15:56 Agreed

16:14 i've choose to fold because the guy was 3bt stats was 13

18:07 for me is a bit to loose vs co..i think i called there like K5 suited+ but yeah..i probably overfold a lot..

18:24 i don't think people are checking overpairs at these stakes on the turn..but it makes sense to a go a bit bigger targeting what you said..but what's a bit bigger?maybe something like 11-12?

19:32 i ain't going to lie..that's a lot of food to process haha

20:50 i agree with you there it was atleast a call

21:00 we were in the sb with 46s facing an limp..not on the BTN

22:10 yes is a open indeed, i just **** up when i have 2 spots at the same time..and one of them is complicated.. with the Aqs you're right we only fold out worse or get called by better so there is no point in jamming there.. a call it was way better

23:18 i think my logic was this can be a good float as we have some backdoor playability.. but looking at it now i don't know what to think..and against that sizing on the turn i don't think we can call..

25:50 it was K7 off..usually if there is a player that 3bt a lot from the sb/bb i fold these kinda of hands from the btn

28:44 i need to work on my preflop ranges more..and especially in late positions

I do need to work on my preflop ranges,i agree with you 100%,i feel at low stakes tho 3x from every position is a bit better..considering we have tigher ranges..we build bigger pots with our value hands..but i don't know..i don't think it makes a big difference tho..

4:29 i don't think we can get called by way worse there...also as i have found out middling made hands prefer checking more then betting..
4:51 i think is bottom tho..but yeah i need to study preflop ranges more
5:20 that's actually a good idea..
6:10 you're right
6:25 agreed
8;49 felt like an ok open..maybe is quite bottom tho..
9:05 i agree
11;00 i just lose some info when i'm not concentrating 100%
15:28 yeah i need to start taking notes..i'm quite bad at taking notes tho..any advice on that?

A6o bb vs bu is a fold vs 2.5x and definately vs a 3x imo skull, but we discussed this earlier already

About note taking, just make quick notes about he played the hand, like open kqo bu vs bb, 1/3 k72r, xb a, c 3/4 5
Or just like bluffs missed draw river 1/2 or calls triple barrel with tpwk something like that

Hello guys,time for an update.First of all i've ranned a bit better then last week haha ,last 1000 hands i've messed up,i've made mistakes but is all good.I feel that last week and this week probably played the best poker that i've played since i've started this thread.The first month of the thread when i look at it now,i was so bad strategy wise+mentaly wise (not saying that i'm good now) but i feel in the last 2 weeks i've made quite a lot of improvements in both.I've found out that we all make mistakes and i shouldn't be so consumed by my fu*k up's how i was always before.And i think that helped a lot.
With that said i think i've learned enough to beat 2NL and i wanna prove that to myself sooo is CHALLENGE TIME!!!!
This month i've played 26K with a negative winrate but i feel i can do this! I feel i know enough to beat the lowest stake on pokerstars and i wanna prove myself that and push my limits!
Next week starting from monday i will aim to play as many hands as i can with the minimum amount being 21k hands.Maybe is not that much but for me 21k hand in a week is HUGE.
I feel that this can go either way because i will have to play my B,C,D game and i feel if i play my A game i can beat 2NL but i don't know about the other ones tho. Tomorrow i will take a day off to prepare mentally.
With that said i think i will come out of this a better player,a stronger one from a mental point of view and it will be great to push my limits. I will play 2 tables zoom. Let's gooooo and get it!!!

Bankroll: 50.33$

This week graph:



"It was time to marry the game and I said, 'Yeah, I do.' "

Gl mate!

Thanks man!

