great thread man..
I'm curious how your average grinding day looks like?
How much do you learn vs play ?
How much do you grind (how many days per week etc.)?
Any tips on improving your grinding mindset/productivity that Gordon shared with you ?

Challenge Days: 165&166&167

@railgun
Well my average day is kind of extremely flexible and dependent what kind of schedule I need. For example now during the World Cup elimination phase I was trying to play more afternoon and after mid night CET.
Play vs learn comes more in phases TBH. There were phases in the project were it was 60-40% and there was times when it was 90%-10%. Whenever I go through rough phases I do more learn or when I'm bombed with ideas how to work on my game. Currently I need more volume.
I grind normally 48h a week which is normally 6 days * 8h. Although if I'm going on vacation or something I normally plan it and put the hours in 5days or so. The only exception for not putting the 8h are stop loss days.
About the tips, well Gordon isn't a 6max grinder so about that he can't really give me too much advices.

Ola Amigos,

After an enjoyable Saturday - Monday holiday I'm back on the tables. Although I have to be honest and say that the World Cup has a huge influence on my grinding schedule so the next 3 days I will put a little bit less volume.
It would mostly be a standard update if there wouldn't be for today. I hit the NL1k and NL600 tables. Of course I didn't battle regs but still I saw some nice NL600 tables and joined.

But the more interesting part was the NL1k table because it was HU. Basically I'm lurking around the lobbies for good games and so I kind went to see what's happening on NL1k just for fun. Generally following who is playing or any marked fish in the game but accidentally as turned off my filters and so HU tables came out as well and after taking a look at names I see GREEN(my color coding for fish). He is sitting like a reg there waiting for action with his 40BB stack . I simply couldn't believe that nobody wants him ?(. Went on Skype looking for ilidek to tell him but he is already offline on Skype.
Then I said ''F**K I won't let him go away. I just hope Gordon isn't going to kill me since I'm again moving up in stakes without agreement. :P''. And so I sit him down, played a couple of hands against him and then he was busto although to be fair I was running good. I even had notes about his BvsMCB behavior.
I was so excited when I played him that I sit out on all others just to focus. I really felt the adrenaline when you go AI like a fish. I sort of even cheered because on my regular stakes I just see ''Oh I lost!'' without too many emotions. Not saying that it's bad but you miss the excitement that brought you into the game.





TOTAL CHALLENGE: 61 604.98$(LAST UPDATE) + 3 466.89$(WINNINGS 3 DAYS) = 65 071.87$/ 100 000$

June Report

This is actually fairly quick and easy. Worst month poker wise best month life wise. I mean 3,5k$ isn't a too bad result but compered to the previous months it's of course kind of humble. The irony is that I might not have improved that much poker wise but life wise I did and in general had an extremely pleasant time off the felts. So definitely don't mind such switches from time to time.



Anyway, that's it for today. Next updated probably on Sunday/Monday. Take care and GL!

cant you tell us what fast fold site you are playing so much of

love it man, would like to hear more about the shot taking

Your graph for June 2014 (above) is really similar to your pre book graph below (post #70):




Do you think it is only coincidence or something else into your game ?

Challenge Days: 168&169

@Everest17
Well yeah, this time no shot taking NL600&NL1k since there weren't any tables that fit my ''shot taking criteria''. Just standard NL100+200+400.

@Anuth
Actually it's variance(smaller downer) + me experimenting my gameplan/strategy. It's definitely not coincidence. I was trying to bring my aggression to a higher/better level so I experimented a bit with a lot of fancy play like X,B,XR w 3rdP/bFD, way more overB especially OTF and OTT etc. Now already back to more healthy level of of aggression but kept track of the good/valuable things while trying this out.



Hey guys,

I hoped this update to cover 3 days but in the end I had to be happy to even be able to update about 2 days. But let's start.

Well once again variance screwed up my plans. I grind 14h in order to make the 48h weekly mark so I could have a much more relaxed weekend grind combined with good football matches but before Germany - France started I hit stop loss. Hmm...felt kind of dumb but you know I enjoyed the evening with the matches and drinks but the next morning, goodbye grinding plan. Got sick and well, spent Saturday in bed. Today it wasn't much better(had to cancel a coaching session) but I kind of forced myself to put at least 6h in. Played very good and managed to comeback from a negative variance streak in the end.





TOTAL CHALLENGE: 65 071.87$(LAST UPDATE) + 347.33$(WINNINGS 2 DAYS) = 65 419.2$/ 100 000$

It's always something that screws up my plans. So since I plan on playing in the next 10 days straight I hope I will get a chance to put some decent volume in. TTYA mid next week!

HansTheGreat....i am a player on ipoker.....i made about 8000$ on nl 10.....in a year an a half....i am interested for some coaching lesson....can u give me the skype of your coach...or u? to discuss

is this all 6max or have you played Hu and FR?

will have to read the whole thread one day....

Challenge Days: 170&171&172

@doominator
Hey mate! Congrats on your winnings.Well I don't coach but if you want coaching from my coach email support@bestpokercoaching.com

@worpler
I play whatever NL cash format that I think I can make some money.



Hey guys,

Not a happy update. Because today I hit semi stop loss(stopped because I played bad in the end) and the win from the other days can't really cover for that. Since lately it's getting extremely swingy for me and mostly it starts with me winning a lot in short period of time and the in a couple of mostly coolers losing it back. But besides that not much to add. I hope I will be able to turn things around. Played a bit of NL1k as well but didn't win there anything and was like 8BB down there.





