My blog for documenting my stride to complete the BPC CFP 6max programme.

Personal stuff:
I am a 47 year old proud father of two kids, and I am committing the next half year of my life to be able to escape the 9-5, which has sofar paid the bills. I love playing poker, so a chance to be able to support my wife and kids by doing something I love rather than something I have to do is extremely appealing. Being my own boss is becoming increasingly more important, and I believe that working my way through the CFP programme will be a short and intensive way to reach that goal.

My youtube channel, where you will soon be able to see a presentation of my progress (for better or worse): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJB...5s4n6xHzlOXf0A

Hey all.

On tuesday 19th I was finally allowed to play. I have to play 10.000 hands at the lowest limits – just to prove that I can follow guidelines as in how to play which hands preflop. So far I have managed to play roughly 2.500 hands in 2 – 4 tables. I started out playing just one table, making sure I had the preflop stuff burned into my brain. Postflop I still try to follow the guidelines, but … preflop is the major concern for these 10.000 hands.

I moved myself up from NL2 to NL4, as I realized that at NL2 you only sit with 50 BB as a standard. This move instantly skyrocketted my winnings – may it last. Perhaps I just started playing better. The samplesize is still way to small to make any valid conclusions.

Went to a friends birthday party last night – with a bunch of poker playing, fun to be around guys, who all know what to do with a pair of cards (the all have been to Vegas at least 5 times, and comming back with more than they left with). I did really well and won two of our tournaments. Had a lot of fun, and at the same time I was confirmed, that I do play decent poker.

Have also downloaded PT4 for free for a month. The filters that the coaching team uses for database analysis are apparently better for PT4 than for HM2, which I have been using untill now. I decided that a free month of trying out is worth the price. Spend some time getting used to PT4, but nothing major.

Happy to finish the weekend with a huge morale booster ( 4 buyins in roughly 400 hands).

Here is the graph for the first week:
First 5 days:
I aim to finish these 10000 hands so good, that I am allowed to play at least NL25. Will let you know what the coach says, when we get there.

So - it' been another week. I've focussed entirely on getting some volume in (following the system off course). I managed to get up to 6 tabling at some points - which is way beyond what I have been able to manage before. I feel good when playing, and I no longer consider playing NL4 as a waste of time. In fact I do not really think about the level, I focus on playing as good as I can, which - as long as I'm in the CFP means plays as close to the system as I can. Even managed to get some positive feed back from Gordon on some of the hands posted in the forum. Guess I'm not doing to bad at all.

Graph is looking good - even if the last 1.000+ hands have flattened:
Status on jan 31st 2016
I'm happy with progress and with volume. This is from playing NL4 mostly.

Goal is to get through the first 10.000 hands, before my ski holiday in 2 weeks - and do it with a profit of at least 100$ - or with a BB/100 higher than 20.

I got through my first 10k hands and scored a 98,4% which I was pretty happy about – untill I saw the remark that: “a perfect score is possible and expected”. Having participated in coachings and I think I basically have the system down. Problem is to follow it all the time. I was also pretty satisfied with myself managing to play up to 6 tables at once. Never really done more than 3 or max 4. This way I can play 500 – 1.000 hands (depending on how much I study), after kids have been put to bed. Hearing that other guys at the coaching does 12 or 14 tables and playing 10 k hands a day was … a shock, and a bit of an eyeopener.

My focus is to get things right, and then try to put some more volume in. I can not see the point in playing billions of hands, if I do not do it according to the system. I will get there in the end – but it might take longer than the fast guys.

Graph since I started this CFP

Yo all.

