Get Rich or Die Tryin' - Be Here Now

888 Poker - $0.50 NL - Holdem - 8 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

UTG+1: 100 BB (VPIP: 25.14, PFR: 15.85, 3Bet Preflop: 5.65, Hands: 5,380)
MP: 112.52 BB (VPIP: 20.87, PFR: 10.74, 3Bet Preflop: 2.69, Hands: 488)
MP+1: 193 BB (VPIP: 48.21, PFR: 4.46, 3Bet Preflop: 1.67, Hands: 115)
CO: 107.04 BB (VPIP: 26.11, PFR: 20.82, 3Bet Preflop: 8.04, Hands: 1,750)
Hero (BTN): 146.18 BB
SB: 106.86 BB (VPIP: 17.91, PFR: 12.99, 3Bet Preflop: 7.50, Hands: 511)
BB: 101.16 BB (VPIP: 17.88, PFR: 11.95, 3Bet Preflop: 3.66, Hands: 1,179)
UTG: 292.74 BB (VPIP: 15.98, PFR: 11.33, 3Bet Preflop: 4.28, Hands: 4,834)

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K♦ K♠

fold, fold, MP raises to 3 BB, MP+1 calls 3 BB, fold, Hero raises to 12.5 BB, fold, BB raises to 28 BB, fold, MP+1 raises to 43.5 BB, fold, BB raises to 101.16 BB, MP+1 calls 57.66 BB

Flop: (218.32 BB, 2 players) 5♠ 4♦ Q♥

Turn: (218.32 BB, 2 players) J♦

River: (218.32 BB, 2 players) 3♠

MP+1 shows Q♦ Q♣ (Three of a Kind, Queens)
(Pre 57%, Flop 97%, Turn 91%)
BB shows K♣ A♠ (High Card, Ace)
(Pre 43%, Flop 3%, Turn 9%)
MP+1 wins 210.32 BB

Once I fold KK preflop and they both have weaker hands. I had a read on the fish, that he limp and re-raised AA, and the regular is never bluffing on that spot. Anyway I would have lost, at least I'm a good psychic.

Royal Flush!! T♣:J♣:Q♣:K♣:A♣:

888 Poker - $0.20 NL - Holdem - 8 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

MP+1: 100 BB (VPIP: 18.18, PFR: 9.09, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 11)
CO: 105 BB (VPIP: 13.58, PFR: 9.88, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 84)
BTN: 74.9 BB (VPIP: 14.29, PFR: 11.43, 3Bet Preflop: 7.14, Hands: 35)
SB: 68.85 BB (VPIP: 44.44, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 18)
BB: 152.7 BB (VPIP: 4.55, PFR: 3.03, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 67)
Hero (UTG): 115.15 BB
UTG+1: 53.65 BB (VPIP: 14.01, PFR: 10.71, 3Bet Preflop: 3.10, Hands: 366)
MP: 57.25 BB (VPIP: 46.67, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 15)

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A♣ T♣

Hero raises to 3.5 BB, fold, fold, fold, fold, BTN calls 3.5 BB, fold, fold

Flop: (8.5 BB, 2 players) 3♣ K♣ J♣
Hero bets 4.25 BB, BTN calls 4.25 BB

Turn: (17 BB, 2 players) T♠
Hero bets 11.5 BB, BTN raises to 27.5 BB, Hero raises to 107.4 BB, BTN calls 39.65 BB

River: (151.3 BB, 2 players) Q♣

BTN shows K♦ A♥ (Straight, Ace High)
(Pre 69%, Flop 2%, Turn 0%)
Hero shows A♣ T♣ (Royal Flush)
(Pre 31%, Flop 98%, Turn 100%)
Hero wins 143.75 BB

Hehe nice hand sir !

TY AgapieGheorghe!

