Well here we are, my first ever poker thread. Ooh feel bit excited doing this but its the first main step of getting the right mentality to work towards this poker challenge.

Firstly bit about myself, i am a 34 year old total fish at poker the usual tilt issues and inpatient attitude which are probably the 2 biggest killers of a poker bankroll, with this professional approach i am making the right steps in changing my mentality and hopefully over the course of time become a winning player.

Currently the most i can spend on playing poker and studying the game are probably 2 hours a day and maybe about 4 hours a day on my 2 days off from my full time job which is of a deputy manager in a retail store. I am also married and have a very active 3 year old son so spending quality time with family is also a very big priority.

I do not have any monetary goals as i have realised that having [$] goals will make you just rush through your hands without actually playing 'proper' poker and being able to put villains hand on a range and then trying to either minimise losses or maximise value. Having said that i do want to rise from the depths of micro limits to hopefully play regularly, but still part time in the medium stakes $0.50-$1.

My main and probably only site i will be playing poker on is Pokerstars, just due to the sheer fact of high level of traffic, although i have read its very hard with good regs even on the lowest limits of $0.01-$0.02, but i shall not shy away i will confront my fears and take this journey, lol.

To start of with i will play 1 table of nit fest zoom table on 2nl. This is to get in the habit of constantly thinking about my actions and villains actions and to get used to pacing myself rather than auto piloting with 4 zoom tables, but eventually as i gain confidence and my bankroll grows with more hands i will incorporate another table of zoom until i can play 4 zoom tables and still make the best EV decisions. (That is the idea lol).

Well so the journey started yesterday November 10th 2018. I used my ticket of a free roll to the $10000 tourney where i finished ITM and cashed in for... wait for it..... $2.38 and that was my bankroll, before that i had $0 in my Pokerstars account and was going to deposit when i was ready to start the challenge, but that $2.38 was just to use to see my new layout of my HUD, but here we are still not busto. Yippee. Btw i finished in postion 1071 out of 6938 entrants.

10/11/2018
TOTAL HANDS: 502 (1 table zoom)
NET WON: $7.66

11/11/2018
TOTAL HANDS: 501 (1 table zoom)
NET WON: $1.57

(Trying to upload a few hand history's but having some issues any one help with that ? i am using Holdem Manager 3 Beta version).

Good luck on your challenge!

Doing a NL2 -> something, challenge myself.

If you wanna talk some poker, let me know

Thank you lol will need a bit of luck How far in your 2nl challenge are you?

We all need that

About 27k hands with a wr of something like 7 bb/100.

Keep at it how when do you think you will move up to next stakes?
Well just done my second session of the day:

TOTAL HANDS: 505
NET WON: $0.71

Well was a dead session nothing exciting kept getting 3Bet OOP with mediocre hands that prob would be crushed post flop. 'A penny saved is a penny gained' main thing is i didn't let frustration of dead cards and constant 3Bets affect my play and kept my cool for another day.

GL man.... Rooting for ya!!

SN?

I'm in the midst of doing something similar... or some sorts!!!

What sort of BRM will you use?

Have you considered playing regular tables too? I tend to going the waiting list of 4x regular tables and then load up 4 zoom then as the regular tables pop up to young I drop a zoom table un till I'm left with 2x zoom and 4x regular. I find it helps me not lose focus/get to distract and start making my own action with sub-par starting hands.


Is it all 6mx?

Hi buddy right now as daft as it sounds I'm just playing to get used to zoom and build confidence. I haven't set a target of when to move on to the next level of 5nl. Once I feel I am crushing 2nl over a large hand sample then I will take shots at 5nl but right now I'm not even thinking that far ahead. Poker is about learning to crawl n then walk n then sprint, lol.

I did consider regular tables but due to the ease of jumping in the zoom pool I think that suits me best coz of time constraints and it is 6 max that I will
Only play.

Good luck with your own challenge, where do you stand with your challenge ?

Na that's cool man, Zoom is a different kettle of fish lol I found/find 2NLz can sometimes be bingo poker ( or atleast feel like it) but for the most part you can just value bet hugely.

