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Over 450.000 Hands on NL 2, enough is enough. Now the NL 5 grind will start !

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AgapieGheorghe
Joined: 10.07.2011

It even went so far, that at one point I was so confused on how to play AA in Zoom...I even changed my preferred seat

:mdr: I will never change my seat, i'm so used with my seat that i will go crazy if i have to look in another direction when i'm dealt the cards.

If you find success at the regular tables then go for it and avoid Zoom tables. :f_drink:

Love your blog. Break A Leg Cheers

Thank you ! :f_thumbsup:


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Eduardoooo
Joined: 01.04.2020

I will never change my seat, i'm so used with my seat that i will go crazy if i have to look in another direction when i'm dealt the cards.

Yeah same I went back as well after One Orbit of play...


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arthurbentley
Joined: 12.10.2010

I think it is best to play regular tables. I have tried Zoom myself and it feels like one is playing blindfold. I don't mind saying that at ZOOM I am a total fish. But at regular tables it is much easier to pick up on reads and identify playing styles that much quicker. BUT if you can play Zoom profitably, and four table them, obviously the hourly win rate would be weighted in favour of Zoom.


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AgapieGheorghe
Joined: 10.07.2011

The most retarded session since i started the blog. First time when i get tilted and closed all the tables since i started the grind on Nl5.

6 times AA everytime people folded preflop.
4 times AKs 3 times people folded preflop the 4th time when i got action got a bad beat.
9 times AKo 6 times people folded preflop, 3 times lost with it.
4 times KK every time Ace on the flop lost all 4 hands.
6 times QQ 4 times got folds preflop 2 times got folds on cbet.

And the list goes on.


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VorpalF2F
Joined: 02.09.2010

Oh man!
I feel your pain

All the best,
VS


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CheesyEagle
Joined: 10.03.2013

I'm glad you decided to stop the session instead of losing control and playing tilted, that was a mature act from you and you should be proud of that, not many people are able to do that. Keep your head up. Shit happens. You're gonna kill the next session :pokerface:

Atleast you tested your mindset...


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AgapieGheorghe
Joined: 10.07.2011

Hello guys. I'm here to post my goals for June.

- I will play 30 k hands. I will count today and tomorrow for this goal to get a head start. I have more free time this month and i think i can achieve my goal... if i dont get lazy on the way.

- I will study for 15 hours. Nothing much to say here, 15 hours should be easy to achieve.

- I wil meditate before each session. Well this will be something new for me. I will let you guys know how this will influence my game.

- I will exercise every day. This is a hard one, i'm so lazy i never exercise. I think i will do this in the morning and in the evening and i will start with : 25 Squats, 20 Push-ups and 25 Crunches every time.

- I will read a book. It will be a non-poker related book. I will choose the book in the next few days and i will post in the blog what i will choose.

Another important thing is that this month i decided to play on a new platform.
And i will do this because since i started the blog i paid 945$ in rake for 32.282 poker hands and i got 0$ back from all of this.

So i moved to a new platform where i will have rakeback and also the first deposit bonus.

I wish you all good luck in June. :f_drink:


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VorpalF2F
Joined: 02.09.2010

Originally posted by AgapieGheorghe
- I will read a book. It will be a non-poker related book. I will choose the book in the next few days and i will post in the blog what i will choose.

I have a suggestion:
If you go to https://www.gutenberg.org/ there are over 60,000 books now in the public domain.
Since copyright expiry varies by country, there are some specific domains like https://www.gutenberg.ca/

Apparently it is blocked in some countries.

However with an epub reader a whole world of literature opens up at no cost.

enjoy
VS


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Eduardoooo
Joined: 01.04.2020

Hey where are you moving to?

And for the Book in which direction do you want to go? I could maybe recommend as well some books...