Hello guys!Is time for the cheeky friday update!
So this week is been a busy one,we started it with the left foot as sunday when i came home from work a party was waiting for me at the house(it was the women that i share the house with birthday) and i've kinda felt that i was being pushed into it,after couple of shots i felt so bad..i was in a bad mood for drinking and in my head there was all of this toughts ''What are you doing here drinking..tomorrow you have to grind'' and i've kinda felt dissapointed in myself..and instead of stopping i've just kept drinking and partying and i got pretty waisted.I've realised that i was weak again,and i've realised that i kinda don't know how to describe it..like i wanna please everyone and sometimes i can't say ""NO"". It was only my fault for drinking..i need to say ''NO'' to people more often..and more then that i need to learn how to say ''NO'' to me more often.
On monday i've kinda had a conversation with my dad,and what he said me realise a lot of stuff..i've kinda had an epiphany about life(i'm not goint to get into that as is personal and to be honest everyone has they're own way and need to realise things in they're own way).
With that said the poker grind has been going alright,i've realised that i've set this challenge for myself not to prove that i can beat 2NL..and because i was frustrated that after 2 months of playing i'm still at 2NL.I"ve realised that progress should have mattered the most to me..not the stakes that i'm playing.
This challenge was good but at the same time was really bad overall,i didn't went for running..i didn't meditate..i didn't study..and those things should have mattered to me way more and they are more important then playing at 2NL.
Overall it was a good week even if i'm behind with the hands played.I'm only at 9,3K and i'm just going to keep playing and from monday i will be back to a balanced way..because i've realised that we have to be calm,positive,do the work and the most important take things slowly.
I had a really toxic relationship with my parents and it was my fault..even if my father is in the uk i haven't seen him in a long time so sunday i will not play and i will go to meet up with my father!
With that said next update will be on monday! Have a nice and blessed day everyone! And happy grinding!

I'm going to post the update today..last 2k hands i've played bad,really bad,i don't know what happened,i've become over aggro(even got pissed of in a emotional way..which it shouldn't happened) and i'm just not in the right mindset to play,i think i'm going to take a break to refresh the mind as we finnished the week 11.374 hands which is a lot for me in a week..i think i'm a bit tired mentally and is getting to me

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BR:69.47$

I might take like a 4buy ins shot at 5NL,i might not,now the only thing that i need to focus is getting back the good state of mind which i had for the whole week,lost it last night and today haha! Oh well,we will be back at it again boys! I can't stop,i won't stop! Not even when i will make it I won't stop!!! I wish a good day to everyone and happy grinding!

Graph looks good! Fine to take a break after playing lots and start fresh again

Thanks for the feedback man 🙏A lot of work needs to be done,strategy wise and mental wise aswell..I didn’t had time to check but I hope your journey is going well man 🙏🙏

Alright guys,time for an update!
This week was messed up,i had the first dose of the vaccine and now i feel so tired,mental wise i'm pretty messed up. I've probably had like a mental break down or depression..i'm not even sure.I've found out that my father had in a period of less then a year 34 mini strokes and i've cried for couple of days,a lot,most of it just because i was a ignorant ****,i didn't loved him,i didn't appreciate them(my parents),and when the reality hit me,that he can die at any point from now and i've had such a toxic relationship..it hit me hard..i regret everything..i've cried so much this week. I regret every second that i lost in my life so far..so yeah.
Poker wise i found out that i've been concentrating on moving up asap and i've aproached the game in such a bad manner.
I've took a shot at 5NL and i've found out that i don't know **** about poker+my depression/mental breakdown..let's just say that it didn't went well.
I don't know what is going on with me..i doubt myself hard,every decision is so damn complicated..is like i don't know what i'm doing anymore.
THe biggest problem probably is that i tilt,i tilt bad,and that stopped happening in the last month..and now it apperead again..i get so angry when i'm losing,i'm doing dumb **** again,i punt a lot again..i'm pretty messed up mental wise.Anyways..i don't know what's the plan now..i think i will take a break from poker probably..i can't play if i get angry at the first hand that i play and i lose ..i think i will stop playing..i will study the mental game..i will study more in general..and i don't know..i feel pretty bad to be fair but it is what is,life can be a ***** sometimes! I don't know when i will update again..or if i will.

This week graph:

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All the best to everyone!

Hello guys,time for an update!
So i'm out of my mental breakdown that i had when i posted the last update(the mental breakdown wasn't caused by poker and by the things that is happening with my father and my realization of some things in my life).
So that's the positive.In the last 2 weeks i hadn't played that much,study even less which is not great.But i'm in a really good state of mind at the moment.Poker wise..such a rollercoaster.So after me losing 8 buy ins,actually punting 8 buy ins at 5NL..i've played a bit of 2NL/5NL..and i felt way to confident and took a shot at 10NL(you will see steep downhill on the graph).And again,i punted big time over there.Left with 16$ i've done the most degen thing that i could do,spin and go's leaderboards hahaha.Long story short, it almost didn't worked,i had to deposit like 13$ more and managed to build it up to 75$ trough spin and go's(i know,is bad,i will never do it again).I've realised that my mental game lacks big time,like way more then i was thinking before.
I need to discipline myself,and i will,because now the goal is 50NL by the end of the year.I will go aggro with my br,i feel if i discipline myself a bit and fix my mental leaks(hate of losing tilt/hate of making mistakes tilt) and other type's of tilt where i've found myself big time,i think that strategy wise i ain't that bad.I'm not good either,i don't fool myself,i'm just saying my mental game i think lacks more then my technical understanding of the game. Is like i can't even apply the simplest stuff sometimes because of my mental game. But is all good,i ain't bitching,is time to become more serious about this.
Tomorrow is my birthday,happy 23 haha! What i will do? ****ing grind. I don't care about anything else then getting to 50NL by the end of the year.
If i discipline myself and do the things that i know i need to do them but i lacked discipline to do them,i feel is achievable.
So let's ****ing go,let's get it!!!

