Hello Guys,
I’ve been lurking PG&C threads for a while now and finally decided to start one myself. Mainly to keep track of my progress.
Background
I first started playing poker in 2010 on PKR, but I never had any success so decided to quit in 2016/2017. Looking back now on those 6 years I “lost”, I’m so mad at myself on how I decided to approach this game. I used to spend countless of hours watching high-stakes games (and didn’t learn anything..) instead on focusing on improving my game.
2020-2021 (so far)
Moving forward to 2020, as I found myself stuck at home, I decided to try and play a few MTTs and some zoom cash games on pokerstars. And of course, I got hooked on this game again.
Since May last year I’ve played around 130K hands and slowly moved from zNL2 to zNL25 (not a full time 25NL reg yet, as my bankroll is still too small, IMO).
This year I’ve been playing only on 888, as I must clear the welcome bonus. After that I think I’ll play 50/50 stars and 888. Unfortunately, Nl25z on 888 is not running all day, so I must play some NL20 reg tables or move back down to NL10z, but it feels so awkward for me to play regular tables.
Results wise, it has been pretty good so far. I never faced a huge downswing yet, but I know it is going to happen sooner or later, especially if continue to move up, so hopefully I’ll be ready for anything the variance is going to throw at me.
Plan
My goal is, firstly to become a good reg at NL25, and maybe later this year to move to NL50. I doubt I’ll go higher than zNL50, because as a part time poker player, I feel I don’t stand a chance against full time poker players. I don’t have time to study as much as them. After a full working day, I often play tired (so it’s hard to play my A game)
Volume play roughly 20K hands, ideally more. But I would rather play less and close to my A game, than more and worse.
Study – I try to work with GTO+ as much as possible and subscribed to RIO.
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