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AgapieGheorghe
Joined: 10.07.2011

Originally posted by VorpalF2F
I have a suggestion:
If you go to https://www.gutenberg.org/ there are over 60,000 books now in the public domain.
However with an epub reader a whole world of literature opens up at no cost.

enjoy
VS

Hey Vorpal, thank you i will give it a go. :f_drink:


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SittingOuts
Joined: 05.05.2010

- I wil meditate before each session. Well this will be something new for me. I will let you guys know how this will influence my game.

Super cool, I'm trying to do the same. Make my body smoother before I start, dancing weirdly on a dancing tune. Meditation/visualization when I'm sitting and ready to go, pitching my short term goal and long term to myself and be grounded and humble no matter what the session will bring me.

Looking forward how you do it~


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AgapieGheorghe
Joined: 10.07.2011

Originally posted by Eduardoooo
Hey where are you moving to?

I've sent you a pm with the name of the pooker room.


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1Lish
Joined: 14.05.2019

Nice graph of day 41 :f_drink::f_drink:

I thought about playing at Winamax to add more volume, but I saw that there was no rakeback and I regretted.

Good luck in the new lobby, saludos! :f_thumbsup::f_thumbsup:


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Great thread gl :f_thumbsup:


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AgapieGheorghe
Joined: 10.07.2011

Hey RedsYNWA thanks for your visit ! :f_drink: Sadly I let the blog to die a long time ago, from June to December I didn't played at all.

But now I'm on vacation back home in Romania and I'm fishing at NL2, it seems this is my favourite limit to play :f_biggrin:

I only played on the spanish platforms for the last years ( living in Spain ) and everybody said the .ES platforms are much easier than .Eu , I always thought this is a dumb statement.

In the hispanic community there are like 15 poker schools for micros and almost everybody who do a search on Youtube can get some good ranges to use preflop and a decent postflop plan.

I have 9 days playing on .EU and I have to say you find way more fishes here than on .Es.

In March and April this year when I started this blog you can see I did some grind to get a BR and I had a winrate of 16.82 bb/100 but now playing on .EU I pretty much doubled my winrate.

I know 6k hands are not a lot but if you watch the graph from the start of the blog and this graph you can see a big difference. And I have the same playstyle for sure, cause I didn't study at all since I started again.

Anyway good luck to you all at the tables and Happy Holidays ! :f_drink: :f_thumbsup:


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Graph looks good and your red line blows mine out the water the best way to describe mine is like a ski slope.Let me know if you want to discuss some poker maybe we can get a few together on discord or something.Any questions just let me know if i can help i will poker or otherwise gl.:f_thumbsup:


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Pokrovec
Joined: 07.01.2010

Great blog!
Good luck at the tables!


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AgapieGheorghe
Joined: 10.07.2011

Hey Pokrovec. Thank you. I'm still on vacation and enjoying the free time.

I play from time to time when i have the time and the mood for it. Here it is the graph after 25 k hands on NL2 en Pokerstars.com playing normal tables.


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Zaratras
Joined: 03.01.2009

Very cool blog! I'll keep an eye on new post.

How did you start to study? What did you see, read etc? I ask this because I am grinding NL2 now too but not very successful atm.


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AgapieGheorghe
Joined: 10.07.2011

Hello deuverman ! Thank you !

To be honest i don't study lately. But i used to study a long time ago...so in my head i have some basic ranges to use preflop and some postflop lines.

I think that playing NL2 it's kinda easy you just have to :

-Pay atention when you play at your opponents.
-Tag every player on your table.
-Don't try to outplay the"regs" .
-Use a HUD and learn how to read it to find what can you exploit on your opponents.
-Don't be scared to play more loose preflop when you play with bad players.
-Bet big vs bad players who calls to much.

How many hands do you have on NL2 ? If you have a decent sample we can try to find some leaks together. ( If you have any )

I think i will start a small challenge with myself and play 10 k hands in the next few days on NL2 and i'm thinking of streaming all 10k hands or record all the sessions and post them on Youtube. I will post here if i decide to stream.

Good luck all :f_drink:


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