. However I do instantly just feel better mentally moving out of a studio into a 1 bedroom. Its only 58sqm but good enough for two people.

Anyway, grind has been an epic fail this month. Trying to find apartments during covid is a mess. instead of just spending an hour viewing a few units, you have to book appointments for each unit. so 3 units could be scattered over a day. It all took way too much time. Half of the time you just waste your time as the pictures of the units must be from years ago, or, the agent just plays you and tells you last minute the unit you wanted to view isnt available and try to show you some other shitty ones.

Even with trying to find unit, buying everything i need, waiting for internet to be installed and table+chair to be delivered it was still a huge fail grind wise. Did about 15k hands. 1.8k$+. Even though poker failed quite badly, i spent quite a few hours learning my gf language. Got to try keep it up next month.

Next month i think im going to try update this thread daily with a min of 2.5k hands a day. Had to drop down to 200nl again so need to get back to 500 as soon as possible.

pics of condo and how much was it? Hope u at least got a good price in this corona time

got for 1k$. Think i could have got it for 900$. I think the standard is around 20$ for each sqm here?. I ****ed up in the negotiating part and just wanted to get it done after viewing a few condos. Very likely overpaid i dont know. Wasnt that many half-decent condos actually available




lolteddies.


dont know why mp4 link isnt working

Caught my first ever cheaters on stars lol. probably shouldnt have given they seem to be pretty awful at colluding.

The condo is decent man, especially the living room. I love those heavy blackout curtains, do you have them in the bedroom too? Where is it that you live? I don't think I caught that.

We haven't interacted before, but I like your posts and I think we're pretty similar. Long term pro from UK, tendency to take the gas off poker when doing fine, live abroad, yolo a bit etc.

I play several stakes and the way I do my bankroll is:

100 bi for highest stake + 1 years living expenses, but I just have random crypto investments as part of that and it's all pretty dumb / not well figured out. I think 1 years living expenses in your bank at all times is solid, then anything over that can move to investments.

At least for me, that's required to mentally cope with swings. Gl this month, gotta love that new month clarity.

thx man. i live in PH. no curtains or windows in bedroom unfortunately.

So i got a new broadband (sky 50mbps) and its so sketchy. whenever i do speedtests or download torrents i can easily get up to 50mbps always but its always the initial connecting to a website or whatever server which takes forever. Stars takes about 10x longer to connect to, searching for things on kodi takes 10x longer, loading pictures on reddit takes a long time. I got an echo dot and half way through playing on spotify it just keeps skipping. Gf connecting to games on her phone takes forever. Netflix works perfectly and once im streaming kodi or torrenting it works fine. Anyone got any ideas what to do??

Ive tried:
1. connecting and mixing 2.4g/5g.
2. downloading wifi analyzer and getting on the channels they recommend
3. restarting everything multiple times
4. used 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 dns.
5. im close to router
6. turn of firewalls

pinging to dns is always consistently fast but connecting to things just take forever.


anyway, month:

PB: 5k hands - 1.2k$+
stars:


total: 4.6k$+

hands: cba to find many.

reg. prob should raise turn
PokerStars, Hold'em No Limit - $1/$2 - 4 players
Replay this hand on Upswing Poker

UTG: $203.00 (102 bb)
BU (Hero): $303.43 (152 bb)
SB: $200.00 (100 bb)
BB: $200.00 (100 bb)

Pre-Flop: ($3) Hero is BTN with Q♠ A♦
UTG raises to $5, Hero calls $5, 2 players fold

Flop: ($13) 5♥ T♠ Q♦ (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets $4.08, UTG raises to $10.84, Hero calls $6.76

Turn: ($34.68) 2♦ (2 players)
UTG bets $11.04, Hero calls $11.04

River: ($56.76) 6♠ (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets $276.55 (all-in), UTG calls $176.12 (all-in)

Total pot: $409 (Rake: $1.25)

Showdown:
BU (Hero) shows Q♠ A♦ (a pair of Queens - higher kicker)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 73%, Flop: 84%, Turn: 93%, River: 100%)

UTG shows Q♣ J♠ (a pair of Queens)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 27%, Flop: 16%, Turn: 7%, River: 0%)

BU (Hero) wins $407.75



reg. lets click. probably have best hand
PokerStars, Hold'em No Limit - $2.50/$5.00 - 3 players
Replay this hand on Upswing Poker

