Hey guys, I've been a poker player for a while with a couple of thousands $ in profit life time. But I want to develop better habit related to the game (steady study, going back to sports, review hands, stop smoking, etc) So im starting a bankroll challenge, will post hands, my challenge I set myself and my overall schedule.

FROM 100-200 (mixing 2NL and 5NL when in the zone)

Morning: cofee, and review my hands from yesterday.
Dinner
Mid-day:
1. one hour of coaching site, and thinking what I can implement.
2. Warming up using pokersnowy (what are you guys opinion on it?)
3. Play as long as my brain can. Stop before a certain hour (because sometimes I tend to push myself too much. even more when loosing)

I'll try to 2 times a week next month to get back to basketball also.
I can play 5-8 hours per day. I will post hands and graph along the way and my different ideas related to how the each stakes play.

Thats it. Hope to get some feedback. you can go hard on me my skin is thick.

https://ibb.co/8Kby069

https://ibb.co/0qGwXQz

Play the highest stake you can beat. Don't waste time at 2 and 5nl

I'm not sure what is the stakes that I beat and the swings higher are hard for me bc It's a kinda big money IRL.

Okay Day 2 in the books.
I think I played well. My pokersnowy ranking isn't very strong since the start of this post. I can generally get to expert level but right now only getting advanced. But hopefully since I will be studying so much, I will improve it.

glgl man. I"m not a fan of snowie because it uses pseudo GTO theories and isn't a real solver, but whatever helps you!

TY SIR! Yeeeaahh I heard that, I use it mostly right now to slowly get into the world of solver, and warming up before a session. I find it usefull that u can just plug all your hands of the day before and browse what he considers a blunder. Just saves time and sometimes open my eyes to something I forgot. I will slowly try to learn how those solvers work.

Okay now D3.





Still could not manage to get a higher ranking than advanced with snow. But if I look at my warm up session in the trainer I usually get the expert ranking. I guess it's because I play so much during the day that my plays gets worst and worst. Still the most important thing is winning and I've been lucky enough to do just that

Following...

I'm trying to move up also. Unfortunately since I play on Global, I do not have access to hand histories that I can upload to a solver.

That said, I do need to do more homework. Pre-black Friday I was able to rely on instinct and pure math skills to turn a decent profit. Today's online games seem to be much tougher and have yet to come close to crushing it like I used to.

Thank you for following! You can send me a private message if you want to go over some hands at one point.

Day 4. Took a shot against the drunk Canadians in NL10.

BANKROLL: 209,58 USD.

Did not play a large amount of hands but I played higher, had some very strong seats at NL10 the ones you could not pass on. was ready to accept the loss of large part of my roll on that game. But the opposite happened. I invested a large amount of time taking notes on the regs on ps. Using russian ptr, and each reg is tagged based on his winrate. So when nobody is tagged on all my tables I had to jump in.





STEP ONE: From 100-200. = DONE !


STEP 2 : 200-500 = Playing 5NL as my main game, taking shots during weekends at 10NL.

Okay so this one will be a bit tougher, I'm not sure my game is at his best right now, My snow results are not the best, but my overall results in the game is very good, short sample still. I feel like I need to invest more time into study, And to see all the upswing material (at the rate of one hour of content per day) wont get me very far. So mb I should boost the number of hour of study from 1 to 2 a day. I will see. But after that nice session, I feel like getting a nice cofee (might even hit the bong), a good shower and a late night STUDY SESSION.

Extremely impressive so far, you seem to have a better approach to studying/routine and even note taking than most mid-stake regs I've seen!

Hope the run good continues, I think the routine you have and the time you spend studying will be invaluable as you move up. People can spin up a bankroll from the micros fairly quickly by running hot, but if you aren't improving you're only gonna get so far.

GL!

Thank you for the kind reply! This challenge is mainly to improve my life routine and myself as a player. Very motivating that you think this routine is strong compared to better player! But, STAY DOWN ON EARTH SKULL! Slow but consistency. GL to you.

gl sir!