Today is thursday. Saturday morning I’m off skiing for a week. Looking very much forward to spending some quality time with offspring and wife. This update is just in case I don’t make it to the grind tomorrow, here’s an update on my poker week:

I’ve spend quite some time getting the flop play right. I suspect I play it way to aggressively – but whenever I analyse one of my own hands, I seem to hit the book spot on. Will have a lot of time to study the flop play videos, and rewatch the ‘how to deal with donks’ videos again. My gutfeeling without having done anything to prove it from my DB is that it is profitable to distrust flop donks, but that turn donks, when the flop is checked around is a lot more player dependent. Will have to investigate on this later on. Stay tuned for more exciting news on this.

Another good thing this week is that my BPC friend humbuk has started his HU CFP program again. I am very excited about this – we have aggreed, that if we finish the CFP this year, our reward will be that we join the PCA in 2017 – just for the experience. If any of you guys know Phil Ivey or Daniel Negreanu – feel free to warn them :-). Whenever I think about going to bed, I have this goal in my mind, and keep going for another hour. Mind you – I have only slept an average of 5 – 6 hours + ocassionally 20 min. naps in the past 2 – 3 weeks. At some stage this will damage my health, but as long as I can manage, I will keep going, to be able to leave my day job ASAP, without jepardizing my financing the two kids, wife etc that depend on me. Apart from the PCA the thought of how much better and less stressfull our lives will be, if (and here I actually mean when) I could(can) support the family from poker winnings, is my major motivation factor. That means way more to me, than Gordons emails – to respond to the facebook posting. I’m sure that eatyourpeas can recognize this.

Anyways this past week have been very good. Graph of the week:


I’m not sure if the red line is meant to be above zero, considering we are supposed to play very solid. I do think I am following the guidelines in the book, but … I have not been able to find other 6-max’ers, who does not have a down sloping red line. I dont worry about anything but following the CFP system as closely as I can – but it sure is nice to have a 17 BB / 100 profit over a 16k sample.

I am worried, that my red line indicates that I am bluffing to much – even though I don’t really think I am. Would love comments from other people who have been there and done that – or who knows what it is supposed to look like.

Have a fantastic weekend all of you.

have fun skiing

Just a final quick update - as today has been good. Tomorrow I'll hit the slopes:

Hmmmm… apperently skiing is not good for your pokerplaying. Since I came back, I have hardly been able to win a flop – breakeven over 7.000 hands, after having had a solid winning graph (over 17500 hands) before skiing. I did even take an Ipad to rewatch the videos about donk and flop play. I’m still up 100$ since I started CFP, but …. it’s a lot more fun to win :-).

I think my flop play is OK, even if I still make mistakes, but I might be staking off in the wrong spots on turn and river – so plan is upload DB, and then get to see videos about turn play, find leaks in the database and become a solid winning player again. My graphs simulate my skiing – it goes very fast downhill, and I have lost all control.

This is the total after todays play:



I found out that some of my ‘succes’ pre-skiing was due to luck. This is the bell curve for all hands before skiing (roughly 17.500 played hands):




This is after comming back (roughly 7.000 played hands):



There I was, thinking I was playing good. Never really became friendly with statistics, when I studied economy, and now she is paying back. “In your face”.

Since starting CFP the total is that Flushes and sets are slightly below normal, and Straights are between lucky and very lucky.

I think I have also perhaps played more tables than I was comfortable with, and therefore made more mistakes. This evening I played 4 tables, and had plenty of time to think about some spots, whereas, before I would feel stressed with 4 tables. My max. so far is 6 tables. Not very impressive to a lot of you guys, but still an improvement for me.

with 25.000 hands played, I’m well on the way to the first 100.000 hands, which means I can move up (provided I have been winning, when I get there).

I think something can be said about laying a solid foundation, getting things right, and then start sprinting, instead of focussing on getting the volume played, and then fixing leaks down the road.

Anyways I’m back – and soon it will smell like fried fish around here again.

Ups and downs.

Friday I worked on my preflop ranges and found some mistakes that I had misapplied to my preflop charts and after redefining my preflop charts I won for the first time since skiing. The session ended with me being up 26$ over 780 hands - meaning a fantastic 67 BB/100.

