Day 5 - evening gift

I have been playing very poorly this evening, calling station mood, bluffing every unreasonable spot, giving away any sort of edge whether it ever existed.

A lot of work to improve the FOCUS needs to be done.

What learning resources have you used? Crushing gl!

Good luck, I have seen you today at 2nl zoom

Learning resources nowdays are everywhere, I will suggest you first of all to practice applying some fundamentals.
Equity and basic mathematics in order to have a good understanding of your chances along the board are part of the fundamentals.
Further mindset and analysis are key; youtube videos and free material are enough to beat 2nl.
Make little by little adjustments and improvements will come along the way.

I consider the most valuable skill the profiency on learning, unlearning and learning it again from scratch. There is no check in the box, as life poker has to be treated considering context, without we loose meaning and our base of evaluation, after all we are human .
Bear in mind to treat the variance as a wise old woman ^^



Today horrible performance, still a very bad mental shape


The first part of Day6 without the evening session graph




The best part is probably for Saturday/Sunday I will achieve 200$ bankroll to level up !

Day 6 tired - Tomorrow day off - Hand reviewing , studying, planning







50 $ left to level up


Some hands






GG Poker - $0.02 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 51.5 BB
SB: 100 BB
BB: 117 BB
Hero (UTG): 142.5 BB
MP: 119 BB
CO: 204.5 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 9 9

Hero raises to 3 BB, fold, CO raises to 9 BB, fold, fold, fold, Hero calls 6 BB

Flop: (19.5 BB, 2 players) 3 J 8
Hero checks, CO bets 11 BB, Hero calls 11 BB

Turn: (41.5 BB, 2 players) 4
Hero checks, CO bets 32 BB, Hero calls 32 BB

River: (105.5 BB, 2 players) A
Hero checks, CO bets 137.5 BB, Hero calls 90.5 BB and is all-in

CO shows K T (High Card, Ace)
(Pre 47%, Flop 23%, Turn 14%)
Hero shows 9 9 (One Pair, Nines)
(Pre 53%, Flop 77%, Turn 86%)
Hero wins 286.5 BB






GG Poker - $0.02 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 113 BB
SB: 136 BB
BB: 96.5 BB
UTG: 490.5 BB
Hero (MP): 85.5 BB
CO: 95 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 8 8

fold, Hero raises to 3 BB, fold, fold, SB calls 2.5 BB, fold

Flop: (7 BB, 2 players) 8 9 7
SB checks, Hero bets 5.5 BB, SB calls 5.5 BB

Turn: (18 BB, 2 players) Q
SB checks, Hero bets 9 BB, SB calls 9 BB

River: (36 BB, 2 players) 7
SB checks, Hero bets 68 BB and is all-in, SB calls 68 BB

Hero shows 8 8 (Full House, Eights full of Sevens)
(Pre 19%, Flop 85%, Turn 95%)
SB shows K K (Two Pair, Kings and Sevens)
(Pre 81%, Flop 15%, Turn 5%)
Hero wins 172 BB


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GG Poker - $0.02 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 121.5 BB
SB: 172.5 BB
Hero (BB): 175.5 BB
UTG: 50 BB
MP: 102 BB
CO: 100 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 8 8

fold, fold, fold, BTN raises to 3 BB, fold, Hero calls 2 BB

Flop: (6.5 BB, 2 players) 5 5 8
Hero checks, BTN bets 5.5 BB, Hero calls 5.5 BB

Turn: (17.5 BB, 2 players) 3
Hero checks, BTN bets 14 BB, Hero raises to 37 BB, BTN calls 23 BB

River: (91.5 BB, 2 players) K
Hero bets 91.5 BB, BTN calls 76 BB and is all-in

Hero shows 8 8 (Full House, Eights full of Fives)
(Pre 67%, Flop 95%, Turn 98%)
BTN shows K 5 (Full House, Fives full of Kings)
(Pre 33%, Flop 5%, Turn 2%)
Hero wins 243.5 BB


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Disappointed by my read here obv

GG Poker - $0.02 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 100.5 BB
Hero (SB): 213.5 BB
BB: 103 BB
UTG: 245 BB
MP: 66 BB
CO: 53 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K K

fold, fold, fold, BTN raises to 2 BB, Hero raises to 7 BB, fold, BTN calls 5 BB

Flop: (15 BB, 2 players) 2 6 A
Hero checks, BTN bets 7.5 BB, Hero calls 7.5 BB

Turn: (30 BB, 2 players) K
Hero checks, BTN bets 1 BB, Hero raises to 17 BB, BTN calls 16 BB

River: (64 BB, 2 players) T
Hero bets 80 BB, BTN calls 69 BB and is all-in

Hero shows K K (Three of a Kind, Kings)
(Pre 83%, Flop 69%, Turn 84%)
BTN shows Q 9 (Flush, Ace High)
(Pre 17%, Flop 31%, Turn 16%)
BTN wins 202 BB


It turned badly lmao

GG Poker - $0.02 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 121.5 BB
SB: 106 BB
BB: 91.5 BB
UTG: 220.5 BB
Hero (MP): 97.5 BB
CO: 140.5 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Q Q

UTG raises to 3 BB, Hero raises to 10.5 BB, fold, fold, fold, fold, UTG calls 7.5 BB

Flop: (22.5 BB, 2 players) J 2 3
UTG bets 7.5 BB, Hero calls 7.5 BB

Turn: (37.5 BB, 2 players) 5
UTG bets 30 BB, Hero raises to 79.5 BB and is all-in, UTG calls 49.5 BB

River: (196.5 BB, 2 players) Q

Hero shows Q Q (Three of a Kind, Queens)
(Pre 71%, Flop 74%, Turn 61%)
UTG shows J A (Flush, Ace High)
(Pre 29%, Flop 26%, Turn 39%)
UTG wins 196.5 BB

Hand 1 fold turn and 100% fold River we only beat busted flush draws

Hand 2 bet bigger on the turn 12-15bb, sweating too many bad rivers and also makes the River shove easier for villain to call on scare cards like Ax Kx

Hand 3 I'm probably flatting the turn as he's basically potted it and we have the board locked up. Even if the front door flush comes in he will likely not check if he holds a 5 and this way if a brick comes he could bluff off with a hands like 76s or A2s A4s

Hand 1 I got insights on oppo, due to that i call 3 street jamming autopilot without looking the river, he is a casino guy

The second one I could be agree.

