Hey, great results, I'd be happy if you reply to my PM

Crushing it.

Trying my hardest to punt but it's just not working. I'll just jinx it and say hopefully we'll be playing 100nl this weekend.

€2650 w RB

Guess I'll consider this done.

Around €4100 w RB.



I've been playing 100z and 100nl and it's slightly different for sure. I'm still very sure I'll have a good winrate though so I'll aim for 200nl and reevaluate once I get there.

If I'm struggling and need focus I'll update the thread with some sort of challenge, but for now I'll just chill and keep on improving.

GG, beast graph.

It's looking pretty realistic to shot 200nl sooner than I thought. Off to a solid start at 100nl.




Some hands


Me not buying it.

MP: 100 BB
CO: 246.08 BB
BTN: 156.44 BB
SB: 89.91 BB
BB: 162.22 BB
Hero (UTG): 149.1 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 8 A

Hero raises to 2.5 BB, fold, fold, fold, fold, BB raises to 9 BB, Hero raises to 21 BB, BB calls 12 BB

Flop: (42.5 BB, 2 players) 9 3 T
BB checks, Hero bets 12 BB, BB calls 12 BB

Turn: (66.5 BB, 2 players) 9
BB checks, Hero bets 23 BB, BB calls 23 BB

River: (112.5 BB, 2 players) 8
BB bets 106.22 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 93.1 BB and is all-in

BB shows A 2 (One Pair, Nines)
(Pre 36%, Flop 33%, Turn 48%)
Hero shows 8 A (Two Pair, Nines and Eights)
(Pre 64%, Flop 67%, Turn 52%)
Hero wins 295.7 BB


I love it when they're semitanking and you know they really don't want to do it but decide to anyway.

CO: 138.57 BB
BTN: 182.29 BB
Hero (SB): 112.68 BB
BB: 168.73 BB
UTG: 108.63 BB
MP: 102.5 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has J A

fold, fold, fold, BTN raises to 3 BB, Hero raises to 10 BB, fold, BTN calls 7 BB

Flop: (21 BB, 2 players) 2 T J
Hero bets 13 BB, BTN calls 13 BB

Turn: (47 BB, 2 players) 7
Hero bets 28 BB, BTN calls 28 BB

River: (103 BB, 2 players) 6
Hero checks, BTN bets 131.29 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 61.68 BB and is all-in

BTN shows Q K (High Card, King)
(Pre 41%, Flop 47%, Turn 30%)
Hero shows J A (One Pair, Jacks)
(Pre 59%, Flop 53%, Turn 70%)
Hero wins 223.36 BB


The setup was impressive, but not as impressive as the speed of his call.

UTG: 105.5 BB
MP: 103.18 BB
CO: 24.98 BB
BTN: 210.38 BB
Hero (SB): 107.91 BB
BB: 133.44 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 3 6

UTG calls 1 BB, MP calls 1 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 0.5 BB, BB checks

Flop: (4 BB, 4 players) 2 5 A
Hero checks, BB checks, UTG checks, MP checks

Turn: (4 BB, 4 players) 4
Hero checks, BB checks, UTG checks, MP checks

River: (4 BB, 4 players) K
Hero checks, BB bets 4 BB, fold, fold, Hero raises to 106.91 BB and is all-in, BB calls 102.91 BB

Hero shows 3 6 (Straight, Six High)
(Pre 37%, Flop 32%, Turn 97%)
BB shows 3 8 (Straight, Five High)
(Pre 63%, Flop 68%, Turn 3%)
Hero wins 214.82 BB


Sometimes you just gotta sit back and be impressed by the heart.

BB: 100 BB
UTG: 311.83 BB
MP: 123.41 BB
CO: 148.48 BB
BTN: 110.83 BB
Hero (SB): 105.06 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has J J

fold, fold, CO raises to 3 BB, fold, Hero raises to 10 BB, fold, CO calls 7 BB

Flop: (21 BB, 2 players) 8 2 7
Hero bets 10.5 BB, CO calls 10.5 BB

Turn: (42 BB, 2 players) 5
Hero bets 21 BB, CO calls 21 BB

River: (84 BB, 2 players) 3
Hero bets 63.56 BB and is all-in, CO calls 63.56 BB

CO shows A 9 (High Card, Ace)
(Pre 31%, Flop 20%, Turn 16%)
Hero shows J J (One Pair, Jacks)
(Pre 69%, Flop 80%, Turn 84%)
Hero wins 208.12 BB