Saturday I was not able to play, so sunday I was really eager to play and prove that things really had changed again since I came back from skiing - and I had the worst session since I started this programme - probably the worst session, I've ever had. I lost buyin after buyin - was not actually looking at results, so I did not even notice that I'd hit a stoploss (5 buyins in a day), because I thought I was actually playing well, and I was also happy about being able to play 6 tables simultaneously. I played 1.500 hands in one day, which is a record for me.

Such a bad session should naturally lead to some off table work - did I stack of to easily, or was I just plain unlucky. Could I have done anything else, in any of the hands.

These hands are not meant as another bad beat story - I'm not complaing, just trying to figure out if I could have done anything otherwise - call it justifying my self losing stack after stack. These hands are not question hands, so I have not posted them with the tags.

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

CO: $4.91 (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 8)
BTN: $10.61 (VPIP: 20.49, PFR: 17.21, 3Bet Preflop: 14.29, Hands: 123)
SB: $1.12 (VPIP: 62.50, PFR: 62.50, 3Bet Preflop: 33.33, Hands: 8)
Hero (BB): $6.41
UTG: $4.37 (VPIP: 33.33, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 3)

SB posts SB $0.02, Hero posts BB $0.05

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

fold, fold, BTN raises to $0.15, fold, Hero raises to $0.50, BTN raises to $1.26, Hero raises to $2.75, BTN calls $1.49

Flop: ($5.52, 2 players) 9 T 8
Hero bets $3.66 and is all-in, BTN calls $3.66

Turn: ($12.84, 2 players) J

River: ($12.84, 2 players) A

[spoiler]BTN shows Q Q (Straight, Queen High)
(Pre 19%, Flop 29%, Turn 98%)
Hero shows A A (Three of a Kind, Aces)
(Pre 81%, Flop 71%, Turn 2%)
BTN wins $12.20
[/spoiler]

I remember being a little nervous about this superslippery board, but judging from his preflop play (we was a respectable 20/17 VPIP/PFR over 123 hands), he would most likely have KK here. I was actually surprised to see him with QQ, but I guess it's OK when it's BTN vs. BB. I could not have gotten away from this hand, so I can accept losing this one.

888 Poker - $0.05 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $5.13 (VPIP: 18.89, PFR: 13.82, 3Bet Preflop: 7.37, Hands: 221)
SB: $5.35 (VPIP: 18.89, PFR: 17.78, 3Bet Preflop: 3.13, Hands: 92)
BB: $7.51 (VPIP: 22.17, PFR: 15.09, 3Bet Preflop: 5.26, Hands: 219)
Hero (UTG): $5.06
MP: $5.30 (VPIP: 23.53, PFR: 17.65, 3Bet Preflop: 2.56, Hands: 123)
CO: $5.42 (VPIP: 30.95, PFR: 22.47, 3Bet Preflop: 10.00, Hands: 523)

SB posts SB $0.02, BB posts BB $0.05

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.07) Hero has 7 8

Hero raises to $0.20, MP calls $0.20, fold, BTN calls $0.20, fold, fold

Flop: ($0.67, 3 players) 9 5 6
Hero bets $0.50, fold, BTN calls $0.50

Turn: ($1.67, 2 players) J
Hero bets $1.25, BTN calls $1.25

River: ($4.17, 2 players) 6
Hero bets $3.11 and is all-in, BTN calls $3.11

[spoiler]BTN shows 9 9 (Full House, Nines full of Sixes)
(Pre 82%, Flop 39%, Turn 23%)
Hero shows 7 8 (Straight, Nine High)
(Pre 18%, Flop 61%, Turn 77%)
BTN wins $9.88
[/spoiler]

I can not see myself (or him) getting away from this hand either - I'm fine with this stack off also.