I was looking for some hands to post from the 10NL session of last night, but after looking back on the hands there is no interesting spot except mb one. ( I just ran super hot apparently)

PokerStars - $0.10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

CO: $16.21
BTN: $10.98
SB: $20.03
Hero (BB): $10.00
UTG: $18.72
MP: $25.08

SB posts SB $0.05, Hero posts BB $0.10

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.15) Hero has K 5

fold, fold, CO raises to $0.20, fold, fold, Hero calls $0.10

Flop: ($0.45, 2 players) J 4 6
Hero checks, CO bets $0.30, Hero raises to $1.00, CO calls $0.70

Turn: ($2.45, 2 players) 8
Hero bets $1.80, CO calls $1.80

River: ($6.05, 2 players) J
Hero bets $7.00 and is all-in, CO calls $7.00,

SO I need to get your opinion on this one. About FD from the BB, I've heard that u wanna have FD in all of your line to be tough to play against, As a base line I moslty use my Ah FD, as X/C Bc I have more showdown value with these combos against weaker FD that might bet and give up river. Should I sometimes mix some Nut draw in my raising range also (?) with a ladder affect (my best ones use as call more and as I go lower A2, A3, A4 raise those guys at a higher freq than call)

I'm not sure if that logic is accurate normally I have a couple of line from BB vs, BUT or CO with FD in SRP, : X/C-X/C-X/F, X/R-B-B(or give up), X/C-X/R-B(or give up)

Those are the main one, should I introduce new ones? IS what I'm saying makes any sens haha?

You're absolutely right that you should be mixing some FD into check raise and some into check call. The way you're currently approaching it makes a lot of sense (especially if not using any RNG postflop) and will be balanced. Its really good you are trying to come up with a strategy for your range that you can implement, instead of just guessing in game. Even if the rules you come up are quite not optimal in terms of combos, your frequencies will be far more balanced than those that are just improvising. This is especially important when bluffing! (coming up with the perfect combos isn't what makes you the most money, it is being the most balanced with your frequencies.

My advice would be that solvers have generally shown us that in BBvBTN SRP your strongest draws are raised with the highest frequency as villian will continue with weaker draws that you cooler on certain runouts.

For example when you raise with with the NFD will always get called by if Villain has the Kx FD and when you hit - you get to play a big pot with the nuts (coolering opponents fairly often). Whereas if you raise a 5 high flush draw, even if you hit a flush - you shouldn't be too thrilled about getting all the chips in. The higher the SPR on the flop the more important it is to be drawing to the nuts.

As you correctly identify there is often a laddering effect due to unblocking the weaker draws that may continue (not necessarily due to showdown value, although maybe this is a factor). For example, When you Check Raise ATs you block many combos of Tx FDs that your opponent will continue, whereas a hand like A2s unblocks these.

There are lots of subtle effects at play which are dependant on the board and will change the frequency of any given combo. It is always useful to think how the cards in your hand block/unblock the continue range of your opponent.

All FD combos here will be mixed between xr & xc but this isn't nessecary to replicate. I think it would be very difficult to recognise and then exploit someone simplifying to raising all Ax, Kx, Qx and combo draws and calling the rest. If you wanted to implement a more mixed strategy I would recommend playing around with a solver and seeing the sorts of frequencies used for difficult combos.

Thank you for your time and the precise answer there! I will try to change my mix up now and realocate more my raise towards Ah ones, (with few call). Kx ones (with fewer raise). Qx ones (with rare raise).

yeah, the first time I've noticed that effect, was about those top pair X/back trick, I had a flash while taking a shower one time. Got mad excited about playing after that shower.

Solver are still a bit of a scary thing for me, I try to define overall guide lines to come up with strats that I think are solid. Like I put myself in my opponent shoes, and ask myself what would be difficult for my opponent to deal with? I have a group on discord with more GTO guys, So i'm a bit getting into the program. But never spent hours trying on my own. I want to first get to the upswing poker stuff, I met doug once. Kinda of a fan boy. (lol) so its really motivating! It feels fun.