BU (Hero): $500.00 (100 bb)
SB: $556.00 (111 bb)
BB: $571.66 (114 bb)

Pre-Flop: ($7.50) Hero is BTN with Q♠ 4♠
Hero raises to $12.50, 1 fold, BB calls $7.50

Flop: ($27.50) 4♥ J♣ J♠ (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $8.62, BB raises to $30, Hero calls $21.38

Turn: ($87.50) 7♠ (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $28.38, BB raises to $102.62, Hero calls $74.24

River: ($292.74) 7♣ (2 players)
BB bets $93.20, Hero raises to $186.40, BB folds

Total pot: $479.14 (Rake: $1.50)
BU (Hero) wins $477.64


reg
PokerStars, Hold'em No Limit - $1/$2 - 6 players
Replay this hand on Upswing Poker

UTG: $203.00 (102 bb)
MP: $200.00 (100 bb)
CO (Hero): $215.06 (108 bb)
BU: $204.20 (102 bb)
SB: $200.00 (100 bb)
BB: $205.38 (103 bb)

Pre-Flop: ($3) Hero is CO with A♥ 3♥
2 players fold, Hero raises to $5, BTN calls $5, 1 fold, BB calls $3

Flop: ($16) 5♣ Q♠ 4♥ (3 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $10, BTN calls $10, BB folds

Turn: ($36) 2♥ (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN checks

River: ($36) 9♦ (2 players)
Hero bets $200.06 (all-in), BTN calls $189.20 (all-in)

Total pot: $414.40 (Rake: $2.75)

Showdown:
CO (Hero) shows A♥ 3♥ (a straight, Ace to Five)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 60%, Flop: 32%, Turn: 100%, River: 100%)

BU shows K♠ Q♥ (a pair of Queens)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 40%, Flop: 68%, Turn: 0%, River: 0%)

CO (Hero) wins $411.65

Nice results. How come you mostly play on Stars when the app games are so much softer?

1k/sqm is standard in makati and bgc yeah, during these times u could have gotten a 10-20% discount for sure, but no big deal.
As for the internet try to get PLDT, I have it for years and cant even remember last time it disconnected let alone had a problem with it. Maybe like 1 day per year twitch gives me issues

I also have problems with Sky. Actually, never had a condo with Sky that hasn't had issues. PS keeps disconnecting randomly etc. I wish I knew how to fix it. Been even grinding from my phone's 4G last few days. Never had any issues with PLDT.

That living room looks good! A little weird placement for TV maybe.

yeh. had to pay 3 months upfront for sky. will likely cancel after 3 months as its only 2k cancellation fee.

yeh..put a desk in to look like below. had to remove carpet though if i want the desk here. We might end up switching desk and tv around with putting the carpet back in (looks a bit plain without carpet). But then it might look weird with the two desks next to each other.

meh, put carpet underneath the sofa. think it looks ok with the tv in middle and how it is now. she can still watch tv when she cooks if its in middle also. Will leave it like this now

I'm curious what people think is a good winrate for normal tables in the current climate? I know zoom anything 5-6 is considered top tier. But what about normal tables?

I realise this question is dumb and it just feeds into ego or sadness if it doesn't hit your ego winrate. But I'm curious.

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at 200nl? 15-18bb/100 is probably attainable for someone destroying the games and game selecting well (still possible to get 8-10 good tables at most hours), but anyone capable of that is likely playing higher. Anything above 10bb/100 is crushing imo. I'm at 12/bb100 last 200k hands fwiw (all those hands during covid era, game selected conservatively and ran very well)

rake probably matters a lot too, where I play has 2bb cap and no rb

dafuq. that seems insanely high. hmm i guess its my fault for not declaring sites? i guess i should declare stars only?

12bb/100 is insane and congrats to that for whatever sites youre playing.

yeah I mean I'm basing it on my wr and the fact that I don't study, so figure someone studying could do a lot better than my button clicking. I do think my true wr is more like 9-10bb in these games. I had a day where I made quads 4 different times and got stacks in 3 of them + a royal the same session so sun run doesn't really begin to describe it lol

I think stars the ceiling is more like 12-15bb/100 for crushers and 8+ is top tier fwiw. for sure tougher there

I don´t think that anybody on stars =>NL200 reg tables has a higher winrate than 12bb over large sample. Even 10bb winners are extremely rare. Just look at statname which tracks reg tables.