Some successful unblockaments

UTG: 222.62 BB
CO: 100 BB
Hero (BTN): 118.23 BB
SB: 101.4 BB
BB: 100 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB, CO posts penalty blind 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 2.5 BB) Hero has A 7

fold, CO checks, Hero raises to 4.5 BB, SB raises to 14 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 9.5 BB

Flop: (30 BB, 2 players) A J 4
SB bets 9.5 BB, Hero calls 9.5 BB

Turn: (49 BB, 2 players) 6
SB bets 16 BB, Hero calls 16 BB

River: (81 BB, 2 players) 3
SB bets 61.9 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 61.9 BB

Hero shows A 7 (One Pair, Aces)
(Pre 56%, Flop 79%, Turn 73%)
SB shows Q K (High Card, Ace)
(Pre 44%, Flop 21%, Turn 27%)
Hero wins 201.8 BB


I was berating myself so hard for running this while he tanked. Fortunately the tank went all the way to zero.

Hero (UTG): 139.5 BB
CO: 126.58 BB
BTN: 100 BB
SB: 203.5 BB
BB: 100.62 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A Q

Hero raises to 2.5 BB, fold, BTN raises to 7.5 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 5 BB

Flop: (16.5 BB, 2 players) J J Q
Hero checks, BTN bets 8 BB, Hero calls 8 BB

Turn: (32.5 BB, 2 players) 2
Hero checks, BTN bets 18 BB, Hero calls 18 BB

River: (68.5 BB, 2 players) 7
Hero checks, BTN bets 35 BB, Hero raises to 106 BB and is all-in, fold

Hero wins 206.5 BB

Volume is meh and probably will be moving forward. I'm happy with where I got my game to in just a month with some hard work, but now it's back to the drawing board to come up with a life balance I can dig.

Dude these graphs are really really impressive.

Is this stars volume or stan james btw?

Almost all stars. I saw in your thread you're considering moving sites. All I can say is - try putting some numbers on it. I make a little excel sheet whenever I have doubts and it keeps telling me you'd need a heck of a lot better RB deal than what's available today for other sites to be clear wins over zoom.

Very nice mate wpwp

Very impressive results. Also subbed.

Not quite sure what's going on but we dusted off 100nl in a week. Time for 200nl shots.

Total profit since start of thread about €6100 incl RB. Standard month with average buyin at $66 or so

sick graph bud wpwp is this 100z or reg tables? in your opinion why do you think you are crushing ? variance seems good but look like you are a capable player to crush that hard

Thanks, it's a bit of both and a splash of another site. But like I said, I think every option is close.

As for my results I'll say that I did plan to do this bankroll rebuild about a year ago, but eventually brought it to a halt since I felt it removed my mind from some important real life decisions that had to be made. This is what happened then.



I think this time my approach is much better. My game revolves more heavily around fundamentals, and back then I hadn't gotten into the nuts and bolts of blocking effects to the same extent that I have now. PIO also came along after this, and once I realized how critical user input and interpretation is to get something out of it, I think it has helped me.

What I'm saying with all this isn't that I'm some sicko, but rather that I find these smaller stakes games fun and easy due to just having a better grasp of what's important than my average opponent. I have no clue what my edge is, but the hands people flip over and my filters for certain key areas tells me it's huge.

My 50-100nl game does revolve a lot around picking low hanging fruit though, so it's not like I'm expecting to be able to ride these graphs much higher. I can tell immediately by facing some 500z players in the 100z pool that they have some clever stuff up their sleeves that I would have to work a lot on adjusting to. But let's cross that bridge if and when we get there.

I feel like I'm at the point where I can get lost in the game like I've done in past years, but I certainly will try not to. I find you only have so much energy to do something really well in any given day and I would like to find a way to put equal parts of that energy into uni/training/social and then fit in poker in such a way that it doesn't disturb the bigger picture. I can feel already that it does, and I will look for ways to counter act this.

But I'm happy too see that the smaller stakes are soft for this very reason. In some ways this thread is more of a beat than a brag given that I shouldn't really be in the position to play these stakes with my experience level, but at the same time i think it's silly not to be able to enjoy poker as a little side thing and make a few k / month and be happy with that. We'll see what happens in the end.

Anyway, it's getting ranty and I'll stop for now.

very nice read man, thanks for that... keep crushing

What do you think are the biggest things players do wrong at these stakes?

whats the stake you regularly played prior to this?

Great challange anyway. Following this

Just not being interested enough in playing hands well. You can play a million hands a year and watch every RIO video without ever going through the reasons for your actions in any satisfactory detail, and I think this is very often what's going on.

If you just ask yourself why you're doing things and truly take the time to connect the dots you wouldn't be making the mistakes that 50z regs make all over the place. You'd see that the equation of the others guys range and your hand and the course of action you chose didn't add up. It's not hard to arrive at these answers logically so anyone can do it. The hard part is finding that spark and getting to it.