I'm doing ok, only had irngoug about a month (I don't play that much as I have a young family etc ext etc). but just hovering in my 5NL shot (both zoom and reg) I could make it more comfortable with some RB but want to save that cash for later on.
I'm also due to be hit by some variance as it felt waaaaaay to easy to start with.

You gonna let peeps here knkwnyour Screen name?

Yeah I know what you mean about not being able to play that much I have same issue. What's your winrate atm and how many hands ? My screen name on stars is KHLOVE. Do you okay on stars?

Will be grinding tonight after work can't wait �� Hopefully be a positive green line lol.

Right then folk just done another 1 table zoom grind, after a long hard day at work, session was pretty much straight forward doubled up AA VS villain gut-shot straight, check raised him on the river and stacked off , labelled him as a calling station hehe. i myself lost almost a buyin [$1.36] on the turn i had the nut flush draw and a gut-shot straight so raised his cbet on the turn, the river bricked villain checked i bet half pot he jammed all in, grrr i had to fold. Anyway results as follow-

12/11/2018
TOTAL HANDS:505
NET WON: $1.55

My WR is pretty poor at the mo but that's largely down to having a yoyo first 40k hands where I would start to make.head way and start winning a fair bit (albeit at 2nl) then would have a session (typically the very next one) and loss it by (small tilt and just bad.runouts or hands not holding up)

But hey that's poker lol

Volume wise 82k hands @4bb/100 and that's mixed with 2NL and 5NL...

All credit too you for still going strong and remember the tilt control and other skills you learn now will heap rewards in future . I think I wanna get couple of more thousand hands on 1 table zoom and then maybe consider adding another zoom table . Right now my bankrokl is about 6 buying lol so cAnt exactly multitable.

It's just one of those things... your going to get times that you get screwed over on big pots... etc for me it's usually the big pots where the only hand that can have you beat is one they really shouldn't have (like 4x in a 5B pot pre and the run out means it's a straight etc you Know the ones lol.

But other than that if I've gotten it in good and got sucked out on I'm ok with it as I made the right read or decision. Which those things used to bother me a hell of a lot more and would cause some stupid tilt un till I kinda realised I was letting something I did right/correct make me lose more or play poorly from that.

Don't get me wrong I still get tilted etc but I'm slowly starting to become more aware of when it's about to/or is really affecting my game... Tilt will never go (no one can say they don't tilt, even the greats of the game do)

Its all a learning curve which is why the game is so fun... I still do the odd Negreanu moment and call there hand and still call but then I just remind myself I need to listen to that inner voice as I made the right read and didn't act on it.

Gl with your challenge.

Few pointers, feel free to ignore.

Adding tables of zoom is quite hard. The difference between playing one table and four tables is insane and as someone who is learning poker you should basically just never play four tables. The aim is to get good at poker and to do that you need to think about hands and what you are doing. Remember each time you add a table you aren't just adding ~250 hands/hour you're increasing the amount of decisions you have to make and decreasing the time you have to do it.

2nl doesn't have any good regs. It does have one of the hardest player pools at 2nl but no one is good and I say this including myself who plays there now. There will be good 2nl players but they still ultimately suck and the aim is to get better than them which is very doable still (but also as hard as it's ever been to do).

There is a hm thread which someone may be able to help you learn to post hands, I've never used HM3 myself. If you search the forums you'd probably find what you wanted.

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/1...index1991.html

Absolutely there will be times where I've noticed villain go all in pre flop and few moments later villain has done same this time I'm holding AA i obviously will find and prob lose to his random 2 pair . But s*** happens it's moments like this instead of fuming we lost a big pot we should laugh and say wow this is a great game . That's the mentality I want to program myself to have .

Much appreciated advise thank you and you are right more tables is more decisions and right now in this very early stage I will only ever play 1 zoom table. But that's not to say with more experiences I will
Ultimately have to increase hAnds per hour but that's much later down the line .
What's your stars name ? If you don't mind n your hand sample?.