Oh and P.S I'm playing at work on my phone and i won like 3-4 buy ins which are not included in the graph haha and i will continue playing in my break at work because i'm hungry! Big time!!

BR:118:30$

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All the best to everyone!

Great to hear you are in a better state of mind right now.

Nice results! Keep the coming!

PS. Agro BRM and working on your mental game are two opposites if you ask me. Since a big part of working on your mental game is that you create a mindset where you accept that variance plays a huge part in poker. And on the other hand, you play an x stake with an x amount of bi (not enough) so here you clearly don't accept that variance plays a big part.

(I'm a big hypocrite on this part haha, thought it would be interesting to share anyway)

Agreed with the above, also only move up when you're 100% confident about that and for no other single reason. Keep watching vids of people playing the micros, I still do that for 1-3 hours a day if I have the time, improving is more important than playing at 2nl

Thanks for the feedback guys!
KidCudi147..I don't see the correlation between aggro brm and accepting variance..I accept variance,i don't have a problem with losing.I'm not trying to fool myself,i know that the last 2k hands positive variance had a big impact on my results as i don't think i've improved that much in the last period of time as i didn't study much at all. I accept variance,my problem is with me making mistakes and losing when i make mistakes.And all of my life runned from my problems,when i 15-16 i was shy,very shy,and i had big social anxiety(like my mouth was getting ''blocked'' and i couldn't even say ''hello''),and what have i done? I've became a hard drinker,a very hard one(to cope with that).Later in my life i had a very negative attitude towards everything,i was complaining about everything..''my life sucks'', ''my job sucks'' ,''people are so mean and bad'' , ''the world is ****ed up'', i was negative towards everything and i tought the problems is with the world.The problem was with me and my perspective..and i started doing drugs big time because of my negative attitude and toughts instead of actually fixing my problems . I've always runned from my problems and now i don't wanna run anymore. I will use aggro brm(i ain't going to start playing 25NL with 5 buy ins or some **** like that..i will just shot take more..i will not wait until i have 30 buy ins for 10NL for example so i can shot take.. i will do it probably next week..i will start mixing 5 and 10NL) and so on..why i'm doing this? To get out of my comfort zone,grab the bull my the horns(my mental leaks),and face them head on..as i don't wanna run anymore,head on from now,and i feel if i get out from my comfort zone and face them i will fix them eventually.Is going to be a war,but if i slowly win battles i'm going to win the war aswell! That's how i see things,i ain't saying i'm right,i'm just saying what i think it will work for me as everyone has they're path and they're way of doing things.

Thommehh...Poker is a game of uncertainty,i don't think you can ever feel 100% in poker about anything.At core is the same game at 2-5-25-100-200-500NL and so on..is not like people at 500NL play a different game.The opponents are better,the strategy's are better and more complex but is the same game.Every stake has just they're adjustments and that's it.At his core poker is the same at 10NL and 500NL(only the adjusments are different) imo and how you've said in your thread..you prefer to get better and learn at 50NL and not 25.I get your point,and thanks for the feedback man!

Well you can be certain about a couple things in poker. I only moved up to 50nl because I was/am certain that I can beat the stake. I never tilt, I just know to quit when I'm getting slightly annoyed and am working on fixing that too. Ofcourse the level of play at 2/5/10nl is very similar but I just think for you it's more important to improve your game/mental game before anything else but anyways you should do whatever feels best for you, also I don't know anything about your financial situation ofcourse

You're def right man about improving strategy and mental game wise.Runned the br to about 208$ then had a bad stretch.I was about 7 buy ins under ev at 10NL and i've blew up badly.I got so tilted and i've messed up.The ev line should have been higher if i didn't called all in's pre with 99's and JJ's and other bs because i was on a very bad tilt.Br back to 118$ only because in the last session where i've tilted the hardest probably, went all in with 97s for 170bb and the worst thing, i've won a 340bb pot with it, which is tilting me as i write this down haha Anyways,i will take a break and start working on my mental game harder. I feel i can beat 10NL if i don't tilt and play my game. The br is the same as i've played on sunday after the update which is not included in this graph

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Just try to see the positive things. You are standing your ground at 10NL! And in regards to feeling bad about tilting. Hopefully in the future you will reach an x stake where you can look back at those times and say to yourself: I'm happy that I tilted there because I was able to see mental leaks for relatively cheap. Just work hard to get rid of them and you will be fine!

