SkullKid

Okay I'm back at it,
H9: 19:51- Q10s CO vs.SB-3B.
Interesting spot when X to there. The name blooming remind me something so I would suppose he was playing 25NL reg tables at some point. Mb, lower confidence because he lost a bit there. Probably more of a ABC type player. Overall not sure I like a bet there, your hands play well on most turn, except K,A but of spades no problem. I think it's probably one of your weakest top pair in that position don't see you call with Q9, so MB a X is higher EV. plugged it in snowie and he prefers X back. But very small difference.

H10: 20:27 - A3s CO vs. BUT-3B.
I think depending on V, could be a 4B at some freq from that position setting. But at those stakes would be carefull against who I use this strat.

H11: 22:12.- AQs BB vs. CO.
I like the check some of the times on that texture. V don't have a lot of 2 pairs on there so there is a big case for the big size as u pointed out. I think so far you've come to the conclusion that your opponent would bet for you a lot of the time. Very interesting because I've seen a lot of regs from my games doing this. Mb your doing it too much? I don't know...
T: like the sizing Mb woulb bet a bit bigger than 1/2 pot.
R: I like 1/2.
(lost fives on the left, should go in setting to set auto-timebank) = verrrrry +EV ;)

H12. 26:28. - A6 BB vs. BUT.
I like raising the flop there. I understand your line that you want trips in your x/c line. But I believe in those games and for the 1/4 pot bet. don't play to fancy, I've got a big hand? let's build that pot. sure higher stake you might want to X because player are working hard to win those situation w/ bluff. but lower it's a lot of one stab give ups.

H13. 32:36 - JQs HJ vs LJ.
I like the 3B there more than w/J10s. for me J10 depends if its a weaker very call happy player. The JQ I think its default play.

H14: 33:25 - K9o BUT vs. BB.
I think on turn it's close, but maybe I go more for a bet there. thinking that my opponent dont call with some Qx flop, and it puts his PP on a difficult spot against second barell.
River: the size is wrong there, most of his call flop are PP, or ace high u dont represent flush because u would have likely bet turn, or opponent would have sometime lead river if he had one. So your blockers are not relevant there. what is realy important is thinking more about the construction of your opponent range. If you were him what would you have called flop. project yourself in your opponent. it would be a good start to guess what is the look of is different range. on this texture, A high is big part,(every one call to split imo) and a lot of pp, of BW, you dont need a big size to make him fold that. Second time I see this. So I think its a big mistake there that comes from a poor understanding in V range construction.
Q10, thats a bit surprising, but I think it proves my point... don't mind the bet but I think that size is probably wrong.

H15 35:45 99 CO 3B vs. LJ.
WP

H16 37:00 QQ CO-4B vs. BUT-3B.
Very low VPIP a loooot of room for him to call being that deep. Good fold. poor play by your opponent there.

H17 37:37 66 CO vs SB.
T: I would just fold there. Is calling range is full of BW, and you have some Qx, and having seen you play a bit mb some Kx there also. so I probably fold there.
oh. well. nice call I guess... haha

H18 39:21 AJo SB-3B vs. CO.
Very interesting spot there. I think probably A10s is one of your weakest top pair in that spot. I dont know if you 3B the lower Ax there. so you probably dont have any 2 pair combo on that board. So your quite low on flop.
F: I like the small bet. classic.
T: thats a very big bet. I think I would be checking some of the times there and use a small size. I would never bet that big what worst do you expect to get call. what is your plan on the river. OKay Nut FD call. But could easily have AQ, or even AK considering low VPIP and position. I dont like it.

H19. 45:46 AJo LJ vs BUT.
T: I don't like that sizing to much. I think on that turn, u want to size up. to get call by Jx, I dont think your that fancy to have a wide value range, (using a small size) or be polarised the proper way, being with a tight range OOP. So you probably dont have bluff there for the big size... Buuuuut. V is never folding a J I think and that is very good for your specific holding. I that case dont think too much about V rang. I know it has a lot of lower pair. But he still might call those for bigger.

wait what!? nothing u could do there.
GG, I think I've given you a couple of ways to improve.
1. defending the BB
2. Better understanding of V overall range Post-flop.
3. getting a bit better with 3B pot. VERY important in the micros.