January - Review

Total profit = +906$
87 hours played(13 less then planned)
Concentrated on health, but still got sick
Played NL200
Didn't start dancing
Improved a lot

Plans for February

Play NL200
Start playing NL100 confortably
Improve daily
Volume goal: 100h
Start working on university license project
Concentrate on health
Start dancing/ exercising
Keep gold status on 888/ finish Ultimate challenge on PS
Follow w34z3l's new series
Respect the daily routine

Hi kidzoltan,

nice plan for February and congrats for the goals achieved in January ♠_drink:
good luck at the tables and hope to share us more updates during this month

Subbed. Nice blog!

Thanks teddypoker and isssean! I will try to update more this month.

I am in the hospital now, so I have time to write in my blog. February started very well, already up 500$ . That makes total profit for this challenge around 3300$. Since I read Napoleon Hill's book: Think and Grow Rich I haven't got motivational problems, also I managed to pass all my exams, which never happened so far ♦ . Procrastination still present, but I think it isn't so bad. I'm following the author's advice and technique on a daily basis. It consists of a morning routine: reading the Self-confidence Formula, the Definite Plan(which I wrote) and some affirmations.

I recommend to everyone who plays CGs to watch w34z3l's new series about improving the red-line. I only seen the first three parts, but already learned a lot of new ways to analyze my game. It's an eye-opener, I can't believe how many new things it taught for me.

Intresting hand:

PokerStars - $0.50 NL - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

MP: 42.3 BB (VPIP: 12.50, PFR: 12.50, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 8)
CO: 106.5 BB (VPIP: 16.13, PFR: 9.68, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 63)
BTN: 127.88 BB (VPIP: 14.71, PFR: 13.24, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 69)
Hero (SB): 100 BB
BB: 40.28 BB (VPIP: 37.50, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 8)
UTG: 110.26 BB (VPIP: 37.50, PFR: 25.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 8)

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A♦ Q♣

fold, fold, fold, BTN raises to 2 BB, Hero raises to 7 BB, fold, BTN calls 5 BB

Flop: (15 BB, 2 players) 3♣ 8♣ 4♥
Hero bets 10 BB, BTN calls 10 BB

Turn: (35 BB, 2 players) K♦
Hero bets 22 BB, BTN calls 22 BB

River: (79 BB, 2 players) 4♦
Hero bets 61 BB and is all-in, BTN calls 61 BB

Hero shows A♦ Q♣ (One Pair, Fours)
(Pre 45%, Flop 29%, Turn 14%)
BTN shows 7♥ 7♦ (Two Pair, Sevens and Fours)
(Pre 55%, Flop 71%, Turn 86%)
BTN wins 196 BB

I don't know why the regular opponent decided to bluff-catch me with 77. I keep thinking where did I gave away that info.

So what happened... I wanted to play a session from my hospital bed, at first I didn't want to play NL100, because I wasn't feeling in the mood for it. But then I saw that the NL100 tables where 2 times more fishy the NL50. FML..

But my motivation is strong so, even if in 2 hours I lost the last 4 days winnings, I know that this is OK ♠_thumbsup:, very bad run happens, can't do anything about it. This is the second biggest losing day for me in my life, and I recall, that when the other one happened I was even happy about it. I am glad, that I can lose so much money in such a short time and not be tilted/angry/too sad about it. This might sound crazy, but I even hope that I will have even worst days in the future, because that means that I'm playing higher stakes. In conclusion: tomorrow is a new day, confidence will be back and it's just a matter of time until I win everything back. ♠_biggrin:♠_biggrin:

Quick update: I am around break-even, maybe 100$ profit for February. Volume is really good so far, so nothing to worry about.

Graph on Stars:

888:

This graphs are not just this month, even though I lost a lot on 888, I am happy, because I did well on PS, where I think NL25 is harder, or at least same difficulty, than NL50 on 888.