DAY 5, I was not super in it today so played a lot of 2NL, I'm kinda scared to lose a big part of my winning in a day so still going slow. Once I reach 25Bi up in NL2 I might not play there anymore.





Happy with the ranking I got today! I will probably post hands tomorrow too tired right now.

I did so much time searching the regs on ps than I found a guy with more than 50K+ in profit playing lower than 50NL. I was very impressed and sent him a message and we freq talk now over skype, a russian guy. Very interesting to talk to him, since he had been winning in those games for so long, but also to see the psychologie of the guy. And I can find the same patterns in my own psycho. Gives me lead to where my mindset is bad. And I get to see how the russian nits see the game.

So yeah, I know I might start to look like a dumb F&%$ posting here, talking to myself. Just an other NL2 fish on a Ego-trip.

GLGL boys! hope you readers have a good day gambling.

Keep it up!

I am very interested to how you Russian friend approaches the game too.

I can post some of his hands if you want. But there isn't much to see so far. Just a normal reg: tend to overall not bluff very much and play for showdowns value. wondering if his call preflop with AK against an other reg is okay. That type of stuff, I feel like he is so stuck in the mindset: ''I know what I should do'' based on his experience there. That is not willing to get out of that frame.

I never seen that Pokersnowie ranking before, very cool. GL OP, Subbed.

@Poker villain.
Ty for the good luck. had a swing start today. Will be playing lower to set things up.

DAY 6.
That was a rough one. Lot of swings played bigger. But i think I will go back lower for a while. When I have big swings I have a tendency to play longer. Not a good habit! As Uncle Ben once said. With great power comes great responsibility or whatever.

Got lucky in the NL16 Zoom games. But in std spot preflop.

I feel very tired today, did not sleep very well after yesterday swings. So I start the day slow with one of my closest friend these days... Russian PTR! Let's see who's a winner in those 10NL streets

DAY 7.

I played more NL16 today with decent success





But I had my worst snow rating so far. I had one hour when I felt like I played my A-game. the rest not so much. Those were the hands that really made my day. Coolers really. So I think, considering my rankings and my profits so far, I've probably been really lucky. I will try to Keep on playing a lot for the week end. But on monday I will take a day of. To only study. I will probably post my findings here.

PokerStars - $0.16 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $19.22
SB: $9.19
Hero (BB): $16.03
UTG: $10.98
MP: $16.00
CO: $18.55

SB posts SB $0.08, Hero posts BB $0.16

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.24) Hero has 5 A

UTG raises to $0.32, fold, fold, BTN calls $0.32, fold, Hero calls $0.16

Flop: ($1.04, 3 players) 7 3 5
Hero checks, UTG bets $0.99, BTN calls $0.99, Hero calls $0.99

Turn: ($4.01, 3 players) 8
Hero checks, UTG checks, BTN bets $2.48, Hero calls $2.48, fold

River: ($8.97, 2 players) T
Hero bets $2.40, BTN raises to $15.43 and is all-in, Hero calls $9.84 and is all-in,

PokerStars - $0.16 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 3 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): $16.56
SB: $5.74
BB: $19.31

SB posts SB $0.08, BB posts BB $0.16

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.24) Hero has A A

Hero raises to $0.40, SB calls $0.32, BB raises to $1.44, Hero calls $1.04, SB calls $1.04

Flop: ($4.32, 3 players) 8 3 9
SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets $1.60, SB calls $1.60, fold

Turn: ($7.52, 2 players) A
SB checks, Hero bets $13.52 and is all-in, SB calls $2.70 and is all-in

So not a lot of big pots, or fancy line, except mb one that I can remember of.
Sticking to the plan of playing weaker player in position and never risking a big part of my winnings.

BANKROLL: 305.