TOTAL CHALLENGE: 65 419.2$(LAST UPDATE) - 691.39$(WINNINGS 3 DAYS) = 64 727.81$/ 100 000$

Next update on the end of the week.Cya!

Ive got a question if u can answer me....its about range.....do u play A9..A8......to A2 suted in utg...if u can tell me i wanna know if i need to put them back in my game pls

Challenge Days: 173&174&175

@doominator
As default I only OR baby Axs hands of those that you mentioned. If there is a reason for me to open wider UTG I add all suited Ax.


So guys,

Today I'll take probably some semi holiday today by enjoying the WC final + doing some leftovers from off table work. Definitely looking forward to this.

About the last 3 playing days, I could summarize it in 2 words : on upswing.
Performance it was also OK but people simply always have the bottom of their C range, my bluffcatchers are extremely successful, my nutted hands get payed out and on top of that I found some good NL1k table. All together makes it a very good update and this is how it looks like with pictures and numbers:





TOTAL CHALLENGE: 64 727.81$(LAST UPDATE) + 5 236.61$(WINNINGS 3 DAYS) = 69 964.42$/ 100 000$

Also I will get somewhere this month as well some RB that I hope will push the overall amount over 70k$.
Till mid next week guys! GL!

man this is crazy, you're an animal

Subbed. I don't understand why I have never seen this thread.. :O

as someone who played many sites and moved up what would you say about ipoker lowstakes regular tables with high rakeback compared to biggest (probably softer?) networks without high rakeback like pokerstars, party and 888?

Seconded.

Challenge Days: 176&177&178

@Everest17
Well that was crazy, this update is insane!

@Geefmede5
To busy with WC

@railgun&Ari_Gold
I got this question a lot actually. IMO iPoker has the toughest Micro/Low stakes field because of the RB % that you can get there while Party and 888 are probably on the spectrum of more juicy games/less RB. Now first of all people get fooled by RB %. A classic example is Ongame. You get like 60% RB but you are playing on a high raking site and so this 60% could possibly be same as 33% on PS where the rake is probably over 50% lower. The only thing that matters is how much the poker site is taking from you/charging you for playing there(in terms of bb/100). I once made a simple and generalized video(can be found on my youtube channel) about a player that plays on PS and thinks about switching to iPoker and how the software, rake, RB and WR correlate with each other in the decision making process.
So my tip is put everything on paper(rake, RB, WR, volume etc. + add your priorities) and you will very easily get/have a picture where it's most profitable for you to play. Ofc this only matter if you are looking to play pro. If you are mostly playing because of the competition or as a fun hobby there is no need to do such things. Let's not forget to always add mindset in the equation.


Hey guys,

Again time to summarize 3 playing days. Although it's currently the period of the year where I don't really enjoying playing poker that much it seems for now to be extremely going good for me. I run good but I table select extremely well. On some tables I was the only reg playing 3 fishes and 2 semi fishes. And I notice it's always in the same time period. Although I get tired by that time I still force to stay and play and there is nothing better then getting rewarded for pain especially in such a beneficial way.
Also played a bit of reg NL200 tables will steadily add them step by step since I want someday to be able to play them instead of dropping down in limits when the action is not that juicy.
Now 3 more playing days for me and then I'm off on to a smaller vacation. But before that here are my results for the last 3 grinding days:






TOTAL CHALLENGE: 69 964.42$(LAST UPDATE) + 8 403.6$(WINNINGS 3 DAYS) = 78 368.02$/ 100 000$

Next update by the end of the week. Cya!

You're a sicko, keep going!

sicko update man, this is awesome

Bet you feel pretty silly now.

Yeah me either. Subbed

bravo on 8k.. really nice. maybe post few interesting hands too every once in a while

Just read through this whole thread and i still can't believe it. Insane run, keep up the good work!

Challenge Days: 179&180&181

So guys,

First of all TX for the support.
Interesting 3 grinding days before I hit Part 1 of my holidays. Friday and Tuesday were another 2 sick days where everything was going so smoothly that it was incredible. My whole run can be illustrated with this 1 hand when yesterday I had coaching with Gordon and we joined a fresh NL600 tables right next to the fish. First hand in the BB AK for me, he opens SB, I 3B and he 4B Shoves and ofc I C. AK holds vs AQ and the fish is busted. I mean this is currently such a sick run(maybe it was) that I can even understand. The only limit where it didn't went good was NL1k but I didn't lost much. Up to today it felt like whatever I do it's going anyway to be fine and I will somehow have a good day.

But today I could feel the switch. Absolutely completely different scenario and I almost hit stop loss. But yeah, with such a good run it's somehow expected at some point to start running worse. Variance is such a sick thing.
Anyway, here is how this 3 days look a like:





TOTAL CHALLENGE: 78 368.02$(LAST UPDATE) + 6 722.07$(WINNINGS 3 DAYS) = 85 090.09$/ 100 000$

I expect (I'm working on) by the end of the month to get somewhere around 8k$ RB. But before that I will take 4-5 days off holidays and then be back to finish the month in the best possible way(at least I hope so ).

Besides this facts about the challenge I had a very pleasant conversation with Gordon about my future, where and what I want, next steps to take etc. Made me thinking and with this thoughts I will leave for holiday.

Cya guys by the end of next week!

2 syllable damn

Awesome, this thread is the only thing that makes me want to play cash game...

So whats after $100k?