Overall u play well I think.

I was talking about the river flush yay. I'll be looking at the end of the video. in a couple of hours. just finished playing. that was a swingy one.

Okay I have some overall read on what u should work on IMO. Don't want to sound harsh. And took some notes on the hands that led me to this conclusion.

h1: 02:19.
First spot. I think flop is a good call. But you have to understand what is vilain range there. Is very Ax oriented based on position, for his ''bluff'' I think is approach would be 3B linear so som Broadways, I doubt he would use that size for lower PP like 88,99 but who knows.
R. Becomes a spot. what do you want him to fold. Never ax, somme small PP, some BW, but you block. overall dont like the size. I think way to big for the the purpose.

h2: 03:28
Maybe, not deep enough to call there? not very good at this. River I would bet for sure.

h3: 04:42
Playing fancy on this one. I like that u have some X there with aces, and a lot of X oop. But I think considering the low number of 7x in there, and probably lot of Kx. I like betting building that pot.

h4: 08:00
Good first instinct. I would just get it in pre as you said ;). As played shove the flop. imagine X, X. turn A. outch. not letting that happen, bad player. ALL the marbles.

h5: 11:03.
There I think u should study those spots more playing from the small blinds and the big blind. those are crucial. and at 16:50 no thinking about 3B there? what would be youre squeezing range from BB? sigh preflop rake pfff

h6: 18:08
Just calling there is good? not sure. but no thought about raising? maybe only get call by better conidering lead into 3 players. But I paused it to ask myself if there was value.

18:40
As I said the KQo shows that u need to have a better understanding of your ranges preflop as the BB. very important aspect of the micros. Thats a place where edge are made.

I'll take a break for now. But overall you are playing quite solide.

All right then quick tea and I take a look!

Hey man! Been following your posts. I will take a look. Im a 50NL reg on GG. U preffer i comment here or on the vids comment?

Very interesting stuff, you are a self aware dude. So you will improve on the aspect of changing the way you play based on how you run I'm sure. I think everybody does it. But certain people are not even aware of it.
Interesting that you become more aggro when loosing when I first started I was that way also. And now it's kinda the opposite.

What's up I'm back. Played on GG and I'm back with a 50NL Roll. I've been on the study grind like crazy.

Like I said went for the life structure this time. Still playing a lot of course. But eating better, sleep everything.

I have a couple of questions for you: Do you guys use pokersnowie? Just bought it and been warming up against him before playing. Gosh he plays tough ;). Whats your ranking on there? I've just manage to get short of the world-class level. No big data, yet.

The rake on GG is fkg insane. Preflop rake? I mean come on! Do you guys have different approach based of the rake on your preflop squeeze and 3B. I Loooved to squeeze on PS I felt like so much of my opponents had such a high frenquency to fold against 3B (even IP) that I was printing money with over squeezing a little. Now on GG I feel robbed from my powers (lol).

FUCK. I Realy messed up. Took a big hit. Playing 50NL and tilted a big part of my roll. lost 10bi. to bring me back down. to 600USD or so. Was very tilted and took some money out. 300USD. And destroyed my database WICH WAS THE MOST STUPID PART. I feel prety bad right now. But I will find the motivation to get back at it. I can see that patern in me. It's my second time doing it. I know that my problem is having not a good enough mental game and discipline in my life. My next objectives will be based on that. BACK TO STEP ONE LET'S GO!

Nice blog! I'm looking for new people to improve with. You say my post. I think I have good potential in NL50. If interested send me a DM. GLGL man!

thank you! I've changed the link.

DAY 10
Took some time off for the couple last days. My challenge is over. That was a fail. A bad idea in term of making it happen. 100 hours of play is way harder than what I thought. But I knew that it was not a very good idea I just wanted to push myself and get to my third step.