888 Poker - $0.05 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (SB): $5.95
BB: $5.00 (VPIP: 23.75, PFR: 19.06, 3Bet Preflop: 14.73, Hands: 330)
UTG: $5.62 (VPIP: 31.58, PFR: 18.42, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 41)
MP: $9.79 (VPIP: 30.61, PFR: 22.45, 3Bet Preflop: 16.67, Hands: 152)
CO: $5.12 (VPIP: 41.94, PFR: 22.58, 3Bet Preflop: 8.33, Hands: 33)
BTN: $5.92 (VPIP: 33.33, PFR: 8.33, 3Bet Preflop: 14.29, Hands: 13)

Hero posts SB $0.02, BB posts BB $0.05

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.07) Hero has K K

fold, MP raises to $0.15, CO raises to $0.45, BTN calls $0.45, Hero raises to $1.30, fold, fold, fold, BTN calls $0.85

Flop: ($3.25, 2 players) Q 9 8
Hero bets $2.43, BTN calls $2.43

Turn: ($8.11, 2 players) 3
Hero bets $2.22 and is all-in, BTN calls $2.19 and is all-in

River: ($12.49, 2 players) 2

[spoiler]Hero shows K K (One Pair, Kings)
(Pre 66%, Flop 53%, Turn 0%)
BTN shows K A (Flush, Ace High)
(Pre 34%, Flop 47%, Turn 100%)
BTN wins $11.87
[/spoiler]

This I could perhaps have been a little more carefull on the turn. On the other hand I have 2.22 left, and there is 8.11 in the pot, so I need to be good roughly 20% of the time - and I have 35% equity against a range of QQ+,AsKs,AsQs,KsQs,AQo, so I guess that's a fine stack off also.

Last one for this post (there were plenty more like the above in the session):

888 Poker - $0.05 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $5.45 (VPIP: 24.54, PFR: 19.44, 3Bet Preflop: 11.49, Hands: 224)
SB: $5.00 (VPIP: 22.55, PFR: 18.87, 3Bet Preflop: 14.00, Hands: 416)
BB: $5.94 (VPIP: 21.97, PFR: 17.38, 3Bet Preflop: 5.88, Hands: 313)
Hero (CO): $6.05

SB posts SB $0.02, BB posts BB $0.05

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

Hero raises to $0.12, BTN raises to $0.41, fold, fold, Hero raises to $0.90, BTN raises to $2.00, Hero raises to $6.05 and is all-in, BTN calls $3.45 and is all-in

Flop: ($10.97, 2 players) 6 J Q

Turn: ($10.97, 2 players) T

River: ($10.97, 2 players) Q

[spoiler]BTN shows K K (Two Pair, Kings and Queens)
(Pre 81%, Flop 15%, Turn 23%)
Hero shows Q Q (Four of a Kind, Queens)
(Pre 19%, Flop 85%, Turn 77%)
Hero wins $10.43
[/spoiler]

Here I remember thinking that being 5Bet and still not all in preflop probably meant that I was not good. But having been told off before from not following the system, I decided to stick to it and get it in preflop. He could have AK plus the obvious KK+, so 12 combinations, that beat me, and 16 that I beat. I'm roughly at 40% equity here.

888 Poker - $0.05 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $5.45 (VPIP: 24.54, PFR: 19.44, 3Bet Preflop: 11.49, Hands: 224)
SB: $5.00 (VPIP: 22.55, PFR: 18.87, 3Bet Preflop: 14.00, Hands: 416)
BB: $5.94 (VPIP: 21.97, PFR: 17.38, 3Bet Preflop: 5.88, Hands: 313)
Hero (CO): $6.05

SB posts SB $0.02, BB posts BB $0.05

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

Hero raises to $0.12, BTN raises to $0.41, fold, fold, Hero raises to $0.90, BTN raises to $2.00, Hero raises to $6.05 and is all-in, BTN calls $3.45 and is all-in

Flop: ($10.97, 2 players) 6 J Q

Turn: ($10.97, 2 players) T

River: ($10.97, 2 players) Q

[spoiler]BTN shows K K (Two Pair, Kings and Queens)
(Pre 81%, Flop 15%, Turn 23%)
Hero shows Q Q (Four of a Kind, Queens)
(Pre 19%, Flop 85%, Turn 77%)
Hero wins $10.43
[/spoiler]

I do find it funny, that in this horror session, when I do get it all in while behind I hit quads.

