Newson93

my basic setup

SRP : preflop raiser F 33 T 33 75 150 R 50 75 150 allin
OOP caller F - T 33 75 R 33 75 150 allin
3BP: raiser F 33 T 33 75 R 50 75 allin
caller F - T 33 50 75 R 33 75 allin
4BP raiser F 25 T 25 50 allin R 50 allin
caller F - T 25 50 allin R 25 50 allin

for all River options add 33 block bet if OOP

week 2

graph week 2
results week 2
graph march
results march

This week was I was super productiv. As I mentioned in my last weeks post, I had a lot of free time available and we absolutely took adventage of it.

What we did last week:

-played very high volume, but I paid a lot attention to keep my focus at high level and stopped whenever I felt like loosing attention or playing autopilot. Limiting session length to 90 min and trying to talk tought process out loud worked pretty well for that.

-had one session with my discord group and going to have another today. we will be focusing every session to one topic, e.g. defending 3bets OOP, we will do this by reviewing hands, looking at some sims and playing against solution in GTO+.

-finished the first week of A-game masterclass. I´ll write a bit more about the course and how it relates to my mental game, in the next days.

-did a workout and went running at least twice

Next week:

-after this high volume week, I could go on for finishing my stars rb challange for 1600$ extra. It´s pretty tempting, but I´m not going to sacrifice my quality of play, studying. I´ll just see how goes and just dismiss it if any other goals start to suffer.

-doing 2nd week of A-game course

-finally be bit more active in forum

Following your Journal from the beginning. Very interesting an motivating read.
Congrets to your BrPC signing, thats huge and well deserved. I will try going for this in
the future as well.
See you at the 100z tables, I´m sure you´re going to crush!
Cheers

week 1

First week since starting this journal was great.
I am feeling more motivated and optimistic about my poker journey than ever befor.
Of course regarding poker, not much can happen in one week, don`t get me wrong ;)
But having stopped being one lonely guy in front of his computer, was not that easy
for me and feels quite big.

So what we did last week:
- played good volume, that`s never my problem. As CatorMan pointed out
we need focus on playing high quality, not volume. But in the 2nd half of the week
we did that pretty well. I´ll keep my focus on that in the future.

-I joined a discord group with some nl50 and nl100 guys. We had one session of reviewing
recorded live play of mine. The guys seem to be very nice and in the session we got quite
into detail about my recording. I will keep that up with them guys and maby reach out to some
guys if interested. So that was very big, never did that befor but should have done it way earlier.

-watched some live play and HH videos of Henry Saulo and Tariq as warmup
befor my own sessions.

-marked interesting hands, reviewed some and did some PIO sims. But definitly need to be
more consistent with that and need to use PIO more often and in a more structured way.

What we did not do:
-Any sports :D
I was so hyped with poker things and did some aktivities with girlfriend and friends,
so I´m fine with that for this week.

What we do next week (having 6 days free at work):
-Playing focused and motivated hours at the tables. Sessions 1-1.5h, no volume goal.

-joining at least 1 or 2 discord calls and maby connect with more people.

-increase activety in RIO forum. Post some interesting hands.

-start with 1st week of A-game Masterclass

-do my 4split workout plan

And finally graph and results for the week.
Feeling so positiv about the week, even though results were not the greatest,
should be a good sign of doing the right things.

For sure, sent you a pm.

I can see this coming :)

what will surely become a wildly successful and popular journal

Very nice read so far. Looking forward for more to come.
GL

Congrats, very nice results! What we`ve seen so far
super consistent work ethics. Keep that up and crush NL100!

I bought the course at sale for 300$, which still some money. I probably woud not have bought it at normal 1000$ prize.
The course is divided into 6 weeks with 5-7 lessions/exercises for each week. I´ll give you an update after finishing the weekly chapters. One great bonus is that there is a monthly Q&A call with Elliot, and you can listen to all the past calls.

Differences between 100z and 50z? First thought, not much.
But I did some range research reports for both pools and it confirms my first thought. Overall pool tendencies of beeing too passiv/tight in most parts of the game tree remain the same, with only tiny shifts to more agression. Bit more overbetting and higher river betting are the only stats worth to mention from the data.
From my own experience at the tables I think recs are the same on both limits, there are some few good agressiv regs you might not find at 50z.
So what I´ve seen from your journal, no need to worry or change anything due to the limit change. I´m sure are not going to struggle in NL100 pool.