FIRST STEP : Get to 250USD. = X

2nd STEP : Get to 500USD. = X

3rd STEP : Get to 1K USD. = X

4th STEP : GET TO 2,5K USD (!!!) =

ministep1 : I need to play more 25NL. I've been playing mostly 50NL with some early success. But I still want to upgrade my number of hands played in 25NL I don't have a big sample there. I want to make sure I'm one of the best winner there before moving up.
ministep 2 : A big part of knowing if I'm one of the best player in 25NL is knowing every winner in the stakes so I can seat select very well. So I need to keep on taking notes on the regulars.
ministep 3 : Keep on playing 50NL-Zoom. I think it's a stake that bring a lot of people down and some make it to become pro from there. It's the level entry of being a pro. And I think that it's not impossible for me to be a winner there if I keep practicing and improving.

For the 5th step. I believe It's time to make myself and objective based on the learning process. I've not study since a long time. I wanted to get back to the stakes witch I think I'm a winner before expending my knowledge and pushing for the next one.

All right that's it for me folks! I'm a bit excited to have that kind of money from poker. It's not much but I have a strong hourly!

GLGL GUYS!

DAY 7
Did not play a lot yesterday was the birthday of one of my good buddy so spent the night with him. (and lost my cellphone at the beach... that's an other story) About the grind things seems on the up and up for me. I'm taking a ton of notes on my opponent. I play mostly NL25 these days. Should try to play more regs tables. I'm loosing there after 3K hands. only 2 bi.

So this is it boys. I think I can beat NL25. seems like it. So I will play massive volume there to get the confirmation.

DAY6
Played for almost 12hour was pretty tough and by the end of it I was not taking very good decisions. But I'm still at a very high C/hour for the games I'm playing obv. So yeah very pleased with the week end played a ton of 25: 10K hand. It's not a lot to tell me if i'm a winning player or not there. (and I played during the week end) So I think would be smaller to play 10NL and 16NL during the week and maybe play a little higher next week end­.

DAY5
A little bit of explanation of what is going on:

• Day 5 was real hard for me. I started to feel like I was real tired and not really caring that much if I lost or won. Took less time in the big decisions. So I really played way less. That day, one of my ex-girlfriend was taking her vacation where I live so took the time to saw her enjoy the beach and nature here. Drank way to much that night obv. She is such a cutie.

• DAY 6 was a day off with her and some of her friends. Took a long walk in a national parc: Forillon. Was good times.

Well didn't play that much during that time but It was needed. And did not think about my roll my leaks or anything. Felt good.
BUT I'M BACK NOW. Need to finish that 10 day challenge. I will not count the vacation in those days. it's the 10 days (of poker) 100hour (not gonna get there) challenge. It got a different sound to it.

DAY 4
OK well I'm almost back at 500usd. THis is so hard to play 10h per day I thought It would be possible. NO way! Just slept 10h last night felt sooooo good! Last night I had no motivation to play. was just so tired didn't realy care if I was winning or not. SO I just went to bed. Best decision ever I feel way better today. I'm not up to paste. But I don't care. It starts to be serious money for me per hour of play.

DAY 3
Going very well. It's getting real hard. Late at night after that type of day I start to feel a bit crazy. Must be careful to have always energy to keep my calm and not tilt a big percentage of my roll chasing my losses higher. That was a big problem of mine back in the days.

DAY 2

Going very well already back at 250 roll.I'm 2 hours late on my plan of 10h per day.
Yesterday was a hard one I played a lot of NL16-Z action. And really at some point during the day those games become only regs and quite tough.
So more of a chilling day playing lower today.

hahaha well yeah I'm not 100% in it like: '' I must do this or I suck!'' It's more to keep hard work for a while if I dont do 10h per day like yesterday I'm stilll very happy. I will be carefull with burn out tour right kent.

Day one is in the book played for 9 hours. I will try to play more for day 2.
#building back up

Hey guys I had to withdraw some money for expenses. back at 150 roll. BUT the good thing is I will have no expense for the next 2 months and will be able to play. FULL TIME. I'm thinking of a 10 days 10h per day type of challenge.