I think the biggest hurdle to people not doing this is a mix of bias, ego and arrogance. Human beings just want to think they're good at things, and I think this is why you see all these struggling smaller stakes players pull the variance card or blame some other external factor for their lack of success. It's much easier than admitting that you probably don't understand the fundamentals of winning poker and that you probably make mistakes all over the place.

It's all imho and I'm not saying I have a perfect answer for these things, just that I think it makes more sense to assume you suck and can improve everywhere. The norm seems to be to seek confirmation that you're playing "fine" and "standard" and should just keep grinding and it doesn't make that much sense to me if the goal is to improve.

I got to the point of feeling very good at any 2/4 - 3/6 table, but still crapping my pants a bit when facing pressure at 5/10. I guess this was in 2012-2013 or thereabouts. Tiny volume, I was a big time waster

man you really nailed it in the last post... this is something I realized recently while being on an extended downswing ... so easy to autopilot and think how you are playing standard when in reality if you are playing low stakes your standard will very often be way off and you are also just throwing great winrate out of the window by playing like that

if you are looking to improve cutting down number of tables is necessity, doing work of the table and thinking over every decision in terms of ranges

also subtle form of tilt is very often overlooked which can have worse impact on your EV winrate then some more extreme forms of tilt, which is somewhat counter intuitive

Cheers

Pretty low volume last few days but in my defense I got a good amount of uni stuff done.



The 6 buyin drop was all gifts to start off todays session. Having a standing dinner and drinks invitation obviously matters little when you have the chance to pull a nice rostucko grind so this was my friday evening. You never learn with this game

Another distraction that has kept me both from playing and moving up to 200nl has been me considering an update to my setup. I'm on a single 25" 1440p display atm and it's not ideal for playing reg tables with all the lobby management and game starting going on. It's just too straining on the eyes beyond 6 tables.

I ended up getting a second one just like it and mounting them on a nice dual monitor arm but I ended up hating it. Too much side to side eye and neck movement. I think what will end up happening is I'll just get a 32" 4k and be done with it. I've already spent way too much energy on this.

Saturday morning fun players can be quite frightening at times.



Imagine having AQ here. Scary stuff.

BTN: 111.16 BB
SB: 124.66 BB
BB: 60.58 BB
UTG: 285.71 BB
MP: 434.18 BB
Hero (CO): 101.28 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has T T

fold, fold, Hero raises to 2.5 BB, fold, SB raises to 9 BB, fold, Hero calls 6.5 BB

Flop: (19 BB, 2 players) A K T
SB checks, Hero bets 9.02 BB, SB raises to 32 BB, Hero calls 22.98 BB

Turn: (83 BB, 2 players) 8
SB bets 83.66 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 60.28 BB and is all-in

River: (203.56 BB, 2 players) J

SB shows 3 A (One Pair, Aces)
(Pre 33%, Flop 2%, Turn 0%)
Hero shows T T (Three of a Kind, Tens)
(Pre 67%, Flop 98%, Turn 100%)
Hero wins 201.06 BB



Close your eyes and call down kind of a deal.

BTN: 104.4 BB
SB: 270.66 BB
Hero (BB): 103.76 BB
UTG: 114.84 BB
MP: 177.01 BB
CO: 102.5 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has J A

fold, fold, fold, BTN raises to 2.5 BB, SB calls 2 BB, Hero raises to 12.5 BB, fold, SB calls 10 BB

Flop: (27.5 BB, 2 players) 8 Q A
SB bets 18 BB, Hero calls 18 BB

Turn: (63.5 BB, 2 players) 3
SB bets 30 BB, Hero calls 30 BB

River: (123.5 BB, 2 players) J
SB bets 60 BB, Hero calls 43.26 BB and is all-in

SB shows 4 A (Flush, Ace High)
(Pre 33%, Flop 24%, Turn 34%)
Hero shows J A (Two Pair, Aces and Jacks)
(Pre 67%, Flop 76%, Turn 66%)
SB wins 207.52 BB



Middle button getting a workout. It's probably my favorite button tbh.

