Wouldn't go quite as far as patience of a saint lol, I can still be pushed to tilt very easily and trying to curb this negative part of my game, it's my slowest progress but it's getting better with time.

Session so far today for 20th April 2018




Total for 20th April 2018

Good job man, when you thinking of moving up?

I'm looking at doing 30 buyins as my bankroll, so once I hit $150, I can move to 5nl.

A pretty slow session to start this Saturday off with, will play again later

Morning session for 21st April 2018

Thought id have a crack at zoom

Finally have a losing session, well I cut it short, as I felt myself tilting and needed to walk away for a moment




For example, this player had been really loose and playing quite stupid, so I got AK, and the flop comes down with an ACE on board, he checks, I bet of course, and he thinks and goes all in, usually most tight players, regs etc, I think about folding due to set miners and such, maybe 2 pairs, but I know alot of fish like to all in on the flop with 1 pair and being a fish I called, and I was ahead, AK vs AT, and look how the board ran out. I cannot take idiots like this being rewarded for suck donk moves, pisses me the f*** off!!!

im in good luck

So I took break, and did some printing out, I printed out some basic range charts, which I pretty much have in my head already, but will always help up there with more importantly a message to myself to FOLD!!!!!! just coz I got pocket kings, doesn't give me a right to win the hand, I must remember this, and a good spot will always be just round the corner.






So went and played another session, and this time wasn't a loser

You do understand you are running $60 over what your expected value is, right now I'm running around $2000 below what Im expected to earn playing poker. Looking at your graph, it's looking like you are just getting lucky and running good, no skill at all

'You have sucked out too!' 34o vs QQ... hahaha Good to have that as a reminder. Keep on grinding!

um, not sure how to respond to that, no doubt I've had some luck along the way, as do all of us. But I've always lost money playing poker back in the "fun" days whether its 500 hands or 50,000. Difference is this time, I am taking it seriously, reading books, reviewing my hands, getting tips for my biggest weakness (going on tilt) just curbing my tilt alone is probably my biggest thing for the swing of non profitable to profitable. It may only be 2nl, but like I said, im doing this seriously, and only moving up when I have enough buyins for the bankroll. There is a stream saved of me playing poker for a few hours, possibly best to watch that first before saying stuff like that, it's a bit disheartning to read to be honest. I mean fine to say I got lucky, but to say no skill, is a little below the belt especially trying so hard with the amount of hours study i've put in recently. Just stuff like learning position, reading opponents using the hud, like 3 betting 89s on the button to a raise, and getting opponent to fold his open raise is not neceasrily skill but it's beyond ABC poker. Not including the many many other things I've learned to gain more chips over a session, what flops to c bet, or re-raise etc rather than just hoping to hit and playing fit or fold poker.



HA yes, It was SB vs BB, I was the BB. This guy had like a 80% vpip, and raised pretty much everything, and when he went for the steal, I saw his F3bet quite high, so I 3 bet him in the BB, and he just called. Flop was X33, he then donked all in on the flop, and of course I called

Good job mate ignore the troll. You obviously are running well at the min to have such a high win rate but even without running over EV your still winning anyway. Sick red line aswell for the micros. Hit me up if you wanna go over hands or talk some strat. I'm currently playing 10nlz

rofl, what a pathetic comment. like, honestly, you're a loser. you're also just WRONG, lmfao. he might be running well over EV, but his EV is still a very positive bb/100. moreover, AIEV is only one component of rungood. he can still be running like garbage. <30k hands is nothing, and the fact that he has a decent source to study from means he's very likely just crushing his field, variance aside.

OP good job. keep it up.

just ignore him. you have to be a massive loser to deliberately go into someone's thread, read it all, and post something like that. he also thinks AIEV is the only "rungood" lmao. what a ******.

anyway, keep doing things how you are and being open to learning. wp. you should really move up to 5nl. it's not really different at all and your real opponent is the rake atm. but gl

oh, and i'm sure lots of people have given you advice on resources, but: i'd highly suggest reading The Grinder's Manual. that and streams were pretty much my only resource to get to 200nl very quickly from your level. that book is very, very good. liked it far better than blackrain's stuff.

Cheers dude, appreciate it. Red line is probably my over agressive style, I do think I can tone it down a bit. And yes, no doubt I'm having an above usual good run, even I know that. But it's better than starting off bad, and I get completely disheartened by it, then give it up all together. This way it makes me want to stick with it, even when the bad runs come.

Hi Kizzah, sorry I didn't see your post, as you must've posted it as I was responding alreadt, sorry.

Thanks for the positive attitude, I honestly appreciate that, and I'm not just saying it for the sake of it, I really do appreciate it as it keeps me perked up and wanting to enjoy poker even more when others are positive about what I'm doing here, whether lucky or not

The Grinders Manual, it is one I have heard of but not read, will certainly be next on the list after Easy Game, thank you.

Sorry not posted this week, been busy and tired with work and studying non stop didn't get much play time in at all. Did a quick session just now for a little profit, I have got 1 hand I marked which I will post in the hand review section if anyone wants to see it.

Session on 27th April 2018

Hi! Ban the troll. What does he expect and what does he complain about. Your goal is beating NL2 zoom and you're doing it, maybe you struggled with cEV a bit early on but now you're on a straight line up and it's the most important thing and then you'll beat NL5 and then NL10 for like $1000 profit, if you keep playing it long enough and those are your current objectives and you're well on your path to achieve them!

Also what does he expect. If I 4-table ZOOM NL2, I have 7bb/100 cEV over large sample and that's good.

I love how you printed out stuff and quit when about to tilt. That's a key. You need to have BR and tilt management, otherwise you hinder your progress drastically or even can bust ALL of your roll. (especially if you've had experience gambling and winning in the past, EZ to convince yourself to). That is actually the short-cut up, but it's unsafe and even if you make it if you then don't deal with gambling you can bust then from the top which SUCKS.

Gl on your challenge, fast travels to NL10!

+1 for Grinders manual. The best practical book I've read, especially in how the content is presented. I also have '100 hands' which is by the same author which I'd recommend. I play zoom too and the book was a big help.

This all looks really good mate wp. Expecting you to have a good May.

+1, the print-out charts are a very good idea haha, or u can have something like pio preflop charts open and gloss over some tough spots like ik when you get 4! or 3! sometimes it's tough to know what you should be calling etc.

GL OP you def got this

Cheers guys appreciate the nice comments, managed to get just under 500 hands in today, inbetween my kids, football and F1 lol.

Session for 28th April 2018

Don't you just love fish What is he expecting to fold here on an all in on the river lmfao!!

A bad/breakeven session, my worst one thus far. Plenty to take from this session though, plenty to review, and spots where I could've probably just folded.

Tough Session