Hey guys i've been sticking to plan and did well. I'm at 800 usd in roll. So I did half of the 3rd step. I have not played a lot of Nl10 hands and this will be My focus for this month. Right now I'm moving the stakes quickly. But I want to have a lot of volume at lower stakes than the one I shot take to reduce the fluctuation of my hourly. It's working very well for me so far so I will stick to it. So I need to make 20 BI in 10NL. Let's see if I can do it in a week!

THE GRAPH

Nice man I will also follow very interesting stuff. what is your average cost of living out there per month? Just curious.

Back at it! After a lesson in the zoom pools I started playing regular table again. With my good winrate.

2nd STEP (second try) : Get to 500USD. Playing more 5NL less 2NL = X
ministep 2: Getting to 15K-h played NL5 = X
ministep 3: Taking notes on REG. = XX
I've been doing that a loooot. Like at least 2h per day. Plus I've been playing around 1.5K hand per day. So trying real hard out there.

3rd STEP : Get to 1K USD. Playing 10NL, Taking shots 16NL=
Better approach considering my overall win rate in the games. Trying not to play too much zoom. Because I get in very bad mental space. It ruins my discipline of life and of thinking during hands. (end up playing way too much and lose balance of my life.)

ministep 1: Get to 5K-10K hand played in 10NL
ministep 2: Taking notes on 16NL player.
The pool of that stake is pretty much the best winners of 10NL and rec. so It won't take that much time to know the players well.

My graph explanation, okay so I ran real good playing the zoom games than smashed myself to the face. So for motivation purpose I just kept looking at the hands from step 2-3. Regulars table. I've been taking so much notes there its just dumb to play anything else considering the investment in time.

So here the stats and graph from reg tables:
GRAPH

I got hurt pretty badly playing in the zoom tables got on a big upswing started playing too big in zoom (stupid move because I spend a lot of time making notes on regular playing the reg tables) So yeah big step back for me. So I will focus back on my objectives of getting certain steps on hands played.

I will read the post! Thank you!

Yay well You'r kinda right but I'm having some difficulty with my mental game while taking shot, where I can Lose a too big % of my roll. Was putting my life in high stress situation where I felt like playing bigger risking more. That's why I'm trying on going real slow Never can lose more than 10% of my roll (worst case scenario) each day. But NL16 Zoom is in my sight. Just not willing to play there ervey day.

FIRST STEP: Get to 250USD Playing 2NL and 5NL = X

2nd STEP : Get to 500USD. Playing more 5NL less 2NL = X
ministep 1: Getting to 25K-h played NL2=

I decided early that I had the skill to play higher than 2NL and still be very safe with my roll.
Decided to quit that stake and focus my time higher.

ministep 2: Getting to 15K-h played NL5
Still Not at 15K but passed the 10K mark wich is good.

ministep 3: Taking notes on REG NL10.
I've been doing that a lot. So when I shot take in regular table I know the best seat right away.

3rd STEP : Get to 1K USD. Playing 5NL Taking shot 10NL =

• Now I have to focus on playing 5NL during the week and 10NL on the weekend to gamble my potential winning of the week higher. I've played even some 16NL on my big winning day yesterday mostly because of the happy hour. (2x the points on stars) it's a joke since I receive 50c each time. So you really need to be winning and confident about it to be worth anything. BUT more fish during those? Not sure. Should Focus more on reg tables. Take that profit and run from these games for a while. And come back with a bigger roll to play that full time? Not sure.

ministep 1: Getting to 15K hand NL5.
ministep 2: Getting to 4-5K hand NL10.
ministep 3: Keep on taking notes at 10NL but also review hands on forum. Getting back on the study grind.

THE GRAPH (the dream)

GL BOYS!!!!

Good post! I will follow your journey. I'm also looking for a study partner. DM me if interested.

Thank you for the answers guys I'm not sure if I should keep playing on party. I was playing mostly reg tables where hands were reset. so it doesn't change my playing too much. Can still play on PS to improve also. But it takes a lot more mental energy and focus to play without huds taking notes and all... I have the VIP status on party wich makes it a tougher spot also...