Long story short - I've been through all the big loosing hands from this session, and I can not see me playing any of them differently, than I did. I'd much rather spend the rest of my poker life dancing with lady luck, than dancing with her ugly sister lady variance :-), sometimes it is 'damenwahl'/'ladies choice' at this ball - so if I want to keep dancing, I have to stand up to both of them.

Weekly update.

Good things: I can now play 6 tables relatively comfortable.

Bad things: I’m still loosing, but have closed one big leak, which made me hit a stoploss yesterday. The leak was going to far with a weak hand – surprise, surprise.

My red line seems to be looking correct for a decent solid play, problem is that the other lines follow it:


Have sneaked into turn play videos, so hopefully I will soon pick up something from them to get the green and blue line skyrocketing.

Hmmmm… I am now officially back to where I started 40k hands ago. Having had a fantastic start on this project I quickly became to sloppy doing off table work, watching course videos etc. I have now started watching every single course video again, and taking notes. I intend to read my one of the chapters (like preflop play) every day, before I start playing.

Also I have to analyse and post one big loosing hand from the previous day before playing every day. I expect this excercise to get my brain in poker gear, and thus boost my winrate, so the green line will start moving the correct way again.

I am considering to move down. However, the site I have been playing has only 50 BB on NL2, and I do not want to mess up my game theory for 100BB play with playing 50BB. Another solution could be to change to another site. Sofar I know I can bet this level/site, and I do have the money to add on, if necessary. So if I am still loosing by next week, I will look to play NL2 at another site.

Thursday I had a fantastic day. Could not miss a flush, if I wanted to. Whenever I had the supernuts, at least one villain at the table had a hand good enough to stack off. Unfortunately I had to go to the toilet after 45 mins, and after that, the magic was gone, but look at this winrate:



Since then I have been spewing money away. Following the rule about not playing a table if there was not a big idiot-fish at the table, allowed me to play any table – as if I was sitting at the table, there would be at least one donkey-whale.

I have focussed to much on getting volume in, and less on playing according to NOBS. Yesterday I could not fold a pair to a raise – and just to prove the point, I called them down again and again with weak hands – so I hit another stop loss.

For this reason I have decided to focus more on solid play, focus more on pre session warm up (analysing a hand), focus less on getting volume in. I want quality first, then quantity. No point in playing 10 tables at the time, if it only excellerates my loss.

The ugly truth:



By 50.000 hands (= the end of this week), I aim to have turned this ship around. Having watched a video pr. day and taking notes. Less play, more studying, then when I become winning again, I will focus on volume again.

Have a nice easter all of you.

U still a long way to go buddy, forget bahamas, keep the hard worfk, im in cpt as well

@Javegam - thanks for the message, really nice to know that someone reads this. Yeah - Bahamas is slightly off bounds, but ... I can still imagine me showing up, and being met in the airport by Negreanu and Ivey, handing over their crowns to the new boss :-) - aka ME.

Are you in the 6-max, HU, or ... ?

Anyway. Update this week (which is actually for two weeks), is that I have focussed on watching videos, and taking a tonne of notes, so it can easily take me 3 - 4 hours watching a 1 hour video. I expect this will pay off soon - "you aint seen nothing yet".

Have still managed to play 500 - 1000 hands pr. day. This might not be impressive to most of you, but it is way more than I used to play - so I am kind of pushing myself to play more than I am comfortable with - and one more table, than I feel good about, so I can get the volume in. Need to have volume, so more situations become standard move, rather than something I have to consider.

