Hello and welcome to my first post and PG&C.

I have been playing this game on and off for a couple of years, and been reading stuff here for a while, but I just went broke, again, so I made the decision to do something about it, hopefully I can find someone who can help me along the way, and hopefully I can show you a cool PCG journey.

I will start of NL5 with $100, since I have beaten NL2 quite well. I will move down if I go below $80.

From this day on I will:
-Beat uNL
-Update my blog frequently
-Find and post interesting hands in le blog
-Play a good amount of hands regularly
-Analyze my hands and get better
-Spend all my poker$ on skiing
-Aim for great grades

I want to beat the NL25/50/100 in the future, and that is why I am investing time and money into this right now, and I think it would be sweet to get some extra money while I am studying.

About me: I am from Sweden and right now doing my first year out of five in uni. I try to travel and ski as much as possible.

That's all from me!

a good thread saver:

GL! Stay consistent and never become complacent with your skills. Second guess most poker advice out there, understand your plays, be extremely self aware and actively try to exploit your opponents. Hope you crush.

Quick first update, just made my deposit and my BR stands $101.59 and I will start my journey!

I do not have much interesting old graphs on this computer since it's new, but I am hoping to have some soon.

Thanks! I will definitely always try to improve, and not always paying attention to my plays is one of my bigger leaks I think.

Done with my first session, and up $9 over 1300 hands.



Was some ups and downs, although I felt that I had a good session.
Not sure about this hand, tried to maintain pot control by checking turn, but can't really tell if I did any major mistakes, 100bb on TPTK?

PokerStars - $0.05 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

CO: $5.42 (VPIP: 18.45, PFR: 10.68, 3Bet Preflop: 2.38, Hands: 106)
BTN: $4.48 (VPIP: 15.69, PFR: 12.42, 3Bet Preflop: 1.79, Hands: 160)
SB: $7.84 (VPIP: 31.48, PFR: 24.07, 3Bet Preflop: 5.71, Hands: 115)
Hero (BB): $12.30
UTG: $10.23 (VPIP: 39.74, PFR: 16.67, 3Bet Preflop: 5.71, Hands: 79)

SB posts SB $0.02, Hero posts BB $0.05

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.07) Hero has Q A

UTG raises to $0.15, CO calls $0.15, fold, fold, Hero raises to $0.45, UTG calls $0.30, CO calls $0.30

Flop: ($1.37, 3 players) 2 Q 5
Hero bets $0.65, UTG calls $0.65, fold

Turn: ($2.67, 2 players) 9
Hero checks, UTG bets $1.28, Hero calls $1.28

River: ($5.23, 2 players) K
Hero checks, UTG bets $2.50, Hero calls $2.50

Done with a new session, felt good from time to time but lost focus a few times, was about to quit when I found myself in the jesus seat where we both had 200bb and told myself to play a few more hands, it ended up by him taking my money instead... I still made a profit though.

Not a lot of interesting hands where I can't figure out my mistakes.





Now time for some fresh air and gym.

On your TPTK hand, I think we should bet all 3 streets for value. V is a fish and will probably call 3 streets with worse. He raised UTG so we can assume he has at least an ok hand so 2 pair is unlikely. All we're likely behind is a set. I think QK, JQ are far more likely. The K on the river makes the situation a bit sticky but I'm at least betting the turn for sure. Also bet the flop bigger. You can easily make it 2/3 pot. (I have not looked at the spoiler yet when posting this)

I am also a student working my way up the micros btw! So good luck, I'll be following your progress.

Hey, thanks for the input, I appreciate it. I do agree on what you are saying for sure, should've betted the turn. Good luck on you as well!

Hello, had a lot to do in school which made me unable to update the blog for a couple of days. Although I thought I had time to play some hands and earn some quick money, not my best idea. Some bad beats coupled with tilt made me loose 20 BI's in roughly 4k hands. So this taught me that 'quick money' aint that quick.

Anyways, I told myself I can not lose $100+$100 in like a week as an unemployed student, and if I don't want to post that result on my blog I had get back to green numbers. Said, and done! And even if I did not make it in 4k hands I feel pretty content about, and I feel rather confident in beating NL5. Just being able to focus and beating the game when I have just lost that many BIs is a big win for me. Now I just need $100 more and I am heading for NL10.

I will also spend some time studying the game a bit extra in the coming days and trying to get my focus back. I definitely started out my way back with my A game but as time went on I lost my edge and focus, and even though I still had a positive win rate in the end it didn't feel as confident as I did in the beginning.

Graph:

That's all for this time. It's been a long day, good night!