It's a question of winrate and mindset, so a pretty subjectiv topic.
So for my personal approach, I agree with CatorMan,
NL2-10 to nitty
NL25-50 standard
NL100 already bit aggressiv but useable
NL200+ way to aggressive unless you are confident to be a crusher

So first half of the week went not so well.
Played pretty good volume with pretty bad results. Not the combination we looking for ;)
But nothing worry, though.

The first topic I want to write about is what I would call getting the most A-game out of my playing time.

In the past, I played a some amount of sessions while watching sports or a series with my girlfriend.
This clearly has nothing to do with a professional approach and will stop now.
So first simple rule is only play on my desk, with no other distractions. No TV and phone.

2nd rule will be setting an alarm to play 1,5h sessions and having at least 1h break between sessions.
At times I have the bad habit of checking results during a bad session
and kind of extending my session till I am breakeven or winning.
I`m not really prone to tilting, but I shift to a button clicking autopilot if sessions take to long.
Stoppin bad sessions at set time and coming back after doing eather some studying or some other
productiv things (running, workout, cooking etc.) should increase my proportion of A game a lot.

And as 3rd I´ll do the A-game masterclass course by Elliot Roe. I purchased it when it was for sale,
but only did the first week back than, even tough I liked it from the beginning. I think there is no
doubt that the course is superior material. Working aktivly and focused through the course will give me a solid base for the future career.

So these are the first adjustments that I´m taking. First and second are very obvious ones, but simlpy sticking to them will dismiss a lot of my B/C/D game.
Has any of you done the A-game masterclass so far and how was it?

GL at the tables

100k+ hands a month are sick, not even too many pros will play that volume.
But 1h of 2tabling zoom games is about 500 hands, so 1k+ for a day is not that crazy.

But you are aware that the combination of doing it just for the money while not wanting to play a lot of hands is not really optimal? ^^

The fact that you show us a 4k hand graph to proof that you`re crushing, shows the whole problem. I´m not saying that you are not a winning player at your limits, but a Net Won graph for this sample idicates nothing.
I really recommend you to look up some variance calculation here:

https://www.primedope.com/poker-variance-calculator/

Poker is what it is, terrible misstakes can be rewarded in the short term, it won`t change.

It seems to me like you went for these 4k hands, despite winning, trough a emotional rollercoaster like some players will not do for a whole year of poker.
If you don`t find a way to deal with these short term "unfair" outcomes, it will be hard to enjoy the game of poker.

So results for March where kind of ok, but I decided to take a step back and Play NL10 for the next month. I`ll do this because It feels harder to me to trust adjustments in my game and getting used to them while only having a 35-40 BI for NL25.

So this is the graph for March. Results seem to be ok, but towards the end of month I didn`t play well at all. Lots of forced agression and herocalling.

I will also start to post Hands regularly

well done, keep going!

thx!

BB Play last 30k Hands

call PF 2bet%

BB vs. UTG 24,39%
BB vs. MP 26,22%
BB vs. CO 27,66%
BB vs. BU 45,56%
BB vs. SB 43,66%

3bet%

BB vs. UTG 3,09%
BB vs. MP 4,00%
BB vs. CO 4,92%
BB vs. BU 7,87&
BB vs. SB 13,87%

BB vs. UTG open

-calling way to wide: 43s-76s, 97s, 86s, T8s, Q8s, K5s, JTo
-should try to find some 3Bet bluffing spots against too wide UTG RFI stats

BB vs. MP

-again calling way to wide: calling a lot of crap A6s-A9s,K2s-K9s, Q9-Q5s, J9s-J7s,T9o, 98o, 87o, 86s, 65s,54s
-3 betting: value 3bets looking good, but too few 3 bet bluffs
-couldn`t find one overfoldet hand BB vs. UTG/MP last 30k hands ;)

BB v CO

-calling some low suited gapper which should be folds, 32s/43s/54s should be sometimes 3bet bluffs and mainly folds, J6s-J8s, Q5s-Q8s, K5s-K8s,
-3betting way to less, missing some value 3bets need and some more low SCs for 3 bet bluffs

BB vs. BU

-Folded some A2o-A6o, K8s, J7s-J8s, but def. not generally overfolding vs. BU
-need to 3 bet way more

BB vs. SB

-no PF problems

OK, so a lot of ranges to fix!

no it`s not variance, my ovarall NL25 BB Winrate is -60/100. I just read your database Analysis about defending the BB vs. various positions and many leaks seem to be very familiar. I will do some research, post the results in the next days.

Thx :)
Yes I Play Zoom.
These are the stats from this month