Good news: I started dancing and exercising again and my new Amazon Kindle will be delivered today. ♠_biggrin:

A video with our dance team, I am the blonde guy in the red shirt:

Hey, i hope your therapy will go well!
Yup on PS every limit is one or two tiers higher on dynamics, than their counterparts on smalller sites.

Its good to see a felllow hungarian on the english site, where do you study? I dropped out of Elte prog-mat, though i still have my student lisence.

Just saw your blog from the news article, well done for grinding from your hospital bed, and sounds like you have a great mental approach! Keep up your great work!

Thanks iSoOwnYou! I just checked your blog, good job for making so detailed posts!

@HNRoger - Yes, I am hungarian, but I live in Transilvania. I study Computer science at Sapientia EMTE (Marosvasarhely)

Haven't updated for a while, also couldn't play at all since my last post. But I'm here now, and ready to continue my journey. I actually feel that this 5-6 days off could be useful.

Goals for the last days of February are very simple:
Play as much as possible!
Exercise!
Start working on University project!

Haven't updated for a while. I couldn't play much lately, but a break from poker feels useful, because now I'm motivated and my goals are clear.

February:
BR = 7187 $
Profit for February = +440$
71 hours played => little volume

March goals:
Work on University project
Play minimum 60 hours of poker
Finish reading Dale Carnegie's book
Exercise/ rest enough/ strengthen immunity system!
Improve game
Review daily
Continue doing the daily routine

In March I'm going to concentrate less on poker and more on university. I want to graduate this year and that requires some work and attention.

I couldn't update, because I was pretty busy. I have a cool new challenge, with my roommate, who also plays poker. We have to make total of 1000$ this month and also work a lot on our university projects. He's Pokerstrategy name is motzy92 and plays NL10 on 888. We only count our CG profits, this doesn't include rake-back.

So far:

The picture shows the first week only, I will post the next picture on 16th. This month so far is excellent. Profit is around 380$ (including RB).

9 days left and we have to make 400$. If we had a lot of time to play, it would be easy to do it. Quick update on life: Can't wait to finish university, so I can focus more on poker, sports and travelling. Also I had my first dance performance since I got sick. Although I performed poorly, it was still an amazing feeling to be on stage again. I am recovering really fast from chemo and looking forward for my next running competition which will be on April 18th. ♠_biggrin:

We ended up failing the challenge :f_cry:, but we both made more then 500$ in March, so it's okay.

April Goals:
Work on Uni project
Concentrate on health and training
Rest enough
Compete in "Be a gunner, be a runner" - Arsenal running competition
Play some poker too
Review everything to maintain level
Read a book

I can't wait to finish university, so I can play a lot of poker. ♠_biggrin: That's why now the number one priority is my university project.

New long-term goal:
Buy an apartment or open a sports betting agency

In March I read Dale Carnegie's How to stop worrying and start living, and I have to say it helped me a lot in every aspect of my life. It was the greatest timing to read it now, when there are some many stress factors: battling with cancer, finishing university and performing well in poker. I recommend it for every poker player, who has some mental game issues, it might help. ♠_thumbsup:

Long time, no update..

I was working on my university project, but now I'm back for a while. I'm in a hurry to make 950 888poker points, because on 28th May I'm going to Germany to buy a new car. I need to make a little cash-out and nearly all my money is stuck because of a big bonus.

I already have the plan for May written down. I need to be more productive then ever. Things that I have to accomplish are:

Sell my current car
Pass the remaining 6 exams
Work on Uni project
Make the 950 points, before 16th
Concentrate on health, resting enough, eating well and exercise

A reminder for me: "DO YOUR WORK, DON'T BE STUPID!" ♠_biggrin:

Good luck with your goals in May
What kind of car your planning to buy at the end of the month?

Cheers,
SDK1987

TY SDK1987! ♠_drink:

I'm not sure yet, I have three options:

I like all three cars, but I would like the second one the most, becuase of the elegant, big interior.

Nice cars, I tend to like the first one, maybe because the picture is nicer
GL with you acquisition