I have played 6 tables simultaneously this evening, and did not feel to stressed about it. Do find it hard to keep the focus, but I am sure that will improve over time as well.

The graph showing a positive outcome for the previous two weeks:

Hello all.

Things have been rather hectic in my non-poker life for the previous 2 – 3 weeks. We’ve had a major incident, where one of our main customers had to be pleased day and night, meaning very little sleep, and very little time for poker – after all it is still my day job, that pays the bills.

I have sent in 3 DB’s for analysis, and scored between 98 – 99 % in each one of them, which I assume is pretty decent.

I think I am doing all the right things, but I’m still breakeven at best. I suspect that some of my bad winrate is caused by my bad luck with flushes. This is the bell curve for all the hands I’ve played since I started CFP:


I really am trying to apply the stuff from all the videos. I’m taking good notes, and re-read some of them before playing. Also, I am practicing 100 hands with uhlvar equity every day.

The ugly truth:


I find it very hard to understand how I could make such a good start here, and then after one week of skiing, everything goes wrong.

Naturally I do find this annoying, but … guess I just have to work harder. The aim is to reach 100k hands in profit, so I can move up, so for the remaining 34k hands, I need the curve to simulate the one from the beginning of the program.

There is something I am not applying correctly, and I am gonna find it.

Hand 1
You should have shoved pre after villain 4 bets.
Hand 2
Played fine
Hand 3
Check / Fold turn to >1/2 pot sized bet.
Hand 4
Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t QQ in the 4bet shove range?
I think the CFP plan is to get it in with QQ+ after a three bet. Not sure why you 4bet and 5bet. Doesn’t make sense to me.

Today it’s 4 months since I joined the CFP program. Chances for getting the fastest finisher are quite minimal. Family life often collide with the coaching sessions, so I spend enourmous amounts of time watching the videos, taking notes.

I think I have become a much better poker player than I was at the beginning – from a solid looser to just about break even. I think the major reason I am not winning big time by now, is that I follow the NOBS system to strictly in the situations where it’s allowed to deviate. Another place where I feel I loose a lot of money is ‘calling when the price is right’, even if I expect to be behind. I think I will have to work on my estimation of when ‘the price is right’, as I seem to loose every single one of these situations. Perhaps the price have become right because of my actions on previous streets. That’s a thought to work with.

After another couple of horrorsessions, I decided to try playing a new site – thinking a change would do me good. Both sites are said to be rather soft sites, so it should not really matter, but until now I am happy to say that the move has been a profitable one.

I have played a total of 81.500 hands in 4 months – not an impressive amount to many of you, but … spending 3 – 4 hours on each video in addition gives quite a lot of hours in total – given a full time job, kids and an old house that also needs some looking after occasionally.

Hoping/aiming to do the remaining 20.000 hands well enough to be allowed to move up to NL10. No point in moving up, if I am not profitable.

4 months status:

@ Hotfrog69
Only seen your comments now - thanks.

Hand 1
You should have shoved pre after villain 4 bets.
You're right.

Hand 2
Played fine

Hand 3
Check / Fold turn to >1/2 pot sized bet.
Aggree - FD + SD gets there on Turn- proceed with caution.
Now that I review it - should it not be a shove on the flop? - given the remaining stack?

Hand 4
You're right - a preflop shove.

Hey all.

A few changes since last update. I never really fell in love w. PT4, so I decided to switch back to HM2. So for now I have done app. 81.500 hands in PT4:


The first 2.500 hands in HM2 have shown a decent result:


So the combination of changing sites I play on and changing my tracker software seems to have been good :-). I am perfectly aware that the sample is very small, but – when I’m running good, I prefer to believe that it’s because I am playing well, and when I am running bad, I prefer to believe it’s variance and bad luck. I have been running profitably for the last 20.000 hands, which is very nice.

I still need about 15.000 hands up to 100.000. I intend to play them showing a decent profit, so I can move up to NL10.