BTN: 139.16 BB
SB: 101.29 BB
BB: 110.42 BB
Hero (UTG): 123.46 BB
MP: 87.89 BB
CO: 106.7 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A Q

Hero raises to 2.5 BB, MP raises to 9 BB, CO calls 9 BB, fold, fold, fold, Hero calls 6.5 BB

Flop: (28.5 BB, 3 players) Q 4 9
Hero checks, MP bets 16 BB, fold, Hero calls 16 BB

Turn: (60.5 BB, 2 players) 8
Hero checks, MP checks

River: (60.5 BB, 2 players) T
Hero checks, MP bets 62.89 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 62.89 BB

MP shows 6 3 (High Card, Queen)
(Pre 38%, Flop 33%, Turn 18%)
Hero shows A Q (One Pair, Queens)
(Pre 62%, Flop 67%, Turn 82%)
Hero wins 183.78 BB



Not terribly happy but if you give them all the rope...

BTN: 100.86 BB
SB: 68.94 BB
BB: 167.14 BB
UTG: 95.59 BB
Hero (MP): 112.48 BB
CO: 179.44 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Q Q

fold, Hero raises to 2.5 BB, fold, BTN raises to 9 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 6.5 BB

Flop: (19.5 BB, 2 players) 7 8 T
Hero checks, BTN bets 9 BB, Hero calls 9 BB

Turn: (37.5 BB, 2 players) 3
Hero checks, BTN bets 36 BB, Hero raises to 94.48 BB and is all-in, BTN calls 46.86 BB and is all-in

River: (203.22 BB, 2 players) K

Hero shows Q Q (One Pair, Queens)
(Pre 83%, Flop 76%, Turn 86%)
BTN shows J J (One Pair, Jacks)
(Pre 17%, Flop 24%, Turn 14%)
Hero wins 200.72 BB



10 bucks would hade done the job m8.

UTG: 137.47 BB
MP: 26.31 BB
Hero (CO): 153.49 BB
BTN: 165.09 BB
SB: 83.96 BB
BB: 209.97 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 8 J

fold, fold, Hero raises to 2.5 BB, fold, fold, BB raises to 10 BB, Hero calls 7.5 BB

Flop: (20.5 BB, 2 players) 4 J 4
BB checks, Hero bets 7 BB, BB calls 7 BB

Turn: (34.5 BB, 2 players) A
BB checks, Hero checks

River: (34.5 BB, 2 players) K
BB bets 47 BB, Hero calls 47 BB

BB shows T T (Two Pair, Tens and Fours)
(Pre 68%, Flop 8%, Turn 5%)
Hero shows 8 J (Two Pair, Jacks and Fours)
(Pre 32%, Flop 92%, Turn 95%)
Hero wins 125.5 BB



Fist pump candidate and a nice tank fold but I'm really not loving it. I just see people snapping bluff catchers in these spots too often. Not sure if it's the way they hand read flops in general or if they just glance at my rather high overall cbet % and wrongly assume it has anything to do with this kind of board in these positions. Either way it's probably best to stay value heavy against a lot of players.

BB: 126.49 BB
UTG: 100 BB
Hero (MP): 107.48 BB
CO: 110.05 BB
BTN: 112.5 BB
SB: 51.5 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has J K

fold, Hero raises to 2.5 BB, fold, BTN calls 2.5 BB, fold, fold

Flop: (6.5 BB, 2 players) 9 T K
Hero checks, BTN bets 3.5 BB, Hero calls 3.5 BB

Turn: (13.5 BB, 2 players) 3
Hero checks, BTN bets 17 BB, Hero calls 17 BB

River: (47.5 BB, 2 players) A
Hero checks, BTN bets 32 BB, Hero raises to 84.48 BB and is all-in, fold

Hero wins 160.98 BB

December looking pretty so far.

Subbed.Nice results bro! Gl.

Thanks kos, don't think we got to tangle ever but I remember the name and avatar from 50z. GL with the grind!

I'm a little bit scared of my performance at the tables this weekend. I did ok results wise but there were probably a good ten to twelve stacks punted in spots where I recognized I was cooked but just didn't care enough to adjust. It's probably been ten days since I did any off table work as well.

From experience I recognize this is one of the many roads to a nice motivation and confidence dip so I'll try to take it very seriously while variance is still my friend. If I can't light that focus and study spark again this coming week I will formulate some sort of challenge to adhere to.

Gl all!

Just posting to remind myself that these two days were all me. My mind is scattered due to a lot of real life stuff coming up and if I can't muster any reasonable level of focus I should be smart about it and not try to put hands in.

That yellow line has no business being down, and that red line has no business being up over this sample.

Focus mode starts tomorrow. If that means a couple of hundred hands a day until I feel like myself again, that's fine.

Just finished uni work for this fall and now have an entire month free leading up to a relatively easy exam.

Up about €4k for Dec with rakeback due to winning some flips and clearing a bonus on another site.



The strategic mindset from the past month is still gone. No in depth thinking, no clever adjustments, no curious detours in PIO. Just emotion and click click click