GL OP

Great way to think about it.

Hello Mr wannabecrusher
first of all, I wanna congrats you for your determinism and courage to change the situation
as I see we are in a similar situation I've been playing for about 1,5 year
I wanna be a cash game player ( winning one ofc) hope climbing to high stacks
ill be grateful if share with us the resources you used I instentaly can't afford to buy courses
GL

Thanks for the feedback guys! I definitely had to see the positive in that.In the last 3 weeks and towards the end of the last graph,i wasn't really in a good place from a mental perspective.I've found God( i ain't going to talk about it,as i feel subjects that make people argue and create hate shouldn't be discussed,everybody can live they're life how they want to and the important thing is to respect other people more and that's the end of this conversation),and my brain just crashed big time.I felt guilt,guilt for the type of person that i've becomed(i've hurt people that i care of,i've hurt my girlfriend,or ex girl i don't even know what we are anymore,she kinda decide that she had enough of the stupid and imature **** that i was. I've hurt my parents,and everyone around me). And the most i've hurt this precious gift that we call life(by doing drugs and junk food and alcohol and etc). I was so unconscious. I'm so grateful that i've started to follow my dream,to make a decent living from poker.If i didn't started poker couple of months ago,i would probably still be today in a lot of suffering and misery.
In the last 3 weeks i didn't played much and when i played, i played poorly,i didn't study anything.This week tho i've decided i have to get out of this poor mental state,and i started grinding again and had a talk with my parents today,i really important one.I can't do poker 4h a day and work a full time job(6days 8h a day),and also take care of eating healthy,exercising,i just can't,i can't focus on everything that i need to do in order to follow my dream.
So i've decided,1 of september i will go back home and follow poker.I will stay at my parents house(i really don't mind that at the start),so i don't have to worry about things,and they've agreed,which is mind blowing to me even now. My uncle wants to start an electricity&plumbing company back home,so i will work maybe 1-2 days a week(and not every week),just so i will have spending money.
I'm super super super excited for this and that's why i've decided to do an update.
Br is at 55$,if i can grind it to 200$ by 1 of september that will be amazing,if not,i'm happy with whatever. I don't care anymore,i'm going to try poker out for 1 year and see if i can make it,but i will make it,as i will not work anymore 6 days a week,and i will have time to dedicate,which is what i want!!

Let's duckingggggg gooo!!!!!

Eurusm imo and what helped me the most was to talk hands with people and analyse hands with other's,seeing a different point of view i think helped me the most.And then you have all of the classics one's that you've already know from watching videos(Weazel,Easty) to reading forums and etc.

hey man,
leaving your job to play 2nl is a really really really bad idea....if you cant play 4 hours a day after your daily job you shouldnt really go for it IMO.
please reconsider for your own good .

Hey man!Is not about 4h(i usually do them before work as i work 2pm-10pm),and i play 2h as 2h i study,i just feel is not enough and i want to put more time in! I work a really shitty job man,i work in Asda,is like supermarket in the uk,if i don't do overtime one day a week i will probably get like 1300 ponds a month after tax,which is nothing,my bills without food are 800 pounds a month at the moment,so is not like i'm making much money at the moment And is killing me man,i'm 23 and i already have back problems,i have to work soft drinks and lifting all day long heavy ****,doing about 6-10 pallets of drinks a day. I'm sick of this ****,and the worse thing,i'm alone,i only have my cousin and he live's in another house. I'm sick of being alone.I'm going to take a risk,i'm 23 and i ****ed up badly in life so far,what is one more year?

The man is back! GLGL

Thank you Mr Skull!

The maddest thing just happened. I wasn't falling asleep and i said to myself,let me play 10$ on slots,i haven't played slots in more then a year(i know,i'm a bit of a ex degen haha).

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It seems i'm properly rolled for 10NL now hahahah(i'm joking,until i will go home i will play 5NL and see how it goes,hopefully good). This is crazy,now i will not fall asleep for sure