One of the less nice things about getting back to HM2 was a reoccurring problem that from time to time it locks my poker client, so I can not press fold, call or raise buttons. To my memory this only happens, when I am just about to go all in with the nuts.

Another problem I’ve had was testing out the hero SNGs at party. These are seen as cashgames by HM2, and the stakes are substantially higher, than anything I have ever played. This is a know bug: http://forums.holdemmanager.com/bug-...rted-cash.html. Unfortunately this number is only in my HM2, not in the account on the poker site. For a short while, I did think I’d missed the amount we were playing at the SNG’s.



Wish that was true :-), the real number was around 10$ for the session.

Well soon, when I get further into this CFP program, that kind of numbers will not even impress me anymore.

Hey all.

A few changes since last update. I never really fell in love w. PT4, so I decided to switch back to HM2. So for now I have done app. 81.500 hands in PT4:



The first 2.500 hands in HM2 have shown a decent result:



So the combination of changing sites I play on and changing my tracker software seems to have been good :-). I am perfectly aware that the sample is very small, but – when I’m running good, I prefer to believe that it’s because I am playing well, and when I am running bad, I prefer to believe it’s variance and bad luck. I have been running profitably for the last 20.000 hands, which is very nice.

I still need about 15.000 hands up to 100.000. I intend to play them showing a decent profit, so I can move up to NL10.

One of the less nice things about getting back to HM2 was a reoccurring problem that from time to time it locks my poker client, so I can not press fold, call or raise buttons. To my memory this only happens, when I am just about to go all in with the nuts.

Another problem I’ve had was testing out the hero SNGs at party. These are seen as cashgames by HM2, and the stakes are substantially higher, than anything I have ever played. This is a know bug: http://forums.holdemmanager.com/bug-...rted-cash.html. Unfortunately this number is only in my HM2, not in the account on the poker site. For a short while, I did think I’d missed the amount we were playing at the SNG’s.



Wish that was true :-), the real number was around 10$ for the session.

Well soon, when I get further into this CFP program, that kind of numbers will not even impress me anymore.

YES I did it – got to 100k hands with a profit – so now I am allowed to move up to NL10.

These 18.5k hands from HM2 + the 81.5 in PT4 gives me a total of 100k hands:



I can now play more tables simultaneously – and with more confidence, so I expect to reach the next batch faster.

One problem is my arm, which has started to complain, when I spend to much time at the computer – and my day time job is (still) also in IT, so …

I have not watched many videos recently – focussed entirely on getting volume in. I also have a hard time participating in the group coachings, so my study time is often videos late at night – which does not have a positive effect on the readability of my notes.

I have ended up with a pregame warm up routine consisting of reading a chapter of my notes, playing 5 mins. with Uhlvar, analysing at least one hand from a previous session. These little excercises have been very good for getting my poker brain in gear.

Next update will be from NL10.

Congrats. How many tables do you play at a time?

I can play 6 tables without too much stress. Have tried 7 once, but I miss (and missread) too many spots - plus the stats in my HUD gets very small on my monitor. I tend to switch between 6 tables to get the volume and 4 tables to get the winrate up.

If your aim is to move past playing 'slot machine poker' - a description from Ed Miller about players that are only looking to make a big hand and then stack somebody - I really recommend playing fewer tables. Making $9/hr instead of $8 isn't going to make the difference in your becoming a winner at the higher stakes sooner.

It sounds like you're on a rigid regimen, and I can imagine that being a successful way to approach getting better. But even within that regimen, playing less than 6 tables would give you more time to think about what's happening and what alternatives might be, or practicing hand-reading when you watch a hand you're not involved in play out.

IMO, you have way more to gain from being in a more relaxed and observant state of mind while playing than you do from robotically clicking buttons for volume's sake.

6 tables isn't a lot. You've still got a fair bit of time to think.

Hey pal, glgl will follow