The third I would be agree from Nl10/25 up, with condensated range here oppo always cold call emotionally due to their investement, and I do not really like many rivers, what I mean by that here is other than the holding of villain who has 41 % equity to the turn, also kings and every double on the board is in his range , on account for that I don't really enjoy the river decision , I guess it's a thougher decision for me , while I can keep it easy.
Furthermore he could bluff a lot of rivers without holding anything, this is why even for higher stake I do not really enjoy the spot to be played that way.

Hand 3 I meant the hand where you hold 88 on 8553, the KK hand (hand 4) is played fine imp

Then it's different hand 3 you are probably right, however when I am raising turn I am very polarised I suppose, and i prefer the line on raising for Nl2 because villain here when is sizing such strong flop and turn is very unlikely to fold even thinking a 5 is probably a bit more on our range, also to induce some overpair in his range to overthink river, when he got a 5 we can really maximazing our value in that way, while calling could lead to a lot of river where oppo could be more afraid of snap calling even overbets.
At higher stakes I guess the Tp could be deeper.

gi,guy! I am also play nl2 on GG!How many tables are you play？ I paly two tables because when I paly three tables I play worse. And I only play four hours a day and about 1400 hands,so my volume is small.
On the other hand,I am confused the preflop open and defend range and I am loonking for it.Do you had any suggestions?
Good luck man! Let's crush!

Soft day 7 - still every time they crash me on show down ^^




Hoping tomorrow is the last day on Nl2 and then before Nl5, I will have a day off

I would say it depends about how Your game is shaped right now, make some good pre flop tables from free resources out there, study them and try to stick with them as much as you can.
Bear in mind they are a very good start giving you order and system, then established your base that is your pre default strategy you can start to measure the results of them against opponents strategies and change them accordingly and logically.

" Rome wasn't built in a day. " I guess every poker player has to keep that in mind , it is a marathon not a short run.

This is why I will focus on make little adjustments little by little, trying to identify your biggest leaks at the beginning.

Lastly man always think at the table, never go autopilot , it is almost always a bad thing. I grind 4 tables , but I can grind 8 zoom , as I am used to.

Super going. Crushing NL2 and looking forward to your NL5 run.

I am still splashing about at NL2 I just cant get away from it

Awesome, great volume as well, you've been playing for a while today I have noticed you on my tables!

Worst session played since the start of the challenge - Day 6 end




Needed some time off the tables.

Thanks, man! GL AND go for it!

Tilted day- suspension of grinding



I am going to quit the challenge for a while, till the end of October, I need to check and think about multiple aspects of my grinding activity.

I don't think I will get back to play unless minimum from NL25, and it would be annoyng listing the reasons why.

It is definetely a See you guys...

Shame you're considering quitting so soon in, it would have been great to see us climb the stakes. It seems like you have no trouble at all with the volume, 55k hands in a week, you can certainly take more breaks between sessions.

I'm doing the grind from 2nl for different reasons to yourself but I hope to see you back at the tables, from your graph I can see you hit a 10k hand break even stretch and I know it may be tilting because we're literally playing for pennies, but building good habits and the discipline is important at higher limits.

I need to gather my toughts about the way how my grind has to be executed.

Furthermore I need to accept mentally the loosing side of this lovely game, the pressure it will apply on your daily basis is enormous, economically speaking whether is your major income.

A downswing stretch could last 500k+ hands more and if i am not willing and prepared to afford it mentally and economically on higher stakes I need to workaround a different path to persue it.

This is why I am going to engineer the activity in a different way, it seems giving all this space is not a good match for my mindset.

Downswings could hit very hard and totally soul wrenching, embrace them like walking in a park would be no one of my best skill but the opposite unfortunately.

I will update by the end of October.

Ummmmm

My advice would be to just slow it down. Chill out. This is a marathon not a sprint.

U don’t have to play 10K hands a day.

Just chill out, think about poker in your free time, think about things that are hard and difficult, try and improve on the things that are hard.

And be honest with yourself. Don’t use so much hyperbole.

Downswings don’t last half a million hands. That’s not a real thing. Chill out on the volume OP

Nothing is ever as bad (or as good) as it seems.

Nailed it? :\

u are so close to reach 5NL would be sad giving up right now
take two day off the week , leave it for other stuff
also i wanna know did u get any rakeback or did u hit the RnC promo ?
cant to see u back

Thanks I will get more graphs this week , and carry on , adjusting the identified weaknesses.



Man I am going to work 2 times harder than before , thanks, appreciate.


I will stick on Nl2 a bit more than estimated, I don't really feel comfortable with only 40 brm buy ins to level up, I will do it at 50 buys ins.

Good boy, you know it makes sense

Day9 194$ bankroll



Tilt lasted till yesterday

I have been so frustrated during the sessions, literally destroying the mouse.

The aiming this week as I have stated above will be to still play 2nl unitl the hit to 250$ benchmark.

Then nl5.