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March is done and we have some good news and bad news.

Bad news: I did not play 20k hands in March.
More bad news: I did not play a majority of my volume at 50nl
March Graph

March Stakes

Good news: I applied to NachosPoker back in January and was accepted and started a 30k hand sample trial.

More Good news: My 30k hand trial is over, I passed and am now part of the main team!

30k graph

30k stakes

I am super happy/excited about being part of the NachosPoker team.

April Goals
20k+ hands
Plug the leaks found after my 30k db review

February is over and I can safely say I failed miserably to meet set goals lol. I spent a majority of time studying and working on various things so I am actually pretty happy with the month despite lack of volume. I feel like I have made major strides in my level of play and look forward to future results.

Feb Stakes

Feb Graph

March Goals
20k hands
50nl reg

These will be achieved this month without doubt

January is a wrap. I managed 20k hands but my volume actually took a nose dive for the last week of the month because I got very sick. I did run very hot over the last half of the month which is obviously nice.

Jan Stakes

Jan Graph

February Goals
25-30k hands
Majority of volume at 50nl

I am running hotter than the sun for my last 10k hands. I am trying to savor it as much as humanly possible because at some point I am going to run equivalently bad if not worse lol

edit: Graph

This is dope

After 1 min of drilling spots in gtow I realize I was being an absolute station lmao.

Definitely not aggressive enough, but calling way too light vs EP and larger sizings in general.

Bad news: My Big Blind Positional winrate is absolutely atrocious.

Good news: First step is admitting you have a problem.

Gameplan
Get gtow sub
Create the following drills
BB VS BTN Facing 33% Cbet
BB VS BTN Facing 75% Cbet
BB VS UTG Facing 33% Cbet
BB VS UTG Facing 100% Cbet
Create simplified heuristics for these spots using gtow and anki.
The spots are yoinked from IAmNeo's journal and the study method is from a Freenachos rio video.

My play from the Big Blind over my sample has been too passive/nitty. My goal is to flip the script. I would rather be over aggressive as a player to put my opponents in tough spots.

Looking forward to the youtube vid. I wholeheartedly feel the "winging it" line lol

Good luck for 2023

I appreciate the good lucks!

Hey firstly I wanna say good luck, we are in a similar position and I root for anyone that has a goal and tries to pursue it.

I wanna comment on something you wrote

The difference with poker is that everyone starts when they are (roughly) 18, so I am not already 15 years behind everybody who is good and simply can't compete.

There is no difference. If you are truly passionate about poker and give it your all age is absolutely irrelevant. Do not cap yourself mentally, you had a similar sentiment in regards to chess and quit. There are plenty who have begun activities/sport later in life and have become champions.

Again good luck, I will be following with your progress!

Dec Graph

Dec Stakes

Ran pretty well this month, played like a moron. For whatever reason I didn't feel like folding but that's been remedied lol. Volume was also whatever due to the holidays. Next month I hope to get 20-30k hands and begin my 50nl shot.

Also I am gonna transition to reg tables only. I saw this Tweet from Patrick Howard and decided to give it a try. In all honestly I seem to be able to focus more and feel less drained at the end of my session compared to playing zoom. So going forward my goal will be to play 4 reg tables for 1k hands a night and then set myself up to be able to review the relevant hands the next day while I am at work.

In other news I am finishing up the audiobook recommended in Freenachos journal "Grit" It has been very eye opening to say the least and I have thoroughly enjoyed it. If you haven't read/listened to it I highly recommend it. I will probably pick up the other books recommended and hope they are as good as the last.